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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17
JOHN sHzzAD, sHzzAD, QUAKER,

The Quakers' meeting house stood on
the edge c. the clearing, its "up-keop'
being represented by the rent of the
Pit Farm. 1t was q small, white
washel building, with plain unvar-
nished benches. An oak gallery ran
along one end, and on this was mat
of plated straw. About q dozen
Friends habitually attended, man
and woman Friend coming on pillion
from one of the upland farms. The
Quakers ministered among themselves,
and as an ''attender," and sitting just
within the door, John Shad had sat for
a number of years. This quiet, self
contained man who lived in the woods
was welcome among the little COM
munity.
As time went on, and he never
broached the subject of applying for
membership" some of the Friends sug-
guested that, did he make application,
; they had no doubt it would be accept
able, especially if he were found to be
at one with them on the main point of
doctrine. After pondering the matter
for time Shad saw no reason why he
should remain outside, and according
ly made application. In this way he
might share the larger responsibilities
and partake of the fuller privileges
that attached to membership. The
outcome of his application was the ap-
pointment of two aged Friends to visit
him. If the conference was satisfac:
tory, they would recommend his ad-
mission to the Society.
But therecommendation never came,
and it was in this wise: To pursue his
nature studies john Shad had but few
other aids than his gun-and his gun
was an un-Friendly possession. Then,
again, his leather jacket was adorned
with brass buttons depicting sporting
subjects-buttons much worn through
transference from one garment to an
other. These were an heirloom, and
not lightly to be parted with, although
they were hardly less subjects of
nfTennA tl.1>., -: o r =
Forego his gun lis liss ssa+S iss4a assa mares
and all his rustic appliances? No; il
Quakerism could not embrace him
with the love of nature and sport upon
him he must bide outside.
The woods were wide. The seasons
would come AID go, the winds and the
tides. He was content.
How much the nature hunger had
entered into his soul no one knew.
Keenly as lie loved the woodland
creatures alive, his gun brought them
within his grasp. His knowledge and
collection of birds would have been all
incomplete without it. Nature was
his life-study; it had got into his brain
and blood. He lad the forest fauna
by heart, and when he was rot char
coal burning or peeling oak-bark, he
made excursions to widen the scope
of his observations. When learned
entomologists came collecting to the
woods, he was consulted as to the
spots affected by the rarer species of
butterflies and moths, and in this way
some OF his observations had found
their way into print-into quite learned
treatises.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17
III.


How Dinah Bcbb became Dinah
Shad; how the hut in the clearing was
enlarged, and how John Shad con-
timed in his quiet mind aad still at,
AIDED the old meeting house need not
be told. But these things were and
SO they continued for years.
No doubt the meeting was ashamed
of having rejected Shad, but it seemed
to have been the mutual misfortune
that he had been interviewed by two
Of the most conservative elders among
the sect.
But then, did not the Society's Book
OF Christian Discipline and Practice
set itself against all sports-sports
which were dsmoralizing, and inter-
fered with growth in grace.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17

More than forty per cent. Of the
British people could not write their
names when the Queen assembled
the throne. The proportion in that
condition has now been reduced to
aeTen per cent.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17
-THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR
SHIPS AT SEA.


Then anxious fears crowd in my breast,
And veil.the sunshine in the sky.
Shall thus ny good ships end their quest7
Shall this their fate be by-and-by9
o friends with ships far out at sea,
That sailed away so long ago,
Some day they're coming back to thee,
But when and how we may not know.
Percharce with sails all rent and soiled,
Battered and bruised thy ships may be,
OF beauty and grace they may DO despoi]ed
Heavy and slow they may come to thee
But como they morning, noon or night,
With flying colors or broken mast,
Our hearts will cry with thrill of delight
"Thank God our ships have come in al
last"
Clara W. Williams, in Boston Transcript.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17
An Expensive Tomb.

The finest tomb in Great Britain is
undoubtedly that of the Duke of Ham
ilton, in the grounds Of the Dukes
seat. It cost over 81, 100000.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17

built gardens and orchards. Hanging
gardens he made among the rocks and
scars-spots in which it was impossi,
BILE to tell where Nature ended and
art began. He grew the precious
herbs and knew the lore of all the
flowers. His patches of corn were
among the rocks, and everywhere
about him the desert blossomed as the
rose
But over and above ali, the meeting
house was his chiefest care. How he
tended it! Nothing was ever allowed
to desecrate it-nothing except the
pair of swallows that came year by
year to nest among the rafters. How
the birds of return were waited and
watched for, and what o Joyous day
was that of their comingl
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17
pJTH AND POINT.

elbow did you get on at the police
court?" "Fine!"-Scraps.
Auntie-"When I was your age I
never told lie, Tommy" Tommy
"When did you begin, auntie?"-
Tit-Bits.
"My wife," said Tangle, ..is q
mind reader" "Pity, my lot" said
Jang1e, "my wife is mind speaker" "
-Tit-Bits
: Optician-"Yes; you see double. I
can correct the fault with spectacles. /"
Patient = "Hurry! Maybe it isn't
twins, after all. Jewellers Weekly.
Her Father-"Have you heard my
daughter sing, young man?" Edwin
(nervously)-"Ye-es, sir; but in spite
of that II should like to have her,
SIR" ALLY sloper.
els Jack seeing much service at
The front?" "I judge so from the
fact that in every letter home he
speaks Of being awfully hard pressed. ;"
New York Tribune.
ct always test my poems by read
ing them to my wife," said the'youth-
full poet. "I should think that was
testing your wife," answered the cen
did friend.-Chicago Evening Post. g
Doctor. -tWell, Pat, have you taken
that box of pills sent you?" Pat
eyes,. sur, be iabers, I have, but I
don't feel any better. Maybe the lid
hasn't come off yet. Boston Travel
Ter.
Miss eyes; she has been
saying all manner of wicked things
about me-" Friend-"You should not
heed her, dear. She merely repeats
what other people say Current
Literature. 4, 80
Bill-t.Do you consider amethysts
unluoky?', Jill-..I 4 SHOULD say sor I
had collar button once with one In s
If itt, and the thing used. to roll under
The tsl7
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17

volunteer army. He is nineteen years
of age, and son of Captain s. IL.
Smith, veteran of the Civil War.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17
HOW TO FURNISH A VERANDA.
Pleasant Warm-Weatller Room Fol
Country Houses.

Every year the veranda is becoming
more and more an integral part of the
house beautiful. It is no longer
merely o shelter from the elem ents,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17

Oh, many ships have at sea
That sailed away long years ago.
Some day they're coming back to me,
But when and how cannot know.
Sometimes I wander on the shore,
And watch the far horizon dim,
Where vanished in those days OF yore
My argosies so fleet and trim.
I scan with eager eyes the waves
That dance and sparkle in the light;
A vision fair my fond heart Graves,
Alas! no sail IS yet in sight.
Outlines 7 find upon the sand
A broken plank, q shattered spar,
> bent and rusty iron band
Oh, voiceless tale Of wrecks afar.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-08-17

elbow did you get on at the. police
court?" "Fine!"-Scraps.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

After long period of suspension
the ironworks Of a Western city re-
sumed operations and the black chin
neys poured out dense clouds of SCOT
over the town. Ruskin would have ana
thematized it for it's hideousness, and
daintily clad women looked upon it
with horror, but little girl, hungry
and cold, whose father had been for
months without work, clapped her
hands and exclaimed "Was there
ever anything so beautiful as to see
the smoke in the chimmeys again
That big piece is shawl for mother
and those cunning little bits tumbline
down are shoes for baby, and oh, there
comes such lot of the smoke maybe
it is really hat for me; anyway,
know it's shoe strings"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

One of the London papers sees a
romance of commerce" in the re-
cent death of one Henry Greenwood,
an inmate of the workhouse infrmary
at Hampstead. 1t seems that Green
wood was once q rich man, and be-
longed to firm of jewelers. so emf
nent that it supplied the pearls worn
by Queen Victoria at her coronation.
At that time, indeed, he and his part
ners were the leading dealers in
pearls, not only as regards England,
but in the whole world. Greenwood,
after his most famous transaction, led
a rather adventurous life, part Of it
in Australia, where he was Mayor Of
Ballarat. He accumulated a fairly
considerable fortune, which, however
he lost in various reverses, until to-.
ward the close of his life he was in
q state of abject poverty, His death
took place in the workhouse from
cancer when he was about eighty years
of age. Curiously enough two of the
members of the Hampstead Board of
Guardians when Mr.. Greenwood en-
tered the workhouse were old school
mates of his, and one Of them met the
expenses of the funeral in order that
he should not lie in a pauper's grave,
and was himself the only mourner
following the coffin.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

Probably few people appreciate the
magnitude of the emigration from this
cou7try to Liberia. During the past
five years it is estimated that not less
than 1860 American colored people
have gone to Liberia. They have all
been befooled, generally by selfish
emigration companies, the New York
Independent announces. Not one can
expect to succeed there who does not
go with plenty Of money, SO. that he
can support himself for a while and go
into business on something of large
scale. For the ordinary laborer it is
little less than death. The emigrants
escape as fast as possible to Sierra
Leone, begging for money to come
back to this country. These facts
should be known among the colored
element of our population.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
IN A HAMMOCK STROUD.

When my turn comes, dear shipmates all,
Oh! do not weep for me;
Wrap me in my hammocktight,
And put me into the sea;
For it's no good weeping
When a shipmate's sleeping,
And the long watch keeping,
At the bottom OF the sea.
But think of me sometimes and say:
"He did his duty right,
And strove the best he knew to please
His Captain in the flght;''
But it's no good weeping
When q shipmates sleeping,
And the long watch keeping
Through the long, long night.
And let my epitaph be these words:
Cleared from this port, alone,
A craft that was stanch, and sound and
true
Destination, unknown"
And it's no good weeping
When shipmate's sleeping
Aud the long watch keeping
All alone, all alone.
And mark this well, my shipmates dear,
Along the long night through,
Up there in the darkness behind the star:
I'll look out sharp for you;
SO it's no good weeping
When shipmate's sleeping,
Aud the long watch keeping
All the long night through.
Barrett Eastman In Chap Book.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

1t is significant of the friendly at
titude of the Japanese toward the
United States that the commerce of
this country with Japan has grown
more rapidly during the last year than
that of any other nation. The annual
returns of the foreign trade of the
empire just received by the Bureau
of Statistics show that the Japanese
bought sixty-fve per cent. more goods
of us in 1897 than they did in 1896,
while their total imports from all over
the world show an increase of only
twenty eight per cent. The total i'm
ports from the United States for 1897
were valued at about $27,O30,53
against SIG, 1878, 419 in 1896. Japan's
exports to the United States increased
from $31, 532, 341 in 1896 to So, 1885,
4O4 in 1897. The only countries
which made as large sales to Japan in
1897 as did the United States are
Great Britain, China and British
India, but in no case was the increase
in imports as large as that from this
country.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
The Rubber Tree,

The rubber tree is usually tapped
four times during the first year of its
maturity, and the intervals of rest
gradually diminished until it can be
tapped monthly. The rubber tree is
the mich COW Of the vegetable king
dom; its yield continues to increase
with frequent and skilful milking until
it reaches its maximum. Properly
cared for tree will yield steadily up
to its fortieth year; in some instances,
as long as fifty or sixty years. The
yield of gum, as we'll as the market
price, is variable; but healthy tree
should yield revenue of SIS to 500
per annum.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
An effort is again being strenuously

An effort is again being strenuously
made in London to found rational
dress league. Viscountess Haberton,
who has been connected with the sew
eraI previous similar attempts, took
the chair at the inaugural meeting at
st. Martins Town Hall recently. The
object, as stated in the first resolution
passed, is "to encourage reform in the
dress of both sexes, but more particu-
larly to promote the wearing by women
of some form of bifurcated garments,
especially for active recreation and
business purposes" The league pro-
poses also to prosecute men and boys
who jeer ct the wearers of nationals. I"
Both efforts are apt to meet with great
difficulties, and they are both as alb
surd as they are impracticable.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

Nearly II cry year there is strike
among the women who cultivate the
ricefelds in Italy. They have to work
ten hours q day, up to their knees in
the malarial swamps, and receive only
twenty cents day. Even this was
reduced lately to fourteen cents, where,
upon q general strike followed. New
laborers were at once forthcoming
this led to acts of violence that landed
400 women in the jails of Bologna aud
other cities. Under the pressure Of
public opinion, tie owners of the
swamp-lands have been compelled tc
restore the wages to twenty cents anC
! reduce the hours from ten to eight.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

The growing cities of Europe-in-
creasing as they are, constantly and
enormously in the density of their
population-present an area unfavor,
able to human life; and it has been
estimated that unless such city as
Paris were supplied with human life
from outside, everybody in it would
die out in about four generations, re.
fleets the New York Sun. The con-
ditions Of city life are unfavorable
to human longevity and health; but
when we come to examine in q city
who they are that will survive the
longest and are the best able to COM
bat these unfavorable elements and
who, therefore, must become the
leaders in that city and found the
most prominent families and will gain
the most control and get up into the
highest society by living there long
and getting as much as they can from
their fellow citizens it is discovered
that they all have skulls of a some
what similar type-long-skulled-
somewhat below, in that respect, the
medium skulls averaging throughout
Europe. A man must, in other words,
have a long head to get along in a
great city and found a family there
and continue it for number of gen.
erations. Our word "long-headed' is,
in a certain sense, provision Of scien'
tifc discovery; it is literally and alb.
| solutely true to the craniologist.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
Why is it that some years are SO

Why is it that some years are so
much more fruitful than others in the
contribution of genius which they
make to the worlds onward march?
This question suggests itself in con-
nection with the death Of Mr.. Glad
stone, which has entailed its heritage
of sorrow upon both hemispheres.
Mr.. Gladstone first saw the light Of
day in 1909. Strangely enough in
that same year the spirits of several
other illustrious men were quickened
into life, notably Alfred Tennyson,
Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle,
Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Wendell
Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe. Can
another year of the worlds history
be cited so prolific in its contributions
of genius? asks the Atlanta Constitu-
ton,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
State Insurance For German workmen

State Insurance For German Workmen
Some astonishing figures have just
been issued by the imperial home of
flee respecting the State insurance Of
workmen. At the end of the year 1891
there were 442, 900 industrial establishI
ments, with 5,750,0OO insured per!
sons, and 4,645, 900 agricultural settle
ments, with 100000 insured per-
sons. This insurance has reference
only to accidents. In addition to the
numbers given above the workers id
the building trades have to be reckoned.
The total number Of workmen insured
against accidents amounted roundly
to eighteen millions. The number Of
accidents in 1897 was 381, 900, and the
money compensation paid in lump
sums or annually to $4,000 persons
was sixteen million dollars.
There exists, moreover, in Germany,
q system of insurance for all workmen
or employees against disablement and
oldage. Disablement pay was granted
in 1897 to 1000 working men and
women; old age pensions were awarded
to 222, 1000 persons. The amount to-
gether made up one hundred and
thirty-five million dollars in one year.
The contributions in the same year
in the proportion of one-third from the
employers, one-third from the work.
men and one-third from the State
amounted to two hundred and forty.
five million dollars. The contributions
are high because it is intended to create
a reserve fund of one hundred and
twenty-five million dollars, the interest
on which will eventually permit of a
reduction in the amounts contributed.
Berlin Tageblatt.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
OUR BUDGET OF fUMORi
LAUGHTER.PRoVoKINc STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.

A Wartime Romance-A Sure Cure.An
Honest Confession-Unequal to the
Task-Unconscious Cerebration-pho-
tographers' Rates-Glad to Go. Etc,
With courtly grace he knelt and thus
The dimpled maid addressed:
81 love you'll Oh, pray you put
My love to any testv'
ooh, Toni" she cried, her voice as sweet
AS music of lutte;
eff that is all, just go to war
And be Jacks substitute!'
New York Journal,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

The Mormons are becoming very
active in New Zealand, and it is
stated that eight more missionaries
are on their way from Salt Lake City
to this colony. They intend to work
principally among the Maoris, OF
whom there are already four thousand
members of the Mormon Church.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

Emperor William has just made a
present to the Sultan Of Turkey OF
remarkable war-dog. This animal
was educated in the Chasseur Regi-
ment of Potsdam Guards, and was
taken to Constantinople personally by
Lieutenant Count PerponCher-Sedl-
nitzki and the first Chasseur Voigt. 1t
is said that this dog of war will rot
be let loose for the present.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16

The locomotives for the Manchurian
Railway, as we'll as m It OF the rails,
have been contracted lor in this coun-
try instead of Europe.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
THE :. TRUE :. DEMOCRAT.
Published Weekly at
ST. FRANOIsYILLE, LOUISIANA.

BY a decree of the Gar, the metric
system of weights and measures has
been adopted for use throughout the
Russian empire, and commission has
also been organized to consider the re-
form of the Russian calendar so as to
harmonic with that prevailing in the
other civilized countries.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
How Are the Mighty Fallen!

tBridget, who is that at the door,?
"It's a poor man, mum. He wants
something to ate."
eff he's another refugee driven out
of Spain by the war, tell him there's
nothing for him. We've already fed
eleven ex-Consuls this morning. -
Chicago Tribune.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
Why They Do 1t.

"Why is it that prima donnas al.
ways sing Home, Sweet Home, for an
encore?"
"That's to show their gratitude.
In return for the applause they ne.
turally want to give the people some.
thing they can understand. Chicago
News.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
A Crisis Averted,

"What is your line of businesss"
whispered the editor to q man he was
about to introduce to capitalists.
"T hauls furniture,' huskily came
the reply.
"Here, gentlemen" continued the
editor, els Mr.. Jones, one OF the
moving spirits of our city"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
Innocence.

Alice-"I heard very pretty COLE
pliment for you to-day"
George-"What was it?" -.
Alice-"Mr. Thurston, the leweiei,
said you we're one of the best ]uaeo'
of diamonds in this city"
George-"MayI buy a nice soll'a 10"
for the third finger of your lett manu- IL
Alice-"Oh, George, what mS "a
you think of such thing? Weh
you-want TO. "--Clevelsnd Leadef'
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
Called Him Down.

Cal!oj outhe--' Now that you ara
m; ), Lobelia, have a painful con-
fession to make" :
Miss Bunker (wearily)-"Oh, !
suppose so. Septimus; all the others
had. But 1 did hope you would 90
original, and deny yourself the pleas.
ure of telling me the sad story OF your
past. "-Brooklyn Life.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
Loves Labor Lost.

"What's the matter with Bumps?
He looks as though he had no friends
left"
event out the other night and SER
enaded an empty house for three
hours. Didn't know that her folks
had moved. "-Detroit Free Press.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
Painfully True.

She-''So this is your picture? "
is true representation of the dining
room of the ocean steamer; but why
didn't you introduce some charac'
ters?"
He-"Because that picture is en-
titled The Dinner Hour During o
Rough Passage. STRAY Stories.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
An Honest Confession.

Sand what do you think of the en-.
gagement ring I sent you?"
cts splendid! It's the most
beautiful one that I ever received"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
Just the Man.

l'imid Guest-"I have a delicaM
wife, and if I stop at your place
want to be sure there is a good doctor
near by" .,v
Aspiring Clerk (briskly)--"1oa
needn'tb alarmed, sir. We've gov =
fine man within call. Why, he mas
just pulled through six Of the tougn,e."
cases of smallpox I ever heard o. :
Harlem Life.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-07-16
A Feminine Mania.

'They tell me that BlaEoooes moi
rich, and yet there is not a day bat
what the wagon from the jewellers and
the merchants stops there"
'"That's so. She's one Of these
women that has things sent home on
disapproval. detroit Free Press.