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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.? EDGEFIELD, S. C., W?D^ESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1896. _ VOL. LXL NO. 47 KOTJ? INO COCHEM, F The Japanese Government has be? laked to Banotion a plan, for whi< about $2,000,000 havo been collecte to divide the main island of Japan in ?wo paris bj means of a central c?\n nnecling Tsurnga and Yodo tv i ike Biwa. The Kbedivo's mysterious visit 'aria, about which so much has bet tade bj European newspapers, turi oat to have not been for the purpose < ousting the English from Egypt, ht to consult with engineers in relatio t<i motor oars. The tempest in tb teapot seems to have all settled in th grounds." Sajsthe North American Medica Raview: Out of everj seven tj-flv persons convicted of murder iuNthi country, onlj ono is hanged. Ever year since 1890 the number of mur ders committed in tho United State " ia more than doubled that year. Th< amber of murders committed here it 1890 was 4230 ; in 1894, 9800 ; in 1895, 10,5(0. Be the cause which ever one of manj it maj be, it is proof positive that capital punishment as a preven tive of orime is a failure aid. should be abolhihed, Imprisonment for life .t hard labor for the State, without paddon or reprieve, would bo equally effective and more humane. The relative freqnencj of various pbjsical accidents is a matter on which extended statistics have not yet been collecte!, but, savB tho Chicago ? Timea-Hirald, one of tho accident ^oompanies has mado a contribution thereto by analyzing 2000 accident claims *hich appear on its books. -From these it appears that 53J, or >'over tv2tity-five per cent, were injured bj falls on pavements, 213 bj vehicles, . seven ty-five by horse kicks" or bites' -forty-seven bj horseback riding, 117 bj cuts with edge tools or glass, . ninety-six by weights falling upon them, seventy-six bj bicycle acoidents and seventy-two by falling downstairs. Bitter complaint is made in England [because a few wealthy corporations al ready conrrol tie entire import trade in frozen meat, and now a trust is be i?g perfected to control the salo of botV-EBglish grown meats and meat imported ali\e or dressed. This is leading ?he co operative societies or .tores to go into the business. The Maiiches^o^?o^raU^_Wholesale $50,OvO,000 per year with 200(rro&K-| co-operative stores ovor tho kingdom, is arranging tor diroct importations of Australian meats. There is no rea .ion why our American export meat trade should not get the benetit of this dir ?ct market of English consumers, I maintains the New England Homo' .stead. ______ The Tokio Nichi Nichi Shinbun re? latas how a mandarin named Wang Peng Yun, in a letter to the Empress Dowager, implored that lady to re member that China's fiuances are in a bad condition and that the country could not recover from the disgrace ful defeat suffered at the hands of the Japanese unless the utmost economy i wore exercised. Her majesty should [ therefore forego the pleasure ot hav ing new palaces built for her. It was confidently expected th:it the daring - official would be beheade.1. lits life bas, however, been spared at the in stance of the Emperor, who admired his courage. He was banished from the court, but it is said that the Em peror will shortly recall him with crreat honors. Thirty years ago, writes a corre spondent of the London Daily News, there were not more than t wool y pe riodicals in the whole Japanese Em pire, and they were of wretchod type. Now there are 802 newspapers nnd magazines which put forth yearly 287,157,421 copies. In Tokio alone ure twenty-three dailies with aa an nual circulation of 134.801.72P, bo jides fifty-six magazines issuing each year 4,866,999 copies. "Yet,"he adds, "there is no public opiuion, as we un derstand it, in Japan. A want ol moral fiber ia part of the National character. 'Bumor never lasts mon than seventy days' is a proverb witl the Japanese, and so the papers insnl publio characters with impunity, an< really get the sense of their duty t< the public, hence are of absolute irre rponsibility." moisture and Vegetation. The influence of moisture on vege talion has been found by M. Edmont Gain to vary greatly at difieren periods in the growth of the plants in a rule water is urgently neede rhen the first leaves are appearing ben little is called for until jun b< Ire blossoming, whtn a large suppl [demanded. The fiuit is best pei ^ed in comparative dryness. Ver ; plants require constant moisture fd in all experiments tried the plan! That were watered at tho two critici Reasons of first growth and the begii Ding of blossoming did as well as thoi that were constantly watered. Moi lure in the soil favored increase in tl number of fri it, seeds and roots, whi Jry nets tended to promote greater si; abd perfection of seeds and tubers. The Kew Jersey Historical Socie 1MS declined ?ie offer of ?1? trust* of Princeton I'niversily to provi apartments in the new library build! at Princeton for Hu lr exclusive use. Sous men will never pay any de bat the debt of nature. BD sh i t.. al Iii A. MYAL WONBM THE ABLEST COAST DE FUNDE ? THE WORLD. The Monitor Puritan, Just Comple cd, ls tho Pride of Undo Sam's Navy-Features of the Monster Fighting Machine. HE armored monitor Puritai the beet equipped and stand est oraft of her kind in tl entire world, a fighting av chine of the most modern kind, fit 1 withstand the assault of tho guns e any enemy, is now i^xrred betwee ._ae two dry docks at the Brookly Navy Yard. Her sidee aro painte white, her powerful turret guns aie i position and her military mast wit rapid fire guns aloft is aaref ully shroud ed. Naval officers who have watched th <6 THE UNITED STATE1 _ (Ouo of our most formidable ongi progrese made in the evolution of modern naval architecture regard this novel fighting monster with pride. No wonder -.he old salts, and the young one?, too, for that matter, have chris tened her the Pride of tho American Navy. "Witt ships like the Pnritan at the entrance to this harbor^" said an offi cer, as he stood on tho deck of the monitor, "the people of New York never need be afraid that an enaznv's ships will ever dare to passinsi&'of Sandy Hook. New York's commerce INTERIOR OF FOB WARD TURRET. is safe. The. Puritan "is the ablest-, grandest, mostpowerful, best eqaipped M gb ting machine of tho century." Every officer and every Jack tar in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, from Com modore Sicard, the commandant of the home station, down to the youngest midshipman, and from the chief boat swain's mate down to the afteiguard sweeper, feels a lively interest in the Puritan. The Puritan was begun in 1875, at tho shipyard of the late John Boach, at Chester, Penn. Sho is 286 feet six inches long, with sixty feet li inches greatest breadth and a draught of water of eighteen feet. Uer displace ment is 6060 tons. ' The Puritan carries four twelve-inoh breech-loading guns in two turrets; Rix fcur-inch rapid fire guns protects by armor shields and eponsons ; tw six-pounder rapid fire guns on th bridge deck ; four six-pounder rapi lire guns on the snperstructnro^dec and two one-pounder rapid fire gunf which are mounted in the military to: aloft. "You couldn't put another big gu aboard her," said a naval officer, " you tried. She actually bristles wit modern fighting guns. But won't sh roll in a heavy sea way." There are two big turrets on tl main deck, ono aft and one forwari and both can bc revolved easily b hydraulic power, so that a rapid fi] can bo maintained in almost any dire tion. Tho turretB known as tue ?lite] born turrets, make it possible to rah the gnus to a height of ten feet s inches above tho water linc. The: turrets do Dot project down throng the deck BR do those in tho Mianton mab, but the lower part, or barbett is secured to tho deck, forming watertight wall around thc base of tl turret to a height of 5} feet above ti deck. The upper part of the tun containing thc guns is made to i volvo above this barbette jnsd 1 ferred to, Hint has inclined n< which lunka it appear ?oraethi?g li a kantie rivet head, Both.tho upjj t. K .nd the lower pa?ts of tho tnrret a well protected bj heavy plates t steel armor, tho latter being fonrtee inches thick, while the inclined side of the upper part present but a smo target and aro very difficult of pen? tration by the shot of an enemy. Tho turret guns weigh forty-fiv tons euch and can throw a steel S5t pound shell a distance of fifteen milcf A 500-pound charge of powder is r< quired to fire each ball. Tho hull itself is protected by a armor belt five feet seven inches deer, fourteen inches in thickness to a poin below tho water line, from which i tapers to six inches at the armor shell This belt extends 150 feet along th middle part of Ihe ship, protect^ engines, boilers, magazines and shel rooms. Immediately forward and af of this belt tho armor is reduced ii thickness to ten inches for a distanc of twenty feet, and is farther reducei to a thickness of six inches at tho end of the ship. * MONITOR PURITAN, ms of war just put in commieloD.) Thc armor is strongly supported by a wood backing and a system of rigid frames and girders. The main deck is covered by steel plating two inches thick. The ship will carry 150 tons of coal in her protected bunkers. Before tho Puritan's armor was put in position it was carefully tested. In February, 1894, a plate eighteen feet long, six feot wide and fourteen inches thick, tapering to six inches was tested at the proving grounds at the Bethle hem, Penn., Iron Company's works. Two shots from a ten-inch gun were fired at it at a distance of 360 feet. Carpenter projectiles, weighing 500 ? . ' w ri . it ; ; ~ ,', ".. 1 few inches above mw *uici. xuv *~ itor is provided with eight boilers, which are fitted with appliances for forced draught. She has twin screws, with engines of the horizontal com pound type capable of developing 3700 horse power with natural draught, which will develop a speed of twelve knots, while with forced draught she will develop nearly five thousand horse power and a speed of more than thirteen knots. All the machinery aboard the Puritan was tried and found in excellent working order. The quarters of tho men aro large and commodious and the wardroom officers and junior officers havo splen did apartments. But as for the captain's cabin. This is about as small as one could imagine, and his office has jost room enough to hold a small desk and a man. Two URITAN LOOKING FORWARD. could not possibly turn around. There are two powerful searchlight mounted on the monitor, one on th< forward bridge and ono on an afte: bridge where the signal quartcrinaste is stationed and where his flag chest i located. Tho pilot house and char room are in one. The small whee connects the pilot house with a steac steering geer below. Numerous tube connect the pilot house with ever part of the ship, thus enabling th commander and the officer of the dec to communicato with the engine room the men stationed in the turrets un elsewbero about tho ship withor leaving his post. There is a lighting wheel in the a ter cabin below tho water line. Thi has hand steering gear and can bo uso in an emergency. Tho cost of the Puritan is aboi $3,500,000. Thc Speed of thc Camel. Tho speed of tho camel when on journey of considerable length rarol exceeds three miles nn hour, and tl swiftest dromedaries are rarely l;nov tu go faster than a ten-mile gait, b thio* t Hii bo kept up for twenty ui>u in the day, and for bis. or at;yen da at a time.-Answers re I Kow the Hand Keeps Its Cunning, >' j "I don't believe that the Laad n j eye ever loses its cunning," remarb j a gentleman of the newspaper irater ? j itv the other day. "Now, I havo n had time daring the last twenty vea to engago in the sports ot the field i forest. A couple ot weeks since I w one of the guests of a well knov banker of this city at his huntii lodge in the country. We went hun ing, and I must confess that it w; with many misgivings that 1 a copted tho shotgun our host insist? that 1 shonld shoulder, and went inl the fields to ohase the gay and feetii partridge and lark. I hadn't shot gun during tho timo mentioned, waited until no one was looking, an blazed away at a field lark which wi flying across a clearing with his litt) peculiar jerky flight, and down h J camo- I did it again and again. She I doves in full flight, and all that soi of thing, and capped the climax b shooting two larks when I saw onl one, tho second happened to cross th range just as I pulled tho trigger, suppose, but at any rate I bagged tw and carried the horns during tho re mainder of tho day. Now, I was con sidered a good shot in the days whei we had time enough to beat the brush and my hand and eyo evidently ro tained every bit of their old-time cnn ning, RS proven by the fact that I sho everything that peeped above tb.? tall weeds in the fields during mj usual outing. Really believe I'll tn again."-New Orleans Times-Demo crut. A MtttSTER COW. Sho ls a Product of California and Weighs 2?30 Pounds. Farmer William Bruce, of Talare, Cal., owns a cow which has the dis tinction of being the largest by long odds of any animal of her sex in thal part of tho world. She could givo pounds by tho score to a Clydeudale stallion and then win the laurels irom him as a heavyweight, and ?ho is bnt six years old at that. When placed upon tho ?oales to be weighed and afterwards photographed for the San Francisco Examiner she tipped the bean at precisely 2550 pounds, Remarkable as she is for weight, her height is even more astonishing. The measurements taken as she posed for her picture show that she stands ex actly sixteen hands high, or, to como down to ordinary tapo measure, five feet and four inches. Of her own THE COW THAI WE claim to famo Bho is very modest, but of her calf, she is very proud, as, in deep, she might well be, for it is nearly as large as an ordinary cow, and as it persisted in being photographed at the same time as its mother it neces sarily came in on the weighing and measuring process. While it is just ?alf as high as its mother, it weighs .)ut one-fifth as much. A. Caudle That is Transparent. A French chemist makes a new kind of candi? by dissolving five parts of colorless gelatine in twenty parts of water, adding twenty-five parts ot glycerine and heating until a perfectly clear solution has been formed. To this is added two parts of tannin dis solved by heating in ten parts of gly cerine. A turbidity is produced which should vanish on further boiling. The boiling is continued until the water has bee a driven off. The mass ?3 then cast into ordinary gla<?s candle molds. The candles obtained in this way are as clear as water and burn quietly, end without spreading any odor. American Druggist. Thc Rain Tree of Fierre. Travelers in the Canary Islands tell of a remarkable treo that grows on one of tho group, lt might well bc callod a rain tree. Fierro, tho island referred to, is extremely dry, not ti rivulet traversing it anywhere. Yet a treo grows there around which h gathered a cloud, from which a genth rain is always falling. Underneath the tree the- natives of Fierro have constructed cisterns which aro kepi constantly full, thus giving them c water supply which they otherwise would nof aave on tho island. Sportsman's Paradise. South Africa seems to bo the sports men's paradise, evon if tho stories toi about tho country are only half true A recent account save tho country i simply teeming with big game. Bul f?loes are in immenso numbers, on herd which was seen recently being fl least 1003 strong. Bucks are also ei tremely plentiful, while zebra an quagga aud lions aro too numerous t be pleasant. Wild fowl are in myriadi from a black duck with a white pate on its wiugs down to a sandpiper. Philadelphia Ledger. A Willina: P. rlsh'oner. A rector in a Suffolk village who wi disliked in tho pariah had a eura who was very popular, and who, c leaving, was presouled with a tesl monial. This excited tho envy ai wrath of tho rector, and meeting" wil an old lady ono day he said : * 'I a sur prised, Mrs. Bloom, that y< should have cullen bed to t his tesl monial." "Why, sir," paid tho o lady, "if you'd beou a going I'd 'a subscribed double."-London T Bits._ Mexico invested nearly $100,000 mc ifr loreign machinery iu May, 181 tUau ip, Ma.Ti VS9b\ or Pd ?l ot ra or Ar lioro Inside of a Tree. Nojg ago a huge oak tree wai cat dj in a Michigan forest. Ac the utnan split it up his ax struck eornet hard, which ho thought at first i knot. Bat when it nicked *he ecjof the steel blade he mado np hkj_mitbat it must bo something very~i|h harder than a knot. So ho cnt arod it carefully, chipping and aplittimntil he laid tho object bare. It wastage deer horn, buried in the very hrt of the big oak. How it came fce is a mystery. Perhaps some paeer hunter or some Indian ofahdred years ago had shot a deer, ? to koop it from the wolves, had ho; it by tho horns in the limbs of aj(jig oak, expecting to come back s$i and claim it. But either he ford where ho left it or else some acrider;happened which prevented his reto, and the horus remained in tbotrcyear after year, until tho wood giw entirely around them. Tho jrt of the tree containing tho horns VB sent to the museum of tho Michigi Agricultural College, where it now Icxlco's ?'cw Un noon t. Mexi) has virtual ly no navy: She has onor two so-called vessels of war, hut thu are the flimsiest apologies for any MB of naval service. The lie public \ however, having a little gun boat brit at New Orleans for special servico n tho coast of Yucatan to pro tect tboGovernment's mahogany in terests rom Indian depredations. It ia the fist boat, says tho New Orleans Tlmefl-tyroocrat, whioh Mexico has contracta to have built in the United States. I The bot has cypress ribs; will be UGHS 2550 POUNDS. planked on the bottom and sides with cypress three and four inches thiok ; will have pine planking between the decksand will be finished in oak. The length is sixty-five feet by twenty-four feet .beam by twelve feet depth and the draught will be two and a half feet. When completed the total height will be twenty-four feet. The heavy armament will consist of two guns, one in tho bow, the other in the stern. These and the small guns will be placed aboard tho boat after it has been delivered to the Mexico Govern ment and is in Mexican waters. Tho cost will be $9000. Gold in River Sauds. Gold oxists in tho River Seine in t state of division so fine as to be in visible to tho naked eye, and when the sand of the river near Paris it nsed in making glass the crucibles ii which it is melted are sometime! gilded over at tho bottom. In for mer times a sort of mining was ii \ jue at Paris by men who would bu] livo francs' worth of quicksilver, and after passing river sand over it al day, would sell it in the evening fo: ?ix or Beven francs. Almost all tb rivers of Europe carry small quanti ties of gold in their sands, such as th Rhino, Seine, tho Anr, the Reuse, th Danube and others, also the Clyd and many other streams in Scotland Wales and Cornwall, and though san from tho bcd of the Rhine, for in stance, yields only one-fifth of a. ounce to the ton, yet tho total amoun of the yellow metal in that one rive is immense. lt has been found lr calculation that that part of thc Rive Rhine alone which Howe through whr was formerly French territory, oot tains no less'than 30,000 tous of pur gold. _ Case of "Hard Tack." Wandering Ike-"For heaven sal Bill, watcher at now?" Weary Rill-"Why, do old worn over in dat house jitf gimme a hu o' sometnin* she called pio, and it's tough dat I got ter sharpen np grinders sc I kin wade through c crust."-Twinkles. The Pinto Indians of Austin, Nc are making au effort for the establi meut of a school at that place TWOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.' EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1896._VOL. LXI. NO. 48 TWOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.' EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1896._VOL. LXI. NO. 48 MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy 1 For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dysen tery Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In fantum, Toothing Children, Cholera,, Morans, Unnatural Draina .-im, the Bowels, Pains, Griping, LOBB of. Appetite, Indlgeetion and all Dis-; caws of tho Stomach and Bowels. prrrs CARMINATIVE e [ls the standard. It carries children near' the critical period o? teething. and( is recommended hy physicians 03, the friend of Mothers, Adults and' Children. It is pleasant to the teste,( and never fails to give satisfaction.. A few doses will demonstrate it? su-' perlitive virtues. Price, 23 cts. per? A bottle. For sale by druggists. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. ElTEBims'ATDia ANTS, \ lt troubled with ants procure a large sponge with a coarse mesh; wasfr it thoroughly, then squeeze it dry os possible. Thia will leave the holes well opened. Sprinkle fine white sugar over it and place it whero the ants are troublesome. In a few mo ments they will collect upon the sponge; then dip the spong a in scalding water and they will wash out of the holes in great number;), Fut on more sugar and re peat this method until you are freo from this pest.-Atlanta Constitution. JUGGED PIGEONS. To prepare this dish, take three pigeons prepared for roasting. Ka mora the livers, and boil thom for a minute or two and then-pound thea with the yolks of two hard boiled eggs, ti little ohopped parsley and grated lemon peel, the weight of the livers in finely ohopped beef suet, and tho same weight of breadcrumbs, pep per and salt. Mix well together with a well beaten egg ard stuff the birds with this forcemeat. Then dredge them with pepper and salt and place in a jar with some herbs and celery salt and doves. Cover the jar closely and put it into a stewpan of water, and keep the water boiling for three honrs ; then strain the gravy off, and stir in a little butter rolled in flour. Arrange tho pigeons in a pile ineide a . wall of spinach, and pour the gravy ia the centre. TO coOKEfi***e*ggplants are The poj?jWrjTAs it is generally thickly with crumbs, dot with butter and bake a light brown. It is deli cious with roast beef or lamb. Pour a little of the dish gravy over each helping. If a moro elaborate dish is desired, mince fine an ounce of salt pork, fry it a light brown, cook in this fat two sliced onions, and mix the crumbs and mashed eggplant with botb. Field mushrooms stewed, seasoned, /and minced, are also a delicious addition to the stuning. Small eggplants may be broiled, cut in two, slight incis ions made on the outside, seasoned with salt and pepper, basted with melted butter and broiled until soft, on a double gridiron. Dish with the inside uppermost and pour melted butter over. The Italians cook them as above, then strew with shredded anchovies, parsley and lemon jume, and serve with tomato 6auce.-New England Homestead. HOUSEHOLD HISTS. Spots on olothing that havo boen caused by the colors being taken out by acids may bo obliterated often by first applying ammonia and after it chloroform. In garnishing dishes great caro should be taken not to overdo tho matter. Too much decoration teuds to injure rather than improve tho ap pearance of a dish. If tho whites of eggs do not beat t? a froth readily add a pinch of salt, jaid place in the refrigerator until tiffy are thoroughly cohj; then tbey should beat light very quickly Afterjeaoh meal a house should bo aired, if but for five minntcs, Ono remaining in the honse does not no tice the close, heavy air, but a guest coming in will be unpleasantly im pressed as he enters the door. The tedious work of drawing threads in linen for hemstitching ia done with greater oase if tho fabric is soaped. Ma'40 a dry lather and apply over the Bpacc with a shaving brush, and whan tho linen is dry the threads will pull out much moro readily. A handsome and now form of deco ration for a harvest dance or festival, is double festoons composed of var ious kinds of fruits, nuts and small vegetables, They are fastened to a emili wfre which can be bent in groceful shapes to please the eye, and the rich and varied coloring gives a beautiful picture. If you have a spare window in a cool room try growing petunias. Take up small garden plants before they are frost-bitten, pot them in good earth and trim them, removing all budf. Place thom in a cool room with plentv of sunlight and keep well watered. Before many weeks ono will bo amply repaid for her trouble. An old housewife says that codfiub skins can be ueed as a good substitute for egg in settling coffee. To prepare it for use, scrape the outside of the skin and pick oil the fish flesh from the other side. Then rinso tho skin m cold water, cut in pieces an inch ami a half square and dry them. Une piece of this eize is surtid en?, to settle codee enough for six persona Tho sword may sometimes bo mightier than the pen. But never in the hands of a butcher.