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Successful Grapo Graftine.

J. I. Porter, of Ohio, writes: An
old Clinton vine stood at the corner of
the woodhouse which was so vigorous
that its branches spread over every
thing within reach, but bore no frpSs. u.
In April, 1895, I cut both -l-'.ioees Is !. on
close to the ao,euHu and grated
Delawar, grape into one and an Iona
into the other. I used no wax; simply
wrarreta carefully with, strings OF
cloth, pasted q little mud over the
wound and covered all with earth ex-
cept the top bids Of the gratis. Those
crafts made wonderful growth the,
first season, owing to tie far-reaching
roots of the Clinton vine. At close Of
the first season the Iona vine was
about is feet long and the Delaware
about 70. This season, with the vines
one year old, the Delaware branch
bore twenty-four as fine punches of
Delaware grapes as [ ever saw. The
punches and berries were slightly
larger than tho Delaware generally
grows and so compact on the stems
that they could not be picked off easi-
ly without beginning at the end of the
stem.
The Iona branch bore about forty
punches of Iona grapes of The finest
quality. This is c quick way of get
ting grapevine into bearing. 1 tried
the same experiment on wild grape
vine down in the pas'u 1t grew
just as vigorously, but an inquisitive
Jersey COW spoiled the experiment..
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face and charming ways, Belongs to
no one, as [ may say. Yet this is ex-
posing Louis to severe ordeal. I
cannot understand it. However, all
will be explained when the travellers
arrive"
"We will soon make her strong at
the Grange" cried Ursula, and she
at once scribbled off o note to her
friend, begging her to get we'll enough
to travel as soon as possible.
But it was the last day of February
when that party of three reached
England.
Louis sprang joyfully out of the
hired closed carriage which conveyed
them from the station to the Grange.
How very glad and bright he looked.
How changed from the grave, de-
pressed man he had been for more
than year. At the sight of him Mrs.
Marriott asked herself again if her hus-
band had yielded; but her knowledge
Of his character compelled her to de-
eide no.
It was but very white andsfeeble
girl, looking like bundle of shawls,
who was helped into the hall and then
from the hall to the drawing:room-
the "little sanctum" she remembered
so well.
Nothing but tho brown eyes re-
NAMED OF the once brilliant and lovely
Winifred Ware, and yet her face was
sweeter.
Mrs. Marriott was IN accomplished
nurse, aud the invalid was forced to
rest on couch and take some re-
freshment before she attempted to go
upstairs to the room made ready for
her.
Then Louis, standing behind her
with "a certain air of proprietorship
which told everything laid his hand Oh
her shoulder.
'sFather has given in!' cried
Ursula.
"Yes," said Mr.. Marriott, with d
smile. Triumph over me as you
will; I have been convinced of my
error, Ursie. Louis has deserved this
happy ending to his love-story, and
now ell we have to do is to get ready
for the wedding"
By dint of care and nursing Wini-
fred got we'll, but she was long time
about it--so long, that there was no
marriage festivity unf' after midsum-
mer.
And q. young couple settled
down in the west wing of the roomy
old Grange, and Winnie became one
of the best loved of the numerous
daughters-in law, even though the
neighbors always alluded to her as OF
mo particular family. ."-WaverleJ
Magazine.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Tie most easily digested meats are
cold mutton, mutton chops, venison,
sirloin, roast beef and chicken.
Green vegetables and good fruit
contain certain salts and acids which
may be called natures medicine.
A boon for vegetcrians is peanut
butter, which surpasses the best dairy
butter in purity, and is found to be
especially we'll adapted for use in
grayies and for shortening. An ex-
tensive demand is expected.
Street lamps can be mounted on q
| new telescope post to make them easy
to reach for trimming md filling, q
set-screw engaging the central shaft
to hold it in position with pulleys and
weights set in the post to counter
balance the lamp.
The aurora borealis, according to
tho theory OF Herr Gustav Wendt,
may be regarded as an electrical
phenomena arising when oxygen and
other paramagnetic matter-or matter
assuming polarity under the influence
of the earth's magnetism-is continu-
ously drawn down from the higher re-
gions of the atmosphere, thus setting
up electric currents.
Medical authorities appear to be
becoming convinced Of the efficacy CT
alcohol, in the treatment Of cancer.
It is used in hypodermic injections,
and it's strength has been gradually
increased from ten per cent. solution
nutil the pure alcohol is often used.
The injections are repeated after i've
to seven days. The cancer cells are
destroyed, the growth gradually be-
coming smaller, and finally leaving o
hard mass that may be ignored or cut
out.
A floating scientific station was the
novel suggestion made to the inter
national geological congress by Pro
fessor Andrussow. 1t would consist
of ship fitted with apparatus and
laboratories for geological aud biological
study of the ocean bottom, and would
be kept constantly exploring the diff
ferent parts OF the world, the expense
to be met by international contribu-
tions. The scheme was warmly ap-
proved by DR.. John Murray and other
scientific leaders.
During the Zulu war DR.. George
Stoker observed that wounded natives
quickly recovered in mountainside
places to which they were carried.
This led him, on his return to Eng
land, to experiment with oxygen rs q
dressing for wounds, the result being
the establishment of home where
the oxygen treatment is carried out.
The application is made by enclosing
! the injured limb in suitable case,
which is kept charged that the gas.
The dressing irritates less than others,
is stimulating and oxidizes bacterial
poisons.
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loops are tied with separate rope in
the screw-eyes on the frame, the frame
being bolted at the cross with an eye
bolt, making it easy to take the kite
to pieces, very necessary thing, by
the way, with kite as big as house.
The centre bands are made Of rope
thrce-eighths of an inch thick, with
heavy harness snaps, which are also
hooked in the eye-bolts, in the cross
and screw-eyes in the corners.
used, when I made the first trial
of the kite, $500 feet of silver lake
sash cord, but found the. strain too
ErrsIt,sandhatlztu-I1r -I1rurnrHlhe-hi eheat
grade Of Manila rope three-eighths Of
an inch thick. This rope stood the
strain of high wind without signs of
breaking.
In strong breeze the pull, accord
ing to careful estimates, was from 400
to GOO pounds. I havo at different
times attached bar few hund"edfoct
from the hitchiug point, and allowed
myself to be pulled into the mir to n
height of hundred feet. The kite
floats at m angle of from fifty to
eighty degrees, and my weight is l65
pounds. The weight of the kite,
rugged, is seventy pounds.
It is very easy matter to raise the
kite. With the assistance of o. few
men the sticks and canvas nre put to-
gether, and the flying rope securely
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Vast Tracts Going to yyaste.

The fate of many square miles of
"pine land" in South Carolina is clearly
foreshadowed by Mr.. ". ". Ashe,
Forester of the North Carolina Geolo-
gical Survey, in his latest report, in
which he describes the condition OF
about 100000 acres in the south
eastern part of that State, along the
South Carolina line. He says: '".nhis
great area of waste land lies in Rich
mond, Moore, Cumberland, Hartnett,
Bladen, Brunswick, and other south
eastern counties, which haze consid,
erable area of the loose, sandy soil. 1t
is unsuited for general agricultural
purposes, that is, Tor ordinary field
crops, on account of it's poorness, and
it will certainly be great many years,
at the present rate of utilization, be-
fore even one-half Ct II is demanded
for trucking or fruit culture. AS is
we'll known, this land was once oil tim
bered with long-leaf or yellow pine,
but as the pine was destroyed by fires,
or the timber removed in numbering,
not only did no young growth OF this
pine spring up, but it was followed by
the growth of no valuable or even large
size tree. Thickets of scrub oaks took
possession, which can yield only g
limited amount of fuel, and nothing
more. That this condition is due tc
the frequent burnings, which are fa1
more destructive to the young growth
of the pine than to that of the thick
barked oaks, together with the rayages
of the hogs, that eat the roots of the
young pines as we'll es the seed, is q
fact too we'll known to be more than
mentioned. charleston IS. o. News
and Courier.
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MIR. KILLER. 1Os YEARS OLD.

q table drawer q lot of newspaper clip
pings, most of them yellow with age
and creased with many foldings. One
of them was Eugene Fields "Little
Boy Blue" cut from a Chicago paper.
The visitor read it through slow y, old
Mrs. Hitler nodding to the rhythm Of
the words.
"My children are gone, too, she
said; flour of them, and I'm ready
and only waiting for the words. It's
long time. Twenty years ngo l had
my burial clothes made ready, and once
n year I have them put in order.
Would you like to see them?"
The writer turned the question
hastily.
"When did you come to this coun-
try, Mr.. Hiller?"
"About the time the war began we
moved here to Michigan?"
Before the poems were put away
some one spoke of hymns, and the
couple with sllrill, quavering voices
sang to the old tune of "Chins, with
its quaint trills and runs, the words;
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hitched about tree, the slack IN the
rope being nerrly all taken in. The
kite is laid fiat on the ground with
the top toward the hitching point, and
in fair breeze the monster is lifted
up little so as to catch the breeze.
It does this very quickly, straighten-
ing up like thing of life and rising
with the wind as though anxious to be
as obliging as possible. In order to
counteract any tendency that the kite
may have for fitting sideways, guide
ropes are hung at the wings, and If
necessary they can be used to keep
the kite straight while it is rising from
earth to the clouds.
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Whiskers For o Pillow.

That history repeats itself has just
received another proof. Some years
ago the men of a BeEarian regiment,
of,which Prince Maximilian was chief,
in order that they might show their
devotion to him, cut off their mus
taohes and sent them to the princess,
who had just become mother, that
she might use them rs o pillf v.
Something very like a repetition OF
this has just taken place at Rappoist-
weller, in Alsatia. The chief of the
fire brigade was a few days ago pre-
seuted with his first child, n boy.
The fremen thereupon called meet
ing, at which it was decided to make
the baby boy an honorary member OF
the corps, and the men subsequently
cut off their mustaches and boards to
form pillow for the baby's use
Chicago Chronicle.
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D.nperous Carbolic Acid.

A Board of Health warning has been
sent out in regard to the danger OF
using carbolio acid, either as disin-
fectant or as cleansing wash for SIM
ple wounds. Even in an ointment it
is not safe. Local gangene is said to
be the penalty OF too strong an appll-
cation, or of weak application too
long applied. Another point of infor-
nation advanced by the board is that
carbolic acid is used in surgery as a
cermicide and disinfeotant, and not as
q means of healing wounds; on the
contrary it would retard OF prevent
their healing if used in improper
strength. Louis Globe Democrat.
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The Applc 1Iassot.

Tho furrows which you see in ap-
Piles are due to the presence of aworm
in the apple, which is the product Of
an egg laid very early in the growth Of
the apple by the apple maggot. As
the mature insect does not eat The an
pie, but only stings it to deposit her
egg beneath the skin, it is not likely
that the maggot can be killed by poi
sonous insecticide. Some success has
been had by using On emulsion which
is applied before the tree is leayed
out. The maggot matches early in
spring and waits without eating until
her work in reproducing her species
is done. The orchard should be kept
as hog pasture wherever this pest
becomes numerous. There are many
of these pests in the fallen fruit, and
o good lot of hogs will eat this fruit as
fast as it falls to the ground. The in
crease of the pest may thus be pre-
vented if it cannot be exterminated.-
Boston Cultivator.
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MINERAL WEALTH OF THE YUKON,
A Correspondent Tells of Possibilities in
tho Klondike Gold Region.

Owing to the peculiar climate and
other conditions, nearly all placer
mining in the Yukon country must be
conducted by new methods or modifi-
cations of old methods. So far moth
ing but the crudest of mining, with
the simplest of tools, has been done,
and there are splendid opportunities
for capital and engineering skill,
writes John D. McGillivray in o Daw-
son City letter to the New York Her
aid.
This is not so much OF "poor
mans country" as is generally re-
ported, for no one can come here and
accomplish anything without the ex-
penditure of considerable money be-
fore expecting any return. Even
prospecting cannot be done with any
degree of satisfaction except at con-
siderable expense.
The introduction of capital properly
directed, with appropriate machinery
and tools, will mean not only tbs rapid
opening up of new districts, but the
working at large profits of hundreds
of miles OF even thousands of miles of
creeks which have been located and
are now abandoned.
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THE BIGGEST KITE EVER RAISED.
Scared Aloft Like n School Boys Toy and
Lifted Its Owner Into the Air,

Scared Aloft Like n School Boys Toy and
Lifted Its Owner Into the Air.
A kite that would have served as O
toy for the youthful residents of Gull
liver's Brobdingnag has just been
constructed by q resident of South
Bethlehem, Penn. The kite is a mon
ster. If the world has its equal, no
one has ever made the fact known.
Imagine q kite as big as two-story
house, capable of raising high in the
air an able-bodied man, who tried to
hold on to the soaring flyer. William
II. Markle, the man who built the
great kite and raised it heayenward,
says:
To begin with the dimensions of the
kite: It is 25 feet high and 25 feet
wide, and is Of the ordinary triangle
pattern. The sticks are made of white
pine, 5ax2 inches, aud are tnpered
from the cross to II inches at the
ends. At each corner Of the cross
there are two-inch screw-eyes. On
these screw-eyes are tied the four
corners of the canvas sail, which is
made of sail drilling.
The sail is sewed on the bias, and
along the edge of the canvas is sewed
rope three-eighths of on inch thick,
with loops at the corners. These
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YUKON VILLAGE IN THE DEPTH OF WINTER.

At present, it is true, there is little
aside from placer deposits proven to
be of profitable value, but coal, copper
and other minerals have been found
in deposits that are worth examina.
tion. That quartz mines will be dis
covered and opened up in this i'm
mense territory there con be no
doubt.
Under present conditions not more
than one out of fifty of the gravel
mines which have been located will
pay to be worked, yet, as costs ore re-
duced and improved methods are in
trod1ced. most 9th tthenSshould yield
good profits.
There have been located in the
Klondike district nearly three thousand
claims. A small proportion-not over
one-tenth, or. at most, one-ffth OF
these, it is now believed by the best
informed miners-wili pay to work by
the methods now in vogue and with
wages and other costs anywhere near
the prevailing rates.
1t should be remembered that the
value of this immense territory-the
Yukon country-lies not so much in
th, rich claims ain the Nlondike dis
trict, but in the fact that gold is much
moro evenly distributed over an I'M
mense area than in any other known
mining district in tue world.
The worlds attention to-day is di-
rected, whenever the Yukon is men
toned, to the Klondike district, yet it
is quite probable that the Birch Greek
district, on the American side, nearly
three hundred miles below here, will
in time produce as much if not more
! gold. 1t is so far rs is known more
extensive, and, while the placers dis
covered are of lower grade, they oil
contain considerable gold.
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house, and here, in the season, Mr..
Hitler raises few vegetables and
weeds aud waters au old-fashioned
posey bed, in which grow all the fa-
vorite flowers OF his wife's youth, and
O nosegay OF these is generally upon
her table. Sometimes he carries her
chair out into the garden, and she sits
there while he works.
At present, however, the dry and
withered stalks Of the garden favor
ties peep melancholy through the
snow, as if bidding one to wonder
whether Mrs. Hitler will ever see
fi:Ienils loom az iius. y ,eee=tteesac zvo
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no good reason why her moro
sprightly husband may not live to see

no good reason why her moro
sprightly husband may not live to see
them once and again.
The son-in-lnw plows the garden
and arrauges for the roughcr work
about the place. The wood the old
couple burn is sawed by horsepower
into short lengths, but Mr.. Hitler
splits it up for frcwood, battering
away at it with short, pecking strokes
with dull axe. All Canadians know
how to chop wood, but Mr.. Hitler no
longer has strength for that.
In winter, when the deep SHOWS
come, he gets out of doors with q
snow shovel and makes neat paths
about the house and from the front
door to the gate. The labor of shov-
elling does not seem too much for his
muscular strength, but his thin blood
is quickly chilled, and after few
minutes work in the cold he goes into
the house to rest for few minutes
before the kitchen stove.
In this way the old man putters
about for half day over light fail
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
Arruinr the Point.

A clergyman new to living in the
west of England was told that an old
man in his parish was of Oh exceed
ingly crusty disposition, so he deter
mined to make friends with him the
first opportunity he had. Overtaking
him in the village one day, he said:
"This is cold weather, john
Receiving no reply, he tried again
'I said this is cold weather, John. y
Turning angrily around, the old
man replied:
"Well, who said it warn't? Dye
want to argy the p'int?"-Answers.
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Then the old man put away the
clippings, moving easily about the
room with o firm and fairly quick
step. He is small and slight now,
though he may have been in his
prime man of average stature.
Mrs. Hitler moves about but little
and with difficulty, feeling her way
around the room with thin, tremulous
fingers. OF their very simple house
work she does almost none. Gener-
ally one of the grandchildren drops
in during the day to help with some
of their work., The rest, Mr.. Hitler
himself does.
There is o little garden about the
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THOs. j. ADAMS PROPRIETOR.
TWO BRIDES.

The Man who Loved tho Soul Of Things'
Went forth serene and glad,
Aud mused upon the mighty world,
And people called him mad.
in unseen presence walked with him
Forever by his side,
Tho welded mistress Of his soul
For Wisdom was his bride.
She showed him all this mighty frame,
And bade him feel-but named no name.
So stood with him upon the hills
Hinged by the azure sky,
Aud shamed his lowly thought with stars
And bado it climb as high.
And all the birds he could not namc,
The nameless stars that roll,
The unnamed blossoms at his feet
Talked with him soul to soul;
He heard the Nameless Glory speak
In silence-and was very meek.
Sam Walter Foss, in the Independents.
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Raising Fall Calves.

There is great unwillingness on
the part of most dairymen to allow
calves dropped in the fell to reach mo-
turity. It is really the greatest OBJ
lection to tho extension of winter
dairying. That in all cases takes the
best COWS, as no one would think Of
keeping poor mixers through the win
ter, with all the extra trouble that
winter dairying involves. But if all
the calves Of these winter COWS are
sent to the butcher it must mean q
great deterioration Of average dairy
stock. No one should begin wi ter
dairying unless he hasa warm Earn,
which frost will not enter, in which to
keep his COWS, and succulent feed Of
some kind to feed them. These are
idst the conditions for successfully
rearing fall farrowed calves.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS.
= Selling on Poor Stock.

As winter approaches every farmer
Should look over his farm stock and
consider what of it will pay best for
keeping through until spring. Il all
that does not come up to the standard
is sold to the butcher. or otherwise dis
posed of, the money for it and the hay
or grain required for its winter suste-
nance will leave the farmer richer in
the spring than if he fed it. Don't
try to get high prices for the poor
stock. There is less loss in disposing
of it. than in keeping it. The farmers
profit, iniGaesesdays, depends more on
the. kind Of stock he keeps than on any
other factor,
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of snow, but one who has lived lO8
years has plenty of time.
So they sit, the old man and wom-
an, in their little house, singing the
old hymns and waiting for the mes
senger who has spared them so long.
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The Man who Loved the Names Of Things
Went forth beneath the skies,
And named ell things that he beheld,
And people called Him wise.
An unseen presence walked with him
Forever by his side,
The welded mistress OF mis- soul
For knowledge was his bride;
She named tho flowers, the weeds, the trees
And oil the growths Of oil the seas.
She told him all the rocks by name,
Tho winds and whence they blew;
She told him how the seas were formed,
Aud how the mountains grew;
She numbered all the stars for him;
Aud all the rounded skies
Were mapped and chartered for the gazo
or his devourlnS eyes.
Thus, taught by her, he taught the crowd
Thcy pralsel-and he was very proud.
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The Difference,

"A man," observed the student of
social phenomena, "is never satisfied
so long as there is anything he wants;
n woman is never satisfied so long as
there is anything she can get."-
Chicago Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
Sixty Russian Languages

Sixty languages are spoken in the
empire governed by the Gear OF Rus
gin
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23
OF NO PARTICULAR FAMILY.
By MRS M. coRBET SEYMOUR.
EFRHE Grange was O


large rambling old
house: And it had
need to be so, for
the Marriots were o
numerous family,
and at Christmas or
in the summer holi-
day season, when
the married son 8
b broug b t th e j r
wives, and the mar
ried daughters were
q pa II lie d by
their husbands and
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Indian BIcyclist.

Hole-in the Day, wild Sioux In
dian chief, is one of the most expert
bicycle riders in Montana.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-23

The Oldest tree in the British isles
is the Brabourne yew, in Kent, 5000
years old.