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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

Bulgaria IS placing immense orders for
war material in Europe.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

YES" he explained, "I'm trying to
collect few words for the circus pos
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

boxes Of this remedy effected COM
plete and permanent cure. If suffering
humanity knew the value of Doan's
Kidney Pills they would use nothing
else, as it is the only positive cure l
know"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

"I an, glad to acrite my ea,-
dorsen,e,,t Of the great remedy,
Perua,a, as a 4ie1're tonic 40
so most heartily. ''--J1tfsG Mu1-
ld,Cc.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

TN a recent letter to The Peruna n
i cine Co., Miss Julia Marlowe, OF
York Civ. writes the following:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

You can make a man so mad he
can't see by telling him how every
body admires the ability OF one OF his
fr;on1c
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

You can generally tell when girl
has been kissed before by the way she
nretends she hasn't
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

II you would knock stubborn man
down instead of stopping to argue with
him you would save lot OF wind and
1,,,ot, 40 h1a time
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

The devil could get very big salary
if he would come up and live in New
il y
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

Administrative board: Superintend-
snt o. B. Martin, State superintendent
of education; associate, P. H. Nell,
president Of Clemson college; assistant.
W. H. Barton, chief clerk in depart
tnent of education; stenographer, Miss
irene Plat.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19
MTody,au Ayafnr

Johnson was compiling the dictlon-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

When a woman has birthday after
she has counted the presents she
hasn't time to count the years.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

A man hardly ever knows enough to
pretend to think his; wife knows more
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

Twins are like having pneumonia
when you expected to go to baseball
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19

Heaven has no interests in the
church that has no interest in human
ity
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

necessary In experiments to have always
the same piece Of music, for the ear gets
trained to wonderful degree Of delicaoy.
'We played that waltz all day long. The
second day II began to pail a little. At
the end Of the fourth day the men began
to get dreadfully irritated at the end OF the
week they could not stay in the room where
II was being played
i firmly believe that It Il that question
Of reiteration which makes It possible for
you to hear Wagner and Beethoven over
and over again and not get tired while
the simple melody, however beautiful,
wearies after a while and ends in disgust
and dislike, for the music Of men like those
named il 40 complicated that il has not the
same effect on the nerve cepters.'
sMr. Edison the interviewer asked
abruptly. do you think that all these In
ventions, this machinery Of one kind and
another, makes the world any happier
any betteT7'
Of the question;
L do not. wish could answer all
questions 80 easily and 30 sincerely.
don't know what we are here for and
don't know where we are going. wish
you could tell me. / wish could tell you.
What does this mad rush meant Why IA
this age going such headlong pacei Why
have we replaced the beautiful and the
simple with the commercial and scientihci
One man leaves all and goes about the world
hunting butterflies. l don't understand
him. Would he understand me2 / don't
think 90.
There Is one thing sure. Our senses
are too acute for the life Of the city; they
are adapted to the rural life. I have
neighbOr who goes into the city every day
and Is dreadfully worried over the fact that
be Is growing deaf. cheer him up.
tell him he is In great luck; that never
60 there that 1 am not thankful for my
deafness. If the eyesight would be blunted
q little 30 that we would not have 10 many
useless impressions recorded In the brain
Il would be well. Our sense Of taste needs
bunting, too, and then we would not over
eat and oveTdrink.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

wish you could have seen the faces Of
those plain clothes men.
To go back. Very often / am asked what
am working on and how long 1t takes me
TO complete an invention. Neither Of these
Questions u an easy one TO answer. To-day
l am still at work on things which ] oom-
menced fifteen years ago and are still I'M
completed. Some Of these are on the market
and am making Improvements, some Of
them the public know nothing about
s7s
The Wizard shook his head with a
determined motion and an amiable
smile, "No. cannot tell you, for this
reason. / am not a scientist merely, my
Inventions are limited TO the commercially
useful and industrial. An invention Of
this class, until It IL absolutely practical and
capable Of being sold, is not a success. II
/ were purely scientist, could announce
inventions beforehand, as soon as they had
reached a certain stage.
Il have been working away four years on
this motor battery. worked steadily
for eight years on the incandescent light,
and have worked thirty-five years on the
photograph.
"A great deal Of my time at present is
directed toward the perfection Of the
photograph. want to improve the quality
Of tone. A very little alteration makes
a great difference In quality, and expert
ments are oorrespondingly dificult. You
can't tell why a Stradivarius violin Is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

invest mcntIont the part Of three brothers who
are In the restaurant business.
Already the farm managers have been
imported from France. They are under
the direction Of a graduate Of the French
bohoolof ARricutur and most Of the farm
bands are French and accustomed TO the
cultivation Of the products which this farm
a intended 70 produce.
The experiment h 70 raise the same
veFet ables that ARE grown In France and are
not undert AIKEN here except on very
email scale. French asparagus OF nam
moth size and delicious favor u exposed
and the proprietoTs are most hopefu Of
been famous for the quality Of asparagus
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14
TOO MANY POTATOES.
mtg slump In Prices In Maine OWING 10
Last Years Bumper Crop.

mtg slump IN Prices IN Maine owing 70
Last Years Bumper Crop.
PHEsoUE IsIR, May l3.-More than 1000. =
900 bushels Of sound and plump potatoes
are lying in the storehouses and cellars
Of Arooaook county, unsold and with no
prospect Of being sold this season.
Last fall at harvest time buyers were
Offering 50 cents bushel for the crop as
II came from the ground, but the farmers
remembered the previous spTing when
potatoes sold for from ti.00 10 81. IS a barrel,
and held on and " sited for riae. To-day
Thomas II. PhAir, who owns more than
thirty starch factories In the county, IL
running every one at full capacity and can
purchase all the potatoes be can handle
To from 10 20 ~ cents bushel.
Last October a farmer could put ten
buahels Of potatoes into one horse wagon
and take them TO the nearest village and
exchange them for a barrel OF -four Now
he must ma ke two trips and carry twenty
FIVE blis1sls Of potatoes TO each load before
he can carry away barrel Of the same kind
Of -four.
mot at any time since the county was
opened uptoth white settlers have potatoes
been 80 plentiful and cheap. The custom
house Inspectors who watch the $50 miles
Of border between Maine and the Maritime
Provinces are sitting back In their Offices,
smoking pipes and telling stories Of old
times, hilly convinced that no subject Of
King Edward VII. win try 10 smuEgle
potatoes across the border for the sake
Of selling them for IS cents a bushel.
The peculiar feature about the situation
Il that every farmer u enga ging fertilizers
IN larger amounte than usual, and Is plan
ming 70 plant eth vider areas TO potatoes
the coming eeaeon. The total crop IN the
county last seaeon was aomothing phenom-
email eEceodlng n 10000 bushels.
II all the land thar "a 20 lbe planted 10
potatoes this year gives AM average yield
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

are now known only through the specimens
put up In tin OF glass and the kind Of arti-
chokes grown In French gardens.
All there good things are to be the er-
periments d the new farm. what the
results will be Il IA not yet possible 10 cay.
But the undertaking Is interesting because
Il Il the frst Of lie kind.
The string beans that the French usO are
not grown at all in this country. They
are so attractive to the eye that they are
often used canned, even when the fresh
beans are In the market. They are long
ana thin. darker In color than the green
Most American cooka do not do Justice
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

Il produces.
French potatoes. which must now ba
imported from France, win b. another
Of the products French potatoes are
imports ant IN the stock Of every restaurant,
since without them Il il impossible 10 make
certain dishes.
Pommos de terre soufi6ss are for inst ance.
impossible without French potatoes The
American or, Irish potato y too drv and
compact TO swell when Il y dropped into
the boiling lard.
Then there are to he endives, which must
now be Imported from France and are exc
pensive on this account beyond the means
o. most persons who cannot pay, an un-
limited price for salad; French be6rs which
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

10 the bean, even a. II Ia here, and proba-
Div they would not appreciate the beau-
ties Of the imported article, IL IL discOur-
aging 10 see the string beans which are
40 delicious In flavor chopped up AZ II they
were all intended for succotash,
The careful etrtnging Of been, which
Il really the most important thing about
lie preparation, is often ignored and cooks
hone TO eliminate the string by cutting the
bean into small pieces. But the string
sticks and the favor IL destroyed.
The beans after they have been carefully
strinRcd should be cooked full length and
not chopped into two or three pieces Ad-
difional flavor of kind that all do not HE
Il impaired 70 the beans by boiling a good
sized piece Of bacon with hem. Ihis ed-
ditionI flavor 4 especially good With the
yellow beans andJs-6ompo0 enough In the
South.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

better in tone than one picked upat random
in the music shops, but so it ia, and while
we know that In the photograph the sweet
ness depends on the delioaoy OF the diA-
phragm and thesouorousness Of the receiver,
Just how and why that Is Il the question.
A certain diaphragm recorder takes the
human voice very nicely without any Of
that vibrating harshness, and another,
which Is just like It to all seeming won't
do Il all We don't know why yet, but
We will In time.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

New York; Il e the epltoms Of the horror
Of the age hate II. loathe lie artlioAi
way Of living, its mannerisms, tie ways Of
thought. II has but the one redeemms
feature, that Il Is getting 90 Impossible
that people must leave 1t or become crazy.
"A man In New York gets down 70 his OF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14
BEANS AND A FRENCH Farm.
Some Results That May he Expected Prom
q New Experiment.

Ths experiments just begun by one Of
The best known restauruteun In New York
VIII prove interesting TO all epioures Whistler
OF MOI Il "a a. gratifying 10 their palates
az they hope II win be. THE Sun men,
tionsd the other day a farm which was In
tened 20 supply poultry, vegetables and
dairy products 70 ons Of the oity's popular
farm Il situated IN one Of che NOS fertile
parts Of Long Island and represents q large
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

the harvest next fan will exceed rs 900 900
6Sushels scores ., o. i , ~, ne m moi.
ing Of fertilizers.
we have been hit hard, said one Of the
heavy losers, and now we are going 10 uhs
some hair from the same dog 20 cure the
bite
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

'You take the case Of locomotives; they
appear alike, they have the same measure
ments, to all lntents and purposes they are
alike aud yet one of the two will be far
better than the other, and no one can tell
why.
'In working on the perfection Of the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14

monograph / discovered incidentally a
strange thing-the reason practically why
the popular air 80 soon dies out and cannot
be revived in public favor. l got out a
nice waltz, one that I like exceedingly
myself, and said, Now we will use that
waltz for recording You see, in order
to get the finest shades Of alteration It Is
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
CHICAGO LEADS IN
WIFE DESERT|ONS
$500 HUSBANDS A YEAR RUN
AWAY IN WINDY CITY TO 200
IN NEW YoRK-6loeER PER.
CENTAGE.

Chicago, Aug l7,-More wives are
deserted in Chicago in proportion to
the population than in any other city
in the world Nearly $500 husbands
abandon their wives every year in
Chicago, against 1900 in New York.
These statements are based on Off
cial statistics estimated from the re-
cords Of the charity organizations
the police departments and divorce
COURT.
About 500 different deserted wiy,
es come to this Office during a year.
said County Agent John w. Belmont.
and estimate that the number who
ask aid is not more than 20 per cent
of the number deserted. That makes
1900 in all Chicago against New
York 1900, giving us far the greater
percentage.
Drinking is the chief cause. with
all its attendant evils, with gambling
a close second and horse-race gamb
ling the worst form.
"The pitiful ineompetency of many
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18

the excursion and Edward ForL es,
who assisted him, both Of Greenyille,
m. G.
The scene following the wreck was
one of lndescribable horror. with
shriekng Of men, women and children
who were drowning, struggling out al
the partly submerged coach and float
ing In the river. The passengers who
were injured Immediately started to
rescue those imprisoned in the cars
Rescuers arrived on special train
and the injured were taken to the
track embankment and were attended
by physicians.
TIL engine is completely submerged
not even the smokestack being visible
The car next to Il was also submerg
ed and the dead can be gotten from
| It only by diving under the car.
Four coaches remained on tht
track. Those aboard these cars were
only shaken slightly.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
Has Been imminent Between
Great Britain and Germany
for a Week
AND NOBODY KNEW IT
JOHN BULL HAVING BAD DREAMS
THINKS KAISER is FORMING
A COMBINATION AGAINST
HIM.

Berlin. Aug. IL According to sev.
era high officials Of the government
Prince Won Buelow, Imperial Chaneel-
lor. who yesterday left Nordeeny.
where he was spending his vacation
for Berlin, weat TO IN castle OF VIII
helmsAoehe 10 see Emperor william,
Dr Won Muhlbetg, under secretary
of the foreign off &c. who left Berlin
for a vacation Of several weeks, was
suddenly recalled % join the chan
cellor at Wilhelmshoehe.
The reason for these movements is
50 far only the subject of conjecture
but it is known that the relations be
tween Great Britain and Germany
have recently been on the point oi
breaking to an extent beyond the
knowledge of the public.
Precisely what happened has no
been learned but a serious situation
existed and indeed, II is understood
Il has not been disslpated. The Brit
ish government appears TO hold thu
conviction that The German empero
| IA seeking 70 form European com
biuat on against Great Britain.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
AFTER NAN PATTERSON
WITH A BLAcksNAi<E WHIP
Sister-in-Iaw of Rich Lumherman Says
She Was Too Friendly With Her
Hrother-in-law.

New York. Aug. lT.--Nan Patterson
has packed her trunk and fed tt
Washington to avoid an angry woman
who admits that If sac met the for
mer actress in a dark streel she prob
ably would blacken her eyasxs6asRKS
THIS new ENHANCEMENT III the chor
us girl. twice tried for the mGiFdHf oi
Caesar Young, Is the outcome Of at
tentions paid her by G. Ralph Ash
a wellto.do lumber broker Of Duluth
| Mimi, who has a wife and four chill
| dren.
The angry woman Is his sisterin
| law, Mrs. v. d. Handy, of the Hol
yoke apartment. No 25s West End
avenue, this city, who alleges Man
Patterson has been altogether to,
friendly with Ash, who IL stopping a
/ the Hotel As,or
| Mrs. Handy n b former Syracuse
woman and Is bitter in her denun
citation of Nan Patterson, who sht
declares. met her brother-in.law onls
four weeks ago. Since that time She
asserts Ash has gained a reputation
on Broadway as a liberal spender.
Ash Il quite wealthy He recently
sold one Of his lumber mills for 800,
600. He admits having spent SONS
OF ais time lately with Nan Patter
son.
Mrs, Handy said today:
If Nan Patterson says that RALPH
Ash asked her TO marry him and tha
She did not know ha was married, shs
lies Why, she knew perfectly wei
chat we were after her with a black
snake whip TO give her a thrashing
and she knew perfectly well why"
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
OF Warships at Frisco. Cruiser
Chicago and Bennington
Badly Damaged
FORMER WENT AGROUND
HAVING LATTER IN TOW AND
WHEN PULLED OFF WENT
CRASHING INTO THE
GuNeoAT, cRiPPtiNG
BOTH.

San francisco. Aug l7-The crnls.
er Chicago. flagship Of the Pacific
Squadron, flying the flag Of Admiral
Goodrich went aground close to the
lightout and fog sgnaI station On
Angel island, this harbor, today. She
came up from San Diego with the dis
ablet gunboat Bennington tn tow ana
accompanied by the navy tug Fortune.
a strong ebb tide was running and ia
the current the tow line on which the
Bennington was trailing parted. Be
fore her headway could be stopped the
Chicago ran her bows upon the beach.
The Bennington on her momentum
sailed up close to the stern Of the
stranded vessel before the anchors
took hold.
The tug Fortune soGn got line TO
the Chicago and succeeded In pulling
her clear Of the bottom. bnt when she
came on she took Ii sheer that seat
her straight for the anchored Beuning.
| ton. The current carried her down
scross The bow of the anchored vessel,
and there was smashing OF metal
when they came together. Then tlie
two vessels, afotl Of each other, went
4 irifting on the Tide. Both were con.
| derablS damaged.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18

negot ations. This has been the prac-
tice of plenipotentiaries at every peace
conference. do not believe the plen-
ipotentiaries in this case will leave
Portsmouth without signing treaty
Their responsibility for continuation
of this ghastly war Is too serious
Honor in the contest has been won
and lost already and a treaty with or
without sacrifice on the points Of dif-
ference will affect the prestige Of
neither
| Both the Russians and japanese
knew practically what terms could be
arranged when IL was agreed to meet,
and the Russians were well aware
that the Japanese would want Sakhal.
in and an indemnity. II the plenipo
tent,aries keep their tempers, | am
Of the opinion that they are not likely
to split on any points before them
In contradiction to persistent as
sertions that the British government
Is pressing Japan to amelorate her de
mands, the foreign office informed the
Associated Press today that the gov
ernment was taking no part whatever
in the negotiations. Advice, II " said
had not been asked OF Great Britain
by her ally, and 1t was not likely u
be given until requested.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
RECIPROCITY CONVENTION.
Decides % Organize League. TAX
Ing Half the Old Name.

Chicago, Aug. 17.--After listening
TO number Of speeches on the quef
tion of the formation Df a permanent
organization the reciprocity conven
ton adopted the following and adj
iourned sine die.
We recommend that permanent
organization be formed under the style
Of the American Reciprocal Tariff
League, and that committee Of tif-
teen be appointed by the chair to have
full power to organize and further
prosecute the work for which the con
vention had assembled. The said com
mittee shall have power to increase
its membership and TO fill vacancies
when necessary. That the chairman
be requeated to confer with the com
mittees on arrangements and the var
ious organizations represented at this
convention, ar,l take the time needed
for proper selection OF suitable mem
| hers
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
VISITOR
Demanded st4,ooo,ooo from Postofflce
on Money order--someon
Else Got the Coin.

Memphis, Tenn. August 17.--Alex
Anderson was picked mp al the poHt.
,ffice by Detective Foppiano whlie try.
ng 70 recover the amount Of money
rider for $l4,oO0,OO0 which, he said.
lad Inadvertently been paid to some
ana else He was vigorous In his RI
marks over the loss.
When Alexander reached tho police
statiDn he. was waalthier than ever.
lie handed a package to Staiion-house
Keeper Griffin, remarking that Il con.
aimed $4,000 600 and that Griffin
night keep $5.oo0.0o0 for his courtesy.
He stated casually that Helen Gould
vas friend of his anil wanted to mars
ry him.
What's the matter with this man2"
lslted Judge Floyd when the prisoner
vas arraIgned In Court.
He tried to get $l5,00G0OO from the
iost Office yesterday sad Detective
Nonpiano
Only $i4.o0o,Ooo. Judge said Alex
inder.
How much money have you, any.
gay27 asked His Honor,
"oh, about $4,000, 600. replied
Nlexander ianntily
His case waa referred ID County
Squire who win pass on his sanity.
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
She Asked Japan 10 Ameliorate
Her Demands Does Great
Britain
HAS NOT SAID A WORD
LONDON DIPLOMAT SAYS A
TREATY OF PEACE WILL BE
SIGNED.-PRINCIPLES CAN'T
AFFORD TO CONTINUE.

London, Aug. 17.-While pessimism
relgns supreme in reports from Ports
mouth and in newspaper editorials
there ex SITS in official circles in Lon
don a strong conviction that treaty
Of peace viii he the outcome of the
conference. The Associated Press is
able to state that the British govern
ment, which has been kept informed
of the progress of negotiations
through Minister Hayashi is fairly
hopeful that lasting peace will be
concluded.
diplomat with whom the Asso
ciated Press discussed the question to
day said 1t is natural for botf
sides to assume an unyielding atti
tude and to maintain their RESPECTIVE
positions 10 the point of breaking of
The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-18
CHICAGO MAN SHOOTS FATHER
Tragedy at Iowa City, la, Result Of
Parents Treatment OF Sons
Wife, Now Dead.

Iowa City, la, Aug, N. ~ Thomas
Higgins Of Chicago Is In jail here
charged with an attempt 10 murder his
father, John Higgins custodian of the
Johnson county Qa) courthouse,
whom he shot In the face at noon.
Higgins fed after the shooting and
was pursued by the sheriff and posse,
to which he surrendered, waived ex.
animation, and was held
Higgins says he acted In self-de
Tense and that his father was about ID
attack him, and that he fred impul
siyely under the great excitement
They had qnarreled over the OLD mans
treatment Of the sons wife, who died
recently In Chicago.
The prisoner admits writing .
threatening letter to his father from
Chicago and that after coming 10 lows
City this week ne carried revolve
constantly.