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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Hoods Sarsaparilla
SEA BIRDS A NECESSITY.
They Are an lncaleulabIe Sanitary Benefit
Along Our Coast.
2Is Americas Greatest Medicine.

This country is on the verge Of los.
ing forever one of the main features
of its seacoast chnrms-the sea-birds
themselves. In fact, the Terms, the
most exquisite of the Gull family, and
which formerly thronged our whole
coast, have been so nearly wiped out
by agents Of the milliners that this
years onslaught, already fully organ
lied, will CLEAN almost the last pair
from the few small breeding colonies
which remain, wherever these are un-
protected. And the larger gulls, which
are not only very beautiful, but abso-
lutely essential as harbor scavengers,
are also being decimated for the same
purpose.
All these species, with their exquisite
beauty, their wild voices and their
most romantic lives, peopling d realm
which; without them. would be 5ppres-
sive iii it's dreary grandeur, viii reach
theft breeding places in few Weeks,
and tie Teris, ESPECIALLY, are liable
to be slaughtered the moment they
get there; therefore the promptest ac-
ton is necessary, IL we are to save
even the few pairs of the latter which
could re-stock our devastated coast
when the evil eye Of fashion shall have
turned to other victims.
In DonciIoro tions
make it a matter of course that the
gulls must be saved. An immense
horde of them, which naturalists think
number anywhere from a hundred
thousand to million, gorge twice q
day in New York Bay upon garbage.
AS the hour of the dump" approaches,
their multitudes fill the whole air to
an immense height, over an area Of
several miles, then gradually settle On
the sea in vast white sheets. The
whistle of the police boa, the signal
to dump" seems to watt them simul-
taneously into the air, to gather, like
dense snow clouds, over the floating
masses just emptied from the many
scows.
Imagine from what an amount Of
putrid matter these birds, as big as
hens, save the adjacent beaches, not
to speak of their perpetual cleaning in
the actual harbors! And this Is O
specimen of what occurs at every port.
If money enough can be raised, the
Committee Of the American Ornithol-
,ogists' Union will guard every breed.
Ag place where there is a law to back
b, as Mr.. Mackay and Mr.. Dutch
1--we done at Vineyard Sound Isl.
s. and Great Gull Island.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
The Damage to Foliage,

: During the droughts and hot days
Of the past parching SUMMER much
damage to foliage was caused upon
certain crops and trees, notably sugar
beets, cauliAowers, cherries and
naples. The leaves of the sugar
beets went down as though struck by
blight or similar disease, the young
cauliAower plants lost many of their
unfolding tender blades through
parching and death of their margins,
and cherries and naples in certain To-
calities stood denuded long before
time for foliage to fall. These injuries
occurred soon after days in late sum-
mer when the drought had been long
continued and when hot parching
winds made sudden demand ou the
on the plants for more moisture.
That the Injury was due to this cahse,
excessive Transportation, and not either
to lack of water due TO drought, Or to
disease, has been demonstrated by
the New York agricultural experiment
station.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Microbes of the Sen.

From the study of phosphorescent
microbes, which has greatly interested
students of sea phenomena, zoologists
have now passed to the study of sea
microbes in general, and are announc-
ing their results with much enthusi-
asm.
The inference Is that aquatic life
produces more interesting variety of
microbe than do the circumstances
with which we are more familiar.
Some OF the luminous or phosphor-
escent microbes, for instance can live
comfortably at temperature OF zero,
centigrade. Others give out beautiful
colored liquids during their period Of
development. Many of the ocean
microbes are also capable of sponta-
neous movement. AS to form they
are varied and have been found in
almost all shapes, ~
The greatest number of microbes
are to be found near the shore. the
number decreasing toward the sea.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
UtiIize the Bones.

Converting the bones about the
farm into soluble fertilizer is another
of the small economies that it would
be we'll for every farmer to heed.
Very often good many bones of ami
mails that have died upon the farm
might be collected, if farmers would
give attention to such things; and
quite lot might be saved in the kit
chen in the course of a few months.
Instead OF being thrown away to be
carried off by worthless dogs or left
to rot in the forest, all these bones
ought to be collected and converted
into good phosphate by the farmer.
A bushel or two OF bones, packed
down in strong wood ashes, and kept
wet, but not wet enough to drip, will
make nice lot of fertilizer in few
weeks time.
A kerosene barrel is a good thing to
pack them in: First, layer of ashes
made wet, then layer of bones, and
next another course of ashes, and so
on, until the cask is almost full.
Leave space enough at top to hold q
bucketful of water, and keep the mass
wet. If you fear your ashes are not
very strong, add some of the powdered
concentrated lye from time to time.
Large bones should be broken small,
but all small or soft bones will soon
yield to this treatment. In a few
weeks turn the mass out on floor,
and with hoe or maui crush the
bones to powder, and you have as
good phosphate as the most that you
buy and at far less cost.
Superphosphate is made from bones
treated with sulphuric acid, which re-
duces them in few hours. But the
acid is risky article to handle, and
the farmer with only small parcel oi
bones had better go slow and safe
with ashes. 1t will pay to utilize
bones in this way. Don't let bones
lie about in the woods where dead
animals were left, but gather them
up aud reduce them to fertilizer. Save
all the bones from the kitchen, and
Great them likewise.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Blushlng Bonnets.

A New York millinery house has had
an inquiry for 'blushing bonnets." In
asmuch as it was the first inquiry of
the kind, and as they did not know
what under the blue canopy a "blush-
ing bonnet" was, they instituted a
careful search to find out. The result
is interesting, even from q sordid COM
merclal standpoint. The "blushing
bonnet" is known In London, and 1t
may have had its origin there, though
q London authority thinks the credit
ought to 60 to Paris. 1t is any kind of
a bonnet with little spring and metal
clasp hidden behind flowers, and when
the head of the fair wearer of the bon
net is bent forward with that down
cast movement so becoming to modest
maids and matrons, the clasp presses
on the temples and compels q blush.
There is no chance for failure.-New
York Commercial.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Givin. Medicine to Horses.

TO give the horse drench or bolus
requires both skill and patience with
exceeding gentleness. All solid medi-
cines should be at first reduced to
powder and then rolled iu some viscid
material to form paste in an oblong
cylinder mass about two and one-half
inches long. "Place the right hand
fat over the bones of the animals
nose, grasping each side, thus to
steady the head, while with the left
hand the operator seizes the tongue,
drawing it outward to the off side, the
fingers resting on the lower jaw for
support. This will secure the tongue
from being drawn out too far. The
bolus should be grasped between the
first, second and third finger tips of
the right hand and carried over the
tongue to the back OF the mouth. I"
Withdraw the right hand quickly and
also release the tongue, instantly
closing the horse's mouth and holding
his jaws together. In giving draught
or drench, which is the liquid form Of
administering medicine, use horn,
or perfectly clean tin bottle. Stand
on the off side of the horse and Gin
sert the fingers of the left hand with
in the angle of the mouth, drawing
away the animals cheek in order to
form suitable pouch into which the
fluid is poured sin small and success
ssiye doses as the creature permits it
/: to pass down the gullet. The neck OF
the bottle, therefore, does not enter
the mouth and injuries from that
source are entirely avoided. The
tongue must be left quite free, as it is
most effective agent in carrying
fluids onward to the gullet, and its
action greatly facilitates the operation
of drenching. Our Animal Friends.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30

of lath large enough to cover all the
milk can he made with legs two or
three inches higher than the pans.
Over, this stretch muslin aud tack.
tightly. 1t eau be set to one side or
raised up on end aud down nga;n, COW
ering or uncorering all CT as much
as you want at once. The mus
lin can be taken off and washed, and
it does away with somany lids to scour
and sun und the milk is better than
when shut mp tight.
Tin buckets are the best for the
cream. In wine I hang my bucket
up near the ceiling and ripen my
cream as we'll MS in su inner. In sum-
met 1 skim sweet aid hang iii the
well, So without ice can make good
butter the year round. Mix must be
regularly SKINNED and the cream reg
hlarly cGlirned winter aud summer.
TNirty-six hours is long enough for
milk to set, and "a is too long if tho
milk clabbers. Cream should be
churned at least every other day in
summer and twice q week in winter.
Sixty degrees in summer and 65'to 70
in winter is abont the proper tempera-
lures to begin churuing, for the warm
air will raise it little in summer and
cool it in winter.
Stop churning when the butter
comes and draw off the milk. I liks
To wash the butter thoroughly by
whirling the churn, changing water
until itruns clear. Work just enough
to mix the salt. The grain then re-
mains and the butter is rich, sweet
and toothsome. Too much working
makes it solid and tallowy and de-
s.roys the sweet buttery taste. I
never work over butter that comes
solid in granules. I find customers
prefer it this way and every bit Of
milk and water can be got out if
churned at the right temperature.
There are people in every town who
are willing to pay good price for
gilt.eGge butter, and cows can be
made to be a source of revenue, not
to be despisod by the farmers family,
even when only few are kept. N:
W6lc5tt in American Agriculturist:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
ANNE LAURIE.

G Aeross tho sea q fragment,
Blown With the spray and mist,
ShoreWard from rosy distances,
Where shade and shine hold tryst,
An old song set In colorings
or gold and amethyst.
a ship on the horizon
Where misty curtains cling,
Lightly to clearer levels
Her sails Of voilet SWINGS
a schooner nearing the harbor,
Listen. The sailors sing:
eMaxwelton braes are bonnie
4 Where early fa's the dew,
Twss there sweet Annie Laurie
Gave me her promise true"
o. the rainbow lights of boyhood
Kindle my skies anew.
stMaxwelton braes are bonnie"
How sweet that old refrain,
The promises Of morning
Break into bloom again.
and ;on the ,lowly roof I hear
The music OF the rain.
suMaxwelton braes are bonnie"
There's mother at the door,
The cattle down the dusky lsne
Are coming as Of yore,
And mounted on the pasture bars,
Iswing and sing once ccore.
stMaxwelton braes are bonnie,"
o, bonnie maid Of mine,
Thro' all the mists OF distance
Again the dark eyes shine;
The world Is full offmusic,
And living seems divine!
Across the sea fragment,
Blown with the spray and mist,
Shoreward from rosy distances,
Where shade and shine hold tryst,
A vision and memory,
In gold and amethyst.
Jennie Bodge johnson, in Lewiston
Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

A mine is good deal like womar's
love; nobody can tell what it is worth.
We are not sent into the world to
do anything into which we cannot put
our hearts.
We have more power than will; and
it is often by way of excuse to our
selves that We fancy things are impos-
sible.
A good disposition is more valuable
than gold; for the latter is the gift of
fortune, but the former is the dover
of Nature.
Whatever happens We are not to
forget that peace at home and abroad
is the ideal for all who love their coun-
try and their fellow-men.
The trouble is that girl thinks her
labor is over when she has won
mans love, and doesn't tappreciate the
struggle that is coming to keep it.
Do not talk but of what you know,
do not think but of what you have
materials to think Justly upon, aud do
not look for things only that you like
when there are others to be seen.
Twenty people can gain money for
one who can use it, and the vital ques-
ton for individual and for nation is
never, "How much do they make?"
but, ''To what purpose do they spend?"
The development of great wealth in
this country is matter of not more
than 25 years, and it is scarce won
der that it has not been fully assimi-
lated to our social and economic and
moral systems.
It is the things which make up the
character, the habits, the customs,
the tastes aud beliefs of the great
majority of the people that control the
vastest interests of civilization and
human happiness.
Whenever money is the principal
object of life with either man OF nation
it is both got i'll aud spent ill, and
does harm both in the getting aud
spending, but when it is not the prip-
cipal object it and all other things
will be we'll got and we'll spent.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Short and Useful Paragraphs:

Bran is good thing fof growing
pigs.
In gardening clean culture is the
chief essential to success.
1t is the sheep that are kept on low;
wet pastures that have the foot-rot:
The moral is plain.
"No foot, no horse" so take look
OF the feet of your animal often and
see if everything is 20. r."
Probably the most ezacting of all
pursuits is farming, as itrequires con-
stant and careful watchfulness.
Make it habit to wash the cows
udder before milking. Most habits
are bad, but this is one OF the good
ones.
Be sure your poultry get some ami
NAL food. The advice has been given
often, and those who have taken it are
the ones who are getting the eggs.
A flock of "scrub" sheep will,bring
more profit in the hands of o we'll
bred sheperd than flock of well-bred
sheep in the hands of scrub
sheperd.
The weeds will soon pnt in an ap'
pearance. Don't let them get the
best of you, for every weed that grows
is taking just so much moisture and
plant nutriment from your soil.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Aruina,ao Once n Prisoner.

There is q story in circulation
among some of the army officers who
have just returned to Washington
from Manila that the army actually
captured Aguinaldo in Cavite Pro.
vince, put him in Jail for Is days as q
suspicious Amigo and then released
him only to hear of his identity after
lie had gotten away. The ability Of
the Philippine leader to make up as a
Chinaman, or "Chino," as they are
called in the Philippines, is said to
be remarkable, and only fellow M.
tive is able to penetrate such q dis.
gdise.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
A Boys Revenge.

The present German Emperor, then
a small boy, attended the wedding Of
the Prince and Princess Of Wales. he
was under the charge of his two uncles,
the Duke OF Edinburgh and the Duke
of Connaught. AS may be expected,
young William fidgeted sadly, and con-
seouentiy received an occasional warn
ing tap on the shoulder. But how he
did revenge himself! His uncles were
in Highland dress, and the future en-
peror slyly knelt down and bit Into
their bare legs with great earnestness.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
A BREEZY TALK ON PHYSIOLOGY
Tho Wonders of Human Anatomy
in Picturesque Language.

in Picturesque Language.
Ask men at random and you will
amazed at their ignorance ofshgs 4
anatomy. This was amnsingly it
trated few nights ago at birthd
party given in residence in Forty
ninth street, near Fifth avenue, writest
Victor Smith, in the New York Press.
Several hundred people were present.
and among the amusements was a
series of questions that physician
propounded. Old and young got ludi-
crously tangled up on the rib inquisi-
ton, and it is solemn fact that
majority of the guests thought man
had more ribs on one side than on
the other, the missing constituent of
the thoracic wall being attributed to
Mother Eve. Only dozen or SO
replied that mau had the same mum.
Der as woman. What that number is
less than ten correctly stated.
"Who was the first artisan?" was
one of the questions, and when every
body had given it up the answer was,
"God, because He took one of Adams
ribs and fashioned it into woman. !"
AS matter of fact each sex has, nor
mally, q ribs, II on a side. Many
men and women have managed to ex-
ist healthily with IL on q side, while
others have been obliged to struggle
along with 13. An extra floating rib
or two is a small matter. Ten are
known to be false.
Whenever the average man has g
pain in the small of his back he says
he is afflicted with kidney trouble,
whereat doctors smile. He has little
lumbago. When he has stitch in
his side he is cock sure his liver is in
q bad way. forgetting that indispensa-
BILE digestive organ is up in the thot-
acic cavity, farremoved from his waist
band. The world is alive with men
who possess but one lung and have a
floating kidney, severed vermiform
appendix, shifted pancreas, spliced
transverse colon, q punctured peri
cardium or an artificial mucous MEM
brane. Few of us remain whole and
sound, though we may begin life in
physical perfection.
The alimentary canal in man is
about 80 feet long, and there is moth
ing in nature more wonderful. 1t
looks on paper like map of the st.
Johns river, with its numerous lakes,
twists, turns, springs, etc. The mouth
is the source, or spring of life, as here
take place the reception and mechan-
ical division of the food which sus-
ia Ms us. The masticated or bolted
s:aff OF life is conveyed to the great
lake, o: stomach, through n channel
known as the esophugus, and here it is
is permi ted to rest until thoroughly
reduced and chemically prepared for
its journey on down the river. The
great lake has monstrous powers
of contraction and expansion. The
liver is a deep marsh, where giant
forest spectres haunt the night. The
pancreatic fluid is q slough of despond,
but necessary to our we'll being.
Then the river becomes q very mar
row channel where the duodenum, je
iunum and ileum capture whatever Of
nutriment may be in the food. I'M
agine canal that stands the severest
usage for 70, so, 80, 100 years.,
and never demands an appropriation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
meant was that if FIVE people we're in

meant was that if five people were ia
it, it couldn't be safer.'
cit does sound rather hohsense, -
said Miss Middleton unmercifully.
1t is not clear Why maidens at these
critical times are SO much more apt to
keep their heads than are men. M.
Travers thought it hard aispensa-
tion of nature, and Sought refuge
from his distraction by jogging the
canoe
aren't we shaking terribly?" asked
Miss Middleton.
'.Not at all, ".he answered.
''Canoes seem very frail," she ex-
planned.
ga girl knew" said Mr.. Travers,
thoughtfully, ''used to tell me that
she was quite nervous until she had
tried a canoe, but in the end she
thought otherwise. She even wanted
to get engaged in canoe. "
'tDid you crafty her wish" asked
Miss Middleton, with a rush of dig
nifty.
1.-THE girl was my mother, you
KNOW" said Mr.. Travers, scenting a
mistake. 'Tt was "Reminiscences of
hers. She was wondering hew should
some day
Eyes, yes-don't you think we
ought to be going back?" asked Miss
Middleton.
"I sho1ld like to know your opinion
Of boat as popping place." he per-
sisted.
Miss Middleton supposed that q
square, solid sort OF boat in the style
Of Noah's ark-guaranteed not to up
set-might net be unsuitable.
':But would you not approve of q
conoe2' he asked.
s.It would rock SO terribly" she
said.
"Why should it rock?''
Suppose" she said, ''the man
wanted to go down on his kuees-iust
to emphasize his wishes-that would
set it rolling to begin with.
Mr.. Travers was willing to enter.
tain that supposition.
Then suppose the girl said Mop
Mr.. Travers preferred not to sup
pose anything unpleasant.
''Still, if she did, said Miss Mid
dleton, 'sthe man would start up in q
very bad temper and begin stamping
about. "
Mr.. Travers was positive that no
man would be guilty of such conduct.
Hiss Middleton failed to see how Mr..
Travers could answer for men in gen.
cal. Mr.. Travers admitted that he,
was thinking of a particular case,
which caused Miss Middleton to go on
hastily:
'Tben, again, if the girl didn't say
No. she would probably expect"
"What?" asked Mr.. Travers.
Miss Middleton had unfortunately
forgotten the sequence of her SEN
tence.
..'But I must know, Daisy" he
said, earnestly. He ceased to pad le
aud the canoe began to roll. would
she expect
Continuous was the rolling of the
canoe.
'sWe shall be over Tn sure," said
Miss Middleton-'p 'please--yes-yes-
yes"
sat any rate the man expects"
said, Mr.. Trave:s, and the rolling con-
tinued.
When some time later the canoe
returned to the meadow from which it
had started, the royagers were grieved
to perceive the tea was already almost
finished. The others observed that
punctuality was particularly important
at a picnic. Mr.. Congreve especially
insisted on this.
''You shouldn't have been making
daisy chains, Gongreye," said. MIR.
Travers, irrelerantly.
"What does he mean?" Mr.. Con-
greye appealed to Miss Middleton for
a solution. ~; Z
Mr.. Travers has also been making
daisy chains, she said.-The King.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Thoroughly at Home..

Jiggs- called to see Brassey last
night, but he wasn't at home.
Biggs-oh, yes, he was.
JIggs-1 tell you lie wasn't: He
wasn't at home all evening.
Biggs-He was perfectly at home all
evening. He monopolized our easiest
chair and kept his feet on the piano
stool.-Philadelphia Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Segaif0GzS
Ills Of
w. Zozppezu,

TIE arrangements Of
the female 0s.gamEssas that
breed all kiuas of trouble
and which, ordinary s7ssac~
dee does net oMs'es are tine
very Things that give Mhay
promptly to 4 EydEa E Pink
Esasss's Vegetable Conn
sg0MsaAs
Uterine anG ovarian
fs'oubless Kidney troubles
MlOerafiOsaS, fuH1a0s'sg ssEs~
usual discharges Sack
aches and painful periods
-zIsese arc fhe Ills that
hang on aasd wreck A5Rasfss
assd happiness asaa dis
position. :. ...'s
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
co1I;o p,ra OF var.

The Marquis of Lorne has been
writing to the press to advocate collie
dogs being worked to find out hidden
iutrenchments. As no scrub OF cover
could deceive collies there seems some
s nse in proposing that they should
be trained to show concealed enemy's
neighborhood.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-30
Ths Aava3ta.e 3fDwarf Trees

Dwarf friiit trees are stated to havs
Certain advantages over high trees:
~ A large NUN Der can be grown in
very limited space; (2) the cultivation
OF vegetables and flowers near them
can be accomplished without fear of
shade; (3) they produce beautiful aud
excellent fruits; (D they are an orna-
ment to the vegetable garden; (5l they
have the advantage of resisting the
winds of autumn which cause the
fruit of high trees to fall before ma
turity,
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Soy Bean MaaI for coMs.

With dairy cows, soy bean meal
takes the place of linseed meal, being
somewhat richer in protein, laxative
feed aud softening the butter fat.
Not over three pounds Fer day should
be fed to q COW. end the softening ef-
feet on the butter may. be overcome
by giving feeds haSing the opposite
tendency, such as corn, kafir corn
and cottonseed meal.