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time, for he has not yet cultivated
that adherence for steamed beef that
will come to him later. He will see
the day when he will hate the sight of
q COW alive or dead, and will not be on
speaking terms with butcher for the
remainder of his natural life. But he
hasn't attained that point yet. He
has On appetite entirely out of proper
tion to Government rations, and would
ee. three times his portion of every
thing if he could get it. The easy
marching and slow drills he has seen
nnd which he thought were nothing
allied to work are beginning to have
weight. The tedium is becoming op=
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20

Gymnastics are healthy and
dangerous sport. At least it appears
SO from the last annual report OF q
society of Swiss "turners." During
the year, 324 of its 6299 members met
with accidents while engaged in gym"
nastic exercises-being hurt seriously
enough to draw sick benefit from tho
society during on average time of 16l
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
STYLES IN DRESS.
LATEST CREATIONS IN THE
75j5s WORLD OF FASHION.
HeaIthful and Conventional Even
Ing Costumes-Neck Garniture-
Sleeve in Two Materials
Young GirI's Dress.

y VEYHERE is considerable discus
sion at present about low
necked gowns. Some women
6 contend that they should be
done away with entirely. This
opinion, however, is divided in educa-
t;onM and particularly social circles
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
The Best Drausht Horses.

Enelard's pre-eminence as a cart
horse producing country is uncllal-
lenged, nothing equal in bulk to her
draw horse being previously known,
and her Clydesdales, often over sew
enteen hands, are probably the finest
specimens of equine development IN
size and strength that the world has
seen.-[san Francisco Chronisle, 5.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
UEEvE TWO MATER1Ans.

SLEEVE IN TWO MATERIAISs
This very effective sleeve is made
with straight widths of the predomi-
mating color of the dreo--, end goled
pieces of the fancy. In the fiat pepper
pattern the chief color is marked blue,
and the fancy red. The straight
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The human skeleton, exclusive OF
the teeth, consists of 208 bones.
Leunhauk once examined section
of human scalp that had nearly 12, 600
hairs to the square inch.
One horsepower converted into gas
equals twelve candle-power into elec,
tricity, equals 1900 candle-power.
Solitary confinement is calculated,
doctors state, to produce melancholia,
suicidal mania and loss of reason.
Nine months of absolutely solitary
confinement are almost certain to re-
suit in the mental ruin of the convict.
A musical instrument, the pyro-
phone. has been invented which ex-
tracts all the tones of the scale from
gas flames.
Railroad authorities says that an
ordinary locomotive has 300 horse
power and burns ton of coke for
eighty miles of passenger train travel.
The human lungs retain the or in
their substance with such obstinacy
that it cannot be expelled by any COM
preston short of absolutely disinte-
grating the tissue.
a Manchester England) man car
ries on his person complete pick
pocket alarm system. Removal OF
his watch, pin, or other jewelry causes
the ringing of bell. The electric
plant weighs twenty-five ounces.
An electric lighting plant at Ealing,
England, is operated by the waste
heat from garbage destructors. and
provision is made for condensing the
steam from the engine with liquid
sewage, chemically treated to make it
innoeuous.
a novel plan of strengthening fyo
wheel has been put into successful
practice in the Mannesmann Tube
Company's works in Germany. The
wheel consists mainly of wire, seventy
tons of which are wound around the
hub, between two steel disks twenty
feet in diameter, and completely fill
ing the space.
California is soon to try an indus
try that has hitherto been confined in
thie country &c aT6g YoT:.E City--tlsS
OF ghalchone ss.t5ing. While ,c','h ,co
ri lse worlds Ftp2ly ct Ths'eHe'' 3
:ar.-%:,c ;r San N-a.paisco ron: re
~.a-ti1c. sim. 4 has :ij5iiei.1 ,:t:..a,,r'
-: l. ., ; arn Cit??'s:sst 80 'ssl.''s- so.
u: EGcnasia, ttG 'H:a Cars pn::si,
c,4u; has os-i7a,l -'4E .'Tetho" ;f7f
."rnhiu -. e, u.-. i-4.g -s
-rnli thrtH. :
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and framing the front Close jacket
with puckered basque plaits; the
fronts are open in o straight line over
their length over q simulated waist
coat of black velvet. Very puffy
sleeve Joined to close fore.sleeye OF
velvet trimmed with facings.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
DRESS FOR A YOUNG GIRL.

This dress, for young girl, is in
WOODEN serge. Skirt mounted IN
small plaits, grouped at the waist be-
hind, fiat in front, is trimmed with
two long brackets buttoned at bottom
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20


!, Nearly all legal papers are now type.
written, though documents are en-
countered now and then which have
been laboriously written out by the
hand of one of the counsel. The men
who still cling to the habit OF writing
their own legal papers are usually old
lawyers, often of good practice, who
cannot accommodate themselves to
the new order of thin 8. f"rf.e law
yers, no matter hows a -
ti6s, manage in one "
ohta sersIcs5of g5 49,
Some OF the oldersme :"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20

January is sail to be the month, for
some reason or other, when celery is
at its best,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
TlIOS. j. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR
Ascheme for supplying London with
sea water for sanitary purposes is ua-
der consideration by the county coun'

Germany is considering whether it
would not be better for her to buy
part of her cotton supply elsewhere
than the United States.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
AN IMPROVEMENT.

Some Of these dresses button from
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
CORRUPT TURKISH OFFICIALS
Two American Travellers Found But
One Brilliant Exception.

Messrs. Allen and sachtleben. al.
though they ''put girdle round the
earth," were not what have come to
be termed "globe trotters." After
they had finished their college ed
ucation, they started out to see
the world and the dwel1ers therein.
They gave three years to the task
aud ;.s tney rla -! on BICYCLES
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20

scally impossible tc
stenographer;or typewriter aS A.a.--3l.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-02-20
IN THE RANKS.
A CAyALRYAIAN'S LIFE IN THE
REGULAR ARMY.
A Hard Time at First-Learning to
Drill and Ridc-ln the Bar
racks-Play Mixed
With Work.

YFHE life OF soldier in the SER
vice Of Uncle Sam is but
vaguely understood by ci-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

bring workingmen to California under the
pretense that employment can be found
Tor them. We understand that its inten-
tlon is to add to the population those who
have the means to make homes and
establish plants for the employment of our
idle people.
1t would be difficult for us to imagine so
intelligent body of men as those assem-
bled in the Half-million Club defeating the
purpose OF their organization. They have
set themselves to the performance of GER
tain task. which, as it is to bring additional
capital and energy into the State, we deem
most admirable. But besides them we
have certain other organizations, among
the most important of which is the Manu-
facturers' and Producers Association,
whose special function is to encourage the
consumption of articles OF home produc-
ton. The Labor Council might do very
handsome thing by assisting this move
ment by organized Endorsement and the
individual efforts of it's members.
The power which could thus be exercised
would be enormous, for working people
need most of the things which California
is producing, and their consumption Of
these articles would go long way toward
securing employment for all the worthy
idle workers among us. We hope soon to
see perfect spirit of cooperation between
the workers and the earnest men who are
doing all they can to advance the interests
of the whole people.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
A BROADER OUTLOOK.

AT q meeting of the Labor Council of this
City Friday evening resolution was
adopted protesting against the action Of
the Half-million Club to induce people to
come to California until it has taken
measures to secure work for the host of
unemployed already here" 1t is perfectly
clear that SO long as unemployed worthy
persons are among us it is the duty of all
citizens, whether embodied in the Half
million Club or not, to seek to secure en-
ployment for them. 1t is moreover, the
duty of the State, all private measures
failing, to accomplish this end.
At the same time we should have been
much gratitied to see that the Labor
Council is working to secure the results
which the most intelligent activities of
our people are now striving to accomplish.
We should have been glad to see that the
council regarded the Half-million Club as
only one of the organizations devoted to
the advancement of our local interests, and
that there are others working in co-opera-
ton with it that are seeking to secure the
results which the Labor Council and all
others desire. Furthermore, it should be
reflected that the Half-million Club, as we
understand its function, is not seeking to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
PERSONAL.

DR.. A. 8. Markell of CIoverdalc is at the
Grand.
Silas Garlic, contractor of Sacramento, is at
the Lick.
Professor A. Gudeman of Philadelphia is a
guest at the Palace.
James Macarthur, a fruitgrower OF San Jose,
is at the Russ House.
]. C. Chandler, lumberman of San Jose, is
staying at the Grand.
Assemblyman ]. B. Sanford of Ukiah was one
OF yesterdays arrivals at the Russ.
George A. Nourse, an attorney of Fresno, and
Mrs. Nourse are guests at the Lick.
WI Baxter and Frank Wildes of the navy
registered yesterday at the California.
f. D. Nicol, an attorney of Stockton, came
down yesterday and registered at the Lick.
Antonio Sans, merchant of Salvador, was
one of yesterdays arrivals at the California.
Charles H. Rabbit. a well-known newspaper
correspondent of Washington, D. c., is at the
Palace.
w. C. Conroy Sheriff of Placer County, came
down from Auburn yesterday and is staying at
the Russ
r. II. Beamer of Woodland, member of the
State Board of Equalization, was one Of yester-
days arrivals at the Lick.
s. ]. Smith of Williams, Colusa County, is
uOWu oH q WISH. ne eApectS 10 make a TOUR Oh
the middle and southern portions OF the State
before returning.
Fl. w. Scott, the proprietor of the Portland
Oregonian, who has been in town since Friday,
left yesterday afternoon by the Oregon express
for his northern home.
Ex-Judge Frank T. Baldwin, a member of the
Code Commission, and Mrs. Baldwin came
down from Stockton yesterday and took apart
ments at the Palace for q long stay.
Ex,Justice of the Supreme Court Van r. Pat
erson left for four weeks fishing excursion
yesterday. He will first go to Eissons, and then
through the northern counties of the State.
Harris flaming, w. C. Davidson, NJ. J. Nc
Connack, J. o. Morton, James J. Rally, r. Q.
Johnson, N. II. Hall, E. F. Eckhardt, F. d.
Kanns and P. NJ. Bannon of the United States
navy are at the Occidental. They are under
orders to sail with the cruiser Philadelphia
when she leaves this port.
Robert Farrell, an old newspaperman of Los
Angeles, is in the City on his way to Honolulu.
He goes as q press representative with large
private excursion. Mr.. Farrell says that his
pleasure in the trip will be greatly marred by
the fact that his wife cannot accompany him,
owing to the i'll health of her mother.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

surgeons explorations in the post-mortem
examination, it is proposed to employ q
delicately constructed machine called the
"cardiograph," which will register the
faintest heart beats, and which, therefore,
may be used to determine the fact of death
or life.
The New York law was the result of a
maudlin sentiment which, unable to abol-
ish capital punishment, sought to make it
as ''merciful'' as possible. We all remem-
Der the horrible contortions and convul-
sioas into which the condemned were
thrown by the action of the fatal current,
how many gruesome plumbers were COM
mitted and how the air was made redolent
with the odor of burning flesh. 1t would
have been difficult for human ingenuity to
devise more revolving form of taking hui
man life. In the abstract sense of punish
ment the law cares nothing for the man.
ner In which the death sentence is
executed. 1t merely wants the criminal
killed as warning to others.
1t seemed that hanging was sufficiently
barbarous method, and yet it was very
rational in physical sense. Under the
modern method the long fall, the heavy
dow OF the knot upon the base of the
Skull and the severe shock to the spinal
column Individually produced instantane-
Gus Inconsistencies and total insensi-
plllty to pain, even in the absence of dis
location of the vertebra, which almost
invariably ensues. 1t is fairly, although
not so clearly. reasonable to assume that a
very powerful alternating current also pro-
duces instantaneous Inconsistencies and
that the fearful struggles of the victim under
the current are purely dynamic; but this
new idea that the current does not kill is
thing to draw tears from the angels.
In these days, when men are frequently
Killed accidentally by the electric current
and when it is practically impossible for
an educated physician to be deceived over
the indications of death, it is amusing to
read of machine that will test the pres
ence OF life or death by direct application
to the apex of the heart-an operation
itself generally sufficient to produce death.
The idea ignores the fact that the inherent
muscular activity of the heart is one of
the least reliable evidences of life, and that
1t is not uncommon for the heart to show
action long after the complete and ire
coverable paralysis of the diaphragm has
made death certain. New York has made
herself sufficiently ridiculous not to in
dulge in further absurd vagaries.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
DRAWING-ROOM BRAINS.

When Daudet, the great French novelist,
was asked recently what he thought of the
English people whom he had been visiting
in London and by whom he was raptur-
onsly lionized, he made this reply:
"How can write about England when,
as matter of fact, / have seen only an
England of the drawing-room' And as
to this, although / find the best English
society very interesting and have met in il
men OF real superiority, regret that !
have made no acquaintance with the mid
die classes, the bourgeoisie, the business
men, the workers. the live forces Of the
land. 1t is here as in France-in society
one does not see the real forces of the ma
tion."
1t must be discouraging to the male hab-
itues OF drawing-rooms, not only in London
but elsewhere, to learn from this master
student of human passions, hopes and ac-
tivities that they are not to be considered
among the living forces of the world, but
likely they will find consolation in knowl-
edge that the great mans observation is
considerably at fault. In England q man
need not belong to the middle class or the
bourgeoisie in order to be a world builder,
and II these latter (who in this country are
the moderately we'll off and the poor,
assuming that if we have classes they are
distinguishable by the size of their for
tunes) should be eliminated from Ameri.
can drawlng-rooms we should have to
abandon all attempts to maintain fashion
able coteries.
II We regard the drawing-room men OF
both countries from the point of view OF
birth, which includes all the finer products
OF heredity. and put all other considera-
tons aside, We shall find that M. Daudet
has overlooked one Of the most vital quail
ties OF the race-the force of inherited
pride. 1t is in the born aristocrat, whether
he be rich or poor, an English earl or q
common American 'laborer,. that we may
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

expect to find some of the noblest qualities
that govern the conduct of men. Between
the dawdiing inanities of the drawing
room and the heroic charge at Balaklava
there was a gulf of amazing width, but it
was easily spanned by the perfumed
handles whom London sent to war; and it
is notorious fact that in the American
civil war the most desperate and deter
mined fighters were the gently reared sons
of the fine old families. Men of this kind,
when such exceptional circumstances as
those which led them to make the French
Revolution necessity Go not pervert their
instincts, may be usually depended upon
at least to manifest the highest patriotic
spirit when the safety of their country is
threatened.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
ADVANCING JOURNALISM.

A short time ago the CALL made new
! departure in practical journalism by pub
| fishing pictures of the Los Angeles Fiesta
| transmitted by telegraph. That achieve
| ment was in many respects the most i'm
portant innovation and improvement in
| newspaper work that had been made in q
long series of years, and demonstrated the
ability OF modern art to send pictures
| around the world as speedily as to send
| news. Our enterprising Chicago contem-
porary, the Ti,aes-HerGld, has now taken
another step in the direction o. improved
news service by successfully accomplishing
the feat of obtaining full report of the
Republican League Convention at Clcye-
land by the telautograph.
While the transmission Of news by
| telautography is not SO radical an innova-
ton on the existing system as was the
transmission OF pictures by telegraphy, it
IS still an achievement of no small mo-
ment. and may lead to important results
In the near future. The telautograph
differs from the telegraph in the fact that
instead OF delivering message at the re-
celvlng station in the form of dots and
dashes, 1t transmits it in the exact form in
which it was sent, and the message arrives
| as fac-simile of its deposit at the sending
station. 1t is literally an autograph trans
mltted across the country with the speed
OF electricity on telegraph wire.
The first telautograph On record was an
apparatus designed by Alexander Balm of
Edinburgh, half century ago. It was,
however, too crude to be of any service.
Later on Able Caselli of Florence in
vented system of te,egraphic writing,
and still later another system was devised
by an Englishman, E. A. Cowper, but even
this was OF no practical service. Ameri-
cans then entered the field of experiment.
). Hart Robertson and also Etheridge of
Plttsburg made improvements on the
Cowper system, but without removing all
its deficiencies. The apparatus used by the
Ismes-Hcrdd was invented by Professor
Elisha Gray, and this, according to the re-
port OF that journal, has proven to be COM
pletely successful, and may now be &C.
counted among the recognized and we'll
established appliances Of news transmits
sion.
Whether the telautograph can be made
sufficiently superior to the telegraph to
drive it out of the field remains to be seen.
The accomplishment thus far can hardly
be considered equal to the sending of
pictures by electricity, but perhaps it may
prove in the end better adapted for that
service than the telegraph. Under any
circumstances, it works another forward
step in the development of journalism, and
the 1inees-HerGld deserves the congratula-
ton of the press upon its successful enter
yrico
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
DEATH By ELECTRICITY.

All the absurdities of the New y ork State
law requiring that capital punishment
shall be inflicted by electricity have been
revived by the case of DR.. Robert w.
Buchanan, who is sentenced to suffer death
in the electric chair some day this week.
In order to meet the claim that electro
cution" does not produce death. but that
this happy condition lie the result of the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

We want better schools, We want broader
minded schoolteachers, we want anything and
everything that will diffuse intelligence
among the people. The greater the number of
self-thinking, intelligent people there are in
the nation the stronger, better aud grander will
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

The OLD Lady of Threadneedle Stree. is
somewhat anxiously watching the pale
silver cloud that is rising in the far West.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

Before long the bike riders will be de
handing transcontinental boulevard in
order to have full sweep for squirt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

1t is right enough that the National
birthday should make a bigger noise in
the world than any other day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

1t will not be until we come to regard
clothes as being more useful than orna-
mental that we shall have cracked enc of
the hardest NUS OF civilization.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

The Sacramento Grand Jury ;s either
the most melodramatic of players to the
gallery, or the most robust agency of re-
form that the West has produced.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

Cleveland is reported to have said to c
friend: 81 believe Mckinley will be the
Republican candidate and the tariff the
ISSUE
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

The purport of the report on the CoIima
disaster is that had it not been for the at
traction of gravitation the vessel might
not have gone to the bottom.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

This is surely great country and we
have the best of it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

1t is the full-blown roses that are mostly
trying to convince the buds of the charms
Of boomer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

What profteth it the small boy who,
though he catch all the fish, sells them
with his glory and encourageth the art OF
lying?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

Although the bicycle is the great spin.
ning-wheel of the day, it is decreasing the
extent to which woven fabrics are en-
ployed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

The Grand Jury at Sacramento has sent
kite into the railroad cloud which for so
long has hung over that city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

By a secret society of silver knights
some men hope to bring about an open
return of the silver day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

Because they are too proud to do things
by halves some people never do anything
at all.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

He must be either very depraved or a
very upright man who dares to keep par
rot in the house.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

The churches might do profitable SER
vice by praying that our contemporaries
be delivered from the lottery advertise
ment habit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

London is about to see the Earl of Rosslyn on
the stage as professional actor. The first Earl
of Rosslyn earned the title by being Lord High
Chancellor under William Pitt.