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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

Washington, Nov. 27.-Tho United
states steamship Baltimore returned
from Port Arthur to Chce Foo last
evening and today sailed again for
Nngasilsa, Japan. where she win be
In direct communication by cable with
the navy department
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

seward. o. T., Nov, 27.-captaln
Cooper Of the old oklahoma HBoomer"
and railroad man OF many years
experience. Is organizing company
to build a short limo railway from the
east 10 the coal fields Of me cfssk
Nation.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

ollahomn. xznnnn bv vbgkqjn m
Guthrie, o. r., Nov 27e--Pralrie flrcs
have been doing much damage in Lin
coin and Payne counties. a number or
families having lost everything they
poasessod and narrowly escaped with
their lives.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

Era. Tex. NOV. 27.-Buck. the 10 year
old son OF J.. l.. Proxies. received a
severe kick this morning from a. horse,
which cut an ugly cash IN Ills cheek
ana fractured his nocc. and the little
fellow l. possibly dlsiigured for life.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

Washington. Nov 2d--Gen. Frank C.
Armstrong, assistant commissioner Of
Indian affairs. resigned today, his RESI-
ignation taking effect December 81
Gen. Armstrong will become connected
with a railroad operating in the Indian
u'arrlfnpN
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

Sulphur Springs, Tex Nov. 27'-Thls
eyeing while returning home Mrs,
Maggie bridges and 1I-year.old
daughter. Kittie, were thrown out OF a
buggy, killing Mrs. Bridges outright
and u courier Just IN brings the in
formation that the little irl can live
but a short while.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28
EANCY WORK..

|,.dis: desiring materials
| sncy work, crccheting'
Eb,OIdery, or the new Bat
snrr fad will find a com.
f. line at our store.
M new stamped linen
Il ,atin Damask Doylies'
4, table and stand covers,
|s,r scarfs and splashers,
Is,ped. to be worked with
|. nsw Battenburg Honiton
4 point lace materials.
|apIete line of braids and
.rIiur Satin Damask by
| ysrd. in white and ecru,
ia All shades of 72-inch
embroidery, crochet
etching silks in every
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

sg1n Nov. 27.-A mantle
vas thrown over our town
"s announced that Professor
4. "a passed into the land of
n. Professor Do Dogget, though he
Ie,nsA,e put n few months was
rs,a, o. by the people. who
1 K, XIV : nus loss. He was presl-
49,, SS9llege Hill institute and
! ~ iM,,ethodist divine. He was
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

Washington. Nov. 27.-The cash bal
ance In the treasury today was $780,.
e66,765; gold reserve, s57,7si, 42g.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28
COAL.

.,rosE Island coal $ stone
Il. f.ta ., ' FROST NINE. Bridge
|n 0lSp' screened lump. carload
|s rs airAlester for Steam
III sqsal % man IL for domestic
re- . os,s', and freight rates to ali
e y p.'I nd indian Territory !, a 7.
81 5s = irR HOST General , Manager Wan"
|-ss 2 ~ employs no agents.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-28

Galveston, TEX, Nov. c..--Thc aren
Of low pressure vhtci, was over the
rcnsrni lakes last night has M"srd
eastward to Ncv Enetnrd. sttghs
hnrcmrt ~, dcnrcsrior ~ central over
Western Texas, III urcn of htril
prcsnurc Of considerable fntcnslty
Inns moved In uvcr the Missouri pnu
upper NfsSisstpri vniie>e nccom-
wanted ny d-cidcW mi In tcmpcra-
turc, Generally clear weather pre-
wallis throunhout thr country. -
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
Rest1essness That Ruins Homes.

Thousands of farmers every
year leave pleasant homes in the
older, settled States and make
long and tedious pilgrimages to
newer States and Territories, not
driven to it by necessity, but by a
chronic restlessness-an idea that
it is possible somewhere else to
get on a little faster in the world.
In nine cases out of ten the man
would be better off where he is,
never satisfied until he has made
at least one or two changes.
Homes are destroyed in the most
ruthless manner in pursuit of this
phantom of bettering ones self
homes which can never be really
restored to the family, for home is
something more than the roof
which shelters us. The associs-
tions of childhood, the friends of
early days, the memories of the
past, the ancestral graves upon the
hillside-are these nothiug? 1t
will take more years than the most
of us can afford, to build up new
home and get into the feeling with
which we regard our present one
be it ever so humble.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
Mohammed and the Trinity.

Max Muller in The Nineteenth Century.
For a time it might indeed have
seemed as if Mohammed was but
the founder of new Jewish or
Christian sect. Not only did he
distinctly represent the religion
which be preached as the old reli-
gion of Abraham, but he spoke Of
the Old and New Testaments as
the Word of God, and he spoke of
Jesus in even higher terms than of
Abraham. All he wished to do at
first was to explain much of what
was hidden of the Book and to re-
move the false opinions entertain
ed of Christ. Unfortunately, the
form in which Christianity reached
him was most corrupt, and offend
ed him by the perverted doctrine
of the Trinity even more than it
had offended the Jews. He accept
ed the Gospel as the revelation of
God, and Jesus as the true prophet
of God, but he wished to see Chris
tianity purged and freed from
later corruptions.
Christian theologians of the mar.
rowest school have admitted this
and even the Rev. Marcus Dodds,
now in the full odor of orthodoxy,
declares that, if Mohammed had
but known the true character of
Christ, "Christianity would have
had one more reformer." There is,
of course, no evidence for saying
that Mohammed ever was a Chris
tian, but he might have been ex-
cept for the corruptions which had
crept into Christianity through the
most ignorant of Christian sects.
Mohammed's feelings at first
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
Only King Eagle Ever Captured

San Francisco Examiner.
A most remarkable bird of the
tropics was one of the arrivals
here on the steamer Acapulco from
South America yesterday. 1t is
called the king eagle, because of a
thick tuft of feathers that stand
out like a crowd about it's head.
1t is white all over except the back,
which merges into a yellowish
gray, with a few brown feathers.
Though only six months old, the
eagle already stands about three
feet hign, and is in other respects
a giant of it's kind. It's legs are
as big around as q baby's arm,
Accurate measures have not been
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

were evidently more friendly to-
ward the Christians than toward
the Jews. He declared that both
Jews and Christians will be saved
if they do what is right. "Verily,"
be says. "those who believe and
those who are Jews, and the Sa-
beans and the Christians, whose
ever believes in God and the last
day, and does what is right, there
is no fear for them, nor shall they
grieve." But, he adds: "Thou wilt
surely find that the strongest in the
enmity against those who believe
are the Jews and the idolaters, and
thou wilt find the nearest in love
to those who believe to be those
who say, 'We are Christians;' that
is because there are among them
priests and monks, and because
they are not proud"
It was the false doctrine of the
Trinity, as taught at the time by
certain Christian sects with whom
Mohammed had to deal, that most
strongly repelled him from Chris
tianity. "They misbelieve," he
Gays, "who say, Verify, God is the
Messiah, the son of Mary, but the
Messiah said, O children Of Israel,
worship God, my Lord and your
Lord"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

The Tillmanites made one great
blunder. Tney threshed us too
severely in 1892. Had they beaten
us only five thousand, we might
have had enough life left in us to
have undertaken another fight
this year. And if we had all this
strife and bitterness would not
have arisen among the. Reformers
The primaries of 80 destroyed our
faction even as a source of amuse-
ment to the dominant element. 1t
was woefnl lack Of foresight by
which not even a sufficient number
of US was left to whip again.
Columbia Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
SORGHUM, HIDE 0U T!
CORNSTALK MOLASSES, THE
VERY LATEST WRINKLE.
THE SOUTHERN
FARMERIN CLOVER SPITE
Of Grover-A Wayne County,
Ga, Farmer Says. 1T Is
Better Than Sorghum.

WAYCRoss, GA.-Special to the
Constitution: A farmer, who lives
near here, tells an interesting
story of his experiment in making
corn-stalk molasses. He says: II
planted two acres of rich land in
corn about April 1st, last year, fer
tilizing it heavily with homemade
compost twice during it's growth,
which, of course, made large and
heavy stalks and ears, full of sweet
juice, like the juice from the old
china or sorghum cane. -I-did not
plant it with that intention, but
after observing this I Immediately
pulled the corn ears while green
and shipped them III barrels to
Boston, which alone doubly paid
my expenses of planting, fertiliz-
ing, and gathering. I then pulled
the blades off, leaving them on the
ground to be plowed under, and
hastily proceeded to cut down the
stalks, cut off the tops and haul
to my furnace. I ground the stalks
to pieces and boiled the juice in
the usual way that we do sugar
cane-about three hours with a
moderately hot fire under the
boiler. which held eighty gallons.
1t produced, after the process was
completed, nine gallons of the
whitest, purest, and most fragrant
syrup that I have ever tasted. It
was thick and full of sweetness
and did not have the burning be-
longing to sorghum and sugar cane
molasses. Granulated sugar could
not be melted and made into clear
or syrup than this. There are
many advantages in grinding corr
stalks ovsr that of sugar cane.
Using the old-fashioned roller
mill, I filled it with five or six
stalks at once, and one small pony
pulled them through with no strain
at all. The two acres made three
barrels of the syrup of which I
speak, and it was not necessary for
me to ship it in order to dispose of
it, as two barrels retailed at 81 a
gallon, right here in this county,
and I could have sold much more
at the same price if I had made it.
This year I have planted twenty
acres in corn and I shall 60 through
the same process of planting, ma
nuring, and gathering as I did last
year, and there are many of my
reighbors engaging in the produc-
ton of corn, principally for the
cornstalk molasses."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
Degrees in Church Membership.

The differince between the men,
bers in Christian church was
lately illustrated by an account nf
a gentleman who in the north of
England was puzzled as he was
getting into all omnibus by seeing
that there were first, second, and
third class compartments, differ
ence i'll fare, but with no apparent
difference in comfort. The mys-
terry was presently solved when,
coming to steep hill, the conduc-
tor called out: "First-class passen-
gers, keep your seats; second-class
passengers, get out and walk ;
third-class passengers, get out and
shove" We need members willing
to be third-class passengers.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

Now, he would not have this in
money, for he would keep enough
Of his corn, oats, wheat, meat, ETC.,
to supply himself with next year.
Yet he could easily pay his debts
and have enough cash money to
make a crop, and owe no man any,
thing. Now, you may ask: "If
this is true, why are not the south
ern farmers more successful?" Be-
cause we are welded to the negro
tenant and all-cotton system. The
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

carloads of corn and meat that are
brought here show why we are not
more prosperous.
Our water is good, our winters
are mild, our climate healthful,
our people social, and anyone of
average intelligence and energy
can make an independent living
and some money. We need white
men who will 60 on the farms and
work them personally, instead Of
renting to negroes who never COM
mence work until March and quit
in July, who never plow over two
inches deep, who never run a ter
race or throw a brush in a gully,
and who move every year and leave
impoverished land behind them.
Under the plan of rotation I
have outlined, in six years anyone
can make a bale of cotton per acre,
or thirty bushels of corn or oats,
and his land will be worth twice as
much as he gave for it. But to do
this man must own the land and
live on it. The tenant can't do it.,
for he moves every year.
The young men of the present
must take hold of the farms. I
am a young man just on the thres-
hold of life, and my ambition is
not to be the best lawyer, or doc
tor, or merchant in my county, but
the best farmer. I love the busi-
ness, have set my stakes, and pro-
pose to go to them.
J. w. MCWHoRTER.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

An invitation to dinner in Japan
commences as follows: 1T beg par
don for thus insulting you, in beg.
ging your company at my house to
dinner, The house is small and
very dirty. Our habits are rudes
and you may not get anything to
eat;and yet hope that YOU will
condescend to be present with us
at s o'clock"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
Morgan Co., Ga.
The Richmond and Danville
Humb'ed.
J. w. McWHoRTEF

Charleston Sun.
Judge sjponton has completed
the conuternation and astonish-
ment begun among the railroads
with his decision in the South
Carolina railway case by delivering
a similar adverse opinion in the
case of the Richmond and Dan
vile system of roads. This system
is composed of the following roads
traversing this Stale: The Colum-
dia and Greenville, the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta, the Atlanta
and Charlotte Air Line, the Ashe-
vile and Spartanburg, the Spartan
burg, Union and Columbia, and
the Laurens roads.
The corporation in question
claimed that it's case was different
from the South Carolina Railway
case, inasmuch as the roads jn-
volved were assessed in excess of
their real value. In relation to
one of the roads on this point
Judge Simonton says:
"It cannot be said from anything
that appears in the case that the
valuation fixed by this Board son
that property is not what is
honestly believ' d could be OBJ
tanned for the same at a fair sale
under the conditions required by
the statute,
In concluding he says:
"The valuation fixed by the
State Board on some of the roads
in the hands of the complainant
seems to be excessive, notably in
the case of the Atlanta and
Charlotte Air Limo Road. but this
court cannot take upon itself the
functions of a revision or equaliza-
ing board.
''As the property of the railroads
is in the hands of receivers ap-
pointed by this court, and so held
under equitable execution, let an
order be taken authorizing and in
structiag the receivers out of the
funds in their hands to pay the re-
mainder of the taxes unpaid and
the costs of these proceedings"
The State has certainly scored q
notable victory in these cases, and
| no obstacle now remains to prevent
the payment to her of the remain.
der of the taxes assessed upon
them, which will in all likelihood
amount to even more than the
100000 at which the total has
been estimated.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
For THE THOUGHTFUL

SELECTED.
Sin hates the man who makes it
stop aad think.
God fails not to SOW his blessings
in the long furrows.
The man who works for the devil
never gets q vacation.
If you want things to 60 right
live that way yourself.
Have faith in God and you will
never need anything else.
Nothing can make us rich and
keep us so but faith in God.
The man who will not improve
his talents steals from himself.
Cheerfulness is the butter that
God spreads on the bread of life.
The world looks at what man
does, but God looks at what he is.
Humble love and not proud
science keeps the door of heaven.
No dying man has ever been
sorry that his mother was Chris
tian.
No man is to be more pitied
than the man who is satisfied with
himself.
1t will hurt you more to live a
day without prayer than to live it
without bread.
The blindest people in the world
are those who cannot see that God
is marching on.
Patience is the ballast of the
soul, that will keep 1t from rolling
and tumbling in the great storm.
There is transcendent power
in example. We reform others un-
consciously when we walk up
rightly.
Have faith in God; think noble
things of God; be sure that trust
in the righteous God means the
ultimate triumph of good over
evil.
Absolute rest is impossible. The
little wayside pool seems to be
asleep, but sleep isa misnomer.
There is no sleep to anything. The
angels will come down from heaven
and with their little fairy buckets
draw it to the stars. The skies are
thirsty to drink it dry,and to-mor-
row it will be gone.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
Russia in the Last Century.

The Spectator.
Peter the Great said of his coun-
try, and said truly: "Russia is
rotten before she is ripe" To realize
the true meaning of these words
and the fullness of their implica-
ton, one must study In detail the
reigns of Elizabeth and Catherine
11:'In Russia, during the eighteenth
century, were to be found side by
side the vices alike of savagery
aud civilization. Add to the lack
of social instinct, of humanity in
the wider sense, and of moral res
possibility that is to be found in
a Zulu kraal, the worst corruptions
that are bred in courts like that
Of Louis XIV, and one can form
some faint notion of the Russian
capital under Elizabeth and
Catherine.
The country, as a whole, waa
Oriental in it's want of civil
organization, but without the
idealism of the East. The capital
was welter of blood aud lust,
barbarism and sophistry, atheism
and superstition, drunkenness and
savage violence, Incidence and
semi-insane activity. The moral
condition was reflected in the
physical. Never was there such a
mixture of squalor and magni-
fcence as in the palaces of the
Empress Elizabeth. The rudest and
the most costly furniture were
jumbled together. Filth and
slender were always alternating,
and the vilest food was eaten off
plates of gold.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
A RIDE IN THE CLOUDS.
A FERRY THREE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY FEET UP
IN TIE AIR.
CABLE BROKE AND KILLED A MAN.
Over the Tennessee River Almost
Three Times as High as the
Brooklyn Bridge.

High up in the air over the
Tennessee River, at Knoxville, is
an aerial tramway for passenger
car service which is used in con-
veylng people from the Knoxville
side of the river to pleasure re-
sort back of the bluff on the other
side. The car is hauled across the
river suspended to wire ROY each
1873 inches in diameter and swung
at a height of $50 feet above the
water, which Is almost three times
the height of the Brooklyn Bridge
at the middle of the span, and 70
feet higher than the top of the
towers. The length of the span
across the Tennessee River is 1850
feet.
At the starting point, which is
but five minutes ride from the
heart of Knoxville, there is a power
house where there are two twenty
horsepower engines for operating
the cable.
These cables, on the Knoxville
side, according to the Scientific
American, are anchored to 12x12-
inch oak timbers, IA feet long,
placed behind plank bulkheads:
The connecting bars are 10 feet
long and ia inches thick, and
provision is made for taking up
the slack by means of flong threaded
screws. The anchor at the high end
on the opposite side of the river,
consists of iron plates fixed in the
rock. the supporting cables each
have breaking strain Of sixty
tons. The cable conveying the
motive power is a half inch in
diameter and permanently fas-
tened to the car.
The car, empty, weighs 1900
pounds. 1t has a 14-foot body and
3-foot platforms, and is 6 feet
wide by 81 feet wide. The seating
capacity is sixteenfpassengcrs. The
car is provided with automatic
brakes, which stop the car in case
the propelling cable breaks or slips
on the drum. The up trip takes
about 81 minutes. The descent is
made III a half minute by gravity.
An accident occurred on this
aerial ferry Oh Sunday, Feb. IS, by
which one passenger was killed
and two others slightly injured.
The hauling cable broke just as
the car reached the top of the in
cline and struck the car with such
force as to damage it somewhat,
the car then starting rapidly down
the grade until it was stopped by
the automatic brakes.
When the car was brought to q
standstill it was at point about
200 feet above the water, and the
eight passengers it contained were
rescued by being let down by ropes
into boat on the river.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04
The Bumps OH Your Face

Are caused by impure blood, and
will never be well unless you
cleanse it and build itup in rich
ness and purity. Botanic Blood
Balm, the great blood purifier and
tonic, is what you need. One bot
tie will clear your complexion and
purify your blood. Try it. Price
$1,00. For sale by druggists.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

A man once fell into a river,
and when rescued from his i'm
promptu bath, was deluged with
advice from the by ISLANDERS. His
rescuer recommended him to be
more careful in the future. One
suggested MIN to take stiff drink
of whiskey, to keep the chill off;
another suggested that he had
better hurry home and change his
clothes; another cautioned him to
get the water out of his ears. The
best advice was that given by
the boot black. He said: "I amt
got much to say about this 'ere
case, but my advice to this 'ere
feller is to do more kicking with
his heels and less hollerin' with his
mouth, if he ever falls in again"
There is moral in this to all who
are constantly crying out "hard
times"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-04-04

This is the season of the year
when the farmers mind stubbornly
contemplates the purchase of
farming implements, and other
necessities in the hardware line.
AS usual Ramsey & Bland have
prepared to meet every demand
along that line. Visit their store
before laying IN your supply.