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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
A Pullman Story.

One of the benefciaries under the
will of George M. Pullman is his
brother, the Rev. Royal Fl. Pullman,
pastor emeritus of the Second Uni
versalist Church at Baltimore, who re-
ceives q legacy of $4,000. Part of
this sum, he says, will be used in ex-
tending the work of that church. Of
his brothers. course at the time of the
great railway strike, Mr.. Pullman as
serted that the refusal to arbitrate was
the result of O conscientious belief
that consent would be conceding to
outside parties the right to dictate to
an employer on matters purely for
himself to decide. AS corollary of
this, Mr.. Pullman added: son one
occasion, I remember, when railroad
msn ordered 500 cars from him, my
brother said: Make it q thousand. I
will build them for you so cheap that
it will pay you to get them now. I
want to keep my men employed The
railroad man agreed, and I know that
all my brothers company made on the
whole order was S15. New York
Times,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
Dangers From Salt.

The use of salt as condiment is so
general and so universally believed in
as necessary that we rarely hear aword
against its excessive use, but there are
a multitude of persons who eat far too
much salt: eat it on everything-on
meat, fish, potatoes, melons, in butter,
on tomatoes, turnips and squash, in
bread, and on host of foods too numer-
GUS to mention. To so great On extent
is it used that no food is relished which
has not salty taste, and this hides
more or less the real taste, which is
often very delicate. Now, the amount
of salt required in the system is COM
paratively small, and if the diet has
been rightly compounded, very little
is necessary. Some go SO far rs to
discard its use altogether, but whether
this is wise or not we will not here
consider
Now, what are some of the evils of
the excessive use of silt? They are
to paralyze the nerves of taste, or to
pervert them so they cannot enjoy any
thing which has not salty flavor, and
in addition there is direct tax on both
the skin and the kidneys in removing
it from the blood. Whether the skin
is harmed by this tax we do not know.
Possibly it is not greatly injured, yet
we know that few people possess a
healthy skin; but it is now pretty weSt
settled that an excessive use of salt
does overtax the kidneys in its removal,
aud that the great number of cases of
arrangement and disease of these
organs is due to this use. 1t takes
only little time to learn to enjoy
many kinds Of food without salt, and
we advise our readers end others to
look into this matter and to try and
diminish the use of this condiment so
far as possible. We believe they will
be better for it.-New York Ledger.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
Ton Much nIonro ose.

In 1872 Mr.. W. Bancroft Espeut i'm
ported four pairs of the Indian mon
goose from Calcutta into Jamaica for
the purpose of destroying the "cane-
piece rat" Ten years later it was es-
timated that the saving to the colony
through the work of this animal
amounted to $500, 900 annually. Thea
came sudden change in the aspect
of affairs. 1t was found that the
mongoose destroyed all ground-nestins
birds, and that the poultry, as well as
the insectivorous reptiles and batra-
chians of the island, were being exter-
minated by it. Injurious insects in
creased in consequence thousand
fold; the temporary benefits of the in
PRODUCTION were speedily wiped away,
and the mongoose became pest.
Domestic animals, including young
pigs, kids, lambs, newly-dropped
calves, puppies, and kittens, were de-
stroyed by it, while it also ate ripe
bananas. pineapples, young corn,
avocado pears, sweet potatoes, cocoas,
yams, peas, sugarcane, meat, and salt
provisions and fish. Now, we are told,
nature has made another effort to re-
store the balance. With the increase
of insects, due to the destruction by
the mongooses OF their destroyers' has
come on increase of ticks, which are
destroying the mongoose, and all
Jamaicans rejoice. e.--Nature.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
Benzoline Power.

Henry Sturmey, of Coventry, has
just completed q successful journey
upon an auto-car, which is probably
the longest continuous tour yet mado
in the British Isles in such convey
ance. He started from John O. Groat's
House on the Cd instant, and, after
travelling by easy stages, varying from
thirty-six to eighty-six miles per day,
arrived at Lands End Mt 4. 35 on Tues.
day afternoon, having accomplished
the journey of 929 miles at an average
speed of just under ten miles IN hour
nil through, Notwithstanding the fact
that such elevations were crossed as
the Ord of Caithness, the Grampian
Mountains, the Pass of Killiecrankie,
Kirkstone Pass into Ambleside, and
the extremely hilly country between
Exeter and Bodmin. Throughout the
Journey no breakdowns occurred, and
all. roads were traversed without
trouble OF any kind. Mr.. Sturmey
was accompanied by one servant and
carried between 200 and 800 pounds
of baggage, including suficiency Of
oil for the journey. The COR used was
of English manufacture, and was fitted
with four-horse power motor pro-
PEELED by benzoline. Mr.. Sturmey
proposed to finish his tour by driving
from Lands End to London along the
south coast.-London Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
Bermuda's Hog Money.

Hog money is the queer name by
which the brass money which was
coined in Bermuda in 1918 came to be
known. On the face of it was hog;
on the other side ship Of that period.
The coins are very rare and priced by
collectors. The history of this device
lis curious andinteresting. A Spanish
vessel, commanded by Juan Bermudez,
and on it's way back to Cuba with a
cargo of hogs, was wrecked there.
This was in 1915. Later in the same
century, when the English discovered
this land, they found country in
habited by hogs. While the money
was certainly not artistic or beautiful,
it had the merito of individuality, being
absolutely unique in the world OF
coins. Chicago News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
ouadrupeds Go Fishing.

Man is not the only animal which
indulges in fishing. Up at Vancouver
there is q man who will back his dog
to catch more fish in o day than any
man can. This ANIMAL is Newfound-
land, six years old. and as fisherman
he is simply wonder. Every morn
ing he goes out on dead log project
ing into the water several feet. He
never takes his eyes from the water as
it rushes by. Suddenly he leans the
fore part of his body and one paw far
over the logand then, with tremendous
force, strikes into the water with his
paw, clinging to the log with the other
three feet and the rest of his body.
Seldom does he fail to hit the big fish
with the stroke, and, if the blow does
not kill the fish outright, crunch of
his terrible jaws completes the work.
The blow usually lands the stunned
or killed fish back over the log into q
quiet pool, from which it cannot easily
escape.
In the course of twenty minutes he
frequently catches from fifteen to
twenty-five salmon, ranging from five
to twenty pounds each. These salmon
are usually triAe weak and slightly
under the weather-maybe the hook
bill, but more than likely the dog
salmon. But this dog is not the only
four-footed fisher for these out there,
either. It is common thing to see
within distance of less than o mile
along the coast half dozen bears, q
family or two of wildcats, o whole
colony of raccoons, not few wolves,
besides a dozen or more razorback
hogs, to say nothing of score or SO
of eagles, all engaged in the sport of
fishing for dog salmon Chicago
Chronicle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.

American hickory as wagon-material
is better suited than any other wood
for moist tropical climates.
It has been found in Switzerland
that in building railway laborera
could work only one-third as long ct
a height of 10, 900 feet as mile lower
A postofice clock in Sydney, New
South Wales, enits an electric flash
light, lasting five seconds, every hour
during the night, thus enabling those
living miles away to ascertain the ex-
act time.
Asa result of the tests of the New
Haven Railroad Company, the Hart
ford Electric Light Company is to be-
gin the use OF "sparks" as fuel, the
consumption being between thirty and
and forty tons day.
In his latest researches NJ. G. Can
dolic finds that seeds of Indian corn,
oats, tennel and other plants are still
capable of terminating after 118 days
exposure to cold of forty degrees be-
low zero, Fahrenheit.
DR.. Paul Regnard expresses his be-
lief, in La Cure d'Altitude, that COM
parative immunity from phthisioal
contagion is obtained at high attitudes
in spite of the presence of phthisical
patients and of the ''contagium vi
vum," which the more careless Of
them scotter about with their expecto-
ration.
The method proposed by Herr e.
Moyat for producing large artificial
diamonds consists essentially in seal
ing pulverized coal, iron chips and
liquid carbonic acid in strong steel
tube, and submitting it to the action
of the electric arc. Unlike other
methods this process generates enor-
nous pressure during the operation
of the electric currents, and it is be-
lieved larger diamonds will crystalline
out as the mixture cools.
Captain Colson, an English army
officer, has devised o promising means
of diminishing the time of exposure of
Photographic plates in order to get q
good image. He finds that some of
the light goes through the gelatine-
bromide plate and reflects it back into
the film by screen of white paper or
cardboard close to the film. He pro-
poses to get even better results by
making the plates with thin, white
Opaque layer on the glass and flowing
the emulsion over them.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
PHYSICAL Deceneracy in Italy.

The widespread misery and want
that prevail in Italy appear to be ex-
ercising disastrous and degenerating
influence on the physique OF the
masculine portion of the population.
According to official statistics just
issued by the War Department at
Rome, out of every thousand young
men of twenty years of age liable for
military service, which isas obligatory
in Italy as in Germany and Austria,
$40, or more than half, were rejected
by the medical authorities as physi-
cally disqualified for service IN the
army. New York Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
pavs and Months to Grow Longer.

Professor G.. b. Darwin lectured il
Huntington, Hall to Lowell Institute
audience on the subject of tides in the
earth. He showed with the aid OF
diagrams that the frictional retarda-
tion of the earth's revolution by the
action of the tides is to lengthen the
period of the rotation of the earth,
and at the same time to lengthen the
period of the moons rotation round
the earth-that is, to lengthen both
the day ard the month. But the
lengthening Of the day will be much
more rapid than the lengthening OF
the month, and thus it will come
about that when the change has
reached its maximum the earth and
the moon will each revolve once in n
period of fifty-fve of our present days,
the moon having always the same face
toward the earth.
A similar cycle of changes had been
gone through by moon and earth in
the past. There was once time
when the moon revolved very near to
the earth's surface, moon and earth
going round one another in from three
to five hours. The total period of the
change was estimated at from 5,000,-
900 to 100000 years. - Boston
Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
He Makes Artificial Milk.

W. J. Cook, of Chicago, says he
can make artificial milk. He does
this by means of combination OF
chemicals. The product is said to
look like milk, to taste like it, and to
have the nutritive qualities of the
genuine article. Besides penetrating
the mysteries of the tactical fluid which
has for so many centuries nurtured
man in the infant stage, Mr.. Cook
further makes tile startling statement
that COWS were never intended by the
divine economy to be milk producers,
but merely beasts of burden.
Hyde Park and Englewood residents
have tested Mr.. Cooks artificial milk,
and they all pronounce it very supe-
rior article. Members of the Labor
Exchange in Englewood gave MIR.
Cook an opportunity to prove that he
knew what he was talking about. Mr..
Cook brought along a fye-gallon can,
and gave each person glass of his
milk. He then sent out for an equal
quantity of natural milk. Everybody
seemed to like the kind that Mr.. Cook
provided, and all agreed that the COW
had a dangerous rival.
Mr.. Cook now performed wonder
full experiment. He sent downstairs
for two glasses of milk. In one was
the natural staple, and the other con-
tanned the composition. They were
permitted to stand in an ice-box, and
were produced after q stipulated time.
It was found that the artificial milk
had twice the amount Of cream on its
surface possessed by the quality pro-
vided by natural means after passing
through the mysteries of the dairy
New York Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
Where 1t Never 1hunders.

In Finland, East Turkestan, Ice
land, Nova zembla, the north part of
Siberia. as we'll as all places in the ex-
treme north, clap of thunder is all
unknown occurrence; while Peru has
only one, or OF most two, thunder
storms in century, its Thunderstorm
Of 1877 having been the only one since
1903. Some parts of France, on the
other hand, appear to be tho most
thundery places on the earth's surface,
as, according to the president of the
French Meteorological Society, in six
or seven months of 1892 as many as
32S were counted. The director of
the observatory at Odessa, who has
closely studied the question, states
that there is zone of ;ctric activity
of great intensity on both sides of the
equator, which is also the zone of the
greatest rainfall. This zone he
divides into three sections, the first
embracing Asia and Oceania, Indo'
China and the Sunda Isles to New
Guinea The yearly thunderstorms
over that zone average from 80 to 100.
The second zone starts from the west
coast of Africa between 5 degrees md
10 degrees north latitude, and 10 de-
grees to Is degrees south latitude;
while the third zone comprises the
tropical regions of America, where the
mean annual number of thunderstorms
exceeds 100. To the north of this
zone, which is termed the electric
equator, the storms decrease in numb
er until the deserts of Africa, Egypt,
Persia and Central Asia are reached,
where the rainfall is scanty and thun
derstorms rare.-Tit-Bits.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
Water Power.

The large plants for the utilization
of water power in our country now
furnish $4,000 horsepower, with The
prospect of on incl ease to 150, 1000
horsepower, when all are completed.
In addition, there are vast number
of smaller ones used in mines or in
lighting towns.
Switzerland comes next with $4,000.
France will have 1S, 00Owhen the plant
on the Rhone, near Geneva, is COM
pleted. Germany and Italy have luss
than 10000 horsepower each. Nor
way and Sweden each have about 15,-
600, with possibilities of great de-
velopment. England comes last with
only 1000 horsepower. Some Is, 900
of the power credited to America be-
longs to Canada, country which
abounds in undeveloped water powers.
These water powers are made to do
all that coal can do, except raising n
smoke. A coal bed is exhaustible,
and every ton taken from it brings it
nearer it's end; but the energy Of
waterfalls is inexhaustible and will be
available for mans needs long after
The last pound of coal is raised from
the mine.
Not ',e least remarkable feature of
this I departure is the size of the
turbil employed. One hundred
horse 1er used to be regarded as a
large ,unt to be given by single
wheel some of the turbines at Nj
agara a7elop fifty times as much.
The n great movement may be the
utiliza. zen of tho tides, in which there
is On immense reservoir Of power. We
may see the day when tho great
amount of water power in Alaska is
brought down to temperate region
and is more valuable than the gold
under its frozen soil.-Hartford Cour-
mt
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
SHARP INDIAN PACKERS.
CARRYING MINERS OUTFITS OVER
THE MOUNTAINS TO THE KL LoNDlKE.

Striking Costume of the Native Alaskans
Who Engage in the Transportation
Business-Dogs rs Observation-Disclosures
Arrangements for packing are made
lat Dyea) with Isaac, "Chief for the
Chilkoots," as the sign reads above
his cabin. but outside men can be
hired. The Indian mems dress is
picturesque. Some wear the gayly
colored Mackinaw jacket; others Q
blue denim garment, half shirt, hall
coat; others still loose coat of blan.
kct, the sleeves or q patch across the
back being made of the striped ends,
and as the blankets used by these In
dians are of the most brilliantly as
sorted colors, the color effects are dis
tinctly striking. For head-gear they
wear little common felt hats or bright
wool toques or colored kerchief. All
possess rubber hip-boots, but when
packing they wear only moccasins
outside of ssSiwash" or blanket socks,
and sometimes On oversock to the
knee. Indian fashion, dogs and chill
dren, men. and women, crowd into
their dirty abodes, which smell OF
spoiled fish.
The dogs are not so numerous as l
expected, nor yet so quarrelsome and
noisy. The Indians train them notso
much for sledge-drawing as for pack
ing small loads on their backs, and it
is not unusual to see an Indian with
one or two medium-sized dogs, with o
little pack on each side, sagging near-
ly to the ground, trotting along with
his luncheon.
When an Indian is packing he ties
his single small bl nket upon his back
under the pack. A stout stick to bal
ance with and to assist in climbing
completes his outfit. Twenty or thirty
Indians will take up packs and put n
whole outfit over at one lick. They
are not trustworthy and are wholly
unscrupulous. They do nothing even
for each other without a price, and l
have carefully noticed that they make
no distinction between themselves and
whites even for the same service. Ii
one engages them at certain price
and some one offers them more, they
lay down their packs and take up the
new ones; or if on the trei! they hear
Of q rise in the scale, thoy stop and
strike for the higher wages. Some OF
them speak good English. Indians
from Sitka say these fellows are wild
Indians, and look upon their ignor-
ance of letters with some contempt.
But if ignorant of letters, they are
shrewd, hard traders, who are making
money fast and saving it. They have
strong prediction for gold, but at
the same time, as our silver friends
will be pleased to know, silver is in no
less favor with them. In fact, itseems
to be hard money they want. I knew
an Indian to declare solemnly he could
not change q FIVE dollu bill, showing
the only two silver dollars he had.
But when gold five was offered in
stead, he fshed q wnc!c handful of
silver out of his pocket. They are
taking all the small change out Of cir
culation. They come to the traders
several times day, make triaing
purchase to get change, and then store
il away. The small-change problem is
indeed serious one. There is not
enough small currency in this country
to do business with. The gamblers
and the Indians are getting it all.-
Harper's Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
INOIA'S CHIEF IDOLS.
Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserv.
er. and silva the DESTROYER.

Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserv.
er, and silva the DESTROYER.
Great is the number Of idols in India,
for popular report puts the number
down as 333,000,000. Every Indian vii
lage has it's especial idol, sometimes
more than one. None Of these idols
of clay, wood or stone is supposed tc
be fit for worship till the consecrating
words have been spoken over it by a
priest.
Brahma is the supreme god of India
and appears in three forms-Brahmathe
creator, Vishnu the preserver, and silva
the destroyer. Each of the three is
supposed to be married, and thus at
once we have six deities which are su-
preme in India.
Vishnu, the preserver, the most pop
ular and most worshipped, is shown
black and likewise with four arms, and
as In struggle Of the gods with III
demons he killed woman he was con-
demned to be born twenty-five times
as a fish, tortoise, bear and a lion
among other animals. His many man
ifestatiors in animal form are likewise
popular. His wife. Lakshmi, is the
goddess of prosperity and good luck.
She is represented as lovely woman
with gold-colored face-gold being
the Hindoo's ideal tint.
Very different are silva and his wife.
He is the destroyer and is represented
as man unclothed, but powdered over
with ashes and having tiger skin
swathed about him. He has third
eye in the middle Of his forehead. A
necklace of human skulls decorates his
throat, while he carries club or trl-
dent surmounted by human heads and
bones. He is also armed with bow
and an ak. His wife has several forms.
At first as Sati, the faithful one, her
name is given to widows who are
burned alive on their husbands funeral
pyres. Secondly she is Durga, the
mother of the world, and is seated on
a lion and dressed in red. Again, as
Kali, the goddess of cruelty, she is one
of the most horrible Of Hindoo deltles,
represented as black, adorned with
human skulls and hands and dancing
on the body of her husband. This Is
not because she hates him, but be-
cause, when, according to tradition,
she had finished destroying her enc
mics, she danced so violently the
earth seemed about to be shaken to
pieces, and to stop her silva lay down
among tue dead, and she, not seeing
him under ner feet, became ashamed,
and put out her tongue, which is the
Bengali manner of blushing. These
are the principal gods of India, select
ed from the reputed $50, 100000.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12
THE USE OF CORAL.
BY No Means as General as It Was
Formerly.

By No Means as General as It Was
Formerly.
/ aThe beautiful coral necklaces and
brooches that were once so fashionable
are seldom Wort now by women in this
country" said New York dealer in
rare and curious ornaments to a Star
reporter recently. Thirty years ago
the material was in great demand for
ali sorts of articles Of personal adorn-
ment. At the present. day coral is
used largely only in such countries as
Abyssini,, the Congo. the Cape, India
and Ceylon, Siberia, China and Japan.
The choicest pieces are used for the
buttons of the Chinese mandarins, or
for ornamenting the turbans of rich
Mussulmans, while the inferior duali-
ties are sent to less civilized countries,
where they are employed for various
purposes.
Coral has been often used as money
in Oriental countries, but that use OF
1t is now declining. Barbarous and
semi-civiliged peoples employ it large
ly for ornamenting arrows, lances and
pixies, and also for decorating corpses
before interment Prices have varied
much of late years, rapid decline in
value having taken place, owing prin-
cipally to the scarcity of good and the
comparative abundance of inferior
qualities.
"Resides the loss accruing to the
fishermen, the present scarcity OF coral
is very seriously affecting the large
number of people employed in prepar-
ing the material for market. There
has been a great decline in the number
of women thus employed at Leghorn,
and the same state of affairs is evident
at Naples and Genoa, the other prin-
cipal towns of the industry. Nowadays
the proportion of inferior quality Is so
much larger that fewer persons are re-
quired to manipulate the quantity. No
machinery or mechanical process is
employed. The workman simply takes
pieces of coral into his or her hands,
pne after another, and, according to
their thickness, qualitv and defects,
works them into certain forms. Their
wages run from 10 cents to 30 cents
per day."-Washington Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-12

Dyspepsia, Indigestion, cured by Taber's Pep
Gin Compound. Write for free book on stomach
trouble to Dr. Taber Mfg. Co. Savannah, Ga