Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, March 03, 1897, Image 1
THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR.
EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892.
VOL. LVII. NO. 13.
IF WE HAD BUT A DAY.
We should fill tho h jurs with tho ewcstes
things,
If we had bot a day;
Wo-shoul J drink alone at the purest spring:
In our upward way;
TVe shoal I love with a lifetime's love in ai
hour,
If the bonrs were few; .
Wo should rest, not for dreams, but foi
fresher power
To be and to do.
We should guide our wavward or wearied
wills
By the clearest light;
We should keep our eyes on the heaven I j
biiis
If they lay in sight;
We should trample the pride and the dis
conter t
Beneath our feet;
We should take whatever a good God sent
With a trust complete.
Wo should waste, no moments in weak regret,
If the day were but one;
ti what we remember and what we forget
Went out with tho sun;
We should be from our clamorous delves set
free
To work or to pray,
And to be what the Father would bavo us be,
If we had but a day.
-Mary Lowe Dickinson,
LOVE IS A MINOE KEY.
?s HE inhabitants of Har
??\ / plestowe had ceased to
\Zff discuss Hannah Fletch
er's questionable posi
tion toward her lodger,
and any interest at
tached to her uncon
ventional attitude had
quietly fizzled out along with her
meagre claims to beauty. When the
world had gono well with Hannah,
and she had possessed the irritable
devotion of aa invalid mother and the
undivided love of a selfish father, she
hod worn modestly the good looks
which belong to a middle class young
woman %ho enjoys excellent health
and a wholesome temperament. Now
the light in her abundant hair and her
bright color had died for want ot vital
sustenance, and her rather prominent
fentures had Weakened with the un
resting struggle for existence. A
?tranger would not trouble to question
if her unsympathetic, mnnuer was the
result or the causo of an UDsatieiiec!
existence.
Hannah Fletcher had spent the best
years of her youth subduing the pas
sions and emotions which make
beautiful woman irresistible, but she
hal not studied her own ugliness and
mastered it as some women do. A
plain woman's battle in life is defying
her own ugliness. Hannah had fallen
into the way of walking like a plain
woman, and tho world accepted her as
snob, for the assurance of a beautiful
tressing,
nnan\lodge
woman n maia MT ' "-ramm
HannSfi^lodger was, it is true, an
"elderly parly," so the maid-of-all
work described him, ^'always messing
about with them ohemisty fizzioks;
VB wonderful olever, but it don't
bring in nb money, and if ic wasn't
that Miss Hannah was a bit sweet on
him she'd 'ave cleared 'im out along
with his rubbishing smells Jong ago. "
Hannah was a "bit sweet" on the
"elderly party." When her mother
and father had died her lodger had
not given a thought to tte fact that it
would be advisable .or him to leave
his comfortable quarters. Hannah had
grown necessary to him in his work,
and he had learnt to depend on her,
as a man of powerful intellect grows
to depend on a practical woman with
an intelligent brain who is his daily
and hourly companion. Habit is
stronger in men than in women. Five
or six years, had passed since her par
ents' death, bringing little or no
change into Hannah's life. She slaved,
and toiled, and pinched for the "el
derly party," who was too self-cen
tered to guess at the true extent of
her poverty. He was casual about his
payments, and she would never re
mind him. To brighten up her rooms
and bring a little pleasure into her
day he would now and then go out
and bring her home an extravagantly
beautiful bunch of flowers, or a pair
of palms, and present them to her
with a touching enthusiasm for his
own generosity and thoughtfulness.
Her practical mind would fly with a
woman's quickness of thought to the
lour mouths' rent which was still
unpaid ; but only a feeling of tender
ness for his eccentricities would come
over her, and she hugged to her heart
the thought that she could help him
in the work by waiting for the over
due rent.
He was poor, and his inoome would
kaye barely covered the modest ne
cessities of his simple life if ho had
devoted it to them, but "he spends all
his money on them messes and invent
ing things as aren't no use to no one,"
as Arabella remarked when he over
looked her tip one Christmas Day ;
"I ain't got no use for the like of his
sort." Clothes he never bought, and
Hannah, with a beautiful regard for
the feelings of the mau she loved,
stitched and mended and patched, and
bit by bit replaced his worn and
shabby wardrobe. She was careful
cover to put into his room any new
garment she had made until the ruth
less laundress had robbed it of its
newness. Then she would substitute
ii for one which was beyond even her
?lever needlecraft to mend, and the
"elderly party" would put on tho
aew shirt or wear the new socks with
out - the slightest suspicion that the
familiar patches and darns were miss
lag. Ho acted as intellectual food
and nourishment to her starved brain,
?ad. she became the praticalpart of
his unevenly balanced character,
which nature had left wanting. She
often argued with herself that their
existence together in that house was
a proof that purely platonio friendship
ban exist between a man and a woman
if they are intellectual people. It
was a false argument, and she knew it,
for Tier love for him (of which he
nevar for a moment suspected) was
eating her strength away day by day,
and undermining ber constitution.
She had his undivided attention, and
he was fond of her, but the faot that
she was a woman, and not much over
thirty, had never really forced isdell
.on his mind, and certainly not on hie
feelings. A man, if he could have
made himself as useful andas com
panionable, could have taken hex
pl ac?.
One day the peace of Hannah's life
Wai broken by the oomiag ol a co asia,
an orphan like herself, who
t writton and asked Hannah to give
a home while she looked for w
Hannah wrote and welcomed her y
5 bitter misgiving at heart. She ha
toil night and day to make monej
l pay for food enough for herself
her lodger.
Madeline came, and, like a hot w
? passing over a sensitive plant,
withered up Hannah's courage,
was young, and the beauty of her i
mal health was startling. She st
in Hannah's humble parlor in
noonday sunlight, straight as a yoi
palm tree and beautiful in symmet
' a pulsing, tingling piece of flesh i
blood, colored like a pale pink peo
Hannah felt herself grow colder as
' looked at her. Madeline's eyes w
so .bine that if you came into the g
den and she was there it was her 1
germanders fringed with black t
caught your notice, and her ohildisi
perfeot teeth closed tight when i
I laughed, and her passionate lips qu
ered into smiles. Blue eyes such
Madeline's, and white young te<
alone can make a face provoking
the dullest sensibilities; when she :
trodnced herself (blushing for her o
prettiness) to tho elderly party
cursed the white teeth in his heart a
blamed the beauty of her eyes for
knew not what. And poor Hanna
whose eyes had had oolor in tht
once, with a growing numbness at h
heart for her own plainness in co
trast, followed the pink flower th
moved so glibly about the house, gi
ing her the bent that lay in her powe
marvelling at her cousin's beaut
whioh was after all principally tl
result of perfect health and and ase!
iah disposition.
Weeks passed into months,, ai
Madeline had planted herself firmly j
the house ; Hannah could not turn hi
out,-"and she never suggested goinj
and never made any serious attempt]
get work. Her orphan and pennilei
condition served her as a useful mear
of appoaling to the sympathy of th
"elderly party." As time went or
Hannah saw less and lees o? her lodge]
her cousin appropriated as her charg
his study and laboratory, and it wa
bitterness and gall to Hannah to se
her administer to him all the little al
tentions which she had been wont t
perform, and the last straw wa-j tha
Madeline talked as if she gave enoug
help to fully repay Hanr.ah hr he
room and keep.
Hannah, with her heart smarting a
the bitter injustice of things, coul<
not tell her that ohe was day by daj
robbing her of all that made life bear
able. Madeline had taken .to nsinj
the "elderly party's" study as her sit
ting room ; it was more attractive
than the prim parlor downstairs ; ant
'when Hannah was hard at work dur
ing the hot August days-days thal
made her look paler and plainer thai
ever, her cou si a would sit reading i
^?fi??Wr'fe?t upr on' tne'riingf'?f an
other-a pretty picture of ease and
comfort. She never forgot to look nj
at intervals, with a cat-like something
in her blue eyes and in her soft, pur
ring voice, and say to her companion,
"Don't you wish that Hannah would
stop fussing and come and sit down?'
And as, when a woman is particu
larly busy, a man generally does thint
she is "fussing" and choosing to dc
something totally unnecessary, th<
"elderly party" came to look upon il
as quite natural that Madeline should
be his hourly companion, and that
she should sit in an easy chair while
Hannah, hot and weary in mind and
body, should toil and strive for them
both.
After Madeline had been with them
threo months Hannah's lodger came
into a fortune. It was not a large
one, but it would euablo him to live
in ease and comfort for the rest of his
life. When Hannah heard the good
news, what she dreaded most did not
happen. He did not suggest moving
into more luxurious lodgings; he
seemed to consider himself a fixture in
the old wainscoted room with its cot
tage window and old oak floor ; but he
bought more pretty plants and fresh
hot house flowers, which Madeline now
accepted with a blush aud prettiness
that sent his blood coursing through
his vein3.
She knew that she had appealed al
first sight to the human passion latent
in the scholar, as Hannah had nevei
done. Intellectually she was nothing
to him,but for that she did not grieve.
As an intellectual companion only, a
woman has no actual power over a
man's heart; but as a beautiful woman
she can us? him as it best suits hoi
purpose. Hannah's lodger paid his
money in advance now, and she felt aa
a mother feels when her son grows in
to manhood and passes out of her oare.
There was no need now to substitute
new skirts for old ones, and the
"elderly party" was conferring a favor
oa her by remaining in his humble
lodgings. Her self-sacrifices for hei
beloved teaoher were nseless now.
She comforted herself with the thought
that he never treated Madeline as an
intellectual companion, but she knew
that ho was more a man and less of a
scholar when Madeline's blue eyes and
bright head were lighting up the cor
ner of his dark study.
One morning when Hannah was
ironing, with the tabla piled high in
weil bleached linen, the "elderly par
ty" came into the kitchen with Made
line. He walked straight up to where
Hannah 6tood, with her hot face bent
over the steaming shirt, and drew
Maleline forward.
"Hannah, your cousin has promised
to marry me. She is young and beau
tiful, and I am only a plain scholar,
but I will do my best to make her t
good husband."
As if it had been thrust through her
body with the point of a bayonet each
word went to Hannah's heart. lt
ceased beating. Madeline, of course,
knew why her cousin had so suddenly
fainted, and tho poor little bit ol
triumph made her heart beat quicker,
but when she looked up at her lover
his face was pale with fear. Shs saw
a look of agony in his ey?3 a? he turned
them to her for holp, which told hei
that she did not possess the heart ol
the scholar so completely as ehe
thought, and tho- vixen in her wns
; roueed. %
"Ob, you need not be so alarmed ;
; she has fainted through sheer jeal
i ousy."
? For one moment he stood transfixed ;
. all that he had been blind to for years
! was made plain to him now, and in
that momeat he recoguizedl the heart
i lessness of tbe woman he had proposed
, to only ten minutes ago.
"Are you a woman to tell a woman's
: secret and make light of it?"
Madeline was frightened at the look
of acorn and contempt in his eye?,
which had liwara looked at her eo
gently. Slje stood at bay, and watched
his trembling hands sprinkle Hannah's
face with the cold water she had used
for sprinkling the linen. It was kept
in a small white bowl on the ironing
table.
.'I've not said anything [that the
whole village does not know, Arabella
included, that Hannah Fletcher has
been waiting to marry her lodger for
the last ten years."
"?hen I'll murry her now. I Jove
her, I tell you." He chafed the pale
cheeks, and rubbed the thin hands.
"I've always loved her. Oh, what a
selfish fool I have been."
"You loved me but ten minutes ago.
For a simple scholar you are wonder
fully quick at love."
"Ten minutes ago I did not know
that it was Hannah I loved as a man
ought to love the woman he marries.
Your beauty deceived me into believ
ing that I loved you. I had not given
a thought to love until you came. I
ask your forgiveness."
Tears, which were always ready,
came into her blue eyes at t ie harsh
words he had spoken, but the knew
that they were true. She had no lovo
for the grave and elderly scholar ; he
was to be her refuge from W3rk, and
she loved ease. She stood tor a mo
ment or two and watched returning
consciousness quiver over Hannah's
pale face, and then she turned to go.
"After all, Hannah is growing old,
and she baa been good tome; I will
not rob her ol her elderly lover."
A lover was waiting for Madeline
half a mile out of the village. It was
a ?provision dealer, and Madeline
would have preferred being tho wife ol
a scholar.-Tho Queen.
Origin of tile Mariue Band.
A naval officer, who hac tho history
of the service at his tongue's end, says
that the Marice Band owe3 its exist
ence to the eccentricities of one Cap
tain McNeil, who was a gallant if pe
culiar officer oT the United States
Navy at the beginning of this century.
The story goes that Captain McNeil,
when in command of the Boston, off
the coast of Sicily, engaged a band
belonging to a regiment quartered at
Messina to play on his ship, and that
when it was safely aboard he sailed
away with it to America, and so tho
Marine Band was acquired.
What became of this band is not
written, but later, just before the
War of 1812, another naval officer of
reckless and venturesome spirit, when
cruising along the coast of Italy, sent
a boat's crow ashore with instructions
to impress a band of strolling musicians
as American seamer. This was done,
and the poor stolen Italians were
kffiR8o^Jttifed" 10' ?pprecTato ' 'th?
humor of this esoapade and ordered
the musicians returned -to their own
country. They were, accordingly,
placed on a man-of-war bound for the
Mediterranean, but on the way out
this vessel met and captured a British
warship, and, having to return with
the prize, brought the men back to
New York with her. This victory,
perhaps, inspired the Italians with an
admiration for theservice.Jforit seems
they abandoned the idea of returning
home, enlisted shortly afterward, and
subsequently were formed into the
Marino Band. There is no doubt some
truth in this story, although it is not
much moro than a tradition, for the
carly records of the band show on its
rolls the' names of thirteen Italian
musicians. Its personnel to-day is al
most evenly divided between GermanE
and Italians, but its leaders have been,
with one exception, Italians or of
Italian descent.-New York Tribune.
A Tribe of Tailed Men.
Nature evidently receives with much
hesitation the story told in so respect
able a journal as L'Anthropologie of
a tribe of tailed men. According to
the 6tory, six years ago, in tho course
of a visit to the Indo-Chinese region,
M. Paul d'Enjoy captured an indivi
dual of the Moi race, who had climbed
a large tree to gather honey. In
descending he applied the solo of his
feet to the bark ; in fact, he climbed
like a monkey. To the surprise of
the author and his Annamito com
panions, their prisoner had a caudal
appendage, Ho conversed with them,
swaggered in his savage pride, and
showed that he was more wily than a
Mongolian, which, as the author adds,
ia, however, a very difficult matter.
M. d'Enjoy saw the common dwelling
of the tribe to which this man be
longed ; but the other people had fled.
It consisted of a long, narrow, tunnel
like hut made of dry leaves. Several
polished stones, bamboo pipes, copper
bracelets aud bead necklaces were
found inside; these had doubtless
been obtained from the Annamites of
the frontier. The Moi used barbed
arrows which are anointed with a
black, sirupy, virulent poison. The
tail is not their only peculiarity. All
the Mois whom M. d'Enjoy has seen
in the settlements have very accentu
ated ankle bones, looking like the
spurs of a cock. All the neighboring
nations treat them as brutes, and de
stroy these remarkable people who,
the author believes, to have occupied
primitively the whole Indo-Chinese
Peninsula.-New York 1 ependent.
High Prices lor "ss.
The book salo at So y's, Lon
don, when thirteen mgne. ters from
George Washington to AT i r Young,
the agriculturist, dated fr< . 1786 to
1793, on farming in America, wero
auctioned for $2351), attracted atten
tion on account of the high prices
reached.
Three leaves from Franklin's letter
book, containing copies of eleven
letters, addressed to Dr. Bush and
others, in Philadelphia and New York,
on the canals of America and the slave
trade, brought $10. There was great
competition for tho first edition of
Izaak Wiilton'3 "Complete Angler,"
the size being Glx'V. inches, in the
original sheep binding. It fetched
$2075.-New York Press.
Lost Letter.
In an advertisement of a railway
company, requesting the owners of
unclaimed goo ls to removo their mer
chandise, tho letter "1" was dropped
from the word "lawful" in the notice,
which ended thus: '.'Come forwavd
and pay the aw;"al charges 04 th?
.samo."-Twinkles,
IROS -MAKING.
VALUABLE AND GROWING
DUSTRY IN THE SOUTH.
IX
IVonderful Development or Alabama'*
Iron Mines-Story of the Iron
Boom-A Visit to a
Biz Minc.
?WONDERFUL development
is going on in iron-making io
the South. I spent some
u time in Birmingham, whicl
city is Ihe biggest iron producer soutS
of Pittsburg, writes.* Frank Oj
Carpenter in the Chicago Times?
Herald. Thero are twenty-srf
iron furnaces within thirty milos of
the town, with a daily output of al
most 4000 tons of pig iron. They eni
ploy nearly 4000 men, and pay wages
of $150,000 a month. They claim ta
make iron cheaper than anywhere else
in the worhl, aad one of the furnace,
companies shipped some of its pro
duct not long ago to London and sold
it there at a profit.
The South is doing its business on ?j
big, broad 6cale. There is an enorf j
mous amount of money invested. The
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company has
itself a capital stock 'of 521,00;),
000. It has mines scattered!
throughout Tennessee and Alabama,*
and I am told that its property is
worth as much as some of the small'
European kingdoms. It has a vas6
area of ccal beds, and is now .mining
more than 17,000 tons of coal a day.fl
owns mountains of iron ore, and4)
last yeor it produced more than 500,*
000 tons of pig iron and more than
,500,000 tons of coal. I visited its'
coke ovens at the town of Bessemer,
south of Birmingham, and was told
that the ovens there, together with]
the others owned by the company,
make almost 5000 tons of coke a day, j
while out of its Alabama iron mines ,
alone are dailj taken more than 6000?
tons of oro. This is perhaps the big-1
gest company of the South, but there!
are other large edtablishmente, aud anjt
enormous industrial development may
be expected thore within tho next fewi
years.
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of
"3,
TH!
The coal and iron of the Soutn mv
fairly hugging each other. They lie
side by side, and when their marriage
takes place in the furnaces with the
aid of the fleecy bridal veil of lime
stone, which is also found near by,
they can produce industrial children
in the shape of iron and 6teel more
cheaply than their kind in any other
portion of the world.
There is no doubt that we are to
furnish the greater part of the iron
for tho world in the future. We have
bigger oro beds than any other coun
try, and our coal fields are practically
inexhaustible. There is enough coal
in Alabama to do all tho manufactur
ing cf the United States for many years
to come. 1 was told at Bessemer
that the available coal of Alabama
alone, if it could be put into a lump,
would make a solid chunk seventy
miles long by sixty miles broad and
ten feet thick. Such.a lump would, it
is estimated, furnish 10,000 tons of
coal a day for more than 11,000 years,
or 1,000,000 tons a day for 115 years.
But Alabama has only a small amount
of the great Appalachian coal fields.
These fields end tbemselves in Ala
bama. They run from there north
ward a distance, it is said, of about
900 miles, and they aro from thirty to
about 180 milos wide. They furnish
about two-thirds of our bituminous
LOWERING HOUSES INTO A MINE.
coal output, and we produce, you
know, about one-third of all the coal
of the world. In 1894 we mined 170,
000,000 tons of coal, while the whole
world produced only 570,000,000 tons.
The only cour-try whioh beat us that
year was Great Britain. We have
thousands of square miles of coal lands
outside of the Appalachian fields, and
there are great undeveloped coal areas
in the West. I was told of a great iron
monntoin whioh is to be opened, by a
railroad from Salt Lake City to Los
Angeles during my stay in Utah, and
there are large iron deposits in Mis
souri. To-day the leading countries
of the world which produce iron are
Great Britain, Germany, France,
Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and
Sweden. Spain mines a great deal of
iron ore, but Bhe ships the most of it
to England. I heard of big undevel
oped iron mines in China during my
stay there, and tbero are some good
mines in Mexico and Central America.
There is ono iron region in Cuba, and
you lind small beds scattered through
the West Jndia Islands. The great
bulk of the productof this hemisphere,
however, comes from tbe United
States, and, an I have said, ??io indica
tions aro that our resources have not
yet been touched.
The furnaces at Bessemer ore within
a half mile of the minos fro i which
tho iron is taken out. In compauy
with one of the superintendents of the
'?Tennessee Coal and Irou Company 1
viuited them. Wa rode np to the
I month of the mine in a carriage, wind
ing our way np a little range of moan
tains, tho sides of which were covered
with terra col ta stones. I picked up
one of the stones and found it exceed
ingly heavy, au i was told that it was
iron ore. The iron lies right on the
surface of tho ground. They begin on
the vein and work right down into the
mountain, taking out nothing but
iron. Deposits of this kind extend
through the mountains of the region,
and it is a wonder that they were not
developed long ago. I was told that
iron mines were worked there during
the late war and that the Confederate
Government got a large part of its coal
and iron from that region. From time
to time Northern capitalists were asked
to invest in tho mines, but they would
not believe the stories that were told
them.
One man who owned some of tho
most valuable iron territory of Ala
bama called upon Abram 3. Hewitt,
who has made a fortune out of iron,
and wno has big iron interests to -day.
He showed Hewitt vhe ore, and told
him it Icy there in Alabama cn the top
of the ground and could be had for
the picking up. Hewitt replied that
he had no money to invest at present,
and he evidently did not believe thc
man's story. .
"Why," said he, "wo people here in
New York look upon iron as so much
gold, and you can hardly make rae be
lieve that you people have lumps of
gold layiDg aro and down South and
that no one has yet picked them up.
If your story is true I advise you to
take several New York experts to the
South and get them to swear to what
they see before you try to place such
property in New York."
It was some timo after this before
the Alabama nuning boom began. A
great deal of this was on paper, but
the foundation is there, and tho iron
mines aro as va'uabje to-day as thoy
.were ten years ago. They ure now all
[owned by big corporations, and they
pre being developed after the best
ftmsiness principle?. The mine which
Ive entered was worked with com
pressed air drill?. The cars were
{hauled up and down an inclined rail
way by steam, and hundreds of sooty
were at wt
saw range
twenty-four feet. It is a great sand
wich of iron ore between walls of slate
and rock. It dips down into the
ground at an angle of about thirty-five
degrees.
I could hear the boom! boora!
boom ! of the blasting powder a31 went
through the mine. At times the air
shook and quivered with the concus
sion, and our candles were blown out.
Dynamite is used almost altogether in
iron mining, and the danger is very
great if it is not carefully handled.
Every now and then accidents occur in
tho mines. Men aro torn to pieces,
the walls fall in, and there is great loss
of life.
Leaving the raiue, I next went to
one of the great furnaces at the foot of
Ked Mountain, where the oro is turned
into pig iron. Iron, you know, never
occurs pure in a state of nature. The
ore of the Red Mountain, which is
used at the Bessemer furnaces, con
tains only about forty-eight per cent,
of iron, nnd the superintendent told
me that tho purest iron stone found
anywhere contains only seventy per
cent. The rest is made up of rock and
other minerals, and it is necessary to
separate the iron before it can be used
for manufactures. This process is
known as maaing pig iron. Tho iron
is mixed with limestone and coko in
great furnaces, which ai e, I judge, as
high as a six-story house. The fur
naces are filled with alternate layers
of coke, limestone and iron. It takes
en enormous blast to furnish enough
heat for such a furnace, and the blast
is created by immense engines, which
force the air first through what are
perhaps the biggest stoves of the
world. They are immense tubes, many
feet high, and as big around as a oity
gas tank. They are lined with fire
brick and are heated by the gas whioh
comes from the furnaces. The air is
made to pass through these enormous
stoves before it goes to the blast and
ic produces a .heat so intense that the
iron and Bteel machinery of the fur
nace would not last a minuto were not
?very bit of it enveloped in water. All
of the pipes are incased in other pipes
which are kept full of cold flowing
water, and this water is forced about
tte uutsido of the furnace whenever
smelting is going on. The heat is so
great that tho iron is melted in a very
short time. It is drawn off from each
furnace twice a day.
It flows out at the foot in a little
river of gold. Tho stream looks like
molten gold alloyed with copper until
it get3 a distance of perhaps twenty
feet away from the furnuoe. Here it
' is divided into two streams. The iron
flows one way and the slag or refuge,
which has formed a scum and floats on
the top, is carried off in another.
The iron is now of a yellow gold color.
It seems to have lost its reddish tint.
It runs off in a goldeu stream into a
bed of sand, in which little holes have
been cut or mulded, so that it looks
for all the world like a garden patch
ready for planting. These holes are
of just tho size and shape of what is
known ns an iron pig. Thoy are
about as big around aa the upper arm
of a good-sized tuan and about three
feet long. The yellow stream linds
its way in through them and soon the
garden is full of these bright yellow
pigs, which turn to a copper tint as
they cool and then chaugo to the gray
or cold pig iron. AH tho metal is
cooling the heat waves dance Over tue
garden patch of hot iron, und you
bave to hold you hat but'oro your lace
to keep from l;eing scorched. After
the pigs are cooled they uro piled up
ready to be shipped to different parts
THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR.
EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892.
VOL. LVII. NO. 13.
RICHES IN REFUSE.
TUR QUKKN OK GOTHAM'S RAG
PICKERS I? WORTH $100,000.
Eats Two Meals a D.iy and ?lai Ac
quired a Bis; Fortune ir? Loolc
injr Over Metropolitan
Ash Barrels.
OTHER Carpi?, for forty
five years has been rak
ing over the ash barrel
of the metropolis. To-day
according to a Picayune correspond
ent, she has at the very least $100,000,
and every penny of it is drawing in
tercet at four per cent.
Mother Carpi? never touches a cent
of the income, except to reinvest it.
She works as regularly now as sho ever
did, giving fifteen hours a day. from
2 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock
in the evening, to her beloved task.
Bagpicking is her delight. She could
not pas3 an ash barrel without pokiug
her scrawny, dirty fingers into the
mass of rubbish if her life depended
on it.
She came to this country when she
was twenty years old. She is sixty
five now, and at one time, perhaps,
she was pretty aud pleasant to look
upon. Italian ?irl?, in the first blush
of womanhood, are generally attrac
tive, but if Mother Carpi? was ever
young and haudsoine, Father Time
has wrought some wonderful changes.
The word of her neighbor is the au
thority for her being sixty-five years
old. She looks as if her years ought
to be 16-5. Molded with a fist, chis
eled with a pickaxe, describes the
physiognomy of this wonderful old
woman better thau anything else.
She has only one or two teeth left,
but her priucipal meal of the day con
sists of a pound of raw meat between
two hard slices of bread. When she
feels liko treating herself she adds a
raw onion to this banquet. She al
ways dines thus at -i o'clock in the
afternoon on her return home with ner
bag of treasures, sorted from the ash
barrels on her route. Then she spend?
a happy hour sorting the stuff over.
At 5 o'clock 9he goes to bed and gets
up at 1.30 a. m , so as to be sure tc
have the first pickings. She eats some
thing before going out at 2 o'clock,
and unless the barrels yield some
dainty morsel attractive to her pecul
iar palate she does not touch food un
til* 4 in the afternoon.
Mother Carpi? cannot weigh more
than ninety-five or 10) pounds, but
al.? /??~-'- alt. i -1 -f\
*.>*v te
known as the New Bagpiokers' row,
looated in the rear of the three tene
ments at Nos. 166, 103 and 170 Mul
berry street. These houses aro each
but five stories iu height, yet some
700 people live in them, including 250
ragpickers. Of these latter fifty are
boss ragpickers, who employ four or
five men and women each to do the
work. Mother Carpi? would be the
greatest boss of them all, but she pro
fors to go ont eac'a day and gather her
own riches.
Two rooms are an unusual luxury
for a ragpicker, but this is Mother
Carpio's only extravagance. Besides,
she has a nephew, Antonio Uonuacio, a
young mau of twenty-five, who was
born in New York city, and is more of
an American than an Italian. His
neighbors say that ho would like to
be a sport, but he is a sensible yonng
man aud ho picks rags all day. His
old aunt thinks he is a fine young man,
who loves his calling, and every cent
of her money will go to him when she
dies. When that happens ToDy will
lay aside his bag, his hook, his ragged
clothes, his industry and parsimony
and enjoy tho world a? a youug man
with au income of $0000 a year gen
erally does.
lt may seem remarkable that Moth
er Carpi? should accumulate so much
money in such au humble calling, but
when tho secrets of the trade are
known it will bo seeu that tho profits
were large. They are not large to-day.
The golden times of the ragpicker are
passed, because the city sells tho priv
ilege of sorting over tue refuse to
great contractors, and the business is
worth half a million a year.
A ragpicker does not pick for rags
only, but for overything, from cham
pagne corks and pieces of fat to bun
dles of love letters, false teeth, arti
ficial eyes, birds, dolls, toys, musieal
instruments, medicine bottles, car*
legs, shoe3and clothing, wigs, bits o'
ribbon and string, all, of course, more
or less used.
Mother Carpi?, it is said, has found
everything in her long career but a
coffin. She found a skeleton one day,
and at another time a human leg on
which some young medical student had
been operating. She sold the skele
ton, but the leg was a loss. She has
found money, checks, legal papers,
private letters, diamonds and jewelry.
She is au honest old woman, and she
returned all these, but with true com
mercial instinct always insisted upon
a reward.
In the old days she often made as
much as $20 a day, but uow $2 is con
sidered a great day's work, and $1 is
a trifle more than the average. lier
neighbors say that it she did not make
a penny she would go over her route
each day, as it would kill her if she
had to stop.
Census of thc Animal Kingdom.
The editors of tho Zoological Eeo
ord have recontly drawn up a table
that indicates approximately the num
ber of the living species o? animals.
The following are the figures given :
Mammals, 2500; roptilcs aud hatra
chiaus, ; tnnicata, 000; brachio
poda, 150; crustacean, 20,000; myria
poda, 30?? ; echiuovlerms, 3000;
coelenterata, 2000 ; protozoans, 6100 ;
birds.12,500 ; fishes, 12,00 ) ; mollusks,
50,000; bryozoans, 1800; arachuids,
10,000; insects, 230,000; vernier,
6150; sponges, 1500. General total,
306,000 distinct species.
The tallest trees aro to bo found iu
tho State forest of Viotoria, Aus
tralia,
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HOUSEHOLD A FF ALBS,
-'' HEATING SAUCE DISHES.
Cold gravies and tepid sauces need
no longer distress those who like these
things "piping hot." A sauce boat
has been made on the prinoiple of the
chafing dish and the teakettle, stand?
ing in a wire frame over a spirit lamp.
A FRAGBANT DISINFECTANT.
If your room be stuffy because it
has been lived in too much, or because
home domesticus has indulged too
freely in the soothing nicotine, you
may easily render it sweet and habit
able once more by*placing one-half
ounce of spirits of lavender and a
lump of salts of ammonia in a wide
mouthed fancy jar or bottle and leav
ing it uncovered. This makoa ?
pleasant deodorizer and disinfectant,
filling the room with a delicate per
fume which will be soothing to the
nerves and senses, especially during
warm weather. Try it.-New York
World.
CLEANING OSTRICH FEATHERS.
To cloan white ostrich feathers, out
some pure white soap in email pieces
and pour boiling water on them and
add a little mite of soda. When the
soap is dissolved and the water cool
enough, dip the feathers in and draw
them through the hand. Do this
several times until the lather iu dirty,
lava Mi?co ft'clean Tall - . iU r<5peaf
the operation. Arter''. ..-"! rinse ?ho
Peate - i: i 7 -*..?* :-r. tfijrht'? Mr
? feather o*'--r-ei? to? nr.r.Jj
E OP HANGING BASKETS TT^H?ft^f^T
Be sure to see that suspended plants
get enough water, advises Eben E.
Bexford. Most persons complain that
they "haven't much luok with hang
ing plants." In nine oases out of ten,
the fault is their own. A plant sus
pended at the height of one's head
above the floor is in a stratum of very
warm, air where evaporation will take
place with great rapidity, and unless
water is given frequently and in lib
eral quantities the soil in pot or
basket will be very dry before yon
know it.
The best plan lknow of for keeping
the soil in baskets evenly moist is this:
Take a tin can and make a small hole
in ita bottom. Fill this with water
and isot it on top of the soil in the
basket. By watching development a
little you can tell whether the hole in
the can is too large, too small, or just
the right size. It should be of a size
to allow enough water to escape to
keep tho soil moist all the time. It is
much easier to fill this can daily, or
oftener if necessary, than it is to ap
ply water to tho surface of the soil and
have enough soak into it to penetrate
all parts of it. The foliage of the
plant can be so arranged about the
?san as to effectually conoeal it.-New
England Homestead.
RECIPES.
Boast Duck-Pick, singe and olean.
Bemove the entrails, crop and oil bag.
Wipe, truss and dredge with salt, pep
per, butter and flour. Stuff with ap
ples, peeled, cored and quartered, and
mixed with ohopped celery and onions.
This stuffing should not be served, aa
it absorbs the strong flavor ; also im
parts some of its own to tho duck.
Serve with currant jelly and olive
sauce.
Mock Duck-About three pounds of
round steak, one and a half inches thick.
Cover with bread crumbs and sliced
onions, season with a little but ter, salt,
pepper and allspice and oloves. Boll
up and tie securely with cord. Put
it in a baking pan and pour one cup
of boiling water over it. Bake in a
moderate oven one and a half hours,
basting frequently. Serve with brown
gravy.
Fruit Cake-Soak three cups ol
dried apples over night in warm
water, chop slightly in the morning,
then simmer two hours in two cups ol
molasses. Make a cake of two eggs,
one cup of sugar, one enp ol' sweet
milk, three-quarters of a cup of but
ter, one and a half teaspoonfuls of
soda, and flour enough to make a stiff
batter ; spice well. Add the apples
last. Bake in quick oven.
Brunswick Salad-Chop fine three
truffles and cut into small pieces suf
ficient blanched oelery to measure one
pint. Bub the inside of the salad
bowl with a out clove of garlic, turn
into it the truffles and celery, add four
hard boiled eggs ohopped rather coarse
ly, reserving a few rings of white with
which to garnish. Pour over ali a
French dressiog, mix thoroughly and
sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Plum Pudding-Ono and a half
pints soft bread crumbs, oue pint
seeded raisins, chopped, one pint of
currants and citron mixed, tho citron
to be shaved very thin, one cupful of
sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, oue
cupful chopped suot, a tiny pinch oe
cayenne pepper, one-half ealtspoon
ful of ground cloves, half a'teaspoon
ful of ringer and cinnamon mixed,
eis eggs and two even tablespoonfuls
of flour. Add sweet milk to make a
thin batter. Steam (bur hoars and
serve with foam Mace,