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A-s25 OR $50 CASH. LOT SOxl2o ON CHAN
ming, with neat 9-room house. FENCED:
nice shrubbery etc; paIance az siN a. y n9t F,rst
st.
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ALL PIANOS RENTED FROM A. G.
GARDNER. 11S Winston ST., near the
main postofiice. are tuned regularly,
free. If
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PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, ETC

KNIGHT BROS PATENT SOLICI-
tors; free book on patents. ~ Byrne
bldg. S-R-6
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school. OF ASSAYING; ASSAYS AND
analysis of ores, water and ndustria!
products. WADE g. WADE. 1151a n.
Main st. tf
THE BIMEALLIC ASSAY OFFICE
and Chemical Laboratory. 124 s. Main st.
r. A. PEREZ, L. M. manager 12-4.f
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A-s7Oo-LOT 4Ox2o0, WITH 4-ROOM HARD
finished cottage, southwest, worth $l200;
price only $780, BEN WHITE, 2Se ".
First st.
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FRANK STEVENS. s24ls s. SPRING ST.
open days and evenings: also Sundays
electric light. Tel. Black S2l.
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DENTISTS

BROS, DENTAL PARLORS,
2Ssla s. Spring St: painless extracting and
filling; plates IS IS. $40; all work guar
anteed: established 10 years. Hours. SD;
Sundays, 10-12 Telephone, Black 1878.
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NEW YORK SPECIALISTS 2S2Ik s.
Main St; consultation and medicine, 81 ;
specialists of twenty years experience in
and to s pm; Sunday. 10 to pm. II
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SUPERIOR MAGNETIC AND ALCO-
holic treatments by an experienced lady
from Boston. Room 3, 223 s. Main st. APT
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MRS DR. j. II. SMITH, SPECIALITY
Midwifery. Ladies cared for during con-
fnement at 727 Bellevue ave. Tel. 1lt9
Main 4-10
CONSULT DIR. MINNIE WELLS, SPE-
cialist, 316 w. Seventeenth ST., corner OF
Grand ave. 3-16tf
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ELLA M. WHITE, TRANCE CLAIR
voyant medium; readings daily except
Sunday. 245 S. Hill st. emo
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40 ACRES, MICHIGAN. FREE OF IN
cumbrance: fine rich land; value. $1,000;
land preferred. BEN WHITE. 235 w.
First st. b
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PHYSICIANS

DIR. w. c. HARRISON, ORIFICIAL SPE-
cialst. successfully treats rectal. uter-
inc. nervous, sexual and chronic diseases
Call or write for MY Message to the
Sick" 229 w. First ST., rooms 1.2 and 3. 4-20
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DIR. KENNEDY, DENTIST. 1854 N.
Spring ST.. rooms 2. and I: painless ex-
traction.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW

LAWS OF HUSBAND AND WIFE. PRO-
bate. criminal and foreclosure q spe-
cialty; 20 years experience; advice free.
w. w. HOLCOMB, attorney, I'll w. First
street. o-ll
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blockade of the gulf of Athens. Greece.
by keeping Col. Vassos in Crete, is ex-
posing the Cretans to all the disadvan-
fages of a blockade there. She frus-
trates the restoration of peace; she pre-
vents the powers from learning the real
wishes of the inhabitants of Crete, which
can only be ascertained by the powers
after the removal of the influence of an
Interested pressure.
The reports of the consuls in Crete
and of the admirals of the international
fleets show the utter impossibility at the
present moment of communicating di-
rectly with the Cretans, who are sub
1ected to the overwhelming influence
of the Greek detachment in the island
and kept back in places inaccessible to
European negotiations.
Col Vassos has practically declared
war against the powers. Moreover, GER
tain extravagant and habitual foment-
ers of disorder hysterically advocate
declaration of war by Greece against
Turkey on the 9th of April or on the
date when q blockade of Greece COM
mences
We refuse to believe that any such ex-
traordinary act of folly will be per-
mitted. But in the event of it happen
ing, Greece will certainly have to en-
dure the most serious consequences. Ii
Greece wishes war at any price she can
count on the support of no one. What
ever the result may be of conflict so
wantonly provoked, the powers will
never consent to the aggressors deriv-
ing the slightest advantage from VIC
tory in such q struggle.
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FOR SALE-WE SELL THE EARTH.
BASSETT &c SMITH, Pomona, Cal. 6-26tf
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A-s25O0 HANDSOME 7-ROOM COTTAGE.
lot 371bx110 Towne ave-, easy TERMS
BEN WHITE, 235 w. First ST.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
One Cent Due Mr.. Cleveland.

There is n balance of one cent due
Grover Cleveland as President of the
United States on the records of tho
Treasury Department awaiting his
signature for payment. When the
outgoing President was paid his last
months salary there was still frac-
ton due, and in the hurry and change
OF Administration the matter was over
looked until too late to receive the
Presidents signature.
Ii at the expiration Of three yescs
the amount has not bsen drawn, it
will be returned to the United States
Treasury and become legally dead, or
covered in" according to the term
used in such instances, and can never
be recovered, unless q special claim is
instituted against the Government and
the wear and tear of a special appro-
priation gone through with, the samo
as any other appropriation is passed.
Under no consideration can the amount
be paid from al appropriation or sur
plus already in existence.
A special warrant is required for the
payment of the salary of the Chief Ex-
ecutive, while lesser officials and clerks
are paid by check on the Treasury that
can be cashed at any National bank
Washington dispatch to the Pittsburg
Dispatcb.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
Remarkable Telerraphic Feat.

'I think the public has not thor
oughly appreciated the fact that the
telegraphic work done in connection
with the international chess contest
between members of Congress and the
British Parliament was in number of
respects the most remarkable feat of
skill ever accomplished in the history
of telegraphing," said Mr.. NJ. Marean,
Manager of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, to Star reporter to-
day. "It took on an average only fif-
teen seconds to transmit the moves
between Washington and London.
During the two days of the game not
single telegraphic mistake was made,
end the overland and cable service was
without other than momentary inter-
ruption.. The line ran from Washing
ton to Hearts Content, Nova Scotia,
over the Western Union system, thence
by the Western Union and Anglo
American Gable Company to Valencia,
Ireland; thence to the House of Parlia-
ment. Six operators were engaged i'll
the work, one at each end of the three
lines. When preparation was being
made for the match it was questioned
whether moves could be telegraphed
rs rapidly as fifteen per hour. The
service given demonstrated that there
might have been 100 moves al hour, so
far as their transmission over the ocean
was concerned. OF course, abbreYia-
tons were used, and no time was lost
in sending either addresses or sigma
lures. ."--Washingtcn Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
Chain OF Human Bones.

Cyrus O. Thornton, farmer living
a few miles out of Bolivar, has an odd
watch chain: It is made of human
bones. The chain consists of eight
links, each trihe more than an inch
long, connected by plated rings. The
chain is about ten inches long, and has
been highly polished by years of wear
nad glistens like ivory.
Thornton secured the chain ut Peters
burg, Va, il 1861 He was mem
ber Of Company E, FiFtieth New York
Engineers. A member of the Twenty
first New York IufAntry made two
chains while confined in Libby Prison,
and on his release met Thornton and
sold him the chain for $50 in green
backs. Thornton has forgotten the
makers name. The bones we're taken
from amputatel arms and legs, and it
required eighteen months time to
carve out the chains. For many years
after he came home from the war
Thornton wore the chain every day,
but for several years he has worn it
only on Memorial Day and at Grand
Army reunions. Some of his neigh
bo:s once laughed ut the idea of the
bones being taken from human bodies,
and he sent the chain to surgeon,
who examined it and pronounced it to
be of human ones.-.Fall River Mass. J
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
Couldn't Tie a Knot.

In Long Island Sound short time
ngo, says the Marine Journal, a
schooner bound to this city from
Maine was attracted by frantic signals
from the deck of a yacht manned only
by q lot of Yale students who were in
the last throes of seasickness. The
captain flung them a line, which they
dallied with in an aimless fashion and
then lost overheard. This was thrice
repeated. "Take a turn around the
mast and make it fast" shouted Cap
tain Greeley. The students wound
the line about the mast and held the
loose end in their L.-nds. "Make it
fast!" cried the captain. ''What do
You mean?" piped back the students.
"Tie it, you gashfummu1ed idiotsl'
roared the captain, adding some fur
ther language that is always found eff
fcacious at sea. The boys finally got
the rope tied, and the schooner towed
them into Bridgeport, buy when he ar
rived in New York the csr tain got q
parcel from New Haven, which on be-
ing opened disclosed a handsome sill
yer loving cup, gold lined, and bear
ing this inscription:
Presented to
CAPTAIN A. N. GREELEY,
By the Landlubbers who
could not tie knot.
May 7, 1897.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
A Call for "snlth's Onion Report"

st wanted greatly" said Congress.
man Williams, Of Mississippi, "to find
certain Government publication for a
constituent of mine, who wrote me ali
especially urgent request to get 1t fol
him. He said he had long wanted a
copy of O pamphlet called Smiths
Onion Report but had not been able
to secure one. OF course it must be
nm Agricultural Department publica-
tion and I tried to secure it by writing
to the department. I found there were
plenty of documents prepared by
Smith, but nothing relating to onions.
+ sent him sackful of literature at
Uncle Sans expense, but there was
no treatise on the succulent and tear
compelling onion. was sad, for this
was friend that I really wanted to
favor.
"Well, in due course of time I got a
thankful letter. 1t was NIL right oout
the work on onions. In flct, it was
nil q mistake on the part Of my con-
stituent. What he had written for
was Smithsonian report, but he had
failed to divide the word properly,
putting the first five letters at the end
of line and the last five at the begin
ming of another. "-Washington Path
finder
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
Wedding II Cotton Field.

1t is told of a Florida farmer not
far from Tallahassee that he has de-
vised an ingenious scheme by which
he has rclegated the hoe and the cot
ton sweep to desuetude. The cotton
planter it is said, know that geese
will not touch the cotton plant, but
like very much the tender grass that
is the bane of the cottol, catch. This
farmer noticed that his geese kept
part of his patch free from grass, but
wouldn't go near other parts of it, and
he found that they went only where
there was drinking water. He hit
upon the idea of equipping each goose
with n CORD, which he filled with water
and cut slit in, so that any one
goose might drink from this little
trough suspended from tho neck of
it's fellow. Then hc turned the geese
loose i'll his cotton Eeld, and they
cleared it of all grass.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
WORDS OF WISDOM.

He that takes no holiday hastens q
long rest.
No sin is so little TINT it may not be-
come the souls master.
Language fails to paint woman as
the eyes OF lover sees her.
If you want to know the value oi
money go try to borrow some.
A sack of -four unceremoniously
dumped in the cheerless house Of q
poor and needy family, will carry more
solid comfort to hungry stomach than
lot of eloquent sermons.
= No quality will ever get man more
friends than sincere admiration OF
the qualities of others. It indicates
generosity of nature, frankness, cor
diality and cheerful recognition OF
merits. ;,
cannot praise fugitive and clois-
tered virtue, unexercised and un-
breathed, that never sallies out and
sees her adversary, but sinks out OF
the race, when that immortal garland
is to be run for, not without dust and
heat.
Finish every day aud be done with
it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no
doubt, crept in; forget them as soon
as you can. Tomorrow is new day;
begin it we'll and serenely, and with
too high spirit to be numbered with
your old nonsense. This day is all
that is good and fair. 1t is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations, to waste
o moment on the yesterdays.-The
South West.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
An indian Princes Hunting Camp.

In the Century H. W. Seton-Karr
tells of his experiences CATER Big
Game in Africa and India" In India
the author was the guest of an Indian
prince, the Maharsja of Kuch Behar,
and he thus describes the latter's hunt
ing camp:
As we approached it between the
patches of cultivation round the clus-
ter of grass huts which constituted the
village of Simlagori, the fires, tents
and lights in all directions and the
dark figures of crowds of servants
made it appear like a military encamp-
ment. A native sentry kept guard
over the Maharsja's tent, which was
placed somewhat at one side. In the
middle of the camp rose large dining
tent, and the tents which were in
tended for the guests were placed in q
row on each side of the camp. Each Of
these tents was large double-roofed
structure of about twenty feet by
eighteen, internal measurement, sup
ported on two massive bamboo up
rights and cross-bar; space behind,
between the inner and the outer wall,
formed bathroom, which was sup
piled with large tin bath and an elab-
crate wash-stand. The floor of my
tent was covered with thick carpet;
the bedstead was of wood, with clean
white pillows and sheets, colored
blankets and mosquito-uet There
were convenient pockets in the gay
lining of the tent, and two arm-chairs,
table and large lamp completed the
furniture. The tents of the other
guests were equally comfortable, and
the name of each Of us was neatly
printed on a placard hung outside in
order to assist us in recognizing our
respective tents, the external appear
ance being exactly the same. On the
carpet where portion of the roof of
the dilling-tent projected, so as to form
Kind of open shelter, were a table
with tea-service and some arm-chairs.
During the three weeks that the camp
continued dinner was usually at eight,
rs We generally returned on the ele-
plants from the jungle at five OF six, in
time for afternoon tea and a comforta-
BILE warm bath. Dinner was neatly
served by crowd of the Maharaja's S
barefooted, white-robed attendants.
In India it is considered mark of re-
spect for a servant, on entering an
apartment, to leave his sandals at the
door.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
Echo Used to Measure distance.

A most interesting method of en-
ploying the echo of sound has been
devised for the location of the carriers
which sometimes lodge in the under
ground pneumatic tubes. Knowing
that sound travels at speed of, rough
ly, HOO feet per second, and knowing
the time measured i'll ihousnndths OF a
second between the firing OF pistol
shot III the conduit and the arriving OF
the echo at the outlet OF tl.e tube, a
simple calculation gives the exact loca-
tion of the obstruction. The means
of five experiments in the recent test
gave 2793 seconds, and when the
sound velocity was corrected for air
temperature the obstruction was locat-
ed at 1887 feet from the instrument,
which was the exact ion.-Science.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
An Efficient Salesman,

Imagine a clerk trying to sell an
article to his own "boss" and actually
accomplishing it and winning an in
crease of salary as o reward! That is
what happened recently in one of the
branch stores of Upton, the great
English grocer and provision dealer.
He has so many clerks that some of
them do not know him by sight. 1t
was one of these latter who called Mr..
Lipton's attention to fine specimen
of poultry as he was walking through
one of his stores, and the clerk was so
earnest and adroit in extollinG his
wares that finally the customer ordered
it to be sent to his residence.
When the address was given the
energetic clerk, and he found that he
had been pressing the goods upon his
own employer, he nearly had fit,
but soon recovered upon being in
formed that his assiduity had earned
him an increase of pay.-Merchants'
Review.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
t,or,, Ne,son,s Hu,nan Fellowship,

Captain Mahan, in his Life Of
Nelson" just published, claims the
following as an original story showing
the inherent kindness of the great
sailor. The fleet letters had just been
sent off, when Nelson saw midship'
man come up and speak to Lieutenant
Pasco, the signal officer, who, upon
hearing what was sail, stamped his
foot in evident .vexation ald uttered
an exclamation. The Admiral, Of
whose nearness Pasco wGs unaware,
called him and asked what was the
matter.
Nothing that need trouble your
lordship," was the reply.
''You are not the man to lose youl
temper for nothing" rejoined Nelson.
"What was it?"
"Well, if you must know, my lord, ]
will tell you. You see that coxswain?'
pointing to one of the most exactine
of the petty officers. "Wo have not Il
better man OH board the Victoria, and
the message which put ME ont was
this. I.was told that he was so busy
receiving end getting off the mailbags
that he forgot to drop his own letter
into one Of them, and lie has just dis
covered it in his pocletr'
''Hoist the signal to bring hel
back" was Nelson's instant command.
"Who knows that he may not fall in
action tomorrow? His letter shall
go with the rest" And the dispatch
vessel was brought back for that alone.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
A Dog Whips an Alligator.

That a dog may best an alligator
appears by the experience of the Hon.
D. 3. Stuart, Of Victoria, Fla. His
dog was swimming III q lake there,
whcl Mr. Stuart, seeing q gator COM
ing, called to the dog to come ashore.
The dog started. hut the alligator was
gaining, when the deg turned and
seized it, Both went down, but the
dog came up unharmed, and the ALI.
gator with hcerated lower jaw
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
ella Monsters Venomous.

Professor John Van Denbrg deliv-
cred an interesting lecture at the
Academy of Sciences, San Francisco,
recently, upon the Gila monster. lie
says:
1T has become q common supposi-
ton for years." said the lecturer,
"that the bite of Gila monster was
as poisonous rs that Of rattlesnake,
but many OF the scientists denied this.
Numerous eminent scientific men
stated that from actual experience they
had demonstrated that the bite was
harmless. One OF these tDr. Schu-
fert) had himself been bitten by one
of the reptiles, and, besides the pain
occasioned by the ordinary bite of an
animal, no i'll results followed
The lecturer then stated, says the
San Francisco Call, that lie had dem
onstrated that the saliva OF the Gila
monster was poisonous. lis bite
would in almost every case caase
death, If the teeth OF the lover jaw
penetrated the skin. 1t was the up
per laT' OF the reptile which sank INTO
the flesh Of Dr. Schubert, and as the
secretion OF the glands Of the upper
jaw was harmless, the doctor lived.
Tie speaker said that he had in
jected the saliva OF both the upper and
lower glands into pigeons, and in
every case where that from The lower
jaw was injected the victim had died
in short time. He showed why so
many animals which are bitten by the
poisonous reptile live. The ducts
which leads from the glands to tho
mouth open between the lower lip and
the gum. For the Saliva to enter a
wound it must be forced up from the
lip to the teeth, and thence into the
wound. Thus it is hard for the poi
sonous fluid to reach the blood, cvenif
the victim is bitten by the lower
teeth.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
AS YE METE,

"Hit i'm welt, jim. There! that's right.
Git there. lazy-bones! Here we go
Thought ye could snake 1t up If ye tried,
II the hill is leetle bare o. snow.
What dye s'pose keep ye fur?
Pretty pair!-a solderin' me.
Put on the whip, Jim. good an thick.
What do ye lag fur? Git there! Gee!"
Bright little Jim on the toppling load,
Catches his lessons, quickly, too;
Swings his lash with childish vim,
Brings it down with loud halloo.
"Git up, azy bones! Git dare, now!'
Lashing and slashing with all his might.
Learning to drive" and his father stands:
Laughing aloud ut the funny sight. .-..r.
Years roll away, as the years all do,
Father is grandpa" old and gray,
Pottering round the house Mt Jim's,
Made to feel he is in the way.
Working hard with his feeble hands,
Toiling Mt burdens beyond his strength.
"Work il you eat. No laggards here,
Is what he hears from Jim at length.
GAS We measure, so unto you
Shall be measured the same again;
Eye for an eye, and tooth for tooth, !"
Readeth the law in accents plain.
Mills Of tho gods, that grind each day,
May grind slowly; they grind full sure.
Ye who oppress 4 suffering life,
Must the oppressor's fate endure.
Mary Morrison, in Our Animal Friends.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-08-18
Victoria christcncd From Golden Font.

James Cassidy writes OF the "Girl-
hood Days CT England's Queen" for
ST. Nicholas. Mr.. Cassidy says Of
Queen Victoria:
When the child was few months
old she was christened; and the chris
ing was a very grand affair. No COM
mon marble or stone font was used; q
gold font was thought necessary. And
so a gold font was brought from the
Tower Of London, where it had been
kept for safety.
One of the sponsors was Car Alex,
ander of Russia; and hence it was that
the name chosen for the baby was
Alexandrina Victoria, the second name
being that of her mother.
A fine, healthy, lively child, with
blue eyes and fair hair, was the
Princess, aud it seems she suffered
little from the trials OF infancy.