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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
Superstition In India.

Quito panic has been caused i'll
several up. country districts by the be-
ll3f that the English were stealing
women and infants to use their bodies
o. foundations for new railway
bridges. So great was the alarm in
ono village that the magistrate seuC
round q crier to publicly deny the
story.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

Throughout Germany and Holland
whenever girls can be employed to
advantage they are taken in preference
to young men. At Munich, Bavaria,
the clerks and bookkeepers in the
banks are nearly all young and hand
some girls.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
same.
A mar is swindlinp farmers in Penn,

A mar is swindling farmers in Penn
sylvanis by means of double-end
fountain pen, one end of which he
uses in drawing up contracts for har-
vesting machinery and the others he
presents for the farmers to use in
putting their signatures to the docu-
ments. The ink of the contract fades,
and prornissory note is written in over
the signature.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
CRETE'S UPRISING.
STORY OF THE REVOLUTION
AGAINST TURKEY.
Christians Have an Army Of $4,000
Men and Seek Independence
Great Suffering in
the Island.

TLLAGE, murder, massacre,
- starvation and general desti-
tuition are words whichrough-
ly describe the conditions that
prevail in the pretty isle of Crete.
Wicked as are the ways OF the Spanish
in Cuba, the balmy island of the Medi-
terranean is even in sorer straits, for
both oppressor and oppressed are there
the sufferers. Revolution with no
semblaace of system prevails, and
privation from matt raj causes is aug
mented by the desuetude in things
commercial and agricultural that ever
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
Colorado has n nav millionaire in

Colorado has q new millionaire in
the person OF Mr.. Stoiber, who has
expectations of rivallng the famous
Mr.. Stratton. OF the Independence
mine. Mr.. Stoiber is mining engi-
neer by profession aud for a long
time lived very humbly with his wife,
who is his partner in business, in a
little cabin near Silverten. He now
has an income of ssOO,ooo year and
has one of the handsomest homes in
Colorado.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
NEXT WINTERS CLOTH WAISTS.

The cloth waists next winter are to
have the body of the waist braided
and the sleeves plain This will give
much the same effect that having the
waist of lace or chiffon has done, and
cannot be called IN absolutely new
idea; but it is o becoming style, and
so is bound to be popular, although
many women prefer the pointed
braided vests, with collar and cuffs to
match; when the lutter style is chosen
the braid is put on velvet, and gives
much richer look. The odd contrasts
of color will die out by this means, it
is said, but that remains to be seen.-
Harper's Bazar.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
THE PRIDE OF THE COUNTRY sIps

Oh! Phyllis is SURPRISING fair.
know maid that's iairer;
Her beauty is beyond compare
No beauty could be rsrer;
She scoraeth fckle fashions guide,
And russet is her gown
Yet she's the pride Of the country side,
And the envy Of the town!
She is a queen we all declare,
Though no crown she possess-s.
Beyond wealth Of rich brown hair,
That hangs in dainty tresses:
Her matchless eyes have long outyiel
The gems In monarch's crown
And she's the pride Of the country side
Aud the envy OF the town!
Her form is full OF fairy grace,
Her voice Is music mellow,
And, oh! the bloom upon her face
Is the red roses fellow:
And! he who wins her for his prido
Wins more than wealth, renown--
For she's the pride OF the country sids
And the envy OF the town!
IF. ]. Cox, in ChamSers's journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

poppies are Tue latest Parisian i'm.
nortations. Notwithstanding this
fact, roses are by no means unpopular,
nor are they likely to be, except for
short space. Fickle as Dame Fashion
is, sho always returns to her old
loyea.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

usually chosen, plain finish or edg.
ing on collar being ali the decoration
necessary.
The quantity Of material twenty.
seven inches wide required to make
this sacque for lady having a thirty.
six-inch bust measure IS four and one
half wards.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

Mohammedan depositors in the
postofice savings banks are enrichipg
the British Government, as their re.
ligion forbids them to receive inter-
est. They insist on taking out no
more than they put in.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

In Sweden the education of journal
ism is treated as function of the State.
Under this system the young scribe
develops his "nose for news" at the
expense of the taxpayers. In the
United States he has to hustle for
himself, but he gets there all the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
accompanies the violent overthrow of

accompanies the violent overthrow of
rule.
This Cretan revolution is not too
we'll understood by Americans. People
in tho United States think that Chris
tisn Cretans ere daily butchered by
the atrocious Turks, who ontrumber
them largely. This is not true. The
Christian revolntionists have pretty
well organized army of about $4,000
men, while the Turkish forces DO not
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

There is grim humor about the
army worms rsvages in New England.
The greatest amount of destruction
at any one point is on the grounds ct
one of the agricultural colleges.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

There nre manufactured in the
Cnlted States 5000, 200 kegs Of nails
in ye4s.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07

A roorHproK factory flourishes at
Harbor Springs, Mich. The outputs
I, 5OO,OO toothpicks every day.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
SOME co1FFuRE TRICKS.

The Freuchwoman prefers smooth
coifrure, pompadour or a madonna,
to oil Others, and rolls and puffs her
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
A Chair That Cost Over $4,000, 600.

BY long odds the most costly piecs
of furniture in the world is the jew.
eled throne of the Shah of Persia.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-07
THOs. j. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR
The political badge manufacturers
have no reason to complain Of bad
times.
Tampa, Fla, is banking on becom-
ing the metropolis of the State. II
has now population of $4,000.

A Scottish Judge has decided that
bicycle is no more vehicle than is q
snake. An English Judge has dis
agreed with him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-27
Napo1eon's Warhorses.

The most Celebrated warhorse of the
present century is unquestionably Napo-
Icons Marengo, says Our Animal Friends.
In view of the many hundred biographies
OF the great captain, it is certainly sur
prising that so little should be known with
any degree of certainty concerning this
world-famous charger.
To an American visitor to the dethroned
Bonapartes at Chiselhurst. in June, 1872,
Louis Napoleon, in conversation about
his own horses and the war s.eeds of the
most illustrious of m odern soldiers said:
'The Emperor's favorite charger was
Marengo, an Arab, OF good size and style,
and almost white. He rode him in his
last battle of Mount st. Jean, where
Marengo received his seventh wound. l
once mounted him when youth, and but
a short time before the steed died, at tpe
age of &c. Another favorite Narhorse
was named Maria, and was used by the
Emper in many Of his hundred battles.
Her skeleton is now to be seen in the an
Gent castle of Ivenach on the Rhine, thu
property of the Van Plessen family. OF
the other sixty or seventy horses owned
! by Napoleon and used in battle, perhaps
the most famous were ali, Austerlllz,
Styrie and Jaffa. He had nineteen
| chargers killed under him.
| The American visitor might have added,
but did not, that Marshal Butcher had
twenty shot in battle, while Generals Gus
| ter and Forrest are believed to have each
lost almost as many in the brief period OF
| four years. Maria. or Marie, is thus de-
scribed by Victor Hugo In the words OF a
French veteran:
.On the day when Napoleon gave me
| the cross noticed his beast. 1t had its
ears very far apart, a deep saddle, fine
| head, marked with black star, very
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is assembled by herself and go to some
other part OF the house, onite distance
away. Then if it is desired that she should
get certain article IN some other room
the agent should write the name OF what
ever it may be on slip Of paper, and this
slip of paper should be shown to each per-
son in the room which the sensitive just
left.
Then every one, as we'll as the agent,
should think of the article in question and
form the desire in their minds that the
sensitive shall go and get the article and
bring it to the room from which she
started. In most cases the experiment is
entirely successful, although the sensitive
is wholly cut off from all conscious or un-
conscious direction OF either the agent or
the other guests who are enjoying the
evenings entertainment.
A still more interesting trial OF thought
transierence is that which causes the
sensitive to speak a word. In this in.
stance, when the sensitive, who has been
sent from the room. re-er tiers it and stands
just inside the door, all those present
think intentIy of some word which 1t has
been agreed upon she shall say. In mo-
ment the sensitive will, as a rule, speak
the word. She cannot tell why. She only
knows that she has had an impulse to
speak, but cannot tell how it came to her.
1t is the case that the agent, to be en-
tirely successful, must be the principal
mover and planner of the actions which
the sensitive is to take. 1t is practically
through the strong will and mind of the
agent that the sensitive is made to see
with her minds eye. If it is drawing
that she is to describe, it is always best
that the agent should make that drawing.
He, above all others, should concentrate
his attention thereon after the drawing is
com pleted. Then he must insist that sew
eral of the other persons in the room keep
with equal intentness.
| The reason for using drawing in an
| instance of this sort is to reduce thought
! to drawn subject. This makes the re-
production by thought infinitely easier
than it would be under other Gil cum
stances. 1t Is the way thought is utilized
in this series of experiments more than
the requirement that is made which en-
ables thought transference to become a
! thorough success.
The impression should not be gained
that what has been described is at all in
the nature Of hypno.ism or the so-called
spiritualism. Nothing of the sort. Those
who have experimental assert positively
that thought transference is no longer q
matter of doubt and that careful trial
will convince any one. 1t is not neces-
sary for person to become medium OF
anything Of the sort. Two people with
minds closely united always find that they
know one another's thoughts almost in
tuitively. This is held to be thought
transference. 1t will be given Thorough
4 test this winter at society's psychic even.
/ ings.
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flame may be made bright enough to
make an instantaneous picture of Itself
very time il shoots up. and by swinging
the camera around while exposing the
successive images will fall at different
places across the plate, and they will. by
their relative sizes, indicate the character
Of the sound.
1.-The photograph of the tongue of but
terhy which is shown was made by first
mounting the object upon a microscopic
slide, then Illuminating it by an ordinary
gas light, lens being used to concentrate
the rays of light upon it; an enlarged
image of the object was then produced by
means of part OF microscope including
the objective. The image being 80 greatly
enlarged was necessarily quite faint, so
the time of exposure had to be increased
according.
Sometimes an object is opaque, then it
must be lighted from the front; this is
the case when one wishes to photograph
the broken end of an electric light carbon
to show the grain highly maenifed
"GERoGE s. MoLER"
All these odd things of which Professor
Moler tells he has learned largely through
his own experience. Hence what he says
can be accepted as the utterance of man
who knows. He tells what the camera is
daily showing. that in the simplest things
of insect life lie the greatest wonders.
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which results in the same thought being
expressed at the same time. A thought
is conveyed from one human being to an
other without the conscious agency of the
organ of sense. 1t can be transferred with
out any feeling whatsoever.
Society has discovered that there is
much enjoyment and entertainment in
thought transfereEce. The experiment
can be carried out in a variety of ways and
in very interesting fashion. In the ordi-
nary process two principals are required.
One CT these is the transmitter of the
thought, or the agent, as he is called. The
other is, the sensitive or the subject ID
whom the thought is transferred. 1t is
very interesting feature of the psychic
evening, the selection Of the agent and the
sensitive. The first must be thoroughly
earnest and intelligent. 1t is absolutely
necessary that he should be entirely able
to concentrate his mind on the though is
which are to be transferred, to the exclu-
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guage, much after the fashion which the
telephone girl follows in placing upon
her head the continuance which holds the
receiver to her ear. These two bends of
steel on the different persons are con-
nected, as stated, by an electric wire.
Over this wire the thoughts seem TO flash
at the will OF the stronger and sometimes
the weaker. The action is rapid and the
result unique.
Among other things which the ANA
teur thought scientist will attempt at the
psychic evening entertainment is crystal
gazing-the process whereby it is said
that the sensitive. looking closely at a
crystal and concentrating her mind, will
see before her reproduction of the
images which fill the mind of the agent
or some other person. Then there is the
mirror-that old relic of Halloween Gus
tom. The thought scientists promise
that by looking INTO the mirror steadfast-
ly on such occasion one will not see
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however, which is always tried, and that
is by the agent requesting the lady TO
stand and to close her eyes. Then he will
hold his right hand at distance of from
four to five inches over her forehead and
wish that she may lean her forehead in
the direction of his hand. Should she do
this she would be considered sensitive.
The agent is generally a man. Women,
as a rnle, make good sensitives ana
very poor agents. The men are superior
because they are more positive in will and
better able to concentrate their attention
upon the thought decided upon. 1t is the
refined organlza ion OF woman that makes
her the best sensitive. She is more in
tui,ive and more impressionate than man.
The agent must be level headed, quiet and
determined. The sensitive must listen to
and quietly obey the directions of the
agent. These things accomplished and
understood the rest of the programme is
clear.
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There are various ways in which expert
ments of thought transierence will be car
ried out One of them. for instance, is to
have the sensitive write or draw some
thing. The sensitive is blindfolded, but
this IS not so much TO prevent her seeing
as it is to concentrate her thoughts, for
concentration is an absolute necessity to
successful accom- piishment.
The agent seats himself opposite the
blindfolded sensitive and draws figure
on piece of paper. After this is accom-
plished he will pass the design around to
those present ana each will study 1t thor
oughly. Sufficient intentness of gaze
must be given to the object in question
so that each person in the room may be
able to see the picture with their eyes
closed as we'll as open. Then the agent,
by concentrating his attention on the
mental vision, will transfer to the mind
of the sensitive the picture or figure which
he drew.
The sensitive will not know how she
gains the impression, perhaps, but she
will feel that she has received an idea,
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these were made and upon the data so OBJ
tanned important mathematical calcula-
tons were based.
DRY plates are now made so sensitive
to light that if an electric spark or short
duration ELIMINATES one while rifle
bullet is fired past the plate the shadow OF
the hving bullet will be as sharply de-
fined as if the bullet were stationary. An
other curious fact is also observed at the
same time, and that is that the shadows
of some waves Of compressed air are also
photographed upon the plate. They very
much resemble the diverging wave pro-
| duced by small steamer upon the sur
face of smooth lake.
Sometimes in research work too many
things are to be noted at the same time for
the eye to catch them all; sometimes the
motion to be observed is too rapid to be
seen, or there are cases in which it is TOO
slow to be perceived as motion at all. In
these and many other cases that might be
mentioned the Photographic process is
called upon to aid the searcher after truth.
Gin some of the institutions OF learning
photography is taught for the purpose OF
preparing the student to use it in connec-
ton with his experimental work i'll the
laboratory. 1t is not necessary that he
should become an artist capable of pro-
6ucing fine portrait, or that he should
become skiliful retoucher, but it
is quite important that he should know
how to properly expose, develop and fix a
dry plate or sensitized film and make
prints or lantern slides from them. He
should not have to depend upon others to
do things for him and often in
way that would not bring out the points
that he would like to have shown.
s.Iu the rem ainder of this article some
of the uses of photography will be illus
trated by cuts from the original photo
graphs.
"a stretched cord which was being made
to vibrate for experimental purposes was
observed to have peculiar path of vibra-
ton, which it maintained continuously,
because it was being driven by mechan-
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! that she sees something. The chances are
that after removing the handkerchief she
will be able to fully describe the figure
drawn by the agent and visuaized by all
the other persons in the room. 1t is de-
clared by those who have made the expert
ment that the situation described will be
the result attained at such times in nine
cases out of ten. This experimental trans
ference of thought brings OFT very clearly
the reason for the every day thought trans
ference that takes place in families. There
is naturally general unity of thought in
such circles, and the result is that thoughts
are frequently known TO others before the
originator speaks them.
An experiment which is occasionally
tried and bids fair TO be very popular is
that which causes the sensitive in several
rooms distant from an assem- bled COM
pany to act in accordance with their
wishes. In this instance the sensitive
should leave The room where the com pany
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Spice of Variety IN Life.

The expression OF his face showed that
he was easily irritated, and the contractor
into whose Office he walked braced HIM
self for trouble.
II WISH" said the irritable man, 'that
you would do me a favor in connection
with the work on my house."
Anything that We can do will be cheer
fully attended to-"
Thank you, l wish you would send a
new man to do the painting"
But the one we have there is an excel
lent workman"
Il don't doubt that. But he has been
there three days and be hasn't whistles
anything but Tell Them that You Saw
Me- I'm pretty slow at catching tune,
but I've learned that with all the varia-
lions. and if it's just the same to you Ia
like 10 start in on a new one." Washing
ton Star.
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leaning tower of Pisa has pro-

LIN lcduIuS tOWeT VI lSa has pro-
totype in America. 1t is 200 feet high
and at the base is two-thirds that
number of feet in circumference. At pres
ent it is thirteen inches out OF plumb, and
during heavy storm, sways back and
forth like willow wand.
This remarkable structure is built on
the grounds Of E. C. Stearns & Co., accord
ing to system invented by Sanford E.
Loring, an architect of Syracuse. where
the tower is located. BY his system
heavy timbers are braced continuously
and connected by iron shoulder plates,
which take the place OF the Skeleton. steel
construction. The brick on the outside is
merely veneer, sand not supporting
wall in any sense of the tenn. The tower
is unprotected, ard has to take the force
of every gale that blows.
1t is just now the cause of fierce strife in
Syracuse, because the people declare that
it is an imminent source of danger and
liable to fall at any moment. Architect
Loring, however, says that if it was thir-
teen feet out of plumb, instead OF thirteen
inches, it would still be as safe as a
church, and that people might walk about
under and around it all day and be in no
more danger than in the Mammoth Cave.
The Syracuse Common Council AYERS that
the tower is public menace, and the ar
chitect in reply holds that it is perfectly
intact and safe. and that it will stand any
strain that is likely TO come in the future.
The Stearns tower has only become of
the leaning variety at comparatively
recent date. The circumstance that
| hrO int 10
was hurricane, or, as some call it, tor
nado. In any event it was a tremendous
wind, the fercest and the fastest which
even the oldest inha bitant OF Syracuse
ever heard of. The wind came from the
southeast, striking the tower upon the
faces shown in the accompanying iiiustra-
ton. Ia its vicinity imme nse trees were
torn up by the roots. the roofs of great
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future hus band or wife, but the person in
the room who is thinking of them, or per-
haps some one far distant.
Besides the things mentioned, there is
the method, which is declared to be prac-
ticable, of sitting in room with one or
more persons, thinking lntently of the
street outside, with which all are famil-
lar and that before the minds eye then
will pass in reproduction the events which
are transpiring out of doors.
Al these things will be ACCOMPLISHED,
say the promoters of the psychic evening,
to the entire satisfaction of every one
present. This savors strongly of the pre-
dlction of the Snowman. Let us see just
what is necessary to carry out the major
portion of the programme outlined.
When the company is gathered the first
thing to be done is to learn who is the
best possible person to be the sensitive.
Oftentimes Impressions are very erroneous
in this regard. The very person who may
seem to be frail and yielding is quite
likely to be possessed of altogether too
| much wili-power. There is certain test,