Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
lad saw the solar principle at

glance.
The sun was but a fountain oi
electricity, generating heat and
light feeling but little of either.
There was no sign of vegetation
Tor animal life. There were nc
shadows. Even the inequality Of
the surface cast no shade. He
walked lonely and shadowless on
the barren creator of all life
Around him, like an,aurora, gleam.
ed the yellow mist Of the outer
circle.
tThere were no stars. There
were no worlds. He occupied the
life-giving essence, oblivious to
every living thing save himself
He put in two days on this line
and then prepared to depart.
But his cannons and guns were
immovable. He couldn't wrench
the smallest rife from its fasten-
ings. The magnet held them like
q vice.
Then he remembered that there
a -lHa -.
was no gravitation except to metal.
Slipping off q boot, he found he
was lighter, because the nails had
kept him down. Should he slip
off the other and take a step he
would remain in lmidair.
He could not fall again to the
sun. He could not leave it, because
he was not within the influence of
any other gravitatien or atmos-
rhere. Then he must die in a
space few feet from substance.
Suddenly he bethought him
the magnetism can be beaten out
of iron by a sharp blow. He had
no stone to beat with, but dripping
water is more powerful than rock,
since it will wear rock away.
He began to expectorate. In an
hour he spit one cannon loose. In
another hour the second columbiad
was free. He had now exactly
time to the minute to return. But
ne had no time to release the
smaller weapons, and without their
recoil could he effect his return in
the prescribed timer
He would try it. Starting his
columbiads he found himself in
space. he had no idea how fast
he travelled His face was turned
|from tihs bun e tthere vas no
light. Comp osiing himself sheIslept.
When he came to consciousness
he wassin the hospital in London,
with his three friends bending over
him congratulating him on having
won his wager.
He had struck the earth, but not
hard enough to injure him seri-
ously. The reason was that he
had been ten days without air, and
when he struck the atmosphere he
had inhaled 80 much that he
swelled up like balloon.
The swelling burst his boots off
and his columbiads dropped into
the sea, while he foated softly
down and reached the ground with
one minute to spare. An air pump
had relieved him of extra pressure
and he was almost as good as new.
John Temple Graves, of Georgia,
wants to solve the negro race prob
lem by founding 'snegro State,
planted in the heart of our great
republic; under the shadow of the
flag; under the benediction of the
government" "In the region of
Colorado, New Mexico, and Ari-
zons is to be found an area of 150,-
100000 acres" he says, upon
which our whole negro population
could find subsistence, and yet not
be SO densely populated as I found
Germany or Belgium. The gov
ernment should lend them every
aid IN developing the country. Ne
groes alone should hold the Offices
and rule the country. Nor are they
opposed to such action. Actual
investigation has shown that num-
bers are readyto go, even to Africa,
where they can have a State Of
their own.
For sluggish and torpid liver,
nothing can surpass Ayers Pills.
They contain no calomel, nor any
mineral drug, but are composed Of
the active principles of the best
vegetable cathartics, and their use
always results in marked benefit to
the patient.