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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
Quinine and other fe-
yer medicines take from5
to 10 days to cure fever:
.Johnson's Chill andFeVer
Tonic cures in ONE DAY.
A MIGHTY NIMRoD.
A North Carolina Hunter Who Has Killed
400 Bears.

400 Bears.
Captain w. H. Basnight of Roanoke
Island, who is on visit to Roanoke,
Is the celebrated bear hunter OF Dare
County. He has helped to kill over
400 in his time.
"The season for hunting bears IS
near at hand" said the captain, "and
it will be good season. I Judge from
the berry crop. 1t is cut OH back IN
the woods and there is plenty on the
water. The bears will como out to get
the guI,berries and then we Will Klii
them and have fine sport. We snip
the meat to Baltimore, after eating all
we want selling it at 12h cents
a pound; we sell the bears skin for
500 and bear oil sells WELL.
"How do you kill the bears"
asked -
az have e big 1ouble-barrel muzzle-
loading gun. I use that on account OIL
shooting big load. You cannot use
such lead as I want out Of breech-
loader"
"What is the biggest bear you ever
killed." I next asked the captain.
"I can't tell you exactly. The largest
I ever killed l could not weigh. have
killed bears weighing 500 pounds.
They average perhaps something over
1Oc pounds.
Are they hard to kill, l asked.
"T have killed some that fell dead
at first shot. But il bear gets fully
mad before he is killed you can hardly
kill him by shooting him all to pieces.
I have been in some close places. J
had a bear once to grasp ne around
the shoulders, and if my brother had
not shot and killed him, the bear
would have killed me. 1 have never
been hurt except a little squeezing
and no man ought to mind proper
amount of hugging," said the captain:
"Do you love the bear meat as food!
You ought to have seen the good
captain's mouth water and his eyes
brighten as visions of broiled bear
meat came into his mind.
"Eat bear meat" he said. why it
is the best meat in the world. l can
cat two or three messes of bear, ana
feel strong enough to jump ten feet
high"
Captain Basnight has charge OF Du-
rants Island, which is owned by John
q. Reyburn Of Philadelphia, wld
comes down for hunting and fishing
.,.;..1 49, -'.,,-- :S'"nd con-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
FEET 2 IL INCHES LONG.
They Are the Smallest in the United States
and Belong to q Chinese Woman.


and Belong to Chinese Woman.
The tiniest feet in the United States
are the property Of the wife of Chin
csc merchant Of Philadelphia. They
are just d inches long, or less than
the length of the ordinary mans little
finger.
A few days ago the Oriental super
stition regarding modern Inventions
was so far lulled to sleep that the
owner of the Lilliputian feet permitted
an Z. ray photograph of her right foot
to be taken. Nomore misshapen thing
was ever seen. In her most freaklsh
mood nature never dreamed OF any
thing like this. No curvature OF the
spine ever approached this curvature
of the foot. It looks for all the world
as if it were part Of the frame OF one
of those grotesque prehistoric mons
ters that the paleontologists tell US
about.
If little girls in China are not killed
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
HENRY GEORGES OWN
STORY OF HIS CAREER.
Was Once Sailor, Printer, Tramp Editor, and
Always an Anti Monopolist
made up my mind to return to San
Observation-Disclosures

made up my mind to return to San
Francisco. !.
"When I got back I ran across Bond
again, and again went to printing.
They paid seventy-fve cents thou
sand, or $50 a week, but as was still
a minor got only $12. George Thurs
ton, who is now captain in the regu-
lar army, was my foreman.
Gas soon as I became of age Ijoined
the printers union and so became en-
titled to full wages. After that I did
first-rate. I worked as substitute,
doing what printers called 'subbing'
on daily papers. Then I went to work
on q paper which Duncan was then
editing. I got to be foreman at $50 q
week and he used my name as his pub
Usher until he sold the paper.
"Then 1 subbed on the dailies un-
til four printers started o little daily
paper called the Journal. Setting the
type was the main thing then, as there
was no telegraphic news to pay for,
and so I was taken into partnership on
the payment of q small sum-between
S1O0 and $500, if remember correct
ly.
"I worked trying to found the Jour-
nal until my clothes were in rags and
the toes of my shoes were out. [ slept
in the Office and did the best I could
to ecoiomize, but finally I ran into
debt $50 for my wash bill. What final
ly broke us up was the threat of civil
war, which created great excitement
and made the news which came from
the East by pony express au absolute
necessity. As we did not have it we
were forced out.
"It was while in these straits that !
first met the lady who is now my wife.
Her people did not regard me with
favor under the circumstances, and ]
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
Joi,nson's Chill and Fee
yer Tonic is a OME-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of Fever in
n Hours.

A nur, ber Of farmers in Alabama
pledged themselves to SOW from hve
to twenty bushels of wheat this faii.
"This is a movement" says The Atlanta
Constitution, (which, if persisted In,
will emancipate our pockets from the
necessity of paying tribute to the west
and our stomachs from the thousand
and one brands Of patent flour, IN
which the essence of the wheat mas
either been wholly destroyed OF SUD
stit,,+ed for kaoIin or some other mix
ture of equal weight and fneness:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
Johnson's Chill and Fe-
YER Tonic is q ONE-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of Fever in
n Hours.
Queer Catch ct a Bass.

Queer Catch CT Bass.
A queer story of how three-pound
bass was made captive by swimmer
ast summer comes from Leeds, N. Y.
number Of men were bathing in the
,atskill Creek, in the neighborhc OF
Leeds, among whom was a protes-
sional swimmer. The other swimmers
finally stopped their sport to watch
he evolutions of their skillful COM
anion, when suddenly they saw him
i've into deep water.
When he came up he made a COM
otion in the water and sank like
ummet. Some of them, thinking he
d cramps, plunged in to aid him, but
that moment he rose to the top and
truck out for shore, and they saw
that he had a large fish in his mouth
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
Roasting Coffee.

In Norway, where superb coffee IS
made, bit of butter IS added to the
beans while they are roasting in the
covered shovel used there for that pur-
pose. In France as we'll q piece OF
butter the size of walnut is put with
three pounds of coffee beans and also
o dessertspoonful of powdered sugar.
This brings out the flavor and, more
over, gives tho slight carmel taste
which is so greatly admired.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
ALirl,thouse Monument.

Penmarch lighthouse, on the Brit
tany coast, with its 10000, 600 candle
power electric light, $50 feet above sea
level and visible sixty miles away, is
monument to Marshal Davoust,
Duke of Auerstadt, his daughter hav-
ing given the French Government
S60, 900 for the purpose.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
how to Carve Tongue,

A tongue should be carved IN
very thin slices, it's delicacy depend
ing on this. The slices from the CEN
ter are considered the most tempting,
and should be cut across and the
slices taken from both sides with o
portion of the fat at the root.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08

ture intended, and yet this very faos
makes them bondwomen. To be free
and au aristocrat a Chinese woman
must be q cripple. If she is left free
to grow as nature wills she is almost
certain to be condemned to bondage.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-12-08

Attempts have recently been made
IN several parts of France and Ger
many to introduce the American lob
ster. as it has been found that it es>
capes diseases that destroy the Euro
pean varieties.
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Observer.
Evening star., 1897-04-17
THE STAR SATURDAY, APRIL II, 1928 PAGES

T.
the residences Of Aia4 Rebecca Behrend, 412
.Sa street a n9rthwsss and played program
Bizet's Carmen. -: 1Ioszkowsky and Men
delssohn's 'Capriccin Brilliant arranged
for piano and string quintet the solo part
by the hostess Among the invited guests
was Mrs. Marguerite Nolan Martin, who
sang My Heart a5 Thy Sweet Voice"
from Samson and 1>elilah," and Gounod's
,"Fsaites lui mes ASeux,' and with Miss Ber-
tie Reichenbach. .Schdbert's .Serenade" as q
duet, with piano and string orchestra ac-
compartment. Miss Reichenbach also sang
'Cujus Animam." with the same accom-
paniment. -. >$s--s
A musicale will be given at 1908 Rhode
Island avenue. the steidence of Miss Stone,
next Friday evening" 1t will be for the
benefit of missions cIE the diocese of Mary
land, and the following well-known artists
will take part: DR.. j. P. Cauifield Mrs. H.
Caulfield. Mr.. Charles Roberts, Mr.. Xander
end Messrs. White and Macdonald.
Evening star., 1897-04-17
LAKE MICHIGAN ALWAYS OPEN.
How 1t fs Made NaviEable All the
Year Around.

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Navigation on Lake Michigan is never
closed. Steamers run back and forth across
the lake and between the ports of the west
shore of the lake during the entire winter
with remarkable regularity. The first at
tempts at winter navigation on the trans
lake routes were made by the Detroit and
Milwaukee Railroad Company and by the
now defunct Engelmann Transportation
Company many years ago. and the success
of winter ventures became established as
the character of the steamers was i'm
proved and developments were made i'm
marine enginery. Now winter navigation
proceeds almost unfnterruptedly, and the
new car ferries steam back and forth with
little regard for W, cther or for ice The
success of the car ferries on Lake Mchi-
gan and the car ferry which defies winter
in the Straits of Macknac is probably the
cause of the announcement that negotia-
tions are in progress looking to the con-
struction of ice-breaking freight steamers
that will enable their owners to keep them
in commission on the Lake Superior and
lower lake route during the winter. The
report is without foundation.
There Is vast difference between the
navigation of Lake Michigan from one
shore to the other. and along its west
shore, and the navigation of the great
lakes throughout their lengths and through
expensive. and occasionally the ice foes
defy the crushing powers of the best of
the so-called ice breakers One of the car
ferries was recently stalled by a foe near
Menominee, which defied not only the
steamer, but the explosive power Of dyna-
mite. The trouble of winter navigation on
the chain of lakes would occur In the inter-
lake channels and in the canals Owing to
the clogging effects of the ice it would be
almost impossible to operate canals during
midwinter.
Another and a very serious bar to general
lake navigation in winter is the preva-
lence of snow storms. during which moth
ing whatever can be seen. Snow is more
obstructive to the sight than fog and dur
ing a driving snow storm il is impossible
to see anything ahead. even in the day.
time. Winter navigators on Lake Michi-
gan, who are never out of sight of land for
any great length of time. experience their
chief annoyance from snow storms. They
manage to steam into port when snow Is
flying thick. because of their familiarity
with the route, but they occasionally get
into trouble while they are wrapped in
1.-The tumultuous privacy Of the Storm
1t does not follow, by any means. that
because winter navigation is successful on
Lake Michigan ii can be made successful
In the upper and lower lake service.
Evening star., 1897-04-17
ANNOUNCING HIS WEDDING.
But He Was Wise Enough to kuow
That Cablegrams Come High.

nut ne was Wise Enough to Know
That Cabiegrams Come High.
From the Chicago Times Herald
When man gets married away from
home he naturally feels 1t necessary to ac-
quaint mis- folks with the joyful news as
soon as possible. John Liddell. the hand-
some Erglishman who led Miss Marion
Hellyer to the altar In Riverside last Sat
urday, before a large party of fashionabl.s.
was thoroughly impressed with his duty in
this resTect. and SO he hunted up the near
est telegraph Office and set about to COM
pose the message telling of his good for
tune.
Some men would have gone into details 10
the extent Of naming the bride and the time
and the place, and soliciting the parental
Blessing. But telegraph companies do not
handle messages for nothing, no matter how
feiicitous they may be in their character
and. as everybody knows. every additional
mile Travelled by the message makes it that
much more profitable tc the srasping cor
poration.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Liddelrs home Is in
Shanghai. China, he prudently refrained
from committing the fault of verbosity OF
course, his people were expecting something
IN confirmation of what had been discussed
In letters from time to time, and he found
II much easier on that account to practice
breVity and economy without sacrificing the
meaning of his message. This is what he
sent flashing over the wires and under the
ocean on its long journey to Shanghai:
'Hurrahw
At any other time the receipt of such a
telegram or cablegram by Mr.. Liddelrs pco-
PIE might have caused them some concern
but the happy groom was thoroughly conf
dent of being understood. He has money
10 burn, and could have cabled full
account of the wedding without creating
any financial distress to himself. As 1t was,
there was nothing cheap in the message.
1t cost $50
Evening star., 1897-04-17

pared-chopped and sometimes sweetened
when they do not readily take to it, But
from the first year everything seemed to
favor my project. The numbers increased
rapidly. and were augmented from the
neighboring forests from time TO time as
my men were able to secure the finer speci-
mems. While wandering at will on their
native tracts, the elk of all sizes and ages
seem to be perfectly able to take care of
themselves and their horns But when
once they get on a farm they seem to for
get all this. The young steers especially
get into no end of trouble. and break their
norns In the most distressing manner. AS
these broken horns and badly spreading
prongs injure the general appearance of the
herd, i have contrived means of regulat-
ing and controlling the horns growth This
Is done by means of a boX-like wooden
frame. light and easily carried by the elk
The horns are guided In their growth by
this frame. and it keeps the animals from
getting into bad places In the timber belt"
Evening star., 1897-04-17
HE BREEDS ELK.
Capt. Cook Tells How He Is Making a
saccesS of His Colorado Venture.

Capt. Cook Tells How He Is Making a
saccess of His Colorado Venture.
FrJ-i the St. Louis Glcbe- Democrat.
Ole of the strangest enterprises in this
country is an elk farm in Colorado. The
man who took it into his head to start this
CideGt Of all odd farms S Capt. Marcus
Cock who says:
Il own an elk farm. AS far as / know.
there is not another such farm in the world.
My farm is in one of the most picturesque
paris OF Colorado, in valley sixteen miles
east of Neeker. II is 163 acres in extent
ami through the length of il runs a splen-
aii trout stream Some idea of the extent
, 10 which / work my farm may be gained
from the fact that each year l raise for
lay elk alone enough hay to bale up 100
tons and garner from 800 to 800 bushels of
grain. On this farm. which is $50 feet
above the level of the sea, the elk roam
through the timber land just as though
they were not captive. But they are safe
enough. nevertheless. for L have them
/ fe3ced in with a five-strand barbed wire
fence. II has been four years now since
first took the notion of tanning the elk and
raising them just as other people raise cat
tie 1t took me year TO get the farm in
orGer and to capture the six animals with
which | started. Up to that time did no.
know whether the idea was feasible; i was
afraid that I should have a great deal of
trouble in domestieating them To be sure
. the worst worry of my life began from the
moment I caught the first elk for the herd.
. II was not that they were wild and unruly;
on the contrary, they were too tame. Al
though the farm ts large enough, the ami
mals seemed to know by instinct that they
We're prisoners. They have to be petted
hike children In the matter of feeding too
, nave to use the utmost care. In the sum-
rner II Is easy enough. for they may wander
az Will and pick up suitable food from stub
ttle neld and timber land. But during the
winter their food must be especially pre-
Evening star., 1897-04-17
FARMING IN CHICAGO.
Worlds Fair Site to Be Cut Up Into
Tiny Farms.

Tiny Farms.
From the Chicago Record.
Fields Of wheat, acres of corn, old fash
iGned rail fences and meadows with cows
and sheep in them may soon take the place
of the unimproved wastes in Jackson Park,
south of the SD street entrance.
Assistant Superintendent Lewis of the
city schools will ask the South Park COM
n1lssioners at their annual meeting next
Wednesday afternoon to set aside half-acre
plots of the boards domain, to be sown
with wheat. rye. corn, barley and all the
common grains and grasses. for the in
struction and edification of the school chill
dren of Chicago, and which, many of the
teachers and some of the professors of the
University of Chicago hope. will end in the
establishment of farm such as one meets
only in New England and in the story
books.
The idea grew out of the course of lee
lures on Plants and Their Environment"
hich Dr. John W. Coulter of the Univer-
students of the CAREER School. DIR. Coulter
promised to give field" lecture when
summer came, on ths plants in the nearest
vacant lot, and deplored the fact that in the
city parks SO few native plants and grasses
are to be found ,,
Prof. Lewis. Principal W. NJ. Lawrence
OF the Ray School and Prof. w. S. Jackman
Of the Chicago Normal School took the
Coulter and DR.. Dewey, the university pro-
lessor Of pedagogy, they determined to ask
the park board to cooperate with them i'll
bringing the cour1try-. to the hundreds Of
thousands of children who had never seen
more, more than fiowfr pot full of growing
They will ask for half acres to start with,
but they believe that the broader concep-
tlon of the scheme'wf strike the fancy of
the board, and that Chicago will have as a
feature of her park system a picturesque
model farm where fhe only straight lines
will be rows of corn and sugar cane.
Dr. Coulter, professor Of botany at the
university, last night approved the plan in
Its larger phase. and said:
Apart from its educational value to the
children. such a farm would be beautiful
and interesting to every one The farm
would do more than teach children how
plants grow. it would give them an idea OF
what the country is. and put them in touch
with a life which they hardly know TO ex-
list. l should put in rail fences, well sweeps.
corn cribs. haystacks, log cabins. every
thing that is picturesque. and I'm sure that
the workers of Chicago. on their one day
OF rest. would turn their backs on the reg
uiar parks. X they had chance to go out
Into the real country and lie under a shade
tree"
Evening star., 1897-04-17
The Longest Bridge.

The longest railroad bridge of Europe.
and. In fact. of the world. was recently
opened to traffic with great ceremony.
The new railroad bridge over the Danube
river at Czernavoda Is one OF the most
important technical achievements of recent
date. For more than nine miles this bridge
crosses the Danube proper. and the So
called territory of inundation, which Is
annually under water for a certain period
OF time.
The largest spans are over the main cur
rent Of the river. there being one of $40
feet and four Of 455 feet each. The total
length Of the bridge proper. without ap-
proaches. is 13.325 feet, while the other
largest railroad bridges in the world meas
ure as follows: Tay bridge. Scotland, 10,
10 Feet; Mississippi bridge lO6OO feet.
ana the Forth bridge. Scotland, 7SO0
The clear height OF the bridge over the
main channel 10 20 calculated that even At
high water the largest vessels sailing on
the Danube may pass under It.
Evening star., 1897-04-17
Mrs. E. E. Jackson. Miss Margaret Jack.

Mrs. E. E. Jackson. Miss Margaret Jack
son. Miss Nellie Jackson. MIR. and Mrs. E.
Shoemaker. w. l.. Guy, Mrs. w. Nailor
Mrs. NJ. E. Stott, Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Nor
gan. Mrs. ]. Hill and daughter, Miss K.
Ladeur, Mrs. J. 8. Gilman. Mrs. ID. A.
Paul. Mrs. G. South. Miss Miriam G. Loud
G. A. Zell, Mrs. J. G. Sewers, Miss Eliza
beth T. O'NeiIl. C. NJ. Boarman. ]. North
Mrs. c. C'Donnell. Mrs. S. H. Conrad.
Marie W. Conrad. C. G. Holmes, F. II.
Hubbard. DR.. T. ]. Boykin. Mrs. Boykin
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Jenkins and maid. Miss
Mary F. Miller. Miss Eta Cole. F. Land
street, Mrs. S. Posner and family. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. c. Cohen, MIR. and Mrs. r. II. Ed
monds r. Coffey, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Nicodemus, Jr., Mrs. ]. L. Thomas, Zaida
Teresa Thomas.
Evening star., 1897-04-17
Superior self-Centrol.
From the London Times.

good story is told Of dog that one
day discovered an organ-grinder's monkey
seated upon bank within his masters
grounds. and at once made rush for it.
The monkey. which was attired In Jacket
and hat. awaited the onset in tranquility
50 undisturbed that the dog halted within
few feet of 1t to reconnoiter. The AMI
mails took long stare at each other. but
the dog evidently was recovering from his
surprise. and was about to make q spring
for the intruder. when the monkey raised
his paw and naluted by lifting his hat.
The enect was magical. The dogs head
and tail dropped. and he enealEad on to the
house. refusing to leave II until his polite
but mysterious visitor had departed.
Evening star., 1897-04-17

What was the name Of Hawkins
yacht"
'.The Waldermere"
oh / thought 1t was the Mal-de-mer"-
Harper's Bazar
Evening star., 1897-04-17
A Modern PrOycrh,

II might be prudent for some OF us not
to let our left hand know how little our
right hand knows.
Evening star., 1897-04-17
More improvements,

The solidity of Atlantic City from a finan-
clal point of view was clearly demonstrated
on Monday. Bids were opened for $35 900
worth of Az per cent refunding bonds
There We're ten bidders for the ISSUE the
successful firm Offering a premium of
A,2o0, which is proportionately, four times
the premium obtained for the boardwalk
bonds issued year ago. In the near fu-
ture more bonds will be issued, including
$l8.O9O for the new city hail, and from
$6OO00 to 100000 for Telford pavement
on Pacific avenue. This latter improve
ment will give a splendid driveway. three
miles in length, through the most delight
ful residence portion of the city. Another
Improvement soon to be made will be the
removal of the unsightly electric light and
telegraph wires and poles from along the
boardwalk. The wires will all be placed
in conduits underneath the walk.
Several hotels which We're closed during
the winter months have reopened during
the past week, including the Aberdeen at
Longport. the New England and the Yer
mont House.
The Hotel Rudolf has been leased by
William P. Gomez. formerly of the Parker
House, Boston, and the Grenoble New
York. and Robert p. Murphy of the Regent
House. Washington. The present lessee
Carl Essner of Philadelphia. some time ago
gave notice to the owner. Charles R. My
ers. that he intended to retire at the expi-
ration of the first year of his lease.
Evening star., 1897-04-17
A Usefal. Adjunct.

Usefal Adjunct.
From Life.
Friend-"Do you take any stock in cam
paigns OF education?"
Poiftician-"Oh. yes. There are some
votes that can't be had In any other way"