davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The evening times., 1899-04-11

The action of the gransers in the face
of the crop report excited much com
ment The report for the. month issued
| last night shows winter wheats condition
TO be Il, as against sl and a fraction for
last year. and SO the average in recent
years. The talk was Of considerable dam
| age to the crop, and especially In the sec
| tions which feed the Atchlson system The
grangers, however, failed to decline, but,
| on the contrary, advanced steadily all the
| morning from a point to two points or
more Wheat on the other hand, was
| heavy with a recession Of a cent or more
| in price. The buying of Atchison prefer
| red was particularly noticeable. as it was
considered that the damage to winter
wheat would hurt this road more than any
other Several thousand shares were
bought all the way up from below 50 to 81
The optimists on the grangers. of whom
there seemed to be a good many. asserted
that the surplus wheat will insure business
for the roads, with the ever-increasing
general business. even il the winter wheat
crop is much more q failure than the re-
port suggests. And II Is also pointed out
that the spring wheat crop IL the most
important after all. and may be immense.
Chicago Gas was the exception to the
general weakness of the industrials. 1t
was bought steadily all the morning and
advanced to 12l 1-2. There was rumor on
the Street that the dividend on the stock
is to be increased to per cent, but little
attention was paid to the story. As mat
ter Of fact the adjournment Of the Illinois
Legislature Is a sufficiently bullish argu-
ment for the time being to boom the stock
on. And regular s per cent dividend is
large enough to make 121 small price.
The talk of Gas is very bullish.
The evening times., 1899-04-11
Do You Have Rheumatism?
Are You SleepIess Nervous, All Run Gown?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

SWAMPROOT Is the Great Remedy for Kidney, Bladder
and Uric Acid Troubles. To Prove for Yourself Its
Wonderful Merits, You May Have Sample Bottle Sent
FREE by Mail.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
More English the Army Grows.

Regarding the composition of the
English army, it is curious fact that
whereas Ireland furnishes only sixteen
battalions of the line land two of these
are recruiting in Canada) no less than
four cavalry regiments are distinc ctive-
ly Irish-the Fourth Royal Irishl
Dragon Guards, Fifth Royal Irish)
Lancers, the famous Inniskillings and
tie Eighth Royal Irish) Hussars.-
Scotland, with population of about
one-half that of Ireland. furnishes
twenty battalions, exclusive of the
Scots Guards (soon to have third
battalion), and but ole cavalry regi-
ment, the well-knowu "Greys." One
has only to glance down the list of of
fcers in English regiments tc note
what large number of Scottish names
occur, and yet the total number Scot
tish recruits who joined last year was
but 1861, Ireland providing about 400
more than that total. The peninsular
war and Waterloo saw many so-called
English regiments almost entirely
composed OF Irishmen, and long after
the Crimea many "English" regiments
got most OF their recruits from the sis
ter isle, but each year-in spite of
''distresses" of one sort or the other
sees the number of Irish recruits
dwinde yet more. As matter OF
fact, the "British" army becomes more
English" every year.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
He Weakened at Last.

''They. told me-" said q citizen, that
the plumber was king. Well, 1 didn't
believe it; SO, when the water-pipes
burst I bought some soldering irons
and slow furnace, and my wife and
l started to repair the damage.
"We got along famously-and when
I retired that night the leaks were oil
mended and we left the water run
ming to avoid another freeze.
"Well, when awoke in the morning
the water was still running-that is, 1t
was running from the leaks we had
mended. In fact, it was running oil
over the house. There were several
beautiful lakes of it on four Brussels
carpets; the upholstered chairs were
floating around in an aimless sort of
way; the pianos legs were knee-deep
in it: the kitchen stove looked like it
had been wrecked in a storm, and the
table was preserving an unsteady bal
ance In the dining room. 1 waded out
in wrath, turned the water off and
sent for plumber
"But-mind you-the leaks where
the water escaped were those my wife
had mended. l told her it would that
wayp'-AtJanta Constitution.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Truly Horrible.

Whether it illustrates fertility Of re.
source of force Of habit-or both
there is humor N the Cleveland Lead
er's story Of San old man who sells
newspapers in the square"
He has learned from handling th.
sensational sheets that in order to dis
pose Of his stock he must always have
something horrible" on hand; so it is
"All about the horrible suicide;;" "All
about the horrible MURDER" Gall
about the horrible accident" or all
about something else that is horrible
day after day.
One evening last autumn he stood at
his accustomed place when the late
extras were brought around. After
securing a bundle he scrambled to his
corner, saw q half dozen men ap,
proaching and cried out:
Here's your extra paper, just out;
all about the horrible-horrible-"
Then he stopped. He had forgotten
to looked at the headlines and find out
what horrible thing had happened
Hastily turning over one of the papers
he caught q glimpse Of the account OF
the Harvard pennsylvania football
game. The troubled looked faded
from his face, a glad light came into
his eyes, and he continued:
"All about the horrible football
game"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Ostrich Families.

Ostriches live seventy OF eighty
years, and the same couple remain de-
voted all that time, their constancy
being unremitting, as no divorce laws
are in existence among them seeming
ly. The male bird digs hole in the
ground about three feet long, two
wide and half foot deep, doing this
by sitting down, resting on his breast
bone and kicking out the earth behind
him with his powerful feet. When
the nest is completed the female os-
trich lays an egg and both birds ap-
pear very proud oft. Every other day
till ten OF fifteen is the number reached,
an egg is added, and the female sits on
the nest in the daytime, while the
male bird keeps guard, walking up
and down and displaying huge tenn
per if any one approaches. He takes
his turn at night, sitting on the eggs,
while the mother bird goes on watch.
This lasts for six weeks, when the
baby ostriches break through their
strong, thick shells. They grow rap
idly, about foot month.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIa SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelliug colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and SUBJ
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities Of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants, by method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIe SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, N. 2.
For sale by all Druggists.-Price Soc. per bottle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Clover With Winter Wheat.

The value Of clover In making the
soil better fitted for wheat is becoming
better understood in those regions
where successive crops of wheat have
reduced the fertility of the soil peril
ously near the point of exhaustion.
1t is probably too early yet to say that
very soon fertilizers will become an
important question to all Of our farm
ers. At present there is plenty of land
that will produce good crop of
wheat without fertilizing the soil. But
that cannot last much longer. Our
virgin soil is rapidly becoming ex-
hausted, and the farmers must resort
to modern methods Of replenishing it
with fertilizing substances.
Glover will thus come more promi-
ncrtly to the front in wheat-growing
sections. Many farmers get rs much
value from their clover as they do
from their wheat, but it is not this
alone that clover is raised for. 1t Is
for the mechanical and nutritive eff.
feet it must always have upon the soil.
The necessity of supplying lime for the
wheat holds also for clover. Usually
the land is dressed with the lime at
the time the clover is sown. The clovre
plants avail themselves of this lime
just as much as wheat. 1t has been
found that lime is distinct friend to
clover, and if it is not exactly q plant
food it has such q beneficial effect on
the clover plants that one would not
be far wrong in CLASSIFYING it as such.
Lime spread over hard, clay soil has
wonderful mellowing effect that is
very beneficial, and in the end one
may produce q permanent mellow
loan out Of the stiff, hard clay. This
process is hastened and improved by
using clover with wheat. The roots
of the clover plants penetrate deeply
into the soil and break it up In the
course of q few seasons the most OBJ
durate soil can be reduced to some
thing like good tillable land in this
way. Such soil will not draw out in
dry weather, nor will it food the plant
roots in stormy weather.
1t is difficult to say which does the
greater amount of good,-the clover or
the lime. But one thing is certain,
used as combination they work Won
ders for the wheat land.-A. B. Bar.
rett in American Cultiyator.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
A New Name For Il.

A teacher In the sixth grade of one
Of our city schools finds time, now and
then, In spite Of the ten thousand and
one things unknown to the school
ma'am Of our youth which the modern
teacher is expected to teach, to give
her pupils talk on current history.
Recently she told them, one day, some
interesting things about Queen Vic
toria and her family. Portraits cut
from various magazines illustrated the
talk. Among them was a picture of
the Duke Of York. The teacher held
1t up. Nobody in the class could tell
her who it was.
"Well," said she at last. ~ will tell
you who this gentleman is. He is the
Duke Of York. And now can any Of
you tell me what he is?"
Quick as q fash the hand Of little
girl in the second row went up.
II can tell what he is, Miss Blank,"
she said proudly. Hes the heir con-
sumptiye to. the British throne."-
Washington Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Nof His Rrother's Keeper,

A herculean locksmith, who was
out of work, obtained temporary en-
ployment as q laborer on one of our
large railways. He was set. to work
with an "old hand" to shovel cinders
into a wagon.
When the foreman went to see how
they were progressing he observed that
the "old hand" was hoveling twice to
the big locksmith's once, and he re-
marked to the latter:
Look here, my man; Jack is throw
ing two shovelfuls into the wagon to
your once"
"Well, MASTER" replied the lock-
smith, give told the fool about it"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
The Smitten Conscience.

The heather who is speaking rs our
story opens wears white Fedora and
a skirt of palm leaves; whether by &C
cident, or in the full consciousness
that high hat never goes with bus
mess suit, we know not.
"Thiuk of the millions;" he "
claims, "that are spent to send mis-
sionaries to us!''
The other heather is visibly affected.
cit makes me feel guilty." falters
the latter. 'tReally, I suppose we
ought to get along with refrigerated
beef during the hard times, at least. p"
Detroit Journal
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Paid an Old Debt.

A story of singular honesty is told
of an old woman of Ebensburg. She
stopped one day in the open street,
and, accosting retired business man,
insisted upon giving him $3.50 which
she declared she owed him. He pro-
tested that she was no debtor of his,
but she forced the money upon him.
On examining his books at home he
found the money to be the sum
charged for n pair of boots made for
the woman forty years before, when
she was a young glrl.-New York Tri-
bunp.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Household Furniture in Poland.

In the homes of Poland there is not
much furniture, large bureau and
freezer invariably striking one as the
most prominent features. Next comes
the abundance of wooden utensils. All
pals, tubs, etc., are of wood, and, in
deed, in the country the kitchens
themselves are built throughout of
timber. The stoves in the country
are mach like the French ones, and q
further resemblance is occasioned by
the number Of copper pans WHICH
hang on the walls.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
English Barber a Bad Workman.

It would be hard to find a worse
workman Of -.hfs sort in any civilized
land, they say, than the average Eng
lish barber. IN the first place, English
BARRIERS have no chairs at all approach
Ing the American BARRIERS chairs FOR
comfort. When you go into IA English
shop you sit down into common
straight chair, and, If you are wise,
you brace yourself for such mauling
and hauling and pinching and scrap
ping as you won't forget in long
GaY,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
From All Sides.

SITS hard luck" said Agoncillo, 81
don't seem able TO please anybody"
sWhat's the trouble?" asked the
salaried friend.
ssIn the United States they COM
plain that I'm spy and in the Philip
pines they complain that I am not.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of tho ear. There is cniy one
way 10 cure deafness. and that is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets In
famed you have rumblng sound or imper-
feet hearing. and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam.
nation can be taken cut and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever. Nine cases out OF ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an In
famed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give Ono Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by catarrh) that can
II OF be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. SEND tor
circ ulars, free.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Had No Fighting Blcod.

"Pauline couldn't establish her
claim to be Daughter of the Revolu-
tion."
"Weren't her papers all right?"
''Yes, but they said she was too
peaceable. ."-Chicago Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
The Surest Cure.

"They say that Nell Gadleigh has
broken off her engagement with Harry
Nipples son"
eyes, she says he was SO affection
ate that he wearied her"
"Oh, if that was all, why didn't she
just marry him and have done with
the wearisome part of it?'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
The Usual Result.

Milliceut--What was the result of
their b til wanting their own way in
everything
Pauline : They neither Of them had
their own way in anything. Criterion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

In Alexander county, North Carolina. Mrs
Calm Bowman dropped dead in Friendship
church during services. She was just about
having her infant child ba ptized when death
claimed.h her.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

In the trial of q man at Savannah. Ga.
charged with emhezzlem mstrial was
ord cred on account of the death of child
of one of the jurors and the insanity of the
Jurors wife.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
.enuty Is Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
TIC clean yGqbr Ro1d 9 SeT Sna and ndsR dRrHs Hs ali
nurities 1 from the body. Begin. to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, loc, 25c, SOC.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

lam entirely cured of hemorrhage Of lungs
L1spAMAN, Bethany, Mo, January s, 1894
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netc. full OF life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wondcr.worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, SOC or 81. Cure guaran'
tecd. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New YORK
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

Mrs Winslnw's Soothing Syrup for children
teething softens the gums. reduces infamma-
ton. allays pain. cures wind collie. 25c. bottle
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
pars of the Horse Numbered.

The greatest electrician in the world de-
clares that the days Of tho horse are num-
bored, and that in n ehort time electricity
VIII om2le'eIy suppieht man Hss, ISeru, Sersn
will DO curiosity. Diseases oi the stomach,
liver, kidneys and blood would also DO
curiosity II all sufferers would take Hostet-
ser's Stomach Bitters. There would then be
practically no dyspepsia, nervousness, Sleep
iessness, indigestion, constipation, malartal
Sever or ague.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Eo-To-Bac FOR FIFTY Cents.

In cultivating your virtues, be sure an6
uproot your vices.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

A negro at Raleigh, \. c.. had both feet
amputated recently as result Of being frozen
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

woman in Indiana sues for a divorce,
$40. alimony and the custody of IA children.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

At Staunton. Va. man had spell OF hic-
coughing which lasted seventy-two hours.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weah
men strong, blood pure. SOC. 81. AL druggists
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

Educate Your Bowels With Cascarees.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

A San Francisco woman went into trance
and slept nearly eleven months.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

TO Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathcrtic.. 1oc or 2oc
TIC C. C. fail to cure. druggists refund money
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
"Rsace Hath
Her Victories

so less renowned than
guar, said Milton, and noSv.
IN the Spring, IS the time
TO get a peaceful Uictory
over the Impurities svhich
haze been accommodating In
the blood during Winter s
hearty eating. The ban
ner of peace IS borne alof
By Hoods S Sarsaparilla.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

The true Christian can be trusted rs far as
God can see htm.-Ram's Horn.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

It brings rest and comfort to the weary
body racked by pains OF all sorts and kinds.
It's beneficial effects prove 1t to be the
great specific to be relied upon for victory.
Hoods neuer disappoints.
Salt Rheum-'My mother was serious
" afflicted with salt rheum and painful run,
ming sores. No medicine helped her until
Hoods Sarsaparilla was used, which made
her entirely we'll" EssE E. MAPLEsToNE,
ass Dearborn Street, Chicago, H.
Tired Eee.ing-"I had that tired, dull
feeling dyspepsia,o headaches and sinking
spells' but Hoods Sarss parina made me 3
new man. l never was better than now"
JOEY MACK, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

At Plymouth. Mass. a man was killed by
lightning while ringing church bell.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19
To Cure a Cold in One Day.

Take Laxativa Bromo Quinine Tablets All
Druggists refund money If IT fails to cure. Csc.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

Compound is the overcoming OF cases
of supposed barrenness. This great
medicine is so we'll calculated to regu-
late every function Of the generative Or
eans that its efficiency is vouched for
by multitudes of women.
MRS. ED. WoLFoRD, of Lone Tree,
Tor,, ,,,r;tac.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-04-19

"We'll marry now to spite her,
won't we?"
"Yes, if you-look out, dear.
You'll scratch your face against my
scarfpin.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-11

for that will keep better at moderate
temperature than either the milk Or
cream.
Hurry things as much as you can,
but if there is any delay let it be with
the butter. Make the butter into
pounds the shape of brick and cover
each piece with parchment paper,
very cheap article, that will add sever
al cents pound to the market price of
the butter. Put these pounds in tin
bucket with a close-ftting lid and hang
it in the we'll until ready to go to town.
You ought to ship twice week. All
good customers require that. Do not
let the bucket when in the we'll get in
the water or it will float around and
get hit with the we'll bucket.
In selling butter there is nothing
pays like style. Customers taste with
their eyes, not with their tongues. A
square pound of yellow butter put up
in a piece of parchment paper folded
nicely around it will sell when much
better article is left on your hands if
it is mussed up in an old rag or made
into big Oblong roll. When you once
learn how to handle it nicely the labor
will not be as much as it will to do it
wrong if you do it different ways each
time. Routine is a great saver Of la
Dor.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-10-11
The Southern Farmers Opportunity

Lie 0OuCnern FARMERS opportunity.
Not only is stock farming the most
profitable system of agriculture in all
civilized countries, but it is the most
permanent. Nowhere has it ever been
adopted and abandoned. We have
heard the opinion expressed that land
is becoming too dear for raising cattle,
or hogs, or sheep. This is broad, fiat
mistake; the richer the land the better
it is adopted to the feeding and devel-
oping of live stock. No one will dis
pute this proposition. AS the produc-
tiveness of land, other things being
equal, regulates the price, it will be
seen that the dearer the land the bet
ter for raising stock, is general rule.
Beef, pork, mutton and dairy pro-
duets are proftably produced in the
older States and in Europe on lands
worth from 500 to $500 per acre. The
most valuable farming lands in the
world are the stock farms Of this coun-
try and Europe, because the fertility
is maintained, and even improved, and
the intelligent labor and thought re-
quired to make stock farming success