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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03

known as the New Ragpickers' row,
located in the rear of the three tene-
ments at Nos. 166, 1GS and ITO Mul.
berry street. These houses are each
but five stories in height, yet some
700 people live in them, including 25O
ragpickers. OF these latter fifty are
boss ragpickers, who employ four or
five men and women each to do the
work. Mother Carpio would be the
greatest boss of them all, but she pre-
fers to go out eacn day and gather her
own riches.
Two rooms are an unusual luxury
for a ragpicker, but this is Mother
Carpio's only extravaganza. Besides,
she has nephew, Antonio Bonnacio,
young man of twenty-five. who was
born in New York city, and is more OF
an American than an Italian. His
ne.ghbors soy that he would like to
be sport, but he is sensible young
man and he picks rags all day. His
old aunt thinks he is fine young man,
who loves his calling, and every cent
OF her money will 60 to him when she
dies. When that happens Tony will
lay aside his bag, his hook, his ragged
clothes, his industry and parsimony
and enjoy the world as young man
with an income of $4,000 year gen.
orally does.
Ii may seem remarkable that Moth
er Carpio should accumulate so much
money in such an humble calling, but
when the secrets OF the trade are
known it will he seen that the profits
were large. They are not large to-day.
The golden times of the ragpicker are
passed, because the city sells the priv
ilege of sorting over the refuse to
great contractors, and the business is
worth half million year.
A ragpicker does not pick for rags
only, but for everything, from cham
pagne corks and pieces OF fat to bun
dies of love letters, false teeth. artl:
fetal eyes, birds, dolls, toys, musical
instruments, medicine bottles, cork
legs, shoes and clothing, wigs, bits o.
ribbon and string, all, of course, more
or less used.
Mother Carpio, it is said, has found
everything in her long career but
coffin. She found skeleton one day,
and at another time o human leg on
which some young medical student had
been operating. She sold the skele.
ton, but the leg was a loss. She has
found money. checks, legal papers,
private letters, diamonds and jewelry.
She is an honest old woman, and she
returned all these, but with true COM
mercial instinct always insisted upon
a reward.
In the old days she often made as
much as 800 day, but now S2 is con.
sidered great days work, and 81 is
trife more than the average. Her
neighbors say that it she did not make
penny she would go over her route
each day, as it would kill her if she
had to stop.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
A Great Find.

One of the greatest finds of treasure
ever known was that of O Russian in
the village of Starogarsilki. The man
was O resident on the estate Of Prince
Ostersby, whose ancestors were plum
dered and expelled from their posses
sions by the Tartars. Tho treasure
was probably secreted by the family
at the time. The man had been given
his clew somehow or another, and he
worked ten years before finding any
thing. At last he came across twelve
large boxes filled with very ancient
coins of fine gold, besides enormous
other articles of great value. The total
value of the find was given at $1,000,
600 rubles, two-thirds of which went
to the State and one.third to the
finder, making his share about So, ,OOO,-
mn
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03

The coal and iron of the South az
fairly hugging each other. They lie
side by side, and when their marriage
takes place in the furnaces with the
aid of the aeecy bridal veil of lime
stone, which is also found near by,
they can produce industrial children
in the shape of iron and steel more
cheaply than their kind in any other
portion OF the world.
There is no doubt that we are TO
furnish the greater part of the iron
for the world in the future. We have
bigger ore beds than any other coun.
try, and our coal fields are practically
inexhaustible. There is enough coal
in Alabama to do all the manufactur-
ing OF the United States for many years
to come. l was told at Bessemer
that The available coal of Alabama
alone, if it could be put into lump,
would make solid chunk seventy
miles long by sixty miles broad and
ten feet thick. Such.a lump would, 1t
is estimated, furnish 10000 tons OF
coal day for more than 1000 years,
or 1000, 900 tons day for l15 years.
But Alabama has only small amount
of the great Appalachian coal fields.
These fields end themselves in Ala
bama. They run from there north.
ward distance, it is said, of about
900 miles, and they are from thirty to
about 1SO miles wide. They furnish
about thirds of our bituminous
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
of the United States for use in manu-
featuring. The Stag goes to waste. 1t
runs off into great iron pot fastened
on car wheels, and is wheeled on

railroad track some distance away
and emptied out on the Stag heap.
There are mountains of such Stag near
every great furnace, and the invention
has yet to be made which will turn it
to any other uses than thai of ballast
ing railroads.
We lead the world not only in the
production of iron, but also in the
making of pig iron. We made 10,-
900, 900 tons in 1892, which was an
increase of more than 1000 per cent.
over the product of 1866. Since that
time we have increased our steel pro-
duct $50 times, and we are now max.
ing enough steel every year to give
every man, woman and child in the
United States 14O pounds, and have
some to spare. Some of our pig iron
which was lately sent to England, ]
am old, was sold for less than 81 q
ton. We made pig iron at the time
of the Revolution, which was worth
$50 ton, and We are making steel
now, it is said, almost as cheaply as 3
good class of iron.
1t is wonderful how iron increases
the value after it is turned into ma
chinery or articles of use by the
people. You get some idea of what
labor is worth when you think of it.
1t is estimated by Carroll D.. Wright,
of the Labor Bureau, for instance,
that seventy-fye cents worth of COM
mon iron ore when turned into bar
iron is worth $5. If you make it into
horse shoes it is worth SO, or if into
table knives, $3.50. Seventy-fye cents
worth of ore manufactured into need
les is worth $1,000, and when made
into buttons more than $50, 600. If
the iron is converted into watch
springs its value is almost ten times
as great, and when turned into hair
springs your seventy.fiye cents worth
of rock and stone will sell for the
enormous sum of $400, 900. The diff.
ference between seventy.fve cents and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
High Prices for 2elics.

The book sale at So aaby's, Lon
don, when thirteen signe, ters from
George Washington to Arthnr Young,
the agriculturist, dated from 1886 to
1893, on farming in America, were
auctioned for S235O, attracted atten-
tion on account of the high prices
reached.
Three leaves from Franklin's letter
book, containing copies of eleven
letters, addressed to DR.. Rush and
others, in Philadelphia and New York,
on the canals of America and the slave
trade, brought $40. There was great
competition for the first edition of
Izaak Wnlton's "Complete Angler, -
the size being 5sx3l inches, in the
original sheep binding. 1t fetched
S2075. New York Press.
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Census of the Anlmal Kingdom.

The editors OF the Geological Rec.
ord have recontly drawn up table
that indicates approximately the num-
ber of the living species OF animals.
The following are the figures given :
Mammals, $500; reptiles and batra'
chians, 44O0; tunicats, 900; brachio
pods, 100; crustaceaus, 20, 000; myria'
pods, 3O30; echinoderms,, 5000 ;
celenterata. 5000; protozoans, 6lOO
birds, u, 500; fishes, l2,0O); mollusks,
$4,000; bryozoans, 1900; arachnids,
10000; insects, $4,000; vermes,
615O; sponges, 1900. General total,
366, 900 distinct species.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
RECIpES.

Roast Duck-Pick, SINCE and clean.
Remove the entrails, crop and oil bag.
Wipe, truss and dredge with salt, pep
per, butter and -four. Stuff with ap.
pies, peeled, cored and quartered, and
mixed with chopped celery and onions.
This stufing should not be served, as
it absorbs the strong flavor; also i'm.
parts some of its own to the duck.
Serve with currant jelly and olive
sauce.
Mock Duck-About three pounds OF
round steak, one and halfinches thick.
Cover with bread crumbs and sliced
onions, season with little butter, salt,
pepper and allspice and cloves. Roll
up and tie securely with cord. Put
it in baking nan and pour one cup
of boiling water over it. Bake in
moderate oven one and half hours,
basting frequently. Serve with brown
gravy.
Fruit Cake-soak three cups Of
dried apples over night in warm
,, water, chop slightly in the morning,
then simmer two hours in two cups OF
! molasses. Make a cake of two eggs.
one cup of sugar, one cup OF sweet
milk, quarters of cup of but.
ter, one and half teaspooniuls of
soda, and flour enough to make a stiff
batter; spice well. Add the apples
last. Bake in quick oven.
Brunswick Salad-Chop fine three
truffies and cut into small pieces suf-
ficient blanched celery to measure one
pint. Rub the inside of the salad
bowl with cut Glove of garlic, turn
into it the trufles and celery, add four
hard boiled eggs chopped rather coarse.
ly, reserving few rings of white with
which to garnish. Po1r over oil a
French dressing, mix thoroughly and
sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Plum Pudding-One and half
pints soft bread crumbs, one pint
seeded raisins, chopped, one pint OF
currants and citron mixed, the citroa
to be shaved very thin, one cuptuI OF
sugar, half teaspoonFul OF salt, one
cupful chopped suot, tiny pinch or
cayenne pepper. one.half saltspoon-
full of ground cloves, half a teaspoon.
full of ginger and cinnamon mixed,
six eggs and two even tablespoonfuls
of -four Add sweet milk to make a
thin batter. Steam four hours and
serve With foam sauce,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03

visited them. We rode up to the
mouth of the mine in carriage, wind
ing our way up little range of noun.
tainss the sides of which were covered
with terra Gotta stones. I picked up
one OF the stones and found it exceed
iDgly heavy. and was told that it was
iron ore. The iron lies right on the
surface of the ground. They begin on
the vein and work right down into the
mountain, taking out nothing but
iron. Deposits of this kind extend
through the mountains of the region,
and it is wonder that they were not
developed long ago. I was told that
iron mines were worked there during
the late war and that the Confederate
Government got a large part OF its coal
and iron from that region. From time
to time Northern capitalists were asked
to invest in the mines, but they would
not believe the stories that were told
them.
One man who owned some of the
most valuable iron territory of Ala.
bama called upon A5ram s. Hewitt,
who has made fortune out of iron,
and who has big iron interests to day.
He showed Hewitt the ore, and told
him it ley there in Alabama en- the TOP
of the ground and could be had fol
the picking up. Hewitt replied that
he had no mopev TO invest at present,
and he evidently did not believe the
mans story.
"Why," said he, "we people here in
New York look upon iron as so much
gold, and you can hardly make me be.
lieve that you people have. Jumps OF
gold laying around down South and
that no one has Jet picked them up.
If your story is true;I advise you to
take several New York experts to the
South and get them to swear to what
they see before you try to place such
property in New York"
It was some time after this before
the Alabama mining boom began. A
great deal of this was on paper, but
the foundation is there, and the iron
mines are as valuable to-day as they
were ten years ago. They ure now all
owned by big corporations, and they
|are being developed after the best
business principles. The mine which
we entered was worked with COM
pressed air drills. The cars were
hauled mp and down an inclined rail
way by steam, and hundreds OF sootY
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
IRON-MAKING.
VALUABLE AND GROWING I
DUSTRY IN THE SOUTH.
Wonderful Development OF Alabama
Iron Mines-Story Of the Iron
Boom-A Visit to
Big Mine.
WONDERFUL developments

4 is going on IN lron-maklng II
~ the South. I spent SONG
time in Birmingham, which
city is The biggest iron producer south
OF Pittsburg, writes. Frank G,
Carpenter in the Chicago Times.
Herald. There are twenty-sii
iron furnaces within thirty miles d
the town. with q daily output of al
most 1000 tons of pig iron. They em-
ploy nearly 1000 men, and pay wages
of $3.50, 600 month. They claim to
make iron cheaper than anywhere else
in the world, and one of the furnace
companies shipped some of its pro-
duct not long ago to London and sold
it there at profit.
The South is doing its business on q
big, broad scale. There is an enor'
nous amount of money invested. The
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company has
itself capital stock of $21, ,OOO.-
600. 1t has mines scattered
throughout Tennessee and Alabama,
and I am told that It's property is
worth as much as some of the small
European kingdoms. 1t has a vast
area of ccal beds, and is now mining
more than $1,000 tons OF coal day
1t owns mountains of iron ore, and
last year it produced more than 5O0,-
900 tons of pig iron and more than
$500, 900 tons of coal. I visited its
coke ovens ot the town OF Bessemer,
south OF Birmingham, and was told
that the ovens there, together with
the others owned by the company,
make almost 5000 tons of coke day,
while out of its Alabama iron mines
alone are daily taken more than 600o
tons of ore. This is perhaps the big.
gest company of the South, but there
are other large establishments, and an
enormous industrial development may
be expected there within the next few
years.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
IF WE HAD BUT a DAY.

We should hll the hours with the sweetest
things,
II we had but day;
We-shouli drink alone at the purest springs
In our upward way;
We shoul love with lifetime's love in an
hour,
II the hours were few;
We should rest, not for dreams, but for
fresher power
To be and to do.
We should guide our wayward or wearied
wills
BY the clearest light;
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly
II they lay in sight;
We should trample the pride and the dis
contert
Beneath our feet;
We should take whatever good God sent
With trust complete.
We should waste. no moments in weak regret,
II the day were but one;
II what We remember and what We forget
Went out with the sun;
We should be from our clamorous selves set
To work or to pray,
And to be what the Father would have US be,
II We had but day.
Mary Lowe Dickinson.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
Buried i'll a Winding Sheet.

John Mauck, pioneer of Washing,
ton, who cast his first vote for jack
,eop, died on the day before Christmas
ut Oa!1dale, in that State, at the age OF
ninety-three, and left directions that
his body be wrapped in winding
sheet and put in plain pine coffin, as
had been the usual way in his early
life. New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
Lost Letter.

In an advertisement of railway
company, requesting the owners of
unclaimed goods to remove their NOR
chandiee, the letter ''l'' was dropped
from the word "lawiul" in the notice,
which ended thus: "Come forward
and pay the awful charges oa tba
same. ."-Twinkles.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
A FRAGRANT p1srNFEcrANT.

If your room be stuffy because it
has been lived in too much, or because
home domesticus has indulged too
freely in the soothing nicotine, you
may easily render it sweet and habit
able once more placing one.half
ounce of spirits of lavender and
lump of salts of ammonia in wide
mouthed fancy jar or bottle and leav-
ing it uncovered. This makes a
pleasant deodorizer and disinfectant,
filling the room with q delicate per-
fume which will be soothing to the
nerves and senses, especially during
warm weather. Try it.-New York
World.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
RICHES IN REFUSE.
THE QUEEN OF GoTHAM's RAG,
PICKERS IS WORTH 100000.
Eats Two Meals Day and Has Ac-
Quired Big Fortune in Look
ing Over Metropolitan
Ash Barrels.
"A OTHER Carpio, for forty.
II five years has been rak-
v ing over the ash barrels

"a n OTHER Carplo, TOR forty'
n n five years has been rak.
v ing over the ash barrels
OF the metropolis. To-day,
according to a Picayune correspond.
ent, she has at the very least Sl0O, 900,
and every penny of it is drawing in.
terest at four per cent.
Mother Carpio never touches cent
of the income, except to reinyest it,
She works as regularly now as she ever
did. giving fifteen hours q day. from
2 o'clock in the morning to o'clock
in the evening, to her beloved task.
Ragpicking is her delight. She could
not pass an ash barrel without ro!liug
her scrawny, dirty fingers into the
mass of rubbish ii her life depended
on it.
She came to this country when she
was twenty years old. She is sixty
five now, and at one time, perhaps,
she was pretty and pleasant to look
upon. Italian girls, in the first blush
of womanhood, are generally attrac
tive, but if Mother Carpio was ever
young and handsome, Father Time
has wrought some wonderful changes.
The word of her neighbo1s is the au,
thority for her being sixty-fve years
old. She looks as if her years ought
to be 165. Nodded with FIST, CHS
eled with pickaxe, describes the
physiognomy of this wonderful old
woman better than anything else.
She has only one or two teeth left,
but her principal meal of the day con-
sists of pound OF raw meat between
two hard slices of bread. When she
feels like treating herself she adds
raw onion to this banquet. She al
ways dimes thus at o'clock in the
afternoon on her return home with her
bag of treasures, sorted from the ash
barrels on her route. Then she spends
happy hour sorting the stuff over.
At 5 o'clock she goes to bed and gets
up at 1.30 a. m, 80 as to be sure tc
have the first pickings. She eats some.
thing before going out OF 2 o'clock,
and unless the barrels yield some
dainty morsel attractive to her pecul.
lar palate she does not touch food un-
til 4 in the afternoon.
Mother Carpio cannot weigh more
than ninety-fve or 10O pounds, but
shn on-~ ~.--- hnI---:LL 1Sn
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRs.
HEATING SAUCE DISHES.

Cold gravies and tepid sauces need
no longer distress those who like these
things "piping hot" A sauce boat
has been made on the principle of the
chafng dish and the teakettle, stand
ing in wire frame over spirit lamp.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
LOVE IN A MINOR KEY.

HE inhabitants of Har-
plestowe had ceased to
discuss Hannah Fletch.
er's questionable posi-
tion toward her lodger,
and any interest at
tached to her uncon-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03
cIEANrNe osrR1cH FEATHERS.

To clean white ostrich feathersi cut
soroe pure white soap in small pieces
and pour boiling water on them and
add little mite of soda. When the
soap is dissolved and the water cool
enough. dup the feathers in and draw
them through the hand. Do this
several times until the lather is dirty,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03

The tallest trees are to be found in
the State forest of Victoria, Aus
tralia,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-03-03

Il|L : n . y : T-dI- ~ - 'l' -
sac operation Aitervat7 rinse sae
eaths~ H. wa+es -.Fght''- e'--
-egf - cstTean ~ a., is H.
10. ny.- ..
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-06-17

Towanda township assessment OF cattle
raised 10 per cent.
Dayton township assessment of cattle
raised 10 per cent.
Board adjourned until one p. M.
One o'clock p. III. Board met pursuant 70
adjournment All members present. Board
called to order by Chairman Murray.
On motion the following rebates were al-
lowed on the tax OF 1896 and the assessment
on same reduced in the same amount for 1891 :
M I MCPHERSON, lot Collins add to Philippe
burg, value 500.
j 3 Fitz Randolph on VIZ ne or WI SO or
sec twp range II, value SIS.
A Ravens, NV or, sec twp range ~,
value $50.
ON motion the county clerk is instructed to
send notice to August Haas, Agra, kas,, TO
appear before the board of county commits
sfoners July5, 1897, in regard to hie assess
ment of his personal property given In to the
assessor for the year 1897.
On motion board adjourned until o. m. to-
morrow.
June 8. Eight O'Clock a. m. Board met
pursuant to adjournment. All members
present. Board called TO order by Chairman
on motion the county clerk was instructed
to issue rebate certificates in favor OF i.
Miley, as follows;
On lot 20, Marvin, value $4,000, for the tax
Of 1895.
On lotto, Marvin, value $4,000, for the tax
of 1896.
On 81 NV or, ny sw or, sec 10, twp 4, Il. IL,
value SlO0.0O, for the years 1895 and 1926.
On motion the following changes were made
In the assessment of cattle in Long Island
township.
w u Coberly, All head raised 81, 503 10
w q Leach, VI head raised $4,000
RObt Kyd, 12l head raised S6t.O0
GIN Halderman 70 head raised $1,000
Cass Moore, 800 head raised $4,000
On motion A s Harwood was allowed 1920
as balance of constitutional exemption In
Phillipsburg city the same TO be deducted
from assessment roll In Deer Creek township.
Board adjourned until o'clock p. IN.
One o'clock p. IN. Board met pursuant to
adjournment. Ali members present. Board
called to order by Chairman Murray.
On motion the following changes were
made in the assessment for 1897:
I. w g LaRew, merchant stock In MarYin' re-
duced $4,000.
/. A. Champlin, corn in Arcade, reduced
S200O0.
ON motion the minutes of the meeting we're
read and approved.
On motion, board adjourned.
State Of Kansas, 90
Phillips County.
/, i. n. Thornton, county clerk, In and for
said county, do hereby certify the foregoing
to be a true aud correct record OF the proceed
ings Of the board Of equalization held in my
office on the 9TH, 9Th and 9th days of June,
1897.
County Clerk.