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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-10-09

II you could enter the homes OF this ma
tion and SEQ how hope deferred has msde
tho heart slck, ifyou could see the parents.
who. In hopes of better days. have planned
Cor the higher education of their children,
in order that the children might begin the
battle of life with great or advan tages than
their parents,bn who have been compelled
90 keep the children ~ home In order to
Keep tho wolf from tho door. you would
understand what the Goisistnndard means.
IL means q lower order of civilization, and.
tf continued. wo Will siDle down where the
few own all this wealth, and the many are
simply dopendent teuants. Mr. nryan at
Charlotte, M.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
CARELESS BACKS.

It is curious how many people dress
themselves as if they were paper dolls.
They have everything we'll arranged
and becomingly put on in front, while
the buck seems quite secondary con-
sideration. Yet neat-looking back,
with hair, neck ribbon, waistband,
bows, etc., all accurately and method
ically placed, is most attractive. 1t
seems hard to realize, in looking at
ones reflection in mirror, that the
reverse of the pictureis quite as much,
if not more, seen by the people IN
general, and that well dressed woman
should scan her back carefully by the
aid of a handglass before leaving hel
room. Hair particularly should be
especially studied at the back as atth
front, with the additional reason iol
care in that to very few women is il
given to possess pretty nape OF thf
neck, with the hair growing tidily
about it. SIT is the only place where
Nature shows herself bit of slower
she's apt to leave it unfinished,
said an artist critic, speaking of thi
particular spot. So 1t is we'll to le
| iudicious art supplement Nature a
this point, and to endeavor to make
| attractive.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
An Iilea In Parachutes.

An Italian aeronaut named Copazza
has invented two balloon attachment,
which are said to have fully realized
the expectations formed OF them. The
oneis an enormous parachute stretched
over balloon, and the other q folded
parachute hanging under the basket.
If the .aeronaut finds that his balloon
is rising too fast he opens the folded
parachute, which Immediately acts as
: huge air brake and eaectually re-
tards progress.
On the other hand, should the cir
vessel explode through expansion. fire,
Or any other cause, the top parachute
come into action and q descent may be
made without the slightest inconveni-
p1ca
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
FASHION NOTES.

The very pointed bodice is revival
of an old time fashion.
Asparagus fern is o particularly
decorative house plant.
Many hats are trimmed solely with
ribbon, not quill nor plume being
used. >,
A gold golf stick with perfect
pearl ball is the latest fashlonaoie
scarfpin.
The really modish girl adopts one
flower as her own, and never wears
any other.
Corduroy and many ether ribbed
materials are being used a great deal
in making up nobby fall suits.
Some of the prettiest autumn cal IS
are of dark brown broadcloth, edged
with sable and trimmed with brown
cord.
1t is the fashion to wear the most
unnatural-looking birds on hats. Some
of them are a combination of four or
five different species. The tails OF
two kinds are combined with the wings
of q third and the head and breast OF
n fourth. Mixtures of feathers are
also used, such as the plumage o.
birds OF paradise and ospreys, anc
owls heads with ieweled eyes anf
black and white quills.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
NEW WIDE BELTS.

Stiff belts are out of fashion. 80
are the narrow ones. 1t is the girdle
of velvet or ribbon that reigns. More
than half the new gowns this fall are
made with q girdle. The girdles are
wide and soft, and cling effectively to
the figure. Some of them are finished
at the back in bow, with long sash
ends. Others are shaped exactly like
butterfly.
Buttons are much used to trim the
girdles, but they must never be alike.
4 novel idea is the girdle OF three
folds of velvet, each fold being finished
at the left side with different button.
OF course, the buttons must be some
thing out of the ordinary, or they
cannot be used. There are other cir
dies which are finished at the side
with three or four bows, one above tht
other. -,
Then there is the girdle shaped like
n corseles and fastened up the from
with tiny, ieweled buttons. A stylist
girdle is made of straps OF double
faced satin ribbon, alternating will
bands of lace insertion over black rib
bon. Both lace and jet butterflies arr
used to ornament many of the ne7
girdles. When butterfly adorns tn
front OF n girdle, then the ribbon !
tied at the back in butterfly bow.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16

once heard many years ago that beauty
after fifty depended not on features,
but on character. Like all women, +
desired to be beautiful, and, as Provi-
dence had denied me the features
necessary to secure that result in carly
life, determined to make the attempt
to be beautiful at fifty. / am now
thirty-fve," she concluded, merrily,
"and 1 must confess that 1 see no signs
OF this Indian summer loveliuess, but
l still try to be good" These friends
treated the matter as jest, but there
is really sense and truth in the saying
that beauty in later life, in either man
or woman, is dependent upon charac.
ter for more than upon form or color.
1t is common experience for a young
woman to say: GLOW fine looking
Mrs. = is. She must have been q
beautiful girl" And to hear the re-
ply: "No: she was not nearly so good
looking in her youth as she is now.
Her beauty has developed with her
years. :" And it may have been OBJ
served that this is oftenest true of wo-
men of high character. Nobility will
tell upon the outward aspect. The
carriage OF the figure, the pose of the
head, the expression of the faee-these
come to reveal more and more with
the lapse of time the inner life. There
is something more than mere pretty
sentiment intended in that part OF
"The Little Minister" where we read
of the beautiful face that God gives to
all who love Him and follow His COM
mandments. Unselfshness, sincerity.
thoughtfulness, reinement-all of
these graces of character, which are
worth so much more than mere out
ward shape and color, lend their
charm TO those who have consistently
cherished them, until at fifty they may
really become beautiful.--The Church.
man.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16

the African Miles - 80 /" >e'' "Vo'-
600 a year by the close OF the century,
and he believes that they will be
profitable for years to come.
To-day all of the African mines must
be economically managed in order for
them to pay dividends. A great part
of the gold has TO go back into the
mine in the shape of machinery and
labor, and up to the present only
about one.ftth of the gold gotten out
has been clear profit. There are now
employed in this African gold district
5000 white men and 10000 blacks.
Wages are low, and everything is done
on the largest and most economleai
scale.
New mines are being discovered in
different parts of Australia, and a re.
cent report to our director of the mint
states that the gold fields there have
hardly been scratched. Some OF the
best mines of to-day arc in West Aus
tralia, in district where there is lit
tie water. In the Coolgardie go!G' re-
gion, for instance, water sometimes
brings as much as twenty-five cents
gallon, as thore are no great quant,
ties of water within 800 miles of the
gold fields. There is great gold rec
in this district. 1t was discovered by
two young men, who found o forty-fv'
ounce nugget sticking out of noun
tain of quartz. They took n bag o
nuggets off single claim and came
back to their camp loaded with gold
The Mercur mining district, south G
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
NEW SILK GOWNS.

The new taffetas show richer and
deeper coloring than those worn dur
ing the summer, and useful autumn
gowns are made of these which can be
worn all winter for house and recep-
tion gowns. Variety in making these
is almost exclusively confined to the
corsage, which takes every form that
the taste of the wearer or ingenuity Of
the dressmaker can devise. Skirts of
silk gowns can, with comfort, be wider
than those of heavy wool, anda quantity
novel gown of brown and prune
ehangeable silk has skirt in which
the back breadths are ungored and
are gauged to the belt quite across the
back the side breadths also are wider
at the top and have little punches of
gauging at the seams with. plain,
smoothly fitted spaces between. Dem
orest's Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
1HE YELLOW METAL
HOW AND WHERE GOLD is DIS
COVERED.
Curious Forms In which 1t is Found
Rich Deposits Scattered Every
where-Great Hoards in Ina
die-Eig Nuggets
: AM surprised at the stories 1
daily hear as to the new deyelop.

r AM surprised at tho stories
daily hear as to the new develop
ments of our gold territory,
& writes Frank g. Carpenter in the
Chicago Times-Herald. Old districts
are being reprospected, and Judging
from the results 1t is aafe to say that
the best of our mining regions have
not as yet been touched. The great
mountain chain running from Alaska
to Nicaragua seems to be an almost
unbroken mineral bed. Gold and sill.
yer are found in the continuation of
the chain in South America, and min
ers are working to-day at intervals all
along the western part of our hemi-
sphere from the Yukon River even to
Patagonia.
Most OF the gold which has made the
world rich in the past has come from
nuggets and from veins so large that
you could see them. The flood of the
precious metals which is now begin
ming to deluge the earth comes from
infnitesimal particles, SO scattered
through the rock that not "a CLEAN nor
CLINT Of them can be detected 10y the
naked eye. According to some scien-
fists this gold has been deposited in
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
A CALIFORNIA NUGGET.
(Actual size).
CHAMPION WOOLMAKER.
Dearest, Biggest and Wool.est Ram
on Earth just Sold for $S4OO.

Dearest, Biggest and wool.est Ram
on Earth just Sold for $S40O.
Bchold fine Likeness of the most
distinguished member of one of tho
most useful families in the world.
BE is the champion Merino ram
President, and was recently bought in
Sydney, New South Wales, for the
enormous price of $S4OO. This is be.
lieyed to be the largest price ever paid
for q ram. His championship is there
forsg an honor, which he claims from
the whole world. If any American
ram has any claims to make let him
step forward and state them.
1nsize and in quantity and quality
of wool he surpasses any ram now be-
fores the public. His horns are also
remarkable for size and symmetry,
and would make q fine household
ornament, but his owner hopes that
it will be long before they suffer that
fate, for the ram should have many
years of activity before him.
Tits not easy to decide which of the
many species of domestic animals is
the most valuable to man, but it is not
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4 - -
a new plan is being tried in Ohio
which threatens the extinction OF tho
old fashioned "deestrict school" In
Kingsvillc. Ashtabula County, there
were number OF small schools requir-
ing many teachers, entailing much ex-
pensey and which could not be prop
erly graded. The farmers of that Sec
ton studied the question, and then
applied to the Legislature for relief.
Five outlying school districts were
abandoned, with the agreement to
bring the pupils to the schools at the
centre of the town. Covered wagons,
completely inclosed on stormy days,
were provided, and arrangements made
with certain farmers to bring the chill.
dren each morning. The wagon held
from eighteen to twenty-five persons.
In two districts pupils were brought
four and half miles. In the other
three the longest trip was three and a
half miles. Theconyeyance both ways
cost from nincty-fve cents to $1.05 q
day for each wagon. As result the
expense OF education in that district
has been reduced from an average OF
500. rs per CAPITA to S12.25. The at
tendance has been much better than
under the old plan; there has been
less sickness among the children, their
feet and clothing being kept dry in
stormy weather; teachers are better
paid and of c. higher grade; and the
improved tef.ching would be main
tanned even il it cost as much as the
old plan. The scholars reach the
schoolhouse at nine o'clock and leave
at four, with the usual noon recess.
The plan is being tried in other parts
of Ohio, and one by one the s'little
red school houses" are being deserted
formore commodious buildings farther
apart, loss to pleasant memories o.
the old, but great gain to the rising
generation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16

an intense heat, the gold would bub-
BILE out and stand up like little gold
pin heads upon the dark stone. Gold
in its natural state is usually mixed
with silver. The new Utah gold de-
posits are associated with arsenic. IL
the Mercur mine you find the yellow
ore IN connection with quicksilver,
and in South America it is sometimes
mixed with bismutb.
/ have spent some time watching the
placer miners in different parts OF the
West Placer mining was the chief
source OF gold production in the days
of 1S49. 1t is still carried on, but the
oatput is much less than in the past
The chief placer mines OF to, day are IN
Siberia, where the earth has some
times TO be dug up in frozen state
and melted before the gold can be ex.
traeted. This is the case III some oil
the Yukon River mines. The fact that
there is gold placer is evidence that
there is goid-bearing rock near by,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
HEATING PLANT WINDOWS.

On cold nights people having win.
dows full of plants get apprehensive.
They get out an oil stove and let it
burn all night in the room where the
PLANS are kept. It gives no smoke or
smell and they fancy it does no harm.
Flame, even if clear and without
smoke, must give out productions OF
combustion, and these are fatal to
plants. What then shall we do9 Have
tall chimney to your oil stove. Not
q little glass thing, but sheet iron
chimney six feet high, or as high as
the top of the roomss and connect it
with the chimney or let it go through
the roof of the bay window. Such a
sheet iron chimney will radiate great
deal of heat so that the products of
combustion will escape almost cold.
This Is the theory of ell the oil heat
ing stoves-a large heating surface
above the fame. But the important
point is, that such stoves should have
connection with the outer air, or
with the house -ohimney.7New Eng.
land Homestead.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16

Z
Within the last twenty-five years it
has become evident, observes the New
York Advertiser, that hypnotic force.
if dimly understood, is yet as real q
force as electricity; that only length
of time and persistence in experiment
are necessary to unfold the laws which
govern its workings. Even in this day
it is not entirely severed in the minds
of many persons from charlatanism.
Because, it has been associated with
numerous frauds they reject it as
spurious. There is excuse for this
prejudice. The best attested phenom-
enon of hypnotism wears on air OF i'm
probability.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
GOLD CRYSTALS cTUAL E)


Salt Lake, is also affected by the lac X
of water, but this has been remedied
by forcing water ever the mountains
from n stream on The other side. The
parties who own the waterworks have
fortune in them. Water, in fact,
costs SO much in Mercur that the mills
using it do not allow the steam to
escape, but run it oil into pipes mp the
mountain. AS the steam strikes the
cold pipe it condenses aud flows back
So that it Gun be used again.
An enormous amount of gold of the
world is locked up in India. During
visit 10 that country IL lew yesrs ago
] found that gold had gone out of cir
crIlatiou. The people seemed misern-
bly, poor, but they had quantities of
jewelry. Girls dressed in cotton often
wore gold anil silver bracelets and
anklets, and many bmre ooted girl
had gold rings and god hells on her
toes. For ages the East Indians have
been oppressed. They have not dared
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16

respect upon this magnificent ram and
the abundant coat which envelopes
him. Sborn of this once year he
will supply hundreds OF human beings
with warm and comfortable clothipA
From his wool will be woven the coats
which cover the backs of statesmen,
of dandies and hornyhauded sons OF
toll, and also the more intimate gar.
ments which lie next to the skin and
preserve them from the deadly cold.
he will also have part in furnishing
bloomers to the new woman.
Not only will he personally yield all
this wool, but he has already founded
large family of sheep who will COM
pete with him in usefulness. kams
never fail to do their duty in this re-
spect.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
PLACER GOLD FROM THE BLACK HILLS.

Pekin and, and is there melted down
into small bars of about the size OF the
little cakes known as lady fingers. 1t
is almost pure, often running over
twenty karats in fipeness. 1t Is cast
in this small shape in order that it
may be boarded and easily passed
from hand to hand. The oth-
cials, who in many cases make for
times out OF their Offices, buy these
gold bars and secrete them. They do
not dare to put their money into the
banks. for fear that their brother Off.
cials may discover their wealth and
con6scate it. The result is that such
gold bars will bring two per cent.
q more in Pekin than they will in
Shanghai. There are said to be more
than 100 places in China where gold
is found. In Mongolia there are
number OF mines. and in the south
western part Of the empire there
are gold workings which are 100 feet
deep.
A great part of the gold of both
japan and China comes from Korea.
The Korean mines are said to be very
rich. Korea is mountainous, and
nearly all OF its mountains contain
minerals. During my visit to the
country eight years ago our American
minister told me that he believed the
gold product amounted to So, OOO,o ooo
q wear. General Clarence Greathouse,
the American foreign adviser TO the
king. described the mines as very
yalueble, and foreign merchants
showed me quilts of gold dust and lit,
tie nuggets which had been brought
to them by the people. Sc far nearly
all OF the gold gotten out of Korea
has come from placer washings. There
are few quartz mines, but these are
worked in the crudest of ways. The
loose rock is pried out with picks ol
crow bars. When such means fall g
fire is built upon the rock, and wher
it is hot water is thrown upon 1T to
crack it. After the ore is gotten out
it is crushed between two stones, the
under stone being fiat and the upper
one somewhat round, so that it can be
rolled backward aud forward over the
ore, crushing.1t. After it is crushed
the metal is saved 10y hand panning
No Jumps are used, and blasting pow
der and dynamite are practically un
kno'Sp. There il no quicksilver tc
gather the gold, and in all probability
the most of 1t goes to waste, The
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16

] 1t is bad policy to rent land where
it can by any possibility be bought. A
really good farmer is sure to leave the
farm he occupies in better condition
than he found it, and in this country.
nnless q special bargain is made, the
man who has made the improvements
gets no benefit thereby, except as he
has made it while occupying the farm.
This matter is managed much better in
Ireland, declares tho Boston Guilt.
vator, where for number of years the
law requires that the landlord shall
pay to the tenant the value OF the i'm
prbyements made. Renting land is
much more common in Ireland and
England than it is in the United
States. 1t is also trus that in Eu.
ropean countries land under cultiva-
tion is moro apt 10 improve than it is
in the United States. Heretofore in
deed there has been little occasion for
laws to reimburse the renter for in
crease of value in the farm from which
he had been for several years taking
off TIE cream of fertility. Probably
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feeling OF deep Rratincasion tusS sAo
accented the henor he had done her,
and hoped that she would always faith
fully preserve the traditions of good
housekeeping, etc. He was nearly
dead with exhaustion when he reached
the postscript, which read: "You are
so full of politics, thought it might
please you to be accepted like the can
didates accept their Presidential nom
nations. ."--Atchison Globe.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
NEW UTENSILS,

Bread roasters and broilers made OF
fine wire and steel rods have MEETINGS
which prevent the blaze from reaching
and charring the goods. Strong glass
has superseded tin for measuring and
mixing utensils, and they are, of
course, much easier to wash than the
old fashioned ones, besides being less
likely to impart a metallic flavor to
the goods. Flat irons have nickel
plated surfaces, which will not rust.
Asbestos handles are part of all up-to-
date cooking utensils and keep the
hands from being scorched. Pals and
even dishpans are made of heavy
pspier mache.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-16

to loan their money for fear they
would lose it, and they have preferred
to put it into ornaments. This GUS
tom prevails to-day, even though
there is now under the English secur-
ity Of property. Among the chief
hoarders are the Indian raiahs, who
wear the most expensive of jewelry. I
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have shown great skill.
N:-- Grille. c

Queen Victoria purchases almost
every new book of note published, and
her expenditure on literature OF oil
sorts is over $4,000 per annun.
A sneater bonnet law has recently
gone into effect in New Orleans, which
allows the wearing of "opera hats"
but forbids the wearing of high hats.
Empress Eugene is said to have
made her will, leaving the bulk OF her
fortune to her goddaughter, Princess
Beatrice of Battenberg's little daugh-
ter Eugene.
Mrs. Buckner, the wife Of the can
didate OF the National Democracy for
Vice. President, was one of the most
famous bellies of Virginia before her
marriage, twelve years ago.
Miss Eliza Talcott, who has been a
missionary in Japan for twenty-five
wears and acted as nurse in the jap
anese army during the war with China,
is visiting her old home in Rockville,
Conn.
Princess Helene, OF Montenegro,
who is to marry the Grown Prince OF
Italy, is q poet, and many OF her verses
have been set to music and are snns
by the peasants in oil parts OF the
principally.
Many girls at present are having
freckles removed from their arms by
means OF electricity. They dldn't
mind the freckles in the bathing sea-
son, but for parties and dinners the
little brown spots are not desirable.
The Queen of Italy when stopping
in the little Alpine village OF Ores
soney, dresses in the pretty scarie
costume of the peasant women. She
delights in the inuumerable Alpine
walks and scrambles that abound oil
every hillside.
Nine. Nilssen has had worked on
sn ingenious idea in her Madrid home
che walls of her bedroom are paperee
, with leaves of music from the opera
in which she has sung and the dining
room is papered with the hotel bill
che has collected during her journey
, around the world.