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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-27
IF YOU WANT INFORMATION ABOUT
p F. N S "a z S
ADDRESS LETTER OR POSTAL CARD TO
THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
JOHN wEDDERBURN, Managing Attorney,
Box 40, WASHINGTON, ID. G.

Honorable discharged soldiers and sailors ninety days.
the late entitled partially wholly dlabed
ordinary manual labor whether disability caused by service
not and regardless of their pecuniary circumstances
such soldiers and sailors entitled remarrled
soldiers death due to not dependent
upon labor support Widows not dependent their
own labor entitled soldiers death to
Children entitled f under sixteen in almost all cases where
widow, she has since died remarked
Parents entitled soldier left neither widow
soldier died service effects of and they de-
pendent upon labor for support makes difference
whether soldier died late regular
Soldiers of the late pensoned under one law apply for
higher rates under other laws without losing rights
Thousands soldiers drawing from 81 $40 month under
the old law are higher rates under law, not only
account of disabilities which pensioned but also Others
whether due 20 service or not
Soldiers and sailors time of duty in regular army
nsyv since the entitled whether discharged for disability
not. 80
and Seminole or Florida Indian Wars of 1882 82 entitled
der recent act
Mexican soldiers and their widows also entitled sxtwo
years of age disabled or dependent
Old claims completed and settlement obtained whether pension
has been granted under later laws or not.
Rejected reopened and settlement secured, if rejection
improper illegal.
sailors late who have lost their original
Send and information No charge for advice No
less successful. Address,
THE PRESS CLAIMS CO.,
JOHN WEDDERBURN, managing Attorney.
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-27
ISNA KEs TH a q RIB SN a KEs
But They We're Not of This Lo-
caity, Says the Vest
chester Farmer.

d -. =
The snake, said a Westchester
county farmer who was adding q
few touches to his stone fence, sis
comparativel ely extinct in this part
of the United States. Scarcely
anything left of the family, except
3 few mourners.
s.Upin the Northwest is where
you want to go if you're anything
of a snake love. / was up there
for a while, and I tell you it was
interesting. / wouldn't have mis-
sed the experience for worlds. Up
there you'd have to stop the
moving machines because they'd
get clogged up with snakes, four
and FIVE I'm . bunch. After you
once got a field cleared it wasn't
SO bad, but wherever you found
that prairie grass would be the
place to look for a menagerie."
EsIt must have been exciting to
work in such a field" said The
Sun reporter.
ssNo It was just pitful. One
minute you'd hear their rattling
! and The next you'd see the snakes
cut down. I don't say that there
wasn't any danger.''
ST should think they'd strike at
you very frequently"
aoh, the danger didn't run that.
way. We were pretty we'll protec-
ted as their biting us was con-
cerned. We always had a lot Of
stoyepipe on hand, and every
man would get his legs nicely
logged out in sheet-iron trousers
before he went to work. Sometimes
they would get after the men so
lively that the noise Of their teeth
on the sheet iron would sound like
hail on a tin roof. 1t would
bothera tenderfoot considerably,
but after a man had been there
awhile he didn't mind it. was
funny to watch a snake gather
himself and glance off piece of
sheet iron with the first toothache
he probably ever had.
ssBut the real danger came in
when you went to fix the moving
machine. You see when the
snakes would get knotted together
aronnd the knives they would bite.
anything that was handy. The.
consequence was that they would
ftl one another full of poison and
when the knife went through their
bodies it would get all gummed up
with venom. Of course somebody
would have to clean if off and he
10 be mighty careful not: to scrapei
Ibis finger against the blade ito.
hard because he took the skin
meant Siie of # t8o things a
funeral 81 3 terrible waste of
whiskey,
10, the old man concluded
almost contemptuo asnakes
up this way are pretty good to
mako pets Of but they don't
really seem like snakes"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-27
Ladies Hats at Cobb's.

Ladies have you seen JAS M.
Cobb's beautiful assortment of
Ladies and Misses Trimmed Hats.
Don't fail to see his millinery
goods; You can; save money and
get the latest:styles.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-27

& g NO, e the Old nlan z c0IlcIlu!Ieu
almost contemptuo 'ssnakes
up this way are pretty good to
mako pets Of but they don't
really seem like snakes"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-27

The ADVERTISER Job Office does
all kinds of job printing. Send
US your orders. Satisfaction guar
anteed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-27
A State Keeley Cure System.

Chicago Evening Mail.
The new Micigan law to cure
intemperance provides that a man
arrested for being drunk may
have his choice between suffering
the legal penalty and taking q
Keeley Cure course of treatment.
The county concerned is to pro-
vide $40 toward the expense of the
treatment in each case. and a
Grand Rapids paper estimates that
it will cost that county $4,000
per year for it's Kelley Cule
patients.
The New York Legislature pas
seda similar law, but Governor
Flower vetoed it en- the ground
that the public treasury had no
more right to pay medical fees for
the doctoring of intemperance
than for the doctoring of consump-
ton or dyspepsia. This seems
businesslike view; but if burglary.
and other penitentiary crimes
could be cured or their repetition
prevented by swallowing potions
or receiving hypodermic injections
it would be public policy to ad-
minister such remedies.
The permanent abatement of
intemperance through the Keeley
Cure is yet an experiment, and a
very doubtful one in cases whore
it's Application is at all .compul-
sorry. 1t may be conceded, how
ever, that if Michigan succeeds in
reforming its nIards, the
Kelley Cure, through county aid,
will prove more eficacious than
prohibition in Kansas, high
license in Iowa, or the state dis
pensary system adopted by South
Carolina. The latter has been
tried in eastern states and found
ineffective.
g
Ayers Hair vigor has no ..equal,
merit and efficiency. as hair
dressing and for the prevention of
badness. 1t eradicates dandruff.
keeps the scaly moist, clean, and
healthy, and gives vitality and
color to weak, faded, and gray hair.
The most popular of toilet articles.
The ADVERTISER Job Office does
all kinds of job printing. Send
us your orders. Satisfaction guar
anteed.
800! 1,5oO! 1,50O.
Fruit Jars, the best, at 81. 100 per
dozen for quarts. $1.25 per dozen
for half gallons. Ell. NORRIS.
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p A T E N 7 S.,
Fortinyentions Procured by the
PRESS CLAIM COMPANY,

Equal with the interest Of those having claims against the Gov
that of INVENTORS who often lose the benefit
BILE inventions because Of the OF the
ornys employed obtain their Too much care cannot be
employing competent and reliable solicitors to procure
patents the value patent depends greatly fno entirely upon
the and skill of the attorney
With the of protecting inventors from worthless or careless
and of seeing that inventions we'll protected by valid
patents THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY has retained counsel
expert patent practice and is therefore prepared to
Obtain Patents Conduct Ineeences Make Special
and Copyrights Render Opinions as to Scope
and Validity of Patents, Prosecute and
Defend Infringement Suits etc
If YOU have invention hand send THE PRESS CLAIMS
COMPANY sketch photograph thereof together with brief de-
scrpon important features will at be advised
AS to the best pursue Models not necessary
invention of complicated nature others are inng
ing your rights you charged with by Others
submit the matter reliable OPINION before acting the
matter.
The Press Claims Company,
e1s Street, Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. c.
|P. O. Box 1853. JOHN WEDDERBURN, Mang Atty
90 Cut this out and send itwith your inquiry.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
A Chinese Bill of Fare.

Here is the bill of fare for banquet
lately given to the foreign diplomats
at Peking: The first course con sisted
Of four classic dishes. First came
swallow nests with pigeon eggs, shark
fins with crabs, dogfish with wild duck,
duck and caulifiower; next came deli
cacies served in cups-swallow nests,
shark fins, plain morils, vegetables,
mushrooms, with duck feet, fried part
ridge, pigeon in slices; then there ap-
peared four middle dishes-ham in
honey, puree in peas, vegetables and
dogfsh; four side dishes-haricot
cheese with bamboo buds Ia kind Of
asparagus), roots of bamboo, chicken,
shellfish; four hors d'oevres--ham and
chicken, fish and gizzard, pork tripe
and vermicelli, duck and pork outlets.
Each guest had before him plates Of
almonds, pistachio paste, pears and
oranges. The meats were roast suck
ing pig, roast duck, boiled chicken,
boiled pork. There was . profusion Of
European and Chinese wineA
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
The Queen Pawned Her Jewels.

Queen Isabella OF Spain, pawned her
jewels to raise money to fit out the ex-
pedition that discovered the new world.
Her sacrifice was not greater than is
made by many women of America, who
deny themselves many things in order
to have money to buy DR.. Pierce's Gold.
en- Medical Discovery for their sick hus.
bands or children. This Discovery" is
more important to them, than the one
made in 1892. For all diseases of the
lungs, liver, throat, or stomach, the "Dis
covery" is sovereign remedy. A trial
convinces, it's continued use cures. II
purifies the blood, invigorates the liver
and strengthens and builds up the whole
system. Guaranteed to benefit or cure
in every case, or money paid for it re.
turned.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
Specimen Cases.

S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma-
tism, his Stomach was dsordered, his
Liver was affected to an alarming de-
gree, appetite fell away, and he was ter.
ribly reduced in flesh and strength.
Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured
him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
had running sore on his leg of eight
years standing. Used three bottles of
Electric Ritters and seven boxes of
Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is
sound and well. John Speaker, Catawbs,
o., had five large Fever sores on his leg,
doctors said he was incurable. One bot
tie Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen' q
Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold
by Seybert & Co.'s drug store. '
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

For all forms of nasal catarrh where
there is dryness of the air passages with
what is commonly called "stuffing up,"
especially when going to bed, Ely's
Cream Balm gives immediate relief. It's
benefit to me has been priceless.-A. G..
Case, M. D, Millwood, Kas.
One of my children had a very bad
discharge from her nose. Two physicians
prescribed, but without benefit. We
tried Ely's Cream Balm, and, much to
our surprise, there was marked i'm.
provement. We continued using the
Balm and in short time the discharge
was cured.-O. A. Cary, Corning, N. Y.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
Cook Book Free.

On receipt of ten cents in stamps or
coin the O., H. & D. will send a copy OF
the Martha Washington Cook Book,
postpaid, to any address. The book
comprises over 800 pages and is fully
illustrated. It is the standard authority
on the famous dining cars that run daily
between Cincinnati and Chicago on the
"Velvet Train" of the c., H. & D. and
Monon Route. Address D. G. Edwards,
G.. P. and T. Agt. c., H. & D., Gin.
cinnati, O. The c., H. & D., in connec.
ton with the Monon, is the Worlds
Fair Route to Chicago.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
singular Insanity.

Prof. Alfonso Carpentieri, the famous
gynecologist of the University of Ma
Piles, became suddenly insane few
days ago. He imagined that he was
dying from starvation and thirst and
entering restaurant drank four cups
of coffee, bottle of wine, bottle of
cognac and ate fifteen sandwiches and
more than dozen eggs. When the
proprietor declined to serve anything
else the professor sprang on the table
and cried, with the voice of Stentor:
Eggs, eggs! give me eggs and keep
me from starvingw When he began
to break chairs and ia bles he was over
powered and placed in a hospital He
is one OF the most famous physicians
in Italy
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
Not The Right Word,

"No," said Bertha sadly, "'pain'
doesn't express what l suffer at these
times-it is simply anguish ! I know
ought to consult a physician, but dread
it can't bring myself to do it Then,
too, female diseases always seemed so
indelicate to me, can't Dear to have
any one know or speak OF mine"
eyes, dear" answered Edith, "but
don't you know you can be cured with.
out going to physician ? Send to any
druggist for bottle of DR.. Pierce's Fav-
orite Prescription, and take it, and !
warrant you'll feel better in a very few
days"
The manufacturers warrant the medi.
cine, too. They guarantee it to do ex.
actly what it claims, viz: to cure
leucorrhea, painful irregularities, exces
sive flowing, prolapsus, Inflammation or
liberation of the uterus, and the innum .
cradle other "female weaknesses" 1t so
strengthens and builds up the uterine
system, and nerves, that worn out, run.
down wives and mothers feel rejuvenated
after taking it, and they are saved the
painful embarrassment and expense of
a surgical examination and a tedious,
tiresome treatment.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
INDIANS AS SOLDIERS.
They Might Make Good Ones Under Ea-
vorable Conditions.

They Might Make Good Ones Under Fa-
vorable Conditions.
The experiment initiated>by ex-Sec-
retary Proctor Of assisting in the civ
ilization of the Indians by their enlist
ment in the army has had two years
trial and has failed, says the Washing
ton Star. In it's inception it was hoped
that the movement would receive the
sanction and support of congress, but
the hope has not been fulfilled. The
policy has not been abandoned by the
department, Notwithstanding the alb
sence of congressional encouragement,
but is slowly dying of inanition, owing
to the fact that the Indians who took
advantage of the opportunity of enter
ing the army are leaving it at the ex-
piration Of their terms of enlistment,
and there are no new enlistments.
Many of the Indians took advantage Of
the law permitting them to purchase
their discharge.
There were about seven hundred In
dians in the army, and this number
has been reduced by the disbandment
of two Indian troops, one at Fort
Walla Walla and the other at Fort
Reno, which had dwindled to less than
twenty men each. There are about
fourteen Indian companies, averaging
fifty men each, still in the service, and
they may be so reduced by natural
causes as to require further consolida.
ton.
An officer of high rank says these
companies will certainly not be mus
tered out, and that the department
will do nothing to discourage further
enlistment. 1t was settled, however,
that the experiment as at present con-
Quoted is failure and that the only
possible solution of the Indian soldier
problem is their organization into an
auxiliary branch of the army, modelled
after the system employed by the Brit
ish army in the matter of the native
troops of India. It's clear, he said,
that the Indian soldier, so far as mill
tary discipline is concerned, will have
to be placed on different plane from
the white soldier.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
THE FoRERuNNER OF DISASTER.
A Peculiar Growth Known as the "Devil
Plant" in Mississipp pi.

Plant" In Mississippi.
There has recently appeared in this
vicinity, says q Carthage (Miss.) cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Times,
a most peculiar growth known as the
''devil plant" which Is so deadly as to
render all insect life and vegetation in
its neighborhood lifeless. 1t is most
innocent in appearance, being of ten
der green, clinging close TO the earth,
and sprinlSled with small red blossoms,
cup-shaped, and holding in their
hearts single drop of moisture. 1t is
in this singular dew, which the sun
has no power to dispel, that the
plants most blighting influence is said
to lie. Bees by the hundreds have been
found dead in the blossoms. Indeed,
the hives of the neighborhood are
nearly depopulated by the noxious
flowers. gentleman who is noted as
botanist in these parts tasted this
dew and declared hat it was of a
sickening sweetness, without odor and
viscid like liquid gum. 1t was allowed
to dwell on his tongue, which soon
began to burn hi IN SO as to raise a
blister, and the member swelled up
and became discolored and exceedingly
painful.
The bees have not been the only suf-
ferers by this growth, but every insect
approaching it seems to become par
alyzed, and after beat or two of the
wings above this creeping upas drops
dying among it's cruel leaves Cattle
which have eaten of it die in a few
hours in the greatest agony with sort
| OF exaggerated tetanus, the skin dra wn
tense and the eyes protruding from
the head. ALI ordinary remedies fail
to restore one in these attacks. Veg.
citation also seems to shun the devil
plant" and whole tracts of meadow
are now lying scorched and dead from
the insidious approach of this unknown
| growth. Under the microscope the
leaves exhibit innumerable little
mouths or suckers, of such tenacity
as to sting the hand on which the Leaf
is laid. leaving a dull, red mark like
the wound of scorpion. The people
of the vicinity say this plant is the
forerunner of disaster, it having made
previous appearances just before the
outbreak of the war and on each occa
sion of the coming of yellow fever.
An effort has been made to burn il
out, but, protected by it's singular dew
this has failed. The dead bodies O.
cattle which have died of eating it OF
being examined show that the digest
i've organs are swollen to four time.
their natural size and look as if they
had been burned; the heart is con
gested, and the blood Of dark, un
usual tinge, with an odor like benzoin
The plant is of rapid growth, covering
acres in few days, requiring littl
hold, and going over every obstacle i,
its way, the roots being of thread-lil1
fineness and extending only an inch o
two below the surface of the ground
but exhibiting extraordinary tenacit,
once they have seized hold Of q spot
enwrapping pebbles, old roots, etc.
like clinging fingers.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
A Good Thing to Keen at Hand.

Some years ago we were very much
subject to severe spells of cholera NOR.
bus; and now when we feel any OF the
symptoms that usually precede that all.
ment, such as sickness at the stomach,
diarrhGa, ETC., we become scary. We
have found Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhea Remedy the very thing
to straighten one out in such cases, and
always keep it about. We are not writ.
ing this for pay testimonial, but to let
our readers know what is good thing
to keep handy in the house.-1ro,
(Kansas) Chief.
For sale by Seybert & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

An inquiry in Chinatown, San Fran
cisco, shows that there is no material
diminution in the number of Cinnamon
in consequence of the passage of the
Greary act. The outgoing coolies upon
the Chinese steamship, it is reported, are
few in number, and their places in San
Francisco are quickly taken by others
who have been smuggled over the Dor.
der from British Columbia.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
Snail shells.

The snail's shell is horny covering
which serves to protect him from his
numerous foes. Slugs are simply snails
which live retired life and conse-
quently need no protection at all. The
shell of the snail is built from lime In
the plants on which 1t feeds, and the
creatures are never found on soil which
produces no lime
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

MIR. Simpson, of Kansas (Pop): 81
want to tell these gentlemen that l did
not come here to compromise away the
rights of my constituency. l received a
letter from friend of mine today that
expresses my sentiments exactly. He
says: Jerry, you stand by the ratio of
l6 to l until hell freezes over, and we
will send you pair of skates to come
home on" Laughter and applause.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

Among the incidents of childhood that
stand out in bold relief, as our memory
reverts to the days when we were young,
none are more prominent than severe
sickness. The young mother vividly re.
members that it was Chamberlain's g
Cough Remedy cured her of Group, and
in turn administers it to her own off,
spring and always with the best results.
For sale by Seybert & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

The largest family is that OF the king
of Siam. He has two official wives, Ss
of the second class, and ~ children.
He has so brothers and sisters and
227 uncles and aunts. They all board
with the king, SO that there are more
than 200 cooks in the royal kitchen.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

Itch, mango, and scratches on human
or animals cured in 80 minutes by Wool.
ford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails.
Sold by w. R. Smith & Co., druggist
Hillsboro.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

The annual report OF the American
Bell Telephone company shows that
that corporation rented last year $50, ,72O
telephones, an increase of over 10000
in one year. The company has S12 ex-
changes and a mileage of wire of 307, ,79l
of which 90,2l6 miles are operated under
ground,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
Bucklen's Arnica Salye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale by Seybert & Co.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft, or calloused Jumps and blem.
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs,
splints, sweeney, ring.bone, STILES,
sprains, all swoolen throats, coughs, etc.
Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted
the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever
known. Sold by w. R. Smith & Co.,
druggists, Hillsboro, Ohio.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

He blushed fiery red; her heart
went pit-a.pat; she gently hung her
head, and looked down on the mat.
He trembled in his speech; he rose
from where he sat, and shouted with a
screech, "You're sitting on my hat y
-TTit Bits
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07

A peculiar result of lightning was no.
ticed near Dion, in France, after a
severe thunderstorm. A bolt struck a
small pond just outside the city, and it
was discovered that the electric shock
had killed all the fish in the pond, about
one thousand in number.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-09-07
For sale by Seybert 4 Co.

Another crank in search for notoriety
is young man named Beck, who in.
tends sliding across Niagara Falls on a
cable forty feet higher at at one end
than the other. A grooved wheel will
run on the wire, and attached to this
will be piece of steel, which will just
fill his mouth. This he will hold in his
teeth and make "a grand slide."