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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13
CORRESPONDENCE
"When the Wicked Entice Thee
Consent Thou Not"

~. . !
It is conceded that the United
States is the richest, greatest, and
most progressive nation touched
by the rays of the sun. When We
contemplate The great and unsur-
passed achievements of her sons,
the progress they have made in
art, war, politics, education, and
religion; her great agricultural
and manufacturing interests; her
many and unequaled public insti-
tutions, our souls are thrilled with
Joy and our hearts 60 out in graft
tude to the source of all good for
such a richly endowed mother
All are not, and indeed cannot,
be born in affluence and raised in
the lap of luxury, but the ave-
nues Of success are broad and
fruitful, and we should be proud
that in our birthplace we have an
invaluable heritage.
It is evident, however, that all
of cur advantages are no safe
guard against error, danger, and
corruption. The very greatness
of nation, if it be corrupt and
in error, renders that condition
more hazardous.
From the first political institu-
ton in Egypt, down through sue.
cessive ages, even to the present
time, wrong has been avenged ;
governments have been destroyed,
and kingdoms have been demol-
ished on account of corruption
and perfdy. This we cannot de-
ny. History speaks in thunder
tones along this line and now has
many indelible blots on its pages.
We have now an impending politi-
cal and financial crisis. Indeed
it is upon US. The cries of the op-
pressed and distressed cannot fail
to reach our ears. Charges Of cor
ruption, treachery, and perfdy are
heralded from door to door, and
arrows of denunciation are hurl-
ed even at the executive in his
mansion.
Is our entire political structure
rotten to the core, or is the entire
nation irretrievably corrupt? Must
our government, our protection
bought by the blood of our fore
fathers-established by their pa
triotic fdelity-be destroyed by
the duplicity of our representa-
tives? Has the sun of prosperity
set upon this nation that ought to
be in the zenith of her glory? God
forbid. The present or super
structure may, yea, must fall, but
men of unparalled craftsmanship,
and burning patriotism gave us
the fundamental principles Of our
government and these will live
forever.
Parties are now divided and
sub-divided, each faction offering
means of relief, but the brazen
serpent has not yet been lifted
up in the wilderness of agits-
tion, unless it be the cry of
reFoRM that has shaken our
old Palmetto State from centre
to circumference. If this be
the means of deliverance (and
believe it is, if properly propa-
gated) then let every lover of his
country and of his fellowmen en-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

Mrs. LeCnnte, the State Libra
rian, requests the statement made
for the benefit of all concerned all
over the State that the copies of
the acts of the last session of the
legislature will not he in her
hands ready for distribution for
more than month yet. There
has been some delay in getting
the official copies of the acts in
the hands of the State printer, it
seems.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

If Cleveland and the fifty-third
Congress could have -kertlumuSed
at the same time 1t would have
been O fortunate thing, but alas,
we shall have Cleveland two years
longer. All we can do in Edge
field is to build the cotton factory
and let Cleveland rip.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

The Governor has receiver a tel
gram from Chief Constable Holly
in Charleston, saying be had seiz-
ed eight eight half barrels of
whiskey and twenty-five hundred
pounds of bacon. Nothing more
could be learned, but it is suppos-
ed the whiskey was shipped mid
den under the bacon in some way.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

Dun and Bradstreet in their re-
view of trade say generally i'm
proved feeling is noticeable. Fail
ures for the week have been 234
in the United States against 24s
last year, and SIS in Canada against
60 last year.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

The Southern Society of New
York has elected the following Of
fcers: President, Johr R. Ahney;
Vice-President, Hugh S. Thomp-
son; Secretary, George Gordon
Battle; Treasurer, Heth L. Or
ton.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

The President has appointed
Hon. w. L. Wilson of West Virgil
MIA, to be Postmaster General, in
the place of Mr.. Bissell, resigned,
and the Senate has confirmed the
appointment.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

An excellent likeness Of Judge
Norton will be placed in the su-
preme Court room at Columbia, S.
c., amoug the pictures of the 9TH
er judges of the State.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13
To Arms--Fraternal Arms.

WHEREAS, a convention of the
people of South Carolina has been
called for the purpose of obtain
ing II new Constitution for the
government OF the State.
AND WHEREAS, In-as-much as
the Constitution so to be adopted
will affect the honor and welfare
of all the people alike, with out re-
gard to faction-it is of supreme
Importance that the convention
shall be non-partisan in its mem
bership.
AND WHEREAS, q conference of
Democrats, without regard to fac
ton, has been called to assemble in
the CITY of Columbia on the 9th
of March inst. for the purpose of
considering the best means of re-
storing harmony in the Democrat
ic party-to the end that the Con-
stitutional Convention may be
non-parlisan in its mem bership,
and in it's action.
Now THEREFORE, We the under
signed, being fully in sympathy
with the purposes for which said
conference has been called, and
desiring to do all in our power to-
wards the promotion thereof, res
pectfully request all Democrats in
the County of Edgefeld, to meet
at Edgefeld Court House on, the
23rd day of March instant, for the
purpose of taking all these mat
ters into consideration, and for
the purpose of selecting three citi-
zens to represent Edgefield Coun-
nv + said conference
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

The manager of one of the great
hotels OF St. Augurtine, Fla, is
quoted as saying. "Not box of
decent oranges can be had in the
State"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

Districts number 81 and 81 were
laid off after the tax return- Of
last year were maie, and for that
reason a just apportionn:ent for
above districts could not he made.
Pay warrants, signed by the Trus-
tees of the a owe districts, will
have tn be charged to the school
fund of the Townships or School
Districts i'll viii b. they wer'. orig
Eally location.
We would aga,n insist on the
Trustees taking more interest in
the schools under their respective
charge
We hear spme complaint on this
line and a lack of int rest shown,
except 10 sign pay warrants. 1t
there are those who have so much
other business that they cannot
look after this all-important duty,
then their resignation is in ord4r.
r. N. LOTT.
School Commissioner.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13
TAMERLANE.

His Celebrated Stallion can be
found at my house, for the present,
three miles south OF Edgefield.
Terms: insure foal, $500
Insure colt to stand and suck, $1,000
Will make stands at different places
in the county, for 8 mares.
S. B. MAYS,
March 5, '95. Edgetield, s. G.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

Now, he's after ducks. Who?
Cleveland.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

The very morning after Con-
gress adjourned President Cleve-
land set off down the.Potomac with
his duck bag, hunting ducks.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-03-13

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21

growths at the ends of the branches
gather round and hide the dismantling
process SO successfully that we never really
know when it is taking place. Indeed, on
every pine tree we will find the leaves of
several successive seasons.
Do the leaves die? Does anything? We
see them fall and turn to mold, from
which other life-forms spring. There will
be other peoples next year where yonder
orange-red blossoms are nodding. The
waving grain, already headed out and
bowling under its weight of raindrops, was
but handful of dry kernels a few months
since. They were cast upon the ground,
and they died, if that tossing sea of green
is death. We see this happening about US,
on every hand, and we still 90 up and
down the earth demanding of seer and
scholar. If a man die shall he live again %
But the sun has come out. The rain is
over and gone. Only the last treasured
drops chase each other along the leaves
and down the stems of the plants. Our
picnickers have ventured out from the
eucalyptus grove, and everything seems to
have forgotten 1.-The useful trouble of the
rain -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
SEVERAL PIcNIcKERs CAUGHT SHOWER.

fittest to survive in the struggle for exist
ence and to obtain their necessary food
supply. You will see this tendency in the
foliage of the common buttercups and the
eschscholtzia.
Some one spoke to me yesterday of Cali
fornias perpetual springtime. You never
know the sadness of the dying leaves
here" he said. "Your trees are always
green"
He was both right and wrong. Most of
our trees are deciduous, however, although
many that are deciduous in other climates
become evergreen here. This does not
mean that the leaves are not shed. The
provision for that process is made when
the leaf is born.
The leaf does not, as is popularity sup
posed, die and drop away. 1t is cut off.
When the work of the leaf is done, and
when, as in snowy countries, 1t would
become burden to the tree, plane of
cells begins to form,a new growth, cut
ting sharply through the petiole, near its
base. This new growth forces its way
against the leaf, until the latter is actually
crowded off by the coming leaf bud.
Even the pine trees shed their needle
like leaves, but they only she'd in single
season. those nearest the trunk. The new
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
FOUND A MONSTER.
An Embryotic Dragon Frightens a
Party of Poppy Hunters at
SausaIito.

In an abandoned prospect hole on hill
side behind Old Sausalito dwells huge,
uncanny monster which has spread terror
among the children who visit that locality
in search of peoples. 1t is lizard-shaped,
with red scales, and basks every SUNNY
afternoon in front of the cave. One day
last week a party of young people halted
in front of the hole and were preparing to
have lunch when the lizard appeared. 1t
thrust out its long tongue and crawled to-
ward the children, who fed, screaming,
from the neighborhood. They saw enough
of it, however, to describe it as most re-
pulsive and ferocious looking animal. Its
length is almost three feet and it is
some eighteen inches wide. The head was
round and feet fiat, and the tail short; the
eyes were fiery red and the claws short
and stumpy. A description of more de-
tail it was impossible to procure from the
badly scared party. The most self-pos-
sessed, girl of IA, declares that it
was unlike anything she had ever seen
before. It's attitude was decidedly ag-
gressive and it emitted a musky and very
disagreeable odor. An attempt will be
made this week to capture this strange
monster, and if it should prove anything
out of the ordinary Professor Jordan of the
Palo Alto University will sit upon the re-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
HOLD 7 RAIL PARTIES,
The S. p. Company ObStinately
Refuses to Remove Its
Old Tracks.
Richmond District Are Doing
the Work.

The refusal of the Southern Pacific
Company to remove its "dead" rails from
a number of the thoroughfares in the
Richmond district has caused the progress
sive residents of that part of the city to
become exceeding wroth.
They are attesting their displeasure in
quite an unusual manner, which is sup
Elemental to the action taken by the i'm
provement club in regular session as
sembled.
The Richmond District Improvement
Club expressed its desire to have the
dead" rails removed some time ago. and
appointed a committee to wait on Superin-
tendent Vining. The committee obtained
no satisfaction. Superintendent Vining
was in facetious humor. and met the ex-
postulations of the committee with the
remark that he did not know the lines of
the Market-street Cable Company took in
any portion of the Richmond district.
"And. by the way, where is this Richmond
place you talk about?" asked Mr.. Vining.
Thereafter the residents took the matter
in their own hands, and organized
nocturnal T rail parties.
During several nights recently rails
have been torn up two, three and half a
QOZen at u b4ule, anu IdlQ dlOIlS the cQTD.
The Objectionable rails are on First
avenue, between Point Lobos avenue and
D street, on Point Lobos avenue from First
to Twentieth avenues. They are the old
fashioned L rails and have not been left
i'll their present position for the purpose of
holding franchises.
The company has no desire to operate
lines along these streets, and the neglect
simply takes the form of an avoidance of
the expense Incidental to their removal.
Another source of complaint on the part
of the resident property-owners of this
district is the failure and refusal of the
company to remove the ties of the old
steam railway on Central avenue. The
rails were torn up three years ago and the
ties still remain embedded in the road
way. Repeated demands have been pre-
ferred, but the company, in its arrogant
indifference to public and private con-
venience, has refused to heed the numer-
Gus complaints.
G. R. Fletcher, the ex-president of the
former Point Lobos improvement Club,
says the complaint is general among the
residents and that their action in tearing
up the rails themselves is only natural
consequence of the company's Indifferent
neglect.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21

usually not even concerned with the fiow-
ers themselves, but only with the lovely
petals that often surround them, and
which we all want to call the flowers.
But the leaves are the plant itself-the
central idea of what the plant is meant to
express. They tell us much about the
plant itself, if only we have the ability to
understand their language. Why, for in
stance, does this pond lily spread out its
INDECENT broad leaf on the surface of the
water, while its cousin. the wild iris, yon-
der on the bank, has long, narrow leaves,
folded almost double? Why do the leaves
of this pungent wormwood that I have
pulled stand stiffly pointing upward, at an
angle that shows us their under rather
than their upper surface, while the leaves
of the oak Just at my hand are spread out
before the descending rain.
Let us see what we shall see if we open
our eyes. Take the wormwood, for in
stance, and before we go any further let
me call attention to the fact that, if
should have occasion to NEEDLE with that
poison oak yonder in the ravine, should
first rub my hands and face with the
crushed leaves of the NORWOOD. You
will usually find the two growing near
together, and the juice Of the wayside
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
IN THE DOCK.
Small and Great Criminals Arraigned
for Their Offenses.

Small and Great Criminals Arraigned
for Their Offenses.
Stephen Henderson was arraigned for
forgery in Judge Belcher's conrt yester-
day. He pleaded not guilty, but admitted
that he had been convicted before. The
forgery of which he is accused is that of
the name of Louis Oelto of 446 Natoma
street to an order for seven pounds of cof-
fee. The crime was committed January "a,
1895.
Antoine Lauricella in the same depart
ment, was arraigned for burglary of the
house of Angelo Ferrea, 533 Vallejo street,
on March 3.
William Whitney, convicted of petty
larceny, was sentenced by Judge Bahrs to
three years in the Folsom penitentiary,
after his motion for arrest of judgment had
been denied
Fred Wilson, who was born on Novem-
Der /, 1877, and had been convicted of bur-
glary, was ordered sent to the Whittier
Reform School until he reaches the age of
q. Judgment and sentence for the crime
are suspended, by order of Judge Bahrs,
during the time Wilson remains at Whit
tier.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21

ami Judy show will be glad to learn that
the exhibition has a serious side as well as
a comic one-is in fact direct lneal de-
scendant of the ancient miracle plays
which our ancestors were fond of some six
or seven centuries ago. Atleast that is the
opinion of the Rev. G. R. Woodward, who
on Saturday delivered lecture on "An-
cient Carols" in the chapter-house of ST.
Paul's to members of the Plainsong and
Medieval Music Society. He contended
that the modern Punch and Judy show,
with its tambourine, drum and pipe, repre-
scented the triumph of virtue over vice.
Punch is very like Pons, or Pounce (Pon-
tius) PLATE. Judy was intended for Judas,
the traitor, or for Judith, who slew Holo-
fernes, and Toby was evidently the dog
mentioned in the book of Tobit. He
therefore discarded the Italian derivation
of the word and held that the modern
form of the old religious show was simply
a corrupted edition of miracle play which
had Pontius Plate as its hero.-London
Telegraph.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
THE SUTRO ROAD.
Surveyor Tilton Says That Tracks Have
Been Laid on Street in Golden
Gate Cemetery.

City and County Surveyor Tilton, who
was instructed by the Board of Supervi-
sors to investigate the complaint of Ralph
Wetherbee, that the Sutro Railroad Com
pany had laid its track across portion of
Golden Gate Cemetery, has completed his
report.
He finds that tracks were laid across the
southeast corner of the cemetery and on a
portion of the cemetery purported to have
been declared an open public thoroughfare
by resolution No. 1854 of the Board of Su-
pervisors. The matter will come up at a
meeting of the board on Monday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
BY DENIS KEARNEY.

.. twas in the summer of 1865 that we
sailed from Boston in the Bounding Bill
low. then a handsome bark-rigged craft.
She was built in Chelsea for the Mediterra-
mean fruit trade, was copper bottomed and
copper fastened, put together to make
time; was a fast sailer, could beat to wind
ward like a yacht, as proud as peacock
and fairly danced upon the waters. Her
masts were very lofty, and yards long
and heavy. The big single topsails she
carried were made of No. cotton canvas,
and the foot and leech ropes were of hemp.
When dressed in her sea robes of snowy
whiteness, cut in the fashion of the time
and trimmed to catch the passing breeze,
she looked like sea bird as her bows rose
and fell to be kissed by the oceans glisten-
ing swell.
Young man, she was born long before
you were. She was the product of past
age, and she came upon the field of action
when the Yankee clippers dotted every
sea, the starry banner then flew proudly
from every peak, and the worlds harbors
We're filed with our country's ships.
She was commanded by Captain Vidu-
Itch He was an Austrian, large-framed,
deep-chested, swarthy-looking, and was
close on to 90 years of age. His face was
the color of Stockholm tar and he wore
big, bushy whiskers, the hairs of which
were as coarse and stiff as pigs bristles.
He had an ugly look. and at the first glance
you would have imagined yourself in the
presence OF one of the pirates who used to
cruise along the Spanish main and boosted
OF the many victims they had made walk
the plank" He could speak English
fairly well, was 4 fine sailor, good navi-
gator and a thorough business man. He
was tremendous eater. I've seen him
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
| DYLLs of the FIELDS
A NATURALIST
BY A NATURALIST AT LARGE.

1t is raining. Up above me on the road
several picnickers who have been caught in
this April shower are hurrying in search
of shelter. They look down curiously
upon me sitting here in the rain under a
dropping willow. Probably they are say
ing to themselves that l do not know
enough to go in when it rains, and perhaps
they are right. am sorry for them-their
pleasure outing is SO obviously spoiled by
the pattering drops, but for my own part 1
am happy.
There is something peculiarly gentle and
courteous about an April shower. You are
so fully conscious. even while the drops
are falling, that the sun is shining behind
the light clouds. And the drops them
selves come down so gently, tentatively
offering themselves, as it were, to the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
Up the MEDITERRANEAN
On a RUnTHR.
!. BY DENIS KEARNEY

and heard him tell the man who relieved
him at eight bells to keep her full
and by"
He showed no sign of sickness then, and
when | went below to turn in it wasn't
with the expectation of being called two
hours later to administer to the wants of
this same sailor, who was now dying in the
clutches of a dreaded, scourge.
at can't be possible said l to Mr..
Cushing as | reached the deck, "that
George has got the cholera.
"T hCpe not, sir" he answered, "but it
looks like it, or Pm fish. "
on reaching the forecastle l found it de-
serted. Even the watch below, now ut
terIv demoralized, had taken their straw
mattresses out onto the main deck and
made their beds under the shadow of the
weather bulwarks.
"Wbat's the matter with you, George?'
7 asked as | threw the glare of my bullseye
lantern into the lower berth, where he lay
SOhi I'm dying, sir; I'm dyingl Can't
Won do something for me?" was the poor
fellows reply in voice that was scarcely
"Don't be a baby, George. Cheer up,
nv boy; you've got no cholera. I'll pull
you through this all right. I've got some
thing in the medicine-chest that will cure
Won in fifteen minutes. I'll get it." did,
and when came back he was dead, stone
dead. The hated cholera had selected for
its victim the only one of US who wouldn t
nor didn't go ashore.
The night, though dark and dismal look
ing, was warm. 1t was an Italian sum-
mer's night. The stars were out in plenty,
rs above the rovai trucks could be seen
Orion amid his blazing belt twinkling
down upon the lonesome ocean and the
now infected bark We had fallen upon a
calm. There WASH enough of air aloft to
fill the royals, and the vessel lay motion
less upon the water, having lost her steer
age way. The sails hung listlessly from
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-21
MECHANICS ALARMED.
Liens Filed Against the Mob Hill
Apartme


The Mob Hill Development Company,
which was organized and incorporated for
the purpose of erecting an aparment-house
at California and Jones streets, is having
trouble with its contractors. Fletcher &
Jordan were the original contractors, but
things were not going on to their satisfac-
ton and Jordan assumed the contract,
which he sold to S. Gilletti. The latter
being unable to get his payments has filed
with the Recorder a mechanics lien for
$40, 800 on the building.
The Blue Rock Contracting Company
and John Lutte have also filed liens in the
sums of $498 and $1575 respectively. Work
on the building has not progressed very
far, and it is thought the Mob Hill
Company will not be able to carry out the
plans for swell apartment-house SO elab-
orately outlined in the articles of incor-
poration some months ago.