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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-05-18

CoLoSIzATIoN projects are all the rage
this spring and we are glad OF it. Idaho
needs more people If they are of the
right stripe. The advantage Of a colony
organized on the lines upon which the
New Plymouth colony is being formed
are many, One is that of cooperation
and while New Plymouth is not in the
fullest sense cooperative concern it
seems TO possess many of the better fea-
lures Of that kird of an organization.
In the way OF transportation purchasing
supplies, utilizing, shipping and market
ing the products OF the farms etc, the
methods advanced by the leaders Of this
movement must certainly prove advan-
tageOus. Another advantage OF the Ply
mouth plan which more directly effects
the state at large than IL does the col
onists themselves. liz that the new Ply
mouth colony will be composed princi.
pally Of American citizens of the mid.
die class who by reason of industry and
economy have few hundred or thous.
and dollars laid by and are consequently
able TO become members of the colony
pay for and improve their land and liv,
until they can raise something. w,
need more Of that kind OF people her,
and bid the project God speed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

woman responded to the call for
money with contribution of $40, 600.
This time she had given $4,000 for
the cause. Soldiers in the army do
not receive any pay beyond the
amount necessary TO procure their
rations and clothing. The reason for
this is simply The poverty of the Gov
ernment. and that poverty is due
directly to the drain upon their re-
sources to pay the indemnity due to
France as o result of the last war.
Their one source of revenue of any inn
portance is the customs duties, and in
order to insure or guarantee the pay.
ment of the indemnity these duties
are, and have been for several years,
under the control of the French.
The Malagasy are fortunate in hav-
ing at the helm of State wise and
cool-headed statesman who has
measured arms with the cleverest
diplomats of his time. Admiral Gore
Jones, of the British Navy, had occa-
sion to pay an extended visit to the
Court of Imerina. In his notes on
his visit he says of the Hoya Premier :
"He is one of the ablest men L ever
met" The ablest diplomats of the
French Republic can testify only too
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
4 Iee While You Wait.

A small ice machine for the house
hold, which in fifteen minutes will
furnish small cake of pure ice, is be-
ing very generally introduced abroad.
The water used to obtain pure ice
must be distilled or filtered through q
reliable germ-proof filter. The appa-
ratus consists of double sheet-meta!
cylinder, covered on the outside with
protective layer of asbestos, for the
purpose of heat insulation, and hung
in sockets by two central pivcts. The
receptacle, the section of which shows
the shape of cross, is filed with dis
titled water up to within half an inch
from the top, and after the rubber
washer end the metal cover are ad-
iusted, it is tightly closed down with
q screw. This permits the filling of
the space between the double wall OF
the outer cylinder with chemical
used for generating the cold tempera.
ture-in this case ammonium salt.
After turning the cylinder around
rapidly for fifteen minutes the inner
receptacle is withdrawn from the
cylinder. held for moment in boil
ing hot water, and upon beng opened
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

Probably few know thatuewspapers
have direct interest in forests, but
nevertheless it is SO, declares the New
York Witness. Most all the paper
used nowadays to print newspapers is
made of pulp, secured from spruce
trees, and the quantity OF trees re-
quired to furnish this paper every
year is amazingly large. According
to the Southern Lumbernar it is esti-
mated that the white paper for the
daily supply of the several editions OF
the New York World requires oil 5hc
marketable spruce lumber fit to cut
which grows on seven acres of average
spruce forests. The Boston Globes
edition requires the growth of three
acres of New England spruce forests.
The wood pulp now used in the United
States requires about 2200 cords of
spruce daily, or 100000 feet OF
spruce logs for every twenty-four
hours, amounting to 500. 900, 900 feet
per erannum. That amount otlumber,
now going to waste as soon as the
newspaper is q day old, usedto ufice,
TO build houses intended to last half o
: 4 -
century or more. The pulp drain
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Mail bags can now be taken on and
delivered from trains running at sixty
miles an hour.
The effect of electric currents on
German silver and alloy of gold and
silver is to render those metals brittle.
The nerves of warm -blooded animals,
says q scientific authority, telegraph
information to their brains at the rate
of about $50 feet per second.
The greatest transmission OF power
by wire rope is at Schaffhausen; by
means of it 600 horse power is trans
mitted to distance OF mile.
Sir William Turner has compiled
table which shows that whale of fifty
tons weight exerts 145-horse power in
swimming twelve miles an hour.
Platinum has been drawn into
smooth wire SO fine that it could not
be distinguished by the naked eye,
even when stretched across piece OF
white cardboar1.
Wheat can be grown in the Alps ut
an elevation -of $500 feet; in Brazil,
at 5000 feet; in the Caucasus, at 5000;
in Abyssinia, at 10000; in Peru and
Bolivia, OF 1000.
Fruit cools the blood, cleans the
teeth and aids digestion. Those who
can't emf il miss the benefit OF per-
haps the most medicinal food on
natures bill of fare.
Achemical torch, whichignites when
wet, is novel German invention. IL
is intended for life-buoys, which are
thus made visible at night when
thrown to persons overheard.
A match cutting machine is quite an
automatic curiosity. It cuts 10000
900 day, and then arranges them
over vat, where the heads are put on
ut surprising rate OF speed.
The German Government has just
purchased nm electric flag designed
for night use. The flag is four metres
square, and the design is traced in
colored electric lamps, which are
lighted by wire from the deck.
A process that is claimed to render
thread and fabrics absolutely nom
shrinkable has been devised by Messrs.
Mathelin, Floquer and Bonnet The
old alumina or sulphate of alumina
process is combined with treatment
with carbonate of soda solution and
the use of steam. To its fixing prop
erty the steam adds tho advantages OF
increasing the degree of solution OF
the aiumina salts, and Of removing all
5reasy feeiingo Of the treated fabrics.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
An ODD Badge Of oilce.

Among the badges of Office that Mr..
Casper Whitney has brought from the
far North, there is one, q pair OF buf.
falo horns, mounted on staff. Re-
calling the constancy of horns as the
emblem or symbol of Office, or indicat-
ed in the person parading horns a Ger.
tain dignity, it may be remembered
that the German nobility still use
horns as part of their coat-of-arms.
Studying the question Captain John
J. Bourke believes that symbolism al
ways has had utilitarian derivation.
"Thus the horns of the affairs of the
Israelites may have been first intended
merely for hanging parts of the offer
ing or the implements OF sacrifice
upon them, much as incense may have
been introduced to cover the heavy
odor of burning meats. Man in the
primitive period hunted, then herded
animals, which in nearly every case
were horned creatures. Sometimes
there must have been scarcity of food;
then he chad recourse to dances or
other ceremonies, in which one or
more of the medicine men represented
the animal god whose wrath was to be-
appeased." The priest wore the
head, the horns, the skin of the an
imal. The head and horns might have
served for mask. In time the mask
was abridged, and then only the horn,
we're used, and next the horns were
not worn, but borne before the priest
or medicine man. The horn of plenty
may have come, Captain Bourke be-
lieves, from its having been used as a:
receptacle for seeds. Following fur
ther the idea of symbolism, as present.
ed by Captain Bourke, there are those
curiously shaped American stones
called ceremonial stones" These are
worked up into two hornlike forms,
and have hole in the middle. They
are of various sizes and weights.
Some might have been too heavy to
wear suspended around the neck.
Might not the form have been derived
from horns?-New York Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
Agriculture is the principal pursuit

Agriculture is the principal pursuit
OF the Malagasy people, but the hand
lorafts are by no means neglected.
All the tools necessary for their work,
while not elegant in finish, are made
by natives and answer every purpose.
It costs very little to live in NADIA
gascar. A good ten to twelve room
house in the best part of the city can
be rented. for So month. Servants
can be had for $1.50 month, and as
for provisions, they COST almost noth-
ing. Porterhorse steak is two cents
pound, chickens are three cents
apiece, geese, sixteen cents; eggs,
three cents dozen; potatoes, ten
cents bushel.
The average wages paid native
teacher or pastor is from S. to $40 q
month, and an ordinary servant gets
usually SI.5O to 50 per month, and his
"vary" or rice, amounting to two
cents worth per day. We seldom
hear of want of food.
A stranger travelling through the
land will be astonished to find himself
the recipient of fowls eggs, rice and
potatoes at every village where he
halts. These gifts from the natives
are token of welcome. In addition
to this the best house in the village is
always given up for the "vazah' or
foreigner.
On the whole the Malagasy are in
: sresting and thrifty, deserving OF the
sympathy of. all civilized Nations in
their struggle for the preservation OF
their fatherland and their independ-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
Ingenious Advertising.

A citizen with swollen jaw was
fastening along one of the principal
streets of the city, when sign in
front of tall building caught his at
tention. 1t was as follows:
"Painless Extraction OF Teeth Free. !"
He stopped long enough to note the
number of the floor on which the
business indicated by the sign was car.
ried ON and then hurried inside and
made his way to the dental parlors.
'Is this the place where you pull
teeth without pain free?" he inquired.
eyes, sir" said one of the painless
extractors on duty.
"Well, I've got grinder that's been
giving good deal of trouble. wish
you'd yank it out.
The sufferer took his place in the
chair and opened his mouth. The
operator, after applying to the swollen
gum a pungent lotion of some sort,
speedily relieved him of the offending
molar.
"Thanks, said the caller, climbing
down and picking up his hat.
"That will be fifty cents, remarked
the dentist.
"Fifty cents9" echoed the other.
"I thought it was free. That's wha'
you told me minute ago, and it'I
what you say on your sign"
"Tust so. Did it hurt you anyY'
"Yes, it hurt little.
"That's right. We do our painless
extracting free, exactly as. we claim.
When it hurts we charge for it. Fifty
cents, please. "--Chicago Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
Teaching the Bagpipes.

A Highlander, having to teach a
.hum in his regiment to play the bag
pipes, began to instruct him in read
ing the music in the following way:
'eYou see that chap with a white,
round, open face?" pointing to a
semibreve between the lines; "well,
he moves slowly from that line to this,
while you beat one and take a long
blow. Now, if you put . leg on him
YOU make two of him, and ne moTes
twice as fast. Ifyou black his face he
runs four times as fast as the white
faced one /; then, if you bend his knees
or tie his legs, ne will hop eight times
faster than the white faced one.
.'Now, hen you blow the pipes, re.
member that the tighter those chaps
legs are tied the faster they run, aud ,,
the quicker they are sure to dance. -
Glasgow Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

tie. Though slavery exists in NADIA
gascar only in name, the fruits OF the
labor of these people bring in good
returns. In addition to the service
the officers are compelled to render
their country, they are also expected,
and sometimes forced, to contribute a
portion of their income to the Gov
ernment exchequer. For instance,
should the Government need money
with which to purchase arms for the
soldiers, special tax is levied, and
each one is made to pay two cents per
head for each slave owned and the
same on each head of cattle. Some
times it happens that on this basis one
person will pay on slaves alone nearly
e4OO. The slaves are captives from
rebellious tribes. They are bought
and sold, but not abused.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

we'll to this, as among those whose
scalp hangs at the Premier's belt is
tn of the renowned M. LIE Myre de
Villiars of Siam fame. Twice has he
met defeat at the Court of Imerina.
AS the Prime Minister ID the hus'
band of the Queen rs well as Premier.
he has every thing pretty much bis
own way. He owe- his position and
power TO the fact that he is at the
head OF the army as it's Commander
in.Chief.
Ranavalona III, the Queen OF the
Hovas, is woman now in her thirty
ninth year. She has reigned wisely
and successfully since 1888. OF
medium height, graceful in form and
carriage, rather sharp featured, COM
plexion dark brown, hair long and
straight, she is what may be Justly
said a fairly pretty woman. Her court
is kept up in great splendor. She
dresses in Partisan style, except on
occasions of the National feast, called
"Fandrona," when the Queen and
members of the Royal family and
nobility appear in their red 'tlamba.
A lamba is similar to the Roman toga.
She is proud and Independent, but not
vain, as some writer's have it. Fol-
lowing her example, many of the high
classes, and particularly those who are
under influences of the missionaries,
have adopted the Christian form OF
marriage, but the masses, cannot in
spite of missionary efforts, be turned
from their own form. According to
their idea a man and a woman become
one by mutual consent. And the
only ceremony is feast, to which the
respective families and friends attend.
A separation is seldom heard OF.
It would be difficult to find more
domestic happiness anywhere in the
world than in Madagascar. The wo-
men are always devoted and true.
A yearly tax of twenty-five cents is
levied upon every man who has wife
and should he desire to separate from
hera feetof SIS is exacted. Polygamy
is no longer practiced. Women do
very little housework, however, as
nearly every one, even among the
poorer classes, owns slaves.
The Hova women are especially
clever in fine needle work. Since the
establishment of the medical college
and the numerous hospitals many OF
the women are learning to be trained
nurses. This work is under the su-
pervision of European instructors.
The increase OF all the churches has
been remarkable. The Malagasy are
devoted to the Methodist Church, and
give it generous support.
At the capital the Hovas have f1ne
college erected for them by the Lon
don Missionary Society, and in con-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
turs timber d 1000 acres ) year.
cheap books are good thiLg il the

Cheap books are good thiLg il the
books are worth reading, but the great
mass OF the popular literature now
sent out is, in the opinion OF the At.
lanta Journal, the veriest trash. Over
two hundred new novels will be pub.
lished in this country between now
and the holidays and it is safe to pre-
dict that not dozen OF them will be
of any real value. The publication of
novels has been going on in this coun-
try for some years past ct a terrific
rate. In 1899 the number was 111S;
in 1891, il wss 1105; in 1892, it was
1l02, and in 1893 1882. OF these
more than four thousand novels hardly
anybody now remembers even the
names of more than score or two.
Nearly all of them have passed into
we'll deserved forgetfulness and are to
be followed by as many, or more, OF
the same kind in an equal number OF
years. John Ruskin's advice is to
read no book until it is o year old. II
one should adopt this plan he would
find year hence very few of the books
that are now just out. The Ruskin
idea is an excellent one. We often
wonder when we read some new book
which is the temporary rage what
there is in it to make everybody
anxious to get it and allttle while later
we find that nobody wants it. 1t
would be fearful doom to be forced
to read.sll OF the two hundred Ameri-
can novels which are to come oat this
wear.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
FIREPLACE NOTICES.
They Can Be Etched Into Wood
With a Hot Poker.

With a Hot Poker.
Over the fireplace, in struggling
letters, may be carved in the wood,
or fired upon the tiling, appropriate
devices and sentences. 1t is not an
expensive fad, and is something in
dicative 0f real individuality. AS
instances, Welcome ys to this cot
tage by the sea, or Welcome ye to
1.-The cot BY the old oak tree, " or what
lever tree be nearest gain, Come,
'basE ID al cFiscff1l warmEh: md
in my fro, your hearts deslre;;"
sGood cheer, find ye here;" In
gladstone mirth, gather around my
hearth" "Shall / not take mine
ease beside my iireside?"
These or other notices might be
etched into wood, for cottage, by
poker work, a decoration OF which
too little is generally known. Pyro-
graphy as it is designated, is done
after little practice by any one hav-
ing the least art training or dexter
ity and precision in drawing.
While there are sets Of tools by
which finished work can be done, u
small-pointed poker, heated either
over spirit lamp, or in a coal flre,
can be made the instrument for line
effects. Not only lettering for man
tells, but designs in lights and shad-
ows, for panels, screens, picture
frames, cabinets and brackets are
made by the poker point.
Good, we'll seasoned wood, free
from knots and cracks, must be used
to expect good results. 1t is said by
experts that elm shows the BLACKLIST
tracings, but that sycamore, holly
and lime, followed by the oak, ash
and elm, lend themselves readily to
this work.
On any simple design Or lettering
the beginner can practice. There
are but few rules. The bright woman
will soon find the limitations and the
beauties OF typography. The begin-
ner should trace upon a panel a SIM
pie design, perfectly geometrical, and
with the neateu poker VI poiuo III
low the pattern with light, quick
strokes. She should avoid resting
the poker for an instant, even, on
first touching the wood or upon leav-
ing it, under the penalty of leaving
an unsightly hard dot or point.
Where the shadows are deep the
point can be slowly touched again
and again. With practice the anna
teur' can shade the wood etching
from any conceivable depth OF shadow
to the high lights, which are the un-
touched wood. 1t is well to first
lightly trace the outlines, when the
iron can afterwards go over the deep
er portions at pleasure. The dark
background is made by fine parallel
lines crossed diagonally by others.
The same rules in regard to leaving
tho design untouched should be OBJ
served, as in any other kind OF draw
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

None Of the native officials receive
any compensation for services rem
dered to thei, Government. Their
sole reward is rank and honor, which
IS based on military precedence and
cpnfesfed blythe number of "honors. "
The first 'hohor's corresponds to the
rank Off private soldier, and is the
Lowest fhe highestis fifteen honors
Ser lontgIz. opitra, CORE.
spending to therank Of Field Marshal
One of the greatest ambitions of a
Hova is to have his honors increased
The officers of the Government and
nobility are not devoid of income by
any means. In fact, some of them in
that respect would not trade places
with United States Senator who gets
$4,000 year. Every mau and woman
of rank and title is the proprietor OF
vast estate and many slaves and cat
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

The report of the Commissioner OF
the General Land Office for 1895
shows that, compared with the fisca
year 1884, there has been decrease
in land entries of 10, ,095, and of g.
GIG, ,6s5 acres entered upon. Some
persons may hastily assume that this
indicates that the public lands OF thu
the United States are nearly all occu.
pied, but this is not the case. There
is plenty of good Government land
left, but it is fact that in years OF
depression the desire to take up land
seems to diminish. This rather dislo-
Gates the theory OF some economists
who profess to find an explanation Of
the superior condition of the masses
in this country in the fact that as soon
as work becomes difficult to obtain IN
cities the surplus pepulaticr finds its
way into agricultural pursuits. The
reverse, however, seems to be the case.
When work is abundant in cities the
wild agricultural lands are freely
taken up, but when the working
Classes in the city cannot find employ.
ment the business of farming ceases to
have allurements. The explanation is
simple, remarks the San, Francisco
Chronicle. When the manufacturing
industries of the country are thriving
and the workers in the urban districts
are earning good wages. the farmer
and fruit raiser can sell his products
at good prices; when work in factories
is scarce and wages low tae profits OF
agriculture disappear and there is no
temptation to engage in the pursuit
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11
TWO LOVES.

Two loves had I; q star OF morning one
The other like the rising Of the sun
Two loves, two dreams! The one made haste
to fy;
The other had life that may not die.
Two hopes. two aids. The oneislost in light,
The other still eludes my closest flight.
mourn for one beneath the rustling trec
Where haunt the quiet birds of memory;
But rise and follow when the other calls.
With scorn of obstacles. contempt of falls.
Perhaps it's we'll that could never gain
The flrst-that pursue the last with pain.
It may be that our life was never meant
For full achievement or.complete content;
It may be we are taught by long pursuit,
Here is the seed time, only there the fruit.
I cannot tell: but still che pangs remain;
Two loves had I, and followed both in vain.
Arthur L. Salmon.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

at these words; he watched it for q
delicious moment, aud then gathered
her up in his arms, exclaiming:
81 will bring them back, if you vii
pay the reward I want"
Then-or rather, after he had tor
tured her impatience mercilesslY-he
told her of Fred's "bargain" bought
at auction. She begged fori it, coaxed,
pleaded, all in vain. He declared she
could only have the little leather
trunk MS wedding present. And a
very happy wedding party it was, too.
-Tit-Bits.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

a piece of ice exactly the shape OF the
inner wall will slide out without trou-
tle. Another round cylinder is pro-
vided for the quick cooling of any
fluid. The cost Of the production,
SAYS the Illustrite zeitung, is very
small, as the salt may be used over
and over again, losing but little OF its
ouo1;1u
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-12-11

CUSEoMs AND QUALITIES OF
Its INHABITANTS.
The People Of the Big Island are
EDlightened and Kind-Liv-
ing Is Cheap-woman's
Positiono

n n unpreiudiced stddy of the
IA people of Madagascar will
M show that they have many
superior qualities and have
made great progress in short time.
They have not enjoyed the influences
of civilization around them as have
the Japanese nor have there been any
efforts worth mentioning to develop
the resources of the country. In fact
many parts of the great island conti-
nenthave yet to be explored. That
part already explored has convinced
the best authorities that Madagascar,
in addition to being the third largest
island in the world, takes first rank
for the variety and magnitude of its
resources.