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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-31
THE EIDGEFIELD
Male and Female
IlNSIII1UTE-
THE Trustees announce to the pub
: l lie that this school will open on
Monday, Sept. 4, 1893,

and continne ten months, forty weeks,
with recess of one week at Christ
mas. There will be three departments,
each carefully graded:
The Primary, embracing 2 years.
The intermediate. embracing q years.
The Academic, embracing 4 years.
Provision is also made for Music and
Art Departments, under competent
teachers. Arrangements for studies
higher than the Academic will be made
hereafter, if it be deemed best to do so.
The rates of tuition will be as follows: !:
In the Primary Department, first
and second years, per months l.OO
In the intermediate Department,
lst and End years, per month. 200
In the intermediate Department
3rd and 4th years, per month. 800
In the Academic Department, 1st
and End years, per month";. 300
In the Academic Department, 3rd -.
and 9TH years, per month";. 4.OO
In the Music Department, per -
month. .................. 4.VV
In the Art Department, per -
month";. 5.uU
From these charges will be deduct
ed the pro rata amount allowed for
each pupil from the public school fund.
The trustees have. committed this
school to the management of
DIR. i, r. GWALTNEY.
He will be aided in each department
by competent teachers. 1t will be seen
that the basis of financial support
which has been in operation for sew
eral years has been abandoned, the
trustees having fully decided that it
is better to have fixed rates of tuition
for all pupils. If the citizens Of Edge
field will heartily stand by "The In.
stituta," they will have good school
in which they may take commenda-
BILE pride. The Principal is well known.
He returns to Edgetield to become the
pastor of the Baptist Church, and to
give his matured experience to the
work of educating our boys and girls.
Good board can be had for SIS to $40
per month.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-31
Ingratitude.

Public men aretargets to be
shot at, belied, pursued, mlsinter-
preted. I was surprised to read
what Macaulay wrote in one of his
intense sentence after all his
bright career in the English
Parliament and after being
renowned the world over by all
who could admire fine writing and
great thought-Macaulay says
aEvery friendship which a man
may have becomes precarious as
soon as he engages in politics"
Daniel Webster, after his wonder
full career and in the close of his
life, writes: eff I were to live my
life over agrin, with my present
experience, I would under no coz
sideration allow myself to enter
public life. the man who serves
the public most faithfully
receives no adequate raward.
In my own history those acts
which have been before God most
disinterested, and the least stained
by selfish considerations have
been precisely those for which l
have beeu most freely abused. No,
no, have nothing to do with poll
tics. Sell your iron, eat the bread
Of independence, support your
family with the rewarde of honest
toll, do your duty as private
citizen to your country, but let
politics alone. It is hard life
a thankless life. I have had in
the course of my political life,
which is not a short one, my full
share Of ingratitude, but the un-
kindest cut of all, the shaft that
has sunk the deepest in my heart,
has been the refusal of this ad-
ministration to grant my request
for an office of small pecuniary
consideration for my son." That
is the testimony of man who
ought to know. My friends, better
stay down than be shot down. He
who has a good occupation, o good
home, good character, good field
good Iafeld Of usefulness and a
good hope in Jesus Christ has all
That worth having-ocouee News.
You can never have a really good
complexion until the impurity is
cleased from your blood. What
you need is a thorough course Of
AYERS sarsaparilfa, which is abso-
iutely free from all harmful in
gradients, and therefore, perfectly
safe.
Sidney Smith wrote toa friend
81 have seven orIeight complaints,
~ thor resnecta am
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-31

Every Machine mas
. drop leaf, fancy cover, two large drawers,
with nickel rings, and full Set of Attachments,
equal to any Singer Machine sold from $40 to
$50 by canvassers. The High Arm Machine
has self.setting needle and self-threading
shuttle. A trial in your home before payment
is asked. Buy direct of the Manufacturers
and save agents profits besides getting certih-
Gates of warrantee for five years. Send for
machine with name Of business man as
reference and we will ship one at once.
COOPERATIVE SEWING MACHINE Co.,
aor S. Eleventh ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA.
EVE PAY TIE EREIGHT.-A
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-31
Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Et

HIquV1, OAVi P'fho' 10"ssoo0' :"
The liquor. morphine, and chloral
habits absolutely cured under guaran-
tee. Particulars given by letter or in
person at my Office, which is open all
hours of the day.
There is no use to go away from
home and spend hundreds of dollars
for treatment, when you can be cured
at home for much smaller amount.
j. GLOVER ToMPKINs, NJ. D.
Edgefeld, G. a., C.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-31

Sidney Smith wrote toa friend
81 have seven orleight complaints,
bufsin all other respects ! am
perfectly vel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-31
Opens first Monday in October next.
OFFERS CLASSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COURSES.
Large and handsome building COM
pleted. Delightful climate.
Now in the 54th Year of its Existence.
rs Write for Catalogue.

Total Expenses for Board and raition, $50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20
NOT ALL ON THE SURFACE.
BY Rev. Charles Luther Williams.

Their golden wedding is to take place
soon. They are in the sitting-room of
the old farmhouse in which they have
spent SO many happy years together.
Carlo, the dog, Taby, the cat, lie side by
side near the fireplace in perfect agree
ment now, both being asleep. She is
busy knitting. He is busy keeping the
fire in good humor by now and then
giving it delicious piece of 'fat pine,'
or by tickling it with the poker until
it rOars with laughter. If her ball of
knitting yarn slips out of her lap onto
the floor, and rolls under the great,
heavy settee on the farthest side of
the room, he, without any request from
her save that which she makes as she
looks over her spectacleS, first towards
the Settee and then towards him, gets
up from his chair and goes after the
ball. Though he is not so spry as he
joints crack little as he is doing it,
he gets down on his hands and knees
and, steadying himself with one hand,
feels around under the settee with the
other, until he finds the runaway ball.
AS he hands it to her perhaps he
does not smile or say anything. If so,
she knows that it is because he is dis
pleased. AS she takes it perhaps she
does not smile or say anything but a
brief and low ''thank you" If she
should not say even that much, he
would not think it was because she
was Indifferent to his kindness. 1t
may be he feels their lives are so en-
tirely one that her thanking him would
be equivalent to his thanking himself
At any rate, this ripened old couple do
not in these days talk much about how
they love one another, not one-tenth
as much perhaps as they did q little
over fifty years ago Still, by many
a sign it is evident that each has become
as as staff to the life Of the other. Last
summer, for instance, when she was
so sick, everybody said that if she
should go he would soon 60 too. Does
any one, however, suppose that their
mutual affection has died out because
they do not talk much about it? When |
the SHOWS of many winters are upon
the head, must they of course freeze the
genial current Of love in the heart be-
meath them?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20

accused her Of her heartless no,.fd,
and cr1mInality and spoke of his blicbted
affections. Livid with rage. he cursed
her for deceiful jade and as he left
her, exclaimed: I shall live to SEQ
the day, madam, when I will spurn
your miserable carcass under foot
He tried to forget his troubles by
giving unremitting attention to his pro-
fesSion, and in course of time succeeded
so well that he built UP lucrative
praeuce. But he never lost sight of his
"lIe' from whom, however, he was law
luiiv and secretly released soon after
the discovery of her faithlessness. He
saw ner deserted by her lover after
she leIt her home to become his mis-
treSs' from affair he noted her rapid de-
scent IN the social scale until the yilest
haunts only would receive her and
then came a day when his secret SER
vice man brought the news that the
hospital had received heft emaciated
figure and that her case waA HOPELESS
"One would have thought that bv this
time the mans better feelings would
prevail and in her extremity some kind
impulse might stir him to Soothe her
last hours. But no. He secretly ex-
ulted in her degradation, and when he
learned that she was dead he planned
for his final act of revenge. Had
known then of the terrible vindictiye-
ness of his nature the letter that gave
him to my shoemaker would never
have been written. As demonstration
of clinics at the hospital I had no
trouble to obtain a piece of the
skin he wanted from the body of
the friendless woman, and when he
assured me that he wanted to get it
tanned as a souvenir of a oncelOved
past, 1 helped him all in my power,
although I deprecated his morbid fancy
well, you can guess the rest. The
scar on the skin noticed by Mr. Gee
was made that night in the manner [
have described. Her former tender
flesh is now turned into a pair of shoes,
which her once loving husband will
wear this summer on the streets of
Chicago, and no one looking down upon
his jaunty tan footwear will for a mo-
ment dream what a CHASTITY story they
represent. ISt he man insane? Yes,
on that subject I think he is; at least,
that is the only charitable construction
[ can put upon his actions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

Madison, April PA joint resolution
passed the senate this morning and al
so the house to permit E. G. McFet-
ridge to turn over bonds and mort
cages against the State Agricultural so,
ciety in settlement of the states judg-
ment against him. The senate concur
red in the house bills to defray the
expenses of the various assembly con
teStants.
The assembly bill striking out the
provision for the exemption OF 5000
worth of personal property other than
furniture, wearing apparel, family por-
traits, libraries and growing crops from
taxation, was concurred iE The as
sembly bill making labor day a legal
holiday, reported for passage, was on
motion Of Mr.. Lees, re-rferred to the
judiciary committee. Senate bills We're
killed: To provide for the licensing
Of persons, companies, associations and
corporations engaged in the express
business; to pervent corrupt practices
in elections and with that purpose to
provide for publicity in election eX-
peuSeS, W c1ldESS Tie DOuIluaT1oS OIL
towns in Forest county, and to amend
chapter 80 Of the laws Of 1891, relating
to Forest county.
In the house this morning senate bills
were concurTed in: To provide for the
better assessment Of leaf tobacco; TO
fix terms Of court in 18th judicial cir
cult; to authorize the construction Of
branch roads and spur tracks in certain
cases. Bills were killed: To establish
q school of mines; relating to public
roads, and for the appointment of coun-
ty road commissioners. There was con
siderable discussion over the senate
bill for the protection of fish, The
object being to make the bill more
stringent, and it was oredred to a third
reading after being amended to prohibit
all set-lineS in the inland waters. Sen
ate bill to authorize the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway to own
stock in certain companies was ordered
to third reading
The assembly took up 81 A, being
the bill to repeal the local option liquor
law, and after it was defeated by a
a tie vote, adjourned till evening.
AT the evening session of the senate
a senate bill to regulate the fisheries
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20
EN- BEZZLER mAURER CAUGHT.
Says He was Taken Sick and Didn't
Know What He was Doing

Know what He was Doing.
KALAMAZOO, Mich, April 15.-De-
tectlve johnson of Chicago arrived last
night with Will A. Maurer, for whom
a reward of $500 was offered over a
year ago. Maurer was for years a
trusted employee of the Michigan Bell
Telephone Company, and was for two
years district and local manager here,
handling large sums of money. In
December. 1891, he made out his
monthly repOrt and left the city to go
to Detroit. He was not heard from
in several days, and detectives were
sent out on his trail, as he had 80, 600
OF the company's money in his possess
sion. He was not found and a reward
Of $500 was offered for his arrest
Maurer was interviewed last night.
He said that when arrested in Chicago
he was on his way to this city to meet
State Superintendent Forbes of De-
trOit. He says he was taken sick while
on his way to Detroit with the money
and found himself, several weeks after,
down with fever in a Fort Scott (Kan.)
hospital. He says that he learned soon
afterward that he was wanted for en-
bez>lement and began at once to earn
enough to pay back his stealngs He
says he has been working for a Fort
Scott carriage company, selling car
riages on the road for over a year, and
is confident that he can settle the mat
ter with the COMPANY
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20
RIDING A CAMEL.
Not a Very Easy or Desirable Mode
of Travelling.

The Spectator: There is something
ineXpressibly repelling in Interpretations
twists Of camel as he looks scornfully
at you, with his nose in the air. But
overcame my repugnance and mount
ed one after receiving careful inStruc-
tons how to retain my seat while
the brute was getting up. 1t was well
enough while he walked; but when he
began to trot at a brisk pace, I de-
voutly wished myself astride on
humber animal. But how was l TO
stop him? There was no bride, only
rope attached to the left side of
the brute's mouth. At that rope I
tugged, with the effect merely Of MAX
ing my camel trot off to the left.
I had been told that if I wished to
make him go to the right I must hit
a very short stick with which l had
been provided for the purpose. But
that was more easily said than done.
How was I, from my giddy perch, TO
reach the creatures head across that
long stretch of neck? l tried 1t and
nearly lost my balance for my pains
no joke at a height of ten feet above
the pebbly sand. One of the officers,
however, saw my plight, stopped, ut
tered some gurgling sound, and then
the camel, exposing its teeth and pro-
testing viciously, knelt down, and I
dismounted, silently vowing that never
again would I. choose that mode Of
locomotion. My deliverer, who ex-
changed his donkey for my camel,
laughed heartily at my discontinue.
But I had my revenge speedily, for in
the exuberance of his gayety he allow
the camel to rise Unexpectedly and
was pitched head over heels on the
ground. He was not hurt, and he join
ed in the laugh against himself as
heartily as ne had laughed at me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20

derlich, s749.51; F. A. Deleglise, ST.
O3421.
The senate held only an evening ses-
sion. The following senate bills were
passed: To change the boundaries of
the towns of Wheatland and Genoa in
Vernon county; to regulate the fisheries
on Lake Michigan, Lake Superior and
Green Bay; to amend, revise and codi-
fy the laws in reference to the Wiscon-
sin national guard.
An assembly bill was passed to pro-
vide a uniform system of certifcation
of teachers and to give the graduates
Of leading educational institutions, the
right to teach without the necessity of
taking examination by a county or city
superintendent.
A senate bill was killed prohibiting
! the unlicensed DETACHMENT of public
and private property.
At the afternoon session of the senate
| the Waukesha water pipe bill came
back from the assembly with an amend
ment. After some discussion the
| amendment was adopted. The follow
.
To provide county and city repositories
| and regulate the deposit of public
moneys therein and protecting trade
and commerce against unlawful trusts
and monopOlies.
| 4 substitute for Senator Kruszka' S
caucus bill was concurred in by the
assembly. \ bill correcting an error in
the law abolishing days of grace was
| cOncurred in, as was the veteran s
home appropriation bill. Bills We're in
| definitely postponed: Regulating the
practice of pharmacy; u tax gifts, lega-
cies and inhcritances. Bills We're indie
finitely postponed: Compelling trans
pOrtatiOn of refuse matter out of cities
by railroad companies. Making larceny
from shop or store a felony. AuthOriZ
ing destruction Of fighting dogs and
! dogs in cities. There was a long, tedi
Gus debate ON the merits of senate bill
No. so, regulating the appointment OF
road superintendent and the manner
of paying road taxes. 1t was passed
The bill creating a board of arbitration
to settle difficulties between employers
and employees was passed.
! Senator Pratt presented a joint reso
luton resembling joint resolution rela
tive to the final adjournment and the
reporting of committees, and setting the
time two days forward in each case
making the final adjournment on the
22d inst. The resolution was unani
mOusly adopted in both houses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20

Harpers. TO write a letter of con
graduation on happy event in the his
tory Of a friend is a comparatively easy
task. Words of cheer and felicitation
fall trippingly from the pen as from
the tongue. The letter Of coincidence
requires more care, more delicacy, a
greater comprehension, a fuller recog.
milton Of the friends character and
environment. Many people hesitate to
write their thought Of sympathy to one
who is suffering under the first sur
prise and bewildering shock of a deep
bereavemnt. The impulse is strong to
put forth hand in the dark and give
the warm clasp which means Il am sor,
ry," Il gTieve in your grief" 81 would
help you il 1 COULD but quick upon
its heels tread the suggestions of eau
ton. Il do not know her well enough
to intrude," whispers an instructive re-
finement Of pity. My rude thrusting
in of myself would only tear open the
wound afresh.' SHOULD l attempt to
speak words of consolation they would
sound like plahtudeS, appear conven-
tlOuSil VI peIlullCtOly. lIe dISuIlleIltS
are often so reasonable in their appeal
to common sense that the original tend
er impulse is resolutely crushed back;
one prays for ones friend, but does not
directly address her.
In most cases the silence is a mistake.
Occasionally it is better than speech,
we grant, particularly when those of
Whom we think are mere acquaintance,
not even in the outer circle as vet of
friendship, or when the sufferers are
specially shy of manner and reticent
Of nature.
Usually, however, the letter of con-
dOlence, if short, earnest and sincere.
is an olive branch of promise borne as
by very messenger dove of peace over
the wild, whirling waste of snow. The
simpler it is, the surer its errand of
mercy. The sooner it is sent, the more
speedily its tender balm is laid on the
aching heart. On the whole it is al
ways very nearly safe to trust to the
early friendly impulse, and to disre-
gard the later OBTAINING hand of eau
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20
WON'T BUY OUR GOODS.
Decrease of Over 1886, ZOO, 900 in the FL
port of Food Products.


WASHINGTON. April 1.-The adverse
turn of the balance of trade against
the United States continues to be
shown by the figures of the bureau Of
statistics. The total exports of bread
stuffs for the last month were S13, $685.
600. for the corresponding month of
1892 they were 1923, 072, 900, falling off
for the month of SO, 2O6, 900.
For the nine months ending March,
1898, the exports of breadstuffs were
S145, O32, 900; for the corresponding
nine months in the previous fiscal year
they were $233, 159 600, falling off in
nine months of $S8, 1877, 200.
The decrease in the expectation Of
hog, beef and dairy products has been
almost equally marked. For the
month of March last the exports of
these products were IS, 30: 900; for the
corresponding month of 1892, $i1, $780,
600, a falling off of 1926, 200. For
the nine months ending March 1, the
exports Of these products were $27,-
800, 600; for the corresponding nine
months of the previous fiscal year,
1913, 9S3 900, a falling off of Sc, 6S3. 600
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20

Clinton Junction, Wis, April 10
Matthew Bitson, who shot and killed
his wife and Mrs. Arthur Hearn in the
town Of La Prairie Thursday and set
fire to the house, was captured about
three miles east Of Clinton Junction ut
9 o'clock this morning. Seeing that
escape was impossible, BitSon shot
himself through the head, the ball
passing into the head at the lobe Of
the right ear and coming out at the
left temple. Physicians who were call
ed to attend him say that the wound
will not be fatal.
BitsOn denies that he killed the two
women but does not seek to explain
his fight and his attempt to take his
own life.
Bitson's capture was due to his own
reckleSSness, inspired by cold and eX-
posure. The news Of his deed of blood
had Travelled from house to house like
a fire on the open prairie, and every
farm he approached was surrounded
by excited knots of men, anxious to
assist in his capture should he appear,
and to follow the arrest with a swift
use of the ready noosed rope. He
found the roads patrolled by armed
men, and he was forced to skulk III
the woods and avoid the beaten paths
in order to prevent encountering his
prrsuers.
The weather was intensely cold, and
early yesterday morning a snow storm
prevailed. The two nights spent in the
woods were marked by intense suffering
and he decided that with the break of
day this morning he would boldly ap-
prOach a farm house and ask for food
and warmth, risking the chance of
recognition. If recognized, he reasoned,
he still had his revolver and could per-
haps stand off the people in the house
and make his escape.
Once this plan determined upon Bit
son lost no time in carrying it out.
He selected the farm house of John
Carl, who is unmarried, about two miles
he would seek the assistance He bold
ly knocked at the door and was adj
mitted. He was recognized, but Carl
had the presence of mind not to alarm
the fugitive. Word was quickly sent
to the neighborS and a posse was
formed and proceeded toward the
house.
BitSOn was on his guard and saw
the crowd approaching. He found es-
cape cut off, and quickly drawing his
pistol, he fired into his head. The
bullet entered near the neck and ranged
backward and upward. He was
brought to this place and medical assist
ance summoned. The physician says
the wound is serious but is not neces-
sarily fatal, although the chances are
against recovery.
While an immense crowd congre-
gated about the Jail here, City Mar
shall Earle kept guard at the door and
Sheriff Bear was notified to come
down. When he reached Clinton, Bit
son lay on a bench with blood stream
ing from his self-inflicted wound The
sheriff ordered a train stopped, but the
mob would not let him put Bitson
aboard.
Later, however, the Governors guard
from Madison, came by special train,
the mob was aWed, BitsOn placed on
the cars and taken to Baraboo for safe
keeping. He arrived there early Sun
day morning.
Bitson, an ignorant Bohemian, had
qua1Tele6 with his wife and Mrs. Hern
had come to his house as a peace
maker. The tragedy resulted. Bitson
was tenant on one of Hern's farms