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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
{ THOs. ). ADAMS PROPRIETOR.
The morning papers had just ar.
rived, and they had rushed to opeh

The morning papers had just ar.
rived, and they had rushed to opeu
them. >,
Stella suddenly laid down the paper
and burst into tears.
Mrs. OgiIvie crossed the room and
put pair of very kindly, motherly
arms round the sobbing girl.
"What. is it, child?" she whispered.
':Stella pointed to name in the list
of the seriously wounded" It was
that of Lieutenant Lascelles, OF the
Seventh Regiment.
"a Mrs. Ogilvie's eyes held question
which Stella answered. ''I love him."
she said, "and hsve loved him for
ages-and now he will never know"
"Never know!" That was not Mrs.
Ogilyie's idea at all-and the next pas
senger ship to ''the front" carried the
two ladies on board, bound for Ger.
tain town in South Africa, where a
hero lay wounded, but mercifully not
"unto DEATH"
What passed at that first meeting
who can tell? How Stella went into
that hospital ward, and he, seeing her
coming, could hardly believe the eyi.
dence of his own eyes.
'tI have come," she said simply,
'sjust to tell you that I love you,- that
I have loved you oil along, and that I
can't live without you."
The nursing sister is won't to de.
clare that it was mysterious thing
the rapidity of Mr.. Lascelles's recoy-
cry dating from that visit, and soon
after he was invalided home on sick
leave.
During the time he was in England
there came day when England's
Queen distributed to her bravest SOL
diers some little iron crosses with the
words tFor valor" thereon, and the
one whom she specially singled out to
speak to him word no man would care
to forget SO long as he lived was no
other than little Lascelles, "the Duf.
fer of the Regiment. "-London Morn.
ing Leader.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
cRAssHoP7ER GLACIER.
icy Tomb of Thou3ands OF th, Ions
le~ced Insects.

Icy Tomb of Thousands OF TIN, Long.
legged Insects.
There ore many remarkable glaciers
in that part of the Rocky Mountain
uplift that crosses the southern bor-
der of Montana. A part of this region
has hitherto been unmapped and it's
more elevated portions were unvisited
and unnamed until last summer, when
a geographical party piloted the way
up the mountains and discovered some
of the largest glaciers in the temper
ate regions of the western world.
Here rises Granite Peak, which, nc.
cording to Mr.. Gannett, is the cul-
minating point OF Montana, 1884
feet high.
Among the glaciers found in these
mountains and recently described by
James P. Kimball is Grasshopper
Glacier, which derives its name from
the enormous quantity of grasshop-
per remains that are found on and in
the glacier. Periodically the grass
hoppers that thrive in the prairie to
tho north take their fright southwark,
and must needs cross the mountains.
Their favorite route seems to be across
this wide glacier, and in the passage
scores of them succumb to the rigor
of cold, and wind, fall helpless upon
the snow, and are finally ontombed
in the ice. In the course of time bill.
lions OF them have been the victims OF
this glacier. They sare, of course,
carried by the lice river down into the
valley and deposited at the melting
edge of the ice, and Mr. Kimball says
that thousands of tons of graashopper
remains ore the principal material at
the lower edge OF the glacier. We
hear very often Of rocks and sand as
forming the terminal moraine of gla-
ciers, but bere is o glacier whose
principal morainal material is grass
hoppers.
These insect romans are washed
out of the ice in burrows wherever
the suns heat has grooved the surface
into runlets OF descending water. The
grasshcppers permeate the glacier
from top to bottom. No fragment oil
ice can be broken so small as not to
contain remains. Most of the insects
have been reduced to coarse powder,
and the furrows of them washed out
by the rnnlets and naturally deposited
in parallel lines are very dark in color.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21

age once fortnight ever since the
Seventh were quartered here"
Stella was generally voted the pref
tiest and the incest girl in Exminster
by the Seventh, who paid her court
in large numbers, but none with such
assiduity. as little Tommy Lascelles,
"the Dufer," as he was called by his
brother officers who, Notwithstanding,
were roughly kind to him-kindness
for which they hardly guessed sthe
Dnffer" was supremely grateful; he
had the softest heart hidden away in
rather quaint little body, and-other
things of which nobody suspected him,
or perhaps this story never would
2 have been written.
But to return to Stella.
''Now," said she, s'if it was Major
Lansdowne. I could understand your
championship, whereas the, Lascelles
boy Really, Cousin Jane, where
can your eyes be?"
Almost as she spoke the door opened
and ..'Major Lansdowne' was an
nounced, then Captain Freke," and
few moments later ''Mr. Lascelles. %
Tho last conner was relegated to
Mrs. Ogilvie's tender mercies. APP
parently Stella was too much occupied
with her other guests to have a word
to spare, and the little man sat beside
Mrs. Ogilyie, slipped his tea, and
talked.
Presently he rose to go.
'This is long goodbye" he said,
very grsvely; ''you know we are or
dered to the front-to-morrow I &c
north to see my people, and on Thurs
day we SAIL"
Mrs. Ogilyie saw stella's face grow
deadly pale; she saw, too, that young
Lascelles had noted it, and that he
glanced toward Major Lansdowne.
"Do believe me-" he said in his
uuiet, gentle way, "that if I can shield
him for yonr sake in any way it shall
be done"
An expression of complete bewilder-
ment on Stella's face, noted by Mrs.
Ogilvie, was quite lost upon young
Lascelles, whose eyes seemed sud-
donly to. have grown curiously dim.
Across thu bare, brown yeldt SOL
itarY horseman made his way. 'sRath-
or good horse" he had said, which
was hardly doing the animal justice.
1t was the feetest in the regiment and
had won many race before young
Lascelles had bought it.
INSIDE his coat lay the dispatches,
which did they ever reach their des-
t;nation, would save the lives of hun
dreds of his fellow soldiers.
Just then an agonizing pain III his
head, another near his head, where a
bullet grazed his ear aud sent the
warm blood over his face, turned him
SICK and faint.
Every moment he seemed more and
more to lose control over his limbs,
but he clutched his horses name with
pne hand and guided it with the other,
pulled himself together with su-
preme effort of will. and ct last rode
Into N. He tainted as somebody
helped him of his horse, but his work
was done.
=
In her pretty drawing-room at Ex-
ninster sat Hrs. OgilYie and Stella.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
what n Little Girl Thought.

ga party of friends of the late Vice.
President Hobart were visiting Wash
ington, and OF course spent an hour
in the Senate chamber. Among them
was a little girl of ten who paid close
attention to the proceedings. Two
days afterward he met the child, who
presently asked:
"Do you sit there every day listen
ing to those old men talk?" Eyes,
dear"
"Do you have to?" "Yes."
"I'm real sorry. It's an awful thing
to be Vice-President, isn't it?"-Phila-
delphia Saturday Evening Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
Remedy For lhe Loeust plarae.

The plan consists in catching and
smearing a few of the locusts with 90
Gust fungus" preparation which is
cultivated in the Psychological Insti-
.tuts at Grahamstown, Cape Colony.
The insects are then allowed to return
:to the swarm; which they infect with
what is PRESUMABLY fatal disease.
The same preparation applied Oh damp
soil in places where it is kh6wtl lo-
Gusts will swarm leads to their COM
plete destruction. Twenty swarms are
said to have been destroyed in this
manner. Although this statement is
open to doubt, it may be remembered
that a celebrated bacterielogist once
proposed to deal with the rabbit pest
in Australia in much the same way.
It is quite possible that similar rem
ady might be found for the. malarial
mosquito. for it is only by such means
that its extirpation could be brought.
Chambers Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
Our soldiers Eat. Cush-Cusb.

Some of our soldiers in the Philip
pines have learned to eat cush-cush.
Brave fellows! It is one of my old
friends-a tuberous vegetable OF the
middle tropics, second cousin to the
potato. Its flesh, when boiled, is GEL
atinous. You slice it up and eat it
with butter, pepper and salt. It takes
q stranger several months to acquire
O taste for it. The first few meals
produce dangerous cholera morbus.
Victor Smith, in the New York
Press.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
How the Beers Hobble Horses.

This is the way Dom Paul's men
hobble their horses to prevent them
running away at night. Every one of
the Boer soldiers now fighting the
British in South Africa is mounted,
and camp scene showing the ponies
grazing while tethered in this way is
quite picturesque. The custom is said
to be cruel one, and no doubt the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals will start a crusade against
it in due time.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
Beneflts OF New Foods.

The introduction OF new foods is an
excellent plan for both the health and
commercial prosperity of a nation.
Nearly all of what are regarded as in
digerous fruits and vegetables have
been imported to us from other lands.
Of the food plants now in use only
pumpkins and few grapes, plums
and berries were originally found on
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
raraday's sympathy For New,boys.

A writer in the Century tells this
new anecdote of Faraday: The great
physicist and his friend Hoffman,
were walking one day together
through the streets of London, where
both were then professors, when
Faraday stopped q newsboy and
bought q paper. Hoffman, asked
linn why, with his house supplied
regularly with oil the papers he need
ed, he stopped to buy paper from a
boy in the street. Faraday replied
"I was once q newsboy myself and
sold papers on the street,"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
eort is apt to pay the scar cher for his

eort is apt to pay the scar cher for his
trouble. The pearls are common
enough, but generally they are not
larger than mustard seed, and are
valueless.. Not infrequently, one is
found that will fetch in its raw slate
from 81 TO $40, md instances are
many Of even greater treasure troves.
Mussels are obtained with various
kinds of apparatus. Those which
have been OF are now in use are the
hand rake, the longs, the rake hauled
by means of windlass, the dredge
operated by steam, and tho bar with
hooks. The last named, very in
genious contriyance, came into use in
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
An Appalling Pun!

s'I see it stated" remarked the
Horse Editor, "that the monarch CT
Abyssinia may make trouble for Eng
land in South Africa.
81 don't Think" added the Snake
Editor, ''that the Abyssinian Monarch
will strike Meuelikes for the Beers. -
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
ss7 and has largely superseded other

1897 and has largely superseded other
appliances. 1t consists of a.circular
iron bar, six to eight feet long. with
from thirty to ffty-four pronged Wire
hooks attached at regular intervals in
strings of two or three hooks. This
apparatus, which is used from a email
boat and is hauled over the bottom by
means of a rope, depends for itszac-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
Apparatus For Opening Difficult Doors

Apparatus For Opening DlihcuIt Doors.
In new invention a single cell is
made to open the most difficult OF
doors, even at q distance of fifty
yards. The apparatus can be fixed
either inside or outside the door. 1t
will also lift or shoot strong bolts. 1t
works with single.pressure of q
knob. 1t is especially adapted for
asylums or iails, where emergencies
just such an appliance are
likely to arise.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
Are You Going To

So write to the South srn Paint Company Pinel
cure their price list. They give you better pa
than you can get elsewhere. They do not belong te
sell at less price than those who do This is a Sout
should be patronized by Southern people. The pu
will arrange to secure paints for any of his subscr
to order through the ADVERTISER. This paint
body so that buyers add Linseed oil and
further, aud save money, the oil will cost about
Write to the company telling them what colors
much, and price will be given. The paint contain
and guarantee goes with every can, barrel and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
A HISTORIC Fortress.

IInposins Ruins That tho Italian Gov.
erpInent VIII Restore and Preserve.
Tho imposing ruins Of the famous
CASTILLO Carpinets near Reggie d'Em-
lila, the Canossa of once ON time,
perched on precipitous rocks, were to
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
ooooooooooooooooooooooe
',FHE BuRFsR 0R FHE REGIMENT.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

DIV aren't you real
" nwfully hard on
him, poor fellow,
Stella? I must
say I ike him. /"
.'It's all very
fine for you. Gou-
sin Jane, to talk
like that, seeing
that you haven't
been proposed to
by him on an aver
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
PEARL BUTTON SAWS AND SAW HOLDERS.

tion on the habits of the mussels.
They rest on the bottom, or partly
buried in the mud or sand, with the.
free margin of their shells turned up.
stream and with their shells separated
to admit the water, laden with oxygen
and food. When touched they quick
ly close their shells, and if foreign
body is interposed between the valves,
it is tightly grasped and retained.
Anyone who has not witnessed the use
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21

Windmills, though only low be-
coming popular for pumping water,
were known in Europe 80 far back as
1105.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21

River has developed from an coca
sional pursuit into q science. The
bivalves taken up resemble the salt
water article as much as rhinoceros
resembles an elephant. They are not
fit to eat, they look raw, even when
some adventurous tenderfoot boils
them, and they have taste weirdly
compounded of catfish and musk.
They are in reality mussels, and they
are wanted not for their meat sbutfor
the beautiful mother-of:pearl Innings
of the shells, from which buttons and
hundred of fancy articles are made. A
thousand men are engaged in this new
industry, most of them working on
their own hook, and they make from
$40 to $125 month, according to their
facilities and application.
The shells when dried are sold by
the ton to the local concerns that are
known as button factories, though
they do not often make buttons. They
ale in reality polishing shops and are
fitted up with vast number of steam
driven wheels and brushes, emery
circles, etc., for smoothing the in-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21

SEEMINGLY POSITION THE BRITISH AssAlLED
against such mprgnabe positions this that the British have h
the fight heavy had TO be taken this
almost unecabe h IRE from the peaks OF
berr behind which 1t TOOK Wenx oxen 70
drag the gun up the rocky slope.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
oo0oc}C0o0JCe5C Ce5CCJsJsJJt5JsJt'E5t
, FHE PEARh-BUFF0N INDUSTRY 0F {
; FHE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. {

EARL buttons are
made, for the most
part, from fresh
water m u 8 8 Q !
shells. In less
than three years
clam digging for
this purpose in the
upper reaches of
t b e Mississippi
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
RacLIrr Up ,h. Hor.r.

Not all of the drivers skin Is devoted 10 driving ahead; it takes a good drivcv Co be able Co back uD ln good shape Not every driver. by any means. can bait and then back up Co a curbstone and hit lt square and true with bots wheels the first clip. That Is sd1ethins that requires more skin than might bs imagined by. one who had never tried h
 Sut in backing up on the level. # zan fails Co hit the curb exactly the first time. be can maneuyer untl Es 6oes There are places where skin must be exercised and where a level head ls called Cor too. For Instance tn backing up. or rather backing down Into an excavation on the Inclined Causeway left for that purpose The excavation is begun at the rear of the lot. and the earth forming the cause way. running up to the level of tho etreet at the front. Is left until the last Ia the later stages of the excavatins thc esusewSy Is left just wide enough at the top for the carts or wagons to move on. and its sides slope down pro clpltously. The driver who bacfs down on one of these nArrow cellar eauseways simply must hit it right New York Sun.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
No Se~r..~a.d stov. For Her.

A Memphis hmlly which employs aE old time negrsss as a cook recently bad . Eas range put in the kitchen wheO the range was put In place. fhe work man who put it there lighted tho Jets inside the oven and then closed the doors. He opened them. turned on the gas and then. relighting the Jets. ex- plained to the old negroes how the range was used. The jets cannot Dc seen when the doors of the oven are closed. and ln the excitement of the ex- planation the workman closed them and forgot the lighted jets.
 The old negress. after hearing ah be cad to say. said:
 "'Tain't no use ter tell ne eroont hlt. I'm gwiuAer use dis yere ole wood stove whut Ise cooked on so long"
 The workman laughed and went away. not thinking that the old cook meant what she said. She did mean n though. and continued to use the old wood stove to cook with.
 When the head of the family that employs her received hb gas bnl iS days arter the sas sove was pat tn. hs almost dropped dead Tue blfi showed that be owed the gas company s2i-
 Investigation proved that the jets h the oven bad been burning from the time the workman left The old cook had never opened the oven doors.- Memphis Scimitar
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
Portrait and slipper.

A touching anecdote. associated with A picture in the National gallery at Ed inburgh. is told by an English lady ID Der book. "Potpourri From a Surrey Garden She writes:
 Several pictures stand out with pecul. lar interest. especially the life sized Gainsborough of the young Mrs Ora hame She sat for tho picture as a bride. but before it came home she was dead. and her husband had gone Co the wars
 When he came back. he never had the courage Co open the case which con tsined his young wife's portrait On his death. many long years after it was painted. it was opened by bis heirs and inside the case was the little white slipper she had left with the painter to help him Co finish his picture.
 The portrait was given Co the Edin' burgh gallery, and the slipper was kep, by the family
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
The scaIIop.

The seallop accomplishes loeomotion by series of leaps When it is alarmed. or wishes to change it's location, ii opens and energetieally closes it's valves, thus eIpelling the water The reaction shoots it backward. By this means the creature is able to travel long distances Sometimes scallops make considerable journeys in large com pAnieS One can scarcely imagine q lovelier sight than that of flock of these pretty creatures. with shell of ev' cry hue. from purple and white to black. enlivened with shades of pink, yellow and fawn. darting about in clear water In their fiightlike movements, vertical horizontal and zigzag, they are mors suggestive of a flock of winged AnimAl' than of bivalye mollusks
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
REWARD.

The publisher ot the DAILY ALASKAN will pay ten dollars reward for the arrest and conviction of anyone fo. stealing eopv, or eopleS, of thls paper from the premises of subscribers.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18

MuSkrlt caps, lvnX caps. wombat caps, leather top, cloth top, silk lined, quilt lined, storm Troof interlined with extra piece for nasal eminence, at Clayson X %. s. Fourth avenue and State St. I2 2i'tt
 Reduction sale of goods at cost Hard ware. ,inware. cookery, glassware, wall paper and millinery at cost. All lines Of merchandise reduced. Fiie-AlaSka Co.,, Fourth avenue, between State and Broad way. 2-24- m
 The DAILY ALASKAN will be founi on sale atihe Hotel Northern news stand ln Seattle v
 Best assortment and largest stock Of gents clothing In Alaska at ClavSon'S one price store, Fourth avenue and State street. I72Iu
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
lee I'm Polar ReEIOna

When the sea freezes first is formed the thin fake called by nayigatorl "sludge." and as soon as this catches and holds snow it is termed "braah. " When it gathers and doubles, the whal- srs style it pancake" or bay ica II yon can see the limit of this, 10 will bs "a ioe. and an ''iceheld" if its boundaries are out of sight
 Pack ice" consists of foes forced to- gether and overlapping, and when this again becomes broken and scattered by . new wind the naus of it is "SailiDs Ice "
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
Sled. at Bennett.

Hardwood Yukon SledS at Bennett for s4. Apply x. E. cor. sth and Main Sts. Skagwav. q
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing under the name or the MOorc Wharf Co. the said partners being the Alaskan& Northwestern TefritOues IradtngCO., l. Bernard Moore and William Moore, has been dissolved. William Moore fetir,ng. Sald bust. ness will continue Go be conducted by said Alaskan Northwdstern Territories Trading C.. and l. Bernard Moore under the same title. All persons having claims against the late partner ship are requested Co send the same Co the General Manager. -.
 3-iAim C.E. WNNN-lOhNeON.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
FoR BENT.
Furnished rooms, well heated. 6'r 'rt
WANTED.

Girl for cooking and general houSewOIk. Apply at F. H. Cllyson & Co. u
 Wanted-Four good horses and double ender sleds. Address. Harkln, Bay View Hotel. 3rS B.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-18
4.nyrR,SEnENrS

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