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grounds. The townspeople are agape.
When Obadiah Jones's new threshing
machine had arrive few days before
it had taken almost IN entire day to
unload it from the train, if they had
undertaken to unload that pole wagon
it would have taken them week.
Meantime, away out on the prairie,
toward the east, faint cloud of dust
has arisen. Toward the south SINH
lar cloud is seen, and toward the west
are others. The thrifty farmers, COM
ing from far distant points, many OF
them having been en- route all night,
begin to come in and look for suitable
camping places for their families and
their teams. The dust cloud grows
heavier and heavier as each moment
passes, until by the time the warning
whistle of the locomotive drawing the
second train is heard gray streaks line
out toward the horizon in every direc-
tion.
Two trains have been unloaded and
the eyes of the multitudinous small
boy are fairly bulging from their sock.
cts. Where will it all end? A third
train comes putting in, and on this is
the menagerie. The small boy is now
in state bordering on nervous
frenzy. It is doubtful if he knows his
own name.
OFF toward the show ground goes the
morning crowd. Surely they will be
in time to see all the tents put up, for
has not the last train just come in:
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
"MARUsIA." "
York-Post.

A drawing of the, bison has been
discovered in the rocks of the La
Mouthe cave in Dordogne, France.
At the grape-cure establishments in
Switzerland, France, and Austria,
patients are usually turned loose in the
vineyards and allowed to gorge them.
selves at pleasure.
The relation of dust and typhoid
fever has been investigated by Drs.
Kelsch and Simonin, of Paris. They
have reported to the Paris Academy Of
Medicine that in the summer of 1896
there were eighteen cases of typhoid
fever in small barracks.
The tint of birds eggs, especially
the light colors, are apt to fade, on
exposure in museums to too great
sunlight. This is the case with the
greenish blue eggs, as those of the
murre. By experiment the darker
colored eggs of olive brown or choco.
late hue have been found to undergo
little change.
An inventor has hit upon method
of putting stone soles on boots and
shoes. He mixes waterproof glue
with suitable quantity of clean quartz
sand, and spreads it over the leather
sole used rs foundation. These quQrtz
soles are said to be very flexible and
practically indestructible, and to give
the foot warm hold even on the most
slippery surface.
There are fully 10, hides tanned
weekly in: Newark, N. J. About half
Of these become shoe tipping and vamp
leather, the remainder carriage, dash,
furniture and fancy leather. More
horse hides are tanned than in ANY
other: place in this country. Cor
dovan, ,.vamps are the product. Chrome
tanned sole for bicycle shoes is made
and the manufacture of kangaroo and
kangaroo kid is IN important interest.
All kinds of bag and book leather are
produced.
The great vitality of dragon-hies is
shown by McLachland, who having
struck alta large Eschna at rest on o
twig, the head was seen to tumble
down, while the rest of the insect flew
away in an undecided manner" for o
considerable distance. Upon picking
up the lead he noticed that the insect
had been eating q fly at the, time.
"The mandibles continued working as
il nothing had happened, and the
masticated portions of the fly passed
out at the back OF the head, T."
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Circus day in any Western town at
the present time, according to the New
York Herald, is very much like the
circus day of old, except that there is
vastly more of it. 1t is as much O
holiday rs Christmas and the Fourth
of July thrown into one. The poor,
benighted little New York boy who
goes to Madison Square Garden and
thinks he has seen it all would have
some of the conceit taken out of him
could he be transported to some one
day stand on the Western prairies on
the day when the circus is billed to
appear.
The first gray streaks of dawn find
the town already astir, with the rail-
road station as the centre of interest.
In the old days it used to be turnpike,
but the time when the circus travelled
from town to town in caravans is no
more. Nowadays it is very one
horse show indeed that doesn't own
its own rolling stock. t
The. small boy of course, pre-;
dominates. He has secured the loft
lest perch within the range OF his in
ventive genius. Suddenly, from the
dizzy height of the tallest telegraph
pole he shouts, "Here she comes!p,
The cry is taken up below. Halt q
mile away, around curve, a column
of smoke is seen, trailing away toward
the horizon and q few minutes later
the powerful locomotive, snorting and
putting like spirited horse, comes
into view. Behind it is long linesof
yellow cars, and far of, at the rear
end, glimmer the lights of the caboose,
which have not yet been extinguished.
Then comes the unloading of the
= prosaic paraphernalia-the huge
tent poles, the acres of canvas, and Sall
the other homely objects which arc
quite essential in the rapid transfornaa-
ton so soon to follow. Gangs of men
scurry hither and thither, apparently
all getting into each others way, but
really working like the one great
machine Of which each man is reallya
part.
Wagon after wagon comes off the
train with military precision. Two,
four, and even ten horse teams are
coming from the direction of the stock
cars, all ready to start for the show
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Mixed Feed For Hogs.

The Dairy Commissioner of the Do
minion of Canada says:
81 have found the best results to be
obtained from using such grains Ia
mixture of peas, oats, barley and corn,
or mixture of peas, corn and bran)
ground fine aud soaked for not less
than thirty hours before they are fed.
I think hogs should be kept SO as to
permit, ndgeven to cause, them to
take a'good deal of exercise until after
they weigh more than 100 pounds
each. In the growing Of young pigs
it is important that they should re-
ceive daily allowance of skim milk
for six weeks OF two months after they
are weaned. Skim milk is the great
fesh-forming or muscle and bone
forming food; and if the young pigs
are stunted in these regards a. that
time they cannot be developed into the
best class of hogs, no matter what
breed they may be Of. In my judg-
ment, it is highly important that the
Canadian hogs, in regard to proper
tion of lean flesh and tirmness, should
be maintained and improved, if the
best customers for hog products are to
be secured and retained.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16
Cut Feed For Horses.

Almost all farmers practise feeding
their horses while at work with cut
'hay, moistened and mixed with ground
corn and oats. The hay is much more
easily digested when cut and wet, and
The meal on it causes the horses to
more thoroughly masticate it, as they
like the taste. There is also much
less waste in feeding grain after it has
been ground, especially after the mas
tication which is made necessary when
cut hay is fed with it, and which thor
oughly mixes saliva with the food be-
fore it goes into the stomach. There
is economy in steaming cut hay for
feeding all through the winter, when
less meal is required. When the hay
is steamed, and corn and oat meal
sprinkled over it, the flavor of the
meal permeates the cut hay, as it can
not when only cold water is used. But
care should be taken not to give at
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Farm and Garden Notes.

The Wyandotte class in the recent
Dairy Show, England, was the largest
of any, numbering 23O entries, while
the leghorns numbered 207, and the
famous English table favorite only 1O4
entries.
Plymouth Rocks numbered 1853 at
the same show which clearly shows that
they have taken well also. We have
much to thank England for III the
poultry line and England has much to
thank us for in the same line.
One advantage of breeding thorough
bred fowls is that We know just what
the chicks will be before they are
Matched. We will knew just what to
expect from them, and. if we have
bred them any length of time, Just
what they will be good for when ma
sured. All others az chance" birds.
The Wyandotte i, about the best
table fowl we have, It is q good
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a better price than it has for some
years past. Last spring it was espe-
cially low, as apples were very abun-
dant. Perhaps, also, the abundance
last year of canned small fruits helped
to lessen the demand for rhubarb.
By the way, how many know that
rhubarb can be put up in glass jars
for winter use, at no expense and
with but little trouble. Cut it up as
if for pies, fill the jars, place them in
tub of cold water deep enough to
cover the jar, which will fill with
water, and put on the rubber bands
and covers while under water, so that
no air may enter. Then make covers
tight. Rhubarb so kept is even bet
ter than when first picked, becoming
very tender, losing some of its acid,
but none of its rich favor. Lest win
ter we kept it until rhubarb came
again, md how good those pies did
taste when we knew that rich people
were paying twenty cents pound for
rhubarb not as good, forced under
glass. But this is depression.
The rhubarb is gross feeding
plant. 1t requires a large amount OF
manure, and cares but little what it is
if it is strong and abundant. Those
who have roots of it will do well to
cover them with manure now, whether
the ground is frozen little or not,
and when the ground thaws, even If
next month, fork that manure in
around the crown Of the roots. The
moro manure the bigger the stalks
will be. No matter if few roots are
broken if the plants arc old ones, as
sometimes, with too many roots, it
throws up too many stalks and they
will be small. in the spring square
box with an old half window over it,
or even covering of cotton cloth
nailed on top, can beused to give it
m early start, that it may be brought
to market when worth five or six cents
pound. :,
Last spring some gardeners plowed
up fields Of rhubarb because the price
was so low they thought it unprotit-
able. Others allowed it to stand, but
pulled but little from it for the same
reason. We think bo.h were unwise.
For the reasons given above, scarcity
of apples, cranberries and canned
berries, we think good rhubarb will
sell we'll next spring. The stalks
should be pulled often and not too
much at one time. Long growing
without pulling tends to make the
crowns grow above ground, and the
stalks will not be as long. Going to
seed has the same result. Roots
should be broken up and divided, and
o new bed set when it gets so as to
throw up large number of stalks OF
small size.-American Cultivator.
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has disappeared in the gloom around
an adjacent corner. The herd of ele-
plants has stalked off into the night,
majestically and silently, following
man who carries lantern half square
ahead.
The cook house, stable, tents, black
smith shop, barber shop, band tent,
side show, together with the number
less other smaller tents, have been e1-
peditiously, yet silently packed and
taken to the cars. In three-quarters
of an hour the ''big top" stands alone;
its gaunt poles reaching far up into
the darkness of the sky. At the rail
read yards everything is hustle and
activity.
The night show is out; the concert
is finished, and the last of the per-
formers skurries toward his trunk,
which has been left upon the open
space where the dressing tent once
stood: quick change of costume,
banging trunk lid, and the last mem
ber of the company takes his way to
the train. BY midnight the show IS
Oh its way to the next town.
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VOL. LXIII. NO. 7.
broiler, good roaster and a good
l. i

broiler, good roaster and a good
dressed fowl. It is not quite 80 rapid
a grower as some other varieties, bnt
plenty rapid enough, and is At to kill
at almost any age. 1t has an excellent
breast and comparatively little otfal,
and, withal, is good layer:
At intervals during the summer
when the bees can not gather honey
the queens cease laying and
the strength Of the colony is cur
tailed. A little feed at such tires
keeps the queens laying and the coll
ony is thus made much stronger than
it would have been otherwise: This
is very important in early summer.
If bees are wintered in ordinary
thin unprotected hives the moisture
arising from them will condense and
freeze to the hive, thereby Eencircling
the bees with ice. On warm day
this will melt and run down over the
comls and bees and produce disease.
Protect with chaff hives, thoroughly
made with double wills, and pack with
good dry chaff.
Bees that lack stores for winter
should be fed in autumn, and the
month of September is the proper time
to do it. They should be fed while it
is warm, so that they can seal over
their stores. The best winter food
for them is thoroughly sealed honey
of the best class, and for feeding the
best of granulated sugar should be
used: It is mistake to undertake to
feed bees during the winter.
The broiler season is with us once
more. In fact, those who work on
large scale already havs their houses
partly full or at least many eggs under
incubation: Those who intend to start
for tho first time ought to get every
thing in apple-pie order this month at
latest end start up the machine or ma
chimes the first Of the year, so as to
get, (1) experience in Matching, and w
be able to get three or more patches
off before April.
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dogs. Their. master is training them
for ambulance service in military
movements.
Each animal carries upon its back a
little saddle furnished with pockets,
containing all that is necessary for the
first dressing of wounds, as we'll as a
bottle of stimulant.
The dogs are taught to recognize
the wounded and to stoop down to
them, in order to permit them, while
awaiting the stretchers, to quench
their thirst and to alleviate their suf-
ferings little.
A large red cross is marked on the
saddle, and leather straps serve to
fasten around the neck of the animal a
little lantern that is illuminated for
night service.
The ambulance dogs figured at the
German maneuvres last year, where
their usefulness was appreciated; so
this year their instructor has been en-
gagged to train whole pack. He has
chosen Scotch dogs, of medium height,
whose docility and intelligence In
learning are said to be remarkable.
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To their surprise, however, the men
agerie tent, with its six great centre
poles, is up and finished. The horse
tent is in position, the managers are
filled and the horses are munching
away at that breakfast which the
townspeople forgot to get. The cook
tents, one large tent, for the working
men and another.o of similar size for the
performers, have been erected and the
choicest of steaks are broiliug on the
ranges, whilst the fumes of steaming
coffee and hot biscuits, waited upon
the morning breeze, smells sweet and
savory to the hungry throng now Hll'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16
Good-Natured Princess.

It is favorite device of novelists to
have some one put a letter in the
wrong envelope, and an embarrassing
instance in English high life is re-
called by the death of Princess Mary
of Teck. A candid young lady once
wrote to friend that she could not
play tennis because "Fat Mary" had
invited her to party. The good
natured Princess somehow got the
letter, and when the young lady ap-
peared gave her this wholesome ad-
vice: "My dear girl, I know 1 am
stout, but I cannot help it. You
should be more careful in posting
your letters, and never forget that
YOU never know who will read what
you write. Don't apologize. / have
forgiven you. :"
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in its stead, SO quickly, yet so accur-
ately, that the bewildered, perspiring
purchaser scarcely knows how it was
done. Yet, he has his tickets, and
then begins battle for exit from the
crowd. There is no relief however,
until the doorway to the menagerie is
passed, and then the crowd spreads
out within its spacious arena aud be-
gins the real enjoyment of the day.
A circus is circus the world over,
and to describe the performance in
this particular Western town would be
but to repeat an old story. And yet
there are some old stories that are
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

have come IN 1rom Lno o;;..--"':l',..1I . :.
country. Their teams, unhitched, line
the sid, streets upon every side.
Vacant lots are filled with them and
the alleys and lanes of the town are
impossible. The sidewalks and store
doors are sought as places of vantage,
and an hour before the band strikes
up at the show grounds there is a solid
line of humanity from one end OF the
town to the other.
BY noon every face is turned toward
the show grounds. The side show
properly seen and its myriad of curios
and freaks explained, the tide turns
toward the ticket wagon. Another
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

pandemonium, in which each individ-
ual in the EST throng imagines he
must get his ticket first or be forever
debarred. A struggling, surging mass
of humanity, with hands and arms.
high in air, clutching tightly to the
money which is to be invested in the
magical pasteboards that will admit
them to the wonders of the big show.
The crowd carries itself along until
each of its componentparts has reached
the goal. The money is snatched from
the uplifted fingers and tickets placed
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

ing the vacant spaces around the tents.
The camp cooks have already lighted
their fires and the great caldrons are
sizzling upon the cranes. This means
preparation for the midday meal,
which even now has all been arranged
and is bound to be ready for every one
shortly after return from parade.
That free glimpse of the enchanted
land behind the swelling canvas is
given at about 10 o'clock. Who that
has ever seen it on q clear, Western
morning can forget the gorgeous bands
of music, the .cavalcade of equestrians,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

always new. One is love, another is
the circus. The 1.-the limbed man, who
twists himself almost inside out; the
airily clothed women, who fly through
midair while you hold your breath;
the clowns. who make yon laugh in the
same old way that they made you laugh
years ago-who can resist the glamour
of it all?
And the strange sights behind the
scenes! Lucky the man or boy in that
town who rejoices in the acquaintance
of somebody connected with the show.
He is the hero of the year. Countless
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16
Town Where Everybody is Irish.

Of Benedicta, Me-, Professor Bate.
man writes: "If there is another town
in this country like it I am unable to
locate it. The popularity of the place
is the fact that the population is COM
posed exclusively of Irishmen. There
is not family in the entire township
through whose veins courses any other
blood than that Of the Emerald Isle"
Lewiston (Me. Journal,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

the open cages of wild beasts, the
funny band of clown musicians, the
general atmosphere of n voluntary
holiday, when every boy has money
in his pocket, when his whole object
in life is to spend it.
Z PIT what of the streets in town dlr-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

times does he retell the stories of what
he saw in the dressing rooms.
The evening performance is but
repetition of that Of the afternoon.
Within all is scene of gayety, with
myriad lights blazing. Outside q diff
ferent scene rrneante itecle 1 f.g-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

7 would not die in autumn,
When football has the call,
And long-haired youths are training
Some other youths to maui;
When politics is booming
Thanksgiving close at hand,
And cider mills are running
Throughout the happy land
I would not die in winter,
Fen though 1t be so drear,
For then, you see, there's Christmas,
With ali its goodly cheer.
No, I'd not die in winter,
Nor summer, spring, nor fall
And come to think 1t over,
would not die at oil. >
Boston Post.
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THOs. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR.
THE LAST SUMMONS.

would not die in springtime,
When nature first awakes-
when men get out their wheelbarrows,
Aud spades, and hoes, and rakes,
And twist their backs, and plant their
seeds,
And wait to hear them sprout,
While yet they stone their neighbors' hens
That come to scratch them out.
would not die in summer,
When everything is ripe,
And fallen man is writhing -
In raw cucumber's grippe;
When baseball cranks are talking,
And all the landscape oer
Is sprinkled thick with flowers
And garden Sass" galore.
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AMBULANCE DOGS.

A Regular Canine Battalion For Service
in Military Movements.
One may see any day circulating in
the streets of the village ofLechensch,
near Cologne, q regular battalion OF
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16

Tobacco.chewing members Of ths
Methodist Church in Albertsville, Ala.
have bean levied upon by the stewards
for a special tax Of $40 year.
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A Romance OF New York.


HE habitues
of q small
French re-
staurant on
tn 9 W g S t.
81 d e W er Q
recently the
guests at a
humble we'd
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-02-16
A FAMOUS DUELIsT.

New German Ambassador ut Washington,
Bears Many Scars of Conflict.
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Parma Roushetzka remained petri-
fed. After q while she made out to
inquire: "Staukevitch, did you say?"
"Why, have you heard of him or
some of his family?" Smirnoff asked,