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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
A River OF Burning Oil.

The fire opposite Parker City, Pa.
which destroyed eighty thousand barrels
of oil, presented some uucommonly
grand scenes, as described by q Phila-
delphia Times correspondent: A solid
sheet Of flame ran down the ravine to
the river. Great clouds of black smoke
arose in the air. The flames rolled over
the ground and leaped many feet into
the air. The heat was most Intense. 1t
generated gas in the United Pipe Line
Tank No. rs, known as the Grant,
Weller & Co. tank. situated three hun
dred feet north. A most terrific eXplo-
sion followed, SCATTERING the heavy
plate-glass in the windows and stores of
the city, and shaking the houses to their
very foundations. The explosion was
heard for ten miles. The roof of the tank
was scattered around the country for a
long distance. One piece, weighing fifty
pounds, was found four miles away.
The scene that followed was appalling.
The tank contained twenty-five thou
sand barrels, and the explosion laid it
level with the ground. Solid waves of
burning oil rushed down the hillside.
They reached the river, but did not stop
there. For a while the CONSERVATION
was complete. Every one looked Tor the
flames to strike directly across and fire
the city. The anxiety was intense.
Everything depended upon the current
and the wind. The scene ut this time was
grand beyond description. The river of
burning oil, with its flames and black
smoke, rolled its folds upward until the
be, yens were darkencd. The citizens,
terror-stricken, rushed in wild dismay
in Ill directions. Their faces were
Dlanched. Women and children were
crying. and strong men were paralyzed
with fear. Happily. the wind was
strong enough to change the curse of
the flames to below the city. In half an
hour they began receding. Then they
divided, bugging both banks of the river;
The coming was overwhelming and
sublime. The reccding was q fitting
finish to a picture that never has been
transferred to canvas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
Words Of Wisdom.

Whenever we have TO establish new
relations with any one, let us make m
ample provision of pardon, of indulgence
and Of kindness.
1t is wonderful how silent a mar can
be when he knows his cause is just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong.
Happiness consists in the constitution
of the habits.
No pleasure is comparable to stand
ing on the vantage ground of truth.
No one is so greatly to be feared as the
MIN who is willing to tell you all ne
knows. because the chances are that he
will tell you Il great deal more.
He who brings ridicule to bear against
truth finds in his hand Il blade without
u hilt. The most sparkling and pointed
flame of wit fickers and expires against
the combustible walls of her sanctuary.
Cheerfulness is just as natural to the
heart of a man in strong health as color
to his cheek; and wherever there is
habitual gloom there must be either bad
air, unwholesome food. improperly
severe labor, or crring habits of life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
The Hind.Swcpt Wheat.

Faiut, FAINT and clear
Faint as the music that in dreams we hear
Shaking the curtain-fold OF sleep
That shuts away
The worlds hoarse voice the sights and
sounds OF day,
Her sorry joys, her phantoms, false and
fleet
So softly, softly stirs
The winds low murmur in the rippled wheat.
From west to east
The warm breath blows, the slender heads
drop low,
AS If in prayer.
Again, more lightly tossed IN merry play,
They bend and bow and sway,
With measured beat,
But never rest. Through shadow and through
Goes on the tender rustic of the wheat.
Dreams, more than SLEEP,
Fall on the listening heart, and lulls its care.
Dead years send back
Some treasured, halr-torgotten time.
All, long ago,
When sun and sky were sweet,
In happy noon,
We stood, breast-high, mid waves OF ripened
grain,
And heard the wind make music in the wheat!
Not for to-day
Not Tor this hour alone-the melody,
So soft and ceaseless, thrills the dreamer's
ear!
OF all that was and is, OF all that yet shall be,
1t holds a part
Love, sorrow, longing, pain;
The restlessness that yearns;
The thirst that burns;
The bliss that, like a fountain, overaows;
The deep repose;
Good that we might have known, but shall
not know;
The hope God took, the Joy he made COM
plete-
Lies chords all answer from the w~ind-swept
wheat.
-yNary .Ainge De Vere.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
News of The Yellow Fever Epidemic.

Life in Memphis is described ns beng only
q little more wholesome thnn death. Yellow
naps are displnyed Mt every turn md crossing.
The hospital sign WIS counted in eight pl'1ce!
along one short square Il few days ago, and
sinoe then two others have been added The:
curtew bell now tolls at nine o clock "hd after
that hour the streets nre deserted. lnlhe last
endemic a crowd of nurses and doctors kept
the town alive. In this epidemic the Only sign
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

Dr.. E. B. Foote'S Health Monthly AYERS
that "it is now possible to reproduce
the voice and the handwriting at a great
distance by means of an electric wire
and suitable apparatus, and an instru.
ment is being perfected which will make
a photograph in Boston of a person sit
ting before a camera in New York"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
The Products OF Indication.


Inability OF the stomach to act upon the food
is productive oil serious and speedy mischief to
the entire bodily economy. The circulation
languishes and grows poor; leanness, pallor,
and a loss OF muscular and organic power su.
pervene; but, worse than this, the functions
associated with and dependent upon digestion,
such as evacuation and the secretion of bile,
grow irregular, and the organs whose business
it is to discharge those functions become badly
disordered. This disastrous state of things 10
more readily and thoroughly rectifed with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters than any known
medicinal agent. The stomach being invigo.
rated, the liie.giving principles OF the blood
are increased, the system properly nouri'hed,
l~eanDess and debility overcome, and the
bowels and liver thoroughly and promptly
regulated.
Gaps made in the flesh by Assesses and III.
GERS speedily disappear without leaving a seal
when Henry's Carbolic Salve is the agent EN-.
ployed to heal them. This standard article
cures the worst sores, eradicates %cutaneous
eruptions, relieves the pain OF burns, banishes
pimples and blotches from the skin and has
proved to be eminently successful in remedy.
ing rheumatism and soreness Of the throat and
chest. Sold by all druggists.
A cough, cold or sore throat requires imme'
date attention, as neglect oftentimes results
in some incurable lung disease. "Brown's
Bronchial Troches" will almost invariably give
relief. Twenty-Five cents O box.
sl,375.S7 Proats in 80 Days.
What $40 has done in Wall street by legiti.
mate stock speculations. Pamphlets contain
ing two unerring rules tor success mailed free
to any person upon application.
Address, A. SIMPSON & CO.,
40 Exchange Place, New York.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

A fellow in a cattle show, where he
made himself conspicuous by his buster,
cried out: Cali these prize cattle
Why. they amt nothing to what our
folks laised! My father raised the big
pest calf of any man round u parts.
mo doubt of it," said a by-stander,
land the noisiest."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

Why not make up your minds, at present, what hotel
you are going to stop at when you arrive In New YORK
The Grand Central on Broadway Is now kept on both the
American plan at $3.50 to $500, and the European plan
at 81 90 and upward, per day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

II you are satisfied to have q poor organ, or
run The risk OF having u poor one, take any
organ that is offered you. But if you desire to
be suro of having the very best, insist on hav-
ing a Mason & Hamlin, and do not be per-
suaded to take any other.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
TV1os YOr VOnraeIf,

By sending thirty-1vece cents, with age, height
color OF eyes and hair, you will receive by re
turn mail q correct photograph of your future
husband or wife, with name and date OF maj
riage. Address W. Fox, P. O. Drawer 81
Fnltonyille. N. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

The deaths in the United States last
year by yellow fever reached a little over
1000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

Contrasted with the enormous IRON
clads of most of the old world navies
are the new gunboats of China. They
are practically only floating gun car
riages, but are heavily armed with guns
that are said to. be more efficient than
the INTERPOLATION gun which is the
bolst of the British navy. The Chinese
gunboats have been named after the
letters of the Greek alphabet, and eight
have been constructed. Their maya
zines and machinery are under the water
line, and the single thirty-five OF thirty
cight-ton gun they carry lies flat upon
the deck. tits moved and loaded by hy-
draulic power. so that only five men are
required to handle it. Its proiectile
weighs 536 pounds. The advantage o
a fleet of little vessels, thus armed, over
the cum bersome ironclads is that they
:.re easily managed, draw very little
water and present IN exceedingly small
target for the enemy to fire at. The
whole fleet costs no more than Il single
big ironclad, and is as heavily armed.
In addition to the chief gun for which
they are built, the Chinese gunboats
carry two twclvc-poundcrs and two
(iatling guns. The latter ones are
double-cnders, with n double stock
screws and rudders at bow andstern.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
Insist on having c. Gilbert'a Starches.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
Lay the Axe
TO the Root

IA you would destroy the can
kering worm. For any exter.
nal pain, sore, wound or lame
ness Of man or beast, use only
MEXICAN MUSTANG LIN.
MENT. 1t penetrates all mus
Gle and flesh to the veryb0ne,
expelling all Inflammation,
soreness and pain, and healing
the diseased part as no other
Eminent ever did or can. So
saith the experience OF two
generations Of sufferers, and
so will you say when You have
tried the Mustang"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
Western and Southern States.

Henry Stuart and William Elliott were
hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, for murders COM
mitted in the Indian Territory. Stuart WAS
about one-s,xteenth Choctaw blood, and about
twcnty-nine years old. When he WINS nine.
teen his parcn.s moved to Hartford, Conn.,,
and he attended the medical department OF
Yale College. AT twenty-five years OF age he
WAS n surgeon on the steamers between New
York and the Isthnlus and California. Later
he Travelled extensively in South America and
Europe. In 1873 he married in Kansas, and
soon after returned to tho Nation to live. His
crime was being accessory to tho murder OF
| DR.. Jones, Of Caddo, whom he accused OF
| causing his arrest for introducing liquor in the
Nation. Elliott was OF fine appearance, but
OF commonplace history. He was born in
Ohio in l847, and received a limited education.
Several months ago he arrived at Muscogee
and took up his residence in the house OF q
disreputable woman, where, in February, he
murdered in cold blood a man named Brown,
during n drunken carousal. Stuart was cap.
tured in Missouri; Elliott in the woods while
asleep, near the scene of his crime.
General John B. Hood, O noted officer in
the Confederate army, is dead in his forty
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17

Ohurch Husic IN lie form Of Tunes aud Anthems, q q
perfectly ntted for the Singing School and Conyentoo
By the Large number Of Songs, Duets Giees, &C. ma ~
well made Elementary Course.
Prce, 500 per dozen. Specimen Copies mailed fs
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04
A Conductors Romance.

The Chicago Daily Mews pu ublishes an
interesting little romance in the prosaic
life of Chicago street car conductor
John O'Brien, a handsome young con-
ductor on the Ogden Avenue line, had
among his daily passengers Miss Fannie
Farlip, the adopted daughter of l.. P
Chase, a beautiful and accomplished
young lady of twenty-five years, heir to
considerable property in Minneapolis,
attending Scammon High School. He
fell in love with her, and to the most
casual observer it was apparent his affec-
tions were reciprocated. His suit was
opposed by the Chase family, whose
0BrieIl's. He. visited her clandestinely.
She always waited for his car, would
ride out Of her way with him, and when
his run for the day was ended they
would have little promenade together
in spite of Mr.. Chase's objections.
Chasewent to Superintendent Lake of
the West Side Railway Company and had
OBrien suspended by reporting that he
was passing Miss Farlin and other girls
free on his car. O'Brien told Lake
that he passed no one free, but paid Miss
Farlin's fare and meant to marry her.
Mr.. Lake encouraged him, aud said if
he succeeded he should have his car
again. The Chases being in the coun-
try on Monday evening, O'Brien took
Miss Farlin to Father Cashman's church
and they were married. Now he has
his car again, and all his brother con-
ductors are congratulating him. 1t is
believed that the Chases will gracefully
accept the situation when they return to
tho oitv
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04
Why Women Work.

lForney'S Progress.I
it is curious that the world has yet to
be convinced that women do not 1--we
work any better than men. They are
credited with dependence, with love of
ease and luxury, and when a salaried
position is in question the woman has
to take less because " she needs less"
1t can not be because she spends less,
for the extravaganza of woman was
dwelt upon by Solomon and Jeremiah,
and it is a song that has never known
a rest The reason for the difference in
wages is generally found to be in the as
sertion that women who do not need a
support, or who have few responsible
ties, crowd into the paid occupations
There is an, inconsistency here. If she
loves ease, why does she work? If she
spends more, how is it she needs less? !?
The truth is that very few work from
any other reason, but necessity. Here
and there is one who loves independ-
ence, works for it, and deserves it, and
here and there is another who would
rather work than forego certain luxu-
ries, and she earns them, but the ma
jority of women work because they
have responsibilities, and as class they
are our most reliable, sober and econom-
ical workers, for no woman with a.
family of little children CANDLES away
their bread and butter, or no sister or
daughter who is, of necessity, the bread
winner, wastes what she earns, and comes
home to sad, hungry family, bringing
them empty hands and an Indifference
to their needs
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04
How to Deal with Rats.

A writer in the Scientific american
says: "We clean our premises of these
detestable vermin by making white
wash yellow with copperas and covering
the stones and rafters with thick coat
of it. In every crevice where a ra-
might tread we put tile crystals of the
copperas and scatter the same in the
corners of the floor. The result was
perfect stampede of rats and mice.
Since that time not football of either
rats or mice has been heard about the
house. Every spring coat of the same
yellow wash is given to the cellar as a
purifier as well as a rat exterminator,
and no typhoid dysentery or fever at
tracks the family. Many persons de-
liherately attract all the rats in the
neighborhood by leaving fruits and
vegetables uncovered in the cellar, and
sometimes even the soap is open for
their regalement. Cover up everything
eatable in the pantry and cellar and you
will soon starve them out. These pre-
cautions Joined to the service of a good
cat will prove as good rat extermina-
tor as the cat can provide. We never
allow rats to be poisoned .in our dwell
ing; they are 30 liable to die between
the walls and produce much annoy
ance"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04

placing a poached egg upon this be-
comes a golden buck. The further ad-
dition of a slice of boiled bacon renders
it Yorkshire uck.
CRANBERRY DUMPLING.-Oneq quart
of -four, one teaspoon of soda, aud two
teaspoons of cream of tartar, sifted
together; mix into soft dough with
sweet milk; roll the dough out very
thin in obloug shapes, and spread over
it one quart of cranberries picked and
washed clean; add half pound sugar,
sprinkled evenly; fold over and over,
then tie in pudding cloth and put into
steamer, where let it cook over a steady
fire for one hour, with faith, rever look
ing into the pot. Serve with sweet wine
sauce.-Harpers' Bazar.
MUTTON SoUP-A shoulder of NUT
ton weighing about four pounds. remove
skin and fat, then put in four quarts
cold water, simmer two hours; boil one
yellow turnip, one medium-sized carrot.
four potatoes, two bulbs soup celery /;
cook the turnip and carrot one hour, the
potatoes and celery half an hour, when
cooked put in cold water, peel, chop
fine remove the meat, add the vegetables
and one cup boiled rice or barley, let
simmer ten minutes, then add Que table
spoon chopped onion and parsley, cook
ten minutes more. as cooking onion or
parsley too much destroys the flavor.
Pork AND BEANS One quart white
beans, put in three quarts water, let
come slowly to boil; cook three hours,
do not boil rapidly or they will not cook
evenly; season, teaspoon salt, half tea
spoon pepper. and as much cayenne as
will go on the end of pen knife blade.
Put in deep baking pan; if they have
not absorbed all the water, keep some of
what they were boiled in as they will
need it if 100 dry. One and half
pounds bacon, nicer than pork, skin and
score. After the beans have been bak-
ing in a slow oven four hours put on top
of them the bacon, bake two hours; if too
dry, add boiling water.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04
. Wedding Feasts.

In Sweden a bride has her pockets
filed with bread. 1t il supposed that
every piece she gives the poor on her way
to church, averts some misfortune. In
Norway, the bride herself hands around
strong drinks, that all the company
may drink long life to her; the wed
ding feast lasts some days, and the
guests have n, wishto let their moder.
alton. be, known. In. Liburnia, it is
the custom of the bvide to retire from
the table before the end OF the dinner,
and to throw over the bridegroom 8
house ~ a hard cake made Of coarse
-four; the higher she throws it the hap
pier she will be. In Circassia, there are
always set upon the carpet in one of the
rooms in the bridegroom's house ves-
sel of wine and plate of dough; and
the first thing the bride does, on enter
ing, is to kick over the wine and scatter
the dough with her hands. about the
room. In some parts of Russia, the
bride and bridegroom, during the ban
quet, which always takes place on the
evening of the welding day, are sepa-
rated by curtain The parents of the
couple exchange rings, and basket of
cheese and small losves Is blessed by
the priest.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04
T,incOInsS Man.

OF President Lincoln at the Gettys-
burg De lication correspondent of the
Cinei matt Commercial give. some in
terestiDg "reminiscences An address
was given in the evening by Mr.. Charles
Anderson and in church. The audience
had assembled, and rose as the Presi-
dent entered. An old man shabbily
dressed followed him up the aisle, and
when reaching The seat reserved for
Lincoln he was about going in with him.
Gov. Tod, who escorted the Presiden',
put his hand on him and said: "No,
old man, you can't so in there" Mr..
Lincoln turned and said: " Yes, Gov
ernor, that's my man." and putting his
arm about the old man, brought him
into the pew. 1t was the man who en-
tered the battle of Gettysburg with his
musket and fought independently all
day
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04

ny THEODORE TrLToS.

within q castle haunted,
As cnstles were of old,
There hung harp enchanted,
And on ifs rim of gold
This legend was en-croIlcd:
"Whatcver bard would win me
Must strike and wake within me,
By one supreme cndcavor,
A chord that sounds forever"
Three bsrds of Tyre and VOL,
By mandate d the king,
Were hidden to trial
To find the magic string
tIf there were such a thing,
Then, after much essaying
OF tuning, came the playing;
And lords and ladies splendid
Watched as those bards contended.
The hrst-a minstrel hoary,
Who many rhyme had spun
Sang loud Of war and glory
on battles fought aud won;
But when his song was done,
Although the bard was I.uded,
And clapping hands spplauded,
Yet, tpite OF the laudation,
The harp ceased It's vibration.
The second changed the measure
And turned from fre and sword
To ning song Of pleasure
The wine-cup and the board
TIL, Al the wit, all rosred.
And the high hall resounded
With merrfment unboundedi
The harp loud a. the laughter-
. Grew hxished ut that, soon after.
The third, IN lovers fHshion,
And with bis soul on Are,
Then sang II loves pure passiop-
The heart and its desired
And, - be smote the wire,
The hsteners, gathering round him,
Caught up q wreath and crowned him.
The crown-hsth faded neveri
The harp-resourds foreveri
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04
There is HeaIfh Aheaa,

Fer chesrless dyspePtics who will use Hostet-
ter's Stomach Bitters, which will enable them
to digest, restore their appetites, steady their
nerves, and drive away the blues. If with
such . prospect there are any of them who
neglect to profit by the above suggestion why.
they deserve to suffer, that is all. Let them
ask any one who has used the bitters if it is
not good medicine, and if they receive .
truthful reply it will be an affirmative. Bill
iousness, bowel troubles, debility, rheumatism
are all conquered by this highly esteemed and
professionally sanctioned specific, which has
also won a national reputation as a remedy for,
and means of averting intermittent and remit
tent feyers. 1t has a cheering effect upon the
respondent invalid, and may be relied upon
to produce decisive, and not palliative effects.
It is the one thing needful for the cure of dys-
pepsia, and nothing will supply its place.
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Humbugsed Again.

saw so much said about the merit. of
Hop Bitters, and my wife who was al
ways doctoring, and never well, teased
me so urgently to.get her some, I con-
cluded to be humbugged again; and I
am glad l did, for in less than two
months use of the Bitters my wife was
cured and she has remained so for eipb.
teen months since. / like such hum
bugging. 81. T., st. Paul.--Pioncer
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04

A GOOD old negro was burned TO
crisp recently, somewhere down in
Georgia. The text of the funeral,
oddly enough, was: "Well done, thou
good and faithful servant"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04

THE woman who earns her own living
has tenfold the difficulties TO surmount
that IL man has who earns his, on ac-
count of the limited number OF ave nues
tn fame and fortune open to her. Con-
seauently she is entitled to ten-fold the
ere lit, and ought TO have it.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-12-04

CHILDREN taught to believe that God
will give them anything they ask for,
with hand 'led waiting to answer their
prayer for sled, will grow up to think
lightly of God.-Golden Rule.