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egular Stock.
 We never tire of telling you of our $Io. % Suits. They are all right in every particular thoroughly tailored, fashionable cut and striking in appearance.
 BICYCLE CLOTHING--Belts. Pants, Sweaters, etc. Sweaters 4oe, z5c and up to Ss4.
 CLOTHING (Pickwiels)--A man is not "out of proportion" simply because he IS extra stout. or extra sllm. He is only al different model of man. Dress either figure in clothing that fits and you have a symetricat form. Our 'Pickwick" clothing is de signed especially for the hard to-ft. It is an independent branch of the business and is brought up to a degree of perfection not sur passed by the best tailors.
 "Pickwick9 suits of Cheviot in stout, short, stout slim, extra long and cadet shapes. S1o to SI7.5o
 BOYS SUITS-All wool Cheviot knee pants suits in great variety at St5o, $f.75, s, S2.5o and s.
 Genuine Clay Worsted knee pants suits in black, also slate shades, $50.
 BOYS KNEE PANTs-Boy's Gheviot pants. 25c. Boys Select Cheviot knee pants with parent waist band, 50c. Boys select Wor- sted knee pants with patent waist band. Toe. Boys washable duck pants. 20e.
 BOYS WAfSTS-Percale waists pleated front and back, ! to 15 years. 25c. Koy's printed waists, to l4 years. be. Mothers Friend waists in new design. 50e and 75c.
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Mr. J. W. Crockett was q visitor 10 the city yesterday.
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styles s. S 6tansb ronla ast BOYS SIfOESCace Dngoa Boys see Boys spring heel 2I,S2
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-05-26
Johnson's Chill and Fee
yer Tonic is a OME-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of Fever in
n Hours.
BREEDING LoBSTERS.
How the Supply is Kept up on the New
England Coast.

How the Supply is Kept up on the New
England Coast.
One ten-inch lobster will produce
about 10000 eggs, and an eighteen-inch
one will yield about $4,000 eggs. When
a female lobster is caught early in the
spring she is stripped of her eggs and
allowed to return to her native ele-
ment. The eggs are then put into Nc
Donald Matching jars, where they are
kept under the conditions essential to
their growth. A constant stream Of
pure sea water, heSted to the proper
temperature, is forced into the jar, and
as this Genes in with considerable
force, it keeps the eggs bobbing up and
down. The water passes through the
top into tank or other jars. The
eggs are heavy and have tendency to
sink to the bottom, and it is only the
force of the water that keeps them well
stirred up. When the young Holsters
hatch out, they float upwards and are
carried by the water into another YES
sci.
The young lobsters are very small
at first and swim about near the sur
face of the water in large colonies. AS
they increase in size and weight, how
ever, they gradually subside and sport
around less in the sunlight. In time
they crawl around on the bottom al
most entirely, eating the dead fish fed
to them. At this age they can slip
through the sides of the lobster-pots,
and fishermen rarely see them.
When the Holsters are large enough
and the season far enough advanced,
they are turned loose in the bays ar,l
coves along the coast. AS they are
protected by law from the fishermen
until they are over ten inches in
leagth, they have only the ordinary
enemies of the sea to encounter. The
greatest danger is from their own race
and blood. A mother lobster does not
hesitate to eat her young ones when
laey get old enough to crawl about. an
cd lobster considers young one a
special delicacy, and it is only the SUI
perior agility of the little fellows that
prevents them from being devoured by
the thousands. Even as matters stand.
a good percentage of them fall prey to
their older kindred. When they can
not catch young Holsters, the Old ones
live OH clans, fish and other food.
Although the lobster hatchery is To-
Gated at Woods Hell, Mass, the eggs
can be and are shipped to various
points along the coast. Through years
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are almost as effective. One ladvan-
tage of this style of bed is that 1t goes
equally we'll with any kind of furnish
ing that is in good taste. Mahogany
is just as desirable for bedroom furni-
ture as for the parlor or dining-room,
but the choice of wood has wide
range.
One of tho most satisfactory woods
for the bedroom, aud 1t is very fash.
iopable just at present, is the curled
or bird's-eye maple. This has strength
and lightness and takes fine finish.
Better than silks and lsces for hang
ings and decorations are the neat fig
urei chintzes that can be had in be-
wildering variety at the present time.
If the rest of tfe furnishings will
harmonize, the blue and white colonial
drapery is the best of all. All OF the
coloring should be bright, and the
pictures most suitable are colonial
prints in gilt frames, if one cannot
afford oils or water colors.
The house designed in this article is
heated by hot air, which, though con-
demned by this association Of archi-
tects for the heating of city houses,
for suburban use, in small houses,
costing up to $4,000 to build, is very
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Flour 81 Il Pound.

The steamer Mexico arrived from
Alaska at daylight this morning.
Two days before sailing from Juneau
Hugh Day, the mall.carrier from
juneau to Circle City, returned from
the round trip, which he made in four
months. He brought out 500 letters.
He says that many miners, blinded by
the glamor of gold, are going to
Clondyke without provisions, and star
yation is almost certain.
According to reports he brings, flour
at Circle City is selling at 81 per
sack. At Clondyke there is none pro-
curable at any price less than $50 q
sack, or 81 pound, and then only
when freighted in from some other
point. A man named Mckay took
down o small quantity from Peily,
which was eagerly bought up at $40.
At Forty Mile, dog feed consisting
of ham SO rotten it can not be boiled
indoors, but must be cooked in the
open air because of the stencil, is
sold fer forty cents a pound.-Port
Townsend Wash. dispatch to the San
Francisco Chronicle.
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MEASUREMENT OF THE STRETCH AND THE LEFT Foor
ment, remains virtually the same
through Life.

ment, remains virtually the same
through Life.
The measurements OF the head are
taken viii % the subject is still seated,
and are read off on pair of calipers
provided with graduated are. In
taking the length the left point of the
calipers is held at the root of the nose
and the right point is brought down
over the lack of the head. The thumb
screw is tnen frightened and the meas
urement checked by passing the H.
strument again over the head. Ihe
width OF he head over the cheeks ls
taken in the same wsy.
The mel surement OF the foot staken
with casiper rule somewhat similar
to that rsed by o shoemaker. The
subject is placed on the stool, standing
on his left foot and steadying himself
as shown in the illustration. The
graduated stem is placed against the
inside of ;he foot with the fixed arm
in contra,t with the heel, and the
sliding ar is then brought in tightly
against tn toe. Care is taken as before
to check the reading.
In mea ,uring the left middle and
little fingt RS, the back of the caliper
rule is u,ed, two small projections
being provided on the fixed and sliding
arms. Tie finger to be measured is
bent at right angles to the back OF the
hand, anil the measurement is taken
from the tip of the finger to the
knuckle, is shown.
The m. .asurements being all taken,
the next nalysis is that of the feat
ures of thu face. AS these are liable
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passed. The great diversity of dimen-
sicn which the skeleton shows in diff
ierent su ojects. and the facility and
precision with which it may be meas
ured, rem der this means of Identified.
tion by Jar the most reliable that
could be adopted. Increasing age
and mutt alton will produce changes
in the fet tures, but.they cannot affect
the measurements of the frame. The
analysis of the features of the face,
and the sscription and localization of
scars upon the body, add their accum-
ulated te stimony to the enchanting
record of the measuring apparatus.
/ The lony or skeleton lengths
adopted ly the Police Department as
admitting of easy measurement and
descriptlt are as follows: The length
and width of the head the cheek width
the lengths of the foot, the middle
finger, tie little finger and the cubit,
that is, from the elbow to the tip OF
middle iilger; the height standing, the
height Sc tied F; and the stretch; and in
addition 20 these the right ear length,
which, while not skeleton measure
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his entire lifetime, and occupies il
under peculiar conditions. Most of
the time he is unconscious, under the
influence of sleep, and he cannot
adapt himself to changing conditions
of temperature and ventilation, as he
can when awake. His muscles, too,
sre relaxed, and his power ofresistance
lowered; nothing then should tend to
vitiate the air or should afford lurk-
ing place for dust or disease germs.
Sudden changes of temperature should
be prevented, if possible, and there
should be means for obtaining con-
stant supply of fresh air. In the main
these things are attended to by the
architect, but his work goes for
naught if the doors end windows are
covered with heavy hangings, or if
there are inaccessible corners and
hooks behind ponderous furniture to
serve as catch. alls for dust.
Every bedroom should be pleasant,
light, cheerful, and the utmost ele-
gance prevail, SO long as it does not
Interfere with the truest sanitary con-
ditions; but very often the best eff.
fects are obtained from the elegance
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Character in Children.

Parents sometimes congratulate
themselves upon the fact that one
child is never self-willed, never pas
s1onate or angry, always amiable, con-
tented and calm, seeming to need no
discipline and no restraint. And they
mourn over the fact that another
child is eager, impetuous, willful,
troublesome. Yet not infrequently
the mourning and the rejoicing ought
to change places, if the future life
and character be taken into account.
The tranquility of the one may be
only the outcome of a feeble character,
which leans against the nearest prop
because it cannot stand alone, while
the other, who is SO difficult to man
age, may contain the elements of a
powerful nature, which needs only to
be gnided Alright to become valuable
and a noble man.-The Ledger.
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would be simply invaluable. Further
instances of its possible usefulness
would have been the prevention OF
frauds on the United States Pension
Bureau by parties who have assumed
the name and condition of others, the
detection of false claimants to estates,
the prevention of the landing OF
Chinese who come to this country
bearing the name and papers OF
others of their counsrymen who have
returned to China. 1t requires long
acquaintance with this race to be able
to distinguish one celestial from an.
other, and by the present methods OF
Identification it is slmost impossible
for the Government officials to detect
fraud of this kird.
Perhaps there is no sphere in which
the benefits of the system would be
more Immediately felt than in the
army, where it would act as @ check
upon desertion from the very day OF
its introduction. In time of war,
moreover, it would serve as an IN.
falllble Identification of the killed and
wounded, and in subsequent years, as
suggested above, ii would prevent
fraud upon the Pension Bureau OF the
country. The question of its intro:
duction into the army is being actively
urged by DR.. Paul B. Brown, United
States Army, to whora we are indebted
for valuable assistance in the prepara'
tion of the present Article.
The Bertillon system for measuring
criminals has received its most extern
sive trial in France, where it has been
carried out for over Zen years with the
thoroughness for which the police OF
that country is famous. 1t is in gen.
eral use also in Belgium, Switzerland,
Russia and several South American re-
publics, and IS being tested in Eng
land. 1t was introduced into the
United States by Major R. W. Nc
Claughry in 1887, and is now in opera
tion in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
and the State of Massachusetts,. 1t was
adopted by the police department. o.
the City of New York on March d
1896, and in May of the same year lts
use was made obligatory in all tn'
prisons and penitentiaries of the State
of New York.
The accompanying illustration
show the practical operation OF tb'
Bertillon system at police headquar'
te1s in this city. 1t varies in no es
sential particulars from that OF tn
countries and States above mentioned
only such slight notifications as wer
suggested by local conditions haV
ing been made in minor details. Th
system is made up of three distinc
parts. First, the measurement o
certain Interchangeable ebony lengths
of the body; second, a careful de
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an entire lifetime. For whole week
the white porcelain sign OF a practic-
ing physician had shone in splendor
at the street entrance and upstairs on
the glass door of my neat little fiat.
= For awhole week my small recep.
tion room, with its dark curtains and
les straight-backed chairs, had waited
for patients to avail themselves of the
advice and help of ''Dr. Max Er-
hardt."
It really did not surprise me at all
that my Office was empty for few
days, because, as, 1 told myself. con-
solinely, the neighborhood must be-
come familiar with the fact that it had
good medical advice right here in its
midst. After 1 had sent away my first
patient completely cured, things would
assuredly be different. Theu-after
my growing reputation had been an
nounced to the neiehborhood, or
better still, to the whole city by a
crowd of patients in Office hours, Us
well as by Q neat little coupe, which a
digni6ed coachman would drive
through the principal streets then,
IS, then And so 1 came to the dream
{ ich occupied me most. l fancied my.
T., E:t,----- cc-r'r Merry. who
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to change with age or Disagreement,
no measurements are taken, but, in
stead, an elaborate and exhaustive de-
scription g given.
The third step in registering a
criminal j 8 to make an exact record OF
all scars, marks or deformities. To as
sist in Ii eating these on the body,
certain anatomical points, known as
guiding points," are employed, and
the partic ular mark is described as be.
ing such t, distance from one OF these
points.
Finally the subject is placed be.
fore the camera, two negatives, full
face and profile, being taken, and the
photogra lhs are mounted in the CEN
ire of the Identification card.
In add tion to the data recorded on
the face of the Identification card,
there is provision on the reverse side
for recor ding the particulars OF the
name, ali lses, crime, date of sentence,
.peculiariIies of habit, criminal his
tory, ETC., and there are six ruled
spaces fol inserting details regarding
the marks, scars, etc., upon the body.
After eac card has been made out IN
duplicate and filed, the examination
is complete, and the department. is in
possession. of a means of future iden-
ti6eation which may be said to be ab'
solutely iatallible.
Our aletches were made at the
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WORTH WHILE.

Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like song;
But the man worth while IS the one who will
smile
When everything goes dead wrong;
For the test OF the heart is trouble,
And IT always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth the praise OF
earth
Is the smile that comes through tears.
It is easy enough to be prudent,
When nothing tempts you to stray;
When without or within no voice OF sin
Is Turing your soul away;
But it's only negative virtue
Until It is tried by FIRE,
And the life that is worth the honor of
earth g
Ls the one that resi-. . desire.
BY the cynic, the sad. the fallen;
Who hal no strength for the strife,
The worlds highway is numbered to-day;
They make up the item Of life.
But the virtue that eonquers passion,
Aud the sorrow that hides in smile
tis these that are worth the homage Of
earth,
For we find them but once In while.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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Why take Johnson's
Chill & Fever Tonic?
Because it cures the
most stubborn case
OfFeVer i'm ONEDAY.
A Princes Motor Car.

Prince Oldenburg, the uncle of the
Car, is preparing for tour through
the Caucasus on board a caravan
which is to be drawn by an auto-motor.
This auto-car is to be veritable train
de luxe, for trust Russian noble for
inventive genius when his own COM
forts are concerned!
There is to be the auto-motor, and
attached to it a couple of vans, the
first of which is to be in turn the din
ing room, the cardroom and the bed
room Of His Serene Highness. The
second car is to combine all the culin-
ary and domestic offices, including a
safe in which the Princes rubles and
raiment are to be stored.
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Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of Fever in
n Hours.
Baron Hirsch,s Widow.


Instead of boarding up the immense
fortune which has recently come into
her possession, Baroness Hirsch is ex-
pending the greater part of it in reliev-
ing the distressed members of her race.
To the liberal benefactions Of her late
husband she has recently made sup
Elemental gift of $1O,OOO,OOO, most Of
which is to be applied to the relief OF
Hebrews in New York City. Within
the last few years the number Of
Hebrew immigrants from European
countries has very greatly increased;
and while the magnificent fund provid-
ed by Baron Hirsch some time ago for
the purpose of relieving these exiles is
not yet exhausted by any means, it is
hardly sufficient to meet the constant
l. increasing tide of immigration. His
widows object, therefore, in devoting
such Il large sum at this time to
Hebrew charity in New York is to sup
ply any deficiency which might other
wise exist hereafter in the Hirsch fund,
as we'll as to create other important
benefactions.
OF the sum donated by the Baroness,
at least $1,OOO,OOO will be expended dur
ing the present year. One of the pro-
ducts of this sum will be home and
training school for Hebrew girls. This
is a scheme which the baroness has
cherished for some time, and it shows
that aside from putting her husbands
philanthropic ideas into effect, she has
practical ideas of her own. IN devot-
ing her wealth to such noble ends the
baroness is doing a grand work and
one that will not be without its re-
compense. Atlanta Constitution.
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An Eagle as ami Alarm Clock.

Mr.. W. lie @. Beard, in st. Nicho.
las, tells of d tame eagle he had as o
pet in Arizona. Mr.. Beard says:
The half-breed in whose charge he
had been left told us he was far better
than an alarm clock, for no one could
sleep through the cries with which he
greeted the rising sun and his notion
of breakfast time; and while On alarm
would ring for only half a minute,
Moses was wound up to go all day, or
until he got something to eat. But
his guardian treated him kindly, and
Moses grew and thrived, soon putting
on handsome suit OF brown and gray
feathers, which he was very proud of.
and spent raost of his spare time IN
preening.
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MEASURING ROGUEs.
THE BERTILLoN SYSTEM OF
IDENTIFYING CRIMINALS. i
A French Idea Put Into Practice II
the New York Police Depart
ment How Measure
ments Are Taken.
TTis estimated that there are about
1900, 100000 people upon the

1900, 100000 people upon the
face of the earth at the present
z time. If anyone had been SC
bold as to affirm, only few years ago,
that it would be possible to give such
description of any one individual
that he could be positively identified
among all these millions, his state
ment would have been met with rldl'
cule. To-day, however, thanks to the
re, earches of Quetelet, the Belgian
scientist. and the subsequent labors OF
DR.. Alphonse Bertillon, celebrated
French anthropologist, we are able to
record such detailed description OF
any given individual that his identi-
tication becomes matter of absolute
certainty. 80,
Although it is true that the Bertillon
system of Anthropometric 1dentifca-
tion, as it is called, is primarily in
tended for the prevention of crime,
this is only one of the objects OF the
system. In every case where the es-
tablishment of the identity of an IN
diyidual is desirable, whether for his
own benefit or that of his family, or
the State, this ingenious and highly
scientific system may be applied.
The victims of the cable car or the
railroad accident, the slain upon the
battlefield, the unclaimed bodies at
the city morgue, all present cases for
which Bertillon has made full pro-
vision; and in cases where the body
has been mutilsted beyond all posi-.
bility of recognition by the usual
methods of Identification, the system
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emn stiffness, the peaceful little child
oppressed me. I went home, after
inquiring about the hour OF the
burial.
Iretired early. I was weary, aud
all my unrest had gone. AS if called
forth by power higher than my own.
the words of an earnest prayer. came
to my lips, of the PRAYER that God
would bless me in my hard profession,
and would change my naughty self"
confidence into humble trust in His
protection wherever my small knowl-
edge and my faithful efforts would not
avail, when I must stand, as on the
day before, helpless to aid.
In the ehrly morning I awaited the
little cofir at the door of the house.
A man bore it before him, and the
mother followed in her poor black
gown. She pressed my hand with
a grateful look, when she saw that l
had joined the little procession. The
way was not long, the streets were al-
most empty, and the air was unusually
mild for November. When the iron
gate of the cemetery opened, the
weeping woman bowed her head still
lower. A young clergyman stood
beside the grave. II have undertaken,
as far as I am able, to pronounce a
last blessing over all the sleepers OF
my congregation" he said, softly, as
he met my surprised look.
That evening went to see my rela-
tives. I did not find the parents at
home. Only Cousin Mary was there
to receive me. We sat by the window
where the moonlight fell on US, and
then tolc her of my first patient, and
what I had learned from it. Mary
said nothing in answer to my COMES
sion; but suddenly l felt her arms
thrown around my neck. She looked
at me with wet eyes. Don't you see,
Max?" she said, "now you know your
self what was lacking in your prepara-
tion for work; but, thank God, it has
come to you with your fret patient.
Now believe that you will make o
good phyalcian who will bring help,
even where his own skill does not
work cure" kissed my dear one.
"And now, what do you think?" [
asked. ssHave you the courage to
become tie wife of such doctor?"
She smiled through her happy tears.
And 30 at last we were betrothed.
AS it happened, the very next days
l was called to child that was sui.
fering intensely with Group, and was
so happy as to be able to save it.
Since then God has shown much favor
to the sick and miserable through my
efforts, and my work has grown ever
dearer to me.
But the mother OF my first patient
moved into my house to be my house
keeper until my sweetheart became
the doctors wife. Even after the
wedding, she remained as cook, until
che dec ded later to make still another
change, and came to nurse onr little
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