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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
Landslide Exposes Coins.

A large find of old coins, which
have lain hidden underground for over
1850 years-since the time of the
Three Kingdoms-was accidentally
brought to light last May in the
Chushan district, in Northwest Hupeh,
during a heavy downpour of rain, says
a Shanghai contemporary. On the
4th of May 8 considerable tract Of
land washed off from a hill, and the
landslip exposed the hidden treasure.
The villagers in the neighborhood
Aocked to the spot to help themselves
to it, and the news Of the strange dis
coYery was at once telegraphed to His
Excellency Chang Chintung, who
ordered the local officials to gather the
coins with all dispatch.
It is said that the quantity gathered
represents as many as 100000
strings, and the coins are unusually
large, resembling in size those of the
Hsienfung resign about forty-fve
years ago) of the present dynasty.
The Viceroy is sending 800 strings to
Peking under charge OF Taotai for
the perusai of the Emperor. The
coins bear on one side the characters
of the reign of the monarch and on
the other (Szechuenl the seat of the
Government that issued them.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
Bullets Of Solid Gold.

Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,
Secretary of State for the colonies, has
received dispatch from her majesty's
high commissioner at the Cape stating
that in the fighting at Fort Martin,
near Hartley, South Africa, on satur-
day, the noted chief, Mashingombi,
was slain and between 400 and 500 OF
his followers were taken prisoners.
The Government forces occupied oil
the positions at Marbles Kraal, where
they captured more than one hundred
prisoners.
A dispatch from Fort Salisbury says
that the British forces took the ma
tives completely by surprise. When
a charge was made upon the stock
AIDES the natives fled to their caves, in
which they were afterward captured,
Mashingombi's main cave being de.
stroyed with dynamite. Mashingombl
was wounded during the attack and
died soon after being taken prisoner.
Two bullets made of solid gold were
found after the fight Washington
Stor
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
High Hcels Convicted d Hin .

"I never see high heels on pair Of
shoes or BOOTS" volunteered M old
detective officer to q Star reporter,
"but I am reminded of the capture of
Atzerodt, one of the Lincoln assassin
alton conspirators. 1t was the high
heeled boots that he wore that brought
about his arrest. It came in this way.
Lewis j. Weichman, the War Depart
ment clerk, on the night of the assas-
sination of Lincoln, who was one Of
the boarders at Mrs. Surratt's, gave
considerable information rs to the
conspiracy. 1t was at first thought
that he was in the conspiracy himself,
but he managed to clear himself to the
satisfaction OF the authorities and was
never prosecuted. With another de-
tective officer I went to Mrs. Surratt's
house about daybreak on the morning
after the night OF the assassination.
Shortly afterward man came to the
house with pick and shovel. He was
dressed as laborer and said he had
been employed to do some digging in
the yard and wanted to see the lady
of the house about going to work.
Mrs. Surratt, who resided in II street,
near Sixth Northwest, had been placed
under arrest during the night. The
makeup of the man was very perfect,
so much so that for time he COM
pletely threw us.off from suspecting
him. His story was very clenr, and
there were indications that there was
work needed to be done in the yard. ]
told him to wait there, and later on
would see about the work to be done.
he took seat on a. box, and it was
then noticed he had very high heels
on his boots. On further examina-
ton noticed that the boots were not
the boots that laborers wore, but were
fine calfskin, and showed that they
had been polished the day before,
though the rain during the night had
washed much of the backing off. This
convinced me that all was not right,
and I locked him up. In couple of
hours I ascertained that he was none
other than Atzerodt, the man who had
been selected by the conspirators to
murder Vice-President johnson, but
who had failed in his purpose, AS it
was, it was his high-heeled boots
which first directed my suspicious to
him, and it was his high-heeled boots
which hung him. When he was ex-
ecuted he wore the same high-heeled
boots, and they were buried with
him. Washington Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
A Suspension Bridge of Fence Wire.

A curious suspension bridge of fence
wire was recently constructed across
the Waukarusa River, in Douglass
County, Kansas. This stream, like SO
many other Kansas rivers, swells to a
torrent at every large rainfall, SO that
it was impossible for the children liv-
ing across the stream to go to the
schoolhouse. The county engineer
was asked to provide a remedy. He
bought qualities of fence wire, boards
and timber. He used good sized oak
logs as piers. Strips of boards three
feet long were fastened together with
wire and over these strips was run
plank walk two feet wide. Each end
ofthe superstructure was then anchored
to the piers; the sides, consisting of
network of wire, were then put up.
The bridge is two hundred feet long
and is sixty feet above the water. It
is certainly daring feat of homemade
bridge construction.-Soientifc Amer
loan.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
nLoSt Mt Sea-

Many 8 fishing schooner that sails
out of Gloucester with her ensign fut-
tering gaily from the 'smain truck"
comes in by Cape Ann, on her return
from the 'Banks," with her colors at
half-mast. A dory or two lost in the
fog or run down ir thick weather by
an ocean greyhound that no more felt
the collision than if it crushed an egg
shell-at all events, a couple of men
or more for Davy Jones's locker-such
is only too often the tale brought
back from the fishing grounds to
Gloucester, our chief fishing port.
Tears at parting, wee.ls of anxious
suspense, and when the ship comes
home tears again for lost husband,
son, or brother-that story is common
enough on Massachusetts, Bay. And
even if neighbors say 'Don't cry,
deariel Perhaps some ship has picked
him up, and he'll come back to you,
The hope is short-lived. ''Lost at
sea" is familiar line in the death
column of the Gloucester papers,
St, Nicholas,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
PITH AND POINT.

She-"And when did you first soa
the light of day?" He-"I believe it
was at night"
Jack-"Oh, I suppose she has her
faults!" Tom-'I thought you were
, in love with her?"-Puck.
''I can't seeI why you object to young
Softly: I'm sure he is constant. "
"Worse than that. He's perpetual. :"
Truth.
"Berger seems to be spending his
vacation in town?" eyes, he spent
all his money on outing clothes. DE
troit News.
Count-"My love for you is as deep
AS deep as" Constance-"Papa's s
pocketbook, dear count. ."-Philadel-
phia North American.
Jack Dashing-"The entries are:
! Slowcoach, los pounds" Miss Aslins
(her first experience )-"Goodness! Is
that all that horse weighs?"-Puck.
Jones-"I wish old Richman would
give me tip on Stocks" Smith
eff he did you'd be wishing you could
tell whether it was straight or not. y
Puck.
Drummer: "By whom was the play
presented in the Town Hall last night?"
Squam Corners Merchant-"It wasn't
presented-it was perpetrated. -
Puck.
First Dog-"This hot weather makes
menervous." Second Dog-"Me, too.
Heat seems to drive some people crazy,
aud they develop mania for shooting
dogs. Puck.
Mrs. Distrait-"Dear me, this
chicken salad seems very stringy!'
Miss Frankly-"Goodness gracious, [
don't wonder! You're eating it through
your veil. Truth.
'I think it's absurd to say kissing
is dangerous, gushed Mrs. Lillyton.
"What possible disease could be spread
by the simple act?' Marriage,
madam, grunted Grumpy. .-Philadel-
pllh NOTUu hulcllCdu.
"To save me, I can't tell which
Jones girl want to marry" "What
is the trouble?" zone makes such
delicious strawberry shortcakc, but
the other one looks SO lovely on her
wheel. Detroit Free Press.
Wallace-"So your partner fell in
the river and rose no more? Do you
think the shock of getting wet was too
much for him?" Perry Patettic-
"Naw. Guess the disgrace of it broke
his heart. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mrs. Eastlake-"You visited Venice
while you were in Europe, I hear,
Mrs. Trotter?" Mrs. Trotter-"Yes,
indeed, and we were rowed about by
one OF the chandeliers for which that
city is noted. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Ethel-"Well, Jimmy didn't blow
his brains out, after NIL, because you
refused him. He proposed to Miss
Golightly yesterday" Maud-"Did
he? Then he must have got rid of
them in some other way!"-London
Punch.
Gam I to take this medicine inter-
nally or apply it externally" asked
the lady customer of the drug clerk
who was filling her prescription.
"Whichever pleases you, madam; the
stuff is perfectly harmless. Detroit
Free Press.
sI have come to have serious in
terview with you," announced the
would-be son-in-law. The old gentle
man fell right in with this idea, and
made things so serious that the young
man was glad to escape without his
hat.-Detroit Free Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
Drinking in Hot Wcathc cr.

On the whole exhortations to avoid
cold drinks are in order, but the advice
is just as useful as the advice to keep
away from the fireplace when your toes
are half frozen. The temptation to
man who has little silver in his
pocket to cool himself, though but
few minutes, with beaker of frothirg
beer, or a glass of soda or mineral
water, or one of those inventions of
seraphs, that contain straws-this re-
fers to the invention, not the seraphs-
and slices of lemon and sugar and
berry and curious red OF brown OF
yellow fluids and perhaps bit ofmint;
this temptation is to be resisted only
at cost of struggle that leaves man
weak, crushed and more in need OF
something to drink than before. Now
that exercise is more popular than it
used to be, now that people who used
to scorch their souls on the pavements
scorch the country roads on bicycles,
the desire to drink, if not the need, is
more urgent than ever. Road houses
have gone up by hundreds along lately
solitary highways, and their proprie-
tors wax comfortable on their vendings.
They protrude signs from their door
ways with the deliberate intent Of
bringing the wheelman to sudden
realization of the warmth of the day
and the absence of needed fluid in his
tissues. Spiegelmeyer's beer and the
Half Bottle Bottling Companys birch
beer and sarsaparilla and So and Sos
soda, to say nothing of cold milk and
iced tea, are advertised at these re-
sorts, and the advertisement is very
hard to pass at 8 o'clock on q summer
afternoon with the birds gasping on
the trees and the thermometer crack
ing in the yard. Yes, it is vain to
preach against the use of cooling liquids
in hot weather, but, one may still ad-
wise moderation. Never drink when
you are heated; never drink when you
are exercising, never drink when you
are thinking, never drink when you
are thirsty. Where's the office boy
with that ice water?--Brooklyn Eagle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
A coNTENTED PEOPLE.
Mexican Villagers Whose Habits Are Very
Simple.

The inhabitants of the little interior
villages of Mexico retain many of their
primitive customs. They are peace
able, congenial and religious. Their
life, though monotonous in the e1-
treme, is happy one. They cultivate
corn, beans, wheat, and possess small
herds cf cattle and goats. The
women, in addition to performing
their household duties, cultivate
vegetables, flowers, fruits and plants
for medicinal use. They raise cotton,
from which they spin and weave
manta 10 cotton fabric) for clothing.
On their feast days, which are
many, they go to church dressed in
their bright costumes, those of the
maidens being white adorned with
ribbons of many colors. The senoras
wear striped dresses of white and
blue. The hair is worn plated IN two
braids, while upon the head is the in
dispensable "mazclohuati" "a head
dress worn by the lower caste Mezi-
cans), woven in red cotton. The
women's eyes are large and express
sive, and their teeth perfect and bril-
liantly white. The form is slight and
the movements graceful.
The young men dress In jackets
without sleeves and knee breeches.
Upon the day of their marriage they
adopt trousers, which are made by the
"Novia" sweetheart who has already
woven the manta. They lake their
places in the church with the children,
senoritas and senoras on the right and
the men and boys on the left. They
pray and sing in the native Mexican
language, which is richer, sweeter
and more expressive than the Spanish.
In the "Dias tianguis" market
days), they assemble and exchange
their goods. Money is super6aity,
and the interchange is made by means
of barter and trade.
Their meals consist of "maza de
maiz" flour of corn), which is mixed
with powdered cl %, in making
tomales, tortillas, feioles (beans),
and the native fruit and vegetables,
of which there is al, endless variety,
including aguacates, nanches, tetec-
zas, tilapos, sandals, chicozapotes,
melones and others.
Every year the people assemble to
elect their Judge, or alcalde, whom
they usually obey implicitly. This
magistrate is selected from the older
mon of the pueblo.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Find q way or make one. Every
Ehingis either pusher or pushed. The
world always listens to q man with a
will in him.-Marden.
The only worthy end of all learning,
of all science, of all life, in fact, is that
human beings should love one another
better.-George Eliot.
A loving confidence in the God we
have offended is the key to his heart,
the key which unlocks the treasury of
his grace.-Rev. E. NJ. Gouldburn,
D. D.
The are no songs comparable to the
songs of Zion, no orations equal to
those of the prophets, and no politics
like those which the Scriptures teach.
John Milton.
If YOU would be well with great
mind, leave him with favorable i'm
preston of you; if with o little mind
leave him with favorable impression
of himself. elf.-Coleridge.
When God sends darkness, let it be
dark. 'Tis SO vain to think we can
light it up with candles, or make it
anything but dark. 1t may be be-
cause of the darkness we shall see
some new beauty IN the stars.-The
Story of William and Lucy Smith.
Restraining grace is an amazing
work of God. It is more wonderful
than his setting bound to the sea,
that it cannot pass over. Think what
a hell every unconverted bosom would
become if the Spirit were to withdraw
and give men over to their own
hearts lusts.-M'Cheyne.
The universal reign of love, creating
new economics, @ new commerce, new
politics, new social life, supplanting
greed of gain with passion for service,
and mutual competition with mutual
helpfulness, unreal rs it seems to us,
immersed in the struggle and held by
the habits and ruled by the ideas Of
to-day, is yet the destined result and
fulfilment of the centuries md ages of
divine teaching Philip Moxom.
Creation is the organ, and a gracious
man finds out its keys, lays his hand
thereon, and wakes the whole system
of the universe to the harmony of
praise. Mountains and hills, and
other great objects are es it were the
bass of the chorus; while the trees of
the wood, and all things that have life,
take up the mir of the melodious song.
-Spurpeon.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
Ancient Ornaments Found.

Many gold ornaments have besn
found in tomb in the Etruscan Gem
etery at Votulonia, making the dis
covery one of the most notable of re-
cent years. A necklace, eight large
clasps, two large earrings, some hair
pins and other articles of iewely, to-
gether with sword, are among the
objects. The treasure will so to the
Florence Museum.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
WHENCE the Expression2

"To drink like fish" But alcohol
invariably causes him to float wrong
side up. One per cent. of most deli
cate amylic will kill sporting gold
fish in one hour and thirty .linutes.
Twenty per cent. will act like prussic
acid. 1t has been calculated by a
deep thinker that pint of talglefoot
will do a shark, and quart of forty
god o whale. e.-Boston Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
why the Mosquito Poisons People.

The mosquito doesn't poison people
purposely. It exudes from its pro-
boscis an irritating, scrid poison which
is supposed to lubricate the deadly
seven lances enclosed in the pointed
protective sheath which is known as
the insects "bill. -
There are 130 known species of mos.
quitoes, and the Culex Jersiticus,
which plaques people of this vicinity,
is not the worst of the lot by any
means.
1t is said the mosquito has bene-
ficent place in the plan of nature. Its
poison, some authorities declare, is
anti-malarial.-N York Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
THE INNOCENT CONVICTED.
Shot whilo Defending His Master ar
Hanged RS Murderer.

Shot Whilo Defending His Master and
Hanged RS Murderer.
appearances are deceiwing," said
an old lawyer the other dsy. "The
strongest case of circurlstantial evi-
dence ever knew was against an in
nocent man. My father was lawyer,
and in the criminal practice. One of
his clients was hanged for murder
which he never committed.
''Just at the edge of our town lived
rich old man in a grand old house.
He had no family, and was alone with
his servants. One night there was
fearful disturbance in his house, and
neighbors hurried in. Several pistol
shots had been fired. The rich old
man was dead, with a ballet in his
brain, and tho butlar lay with his
hands full OF iewelry and watches,
right in the doorway Of the old mans
room, with bullet somewhere In his
head, but was not dead.
"His revolver lay by his side, and,
so far as could be seen, the whole
story was told right there. The butler,
who had attempted to rob his master,
had been caught in the act and shot,
but had killed the cid maa in the
fight. That was the only translation
to it, and here was no other for several
days, because the butler had very
serious wound and was delirious for
week. However, it was not fatal, and
as soon as he was himself he made O
statement to the effect that he had
been awakened in the night by foot
steps, and he had taken his pistol,
which had only two loads in it out of
five, and gone down into the hall be-
low to see what the noise was.
"He noticed that his masters door
was partly open, at the far end of the
hall, and hurried toward it. AS he
approached it he heard his master
speak to some one, asking who was
there, and with that there was pistol
shot and he jumped into the room,
grabbing a burglar as he did SO, and
at the same time getting shot in the
head from his masters pistol. Beyond
that he remembered nothing more.
This was the condition of the affair
when my father took .arge of it, and,
though he really believed the buffers
story, and tried to prove it, he could
not do it, and the man was finally
hanged. A year later burglar was
shot by policeman in the city near
est us, and he confessed on his death
bed that he was the murderer OF our
rich mau. He had hidden in the
house early in the evening, had col
lected oil he could Of jewelry and
other portable valuables, aud was
about getting out when he was caught
both by the old man aud the butler,
aud that the butler had got the bullet
intended for him, as he had run into
the room just as the old mau fired.
Dropping everything in his sudden
surprise, he rushed down stairs and
hid in the hallway, from where he
slipped as soon as the front door was
opened. In the excitement he was
not observed, and he got away with
out any trouble at all, as the nearness
to the city made strangers so common
that their presence excited no sus-
picion. I'll never forget that Incl
dent, and I'll never be in favor of the
death penalty on circumstantial evi-
dence, I don't care how strong it is.
Even lynch law is less uajust. Chi
cago Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
His Plan.

elbow is it, Colonel" asked the
hopeful young bunco-steerer, address
ing the hoary-headed master of the
craft, "that you have always been so
successful in picking out juicy suck
ers, and never have to waste your time
on Improbable suIjects?"
ct simply wait till I hear man say
that he is pretty good Judge of
human nature" replied the veteran;
"and then I know he is just what I am
looking for. Puck.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
Economy and Morals.

"John, don't you think you
better give up trying to shave your
self and go back to the barber?"
Husband-"Why, of course not.
See how much I save every m nth.
Wife-'Yes, I know that, but then
Willie is always around when you
shave, and he is learning so many bad
words. Ohio State Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
The Coroner and tho Export.

A bridge had collapsed. The train
upon it had gone down into the chasm.
The Coroner's jury was endeavoring to
fix the responsibility. A famous e1-
pert was on the witness stand.
"Sir," said the Coroner, with con-
siderable Difference, "to what do you
attribute the collapse of the struc-
ture?"
The great expert deliberated.
"Wait," he said.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
A Burning Question.

"And what is to be the subject of
lecture tomorrow night, Professor?"
"Well, my dear young lady, I can
hardly hope it will have much interest
for you Ishall lecture on 'suu-spots. ,"
ooh, but that's of the greatest in
terest to me. I shall certainly come.
You've no idea how I suffer from
freckles. Punch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
The Fall of Rome.

The extravaganza of the Roman
ladies of high rank was one of the
prime causes of the fall of that mighty
empire. Lola Poppea, who cut wide
swath in Nero's time, was the happy
possessor of gown said to have cost
nearly 81, 900. 600.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
Beware Of olntments Tor oataErh Tha5
Contain Mercury,

as mercury viii surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange thewhole syseem
when enteringi It th rough the mucous surfaces.
Sncb articles should never be used except on
prescription @ from reputable phi hysieians. as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the good you
con possibly derive from them. Hans CstaErn ~
Cure manufactured by F. j. Cheney q GO,
Toledo, o., contains no mercury, and is taken
informally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of tho system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure bc sure to geg tno gSnHS,dde
Ohio, BY F. ]. Cheney g. GO. TESTIMONIALS Irees
ETSold BY Druggists; price, I5c: per bottle.
HalIs Family Pills aro the best.
Icannot speak too highly Of Piso's Cure for
Consumption.-Mrs. FRANK Mo3Bs, 215 w. "a
St., New York, Oct. %, 1894.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
An Advantage.

'I envy her complexion" said
Maud.
"But she freckles and tens so easi-
lyl" replied Mamie.
"That's just it. She can go to the
seashore for a few days, and OF the
end of the season look exactly as if
she had been away all summer. -
Washington Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
Re Iptcrpre,s the Contract.

Customer you remember you
sold me this coat yesterday? You said
you would return the money if it
wasn't satisfactory.
Clothing Merchant -"But, my dear
sir, it vos quvite satisfactory; I nefer
had peter moneyas dot in all my life. )"
Puck.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-09-22
A Privileged Pair.

Hoiack-"Silence is golden, I be-
lievew
Tomdik-"So they say"
Hoiack-"Then the nuptials of q
deaf mute couple might be called a
60 den wedding. Detroit Free Press.