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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
rho sun,,mated Shirt waist.

The shirt waist of linen, severe and
tailor made, and the sublimated shirt
waist of batiste, brocade OF crepe de
Chine are really first cousins after all,
aud, strange as 1t may seem, the
woman who is naturally stylish"
looks as we'll IN one as in the other.
Nothing is more becoming, if it is be-
coming at all, than linen shirt waist,
properly fitted and modish in cut;
The woman who has natural style"
seldom looks we'll in the severely SIM
pie blouse of linen or madras, but the
nrtful blouse of soft material eau
transform her into thing of beauty:
A charming soft little blouse Of white
null is arranged in narrowly tucked
stripes alternating with insertions of
Valenciennes lace. The high trans
parent collar of lace is pointed at the
sides, and the sleeves have transpar-
ent cuffs that reach almost to the fn-
ger tips.
Silk shirt waists with corded tucks
stitched in contrasting color, batiste
waists with simulated yokes and boil
eros Of lace and embroidery, and soft
crepe waists with lace iabots and gem
buttons are delightful additions to the
seasons wardrobe.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
A Oheen'S Charity.

We hear less about Portugal than
about Spain at any time and of late
have heard less than usual. The
Queen of Portugal is sovereign de-
serving long mark for her interest
in hospitals and hygiene, and also in
the welfare of the children Of poverty:
At Alrantara she founded, in 1893,
a dispensary peculiarly for meeting
the demands of childish invalids, as
pleasantly situated as possible and
spaciously planned, combining diet
kitchen, consultation rooms, surgical
halls and much of the departmental
work of hospital. Almost every day
the queen herself goes to the estab-
lishment and takes personal, share in
the labors of the charity-now waiting
in the kitchen distributions, and again
ass sting in the surgery. Several
we'll known women of her cotirt are
equally practical. The general charge
of it is committed to o religious order,
favorite of the queens, but the emf
nent Portuguese physician, Dr.. Silva
Carvalho, heads the staff of medical
workers. In one year, (lS95) there
were given in the building $3.50 con-
sultations, 63, 704 rations from the
diet kitchen, 80, 521 bandagings, 76,
4SO prescriptions and 470 vaccina.
tions. The milk and vegetables are
furnished gratis by the queen, and
the medical supplies are also betrayed
by her. Fifteen hundred babies were
treated in one twelvemonth. 1t i
said that there is not any royal char.
ity of the sort in Europe SO efficiently
managed, with the additional active
cooperation of the founder. r.-Har.
per's Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Women ms Druggists.

Comparatively few women have thrn
far become druggists. 1t certainly
has not been on account of their disa-
bility for such work, for their deftness
and delicacy of touch, aud their Ia
tience and extreme cleanliness, make
them most valuable in the laboratory.
In business the only women who sue
ceed are those who go to their work
with u positive conviction that they
have selected wisely and we'll and
whose energies ace tireless. 1t is true
they are not often SO we'll pHid for the
same work rs men, but it is to be
hoped that the world will soon realize
that there is no sex i'll brains, and that
this error Of the present day will soon
be rectified.
The course of study to fit one to
prepare and dispense drugs and to
learn the principles of immediate use
in drug store usually extends over q
period of from year and half to two
years; it includes certain amount OF
instruction in Latin, chemistry, bot
any, materia medica, microscopy,
pharmacy, etc. The fees for instruc-
tion at the various colleges of pharm-
acy throughout the country are mod
erate-about S75 term, which covers
all necessary expenses.
The work is eminently suited to a
refined, educated woman, though to
gain admission to any of the colleges
only good general education is neces-
sary. Once qualified as a dispenser
there is always employment to be
found. The work is not usually we'll
enough paid to attract an oyerplus of
men, and is consequently too frequent
ly in the hands of Indifferent persons,
condition to be deplored when it is
remembered that for this particular
enterprise women's abilities are un-
luestionably fitted. American Queen.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
The Most Powerful Poison.

The most powerful poison known to
science is extracted from the tetanus
bacillus-the bacillus of locklaw..
Cultures are treated by laboratory
process and yellow flakes of intensely
poisonous material obtained. 1t is SO
poisonous that 4 mouse weighing half
an ounce was killed by less than one7
millionth part of a grain, while one
three-hundredths of a grain will Kill n
man weighing $50 pounds.
An extract of the caster bean called
Ricin produces poison such that one
hundred-thousandth of grain will
kill an animal weighing two pounds,
and one one-hundredth of a. grain
would be fatal dose to man., Two
scientists, Mitchell and Reichert, have
discovered that the poisons of ser,
pents differ from those produced b.
decaying animal matter and plants
or from mineral compounds! sThey
belong to group called proteids, but
are rude and barbarous compared with
the lightning repidity OF action. and
absolute destruction following the use
of Ricin.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Fashions AGAINST Suffrage.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in
speaking to club woman the other
day, expressed herself as entirely ont
of sympathy with that kind OF femi-
nine taste that induces woman togo
about with q trailing dress andano
pocket. She spoke on the matter in
this wise: "a ~
"To ME ore of the saddest sights Id
DIR streets today is an educated
woman wearinga trailing dress that is
destitnte of n pocket. T Behold hsrt
In one hand she chrries heriunibrella;.
fan, cardcdse; pocketbook and hand
kgrehisf; with tile other she holds up
her dress if she attempts to prevent it
from trailing in the dust t:----Phus' -sa.
numbered, her skill in getting. iii and
out of cars, ETC., passes oil UNDER
standing. TRUE, she occasionally
falls, twists her ankle or drops all her
possessions, and these the sons Of
Adam kindly pick UP and restore to
her:"
III have tried;" went oil The dyed
rsformer; pathetically; 'for fifty years
to bring about the equality Of athe
male and female Of the human family;
but in view of this everyday picture
what Gun I say? I, mother i'll. Israel,
have no influence with my country
women compared with the Parisians
who set the fashions. All my petit
tions, appeals and protests have thus
far been iii vain. Skirts must have
graceful sweep OH the grotnd; they
must be tight to the figure to show the
outline of form. The pocket was
banished from the front that it might
not interiors with the set 6f the skirt;
then some one had it ssquestered id
the gathers at the back, but now the
edict has gone forth that the skirt
must be tight aud smooth NIL around'
SO tile deathknell of the. pocket is
heard throughout the length and
breadth Of the land. :,
'Suppose some new Beau Brummell
should send forth decree that ones
sire and sons should have fonnce on
their trousers, or their outer garments
should be too tight and smooth topper
NIT them to have pocket, think you
they would submit to such folly? Not
they.
I tremble to think what I have
lone to get the suffrage for women,
fearing all the foolish fashions they
might by law cause to appear in our
midst. New York. Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Giennincs from the Shops.

White silk stockings having the
tpenworI instep threaded with white
baby ribbon.
White>and colored taifeta silk para
soils, plain and corded, mounted on
bamboo sticks. SgT 9
Pique stocks in all shades with
white ends attached that can. be tied
in any preferred form. -
Long neck scaris made of delicate
pink crepe de Chine showing appliques
in rich black thread lace.
A great variety of allorers in taste
full combinations of ralenciennes lace
and openwork embroidery.
Costumes of figured or striped mus
lins trimmed with groups of narrow
frills arranged in bayadere effects .
Gowns of white foulard lavishly
decorated with lace finished on the
lower edge with marrow silk fringe.
Brilliantine and flannel bathing suits
in black and navy blue with white or
red the preferred shade. of trimming.
Many windsor and broad end four.
in-haud ties of checked OF striped
madras, wash silk or fancy gingham.
Many chemisettes composed of al.
ternating rows of fine lace inserting
and bouillonnes of inousseline OF
gauze. .,,Y
Costumes of white tafieta made with
pointed tunic finished with a broad
hounce of rich guipure headed by sew
eral rows of matched inserting and
lace sleeves. Dry Goods Economist.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Notable Operation in Surgery.

A remarkable surgical operation is
reported to have been performed upon
Adrian Dehertoghe, a machinist of
San francisco. Fifteen yards Of sill
YER wire, as large around as an ordin-
ary hypodermic needle, were intro
duced into and coiled within his aorta,
the arterial channel leading directly
from the heart, and those forty five
feet of wire, which have been in there
for months, have, the surgeons say,
saved his life. They were inserted
at time when death seemed certain
complications resulting from n sev7
erely injured aorta, the patients trou-
BILE being an aneurism, 'r saculated
tumor of the arteria wall, its develop
ment to rupture of the aorta being
only question of time, with instant
death as the result The surgical
skill in treating such case was, Of
course, required to be the highest,
The wire was introduced into the, dis
tended or abnormal sac formed in the
aorta, in order partly to fill it and
form there clot, that would III time
contract and he there absorbed, there
by restoring the channel to its normal
formation. New York Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Mischief IS Done. ,
!. aRAssHoPPER GLACIER.


MyrIads OF the Insects. Overcome n'
a Cold, Perish on the Ice Surface.
There are many Observation-Disclosures
In that part of the Rocky Mountain
~uplift that.efosses~the southern, border
Of 6fontaRa. A part Of this fegidh has
hitherto been unmapped and its more
elevated portions were unYisited. and
unnamed untH 1astJsimner, when d
geological party piloted the way up the
mountains and discovered some of the
largest glaciers in the temperate re-
eions Of the western world! Here rises
Granite Peak, which, according to Mr..
Gannett, is the eliminating point OF
Montana: 1884 feet high. 49,
q Among the glaciers found an these
mountains n and recently described by
Mr.. James P. Kimball is Grasshopper
P Giaieiers,t which derives its name from.
the enormous Quantity ef grdssh5pper
remains that are found On and in the
glacier. Periodically the grasshoppers
that thrive in the prairie to the north
| take their flight s6uthwdrd and must
needs cross, the mountains: fheir fa-
/ yolrite route seems to be across this
wide glacier, and in the passage scores
I-of -thousands-of theh1- -siieeimb-to tile
rig5r Of cold and wind, fall helpless
upon the snow ahd are finally en-
tonibed in the ies. IN the course of
time billions Of them have been the
victims Of this gldcief. They drs; 5f
course. carried by the ice rivef down
into the valley and deposited at the
melting edge of the Ice, aid Mr.. Kim:
BAN says TINT thousands Of tons of
grasshopper remains. are the principal
material at the lower edge Of the
glacier We hear very often. of rocks
and sand as forming the terminal mo-
raine of glaciers, but here is glacier
whose principal morainal material is
grasshoppers:
.--Thesg insect femains are washed 5tit
Of the Ice in burrows wherever the
suns heat has grooved the surface into
runlets, Of descending water. Tie
grasshoppers permeate the glacier
from top to bottom. No fragment OF
Ice can be broken so small as not to
contain remains. Most Of the insects
have been reduced to coarse powder
and the burrows of them washed out
| by the runlets and naturally DISPOSED
In parallel lines are *ery dark i'd color.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Women Work While Men Fight.

"Half of the crops raised in Kan
sas are sown and gathered by women, )"
sad Seymour Davis, one of the lar
gest agriculthrists in Southern Kan
sas, in recent conversation. ''This
may seem rather startling state
ment to comprehend at first, but 1
know it to be absolutely true. Since
the war in the Philippines nearly 1000
more women have begun work in the
fields. Nearly every member of the
Twentieth Kansas volunteers was a
farmer, and they lett wives, sisters
and sweethearts behind them. These
women resolved at once to do the
proper thing, and they are running
The farms themselves while the boys
are away. It's n patriotic thing, but
there are more widows, orphans an!
spinsters who run farms than the
other class. Altogether, there are
A0Du women in the state who farm. [
think that is about so per cent. Of the
farmer population. l mean the heads
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
PlLLsBURY's GREAT FEAT.

Phys BlindfoItled Six Chess Games, two
Checker Games aud a Eapd at Whist.
H. Nelson Pillsbury, the American
chess champion, recently gaye an ex-
traordinary display at the Metropoli-
tan Chess club, London, of which the
lord chief justice is president.
He played blindfold against six op-
ponents at chess, a:ainst two at
draughts, and at the same time took
hand at whist. Seated at table at
one end of the room he coolly mani
pulated the cards wkile promptly
calling his moves in reply to the
"teller," Mr.. Mitchell, who announced
the moves of his opponents at chess,
and to James Hill. who performed a
similar Office for the draughts players.
Play proceeded rapidly, for the
American is quick thinker, and kept
his opponents very much alive.
Once he paused at one of the
draughts games and said, II guess I'll
make few moves right along at this
board" and then dictated six moves
in rapid succession, which sacrificed a
piece, but left him with winning
ending.
After so minutes play, he scored
his first win at No. 5 chessboard, fol-
flowed, 10 minutes later, by the re-
signation of the draught player re-
ferred to.
One of his chess opponents next
gave up, and the applause had scarcely
subsidized when the second draughts
player had to own himself beaten.
After this it was procession, and the
result was that Pillsbury won every
game of chess and draughts, notwith-
standing the fact that all engaged in
the contests were strong players.
Of the whist, the first rubber went
against him, the score being to 9;
the second rubber was not finished,
each winning point. Play lasted
three hours and quarter.
A hearty vote of thanks was re-
turned to Mr.. Pillsbury for the unique
entertainment he had provided.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
TIE BLIND HAVE NOT KEENER
SENSES: 80
German IconoclaBt Den,olishes
LonE-Estnblished Belief.

,aorman IconoclnBt Den,olishes d
LonE-Entnblished Belief.
A long series of experiments has re-
Gently been made by Prof. Fl. Cries
bach; of Basic; upon the. relative ecute-
ness of the senses Sf hearing; touch,
taste and smell in the case Ct the blind
and those who possess normal, vision.
The results are COZ talned Id Pfuger''s
Archiy. The observations were made
on those who were otherwise healthy.
In the differentiation Of tactile impress
sions no remarkable differences were
observed between the seeing and the
blind, or If small differences did exist
they were in favor Of the seeing. In
those born blind the tactile sharpness
was somewhat less than in the seeing,
and in some cases the sensorium gen.
orally was equally defective. The
blind in particular feel less acutely
with tile tip 6f the index finger than
do those who see; and Ill h1any cases
the tactile acuteness OF the two index
finger tips differs. In the blind, espe-
cially In. the region Of the hand, q
stronger impression is required to pro-
duce a tactile impression than in those
possessed of sight. w
In the capability of localizing i'm.
pressiors of. sound no difference exists
between the blind and the seeing. In
both grent individual variations occur.
AS rule, both in the seeing and the
blind the use Of the organ of both
sides gives better results than the use
Of one alone. No difference in the
acuteness Of heatife exists between
the blind and those who see. No rela-
ton was observed between the acute
ness Of hearing and the power Of local
izing sounds in either the seeing or the
blind. No difference was observed in
the twS classes Id regard to the acute
ness of SMELL. .--,.i. ;::s'r. -.
In the execution Sf:niaiuai labor the
blind become fatigued sooner than dc
those of equal, age who see. The blind
are more fdtigued With, manual than
with mental work, which is not the
case With the, seeing of the same age
If any difference exists lii regard te
exhaustion aftef mental lab6r it IS II
favor of those of the same age who
see.. Both among the blind and the
seeing, there are persons who have
many, others who have only a few
and others again who have no illusorJ
or erroneous impressions of touch.
These events are in many respects
opposed to generally received opinions
for it is usually supposed that depriva
tions Of. sight leads to exaltation Of thu
acuteness Of tie other senses; especial
iy of the toucii and hedring:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
The president ALWAYS chooses the

The president always chooses the
members of his party. With the AZ
ception of the train crew, every map
or woman aboard is his guest. One
feature of the expense of the journey
the president usually pays for. 1t is
the provisioning of his Car. 1t is no
small part of the cost of a trip, for in
much of the sparsely settled western
country through which President Nc
Kinley must ..ecessarily pass on his
next trip lie will breakfast and dine
on the train. 1t is matter of pride
with the car cook to put an elaborate
meal before the president three times
G day, so when the car is stocked the
best of everything is taken aboard y
New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
A FaBy Girl Mascot.

The officers; of the Seventeenth regi.
ment of French Chasseurs have adopt
ed gin baby as a regiment mascot.
The French regiments do not usu-
ally have mascots, or pets, as: the
Americans and British do. During
the Spanish American war the French
tneh heard great deal about the
American rnascots. The illustrated
papers published pages of pictures of
them; and excited the French public,
always enger for novelty.
Now, the FrencIman does hot love
dogs and goats quite as much as the
Anglo-Saxon does A human being
of the fair sex is more to his liking,
and the selection !of one In this case
strikes the French. public as, q happy
improvement Of the American mascot
idea.
Several officers of, the Seventeenth
Chasseurs found the little girl aban.
doned in railway carriage 1at Ram
bouillet, where, the regiment is sta
toned fhe bhby Gould have been ta7
ken to & foundllug asylum, but the Of
ficers, being kind-heartea and in a
good humor, decided to save her from
the fate. They took her home to the
barracks and all of them cheerfully
agreed to adopt her as "the daughter
of the regiment"
Arrangements were made with q
sergeant's wife to care for Her: The
little girl will in future 60 wherevei
the regiment goes, and be educated
at its expense.
1t has been suggested that this mas
cot will entail a great deal more
trouble whsH she grows up than If
the regiment had adopted dog, a
goat or monkey.-Roston Glose.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
The GIncior Streams Of iceland.

ine UlucIor StEeHDus OF 2cefhnus
Ali the gidcier streams of iceland
possess the COMMON characteristics of
carrying down large quantities Of peb-
bles and clay and of spreading out
over the lowlands in Il network Of
channels. Generally they emerge from
their parent glaciers with pretty
steep fall and gather heavy burdens
of pebbles and debris from the mo-
rdines-so heavy, indeed, that when
the strength Of tile current dihit1ishes
the stream cannot carry its load; but
drops it. The river bed thus gets
choked up, the current divides. The
strongest blanches force their way
through the debris, encounter fresh
obstacles, run into one another, coal
esce with other branches, gain acces-
ions of power, once more burst
through the deposits of gravel, send
off small side arms, again diminish. in
volume, and SO 80. through the. whole
process afresh. Thus there is an I'm.
eedsing struggle between the glacial
torrents and the masses OF grdvelly
debris, giving rise to, an incessantly
changing network of interconnected
ehunhels.
One day o. river branch will be swol:
len to the dimensions Of, a dangerous
river, the next day it will contract to
the compass Of ati Insignificant rivu.
let. A minute ofteh suffices to cause
stoppage, division of the current'
the carving out of d new bed. Some
of these streams become damned up
till they form lakes, which overflow
and inundate many square miles Of
the adjacent country. Some cut out
such deep channels through the glacial
debris that they do not shift theil
glacial torrents. therefore, often pre-
sents n picture of an extremely com
plicated network Of hundreds OF
branches, Iinclosing between them
multitude of islands of clay and sand
which are equally as variable as tht
rivers themselves. 1t may be accept
ed as IN invarible law with regard tt
the glacial streams of Iceland tha
they never empty. themselves into tn
| deep fjords. 1n all cases where the!
formerly did SO the fjords have be
come choked with sand, gravel, ant
clays.-Geographical Journal. -
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Enrrnt Himself.

Absent-minded persons are not in
frequently met among the medical
profession, who of all men should al
ways have their wits about them.
It is related that a well-known doc
tor was once present in a public place
when an accident occurred, and seeing
a wounded man, went about calling:
ga doctorl A doctor! Somebody go
and fetch doctorp'
A friend who was by his side ven
tured to inquire, 'sWell, what about
yourself"
.'Oh, DEAR" answered the doctor.
suddenly recalling the fact that he be-
longed to the medical profession, IT
didn't think of that!"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
I'D Soften NeW Gloves.

A new glove stretcher is treasure
to the woman whose patience is short
when a warm hand and new glove
have to be introduced to each other.
The stretcher is of similar shape to
those now in use, with the exception
that one finger is hollow and contains
a powder, which is discharged inside
the glove when the stretcher is iii
opnration.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13
Must Have n Good Head.

"And is your son going to be a good
business man;T'. ia tsi'..l!
II guess. so.. They seem to think
pretty we'll Of him, down ats the Office,
anyway. They haveH't said a word
about discharging him, in spite Of the
fact that his handwriting is the same
as it was when he came out of
SCHOOL, Times Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-09-13

Clet.h blood n.eans d. clean skim. No
beauty without It. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean YOUR blood and keep 1t clean. by
stirring up the lazy lifet and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotchesi. blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cnscarets. beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, Csc, SOC.