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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-21
A Remarkable. Accident.

!, Mrs. Johu Tyler, one Of the. best
known residents OF East Haddarn,
Conn, was badly iniuredw while return
| ing from Mount Damascus !the1 other
afternoon with, a team, Mrs. Tyler
was III leading COW COW behind the wagon,
|iand while coming down2a hillIthe COW
jumped. into the rear7of the wagon,
partly turning the vehicle over. Mrs.
Tyler was thrown between the wheel
and the shaft Of. SheJ wagon. The
frightened horse ran awayaai Mrs.
Tyler's clothing became entangled in
Ethe,vagon and she was dragged for
three:quarters of a mile behind ei the
runpingsE horse, rWylhlespps her r clothing
finally gave way she was LETT by the
side Of the road in terribly injured
condition. TT was at first. thought that
,she would die. : Mrs. Tyler. rallied
somewhat and will, recover, Perhaps
what saved her life is the fortu aate
circumstance inst thata buffalo robe in the
wagon ego,nn became wound about her head
and the upper part OF her body and
Afforded her considerable protection
against thorough ground Tat{
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gods. 80, ,..a%.,.E, os.4 :.
It all made me sigh, for the riot and,
roar Of Whitec6apel or the Tower East
Side, or some of the ginger of Chicago
after caudle-light, and J. appealed to
my officer friend. I asked him ito
kindly hit some passing straggler over
the head with bis, six-shooteri !, since |
could make nothing out Of all this hhi But
o pastoral. i.r erii,f i,ailG'l ~
"Well," he said, laughing, "it was
more interesting, at first. There was
function here, and Twas told ofwith
roy company to keep the crowd back'
The people pressed the marching col.
umn, and as I passed alongI said to (,
the sentry at that point, l'The crowd
must be kept back yes, .sor'- and
I noticed that it was, Private Shaun,
messy, q good old vet, and passed. on.
Casually turning around, beheld the
greatest commotion and rushed baek.i
"'Stop, stop! I yelled, Tdon'twant
You to kill them!' ',' '''i Z - - -,
"The crowd was flying from the
quickly placed s'butts to the fronts,
and Private ,Shaunnessy soon had had
room. qEia:4.r % s.dsqno I'D
- "Sry dear man. you must not kill
them,' I-said.7 S4afW .sfbrad nia
81 was not killing, them, captain
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-21

vue Iast lew years III the ancient
mounds erected by~a,fergotten race in
the Mississippi valley, especially sat
certain points in Ohio, and the 'evi-
dence thus obtained proves that some
of the chiefs whose people formerly
inhabited that region did actually
possess&treasnres in this form which
far exceeded in value, those owned by
the richest crowned heads today. In
fact, there are no, collections, of pearls
in existence:at the present, time that
would compare at all with those gath
cred by the aboriginal connoisseurs
referred to. In some of the mounds
pearls have been. found, not byshlsn-
dreds or thousands, but by bushels
large numbers of them approaching or
even exceeding in size hazlenut.
How such enormous stores Of them
were gathered is problem. not easily
solved. The pearls were certainly OBJ
tained from species of mussel called
the "unio," which is still found in
great abundance in many of the
streams ofithis country; but In those
days the shellfish in question must
have. been far more plentiful than now.
No more beautiful pearls exist III ma
ture than those yielded by the unio,
andthe collections describeda must
.liare, been magnificent, indeed, ,sirt the
period of their glory. Unfortunately,
all of them have been ruined by de-
cay, due to long burial, though san
occasional specimen reveals some
thing Of it's pristine beauty when its
outer layers are peeled of. Boston
Transcript.
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She begged that would take care of
the gold -hairedl prattler she was
leaving behind - take care of her until
he had served his period of imprisop-
meut. ], promised, and when the
earth closed over the body of her !
had loved took the child hwFS-ths
child tbat rssembled tile mother so
much. You were that child, Clarice."
A silence fell on the little group as
Templeton flushed speaking, and the
golden head Of Clarice had dr0opsd
forward until II E6ahd Test Oh the ar
chitect's knee.
':.And what do you expect me to
say, Mr.. Templetoh?" asked Frasklin
ct length.
.IsIexpect to Hear You say What your
heart prompts you to say" $ 8
MY heart prompts me to's say that
nothing you have told me tonight has
altered my lore for Clarice, and I re-
peat again-I love her dearly, and she
loves me; we ask your consent to our
nlarriage,.-o IS giErH 5rc .-.g
"And I give il, Harold" said Tenn
pleton, taking Franklin's hand and
wriugingoit. The young fellow stopped
aud raised Clarice from her detected
attitude, kissed her streaming face; and
they pissed slowly side BY side; from
the room.a q -
An hour later the lovers stood at
the end of the wooded drive bidding
each otBer good hight. Tile rain had
ceased falling. --..,..
!, "And to think, Harold, that I, who
have always felt proud of my parent
age, should be so disillusioned; tQ
think that I am the daughter of a
felon!" aud as the words fell from
Clarice Templeton's lips she soughs
to check the sobs that filed her bosom.
franklin 0:drewl her throbbing form
closeryfo his side.3 4 i2Ua H- h
atsNay, sweetheart, alet not'the news
trouble you 80. You DIRE n1t to blame
for what your father did, and he, per-
haps, by this is sorrowing for his past
cruelty and wickedness: However,
let us try to forget him aud thelpast
and be happy in our mutual love and
tile golden days to Gomez. EfifE :.
Engrossel as the lovers we're, neither
of them were cognizant of the proNim
ity of a1third person-n man, who
crouched in the shadow of the trees.
eyes, forget him. and the past, !"
murmured the latter; it is only right
that you should. AS for him -"
and the crouching figure stole softly
away = - - = -
'But tell me, Clarice," said Frank
lin, "tell me the cause of the tears I
saw in your eyes when you joined
your father II shall always call him
such and me In his study" -,
cit was the poor man-the tramp,
-$zrs. zz.'ts 2GI0stX3.H 2lG 9ie "
''He did not frighten you?" broke
in Franklin. ="
brighton, me, Harold! No. some
thing quite different. He said I re-
minded him of one he loved-a daugh-
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bends q row, and at the least flicker
Of disordei be ptecipitates himself I'M
I'd tile middle 6f the tGrong; using
laHgdags, fierce aid, loud ana pictut: .
esoue: No one understands the Ian;
guage; but every one comprehends
that the vicinity of the big man with
the gun should be vacant and hushed.
At light the streets are quiet al,
most desettsd-and the 6tlthinal
knows that the inarticulate Yankee
will shoot him dead at the least s us
picion, because how can a Yankee
soldier know what else to do? at first
there was some warn1 work, though
the butt; the basonst;;. and tile SIN ell
ealibre soon brought things right; =,
1 employed du evening with an 5ti
fcer going his rounds: The thin 8
was distressinglS without. inciden t.
The lights from the buildings 6 fiyd5i; id !;
ironed the narrow, street, the 81 small I
life of the people conld--ha-- q o 30
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An Ideal Monkey "woods."

More morkey-inviting forests than
those of southern Hayti can not be
found in the tropics. but not even a
marmoset or squirrel monkey accepted
the invitation. In an infinite series
of centuries not one pair of quadru-
mana availed itself of the chance to
cross q sea gap, though at several
points the mainland approaches west
ern Cuba within less than two hun,
dredsmiles about half the distance
that separates southern Asia from
Borneo, where fourhanders of'all sizes
aud colors compete for the products
of the wilderness, and, according
to Sir Philip Maitland, the ina
tive women avoid the coast jungles
for fear of meeting MIR. Darwin's
grandfather. V
The first Spanish explorers OF the
Antilles were, in fact, so amazed at
the apparently complete absence of
quadrupeds that THERE only sexplanasi
ton was n conjecture that the beasts
of the forests must have been exter.i
minated by order of some native .po-
tentate, perhaps the great Kubla Khan,
whose possessions they supposed to
extend eastward from Lake Aral to the
Atlantic. p
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worlds Greatest, Kudder. :,


One of the largest rudders that has
ever been cast in the world has been
finished by the Pennsylvania S'seB
Castingicompany Of Chester for tse
American line steamer Rhynland,
Z now " ! on n Cramps dry dock Undergoing
repairs Therudder; (which was cast
in o a.solid piece, weigheds oyerg g43, ,OOo
pounds, aud the sternpost, which was
made made at tie same time, weighed 5000
mounds! Ag Heretofore rudders Ahaye
been naade.in-two-pieees and after
ward riveted into a solid piece, but
the Chester company cast without
difficulty the rudder inNdnei sofidlmass,
which experts claim makes more
effective this necessary part OF the
GyytassSsel ~ 6a f'I'aHl - la9'i
r4.lhe art of casting The rudder is
trade, secret, which n1t.eyen the Brit
ishI Tor or German steel makers have yet
been able TO 3discoS Ell" !Ruddefs tor
; coreignsbi,ilt1 vessels are now Sbeing
shipped from Cheste,: t9: Europe.
John ,Haug, the surveyor at this
port Tor Lioyds' Register IF ofShpping,.
stateasthat no European rrrorkers OF
steel could have made, o, ,rpd&sr the
size Of tie Highlands in one solid
piece He also stated that a larger
rudder could have been made if it had
: been ne essary, and the work was an
achievement in steel-making which
the foreigners have yeti learn from
thee Americans. -P Philadelphia Rec
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-06-21

4 One morning not long. ago the good
seoples of Havana woke up and found
themselves in possession. Of q brand
hegi mad j order police force. fully
eq1Spped and clad in handsome t,tlt-
sorihs. During theapast few months
aband of nearlyaone thousand men
hage;been drillingunder the direction
Of United States army officers, and at
fEe same time, becoming fully
sltcquainted with all the duties which
tone OF tho fnes.' is supposed to
anoW The larger number Of the few
fptce had served In the Ctbati army,
ltlt Slit iii their selection he distihttidn
lss tieen made because Of previous
ssilations; The pfsfsrsncS being given:
:tV those. who we're physically superior
.and %hai understood the peculiar con.
;ditions i;oof government. and people
Which obtains II. Havana; II 49,. 49,. -.
When John McCullagb,i the famous
on Chief of Police, went from New
York City ito Havanat tohelp reorganize
the force, and the police system gener-
ally, he undertook o more difficult
task than he had at first anticipated.
Under the recent Spanish regime
there were three different kinds of
police, each responsible to o different
head, and whose duties, often conflict
i9sg .i1ss with each other, ,created friction
and ieslousies., Under the he# rules
goYer1ing Hayana's constabulary this
sconfics 81 aatf ofity shas 'beea avoided;
There is but eonb executive; General
ltenocal; Chief, Of Police; whose
powers are. supreme; and Responsible
Ia no one except General Ludlow; the
Military Governor of Havana; There
iiss no Board of Commissioners; but id
oS-her respects it is patterned closely
Supon New York police Organization.
There ara six inspectorsS twelve cap;
tains, twenty-fout !liettensnts ana
sgrgeants, and nearly one thousand
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: And the Bird Came iBacss.o

Jones hobby was carrier pigeons.
He aired it and then on every occa-
sion. This was one rof the occasions.
, -iSlnith had hobbies, but they were
not pigeons, So when Jones. offered
to BET supper that his finest bird
would come back, no matter where he
was released, Smith tookrthe bet, like
wise the bird, and departed. =.
Arriving at Philadelphia, he clipped
the7birds wings and set himifree.
IA week passed. The,!night of the
dinner came. Jones was late. His
face was sad aud gloomy as he en-
tered the club dining roofna Smith
was correspondingly radiant.
Bird back?" asked Smith, full OF
'io+eDt icIenGB 9Ts!B ~ Rss !HSS
6~Yes, y said,Jones, slowly, 'sbut his
feet, are .awfully .sore;iisanisaoao
Smith a, paid for or IlNafGnn the dipneer, New
York World - 'S'o9 '7.hls"
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KANSAS GIRLS AT THE FRoNT
Thu Part They Have yorneintho rrsncAe
in the Philippines,

When the deeds Of courage sndYaloEl
ii the philippines have bBcdnhs l,artt$
bf familiar histdFS, Bile itS ybr,e elttesS5
pages Will be given, to the wives and
maidens who bore part So nobly With
tile Kansas troops:-iFhey were present
in tile trenches, ready With their band;
sges to sfvs first lid to any Stricken. a.
SOLDIER, and about the Hospitals thsif
cheerful presence and deft nursing
gave comfort to many q wounded boy
In tie letters written to home follsbyl
the KaHsps ,Wotfnde ed ths Kansas City
J5iirnal finds mentioned tho names Of
Mrs. FUNSTON, wife :of the; colonel,
Mrs. Schlieman, wife of the chaplaiafi
Mrs. Buchan, wife of the Kansas GEF
captain; Mrs. Whitman, wife Of the
/ junior major, and perhaps more fTe5..
quentlyye the names of Miss Bradperl
and Miss Ollie o. Brien. Miss Bradneli
went from Kansas to India seyereL
years ago as a missionary. With the
breaking giout of the Spanish war she
proceeded to Hong Kong, and them
after Manila lad fallen; to tue Philip
pine Seapitai; where sheEats once inS
Stalled herself Us 4 nurse in tile TWsni
tieth KANSAS: 4 size keptat tie ff6dt
with the boys all through The lite
campaign and applied the first relief
to all the wounded that came within
her reach tbs related by one Kansas;
boy that during one Of the fierce Ien-.
gugements this young woman sat by
his side in the trenches, coolly piss
ing cartridges to him as, fast asshse
could fire.
Miss Ollie O'Brien is Topeka girl
who went to Manila last summer.onl
pleasure bent. She accompanied Mrs
Stutensburg, wife of regular arnl5S
officer whb is NOW serving with TIE
volunteers from Nebraska: Wheh the
wounded commenced to COME from the
front she volunteered to go into the
hospital as q nurse; and SHE has3at;;
tended to lief duties faithfully and
well. Miss O'Bfien is naturally ofthe
army. When bit Of a babe she was:
adopted into the family Of Captain M:t
O'Brien, and the people Of Hays City
remember we'll the pretty little girl
who used to fit about their town when
the captain was stationed at nearby
fort.h, b
Miss O'Brien is tasting fot the first
time in her life the delight Of being
something in the world besides d sucial
favorite. She writes to friends that
there is no other word bit ''gloriotis:.
She is learning to be thrilled by; the
crash of guns, the tramp of men and
the blast of busle. The flag is nd
longer pretty rag fntterfrg in !the
whilom breezes-it Is the soul of q
nation, speaking its serious, thoughts,
When she wraps the woundss OF
patriots she feels that she is..soothina
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,Iives'thsre aboy with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,

I AS 0s his bed shons mornings Iight,ss
~ wish. the school burnt down last night"
:, Visiting, Uncle7Thsres is no beast
that has q roa- as terrifying as has the
lion Small Niece-Did you ever hear
papa when dinner wasn't ready ON,
time. .,,.se.,.f ,,+ ,tos,lnl
'Then I told him what I thought of
him. a.In good, plain Language, I
presumefS 7"Well. yesaob mi fact,
some Of my, expressions were positive
y military ,..,;.r,. .... i.,.,;f
Mrs. Van Twiller (who mistakes DR..
JoTYia1 for physician)-And where do
you practice doctor? The q Rev. DIR.
JoviM-Ah, madam, I do not practice;
I only preach. s.4.,
A pilot on orc Of the. Mississippi
river boats, on being asked il he knew
where all the shoals and rocks in the
river! were, replied. saFaith, don't,
but know where they ain't, oo
When smiling summer comes again
rti 4 nAnd; ;jocund daisies grow; 21et,9i -
Well have to cut the yaTing grass
% where once We shoveied srcN
Well ,heye to hear the same $40 Wss4,
7 -,s'S rui..., man a re- hrnn0ht tnoath'sxS
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An Appeal to Faith. .Healers.

"We hear good deal'nowadays of
sfeith- healing, says a. ,writertin The
Cornhill, and goes on to tell this story:
clicks used to. tell tale which would
have appealed to faith-healers, at any
rate solar as their want of confidence
in medical men goes. Hicks had
heard ofzthe somewhat sudden death
! ola small farmer who dwelt near him,
and meeting the farmers son shortly
after, inquired OF him how long his
father had been il, aud what doctor
! had attended him, arhe, reply was,
well, yC', ses, Mr.. Hicks, fayther
didn't have o long illness, and he
didn't have doctor, for lie allus said. /.
whom he come to die, he'd liss toa sic
natural death, ~. ~. .5..,.. .,;.,,5
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r. \
,ehsrRl1 al allaio RIO 4 iE1EzsodAD,[ HAvAsA's
III s,l CHIEF oF:-PoLIeE.
patrolmen. Ill ofwhose duties are clear
bsrgeants

patrolmen, Ill ofwhose duties are clear
and well. defined. -p-y
Frederic; Remington gives in Col
lier's Weekly an entertaining account
of police conditions in Havana before
and after the Americans reorganlzed
the force. He saSs3
The last time I.Was in, Havana Wey-
ler sat in the palace and dirty Spanish
soldiers iprowled the streets by day
and byg night, These much starved
and abused men held up the honest
wayfarer on the principal streets and
got from him wherewith to buy bread.
The stretches doHn by the wharves
we're little battlefelds for decently
dressed imen' after dark. The old
Havana gendarme walked about or
leaned against buildings, firing their
cigarettes, but no one ever took them
seriousl yNI-they iuterfered with no.
BODY matter-,W his purpose
might be.
yaThessPradosatsexeningwss a gay
scene, with its swarms OF Spanish
officers and pretty women strolllng
Slowly about to Hhe music ofithe mill
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NEW HAVANA PoLoE GENDARE OF SPANISH
rDrovnfor Remington,
; slowly about. ITO 70 2
. Nil, 4 =, n,. ore cheerful thar

tary bands. Much more cheerful than
inPthese days, I must confess; butthe
back streets were made dangerous by
starved soldiers; the insurgent bands
sraided the country about to the out.
posts on the neighboring Hills, and
tie fpeopfe IN *tHe theatres insulted
Americans, thirsted for their blood,
and told them so by word OF mouth:
Consul General Lee employed bis
tina in saving American newspaper
Correspondents from the Cabanas, and
/ the United sates Government sigpi.
/ aed no moro to theae pcoE Ignorant
souls than y yesteFd d:tion-she
.man Zee II peraon was tbs Qnltea
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Good Word.

A little Irish maid; fresh from he>
native isle, his furnished Her New
England.mistres with. many o new
phrase. ."7,xs y, sytl 0dv
ssThe sun has hard work. to shine
This week, Nora said the lady to the
maid, who was busting her room one
gloomy day. ss'It comes out for few
minutes aud then tie clouds hide it
for hours again. ".Altfa IL Fei
4Yes, min. said Nora. cts what
you d, call bashfNl weather, min, new
ta.tI II fopf - = siiSiF ~ 49,. =, - II
|tls9 ME- seSmei,S SsSi xfssbisS : 80 SO {
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II{FIH;IZANAS AMEERIgANIIIzZEEIBD POLICE.
I{g Id off Gonezs Veterans Dhlledby West Point
sS Now Keep Order IN Her Streets :s '..,.a's' T.
REMARKABLE I3I :,.a TRANSFORMATION WROUGHT
.----.. ( OD,a. .ss4sts, ,OG2

staigs, s. America. BE was not sup
ported by WasStagtsn,ti but he pound
ed the table in Captain Gsacnel Wey-
ler's presence, talking loud and ,yyis1s!
yufIB fSls Sss jsS sII changed; The City is
divided into four districts, and our in
fantry soldiers walk along The streets
with loaded Krag:Jorgensens 5ys,
their shoulders, and no city in. the
world is policed so well. The private
of infantry does not understand the
Spanish language, but lie compre'
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EANl !ExPARsloMsE::
Expansion is oil right, my boy, :

80 nm a. ~ - LA LAP
Expansion Is all right, my boy;
Iknow, for have tried. iilpai!.
,n Just,lisssu what its done for me
And see il have lied.
When First started to expand ~
measured thirty, inch; ,,,c>.-
ButIigot ajob directly 49,
-, Counting votes:1it was cinch.
=" When Isexpande six inch more
got elected then ssi.ts
Assistant tax-assessor
BY majority of-ten.
Six more inches made me burgess;
Six more made me county clerk;
7S;f moremade me judge, ,of probatea
liter that twas easy work.
= Six Inose inches made me eeunsstf
For the Squqwtown-yalley roadi
Six more landed me In Congress
III they didn't I'll be blowed.
Sixty inch and still expanding,
n But retired, as you seefor apli
And you couldn't even tempt me
I with a thousand-dollar fee.i
So don't let alarmists scare you,
i7s!i And DONE lay awake at night I"
'. Worrying, about expansion = yiT
For expans!oa e all right.
iCi-v luiWf 70 G3FGyi E3nTJuaSe.
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-sE@-T@-~~a-~--s---
HUMOROUS.

It seems strange that q fellow isn't
'.in the swim" when society throws
Him overheard. III Gab yIeys
ss"Give me some striking example OF
the coaleseion Of minute individual
particles" "a sandbag, sir."
.'Our bank is sure, to fall, suid the
cashier, iGpocketing all tie available
assets, fas it is rapidly losing its bal
anncceB t.Bl q. -2l!Yjaoer 1si.43
'.Love makes the world go round
emo; love only keeps people frongno-
ticing whether the world goes round
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I thought it best to assume "a. threaten-

I thought it best to assume a threatenii
ing attitude-sor; tuo,l1i.
'sAnother soldier in dispensing q
crowd pointed with his finger at them'
and observed in a long southwestern
dgaHlf:, = ;Aow-:IImTiwYaspptTyou ow--:IImTiwGYasppt people
to get back. I know you don't under,
stand what. Il am ,talkiuga about but ]
understand my. orderss and now am
going to plow into; Eou,' with which
calm statement he moved forward with
the light Of battle .in.hisI Sssyes, The
GRO crowd, , was as featAers il A *iAiId. "-f.'d
). But: when HaYapa thinks oYeaihei
yioissitpdes In the coming years, shs
cen say tho American made Hayanl
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tnn nf OF THE FOURTH BA7rAIfo IfoN"pnEsENr ABssls7

tfa1isaot. o general postal l business
Fhe. mail IS delivered either ut the
houses Of tie people along The route
OF plseedinEwhat is called d ruraltree
delivery ,bqs near, "a residence Tp,s The
postal clerk has one key to this no1
and the occupants Of the residence the
other. In9 this way the postotnce
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5 Millions of birds i0d Dasssou Island! 81,
ta5 Leysonu island, ), which lies yabouV, !,
. 800 miles west of Honolulu, is q gi-
ggaeln,tics BIRDS nest" About twenty
i've different species are'found there.
including ducks, boobies, gul!s and
frigate birds. On this speck OF land