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The times., 1897-08-14
Newport Results.

Cincinnati, Aug. 13.-Three of the five
races at Newport today were won by the
DR.. E. F. Mclean estate stable.
First race Six furlongs. Belzara, IL
to 10, won. Lulu NJ, second; True Light,
third. Time, 1:15 Sd.
Second race-Five and hall furlongs.
Galliyant, 1 to 4 won; .Proteus, second;
Tin Craft, third. Time, / :o6 4.
Third race-One miles Lockhart, 8 to l.,
The times., 1897-08-14
INDIANS WIN A POOR GAME.
Turner and Harley Are Injured,
the Former Seriously.

Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 3. Cleveland Won
a poorly played game today. Turner was
hit By fast pitched ball on the head,
knocked unconscious, and late tonight was
reported as still rambling in his talk.
Harley W a alsoinjured by fallingin making
a Observation-Disclosures what would have been
a home run. Sockalexis played today, and
gave a sorry exhibition, being unable TO
field or run. Score:
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Earned runs Cleveland, a; st. Louis. ! .
First base on errors-St. Louis, 2. Left
on bases Cleveland, 8; st. Louis, 8. First
base on balls off Wilson, 2; off Hart, 2.
Struck out-By Wilson, 4; by Hart, 4.
Home run Douglas. Three-base hits-Wal-
lace, Pickering, Lally. Two-base hit
Pickering. Sacrifice hit Harley. Stolen
bases Gross, Harley, Houseman, Hartman.
Double play Mexican, Childs and Tebeau.
Hit by pitcher-By Wilson, 1. Wild pitch =
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Earned Washington, /. Home run
Selbach. Three base hit-Abbey. Twob base
bits-Tucker, DeMontreville and Shindle.
First baseby errors Washington, 2: Brook
lyn, 4. Left on bases Washington, B.;
Brooklyn, 10. First nase on balls Off
SWAIN, 6. Struck out-By swain, 2; by
Payne, 8. Sacrifice hit-O Brien. Double
plays DeAIontreyille and Tucker; Shoch,
q. Smith ana Burrill. Hit by pitcher-By
Swain, l. Wild pitch-Swaim. Umpire
Mr Emslie
The times., 1897-08-14
KLoBEDANz AN EASY MARK.
The Leaders Succumb to the Giants
With Hardly a Struggle.

New York, Aug. 13. -KlobedanZ was an
easy mark for the New Yorks today and
the RoStons succumhed with hardly
struggle The Hub team offeadedin ways
not scorable. McCreery, who succeeded
Mike Tiemaa, caught the crowd with three
rafting doubles and some daring base
running. Davis, Clark, Gleason and
Warner carried off the other honors. Score:
The times., 1897-08-14

to increase the amount to 1000, and VIII
be rowed on Angus % at either Saratoga,
Sheepshead Bay or Worcester The me1
have deposited 500 each with Eugene
Buckley OF the Boston Globe
The times., 1897-08-14

won; Faunett, second; Mertie Reed, third.
Time, 1:42.
Fourth race Five furlongs. Lady Of the
West, 2 to 1 i, won; Locust Blossom, second,
Ada Russell, third. Time, 1:0l 3-4.
Fifth race Six furlongs. Motilla, 2 TO
/ {, won; Carrie Lyle. second; Pete Kitchen,
third. Time, l:14 Sd.
The times., 1897-08-14
vaquero III Captures Another.

Newport, R. T., Aug. 13.-The thirty
footer race today was won by the Vaquero
LII, which finished a minute and thirty
eight seconds ahead of the Wawa. The
starters were Vaquero III, Waygzs, Puck.
Esperanza, Dorothy II, Veda, and Mai.
The times., 1897-08-14
GAMES YESTERDAY.

Washington, Z: Brooklyn, ..
New York, ii; Boston, 5.
Baltimore, =; Philadelphia, L.
Chicago, ,; Cincinnati, o.
Cleveland, e; ST. Louis, 5.
LoaisvllIe-Pit L. bu rg-Not schec.
uled.
The times., 1897-08-14
GAMES TODAY.

Brooklyn AT Washington.
Baltimore at Philadelphia.
Boston at New York.
st. Louis at Cleveland.
Chicago at Cincinnati.
Louisville at Piusburg.
The times., 1897-08-14

Iwo-base hts-Corcoran, Miller, Decker,
Everett. Stolen bases-Lange, Irwin, Ryan.
Bases on balls-0ff Griffiths, g. Struck
out-By Rhines, =. Hit by pitcher By
Griffiths, 1. Time of game hour and
90 minutes. Umpire-Mr. o bay. Attend
| ance, 3 900.
The times., 1897-08-14
Brooklyn Again Today.

Tho Brooklyns VIII play their last game
this afternoon at National Park. This
VIII be their farewell appearance for 1897,
and on form tie Senators ought To win
hands down.
The times., 1897-08-14
Tbe Kniser.s Yacht Loses.

London, Aug. lathe race for the
Commodore's Cup off Ryde, Isle of Wight,
today, was won by the Duke Of Anrusis'
Rona, which beat Emperor Williams Me-
teor
The times., 1897-08-14

Tucker's single. 0'Brien's sacrifice, Alb
bey's triple. aud WrigIey's fly to Griffin.
The visitors scored in the third, on "a
base on balls, an out, and shindie's
double
BnrriIl's single and Browns two errors
Melted auothe er run in the fourth The score.
The times., 1897-08-14
FAIL TO FIND NoPs.
The PhilIies Narrowly Escape a
SnuI-Cut at His Hands.

Philadelphia, Aug. 13.-The Phillies'
complete inability to hit Nops and the
ease with which Baltimore found Fifield
accounts for the one-sided score today.
Baltimore played perfect fielding game
I While Philadelphia was as ragged as
ever in the field. Score:
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Crack Oarsmen Matched.

Philadelphia, Aug. ia professional
rowing match between James Ray, of
Australia, and E. d. n. Rogers, OF Sara
toga, was arranged in this city today The
race will be for $500 q side with privilege
The times., 1897-08-14
CHURCH NOTICES.

Mr. BRACJIEN of Providence, r. T., VIII
speak and give remarkable spirit tests
at Wonns Hall, 72l 9Th ST.. Sunday ev..n-
ing at S O'Clock: silver collection. 1t
The times., 1897-08-14
THE REDS SHUT OUT.
a Pitchers Battle in Which Grif-
fithS Wins Out.

Cincinnati, Aug. 13.-The Chicagos Shut
out the cincinnatis today, the batting on
both sides being light. Rhines and Grif-
fiths Were the star twirlers, and the
Windy City outshone the former, and a
good bit to spare Score:
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WIN THE FIFTH STRAIGHT
Senator's Again Defeat the Brock.
lynS by Coed Stick Work.
ONLY FIVE HITS OFF SWAIN

The Tail Sycamore Was Little
wild, but Was Steady with Men
on Bases-A Game Full of Sensa.
tionaI Plays and Occasional GIar.
ing Errors-other Games.
The times., 1897-08-14

Hart Passed bah Murphy. Umpire Mr
Hurst. Time OF ganle-1 hour and i5
minutes
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-21
Burning Two Thousand Years,

When the tomb of Fallas, son of
Evander, was opened, ir the twelfth
century, it is said lighted lamp,
which must have been burning two
thousand years, hung above his head.
In 1850 marble sepulchre of the
Roman period was discovered on an
island near Naples. On opening it a
burning lamp was found, which is
thought to have been lighted before
the Christian era. About the same
time somewhat similar lamp was
found near Padua. st. Augustine men
tons lamp burning in the Temple OF
Venus that could not be extinguished,
and Ludvivicus, another that had been
burning for 1850 years. 1t is be-
lieved that the perpetuity of these
lamps was owing to the consummate
tenacity of the unctuous matter with
which the fame was united, being so
proportioned to the strength of the fire
that like the radial heat and natural
moisture in animals, neither of them
could conquer or destroy the other.
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The Rope Cure, for erasshoppers.

The intelligence of scent of the red
legged grasshopper enables it to select
its food while Oh the wing in the air,
where by some process of signalling
known only to itself, it gathers q
great army Of its kind to descend with
massed force on the field beneath
when forty-fve acre field of corn
will only afford them single meal.
Lastyear the grasshopperreports sent
to the University of Nebraska at Lin
coin caused apprehension Of an inva-
sion this year, as great quantities of
eggs had been deposited in the soil
over large area of country. and those
eggs are expected to furnish an army
of active ''locusts," as they are tech
nically named.
Farmers call them choppers, but
the college ,entomologist talks know
ingly of "M. Atlantis" Packard"
and .sCamnula Pellucids.
In Utah they have what they call q
"rope cure" for the pest, and every
man, woman and child takes part in
the performance. 1t consists of draw
ing ropes, held taut by persons at
each end, across the back, over the
fields of grain, so that Mr.. Grasshop-
per shall not find any room for the
sole of his foot, and they keep this
seesaw up until he is starved out.
No doubt the agricultural college
will find way to meet another vista
ton with some exterminating process
when the migratory locust will migrate
to cline where he will disturb no
more, whittier forbears of his ilk have
gone.-Chicago Times-Herald.
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The Weight of the Earth.

According to the most accurate cal
culations the earth weighs 6,069, ,0O0,-
600, 600, 900, ,OOO,O 600 tons or 12,13s,-
600, 900, 900, 900, OOo, ouu,oN1 pounds.
The weight of the earth is equal to
seventy-eight moons. The weight Of
the earth is equal to 1925 times the
weight of Great Britain and Ireland,
counting that they extend down to
the centre of the earth; ffty-two and
one-half times Europe, eleven and
one-half times Asia, thirteen and one
third times North and South America,
and seventeen and one-half times
Africa. If the earth should fall into
the sun, the sun would hardly feel the
impact, but it would take the earth
sixty-fve days to get there after it
started. Strand Magazine.
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Profits 800 to 500 Per Cent.

The sewing machine, one of the
greatest blessings in the way of ma
chimes ever offered the public, sold for
years at sixty dollars in the United
States. The same machine, however,
to be shipped to q foreign land, could
be purchased below twenty dollars.
After the patents ran out the price
fell rapidly until now sewing machines
are sold for twenty-five dollars and Of
ten below twenty dollars. The sewing
machine manufacturers became i'm
mensely rich from their profits OF sew
eral hundred per cent. 1t has beer
estimated that typewriting machines
cost less than twenty dollars to build,
while they sell for from fifty dollars to
one hundred dollars each.
1t is generally understood that an
agreement exists whereby these high
prices are maintained. Business men
are compelled to pay from three hun.
dred to five hundred per cent profit OF
go without the machines.
Are there any other machines which
yield such profits as the sewing ma
chine did for years, and the typewrit
ing machine has and does, except it be
the bicycle?
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Calling the Chickens.

In England the calls chuck, chuck,
or coop, COOP. prevail: in Virginia,
coo-che, coo-che; in Pennsylvania,
pee, pee This latter call is widely
employed, being reported from Ger
many, Spain las pi,, pi), Bulgaria,
Hungary, Bavaria, and the Tyrol. In
the Austrian province the term is
used in combination, thus, Pulla, pi,
pi; the call pullele, pull, pull, also oc-
ours there.
In some parts of Germany the poul-
try are called with tick, tick; in Prus-
sia, put, put, and young chickens
with TUX, TUX (Grimm), and schip,
schip, the latter being an imitation of
their own cry. In eastern Prussia
hens are called with kluckschen,
kluck, kluck; also tippscher, tipp,
tipp. Grimm records also pi, pi, and
tiet, tiet. Weinhold reports from Ba-
varia bibi, bibeli, bidli; pi, pi, and
pull, pul.
In Denmark the call is pootle; in
Holland, kip, kip; in Bohemia, tyoo;
in Bulgaria, tiri, tiri.
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PlTH AND POINT.

Robinson-"Did you hear the Col
onel tell how he escaped at Gettys-
burg?" Jenkins-"No. 1 escaped. :"
Truth.
Fred-"He married the girl I was
engaged to-" Arthur-"Well don't
worry. You'll get over it before he
does. Puck.
"How is Cullen getting along now?"
every well. He has just succeeded
in. borrowing sovereign from me. -
London Tid-Bits.
"Why do you draw such terribly
ugly woman, Mr. Smith?" '.Oh, I
just portray the kind of thing I see
around me!'-Truth.
Hojack-"I hear that you are build
ing o new house." Tomdik-"Yes; I
couldn't very well build an old one,
you know" standard. =
Robert-"Is Harry fond of female
society?" Richard-"Immoderately
I'veknown him to play whist with three
women. Boston Transcript.
The Grand vizier-''But they say
our reforms are not real" The Sultan
-"Well, we'll! Hasn't the craze for
realism died out yet?"-Puck.
senior-"Now, my son, this will
pain me more than it will pain you"
Junior-"Well, pa, don't hurt yourself
too much. I amt worth it."-Stand-
ard.
Brown-"Do you think the tele-
phone has increased business?" Jones
Certainly! Three-quarters OF the
people you call up are sure to be
busy. Puck.
"The decree, announced the mes
senger of Jupiter, sis that you shall
be bound forever to the wheel!"
"W-Which make?" asked Ixion,
anxiously.-Puck.
Teacher "Has anything ever been
discovered or invented that has the
property of returning toward you ex-
cept the boomerang?" Small Pupil
"Yes'm. The cat. Detroit Tribune.
"My paws goin' into the chicken
raisin' business, said Johnny. "He's
goin' downtown tomorrow to buy an
incubus or an indicator forget
which you call it. .'-Pittsburg Bull
letin.
Old Milyuns =" "Young man, my
daughter tells me that you kissed her
last night" Percival Tootles-'Well,
if she wants to go Dragging about it,
that's her privilege" = Cleveland
Leader.
ct noticed the DOCTORS carriage at
your door yesterday afternoon. Was
it anything serious?" Serious? 1t
is absolutely mournful. Cries all the
time it is awake. Typographical
Journal.
Mrs. Dawson-"I don't know what
to think of my husband. I'm afraid
he is to be taken away from me, or
that something is going to happen. "
Mrs. Castleton-''Goodness! Why?"
Mrs. Dawson-''He pounded his
thumb yesterday while putting up
some flower boxes on the porch, and
didn't blame it on me. ''-Cleveland
| Leader,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-21
Color Blindness.

The term color blindness implies an
entire absence of the color sense, and
there are q few persons who are in this
condition, but it also includes all the
forms of partial color blindness in
which the perception of one of the fun
damental colors-red, green and violet
lis wanting, and which are known as
red blindness, green blindness and
violet blindness. The line between
these various kinds of color blindness
and perfect perception OF colors
is not sharply drawn, so that large
number of persons have what is called
q feeble color sense, which falls short
of actual color blindness. There Is no
doubt that color blindness, in its va
rious forms Is much more common than
is generally supposed, and it is more
common among the imperfectly than
lhe well-educated classes, and it IS,
{curiousiy enough, still more common
among Jews and Quakers, probably
from hereditary causes. 1t is ten times
more frequent among males than fe-
males in the general population, but
among Quakers it is nearly the same In
both sexes. In the general population
-4-16 per cent, or about one male In
every twenty-five are color blind.-The
Ledger.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-21
THE ARMY SHOE.
An Old Soldier Recalls His Experience
With Footwear.

An Old Soldier Recalls His Experience
With Footwear.
ssThe first pair of shoes I had in the
army" said an old soldier in the New
York Sun, "were two sizes too big for
me. Iwore skies; my first army shoes
were eights. I didn't take them from
choice--I got the nearest I could to
my size. We were being fitted out
from. head to foot for the first time;
that was when we were mustered in;
and the required numbers of pairs OF
shoes, of assorted sizes, had been de-
livered to each company. When I got
at them they had been culled over so
much that there was nothing left
smaller than eights."
sI didn't think it would be possible
for me to wear a shoe two sizes too big
for me, but I tried pair on. They
were brogans, having flaps, with two
eyelets on each side, lacing over the
instep with leather shoe strings. They
tied snugly, so that the heel and often
part of the shoe, and the sole, did not
shuck on the foot. The forward part
of my foot felt as though it were out
doors; but I thought they might do; l
had got to have pair of shoes, and L
took them.
sI wore those shoes for months, and
with the greatest comfort. They were
enormous, or they looked SO to me.
AS soon as I began to wear them the
thick leather of the uppers bumped up
into big, rounded edges, with valleys
between, across the top, giving to the
top of the shoe sort of futed or cor
rugated effect. These corrugations
remained always just the same as long
as wore the shoes. They were not
what you would call handsome shoe,
but, as I said, they did not shuck
around on my feet, and they were
mighty comfortable.
"But it doesn't follow that after that
I always got shoes two sizes too big
for me; as matter of fact, I didn't;
but I always did get shoes plenty large
for me; plenty; and found comfort in
wearing them.
"Sometimes we used to draw boots;
cavalry boots. And it was kind O. fun
to get boots. I remember very we'll
the first pair of boots drew. I think
I felt (perhaps in a little maturer sort
of way, though not much so, either)
about as much pleased over that pair
of boots as I did with my first red
tops when was boy. TO get on a
pair of cavalry boots sort of made a
nan feel little bitless like plodding
infantryman, and little more like
cayalryman; it gave him sort of
horse-and-sabre touch. But this was
only as he walked down the company
street after drawing the boots from the
ouartermaster; the next day, on picket,
the boots were about the same to him
az shoes would have been.
"Still there were men who preferred
boots and always drew boots when they.
could get them. But for myself I like
shoes better. A mounted man, of
course, wants boots; but according to
nv notion the most comfortable thing
for an infantry soldier to wear is a
good, roomy shoe that can be made
snug enough somewhere so thatitwon't
shuck around on the foot.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-21
Pockets.

The savage is a pocketless being.
The civilized mans position on the
ladder of development may be meas
ured by the number of pockets he
wears,-if one may be said to wear"
what is only slit or cavity. The
schoolboy takes much lower rank,
crowding mass of incongruous arti-
cles into one pocket-or, at most, two.
A woman takes still lower position,
for her one pocket is frequently al
most inaccessible.
The Japanese prove their advance
in civilization by the possession OF six
or eight pockets inserted in the cuffs
of their wide sleeves. ! I
Among the lower animals there are
rudimentary strivings of insure after
pockets, as in the first stomach of the
ruminants, the pouches of the marsu'
pals, the craw Of birds, and the addi-
tional water pocket Of the pelican
Housewife.
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THE MYSTERIOUS GUESTS.

had three friends. / asked one day
That they would dine with me;
But when they came found that they
We're six instead OF three
MY good wife whispered. "We, at best
But five can hope to dine.
Send one away" / did. The rest
Remaining numbered nine.
81 too will CO." the second cried
He left at once, and then,
Although to count but eight tried,
There were remaining ten.
"Go call them back!" my wife implored;
''I fear the third may go,
And leave behind to share our board,
Perhaps score or So"
The second one then straight returned
AS might have been expected;
He with the ten, we quickly learned,
Eleven made. Detected,
We saw the first returning; he
With all the rest turned round;
And there, behold! were my friends three
Though six they still were found.
For those Of you who yet may find
My riddle too complex,
I'll say the friends had in mind
We're 'S" and 81" and "X.")
Ralph G. Taber, in st. Nicholas.
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A Unique Ring.

A ring recently exhibited at Ant.
werp, Belgium, was the admiration OF
diamond cutters and merchants, be-
cause it was the first successful at
tempt to cut q ring out of single
stone. There are great many diff
culties in this method of cutting dia-
monds, as the stones have a certain
cleavage and particular veins, all OF
which have to be carefully studied in
order to prevent splitting just as sue
cess seems within reach.
After several unsuccessful attempts
and three years. labor the feat has
been accomplished by the patience and
skill of NJ. Antoin, one of the best
known lapidaries of Antwerp. The
ring is about six-eighths of an inch in
diameter.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-21
A Peculiar Stone.

In Patrick County, Virginia, there
Is found peculiar stone much sought
after by superstitious pec"le, who be-
lieve that the pos" III u - II these
queer stones !; perpetually endowed
with good luck. The stones vary in
size, and many of them are in the
shape of cross. This is, perhaps, the
cause of the legend that is related
about them. 1t is told that fairies
were sent all over the world to carry
the news of the birth of Christ. After
the glad tidings had been spread the
elves fashioned the stones into crosses,
as mementoes of their serNicas.
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brave through my troubles-heaven
knows I have-but if this is true it
will kill me-
"eDid these men appear to know
Richard well?' I asked.
"tNe. They heard his name, and
then began to talk"
."sHave you said anything to Rich
ard about it?'
"No. I ought to do it, but I am a
coward, and dare not. If it is all
lie he would never forgive me for
doubling him. If it is true-Robert,
you once promised to always be my
friend-you must save him, for my
sake and my child's.'
"sI am always your friend I an
swered, taking her hand in mine. I
will find out all about this story. 1t is
all mistake, probably; and If not,
there is more than one r. Denmore,
for instance
"T was terribly afraid that the
story was true, but spoke to lessen
her anxiety. The look of q startled
hare came into her eyes, but I did not
think about it until afterwards. How
the men Alice overheard obtained
their information do not know, but
It was in substance true. A heartless
fraud had been committed, and appar-
entity by r. Denmore. I was help
less. What could I do? And then
Alice's words and look took posses
sion of me. I think for few days I
was almost mad. need not tell you
how, link by link, the chain of evi-
dence was forged-I helped to forge it
myself. It was easy. The fact of my
preparations for leaving England, the
uncertainty of my destination, my
pledged credit.
"I was arrested, tried, convicted.
There was no mercy for the man
who, bya heartless fraud, had brought
ruin and destitution to many-death
by suicide to more than one. Twas
sentenced to twenty years penal servi-
tude. Two months ago tomorrow /
regained my liberty"
BE stopped-his tale was told.
tDenmore!' I exclaimed, starting
to my feet. "You did this for
brothers. sake?"
"No; for the sake of the woman I
loved"
sIt was monstrous folly. 1t was
wicked"
"It is over"
"And your brother?"
"He remained silent-has been
silent ever since! Things have pros
pered with him-fortune is his.
Twenty years is a long time to re-
member. He has quite forgotten
me-"
"Scoundrell And his wife?"
sI do not know, Hargraves, but I
think she must have believed me
guilty. You see, the evidence against
me was very strong"
L was silent. Presently Denmore
took some papers from his pocket.
ST saw this in shop window yester-
day, and bought it," he said, handing
me photograph. son it was printed,
Hon. Richard Denmore and wife. ,
He has become famous. Do you recog-
nize the picture?"
Then I remembered the occupants
of the carriage in the park.
'T think I have kept my oath, Har-
graves"
I took his hand and pressed it, but
L did not speak. A lump was in my
throat, and words would not come
The Home Queen.