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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
WHAT TT HAS DOME:

The Company Has Paid Over
Two Hundred Death Claims, in
consequence of this law, aggregating
in sums insured more than Four Hun
dred Thousand Dollars.
In every case there had been de-
fault in the payment Of premium, and,
except for this law, the policies wonld
have been Of little or no value. Instead
of this, the insurance in each case was
extended to the time of death, and the
Company was required to pay to the
beneficiaries under the policies the
sum of S,335.77.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24


:; We call attention to the adver-
tisement of the famous old insti-
tuition which appears in another
column. Many an Edgefeld ply
sician has graduated at the college
in the days that are gone and many
more we are safe to predict will
matriculate there in the future.
The next term begins on the first
Monday in October prox., and
closes on the 1st of April. The
faculty is now composed of the
following strong names: DeSaus-
sure Ford, M. D., Dean; Thos. R,
Wright, M. D., Secretary; George
w. Rains, M. D., LID, Emeritus
Professor of Chemistry; DeSaus-
sure Ford, M. D., Professor Of the
Principles and Practice of Sur.
gerry; Thos. R. Wright, M. D..
Professor of Anatomy and Clinical
Surgery Theodore Lamb, M: D.,
Professor of the Institutes and
Principles of Medicines, and Dis
eases Of the Chest; w. H. Doughty
Jr., M. D., Professor of Pathology
George A. Wilcox, M. D., Professor
of. Obstetrics and Gynecology
James M. Hull, M. D., Professor OF
Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and
Throat; Eugene Foster, M. D.
Professor of the Practice Of Medi-
cine and Sanitary Science; R. B.
Glass, M. D., Professor of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics; Thos
D. Coleman, NJ. D., Professor Of
Physiology; Joseph Edgerton Viii.
Elet,s M. D., A. NJ, Ph. D., LII. D..
Professor of General and Medical
Chemistry, and Practical Phar.
macy; A. S. Tinsley, M. D., De,
monstrator of Anatomy; L. G
Spece, M. D., and Henry G
Doughty, NJ. D., Assistant Demon
strators of Anatomy and Prosec.
tors to the Professor of Anatomy
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
Horses, Cattle, Dogs, etc.
Hillnan, Ga.

The Humphreys Medicine
Campany of New York, will mail
on application a Complimentary
Copy of DR.. Humphreys Veteri-
nary Manual $500 Pages) on the
Treatment and Care of Horses,
Cattle, Dogs, Hog, Sheep and
Poultry.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
brief sketch of such as we are fc
tunate enough to attend.

brief sketch of such as we are for
|tunate enough to attend.
The pleasure of an entertain
ment is always enhanced ',y-a gooc
beginning, and in this instance al
instrumental duet, aRondeaux g
variations" played by Misses
Bracie and Angel Cheatham was {
suitable and delightful introduc
tion to the programme.
Miss Marie Abney whose voice
is always an acquisition to an!
performance, charmed her hearer
with that rare and popular bal
lad, .The Danube River afte.
which Miss Florence Adams rem
dered aLichner's Pearly Cascade,
a piano solo.
Mr.. ]. T. Parks then read with
unusual skillthe humorous dialect
selection, "Why sackey Schmidst'l
girl went back on him."
1t is a pleasant task to voice the
sentiments of the public in tha
admiration which attended the
singing of Miss Eliza Minis, in the
song aLuna."
Mr.. Weaver, of Charleston, gave
the selection "Asleep at the
Switch" in a brilliant and inter.
esting manner. 1t is unnecessary
to mention the singing of the male
quartette who have already made
themselves famous in former en-
tertainments. This one is COM
posed of Messrs. Jacobs, George
Minis, ]. M. Cobb, and E. w. Beall.
and we must by no means omit to
mention the other quartette OF
which Misses Lille Jones and
Tweetie Hill compose two, who
carried us back to the days of Auld
Lang syne in that ever admired
ballad "Juanita." /"
Much merriment was elected
during the reading of "Jamie and
the Owl" by Judge John Kenntrly,
Mrs. X. w. Cheatham sustained
her already exalted reputation in
the vocal selection, Gin old Mad
rid"
Bright and popular Miss Julia
Prescott executed the piano solo,
"Fwittering of the Birds" with
much taste and skill.
Duet by Misses Alice Cheatham
and Florence Adams. Miss Cheat
hams beauty and grace at the
piano aside from her skilful per-
formance, won the admiration and
applause of all present.
''The Famine Scene from Hia-
watha was given in SO pathetic a
manner by Miss Mary Butler as to
draw tears from the eyes of some
of her audience.
Miss Mary Minis, youthful and
pretty, recited the ssLast HymL.' :
Miss Belle Minis whose assist.
ance is always appreciated sang
.efe ctiyely and beautifully, aThe
Cows are in the Clover"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
Liquor, Morphine, Tobacco, Etc.

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.
Edgef1eld, G. a., S. @.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

lam candidate for County Auditor,
and will abide the result of the pri-
mary.
I am candidate for the Office of
Auditor, and will abide the result of
the primary election.
BENZ. w. RUSHTON.
lam a candidate for the position of
Auditor, and will abide the result of
the primary election.
ALBERT w. RUSHTON.
lam candidate for. County Auditor,
and will abide the result Of the pri-
mary election.
WALTER J. PADGETT.
am acandidate for the position of
Auditor of Edgefeld county, and will
abide the result of the primary election.
JAS. B. ADAMS.
am candidate, not at the solicita-
tion Of friends, many or few, for the
position of Auditor, and will abide the
result of the primary election.
JAS. d. FRASER.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
Executors S Sale.

WE will sell at the town of Plum
w Branch on the 9th day of October
next, plantation known as the James
Jennings place, containing 1900 acres,
more or less, said farm being on Byrd
Greek. Will sell the whole or divide
it into four different tracts to suit pur-
chasers. Said land is bounded as fol-
lows: North, by lands of Thomas
Motion, White, and Deal; East, by lands
of Hon. w. j. Talbert, and Mrs. N. p
B. Cartledge; West, by lands of Mrs
Price Morgan and A. Talbert.
Terms: One-fourth the purchase
money in cash, the balance in one and
two. years,
W. D. JENNINGS, sr,
Executors.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.


A patent strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
is that an inventor must be a natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; that he
must devote years to delving in
complicated mechanical problems and
that he must spend a fortune on
delicate experiments before he can
get new device to a patentabls de-
gree of perfection. This delusion the
company desires to dispel. 1t desires to
get into the head, of the public clear
comprehension of the fact that it is
not the great, complex, and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple,
and cheap ones-the things that seem
so absurdly trivial that the average
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed
of bringing them to the attention of
the Patent. Office.
Edison says that the profits he has
received from the patents on all his
marvellous inventions have not been
sufficient to pay the cost Of his ex-
periments But the man who conceived
the idea of fastening bit of rubber
cord to child,s ball, so that it would
come back to the hand when thrown
made fortune out of his scheme. The
modern sewing machine is a miracle
of ingenuity-the product of the toll
of hundreds of busy brains through
hundred and fifty years, but the whole
brilliantresult rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye of the needle
at the point instead of at the other end.
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALU-
ABLE.
Comparatively rev people regard
themselves as inventors, but almost
everybody has been struck, at one
time or another, with ideas that seemed
calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such are ideas
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make its car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers backsp" exclaims the
traveller. eff were running the road
would make them in such way"
What was the man that made this
saucepan thinking OFF" grumbles the
cook. "He never had to work over
stove, or he would have known how it
ought to have been fixed"
"Hang such collar button n growls
the man who is late for breakfast off I
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break of, or
gouge out the back of my neck"
And then the various sufferers for
get about their grievancet and begin
to think Of something else. II they
would sit down at the next convenient
opportunity, put their ideas about car
windows, saucepans,a and collar buttons
into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves
as independently wealthy as the man,
who invented the iron umbrella ring
or the one who patentedrthe. fifteen
puzzle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

aI submit the within described in
vention in competition for the
Twenty-Five hundred Dollar Prize
offered by the Press Claims Company.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Death of this Well Known
and Brilliant Lady in Edgefield.

7 n
Who has net known or read OF
Douschka Pickens, the darling of
old Edgefeld and the sweetheart
in days gone by of all the boys in
Carolina?
Edgefeld was her childhood's
home, her girlhood,s home and
later the home of her young
womanhood; in that home she
died this morning. The sad news
came to the city and it was re-
ceived with deep regret here, for
this was the home of her young
married life. Here she lived as
Mrs. DR.. Geo. G.. Dugas, for he
was the young Georgian who
wooed and won the belle Of
Carolina.
Her death was unexpected,
following a brief illness, and
deepest sympathy is extended to
her devoted mother, to her husband
and to all the family. Cut off in
the prime of young womanhood
her death is sad blow to those
who loved her and long will she
be mourned and longer still will
her memory be cherished in old
Edgefeld.- Evening News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
lgefeld.- Evening News.
MRS. DR. g. G. DuaAs DEAD.

MRS. DR. G. c. DUGAs DEAD. !,
Mrs Douschka Pickens Dugas
died at her home near Edgefeld S
c., yesterday morning, was the
sad news that shocked and grieved
hundreds of Augustans yesterday
for very few of her friends knew
that she had been sick at all.
Three weeks ago she was in
Augusta visiting relatives, and
then she was slightly indisposed
but no alarm was felt over he1
condition.
About ten days ago she grew
some worse, and since that time
she began gradually to sink, when
yesterday morning at 8 o'clock
her soul took its flight to its eternal
resting place.
Mrs. DR.. Dugas was q
thoroughly charming and lovable
woman, and from her earliest
childhood she has been the idol
of Edgefcld, and when young
lady,she was one of the reigning
bellies of South Carolina.
Every one in Edgefeld county
loved and admired her, and by
kindness and sweet charity she
had drawn around her host OF
friends who will greatly
mourn her loss.
Mrs. Dugas was the youngest
daughter of the late Gov. Pickens
of South Carolina, who was one Of
the most prominent and foremost
men of his time.
She was SO years old, and leaves
three young children, hel
mother and a husband to mourn
their irrepara5le loss.
The deepest sympathy of the
entire community is extended
to the grieved family in this their
hour of griefand trial.
The following dispatch was
received yesterday morning:
Edgefeld. S. G. Aug. 19-Mrs
DR.. George G. Dugas died at-he1
home in Edgefeld this morning,
She leaves a husband. three bright
little children, and a mother to
mourn her loss. Mrs. Dugas was
kind-hearted and popular, and
beloved by the whole of Edgefeld
The funeral will take place Sunday
morning in the village cemetery
Augusta Chronicle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

good and all by our Supreme Court
lin November.
Rev. John Lake preached in
Aiken last week in the Baptist
Church. His discourses were
Ihigbly commended by the local
press.
Senator w. ii. Zimmerman, wife,
and daughter, are spending a few
weeks at Hillman's well. A very
pleasant letter from the Senator in
another column.
aCool as a cucumber" is not a
piece of slang buta scientific fact,
tthe esemparstnres efs the vegetable
JaIways being a Sdegreesbelow that
of the surrounding atmosphere.
Locusts are playing the wilds up
lin Greenyille county, the seven
teen year variety; they are num-
bered by the millions, and are so
yoracious that they eat the blades
of the corn to the very stalk. They
even eat the leaves of the trees,
briars, and everything green that
comes in, their path.
A Welcome Addition.
Mr.. Ira P. Culbreath, Clerk Jno.
B. Hill's efficient and courteous
deputy, expects to bring his family
to Edgefeld to live, sin the early
fall. This will be a welcome ad-
dition to our society.
Another Merchant Goes.
Mr.. Jas. M. Cobb leaves for New
York this week to make his usual
fall and winter purchases of dry
goods. This is the first departure
of the season and indicates the
character of the man, "to get there
frst," and when Cobb goes north
the people rejoice with. exceeding
great joy.
Leave for New York.
Messrs. Alvin ands Edgar Hart,
of the firms of Alvin Hart & Co.,
and E. B, Hart & Co., will leave
our town onne9t Monday for the
metropolis, New York, to buy fall
and winter goods. While goods
are cheap these- enterprising gen.
tlemen propose to get the best arti-
cles at the lowest figures. Wise
merchantsl happy customersl
Distressing Accident.
On Friday last the little four
year-old son of Mr.. Sam Lorick
fell into a we'll his home about
five miles from Batesburg and re-
ceiyed such injuries that he died
within fifteen minutes after being
taken out. The father has been
crazed by the horrible fate of his
child and has to bo watched to
prevent him from committing
suicide.
Two Rustirats.
Dime reading Monday night at
$3.50 O'Clock in the Y. M. G. A.
Hall for the benefit of the Baptist
Church. If the weather should be
:anfavorable, the entertainment
will be postponed to Tuesday night.
To assist in the programme, Sylla
Backstitch and Doria Squeezer-
fast, two S rnstiratss from Geor-.
giaS VIII come over from Augusta
on the night train in time to par
sticipate. Refreshments will be.
served, and everybody should at
tend. !: ~ if-,--.ss.
Mrs. Douschka Dugas.
All that was mortal of this be-
loved lady, only daughter of Mrs.
Gov. Pickens, was laid to rest in
our village cemetery on Monday
last. The immense concourse of
weeping friends at her obsequies
testify at once to her popularity
and their sympathy and love for
the bereaved mother. May the
divine benediction rest upon the
home and hearts thus made lonely
and desolate, and
May the dews on her grave fall as sweet
AS the plying tread Of an angels feet.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
Work the Roads.

ALL road-overseers in the County
II are hereby instructed to call out
their hands and have the roads put in
thorough good condition by the first
day of September next. Herein fail
not. j. A. WHITE,
D. W. RADGETT,
J.W. BANKS,
County Comm'rs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

PooN
1t will also advertise the invention
free of charge.
This ofer is subject to the following
conditions ::
Every competitor must obtain q
patent for his invention through the
company. He must first apply for a
preliminary search, the cost Of which
will be five dollars. Should this search
show his invention to be unpatentablt
he can withdraw without further ex-
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take
out patent in the regular way. The
total expense, including Government
and Bureau fees, will be seventy dollars.
For this, whether he secures the prize
or not, the inventor will have q patent
that ought to be a valuable property
to him. The prize will be awarded by
jury consisting of three reputable
patent attorneys of Washington. In
tending competitors should Fill out the
following blank, and forward it with
their application: f.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
SOUTH CaROLIDa COLLEGE,
COLUMBIA, S. G.

COLUMBIA, S. G.
Session begins September 2sth. Four
Courses: Classical, Literary, Scien-
tific, and Law; with elective studies
in higher classes. New Gymnasium.
Well appointed Laboratory, Chemical,
Physical, Biological, etc. Necessary
Expenses, from $l45 to $21O.
For further information address the
President,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

Subscribe to the Edgefeld AD
vERT1sER.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
Another Merchant Goes.

Another Merchant Goes.
Mr.. Jas. M. Cobb leaves for New
York this week to make his usual
fall and winter purchases of dry
goods. This is the first departure
of the season and indicates the
character of the man, "to get there
frst," and when Cobb goes north
the people rejoice with. exceeding
great Joy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

TEMPTING oFFER.i
TO induce people to keep track of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
CA DIDATElS.
FOR AUDITOR.

lam candidate for County Auditor,
and will abide the result of the pri-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

= The Granitevi factory has Just
sold 1 100 bales of cotton goods
for e1porf. This is the biggest sale
of the season and the first 7feEex-
port. Perhaps the tide is about to
turn and good times are almost
ehere-the kind you have read about
tsnever felt or saw. 8. s 8. S 8
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

Jerry Gardner says he believes
the Tillmanites will drink them
selves TO death to make the dis
pensary pay, and that the antis
will perish before they will buy q
drop just to make the dispensary
a financial failure.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24

Mr.. Ira P. Culbreath, Clerk Jno.
B. Hill's efficient and courteous
deputy, expects to bring his family
to Edgefeld to live, sin the early
fall. This will be welcome ad-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
-.

The sales Of our ssamlogn dur
ing court week amounted to $500.
@Samlag" is the Norwegian name
Tor dispensary; don't forget this.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-24
Mrs. Douschka Dugas.
Medical College of Georgia.

May the dews on her grave fall as sweet
AS the plying tread Of an angels feet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-29

Young ecis in p:i--ifi8 up II river show
the most extraordinary perseverance III
overcoming all Instructions. The large
acknowledgements Ints - ievt in height
on the Thames might be supposed stliii
cient to bar the progress Of It fish the SIZE
OF a tlNrriug needle. But young eei~ have
n wholesome idea that nothing can ssup
them and in consequence nothing does
Speaking of the way in which they ascend
footl.atos and other barriers one writer
SAYS: "'fho~e which die stick to the post
others. which get "A little higher. meet
with the same fate. until at last layer
of them is formed, which enables the
rest to overcome the difficulty of the
passage The mortality resulting from
such forlorn hopes greatly helps 10 ac-
count for the difference in the number OF
young cells on their upward migration.
and that of those which return down
stream in the autumn. N seine places
these baby eds are much sought alter Il; d
are formed into cakes, which are eaten
fried.
''Eels spawn Ike other fishes For long,
however, the most remarkable theories
were held as to their birth. One Of the
old beliefs was that they sprang from mud.
A rival theory held that young eeis de
veloped from fragments separated from
their parents bodies by the rubbing
against rocks. One old author not only
declared that they came from May dew,
but gave the following recipe for produc
ing them: Cut up two turfs covered with
May dew and lay them one upon the 9th
er, the grassy sides inward, and then expose
them to the heat OF the sun. In II few
hours there will spring from them An in
finite quantity of eels.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-29
Judged in the Light Of Events.

viii our esteemed Democratic eoptrm
pora,i.s afford more light On their oft re
peatei assertion that the tariff il a LAX
that ,h. consumer pays all the duties. Be
fore the Mckinley bill went into effect the
Democrats told the country that tir
tlate could not BE- p,otitably manu-
featured in this country and thai
every poor man who bought a Ginuei
pail would have 10 pay ,hs duty. Now the
liu plate tariff is not prohibitive for the
revenue u the government from that source
last year was sl3, s25 ,SG9 If the con
sumer pays this duty how does il
bappen that utensils made from tia
are from Is to % per cent lower than
before the Nc kinney bill were into Fffrct,
and We were dependent on the Eoglish
m.nufActurs Bnt then whats the use
Of asking the q.esIJu .xpS citing straight
forward answtr. 1t will be an evasiFe eoe
or the familiar and oft repeated the tar
IFS "A tax" The tin plate Indus
Ills country until the mo ratio
party came into power pledged 10 the
theory that protection is Unconstitutional
add a robbery. la this event there was little
to induce the tin plate manufacturer
to iaye-t 6ely in the expensive MAJ llnefy
needed to perfect plants which were
established The market may be Et'!e
doll now, for the workingmsn, who was tol
to vote against the robber tariff because
ne would have to pay an outrageous tax on
hi. dinner pail, isn't baying many dinner
pals. This ia not because the Mckieley
bill incre aseI the price Of the pals v hch
aas controlled by an Engish trust, fa- the
price has been lowered. 1t IL becau'" the
wOr kingman cannot get the work To render
hi. carry ing dinner pail a necessity. A
good light in which TO judge the claims OF
the two leading parties as regards the tariff
is the light of events and in the light nf 'he
ASSERT ms made by these parties in The last
Presidential campaign. The pet theories
and vagariss win which the free trader
dazzled the rockingham have disappeared
leaving the grim reality e1Pose,i--g'im III
deed. The Republicans toll the working
iran that he would rie ths LAY when he
turned his back upon the industrial cruii-
ious then EXISTING and which were ahord-
ing him plenty of work at the highest
average of wages ever kn9wn. When 10 Is
seen that the Republican prophecies have
been fulfilled il would seem to require L very
partisan mind to entertain the belief thar
the Democrsti: regime so disastron ~ III
augprated can secure better confi'i"' To
the workir gman and the country at large
than that which it has destroyed.