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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-09-20
THE YELLOW FEVER STATUS
A Good Many New Gases Developing
at Different Points.

NEW OrleanS, SpeclaI.-OHlCldl IepOlt
to p. m.:
New cases, 4s; total to date, 2,462.
Deaths, 6; total to date, 329.
New foci. Is.
Cases under treatment, 316. Dis
charged, 1877.
There was nothing new in the local
situation beyond the increase in num-
Der of new cases and deaths. There
were really seven yellow fever deaths,
but one of them does not appear on the
record. 1t is the case of an Italian, who,
in the delirium of his fever, secured
revolver and blew his brains out.
In the country, the situation in Tai
lulah is improving under the manage
ment of Drs. Chassaignac and Won Ez-
dorf. The people there have asked the
State board of health that DR.. Chas-
signac be assigned to remain there and
conduct the campaign to the end. This
has been referred 20 DR.. Chassignac,
who will determine later what his
course will be. Among other country
reports were:
Patterson, 20 cases, 2 deaths; Kenner
cases, 2 deaths; Clarke Chenier, one
death; Bowick, one death.
-Four More Cases at Pensacola.
Pensacola, Fla, Special Two
deaths and four new cases is the re-
port officially announced at the board
Of health headquarters, all of the new
cases being in the infected area. The
first man to die was H. D. Brooks,
draughtsman, who came here several
weeks since to take a position in an
abstract office. He had been sick five
days, but during the first period of
sickness refused to take medicines
prescribed. On account of objections
made by Governor Jelks. Of Alabama,
the Marine Hospital Service camp,
which was to have been established
near the Alabama line, has been aban-
doned. It will be located at another
point,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-09-20
TEXTILE II. NEVIS OF INTEREST
Notes Of Southern Cotton Mills and
Other Manuf featuring Enterprises.
Athens, Ga.

The Aberdeen Linen Mill is
now sSin operation. For the past
several months this mill has
beenEunder construction. Asbury II.
Hodgsons:is is President, w. 7. Bryan
is secretary and among the most
prominent stockholders are ]. Y. Car
itbers and Billups Phinizy. General
Manager Tibbetts is also a leading
stockholder. The looms are now be-
ing operated for the first time and
sometof the finished product has been
turned out. The Aberdeen Mill is
one of the few Of its kind in the
South. Its product will be entirely
towelingg Nothing else will be manu-
factared there, and already the dc
mana@for the product of this cstab-
lishiient is heavy. A splendid grade
OF tuWellng wall be Manufactured. Ihe
newsmill building is large and COM
modious.
The capacity of the Southern Mail
ufaeturing Company will be doubled
at aa early date. This has been con.
temp1ated for some time and the I'M
proyement simply awaited the COM
pletion Of the Aberdeen Linen Mill.
Thatshas been accomplished and the
doubling of the equipment of the
Southern Manufacturing Company's
planfsWilF now be taken in hand. An
other1argc mill building will be erect
ed adjoining the present plant, and
the nachincry for this building is al
ready The company has recently
buiTfEa large number Of operatives
houses and has others yet to be built.
In TIE vicinity Of this plant regular
littleS town has sprung up.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-09-20

Vicksburg, Miss, Special.-Two new
cases Of yellow fever in Vicksburg.
Total cases to date, %; deaths 8.
Seven patients are under treatment
'poW
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-09-20

salisbury-It is planned to build a
cotton factory Of large size in con-
nection with the development Of 5000
horse power in the Southern Yadlin
river below here. The water power
electric project is being fHrthered by
the Southern Yallsin Development
Co., which is composed of Philadel-
phia and North Carolina capitalists.
Bandy g. Terrell, of Greensboro, n.
c., are consulting engineers.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-09-20

Winston Salem-Thc Pioneer Man
ufacturing Co. with $25, 1000 authorized
and $4,950 paid in capital stock has
been granted charter. The incor-
porators are: L. w. Brown and Char
les G.. Vaughan, of Winston-Salcm,
and Albert M. Brown Of ST. Louis,
Mo. It's objects are the manufactur-
ing and sale of cotton, woolen, silk,
and linen garments, and the carrying
on Of tailoring establishment and a
laundry.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Entomology on the Farm.

Recent bulletins of the department OF
agriculture serve to direct attention to
the usefulness to farmers of practical
scientific knowledge of insects. It ap-
pears, for instance, that about $50 spe-
cies of insects prey on the beet; and as
the cultivation of sugar beets Increases,
entomologists anticipate that still other
species will begin to attack them Yet
there are great differences in the amount
of damage inflicted by different insects,
and expert knowledge is required to de-
termine how best to deal with them.
Corn stalks are attacked by eight spe-
cies of minute flies. but their ravages
are all popularity supposed to be the
work of the Hessian fly. In most in
stances the damage done by these flies
can be prevented by simple measures
Youths Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
STRONG MINDED WOMEN.
Many in Cavite, Philippines, Com
mand Crews Of Men and Make
Them Stand Around. =.

Oriental women are usually weak and
gentle creatures, but Filipino women
are marked exceptions, at least the
Tagalog women of Cavite on Manila
bay. Cavite, especially, is noted in the
Philippines for it's strong-minded wom-
en-, says d recent account.
When passenger boat arrives in
Manila bay and drops anchor off Ca
wife, a fleet of canoes appears from
shore. Each canoe is padded by sew
eral men, but in the stern of each, un-
der cotton umbrella, sits "la duenna,"
the woman merchant. It is curious
fact that few of these boat merchants
are men in Manila bay. AS the canoe
approaches the ship. it's amazon COM
mander issues loud, shrill orders which
the men ODE with marked alacrity.
When she commands: I'm oars!" the
paddles come in.
When the canoe is fast alongside,
then begins the bartering. The madam
in the stern moves not an inch. She
does none of the chaffering, however;
she simply directs her male crew. who
meekly expose the wares to the view
of the passengers; bananas, oranges,
cocoanuts, cigars and chattering mon
keys. She loses her philosophical equa-
nimity as the trading proceeds: and her
growing excitement betrays itself in
her rising voice.
"Juan!" she shrills, "tshow the Amer
icanos the Cagayan cigars, not those,
you fool-no-no-those-by the ba-
nanas-you idiot-be quick!"
Juan's stupidity snaps the last re-
straint. on comes madam's slipper,
and with a smack across his neck Juan
lurches over athwart. This amuses the
passengers. Juan's fate throws the rest
Of the crew into an abject state of panic,
and they stumble all over each other
. while madam's slipper comes down here
, and there with a swish. Meanwhile the
passengers above are in a roar, and
their good humor makes them ready
buyers. Finally everything is sold; and
the canoe turns shoreward, 'la duen-
t mas" voice audible until it merges into
: the distance and the chop of the small
| wavelets. .- 49,. -~ a.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Food in Tabloids.

Every once in awhile one reads that
the food of the future will be served
in tabloids. A meal will be carried in
the waistcoat pocket, or in shopping
bag. This is nonsense Tabloids will
preserve life for a certain short length
of time. They are excellent to use in
emergencies, on forced marches, and
when travelling. But no one could
live on them. The entire digestive sys.
tenn would have to be altered, and al
most every natural function would
have to change. The Imagination
pauses before the new diseases that
would appear if people ceased to chew.
IN. Y. Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
FEW FILIPINO WORDS USED.
Americans Have Gained But Little in
Language from the East
ern Isles.

A letter making inquiry of Col. Ed
wards, chief of the bureau of insular
affairs. war department, as to words
grated into the English language on
account of the American occupation
of the Philippines was turned over to
Capt. Taylor, who is an excellent Span
ish scholar and is getting up the his
tory of the Philippines from the pub
lie documents captured from the Fill
pinos. He made a reply which indi
Gated that not SO many words come
over from the Philippines, although
thousands of United States soldiers
have spent years in the islands, Prob
ably the Tagalog language and>the Ian
guage of the different tribes do not
impress the Americans who go to the
Philippines.
Spanish is the chief language of the
Philippines and by the acquisition Of
Florida, New Mexico, Texas and Cali
fornia the United States acquired about
all of the Spanish terms needed in the
English language to convey the mean
ing of various places and objects. The
acquire many words from savagery. It
would be pretty hard to name any
words in the English language that
were acquired from the Indians Of
North America save the names of
places.
No one knows how many dialects
and different languages are spoken in
the Philippine islands. Gen. Andrew
Burt. who spent several years in the
Philippines and served in important
positions, said that oftentimes he oc-
cupied one point with troops where one
language was spoken, while three miles
away totally different language was
spoken, differing apparently more than
languages of different Indian tribes in
this country. The acquisition of any of
these tribal languages outside of the
Tagalog was almost impossible and
useless. 1t is apparent that whatever
else the Philippines contribute they
will not enrich or enlarge the Ameri-
can language.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Keeping the Snake BUSY.

A prominent actor tells this story
about two brother players and their
experiences in a Maine temperance
town: Feeling in need of alcoholic re-
freshment, they made application at
the local drug stores, but were told
that stimulants were sold only in cases
of snake-bite. The actors had about
decided to content themselves WITH
such refreshment as the town provid-
ed when they heard that a certain res
iSeat owned a rattlesnake which he
kept as pet. Securing his address.
they called on him and offered to hire
his snake for use in some scientific, ex-
periments. Nothing DOING" answered
the owner; "te's booked solid for four
months ahead."-Chicago Chronicle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27

TURKISH RUGS Mi.llsNo MER.
Those Sold IN This Country as Such
Come from England and
I. ~ + French Makers. -: II + # bill

There Is really no Esuch thing as a
Turkish rug, despite the name" said a
large importer of oriental wares, reports
the Chicago Inter Ocean They, are
called Turkish because they are mar
keted principally from Constantinople,
although almost every one OF them is
woven in realms" outside those of the
sultan. They come from Arabia, Persia,
Afghanistan and Beloochistan, and are
picked up by Mohammedan traders, who
get them from the natives for sacred i'm
ages and pictures of images. OF course,
the Mohammedan faithful think that
these are made by their own countrymen,
but as matter of fact they are manu-
featured largely in England and France
and are shipped to the orient from there.
It would be certain death for an infidel
Christian to engage in such trade, and
even the Mohammedan trader frequent
ly pays for it with his life.
after they have been bought from
the natives by these traders they are
packed on camels, and then begins the
journey overland to Constantinople.
They have to travel in caravans for
safety sake, and I have often seen as
many as 100 camels in one caravan when
they arrived at Constantinople. Each
camel can only carry about 200 pounds
of rugs, and it often takes a caravan six
months to reach Constantinople, so the
expense of transportation is heavy one
Then they are shipped from CONSTANT
nople to America, and it takes about 20
days to, reach New York.
"They have to pay import duty to thu
sultan when they cross the frontier, and
then when they are exported they have
to pay another two per cent. If We want
to inspect them before we ship them out
Of the country we have to pay 20 per cent,
so we ship them just as they come off the
camels' backs, in bales. Sometimes
when they arrive in this country we find
in a shipment rug whose sacred en-
baems make it more valuable in Constan
tinople than in America, for the rich Mo-
hammedans in that city are willing to
pay almost any price for prayer rug
that has certain of these sacred emblems
in it's design. When We find such a rug
we ship it back to Turkey and sell it
there, and make bigger profit than we
would in America"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Verbal Hixup.

With hasty glance at his watch the
suburbanite went into a book store and
stepped up to one of the statesmen.
Have you copy" he said, hurried1y
''of Mrs. Wages of the Kibbage Patch?' -
"You mean g. =. T..
"''Of course. I'vegot it little mixed.
mean Mrs. Kibbs of the Waggage' NO
Mrs. Kabbs. of the Piggage'- Mrs.
Wibbs of the baggage Kitch'- Mrs.
Pigs of the'-:Mxs. Pabbs of the Kig-
gage say, if you've got the book let me l.
have it as quick as you can, or I'll miss
my train!' ..s ~ @SS 80.
He reached the station just in time
Chicago Tribune. r zssz~ %
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
TIE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER.
There was a great philosopher
8 Lived years and years ago;
And such a merry soul was he
R4s5y They called him LAUGHING Joe.

II There was a great philosopher -',
.%8a Lived years and years ago; z
and such a merry soul was he 81:
StFs@ They called him Laughing Joe.
4 For laugh he would throughout the year
s5s Let things go wrong or right;
Let Fortune smile or Fortune frown,
H8#ssz Els heart was ever light.
And little children every day
&s Would gather round his place
To listen to his hearty laugh
aI5; Or see his smiling face.
But gloomy minded people said
E They thought it was shame
9SA man should be disposed to laugh
At good and bad the same.
D At last they gathered in crowd
M And pulled his dwelling down:
They hustled him around the streets
Il And drove him from the town,
TO find home beyond the sea
&, Upon foreign strand,
And never dare to set a foot
I Upon his native land.
= But when they chased him from the realm
i Those people little knew
I What even one good-natured soul
And smiling face can do.
Now children seeking after Joe
Would round the ruins stray,
And grieve because the people drove
Their laughing friend away.
And long before year went by
Those bad-behaving men,
Sent messengers across the sea
To coax him back again.
And out they ran with princely gifts
To meet him at the shore,
And begged him there to live and laugh
In peace for eVermOre.
Palmer Cox, in St. Nicholas.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
IsuPERsTiTlo Ns or MALAY s:
The Brown People VIII Not DO Csr-
tain Thing on Certain Days
Z = and Believe. in Omens. AZ E =.

You can scarcely, ever get your money
from a Malay on Friday, because they
. believe that if they pay their creditors
on Friday they will be overtaken by
penury. Malays never share or cut
their nails on Saturday or Tuesday, be-
cause these are unlucky days, and il
they DO part with their hair or nails on
these days they1~believe that they will
be always in trouble or will die quick
ly, says the Penang Straits Echo: The
Malay never sleeps in the afternoon, for
such an action shortens life! When q
rat bites Malay's clothes, it signifies
Ill luck, and usually the rat-bitten
clothes are given away to the poor.
There is a; kind of bird called by the
>Malays rowk-howk which does not
build nest, and lives in fields. The
Malays say, that whoever obtains a
rowk-howk's nest will become invisible
as soon as he puts the nest on his head.
Of course the Malays believe that there
is such a nest, despite the fact that the
bird never builds one.
If a Malay feels that his right hand is
itchy, he is glad because herswill re-
ceive> large sum Of money, and if he
feels that his right eye moves, he knows
that he will see foreign friend. If
tears issue from either eye, he under
stands that a relative of his will die,
and if he too often forgets mis- promises
to his many friends he is aware thst: he
will Gle and will shed tears rather pro-
fusely. r..
When there is an eclipse of the moon
or sun the Malays abstain from taking
food and perform their additions, in or
der that no contagious disease may at
tack them. Crows are an ill omen, and
whenever a crow cawcaws near Malay
habitation it MEANS death to some one
of the inmates. Sdpposing Malay
walks along road and suddenly a
black cat crosses before him, he will at
once turn back and walk along another
path. The crossing of the black cat
signifies danger involving the loss Of
life.
You seldom see Malays bite their
nails, because. this action is likely to
lead the doer into poverty. If Malay
sees pig or Chinese funeral before the
sun, rises, say: at $50 a. M, he knows
that he is lucky, and whatever he does
on this day he is sure to meet with
success Dreaming of jumping a brook
let assures the dreamer that death will
ensue in short time, and in this case
the unhappy man generally distributes
aims to the poor so that his life may be
prolonged. To see a monkey in the
morning is an i'll omen and signifies
that the seer will lose money heavily in
trade.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
KYes, He Had q Nose,

A friend of Senator Patrick NJ. .McCar-
rem, of Brooklyn, told the following
story about him at the Hoffman house
few days ago:
Senator McCarren went into restaur-
ant near the capitol in Albany a few
weeks ago and ordered some fish. When
it was placed before him he sat back in
his chair and looked indignant.
What do you mean by bringing such
fish to a gentleman" he asked of the
colored waiter. -.
'Bes' fish in Albany, sah," he replied.
Have you such thing as a nose?''
inquired the senator, angrily.s :|*
"'Deed has, sah," said the waiter. =.
'sWell, can't you smell the fish, then? %
Smell de fish, sah?'' repeated the
waiter Use been sme!lin' de. fish fer a
week."-N. Y Times. -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Negrito WEAPONS.

The weapons of the Negritos are uni
versally the bow and arrow and the short
knife, Or bolo. The bows are Of various
materials, from clumsy strip of bamboo
to the 1ne-grained palma bravo" which
takes beautiful polish. The arrows are
of light and straight mountain cane,
either with sharpened hardwood. points
OF variously shaped and barbed-iron
points. Some for larger game haye,de-
tachable points fastened to the shaft by
a woven fiber coil, which unwinds when
the animal is struck, leaving dangling
shaft to catch on underbrush, and so re-
tard the,animal's fight. Y
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Moros' Unsightly Teeth.

Among the Moros q disaguring -prac-
ticei is that of filing the fronts of their
teeth with. rat-tail files or small round
stone until the teeth project, outward
from the mouth, and blackehing them
with a varnish made by boiling the milk
of a coooanut and then dropping piece
Of redhot iron in it. The iron and the
milk combined make compound that
hassth appearance Of black carriage
varnish. This will wear several weeks
after being placed on the teeth.-N Y.
Tribune. :...s>5, :, ! + - 1s.a.::< LIZ r
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Uncle Sans Big Checks,

Uncle Sam has paid big bills abroad
before now. but this Panama payment
tops them ALL Six years ago he paid
Spain $50, COX, 900 on account OF the
Philippines, but the amount was sent
II four warrants Of s, Ooe, 900 each.
Previous to that the most historical
warrants were IS. OoO, 900 issued ito
Russia in payment for Alaska In 1868.
and S 800. 900 paid England orsaWards
in Halifax fishing Infringement
Boston Hera1d sss #Sss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
German Factory Girls.

A recent attempt to reduce the daily
hours of female factory workers at Fret
berg, Germany, was opposed, on the
grounds that competition with Italy, Ja-
pan and China would not permit it, and
that, If. factory life were made too at
tractive, domestic help would be still
more dimcult to obtain than it is now
n. 7. Post. i ,-s,z -, g. II 4 81 :.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-01-27
Ventilation Through. the Walls.

Ventilation Through the Walls.
The fact is that considerable ventila-
ton is capable Of taking place, and quite
a large exchange of fresh for bad air is
effected through the walls of buildings.
Many room that is notoriously "stuny
could doubtless be made pleasant to live
in by removing the solid paper or inn
pervious coat of paint from the wall and
substituting porous paper, or, better
still. giving up paper altogether and
using asdistemper wash Of pleasing tone.
-Lancat .s @zz ss5 3s. go
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-20
HOW IT FEELS TO BE SHOT
Sensation Produced Is Like That When Hit Stinging Blow with
 Rawhide Whip.

An American private soldier, who was with the regulars when they charged so gallantly up the San Juan Hill, and was struck in the fieshy part of his left leg by Mauser bullet fired by a Spanish soldier in the trenches ahead, recently described "how it feels to be hit" says the Washington Star.
 "The sensation produced" he said. twas like thet which would result from a sting.ng and forceful blow from rawhide whip. We were ad. vancing through a thicket, and re. member my first impression was that a bent sapling had sprung and struck me on the calf. gave a little leap into the air and exclaimed: Jerusa- lemn or something like that. but con- tinued to run ahead with the boys. In about three or four minutes. began to feel sick and faint, and upon exam inatlon found I was wounded, but had fired several shots before I made the discovery"
 The private added that for a time he was overcome by nausea, but event. ually managed to apply first aid and then got back to the rear for treat ment In . few weeks he was ready for service again.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-20
To Save Niagara.

The Technical World for October prints an article by Alton D. Adams, in which he proposes plan for devel- oping electrical power at Niagara falls which, he says, will not injure the scenery of the cataract. He believes that the river can be tapped to almost any extent and the falls at the same time preserved. Briefly, he would dam the river at distance below the falls, where the water could be impounded and made to serve industrial purposes quite as effectually as above the falls. The river flows for about seven miles through gorge 400 feet wide that is walled in by rock to height of 200 or 300 feet, and in that distance the fall is about 100 feet Mir. Adams would build dam at the end of the escarp- ment near the town of Lewiston and holds that a dam 1000 feet long would raise the water level these 100 feet without changing the elevation of the pool at the foot of the cataract. This artificial basin would carry the water of both the American and Canadian falls and supply permanent and con stant force of 1,500,000 horsepower.