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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
Telling Trees by Electricity.

The electric fluid in the form OF light
ming oftentimes proves itself very en-
cient wood cutter, and it has occurred
to some ingenious gentlemen IN lnuiR
that artificial electricity may be 90 ap:s
piled and controlled as to cut doFn;
trees good deal faster than the clumsy
axe or that American notion the cham ]
saw. The two ends of the copper wiress
of q galvanic battery are connected
with platinum wire, which of course lpt.
stantly becomes red hot, and while IN
that state, it is gently seesawed acroas
the trunk of the tree to be felled. When
arrangem ents were made for the e1peri.
ment, it turned out that the thickness OF
the platinum wire that could be got was
only that of crochet cotton. 1t was at
once seen that such wire would be-
consumed before the tree was half fseFs
cred from it's trunk. However, the az
tempt was made. The burning wire
performed it's task very well so long as
it lasted, but, as anticipateG the wlSe
continually broke, and at length thereS
was no wire left. There can be little.
doubt that with stronger battery and.
thicker wire, the experiment wo1ld.
have been entirely successful: Ass W
was, the tree was sawn one-6fth through
It is calculated that under proper cons
ditions tree, which ct present TAKES
two hours to fell, will come to the.
ground by this process in fifteen mir
utes. It is almost needless to add tnas
there is no waste of wood, no sawdust
-Enoksh Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
Philosophy OF Newspaper Advertising.

FnlIOSOphy vi NeHspapef aufeftlslhS.
Hermit" the New York correspond
ent of the Troy Times, in a late letter,
philosophically remarks:
"Trade is now in full activity, and
business men are e1erting every effort
to improve the harvest. One method is
the handbiIl system, by which the hotels
are daily inundated. During the busi-
ness season one boy after another will
20 the rounds, and in this way an at
tempt is made to obtain trade. OF
these, however, the greater part are
wasted, since the waiter generally picks
them up and throws them into the
street, and the next day fresh inunda-
tion takes place. Experience has clear
ly demonstrated the most efficient
method of advertising is found in the
judicious use of the newspaper columns.
The ground on which newspaper adver-
tising, as a system, is based, is human
confidence, since we cannot avoid be-
lieving that which we constantly read.
The confidence is sometimes abused,
but still it is evident that a good adver-
tisement will, if sufficiently repeated,
carry popular opinion. Men who adyer-
tise with the greatest persistency event
ually reach success. There is q mill
tary prime pal involved iu the method,
since the article advertised should be
pressed OF the public by repeated as.
saults. The correct view, which ex-
perience brings to each man, is that ad-
vertising should be included in the gen.
eral estimate of expense, as regularly as
store rent, clerk hire and insurance. It
is often said good stand at high rent
is better than a poor one rent free.
Well, advertising brings man before
the public in a way that makes him
stand good. The best stand you can
have is to be in the newspapers"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
A Girl Teamster in Boots.

For several months, among the many
wood-choppers working for the railroad
company at and in the vicinity of Poplar
Bluff, there has been one, trim, very
smooth faced fellow, especially noticea-
bic. He was popular with all his asso-
ciates, owing, perhaps, to his boyish
ways and his Straightforward bearing.
He did not indulge in the use of in
toxicatirg liquors, and night after night,
as the men were grouped around the
campfire, his CHEEKY voice, as he sang
the rude ballads of his companions, made
the forest ring. About ten days since
he fell victim to the chills and fever,
and while delirious his attendant made
the discovery that their favorite was a
woman in disguise. At night, on the
return of the choppers to the camp, the
information was impaired, the the next
day the girl was carried to Poplar Bluff,
where, under the care of the physician,
she soon recovered. Her occupation
gone, she found herself an object OF sus-
picion and curiosity. Unable to obtain
work suitable to her sex, few nights
since she donned her "old clothes, and
came to Judsonia, where she is again at
her old occupation-driving q team.
The girl, when questioned as to her
reasons for lending the life she does,
answered frankly that she cannot obtain
employment suitable for woman, and
that as man she receives much larger
pay than she would as q common domes-
tic.-Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
Reanties OF Nature in Arizona.

Notwithstanding the entire absence OF
timber or verdure of any kind upon the
mountains along the Colorado river,
they are ever. changing objects Of beauty
and interest, and the longer and more
studiously you gaze upon them, the
more completely are you lost in admira-
tion of them. In the evening, in the
interval Just before and Immediately al
ter the decline of the great orb of day,
these earth. giants point up their ragged
edges and grotesque columns against O
canopy that is q llarvel of celestial COL
oring. At this time of the year no
clouds sail maiestically over the noun
tain tops. From sunrise until within
an hour of sunset the imperial dome
seems like great sapphire suspended
over the world. Then the eastern
mountains and the horizon above assume
a most exquisite tint of something be-
tween purple and maroon, while the
elevations on the west and the horizon
above color up in lilac and gold. A few
moments after sunset the whole heavens
and mountains upon either side assume
a lavender hue. So perfect and so deli
cate are the tracings of these mountain
outlines against the sky at this period
of the evening, that the entranced vision
follows them as readily as if they were
inst go many artistic pencilings upon
map or parchment. Yet all this pales
in comparison with the mirage on clear
morning, which cuts up these same
mountains into castles, cathedrals,
fortresses, esplanades, gardens, for.
ests, and every other imaginable thing,
or topples them over, or suspends them
in the air at will. One can watch the
beautiful effects of mirage in this coun.
try with more delightful avidity than
any other one thing that can be pre-
sented.
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The Diary OF q Thief.

The body of All unknown man was
found about two miles west Of Neosho,
No., recently. It was thought he had
been dead about three days, as his body
was in very decomposed state. The
verdict of the coroner's jury was that
the deceased came to his death by starv-
ation." Nothing was found upon his
body that would lead to his identity.
The only articles found were an old
memorandum book and pocket-knife.
The following are a few extracts from
the former:
In Peoria, ILL.,, June 24.-Robbed an
old man, whose name was johnson, of
$13.85.
June 20, Keokuk, Iowa.-Knocked a
man down and attempted to rob him,
but he called the police and had to rnu.
June 30, Warsaw, Ill.-Broke into
house in Warsaw and stole So.
July l, Ursa, nl.-Entered house
in Ursa while the folks were in the gar
den and stole $40 out of pocket-book.
July 4, Quincy, nl.-Stole q pair Of
pants out of dry goods store.
July 25, st. Louis, Mo.-Met Jim
Martin and helped him to "shove the
queer" as he called it, and he divided
the profits. ....
This was the last entry of any note.
The remains were buried near the spot
where they were found.
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Reminded him OF Home.

An effecting illustration OF the natu-
raj longing for what is dearest to us
that comes to the heart in the hour OF
death, is thus related:
Some years ago native Greenlander
came to the United States. It was too
hot for him here, so he made up his
mind to return home, and took passage
on ship that was going that way. He
was taken sick, and as he was dying, he
turned to those who were standing
around him, and said
$50 on deck, and see if you can see
ice." :,
When that man was baby the first
thing he saw, after his mother, was ice.
His house was made of ice he was
cradled in ice ; the water that he drank
was melted ice. If he ever SAT az q
table. it was table of ice. The noun
tains were of ice the fields. were OF Ice
and when he became man, he mao
sledee and twelve dogs than ran fifty
miles day over ice. And many day
he stopped over hole in the ice twenty
four hours, and put his spear IN the
head of any seal that might come there.
BE had always been accustomed to see
ice, and he knew that if his companions
on the ship could see ice, it would be
confidence that he was near home. The
thought of ice Yae the very last thought
=. ~;~o3eE q, - s-s-s5..s-
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Curious COmpaniOnship.

A gentleman in Sussex, Eng, had a
cat which showed the greatest affection
for young blackbird, which was given
to her by stable-boy for food day or
two after she had been deprived of her
kittens. She tended it with the greatest
care they became inseparable compan-
ions, and no mother could show great
er fondness for her offspring than she
did for the bird.
Lemmery shut up cat and several
mice together in a case. The mice in
time got to be very friendly, and pluck
ed and pibbled at their feline friend.
When any of them grew troublesome,
she would gently box their ears.
A German magazine tells OF MIR.
Hecart who placed tame sparrow under
the protection of a wildcat. Another
cat attacked the sparrow, which was at
the most critical moment rescued by its
protector. During the sparrow's subse-
Quent illness it's natural foe watched
over it with great tenderness. The
same authority gives an instance of
cat trained like watchdog to keep
guard over a yard containing hare and
some sparrows, blackbirds and part
ridges.
A pair of carriage horses taken to
water at stone trough, then standing
at one end of the Manchester exchange,
were followed by dog who was in the
habit of lying in the stall of one of
them. As he gambo]ed on in front the
creature was suddenly attacked by a
mastiff far too strong for his power OF
resistance, and it would have gone hard
with him but for the unlooked-for inter-
vention of his stable companion, which,
breaking loose from the man who was
leading it, made for the battling dogs,
and with one well-delivered kick sent
the mastif into a cooper's cellar, and
then quietly returned to the trough and
finished his drink. In very sensible fash
ion, too, did Mrs. Bland's half-Danish
dog, Traveller, show his affection for his
mistress pet pony. The latter had been
badly hurt, and when well enough to
be turned into field, was visited there
by its fair owner and regaled with car
rots and other delicacies Traveller, for
bis part, never failing to fetch one or
two windfall apples from the garden,
laying them on the grass before the
pony, and hailing its enjoyment of
them with the liveliest demonstrations
of delight.
That such relations should exist be.
tween the horse and the dog seems
natural enough. But that horse should
be hail-fellow with a hen appears too
absurd to be true yet we have Gilbert
Whites word for it that a horse, lacking
more suitable companions, struck up
friendship with hen, and displayed
immense qualification when she rubbed
againet his legs and clucked greeting,
while he moved with the greatest cau-
ton lest he might trample on his "lit-
tie, little friend.-Gana6er's.
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The Sort OF Girl TO (iet.

The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gen
orally, she is not rich. But, oh what
o heart she has when you find her so
large and pure and womanly. When
you see it you wonder if those SNOWY
things outside were women. If you
gain her love your two thousand are
millions. She'll not ask you for car
riage or frst-class house. She'll wear
simple dresses, and turn them when
necessary, with no vulgar magnificat to
frown upon her economy. She'll keep
everything neat and nice in your sky
parlor, and give you such welcome
when you come home that you'll think
your parlor higher than ever. She'll
entertain true friends on a dollar, and
astonish you with tho new thought how
little happiness depends on money.
She'll make you love home Cif you don't
you're brute), and teach you how to
pity, while you scorn poor, fashionable
society that thinks itself rich, and vainly
tries to think itself happy.-Ol Oliver Wen:
dell Holmes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
A Very Exact Denial.

The nephew was the typical nephew
of the comedies and novels; the uncle,
the typical uncle. The former got him.
self into debt; the latter had to help
him out of debt.
But the most long-suffering of men
must at last lose patience, and one fine
day the uncle writes to his dear nephew
that all is over between them. Not
another penny.
The nephew flies down to his uncle's
country seat and falls at his venerable
relatives geuty feet.
"Uncle Peter, dear Uncle Peter, just
this once. Aid me to straighten out this
snarl in my finances and 1 will never,
never come to you again.
"Oh, Roland, 1 know you too well.
My sisters SONNY only sisters son, "
says the old man, wiping away furtive
tear.
"Ah, your heart is touched you will
assist me once more ?" says the young
man.
Listen" said his aged relative
"have you rule ?"
ga which ?"
GA rule-a foot-rule ?"
"Why should have ones amt a
carpenter" !.
"Go and find one immediately"
The young man, puzzled but hopeful,
goes, and at the end of half an hour re-
turns and says;
"Uncle, dear, here is the foot-rule."
every well; measure this room,
length, breadth and height, 80 as to
ascertain it's dimensions.
The young man, more puzzled than
ever, sets about his task, and at last
makes his report.
"Uncle, the room contains 3,GOcublc
feet"
"You are sure of that?"
"Absolutely."
"Very well, ;" says the old gentleman,
rising to his feet and speaking in tone
of thunder "and now, Sir, If this
room, which contains 3,04O cubic feet,
were filled with double eagles packed so
tightly that you couldn't ram, jam or
cram three-cent piece into it 1
wouldn't give you penny. GitP
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
Cincinnati Breakfast Table Diet.

Suitable dover for widow-A wild
over.
A pitcher with small hole in the side
will worry a woman more than will
sick relative.
In about three weeks all the amateur
sopranos in the country will be afflicted
with sore throats.
What is more ridiculous than to see
man carry an umbrella on fine day or
q cane on rainy day?
A man may boast that he can put up
with anything, but the chances are ne
will find fault, and kick considerably
when plate Of rare poultry is put be-
fore him.
The time of the year has come when
our future presidents, whose innocent
PARENTS don't know that they are out at
night, wrench gates off the hinges and
throw stewed pumpkin against front
doors.
An ashen sky o'erhangs the world,
The flowers lie in state;
And now it's getting rather cold
To linger at the gate;
So the sofa is once more called into
requisition.
When morn its golden sunbcams on the deWy
flower throws,
And belted bees serenely fly abou. from rose 10
rose, w ILL
And all the sky is draped with clouds, with
bosoms pale as curds,
All then we hear the symphonies OF happy
little birds,
Intermingled with the wild, unearthly screen
of the milk fend.
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How Money Stopped Royal weddids.:

It is asserted (says letter iron !
abroad) that the failure Of the natrlmo-
nial negotiations between the yoan4s
Prince Napoleon and the tall Princess
Thyra, of Denmark, was caueed prlraar1.
" by money difficulties. All sorts :ot
stories have been told about the wealth.
Of the ex.Empress Eugenie, and her
fortune has been alternately exaggerat;
ed or underestimated, as friends or foes
have been discussing it. And now comes
Ia Figaro with all sorts of statistics on
the subject, which it declares are trust-s4
worthy. According to it the young I
prince is by no means rich, possessing !:
only revenue OF 40, 900 francs ($S, ,00O)s
which comes from little property situ-S
ated at vicentini, near Goritz, in nlyria.
which was left him by Princess Baccioc.
chi. OF course, this is not nearly enough
for prince to marry on, and the courts
of Copenhagen, when the question. Of
settlements was broanhed, turned mp it's
nose at such penniless youth. So. the
e1. empress, like o good mother, has
come to her sons aid. Her income, says
La Figaro, is in the neighborhood o.
$50, 900 francs O year, and two'thlrds o.
this she is going to turn over to him. II
is not very great deal-$60, 600 q year,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
FOR THE FAIR SEX,
Fashions in Gloves.


Matching gloves with the dress is no
longer in fashion: contrasts are resorted
to now that dresses are worn in colors
that would not look we'll in gloves. For
instance, maroon and garnet dresses are
popular, but reddish gloves would not
be in good taste, hence to wear with red
tinted dresses are gloves of pale buff or
of old gold color; for dresses of duck's-
breast blue are lavender gray gloves,
and for myrtle green and moss -colored
dresses are beige shades.
The preference continues for long
wristed untrimmed gloves with self
colored stitching; for general use those
fastened by three or four buttons are
chosen, while for more dressy occasions
they are so long as to require SIX but
tons or more. Undressed kid gloves are
very stylish, and are worn on all occa-
sions.
The dark-colored undressed kid gloves
are in better shades than formerly, and
the medium shades are perfect, such as
wood browns, chestnut, bronze, slate
blue, and gray with blue or with green
shades like reseda. The black undress-
ed kid gloves are preferred by ladies in
mourning.
White undressed kid gloves are liked
for full dress, and there is a fancy for
wearing long black kid gloves with street
costumes of light and dressy colors,
especially those with mastic, old gold
and beige shades. In the smooth-fnis
ed or dressed kid gloves are shown all
the shades described above-guinea gold,
drab, fawn, beige, ashes -of-roses, mode,
wood and reseda for general wear; there
are also very serviceable shades of seal
brown with red tinges. For evening
gloves arc pearl tints with pinkish cast
that are quite new, the more delicate
the shade, the more stylish the glove.-
Bazar.
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The Two Eillagea

Over the river on the hill
Iieth village white and still
All around it the forest trees
Shiver and whisper in the breeze;
Over it sailing shadows 60
or soaring hawk and screaming crow:
And mountain grasses, low and sweet,
Grow in the middle Of every street.
Over the river under the hill
Another village lieth still
There I see in the cloudy night
Twinkling stars Of household light;
Fires that glesm from the smithy's door
0lists that curl on the river shore;
And in the roads no grasses grow
For the wheels that hasten to and fro.
In that village on the hill
Never is sound of smithy or mill;
The houses are thatched with grass ant
flowers:
Never clock to toll tho hours:
The marble doors are always shut
You cannot enter IN hall or hut;
Ali the villagers lie asleep;
Never gram to SOW or reap;
Never in dreams to moan or sigh
Silent and idle, aud low, they lie.
In that village under the hill,
When the night is starry and still,
Many a weary sc:: ~ pra' er
Looks to the otaer village there,
And weeping and signing, longs to 80
Up to that home from this below
Longs to sleep in the forest wild,
Whittier have vanished wife and child,
And heareth, praying, this answer fall:
Patience that village shall hold ye
anw
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-04
A Few Topographic Errors.

"Greeley's ire being raised, says the
Rochester Egpress, cat the refusal OF
the Japanese to enlarge their CONNER.
cial relations, he editorially declared
that the only effective arguments with
barbarians are those uttered by the
mouths of forty-pound Pai1hans.' He
tore around the next morning when he
read in the Tribune that the only argu-
ments 'are those uttered by the mouths
of forty proud Parisians.' The London
Neavs undertook to crll Mr.. Bright the
sGamaliel of Birmingham, but between
the compositorand proof-reader it was
printed the gamebird of Birmingham.
A night editor headed cable dispatch,
The British lion shaking his name.
he lost five pounds in weigh ght when
the black letters proclaimed. Z" The
British lion skating in Maine" A
night editor had an important cable.
gram about the San Stefano treaty, on
which he put flaming head Ultima,
tum of the czar,' and found it translated
into Ultimatum of J. Caesar! Some
years ago the English reading public
we're profoundedly impressed by an
essay by Carlyle on the Liturgy of the
Dead sea apes All newspapers had
something to say about the novel title !;
but we're rather taken back when it
was made known that the great
writer intended to say 'apples instead
of 'apes.'
"Charged to the account of typo
graphical errors are many that come
from the deliberate indulgence Of the
compositors' love of fun-pure cussed-
ness, the irate author calls it. For in
stance, the New York Leader repub-
lished poem from the atlantic. In
the former these two lines
"Well, we'll, think not on those two,
But the old would breaks out anew.
appeared thus wonderfully changed:
"Well, we'll, think not on those two,
But the old woman breaks out anew"
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A Lard Light.

Alpheus has been having long spell
of fever, and it was necessary to have a
light burning all mig ht in his room. We
live out in the country, so no gas was
accessible. Candles fickered disagree:
ably and kerosene lamp when turned
low always had an annoying smell for an
invalid, so I bethought of light my
mother used to improvise when l was o
child, before kerosene, with its attend
ing dangers, was known. It was made
by taking saucer Of lard, and cutting a
piece of newspaper in circle about
three inches in diameter, then twisting
the center of this up to point, and
burying all but the tip in the lard. 1t
will burn all night-a shady dim light
and in our case proved o real comfort:
Some of these homely facts are well
worth remembering. - Prairie Farmer.