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Compressed Air as Motive Power.

The attention of inventors has been
SO concentrated on electricity and its
possibilities, that compressed air.
which is almost as wonderful in its
capabilities, has been quite lost sight
of. Just what it is capable OF we can
not as yet understand, but we do know
that it runs locomotives, transfers the
United States mails, hurls the charge
of m explosive mile and half, with
force sufficient to pulverize o regi-
ment. 1t operates block signals on
railroads, loads guns, drives machin-
cry, works pumps, and carves out
all sorts of beautiful things from stone
and marble. 1t is coming into use for
thousands of minor purposes. AS q
cleaning and dusting agent, it is inval-
liable. 1t copies letters, shears sheep
and is utilized in the stock yards to
slaughter and dress meat. As to its
future, prediction is made that it will
clean house, run dumb walters, take
the place of the horse as means OF
locomotion, will wash dishes and rock
the baby. There are inventors who
declare that compressed air is already
quite as useful as electricity, and much
safer and more manageable. To bring
it into it's best uses, large distributing
stations must be built, from which
compressed air will come as We now
get gas and water. There will, no
doubt, be q sharp rivalry between the
two great powers, electricity and COM
pressed air; and between the two, we
ought to be able to get most of our
minor services we'll and cheaply per.
| formed
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WEAKNESS FOR LEMONADE.
(Two scenes in the life Of Jeanette.)

life. My existence is no longer of
any use; I have NO official duties, and
what I see as an onlooker gives me no
pleasure. Should I live longer it will
still be the case. I feel lonely. I
have lost my wife, and as regards my
sons. they have their own business.
With growing age I have also lost in
terest in agriculture and forestry. 1
rarely visit the fields and woods, since
I can no longer ride and shoot and
move about as like. Little by little
politics begins to tire me"
The faculty of retiring gracefully
from active labor and responsibility
when years become burden and
others can do the work better, is one
Bismarck has not learned. He has no
such resource as Gladstone has in
other interests than statecraft. He
finds nothing to do but to meddle and
complain. The knowledge that he
created q strong empire gives him lit
tie comfort, tor he has not faith that
anybody but himself can keep 1T
strong. When Milton was old, and
had for "this three years" lost the
sight of his eyes, he could say:
"What supports me, dost thou ask2
The conscience to have lost them overplied
In Liberty's defense, my noble task.
But liberty is better work than
empire. New York Independent.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
Queer California Soil.

The oil resources of California are
being carefully Investigated by the
State Mining Bureau, which looks for
a great development some day OF the
oil industry along the slopes OF the
coast range from San Francisco south.
ward almost to the Mexican border
line. The recent extensive explora.
tions made in the southern part OF the
State by W. L. Watts, of the Mining
Bureau, formed the subject of an in
teresting popular lecture given last
night before the Academy ofSciences.
The discourse was made additionally
entertaining by stereopticon display
of views of the oil wells, bitumin-
Gus deposits and pettoleum-bearing
regions visited by the lecturer.
One of the views showed on asphal-
tun. flow in which were sticks and
stones and bones of animals. Some
times, the lecturer explained, cattle
lie down in the asphaltum when it is
warm; they never get up again. At
other times, on warm days, cows OF
tempt To walk through the soft black
stuff, but they stay in it until they are
rescued or until they die.-San Fran
cisco Call.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Roentgen ray photographs were ad,
mitted as evidence in Denver (Coi.
court recently.
Colo1ed photographs taken at a
single operation are shown by DR..
Jolly, of Dublin, Ireland.
A great international congress of
science will be held at Dover, Eng
land, and across the channel at Bou-
logne, France.
Professor Amos E. Dolbear, of Tufts
College, an eminent electrician, pre-
diets that it will be possible ere long
to flash signals to Mars by means of
great searchlights.
A new source of true gutta percha,
capable of adding 100 tons year to
the worlds supply, is reported to have
been found in a creeping plant grow
ing in French s'oudan.
A new device for ringing street car
gongs has two projections placed on
opposite sides of the cur axle, the bell
lever being thrown into contact by
means of foot lever on the car plat.
form. When the car is at standstill
the bell is rung by the pressure OF the
same lever.
| According to the Botanical Gazette,
j a notable cactus garden has been estab-
ffished at the University OF ArTaona.
It is the intention to bring together
eventually all the Cactacee which are
indigenous to the United States, and
already more than one hundred species
ore represented.
1t is said that the Chinese wash fine
silk in very pure water, and, as
ordinary we'll water is unsuitable. 1t IS
purified by putting a quantity OF
mollusks (e. G. Faludine, fresh-wate4
snails) in it for day. These prey on
the organic matter it contains, and
thereby act as filters.
A recently patented machine for
dyeing cotton or other fabrics consists
of color trough in which transfer
roller covered with spongy sub
stance is turned by the cloth pressing
over it, pressure being brought to
bear upon it by means of two heavy
rollers, one on either side of the trans
fer roller.
To facilitate the measuring of q per-
sons head for hat new device has o
strap running around the crown which
can be drawn through buckle to
make the hat larger or smaller as de-
sired, until it fits the persons head,
when the size hat wanted is indicated
by the number on the strap next to
the buckle.
The speculative astronomers have
given US some queer calculations and
odd comparisons. One of the most
curious OF these is one in which the
relative size of the sun and some of
the planets is shown. They tell US
that if the sun could be represented
by globe two feet in diameter, the
earth would berepresentedproportlon.
ally by apea, Mars by q pin head and
Mercury by mustard seed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
1t Magnines 0dOrs.

Among the latest inventions, says
the st. Louis Republic, is machine
which will take liquid that has here
fore been regarded as odorless and
distil the most delicate perfume. A
drop of perfumery or essence placed
on the receiver will, on applying the
nostril to tho nosepiece Or opening,
produce an overpowering stencil that
would in very short time, if con-
tinued, cause symptoms of sufocation.
The instrument can be utilized in
nearly every walk of life. To the
grocer it will prove invaluable in de-
tecting adulterations OF goods. The
chemist, druggist and physician, OF
course, can find ready use for it in
their business, while it has been sug-
gested that bank paper con be tine.
tured with o special odor, imperceptl-
BILE to the ordinary sense of smell, but
which could readily be detected by thu
scentograph, thus greatly lessening tho
liability of banks to fraudulent opera
tors. It is also claimed for tho
machine that it will become popular
in the homes of the wealthy, for by
the aid of it's mechanism the atmos'
phere of large mansion can be kept
constantly permeated with most del.
icats and choice perfume at nominal
expense. For hospital and sick rooms
its service will prove inestimable. The
machine itself is small affair, about
twelve inches square and eight inches
high. It is made of wood, and the
opening where the nostrlls ore applied
IS nickel plated.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
A Frost.Time Flower.

A curious plant is that oddly named
annual, the Cosmos. 1t has feathery,
asparagus-like foliage, and grows
freely all the season through, until
the owner begins to think it will never
stop and never bloom. And it does
not-at least in Albany-till mid
October and white frosts arrive, al
though the floral guides speak of
August and September Towering.
Then, at an altitude of six to eight
feet, it throws out mass of buds
which open from day to day, almost
regardless of the weather, but doing
better in mild, sunny weather. The
blossoms thus far Lave been white and
pink, of cup-shaped form, and while
not very handsome, they fill u gap in
the flower world in their season. We
picked the first bloom on October 5.
Tie tallest one was eight feet from
the ground. A little rinching back
earlier in tie season will be desirable.
Some growers complain that their
plants do no. bloom at NIL before
hard frosts arrive. and they have been
compelled to pot them and let them
bloom indoors, New York Observer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
SETTLING AN OLD SCORE

to her purchase by an English official,
who was engaged in gathing o small
herd to export to England. At that
time, it is asserted, there was not an
elephant in the United States. The
agent from America conceived the idea
that he had found tremendous card
for his menagerie. He purchased
jeanette for $25, 1000. The purchase
was the talk of London.
The next thing to do was to get
Jeanette to the United States, and that
was no triaing matter. The year
1923, it must be remembered, was far
in advance of the ocean greyhound,
and the voyage across the Atlantic for
even a human being was considered
an event. The agent, however, was
equal to the emergency, and one June
day when a clipper ship sailed from
Liverpool she had aboard of her, snug
ly slowed in the hold, the bulky form
OF the comparatively youthful
Jeanette. Detail is lacking as to how
jeanette enjoyed the voyage, but she
reached New York with but few
abraslons of the skin and sour tenn
per.
Naturally jeanette created aensa.
tion in Gotham. People came from o
great distance to see her lodgings not
far from Battery Park. Then her
owner placed her in q tent, because
the lodgings were not large enough to
accommodate the people who came to
see her. Ho made money rapidly and
jeanette waxed fat and strong. At
ter while patronage began to slacken
bit, however, and Jeanette's owner,
who had long ago given up the idea OF
placing her in any menagerie except
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eyes had that peculiar lackluster ap.
pearance which always accompanies
decrepit old age. Jeanette had passed
through the hands of SO many show.
men that to anyone of these her entire
history is practically unknown. She
came in possession Of her last owner
in 1885. Previous to that time, it is
estimated by those who know scraps
of the aged elephants career, she had
been owned by at least forty different
persons. She was of African birth and
was sold for bagful of gold. Anyone
who saw her. and was familiar with
elephants, would know in On instant
that she was an African. Her ears
were of the enormous, umbrella"
kind, which make elephants look not
unlike huge foxhouuds.
The first that was known of Jeanette
in this country was in 1923. At that
time an agent of On American menag-
erie was IN England, and there sow the
elephant, in company with q number
of others just arrived from the Cape,
as Africa is termed in Britain. She
had been employed as working ele-
phant for some time in Africa previous
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
THE FUNERAL.

but Jeanette gained so rapidly that
they were forced to take refuge IN q
barn, the great doors of which swung
right open. Jeanette pressed them
SO hard that they climbed up into the
haymow, and there the elephant kept
them until their cries for help brought
aid.
jeanette was not large elephant.
She weighed only three tons. She
had persuasive way, however, when
ever she took after anyone. To tell
the complete story of her escapades
would be an almost endless task. The
greater portion of them were good
natured, snd she was never known to
really hurt anyone who had not in
jured her. 1t was favorite pastime
of hers whenever she broke loose in
the menagerie tent to make for the
lemonade venders, put them to flight
and drink all their lemonade. This
she seemed to consider most delight
full treat. The same method of treat
ment was applied to the men and boys
who dispensed candy, and Jeanette
appropriated 30 much of their stock
that they grew to be afraid to venture
near her.
t The people of Peru mourn for jean
cite. She was one of the sights of the
town during the winter season, and
was friend of two-thirds of the popu-
lation. Her funeral was as largely at
tended as that of the most prominent
citizen would have been. She was
only an elephant, but it is something
to have been good elephant.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
WHERE DEAD LETTERS GO.

Just think of it-over &c, 900 letters are
sent to the dead-letter Office at Washing
ton each day. They are from all sorts of
people and from all parts of the world.
and in many cases they contain money or
valuable papers.
Twenty clerks are employed to open
hsss tbs @ @stters ena 5Jss il ssssegs eR a busy 81
contain money. money orders, checks or
any other article of value. If they do,
every effort is made to return them to the
sender.
When clerk finds money in letter
he Immediately writes the amount the
date and his name on the back of the
envelope, and it is then sent to another
clerk, who studies the letter to find some
clew by which the money may be re-
turned. Sometimes success crowns his
efforts, and sometimes the puzzle cannot
be solved. The address on the envelope,
the name of the examining clerk, the
amount of money and the date are re-
corded, and the money is put aside for
two years. At the end of that time, if
no inquiry has been made for it, it is sent
to the United States Treasury, where the
owner, by furnishing conclusive proof
that it is his property, may redeem it any
time within four years of the day the
Treasurer received it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
His Thrilling Adventures.

John Elliott, Canadian, told q
story at Ellis Island, which caused tho
members of the Special Board of In
quiry to open their eyes in wonder.
He had two trunks filed with curiosi :
ties, which he says he brought from
Madagascar. Elliott said that he was
cast ashore on the Island of Madagas'
car. He was taken as a spy, and was
to have been shot, when pretty Mad
agascar girl tell in love with him and
saved his life. They were married.
Elliott then received high office. AT
the first opportunity he escaped. His
wife was not with him when he ar
rived New York Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
THos. j. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.
HOPES MESSENGER.
A poet sang song into the night.
For but one reason, that he needs mu

A poet sang song into the night.
For but one reason, that he needs must
sing,
And through the darkness, like ray o.
light,
Ills simple song went slowly wandering.
II passed the mansions Of the rich and great,
And none within its plalntive music heardi
It paused where mighty monarch sat In
state,
But not soul was by its music stirred.
1t last 1t found woman, bent in tears
Above bier. wherson her dead child layi
Its music softly crept into her oars,
And to her stricken HEARTH seemed to say:
"Arise, fond mother, do those fearful eyes,
And look no longer downward in despair,
But upward lift thy gaze unto the skies;
For, r,lo!thy darllng's angel dwelleth there. "
--Lucius Perry Hills, in Lsslie's Weekly.
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Vigorous Veterans.

A Bath (Me.) man. aged sixty years
and weighing 25o pounds, fell three
stories on to pile of iron one day re,
Gently, but he Immediately got up and
climbed back to the loft from which
he had fallen.
Daniel Clay, of strafford, N. a.,
carried bag of meal weighing ,lOt
pounds distance OF three miles re
Gently on wager without putting il
down. He Is seventy-six years old,
and the feat was q test OF endurance,
Boston Herald,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
TREES THAT F1owERsD IN THE WINTER.

What would you think of trees that
would bear flowers in the midst of winter?
A grove of such trees existed in the city
of Paris, and during the recent Franco
Russian celebration in that city it blossom
ed out in way really marvellous to see.i
But the blossoms were all of paper, and
they were made by clever manufacturer
of artificial flowers. You see, the French
did not want to have their trees look cold
and bare during the time that the Rus
slams were visiting them. So they had
a great many thousands of flowers of
different kinds made and fastened to the
lifeless branches. 1t was most wonder
full and impressive sight, the trees having
the appearance Of being in full bloom.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
A MODEST DESIRE.

MODEST DESIRE.
Perry Patettic-"Kind lady, could
you give poor old man old suit OF
clothes?"
Kind Lady-"No."
"Er mebbe pair of pants that amt
workin?"
"No."
"Er q old vest2"
'No old vest"
'.Mebbe you could hand me out o
slice of pie?'
"Mebbe I could, but won't"
"Kind lady, would it be askin' too
much fYou to ask you to gimme your
moral support?"-Cincinnati Enquir-
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yor m RE SEEN rHRo ugh.

"Dld you say to me-" remarked the
Young man, "that Miss Fluvvies is
very shallow and transparent?"
"Yes," replied the girl who gossips:
"Well, you did her an injustice. l
had occasion to sit behind her at the
theatre last night, and l have positive
information to the contrary."-Wash-
inpton Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
THE YOUNG FOLKS,
A FAIRY's WAsH-pAY.

FAIRy's wAsH-DAY. :.
A fairy washerwoman down in dell
Set her acorn-cup tubs under dropping
harebell.
She washed her clothes-queer little dubs--
With the greatest of care in sea-foam for
suds.
To make them look as good as new,
She rinsed them well in the fresh morn
ing dew,
And for indigo used bit of blue sky;
Then, on cobweb for clothes-line, they
were hung up to dry.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
A LADS MOTTO.

A manly boy of fifteen entered the Office
of London merchant and asked for en-
ployment. He gave satisfactory answers
to few questions, and then the merchant
inquired, "What is your motto?" "Same
as yours, sir" the boy replied; "just
what you have on your door--Push."
He was promptly engaged.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
TINE RIPE.

Bobbie -"Mother, were all the bad
men destroyed by the food2"
Mother-"Ycs, my son."
Bobbie (who has just received O
whipping from his father)-"When is
there going to be another food"-
Tit-Bits.
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"No, I don't" Tom retortcd. "They
were married on this train. Ask any
of these people," he indicated the

we're married on this train. Ask any
of these people" He indicated the
passengers.
Squire Pbinney stepped forward.
81 married 'em," he said, with o
chuckle, "while you was jogging along
theState road about half mile ahead. "
Durfey stepped back. "Well, ]
wash my hands of the business" he
said, suddenly. "Mary, ere you 60
ing back to see your mother before
you go West9"
"Yes, men Hink are going back on
this train," she answered.
Durfey turned away with o grunt.
Squire Phinney felt that he had
played strong part and thought to
round out the whole by a joke OF his
own manufacture. "Good horse OF
yours" he called, "you ought-a train
him for the race track"
"He got here before the Potato
Vine, anyway" the man growled, for.
getting the name of the railroad OF
love.
"Well, young man, there's more'n
one way of winning race" the
squire retorted, in triumphant look
of repartee.
The passengers laughed at his sally,
and then dispersed. Hink and Mary
went back into the car, deserted now
save for the conductor, counting his
change on the front seat.
They went to Iowa the next week
and the romance of their wedding
gave place to the prose of farm life.
Squire Phinney, however, never tired
of telling of the time he and Tom Har-
grove made wedding on the Pump.
kin Vine and what he afterward said
to the enraged brother. Buffalo IN.
Y.) Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
TouaH ON TIE DAUGHTER.

Fourth Floor Neighbor (apoloseti
cally)-"Uoes my baby annoy vol
when it ries?"
Fifth Floor Noighbor-'No, in
deed. 1 like it. "
Fourth Floor Neighbor (pleased)-
ooh! | m so glad"
Fifth Floor Neighbor-"Yes; i
browns the noiso our daughter make
on the plauo. Puck.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Her Stern Papa-He Was Slayer
a Novclty-'The Latest Pluto
crat-Wept Internally,
Rashness, Etc.

The children built snow man
Down by the garden gate,
But early in the morning
(Sad story to relate)
They found that dissolution
Had been the snow mans fato,
Twas at the breakfast table
The children had their say. 49,.
ave built our pretty snow man;
We wanted him to stay.
We left him there last evening;
What made him run awayt"
The maid of eighteen summers
Looked wise and shook her head.
A snow man at the garden gate,
Whence other men had fled!
"What made him run awaY?" they cried
~ guess twas pal" sho said.
Brooklyn Life.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
TOO HnsY TO EAT.

Hobbs Ito friend in restaurant)-"l
say, Nobbs, how's business?"
Nobbs-"Great; never saw such
rush. No time to sleep, and even be-
hind in meals. That was day before
yesterdays lunch I just finished. -
Tit.Blts.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
TILE LAW oF AVERAGES.

sfBidston averages up pretty we'll as
O pleader at the bar.
eyes, that's the word exactly. He
averages. When his ideas get thick
his arguments get thin. ."-Indianapo'
lis Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
TIE LETTER OF THE LAW.

Irish Justice-"Now, Mr.. Johnsing,
yez shwears that th' pris'ner kilt the
game out av season?'
Colored Infcrmer 81 does, sab. "
Irish Justice "Tin dollars fine, half
fer TIL informer.
Prisoner-"Haven't any money,
Judge"
Irish Justice "Thin, begorra, tits
six months in Jail, wild th' half to tn
informer, accordin' to law. Judge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-04-14
Bismarck Is Bored.

A sadder utterance can hardly be
imagined than that said to have been
lately made by Prince Bismarck, now
near the end OF his life, after having
occupied the position of dictator of
Europe:
81 feel weak and languid, but not
ill. My illness is want of the Joys OF