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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
Lost Blood Replaced With Salt Water.

DR.. Wyeth, speaking at the meeting
of theNew York State Association Of
Railway Surgeons, strongly recon-
mended the Injection into the circula-
tion through vein OF hot salt solu-
tion tostake the place, in part of the
volume of blood which has been lost
as a result of accident. As reported
by the Railway Age, he spoke as fol-
lows: The solution which I have en-
ployed running in as much as five
pints ina single operation, is COM
posedsof clear water, which has been
boiledsand allowed to cool to 110 or
12O Fahrenheit, or just as hot as the
hand can bear to every pint of which
q teaspoonful of common salt is added.
I haveseen the pulse - from l4O, in
cases oftremendous hemorrage steadily
down 80 sevonty to the minute within
two minutes of the injection of g pint
of thissolution. While itmay be used
coolersthan l1O degrees Fahrenheit,
and In some emergencies this may be
necessary, it is safer to give it as hot
as 110to 100 degrees, because the cold
solution robs the body of its heat,
whilegthe hot solution carries heat
with it, and thus adds to the mainten-
ancesof the normal temperature. The
apparatus is simple-a metal OF glass
pipette to 60 into the vein, q rubber
tube three or four feet long, and an
irrigator bag or vessel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

The Rev. DR.. Reuen Thomas, Of
Brookline, Mass, devoted consider.
able time last summer to listening to
other preachers, and as the result of
his experience makes report strong
ly in favor of written sermons. He
says: II have tried to recall the SER
mons which held me at that time and
which have stayed by me since. To
my great astonishment, not one Of
them was extemporaneous. With
one exception, I did not hear single
extemporaneous sermon that was
scholarly, with much of intellectual
flavor about it, logically suggestive or
strikinglY devout. did not hear one
sermon in which the preacher used q
manuscript which had not about it a
delightful intellectual flavor, with
logical continuity Of thought, de7o-
tionsl feeling and much of suggestive.
ness" DR.. Thomas's observation
were made among Episcopalians, Pres
byterians, Congregationalists, Luther
ans and RoE.an Catholics.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
GINGHAM GOWNS FOR SPRING.

interloper in well-regulated family
of oranges, but regular member, be-
longing to the Usage variety.
The orange tree Is ragged little
shrub that does not average more
than five or six feet in height. 1t does
not grow straight, as O properly be.
haved tree is supposed to do, but is
curved everywhere. 1t would be very
difficult to find two consecutive inches
in the entire tree whose line of direc-
tion is the same. Even the branches
grow in epiral forms, so that the
width of the tree is often as great as
the height. There is generous sup
ply of thorns hidden under the leaves,
and they are thorns that mean busl.
ness. They ere slender, tough, and
long, and are located in all sorts OF
unexpected places. The leaves are
fleshy, long, and narrow and of a'dark
green color. They resemble lemon
leaf more than an orange leaf. Inc
flowers come out in June and July,
and are very similar in appearance
and odor to the ordinary orange BIOS
SONS, save that instead of the familiar
creamy white color thay have del
icate pinkish tint which is very beau
tiful. They commonly grow IN clus-
ters of two or three blossoms on al-
ternate nodes of the branch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
Rise of the Drummer.

One development of commerce was
for many years entirely unknown,
says the New York Price Current.
The bright, pleasant, sharp young
fellow who now calls on customer
after customer throughout the
United States, always neat and al
ways attentive to duty, the drummer,
did not then exist. He began to be
seen as soon as railroads became
common, or perhaps a little before
There could not have been many
before 1910. There were, however,
salesmen who frequented the princi-
pal hotels, such as Bunker's, Love-
Joys, the Howard house, the United
States and the Astor, long before
this They had fine memory OF
faces and of names, and spent much
of their time in scanning hotel regis
ters and being in the lobbies OF inns,
so that when merchants arrived from
the country they might be on hand
to welcome them aud to escort them
to their place of business. Little
scrutiny OF hotel lists is now made
but this was then the most obvious
method of increasing and holding
trade. There was in 1860 no way OF
knowing with reasonable certainty
the rating of dealer some distance
awav. Commercial agencies were
not then established, and selling to
the retail trade was much more OF a
lottery than it is now. Those whole
salers were successful who were the
best Judges of credit.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

sixty-nine members and Council of
State of thirteen members, partly
elected by the National Assembly and
partly appointed by the President.
The Executive authority is vested in
President, elected by direct vote Of
the Nation, the term of Office being
six years.
The country made material progress
in the way of commercial prosperity
under the control of such public
spirited men as its late ruler, Presi-
dent baffH6s, VINO advanced it q half
century. His successor, General Bar
rios, whose term ends in April, 1898,
succeeded in getting into difficulties
with Mexico, q result which has
brought Guatemala prominently be-
fore the world.
The resources OF Guatemala in a
commercial way are very valuable. 1t
is said by those who have investigated
the subject that sugar can bo raised
there much cheaper than in either
Cuba or the Hawaiian Islands. The
territory is within one days trip of
Belize, four days of New Orleans, and
eight days of New York. There are
good harbors, and the large rivers of
the country furnish easy communica-
tion with the interior. The climate Of
fers every inducemcnt, as 1t is never
hot or cold, averaging eighty degrees,
and with no change Of season. An en-
terprising tourist, writing of its sa-
lubrity, declares that moro people die
of consumption in Massachusetts than
of the most fatal tropic diseases in
Central America. The same auth ority
says that in Livingston, at the mouth
of the Rio Dulce, out Of 1000 inhabi-
tants there were seven deaths in the
month of July, 1885, against 2S. l per
thousand in Boston for the same time.
OF the seven, one was q centenarian,
and two broke their necks in an accl-
dent.
1t has perhaps been unfortunate for
Guatemala that the resources OF that
country are so rich and varied that
the people have no necessity to exert
themselves to make living. They
can obtain sufficient to eat almost
without that labor which is whole
some stimulant. Nature has done
everything for the favored spot.
Fruits of all kinds grow riotously,
without cultivation, and to perfection.
There are 200 varieties of the banana
alone, many of them too delicate to
bear transportation, and of the most
delicious quality. Oranges, mangoes,
sapotes and bread-fruit grow almost
wild.
The United States would find q
magnificent orchard ready grown
there. The sugar-cane grows abund-
antly in those fertile fields without
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

republics IN Central America
Honduras, Salvador, Costa
Rica, popularly known for its
coffee-growing facilities, and Nicaragua
and Guatemala, the largest and most
northern of the group. Guatemala,
asserts the Detroit Free Press, hos also
o population as large as that Of the
other four combined. 1t is called
"s.Ae land of the Quetzal," being
named from the bird which is repre-
sented on the coat of arms as Ma
tional emblem. This bird is small,
but of superb plumage, with tail
feathers often three feet in length,
and Of The most beautiful iridescent
colors, and in the days of courts worn
only by royalty. These birds fire.
auent the dense forests of the noun
tains. and it requires special expedi-
tion to find them. Some valuable
specimens have been secured by tour
lists, but the birds will not live in cap
tivity. 1t is absolutely bird of
freedom.
The republic of Guatemala was es-
tablished March 81, 1877. For twen-
ty.six years prior to that time it had
formed part of the confederation OF
Central America. 1t is governed un-
der constitution proclaimed in De-
cember, 1879, and amended in 1855,
1887 and 1889. This instrument vests
the legislative power in congress
comnosed OF National Assembly Of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
A MODEL COTTAGE FOR $3.50.
Plans for the Erection Of a Cheap
and Pretty Suburban Dwelling. :

and Pretty Suburban Dwelling.
It is one of the primary principles
of political economy that the happl-
ness and prosperity of a country is
gauged by the general thrift of the
Inhabitants, and not blythe abundance
of the few. That would be the model
community in which each head of the
family owned, in the derisive words
OF the British statesman, can acre
and q cow" even if not a single indi-
vidual had much greater possessions
than that.
''Landlordism" is responsible for
much OF the misery which exists in
cities. Happily there is a growing
disposition in this country Tor wage
earners to become householders. 1t
is not difficult for the laboring man
an the small artisan to render them
selves Independent of landlords. The
suburbs Of our cities have abundant
room for growth, and the land is not
all in the possession of few families.
Every day 1t is proven possible for o
man with shrewd management, pru-
dence and little self denial to build
and own q house for himself, with
scarcely more of weekly outlay than
he was called upon to expend IN rent.
A dollar or two more q month for few
years is not difficult to manage, when
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

these forget-me-nots are quite the
favorites, and come in lockets,
pendants, rings and pins.
Just now there is perfect craze
for rhinestone ornaments. The tops
of side combs are set with them, and
the knot at the top Of beauty's head
has O dagger with hilt incrusted with
them. from there down to the toe
of the pointed slipper every buckle
and pin, in sight and out, IS set with
the imitation diamond. Even the
hook on the bit of satin girdle,
called by courtesy corset, has a gem
set on its top, and the silk stockings
that accompany elaborate tea gowns
have rare lace insertion set in the in
step, and this lace is spangled with
Jewels! They are "only imitation"
but they cost lot.
Silver grows in favor in my lady's
estimation, us we'll rs in Congress.
The woman who cannot afford to
carry around three or four pounds OF
silver is not doing her duty. 1t en-
ters into her hairpins, buckles, card
case, pocket book, lorgnette, opera
glasses, the dangling chains and bon
bon boxes, umbrella handles, bag and
bundle markers---in fact, there is
scarcely an article of attire into which
q woman does not introduce some sill
YER It isn't an extravagant idea,
either. Silver never wears out and
never goes entirely out of fashion, and
gathers beauty and value with age if
its workmanship is of high order.
sSweet violets" are as omnipresent
as rhinestones. Whole bonnets are
made of the French confections by
sewing the single flowers thickly over
a shape, and bride of singly twisted
violets passes under the chin. For
the tiny ope1n bonnet two punches are
affixed over each temple to q slender
band of velvet, much after the fashion
in which the wife of the Chinese min
lister wears her curious collection OF
artifcials, and the back of the friYol
is fastened by big bow OF ribbon.
The bow is not quite as big as Gaines
borough hat, but as it comes exactly
in the range of vision of the one just
behind this bow might just as we'll be
o bandbox, for it shuts off the stage
effectually.
"Some in rags, and some in tags,
and some in velvet gowns, is the
way the old jingle ran. 1t runs the
same way now, only that the velvet is
moro common. For study in black
and white, gown of black velvet
striped with white satin is extremely
elegant. 1t has tho glove fitting cor
sage, the very latest in bodices, and
has an odd little pannier effect that il
particularly becoming to slender peo'
pie. The last picture taken of the cab
met women represents Miss Herbert
in pannier gown, and it makes hel
look like q Dresden china shepherd
Sss. Another gown in which Miss
Herbert looks remarkably well has
trmine straps over the low shoulders
1t is muttered that the hoop j!
about to appear. The dress skirts are
made 20 heavy with crinoline thai
they are burden to carry, hcppine
| around the legs, and from running:
whalebones in the bottoms of the
gowns to fastening them on tapes by
| themselves is short step.
But, then, the boned skirts are
graceful, and the hoopskirts are ex
actly the opposite, so it is to be hoped
that the heavy skirt will be aban
donel, and then we shall not need the
hoop.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
Samples an Expensive Item.

'We cut mp S95 worth OF goods for
samples yesterday in one department
alone" said salesman in retail
store, and the man at the silk counter
added: "Our expenditure for samples
was greater than that. III had all the
money that has been put into samples
of silk by this store for the last ten
years I should be rich man" The
carpet and curtain dealers have alike
story to tell. The waste is enormous
in retail samples, and there is in all
considerable stores mn annual sale OF
the larger samples, of course at sac
rifce. Wide.awake women buy them
for pillow and pincushion covers and
the like. New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

1t is probable that Norman A.
Mozely, of Missouri, will be the
youngest member of the next House
of Representatives. He was born on
n farm in 1866, and worked as farm
hand until 1887. when he had educa-
ted himself sufficiently to teach school
and study law. Colonel George B.
Mcclellan, of New York, who is abont
thirty, will be another of the youthful
members of House that bids fair to
be noted for the young men in it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
Hrst Floor.

Interior finish: Two coat plaster,
soft wood flooring, t-ir' and staircase.
Interior woodwork finished in hard
oil.
Colors: Body, all clapboards and
shingles of bay-window, terra-cotta;
trim, Pompein red; shingles in gables
and sides of dormers treated with
burnt sienna and oil; roof shingles,
dark red; sashes, bronze green;
blinds, terra-cotta; veranda floor and
ceilings, oiled.
The principal rooms and their sizes,
closets, etc., are shown by the floor
plans. Open fireplace in the liv-
ing room and cheerful bay-window.
Front door glazed handsomely. A
circular cellar may be added in which
vegetables will not freeze. The living
room may be divided in half with a
smaller bay-window in the front roors,
and the back used us the dining
room, with open fireplace, which heats
upstairs, economizing the expendi-
ture of the coal. A few extra dollars
would build one-story extension at
the rear, used as store room or wood
shed, and in the summer as laundry
when the heat Of the kitchen range
would be oppressive.
The finished neatness of this design,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

it means in the end such neat and
attractive home as is pictured here
with, instead of o mere memory OF
shelter and fat proftsin the pocket OF
q landlord.
This little cottage, which is capable
of various notifications to suit indl-
vidual tastes, can be built, according
to the most careful and reliable esti-
mates, for $3.50. It's width, including
bay, is 27 feet; depth, including YER
anda, 81 feet; height of first story,
S feet 6 inches; second story, feet.
Exterior materials: Foundation,
posts or piers; first story, clapboards
bay-window, gables, dormers and
roofs, shingles.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

The "won't works" is the apt charac-
terizatiop, states the New York OBJ
server, with which Mr.. Bramwell
Booth designates q class in tho COM
munity. For the reclamation of these
sinners, he proposes tbat they shouli
be brought before magistrate, in
vited to prove some sort of active en-
pioyment or active efforts to obtain it,
and, in default, committed to an agri-
cultural settlement, and made to dig
their bread out OF the earth. 1t was
IN apostle who said if any would not
work, neither should he eat, and o
little enforcement of apostolic precept
with legal suasion, where moral suasion
fails, is not only justifable but desir-
able.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

The fruit itself is of light yellow
color, pure lemon hue, growing
creenish toward the stem. The size
is immense, considered relatively to
other oranges or to the size of the
tree, the largest ones measuring when
mature fully ten inches from the
wrist to the point of the middle fng-
er, including the nail. 1t is always
necessary to furnish support in the
way of props and strings to sustain
the growing fruit, or the limb will be
broker by the weight. The fruit is
not elible-none of the Usage variety
is-but what it lacks in being unable
to tickel the palate it more than makes
good in perfume. The strangest thing
connected with the perfums is that it
is the fruit and not the flower that is
most odorous. The fruit when ripe is
SO redolent that its scent can be recog'
nizel full mile from where the or
ange is growing. San francisco
Chronicle,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
FASHIONS F0IBLES.
WHAT SOCIETY WOMEN WEAR
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
Popularity Of Neck Bands-Rhlne-
stones and Silver the Rage of
the Day-Mrs. Cleveland's
New Portrait.

|ANDOR compels disinter.
| I ested person to confess that
" the late fad in collars is not
pretty, says fashion writer
in the Washington Star. 1t was the
Princess OF Wales who set the pace
with it. For years and years she
wore the ''dog collar" of black velvet,
which babe fair to strangle woman
kind before it died out little, and
now comes the crush collar, and the
collar of jewels, worn first by the
Princess.
At some of the recent receptions IN
official life the bands of red velvet
twisted about fair necks would have
suggested innumerable sore throats
and kerosene and flannel, if it had not
been that the velvet was sewn with
precious stones. It is not pretty
fashion, and it will coon go out, for
all but the dowagers with double
chins and the wrinkle about the neck
that comes one for every ten years OF
ones age after twenty-five. If the
neck is fit to be barred at all, it needs
no banding of jewels or harness OF
velvet to enhance its beauty. There
is something iucongruous about a
toilet where the shoulders are barred
and the throat had yard of dry
goods tied about it. The debutante
sensibly refuses to adopt tho muffler,
but wears instead slender, thread
like gold chain, with a dainty
pendant, such as pansy with dia-
moud heart, or ruby heart with a
golden arrow piercing it. Another
pretty pendant is cluster of forget.
me-nots in blue enamel, or dead gold
set with turquoises, to represent the
lovers flower. As a gage damour
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
A Law Breakers Diplomacy.

A Portland man who has just re-
turned from q hunting trip in the
forests of Northern Maine vouches for
the entire truth of the following story,
as he had indirect from the Sheriff.
A man who lives in Mount Katahdin
region went into the Office OF q Justice
of the Peace few days since and in
quired about the penalty for hunting
deer with dogs, and very particularly
as to whether one-half the fine did not
60 to the informer.
The Justice consulted the game law,
and assured him that it did.
"yery well," said the man, 81 want
to complain OF myself and settls."
Tbe Justice could not back out, and
SO gave the transgressor "a clean bill
of health" upon payment OF one-half
OF the penalty.
It seems that the man got wind Of
the fact that the game warden had got
the "drop" on him on his deer poach'
ings with the dogs, and was only wait
ing an opportunity to arrest him.
Hence his shrewd bit of diplomacy.
Eastern Argus.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

The total number of Scandinaviaus
in this country is about l, 200, 900, but
instead of being distributed through
out the various States, they are to be
found almost exclusively lrthe North
west, observes the Atlanta Constitu-
or~-isy.rs>sse-mos -aumeF
in Minnesota, where the total Scandi-
navian body amounts to 100000,
double the number of Germans and
eight times moro than the Irish.
Swedes are most numerous in Illinois,
where they number more than 10000
in total Scandinavian population OF
about 125, ,0Oo. In the city of Chicago
there are more than 10000 Swedish,
more than 5000 Norwegian and more
than $500 Danish voters. The Danes,
the smallest of the groups of Scandi-
navian voters il the country. are most
numerous in Iowa.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24

parilla, vanilla, hemp, rice, cocoanuts
and rubber from the rubber tree are
plenty. The streams abound in fish,
but red deer and peccaries, pigeons
and wild turkeys are the principal
game. Bread is made from cavassa,
ind baked in earth ovens. Pulque IS
the common drink, rs it is in Mexico.
There are no deadly reptiles of any
account, bnt the great number OF
extinct volcanoes seen at every turn
indicate more terrible danger
there is the constant menace OF the
earthquake. Since the conquest there
have been 800 OF these awful visitants
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
A STREET IN GUATEMALA.

dealing death and disaster. There are
records of two very severe earthquakes
that did great damage, one in 1854,
another IN 1879.
The topography of Guatemala is
varied and picturesque. Mountains,
valleys, plains and tablelands abound
in each section, the different levels
ranging from the sea shore to an eleva-
ton of 6O0O feet. Thriving villages
are located on the shores of numerous
lakes-aad rivers, and the city OF
Guatemala has a grand cathedral and
other fine public buildings designed
by Barrilos during his term of the
presidency.
The population Of TIE republic OF
Guatemala is 1,510,326. OF these
$50, 600 belong to the Indian race,
while only 100000 are of the Latin
race. The native Guatemalan has q
mixed lineage. The Spaniard has a
strain of the Indian blood, and moro
than 100000 are Indians, and the
remainder nave large percentage VI
Indian blood.
The standing army in 1891 num-
bered 371S officers and men, and in
addition the republic has militia
numbering $1,000 officers and men. A
native Guatemalan has no choice OF
enlisting. He is drawn by lot, and
can only get out of serving by paying
sum of money. Those ease-loving
Indians are rich, and would rather pay
than fight, but if they are compelle l
to go into active service they make a
lark of it, although when it comes to
fighting they are found to possess the
qualities that make good soldiers,
whether the descendants of IN Indian
prince or peon. They love the dash
and pageantry of military life.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-24
A Sapaci0us Horse.

While at Champery, in Switzerland,
this last summer, I saw curious in
cident. A shepherd was with his
flock of sheep some way up the noun
tain-side. Instead of q sheep deg he
had borse which acted in that ca.
pacity. The shepherd spoke to the
horse, who at once galloped off and
brought in the stray sheep. He then
returned to his master for further
orders, which he carried out IN most
exemplary fashion.-London Specta-
tor.