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TIIOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR EDGE FI ELD, S. C., AVEDNESMY, JANUARY 22, 1896. VOL. LX. NO. 52 / Scientists now claim that in doa tin "?from lightning it is the up stroke that ?kills, not tho down one. ' German women bave been appealed ko by the International Woman's (League for Peace in Paris io help them in bringing about a general dis armament. < ^ Count Oknma'B proposition of a "world's fair in Japan is a sensible one, ihinks the New Orleans Picayuue. The Occidental attendance at an Oriental (exposition would be immense. 5 All of tho States, kingdoms, prince polities, empires, etc., of Europe (ex cept Kassia), and all o? the United States, including Alaska, could be placed side by side in Siberia, and yet but little more than cover that im mense country. r -r. ? Four professors of the University of California, after listening, as judges, to a publio debate on the New Wo man movement, voted eolidly against the New Woman, deciding that th? movement "is not for the best inter eats of the raee." ^ General Cassius M. Clay, of Ken tucky, is preparing a magazine article to show that he, and not Secretary Seward, was the man to whom be longed the credit of buying Alaska, kt the time Generd Clay was United States Minister at St. Petersburg, and conducted the negotiations. ) ' ? ? I Alphonse Daudet, the French nov elist, has been sorely troubled by his uncomplimentary remark about Eng lish women. He declared the other 'day that he had decided to say noth ing about women in the future, be cause this "sex, usually called feeble, has too many defenders when at tacked." f The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany has asked all the important lines using Pullman Bleepers to join in a request to the Pullman Company to reduce the price of upper berthr twenty-five per cent, below the price ohargedl for lower berths. Pullman car? are run on 127,000 out of 173,000 miles cf road in this country. I ?? .'. Feminine caprice in dress has ruined many a flourishing industry, and now the Calais lacemakers are tho sufferers. The present fanoy for thiok heavy ^^guipureTscws prevents Sale of the fine .delicate fabrics wrought in the neigh borhood .of Calais. Calais manufac-. 'tarers have distributed their lase free ?to Parisian shops, but customers will sot take it np. . The tzuth of the adage that an hour pf sleep before midnight is worth two hours after midnight is questioned by Dr. E. P. Colby, who states that he made some study of the subject' while in naval service during the Civil War. The ship's company on shipboard officers and men alike-stand four hour watches day and night, with the interpolation o' a dog-watch of two hours to change the time of each set bf men on successive days. These men ?re therefore obliged to get their re quired sleep very irregularly, but in moie than two years of observation 3>r. Colby could never discover that the wat ca officers andmon were not as fully refreshed by their sleep as were the medical and pay officers, who stand no watch, and have hours as reg ular as any householder. In the varied industries of our oities, where many workers aro employed at night and .must sleep by day, farther evidence could doubtless be f ouad that the time when sleep is obtained has not the in fluence upon health and longevity for merly attributed to it. Tennessee has planned and is now constructing an industrial exposition bf interstate and international scope io celebrate the one hundreth anni versary of her admission into the Union, to open at Nashville, the capi tal of the State, September 1, 1896, and to continue 100 days. The plans call for twenty main buildings to be grouped around a lake, a military plaza, and a reproduction of the Par thenon at Athens, standing scow white and alone in the middle upon a high terrace. In the maiu exposition buildings Tennessee will present in classified form under appropriate de partments the evidences of her re sourceful mines, her fertile fields and her numerous manufactures. She in vites every other State aad foreign land to come and place its exhibits side by side with hers, und will make no charge for the space occupied. The management to which has been in trusted the details of the fair desire that the most unique and the nio?t complete exposition possible may re sult from their labors. For Tennes see's part more than 1000 prominent men and women scattered throughout the State are said by the managers to be working earnestly and patriotically,, and without salary, preparing exhib its. For other States, free spase ia large buildings for exhibits aad sites (or individual edifices are offered, and the management will render all assist ance to suoh commissioners a3 are ap pointed for the iPuccessfal perform ahce of their duties. "Tennessee,' saj the managers, "is in earnest and she will prove again by her exposi tion the fitness of the term 'Volunte'1: JSiatV" WITH THE SULT?N. ?. PEN PICTURE OK THE RULER OK TURKEY? \bdul Hamid's Kear of Assassination ?-A Peep Into His Harem and a Visit to the Treasury-Gor xeous Palaces. ISA.W the Sultan ot Turkey in Con stantinople, writes Frank G. Cat pen ter rn the Chicago Times Herald? Through our American Legation I was able io visit many of lis palace?. I went to the Treasury, ind paw the peckB of precious stones ?rhich?are there 6tored away. I was cresent when the Sulttin took hui way ;o the mosque across the city, Xfhere 3is Majesty must go onc e a year to kiss fte mantle jof Mahomet. During my itay in Constantinople I had a nu saber af interviews with the men closest to him, mach of which could not then be published, and secured, I believe, as jrood an idea ol Abdul Hamid's 3har icrer as could be gotten. I was told that even then the threat fear o? his life was assassination. It was whispered to me that he never went to sleep at night for fear that a violent death might creep upon him THE TOMBS 0 in the darkness. He had watchmen stationed about his palaces and on the towers to warn him of any approach ing crowd. He never went out with out he was accompanied by soldiers. There were 10>000 troops present the day 1 saw him go to prayers, and when he took the tour across ihe city to kis3 Mahomet's mantle, tho cavalry gal loped like mad through the streets to clear^the way for him, aud his road froni^the palaeo to the mosqne was walled with soldiers. JVith a wealthy Mahometan I sat in a eecond floor room, the windows of which overhung the street, and eaw this man riding along with his then most famous gen? eral Osman Pasha, and with perhaps a hundred ^carriages - containing tho favorita ladies of his harem following behind. His saddle horse abd another ABDUL HAMID, SULTAN OF TURKEY'. carriage were in the procession, and until the last moment it wasnot known whether he would come to Stamboul by boat or across the Golden Horn by bridge. The Sultan has never allowed any one to know of his movements be forehand. He has only trusted those closest to him. I was told that he ate no food but that cooked in his own kitchens, and that every dish was tasted before he partook of it. He had no confidence in any of his palaces except that of Yildiz, which he thought he had eo fortified that rev olution could rot attack him. He was frightened almost to death when the Czar, Alexander ll, of Russia, was assassinated some years ago, and his life has been one of continuous un rest. He has, all told, from thirty to forty palaces, a number of which are on the banks of theBosphorus. Yildiz is situated on a hill, and its grounds contain acres of ravines, of forests and lakes, of parks and gardens. Not far from it is the great palace of Dolma Bagtche, where Abdul-Alis, the brother of this Sultan, committed suicide in order that another brother named Murad might be raised to the throne. Murad was pulled down by other conspirators, who charged that he was crazy, and it is said that he is pining in the dungeons of one ol the palaces along the Bosphorns. Abdul Aziz furnished this Dolma Baptohe paluce. He spent 83,000,000 a yenr on his harem, and within twelve months expended $600,000 for pictures alone. I went through the palace while I was in Constantinople, through a speoial permit from thc Sultan. It has scores of rooms, walled with satin. It bas cry ti il post.; as large around as the body of a man and more than B?X feet tall. It has luxurious couches and magnificent furniture, but Abdul Hamid has feared it because it is too near the water, and he has only used it for public receptions. But let me tell you how Abdul Hamid looked as I saw him on his way to mosque about six years ago. He sat in an open carriage drawn by magnificent black horses, and driven by a coachman whose body was re splendent in a red velvet suit em broidered with gold. The Sultan sat ou the back seat, and was more simply dressed than any one of the 10.000 soldiers about him. There was a red fez cap on his head, the tassel of which hung almost to his shoulders. He wore a suit cf black clothes, the coat cut high like that of a preacher, nave that the coat was edged with red cord. He wore a white bhirt and turn over collar, and thero was no sign of sword or pistol about him. The Turkish oap has no brim. ?nd I got a good view of his features. They were almost Jewish in cast, and they reminded me much of those of the late Jay Qonld. His complexion was sallow. His eyes wer? large, black and lustrous, the white about them having that yellow tingo which indi cates a derangement of the liver. These eyes shifted to t.nd fro as he rode toward the mosque, and it seemed to me that I could see th^fear itt them. He looked As though he had lost sleep, and he was nervous and worn. As he rose to get out of the carriage and go into the mosque, 1 noted that he was about five feet nine inches high, and he weighed then, I judge, about 150 pounds. I could see his hands as they rested on his knees. They were as long and as thin as tho hands of a Chinaman, and I saw that One of them was doubled up into ? fist; When he came Out of tho mosque be took a different vehicle to ride back to the pale*:?. His favorite saddle horse was present, but he passed this by and stepped into a pony carriage, taking the lines into his own hands, and walking the pbnies until he got outside of the crowd. The road to the mosque was iovered with well-watered sand about six inches deep, and the streets through which the Sultan rides are always proteoted in this way, in order that his royal bones may hot be F THE SULTAN. jolted in going over the cobble stones and mnfMdam: During my 6tay I had a chance to see some of the Sultan's horses. He has about 2000 in his stables, and among these are specimens of nearly every breed in the world. His finest horses are of Arabian blood, and his favorite mouut was a beautiful Arab ian bay. He often too? rides in the grounds of his palace, and when Gen eral Lew Wallace was Minister to Con stantinople he and the Sultan often rode together. The Sui tau is a good shot, and I was told that he ?ould break a dozen vases with S revolver whild galloping past them on horse back; Ho has always been particular a* to th? hordes bf his axmy?cnd each bf the regiments which ??corSpani?d him td the mosque was mounted on Arabian hornes of ono color. During a talk I had with General Wallace not long ago he spoke very highly of this Sultan-, Saying that he was a much greater man than he has been gener ally supposed. I was told that he did a great deal of work, keeping track of foreign affairs, as well as those of his own country, and that he had the for eign newspapers translated for him. He has been so surrounded, however, by officials and rpies tun fc it has been impossible for him to know what has been going on in his country, and it ii a question whether he has even beeb able to control the factions which make Up his Government. The whole Tvirkish Empire is honeycombed with spies, and Constantinople is a city of intrigues and intriguers. It will be Burprisingft? many ito know that the Sultan's wives are all of slave origin. The danger o' assas sination from the harem has made it the custom of Turkey for the Sultan not to m wry. This prevents the polit ical intriguas of a m my branched royal family, and all Of the Sultans have had slave mothers. Abdul-Hamid had, I was told, 10U0 women in his royal seraglio, and as this number ia recruited ev?ry year bj slaves from Georgia and Circassia, the imperial harem probably contains that number to-day. It is curious to know what is done with snch a horde of wives io case of the death of a Sultan, It ie said that the grandfather of Abdul Hamid tewed up nearly 200 of the wives oi his predecessors in sack?, and loadsd the sacks with shot. He THE SULTAN G then droppel them into the Bos phorus, in order that there might be no treachery among the ladies of thc palace. I saw a number of Ihe harem ladies during the Sultan's trip across the city. They rode in cabs, the win dows of which were open, and though their faces were covered, the veils were of the thinnest gauze, and I could see them almost as plainly as though they bad worn no veils at all. They were not, to my eyes, extraordinarily beau I tiful, and not a few seemed rather old. Each of the carriages was driven by a swell coachman, beside whom sat a sober faced ennuch with a long whip in his hand, and eunuchs rode up and down the line, jealously guarding their charges. A large pHrt of the ser vants of the palace are en auch?. There is a chief eunicb, who has charge of all the women about the Sultan, anc1 who is almost as important a m-iu as the Grand Vizier. He gets o big Hil ary, and his influence is suoh that he TIIOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR EDGE FI ELD, S. C., AVEDNESMY, JANUARY 22, 1896. VOL. LX. NO. 52 Forans U"e? by the SnUan, and kept there asfcj^evidence of his fidelity to his religion. There are a number of Hoch tombs in thia mosque, but there in room for more, and the presentSul tan will eventually belaid hereto rest. Iceland**lamber, Houses and Bridges. At onojtime Iceland abonniled with good tinjS?r, bot at thc present time trees ar?jplmost a curiosity. A few mountain ash trees are found in the D?rth anil, east, but the tallest tree in the courqdry is scarcely thirty feet high. InHhany districts there is a low growth ^raJiirch saplings, which, if protected from the sheep, would doubtl est'attain to a mature growth. Thc houses are generally built, of timber ?rom Norway or of the turf, Which extends its roots into the ground ffrom eighteen to twcni} inches; tttd is so closely woven a3 to resemble thiele felt. lu tho latter case the gables aro likely to Ix; of wood. The farit?housos ara peculiar in that there ?te a number of small dwelling, one built agaiust the other, with the gables alt pointiug in the same direc tion, these aro conuected on the inside qy a common passageway. Untitz i.n years ago there were ne bjfja?es nor re?rla dy neade rodda; f. Now there are a number of bridge?, built according to the latest ? devices of engineering? and miby miles of excellent roads? The poiy's back furnishes the only meads * of transportation; there are butane or two wagons m the couutry. These little creatures go from one end of the country to the other, sometimes bearing loads almost as large as them selves..: ( They are remarkably tame, and possess almost human intelli gence.' Next to kith and kin the Ice 1 andedlo ves his pony, and many are the t??B related about the faithful service.Of these animals.-New York Sud; J An Indian (?ii*en? It is not often that a resident of ai American city eau meet a real Queen, but the people in Seattle, cannot only meet p .Queen ?veryday; hut they can speak.td her if they so desire, pro vided they are able to talk Chinook. Quean Angeline, the subject of the il lustration, is a familiar figure on the streets of Seattle. She is the only sur viving daughter of Chief Seattle, tho beloved Indian for whom this Wash ington! metropolis was named. The chiefs died ne.irly twenty-five years ago. . A long time ago, says Leslie's "Weekly, when local Indian wars were rasing, he showed himself the true friend of the pioneer settler, and tor QUEEN AXGELISE S?Q?AMPSH. that reason the old settlers hold Ange line in great veneration, tier Indian name is Kick-i-som-lo? She is about eighty-four years old; and has lived to j see her proud tribe- theDuwampsh i dwindle to a mere haudi'ul of wonder ing Siwashes. Queen Angeline lives in a section of Seattle close to the waters of Puget Sound, called "Shan tytown." The old settlers have many times entreated her to allow them to provide her with a more comfortable home, but oh? declines thaukfully, and will remain in her homoly palace to the end of her days. A Sinari Sheriff. The tables were turned in a sur prising manner on an exultant crook by a smart deputy sheriff in York County, Maine. The deputy was after the crook, and came np with him jiiet across the border in New Hamp shire. The crook was safe from the deputy's warrant there, but in order to be saler he boarded a train for the interior of tho State. That was his mistake. The deputy boarded the sadie train, and took a seat near the crook. At a point a few miles ahead the railway track ran across a corner of York County, Maine. The deputy knew this, but the crook didn't. When the line was crossed the deputy pulled the bell rope, stopped the train, dragged the crook out of his seat, put him off the train, and arrested him. New York Son. Died oi a Moodoo. The Somerset (Ky.) Reporter relates that Billy Mitchell, a harmless and in dustrious old colored man of that place, died last Tuesday. He was one of those old-timo Southern colored meu whb believe in voodooism; rab: bits' feet, lizards and such like. rle claimed that some one touched him on the leg and he soon began to grow sick, and furthermore that somebody put some lizards in his drinking water and that seemed to have "cooked his goose," and consequently ho lost all hope of ever recovering, and laid hiin eelf down and let the lizaids eat his life away. ? Terrible l)?sapi>oiutinenr. DAINTY AND NEW. LATEST DEVICES AND NOTIONS IX WOMAN'S DRESS. Stylish and Comfortable Coat With Cape and Hood for a Little Girl-Melon, jhap ed Jacket Sleeves. THE stylish and comfortable coat depicted in the first large illustration is made of gray satin-faced cloth trimmed with chinchilla fur, and lined with gay plaid silk. The loose fitting fronts of the long coat ore sin gle-breasted, and close to the neck, with penrl buttons and buttonholes. The baok fits closely, falling in pretty ripples below the waist. Fashionable leg-o'-mutton sleeves are completed at the wrists with bands of fur. The dainty circular cape is of fashionable LITTLE GIRL'S COAT and serviceable length, and falls in pretty ripples all around. The stylish hood is lined with plaid silk to match the inside of the cape, the ends ex tending to form a collar, where they meet in frons under a tied bow of gray satin ribbon. The cape with, or with out the hood, can be finished as au in dependent top garment, and worn over any frooa in milder weather. Stylish top garments are thus made of smooth and rous'h-faced cloth, tweed, cote-de cnevid, bengalina and corded silk, fur, braid, gimp or lace will provide suitable decoration, or the oape can : be finishsd with plain or tailor-stitched edges. The quantity of 54-inch wide mater ial required to make this coat for a child one year old is 2 yards; fora four-year-old size, 2f yards; for an eight-year-old size, 2j? yards. LADIES' AND MISSES* COLLATE. These stylish accessories a.-e highly esteemed by fashionable women, as they can be worn with several styles of waist, or basques, thus e?'ectiug a pleasing change of toilette at small expense. No. 1 is made of light or cream colored satin, edged with nar row beaver fur. It is shaped in pointed outline, and has two bretelles LADIES' AND MISSES' COLL ABS1. that narrow at the waist line, front and back. Tbe closing is m cenrre baok; No? 2 ia of black or colored MELON-SHAPED Velvet with jet or spangled edges. Il forms a deeply hollowed sailor collar in back, Haring in points nt the front; three graduated tabs in centre reachinj to the waist, in blouse style. A bow of satin rilmou to match the velvet id placed at the hack o: tha standing collar, and a corresponding b v at tb< waist line. The dosing is invisible at the left shoulder. No. 3 is of Per sian silk, edged with double ruchinj of narrow butter-colored Valemienne lace, it closes iu centre back.. Ve! vet, 6atin, plain, brocaded or fane silks nre fc?-u?rraily chased for the* collars, decoration o: lace, sequins fur, ;'ft or jeweled psssemeatene, cn hautM?- t?e:r si.yU?and value A BIL ??ter i in ?!. ,s i,.?cd Miy T'> ^ive th pieper tei and sn,-pott the tlecoratiuu HANDSOME CORSAGE. Prunelle crepon is here richly asso ciated with velvet a shade darker, handsome cut-steel buttons providing for the decoration. Tho distinctive features ot this 6tyiish waist are its broad sailor collar, that forms lapels in front, deep cull--, peasant belt, and decorative tabs, a.l of velvet and shaped in pointed outline. The stole, or box-plait, conceals the clodng in centre front, and displays three but tons at evenly spaced distance apart. Tho waist has a seamless back, and full fronts arranged over linings fitted by double darts, under arm gores perfecting the smooth adjustment. A close standing collar of velvet finishes the neck, cloding at the left under a bow of ribbon which can be omitted if not desired. Tue gi i 6 sleeves aro stylishly disposed over comfortable lin*ug, pointed tabs of velvet of equal size, with steel but tous, being placed at corresponding distances from the top. Tae wrists 'VI ffl CAPE AND HOOD. are completed with deep pointed fac iDgs that simulate enfik Pretty waists in this stylo may either match or con trast with the skirt, and can he devel oped in any fashionable variety of silk or wooien fabric. Contrasting material in different; shades of color TO UNG LADIES' CORSAGE I can be used in combination with or j without buttons or other garniture. 3IELO?SHAI>ED JACKET SLEEVES. ' The jacket sleeves shown in the second large illustration are the new est styles for outside garments, and are suitably developed iu heavy cloak ing, velvet, astrakhan, cte. The seams that stffnd out in a way sugges? tive of a melou in shape are often corded with velvet or lapped and fin ished with a single or double row of machine stitching. No. 1 is repre sented in rough-faced diagonal cloth. It is shapedlu five sections, the under portion being similar to the ordinary coat sleeve. 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Address ATLANTA PUBLISHING BOUSE, 1(3 Loyd Stroet, Atian ta. Ga. Live-Looking Dca.] Plants. A curious exhibit is being placed in position In thc Mechanics' Fair to-day. Ir is somewhat belated, but tho man agers of the fair were unable to secure it before. It is nothing, more or less, than a display of "mummified" plants, it requires a label to inform peuple that they arc dead, for the pla??s appear exactly as if alive and growing. They are not made of wax. or of cloth, but are genuine plants that have grown in the earth until.they have reached a good state of develop ment, when, by their being treated to a certain injection, the growth is ar rested. Then ( (.mes the strange part, for the plants so treated do not droop and die; the loaves rem:'.in fresh aritl bright, and the plant stands erec It is, moreover, Impervious to heat and cold, and nothing seems able to de stroy its strange repose. The most striking part of the exhibit is a collec tion of largo pal liis used for decorating. These plants are noted for being very tender and susceptible to almost every influence. Those on exhibition have been dead for six months, yet not even when the leaves are carefully exam ined would the fact be suspected. Can Cats Swim? Though it seems somewhat difficult to understand how thc sportsmen of tlie Nile train their cats not only lo hunt game, but to retrieve it from the waler, the hunting scenes depicted on the walls of Thebes afford proof of the Egyptian cat's service in this respect. In one of these repr?sentations puss is depicted in the act of seizing a bird that ha? been brought down by the marksman in the boat, while in another scene cats are shown tn the bc.it ready for work. Thus it appears, from these illustrations of lield and other the Egyptians are able to tmin mestic cats lo act in thc same, modera retriever dogs do. supposed that nothing wilLj to enter water, but I his isj The tiger, for instanj swimmer, as many hj cost; and so the ca) the tiger family, ca if it has any occaj eitlier in searchj es tt| e from As they wil live clei spot ii