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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Vienna Coffee Houses.

The coffee houses play an important
part in all the business ventures that
are organized in Vienna, Austria. The
Yiennese cannot do business without
his coffee. When he is visited by a
fellow business man who has some
scheme to propose, they adjourn Inn
mediately to the nearest cafe, order
coffee for two, pass a few pleasant re-
marks on the weather and compliment
each other on his prosperous appear
ance. When the cups are emptied one
of the gentlemen takes out his dainty
cigarette case, proffers cigarette,
and they are ready for business.
On rainy days the coffee houses are
filed oil day long. Every cafe sub
scrlbes to scores of newspapers and IL
lustrated periodicals in all languages,
and it is common sight to see one
person with q pile Of papers at his
side so high that one wonders whether
he has not reserved FOR himself all
the reading matter in the establish
ment. This custom may be said to be
the direct cause Of the uhprogressive-
ness of Viennese journals. When the
people can enter a cafe and by spend
ing q few cents on cup Of coffee pc
ruse all the dailies and weeklies pub
lished, and without having to wait for
their turn-for each coffee house gets
several copies of each perlodical-they
are not apt to invest many pennies III
daily reading matter.-New Yorls
Times. @
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Making Ants Useful in Science.

1t is generally known that any
small dead mammal or bird, when left
near an ant hill, will ultimately be
found picked clean of flesh. The ants
are clever and do their work quickly.
1t has been lately demonstrated that
they can be made useful in the direc-
ton of skeletonizing specimens. Pro-
fessor Bernard has been employing
ants MS his servants. T.
While in Florida he had o fox-squir-
rel thus skeletonized in single day.
The only agents employed were ants.
His method of procedure is to kill
his specimen, bind it with wire in the
position in which he wishes theskele-
ton to remain, and then placs it near
group of ant hills. Tie yoracious
ants do the rest.
The operation requires careful
watching lest the chronological dis
sectors should not be content with
simply devouring the flesh, but should
attack the cartilage that holds the
bones together. At precisely the
right moment the professor removes
the specimen from the neighborhood
of the ant hills and applies a preser-
vative and hardening chemical to the
cartilage. Popular Science News.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
ENGLAND WOULD WIN.

France No Match for Her, According to
Naval Authorities.
The naval authorities of the United
States do not expect war between Eng
land and France, but if it does come
it is their opinion that the resultwould
be similar to that between the United
States and Spain. While France has
the larger army, the fighting will be
done at sea, where England is supe-
rior not only to France but to any
other nation. She has twice as many
battleships OF the frst-class as France,
three times as many Of the second
class and five times as many of the
third class.
Great Britain has 21 frst-class ar
mored cruisers, while France has only
4; she has % frst-class protected
ruisers, while France has 5, and
4S second-class protected cruisers,
while France has 1s. Great Britain
has II second-class cruisers and France
has 6. She has 81 third-class pro-
tected cruisers and France has II. OF
the third-class, partly protected, Great
Britain has % and France none. OF
the sloop class she has IS and France
Is. France, however, has 18 third
class cruisers, with no corresponding
rating in the British service. In the
line of coast defense, non-seagoing
ironclads, Great Britain has IL and
France IL. OF the heavily armored
gunboats Great Brain has 49 and
France 12.
Great Britain has 39 torpedo gun
boats and France15 She has 95 tor
pedo-boat destroyers, while France
has SO She has 81 torpedo boats Of
class /; France has so. Of class 2
she has 80 and France 169; of the
third-class she has 104 and France 46.
A general summarization shows the
following: Great Britain has SS line
vessels, l53 cruisers, go coast-defense
and 3l3 torpedo craft France has
60 line, IA cruisers, "a coast-defense
and 2SS torpedo craft.
Great Britain's armored cruisers are
the finest afoat. They were no bet
ter than the New York was when
she was launched six years ago, but
have been greatly improved since, both
III their number and effectiveness. The
most formidable battleships in the
world also belong to Great Britain,
although they are not much superior
to the Iowa, the Illinois, the Kear-
sarge, the Oregon and others of our
navy. The most powerful ship in the
English navy is q battleship 400 feet
in length, rs feet beam, &c feet 8
inches draught Is knots speed, coal
capacity for 1900 tons, and displace-
ment OF 14,6oO tons. Its armament
consists of four twelve-inch wire
wound guns, twelve six-inch, sixteen
four-inch and a number of machine
and rapid-fre guns. The most power
full ships in the French navy are the
ST. Louis and Charlemagne, each hav-
ing displacement of II, ,260 tons and
speed of seventeen Knots Their,
armament is not mp to several of the
battleships of our navy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Cats and sheiifish.

'Did you ever notice the cats about
the oyster stands of the city ?" asked
o gentleman who takes an interest in
zoology. .'They are invariably as fat
as butter. That is because they get
plenty of shellfsh to eat, and, by the
way, the fondness of cats for that kind
of diet is mystery which I'd like to
hear some evolutionist explain. A cat
will go crazy over shrimp, and ut is
all the same whether it's city cat or
hayseed cat that never saw water
except in cistern. It's taste born
in them, like their fear of dogs, and
the question is, how the mischief did
they acquire it? According to the
evolution theory, such traits are in
herited and traceable to conditions
away back toward the beginning of
things, That would seem to indi-
cate that the primal cat was fisher,
but how is one to reconcile the idea
with the instructive abhorrence of the
tribe for water Their craving for
shellfsh is certainly so pronounced
that there must be an excellent rea-
son behind it, and, altogether, it is
quite pretty little problem for some
savant. 1t is too hard for me. New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
She Routed the Governor.

This is tale of Governor Pingree
and woman:
They met this morning. The woman
wanted pardon for her son, who is
now serving time for theft. The co.
ernor didn't want to commit himself
without learning the particulars of the
case. He got them. The woman said
her son had never stolen anything, and
wanted the pardon quick. The gov
ernor ouldn't agree, and then there
was row. The woman said it was Oh
outrage, shame; she would see about
it right off. The people of the state
should know all about this governor of
theirs. She would appeal to the press
and expose such police system.
The governor ran andlocked himself
up in his private room. The woman
then turned upon the executive Office
employees, and after relieving her
mind left the building in high dud-
geon. She forgot to leave behind her
name and the particulars of the case.
Detroit Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Bismarck Was Never DIscourteous.

Strange as it may appear in the Man
of Blood and Iron, Bismarck could
not be discourteous to people-though
others were not always as considerate
to him. Professor Lenbach, than
whom perhaps nobody except Profess
sor Schweninger knew Bismarck so in
,timately, once told me: 'In all the
wears I have known Prince Bismarck
I only remember him speaking hastily
on one solitary occasion. A mar-ser-
want had shut the door with bang.
Bismarckrang the bell, and when he
appeared, told the man sharply that
he was to leave at the end of his
month. About quarter of m hour
afterwards he rang the bell again, and
said, in Modified voice, You may
stay That was all."-Sidney Whit
man, in Harper's Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
The Little Soudan Warriors.

Standing by Westminster bridge I
watched the first detachment of TO-
turning grenadier guards from the
Soudan march past from the station
to their barracks. They got, as ex-
pected, boisterous and hearty re-
ception from crowd two miles long,
but what struck me most forcibly was
the extreme youth and undoubted ex-
haustion of good many of these war
riors. Hard by me, as the soldiers
filed past, stooda brewers cart, drawn
by those huge horses SO we'll known
to London visitors, and driven by n
burly six-foot-tour drayman, three
guardsmen in breadth. This gigantic
critic watched, puzzled, for while.
Then, leaning over to his matte. he
exclaimed:
'eWhy, they're only boys"
The drayman would have been still
more awestruck had he seen the
towering warriors of the Khalifa,
whom these boys so lately laid low
Londo Correspondence, in New York
Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Police Searchlishts.

A miniature electric searchlight for
the use of policemen, watchmen, min
ers, engineers, etc., is on the market.
1t is great improvement on the old
oil-burning lamp. The new light is
club-shaped, made of leather with
nickel trimmings, with a lens in one
end that throws o brilliant light of
considerable dimensions. Flashed in
dark corners, in the rear of stores, in
dark streets it quickly reveals any
person or thing. The light is of three
and half volts, and the lamp in length
is eight or nine inches and weighs
about pound. It is said to be good
for several thousand flashes by simply
pressing the thumb on clasp. The
illumination is furnished by dry bat
terry which may be replenished at a
cost of 80 cents. s.-F' ectricity.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
A Victim of n Cruel Joke.

A we'll known man-a staid and
serious bank manager-was passing
by the Liverpool town hall few
mornings ago, when he noticed we'll
dressed man hur,Sing toward Castle
street. They reached it together, and
then the young man looked at him
with nervous start.
aoh. Sir he gasped, will you
please call my friend for me@ She is
crossing the street. II have lung
trouble and can't shout"
The elderly man looked where he
pointed, and, sure enough. there was
young woman with bright feathers
in her hat just crossing the road ut q
brisk rate.
"What's her name:" he asked.
''Ethel."
''Ethel!' shouted the bank man.
ager.
The young woman with the feathers
was almost across, and she didn't turn
around.
''Ethelp' he roared again.
This time she stopped and looked
round, and the excited old gentleman
motioned to her. When she came
across the elderly bank manager was
turning round to receive the thanks
of the young lung-troubled man, but
he had gone! Then there was trouble.
Weekly Telegraph.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

ence. Itrelieves the condition that pro-
duces so much discomfort and robs men
situation ofits terrors. Hereis proof:
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-How can l
thank you enough for what you have
done for me? When wrote to you ]
was suffering untold pain at time OF
menstruation; was nervous, had head
ache all the time, no appetite, that tired
feeling, and did not care for anything.
have taken three bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, one
of Blood Purifier, two boxes of Liver
Pills, and to-day am well person. l
would like to have those who suffer
know that am one Of the many who
have been cured of female complaints
byyour wonderful medicine and advice.
Miss JENNIE r. MILES. Leon, Wis.
Ifyou are suffering in this way, write
as Miss Miles did to Mrs. Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass, for the advice which she
offers free OF charge to all women.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
rornedoBonts Are Dangerous Things,

We have learned that the torpedo.
boat service has been the most dan
gerous afoat. More men have lost
their lives on torpedoboats than on oil
the other naval ships put together.
We know that this service tries the
men, in nerves and muscles, more
than any other, while young officers
have. had the responsibility of indie
pendent commands. So this service
has done more than NIL others to i'm
prove the personnel of the navy. And
it is not unlikely that the most help
full part of the experience of the bat
tleship crews was that had when they
faced the black mouth of Santiago
harbor watching for an enemy that
had not the nerve to come.-John r.
Spears, in Scribner's.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Afopsy Turyy Land.

The laws of the Japanese is that Of
inversiop-at least 1t seems so to. US.
Viewing thinge from an Oriental
standpoint, we would probably think
our present way Of life the topsy
turyy way and pity ourselves for
shortsightedness and foolishness, as
they do now.
In Japan white Is mourning both
for men and women, while women In
dicate their age by their costume. The
Japanese has NO foundation to his
house, but instead the roof is ba!las-
ted, that being considered better
safeguard against the violent storms.
After, dinner speeches are made be-
fore dinner, and probably no custom
shows the innate good breeding of the
japanese more than this last. Think
of the belated guests If such custom
were ours! Think Of the speeches
thrown to the air!
Some of the japanese symbols are
interesting and deserve recognition,
so popular are their works Of art in
our homes. Look closely at japanese
screen, panel, kimono, fan, and you
will find, the inevitable cherry bios
som, the national flower; the plum,
which signifies sweetness of heart;
the pine, the strength of vigorous old
age; wollan under roof, charming
%. nbol of content.
The obllqueness of the Japanese
eyelid, which comes before one always
in speaking Of anything japanese, is
caused, it is said, by their living in
t'gh latitude, protection of nature
accorded, too, to many animals.-New
York Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
RenIanlln FrsnkIIn,s Nepotisnl.

In the Century Paul Leicester Ford
writes of ''Franklin's Fanny Rela-
tions," the first Of q series Of papers
on "The Many-sided Franklin" which
he will contribute to that magazine.
OF Franllins grandson, Benjamin
Franklin Bache, Mr.. Ford says: When
Franklin went to France in 1T76. he
took his grandson with him, to "gire
him little French language and ad-
dress.s With still other ends in view,
so soon as he was settled In Paris, he
''sent him to finish his education at
Geneva" (" as az intend him for Pres
byterian as well MS a republican
Here the boy remained four years. and
then returned to live with his grand
father, who wrote the mother: 81 have
a great deal of pleasure in Ben. He
is q good honest lad, and will make, I
think, valuable man." "He gains
daily upon my affection" and I'VE
love him very much" Young Bache
came to America with his grandfather,
and by his aid was established as q
printer, Franklin supplying all the
equipment for the Office, which he left
him in his will, together with other
property. In his behalf. oiso, he asked
Washington for some public Office, an
application which shared the same
fate as that he had made for his other
grandson, by being refused. 1t vas
- q ~
Franklin had used his civil Office to
serve, his family more than TO serve
the public, and 50 there was sufficient
prejudice to make exclusion Of his
relatives almost q policy with the new
government. This discrimination, IN
time, led to Ill feeling, and eventually
Benjamin Franklin Bache became the
standard bearer of the journalists who
abused Washington.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
A Wife peluding Herself.

''It is very hard to make q woman
understand that she does not need to
manage oue," said a married man of
brief experience. :sIt's almost i'm
possible to convince her that one
understands her, that. she is not delud-
ing one the least little bit in the world.
When fell in love with Polly she
was whatshe is now in rare moments
mild and pretty and amiably appre-
ciative of my intellect. I did not ever
ask myself whether she was clever or
not. I didn't care. We got along
splendidly, like the pious boy and his
lazy brother, the first of whom said
the prayers and the last the :Amens.'
Well, I did the talking and Polly
egged me on with raising of eyebrows,
smiles and sympathetic Obs or 'Ahs. ;
Well, we married. I have learned
that Polly's friends were under the
impression that she had captured o
mental giant and was feeding him
with the sugar-plums of fiction. She
gave people to understand that I
labored under the delusion that she
was very brilliant person, like my
self, and that only her craftiness kept
me from finding out how shallow and
silly she was. Was ever o more
absurd idea evolved from the brain of
silly girl? Polly clever! Il, she
only knew that her mild eyes, with
the absolute ignorance of the world
that lies in their clear depths, are my
stars of hope, that her soft, faltering
voice, that gets shrill every time she
tries to talk learnedly, was what I
love better than Noratory, and that her
irresponsible way of discussing my
pet theories is what fatters and graft
fes me more than any amount of sane
praise from q really clever woman
we'll if she realized all that, I wonder.
if she would still believe that she has
managed, played with or 'deluded'
me?"-New York Commercial Adyer-
tiser.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Insurance Against Frost.

The authorities of allthe Swiss can
tons try in every possible way to pro-
mote the agricultural interests of
Switzerland. If late spring frosts or
hailstorms injure growing crops, the
government, where found necessary,
indemnifes farmers with moneys ap-
propriated for such purposes, and thus
helps them bridge over Improbable
seasons. On the other hand, laws are
passed and put into execution compell-
ing every land owner to protect his
crops from pests and mildew.-U. s..
Consular Report.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Buried Nitia-His- Meapons,

A doctor died and was buried at
Miltonville the other day. In the'fu-
neral procession the doctors team was
led Just behind the hearse and prop
ped on the buggy seat was the doc
tors medicine case. And yet some
people reject the belief that heredity
has brought down to us the customs
of 5000 years ago. The earliest ac-
count of man tells us that the warrior
was buried with weapons.-Kansas
City Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
rs.

nRs.
Thirty yel were only.
two dozen exI IDS known
to chemists; over o
thousand. KS
The pupil Of y called
because when looEz ia very
small image of the may be
seen, hence the term, THE Latin
pupillus, or little pupil.
Hydrogen cooled to 205 degrees
and under a pressure of $50 atmos-
pheres is allowed to escape rapidly
through coil of tube into vacuum
vessel, doubly silvered and surrounded
by vacuous space maintained below
eco degrees centigrade.
In recent lecture the German an
thropologist. Kollmann declared that
neutrality-suspicious. have shown that
the preponderance of the blonde type
in northern and the brunette type in
southern Europe. antedated the ap-
pcarance of the Germans and Romans
in history.
It has been computed by geogra-
pliers that, if the sea were emptied Of
its water, and all the rivers of the
earth were to pour their present floods
into the vacant space, allowing Moth
ing for evaporation, 10000 years
would be required to bring the
water of the ocean up to its present
level.
Polonium is the name ofan element
not yet isolated, but which NJ. and
Nine. Curie report to the French
Academy of Sciences they have dis
covered in the form of o sulphide in,
pitchblende. The new element is said
to resemble bismuth, chemically, and
its raidiating power is placed at 400
times that of uranium.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
One Experience.

'eDid you ever turn m honestpenny
in your life?" asked the business man
severely.
"Yes," answered Meandering Mike.
I gilded one an turned it into five
dollar gold piece. But it didn'tpay."
Washington Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Two Babies.

Mrs. Newma-Oh, wish you could
see Mrs. Winkler's baby. It's per-
fectly lovely! Such delicate, sweet
little creature as it is! It's perfect
little cherub, with the loveliest eyes,
the sweetest little mouth, the cunning
est little nose, and eyes of heavenly
blue. 1t looks US if it just dropped
from heaven and every tiny feature
Ind been fashioned by the angels.
Mr.. Newna-Is it as nice as our
baby?
Mrs. Newma-Mercyl no, not half.
New York Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
Beauty Is Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin: No
beauty without it. cascarets, Candy Catrnr.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean. by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
rurities 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. 1Oc. 25c. 50c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

'.And now, boys" he said, ''three
cheers for Margaret Clyde. It iaI.'t
every girl of sixteen that could have
done this sort of job in fifteen min
utes. She didn't lose her head for
one second, and I have On ider We'll
beat the Times on this story"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

The readers of this paper will be. pleased tc
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stages. and that Is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known tc
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being con;
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treatment Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken inter
mai '. acting directly upon the blood and mu.
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the patient strength by building up the consti.
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The proprietors have so much faith in it's cur.
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Sold by Druggists, T5c.
Hall,s Family Pills are the best.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
PERIODS OF PAIN.

Menstruation, the balance wheel OF
woman's life, is also the bane Of exist
ence to many because it means a time OF
great suffering.
While no woman is entirely free from
,,erio3ical pain. il does not seem to have
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11
pont 1oboeco spit and Smoke Your Lille Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To'
Dac, the onder-worker, that makes weak IT en-
strong. All druggists, 50c or 81. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teetline. softens the gums. reduces inhamma-
Hop. aliays pain, cures wind collie. 2Sc. q bottle
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

II Is said there has never been. race OF
men who were ignorant Of tho of fire.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

can recommend Piso's Cure for Consump-
tlon to sufferers from Asthma-E d. TOWN
SEND. Ft. Howard. Wis. May 4, 1854.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

When a married woman goes away on q
visit and comes home earlier than she In
tended it is usually sign that she loves her
husband, though sometimes she comes back
to see If she can catch him ut anything.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-01-11

ALondon paper speaks Of a type-setting ma
chine which can be run without an operator.