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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
THE USE OF Ribbons.

Very rich and beautiful ribbons, in
plain and fancy patterns and color
ings, appear upon some of the richest
and most beautiful Partisan models
fow exhibited by leading city houses.
The use of ribbons this season are
manifold, and there is hardly dressy
toilet without some touch Of ribbon
on the bodice at least. No matter
what shirrlng, pleating, cording, mil
liners folds, lace, or passementerie are
used elsewhere on the gown; gathered
girdles, braces, bow knots, plastrons,
blouse effects, bolero fronts, stripes,
ruches, inserted puffs, and bands-all
these and far more does ribbon sup
ply. In Paris, wide oddly plaided and
Pompadour ribbons are in great use.
White and violet and white and vivid
green plaids are used on silk, liberty
satin, orgaudie, or cballie gowns, in
colors to match. One more word re-.
specting ribbons: 1t is very fashiona-
BILE to wear sash gong over one
shoulder from the belt. The sash dis.
appears under the foldsd waistband,
but very large butterfly bow with
outstanding loops marks its introduc.
tion. The ribbon reappears below the
belt, and then falls low on the skirt
under the huge bow. The so.called
"Trilby" bow covers the shoulder for
several inches front and back; and i'll
many cases, on full dress evening toi-
lets, the satin or moire ribbon falls in
three ends on each side, nearly to the
waist.-New York Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
FASHION NOTES.

Besides plenty OF lace and ribbon
large buttons matching the keynote OF
co'or will be used on the pretty cot
ton frocks.
Frcnts OF bodices and tops OF sleeves
are quantity decorated with tucking.
The close fitting parts OF some sleeves
are trimmed with lengthwise tucks,
developing near the shoulder into q
short puff.
Fancy buttons of strass and enamel
are much used, and daily grow more
attractive. A pretty medallion button
is edged with row of brilliants, while
others in odd shapes are seen. Burnt
ivory combined with brilliauts forms
a pretty button.
Skirts are not nearly so full at the
sides and fronts as formerly, but are
fitted with greater care. There are
cunning devices for making skirts
stand out we'll at the back. Flexible
steeis are placed in the hens of the
skirts and sometimes about quarter
of yard below the waist. Upstand.
ing collars are now wired, and even
laces in many of The bows, also few
of the silk bolero jackets. Many
skirts now have three cordings on the
hips to make them set very Hat below
the waist and make them stand oul
gracefully beyond.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
pIRr EMRRo1D1,,sy.

Perhaps the most accomplished de.
signer and needlewoman in the world
Is Nine. st. George, who has charge of
the classes in the Government Art
School of Embroidery at Vienna. This
institution is the glory OF the Austrian
capital. The entire course of instruc.
tion, which is free, lasts five years.,
but many pupils leave after two or
three years, especially ladies who do
not intend to make art work profes.
sion and are satisfied with knowing
the rudiments of either lace work or
embroidery, for every year has its
special course. Every years course
has its special room and instructress,
and the pupils cannot go from one to
the other until the year expires. The
pupils OF the last years course were
busily mending a magnificent canopy,
the work of Empress Maria Theresa.
An idea may be formed of the magni:
tude of the task when Il is said that
ten girls under Nine. st. Georges
superintendence had been working at
it for ten years already, and she ex-
-pected it would take two years mere
to complete Every kind Of en-
broiderY, including Persian, Indian,
japanese, Turkish, etc., is done here,
and the visitor is astonished to see
fome beautiful samples of the "nan-
duty" or spiders web, made by the
Guarini women of Paraguay and rare
ly seen IN Europe. This lace is made
of the fibre OF the aloe and is 30 fine
that it is made inside of the huts,
with the door shut, SO that not the
least breath of wind can touch it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
TIE FUTURE OF Hay FARMING.

The desire 10 cultivate as much land
rs possible in order to get the most
possible from it has led to general
neglect of meadow and pasture lands,
says American CultisGtor Only when
it was found that the soil had lost so
much fertility that it would not pay
for cultivating was it seeded down or
left to grow up with such herbage:
both weeds and grass, as nature pro-
vided.
The result is that most of TIE land
now in grass is by that very fact dis
credited as being presumably fit for
nothing else. Yet there is in all grass
land constant tendency to increase
in fertility. 1t is SO even when the
land is left to grow up with weeds and
bushes. These shelter the surface, and
hold the leaves that fall on the land
from being blown away. The decom-
position OF these leaves gradually
builds up soil, and to this must be
added the excrement from animals fed
on the herbage which the soil is still
able to grow.
Usually when the improvement of
grass land is determined upon the sod
to be turned under and rot is regarded
as an important part of the soil assets.
Improving the land as meadow or
pasture by manuling it and still keep.
ing it unplowed is hardly ever thought
of. Yet as in most cases this grass
land is, even with manure, not quite
rich enough for profitable cropping,
the experiment is worth trying of ap-
plying to it such manure as can be had
and see what the increased grass or
hay product will be worth.
This is done successfully in Eng.
land. Why may. it not be also in the
older parts of this country? The de-
mand for hay is generally good in all
Eastern cities. Will it pay to fertilizs
grass 80 as to make the growing Of hay
!-pe6ftabTe If It wifi not pay to
maintain fertility in grass land. the
logical sequence is that all hay or
grass taken from it helps to reduce the
fertility SO that the soil will be worth
nothing for the production of any
Kind of crop.
1t is likely that in the future, as In
the past, most OF the hay crop in this
country will be produced in the years
when the rotation between cultivated
crops and grass requires that the land
be seeded.
Our climate is not moist like that of
England. Hence it cannot keep o
good sod many years without plowing
and reseeding. This also is so much the
best for cultivated land that there
need be no fesr that the profits OF cul-
tivated crops will SO lessen the amount
of land in grass that there will not be
hay enough to feed with grain and
coarser fodder, nor that it will fail to
be supplied at reasonable prices.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Cheney and His Frost Fish.

State Fish Culturist A. N. Cheney
tries to read everything bearing upon
the subjects Of fish and fish culture. but
his busy life renders this next to i'm
possible, and his family aid him all
they can by marking in the exchanges
sucn articles as might be expected to
interest the great FISH expert. He tells
this story of a recent experience: "If
an item Is not marked with pencil the
papers may be ever so carefully ar
ranged in consecutive order and con-
veniently placed, and yet miss it.
Very recently was told that there was
an article about frost fish in one of the
papers, and 1t had not been marked,
but I could easily find it in certain
paper of such a date, as the caption
was, Frost Fish in large letters. 1t
was something past midnight whea /
got to the frost fish business, and then
searched the file CT the particular pa
per and searched it again without
avail. The house was still and l final
ly gave up the search and retired. The
next morning at breakfast remarked
that l had searched for the frost fish,
but could not find it, and in the future
II articles were not marked could not
undertake to look for them, and the
only time to mark an article was when
the paper was in hand. My wife said
she could find the item at once, as she
knew exactly where to look for it.
This she did, and handed me paper
containing two sticks Of matter headed
'Fish-Frost 1t proved to be mar
riage notice of Arthur Fish and Mary
A. Frost, with a list Of the persons
present at the ceremony. New York
Mail aud Express.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Empress Eugenie's Flight.

A sentence in a historical discourse
lately delivered by NJ. Anatole France
before the French Academy recently
set Paris to discussing who got the
Empress Eugene out of the city in
September, 1870, says Harper's
Weekly. M. France spoke OF M. Fer
diuand de Lesseps as the friend who
secured her flight. DR.. Evans, the
American dentist, wrote next day to
the Gaulois, recalling that the En-
press came to his bouse in cab, and
that he took her to LONDON. This
story, which is generally familiar,
seems to be true, though it is also true
that NJ. de Lesseps helped the EN-
press to get away from the Tullleries.
Strange to say, the discussion brought
out no allusiou to the story lately
published IN the Boston Transcript
that it was the late General Meredith
Read who rescued the Empress and
carried her ont OF Paws in the CONSUL
Generals official equipage.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Test of a Good Clock in Africa.

In talking over the minute factors
that have meant profit or loss to manu-
facturers, some curious details were
given me by experts. For instance,
one clock manufacturer Of Waterbury,
Conn, found that a certain rival was
doing large trade in cheap clocks sent
out to the wilds of Africa. He got hold
of a sample clock. and finding that
there was a heavy profit on the enter
prise, invested large sum Of money in
making a still better clock, thousands
Of which were shipped to the same mar
ket. Strange to say, sales were very
slow, while his rival, turning out a
cheaper and far less accurate timepiece,
was selling all he could make. Final
ly the explanation came. Savages like
noise. The clocks made by the origin
al exporter had particular loud aud
aggressive tick; his imitator made a
better clock, but it was almost noise
less, and the savages would have none
of it. The remedy was simple. The
next shipment Of clocks to the Guinea
coast licked louder than anything pre-
viously heard there. and all went we'll.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Fish Melted Out of Ice Alive.

Frank M. Lindeman, an amateur
scientist of Meadville, Pa, has doubt
ed that a live fish, frozen into ice,
would not die. He is now satisfied that
the fish will be alive when thawed out.
A few days ago Mr.. Lindeman took a
sunfish from his aquarium, put 1t in a
tin pail and set the pail out of doors.
The next day the water was found
to have been transformed into solid ice
The pail was placed in tepid water un-
til the ice was loosened and then the
cake was placed in large pan Of
water, to be slowly melted. The pro-
cess was carefully watched by num-
ber of men. In the course Of two hours
the ice was entirely melted and the fish
appeared in it's natural form, but still
stiff.
An hour later the fish began to show
signs of life, and, although it appeared
sluggish, it was soon swimming about
in the aquarium as much alive as ever.
New York Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
POULTRY NOTES.

Anything that will make milk will
make eggs.
A red comb is the sign that the hen
has eggs for sale.
Some breeds are better for you than
others, but any of them are profitable
if we'll cared for.
Hens all laying, cocks all growing.
This is as it should be on every farm.
How is it on yours?
Bran, cut clover, ground oats with
hulls sifted out, and small amount
OF corn meal makes au excellent egg.
producing diet.
The sale of pure.bred poultry is
steadily increasing III the Northwest,
and no section is more favorably stu.
ated for its development.
A Wyandotte hen will increase in
weight till she is three years old, and
at any time will cook tender if in good
condition when killed.
The next time you are in town ask
the hatcher for some fresh bones. A
block and sharp hatchet or a1 will
put them in shape for egg-production
ii you have no bone mill.
Red mites are the worst enemy OF
sitting hens. Sometimes it is neces.
sary to change location of the nest
entirely. Get ahead of then by pre-.
pairing hens aud premises beforehand.
Select your very best hens for
breeders. No matter if you have no
pure-breds among them, you can i'm
prove by selection. But pure-bred
male will aid wonderfully in the work.
Soft feed should be mixed in the
morning in troughs that should N
turned over or hung up when the hens
are through feeding. Do not feed soft
feed where the hens Gun scratch straw
and chatf into it.
Russia exported 11,0OO,O 600 eggs in
1870, and ], $50. 900, QUO last year. Tho
eggs are sold in Russia at from six to
ten cents n dozen. They are exported
to hungary and then sold to Germany
as Hungarian eggs; and finally go tc
England as German eggs.
II you keep fowls give them chance
to pay their way. Do not let it be
your fault that they are not doing SO,
Good care and good blood will dc
this. If they are common stock only
the addition of rure.bred male viii
be one of the surest ways, and one o.
the first steps to be taken.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
He Did Not Fill the Bill.

eff you were the right kind of a
man," said the editor of the sensa-
tional weekly, 81 might be able to
give you position"
"The right kind of mani" exclaim-
ed the applicant. ,"Why, what do you
want? Aren't my recommendations OF
the very highest character?"
eyes; that's just the trouble" an
swered the editor. ''They speak of
you as a deacon in the church and a
man who is thoroughly honest and e.
liable"
"Isn't that the kind of man you
want?"
Goo. That kind of a man is all
right in his place, but hardly think
his place is getting up the circulation
statements of this paper. We're look
ing for some one who either never had
conscience or lost it in childhood. I"
Chicago Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
THE HONE DAIRY.

If on every farm more attention is
paid to the home dairy better product
of butter will be turned out and II
greater yield per COW will be realized.
The better the article the more sure
the sale, and the larger the yield per
cow the greater the net profit.
Never try to DO dairy work with
beef cattle. Never trust alone to the
pasture to supply the food. BE sure
to have necessary conveniences OF the
best kind for securing the full quantity
of butter fat from the milk. Every
horne dairy should raise its choicest
heifer calves, in order that the supply
of good dairy cows may bo kept up.
1t will pay for the trouble and ex-
rense. Beside the ready sale at all
seasons for good butter, the milk can
he utilized in many ways, and the
droppings in the barnyard will he
valuable as fertilizer. Build up the
home dairy on strong basis.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
CROPPING BEARING ORCHARDS.


It requires some extra profitable
crop. and one that will itself pay for q
good deal of manure, to make the
cropping of bearing orchard pay.
We have seen it done with both black
berries aai raspberries, both of which
do we'll when partially shaded, and
which will not suffer from drought,
as do most Of the crops grown in or
chards. On no account should grain
crops be grown in the orchard, unless
1T be where young trees have grown
to bearing size, but without produc-
ing a crop. Even, then, the result is
better accomplished by sowing clover,
to be gown for year or two.-
American Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Is Iron pisplacing Wood 2

The time will never come when wood
can lose its merchantable value. There
is hardly utensil, a tool or even q
machine in the construction of which
wood has not played part, were it
only to furnish the handle or the mold
or I tern. For our means Of trans
portation we rely mainly on wood. Our
100000 miles of railroad lie on not less
than S0,000,000 wooden ties, and run
over 1000 miles Of wooden trestles and
bridges; they carry their freight in
many million wooden cars and much Of
the millions of tons of freight is ship
ped in wooden boxes, stored in wooden
sheds. Ten million telegraph poles are
needed to keep up communication be-
tween distant markets. Hundreds OF
thousands of tons of wood pulp is used
in the manufacture Of paper. The for
est furnishes the cooperage to market
our vintage, to store our floor and
fruit. The forest furnishes the plow
handle and harrow frame to cultivate,
the threshing machine and windmill
to prepare the crops, the cart to bring
them to market, the bottoms in which
they cross the ocean to foreign marts,
and even the tar and pitch to keep the
cargo safe One billion dollars worth Of
forest products is what we annually
consume in the United States, but little
less than one-half of the value of our
entire agricultural production, and
nearly twice as much as all our mines,
quarries, petroleum wells, and mineral
production of any kind put together,
and more than ten times the value of
our gold and silver mines So it will
be seen that the demand for wood may
yet exceed the supply.-Atlanta Con-
ctirution
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
MRS. AsroR's CHAIR COVERS.

When Mrs. John Jacob Astor went
to Genoa, Italy, year ago, she left
word that her chairs in the parlor,
library, guest and sleeping rooms
should be covered with fine cretonne
to preserve them from dust. There
were 800 of them. A few days before
sailing she revoked the order and sent
for the material. She also ordered
that "slip.cutter" be sent to her
house. "Now," said she to the slip.
cutter, "I want you to measure these
chairs and sew one cover. Then give
me the patterns and we will make the
remainder of the covers at home"
The slip.cutter, though 10th to lose
SO excellent job for his establish.
ment, complied with the wishes of
this industrious homemaktr and sent
the cut.out slips.
Next day Mrs. Astor sat in her sew
ing room personally experimenting
the making of the chair covers. With
a small model upon stand in front of
her, she basted the covers and in
structed her maids how to put them
together. By that little economical
move the wife of millionaire kept
her home staff emp Dyed and fitted out
her house with the prettiest of slip
covers. They were SO ornamental
that they have remained upon the
chairs ever since.
To make covers for chairs-and many
people desire to do SO for change
as we'll as to save the more expensive
covering-it will be found that the
secret lies in the treatment of the
edges. A strictly ilor-made" look
must prevail. With loose-threaded
fabrics it is % good plan to run a
mucilage brush, wet with photograph
er's glue, along the raw edges Lefore
stitching. All the. sewing must be
done by machine. .-Bostcn Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
A NATURAL GIFT.

"Gee!" was all he could say when
she told him he was the first man she
had ever kissed.
"Do you presume to doubt me?"
asked the lady Indignantly.
"Mep Never. was just thinking
how remarkably we'll you did without
practice. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
HOped to Improve.

This ,hicycle-riding is all nonsen-
sical fadI" exclaimed the man who is
wrapped up in political enthusiasm.
perhaps it is" replied his wife.
"You don't see me working like a
day-laborer pushing wheel around
the country"
"No. But give me time. Perhaps
after awhile I'll get sufficiently sensi-
BILE to abandon the bicycle and walk
eighteen or nineteen miles with torch
over my shoulder, regardless of the
weather, every time there's an election
or ratification meeting. Washing
ton Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
WOMAN's WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE LEADERS.
A WOMAN HORSE TRADER.

Probably the only woman horse
dealer in the coun try is now living in
Idaho. She recently sold number OF
carloads of horses in Georgia and
Louisiana OF very high prices. She
has found tho South good market,
owing to the demand for horses caused
by the war in Cuba.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Information Exchanged.

DIR. Meredith, who has an Office on
4th avenue. on leaving his office yes
terday morning to attend to a patient
wrote on the slate on. his desk: "Whl
be back at II o'clock. "
When the doctor returned he found
this written under his notice: "Will
not be back at ALL" This was signed
Burglar"
The doctor found that number OF
small articles had been taken from his
ofice.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
CASH AS WE'LL AS CONFIDENCE.

The Young Psstor-"What I want
to do is to get them to open their
hearts to me. )"
The Old Brother-"What you'll
have to do will be to get them to open
their pocketbooks to you"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
TRAINED MILLINERs.

In frst.class establishment good
maker receives from Sl2 to SIS per
week; a trimmer from $40 to $50.
This trade, once learned, is one
which woman may resume at
any time in her life-should she
marry in youth and leave it, as 30
many women do leave occupations by
which they have earned their maiden
bread-since it may be pursued in her
own home. Many "parlor" milliners
earn worry considerable incomes. st.
Louis Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
A GOOD WAY TO HANG.

First Tramp-"What do they mean
by hanging man in effigy?"
Second Tramp--"That's when they
just string up stuffed figure of him. "
First Tramp-"Well, if wuz goin'
ter be hung, I'd like to have it done
that way l'-Puck.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
SURPRISED.

She-"There were only fifty-s
signers OF the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. e."
Lord Ninkumpupe--"How very re-
markable! In England, doncher-
know, you can get thousands of sigma
lures to almost any sort of docu-
nt."-Puek.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
ANATOMICAL.

Teacher" "What popularity, if any,
do you observe in the anatomy of the
trog?"
Pupil-''The frog consists of pair
of legs with enough other meat thrown
in to hold them together. Chicago
Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
FoREIHoUeHr.

"This butter seems strong" said the
young husband, at their first breakfast
at home.
eyes" she answered; 81 talked to
the market man about that. and hs
said it WAS economy in the end never
to buy weak butter. He said that even
though this might cost little more,
people could get along with less of it,
and it would last longer"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
Why Depew Is Not a Farmer.

When Chauncey NJ. Depew was a
boy he wanted to be farmer, but his
father advised him to go to college.
Ghauncey went one term to Yale and
when he went home on vacation ne
declared to his father that he still
desired to be farmer. So Depew
senior seat the boy into the bayfield,
with scythe on hot day. One fore
moons work was enough for Chauncey,
and when fail came around again he
returned to college without murmur.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
UNRELIABLE MAN.

"George told me that one of my
golden hairs could draw him like
team OF oxen"
T. "Yes?"
sand then when the harness broke
down he asked me if l had rope in
my pocket"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-28
TRYING HARD.

Mr.. Harduppe-"of course, as you
are go wealthy, 1 feel that in asking
you to marry me l ought to tell you
how poor my own circumstances are. I"
Miss Gotrox (reproachfully)'-"Why
don't you make an effort to improve
them?"
Mr.. Harduppe (surprised)-"Don't
you think am"