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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18
Bargains In Shirt Waists.

Bargains in ladi0s' shirt waists
are now seen in the large shops. All
the newest and latest styles are now
on sale. Many of these wash waists
are very pretty, and it is said that the
leading manufacturers of fashionable
wash fabrics have gone to more expense
and trouble than in any preced-
ing year to produce novel and beauti-
full designs in wash fabrics. In colors
pale pinks, puppies, olives, sepias,
siennas and blues are among the IA
vorites. One fabric, called the gram
plan cloth will be all the rage for
waists, children's suits, negligee shirts
and other negligee garments. The
patterns are principally small checks,
plaids, stripes and polychromes. Gal
atea with little change is also q lead
ing cloth and comes in stripes, checks
and solid colors. Ducks are again III
evidence, the favorite colors being
blue-black, dark navy blue, blue and
white. The floral designs on thin
goods are worthy of mention. Sprays
of sweet reas as large as life, clematis,
modified roses, honeysuckles and 9TH
er conventional vines in natural colors
are marvels of industrial skill and
taste.-Detroit Free Press.
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Jewels of the Austrian Empress.

At Cap Martin you may find the EN-
press OF Austria, who casts off oil the
cares of royalty and INDUCES her taste
for simple living and fresh air. She
walks for miles every day in the most
sensible, :serviceable costumes. and
any one who met her in her walks
abroad, quite unattended and SC sim
ply clad, would scarcely realize that
she was o great Empress and had at
her disposal some of the most beauti-
full Jewels which were ever seen. The
Austrian collection is the finest collec-
ton Of Jewels in Europe-in fact, the
only one since the Crown jewels OF
France were broken up and bought by
the modern millionaires. The jewelled
arms are quite magnificent, and among
the most noticeable of them is the
lance of st. Maurice, blazing with
precious stones, and containing in the
handle the most authentic relic-a
nail from the True Gross; while the
regalia of Charlemagne, taken from his
tomb at Ai1-la- -Chapelle, is another
valuable .itom. But the Empress's
own Jewels are almost equally magnif-
cent. Shepossesses the largest emerald
in the world, weighing 5000 carats;
but, of course, this is uncut. An
other, nearly as large, is followed out
ms sbonb and one of her
prettiest ornaments is q watch com
posed of one dark emerald hanging on
to chain of emeralds and diamonds
(the first jewelled chain which ever
was made), and this was gift from
the late Shah of Persia when he visited
Europe, some years ago.-The Lady's
Realm
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MAKING THE
STAR -SPANGLED BANNER.
HOW PRETTY MAIDS AND OLD SALT SEA DOGS WORK
UPON THE GLORIOUS EMBLEM.

1t is m excellent time to talk about
flags, particularly the American flag
the finest of them all. It takes m in
credible number of them to supply the
annual demands of the nation.
Nobody knows how many are made,
There is one firm in Elizabeth street,
says the New York World, that manu-
factures more than loo, 100000 each
year, and there are scores of other
makers in this country. From which
it may be inferred that there are half
o dozen flags made annually for each
man, woman and child in the United
States.
Of course the majority of these flags
are little affairs three inches long and
two inches wide, which sell for twenty
seven cents gross. They are printed
on muslin and are turned out by the
million. Cheap muslin flags are made
six feet long and forty inches wide. Il
The good flags, those made of bunt-
ing, sewed together, and with care-
fully arranged stars, are manufactured
by hag-making firms and by every sail
aud awning maker in the country.
The most interesting place where
flags are made is Building No. Z in the
Brooklyn Navy-Yard. There every
flag used in the United States navy is
made. There are the various United
States flags, signal flags, pennants, en-
signs, flags of high officials, from the
President of the United States down,
and the flags of forty-three foreign
nations. Wherefore it will be seen
that the flag outfit of United States
warship is pretty extensive.
Just now the workers under James
Crimmins, master fagmaker, are very
busy. Nowhere are flags so carefully
made. Every star, stripe, bar and
dovice is measured to geometrical &c
curacy, and each flag must stand q
strength test. They are being turned
out at the rate of 100 week.
The bunting is made in Massachu-
setts. 1t is entirely of wool and Of the
best quality. 1t must have so many
threads and fixed tensile strength.
The colors must be fast.
The stripes are cut out just as cloth
ing is cut, in many layers at q time,
by means of q circular knife thatsis
kept as sharp as razor. Then they
are sent to the sewing-room, where
skillful young women sew the stripes
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A Candle 12O Feet High.

One hundred and twenty feet high
white candle once lowered. Its d.
ameter was twenty feet. That means
that it was as wide as the ordinary
city house and that it shot about four
times as high as the usual dwelling.
It gave q light that Illuminated
everything for miles around. The
light was, of course, an electric search
light. The candle was shaft of steel
and of staff. Staff is the material that
made the Worlds Fair a "white CITY,"
The candle was erected at an expo
sition in Stockholm as q sort of tri-
butte to the candle using habit of the
people of Sweden. Gas and electricity
have not weaned them from candles.
They use more than any other coun-
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1777 by the Continental Congress.
There is dispute as to the significance
of the flag. The explanation accepted as
the most probable is that the blue
field is intended to represent the
night of affliction that in 1777 sur
rounded the thirteen States, which
were typifed by the white stars az
arranged in a circle, signifying the
endless duration of the new Nation,
while the stripes v ire chosen out of
compliment to New York and the
Dutch Republic, and were compli-
ment to Republican principles.
The number of stripes symbolized
the thirteen States, the first and thir-
teenth, both red, representing New
Hampshire and Georgia respectively.
General Washington was member of
the committee appointed to design q
flag. Mrs. John Ross, of Philadel-
phia, made the first flag. She de-
signed the fve-pointed star.
John Paul Jones put the new flag
to the first public use. He ran it up
to the masthead of the Ranger. The
flag, strangely enough, had but twelve
stars, probably due to blunder.
Jones had the same flag on the Bon
Homme Richard.
Of course everybody knows that
each star in the flag represents q
State, and that for two years the en-
sign had fifteen stripes, the addi-
tional one representing Vermont and
Kentucky. The flag has been un-
changed, save for the adding of stars,
since 1918.
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Fashion Notes.

Black gowns in cloth and various
other new materials are very fashion
able.
All the shades of purple, meuve,
violet, pansy. wistaria and hyacinth
are in marked favor, both here and in
Paris and London.
If you want to indulge in the latest
frivolity have your handkerchiefs en-
broidered with flowers to match the
blossoms in your hat.
The new foulard silks are supplied
with border which furnishes all the
necessary trimming, with possibly q
little lace and ribbon for the finish on
the waist.
Lace shawls are also used for silk
drapery over satin dinner gowns. The
centre is cut enough to admit the
waist, and the points fall in front, at
the back and at either side.
The craze for jewelled effects is very
noticeably expressed in the jewelled
belts and dog collars worn over fur
Jackets, and to complete this outfit the
muff must have large iewelled buckle
in the bow which decorates the top.
Ribbon gathered and ribbon plain
are very much used for trimming our
summer gowns. Colored grenadines
and black nets made up for wear In
the South during the early spring show
many ruf1es edged with one, two or
three rows of ribbon.
It is conservative estimate to say
that two-thirds of the feminine world
wears bow under It's chin. A DASH
ing little French bow, made in two
loops-no ends appearing-of tafeta,
of chiffon or tulle that is accordion
plated, is especially stylish,
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tinction has been conferred upon q
woman. Miss Wilmington is mill
tary enthusiast and is the sponsor of
Company A, Third infantry. She is
well-known society belle at Hot
Springs, and as hostess she has no
superiors in the South.
Miss Wilmington is the daughter of
Major Alf Wilmington. one of Hot
Springs most prominent citizens; q
granddaughter of Colonel Hiram
Wilmington, one of Arkansas pio-
neers, who settled in Little Rock in
1926 and established the Little Rock
Gazette, which paper is still in exis-
tence. In 1882 he moved 10 Hot
Springs. He was selected to repre-
sent in the general assembly what was
then the Western District Of Arkansas,
and was prominent in framing the
new constitution of the State.
In her full uniform of colonel Miss
Wilmington will be prominent fea-
ture at the State Encampment, to be
held at Little Rock.
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GOSSIP.

The making of cigarette cases for
women is becoming paying industry.
A young woman in Chicago supports
herself by taking care of other peoS
ple's birds and flowers.
The London Daily Mail is publish
ing letters from women, demanding
women's smoking-carriages on the
railroads.
Lord Roseberry is coming to the
fore as an entertainer, and the reason
is the coming out of his two daugh-
tiers, the Ladies Primrose.
Purses made of the skin of the frog
are in great favor with the Partisan
ladies. This kind of leather is e1-
tremely thin, yet very durable.
There is cricket club of youngwc-
men in Melbourne. The club is un-
happy because there is no other wo-,
mems cricket club to challenge to a
match.
Subscriptions are being given so
readily that the memorial to the
Duchess of Teck, which, IS to be abome
of rest for poor women, will soon be,
established.
In Germany there is a society of
women that on Tearing of the depar-
ture of @ servant from any household:
Investigates the housewife instead Of
the servant.
The first English woman who
studied medicine and received adj
ploma was Miss Elizabeth Blackwell,
who was graduated at Geneva College,
in New York State, in 1949.
Mrs. Lola Small Jackson, daughier:
of Sam Small, the evangelist, is the
latest aspirant for histrionic honors.
She has done much reciting of the
balcony scene and other things.
Bills have just been introduced in
the Maryland Legislature to place mar
ried women on the same legal stand
ing as their husbands in the matter of
holding or transferring property.
In the Lord Chamberlain's depart
ment the Offices of chimney-sweeper
and statuary t. lie British Queen are
held by women. 1t is limited, how
ever, that they have their duties per-
formed by proxies.
Instead of having dog as q travel
ing companion, the wife of Crispi, the
Italian statesman, has pet calf. She
avoided the cattle tax by vowing the
animal was not for consumption, bat
simply for companionship.
1t is only o sign of the times and the
coiAfures, but it is nevertheless some
what of q shock to hear well-dressed,
well-bred looking woman say, "Rats,
if you please" in answer to the clerk
at the notion counters 'What do you
want?"
Ida Kahn, Chinese woman who
was graduated from Ann Arbor Uni
versity recently, after six years of
study, has returned to her native
town, Kin Kiang, to practise medi-
cine. She is said to be China's first
woman doctor.
One of the most active of French
ladies is the wife of the historian.
Michelet, who lives quite alone and
occupies her time in bringing out new
editions of her late husbands works
and editing the manuscripts heleft be-
hind, including his memoirs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18

scld them as medicines; but she left
me olly legacy of shame"
''They shall ask you. darling; they
shall seek you. You shall enter no
roof unwelcomed; but if they add their
entreaties to mine, Fanchon, what will
then be your answer"
ooh, Fritz, I should die Of too
much happiness!"
But Joy rarely kills, and, even es
Fritz had said, their boys happiness
was nearest the parents hearts.
Even Claude forgot his jealousy and
added his prayers. So, in the sum-
mer time, the villag church was
crowded with shappy faces, as Fritz
received from his own fathers hands
poor little Fanchon, rich at last. -
Kew York Ledger.
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together and place the blue field in

together and place the blue field in
place.
The stars are cut out thirty at o
time by means of cold chisel and o
big iron-bound mallet. Folds OF
goods, smoothly woven, OF standard
grade, are laid in yard lengths, thi rty
thicknesses together, on large
square block made of cubes of oak,
put together with the grain running
in different directions. A metal star,
used as o model, is placed on the mus
lin and carefully marked around with
o lead pencil. Then the workman
places his chisel on the pencil line
and drives it through. A few blows
and q constellation of thirty snowy
stars are released.
The sewing of the stars upon the
blue field is very exacting work.
There are ninety stars on eack flag,
forty-fve on either side, and they are
put on SO evenly and carefully that
when the flag is held up to the light
there appears to be but one star. The
stitching is wonderfully even and
dainty.
The fagmeIerE are the most pic
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18

turesque workers. They are two old
sailors, and expert sailmakers. 1t is
their business to put on the finishing
touches-the rings, the tape that adds
strength, and many other things.
They wear q white canvas uniform,
use the queer sailmakers' thimble and
talk in fascinating sea iargon.
Directly the flags are finished they
must be measured. Triangles,
squares and stars of polished brass
mark off the floor. If o hag is an
inch or two out of the way it is re-
iected. The width of an American
ensign must be ten-nineteenths Of its
length. The largest flag made OF the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18
Glass Umbrellas.

It is rumored that before long glass
umbrellas will be in general use
that is, umbrellas covered with the
new spun glass cloth. These, of
course, will afford no protection from
the rays of the sun, but they will pos
sess one obvious advantage-namely,
that they can be held in front of the
face when meeting the wind and rain,
and at the same timo the user will be
able to see that he does not run into
ynoffending individuals or lamp posts,
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rounded with stars. The eagle is
white, and the shield he holds is
properly colored.
There has been o deal of dispute
over the evolution of the American
flag. When the Revolutionary War
broke out the flags used by the colo
nists were English ensigns, bearing
the Union Jack, upon which were
written Liberty and Union" or other
similar expressions. Then were de-
veloped the Pine-Tree flag, the Rat
tlesnake flag and many others.
The American ensign was adopted in
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18
Navy Yard is thirty-siz feet long and
min atoon foot vida

Navy Yard is thirty-si1 feet long and
nineteen feet wide.
The foreign flags give the greatest
trouble. Some of the designs are ex-
tremely intricate and the colors areas
Joseph's coat. At one time these de-
signs were painted, but they didn't
last. Now the color is cut out by it
self and sewed in place. 1t requires
expert needlewomen to do this work.
One of the most difficult flags to
make is that of China. It is triangular
in shape, o brilliant yellow, with
black, open-mouthed dragon crawling
about. One of the most beautiful
flags is that of the President of the
United States. It has the coat-of-
arms of the nation on blue field, sur
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18
Heart Photography.

"Say!" exclaimed little Willie sud
denly breaking o long silence and
turning to his mother, "is there such
thing as Photographic heart?'
"Why, what do you mean, Willie?
asked his mother in surprise.
"Well, heard that man who was
here last night tell sister Sue that her
features were photographed On his
heart" explained the boy, "and iudg,
ing from the way he was holding her
I should think they ought to have
been."
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THOs. +. ADAMS PROPRIETOR.
A SONG IN THE STRIFE.

Tar out through Now. IN the regions OF IhA
Are hills Of the After Awhile;
oVerworkeo eyes
On he Of the After Awhile
souno o
Th sic Of lutes encore
Now the tropical shore,
|,o" t Ard the After Awhile,
The Awhile.
Cod fashioned OF tho Paradise
The Of Awhile
To tho spirit that and its tearadn sghs
10e The Awhile.
hearts
hight stendast the /
eoved,co again.
$1,000 Aret he After Awhile,
o After Awhile.
T. Hail. the Chicago Times HeraS
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18
Bnlance.

He was making a hollow pretence
of being hungry at breakfast.
.sHad to stay at the Office to balance
the books last night, my DEAR" he
remarked.
She was gazing gloomily out Of the
window; and upon the lawn there
were divers tracks.
''I hope the books. were better
balanced than yourself when YOU got
through" she answered, not without
bitterness Detroit Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-05-18

JRELY the moon
never witnessed so
rare, so strange, o
sight as that which
its own rays served
to produce. On o
desolate space of
land, a short dis
tance from q for
lorn hut, where it
cast its brightest
beams, o young
girl of some fifteen
summers, the only
figure in the soli-
t a ry landscape,
waved aloft her
arms as she danced
merrily to and fro,
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL:

A municipal council in France has
ordered its proceedings to be reported
by phonograph.
We cannot see the sun itself, we see
only the cloud OF vapor shell that
covers it, like the mantle of Wells
bach burner,
It is announced that italian expert
ments on vegetable life with Roentgen
rays have shown that the effect is
identical with that of sunlight. 4.
The Belgium Government is con.
templating the establishment of m
overhead single-rail between Brussels
and Antwerp. It is expected that e
speed of about ninety miles IN hour
will be obtained.
Professor Elmer Gates, of Washing
ton, has recently improved the per-
formance of the microscope, and it is
now possible for the human eye to see
an object magnifed 100000 times.
Heretofore 10000 has been the limit.
Four of the Montana willows, with
one from tho island of Unalaska, are
the smallest shrubs Of Salicacem in
the world. One of these growing Of
ten only half an inch high, is believed
to be the smallest species of willow
ever known.
If the land surface Of the globe were
divided and allottedin equal shares to
each of its human inhabitants, it
would be found that each would get o
plot of twenty-threo and one-half
acres, but much OF it would not be
worth having.
The sun consists Of three parts, the
central portion, OF nucleus, which is
gaseous, but rendered viscous under
the enormous pressure and high tenn
perature, the photosphere of incan-
descent metallic vapors, and the cor
ona, which is only observable during
the time of total eclipse.
DR.. George Ardin Stockwell says
that the danger of rabies to any one
human being is only as one in mil
lion, and that in ffty-fve years, dur
ing which he has examined every case
reported as occurring in North Amer
ica, as thoroughly as possible, he has
not been able to find o single one that
was not open to the grayest suspicion
I as to- es,,e,r,s- -
NJ. Phisalix announced to the Acadi
emie des Sciences, Paris, some time
ego, that cholesterine injected into the
blood Of animals made them resist tho:
venom of vipers. Doubts were thrown
on his. results, because he had used
cholesterine Of animal origin. Since
then he has rereated his experiments
with crystallizod cholesterine extract
ed from carrots, and found it as effec-
tive as that from animals. Moreover,
he has obtained similar results with
crystallized tyrosine e1tractedfrom the
dahlia and even with the sap OF the
! dahlia.
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THE population OF the German EN-
pire has increased from 100000 to
53, 600, 900 in twenty years.
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YOUNG GIRL A COLONEL.
Miss Emma W. Wilmington Of Hot
Springs Militia Officer.

Miss Emma W. Wilmington Of Hot
Springs, Ark, has been made colonel OF
militia By Governor Jones of that State.
This is the third time in the history
of the American Republic that this dis
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stThe old witch is dead! The old
witch is dead" was the startling news
in the little French town, some six
months later. Poor little Fanchon!
She had received only crusts of bread,
only harsh words and blows all her
life, but none the less when she fol.
lowed, sole mourner, to the grave, she
felt rs though her last friend had de-
parted. 1t was Fritz who came to
cheer and comfort her; who told her
Of the money they had found, which
would give her handsome dowry one
of these days-Fritz, who somehow
made her ashamed of her ignorance,
and taught her how to conquer it.
Books were natural enemies, but she
clung to them bravely; bravely boro
the jeers and SCOTS of the children at
the village school, until they forgot to
ieer in admiration.
But her life was very sad and very
lonely, and as, little by little knowl-
edge dawned upon her, it but showed
moro plainly how apart her life was
from others. Something of this she
told Fritz, as they st led forth one
evening, the same moon SO quietly
looking upon them which and that
night witnessed her strange dance.
A moments silence followed; then he
took and clasped her hand within his
own.
"Fanchon," he said, "you are not
alone, as you suppose! Look!" as
they stood beside clear lake. "What
does the shadow in the water tell you,
dear? That you have grown beauti,
full? Can it not also tell you that, as
once you asked OF mo to grant you one
request, so now I ask in turn of you.
But, darling, it is yourself; you who
first taught me to be man; who first
showed me the path of honor. Fan
chon, will you give yourself to me
will you be my wife?"
The dark eyes were raised bewil-
dcringly to his, her heart beating SO
fast, so loud, she clasped her little
hand convulsively upon it as she
spoke:
Your parents! What would they
say? All, Fritz, they called my poor
old grandmother witch because she
learned the secrets Of the herbs, and