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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
General nIiIes,s Wife.

The ranking general of Uncle Sans
army leads charming domestic life.
He and his wife are said to be the
handsomest pair in the army. His
wife was Miss Sherman, niece of the
late General W. T. Sherman, and d
sister of Senator Don Cameron's wife.
She is tall, handsome and devoted to
the general and her family. She has
always been his constant companion.
It is even said in the army that she
has been near enough to her husband
in some of his Indian fights to hear
the shots on both sides. She accom-
panied him to Europe last year when
he e'was assigned to follow the Greeks
in their war with Turkey. When the
general received orders to goto Tampa
Mrs. Miles arranged to 90 along. She
is thorough" horsewoman, dresses in
exquisite taste, and the fighter and his
wife make very handsome and mar
tial looking pair as they canter side by
side. They have two children, C
daughter just budding into woman
hood, and a son, Sherman, o fine,
soldierly looking Lad Of thirteen. The
mothers chief regret now is that the
boy is too young to follow his father
TO the front. They say in army circles
that the generals dashing and de-.
voted wife IS about as gooda soldier
AS he is, remarkably we'll stocked with
tactics and evolutions and war plans.
New York Mail and Express.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
WHERE NATURE SMILES.
Wonderful Vegetable Production -
Land of Fat Things,

Wonderful Vegetable Production - A
Land of Fat Things.
Peru is q land of fat things. There
are really so many wonderful prod
ucts here that hesitate to describe
them for fear I may not be believed.
What would you think Of string beans
as long as your arm. We saw lots Of
them at the vegetable stunds. They
we're tied up in lunches and hung
upon poles. We saw potatoes as yellow
as gold. These are the papas amaril-
las of Peru, which are bright yellow
when cooked. We saw sweet potatoes
of many kinds, some Of which were
as big as the yams of America.
Then there were quantities Of yucca,
@ tuber which grows about two feet
long, and which Is as big around as o
baseball club. 1t Is not unlike the
potato, but the flesh is more trans
parent, waxy and jelly-like. This is
one of the chief foods of Peru. We
saw roasting ears at nearly every veg
etable stand, and In the grain mar
kets handled varieties. of corp which
have never seen dt home. Some ef
the corn was as black as ink, and an
other kind was Of light yellow, with
grains almost as big as Lima bean.
These two varieties are SO meally that
you can make -four of them by pound.
ing them with a stone. They come
from the mountain farms, and to q
great extent form the food of that part
of Peru. We" saw squashes and
melons of all kinds. Many of the
vegetables could not understand, and
the fruits embraced those which are
grown in the tropics, as we'll as sp-
Piles, peaches and pears. The apples
were not good, however, aud most OF
the peaches we saw were OF the cling
stone kind. The best fruits are the
grapes, the chiremoya, which is as big
as naval orange, and which tastes a
little like ice cream; the palta, which
is eaten as salad or On appetizer,
with vinegar, salt and pepper, and
which has flesh not unlike that of
of stiff butter; the blue and white
figs, which grow in all the coast val
leys, and bananas Of many kinds and
different varieties Of oranges, lines
and lemons. Then they have here
guavas, pomgranates; tunas, the fruit
of the cactus, and olives, which are
picked in such q way that when they
come to the table they are black and
soft rather than green and solid, like
olives we eat.-Frank G.. Carpenter
in WASHINGTON Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Guinea Fowls on Farms.

Every farmer ought to have few
guinea fowls to add to the variety Of
feathsred life on the farm. They are
also q good protection against such
depredators as hawks and other en-
emies of young chickens, their loud
cries on the approach Of any such in
truders giving signal to the weaker.
fowl to make its escape. Guineass are
q rather wild fowl and will not bear
confinement we'll. 1t is not best to
keep them unless there is good range.
The hens are great layers, but will
mostly steal their nests and will bring
off very large broods. The young
guinea fowl are very hardy and not so
subject to disease as are other fowl
American Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21

tunias will give farmhouse an air Of
refinement and make it look, as one
little maiden said, ''as though some
body lived there"
One of the prettiest screens that /
ever saw was bed of old-fashioned
morning glories. There was O space
about ten feet in length, between the
clothes-line post and the ''big gate"
post. This was spaded up, making q
long narrow bed, and planted with
morning glory seed. Wires were
stretched across from the tops of the
posts, and carpet warp strung from
this wire to the ground made 6 suit
able support for the vines. where they
run riot, their dark green leaves
forming beautiful screen, that every
morning was covered with the sweet,
bell-shaped blossoms in which the
red, white and blue of our nations
colors were represented.
This bit Of beauty cost but small
amount of time and labor, but gave o
large amount of pleasure not only to
those whose home 1t adorned but to
all who passed that way, especially in
the morning.
The people who lived on the next
farm "did not have time to fuss with
flowers" but they spent time
enough admiring these morning
glories to have cared for some
some of their very own. When fall
came they were presented with gen.
erous supply of seed of each color,
but whether they use them or not re-
mains to be seen. The plants were
protected from the ravages of the
hens by q network OF brush laid over
the bed.
If one really wants some flowers
and must have the hens about, q few
light brush, if carefully laid, are o
good protection until the plants are
large enough to protect themselves.
Last summer I saw 8 large dry
goods box placed in ayard, filled with
soiA and bright with beautiful bios
SONS.
The hens "got notion" of gimp
ing, or flying, on to the edge of the
box and then revelling in dirt bath
when the plants were small. A piece
of iath was nailed at each corner Of
the box and some fence wire was
fastened about five inches above the
top edge of the box, and this baffied
the hens. The plants grew and throve
and delighted tue hearts of all who
saw them. Lillian Mcintosh in Farm,
Field and Fireside.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Not a Pleasant Nelghbor.

Before he turned his attention to
navigation by steam, Robert Fulton
invented a marine torpedo, which ne
endeavored to dispose Of to the Uni
ted States Government Succeeding In
interesting James Madison, then Sec
retary of state, in the matter, he OBJ
tanned a small appropriation from the
Government for the purpose Of con-
Quoting some public experiments. In
the summer of 1906 lie invited the high
dignitaries and a number Of proml-
nent citizens of New York to Cover
nor's Island to see the torpedoes and
machinery with which bis experiments
were to be made. While he was lee
turing on his blank torpedoes, which
were large, empty copper cylinders,
his numerous auditors crowded
around him. After q while he turned
to q copper case Of the same descrip;
ton, which was placed under the gate
way of Old Castle William, and 10
which was attached q clockwork
lock.
Drawing out q peg, Fulton set the
clock in motion, and then he said In
solemn tones to his attent'-e audience:
Gentlemen, this is charged torpedo,
with which, precisely in its present
state, l mean to blow up vessel; II
contains ITO pounds Of gunpowder, and
if 1 were to suffer the clockwork tn
run fifteen minutes, I have no doubt
! that 1t would blow this fortifcation t.
atoms"
The circle Of humanity which haG
closed around the inventor began ;o
spread out and grow thinner, and be.
fore five of the fifteen minutes had
passed there were but two or three
persons remaining under the gateway
Some, indeed, lost no time in getting
at the greatest possible distance from
the torpedo, and they did not again
appear on the ground until they were
assured that the engine of destruction
was safely lodged in the magazine,
whence it had been taken.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Late Cultlration ocPotatoes,.

It used to be the rule with potato
growers never to cultivate after pota-
tues are in blossom. 1t is then that
the earliest tubers begin to form and
the deep cultivation of potatoes at this
time 80 disturbs the roots as to stop
the growth Of the first set of potatoes.
Hence the old way Of growing pota-
toes was to give more thorough cul-
tivation than ever the last time just
before the potatoes blossomed. In
doing this the soil was drawn from the
middle of the rows towards the pota-
toes. This was called hilling up the
potatoes, and vas almost always sup
plemented by drawing the loose soil
still closer to the hill with hoe.
No matter how easily this was done,
the potato roots thus mutilated never
fully accommodated themselves to
their new conditions. The roots in
side the conical hills would not admit
much water, the potato vines died
down before the potatoes became very
large. Worst of all, as the hills were
washed down by rains many of the
potatoes were exposed to the sunlight
and were turned green. This entirely
destroys their value for cooking.
Green potatoes are not only bitter,
but are even poisonous. It is not
generally known that the potato be-.
longs to plant family most of whose
members are poisonous. In the po-
tato this poisonous principle is dsvel-
oped by sunlight. Green potato tops
are poisonous to certain extent, and
the tubers, when they are greened by
exposure to sunlight, are 80 acrid and
bitter that it is impossible to eat
them.
But in modern growing of potatoes
the set is or should be planted from
three to five inches below the surface.
If it is hilled up at all the hilling
should be done before the potato is
up in the process of covering. The
ridges thus made ought always to be
leveled before the potatoes are up.
After this is done the best way to
cultivate potatoes is to run the culti-
vator through them twice week, or
after every rain, but only to the depth
of an inch, or if the weather is dry,
even less than this. Shallow cultiya-
tion does not disturb the roots, and
and can be continued even after the
vines are large enough to lop over
and cover the ground between the
rows. While all the surface soil may
be dry, that beneath it will hold
enough moisture for the growing po-
tatoes. Cultivator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
The Raw Recruit.

She was an old and obviously earn
est Irish woman, and her boy was in
the arrhy. She had gone out to Camp
Ramsey, in Minnesota, to see him,
and She couldn't see anybody else.
Denny was a raw recruit. and he was
being given q good deal OF exercise
by way of getting him in line with
What was to be expected of him. He
Vas out with the awkward squad, and
tho sergeant was drilling them up
dnd down as though his life depended
On the result. He formed them into
double column. and the old woman
watched with her heart in her eyes as
they started off. cav, wisha, look
at thim," said she, ''iviry mothers
son of thin out OF step but me boy,
Dinny. New York World.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
His Prize.

Commodore Chauncey, during the
war of 1912, commanded for time the
feet on Lake Ontario, and had the ex-
treme Ill fortune of never during that
period exchanging hostile shot with
the enemy. There were great many
uncharitable enough to blame the
commodore for this, believing that he
was rather anxious that this should he
the case. Some time after the war,
he was placed in charge Of the navy
yard, and one day caught youngster
with a basket, gathering chips. Walk
ing up to him he snatched the basket
and roughly ordered him to leave the
premises, while he con6scated the bas-
ket for the owners presumption for
entering forbidden ground. The little
fellow backed away until assured
that he was beyond danger, when he
called out: Keep the basket If you
want. It's the only prize you ever
k!--Detroit Free Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
THE vANDALlA's FLAG
A Relic of the Great Disaster at Apia Is
Now Preserved ut Annapolis.

A Relic of the Great Disaster at Apla Is
Now Preserved Mt Annapolis.
When the ships went down in the
hurricane which filed Apiu harbor with
wrecks few years ago there was no
time to save anything, nor did any one
have any thought of salvage, save of
winning his own way through the
savage whirl OF waters to the beach.
The souvenirs came later, when the
gale had blown itself out and the
beach began to be strewn with frag-
ments of the stout fnbrics which once
had been fine ships. Go where cne
will on the north coast of Upolu, it is
not difficult to find some bit of the
the Trenton or the Yandalia, q piece
OF mast or spar, q deck grating, or o
cup and plate of the crews mess equip
meut. -.
The most treasured of all such
memorials was . the 24.foot ensign
which the Vandnlia few. When the
divers brought it up from the wreck,
Lieutenant Carlin, with the consent
of Admiral Kimberley, deposited it at
the United States consulate as SOU
venir. This was the old consulate,
close by the mouth Of the Vnisigans
river, and quite near the spot wherc
the Vandalia came to destruction.
When the new consulate around the
point in Vaiala was occupied the zen
erous wall surface offered place on
which to drape tho historic OF sign,
supported by rusted cutlasses which
were recovered from the wrecks. Here
it hung for several years, until 1t was
time to paint the wall again. Then it
was found that the bunting had stuck
fast to the paint in plnces, and the
painters, in stripping It loose, were
tearing it. This seemed desecration
in the eyes of the lady of the cunsu-
late, and she personally undertook its
removal with the aid of hot water.
Finally the flag was soaked free and
spread in the bright sunlight to dry.
Its long soaking at the bottom Of the
harbor had rotted the bunting and ii
could be handled only With the utmost
care. Even when it was lail awpr Ia
the fag locker it was still fast going
to pieces under the combined favages
of mildew and insects, the two great
enemies of everything IN those exces-
sively humid islands. The flag was
carried on the property return u the
Apia consulate and it took year of
red tape and correspondence to get it
transferred to the state department in
Washington. Finally the necessary
permission was received and the Van,
dallas flag was boxed for shipment
AS it was carefully laid in The W
camphor was t,'Hk'v * 81
every fold aud .s.n -
gravely superinte. - .ta q. !
kitten. That ire u: -
ished bv cro,"'inu
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Earn, end Garden Notes.

tarIn anu IArden NOteSs
Underfed or overfed hens are poor
layers.
It is we'll to feed q -mash to the
chickens.
Beans make d very excellent food
for the hens.
When hot weather comes stop feed
ing corn to the poultry.
A good cheese may be known by its
firm, yet mellow, touch.
It never pays to keep any farm
stock after 1t is past its prima.
When ice is difficult to obtain, milk
and butter lowered into we'll will be
much improved In keeping.
Afew hours spent in draining low
spot MAY allow field to be worked
sooner than it could have been uil-
drained.
Where milking Is done without d
calf, little feeding every evening
will improve the coming-up qualities
bf milk cows.
During dry, hot weather every foot
of plowed land should be kept well
stirred oh the stlrfacs with any tool
which will keep 1t from baking.
Gooseberries do we'll in part shade,
mid are often grown between there
81 trees in young orchards. In form,
they can be trained like a tree or q
bush, but the bush shape is prefera=
ble.
Every crop, if il is consumed OH the
farm. has two values-its feeding
value and its manurial value. The
man who neglects the latter will find
in time that he has neglected the more
important of the two.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Spoutine Blue Clay.

A strange account is given Of the
performances of government artesian
we'll at Lower Brule Agency, in South
Dakota. When first driven, the well
threw up column of water six inches
in diameter. After while 1t began to
spout, alternately, sand and water. Re-
Gently blue clay has taken the place
of both sand and water. There seems
to be an endless supply Of clay, and
the pressure upon it in the bowels of
the earth must be tremendous. 1t
completely fills the six-inch pipe, and
issues at the top like gigantic
sausage, rising to a height of five or
six feet before it topples over. 1t is
necessary to remove the deposit of
clay in order to save the we'll from
becoming buried under it. The clay
does not flow continuously, but, it is
said, usually commences little before
the advent of windy and stormy
weather, indicating change in the
pressure due to the state of the atmos-
,,hare
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
wife's training, and looks after the
comforts and wants of an emerpeney

wife's training, and looks after the
comforts and wants of an emergency
household. While the trained nurses
have been providing themselves with
bandages, lint, etc., the assistant has
been loading small cart with bread,
boiled water, tea, coffee, etc., and she
hurriedly follows the ambulance corps.
A sheet thrown over the branch OF q
tree makes a shelter, fires are lighted.
food is prepared, and the assistant fol
lows the nurses and doctors, feeds the
wounded, and gives woman's gentle
aid to the soldier. AS nurses and
doctors turn exhausted from their
fatiguing tasks, the improvised tent
offers the shelter and food provided by
the assistant.
It is for this kind of work that the
unprofessional women are offering
themselves.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Costly Butterfly.

q young man camping in the Sierras
discovered and captured butterfly Of
an unknown species. He sent it to
Smithsonian Institute at Washington,
and received for it check for 1,540,
with the request to make careful
search for other moths OF the same
kind, 1t was en- Individual Of o fossil
species supposed to be extinct, and
great was the excitement among the
scientists at the discovery that one Of
the race mad been recently alive. AL
though search has been made by men
paid for the service, no other specimen
has been found.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
:. 1arce - : IL adu,lnis-


1.9,i - and had been well ""oiled," or
Il to q soft-hearted officer OF
Justice. as in case mentioned by the
poet Cowper, where the thief was the
only one concerned who suffered moth
ing.
A youth had stolen some iron work
at Olney. Being convicted" says
Cowper, "he was ordered to be
whipped, which operation he under
went at the carts tail from the stone
house to the high arch, and back
again. He seemed to show great for
titrde, but it was all an imposition up
oE the public. The beadle who per-
formed it had filled his left hand with
red ochre, through which, after every
stroke, he drew the lash of his whip,
leaving the appearance of wound up
on the skin, but in reality, not hurting
him at all. This being perceived by
Mr.. Constable Hischcomb, who follow
ed the beadle, he applied his cane,
without any such management or pre-
caution to the shoulders of the too
merciful executioner. The scene i'm
mediately became more interesting.
The beadle could by no means be pre-
vailed upon to strike hard, which
provoked the constable to strike hard
er, and this double fogging continued
till lass of Silver End, plying the
pitiful beadle thus suffering under the
hands of the pitiless constable, joined
the procession, and placing herself i'm.
mediately behind the latter, seized
him by his capillary club, and pulling
him backward by the same, slapped
his face with q most Amazonian fury"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
NEVER CARES TO WANDER
The Busy Bee Doesn't Go More than Five
Miles After Material,

The range of the honey bee Is but
little understood by the masses, many
supposing that bees go for miles in
search of nectar, while others think
that they 60 only short distance. 1t
may be curious to many to understand
how any one can tell how far the bee
may fly, but this Is simple when under
stood.
Years ago, when the italian bees
were first introduced into the United
States, these bees, having marks diff
ferent from the common bees already
here, were easily distinguished, and
after any bee keeper had obtained tile
italian bees they could be observed
and their range easily noticed. II
bloom Is plentiful near where the bees
are located, they will not so very far,
perhaps mile III range, but If bioom
is scarce they may go five miles. Usu-
ally about three miles is Us far as they
may so prodtably.
Bees have been known to go as far
as eight miles in q straight fine, cross
ing d body Of water that distance to
land. It Is wonderful how the little
honey bee can go SO far from Its
home and ever find its way back to its
own particular hive. If, while the
little bee Is out of It's home or hive, the
hive should be removed some ten or
twenty feet, according to the surroun-
dings, when 1t came back to where its
home was first located It would be
hopeiessly lost. If It's home was in an
open space, with no other objects close,
1t might find its way home, but, even
should the hive be moved only few
feet, many Of the bees would get
lost.
I SO to move a hive, If done in the
winter time, 1t would be all right, but
IL Id the summer time 1t should be
dohe after dark, or when the bees are
not flying, and even then the bees
should be stirred up some, and smoke
blown in at the hive entrance and n
board or some object placed In front
of the hive so that the bees in coming
out may mark their new location. Bees
no doubt, are guided by sight and also
by sense of smell. They are attracted
by the color Of bloom, as If they are
at work on certain kind Of bloom,
they are not likely to leave that par
ticular kind Of bloom for any other
rs long as they can find that kind.
Again, bees are often attracted to
sweets by their sense Of smell, for they
will go after sweets, even If In the
dark, If close. However, any kind Of
sweets may be placed in glass in plain
sight, but If covered, so as not to emit
any smell, tile bees will take no notice
of thet11.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-09-21
Preparing the i,oi1 for Fall wheat.

Wheat following potatoes generally
results In heavy crop, and as the
price of wheat Will probably remain at
paying figure for some time the
ground now in potatoes maybe profit
ably used for wheat in the fall. II the
potatoes have been we'll cultivated no
additional preparation of the land
will be necessary for the wheat after
the potatoes are dug, with the possible
exception of going over the ground
once with smoothing harrow,
Doubtless the best preparation OF
the soil fer a wheat crop Is to turn
under d elever field, grow potatoes on
it, md follow in the fall with wheat.
The cultivation of the potatoes will
put the soil in good condition for the
wheat, which will receive the benefit
of the plant food in the clover from the
momc,:t the seed wheat is put in the
ground,