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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
Crows Rescue a Chicken from a
Hawk.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
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Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
A white-feathered chicken in
search of worms strayed from the
yard of Feeding Hills farme,
early Sunday afternoon, and was
soon scratching merrily in the
black loan of a swamp near by;
A big hen hawk that was sailing
lazily along far up in the sky tip.
ped an eye downward and saw the
little white chick. The hawk had
had no dinner and was very hungry,
The big, hungry hawk suddenly
shot down like a stone, and before
the chick could run or cluck, or
even flap her funny little wings,
she was in the hawks cruel claws.
The farmer was cutting cornstocks
in wagon near the barn, and did
not see the hawk with Tapping
wings rise into the air, clutching
tight the little white chick, fright
aned and still. But perched upon
some trees the other side of the
swamp were eight black crows.
They had seen it all. Putting their
heads together these crows con-
suited hurriedly, and then, with
loud, defiant chorus of "caw, cav,
caw," they took wing.
The bird of prey bad not risen
fifty feet into the air before the
crows had completely surrounded
him. They pecked at him above,
below in front and behind. They
would rise many feet above and
shoot downward one after the other
at the hawk with the swiftness and
celebrity of swallows. The hawk,
burdened with the breathless chick,
could not endure the savage onset.
and soon sank among the trees.
But the crows, crying "caw, cav"
more defantly than before, beat
upon him still, and at last the
hawk dropped the chick and an
grily dashed upward again. For
minutes the battle raced aerce In
his defense, but the crows, using.
the same tactics, gradually drove
him higher and higher still, until
finally discounted and thoroughly
beaten the bird of prey sailed off
to the South, whittier he was fol-
lowed miles and miles by two or
more pugnaeious crows. The others
now few in the opposite direction
and disappeared.
Meanwhile what had become of
the little white chick to whose res
cue these eight crows had 30 chiv-
alrously gomez With feathers
sadly ruhied and her breast black
with the slime of the bog into
which she had dropped from the
claws of the hawk, the dazed chick
was slowly and painfully hopping
back through the swamp to the
maternal roost.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
Liquor Commissioner Appointed.

News and Courier.
COLUMBIA, S. c., March 21.-Mr.
D. H. Traxler, of Timmonsville,
was to-day appointed Commits
sioner of the State Dispensary.
The appointment is to go into inn
mediate effect. Mr.. Traxler will
be here until tomorrow, and will
then go to his home and return
next week to take charge of the
preliminary arrangements for the
opening Of the State Dispensary.
Mr.. Traxler appears to be good
man for tho place and he has very
good recommendations. He was
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
1893.
IahnesSnAED.

HARpER's WEEKLY.is acknowledged
as standing first among illustrated
weekly periodicals in America. 1t oc-
cupies place between that of the
hurried daily paper and that of the
less timely monthly magazine. 1t in
cludes both literature and news, and
presents with equal force and felicity
the real events OF current history and
the imaginative themes of fiction. On
account of its very complete series OF
illustrations of the Worlds Fair, it
Will be not only the best guide to the
great Exposition, but also it's best
souvenir. Every public event OF gen,
in ITS pages. Its contributions being
from the best writer's and artists in
this country, it will continue to excel
in literature, news, and illustrations,
all other publications of its class.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

Ayers Cathartic Pills ara known
to be the safest, surest, and best
purgative medlcien ever offered
to the public. They are mild yet
certain in their effects, give tone
and strength to the stomach, and
keep the system in perfect health
condition.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

Suit has been brought by the
State against the city of Columbia
to collect taxes from 1877 to 1891
OIL the city hall, amounting to
$1,391,3 and the Is per cent
penalty.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

General Eaton, United States
Commissioner of Education, states
that eighty per cent. of the crime
of this country results from in
temperance and that ninety-fve
per cent. of our depraved youth
are born of drunken depraved
parents.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

The city council of Newberry
has put the tax up to five mills.
The shortage of revenue caused by
the abolition of barrooms lecessi-
tated the increased levy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

To restore gray hair to its natu-
raj color as in youth, cause it to
grow abundant and strong, here is
no better preparation, than Halls
Hair Renewer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

Herein Spurgeon was the wonder
of the church. Without gowns or
bands, without a choir or q fiddle,
without an organ or a drum, he
drew the largest congregation in
the world and held it for a life
time. George Eliot might sneer at
him, but the fact remained that
without accessories of any kind,
with only the common ground for
a pedestal, he filled the world with
his influence and outran the fleetsst
genius that ever Started to tell
nothing to nobody.-Jos. Parker.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

William Mawhor, an Iowa far
mer is on trial for poisoning his
fifth wife. 1t is now believed that
he poisoned the other four. He
and Major Hagood would make a
rare combination.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

Colored hands are going from
the South to Carnegie Mills in
Pennsylvania. The Poles, Hun
garians, Italians, and Negroes will
not make a very harmonious set of
hands.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

"For long time I suffered with
stomach and liver troubles, and
could find no relief until I began
to use Ayers Pills. I took them
regularly for a few months, and
my health was completely restored.
ID. w. Baine, New Berne, N. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

Secretary Carlisle has appointed
his son Chief Clerk of the Treasury
with a salary of $4,000.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
ARKANsAW WITNESS.

"What is your name?" asked
United States attorney of an OLE
"aquatter," who had been sum
moned before the court as a wit
ness.
(Which name, Squirrel
"Your right name, of course"
II amt got none."
"What, you don't mean to say
that you haven't got a name?""
ooh, no sir"
"This summons says that youl
name is Ananias Peters. Is tina
SOP"
"Reckon it is."
Thought you didn't have 8
right name?"
II amt"
"Look here, Sir. Don't tritie
with this court. Your prevarica.
tion will not be tolerated here.
Why did you say that Ananias
Peters was not your right aame?"
cease it want right to name
a boy Anarias, therefore it amt a
right name. The Bible, l believe,
sorter called Ananias liar"
(which" interposed the Judge,
"makes it peculiarly applicable in
your case" >
'Look a-here, judge, don't
want TO progic with you, case
you've got the upper hand of me,
but I don't want yoa to hit me
with the Bible. A mans in bad
enough fix when yer fling the law
at him, but whom yer fling the law
an the gospel both, he amt got
no show"
"Where do you live?" asked the
attorney.
"At home"
"But where is your homer"
sin the neighborhood O. whar I
live"
The judge turned away to con-
ceal a smile, and the attorney Civ
ing the "squatter" look of ex-
treme severity, said, "Do you know
ayes sir; I'm here"
"You won't be here much longer,
unless you answer my questions"
"I'm answerin' your questions,
Squire. Go on with your rat kill
in"
"Where were you when Mr.. Jasen,
the defendant, cut timber from
government land?"
"When did he do the cuttin'?"
"That's what / want to find out.
I think it was sometime in Octo-
ber."
"Wal, sometimes in October I
was in one place an sometimes in
another"
"Did you ever see him cutting
government timber?"
~ believe did"
"When?"
"Durin' the war when he was in
the army
None of your foolishnsss now.
Didn't you come along the road
one day in October and talk to the
defendant while he was chopin
down a tree?"
"No, sir"
Remember you are under oath.
So you didn't see him while he was
chopping down a tree7"
"Didn't say, that, Squire, for I
did see him chopin the tree"
did you stop and talk to him?'
"Yes, sir"
Thought you said you didn't
stop and talk to him."
"Didn't say it."
"You did"
didn't say it."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

So Editor Gonzales advocacy of
candidate Cleveland was not disin-
terested after all, for we find him
opportuning President Cleveland
for an appointment as consnl to
Shanghai, China. 1t will be re-
membered that Mr.. Gonzales has
been contending that it was a ter
rible outrage for Governor Till
man, while championing the cause
of the farmers Movement, to ask
or accept an office, claiming that he
was actuated by selfish motives
for personal aggrandizement.
Where does our brother now stand?
He opposed the Movement and is
now asking an appointment at
hands of Mr.. Cleveland. We are
not questioning his ability or fit
ness but only desire to call atten-
ton to his inconsistency.-Le1ing-
ton Dispatch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
HARPER'S PERIODICALS
PER YEAR II

Postage free to all subscribers in the
United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
Why Easter Eggs Are Boiled.

In Christian. countries, from the
fourth century, the church prohi-
bited the use of eggs during the
forty days of Lent; but, as the
hens did not cease to-lay, a large
quantity of eggs were found to
have accumulated at the end Of
the. period of abstinence. These
were usually given to the children,
and, in order to render them more
attract!v e, they were dyed with
gay colors or otherwise ornamented
A favorite game was to knock two
eggs together,and whichever broke
became the property of him who
had tho other. Of course this would
not profit much if the eggs were
in a fluid state, and thence came
the custom of boiling them hard.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
RaiseHags,

Nv
says: 'Bacon is retailing at
this place from 12c. to 16c. per
pound, ,and yet some people say it
is cheaper to buy meat than to
raise it, We can't see where the
'cheapness' comes in, when it takes
about three pounds of lint cotton
to buy one pound of bacon. We
say, try a few hogs, plant less cot
ton and more corn, and we believe
you will agree with us, that this is
the cheapest way to get your meat,
We wish to emphasize the above
At present we cannot afford to
buy our meat, and we will have
to raise it, or do with out.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30
HARPER'S PERIODICALS.
PER YEAR {:

Postage Free to all subscribers in the
United States, Canada. and Mexico.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-03-30

"What is your name?" asked a
United States attorney of an old
"squatter," who had been sum-
moned before the court as a wit
ness.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-23
ABOUT RINGWORM.
How the Disagreeabie Affection is Con-
tracted.

HOW the DlSaSree8Dle All cIlOn 10 Con-
tracted.
Ringworm is a contagious disease of
a parasitical nature. produced by the
growth in the skin of a vegetable
fungus. It's beginning and progress
remind one of the spread of fire in
prairie grass. From a point it spreads
outward in a more or less regular ring
Of reddish inflammation, subsiding in
the center as it spreads outward, as il
the material necessary for its continu-
ance at a single spot were soon ex-
hausted.
1t attacks all parts of the body, but
is most commonly found on the face,
the back of the hands and the scalp.
Children contract it oftener than
adults, probably because their skin is
more tender, and because peculiar OPP
portunity is afforded for direct con-
tact of the person in schools and other
places where children congregate.
The disease is commonly spread by
means of cans and other articles of
clothing. and by combs.
When it attacks the scalp the hairs
become dry, brittle and twisted, and
fall out. The ends next the skin look
rough, as though bitten or gnawed off.
Since ringworm is parasitical in it's
origin, it might be supposed that meas
urss of simple cleanliness would re-
move it or prevent its occurrence; but
| while such measures hinder its spread
to some extent, it's thorough removal
is effected only by remedies aimed at
the destruction of the parasite.
This is a much more serious TASK than
it would be if the growth of the fungus
took place directly upon the surface of
the skin. 1t is, therefore, important
that the treatment should be exactly
fitted to the peculiarities of the par
ticular case.
1t is the more important that pro,
fessional advice should be sought, be-
cause the occurrence of ring worm is
often associated with a degree of sys-
temic debility or insufficient nutrition.
Some of the most rapid and permanens
recoveries from this troublesome dis
ease are obtained when, in addition to
proper medicinal treatment, the pa
tient is sent away from home for a
time. though the distance be but
slight.
A writer in a recent medical review
says that when ringworm appears in a
school, rigid measures should be taken
to prevent its spread, as the disease,
though apparently easily cured, is apt
to recur, and, If neglected, to become
more or less chronic. -Youth's Com.
panion.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-23
THE COLORS TO WEAR.
Thin Women and Stout Women Should
Read This with Care.

Thin Women and Stout Women Should
Read This with Care.
Black makes a woman look slender:
it is the thinnest color a fat woman
can wear. 1t also makes a person look
old. 1t is the worst color an ageing
woman can wear. When a kindly dis
posed employment agent is anxious to
place a young nurse girl in a response
BILE position she always tells her to get
a black dress, knowing that,it will
make sixteen appear twenty-six.
In the religious orders of the differ
ent churches the black uniform is
adopted, not for economy, but to pro-
tect the gentle nuns and novices from
admiration. There is no color so
generally levelling and unbecom-
ing as black. Black is awe
inspiring. Black is also depressing; it
has a disagreeable effect upon man and
animals. Dogs and babies will make
friends more readily with brightly
dressed people than with those in black
garments. In normal colleges pupil
teachers are advised not to dress in
black any more than is necessary. No
physician Of the present day will allow
a black-garbed nurse to care for a Sc
| rious case.
White makes a oma look big.
wholesome, innocent, winsome and
| classic. White is a ~favorite color with
designing women Of the world. The
woman in white is generally the one
who takes away another woman's hus-
band, while the girl in white with a
blue ribbon under her chin is the one
| who has all the beaux at the party.
Slim, sickly, careworn and ~colorless
women look best with velvet bonnet.
strings and q lace ruche o scarf about
the neck.
A woman with red hair should be
ware of pink, strawberry and scarlet
Blue above her waist is apt to make AT
~unpleasantly strong contrast. Greer
is her color, white will be her stand by
and there are red, browns, coffee, oal
and copper that will make her a mode
for an artist who dotes on beauty.
A fat woman should leave plaids
hounces and rufles alone, and a thir
woman must avoid stripes Red viii
brighten any woman but a red-head
it IS the most charitable color in chro
matte. Invalids on their up day.
look their very prettiest in red robes
More than one pale patient with
crimson silk lounge coat has eaugh'
her physicians fancy while GONZALES
cling and married HMM. Y. World.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-23
Thibodaux Sentinel.
THE WAYSIDE PUMP.

Shake hands" says the wayside pump
Best Of friends on a summer day,
And sweetest talker you ever knew,
Although. no doubt, tits true
He speaks through his nose In q careless way
That would make d precisian Jump.
shake hands, How his arm of oak
Stretches out, as you draw a-nigh!
All he asks is an easy stroke,
To pour you out, as smooth as smoke,
A sweeter nectar than you could buy.
What do you doubt %it?-only try,
Take that cup from the rusty nail,
Hold II under the gurgling spout
Wei, how goes it, this Adams ale,-
Pump away; you can't pump him out!
Hearts like his weren't made to fail.
Three full cups? All, you need not tell
Whether you like him i'll or we'll.
So he stands by the dusty way
Gods own landiord-and seems to say:
Drink your fill; there is naught to payi"
Thirsty horses, with nostrils wide,
Plunge their heads in his messy trough,
Drink, and crop from the cool well-side
A bunch OF grassland then ambls Of.
And now the deepehested oxen come,
and drain the trough at o single draught.
Their great eyes glisten. though they are dumb,
And thank the pump for the nectar quafed
The smoking team meath the load of hay
Lovingly turn their eyes that way
They too shall drink, for the axle swings,
And the outstretched noses kiss the cool.
Sweet stream from the spout that springs
Like q mountain brook in q messy pool
The farmer'sd dog with his lolling tongue
Laps and pants. till he laps his fill
Then the creaking wheels from the rut a:e
swung,
And the fragrant load sways up the hill
Dear old wayside friend,
Doing good in thy time and place.
Full of cheer as . good mans face,
Overlooking with simple grace
OF giving whate'er thou hast to spend,
Would that l were as true q man
As thou art pump, on thy humber plant
Out of my hand, kind deeds would go:
Out OF my heart sweet love would flow:
Round me all nourished life would grow:
And ev'ry pilgrim with thirst opprest,
Would stop to bless me ana to be blest.
James Buckham, in You tbs Companion
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH..

During the last year there has been
a gain Of 5,276 societies in the Christian
Endeavor movement.
Bishop Thoburn thinks that the
converts in India during the next eight
years will outnumber those of the last
ninety-two years.
Bishop Lawrence, successor to Bisii-
op Phillips Brooks, will lecture before
Boston university school of theology
the coming winter.
The Russian state church is SO
wealthy that it is asserted it could pay
off the national debt s3OO, 900, 900 and
not be impoverished.
DR.. w. G. Anderson. of Yale col
lege, director of the Chautauqua school
of physical culture, a y that physical
training is in it's infancy in America,
general interest in the subject having
arisen only in the last six years"
The International Missionary
Union of the United States is composed
of more than five hundred members.
These represent the American and
Canadian societies: also the English
Baptist, Wesley and China inland mis-
sions.
Trinity college, in Durham, N. c.,
a Methodist Episcopal Institution, has
established a school of journalism,
with Prof. Weber, formerly of the
Charleston Is c. News and Courier.
and Prof. Jerome Dowd, of Charlotte,
in charge.
Prof. st. George Mivart's work,
"Happiness in He'll" which appeared
originally in the Nineteenth Century,
and which provoked a lengthy on
troversy and a deluge of comment, has
been placed by the vatican in the Index
Expurgatorius.
According to Russian law images
and other objects of worship, when
shipped by railroad or boat and not
claimed, can not be sold like other
goods. The government has decided
that in the future such object shall be
| presented to the nearest church or
chapel.
Three hundred Mohammedan Alb
kasians were converted and formally
indicted into the Greek Orthodox
church by the bishop Of Sukhum Kale
about two months ago, the occasion
being marked, as befitted it, by an i'm
posing ceremonial. But the whole of
these proselytes have now readopted
the faith of Islam.
Roanoke college, Virginia, has just
celebrated the close of its fourth de-
cade. and rejoices greatly in its pros
perity. Its friends say it never re-
ceived a single dollar of income from in
vested endowment funds during it's first
three decades . Requests had been left,
but none of them became available un-
til 1855, and the professors were sup
ported almost exclusively from the in
come from tuition fees. Its largest gift
was S35, 900 from the late Henry J..
Steere, of Providence. A generous lady
in New York city, whose name is not
revealed, has pledged 81, 900 annually
for three years to aid needy students
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-09-23
HOME HINTS AND HELPS.

Layer Cake: One and one-half cups
of sugar, one-haf cup of butter. one
egg. one cupful of nsilk. three cupfuls
of -four, one teaspoonfal Of soda, and
two ~teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar.
1t makes three large thick layers.
Veal Cakes: Stew the meat tender,
chop and season. Mix raw egg with
mashed potato and sprinkle with -four.
Cut into cakes. Lay on each a spoon
full of meat, cover with another cake.
press edges together and fry in deep
lard.-Good Housekeeping.
-Bouillon: Six pounds of beef and
bone. Cut up the meat and break the
bones; add two quarts Of cold water;
let it simmer. slowly for five hours.
Strain it through a fine sieve, removing
every particle of fat. Season only with
salt and pepper.-Detroit Free Press.
Coffee Sherbet: This is one of the
incest of the frozen dishes to serve at a
lawn or a tennis party. Make a quar-
of good French coffee-that is, make a
drip coffee; add to it while hot one cup
sugar, and when cold. add one cup
SICdIA. I1CCLC IL SCItC LII ldSoCS.-
n. Y. Observer.
-Okra and Rice: Slice a quart of
okra. Cut a quarter of a pound of lean
ham into small pieces. Peel and cut
up two large tomatoes. Put all to-
gether in a saucepan with a pint of
stock, a pod of red pepper and a slice
of onion: let simmer gently for half an
hour. Wash a cup of rice and put in;
let cook until done; add a tablespoon
full of gumbo flet; let boil up and serve.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Pineapple Trife: Soak a package
of gelatine in a cup of cold water, put
in a bowl with two cups of powdered
sugar, one pineapple chopped, a grated
nutmeg, the juice and rind Of one
lemon. Mix, cover and let stand an
hour; pour over three cups of boiling
water, strain and squeeze. Set on ice
to cool. When the mixture begins to
jelly whip the whites of four eggs and
add, a spoonful at a time. Beat all to.
gether and serve very cold.-Home
Queen.
Bread Crumb Omelet: One pint OF
bread crumbs, a tablespoonful of fine
ly-chopped parsley. one-half a small
onion chopped fine. Beat two eggs
light, add a teacup of milk, a trace OF
nutmeg, pepper and salt literally, also
a lump of butter the size of a small
egg. Mix all together and bake on {
buttered pie plate in slow owe Whe1
light brown turn it out of the plate
and serve at once. 1t may be made
with waste lamb or veal.-Bostor
Budget.
Farmers Rice: Make a hole in tn,
center of a pan of flour, break two
sggs into it and add one even tea
spoonful of salt. Mix the -four into
the eggs, rubbing it between the fin
gers until it rolls Off in stiff, dry
grains. Have a quart of milk boiling
on the stove, stir in the egg and fou:
quickly, sitting it through the fingers
as you would meal in making mush: lie
it boil three or four minutes then turf
in a dish to cool. This may be eater
cold with sugar and cream or it may b.
eaten warm with butter and sugar
Prairie Farmer.