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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
ODD COSTUMES IN SWEDEN,
Garments Worn by the Old and the Young
Differ Worry Slightly.

Differ Very Slightly.
The costumes of the Dalecarlian
women in Sweden are unique, dark
blue woolen skirt, very full and gath
cred in tucks at the waist; white
blouse, vest of red Or green cloth,
beautifully embroidered in colors and
often with gold and silver threads;
a broad red belt of knitted wool;
long apron of red woolen, with stripes
of black. white and green; kerchiet
! folded three.cornerwise about the
neck and fastened with gold or sill
yer pin, with many glistening pend
ants, and a headdress in the shape Of
a cornucopia made of black felt with
red trimmings and streamers. Long
earrings of gold or silver and brace
lets of curious forms are common.
The men wear long bile frock coats
with full skirts, faced with red broad.
cloth and edged with red cord. Hooks
and eyes are used instead of buttons
and the collar is cut similar to that
of a Church of England parson. The
vest is made of the same material
and is also edged and faced with red.
The knee breeches are of yellow
buckskin, ornamented with red cord
and tassels at the garter, which holds
up thick woolen stockings. Broad sill.
yer buckles are worn upon the shoes.
The hat is of black felt, with low
crown and broad brim resembling
those worn by Quahers in the United
States.
Small boys are dressed exactly like
their fathers. A coat with a long
skirt is the ambition of every young
ster like the first pair of trousers of
American boys, and he usually at
tains that honor when he is ten Mars
old. The little chaps you see going
ABOUT in long-trailed coats and buck
skin breeches look as if they were
dressed for the stage. Little girls
in the same way initiate their moth
crs with skirts reaching to their an
kles and quaint, homemade jewelry
Of silver and gold. Every little girl
hopes to have a brooch with jingling
pendants The jewelry is of simple
pattern, the gold or silver being ham,
mered into thin sheets, cut into
squares and diamonds and fastened
together with rings.
The costumes of the Dalecarlian
women differ according to locality.
In some of the parishes red is the
prevailing color and in others green
and blue. Their hats are shaped and
trimmed differently also, and in one
Of the parishes a sort of tam O.
shanter" is worn, with a band fitting
closely around the head and broad
top. In the Mora country the men
wear jackets of white fet cut square
at the corners and fitting closely to
the neck. with white buckslin knick-
erbockers and leather aprons to keep
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

n;Dltlon in the Kremlin at Moscow. 1t
is perfect sphere, and so pure as to
appear almost transparent. 1t weighs
80 grains The next finest in the
world is known as the Hope pearl and
is owned by an English nobleman.
There is a remarkable pearl in the
crown OF an image Of the Virgin at
Saragossa. Spain, and another of fequal
value in cross in the cathedral at
Seville, which is said to have been
brought from Americ' by one of the
carly conquistadores.
A few years ago an American trav.
eler purchased for 100 marks an an
tquc gold brooch that he found in I
bric-a-brac shop in a small town in the
interior Of Germany. In the centre
OF the setting was spherical jewel
that was supposed to be hematite. a
species of iron ore, but when the
brooch was brought to the United
States and sent TO Tifany's to be
cleaned the piece of iron turned out to
Dc OliS VI Tic IilOSL pCdulilui 5Siii'o
ever exposed to view. 1t was black
pearl valued at $4,000. An attempt
was made to trace the ownership of
the brooch, but it could only be
learned that the pawnbroker had re-
cciyed it from a stranger some years
before as security for a small loan
and that the owner apparently had
no knowledge of its value.
The romantic story of Cleopatra S
pearls dissolved in wine was writ.
ten by one who was not familiar with
their composition. Pearls cannot be
dissolved in wine or vinegar, but they
can be eaten by certain powerful
acids, which would have burned the
beautiful throat of Cleopatra so that
she would have died instantly.-Wil
liam Z. Curtiss in the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
TIE GREATEST HAIRCUT
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHODS
OF SHEARlNG THE SHEEP

Professional Cutters Ee.in ShearinG the
Locks In tho Northwest in Early Spring
Working Westward aud Ending their
Season i'll California-Wages are Good.
Man is not the only animal that has
his hair cut at regular intervals, and
it might be interesting to note that
the most extensive hair cut In this or
any other country has no reference
whatever to the human bipcd, writes
G. E. W. in the Country Gentleman.
Up in the northwest professional hair
cutters begin shearing the flocks early
in spring, and as the season advances
they work their way westward and end
up in Nevada and California, when it
is about time to return to the original
starting point and repeat the opera
tion. In the course Of the year they
cut something like 5OO,OO0,0O0 pounds
of hair.
The present consumption of wool Ill
the United States is estimated at about
600,O00,000 pounds, and, though the
statisticians of the department of agri-
culture say that We have about 4l,SS3,-
O65 sheep on the farms and ranches OF
the United States, these are unable t.
supply the full demand for wool, and
we import some million pounds every
year. But the task of shearing over
4O,OO0,OOO sheep is not one to consider
lightly, and as the wool piles up, new
wheels OF commerce are started in their
revolution
Strengthening time in the earlier
days of our countrys history was
season of jollilcation, and the farmer
and his hired help would go down 70
the sheep pasture to make merry Win
the frightened animals. One by one
they would be caught, and while one
held the animal securely the other
would proceed to clip off the wool
with a huge pair Of hand shears,
strengthening time would often
occupy weeks on the large farms,
and when it was over, the great
mass of soft fluffy wool was piled up
in the sheds to be cleaned and worked
over or shipped to the market in its
rough state Not little of 1t was
woven into cloth on che farm by the
wife and daughters of the owner.
But with the multiplication OF the
sheep, the necessity of better and
quicker methods of shearing was leit.
In the northwest and on the Pacific
coast there are farms and ranches with
from $4,000 to 100000 sheep, and to
shear such focks in the old way would
be an almost impossible task. 1t is
these new conditions that have brought
the professional hair cutters into eH-
istence, and they mUye from farm to
farm in a regular circuit every season.
These professional shearers are cX-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

A VERY SHOCKING AFFAIR.

inventor also intends it for use in de-
stroying reaches and bugs of various
sorts. The electrocution is accom-
plished by the passage Of the current
from one plate to the other through
the body OF the rodent OF insect. The
inventor Of this ingenious device is G.
NT Sh1far
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

According to the Newcastle, Eng.
Chronicle. the annual ceremony Of
"ycleping," or, as it is now put, clip
ping" the parish church has just re
yived at Painswick. in the Cotswol'is.
Glcucestershire where, after being
performed foc many hundreds of years
if was discontinued by the late vicar.
On the patron saints day tSt Mary'sl
tEe children join hands in 4 ring rounI
thc church, and circle round the buill-
ing singing 1t is the old Saxon Gus
tom of "yclcping" tie church on TIE
anniversary OF its original dedicatici:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
Grsndns's Present.

1t was Gertrudes birthday, an1
around her plate at the breakfast
table were piled Jundles Of all sizes
and shapes. One by one Gertrude
opened her presents, while mamma
and papa and brother Harry looked
on, smiling at ner delight
There was a silver thimble from
mamma. 4 new doll from papa, q
pretty little ring from Uncle George
and box of candy from Harry. And
at the bottom of the pile Gertrude
found a bo-- that the postman had
brought, marked from grandma"
Grandma lived way of in the coun.
try and Gertrude had not expected
she would remember a little girls
tenth birthday, but she had.
What is it, mamma" she cried,
after she had opened the box. Little
green, and red, and blue sticks, and
a funny little handle"
''The little sticks are sealing wax,
dear, for sealing letters, and the
little handle is called 2 seal See
there's 'G' on it for Gertrude. After
breakfast will show you how to use
the seal, and then you must write
grandma little note to thank her
for remembering your birthday"
T: Gertrude did not eat much break.
fast that morning. Between the
mouthfuls she stopped to look at the
new doll or to slip on the pretty ring
and thimble.
After breakfast was over mamma
showed her how to melt one end OF
the sticks, how to rub it on the paper
and how to press down with the "lit
tie handle and make a sc" il the
middle of the wax.
Then Gertrude wrote this letter:
Dear Grandma-To-day is ny
birthday. I got a doll, and q ring
and a thimble. and a box Of candy
and some selling wacks. I like the
selling wacks and thelittle seller Thank
you very much for them, with love
from GERTRUDE"
And on the envelope she made three
seals, a red. green and q purple
one-Brooklyn Eagle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

Ing machine. but it proved to be quite
as important an invention.
The first pair CT peg shoes is another
interesting invention exhibited in the
model rCorl. Tile patent on peg shoes
was granted to S. 3. Hitchcock and
J. Bemcnt on July so, 1871.
Then there is the first washboArd'
It is as fresh-loo!iing to-day as when
1t was first placed in the cabinet, and
shows not n particle Of corrosion, al
though tic name OF the inventor was
S. Rust, and it was Rust himself who
made the model. The patent is dateo
February 0. 1888. The first arc elec
tric light was made by Collier and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
DAINTY Dishes"


things
fashion
nlnes I'VE can promo
Ike IA houn
fashion
-BotonGa
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

Morse's original model of the telegraph
instrument, fashioned by his own
hands. The model is very crudely
made, but it inspires reverence in the
visitor, and even certain sort of awe,
when he pauses TO think Of what the
telegraph has done for the advance
ment of the world, and what slow
universe this would be if we did not
have telegraphic communication with
cur fellow beings the world over.
In another cabinet, inspiring the
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

mat stItrnIIS III me u"1s VI 1AVou'
when it was all done by hand
Elias Howe's first sewing machine
Is almost as crude as Morse S telegraph
sounder, but in both cases the model
operatcd exactly rs described in the
specifications, and the patents were
accordingly granted.
Not whit less interesting is the
model OF the first typewriter. the IN
yention of R.. T. P. Allen, a kentuck-
ian. It is still more roughly made than
the models of the telegraph and sew
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
A Hero in Rags.

The other night the police picked
up from the street a ragged man who,
they thought, was drunk. At the sta
ton he said he was not drunk, but
nearly dead from cold and hunger
He made known his identity. and
proved to be Desjardins, one of the
men who made heroic rescues at the
Bazaar de la Charlie fire, in 1857. He
was decorated, but explained to the
Judge that he was ashamed to wea"
his medal over his rags. The chief Of
police will probably take measures III
his hehalf.-Paris Correspondence.
New York Herald
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
eoooccoooececoooooooooo'
; First Models Of
; Ersat Inventions.

That vast mausoleum Of wrecked
hopes and blighted ambitions, the
model department Of the United States
Patent Office in Washington, is illum-
mated here and there with the original
models of the very great inventions.
In one of the cabinets is to be seen
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05
pictnr:nI I,istor;inns.

so you are net il favor of sup
pressing the caricaturists?
Certainly not answered the en-
inemt statesman. whats the use CT
suppressing the caricaturists so long
IS you can't do anything with the
amateur photograph ers?'-Washingtop
Stcr
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

June 20, 1858. Both the arc and tie
incandescent lights, it will be noticed
were invented in the same year. Moth
ing could be more different than the
incandescent lamp Of 1858, and that OF
to-day.
When you happen to be in Wash
ington 90 over to the Patent Office and
spend few hours looking around the
model room. You will find your pains
we'll rewarded.-New York Mail and
Express. 4
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

The largest egg laid by any Euro
pean bird is thai of the swan; the
smallest that of the golden-crcsted
wren.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

The deaf mute may not be all crna-
nent to debating society, but he can
at least make th, motions. ..-.-.---
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

The. Two Apples.
Said the apple red to the apple green;
Il have more beauty to Ee seen.
tT rioened quickly, and my cheek
Is the color harves!ers al scef.
"Why arc You not as fair as I?
. WHY Go yol wear that green look? Why"
Said the apple green to the apple red;
"All in good time shall ny youth be sped.
CAL in good time shall I glow as You
With Q healthy, fu-l-5iown, crimson huei
Meanwhile I marvel not at tate,
For am fruit that ripcns late"
That night there came b;ighting frost,
And the r;peaed apple soon was lost!
II pierced its heart and nipped its cheek,
and bruised its stem which had grown
quite weak!
The apple green on the other hand
Had met no blight that it could not stand!
And it thought that day, if it thought a!
all,
That pride goes always before fail!
Christian REGISTER.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

EIecirocutes the Rodents.
The electric mouse trap is the latest
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

New Zealand sent Great Britain l.
tS7,197 hundredweight Of mutton,
valued at $15O0o,o00 in the course Of
last year.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

B.kcr and patented ~ them May is,
1858. The first incandesccnt lamp was
the invCGiicM OF Gardiner and Bios
sem, to whom patent was granted
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

"All in good time shall glow as You
With g healthy, fr.l5lown, crimson hueii
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

Meanwhile I marvel not at tate,
Tor 1 am a fruit that ripcns late"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-02-05

dith in
to do {
the ma
held, i
one of
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within
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living
Butte,
of year
but the
tiOn Of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-17
MORE ROOM NEEDED1
Plans for Enlarging the st. Anthony
Park Furniture Exposition Are
Being Considered.
lis Thought That Three Times the
Present Space Could
Be Used.

Before New Years Day every foot Of
available space in the huge furniture ex-
position building at ST. Anthony Park,
containing 10000 square feet. will be oc-
cupied. Twenty applications for exhibit
room are on file, and there is room for but
three new firms.
Arrangements have just been completed
with an Indiana firm which, on. Jan. l,
will take 5000 feet of exhibit space in
which to show q line of rattan goods and
chairs. Their entry brings the fifth firm
dealing in chairs, and will, the managers
say, lead to the entry Of many other for
eign firms. ss,.% 4,s .-.5. RI ~s- 5 +. ,-
1t is stated on excellent authority that
plans are now being informally discussed,
for charging the exposition to three
times its present floor space. According
to the st. Paul Trade, no definite ar
rangements have vet been made, it is
known that the demand for space is to be
much heavier than ever before and that
unless more room is afforded many firms
will be shut out. Seventeen firms having
applications on file will Of necessity be
denied space on the first of the year. be-
cause of the fact that there will be no
more room fors them.
The growth of the exposition has been
greater than the most enthusiastic
prophecies of it's promoters. Furniture
men say that there is excellent reason to
| believe that with careful management
and with a broad policy of bringing in
foreign exhibitors, the exposition can be
made a formidable rival of Grand Rapids
within a few years. - ".-r- :
! The exposition serves as a display OF
] all lines Of goods for the information OF
i country buyers, and the reverse serves
as an inexpensive medium through which
/ small manufacturers in outside towns
/ may show goods and make sales to visit
/ ing buyers. * r ~:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-17
news
TOWN TALK

4 d ii y F = Is +. &
List your property for rent with the Title
Insurance and Trust Co.
Remember the fur sale at the Lyceum
Fur: Co.., 716 Hennepin avenue. r.
The Title Insurance and Trust Co. pays
per cent on deposits subject to check.
Perfumes that last. All doors. Prices
right Gamble & Ludwig, sol Hennepin av.
Christmas Chisholm s. Allen, jew
eler, ground floor, Guaranty building
Open evenings.
Harry F. Legg e. Co.. diamond mer-
chants, will keep open evenings till after
Xmas. 51S Nicollet avenue, upstairs.
Bonds of the Twin City Telephone Com
pany, netting per cent, for sale by the
Minnesota Loan and Trust Company.
Choice per cent city first mortgages,
running from $500 to $1,000 each, for sale
by Edmund G. Walton, 800 Hennepin av.
My speciality is picture framing; %
years experience. Large line of pictures,
casts, color boxes, etc. ]. o. Braa, 500
Hennepin avenue. .. a..-
The members of Cataract Council, Royal
Arcanum. will visit Merriam Park Coun-
Gil on Thursday night and will meet at
Hotel Nicollet at 1880 o'clock.
George W. Sublette, city engineer OF
Minneapolis, will deliver lecture before
the Engineers Society Of the University
of Minnesota on the subject, Municipal
Engineering" at p. m. in the lecture
room Of the chemistry building.
The latest idea in chatelaines, jewe
cases that are jewels, medicine cases an6
leather picture frames of every descrip.
ton and imported novelties beyond mum
ber at Barnum's Trunk and Leather Goods
Store, It's Nicollet. Open evenings.
Theron seagrave Smith, a son of the
iesJ 1x
ill with Bright's disease, in st. Luke's
| hospital, st. Paul. MI. Smith has beer
in the employ of Moves Brothers &. Cutle
| for many years and resides at"Highwood
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-17
PARTITION Of MLTRAMI
Canvass Of Dual Proposition by the
State Board-The Votes for
congressman.

The state canvassing board this af-
ternoon took up the contested county di-
vision propositions from Polk, and Bel
trami counties which were argued be-
fore it yesterday. H. W. Childs appeared
for the county Of Nelson, which covers
the same territory as Columbia county,
and which got less votes. Both carried
Nelson county proposition . was much
smaller than on Columbia. General
Childs' chief contention is, however, that
Nelson county's petition was filed, first,
and that the authorities had no right to
submit another proposition covering the
same territory. -, 49,.
The board decided to receive the vote OF
four precincts in Beltrami county, which
was forwarded direct to the secretary
of state, but decided it. could not go be-
hind. the acts of the county board in
The final decision ON the question will
probably be made in the courts.
At yesterdays session the official re-
turns on congressman were canvassed
with the following results: -.
First District-Txwney (rep.). 1851; McGov
Second District Mccleary (rep.), 1e,1oo: An
drews (dem.), 9,2s4 McClcary's majority 6,s66
Third District-Davis (rep.), 16,7oo; Kolar
| (den1.), 1896; Davis plurality, 5,7o4. r.
Fourth District-Steyens (rep.), II, 404; fGiesk
ldem.), Hap Stevens plurality, 1902.
Fifth District-Fletcher. (rep.),- II, 500; Lin
| (dem.), 1e,se3; Lind's plurality, 2,o54.
! Sixth District-Buckman (rep.), 1854; D.
! Seventh District-Volstead (rep.), 2o,s26; Eos
berg (pop.>, 5,397; volsteads majority, Is, 400.
Eighth ,District-Bede (rep.), 14.61a;- Fa
(dem.), 1852: Bedes plurality. 5,7s1: az. r..
| Ninth District-Steenerson (rep.), 1905; Nc
Ktnnon (den,.? 1872; Mocn (pop.), 6,7s4; steen
| erson's plurality, II 271. -,'.s--.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-17
CIGAR DEALERS ORGANIZE
They y. eettin ''ly e to Re-
sist Entertainments by the
Warlike Tobacco Trust. 4.

Minneapolis tobacconists have felt the
pressure of the tobacco trust just enough;
to appreciate the wisdom OF organizing to
maintain their independence. The en-
croachments Of the American Tobacco
company were discussed at a meeting of
Minneapolis retail cigar dealers last even
ing. Richard Fisher and C. S. Bartram
acted respectively as temporary chairman
and secretary. The object of the meeting
was to form an organization to correct
present abuses in the trade and for the
general advancement of its interests now
and in the future. 49, '.'
The members Of the organization com
mittee are G: T. Harris, S. c. Lewis, S. H.
Glidden, w. Ewing and Sherman Smith.
Organization will be effected at a meeting
in the Andrus building, Monday evening,
Dec. 90.
The trouble with the American Tobacco
company originally started with the
handling of plug and smoking tobacco.
| Fully 80 per cent of the output of these
goods is controlled by the trust. Not
satisfied with having the lions share of
the trade, the trust undertook to force
retailers to quit handling independent
goods, and when the latter refused, the
trust began a campaign of coercion by
starting retail cigar stores to undersell
| the retailers and whip them, into line.
| Tactics of this sort speedily resulted In
| the defensive organization Of retailers by
cities, the Chicago association having been
| signally successful in meeting trust re-
| taliation. The Chicago retailers are CO.
! operating with their colleagues in other
cities threatened with retail trust stores
Up to date the influence of the trust ir
Minneapolis is felt by the retailers mainly
In the trouble they experience in having
orders filled for independent goods. This
| is not so serious as direct retail competi-
| ton, but is not an insignificant grievance
as some of the Independent brands are II
strong demand and a delay in securing
supplies means a loss of trade. Both Min
neapolis and st. Pau are on the list O
| cities to be whipped into line by the trus
and the retailers in each are now full,
i organized.