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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06

work many of them. They have dug
out the surface coal and they are now
working at great depths. One English
vein, fourteen and half inches wide,
is already down over twelve hundred
feet. Such vein would not be worked
to any great depth in America. The
Newcastle coal field, which is the rich
est in England, has veins from three
to six feet thick, while the Wales coal
veins arc less than three feet in thick
ness. Some of our Pennsylvania an
thracite veins run from thirty feet to
sixty feet feet in thickness, while the
Pittsburg bituminous coal veins are
from eight to sixteen feet thick. At
the present rate of mining it is esti-
mated that all the English coal will be
exhausted in 212 years if it is worked
down to 1000 feet, and this will be 113
feet deeper than any of the English
mines now worked. Notwithstanding
the enormous amounts of coal which
we have taken out of our anthracite
region it is estimated that we could go
on at the present rate for GIG years.
As,England goes further down her
coal mining will become more expen-
sive, and her days as manufacturing
Nation are, consequently, numbered.
Already we surpass her great deal in
manufacturing, and there is no doubt
that we, with our vast supplies of coal
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Household Hints.

Vegetables growing above the
ground should be cooked in salted
water, those below, in fresh water.
Colors which have been changed by
the application of acids may be re-
stored by the application of chloro-
form.
When cooking onions, set tin cup
of vinegar on the stove and let boil,
and no disagreeable odor will be in the
room.
Fruit stains, when fresh, may be
removed by pouring water through
the stained portion until the spot dis
appears.
Ink that is freely split upon carpet
should be covered with common or
coarse salt or Indian meal. If all the
stain is not absorbed rub with lemon
juice.
Grass stains should be rubbed with
molasses thoroughly and then washed
out as usual. Another treatment is
to rub with alcohol and then wash
in water.
Our fruit stains may be removed
vita oxalic acid; wash the stained por-
ton in the acid till clear; rinse at
once in rain water as the acid will at.
tack the fabric if left upon it. Now
wet the spot in ammonia and give o
final rinslng.
Whenpotatoes are thoroughly baked,
burst the skin, and you will have de-
licious, mealy potatoes that will be
eatable for an hour or more if kept in
a warm place. If you are not in the
habit of doing this, you do not know
what an excellent thing baked pota-
to really is.
Rust and ink stains should be
rubbed with juice of lemon and the
spot then covered with salt and the
cloth placed in the sun. IF this treat
ment does not serve to remove the
stain, or if the fabric is colored and
SO cannot be treated with lemon
juice, oxalic acid may bs used as for
old fruit stains.
Tea, coffee and undoubtedly cocoa
Btains, even those which had been pre-
viously washed, may be rubbed in
javelle water, if the fabric stained be
white, otherwise the color will be
bleached. Take half-pint of the ia
velle water to quart of clear water
and let the stained portion of the cloth
soak in it for several hours, then rinse
thoroughly in three waters.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06
Quinine and other fe-
yer medicines take from5
to 10 days to cure fever.
Johnson's Chill and Fever
Tonic cures i'm ONE. DAY.
Toads WayIay Bees.

"I found out something last night
that makes me feel silly, and I've
learned little lesson in natural his
tory that I shall not soon forget, said
s. V. Hall. "Every night" explain
ed Mr.. Hall, "when I have gone out
about sundown to shut the hen house,
I have noticed large toad sitting in
front of one of my hives of bees, the
one nearest the walk, and Twas careful
not to molest him because I have al
ways protected toads on my place on
account of their usefulness in destroy
ing troublesome insects. I stopped
to watch and soon learned all about
it. The hive, under which they bur-
sowed in cool retirement in the day
time and in front of Which they took
up sentinel positionsin the early even
Ing, stood on the ground with only
board between it and the sod. The
board projected in front of the hive
about three inches, so as to afford the
bees convenient place for alighting.
While I watched the bees arriving
home last night, heavily laden with
honey, I saw those two toads shoot
out their long, slim, shiny tongues and
capture every bee. did not wait to
see them eat many before [ killed
them both. I dissected one and found
his stomach full of bees whole and
others in various stages of digestion.
I estimated that those winking, blink,
ing toads have been devouring fifty OF
sixty day. I had supposed the bees
stings would protect them from sucha
fate. Buffalo Courier. Record.
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LOVE AND JOY.

Z sing Of love that sorrow ne'er haa
known,
Love that has dwelt with eladness from
its birth,
Love that has made more bright the gra.
cious earth,
And given every song tender tone.
With my heart have upreared throne
And set this love thereon with buoyant
mirth,
And much that seemed before of little
soft-sunned by it to, beauty strange has
grown.
That which was erewhile is I no moro;
The alchemist Love wondrous change
has wrought,
And in my soul now turks no base alloy.
I have cast of the bonds that thralled be-
fore;
The gold of love hath purified my
thought,
And Joy my sovereign is, for Love is Joy.
Clinton Scollard.
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BICYCLE LINE TO THE KLoNDlKE
A Freaky Undertaking by Syndicate o.
Wealthy New Yorkers. - ssss

One of the most novel OF the many
schemes to obtain share Of the wealth
of the Klondike region has been de-
veloped by syndicate of four wealthy
New York business men, who areplan.ss
ming to establish trading posts and
stores in the mining camps and also, to-
purchase all promising claims on the!
market. They will transport their;
men and supplies to the gold fields on N
q bicycle specially designed for tho pur:1
pose. The enterprise will be Under
taken on an extensive scale, and an exs9S
pert will be sent at once to the:
gold fields, well supplied with money
to secure desirable claims. Large.
stores of everything miner needswilE
be transported by boat to Juneau:
Then the Klondike bicycle comes into
play. It will be used to transport the
supplies over the 700 miles between:
Juneau and the gold fields by the.
Chilkoot Pass trail. The bicycle is
specially designed to carry freight;
and is in reality four-wheeled vehicle
and bicycle combined. 1t is built
very strongly and weighs about fifty
pounds. The tires are of solid rubber
one and a half inches in diameter
The frame is the ordinary diamond, of
steel tubing, built, however, more for
strength than appearance, and wounds
with rawhide, shrunk on, to enable the
miners to handle it with comfort ins
low temperatures. From each side of
the top bar two arms of steel proiect,t
each arm carrying smaller Wheel,
about fourteen inches in diameter,
which, when not in use, can be folded
up inside the diamond frame. Devices5
for packing large'quantities of materials
are attached to the handle bars andS
rear forks, and the machine, it is esti-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06

The amount of coal carried on the
railroads is almost beyond conception.
The Philadelphia and Reading has
more than fifty thousand coal cars,
which are dragged by nine hundred
coal locomotives. These cars ore kept
busy in carrying anthracite coal. The
Pennsylvania Railroad employs more
than seventy thousand cars for the
movement of its coal and coke trade,
and the Central Railroad of New Jer-
sey carries about five million tons of
anthracite coal every year. More coal
is handled at New York than at any
other place in the world except Lon
don, more than fifteen million tons be-
ing used OF transshipped at that point
annually.
One would think that there would
be a lot of money in coal for the miners.
There is not, and it is question
whether the present strike will materi-
ally better matters. AS far as strikes
have gone in the past, they have been
against the working men: Some years
ago Carroll D. Wright, the United
States Commissioner of Labor, figured
up the profit and loss of ten years of
striking in all branches Of labor. He
estimated that the employees during
this time lost ffty-nine million dol
lars, an average of forty dollaos to each
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ian Mountain, than anywhere else in
the world. The coal is easy to get at,
the veins are thick, and in some mines
they are almost on the top..:of 1.-The
ground. They are better39than any
other coal fields in this respect, with
one single exception. This;is the new
coal field of Alaska, which, one of the
geological survey men:teHs tme, comes
right out over the water, SO that the
coal can be dug down: and almost fall
into the ships below. This Alaskan
cosl will probably be used to supply
the Pacific trade, and its impo- .ance
will be appreciated when it is remem
bered that the largest feet that sails
the Pacific is the coal feet. Most of
the coal from that region comes from
Australia and japan. Much Australian
coaIis brought to San Francisco. Dur
ing my travels in Japan visited one
coal mine which had fifty miles Of tun
nels ander the sea, and + learned that
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AN EXPLOSION.

miles; India, $500 square miles;
New South Wales, $4,000 square
miles; Russia, 10000 square miles;
United Kingdom, IL, 800 square miles;
Spain, $500 square miles; Japan; 5000
square miles, France, 20S0 square
miles; Austria-Hungary, 1870 square
miles; Germany, ITO square miles;
Belgium, $40 square miles.
From the above table it will be seen
that the English coal area is small.
Still England has for years been the
centre of the coal production of the
world, and for years it mined more
than half the total amount used by the
world. The United States is now
probably ahead of it, and we are in
creasing our product every year. The
English coal veins are thin. The
miners have to lie on their sides to
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06
IN AN ENGLISH MINE.
and iron, are to be the chief manu-
featuring Nation of the future.

and iron, are to be the chief manu-
featuring Nation of the future.
Our Appalachian coal fields alone
could supply the world with fuel for
centuries. They are the largest and
richest known, and they are SO situated
that the coal can be shipped from them
long distances by water. From Pitts
burg coal can be carried for eight
cen thousand miles on navigable
streams, and the gate fires of the
South blaze with the rays from the
black diamonds from Pennsylvania.
The Ohio River is the great coal chute
for the Mississippi valley. The coal
is carried down it in great barges
pushed by little steamers, and so fast
ened together that single steamer
will push acres of coal. Loads of
twenty thousand tons are taken. A
vast amount of coal is carried on the
canals and the great lakes form one of
the chief highways Of the coal traffic.
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the japanese were making a great deal
of money out of their coal.
They were shipping it to China, not
withstanding the fact that the geolo-
gists say that China has some of the
largest coal fields of the world. I
doubt the extent of the Chinese fields:
The people are thrifty, and it is curl
Gus that they do not use the coal if
they haveit. They are among the
most economical of people, and in the
different Chinese cities coal is SO valu-
able that it is ground to dust and then
mixed with dirt, being sold in balls
about the size of a biscuit. It is in
teresting to know the coal fields Of
the world, as estimated by the geolo-
gists. Here they are:
China, 200, 900 square miles; United
States east of the Rockies, 1872, 900
square miles; Canada, $4,000 square
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06
onerata Smaller Farms.

e. Mcclure, of New York, writes.
There is much complaint among farm
ers, especially in the Eastern States,
about poorly paying crops, and part OF
this complaint is justified, but after
an extended experience in farming, I
have come to the conclusion that it
pays better to have small farm free
from debt, to which has been applied
large amounts of fertilizing materials,
than large one with mortgage and
with depleted soil. Many a man
who has owned large farm died poor
where he might have lived and farmed
proftably smaller one. 1t is true
that times have been hard and taxes
heavy, but it is also true that many
who complain, have only themselves
4 011
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Oxen or Horses.

hope to live to see the day when
the big oxen of olden times will again
adorn the farms of Kennebec. On
almost every farm now you may find a
pair of big Western or Canadian horses,
and in few years they will wear out
and the money for another pair must
come from somewhere beside their
earnings. When you sell q pair of
oxen for which Kennebec was once
noted you get money enough to buy
another pair and have some left to pay
your taxes with. Then again you
yoke up your oxen and put them
astride cart-tongue or sled handle
and goto work; while with horses you
must have q full accompaniment of
rigging to go with them and then you
need harness maker and blacksmith
to follow up.-D. Fl. Thing, in New
England Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06
HUMoR OF THE DAY.

"She used to be SO delicate before
she took to the wheel" "Well, she's
indelicate enough now." Detroit
Journal.
First Tot-"Ny mamma says, IF
the shoe fits, put it on" Second
Tot-"My mamma says IF the shoe
fits, take it Gifts too big Puck.
The Captain (boisterously)-"Come,
old man, brace upl What's got into
you?" Passenger-"H you don't put
me ashore you'll very soon see. Life.
Minnie-''Inn my opinion ore wheel
is as good as- another" Mamie-'I
SUPPOSE there is not much difference
in rented wheels. indianapolis Jour-
nal.
'You must get rid of the Oirish ac
cent, Mike, if you want to git on. Yet,
shure, T was tin years in London be-
fore could git over it meseli. New
York Journal.
Style in the Far West: "The Smiths
put on lots of style, don't they9"
"Well, I should say! They have in
diyidual cyclone cellars up at the
Smiths. Puck.
Scientific Methods: Birch Riches
have wings" Pine-"Possibly; but
most millionaires seem to have sue
ceeded in clipping them pretty sue
cessfully!"-Brooklyn Life.
Speaking of runs" observed Me-
thuselah, GIVE just scored my ninth
century," and he cut another notch in
his stick and continued to roll down
the ages.-Chicago Tribune.
"Horseless carriages are getting to
be quite common in the East now."
eyes; but they are not as numerous
as the voiceless opera singers. Gin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
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Why take Johnson's
Chill & Fever Tonic?
Because it cures the
most stubborn case
of Fever i'm ONEDAY.
NO BACKGROUND.

"Every man needs wife to brighten
up the place"
eyes; but suppose he hasn't any
place.
NOT QUALIFIED TO SAY.
Wilton-Do you agree with David,
that all men are liars !?
Wilby-How can I tell ? Just think
of the number of men that never
saw
NATURAL MISTAKE.
The seashore boarder was accosted
in the dark lane leading to the hotel
by man with cleaning revolver.
Glands up!" shouted the thug.
ooh, say, landlord" !" replied the
boarder, you're not going to collect
till my weeks up. are Ton
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VIII Two Minutes Be Reachedq

This is the year that, as turfmen
have said, will see the record OF har-
ness horses reduced to two minutes
for mile. The pacing record came
within o fraction of the mark year
ago, AMI it is understood that the
trainers of number Of noted horses
are determined that the coveted mark
shall be reached before the season
ends.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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not weather cheese araking.

Professor J. W. Robertson, Of the
Ontario Agricultural College says: A
cheese factory's reputation is largely
determined by the quality of its
August, September aud October out
put. Inefficient drainage facilities
will show their worst effects during
warm weather. Clean the whey tank
at least once.
Flies must be kept out of the max
ing room. Some afternoon when the
cheese are in the hoops burn small
quantity Of sulphur in the room after
closing up the doors and windows. If
tablespoonful OF alcohol be mixed
with the sulphur it will burn more
readily. Care must be taken to pre-
vent the fumes getting into the curing
room. The tins Of the milk vats and
the inside of the sinks should be washed
after this fumigating process before
they. are used.
In the curing room, ventilate dur
ing early morning and at night to
keep the temperature as low as posi-:
BILE. Sprinkle the floors with cold
water morning, noon land evening.
While the cheese are being turned on
the shelves there should be an abun-
dant admission of light. When flies.
are apt to be abundant, plentiful
shaking of fly powder in the room be-
fore shutting up for the day will de-
stroy them. When the evenings are
cool and the milk needs ripening, do
not fail to leave it in the vat until it
reaches the proper stage of maturity
before the rennet is added Use
enough rennet to coagulate the milk
in forty minutes when it is set at
eighty-eight degrees. Dilute the ex-
tract to the extent of one pailful of
water for every vatful of milk and then
mix it thoroughly by rapid, vigorous
stirring.
When troubled with gassy curds,
allow development of acid such as
will be indicated by threads by the hot
iron test quarter of On inch long.
Before removing the curd, it is good
plan to run most of the whey off at On
early stage aud to leave only enough
to permit free stirring of the curd.
After the curd cutter has been used,
stir for twenty minutes before apply
ing the salt. Then curd should be
put into the hoops within twenty min
utes after the salt has been mixed in.
Apply 70 pressure very gradually.
The cl 30 should be bandageG very
neatly zen they are turned in the
hoops hin two hours, after they are
put in press. When practicable,
cheese rould be pressed for at least
twenty Or hours.
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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
Protecting Cows From Files.

A very weak dilution of carbolic acid
will keep flies off from cows in hot
weather. The carbolio acid may be
made stronger and mixed with some
grease to put around the COWS horns,
as the horn fly is more persistent in
Its attacks at this point, and there is
no danger of the acid here where the
SOW cannot get at it to lick it. No cow
likes the odor of carbolic acid.
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Great Combination.

John B. Crimmins, of Charlotte, N.
g., has q combination of dog, a cat
and a rat which dwell together in har-
mony, to the amazement of all his
neighbors. They may be- seen any
day asleep in his window, the cats head
reposing on the dogs back and the rat
taking sun bath nestled in the fur 81
the traditional enemy.
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RaiIroal fakes Up It's Tracks and Gives
the Ties to Farmers.

The Santa Fe is taking up the tracks
of it's branch line through Wichita
County. When the work was begun
Representative Frank Grimes of that
county came to the general Offices of
the company at Topeka and secured n
concession through which the farmers
were to receive all of the ties, the rail
road simply STIMULATING that the ia +
mers be on hand with their wagons to
haul the ties away rs fast as they were
taken up.-Kansas City Journal.
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Journ;si.
'Arry-"What kind of people do
you have down here in the season?"
Old Salt-"Well, sir, all kinds; some
very common, some real gents and
ladies, an some like yerself, sir, 'alf-
and-'a!f." "-Tit-B Bits.
The Correct Idea: Weary Willie
"Ef you he'd q million dollars, Fields,
wot would you do wit it," Flowery
Fields-"W'y, I wouldn't do nutt'n'
wit it'd jest rest easy and let it do
suttn wit me-" Truth.
The Professors Soliloquy: eyes,
my memoryis certainly getting better.
Now I remember distinctly enough
that my wife told me to tie string
about this finger. If I only could
think what for!'-Jndge.
A political speaker accused a rival
of "unfathomable meanness, and
taen, rising to the occasion, said, 'T
warnehim not to persist in his disgrace
full course, or he'll find that two of us
can play at that gamc!'-Tit-Bits.
Ruth-"I.understand Percy High
life has stopped trying to trace back
his family tree. I suppose the further
back he went the harder it got?"
Freddy-"Yes--and the further back
he went the harder his ancestors got,
too. Puck.
"Papa," said Billy, tearfully. after
playful romp with the good-natured
but rather rough St. Bernard puppy,
'tI don't believe Bingo knows what
kind of dog he is. He plays as if
he thought he was little pug
Harper's Bazaar.
"I hear you are about to build o
fine residence" said Mr.. Tenspot to
Mr.. Crewe Doyle. ''Yes, stree, +" re-
piled the man of newly-found wealth.
7'It is going to have piazzaro in the
front and Porto Rico in the rear
Harper's Bazaar.
Philanthropist-'I am surprised
that lady of your refinement and
good impulses should wear dead
bird upon her hat" The Offending
One-"But then, you see, live bird
would fly away unless it were tied on,
ard that would be cruel, you know"
Boston Transcript.
The Cornfed Philosopher: ''There
is no Doubt" said the oracular and
bumptious neophyte, "that the way to
O mans affections is through his stom-
ach." "And yet," said the Cornfed
Philosopher, 1T is not man who ex-
poets ice cream and such to be bought
for him. indianapolis Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06

DR.. Salmon, of the Government Bu
reau of Animal Industry, is credited
with recommending the following MS
cure for hog cholera: Wood charcoal,
one part; sulphur one part; salt, two
parts; bicarbonate of sodium, two parts;
sodium hyposulphite, two parts;
sodium sulphate, one part; antimony
sulphide, one part-ten parts in all.
Pulverize and mix thoroughly. Dose,
one tablespoonful for each 200 pounds
If hogs once day.
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the extra "scratcher" which, by the
way, is useless for that purpose or any
other) sticking out behind, between
the other two.
The hen, which is about a year and
half old, can boast of four legs, two
which she walks Oh, being in their
natural places, the extra two growing
out of her left side.
The strange feathered creatures
have been seen by hundreds OF
chicken fanc1ers.
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IncurabIe In Five Years.

The morphine habit becomes prac.
ticelly incurable in five years. The
user of alcoholic spirits may continue
eight or ten years before he reaches
the incurable stage. This will depend
on the free intervals between the time
of using spirits. When he becomes
:ncurable he may abstain, but the in
jured brain and nervous system never
recover.-Quarterly Journal of lne-
briefly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-10-06

The largest mass of pure rock salt in,
the world lies under the province OF.
Galicia, Hungary. tits known to be-
$50 miles long, twenty broad and 200,
feet in thickness.