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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21
For THE THOUGHTFUL.
SELECTED.
Gods best friend is light.

SELECTED
Gods best friend is light.
Character is the great, and in
reality the only, educator.
No Christian ought to feel weak
while he knows that God lives.
Don't scold the world until you
know what is in your own heart.
One of the most foolish of all
foolish things is fooling with sin.
The man who knows great deal
never has to call attention to the
fact.
John Wesley said he dare no
more to fret than to curse and
swear.
If the world likes you right we'll
it is a sure sign that you are like
the world.
Innocence is not afraid to look
into any eye, nor the slander Of
any tongue.
If you say no to God to-day it
may be that you will never have
the chance to say yes.
No man can see the beauty of
the divine character until he has
been born of the Spirit.
The kind of righteousness that
takes people to heaven is not the
kind that brags on itself.
Eternity is a globe whose hemis-
pheres are the Everlastings, and
whose equator is the Now.
Let US treat each other kindly
on earth, as it will avoid much
confusion when we meet each other
in heaven.
All chemical forces are the reve-
lations of the mind of God, the
flowers are Gods beautiful
thoughts; the mountains lis mag
netic thoughts; the stars his bril-
liant thoughts.
Prayer is so mighty an instru-
ment that no one ever thoroughly
mastered all it's cogS. 1t sweeps
along the infinite scale of mans
wants, and of Gods goodness.
There is nothing in secular
knowledge that will renovate the
heart or purify the life. Chemis-
istry has never yet found a prepara-
ton that will wash the crimson
stains from sinful heart. AS
tronomy never tells us how far it
is from the depth of sin to the
cross of Christ. Philosophy has
never found a power that will lift
a lost world from it's degradation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

"What wonderful girl" ex-
claimed the enthusiastic professor
of history, "was Joan of Arc! think
of her leaving her peasant home
and going out, as one inspired, to
lead the armies of Franco! Was
she ordinary flesh and blood? Was
she human? Who knows what
she was made Of?
II do solemnly remarked an ear
nest student at the foot of the class.
"She was Maid Of Orleans" DE
troit Free Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

Gov. Tillman has had a Charles
ton man to compile some very in
teresting figures as to the railroad
in this State. The rosds have
claimed that their taxes were
higher in proportion than other
property. The South Carolina
road has fought this assessment
hardest and here are the figures
Market value of bonds and stocks
1890, $6,15S,113, return made by
the company $3,361, ,295, assessed by
the Board $4,OS0,1S0. About two
thirds of the market volue. Co.
lumbia & GreeLv..l . roads; mark ct
volue of stocks and bonds $685.
900, return by the company $1.306,-
617, valuation by the Board 1924
4S0. The Board have thus let the
road off at little more than one
third the value of the property.
The Air Line road; value of bonds
and stock, $3,73S, 1853. Return
by company $1,216,69S, valuation
by the Board $2,24O,2Oo. 1t will
be seen from the above figures that
the Board have let the railroad off
as lightif not lighter than the citi-
zens return their property. The
equity in the claim of The railroads
is too obscure, in fact there is
none.-Times and Democrat.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

When Daniel Webster, the cele.
brated statesman and lawyer, Wis.
tied England after he had attain.
ed fame enough to preceede him.
an English gentleman took him
one day to see Lord Brougham,
That eminent Briton received Dan
iel with such GOODNESS that he was
glad to get away and back to his
room. The friend who had taken
him at once returned in haste and
anger to Lord Brougham.
"My lord how could you behave
with such unseemly and discour-
tesy to so great lawyer and states
man? 1t was insulting to him,
and has filled me with mortifca.
tion."
aWhy what on earth have I done,
and whom have I been rude to2"
"To Daniel Webster, of the SEN
ate of the United States"
"Great Jupiter, what a blunder! !!
I thought it was that fellow Web
ster who made dictionary and
nearly rained the English lam
guage,'
And then the great Chancellor
quickly hunted up the American
senator,and, having other tastes in
common beside law and politics,
they made a royal night of it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

"Boiled oniops," says an ex-
change, taken about an hour be-
fore going to bed, will usually
relieve any but the worst cases CT
insomnia. The heart of hot on
ion placed in the ear will often re-
aieve the care ach. The syrup
obtained by sprinkling a sliced on
ion with sugar and baking it in
the oven will usually relieve a
croupy child. Eating raw onions
will generally check cold in the
head. Onions are strong remedies
but not every one takes to them
gracefully.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

One of the important, it might
almost be said indispensable,
things with which every farmhouse
should BE- supplied, is a lantern.
This is such self-evident fact as
apparently to need neither ASSET
tion nor confirmation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

After Halifax minister had
married a young couple the other
day, the groom took an envelope
from his pocket, and, looking sig
nifcantly at the clergyman, laid
it on the table. When the couple
had gone the good man opened the
envelope to see the size of his fee.
He was surprised to read on the
piece of paper inclosed the pen
ciled words: "I'll see you later"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21
HOW TO SLEEP WELL.
Put Pillows Under the Feet In
stead of Under the Head.

A most important discovery has
recently been made by German
professor that will materially i'm
prove the physical and mental
strength Of all who follow its les
son, if the discovery is really gen.
uine, as the professor claims it is.
Superstition or legend or the
custom of years has had an infu-s
ence upon us while we slept that
has been almost as great as the
like influences while we are awake.
1t has been vaguely understood
that if we sleep with our head to
the north it is much better than
pointing in any other direction can
possibly be, while lying upon our
left side is a certain indication we
are free from heart disease, and
lying upon our back is quite as !
certain a sign that we are intend
ing to snore.
Adding to these, the idea has
possessed us that our head must
be higher than our feet, entirely
overlooking the fact that the typi-
cal American, ever healthy, vigor-#
Gus and good looking, is invariably
represented in foreign papers as
sitting in a very low chair with
his feet on the convenient mantel-.
piece some yards, apparently, above
him.
But Professor Fischer has chang
ed all that; he has demonstrated
by a series of painstaking and
careful experiments that we should
sleep with our feet slightly ele-
waited, or the head a trifle lower
than the feet, as he puts it, and
this condition he advises bringing
about by placing pillows under
the feet and none under the head.
The advantages claimed by Pro-
fessor Fischer resulting from this
manner Of lying are that the intel
lectual repose is much more. pro-
found than obtained by the present
prevailing method; also that amel-
ioration of the nervous system is
greater; that the effects on the
veins is better and consequently
the condition of the blood is im-9
proved and weakness of the, lungs
is thereby largely overcome. Fin
trying the effect of this position
for sleeping any unpleasant sensa-
ton is experienced, the feet will
be found to have been too high,
and therefore they should be low
cred little by little by using pill
lows of less thickness, until the
proper height is reached, which is
readily determined by the i'm
proved feeling of the sleeper.
WOMEN LIKE 1T.
For women especially this mode
of sleeping is recommended by
the professor, and he claims to be
in receipt of endless communica-
tions from ladies throughout Ger
many who have found untold re-
lief i'll following his simple pre-
scription. In an essay recently
read by the professor the advant-
ages to the physical nature from
this manner of sleeping were
shown to be unmistakable and
easily understood as such by the
lecturers audience in the plain but
convincing language employed.
Briefly, the professor urged that
the veins are better kept filled
with blood, the blood flowing to-
ward the brain is conducive of a.
clearer, more rested mental condi-
tion upon awakening,and the heart
finding easier action is not called
upon for such hard work, and
therefore the tired feeling often
accompanying the first awakening
is done away with.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21
The Indiana Ideal Butter Maker.
Darn, Field and Eireside.
Z T D;1o, Tboro+oyup

Mrs James Riley, Thorntown,
lind, took a premium at the
Worlds Fair on butter. Her sue
cess drew from the editor of the
1aJournal," published at Delphi,
Ind, the following remarks:
san Indiana woman took first
premium on butter at the Worlds's
Fair. Icnnsider this the highest
tribute paid Indiana by the
Worlds Fair.
Show me State where women
makes good butter and I'll show
]you a State where the women are
superior in all other lines. No
woman can make good butter who
has not good judgment. No wo-
man can make good butter who is
not clean. No woman can make
| good butter who is not q good house.
keeper. Show me woman who
has good judgment, who is clean,
who is good housekeeper, and I'll
show you woman who will know
how to raise children, who will
know how to treat her husband,
who is as happy on rainy day as
when the sun shines,
'sThe woman who knows how to
make good batter will not permit
the family cato make its bed in
the -four barrel or push its cold
and dewy nose over the peach pre-
serves in the pantry. She will not
permit "domineck" chickens to
roost on the. back porch, nor will
she wean the family calf in the
Kitchen. She will not place winter
apples on the cold, damp -four in
the cellar, where the rats drag their
hairless tails over them; neither
will she place her milk crooks
where mice can nibble at the cream,
lose their footing and drawn in the
swim. The woman who makes
good, clean, sweet butter will not
comb hel hair over the kitchen
stoves or pare her corns with the
bread knife. You will not catch
her using her husbands tooth
brush or oiling her offspring's
hair with melted laad. In the
hot summer months flies do not
buzz around her pantry like bees
lswarming on June day, neither
S1aaasoesshe go opadd ling around MAKE
ing pie IN her bare feet.
"You will find her Mother Hub
band belted down and her dish
rag will not resemble the waste
with which hustlers at round
houses wipe their engines. She
will not prod her husband at the
midnight hour ask him if be lock-
ed the door between the kitchen
and the woodhouse, but she will 60
and see for herself and let her
weary husband rest. If necessary
she can harness horse and while
she will not, ring the snout of the
pig..thet persists in roofing up her
oleander bed, yet she. can tell the
hired man how to do it.
"I love the women that makes
good butter. They are a constant
| joy to men. But the women whose
butter tells you of greasy crooks
and moldy churns, which comes to
you streaked as though grained by
door painter, it's breath remind
ing you of friend with a bad
tooth, such a women can never
hold my hand should I became a
widower.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21
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.
Edgefeld, c. H., S. G,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21
Left HIM a "Loan."

The Waterbury.
"Colonel, can you loan me"-
"No, sir, 1 can't. And if I could,
I wouldn't. have been lending
you money for year, and you
make no effort to return it."
"But l wanted to know if you
wouldn't loan me-
"And I tell you beforehand that
] won't"
"Well, then don't. I wanted to
borrow your fountain pen to make
out a check for what I owe you, but
if you're in no rush, I am not"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21
Work the Roads J

DY order of the board of County
D Commissioners of Edgetield county,
all overseers of roads will put their
respective roads in good condition by
the lst day of April, 1894, removingall
loose stones, and cutting all overhang-
ing branches of trees. Special atten-
ton must be given by overseers to
bridge bitches.
In case of failure to attend to duties
the law will be enforced.
J. A. WHITE,
D. w. PADGETT,
J. W. BANKS,
c. C. T.. C..
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

The church of God allied with
the whiskey elements is of the un-
expected and yet there are a few
illustrations of this strange mis-
alliance to be found i'll South
Carolina.-Reform Advocate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-02-21

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The Canton times., 1894-11-16
FARMERS DEPARTMENT
MOTTO:
He that ploweth. should plow in hope

1t is the desire of the TIMES manage,
ment to meet all the requirements ot
local and general character. We
want to devote space to a truckers and
horticultural department or conduct
the same in our ag ricultural department
II such men as DR.. Mckay, Perkins
Bridges, Lee, DR.. e. A. Smith, Drum
mond, Gay, Lutz, Cassell and a number
of others will contribute tc our columns.
We feel assured that great good will
accrue to our truckers through such
medium. We are digesting the idea of
Q daily pa per, and if we get ore out it
will be of incalculabl benefit as we will
give daily quotations, and other essen
tial business features during the ship
ping season that will reich you every
day. 1t is not only wrong for men to
withhold their personal knowledge and
experience from others on an abstract
principle Of equity. but it is downright
injury to themselves, for they are
debarred from the stimules Of thought |
and interchange, necessary to growth
Of intelligence and business. Let us
hear from you.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Whilst we believe the Agricultural
Department of the TINES is being
appreciated by our readers, and will
gradually win popular favor, and
whilst we are willing to continue to
draw upon our resources for original
matter to fill it's columns, yet we are
disappointed in not receiving coutribu-
tions from our farmer friends. We
have not filled our space with extracts
from other papers, but instead, given
original matter on present ills, and the
situation, which is unprecedented, be-
cause we thought the best interes. of
all called for discussion of these live
and vital issues. We would he graft
fed to have the opinions of others. for
you know we have always told you
that we did not know it all. Madison
county has an intelligent agricultural
community. that will not suffer by
comparison with the best IN any section.
We know this TO be facts from our
personal acquaintance. Then why is il
that some of them do not benefit others
as well as themselves by writing for
the TIMES. We hear men say they
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Don't you red-necks, who have to toi
laboriously and wrestle with the cart
for the bare necessities of life, forge
that it takes about fifty pounds of cot
ton out of each bale now to pay tn,
freight to New Orleans, whereas, wher
cotton was ten cents it took only
twenty-five pounds. in other words
freight is dOu bled. Where it took 81. SO
70 pay fifteen mill tax on $l0O worth
of property, with cotton at ten cents,
it took 6fteen pounds of cotton to bring
it, now it takes more than thirty-hve
pounds, or more than double. Where
salary of income from an official posi-
tion was "a 900 with cotton at ten cents
AZ does not only take twice as much
cotton now to pay it, but the salary is
raised to $4,000 because the purchasing
power of the money is doubled What
fools we farmers IRE. What hacks FIR
Others who combine against us. Our
only remedy against these evils are to
combine by organization and rise in
our might and demand, not special
privileges, but exact justice. and an
even chance in the race of life. |
In order for you to see it you
have spark of manhood and business
sagacity left in You to inspire you to
your own welfare and that of your
families. We will set the 18th of De-
cember for meeting at the court
house in Canton, to organize the farm
ers of the county into a purely
farmers organization. Now let us
zee how many of you will be there.
The time is ample for all to know it,
if the readers of the TINES
will spread the facts among their
neighbors and urge the Importance of
'he meeting. Don't think. because
'ther farmers organizations failed
'ou must not try again. They went
nto politics and let selfish men obtain
control for personal ends by stuffing
'greenies" who wanted money with. $
nut working for it, with nonsense in I
rider to hoist them into power. We
10 not want any but business men /
Who are not afraid of work in such an ,
Remember it is a I
round hog case now, "duck or no q
inner" There are enough intelli G
ent industrious men in this county to q
Drm such an organization on a sue r
essful basis. They are bound to con- {
nue. farming too. Will they do it I
nder present auspices, or will they {
'rce a change? Let the 18th ultino a
etermine. .
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Do not neglect to attend to your
sweet potatoes now, before rainy and
freezing weather sets in. The whole
secret of keeping potatoes is in keeping
them dry and prevent freezing. After
they have undergone the first heat and
Sweating" process when freshly
pumped. at which time they should be
ventilated at the top to let all moisture
escape. They should be shielded. and
ditched around to keep them dry, and
at least six inches OF dirt put over them
above tbs stalks or grass, in order to
prevent them from freezing, from which
cause most potatoes are lost. The dirt
must be deep enough to prevent the
temperature ia the pump from falling
to the freezing point. The rain, too,
mnst be excluded. as 1t will penetrate
the dirt and rapidly contribute to it
freezing. and reaching the potatoes
We have tho finest lot OF "old yams"
we have had in many years. They are |
the only kind for mankind to eat.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

For four or five years we have been
culllng and purifying tie little black
cotton seed found especially in the pe-
terkin variety until we have it ve.y
nearly pure, only a few stray seed.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Cotton seed meal possesses great up-
tritive elenents--nearly three times as
much as corn-yet it is nota good stock
food of itself. Fed in moderate uan-
titles with hay. cotton seed hulls and
other coarse foods it is excellent. Cot
ton seed meal will produce nearly twice
as much milk as corn meal.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

1t pays to have good roofs on all
your buildings. Good shelter for stock.
farming implements and harvested
crop is as necessary az the raising and
gathering of your produce. See that
your roofs don't leak.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Give your fattening hogs dose of
salt and hardwood ashes once week
with their feed.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Don't neglect sailing your stock. 1t
is as necessary for their health as for
yours. Keep lot of rock salt where
they can lick it at will.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Rye is one of the best crops farm.
er can plant for winter and spring
pasturage.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

''hamberl.in'si Hye ana Ska oine.,..
Is certain cure for Chronic Sore Evs'
iranulated Eye Lids, Sore Nipples Pls' E
Eczema, letter Salt Rheum and Scald Hs.S
. cents per box For sale BY drugpish
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

As soon as the rush of cotton picking
is over, spend week or two in repair
ing your fences and buildings.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

In line with the above argument
we believe in all the water wavs ot
America being declared manageable
streams where it is possible to make
them such even by locks and dams.
IL is the great lever with which to hold
in check 'he extortiou of railroads, we
would also build canals where ever
practicable. This is great government
and time, and money, are small consid-
erations in the balance against the
great ultimate benefaction TO the peo
pie. We would insist on our present
Congressman urging appropriation for
Pearl River no matter at what cost, or
time or process it required TO render it
highway to the sea, Canton could
forever hold the railroad then. These
propositions may strike som. as for
m.dable and Others as preposterous
but they are not only feasible, and
right, but pregnant with a great future
and will come in time. We have
rapidly increasing population and the
country is full of idlers who should be
put to work. In order to accomplish
these grand and benefcieut results, we
must have statesmen who can see be-
yond the present, and who are not
absorbed in money getting, or creature
Injuries, and a general government
Ifter the Washington a-d Hamiltoniar
theory, strong but just. The people
must be educated on these lines and
Iside from the public good. personal
interest should, and will quicken their
perceptions. Let antiquarians and
noss-backs growl, whilst the car OF
'rogress leaves them behind. Sent on
Is way by live enterprising men.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

/ We weighed |, ,4l9 pounds of this cottor
and gined il on our 5c.saw horse Gin
In two hours, we never saw cotton sliT
through gin so fast, the bale weighed
493 pounds. We weighed the same of
Rodgers mixed with Southern hope,
and gined it on the same gin requiring
double the time and pulling the team
twice as hard, the bale weigged 400
pounds. On that day Rodgers sold in
Canton for five cents and other good
cotton for four and thr-e-quarters, the
increased price of one-quarter Sill
leaves few cents in favor Of the little
black on money valued to say nothing
of the saving in picking and ease and
rapiditv Of ginning. As to the relative
yield of seed Gotten per acre or time of
we can not speak positively,
but, will make them the subject of fu-
ture experiment. We do not believe it |
pays to raise long staple cotton except
near the sea cost, where the raising Of |
he sea-island variety pays, it brings
lere twenty -four cents per pound and
eventy in Liverpool. 1t is raised on
he coast of Carolina, and on the gulf
oast, especially Texas.
The Canton times., 1894-11-16

Hyou are feeling
out Of sorts. weak
and generally ex-
hausted, nervous,
have no appetite
4 aad cant work,
! Begin at once TAX
| Ing The most relia-
! Die strengthening
n.edi cine which Is
Browns Iron Bit
tera. n few bot
ties cuy&-bene6t
cores from the /,
very first dose-tf
scos's sfais 1exr ,
ssetk, and it,s'
pleasant 10 take. .