Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, January 22, 1896, Image 1
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.
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Stylish and Comfortable Coat With
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Jacket Sleeves.
THE stylish and comfortable
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large illustration is made of
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lined with gay plaid silk. The loose
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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
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any frooa in milder weather. Stylish
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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.
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These stylish accessories a.-e highly
esteemed by fashionable women, as
they can be worn with several styles
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pleasing change of toilette at small
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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
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of narrow butter-colored Valemienne
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Prunelle crepon is here richly asso
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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
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ished with a single or double row of
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It is shapedlu five sections, the under
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coat sleeve. When joined, the lower
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The uppyr si urns are lapped and
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with black velvet, lt is cut in six sec
tions that curve widely above the
elbow,- and narrow quickly at the top
to fit into the arm's eye without full
ness, deep hollows between the seams
JACHE? SLEEVE-.
! resulting from the shapincr. Stripes
j of tailor's canvas are underlaid and
stitched along the seams to give tho
! proper stiffness.
The quantity of 44-inch wide ma
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for a ladv having a 32-inch bust meas
' ure, is 2* yards for No. 1 design, and
I lj yards for So. 2 desi/zu ; :or a 36'
I iuch size ?t will take 2'} yards for No.
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A curious exhibit is being placed in
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Ir is somewhat belated, but tho man
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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
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