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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-28

A walk through a leading chewing
gum factory is interesting. Here over
1000, 600, GOO pieces of gum are annual
ly produced and shipped to every Foi
ton of the world. Three hundred eln-
ployees are engaged in the manufacture
Of the gun. the first step Of which !:
the importation of tho raw chicle,
which Is gathered by the peols in Mex.
leo and exported in bales containing
about $50 pounds each.
The gum is taken from the bales and
chopped into small pieces. These are
freed from tree bark aud chips by steam.
ing aud picking. Then it is ground IN
mills making 3,40O revolutions a min.
ute. The ground gum is subjected to
continuous heat Of lao degrees f. il
drying rooms. From here the gum ii
sent to tho white aproned cook, " WIN
adds the purest sugar and the frcahes
cream, granulatod pepsin, powdc~oS
guru or kola or other desired ingrei
TO it and cooks it in a steam ia,
caldron, where it is turned and
by an ingenious double acting heai
rotating paddle until it has assunB.
consistency Of bread dough.
Now the dough boys" take
il and knead it in finely powder
passing it to the "rollers, "
rolled between steel rollers MI
tho proper thickness, when I'll
away TO the markers" IT,
are steel knived rollers Vs.
their impress upon the long
appetizing gum before It a
seasoning room" after Y
broken on the lines left by VI
Now the gum finds ito y
wrapping room" Tho MI
Of 100 dainty maidens are /
Under their deft touch wa
tinfoil and pretty wrappers1
gum quick as a wink, aud
moment the packers" have a.
place in Jars or boxes, wher'
shipped for sale TO the geneip
-Confectioners' journal.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-28
SICK HEADAcHEt

This distressing afliction occurs most fire.
quently. The disturbance of tho stomach,
arising from the imperfectly digested. con-
tents, causes n severe pain in the head,
accompanied with disagreeable nausea, and
Sick Headache, for the relief OF which take
Simmons Liver Regulator.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-28
NsT1PATIo

should not be regarded rs n trlhing ailment-
IN fnct, nature demands the utmost regularity
OF the bowels, and any deviation from this
demand paves the way often to serious an
ger. 10 s quite as necessary TO remove impure
accumulation from the bowels as IL is to eat
or sleep, and no health can be expected where
q oOstive habit of body prevails.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-28
BAD

Nothing Is so unpleasant, nothing SO COM
mon, as n bad breath; and In nearly every
case ~ comes from tho stomach and can DO
so easily corrected N you will take Simmons
Liver Regulator. DO not neglect 50 sure q
remedy for this rcpulsive disorder. IL Will
general health.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-28
nrEvERY PACKAGEm

Has the z Stamp in red on the wrapper
o j. II. zEILIN CO., Philadelphia. q
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-28
PURELY VEGETABLE.

Tho cheapest, purest and best family medi.
cine In the worldi An o%ffectual specific for
all diseases OF the Liver, stomach and Spleen.
Regulate the Liver and prevent Chills and
Fever, MalariOus Fevers, Bowel Complaints,
Restlessness, Jaundice and Nausea.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-01-28

Tho AIEucAH ECONOMIST, weekly. dcvoted 20 tn.
disou sion Of an phases Of the Tariff question. ~
aYear sample copies free, Address American Pro
~ctivp larln League, e. w. "a ST., New YORK,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
A Hastily Arranged Dinner.

Sometimes in social. life it so hap
pens that one is obliged to build up
an elaborate structure around some
without any particular wish or eFen
necessity. son the spur of the mo-
ment," said o society woman recently,
ssI asked Mrs. A. to dine with me
next week-hardly thinking, l am
ashamed to say, that such popular
person would be disengaged, but 1t
lust happened that she was free. and
she accepted. Under ordinary cir
cumstances I would, of course, nave
been delighted to have had her, but
at such short notice it meant the con-
struction of dinner under the most
adverse circumstances. I asked scores
of people and used up reams OF note
paper. Many persons did not dare
to ask on such short notice, without
having asked them before, so l was
handicapped in the direction whence
I might have obtained help. Finally,
however, I did succeed in getting q
respectable number together, and
Mrs. A. came and expressed herself
delighted with her entertainment, but i,
she will never know what it cost me. "
New York Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23

But the railroad man had no
illusions. To him the snow was
foe, foe to be feared, foe against
whom men and engines had often
measured their strength in vain.
Every now and then the scenery
was blotted out; the glass panels sud
denly showed US nothing but the re-
fection Of the car and bobbing light
of the overhead lamp. They We're
snow sheds through which the train
was passing. The railroad, cut like q
single step in the side of the mountain
chasm, was rooted in as snugly as
house. Above, for all we knew, the
snow might be tumbling head-long
over the slippery ledge in tempest
of passion; but for oil it's malevolence,
impotent to inhict an injury to the poor
snake OF train hiding beneath its
shelter.
These snow sheds have been erected
among the mountains at On enormous
cost They are of massive timber
work-heavy beams of squared timber,
dovetailed and bolted together, and
backed with rock. They are fitted
into the mountain so that they be-
come, as it were, part of the noun
tain side, so as to bid defiance to the
most terrific avalanche.
Anything may precipitate IN ava
lanche down the steep declivities OF
those piled-up precipices, among which
the single-track railway looks like q
pins scratch would on the hand Of
man. 1t need be no more than loos-
ened scrap of rock that has started
rolling downwards with no forethought
of the immeasurable cataclysm that its
passage will create.
In few yards it has become imbed-
ded in q mighty mass of moving snow,
wool-white torrent licking up the
leviathan trees as it passes like straws
swept up in storm of autumn leavas,
growing more venomous, more power
ftll, more irresistible, until the rush
of the wind before it clears passage
through the forest anticipating its
ravages, removing all obstacles as the
outriders to a royal equipage make
way through mass of human beings.
1t is truly royal foe that the rail
road men of the northwest have to
encounter among the mountains. An
onrushing, terrific force, something
which cannot be checked. 1t is nee
essary to resort to subterfuge, to cheat
it, to hide from it, or to make good by
artificial means the path that the rail-
way has struck out for itself.
Among the Cascade Mountains [
have seen seven and eight engines
linked together charging impotently
against the snowbauks, and Mt night
time there is no more wonderful sight
than this, each kissing engine throw
ing it's sheath of freight on tho ten
ders, with their heavy loads OF wood
fuel, on the cleaning snowbanks, on
the great trees seeming to press roun
to mock by their stiffness all this use
less fuss and fury, this powerless rag
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
Attacked by a Gray Eagle.

While Peter Egelston was cutting
railroad ties near Cascade, N. Y. he
found the deserted nest of q gray eagle.
While examining the nest and its con-
tents he heard loud noise, and sud
denly the old eagle had struck him in
the face with bill and claws, and,
taking q circuit through the air, ,alighted
on O tree about 200 yards distant, but
in plain view of the nest.
Again the bird made an attack, aim
ing at Egelston's head, but he avoided
her, and she struck him on the arm,
making slight wound. She returned
to her post of observation, but soon
made q third attack when Egelston
struck her with club and brought her
to the ground, where, after severe
struggle, he succeeded in killing her.
She measured seven feet two inches
across the outstretched wings.-New
York Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
THE ROTARY PLOW AT WORK.

which the wind is blowing. In a
graceful arch of silver dust, the snow
is flung into the air to hight of sixty
or seventy feet, descending like o
fountain over the half-buried posts of
the telegraph. From the smoke stack
volume of fire is rising. THERE'S an
uproar like the sound of artillery gal
loping over cobbled street. As q
spectacular effect the snow plow is a
great success. Some of the bigger
plows weigh over fifty tons by them
selves, and with the machinery that
operates them the total weight is over
100 tons.
The cutter, with its own private en-
CINE, as it were, is placed on mass,
i've truck which is inclosed like the
cab of locomotive and linked to a
heavy freight engine, the "Hog.
Following behind this travels another
engine drawing its load of tools and
its complement of workers. The men
who operate q snow plow draw high
wages, the expenses in this respect on
one Job amounting to over a $3.50 o
day. A rotary in good hands will
clear snow blockaded track at the
rate from two to twelve miles an hour;
but the consumption of coal is one ton
in 80 minutes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
ParlIa,nent's "Typist."

Miss May Ashworth, the official
typewriter to the houses of Parlia.
ment-typist, they call her in England
has held that position since March,
1895, when she received the appoint
ment from Herbert Gladstone, who
was then Commissioner of Works, says
the New York Press.
She has room set apart for the
use of her staff of assistants in ST.
Stephens Hall, but so great has been
the demand for their services that for
the coming session an additional room
is to be set apart for this purpose.
Miss Ashworth seldom goes to the
house herself, the Office being con-
Quoted by one of her managers.
In addition to this work Miss Ash
worth has a large Office in Victoria
street, where she conducts typewrlt-
ing school, and also has large corps
OF assistants for the usual stenographlc
and copying work. She has been in
business for ten years, and her offices
have grown from two rooms on top
floor to an entire suite on the first
floor of the Victoria Street Mansion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
Economy in Home Dressmaking.

It is q mooted question with econ
omical mothers whether it pays best
to have gowns and frocks made in the
house, or whether the expense of hay
ing dressmaker by the day does not
in the end amount to more than if the
work was given out. This depends
entirely, woman of experience tells
MS. on whether the dressmaker finds
the work to be done planned out, and
everything ready for her experienced
fingers. AS a rule, half her time is
spent in getting ready for her work.
The sewing machine requires to be
cleaned and oil. gowns that are to be
altered need ripping and besting and
pressing, buttons and hooks and eyes
are missing when most needed, and SO
on. In short, it is system that is
needed, system and forethought, and
with these handmaidens it does pay to
have clothes made at home. They
are then made more becoming, fit bet
ter, and, as everyone knows, they are
more durable. With summer frocks
this is especially the case, and in many
household directly alter the holi-
DAYS the preparations begin for the
ensuing season. These should be
made, however, before the dressmaker
comes, not afterward; the dresses
should be altered, should be ripped,
brushed OF washed, and pressed.
New garments should have requisite
Innings, trimmings and all other &C.
cessories. The sewing room should
be we'll stocked with needles, pins,
tapes. hooks and eyes, both black and
white; sharp scissors, large and
small; machine needles, etc. Some
member of the household should be
delegated to the seamstress as an as.
sistant. There is no need for skilled
labor to sew OIL hooks and eyes, make
buttonhoIes or do unimportant work.
If the small details are all attended tc
beforehand the home dressmaker is
not only an economy, but q pleasure,
for there is an enjoyable excitement
in purchasing in midwinter the deli,
cate fabrics intended for spring and
summer, and preparing for the long,
sweet days to come.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Painting is now done by compressed
air.
Ceilings of stamped steel are becom-
ing popular.
The chemical name of Epson saltsis
sulphate of magnesia.
An Italian inventor has invented q
boat with steel fins. which is pfopelled
solely by the motion of the SEP water.
1t goes best in rough weather,
Sufferers from neuralgia afswarned
by medical writer not to drink tea,
but to partake freely of. coffee into
wlach the juice of a lemon Las been
squeezed.
Electro magnets capable zos king
I1itIsS10 -.
used by the Illinois steel company to
transfer steel beams or plates from one
part of the shop to another:
The weight of mans brain has, it
is said, nothing to do with his mental
power. 1t is a question of climate,
not of intellect. The colder the eli
mate, the greater the size of the brain.
Acetylene can be neither manu-
factured nor sold in Great Britain now
save by express permission OF the
Homo Secretary, the prohibition be-
ing madein q recent Order in Council.
Measurements have shown the thick
ness of the human hair to vary from
the two hundred and fiftieth to the six
hundredth part of IN inch. Blonde
hair is the finest, and red hair the
coarsest.
A French naturalist named Galien
has made the startling discovery at
Mines that if sparrow is put in the
same cage with fnches it will soon
learn to initiate their songlike amook-
ing-bird; also the chirping of a cricket
The success of the cyclometer on bi-
cycles has resulted in their being at
tached to cabs in several European
cities, principally Berlin, Dresden and
.Leipsic, by which the exact distance
travelled can be computed by occu-
pants, leaving the cabman little chance
to charge more than the legal rates.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
who spoke. We were travelling ove-
the Rocky Mountains at midnight.

who. spoke. We were travelling ove-
the Rocky Mountains at midnight.
Through the glass-paneled door at the
tail of the train one could see the icy
orests of the Mountains in the pale
moonlight. In the wake of the sum-
mer fires the trees stood up thin and
rakish, like the masts of ships. Else
where they were shrouded with droop-
ing branches and spattered stems, in
the universal snow. The snow gave
IN impressive sense Of peacefulness to
the impenetrable silence of the noun
tains. I looked out upon the solemn
stiffness, the broad stretches of mo-
tionless white, the deep passages of
avalanches carved along the mountain
sides, with n feeling of awe for the
immensity of the power that had SO
changed the face of nature.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
HOW n Chameleon Changes Color,

The chameleon is little lizard, who
possesses the wonderful power of
changing his color to suit his own con.
yenience. Florida produces several
species of these lizards in abundance.
Up to the present day no one has un'
derstood the process by which the lit
tie lizard effects his changes. Now it
is known.
Certain colors through the medium
of the optic nerve produce q contrac-
ton or expansion of the pigment or
color cells. The result is a protective
tint or one which resembles that upon
which the animal is resting. The eye
receives the stimulus or impression,
which passes from the optic nerve to
the sympathetic nerve, so reaching
the various series of the lizards little
color cells under the skin.
The pigment cells are distributed oil
over the body with more or less regu.
larity, and upon their contraction and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
FormerlY Mrs. Pom Thumb.

The handsomest dwarf this country
has ever seen, the Countess Magri,
formerly Mrs. Tom Thumb, is still q
well-preserved woman, and has just
been giving demonstrations of cookery
at food fair in Boston. She wore
small white apron, and while prepar-
ing the dishes on raised platform
lectured entertainingly about the cook
ing she had encountered during her
travels over the earth. The countess
was born in Massachusetts, fifty-si3
years ago, and her real name was
Mercy Lavinia Bump. She was mar
ried in 1868 to General Tom Thumb,
who died fourteen years ago, his
widow taking another husband, not a
dwarf, several years later.-Boston
Herald,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23

lily on the knee Of fne-lookins
stranger by the Fireplace, while
Faith, in a chair opposite him, YVES
telling how they came t. be there.
It was about two hours later when
Ike and Jim returned with thesmend-
ed wheel. They were somewhat sur.
prised to find Rob at the covered
wagon whistling away to himself, as il
he was the happiest man on those
prairies. .
"Hello, Rob-" they called. 'Wot
Of them claim-jumpers?"
"They've got possession and are
going to keep it," he returned !.
Then Ike and am laughed aud Rob
joined in heartily.
"Well, boys, you've had your joke
and now I'll tell you how it's5turned
out" said Rob. ''Back in Illinois
this bravss little woman, Faiti Has
kins, and went to school together.
Our parents were near neighbors and
we were lovers from childhooaS But
her father didn't think I was mHch5ac-
count for anything but to twang
guitar or fiddle, so when he started to
Nebraska with his family he told me
frankly his objections and that must
not think of Faith. But I diisthink
of her and went on loving her more
than ever. Igave up my idleihabits,
taught school few terms, then came
here and took this timber claim.
When had good home of my. own
to offer her I intended to huntSFaith's
folks up and win her. 1t wasschiefy
to get on their track that weat back
to my old home. From onsof the
neighbors I found out that Mr. and
Mrs. Haskins were both dead and
Faith was still unmarried. ThaRs why
I hurried back. was going to- make
things little more comfortabls.at my
cabin. Then was going up into Ne
braska to find Faith. But o. kind
hand guided her to my cabA out OF
the storm, and neither she nor the
children shall suffer for the Comforts
of this life as long as I amsable to
work for them. I am going to go
with them to their uncle's ranch on
the Arkansas River. But justsas soon
as Faiths visit there is finished she is
coming back with me. You under
stand me, boys?"
"Wa-al, now, I'm not the dullest ole
grub-hoe on these prairies, I rsckon!"
returned Ike, with q grin. New, York
Ledger.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
ing, this resultless disturbance of their

ing, this resultless disturbance of their
peace.
Under favorable circumstances, the
snow parts readily before the onslaught
of the plow. At times, however, un-
der the battery, to which it is sub
iected, it only becomes more rigidly
compressed, more solid, more impen-
etrable at each renewed charge, o
solid, unbudging block of ice. The
engine may go back mile, the throt-
tie may be thrown open, it may rush
upon the barrier at speed of forty OF
fifty miles an hour, but when the snow
dust has cleared sufficiently for the
engineers to see around them, it may
be that they have only advanced a
yard, possibly the engine fires have
been extinguished, not improbably.
the engine may have been thrown off
the line.
The one recourse which then re-
mains is to call il the assistance of O
small army of men, that way may be
forced through the snow with pick.
and shovel, and, while these opera
tions are progressing, the passenger
train has to be kept constantly on the
move, lest in few hours it become
incapable of movement at all.
At such time it is no unusual thing.
to see several hundred men at work.
on single drift. Perhaps eight or a;
dozen platforms are cut in the snow,:
and thus what is removed from the
line is passed upward from stage to
stage. climbing the steep walls in tiny:
shovelfuls, until it finally reaches the
open waste, thirty OF forty feet above!
the heads of the workers on the ground
level.
The men are brought to the spot in
special trains and fed and housed as
best they can be. They work day and
night, sometimes shoveling for thirty
six hours at stretch.
The thing that has simplifed the:
task of snow fighting more than any:
thing else, especially in the prairie.
country, is the rotary 'plow. The ap-;
pearance of the rotary" as it is fa-::
military called by railroad men, re-
minds one of nothing so much as the
screw propeller of o steamship. 1t is:
huge rosette of fanges, about twelve
feet in diameter, that bores it's way
into snowbanks, clearing just enough;
space to enable the waiting train to-
pass through. As. the winter goes on,
the snow is piled higher and higher
on both sides, until we have the per-
pendicular embankment through which
the train often passes for miles with
out break.
AS the wheel revolves, the snow
chips pass back through the intervals
between the shovels, fall into large
sized fan elevator, and are hurled
forth on this side OF that side of the
line, according to the quarter from
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
A Dainty Breath.

If the breath is tainted after eating
onions, drink strong coffee noir, or
chew coffee berries, or stick of CHINA
mon, and wash the mouth out with
camphor and myrrh. The following
recipe can be used with great advan-
tage for unpleasant breath: Powdered
charcoal, one part; white sugar. one
part; chocolate, three parts; melt and
mix together, and eat in the form of
lozenges. The teeth must always be
kept perfectly clean, and should be
we'll brushed with salt and charcoal
every now and then. Ten drops OF
myrrh in a glass of warm water should
also be used to rinse out the mouth
and to brush the teeth every few days.
New York World.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
An Ancient Office.

The sheriffs of London bear, per-
haps, the most ancient offices in the
kingdom. It is supposed to date from
11S9. Edward ~. gave the citizens
the right to elect their own sherifs,
who had jurisdiction over the county
Of Middlesex also. Recent legisla-
tion has created asheriff of Middlesex.
and also sheriff of the county OF
London; but the citizens still elect
two sheriffs of the city.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
Gossip.

Mrs. Eliza Ann Colburn, of Boston,
who died some time ago, leaves by her
will the sum of SIS, 900 to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails.
The tailor-made girl declared that
she never really felt her costume was
u success until railway conductor
stuck her ticket into the baud on her
big Alpine hat.
Vera Caldwell, little girl of three,
sings in the choir OF the Presbyterian
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
A Woman Brakeman.

A woman brakeman is the latest in
novation, in field heretofore held in
violate to man. Mrs. Jessie Mutligan,
the widow of James Mulli"'n, q rail-
road conductor, who was killed on the
Yellowstone division of the Northern
Pacific Railroad six months ago,is now
working for the company in the ca
pacity of freight train brakeman. She
is reported as taking kindly to her
new sphere of activity, setting brakes,
coupling cars, turning switches and
performing various other duties as
we'll as the ordinary brakeman.-New
York Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-03-23
FIGHTING SNOW DRIFTS.
THE WHITE FOE OF TRAFFIC IN THE
CANADIAN NORTHWEST.

Railway Lines Blockaded BY Sweeping
Avalanches-An Army of Men Re-
quired to Clear the Tracks-Great
Snow Sheds For Protecting the Trains.
''North America is the battle ground
of the biggest snow fights or earth.
There are thousands of men in the
northwest whose only occupation dur
ing the winter months is to fight snow
1t is exciting work, too, o life that in
wolves the greatest hardships and con-
tinual risks. One might search the
world over for more desperate and
dangerous employment"
It was q Canadian Pacific engineer