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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1898-01-19
Goosc Flower.

A floral wonder at the Chicago
Chrysanthemum Show was the goose
flower exhibited by W. H. Chadwick.
This is flower that grows on run
ming vine, and sometimes measures
over forty inches in length and fifteen
or twenty inches in breadth and thick
ness. It looks less like a goose than
an armadillo with O slender tail five
feet long. The first feeling one has
on seeing it is to run away for fear it
may Jump on him and bite him. 1t is
not fragant, but quite the reverse. AS
q general thing it has no odor, but
there are times when it exhales an
affiuvium compared with which the
smell of n glue factory is double
distilled handkerchief extract. 1t is q
Brazilian flower, and is rare in this
country, though it was exhibited at
the Worlds Fair and was introduced
some years before that by Sturteyaut,
of Bordertown, N. J.-Chicago Times
Herald.
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-.:->. euu-
denly retired inro shell.
ssWas it you who-who-sent those
flowers before the last ball-when you
were going to India?"
''There was letter with them, ="
said the Major rather shortly, gazing
into a remote corner of the room.
"You knew tho handwriting"
Miss Nabb started and stared and
showed signs of tearfulness.
"rhere wasn't any letter-indeed-
there wasn't" she pleaded. "And I
didn't like to wear them in case some
one else-I mean" And her voice
broke down as she added And then
you wouldn't dance with me at oil. :"
''No letterl" shouted the Major. And
jumping up he began to pace the room,
while the memory of long years OF
mourning for false love rolled over his
mind. "No letter! Curse the boy! He
must have dropped it, and I addressed
it properly"
Had it, then, been all gigantic
mistake. w ulle ue uau inoPoo "to
sulked at that miserable farewell bal, !,
had she been wondering and sad and
loving him all the time and waiting
for him to speak? And during oil
those long years of pining in India
and Of vain struggling to forget, had
the heart of the one woman he had
ever loved been sore and desolate,
hoping and waiting his return?
Now, the Major was an experienced
man, prompt to act on emergencies
and gallant withal, though somewhat
misogynistic.
The Major finds the English climate
much more tolerable now, serves on
Board of Guardians, makes politlca
speeches of portentous length and is
devoted husband, and Mrs. McPher
son has given up dieting and hel
nerves trouble her no more.-Londor
ADcvars
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A newly patented ruling machine
has reservoir to hold the ink or color
connected by flexible tubes or strips
of flannel laid on the pens, which are
held on frame by movable clamps.
A new ferret muzzle for use in
hunting rabbits, etc., has one or more
short spikes in the tip of the muzzle
to drive the animal out of its hole and
yet prevent the ferret from killing it.
To protect horses feet from injury
on barb-wire fences o flexible metal
band is used, which is adapted to
fasten around the foot, with an armor
shield at the rear to prevent the barbs
entering the flesh when the horse gets
its foot caught on the wire.
A Michigan man has patented an air
ship, comprising cigar-shaped inaa-
table vessel, q car attached to it by
pivoted arms, so that the car can be
tilted up or down to guide it; the pro-
pelling and steering being done by
the usual fan-blade propellers.
In recently designed refrigerator
the ice chamber is formed of o series
of parallel bars, set in one side of the
refrigerating chamber, which hold
cracked ice and permit the free circu-
lation of air between the bars and
around the small pieces of ice.
A procession of icebergs sent against
the surface of the sun would melt at
the rate of three hundred million
cubic miles of solid ice second, and
it's heat is estimated to produce q
force of about ten thousand-horse
power to every square foot of its sur
face.
Of the children born alive one.
fourth die before eleven months, one
third before the twenty-third month,
half before their eighth year, two
thirds of mankind die before the
thirty-ninth year, three-fourths before
their ffty-frst year, and of about
twelve thousand only one survives a
whole century.
Sudden and great fluctuations in
the level of water in wells in stormy
weather, closely corresponding to the
fluctuations in wind-velocity recorded
by Professor Langley, have been OBJ
served by DR.. Romel Martini. This
explains the popular tradition that
bad weather may be predicted from
the sudden rise and fall of wells.
Curiously, however, small and rapid
changes of barometer are more certain
to affect wells than large changes.
Frank W. Very, of the Ladd OBJ
servatory, Providence, r. l., has
made some curious observations on
the fight of migrating birds seen at
night crossing the face of the moon.
He watched them with telescope of
four inches aperture, magnifying forty
times. The observations were made
in the latter part of September. The
great majority of the birds moved
from north to south, aud travelled in
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medical corps are expectedto consume
Fashion Notes.

White marabout is used on children's
white felt hats, it is so light, airy and
delicate.
A natty cap is made of astrakhan
with curled quill feathers standing up
at one side.
The newest shade of blue is best
described as the shade of cornhower
when it has begun to fade.
Bright colors are seen this year in
the gloves. Vivid reds, green's and
blues are shown in great variety.
Some of the latest materials shown
are corded silks and wool poplins,
with changeable effects, produced by
the mixture of colored silk and wool.
On account of the popularity Of the
Russian blouse / .dsome belts are
are very much in demand. Some
beautiful designs are shown in ham
mered silver and gold set with mock
jewels.
For nicer wear the reps or poplins
are fashioned with q blouse, gored
skirt, small sleeves and an epaulette
effect; high collar, tiny square yoke
and folded belt of velvet of darker or
contrasting shade.
A pretty Russian blouse for miss
of fourteen years accompanies o skirt
of the same blue serge; the blouse
opens over narrow vest of light-yel-
low cloth, with tiny gilt buttons edg-
ing the blue and black cord loops
crossing the vest. Cord and buttons
trim the band collar, wrists and mar
row, fiat belt.
Scotch plaids are rampant this sea-
son, and come in several different
materials, all of which ere smart and
serviceable. To begin with, there is
the regular all-wool Scotch plaid; then
there is the silk and wool, the poplin
and the silks. For school wear, the
first is the best, and the darker plaids
are to be strongly advocated. j
Black hose are worn by girls with
all dresses except white or very light
party frocks, that require white stock.
ings and slippers. Two-button kid
gloves in brown, tan and gray tints
are also worn by little ones. After
fifteen years misses wear the hook,
snap or button gloves similar to their
elder sisters, only keeping within sub
dued shades. :.
ssThe new muff is small mountain in
size. One of novel design, shown
among the new importations, is made
of black velvet gathered in double
frills fully two and half inches wide.
These stand up like ruches all over
the foundation, and not in regular
lines, but rather curved around, giving
o very peculiar effect. The velvet has
the appearance of being gathered sew.
eral times and the threads pulled out,
leaving only the marking of the stitches
to show. A knot OF lace and q bunch
of violets trim one side.
Emeralds are popular, and tur-
auoises, in spite of the limitations that
one would fancy might cheaper them.
form part of every well-stocked jewel
case, and good many that are not SO
we'll stocked. The newest and most
charming thing in turquoises that /
have seen for long time was on the
pretty white throat of lovely little
American woman, at ball at one OF
the Trench summer resorts. 1t was q
dog collar of turquoises and white
opals, the opals cut into disks and
strung alternately with blue stones,
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Licking by Machinery.

A new envelope-sealing machine is
being tried in Government Office.
The machine works something like a
printing press. The envelopes are fed
into rollers, one of which is moistened
from small trough of water, through
which it revolves. A folder closes
the envelope, which then passes
through two other rollers. pressed and
dropped into receptacle. The ma
chine is run either by electric motor
or by pedal. 1t is claimed that it will
seal $50 envelopes minute when the
operator becomes expert. In recent
test a batch of $4,000 circulars is said
to have been easily sealed by one ma
chine in something over three hours.
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cstive instruction under these condi-
tions is well nigh unsolved problem.
But conditions ere rapidly changing.
The English language is coming into

use at q means of communication
among the graduates of the common
schools, many of whom have no other
language in common. Thus it is
creaping into the homes of the people,
even. When the children learn even
crude English from their mothers, the
teachers task vii. be much simplifed.
For many years there have been schools
in Honolulu, and Hilo especially,
adapted to the needs of the children
of English-speaking parents. Lately
similar schools have been opened IN q
number of other locations, and still
others will be opened shortly. These
are not essentially different from
schools of similar grade in America.
A regular public high school is in pro-
cess of organization in Honolulu, the
greater number of the departments be-
ing already in working order. The
endowed institution known as Oahu
College, has long offered full prepara-
ton for any college in America, and
many of its graduates have entered
lending American colleges on advanced
standing.
But the English-speaking children
do not enjoy monopoly of the privi-
leges of education beyond the common
school course. The Kamehameha
Schools, with their magnificent equip
ment and no less magnificent endow-
ment, are open to those of native
Hawaiian blood and to no others.
Manual training and industrial educa-
ton are leading features of these
schools, and few similar schools in
America are so well equipped for work
on these lines.
The natives are very fond of music.
The guitar on account of the softness
of its tone, is their favorite instru-
ment. The royal Hawaiian band,
which q few years ago made tour
through the United States, was COM
posed of native Hawaiians, all Of whom
were accomplished musicians.
RED FANToN.
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Wherc IIe Worked.

The prisoner was making his ap'
pearance before the magistrate Tor the
hundredth time.
"Well," said the magistrate, "you
here again?"
eyes, your worship" responded
the prisoner.
"What's the charger"
'"Vagrancy-same as before, your
worship"
"It seems to me you are here about
half your time"
"Rather more or less, your wor-
ship"
"Well, what do you do it for? Why
don't you worlz?"
"I do, your worship, more than
half my time. "
"Ah, now," said the magistrate,
surprised, ''if you can tell me where
Won have ever worked I'll let you Oft. ;.
SIN prison, your Worship" smiled
the prisoner, and the court kept its
woM. The Rival.
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LII SeueiuiiJ .----- 49, - -
to bring q popular fashion up to its
limit of favor, and sashes may be said
to have taken fsir start this summer.
There is no end to the styles and no
limit in elegance OF price. The old
Roman sash, with fringed ends, is
with us again, and nearly everybody
has an old one somewhere that was
much treasured in early youthful
days. Take it out and have it
cleaned, if necessary, and wear it with
white house gowns. Arather startling
sash is made of the new velvet and
satin striped ribbon in three shades of
geranium red. 1t is about five inches
wide, and is made with two loops at
the waist, and the bias ends are edged
with very deep plisses of mousseline
de sole to match the ribbon. Another
is of plaid, the royal Stuart pattern,
trimmed on the ends with plaitings of
black mousseline. A royal purple
moire of superb quality, with trim
mings of black mousseline, has an un-
mistakable air of elegance.
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Smuggling Didn't Pay.

4 young man in Rhode Island, the
owner of yacht, was recently pun
ished for an attempt at smuggling.
He took his yacht to Halifax, Nova
Scotia, last summer, and while t ere
purchased some $4,000 worth of -ul-
phonal and phenacetine. These he
brought to this country, and then
found he could not dispose of them
without detection. He finally became
apprehensiye that the authorities
would find him out, so he went to the
customs officer and confessed to hay
ing the drugs. These were confscated
aud the young man now has concluded
that crime doesn't pay.-Medical Rec
or5
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A SCENE IN HAWAII.

flowers, potatoes, cheese, roll butter,
crab apples, ounces, onions. Those
are imported from country over two
thousand miles distant.
The Hawaiian Tnspector-Geperal 9;
Schools, Mr.. Henry schiller Town-
send, speaking of the educational sys-
tenn of the islands, says that the popu-
lation of the Hawaiian Islands is small
and the school system is necessarily
small. The total population exceeds
one hundred thousand slightly, OF
which fourteen thousand were attend
ing school ut the end of last Jear.
Ten thousand were in the public
schools. Fifty-six per cent. of all the
children attending school at that time
were of native Hawaiian descent, and
twenty-five werc Portuguese. The re-
naming nineteen per cent. represents
large number of nationalities.
The English language is practically
the only language as means OF COM
munication or instruction in the Ha-
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at the base. nearly thousand
feet high, and pointing 'Godward
through the blue like the spire OF
some mighty cathedral. This mono
lith carved and fashioned by some by
gone convulsion of nature when the
hills 'glared ut heaven through folds
of fiery bair,' is swathed in q glorious
garment of green and gold chequered
with the rose and the azure of the
bells of the convolvuli that dangle
from the Gordon of vines that engird
it,"
The valley in the early morning
may be clear Of mists, and q soft
mountain breeze murmuring among
the foliage, but at times it is filled
with the noiseless ebbing and flowing
of white vapor borne in from the sea:
and out of this shimmering seq of mist
the towers and minarets o. the noun
tains arise clothed With MOSES and
ferns, and drapea with garlands Of
eddying vines, that cover the face OF
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and final reward for honest, earnest
and constant labor. Especially is this
tfue in the coffee industry. The pretty
homes and coffee area of Olaa are an
evidence of this.
4 Butter is selling in Hilo at 81 roll.
It is quoted in San francisco at six
teen cents to twenty-four cents q
pound. There every field is as dry as
q bone. In Hawaii every field is per-
petually green. The dairy business
offers much better opening than any
line of merchandising. And as q by
product 10 the dairy, hogs will pay
hagnifcently. Pork is retailing at
twenty-five cents n pounds. The adj
Fertising columns Of th" r.
IlLNI
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THE MAJORS RETURN.

! then he added, ''that was an excellent
remedy you told me about"
"Ah," replied the lady in o low
voice, "you have not forgotten that"
ct have long memory for some
things" said the Major, and went on
reading.
'I often used to wonder when you
had gone away, Miss Nabb continued
presently, with little quayer in her
voice, ."whether you were still suffer
ing"
s'Not from toothache," said the
Major, rather grufly.
81 beg your pardon9" said Miss
Nabb, interrogatively.
''Not from toothache." And he
went on reading.
Miss Nabb took some moments to
ponder over this dark saying and to
devise means for carrying on the con-
versation. But she was relieved from
her difficulty by the Major himself, for
suddenly he dropped the newspaper
on his knee ard carefully looking
away from her, ierked. out, Good old
times those were, weren't they?"
Miss Nabb responded with little
sigh, but the ice was broken and in q
few minutes the two were busily en-
gagged in talking over "reminiscences OF
former times-of picnics, walks and
parties which they had enjoyed to-
gether, of people they had met and in
terests they had shared in the days
when Miss Nabb had been admittedly
one of the bellies of the countryside,
The conversation went briskly for
ward and us the past revived, the two
grew more and more animated and yet
neither was quite at ense.
To tell the truth there was one cpl
sode to which Miss Nabb hoped the
Major would allude, but to which he
had not the remotest intention Of max
ing any reference whatever unless she
touched OF it herself. Time after time
she brought him right up to the dread
ed subia"t hnt he ':r--''e a::;sF I'll
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whose soul was moved by the beautiful
vision which be describes in the fol-
lowing poetic language:
1--WE are in IN amphitheatre of
mountains rising TO an altitude of
5000 and 1000 feet, with glowing
raiment of leaf and blossom from base
to summit, save in spots where the
red earth peeps through the radiant
curtain, as foil to the flames of IL
descent greens, and the fire of the
blossoms that have EMBODIED the hills
in their shining embrace. Here and
there q pinnacle where no plant has
found grace to. grow stands out pur-
pie silhouette against the soft blue of
topaz-tinted sky. Caves and fssures
are cleft in the sleeps of these mnnn-
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Court stenograpl,or q Woman.

Miss Annie White, whoce appoint
ment as stenographer of the Superior
Civil Court for Suffolk County, Mass,
few years ago attracted considerable
notice, recently resigned her position,
married Mr.. Charles Bartlett, prom
inent lawyer Of Boston, Eand with him
has gone abroad for several months.
Miss White was an expert in her pro-
fession. Her position was worth $4,000
per year, with a summer vacation Of
three months, and she filed it with
unusual ability. 1t will be of interest
to those who believe that business
life renders woman. unattractiye to
learn that the acquaintance which
ripened into marriage began in the
court where Miss White was employed.
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HARBoR OF HONOLULU.

the cliffs, and droop over the edges OF
giddy precipices in "catarac!s OF
bloom" till they are swallowed up i'll
tho "whitc mists that choke tho vale
and blot the sides of the bewiidered
hills. +"
Although sugar cane is indigenous
in Hawaii, little attempt was made
toward its cultivation until 1885, when
u plantation Wi, started al Kauai and
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A Famous Woman Physician.

Dr.. Susan A. Edison, who has just
died in Washington at the age of
seventy-four years, was one of the
best-known women physicians in the
United States. She was born on JAN
uary 4, 1928, near Auburn, N. Y, and
was graduate from the Cleveland
Homeopathic College March l, 1854.
Returning to her home soon afterward
she quickly built up large and lucra-
tive practice. This, however, she
abandoned when the war broke out,
rs she believed it to be her duty to do
all she could to ameliorate the suffer-
ings of the soldiers, and she rendered
invaluable professional services to the
sick and wounded in hospitals. She
was one of the physicians summoned
to attend President Garfield after lie
was shot, and during the long illness
of the President she was, it is said, at
his bedside more frequently than was
any other of the attending physicians.
AS mark OF appreciation for her SER
vices to Mr.. Garfield during his long
illness Congress voted DR.. Edison
$4,000. She was for many years physi-
clan to the Garfield family.-New York
Tribune,
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waiian schools. And here lies the
difficulty of the work. Just imagine
the teachers of California trying to
teach The children of that State through
the Arabic language. Yet English is
probably az difficult for the children
of Hawaii as Arabic for those of Cali
lornia. History, literature, natural
science aud even arithmetic must be
taught under great difficulties. Edu-
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HOMES INI5..HA w All.
Farm Crops That Can Be Prodtably Grown---opportu-
mites For Education---Fhe Musical Kanaka

- ~,
several sugar mills were built. These
mills were worked by the aid of mules
and oxen, and the process was slow and
slaborious. What contrast to the mills OF
the present day, where the cane is
taken and made into crystals of sugar.
There is no royal road to wealth in
Hawaii, and any one who anticipats )
such condition had better stay away.
No man can go about blindfolded and
pick up dollars in the streets, but no
country offers better opportunity
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NAV Have Meant Well.

It takes fully six months for story
like the following to become public
property, says the Washington Star:
Last season Washington woman,
possessing both social and charitable
ambitions, elected to give reception.
The affair was to be very exclusive.
Judge of the surprise when a bundle
ofinvitations was left at the door of q
hospital in town upon whose board OF
managers Mrs. q. serves. The invita-
tions were found to be addressed to
the trained nurses of the institution,
and great was the wonder that the pro
fessional ranks had been invaded fol
society recruits.
A few days elapsed, and Mrs. o.
paid visit to the hospital. Making
herself extremely agreeable, she re
marked to the nurses:
"Well, girls, ] hope you received
cards to my reception?"
Smiles and Acknowledgements an
swered in the Affirmative, and Mrs. u
went on complacently:
Indeed, 1 was only too glad to re
member you all. I appreciate how
much work and how little play yor
girls have, and I thought you woult
enjoy little glimpse of society fun.
"No doubt of it, Mrs. H." one O.
the nurses spoke up, "but none OF US
is likely to have gown suitable tt
wear at such function.
"Oh, thai need not trouble you II
the least, returned the smiling Mrs
z. "Now, my Ideals this. Of course
I understand you have no evening
gowns, and that you know very few
society people, but these facts mus
not interfere with your getting peer
at my guests and eating some of my
supper. I thought the whole thing
would be simplifed if you all came il
your pretty uniforms and caps, ano
took up your stations in the dressing
rooms. You would only have to assist
tho ladies with their wraps and yor
could see The gowns to such good ad
vantage, and -" But such choru!
of indignant explanations rent the
air at that iuncture that Mrs. rs sen
tence was never completed.
The socinl veneering must be thickiy
coated on Mrs. T., for to this day.
does not seem to understand why tht
nurses meet her advances with frigie
indifference, and why her visits to The
hospital are no longer pleasant.
Gossip.
A woman ninety-sevel years OLE
rides bicycle in Dubuque, Iowa.
11r1 IL l ...n
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Cut Sheep in Two With Broadsword.
At n recent athletic exhibition in
Boscombe, England, one of the feat
urcs of the day was sheep-slaughter-
ing contest, the prize going to the one
who could kill live sheep with q sim
gle blow. Many unsuccessful at
tempts were made with broadswords
aud axes. A Surrey hercules, how