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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Cat Skins in the Fur Market.

According to some authorities the
time is not so far distant when the i'm
perial sable. the royal minniyer and
the commercial sealskin will become
SO scarce that they will be within the
attainment of millionaires alone; but,
as the reports upon the fur sales show,
there is no fear of this state Of things
coming about next season. The sup
plies of oil kinds are still ample, and,
indeed, are in several instances excess
sive, with the result that, although the
general demand is very fair, many dc.
precautions in value have been re-
ported.
BY the way, the cat skin appears to
hold an important place in the fur
market. During last week 6S66 "com-
mon cat" skins wero offered, as COM
pared with 5000 last year, but these
were of rather Indifferent quality and
realized very low prices. In the mat
ter of "house cat" skins 24.19O were
offered, against 13, OBS last year, there
being in this class, IN addition to the
usual American collection, q large
parcel of dressed Russian skins; tho
whole were however disposed of cheap
ly. The domestic pussy of this country
may, therefore, at present prowl
around in peace. The time has yet to
como when O premium will be set
upon her skin for purposes OF wear.
Indeed, the city cat everywhere, in
every land, may laugh at fuEriers to
eternity, perhaps, because it is not
Ler skin that is valued as fur. 1t is
too thin and its fur is very inferior.
The thicker coat OF the country cat is
what is worked up into seal and bea-
yer, sable and no one knowsh how many
kinds of limitations for those who want
fur, but cannot afford tho genuine
high-priced article. - Philadelphia
Ledger.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Balzac on Color influence.

Balzac's curious speculations suggest
the extent to which color influences
our human life. He had noticed that
o woman who had taste for orange or
green gowns was quarrelsome; one
who wore q yellow or black apparel,
without apparent cause, was not to be
trusted; preference for white showed q
coquette spirit; gentle and thoughtful
women prefer pink; women who re-
gard themselves as being unfortunate
prefer pearl gray; lilac is the shade
particularly affected by "over-ripe
beauties:" wherefore, the great author
held, lilac hats are mostly worn by
mothers on their daughters marriage
day and by women more than 40 years
old when they go visiting.
These theories are founded upon the
principles of color, as already laid
down-namely. that red and yellow
excite; green, tempered by blue, is
bilious; orange is fiery; gray is cold
and melancholy; lilac is a light shade
of purple, the most retiring color OF
the cale.-Popuar Science Monthly,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
A Bacillus Ridden TOwD.

It has long been cause OF contro
versy among physicians as to whether
consumption Is contagious or not, and
one Of the strongest arguments that it
is that has yet been produced is the
story OF the fate of the villagers OF
Mentone.
Forty years ago this place was one
of the healthiest villages in France,
whose inhabitants were of superb
physical development. 1t was discoy-
cred about this time that the climate
of Mentone was remarkably beneficial
in cases of lung diseases, and people
afflicted in this way focked thither
from oil parts of Europe.
The natural result was that the peo-
pie who had hitherto been engaged in
farming one and all betook Themselves
to ministering in various ways to the
throngs of invalids. The strong and
healthy women of Mentone became
laundrssses, and washed, without tak'
ing the least precautions, the con-
sumptives' clothes. The place is now
described as being "bacillus ridden
pest hole" The very soil and DIR are
said to be contaminated New York
Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Immense Fortune in I'roes.

The timber wealth of the United
States gives yearly product of over a
billion dollars, or twice the value of
the entire output of oil the mines put
together--gold. silver, coal, iron, cop
per, zinc and the rest. This is re-
source worth keeping, and yet we are
cutting into our capital ut the fearful
rate of 75 per cent. each year, as only
about 25 per cent. OF the timber mar
ket is represented by new growth. AS
for losses from the fires that are started
by locomotives, cattlemen, berry pick
ers, hunters and incendiaries, it gives
a sufficient idea OF what they cost us to
be told by the forestry commissioner
of Pennsylvania that his state alone
probably suffers to the extent Of $780,
600, 900 annually from this one cause.
Not only tho trees are lost in these
mighty confagrations; the vegetable
mold, which would supply fertility to
the soil for future agricultural pur-
poses, or food for the roots of second
growth of forest, is burnt, and the first
step is taken on that easy descent to q
landslide or flood bed.-Scribner' i
Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Wonderful Things That Are Near.

Flying is solved. The principle Is
known. A mechanical expedient is all
that Is now needed to make it success
full. Practical flight is today not more
than five or ten years off.
A glowworm makes light with about
one three-hundredth part of the force
used in ordinary artificial light When
men know how to make light as cheap,
street and homes will be as light as
day for mere fraction of what light
now costs. This is near. Vacuum
ILLUMINATION without ihcandescense is
already in full operation, and in year
or two should cut down the price OF
light to sixth of its current cost, and
In five or ten years light in O city may
BE-, like water, turned on in every
house at will.
Compressed air has long been known
to be the best way, theoretically, to
store force for use in transportation.
There is no waste and no deterioration.
The need is cheap and efficient motor
to apply compressed air to city trans
portation. II this can be done, first
the trolly poles and wires will como
down, next the horseless, air-eom-
pressed motor carriages will do oil the
work of the city delivery.
When these changes come the only
use for gas will be for cooking-if this
is not done by electricity. Factories,
also, before many years, will be run
by transmitted electric power. This
has begun to bo done and in five or
ten years will be completed, and the
factory fire and boiler will be thing
OF the past.
The city of the future, and no very
distant future, will have no trolley
poles or wires and no horses. All
movements will be on rails by silent
air motors or by horseless carriages
equally silent. ALI pavements will be
asphalt. Unlimited light will be as
cheap as unlimited water is today. No
coal will be delivered atprivate houses
and no ashes taken from them, With
no horse, no coal and no ashes, street
dust and dirt will be reduced to q
minimum. With no factory fires and
no kitchen or furnace fires, the air
will be as pure in the city as in the
country. Trees will have o chance.
Houses will be warmed and lighted as
easily and cbeaply as they are now sup
piled with water.
A city will be pretty nice place to
live in when the first twenty years oi
the twentieth century are passed.
Philadelphia Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Electric PIOwS.

The most popular forms of electric
plows are the small fitting plows adapt
cd for private farming purposes.
These arc provided with two plow-
shares on either side, while in front
of these is forecutter, which pre-
pares the ground. The plow is made
entirely of steel, and is SO STRONG that
it is powerful enough to cut burrows
to the depth of one foot in the hardest
kind of soil. Tho plow is also pro.
vided with an ingenious arrangement
of underground looseners, which fol.
low the plow and loosen the snb-soil
to depth OF sixteen inches, but with
out turning it over. An electric mo-
tor is mounted on the plowa frame.
The speed of these plows may Sbe in
creased indefinitely merely by turn
ing the switch on the electric motor
to higher pog. In ordinary soil
these plows have developedSthe speed
of O little more than 25S feet per
minute.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
PITH AND POINT.

Gail we'll at your house?" "Yes;
times are so hard that nota soul in the
family has been sick for year."
Possibly: Teacher-"Why did free
dom shrek when Kosciusko feil"
Tommy-"Mebbe he fell on her new
at."-Indianapolis Journal.
"Did you have q good spin, Kath.
arine2" s'No, the road was SO rough
it iostled oil the beets and radishes off
my new hat" Chicago Record.
ssGeorge Washington married a
widow, didn't he2" eyes" "What
o snap widow must have had with O
man who couldn't tell lie !"-Puck.
Oh, had the power the glftle se'en us.
TO soc ourse's rs lthers soc us;
What awful sights we'd find we are;
Wore better ignorant by fur.
Philadelphia North American.
Yeast-"I heard that Beasley said
he would trust Inc with his pocket
book. What do you think OF thatP"
Crimsonbeak-" don't think there's
anything in it.
Alabel-"And SO he had the assur-
ance to demand that you marry him.
What did you say?" Ethel-"1 told
him the supply was not equal to the
demand. Truth.
Grace-"I am going to see Clara to.
day. Have you any mcssage?" Dora
-''I wonder how you can visit that
dreadful trump! Give her my love. "
Boston Transcript.
"Be mine," he implored. "No, +"
she answered. 81 won't take mo fol
on answer" he shrieked. emit, then, u
che responded. And he took his hat
and sadly went.-Scranton Truth.
"Could you spare me little money
this morning, dear?" said she.
"Really," the brutal husband replied
with harsh dyspeptic laugh, ''judG'
ing from the biscuits, I thought yor
had more dough to burn. "-Cincinnat:
Enquirer.
Merchant -"You say you are OIL
orpbanG" Applicant for Position
eyes; haven't living relative.
Merchant" "Well, I'll take you. |
ought to get o lot of work out OF yo1l
during the baseball season. n."-Phila'
delphia Record
"Papa," said Willie, "Jimmi'
Tompkins scratched my face all up.
."What had you done to himG'
"Nothing." "Then why didn't yol
hit him?" 81 did; and, papa, I go
my lick in before he scratched me. y
Harper's Bazar.
.You have o very complete eatab
lishment here" said the customer K
the proprietor Of one of the large Ney
York dry goods stores, while waitin'
for his change; "but think yo1
might improve it by the introduction
of few lightning change artists"
In South America: Tcurist-"Wb.
can't you put o stop to these continue
insurrections?" Native-"We are con
sidering q measure now which ma.
have tendency in that direction. ]
is proposed to reduce the President
term of Office to three weeks, and t
provide that he shall not be eligibl
for o second telm."-Puck.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Crippled, But LireIy.

1t is o we'll known fact that nature
makes partial amends for the loss OF
one faculty by strengthening those
left to us. The loss of sight is fol.
lowed by on extraordinary acuteness
of the sense of sound. There are
several blind men well known about
New York who thread the crowded
sections OF Broadway with apparently
as much ease as those who can see.
They go about fearlessly, ignoring the
dangers of cable cars, trucks and
trolleys without even the assistance OF
the traditional dog, trusting wholly in
the sound of the staff on the pave
ment.
There. is cripple who haunts the
vicinity OF Seventy.first street and
First avenue, propelling himself on o
crude little board on wheels by means
of his hands. His wlthe1ed limbs are
twisted up beneath him, useless from
birth. But his powerful arms take the
place of both legs and feet. He can
roll along through the crowded
thoroughfares, across the streets, and
dodge the trucks aud trans with
astonishing celerity and certainty. He
is known to the entire neighborhood,
and he is practically the boss of the
ward. People seem to have much re-
spect for his Judgment on their various
affairs, and he is consulted us often as
Tammany leader. Sometimes the
street urchins attemptto take liberties
with him. They never do it twice.
He has way of suddenly hopping of
his board on his hands, with leap
like that of q kangaroo, and grabbing
O boy by the leg and shaking all the
courage out of him, which has earned
him the respect of the knowing ones.
He can whip man of twice his size
and weight. All he wants is to get his
enemy within reach, and it is done.
Being high strung dquick tempered,
his fighting qualities have been fire.
quently tested. The young roughs OF
the neighborhood arc in deadly fear
of those arms. There is not much
sympathy wasted on that cripple, you
may readily imagine.--New York
Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
The Uninhabited Earth.

While engaged In the hunt for the
north role and the exploration cf AT
RIGA il is generally overlooked that no.
body has yet traversed Australia from
east to west. At the London Geo.
graphical congress Mr.. Logan 1obley
read an interesting paper showing what
portions of the earth remained uuex-
plored. and according to him the ex-
tent OF these is 10000, 600 square
miles; 5000, 900 square miles in AT
rica, 1900, 900 in Australia, 1000, 600
in America. 100000 in Asia and
400, 900 in islands in the Paclflc arc
absolutely unknown. Besides in the
artlc regions there are 8, 500, 900 and in
the antertic regions $500, 900 square
miles that are unexplored, but which.
being uninhabitable, are of scientific
rather than of practical interest,"
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
WORDS OF WISDOM.

The most preposterous thing in lif'
is honesty in love.
In too many cases marriage Is sim
ply polite serfdom.
Truth Is o virtue, but mighty awk
ward one in horse trade.
Death is sauce without which life
would be barely ralatable.
Death is whip, and with fam Gus
persons it has cracker on the end.
Death is 60 swift that it overtakes
everybody and yet SO slow that anyone
can catch it.
When q woman is engaged to be
married she thinks that life he's just
begun for her.
Life is an oyster that very often
turns out to be bad just as we get
ready to eat it.
Every girl of sixteen has contempt
for the patience old women have for
their husbands.
The Office never seeks the man be.
cause it can't push its way through
the crowd Of politicians.
Some men are SO mean that they
have to be dead long while before
they ere we'll spoken of.
A girl always worries more about
the lint on o mans coat before she
marries him than she does afterward.
When a-man is engaged to he mar
ried he spends most of his time won
dering If he hasn't made big mis-
take.
A monopoly is o good deal like O
baby. A man is opposed to it on gen.
eral principles until he has one of his
own.
Some persons win certain social
recognition by claiming to be tired OF
strawberries while they are yet high
priced.
Those who attain any excellence
commonly spend life in one common
pursuit, for excellence is not gained
upon easier terms.
The political orator is as jealous ol
brass band as q preacher is Of O
splendid choir. 1t is stand. of Us tc
who draws the most people. The
Southwest.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
KIpllng,s View of 1t.

'erhe Englishman, said Mr.. Kip
ling, "will die for liberty, but he
doen't care straw for equality. The
Frenchinan. on the other hand, doesn't
really know what liberty means,
but he must have equality. As for the
American, ne is both Indifferent to
liberty and equality, and goes in heart
and soul for fraternity. This is really
tho bane of the American, nation; SO
long as man is o good fellow he can
do anything and people will approve,
or, at least, will tolerate"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
A MOTHERS DUTY.

Your daughters are the most pre-
cious legacy possible in this life.
The responsibility for them, and
their future, is largely with you.
The mysterious change that develops
the thoughtful woman from the
thoughtless girl, should find you on
the watch day and night.
AS you care for their physical well
being. so will the woman -
be, and SO will her children &
be also. .ED
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12

"You mustn't lose your rings that
way; get up and ride as fast as you
can back to Highland Park and tell
everybody about it, and I'll go on to
Glencoe and do the same
Her directions were somewhat
vague, but there was nothing for the
young matron to do but obey them,
for already the city guest had reached
the top of the little hill.
Just then the young matron saw the
man who had been telephoned to come
out and ride to town with them com
ing up on his wheel rapidly. His BIZ
cycle stockings were of such brilliant
and remarkable design that she rec
ognized, him Immediately. When they
were still some distance apart she be-
gan her story at the very top OF her
voice.
''Don't get off" she shouted warn
ingly; sthere's no time to lose"
He was interested ut once, and he
was angrily excited when size had
finished.
M'm going the wrong way," he said
"I'll go back and not let tho beasts
get away while you so on and get
some other fellow to help" and he
was tearing swiftly along ov,r the road
they had just come, while she, in her
turn, did as she was directed.
just before reaching the woods
where the encounter had taken place
the young man turned of on disused
wagon track skirting the south side OF
the timber. Just where the road
ceased to become road at grassy
meadow a man with G stubby chin
and bright handkerchief knotted be-
low it stepped out from among the
trees.
"We seen her meet you an here's
the stuff that belongs to the lady. ]
told Tobe it was too all-6ery risky,
au' he guesses it is hisself. SO long,
mister, and he ran rapidly into the
thick underbrush and disappeared.
Dinner at the Saddle and Cycle
Club was success, nevertheless. The
young matron recovered sufficiently
to enjoy the evening, but she abso-
lutely refused to join in the toast pro
posed by the city guest: "To the
Gent With the Bandana Handkerchief.
Washington Pathfinder.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
a WELCOME FROM THE woopa1

IN the silence Of their..shadows,
In their robes Of green and brown,
The woods have such welcome I
For a fellow or from town!
The trees-they bow "Good morning."
In q captivating way,
And the brooks that toss the lille
\ Seem to say-seem to say;
"Your busy life is folly;
How sad your cities looSs
But the life lead is jolly
Bait your hook, bait yourhook!", '
In the silence Of their shadows,
In their blossoms raining down,
The woods are so inviting
To follow Off from town!
Tho broad oaks wave their banners,
While airy flddles play,
And you let your soul 60 loafing
Where the honeysuckles say:
"Your city life is folly
A blossom on brook;
But the life we lend is jolly
Bait your hook, bait YOUR hook"
F. L. Stanton.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
A SOLEMN WARNING.

'sNow, JOSH" said the old man tp
his eighteen-year. SOD, eve allow
to board q lot of city gals this sum-
mer, and you want to keep out OF
fallin' in love with 'em, sure. 1t ain t
been more'n twenty year ago that I
fell in love with one of our city board
ers, and when she Tilted me-" he con.
tinued, lowering his voice and looking
cautiously over his shoulder, '.it made
me feel SO bad thet I rushed right off
and marrit your NAV before I thought
what I was doin'. Cincinnati En-
quiSer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
,Tioket, sir" said the conductor.

tTicket, SIR" said the conductor.
,.My dear man," said the young
man. "my-er-face is my ticket"
The conductor smiled and looked
around at the young mans friends,
and then. in o polite and apologetic
manner, said, 'I beg your pardon,
ladies and gentlemen, but my orders
are to punch all tickets. and I'm afraid
I might destroy this ticket SO much
that / can't turn it mat the end oftho
run"
Here the young man colored redder
than his shirt, and hastily produced
his ticket amid shouts Of laughter
from his friends. -Harper's Round
Tab1e
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
In Doubt.

''Do my vocal lessons disturb you?'
asked the young woman with musical
ambitions.
"Not that know Of" replied the
truthful young man.
"Why, should think you'd know
if they did,"
"No. Since the dentist took the
front room on the first floor for an
office I can't tell whether you're prac-
ticing music or practicing his pro-
fession."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
TURNED THE JOKE.

He was delicate young man in o
pink shirt and duck trousers, both of
which he wore in pompous and con.
ceited manner. He was seated in the
train dangling his tennis racquet, and
busily amusing q number of bright
young ladies and gentlemen of his
party. =
"Ah, how goodl Here's The con.
duct0y. Watch me astonish him" ",..n.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
A TRUE GENTLEMAN.

Guest (of summer hotel, to proprie-
tor)-sYour head-clerk is one of the
most accommodating man 1 ever saw. :"
Proprietor-'I'm glad you think
so. What has he done for you2"
81 put $100 in the safe, and he let
me have So of it back. Life.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Perfectly Safe.

Mamma don't like the idea of
that young Harris hanging around
Jenny so much. He hasn't cent ex-
cept his little salary.
Papa-You needn't worry. They
are both too busy talking about bicy-
cles to have any time for !ove-making.
Indianapolis Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Photographs in SID ahes.

The new watch is to h. q phono-
graph cylinder hidden ~ y, and at
the hour and at each qnlEter of IN
hour tiny voice will be heard giving
you the exact time. You will simply
touch spring, hold the watch to your
ear, and the little fairy on the inside
will whisper the hour.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
Mummy Manufacture.

A method of mummifying the dead
by absorption OF humidity and gases
after the body is placed in the coffin
has been devised by an Italian named
Vercelloni. The body seems to be
preserved as if in life, eScspt that the
color is the yellowisu copper tint
peculiar to Egyptian muamies.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
CLOTHES AND THE MEN.

Van Arndt-"I bought golf oap
Yesterday"
Fonilworth-"What links are you
going to play on?"
"None. I'm going bicycling.
What are you doing with that cycling
sweater?"
sGoing out fishing" Truth.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
A GOOD OPENING.

sI'm going to move my business to
GreenviIle," said Pawl, the undertak-
er, to friend.
"Isn't the town we'll supplied with
undertakors?" asked the friend.
81 think not. There are only two
there now, while the place has twelve
physicians. PUCK.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
FLATTERING.

Funny Man (who has been initiating
animals)-"Well, what do you think
of my proficiency"
Jinks-"You can't fool me-"
"What do you mean?"
81 mean that braying like donkey.
There was no imitation about that.
That was the real article. Detroit
Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
A CASE OF HEREDITY.

smith-"Old DR.. Pills son is max.
ing ducks and brakes out of the for.
tune that his father left him, SO !
hear"
Jones-"Well, what else could you
expect? The old man was quack,
wasn't he?"-Judge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
THE REToRr COURTEOUS.

Dyer-"What is your business. may
I askP"
Booriah strapger-"I'm a gentle.
man, sir. That's my business.
Dyer-"Ah! You have failed, I
see" Truth.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-12
When 1t Hurts.

She looked at his new bicycle with
considerable interest.
'It's not very high" she said. 81
should think it would hurt to fall from
that"
'"It DOESN'T" he replied, terseiy.
'The falling off is perfectly harmless,
but it's different when you reach the
pavement. "-Chicago Post.