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tam BHfft 4? Ki ra? M HE HATIOK?L BfiKK OF R3GUSTA j L. C. HATSB, Prea't. ?.. G.FOBD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. UndlvMed"?^ta } $110,000. . Facilities of oar magnificent New Vault 'containing 410 safety-Lock Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and 1 tito public at $3.00 to tio.f /.per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA. CUL. Pays Interost on Deposita, Accounts Solicited. L. O. HATITE, President. W. C. WAEDLAW.I Cashier. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1900. VOL. LXV. NO. 19. EN WILLIE TISITIXO IS THE COCSTBT. I wish 'at I could live out hero ";..r H?Wh?*?,ftj8r? are hills to climb, . And whore a boy can Bilde down like . ? :iJ n'A Bashan wintertime; ? - . Whe re the; are dr i f ts to tu ral.e la ?? . -, And ponds to ?kate upon . " I wish my Cousin John was me -. . And I was Cousin John ! "'/ Td like tb have ? bolt to ride .' A i ' And lambs "n' thlnjrs to pet, .. With ap pied Ir. the cellar, and * ' " , 'Drink jnflk thnt's steam in' yet.; VS -i Tdlike-tolive where 1 could whoop Around with all my might Aod^n'ever nave to be afraid . : > i 'Aoop1 would oome in sight. ' ff. * li's jolly sluing in the sled itt"* ? J-wheh bnole drives to town, And lets the horses walk up hil! And makes them gallop down ! It's jolly getting out behind, Sometimes, and hanging on rlsh my Cousin John-was me Uta Lwas. Cousin John ! 7 CT X Se Thom A- STORY OF THE i BY MABGTJER It was not a pretty story, but it was more. It was fraught with that prim itive ruggedness one gets an impro* siou of along with cutting yrnirio - ihe crack of 'a buliet. me was Thompson, anil lie could handle a bunch of steers with the best of them, but there was an air of metropolitanisin about him that assorted ill with his surroundings. And although he went rougher than auy mau of them he bad never been abie to live down his nickname of "East Side" Thompson. Under the influ ence of rolling prairies, the boundless sweep of cloud and sky, an intimacy with the ?l?ments and reliance upon nothing but his own wit and courage, a man grows to be a strong, sagacious, vital creature, so different from our circumscribed ideas of a man that, for want of a better term, we call him a "cow-puncher." The Threo-X outfit of cow-punchers had. boun ou. the trail- more than a month, and,according to all precedent j and reason, the rains should have set in weeks before, but they had not. The grass that had sprung up with the first early showera had seared and died "bef ore; the, ne vt rain came to keep it .aliveV* ?The shallow,, sluggish little streams of brackish water that crawled along the bottom of their beds, which the yea-?'before bad r bean awqilenj b.e yoii^h?ir?j?nk.VOTally gave -out ut terly. In -every direction the white alkali-plains glistened-away to the ?^Bjge^^ ljhie. of .tho. slcyin-an-: aititnd*^ of isolation. The oldest inhabitant in all the country could "not recall a win ter tba^ equaled thia iu'vdr tess. Howb'Lit, Nevada wai then a hew . state, and the population migratory. Wilson^the ^boss of the routfit; . had hop-ad ? t?--g?t 'Vtft of the sagebrush country and strike tho California lino somewhere r.bove Bodie by the end of the first month ont, but there was no rain, no water, and the plains lay in open, cracks. .Pay aft*1- d*y-the?aaa arose, smiled down upon the parched little banch of men and cattle 14 long, hours as he sailed across a cloudless 8ky,ierenelyvunconsciong of the male ?ict?onsTlurlerF?gainst him, while the bare, burning prairie stared back in unblinking defiance. There were gor geous sunsets every evening-moments when the great fiery ball seemed al most to stand still to give a long back ward glance before dropping ont "bf sight, and with a Midas, touch turn all the world to molten gold. But to the played out cow-punchor sunset, means nothing'but.bedtime-bedtime after a hard, parched, hopeless day. There were^leai; chaste, moonlight nights cf wondrous radiance, too, but the moou was seen only in the early morning, when they TOBO to another day, more hard, more parched, more hopeless. The cattle-mere anatomical charts by this time-went staggering cabout in crazy circles, too weak to need watch ing, the three Xs on their flanks re duced to half the original size by th? shriveling of the hide, o? fell heavily-: to the earth to rise again, after many '-seasons of sun and shower, as prairie flowers and salt grasB. Their bellow ing, was reduced to a moan almost human in its misery.fbr the One voice common to all created things,' animal or human, is the voice of suffering. The Missourian, a great, hulking young fellow, "ras first of the men to show signs Of weakening. That is the most terrible mom jut in all like experi ences, when the men who have hold on grimly and endured:* together see one of their;number losing his grip. This had been an ill-assorted outfit when they started out with tho cattle across thc ; plains, but standing together, : shoulder to shoulder, defying death against fearful odds Knits a man deep ly into the life of his fellow. Among ? these men there was no spoken sym pathy, no overt act of kindness, ^ut in rtheir very sullenness was that grim mest of all sacrifices, each man endur ing.m stoic silence in order , that he might not intrude his own sufferings np.on his already overcrowded neigh bor. . The clinching of the lips to sup press a groan when one is thirst-mad dened may require more heroism than facing a cannon with .flags flying and .drums^bjsatrng, inasmocb as "he that ruleth his own spirit is greater than ?Be that taketh a citTj' \ j At last one day'tn?Ttf?ss??rian gave out utterly. He was not of- the cow boy build iii the first placo, but bis splendid-,horsemanship and enthusi asm hacHndneed Wilson, the boss, or "Tankee Bill," as he was called, to tak*?f hirrf on: Iii bis^delrrium he lay *??fiiC<iri*? for tratet,' ^y^nnd night He blubbered' and begged for water, and called upon- the names of those he hail known in his childhood.. Every jjttMU-gant .abont his own business, rjrhich was largely the formulating of .^fervent and eloquent oaths nne'it the iiealj'the drought audtlie demy, and apparently no olie heard h i s "cries. Wnter was the one thing he wanted, and the one t?in# they could not get, jo, after,.they J?ad put h|a bpots under his head to makehimcomfortable,they I lot jupa alone. Under ordinary circum- ' 3tancss a Missourian more or less was of no great consequence to "yankee Bill," but this breok in the ranks ed the last vestige of hope. VY. JOHk'XT VISITISO IS THE CITT. I wished 'at I Iked hore, where things Are ail set nt the door, And where yo.: see so many sights .You never saw .before ; I'd like to ride in nice, warm cars That whiz along the street, Instead of in a bobsled, where You nearly freeze your feet. They never have no wood to chop, . Nor cows nor sheep to tend ; . They never have to carry slop To where the pigs are penned ; They never carry water from' A wall that's far away, Nor every night and morning teed Tho stock a ton of hay. . They never have no cows to milk, Nor other chores te do. And every time they turn around They look ut something new ; There's always lots that's going on, The streets are never still- \ I wish that Cousin Will was me, And I was Cousin WM! ??ft* -Ar * ^ T^E^E ipson's Petition. . ALKALI PLAINS. - I ? TTE STABLER. Whatever may have been done after that in the effort to keep up their spir its was more bravado, for each man foresaw the end. *# $SStk The Missourian had been a quiet sort in the camp, abd no one had ever heard him talk much, but now he talked incessantly in the soft, thick drawl of the south. And always of home scenes, of the memories of boy hood that whetted the edge of their torture till it was beyond all endur ance. Now he was fishing along some stream; now he was in school strug gling with some problem he could never solve beyond "carry seven." Always coherent enough to call up memories in their own minds of a youth, misspent for tbe most part. They could not move farther away because they were camped under the only Rhade in sight They thought of dragging him oS'beyond ear-shot, but while every one would have been glad to have done it, no man could do it himself. Their horny hands had grown gentle in their ministering touches. Escape was long since out of the question, for the horses were worse off thau the men; not one of them could carry a saddle, muc_ . JSS a rider. Each man had saved a la6t charge in his revolver, knowing that that per haps would be their only deliverance from a death too ' horri? lo to name. All but "East-Side," who, when a de cision had to bo made between himself and his horse, had led her out behind a-^ittle acclivity and put his last charge, through har game little ~heart.-Now lie must make his exit in some other way, if he would let his disembodied spirit pass on unincumbered by a sun parched frame. The knife he carried in his boot was a miserable hack of a thipg, fit op ly for shading tobacco or chucking bacon. He felt a momentary regret as he ran his fingers along its jagged edges that aman with his record should be obliged to make his end with so mean a weapon. The big Swede in a moment of mndness had raised his pistol as if it had been a jug, saying: "Wal, boys, here's to a wetter country!" But he had not shot. Tho cold iron seemed to cool the rashness of his brain, nud the mir age of hope lured thom on a day far ther. After the second day the Missouri an^ talk began to grow less.his raving subsided in a weak, incoherent bab bling; at last it ceased altogether, and he lay staring wide-ej'ed into the re lentless sky. As they had done every thing else,they did this,silently,stoic ally. A shallow bed was scooped ont anil tho canvas taken off the wagoo for a. winding sheet. When the broken circle-closed in around the open grave, the boss cleared his throat and said: "Boys, before we go any farther, Borne one must make a prayer, sabe?" They sabed, but although every man's soul mjgbt .be consumed with, a voiceless cry to some power above himself for the reposo of the departed soul and rel?ase from a like fate,they weire all dumb when confronted by the thought of taking the name of God reverently. Instinctively they turned to "East-Side." y VJt'sypur lead, 'East-Side," they said. And ^East-C .de, " groping blindly backward toward the memo ries ot his youth, tried to recall some thing of religions import Slowly through his desiccated brain percolated a line from a church hymn, "From Greenland's loy Mountains," but al though the thought was pleasant in this barning desert, the words were not to the point-besides, that was all he knew of it He shook his head sorrowfully. "In the beginning," he thought he had! struck the right lead there-"In the beginning, God created-" But again he was stuck and could go no further. yLead np, 'East-Side!* " they urged. Then the light broke. The backward groping had brought him down to the days of his childhood, to the words his grandfather had been wont to say, ns with bowed heads, the family, to the third and fourth generation, was gathered around bis table on Thanks giving day. So, under the burning sun, whose only shadow was cast by the flocks of carrion birds that circled above the remnant of the outfit, they Btood Over the grave of theil-dead companion, waiting for a like fate, or death by their own hands, to be torn by coyotes perhaps before'the breath was out of their bodies, the six gaunt men with bowed, uncovered heads, while VEast-Side" pronounced in sol emn tones: "Oh, Lord, for what we are about to receive make uz devoutly thankful Aineu.". , A prayer'was a pray or to "East Side." Anything that begau with "Lord'" in reverent terms and ended with "amen" was a prayer. His grandfather had boen a godly man, and he had said it, therefore it was appro priate bu this occasion. Tho effect was the same npon vhe others, for the words smacked of tho phraseology of the wandering exhortera they had heard. After tbe passing of the Missourian there was even less to' do; the men were more taciturn lyth each other, but there was noticeably less profanity among them, possibly because they harbored their strength more jealous ly and the exertion was unnecessary, or because their mouths wore too dry to articulate many words. It was now six weeks since they had set out across the "sink," expecting to get the cattle off their hands and have a little "time" in the city before starting back to the camp, but the wild-eyed, sorry-looking things seemed unpromising enough now even for a glne factory. As "EaBt-Side" lay on the ground looking up through the holes in his hat-they stood upright and walked no more than was absolutely necessary, for that required an expenditure of strength-lazily watching the flocks of birds that swooped and poised in the air above him, he discovered, or thought he did, that they cast a shadow against the sky-a.tiny gray shadow that he watched for the utter lack of anything else to watch. "When the birds flew lower, the shadow seemed togrow latger, but when finally they flew away there was still the shadow, larder and darker. With a wild whoop he sprang to his feet, forgetting tho Valheof harboring his strength ns he grasped .tbe import of that shadow, lt was a cloud! Every mau sprang tip fat that tiny speck and went to work with white face and unsteady hands. The speck grew larger, and the men worked harder; every hole or trough that led to the basin was cleared for action so that not one precious drop might be lost. Their words were few but kindly as they scraped away, with one eye on the gronnd and the other on the clond slowly but unmistakably growing larger and coming their way. During the night those sun-scorched dreamers dreamed of moist winds,and rain clouds foregathering over the moon, then of raindrops pattering gently until they made a soaking downpour. But they had often dreamed that-dreamed it when their parched tongues hung out of their months and cracked for dryness. By this time they had grown wary; oven in their sleep they were on tlieir guard and not tb bo beguiled into believing. When at Inst in the early morning the rain did come, with tho first pat tering drops every roan forgot every thing in the world but the all-consum ing passion to slake his burning thirst; until their hats had caught enough to drain, they sucked their shirt sleeves. Then, because his own need for that last charge was no longer imperative, the outfit boss drew a bead on the likeliest animal in the herd, and they feasted royally, joyously, uproar iously on steak and wate -. And in the exuberance of their glee no ono no ticed that for couvenience they had chosen the mound that covered tho Missourian for their table. . After the feast every man lay down irv his trench, which was now filled with water,and soaked, soaked through to the marrow, rousing- himself only to drain Iiis ha t-then-f al H n g back an d soaking more. And wheu, after 21 hours of soaking they got up out of their trenches, each water-logged man was a firm believer in the'elticacy of prayer.-San Francisco Argonaut. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The largest leaves in tho world aro said to be those of tho Iuaj palm, which grows on the banks of tho Amazon. They reich a length of from 30 to 50 feet, ?and aro 10 to 12 feet in breadth. A St Peterpbnrg paper has tho fol lowing interesting item concerning rations in the British army. "The English have plenty of food for their soldiers, bnt, like the Malays, they feed their men on tiger's flesh to make them more courageous and blood thirsty." The smrdl, hard shell known as the cowrie is still used in parts of India and Africa in place of coin. Whales' teeth are used by the Fijians, red feathers by some of the South Sea Islanders, and salt in parts of. Abys sinia. In parts of India takes of tea and in China pieces of silk pass as currency. Oxen still form the cir culating medium among many of the Zulus and Kaffirs. According to Dr. Robert Munro the ancient dwollers in Scotland used thus to safeguard themselves against benev olent assimilation: After rearing a fortress of rough stone blocks, they build huge brush fires along the out side of the walls, which partially melted the surface into a crude glassy substance and tilled all the chinks, making the whole very annoying to the assiinilators when they tried to climb the smooth surface. In London just at present the fad dists and the curio collectors are vying with one another for the possession of the skeletons of Dervishes that have been brought back from tho bloody plains before Omdurman, ^ome 150 to 200 Dervish skeletons are on the London market, and experts in bones declare that their superiority over the average skeletons of commerce will cause no little stir in anatomical cir cles. One of the principal dealers in London states that these fine, athletic Dervishes make the finest skeletons ever put on the bone market Since Will Stnmph was so nearly electrocuted last summer by coming in contact with a live wire his system has become a virtual barometer, sub ject to the slightest atmospherical dis turbance, according to the Punxsutaw ney (Penn.) Spirit. Meteorological variations are indicated by a change in color of the myriad scars on the sur face of his anatomy, which are the result of the wounds inflicted by tho wire. Rainy weather or snow is in dicated by redness and a slight itch ing pain iu the scars. Clear weathor is indicated by the absence of those. These manifestations begin to be no ticed 24 to 30 thirty hours ahead of the occurrence, and are always accom panied by nervousness and slight attacks of nausea, which aro inc: eas ing perceptibly in violence. Although quite annoying to Mr. Stumph, ho does not suffer ranch and is curious to know what will be the outcome. A Solution. He-I wonder why it is tl at mflr-ied women are so much more iu'erest: ig thau single ones? She-Probably because they have learned how to corn eal their opinion of meu. MOST WONDERFU AUTOMATIC OBE UNLOAD: The most wonderful machine oakthe fition the coming season on the Carnegi introduction at all lake ports there will The shovelers at Conneaut, realizing tl awe and displeasure. During its dons guard it at night for a time under tli? gi completion. With tho new machine' BU time that it requires a force of 100 to d new machine is 400 tons. Its height with many swivel and hinge joints its n same period of time that one laborer cn vessel's hold an3 lift a lew pounds; the GOGOOOOGOOOQOOGOQOGOQOOQt ? California's jjiant Trees Are gavepl. o o o o o Ci ?3 The United S Utes Government Qos Q O Acquired tho Famou? Redwoods.. O QOOOCOOODOCOCOQGOOOOOOOOQO /CALIFORNIA'S grove of the ( f Calaveras mammoth redwood yjV/ trees has beec s?ved from tho hauds of the vandal. At the opening of the United States Senate's session, on March G, (Mr^ Hansbrough, of North Dakota, re: ported tho House joint resolution.d| recting the Secretary of the Interior to place under bond tho "Mammoth Tree Grovo" and the "Southwark Grove of Big Trees," in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties, Cali?or-; THE "GBIZZLY GIANT"-93 PEET Oin CUMFEBENCE. - nia, and the resolution was adopted, and the Government acquires the groves. Some months ago a lumberman bought an option on the ground for the purpose of cuttifig down the big trees and sawing them into lumber. A cry went up in Califonia from the snows of Mount Shasta to the orange groves of Los Angeles, to save these mammoths of the forest. By the ef forts of the women of California the matter was brought before Congress with the above result. These are the "sequoia giganteas," or redwoods that first gave California her reputation for having the biggest trees on earth. Through one of them a Concord stage coach may be driven. The stump of another, thirty feet in diameter, is used as a dancing pavil ion. Redwoods like these tower up 200 feet without a limb, and then burst out into a crown of foliage, rising 100 to 200 feet higher. Some scientists say they are 1300 years old. Others insist that they must be 6000 years old-older than Christianity, older than the Mosaio law. These trees have outlived the natu ral age or cycle in which they be longed. The climate and surround ings of to-day are not congenial and they aro slowly dropping their limbs and wearing away with age and weather. Some of these grooves of trees were offered for sale recently at ridicuously low prices-$20 an acre for large tracts that have in some places six or GOVERNMENT GUARDIAN'S seven of the groat trees upon each acre. It is difficult to realize that but for . the prompt action of Cougress, for a few dollars one could have bought a tree so old that our entire civilization has lasted for a time which is only the ' L OF MACHINES. EB AT CONNEAUT, OBIO. ? chain of great lakes will be in oper e docks at Conneaut, Ohio. With its be little demand for unskilled labor, tis fact, regard the new machine with traction it was deemed prudent to I are of several arc lights to insure its : men can unload a wessel in the same o the same work. The weight of the is more than fifty feet. Equipped movements are almost human. In tho .n sink his shovel into the ore in a scoop of this machine grasps ten tons. fraction of its ago. Peoplo of Cali fornia have been accustomed to look upon them as the deities of that land. No wonder a summer day spent in the Sierra Nevadas under the red woods is ono never io ba forgotten. The wini may blow if it will, but so faintly does sound descend that it seem more like tho rolling of a dis tant ocean. Sound and silence alike, ore majestic and impressive in those surroundings. Here Bret Hart located one of his most fascinating stories, with an In dian lover living in a spacious hall within a hollow treo. Here he hides and shields from danger of outlaws his paleface sweetheart. What moro romantic placo in which to unfold tho love of a wild, passionate child of na ture? Many of the hollow trees in the grovo have served tho more prosaio purpose of homes for miners and pros pectors. In 1853 one of tho largest trees in the Calaveras grove was cut down and the trunk smoothed off. Five men were busy over three weeks felling it by means of burning and the use of pump augers. The stump is twenty-four and a half by twenty three feet, and Professor Whitney THE BO AD WAY BUNS TH BOUGH THE TBEE counted 1255 annular rings, which, making allowance for the core of the tree, indicates an age of about 1300 years. That a vast difference exists be tween the ages of these trees is now generally accepted as a fact, and this tree was evidently of the younger generation. The stump of the tree cut down has served various purposes -theatrical performances have been held upon it; over thirty people at a time have danced upon it; a news paper, the Big Tree Bulletin, flour ished for a time from its surface. CABIN', MAIlirOSA GROVE. Upon the fallen tree itself was main tained a tenpin alley arid a reception room. . The Baptist Church in Santa Rosa was, with tho exception of tho arches, built entirely of lumber secured from one redwood, and but half of the tree was used at that. Tho age of this giant was estimated at 1200 years. When .one of these big trees gives np the ghost and falls under a stress of wind, it goes down like an avalanche of the Sierras. The ground trembles and the crash and ruin in its path mark a tragedy of nature. The "Father of the Forest" in the Calaveras grove, which fell not long ago, had seen a thousand years when the great majority of its present asso ciates were either non-existent 01 literally but little larger than mustard seeds. Its first limbs are 100 feet from the base, and, with a diameter of six feet, compare favorably with the largest trees of the country east of the Kookies. There are.125 trees in the lower and upper groves ever forty feet in circumference. In the Yosemite National Park, in a belt about two and a half miles long by two miles wide is the next largest grove of redwood trees. Here are some GOO trees which wonld be con sidered too large as shade trees for the broadest avenue. The largest has a circumference of eighty-one feet three feet above the earth. It is in many ways the greatest and grandest forest on the globe. Tho big trees are generally wearing away with time and weather, and seem to have outlived the age in which they belonged, so that they will drop their limbs and topple themselves all 'too soon without the vandal's axe to bring them down. Many of them show signs of decay, and some are hollow at the base, though still living, with the heart gone. In the hollows of those woodland giants there is fre quently plenty of space for a comfort able house of three or four rooms, and in one of them seventeen horses have been sheltered at the same time from a storm. The gigantea ls wont to play jokes on t ravel ors, and they are elephantine enough to be serious. The camper is never tempted to seek rest in th? gras ses and ferns and shrubs at its base, ? THE "FALLEN MONARCH." -.-:-i--: for he is liable to be bombarded with cones, and as they are about the size and weight of eggs, a drop of several hundred feet gives them surprising force. But the real danger lies in the limbs, which frequently fall, though the tree may apparently have none to spare. In tho Mariposa grove there are standing 365 large sequoias-one for every day in tho year. This grove was donated by Congress to Califor nia in trust at tho samo time (1861) aud by the same act as the Yosemite Valley, and is managed by the same boord of commissioners. A troop ef cavalry guards tho domain. Whistled at They Died. It was tho fourth day after the late General Lawton's force had left Ma nila on its dash into Laguna. They were approaching the town of Paete, and a squad of five of Weissenberger's sharpshooters, mon from the North Dakota regiment, were working their way through the bamboo thicket. It had been the boast of the North Dako tans that they had not as yet lost no men in action. Suddenly tho 6quad received a vol ley of fifty shots from an insurgent trenoh fifteen yards ir front. Two men were killed, one mortally wound ed, one slightly wounded, and the fifth unhurt. He was Slutland, big and red-cheeked. He does not think he did anything remarkable; but in stead of running he dropped behind a rock, yelled for assistance and emptied the chamber of his rifle into the enemy. He held his ground till as sistance came, and then he joined in the charge of our line, which emptied the trenches. That night two North Dakota men who knew that their wounds were mortal were lying on cots side by side. "'Let's smile and die game," ono said. "We might as well whistle, too," was the reply. They whistled until their breath gave out, and then they died smiling. -New York World. Wherein Woman ls Superior to Man. In three things only are women superior to men; they aro superior to men as nurses, as teaohers of young children, and no man can trim a hat equal to a woman. In all other re spects men are the superiors of women. The best cooks are men; the best housekeepers are men. Although nearly every girl takes piano lessons and studies music, all of the great piano-players and musicians are men. These facts have been demonstrated by thousands of years of experience. Women who are trying to become lawyers, and who imagine that they ,can divido up the world's material re wards with men, should remember that they carry a serious handicap; nature intended that women should travel in certain paths, and will not reward them in other directions. Women are natural nurses and natural teachers. They should bo natural housekeepers and oooks; they would be if they didn't fritter away so muoh of their time in running after foolish things.-Atchison Globe. Ititptri-Flre Guns of Old. As far bock a3 1770, on a royal visit to Woolwich, a twelve-pounder brass gun was filled twenty-three times with shot in a minute, sponging between each fire and loading with great sufety. This surprised every spectator. The tramways, omnibuses and un derground railway in and around Lon don, withiu a radius of five miles, carry each year, it is calculated, about 153,000,000 passengers. IT. J. liUTHERFOIil). B. B. MOREIS. W. J. RUTHERFORD & CO. MANUFACTURERS OF HBRICK?: AND DEALERS IN Lime, Cement, Plaster, Hair, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY, READY ROOFING, ANO OTHER MATERIALS. Write xis for Prices Cor. Reynolds and Washington Streets. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. SBHPys ONE DOLLA! Cut thia ad. ?ni ?nj a>ud lo us wlib. ll.lal, und ?r nlil M-ml 'nc lui* SKW IBPROVKD l'A I! M. lt <;:::i OliCAN, bj f.-rlcbl C. 0. P., >.uhjce: locxamina Moo. You can examine Hutyo.ir nenrc^t freight depot, ond If /ou Und lt. exactly UH rcpretfcnU'f'l, t..? grriteal lalee-fM ?t;r nv t ? nd far belier than orr ana rjierilvd ky eiSeaa ti leora mar.17, par tb? f : ?**?'. OUR PRICE $35.50, lew tie JI.OO ilrpni:i, or *S l..%0 ?ad r.lKhlrh?rrra. THE PARLOR CE M I? one of Iho noit BOBABLI Ul SWEETEST TONED instniarnls eter wad.. Xromtho illustration ?ho??n. which i*anrravcd direct Bron a photograph you cnn form lomeidenoC I ti beautiful appearance. li::dc fro:n WM ftunrtcr jim) oak or ivuln;<t n* dedrcd. Ff.'orul'd kry ?;:p, full panel bod?, .'eautihil i.?injiir!.-y dc.lrn panr.'j ind mar.' ol?rr handsome dccnrntlona .nd annatal; matins ll tho ttXX LITEST STYL". THE JPAIILO" U?-:M UC?ee? hi^li, <2 lachen long,-! tncaea v.-idctnd insidia SSi "outids. Cont.tiPS 5 oetATC?, ll EtMM, as fellows: Plsniv.n, rriarjpal, 'iVIiti, 3e!od?a, C'?r.l', Cremona, Ua?.?Caupier, Tr.dr.eCau;>l?r, i ina. :i Fur!? and TM Uuniena; '- UrUvo I'aupV.-a, 1 Tja. Swell, I t.r?? ; Orran Snell, i P-Ne of Oreae.tralTined Brseaala? Pipe ?i.-lttr lt...!<. 1 ?rtnf a; Par* Bwrft Bevela Breda, 1 Silof ?7 'harmliurly llr.lllanl (Virale KC'L-I, 1 .-. t uf J I lUcli flt llow ? Moola llapuoa Rrrda, X S I of V'.ta\'.ng Sufi Strim!: -M. Principal teed.. THE PAR'_OR CE*! actioneoaeiata.of tao rlcbrafrd Smell Bei?, which ero or.ly used in the h Jell at grade inuUinnei:ti>; Ctlcd arith IUmnio.id Cooplrra ard '.I Humana, also lx-it Dol -ts fe'ts. Ia>I li 11, etc., bellow* >f ilia be*trubber cloth, bellows r'.rvc!: a:id I'.nest eather in vaitve. THE PARLOR CEf/1 bCutnbhed ?Uh n lOaU beveled pinta Freu* ?i mirr..r, ni-.-:.--! platal .cdul frames, and every modem improvement. Wo .ni I.h frte a haadiora. organ ?tool ac J Ino best orjun lastrce SmNTEED 25 YEARS. S'W?K ??ue a writte.i bleating <3-ycarguaranlea, ty the ?rins and cortditioaa vf walch lr any Bart (ureaoat .pair IC fra. of charts. 'J'.'/lt on? tuontlt and wc efund vour money if you a re not perfect;}- satisfied, .f theta orB-nn? viii be nd-l at S35.50. OIUfJEK IT OX CK. DON'T J>KLAY. OUR RELIABiLITY IS ESTABLISHED gyj? lean ivlth usmik jravenei^Uliur about aa, write ha publisher o? thia papiir or UotropoUtaJl Vatlon ?1 Iim'jT, or Corn Kat Baale of Chicarr.i; ?g? >r (rcruian Exehanrro Hock. Kew fork; ur ?ir.y BM railroad or oiprcss comiuxny in Chicago. We :.???y ia t. a tapltal of o?er <T0O,0u0.O0, occupy entire 1 iSjf tnt of the latycat bur!n??<i blockalu 1 blcaco, ifflji jud employ nearly 2.000 peoria In our o?vn tiuilulMir. WK BtXL UKIUNtl AT f??.O" ?nd ?pi ru sm, ain.oo aadapi also cvcr}<hlrir in mn:ilcal Instruments at lowest wholesale prices. Write for frcespecL. jruan, piano ?nd musical laitMaMBCOatalogBO. Addrea^, (Beare, Koota:ci ii Co. r.-t- TJ-.croijfhJ/ rellaMo.-Zdltor.). 4EARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.). Fulton, DcsplainesznC Wsyraan Sta., CKICACO. CUL, WITH YOUR ORO?B.eut thia ail. out and send to us.and ?wcwUlnendyouOURHION tlliAD? PBOP CABINET SURDICK SEWING MACHINS *-T fr.lr?t,CO.P.??bJactto^awiaa Youi CM? examine it at your nearest freight depot and If fo^ffSgSCt,. Mrfaje?Taa?afaetorj.exactly ?areDrcsented, et]oalto?"T-bln?ioJicraMllf" iahleliai ?S0.OO,and Til1 ardVrel?ht*c^uuma. Uaehlna waigaa 120 pound? and taefrelaht will mm? cents for each MO miles. QIVE IT THREE MOUTHS' TRIAI In your t?vm home, and we wlU return your ilu.io any day you are not aatlifled. Weaelldlffertntntakeaand fradetof Sowlna: !Uehla?tat tS.iO, am 00 ail. 80. SIS.OOandop, all fully described In our Fr*. Sewlar* Haahln. Catalojie. but $15.50 for this DROP DESK CABISKT BUBJ)1CK la the arreateat val?as ever offered by any houac._ BEWARE OF IMITATIOW&R^^^ tisements o?erinK onknowr.maehlnea ander various names, with tariooaln daermrntt.' Write lome Wend In Cblea?o aad learn who aremllable and "ho are not. --na" evcpr jjoDtKS IJIPrtOTKJlKNT. EVERT GOOD POINT OF EVERY HIGH THE BURDICK GRADK XACIIINK JUDE, WITH TUB DEFECTS OF .NONE. Made by thcs beat mnkcre in America, from tho best material money S0U?D QUARTER SAWED OAK ^&?K!^SSS? Closed (head dropping from sipht) to be used as a crater table, elana or deai- the other open with full length table and head in place for - jewing. ? fancy drawera. laleat 1900 akeleton frame, carved, paneled, cm ed and decorated cabinet finish, flne*t nickel drawer pulls, rests on four crs adjustable treadle. genuineSmy?h iron stand. Fine?! lonre Hlph Ana hrtd positive four motion feed, self threading vibrating shuttle, automatic bobbin winder, adjustable bearings, patent tension liberator.tmprovcd looae wheel adjustable pressure foot, improved shuttle carrier, patent needle bar, natcnt dru's guan?, head la bandaomely decorated and orsanenled aad beantlnillj nlrkel irlxoed. CUARANTEEO tba Habteit reaalnR, moat durable and nearest nnlioleaa mnehlne mode. K?er? knonn attaehment la furnished and our ?TCO In Htmction Boole tells just ho?v anyone can run lt and doeitherplainorany Ulnd of laney work. A 'JO-Yeara' Dlndlnsflutranteeis sentwlth eTery machine. IT nncTC voil aif?TUIMR to ace and examine this maeblnr. comparo it with IT LUaliS TUU rtUiniWU th0(e vour n|0rekecpcr sells at tiO.OO to t;.'..oo to tio.oo, ray vour freiirht agent the 315. GO. 'are not satisfied. ORDEll T0-U?w t: i 00 and then if convinced that you aro saving ?2...00 to M0.O0, r?y mw rn imU YOttllVtl if nt any " .'c within three months you say you fLSJf?S^V^^tSiaWiS?^i - .rt thoroughly rcl'ablc.-I'Mltor.) EOH'I DjSIiAT. "(Seara", Roehucic * g. .rt thonmghlyrci?aiiie.^<iiior.i ... < TO TTAddress, J?OESUCK & CO. (?nc.) Chicago, ?ll.. GEO. P. COBB, , JOH/NSTO/N,S.e., Furniture and Household Goods, Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Saddles. Have Purchased a New and Beautiful Hearse. Calls By Telephone Promptly Answered and Attended To. Lowest Prices. THE HANNIS DISTILLING CO., Fine Whiskies, PHILADELPHIA. EED LABEL MONOGRAM Sold by all Dispensaries in j South Carolina. DISTILLERIES: Han ms ville, Martinsburg, W. Va., Hount Vernon, Baltimore, fid. .?.?.?.?.?.fl .?.?.?.? .?.?.? S S. GRABFELDER & CO., S J LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 9 Are Furnishing to the . South Carolina H 1 o S Dispensary J * SILVER BROOK XX, g ROSE VALLEY XXX, ?^>?^>?^ S 2 AMERICAN MALT, H^?H ? g DUNN'S nONOQRAH RYE,