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AS THE WORLD
REVOLVES
ELECTRICITY IN FARMING

Used Extensively in France, Where
Coal Is Scarce.
Electricity is used in the house of
the French farmer, not only for heat
ing, but for cooking of food. Now
that coal is becoming scarce and high,
and forests are Inadequate to furnish
fuel, electricity is furnishing the
cheapest source of energy. The cur
rent from a generator is led to CEN
trail distributing station, where it is
divided into as many circuits as there
are separate motors-and so power
is distributed. In the farmers barns
this power runs root cutters. milk sep
arators, tanning mills, etc. 1t can
also be used for cleaning harnesses,
for sharpening tools, for ventilators,
pumps, mills, etc. Yards, stables and
barns are lighted as well as houses.
The water from ponds or brooks or
rivers is raised high enough for its
distribution through farm buildings
and over the fields of irrigation. Ele-
vators, hay cutters, hay presses and
cider presses are also worked by
Observation-Disclosures
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that drank the blood of their friends
and foes on those two days of the
Rebellion.
Above all and over all the robin
was singing with an evident desire
to split his joyous throat, and the
color of his breast being redder than
usual in this locality gave rise to
speculations along other lines. An
old Confederate veteran, who lives
near the battlefield, is authority for
the statement that ever since these
birds tasted American blood in the
historical battlefield pond and in the
rivulet which carried it to the muddy
banks of the Tennessee, their breasts
grew redder with a crimson that did
not fade with time.
1t was at Bloody Pond" that
the wounded Federals and Confeder-
ates crawled to slake their death
thirst, and after drinking felled their
heads into the stagnant waters to
drown side by side.
Only a few years ago the United
States government began the work of
making a garden spot out of the
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mines are being opened, and oil wells
driven land is being reclaimed by ir-
rigation, and even in the Businesses of
Death Valley there are many mining
camps and an extensive borax indua-
try. In all the West, look as you will,
you will find no desert more pitifully
forlorn, more worthless than the man.
made deserts of northern Wisconsin
and Michigan. where fire has followed
the needless lumberman and spread a
black and Uttered waste thousands of
square miles in extent, where once
grew a splendid green forest of pine.
One is beautiful with the perfected
grandeur into which nature molds
even the most unpromising material !;
the other is hideous, grotesque, pitt
full, reminder of the reckless waste
fulness of man.-June Century.
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: Western Farmers Ever on
Z Lookout for Cyclones
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built exceptionally strong. The roofs
are slanting, and the houses are set
to the wind, that is, the ends are faced
toward the east and west.
In Oklahoma every farmhouse is
backed up by a cave. a hole dug into
the ground, and covered by an earthen
roof. Some farmers have gone so far
in protecting themselves against cy-
clones that they have a small cannon
loaded with salt and buckshot, which
is fired into the whirling clouds as
they approach. This has been known
to turn the course of storm. 1t is
common event to dismiss school on
the plains of Oklahoma when a bank
of clouds begin to arise in the south
west. These wind and rain storms
are becoming more uncommon every
day, and it is believed that the plant
ing of trees and the settlement of the
barren sod has had much to do with
it. Before Oklahoma was thoroughly
settled dozens of cyclones were re-
ported every day il the hot months.
The writer was in Newkirk one day in
the early period of that towns exist
ence, and saw seven cyclones form in
the afternoon. All of them followed
the course of the Arkansas river, and
struck" in the Usage Indian reserva-
ton, far to the westward.
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subject may be to many
Did of talk and tired of argument-still
what level for the imagination, which
seeks gore and annihilation to arouse
1t.
Seated on a broken trunk in its
still dead closes, the grizzled veteran
will admit that had not Gen. Albert
Sidney Johnson been fatally shot the
unison of states might have been
the ephemeral vision of an infant gov
ernment, and Mason and Dixon's line
a Chinese wall instead of an imagin-
ary division.
1t was Albert Sidney Johnson, al
ready CALLED by unfavorable criticism
from the Southern press, who met
Shiloh as the beginning or the end of
his real life, and with his eyes fixed
FOR favor or for fate, opened in an
Instant on the Union center with six
ty-two cannon that waited away the
blue like chaff and sent the raw re-
:ruits from the north Central states
covering toward the Tennessee, where
Gen. Nelson asked permission from
ais superiors to shell them for cow
ardice.
1t was behind Albert Sidney Johnson
that the Army of the Mississippi, their
throats black with powder smoke,
spread distraction throughout the
North by that first days victory.
Historians for the next 100 years
will doubtless slip over the causes and
effects of that terrible battle as they
have during the last forty, and the
world at large will not be the less
enlightened, but the memory of Shi-
loh will stand longer than the stones
which were dedicated to Ohio soldiers
there June z, 1902.
1t was on this occasion that sixty
two Ohio and Indiana veterans found
their way back through the toilsome
years, their tears and their cares, to
bivouac for another night on the camp
ground where death once hovered over
:hem, and in the blistering sun of a
Tennessee June hear the words of
the orators about the gallantry of the
lays gone by. Bent figures and
MANNED forms clambered over the
rocks and struggled through the
ravines of that immortal home of
lame, to look again upon the earth
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12

The desert still maintains its fast
nesses in the West. There are some
spots better entitled to the name than
others, but each year these Businesses
are shrinking before the advance of
human enterprise. as the water might
rise over the land, leaving the high
and difficult places to the last So
these islands are scattered through
several states and territories, mostly
In Arizona, New Mexico, California,
Nevada, Utah and Oregon, in the
great valley lying between the main
ridge of the Rocky mountains, on the
east, and the Cascades, Sierra Nevada
and the coast range on the west. Chief
among them are the Mohave desert,
in southeastern California, territory
as large as Switzerland; the Colorado
and ella deserts of southwestern Ari-
zona and Southern California; the
marvellous Painted desert of north
eastern Arizona, and the Great Salt
Lake desert of Utah. Opening north
ward from the Mohave desert lies
Death Valley, perhaps the most desc
late and forbidding spot in America,
though comparatively small In extent.
Yet there are few places even In these
desert strongholds that are wholly
without life of one sort or another, and
a large proportion of them could be re.
claimed, If water were available Even
as 1t Is, not one can bar human actiy-
lty; railroads have been built directly
across three of the worst OF them;
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Recent disturbances by volcanic
eruption in the island of Martinique
and Guatemala bring out in full meas
ure the sympathy of the residents of
the cyclone district of the Southwest
The cyclone is by far the worst form
of disaster that visits this country
coming at unexpected times and deal
ing death and destruction in wide
spread manner.
When the summer days bring waves
Of heat across the stretches of hot
sod, then the residents of the prairie
West begin to cast their eyes to the
windward. They are watching the
formation of the clouds, and he who
could not distinguish a cyclone bank
from any other is indeed tenderfoot
Then the cry of warning is carried
across the plains, and the members
Of every family makes for their cy-
clone cellars. These cellars differ in
various communities. The popular
cyclone cellar on the plains of West
ern Kansas, where cyclones a few
years ago were almost a daily occur
renee, are ordinarily sod houses, built
low and strong.
In the Russian communities of Kan
sas these cyclone houses serve as the
family residence the year around.
They are about seven feet high, and
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12
Violins Made from Clay.

An old Scotch proverb says; 'You
can't make a silk purse out of sow's
ear" 1t seems to the ordinary person
that it would be quite as impossible
to make a good violin out of clay, but
1t has been done. A well-known man
ufacturer of the Messein ocarinas and
porcelain organus has invented a proc
ess for the manufacture of violins and
mandolins from clay. Some violins
have already been completed, and the
inventor has applied for letters patent
for the same in different countries.
Under this process the violins are cast
and every violin is guaranteed a sue
cess and to be excellent for producing
music. The latter quality constitutes
precisely the chief value of this in
vention. The porcelain body, it is
claimed, is better able to produce
sound than a wooden one, since it CO.
operates in the production of sound,
making the notes soft and full.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12

lace CIV. H. L. Wallace), Raith and
Peabody.
The Southern states have done but
little individually up to date. Gen.
Patterson asked the Tennessee Iegis-
lature for $4,000; was offered $4,000.
and let the matter drop at that. Ten
nessee will have one monument to
cost 100000, which will be erected
near Chapel church. The Northern
states that have appropriated funds
for the erection of regimentaT monu-
ments are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The
Hoosiers dedicate their monuments
next September. Gov. Nash will be
president, as well as United States
Senator Beveridge.
An old lady, Mrs. Helen Weather.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12

low who owned an auto; and the jay
birds chartered and rustic cows bawled
hoarse hooraws to their fresh-sealed
vows.
And on they sped of their sense bereft,
So tightly did Cupid bind 'em,
That ere they knew it the town was left
Some seventeen miles behind 'em.
Then the clouds came up and the
rain came down and sprinkled its
tears on her new spring gown, then
changed from a drizzle to falling flood,
and the road was a channel of slush
and mud, and the auto stopped in re-
bellious mood-like a balky mule in
the roadway stood. And. there they
sat in that worst of storms with no
umbrella to shield their forms, and
they got as soaked on their auto perch
as a new convert in the Baptist
church, and their love was chilled by
the rainy slush till it grew impassive
as cold fried mush. Twas full two
miles to a railway town, and with
scowling features he helped her down
and off they trudged through the
muddy lane in the pitiless pour of the
blawsted rain, her eyes all chafed with
the tears she shed, his lips calcined
with the things he said, and they
learned at the station with souls
aghast that the last dummed train for
the day had passed.
And his rivals chartered with merry lip,
And approached her with new en-
deavor,
For the language used on that soggy
trip
Queered him with her forever!
Denver Post.
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appropriated for the park not cent
has been used to erect Offices on the
grounds. The government puts in
foundations for all monuments erect
ed there Besides those that now
stand fifty more are to be put up.
Two hundred and fifty cannon used in
the civil war will be mounted on cast
iron gun carriages and positioned in
the park to indicate the movements
of regiments engaged. Five mortuary
monuments to the memory of gener-
ais who lost their lives upon the field
have been erected. Upon them are
the names of Johnson, GLADDEN., Wal
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12

Oh, she was the belle of her tony
set, a winsome and ravishing young
brunette, with pair of eyes that could
read your thoughts and tie your af
fections all into knots. There wasn't
a fellow on Big Bug street but had laid
his heart at her shapely feet, and she
kept them guessing, those hearts a
thump, which way the kitten would
some day jump. But one there was,
he a scheming chap, and he set for
his game an enticing trap in the shape
of an auto, a rig sans horse that
skinned o'er the ground by electric
force, and his rivals were vallowing
in dismay when they saw the couple
one balmy day spin forth like a streak
for a country ride, on her face a pic
ture of newborn pride, and his rivals
muttered in worst of moods "Our
name is Dennisl He's got the goodsi"
And on DER country roads they went
In high-grade rapture spinning,
Both in a dream of sweet content
Spasmodically grinning.
They talked of this and they talked
of that. she through her bonnet, he
through his hat, he whispered lies of
the genus white. she swallowed them
in her new delight. Upon the lever
her hand he placed to guide the auto,
and round her waist his arm like a
noiseless serpent crawled and closer
to him her form he hauled. He
breathed in her ears the usual words
that lovers toss to the dickey birds,
and she responded in tones so sweet
each sugared sentence seemed good to
eat He'd won the prize, and his soul
was filled with joy till the foam DER
the edges spilled, and she was happy
to think she'd caught a handsome fel-
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12
LADY DuNDoNALD is POPULAR

Wife of Canada's Military Com
mander Noted for Her Beauty.
All Canada is ready to fall in love
with Lady Dundonald, wife of the
recently appointed commander of the
Canadian troops. Her simple man
ners, her splendid education, her love
for books and the brilliancy of her
receptions have long been known in
the dominion. She is of Welsh par
entage and is no less popular than her
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12

warrior husband. She has consider
able fortune and spends much of it
each year in assisting charitable or
CARNATIONS. She, too, has fighting
blood in her veins, for she went to
war with the parish council at
Gwyrch castle in England not long
ago because that body presumed to
interfere with the pruning of her
trees. The war was bitter one, but
her ladyship was victorious, compell-
ing the council TO keep its fingers off
her business
Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12
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HILOH!

HILOHi
What a world of memo
ries; what a universe of
possibilities in the tangled
skein of speculation arise
at mention of the wordl
Hackneyed though the
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Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-12
THE THANKS. OF CONGRESS.
They Are Extended to Rear Admiral
Kempff.

The house committee on foreign
affairs unanimously reported resolu'
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
Session Of 19O2-O3.

The daily routine of work has
been resumed at the S. G.. e. i.
The formal opening on Wedaes-.
day last was very pleasant occa-
sion. The able address of Hon. ].
C. Sheppard has elected much fa--
vorable comment, while the re-
marks of DR.. L. R. Gwaltney were
very appropriate and were deliver
ed in bis usual impressive manner.
In all fully rs boarding pupils
are enrolled. The dormitories are:
filled. 1t is greatly regretted that
the new building was not ready for
he beginning of the session fso
shat all vino knock for admission
could be- received and not turned
away. The students are delighted
with the temporary arrangements.
Several Of the old students say that
they prefer the present arrange
:nenl 10 tha1 of last year.
A large snel competent faculty
is in charg. ala there is no reason
why as good work cannot be done
f)r and by the students of the SIC:
CT. as at any of the other colleges
in the state. The favorable condi-'
tions that obtain at the beginning
auguls favorable and profitable
ending of the session. May II be So.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
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R>VVW

Mr.. ]. 0. Herin spent Sunday
with MIR. w. H. Harling.
Mrs. T. Furse and children left
Friday morning last for Lena,
where they will make their future
home.
Mrs. Buford has removed
from Buncombe to the Methodist
parsonage, where she occupies
rooms with Rev. and Mrs. Davis.
First Mondays crowd was lar
gel than usual and composed of
representative citizens from every
section oil the county.
All students will be admitted tc
the entertainment in the opera
house Thursday night for the small
sum of twenty-five cents.
Rev. George w. Davis filled his
regular appointments on Sunday
last, preaching in our Methodist
church in the forenoon and at Nc
Kendree in the afternoon.
Miss Stella Walker, who has
been spending the summer at
Judge N. l.. Brunson's left Monday
for her home in Augusta, Ga. She
will be missed by her many friends
in and around Edge6eld. Come
again and stay longer.
The sermon of Dr.. L. R. Gwalt-
ney at the Baptist church on Sun
day morning last was master
piece among pulpit d:scourses. 1t
was addressed chiefly to the young
people, being replete with wise
council and timely admonitions.
Among other things he said: 81
would ,sswere it possible, with these
two words, oppose beginnings, a.
cross the sky in indelible letters be
fore the gaze of The youth of the
land" He urged upon the young
to oppose beginning of strong
drink, gambling, lying, card play
ing and defrauding. Such pow.
erIul sermon delivered by one wbc
lives up to its precepts cannot bn1
accomplish great good for Hin i'll
VI hose name it was delivered
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
COLD SPRING.

Dear ADVERTISER: We are still
doing business at the same old
stand.
Our new church is going up
slowly, but when completed we
will have a neat building.
Mr.. C. E. Quarles Is busily gin"
ming the feecy staple.
Messrs. Mcdaniel & Co. are bus.
lily saving lumber. They Will
continue all winter. They have
several months orders ahead.
Crops were damaged by the late
raius. We will make an average
crop.
Mr.. Luther Bell lost a valuable
horse last week. He says that hs
wants one not wor h killing and
NAV lie it will live.
Mrs. Pickcns Bailey is quite
sick with fever. She is the fourth
mem Der Of her family to have it:
We had considerable wind Tues
day evening. a tree was blown
on little negro in Mr.. Charlie
Quarles yard. 1t was not serious
ly hurt; just caused few bottles
If liniment TO be sold.
Now is the time to sow oats. ]
hope to see a large crop sown. One
acre sown now is worth three in
December. Give us an editorial
on early sowing, Mr., Editor; you
used to be farmer.
We are sorry to sec cotton seed
so high priced. The farmers will
sell all instead of manuring their
| oats.
Your boy correspondent writes
well. More boys should write you
an occasional letter.
We are glad to notice the inter
est taken in the S. G. C. 1. Edge
field should be proud of her school
(which she is). May it live long
and prosper. Sol.
Cold Spring, October 8, 1902.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
GOES LIKE HOT CAKES.

1.-THE fastest selling article I have
in my store," writes druggist c. II.
Smith, of Davis, KY, "is DR.. Kings
New Dicovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, because it al
ways cures. In my 6year of sales
it has never failed. I have known
it to save sufferers from throat q
Lung diseases, who could get no
help from doctors or any other
remedy" Mothers rely on it, best
physicians prescribe it and Penn
guarantees satisfaction or refunds
price. Trial bottles free. Reg sizes,
SOC and 81 at G.. L. PENN & Sons
drug store.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
Southern r. r. Low Rates to
Annual State Fair, Columbia.

For the above occasion, the
SOUTHERN RAILWAY will cell
from all points in South Carolina,
including Asheville, Charlotte, Au-
gusta and Savannah and interme.
diate stations. tickets to the 34th
Annual State Fair, Columbia, sc.
at rate of one first class fair for
the round trip, plus SOC (admission
fee) for the round trip.
Tickets to be sold October 26th
to 3lst, inclusive with final limit
to- return November End, 1902
THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY
will operate on October 29th and
30th special trains into anil out of
Columbia, in addition to their re-
gular trains. Call upon aEy Agent
of the Southern Railway for de-
tailed information, or
RW Hunt, D P A, Charleston,S c
w H TaYloe, asst Gen Pass Agt.
Atlanta. Ga
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
Mondays Land Sales.

The Wright place near Johnston,
26O acres, sold for $1,000, to d.
w. Crouch. -.
Of the Warren lands near Tren-
ton, the tract of 3S4 acres sold for
SITS, to B. S. Holland; tract OF
148 acres sold for $1,000 to B. c.
Warren; the one-acre lot in Tren-
ton sold for $205, to B. C. Warren.
The land of the N. D. Thinner.
man estate, Pleasant Lane, three
tracts aggregating 491- acres, was
bought by F. L Zimmerman for
$3.50.
The so acre tract of Clarrissa
Holloway near Meeting street sold
for $110, to Mrs Ann E. Padgett.
The Joe Davis lot on Main street
containing two acres sold for STU
to w. w. Adams. 80:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
Revival at Mill Chapel;

Rev. w. P. Marlborough held,
during last week, very success, ,
full revival meeting at the Mill
chapel which. closed Sunday night.
There were Is convel sions,, i've
uniting with the Methodist church
and ten with the Baptist church.
This young man is a very earnest
and vigorous speaker and God ls
using him as means of savlbg
those who are on tie road to eternal
death. Prayer-meeting will -be
conducted every Thursday night
at the chapel; all are invited to
attend.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
HIS LIFE IN PERIL.

Il just seemed to have gone all
TO pieces" writes Alfred Bee. of
Welfare, Tex, "biliouaness and a
lame back had made life a burden.
/ couldn't eat or sleep and felt al
most too worn out to work when /
began to use Electric Bitters, but
they worked wonders. Now sleep
like top, can eat anything, hav'.
gained in strength and enjoy hard
work. "They give vigorous health
and new life to weak, sickly, run
down people. Try them. Only SOC
at G. l.. PENN & sons drug store.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-08
OUT OF DEATHS JAWS.

"When death seemed very near
from a severe stomach aid liver
trouble, that I had suffered with
for years, writes P. Muse, Du-
hana, ". @. e DR.. King's New Life
Pills saved my life and gave per-
feet health" Best rills on earth
and only 25c at G. l.. Penn &
Sons drug store.