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always been 1--WE Guarantee Satisfaction sell
the clothes money buy, this continually strive
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

Tax paying time was out on
Monday of this week. CT course
there can be no more days of
grace. If you have not paid yet
you are in the soup beyond any
question; and if there be any in
Edgofeld county who have paid
the taxes and penalty, such persons
are entitled to have the penalty
portion refunded.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
Fertilizers! Fertilizers!

FertiliSers! Fertilizers!
First ella s Ammoniated Goods.
High Grade Acid Phosphate,
CRANKY and Patapsco Brands. Buy
these old true and tried brands.
Can deliver in car lots at any de-
pot in the county.
Z. J. NORRIS,
Agent Patapsco Guano Co. and
Columbia Phos. Co.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
Trapp, Luther, and Chris.

Trapp, Luther, and Chris.
The last legislature repealed the
law requiring three supervisors of
registration for each county and
reduced the number to one. At
the session just ended the number
was increased to three again, thus
virtually re-enacting the old law.
Under this new law Chris Will
liams, Trapp McManus, and Luther
Brunson have been or are to be
appointed supervisors of registra-
tion for Edgefeld at q salary OF
one hundred dollars each per all
mum.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

Saluda, S. c., Feb. II.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

The Legislature at its session just
ended, exempted the counties of
Oconee, York, and Pickehs from
the operation of the dispensary
law, that is to say, gave those
counties prohibition and for the
good and sufficient reason that
they wanted prohibition and want
ed it bad, 30 bad that in one town
at least of these counties you
could not rent a building for love
or money in which to sell liquor.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

WANrED-Upright and faithful
gentlemen and ladies to travel for
responsible, established house in
Charleston. Monthly $65.OO and
expenses. Position steady. Re-
ference. Enclose self-addressed
stamped envelope. THE DOMINION
COMPANY, Dept. K, Chicago.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
[ OCAL2 BREVITIES.

Dr.. Gwaltney will preach at
Horns Greek on next Sunday at
8 p. m.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

WOrk the hOaUS.
Supervisor H. @. Talbert requests
us to say that overseers of roads
will see that the roads are put in
good order as soon as possible.
Three days work must be put on
the roads by the first of April,
1898.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

Very small congregations in our
churches on Sunday morning. The
weather in the forenoon looked as
if it meant to do something, but it
didn't, the midday and afternoon
we're typically spring.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

Married, Jan. %, 1897. by Rev.
J. P. Nealing, Mr.. Joseph Gard
ner, son of Mr.. Samuel Gardner,
and Miss Annie Roper, daughter of
Nj. Thos. Roper.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

Larry CAN'T says that ''ducks
will begin laying about the last of
next month if they have been
given proper care. Begin now to
give them wheat middlings to one
of corn meal and if possible give
them meat in between whiles."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

Finish sowing oats as sorn as
possible, then begin the prepara-
ton of your upland corn lands.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

The Edgefeld Institute was
closed on Tuesday of this week
Washington's birthday.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

George Robertson, a highly es-
teemed colored man of the Elm
wood section, died on Wednesday
last. He left c ,nsidnrable property
honestly acquired, and had and
maintained to the last the respect
and confidence of white and color
ed alike. He left nine children
living.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

Photographer Minis succeeded IN
coa1ing "Uncle George" Tillman
into his gallery while here last
week and secured first rate pic
ture of him. He has number OF
duplicates on hand.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

DR.. Joe Jennings was in town on
Monday of this week. He killed
the mink.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
Omen yicsnria,s Games.

Since the infirmities of Queen Victoria
made it necessary for her to use a walk
ing stick she has been the recipient of
many canes. Her friends, relatives and
subjects have seized upon every possible
occasion to present her with Q new cane.
One entire room Of her private suite is
said to be stocked with these special
gifts. Whenever she expresses her in
tention of attending a function of any
kim her friends consider it fitting to
send her another cane. Every anniver-
sary she is forced to acknowledge a
score or more of them. There are solid
gold sticks. silver sticks. exquisitely en-
graved; sticks that are a marvel Of the
earvcr's art and sticks that contain
priceless jewels,
Queen Victoria has leaned more heavily
on her can Of late years. She always
places 1t against her chair. and when she
rises it is the duly of the highest court
official present to hand It to her. Her Maj
esty has used only che cane. however,
which has historic value. ii having
been presented to King Charles ii by one
of his court. 1t is of oak. and when the
King used It the handle was Of carved
gold. The top has been changed RECENTLY.
1t now bears an idol which once graeed
the temples Of an Inflated Indian Prince
Il is Of ivory. inlaid with Jewels.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

exceedingly di11cLit for military opera
tions. These mountains are the natural
habitat of the Basques, and whenever an
instruction breaks out the inhabitants
remove to the mountain businesses 4
San indefinitely prolong the war against
any force brought to bear upon them.
AS mercenary soldiers they were at n
time as we'll known in Europe as tho
Swiss, their obstinacy, however, making
Thorn exceedingly intractable even under
their own officers and wholly unmanage-
able under foreign control. Gonsalyo dc
Cordova had a body Of them as m~ercenaries
among his troops at Rome and said pub
Iicly that he would rather undertake to
keep lions than V~izcayans. His expert
ence was that of every commander who
employed them, and consequently they fell
into disfavor among the military men OF
Europe, and even 300 years ago only in
the direst emergency would any govern
ment hire Vizcayans as mercenaries.
The Basques are mountainous, and
1nountaincers in every country are indie
pendent. liberty loving and inpatient OF
M form Of political control save when
exercised by their own people. Like the
Swiss, the Welsh, the Albanians, the At
ghans, the hill tribes of the Himalayas,
they havo never patiently submitted to q
foreign yoke.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

H FIRST UNITED STATES POSTOFFICE IN
CUBA.
uted into different sacks and pouches &C
cording to the different regiments in the
camp, and SO is not subject to any han
ding in tho office at Jacksonville.
Beyond that point the real work and the
final system come into &aration. Tho
Tampa mail is sorted out and kept sepa.
rate from the military mail, just as it is at
Jacksonville, so that tho local Office is not
burdened with the army matter. That
army matter is sorted out and tied up for
each company of every regiment stationed
in Tampa, the letters pouched and locked,
and the papers sacked, ready for delivery
to the ~regimental postmaster. This posi-
ton is usually filled by the %regimental
chaplain.
With these two camps disposed. of there
still remains mail matter by the ton, des-
tined for the West Indian feet and for the
troops engaged in Cuba. This mass has
received a partial separation and assem-
bling in the mail cars along the route, but
only in q general form. When the system
is wholly perfected, q portion of the mail
will go from jacksonville via Miami and
the East Coast line, but at present the bulk
of it goes by the way of Tampa. As
steamer days from these two points alter
nate, there will be constituted a daily
service to Key West, excepting Sundays.
The process of mail handling will be
tho same On both lines. At Tampa the
mail for the navy and for the army at the
front is transferred from the rain to the
steamer Mascotte Of the Plant line, the
regular mail and passenger boat to Kew
West. 10 facilitate the work of the de-
part1nent two large stateroon,s have been
knocked into Il and all berths and fix
lures removed, leaving a large room, which
has been fitted up with racks, ~pigeonholes
and frames for supporting sacks and
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
MAIL FOR THE FRONT
HOW SOLDIERS WITH SKATER GET
LETTERS FROM HOME.

Uncle sam has Extended His Postal sys-
tenn into Cuba, and His Mail EaGs Fol-
low Up the Army md the Navy as Wen.
The First Postonlce.
The United States postal department
now has a branch Office on Cuban soil.
Indeed, by this time there may be several,
but according to the most recent adyices
there is at least one, and the little red
stamp which carries g letter from Alaska
to the Florida keys will take q missive
from anywhere in the United States to
any port Of Cuba that has thus far been
conquered.
All this means that the postal authori-
tics have lone an immense amount of
hustling. They realize that there are
many thousands of boys in blue at the big
camps ind in Cuba, and manysmore thou
sands Of anxious friends and relatives who
are even more anxious to hear from these
same boys thar the boys arc to hear from
home, and that is putting tho case strong
", for there is a deal Of homesickness in
the ranks.
It is a big task to keep UP communities
ton with the scattered and moving troops,
but SO far it has been done with renark-
able enterprise and efficiency. You can
hardly expect the perfect service which is
maintained on long established lines to be
extended in a few weeks into a hostile
country. 1t is something to be thankful
for that even an occasional mail should be
exchanged.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
LESSON OF THE WAR.
DEsPIsED SPAIN TEACHES US THE
VALUE or SMoKELESS POWDER.

How Our War Department., After Tgnor-
Ing For Years This American Invention.
Is Now Preparing to supply It to the
Army and Navy.
The American fighting man Of the near
iuture, both afleat and ashore, win be
provided with smokeIcss powder to burn
n up to date guns. This is one of the
essons we have learned during the pres
mt war, and Spain, ridiculed, discredited,
iespised old Spain, has been our teacher.
tits hardly worth the while to probe
1ecply into the mystery Of why we had not
adopted smokeless powder years ago. It
was an American invention, and long be-
lore this should have been appreciated and
used here. But it was not. Hudson Max
I'm, who claims to be the inventor. also
claims that he spent several years and q
largo amount of money in trying to in
auce u army and navy experts to buy
and use his smokcless powder. He a y
he could not even give it to our govern
ment, and he claims that Admiral Samp-
son, who was then chief of ordnance, al
lowed a consignment of srnokeless powder
W ic 1OI jtstI6 DIT IIuidH Iletbu proving
grounds, and finally returned it without
giving it a test.
Other American inventors have been
similarly used BY the officials of their own
government Hiram Maxim had to go to
Europe to sell his rapid fire gun Ericsson
was forced to build his monitor at his
wv expense, and it was merely on its
way to be tested and probably rejected
when it met and crushed the Merrimac.
You still remember how only a month or
SO ago the navy department refused the
offer of Holland, inventor of the subma-
rine boat. This am navy department Of
ours, as recently as 1894, practically pro-
nouncea sinokeless powder a failure.
Yet when Sampson came to lombard
San Juan and Santiago he found that the
smoke from his big guns soon wrapped
his feet in such a dense cloud that he was
forced to stop firing. When Schley chased
Cervera, his guIners were greatly handi-
capped by the same cause. On land doz-
of brave volunteers were sacrificed at
San Juan hill and other engagements
around Santiago because they were armed
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

Sir Edward Lawson has at his house,
Hall Barn. at Beaeonsfield, some very in
teresting relics of Burke, among them the
Identical dagger which Burke flung on the
foorof the house of commons in his speech
on the second reading of the aliens bill on
the 2Sth of December, 1892, to testify his
adherence Of the principles of the French
revolution. 1t is a mere toy dagger made
OF wood. 1t was sent from France to a
manufacturer at Birmingham with an or
der for a large number to be made like it,
and Burke had only received it the same
day from Sir james Bland Burgess on his
way down to the house. The celebrated
dagger scene was, like many other historic
episodes in tho house of commons, wholly
Observation-Disclosures News.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

CHAPLAIN VAN DE WATER IN Fl FIELD
along the line, now searching in the tall
grass for wounded, now standing along
the lines cheering the soldiers and urging
them to fight like heroes and prepare tc
die like Christians.
Lieutenant Trull, who has come home
honored and bandaged, says of him: by
long odds the most impressive service was
the one that our chaplain conducted the
Sunday evening before the big fight. He
tried to hold a meeting in the afternoon,
but the men were too busy with their
preparations for battle, and SO he only
said a few words to them and told them
to go ahead and get things in shape and
that he would conduct services IN the
evening.
"He did so in a big engine house at
| Siboney. He urged us to bravery and
filled us full of hope. He begged each in
diyidual to do his best for his country.
That was the kind of religion he gave US.
Tho whole service hardly kept Us 80 min
utes, but every man went away cheered.
ssThat wasn't all. From the time we
landed in Cuba our chaplain gave his
whole time to visiting tho soldiers. He
went from place to place and would begin
to talk to one man, when soon q knot
would gather around him, n then he
got il his strong work. He didn't talk
sentimental religion, but laughed and
joked with the men, taking care to inspire
them with hope, patience, patriotism and
| bravery. Then be looked cut most care
fully for those who were i'll, cheering them
! and doing what he could to make them
comfortable
Along with Chaplain Van dc Water will
be remembered another fighting parson
| who has shown that he is made of heroic
stuff. This is Rev. Dwight Galloupe,
rector Of St. Paul's Episcopal church at
Newark, N. j., and chaplain of the Ninth
u. S. infantry. Chaplain Galloupe was
sunstruck on June 80 while carrying food
and water to the wounded and aiding
them in other ways. He was ordered to
thehospital at Siboney, but two days later,
hearing of tho fighting at the front and
feeling tina it was his duty to be there, he
struck out on an eight mile walk, never
hating until he reached the firing line.
Then be seized a rife from q wounded
soldier, ripped tho Red Cross badge from
his arm andforfully an hour pumped lead
al the Spaniards with righteous zeal and,
SO it Is said, with surprising accuracy.
This was early IN the morning. All day
the chaplain assisted the doctors with the
wounded. That afternoon when he had
moved bacR about half a mile beyond the
firing ia rest a bit, for he was still suffer
ing from the effects Of sunstroke, he was
injured By the explosion OF q shell. This
did not keep him from taking the eight
mile tramp back, and MI along the way
he gave what assistance he could to the
700 or 500 men, wounded, who were drag
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06

ing which lie Varny attended was pro-
longed far into the night.
During his absence d burglar broke into
his apartments. This man, Nicholas Bar
geve by name, had watched the captains
departure and planned the burglary. He
had recently served n term of nine years
for q similar crime and was a hardened
criminal. He broke the lock of Captain
de Varny's room and entered. Having
made considerable noise and attracted no
attention, he felt that he was safe. He
entered confidently. Then out of the dark
ness sprang something hairy and horrible,
growing in tones that seemed neither hui
man nor animal. 1t dug long claws into
the burglars neck and his sides and bit
great pieces out of his cheeks. 1t bore him
to the ground.
Thu man was powerfully built, Injured
to danger and desperate deeds, batagainst
this fearful assailant he was not only over
matched, but lost all his courage. He
shrioked and howled. This ape went on
tearing him. The mingling of human
shrieks and inhuman growls aroused the
house and the whole neighborhood. The
burglar was carried to the infrmary of
the prefecture of police in a horribly man
R4cO COutlib1b0s iClC liz Wdo 1O04o w 10
a raving maniac.
For two days he raved without ceasing.
At one time he imagined that he was still
struggling with his CHASTITY assailant, at
another he imagined that he wa an
orang outang himself and tried to bite and
cl.w some adversary. Ho hadt to be strap
ped to his bed. The doctors mover saw a
man SO f~earfully demented. Bargeve had
passed through one Of the most horrible
experiences it is possible to conceive, His
mind and his body were hopelessly wreck
ed. At the end of two days he died. 1t
was the memory of the orang outang that
killed him.
The tragedy has caused a curious situa-
ton. The owner of the orang outang APP
pears to nave committed no ~offense, as his
ape killed a burglar, whom he would have
had a right to shoot himself. 1t is indeed
fortunate that the victim was a notorious
and hardened criminal. The n~eighbors of
De Varny are naturally uneasy at the
thought Of the murderous ape. Accord
ing to the last accounts, it is still occupy
ing its room undisturbed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
FIGHTING CIIAPLAINS
SOME HAVE PROVED THEMSELVES
BRAVE AS WELL AS GOOD.


How the Chaplain of tho seventy-frss
Found His Duty Along the Firing Lines.
Another Chaplain Who Used a Rifle and
Was
Up from Cuba come thrilling stories
about some Of the lighting ohaplains Of
the volunteer army. Some of thS hest Of
them are told about Rev. George r. Van
de Water, chaplain of the famous Seventy
first New York regiment, Said one OF the
wounded soldiers Of that command, a pri-
vate who is now recovering from bullet
wounds in a New York hospital:
"There were a good many of us who
didn't think that chaplains were OF much
use III battle before we found out what
soldering meant, but now there isn't q
man Of us who is left alive who doesn't
wonder what we would have done without
him. If there is any credit coming to the
Seyentyaffst, there isn't a man in it who
will not share more thar half of it with
our chaplain, who shared ali the bad ard
showed us that be was as brave as any Of
us and better than the best Of us.
Those are the words of one who knows
JllO llt1 tfCl1 II llttc oCttl a. III lIlGe 4lC1Q.
Chaplain Van de Water is the pastor Of a
New York church and has been connected
with the Seycnty-first regiment for several
years. When the regiment was mustered
in, some ono said to him, IF your regi-
ment is sent to the front, I don't suppose
you'll go"
Then there was an angry parson. sob,
you DON'T don't you? We'll, you wait and
sec. III tell you low, though, that wher-
ever my regiment goes / GO And he
has. When the Seyenty-first went to Camp
Black, he was along and soon made hiln-
self q fayorite not only with his own men,
bat with those of other regiments. At
Lakeland it was the same.
Chaplain Van de Water was all through
the battle of San Juan Hill, where SO many
of his boys fell. He was not behind the
firing lines either, but right up in front.
He IVES out there not because it was re-
quired of him, but because he believed
there was where his duty lAy.
Just what the duties of an army chap
lain comprise depend upon the chaplain.
In a general way it is understood that
during a battle he shall lend a hand to-
ward helping the wounded. This can be
done either in TIE field hospital or at the
front. Chaplain Van dc Water chose to
do his work at the front. A fine mark he
made for the MaUser missiles, for he is
tall and stouU. No doubt he was selected
as q target dozens of times during that
fight by the Spaniards in the trenches.
Perhaps that is why he escaped unhurt.
His men say that he seemed to be all
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-06
A Survivor of the Cavalier Spirit.

The courtly Cavalier spirit that marked
the character of tho early Virginian is
still present in the blood of those who
nave descended from the discomfiters of
the Roundhead. The old Virginia gentle
man is a type of the race whose memory
is fragrant in the minds of all who ever
knew him, and the example that he set
and the lesson that he taught is still emu
lated in the Virginian of today. News
comes, in fact, direct from Elliot's Greek,
in the fine old Montgomery county, to the
effect that Clarence one of the society
young men of that place, has shocked the
modesty Of some of the villagers by intro
ducirg the custom of wearing his sweet
hearts shoes to break them.
Talk about the cavalier spirit being dead
in old Virginia is all nonsense after this.
What noblcr sacrifice of a personal COM
fort could d mai be expected to make than
thus offering to break in his s~weetheart's
shoess What deed more courtly, what
service more einblematic of the true knight
errantry that bids the hero pass through
every conflict TO win the favor of his lady's
handl 1t is q picture full Of the mellow
glow of manly heroism. Clarence, and
may your example be emulated by every
young mar in Elliot's Greek whose girl
has a pair of shoes tc break.-Baltimore
News.