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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1896-12-09

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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1896-12-09

Meltere Der 8eiben, ,fparam Du ir1msr
eerobe auf biefer 8ant iiben piuit,
Sberefinas"
.aDeil id ba bDr Sabren bic fnms
merpDlIite Gtunbe metnes 2ebens BET.
braht bdbe." eripiberte bas jun9e
ffDne Mdb1en, bas tpie bic dlfers
Trau biirgerlih einfad gefleibet mar.
.Meine Mutter bate mid an ienem
Sage, i1 mar eben fieben Sabre gefpprs
ben, na9 MpnacD mitsenommen. I'm
meiner Saufpatbin einen8efua gu n,as
den. DieIe f9enfte mir elm &Drbhen
bon Blumen unb elm 3ipanaissTrancss
itiid, bamit icb mir etne rDtbe ieibene
Blou1e, lGngf mein 9eraenstpunih,
bafiir faufen follte. Sd ipar iibergliid@
lid unb lisb bas Golbftiid ni4t aus
Der 6anb. Gs mar Naht eeiporbeu.
meine Mutter bate npa einen notb=
ipenbisen geIddftlihen@ans 81 MAIDEN
unb i9 erfldrte, au miibe gu fein, INN
mitangeben. @p 1ebte fie MIDI auf biele
Banf, nit benz Nuftrage, ibre Riid=
febr abautparten. 8alb fdlummerte i9
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berIhpunben, itatt befelben lag ein
@tideben tpeibes papier in meinem
S1oob. S9reienb unb tpeineno laufe
id lumber, Bis meine Mutter fomn,t
unb mid raid auf bic @iienbabn
bringt 5ur 9eimfnbrt. Sd babe MIDI
tpodenlans nidt trDIten fDnnen."
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por Mufredung eritidter Stimme. Die
beiben syrauen tparen niht ipenis ers
5droden unb offenbdbr berbinberte tie
nur Der Sareden am Danonlaufen.
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fen, berpor unb legte es in meine9ano.
seber 3peifel mar ausgeidlohen.
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Oiebitabl peraeiben9"
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leate9" rief bas WGb4en bon bDhiten
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nommenes Darleben. @eben sic einem
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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1896-12-09

Naip. Mabame (ju tinem
RinbermGb6tn, bds Ne tngaeiren
mill): x0erIttb<u Gie benn aud, nit
Rinbtrn uHl5igtben3~ MSb&en:
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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1896-12-09

NuUShSH xu0S8 sDuS 0AuI <%bt9nA wv
sereiit.
lleber elm sSabr lang b1rte iG ni4ts
bon ibm. Oa erbielt i1 zines 9ages ei<
ne Oepef4e bon ibm aug Ni3aa. sd
permGble MIDI babier am Is. If. Mfs.
nit Der Niaaaer Raufmdnnsto9ter
9berelind 8albi. Me1ne auf Did als
9rauaeusen. Brief folst. Mrtbur.4
Der Snbalt bes 1riefes mar fOIsen<
ber: .Qieber. tbeurer Ssreunb! sd bin
erl0f, th BIN namenlos gIiidli9, meine
Shulb ipirb getilst, in Der fiibeften
Msi{e setilgt, inbem mir Elm engstgleiz
DIES Wtsen fein 6er5 unb feline 6anb
{henft. Da ibr @tonb Elm GinberniB
gtboten bGtte, babe ih nit btn n1hiten
Mnip6rter duf bic 6tanbesberrfHdft,
Lnter Wer5iHt duf Dieie. ein Mbtoms
men getrofftn unb Der Raiier bat mir
erlaubt, meinen Namen in ben zines
Orofen b. airhen az Gnbern. Sd
ipoIlie meine 1berefind nidt ouf bic
linfe 0anb beirotben. unb nun bore,
ipie ipunberbor bic Wege ber Worfe<
bung aud in bieftnt Jnlle fpnren. gs
aos mid biefen Winter ipieber sinndl
iDie nit mdgnetii9en Rrdfttn ndn Der
Ribitrd. Ndtiirlid3 fu9e i@dlonato ouf
urb isbe mid ipie fdbon 70 Dft auf bie
8dnf. no mid b1s wtrbdngnib credit
bate. b1s mein Qeben fD Idn9e berbii<
jfsrtt. Dd ipmnsen 3lpti GrdueS,, cine
dItIi@s unb cine jllu0efe, unb itbH 7d5
euf biejslfe 8dnl.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
THE GULF STREAM.
Flows Like River from the Gulf of
Nya~ioo

FLOWS Like q River from tne Ouli Ol
Mexico.
The curious point is made by writer
in The Scientific American that, ii a
channel OF sufficient size and depth
were cut from the Caribbean sea to the
Pacific ocean, the gulf stream would
no longer flow across the Atlantic and
warm the shores of Europe but would
pour into the Pacific ocean. The is
lands forming the Caribbean sea act
on the principle Of breakwater or
dam, holding the water that has been
forced into the sea by the tides and
trade winds, and cause the water to
be higher in that sea and turn
it into the Gulf of Mexico, which
becomes the reservoir or fountain
tain-head, whence the guilt stream
flows like river from lake, being
the equalizer of water as well as hest,
and making its way in the direction Of
the greatest deficiency Of that els-
ment. Further, the warmth of this
wonderful stream is accounted for ty
the fact that its waters are supplied
from the tropics, the tide waves acting
ON the principle of an eddy, SO it has
counter currents also, this theory rest
ing upon the assumption that the
water is higher on the east than on
the west side of the isthmus of Pana-
ma; and, the continent of America
being the great dam in the ocean that
forms the gulf stream, by placing the
continent of America so that it would
lie east and west, there would be no
gulf stream.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
Artificial Scenting OF Flowers.

Flowers that have lost something OF
their perfume, says London Public
Opinion, are now scented artifcially
by watering them with an alcohol so.
luton of essence, using little gly-
cerin to fix the odor; thus, for violets
the liquid is composed of 100 grams
of glycerin and ten grams of essence
of violet. In many places, while scent
ed violets are comparatively rare, the
unscented kinds grow wild in great
profusion. These are now bought up
in large quantities, scented arti6eially.
and put into the market in advantage
ous competition with the perfumed vio.
Ieta grown by the horticulturists.
Out flowers which have wilted from
time or transportation are revived by
being plunged into weak solution of
sal ammoniac. Flowers which have
little or no scent are also periumetl.
for sale by being put into box with
ice, and then saturated with current
of csrhonio seid charged with per-
fumv, Il,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
Why Kissing is Pleasant.

The reason kissing is SO pleasant,
says an oscu atory expert OF scientific
tendencies, is because the teeth, jaw
bones and lips are full of nerves, and
when the lips of persons meet an elec-
trio current is generated-and, chips
in a facetious contemporary, you
don't have to have dynamo ma chine
or a battery in the house, or a call
box, or tuition to touch to ring up
the central Office, and there is no
patent on it, and the poorest person
in the world can enjoy the electric
current better than the millionaire,
and it neve- gets out of order. If
Edison had invented kissing it would
cost 500 year, like the telephone,
and then extra kissing would be
charged up extra, and ii you didn't
pay for it they would take out your
kissaphone and disconnect you from
The central ofiice.-Nsw York Tols.
Eram,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
He Was Too Lazy to Live.

One OF the LATEST men Iowa has yet
produced died recently in the Fort
Madison penitentiary as a result of
his attempt to escape labor. A con.
vict, named Airport, eeveral months
ago cut off one OF his fingers to keep
from working, but the injury soon
healed and he had to resume work
again. Of late he had worked but
little, always being done before noon,
but he concluded he would not work
at all, and to keep from it he inflicted
an injury upon himself which had a
result more fatal to him than he prob
ably anticipated. Recently to es-
cape work he poured quantity of
very strong lye on his arm, end the
result was sore as big as a mans
hand. But the lye was so strong that
it ate its way into the flesh and de-
stroyed the blood vessels The result
was lockjaw, from which he died yes
terday mornlng,-Fort Madison Qowa)
Democrat.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
Electric Railway Novelty.

A novel plan of making "one hand
wash the other" as the old proverb
has it, is a combination of electric
trolley and storage battery in opera
ton upon suburban railway in Han
over, where, after long trial, it has
been adopted. Electric accumulators
are placed beneath the seats of the
cars. The road is equipped with troll
lev wires and motors on one section
only.
While the car is travelling over the
trolley section the accumulators are
charged, receiving current through
the came feed wire as the trolley.
When the end of the trolley is reached,
which is at the city limits, within
which the overhead wires are prohib-
tied, the car continues on its way
over a track that was formerly used
as a horsecar line, relying absolutely
for power upon the electric energy
stored in the accumnlators during
the trip over the trolley road.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
wreck-Proof Mail Car.

One of the latest and most COM
mendable improvements made by
Uncle Sam is robDer and wreck
proof mail car, which has just been
put into service upon some Of the east
ern roads. Heretofore when there has
been wreck, the mail car being the
frailest GER on the train, was most fre-
quently the one smashed to splinters,
and the unfortunate mail clerks mad
one chance in hundred of escaping
even in badly battered condition.
The death roll of railway clerks for
the past twenty years mounts up into
the hundreds, and scores of men have
been crippled for life in wrecks, be.
cause the mail car couldn't Withstand
the shock of collision as well as the
passenger coaches. The new car is
designed to withstand almost any
shock. They have no platforms at the
ends, and the framework of The car is
of tough, yellow pine, lined with
sheets of steel. The end parts of the
cars are framed with angles of iron,
and the whole structure is model of
strength, impervious to the bullets of
train robber and constructed to re-
sist to the last degree the rending
force of collision. If it proves sue
cessful, the government will at least
have recognized the dangerous posi-
tion of its mail clerks, who have here
tofore carried their lives in their hands
almost while at work on the road.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
A Remarkable Cat.

Frank Briggs, North Dakota's pop
ular Auditor, has lost his cat. Mr..
Briggs and family feel the loss keen
ly; it has been in the family for for.
ty-two years, having been present to
Mr.. Briggs's father when kitten. It
was originally white cat, but since
living in Msndan it changed color
every time the house was painted and
at the time of its disappearance was
yellow, with white trimmings. It wore
side whiskers and sand-burrs in its
black hair, with changeable tail. A
big scar adorns one hip, which it got
in the Civil War the night it slept in
the cannon. There was either some
misunderstanding about the time OF
starting the cannon or the cat over
slept, and it struck tree three miles
in the country, and was lame for a
week. 1t has always borne good char
acter, was amiable, modest and always
seem satisfied with Mandan mice or
meat market liver.
Two years ago it fell in with bad
dog and lost some of the expression on
its left side, but no one ever blamed
the cat in the matter, and the dog
didn't live long enough to be blamed.
When Mr.. Briggs moved from Mandan
to Bismarck few weeks ago he car.
ried the furniture and Mrs. Briggs car
ried the cat in a large basket. Every.
thing went well until the bottom
dropped out of the basket, and the cat
fastened away and has not been seen
since. Mr.. Briggs's friends are doing
everything in their power to assist him
in recovering the cat. His Office hours
for inspection of stray cats is from
to 4; they are brought and sent to
him from all parts of North and South
Dakota, and he has opened up o
branch Office in Montana, the manager
of which is now confined to his room
from too close inspection OF wild cat
brought In by cowboy. San Fran
cisco Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
PI'TH AND POINT.

The very suggestion of horseless
,ircus gives us pain. West Union
Gazette.
The mind of man runneth not to
the contrary SO much as the mind of
woman.-Puck.
The leap year girl should learn to
pay the bills like o little man. Phil
adelphia Record.
A little girl who thinks she has too
many dolls is as hard to find as man
who thinks he has too many dollars. -
Puck.
saint yez me pertickeler frind,
Casey, me boy?" Donovan, me good
man, an if Oh was pertickeler, OF
wouldn't be yure frind l"-Life.
Skinner-"I Mr.. Laylow one of
your permanent boarders9" The
Landlady-"He is. I told him he
couldn't leave until he paid up
Life.
May-"Twish I had lived in Shakes
peare's time" Belle-"Why?" May
-"I would have gotten him to write
some nice verses in my autograph al.
bum. Truth.
Saleswoman-"Isn't the cashier an
awful fooll" Floor Walker-"Why"
"Ssleswoman-"Why, she gets S1OO a
month and is going to get married. "
Chicago Record.
Mrs. Upton Greene (who has been
watching an Italian collect cigar
stumps) )-"Dear mel I've heard OF
this mania for collecting things, but
that's carrying fad too far Puck.
When a young man calls on girl
and does not compliment her, she
thinks he is mean, and ii he does
compliment her, she says she does not
believe o word he says.-Atchison
Globe.
81 DECLARE" said Bella, sweetly,
"your thoughts run exactly in unison
with mine, Augustus. had those
very words in my mouth" eyes, and
I saw him put them there, too," said
little Johnny, who had seen the kiss
ing going on.-London Telegraph.
Aunt Dorothy-"How many COM
mandments are there, johnny"
Johnny (glibily)-"Ten." Aunt Dor
oth-"And now, suppose you were to
break one of theml" Johnny (tenta.
| tiyely)-"Then there'd be nine. -
Truth.
oas<sasea Wig Ke-sslaa We think it-isae re
harm to steal melons from another
mans patch is because he planted the
seeds with the expectation of losing
half of the fruit by thieves. There is
sort of mutual understanding at the
very beginning, you see.-Detroit
Free Press.
Bostonian-"1t is fortunate thing
for the English language that these
distressing accident on the trolley
roads occur in Brooklyn and Philadel-
phia, where the reporters have ample
time to write, instead Of in our city.
New Yorker-"Why?" Bostonian-
"Because your reporters would refer
to the victims as having been trolley.
cuted. "EHarper's Bazaar.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
MUCH IN LITTLE.

The fly shuttle was invented by John
Kay, of Bury, England, in 173S.
London has 1880 miles of streets.
Paris has six hundred miles of streets.
India has now become, next TO Chi
na, the largest tea growing country.
Railway laborers in Holland average
from 36 cents to 10 cents per day.
In 1886 Davenport, of Vermont,
built an electric railway in Springfield,
Mass.
Jutland was originally Juteland, or
the land of the Jutes, Gothic tribe.
The total mineral production of
Mexico for the last fiscal year was
S71, ,261, 900.
In oil mythology and folklore white
flowers are supposed to spring from
tears.
Bohemia was so called because it
was settled by the Boil, q tribe of
Germans.
The mail services of the world are
nearly all maintained by British built
vessels.
Besides her plague of rabbits, Aus
tralia is now threatened with plague
of foxes.
Cabinet makers in Florence receive
48 cents to 6S cents per day.
Asia had its name from the Sanscrit
word Ashas, signifying Gland of the
dawn"
The London Carlton Club has about
1000 members and is the richest in
the world.
About one.third of the butter i'm
ported into Great Britian last year
came from Denmark.
1t is said that 1852 trains arrive at
and leave Chicago daily, about one
fourth being freight trains.
The Swiss government made profit
of about 2O0,0O pounds last year on
its monopoly in spirits.
In the north of England public
houses are practically empty during
the great football matches.
A Knoxville Tenn, firm has received
an order for 100000 pounds of dried
apples for the German army.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
THE Story OF THE WOOD.

What said the Wood in the FIRE
To the little boy that night
The little boy OF the golden hair,
as he rocked himself in his little armchair
When the blaze was burning bright?
The Wood said "See
What they've done to me!
stood in the forest, beautiful tree,
And waved my branches from east to west,
And many a sweet bird built its nest
In my leaves Of green
That loved to lean
In springtime over the daisies breast!
"From the blossomins dells
Where the violet dwels
The cattle came with their clanking bells
And rested under my shadows sweet;
And the winds that went over the clover and
wheat
Told me all that they knew,
OF the flowers that grew
In the beautiful meadows that dreamed at
my feet!
"And the wild winds caresses
Oft rumpled my tresses;
But sometimes, as oft as mothers hp
presses
On the brow of the child Of her bosom, 1t
laid
Its lips on my leaves, and I was not afraid
And listened, and heard
The small heart of each bird
As it beat in the warm nest the mother had
made!
"And in the springtime sweet faces
OF myriad graces
Came beaming and cleaning from fowery
places;
And under my grateful and ioy-siving shade
With cheeks like primroses the little ones
played;
And the sunshine in showers
Through all the bright hours
Bound their beauteous ringlets with silvery
braid.
"And the lightning
Came Frightening
From far skies, and frightening
1uc MduucIluS plIuS tllal W0I0 loSSOu py laS
breeze,
And tilted like ships on black, billowy seas
But they few to my breast.
And rocked them to rest,
While the trembling vines clustered AM
clung at my knees!
"But how soon" said the Wood,
"Fades the memory Of good!
Though with shelteriag love and sweet kind
ness stood,
The forester came with his az cleaning
bright,
And fell like q giant all shorn of hi!
might?
Yet still there must be
Some sweet mission for me;
For have not warmed you and cheerei
you tonight"
So said the Wood-to the fire
To the little boy that night
The little boy Of the golden hair,
As he rocked himself in his little armchair
When the blaze was burning bright.
F. L. Stanton, in Chicago Times-Herald
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
A Message From the Gale.

G. E. Borchgrevink, the Norwegian
explorer, has an article in the Century
describing "The First Landing on the
Antarctic Continent" The following
is an extract:
When the swell is heavy in TIE ice
pack it is often very difficult to ascer-
tain from which direction it comes;
and just as difficult as it is, just SO i'm
portant may it be that it should be
found out rightly, as the safety of the
ship might wholly depend upon cor
rect judgment Us to this. When the
huge ice masses begin to move and
screw and press on the sides of the
vessel, rising and falling in heavy
swell, hensthere is only one escape
namely, to work the vessel into, the
fields away from the side from whi:h
the gale blows. A mistake as to the
direction of the running swell has Of
ten proved fatal, and the mistake is
easily made.
An old Arctic sailor tells me how, in
5urs of dread in the Arctic ice-pack,
ne had laid his ear down to the ice
foe and listened to the roar of the
coming swell-that terrible message
from the furious gale-and how he
thus had discovered whence the gale
was pressing, and had been able 10
save the ship from Destruction. 1.lI o!
tried his method, and found that il
worked admirably. What is well worth
noticing is that opeI water nearly 81
ways is to be found in the ice-pack
on one side of icebergs. The icebergf
that we met were generally in motion,
carried onward by the ruling current
often they ran forward in the ice fields
at speed of several knots, piling up
the huge foes before their cold, gilt
tering bows; but behind them they
left an open sheet of water large
enough for any ship.
Now, there would of course be many
dangers for a vessel tugged along il
the ice-pack by such floating mon
ster; but 1 believe, nevertheless, thai
this method might be instrumental II
saving vessel from being crushed
when the ice field is moving heavily
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
SINCE YESTERDAY.
The marvis sang but yesterday
A strain that thrilled through Autumn's


The maryis sang but yesterday
A strain that thrilled through Autumn
dearth;
He read the music OF his lay
In light and leaf, and heaven and earth
The windHowers by the wayside swung,
Words of the music that was sung.
In all his song the shade and sun
or earth and heaven seemed to meet,
It's Joy and sorrow were rs one.
Its very sadness was but sweet;
He sang of summers vet to be;
You listened to his song with me.
The heart makes sunshine in the rain,
Or winter In the midst of May,
And though the mavis sings again
His self-same song Of yesterday,
I find no gladness in his tone;
To-day I listen here alone.
And-even our sunniest moment takes
Such shadows of the bliss VIC knew
To-day his throbbing song awakes
But wistful, haunting thoughts OF you;
Its very sweetness is but sad,
You gave it all the JOY it had.
A. st. ]. Adcock, in Chamoers's Journal.