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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

IT guess 1 ii S..-@w it &EGi' shi'i
the fair girl, despondently. wl.:.:.
are you going to throw away?" "My
autograph album. Affairs are getting
so tuat people don't believe in any
signatures until you have called in a
whole lot of handwriting experts"
''How is it that you and Jones
haven't spoken for years? I can re-
member when you were inseparable
friends" "We agreed to correct each
other in grammar. At the end of the
third day the same house would not
hold us both and we have never
become reconciled since.
"Oh, mamma, the whole class above
me missed and I was at the foot, and
spelled the word right and got way up
to the head, but I got up SO high so
sudden it doesn't seem like home"
That's the way she told it, and there
are older people who say nothing, but
think. cit doesn't seem like home
up here"
Guest-You charge more for por-
terhouse steak than you used to.
Why is it? Proprietor of the Restau-
rant-I have to pay more for it. The
price of beef has gone up. Guest
The steak is smaller than it used to
be, too. Proprietor of the Restaurant
That, of course, is on account OF
the scarcity of beef.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
Weary wtllle,s srola.ses Bath.

at the home of ]. r. Horning near
Wabash there is shaft which extends
to the cellar. During the absence of
the family night or two ago tramp en-
tered the dwelling, and whilep prowling
around the second floor fell into the
open shaft and tumbled down two
fights. At the base of the opening
in the cellar stood vat of sorghum
molasses, into which "Weary Willie"
plunged. He was not seriously hurt,
though considerably dazed by tho
tumble, but was covered from head to
foot with the saccharine material, o
liberal quantity of which splashed
over the walls. he crawled off to the
hay NOW and spent the night, and
when discovered next day, decorated
with the telltale sorghum, explained
that he wandered into the house by
mistake. The family cleaned him up
and sent him on his way.-Indian-
annapolis Sentinel.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
"Silcnclrg q Cum"

There is o greet deal OF ignorance
as to what "silenc.ng gun" means.
A gun is silenced when the gunners
are disabled or driven back and the
gun or guncarriage damaged. 1t is a
common enough phenomenon for
weapons which have thus been 81.
lenced to reopen fire after repairs
have been made, the gunners rallied,
or fresh gun crew obtained. 1t is q
rare thing for gun to be so damaged
by hostile fire that it cannot be reht-
ted and brought into action again. II
saw" says Prince Kraft, OF the Ger
man Artillery in the battle of Grave
lotte, "many guns during the cannon,
ade lying miserably on the ground
winged that is, with broken
wheel. But not ono was Withdrawn;
the injured guns were always speedily
repaired with the help of the wagons,
which were near, SO that at the close
of the battle I could not tell exactly
how many pieces had been put tenn.
porarily out OF action. Army and
Navy Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

"What have you? pistols, shot
guns?" he whispered, taking in tho
whole situation.
"Here is my husbands rifle. 1t is
loaded"
"Hist Where are they going to
break in?" The steps came boldly on
the piazza to the front door.
sect behind me. will fire at the
first man who enters. How many
barrels are there?'
''Six, all loaded"
every we'll. Keep this cane in your
hand for me in case I need it."
There was no storming of shutters.
They heard the key applied to the
door softly. 1t opened, and man
followed by two others confidently en-
tered. The first figure walked dir CT
ly to the stairs. He had taken but
o step when three shots came in rapid
succession. There was heavy thud;
this man dropped, and the other two
turned and fed. Sarah ran to the
window, and two horses galloped down
the lane.
'tDon't faint. madam; there is work
yet to do" said the tramp.
Mamie caught hold OF the rail for
support, and then went into the room.
sect candle, Sarah" J"
They lighted a candle and gave it
to the tramp, who went down stairs,
the two women following with restora-
tives. The man had fallen backward,
and lay with his face up and head
toward the door.
'Ahap' said the tramp, curiously,
holding the light up and peering into
the dead mans face, 'the's fixed. Shot
through the head.
Mamie advanced and gazed at the
white face, across which thin, thread
like stream of blood was trickling.
She fell back with wild shrek.
It was he: husbands dead body
which lay before her.-San Francisco
Areonaut.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
The Arab Warriors sheepskin.

The fact that General Wingate's
soldiers found the khalifa lying
dead on his sheepskin, with his emirs
and his bodyguard lying dead
about him has significance that the
press despatch does not make particu-
larly clear, and that is, perhaps, not
generally understood. When the Arab
warrior of the Soudan realizes that
his case is hopeless, that victory and
fight are alike impossible for him, he
spreads his speepskin saddlecloth on
the ground and takes his stand upon
it, thus pledging himself to neither
fly nor surrender, but to remain inn
movable on that spot until death over-
takes him. It was thus that the khu-
lifa, his emirs and his guards died.
havingrecognized that they were hope
lessly entrapped. Rochester Demo
crat and Chronicle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
The Art Of Pulling.

The writing of puff" is an art in
itself. If the effort abounds in honeyed
words, overhows, so to speak, with
praise and commentator, q large
portion of the reading public is in
telligent enough to take it with the
proverbial grain of salt, or perhaps
reject it entirely as unreliable. If,
however, it is a paragraph or article
that actually gives some information,
and only incidentally ccmmends the
firm upon whose instance it is in
serted, it may be expected to accom-.
plish some. good. The majority of
puffs overleap themselves in the desire
to make of the personages or COM
modities of which they deal, Creatures
90 bright or good for human natures
daily food"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
Tommy as a Hum orlst.

"Tommy Atkins is regular hum.
oriet at times" the subaltern con-
tinued with grin. "Did you even
hear the story of the court-martial in
the Hussars? No? Well, you
must know that, just as in the ordin'
ary trial, o prisoner may object to the
presence OF o iuryman whom he thinks
has already some prejudice or grudge
against him, SO at court-martial ne
is always asked if he is satisfied with
the officers selected to try him. Well.
this particular Tommy, whentA be pres
ident asked him the regular question,
looked at the officers sitting solemnly
before him and answered Certain
ly; I object to the 'ole blooming lot OF
YER I believe that they were so
astonished at this startling reply that
they had to put off the trial till they
could make out what was the right
thing to do under the circumstances. "
st. James's Gazette Correspondence.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
srusrc.Loving Rat in Dundee.

Miss Lulu Frazier of Dundee, N. Y,
was singing while she attended to her
household duties in the kitchen the
other morning. When she turned
toward the stove she saw large gray
rat sitting on its launches and eyeing
her intently. She was startled. She
stopped singing. The rat dropped to
lis feet and started to run away. Miss
Frazier gained her self-possession
and again began to sing. The rat
pricked up its ears, stopped and sa.
upon it's launches. This procedure
was repeated two or three times. Tho
rat showed that it was most pleased
with "rag-time" pieces. and when
two or three of the newest pieces wers
sung the animal showed desire to
dance. After Miss Frazier had en-.
tertained the rat for about ten minutes
SIZE fractured It's skull with q broom
stick.-Ner York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

in any kind of soil. The varieties of
sweet potatoes are almost innumerable.
They yield from 200 to 500 bushels to
the acre, and usually sell for fifty
cents barrel or twenty cents q bushel,
though in seasons of scarcity they are
thirty and even forty cents bushel.
They are the daily food of the farmers,
and are fed to horses. cattle, swine
md poultry. The Louisiana sweet
potatoes are wholesome, but lack the
fine flavor OF those raised in Virginia.
Irish potatoes are regarded here as q
luxury, and the people have them on
Sundays and holidays.
tits supposed generally in the North
that Louisiana is swamp country, 9
etwork of morass aud bayou, and
that there is little ground in its
limits that is firm beneath ones feet.
I, This is IN stake.
North of the Red River, in tho
northwestern part of the State, lies
the famous hill county Of Louisiana.
Here the land is upneaved in innumer-
able little mountains, which rise sixty
or seventy feet above the surrounding
landscape. The highest peak in the
State is in this wild district, and it
towers $50 feet above the Gulf OF
Mexico.
Tho hill country might make the
mountaineers of the Alps or the Andes
smile, but it is as serious fact in this
State as are the Highlands in Scotland d
or the CatskiIl Mountains in New
York. This mountainous country is
the lumber belt. It is full OF sawmills,
and turns out vast quantities OF hand
some yellow pine lumber for the North
ern market.
In the southwestern part OF the
State lies the Acadian country. 1t is
land of beautiful prairies and OF
magnificent yellow pine forests that in
the distance look blue. This is the
upland of Louisiana, the foothills OF
the little Switzerland to the north.
It is the rice belt and cattle country
OF the State. :,
In Acadia the prairies are small
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
THE HOT BAKED BEAN.

Oh! dainty thing Is the hot baked bean,
And 1t creepeth right to the spot q
In the wintry time, when the fresh ana (
green y! 81 z3s
OF garden truck Is not. &:
He must be dyspeptic and victim Of bile
Who scolneth Its ruddy brown 'ls
As 1t comes to the table, all smoking the s
while,
Food for an emperor, king or queens
Oh dainty thing Is the hot baked bean.
The lumbermun droppeth his shining aae
And straight for the shanty he maketh his !
tracks
Through the pine woods o'erladen with
On the prairies the cook climbs the mess
wagon, yells,
And the cowboy, with appetite keen,
Spurs his broncho amain, for there, wind
borne, he smells
Assurance most sweet OF the bean. -.
Quickest Of all moves OF that day, Tween,
Are moved at the call of the hot baked
bean.
Whene'er there occurreth fierce vacuum
In the maiden OF Boston's interior,
Full we'll doth she know the correct pabu-
lum IS
/ And scorneth all viands inferior.
Though Ibsen and Browning ct al. have
1est, &
And give her pleasure serene,
There's naught fills the vacancy under the
vest
Like the browning on top of the bean. ss
Food for an emperor, king or queen,
Oh! dainty thing Is the hot baked bean.
Chicago Record. -
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
Her Cincli.

Mildred" said her mother, Il
don't believe that young man cares
for you at all. In my opinion he comes
here to see you merely because he has
no place else to 60"
"Oh, mamma" the girl replied,
"you are mistaken-you wrong him.
I have proof that he loves me-"
"What is it? Has he asked you to
marry him?"
"No, but I accidentally said !
shad saw the other evening, and he
Immediately afterward said something
about 'having came, just to make m'
feel that he was somewhat shy on
grammar. You needn't tell me that
anything less than loye-deep, soul,
full, everlasting love-would induce q
man to do that" ."-Chicago Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
Always Ready For q Meal.

Perhaps you fancy the birds don't
work. Just watch them next time
YOU have o chance, and you'll find
they are busy every minute of the
day.
During the summer thrushes get
up before 3 O'Clock in the morning,
and don't go to bed until after 8
O'Clock at night, SO they work nearly
nineteen hours. Blackbirds are not
nearly so industrious. They only
work seventeen hours, but during that
time they feed their little ones be-
tween forty and City times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

eve rs Calcasieu. The Calcasieu
prairie is the largest in the State
about fifty miles long aud from five to
forty miles wide. The parish itself,
which is also the largest in the Com
monwealth, comprises 1000 square
miles, and is about two-thirds the size
of Connecticut.
Here the land is firm and solid. N
digging wells the farmers have to 60
deeper to find water than they do in
Wisconsin. The land, which is now
fifty to sixty feet above the Gulf OF
Mexico, was once its bed, and con-
tains a great deal OF sand. The roads
are sometimes dry within twelve
hours after semi-tropical rain. There
is SO little mud, except in proximity
to rice marshes, that one may ride a
bicycle along a highway covered with
water.
This is the upland, and yet it is the
rice country. The explanation is sim
ple. From foot to two feet under
the soil lies bed of clay which is i'm
pervious to water. Wherever land
lies in shallow saucer shape, 80 that
it's edges are slightly higher than its
interior, the falling rain will fill it to-
the rim and form marsh, because the
water cannot percolate through the
underlying bed of clay and escape. In
houisiana you will find the low
grounds hard and dry and marshes on
the ridges.
Tile alluvial land which lies in the
Mississippi bottom seems to be plan
tations part of the time and part OF
the time Mississippi River. Swamps
are not unknown there.
eve are having a Louisiana bliz-
zard," said Northern settler in CAL
casieu parish. ''The thermometer
has fallen to seventy degrees above
Zero"
The children in the country go to
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

.
Northern farmers came here to settle
they found that the Creole ponies
would not eat corn or oats. Both re-
NAMED untouched in their feed boxes.
In some cases the native horses had
to be starved for days before they
would touch either.
A Northern farmer threw an ear OF
corn among herd of wild cattle.
They came up to it, looked OF it, shifted
it and walked away again. Not a
steer would eat it. The colonists
from the North inferred that to the
horses and cattle of these parishes
corn and oats were an acquired taste.
"a The bread fruit of Louisiana is the
sweet potato. It will grow anywhere
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

the lace tree; to be more explicit,
from lace-like fibre, which grows be-
meath the bark. The outside of this
curious tree very much resembles the
white and mottled mistletoe boughs
one sees exposed for sale during the
holidays, but the inside of the younger
limbs and branches is mass of the
lace fibre, sometimes pure white in
color and again yellow, tending tc
brown. Though the lace tree is ap
parently a very hard wood, the interior
fibre may be unwrapped in sheets.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

the parish town. His winter dress is
o straw hat, calico shirt and pair
of blue cotton trousers. He goes with
out collar, cravat and shoes. lis feet
are as insensible to cold as are the
hands of Northern man who never
wears gloves. It is common sight
in Acadia, on winters day, to see
man from the North, in heavy ul-
ster, talking to barefooted French
farmer in his shirtsleeyes.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

school barefoot oil winter. In coun-
try schoolhouse, on o sharp midwinter
day, there was only one child who
wore shoes. All the children had
shoes at home, but they did not care
to wear them.
The well-to-do French farmer, with
land by the league and cattle by the
hundreds, with money buried in the
ground OF hidden in hollow trees or
deposited in the bank, goes barefoot
the year round, except when he visits
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
The women of Puerto l.
tiful decorative work with
lace, the net of the fibre ar
that IL lends itself TO the [

designs. It is dyed the brlgutess.
and made into flowers, which are ap-
piled to the lamp shades of the same
or arranged in shapes of brilliant
moths and butterflies. Tie large fire.
fly of the tropics is e1quisitely simu-
lated. On the centrepieces for table
adornment, the Spanish rose is fre-
ouently initiated. This rose is white
:: ;he morning, pink OF noon and a
IL ~ crimson atnight, hence there are
three roses to 60 with the centrepieces
and these are daintily attached by
means of minute fbres to correspond
with the hour of the day. Each color
of the rose has meaning. The white
rose signifies that the daughters of the
house are too young to think of mar
riage; the pink rose that they are so.
ciety debutantes, and the red rose that
they are married.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
HUMOROUS.

Caller-Are you sure Miss Richie
is not in9 Maid-Do you doubt her
word, sir?
He las the clock strikes 12)-This
is the hour that grayeyards yawl.
She-Well, they have my sympathy.
'tYour son is devoted TO art, isn't
he?" asked Reynolds. IT supposeS
so, replied Easel. ''He's continual-
ly drawing on me-"
"Claribel, do you feel timid about
asking your husband for money!?
"No, pa; but sometimes he seems to
feel kind O. timid about giving it to
me-"
Willie-Pa, what's the meaning Of
ssin de siecle?" Pa-Oh, thats-aw
-one of these water bicycles Sith
fins on it like fish. Now you go to
bed.
"Ma, Tn collecting kittens. y 'That
won't do at all, Tommy; we.can't have
this house overrun with cats. ssBut,
ma, they all get away as fast as I col
lect 'em."
Harriet-If you are real good, Tom,
I'll throw you akiss when you go home.
,Tom-Harriet, don't You know won-
an can't throw ---t.7zIt;,.tt - 80
better bring il q nisi oe shai' / sil1s.
after it?
This world Is but a feeapss-te.
The kicker, so they say,
Performs no wc-t g
And-SIs,-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
Nri-hborly Ties.

''The telephone is q great socisl
factor"
'sThat's so. We wouldn't have
called on those people next door ct al
if we hadn't wanted to use their tells.
phone"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

which the Puerto Rican ladies convert
into drawn work or embroider in bright
colors.
Whips are made Of the branches, a
part of the branch being left for the
stock and the fibre lace drawn out to
form topknot rosette. A long lash
is plated at the other end.
The manufactured lace fibre is very
expensive, but nothing can be more
beautiful than the effect of light
through the lamp shades. The cocoa
nut palm grows sheets of fibre on the
outside, so that it looks as if it is tied
up in old mats. but the lace zee grows
its delicate textile iibres il, q =
vast improvements in Esd
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Deadwood, S. D., has curio in the
shape of whistler. The most re-
markable feat that he performs with
his mouth is to whistle two tunes, dis
tiuctly, at the same time. He can
whistle the air with the alto as well as
two persons could. He is former
soldier, and was with General Miles
through the Porto Rican campaign.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
The Bnlaclava Can,

In England just now women are
busy knitting comforts for the British
soldiers in South Africa--sleeping he'll
NETS, tam-o' 'shanters, cardigan jack
cts. cuffs, scarfs, mittens, socks and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

A German American woman has
founded q home for lonely cats in
Spreenhagen, near Berlin. All kinds
OF cats are to be we'll cared for in o
villa especially built for the purpose,
and standing in 16 acres of beauti-
fully wooded grounds. The new es-
tablishment will be a boon to those
rather numerous female testators anx-
ious about the future of their pets.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
pUMrINe PLANT FOR RICE IRRIeATINe CANAL.

being ten or twelve miles long and
five or six miles wide. They are
girded round by yellow pine forests,
through which run bayous. It is q
fertile parish, but not as pretty to the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
They Got Together.

"Papa," said little four-year-old
Margie. 'I think you are just the
incest man in the whole world. "
''And think you are the incest
little girl in the world" replied her
father.
"Course am" said Margie.
"Ain't it queer how such nice people
happen to get into the same familv9D
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
THOS. 5. ADAMS PROPRIETOl
HOROSCOPES.

"Life will be sad for you and yours, heigh-
ho!''
The sibyl told the autumn-oolored maid.
But will my lover love mo? ;" say" she
said.
"wby, then, shall be all too happy So"
"With earthly love you never shall be fed"
The sibyl told the lady white as snow.
"But shall love at ull?" SAY, even
so."
"Then happy shall live and die," she said.
Mora Hopper, in London Academy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

Before the slbyl with her haunted eyes
Two sisters sat with delicate arms eniaced;
y Watched as she dealt the cards and, With
out haste,
Brown-haired and gold-haired, fresher than
the dawn,
Poppy and white anemone we're they.
flower OF autumn aud a flower Of May,
I They watched to see their fates from dark
ness drawn,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

A curious phenomenon is that metal
never rusts in the waters OF Lake
Titicaca. You can throw in q chain
or an anchor, or any article of ordi-
nary iron, and let it lie for weeks, and
when you haul it up it will be as clean
and bright as when it came from the
foundry. And, what is stranger still,
rust that has been formed upon me-
tallic objects elsewhere will peal off
when immersed in its waters. This is
frequently noticed by railway and
steamship men. Rusty car wheels and
rails, and even machinery, can be
frightened by soaking them in the
waters of Lake Titicaca.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

Under the corner of room in the
House of the Vestal, which is being
exoavated in the Roman Forum, a
workman lately turned up spadeful
of gold coins. They are $40 in num-
ber, all stamped with the head of the
Emperor Anthemius, who was killed
by the emperor maker Ricimer when
he plundered Rome in A. d. 412. An
other find of coins had been made at
Ossero, in the Austrian island of
Cherso, south of Fiume in the Adri-
attic. It seems to be the collection of
a numismatist of classical times, and
comprises Ats coins, ranging from the
year 254 to the year 1 B. @.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07
THE CURIOUS LACE TREE.

One OF the Many Marvels of Our Little
Puerto Rico.
Some exquisite lamp shades, nap
kins and centre pieces have come from
our dear little Puerto Rico this winter.
They are made from the inner part OF
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-03-07

The London Chronicles Vienna COR
respondent reports surgical triumph
rhieYed by DR.. Schroeder. A 10
esearso otd1boy lfowed n piece oflead:
the size of a half sovereign. 1t passed
the trachea into a bronchus of the
second order. DR.. Schroeder ex-
tracted it without performing trache-
otomy or using anesthetics. Never
tbeloss the operation was painless.
This is believed to have been the first
time that such an operation was ever
performed without dangerous surgi-
cal operation.