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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1880-11-04
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Cork and its Value.

The constantly increasing demand fol
cork for bottling and other purposes,
together with the fact that the cultiva-
tion ofthe tree is sadly neglected, threat.
ems to cause a serious dearth OF the ar
ticlc. Yet no other, substance has been
discovered that will serve as substi-
tute for cork in many of the uses to
which it is applied. Cork is worth
eleven times what it was century
ago, and its market value is continually
increasing. The American commits
sioncr Of agriculture has satisfied him.
self that the cork trees can be success
fully cultivated in various parts of the
United States, and recommends that the
government offer premiums to those
who, within 4 reasonable specified
time, shall have obtained the best re-
suits in cork culture. In Sicily, Sar-
dinia and the kingdom OF Italy great
plantations of cork trees have been de-
stroycd to obtain the tannin from the
bark. After having been stripped OF
their bark the trees were burned, in
order that the carbonate of soda might
be extracted from their ashes. In 1892
the French government began to MUIR
ture this important interest. France
now has about 100000 acres Of cork
plantations in Algeria. The tree grows
us high as sixty.hve feet, with diam.
cter Of from three to five feet. and will
i've and yield cork from $50 to 200
years. In a dry, sandy, siliccous soil, at
an altitude of from l,600 to 1900 feet,
and not further north than the fortv.
fifth degree Of latitude, cork plantations
will flourish. The tree does not, how
ever, yield valuable cork until it is TO-
ward fifteen Years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Young MilliOnaires.

"Caspar" says in one of his
New York letters to the De
troit Free Press: The Seventh
fair in gathering 100000, and perhaps
something over, in three weeks. But
there are several young fellows in New
York, any one Of whom could give the
Seventh 100000 without missing it.
New York's old millionaires are all
gone. Peter Goelet was the last Of tia
Venerables who came under this head:
Commodore Vanderbilt. A. T. Stewart,
John Jacob Astor, William Rhinelander
and Peter Lorillard being the others; but
the old ones stepped out only to make
room for the young. There's quite a
crop of these just now. Stewart was
the only very rich man who had no
heir to leave his money too. There are
three young Vanderbilts to take care OF
the Commodore's cash when their father
turns it over to them. A large share OF
Peter Goelet's money goes to his two
nephews, sons OF his brother Robert,
and another nephew. Elbridge T. Gerry
gets $780, Frederick Stevens, son
of Paran Stevens, is one nf the best
known of the youngimillionaires. There
are several Astors to perpetuate that
name and enjoy the millions left by
their grandfather. Rhinelander left tllt
greater part of his wealth to his only
son. who, am told, can grip as tight ;
fist on dollar as any man in New
York. Peter Lorillard's sons are IA
nous as turfmen, but the family casl
is taken good care of and augmented
rather than spent. Bennett is, o
course. another young millionaire, ant
VIM. f. Dodge, Jr., may be named OF
the same list. The present crop of yer.
rich men is larger than that Of a few
years ago, though the founders Of al
the big fortunes have all passed away
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Power OF the Press.

Our press is ola growth so sudden, the
product of the last fifty years---and il
hardly goes behind that date-that al
though we may measure its dimensions
it is very difficult to analyze fully it's
relations. 1t is too early yet III the great
social revolution to know how the
power of the press will finally affect the
interests of civilization. No man can
adequately tell that, but no man can
doubt for a moment its wonderful
power-its almost omnipotence. There
are fifteen millions of newspapers,
magazines, productions of the press,
daily flung down before the eyes of the
human race. Fifteen millions! 1t
would not be large estimate to say
that at least from twenty to twenty-five
millions of people are daily and hourly
subject to the government Of this great
power. 1t seems as if there could be no
limit to such a power. There is such
m understood faith binding humanity
together that if men constantly and in
great numbers repeat an assertion, it
requires capacity such as is rarely, ii
ever, to be found to maintain against
such power ones sole and Individual
belief. When you think those impri nts
can drop an idea into millions OF minds
Mt once, serve it in any way they please,
put every form upon it for 300 success
s;ve days, you see how resistless to ordl-
nary strength must be such power
Wendell Philltps.
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treatment calculated to make them
stronger in mind and body. There are
school-rooms holding from twenty to
thirty pupils each. In the more ad-
vanced classes, reading, writing, arith-
metic and geography are taught. In q
kindergarten, the visitor saw small
children modelling in clay, building
block houses and weaving paper into
fanciful shapes. Cases of remarkable
Improvement were related. The great
wonder of the establishment, however,
is thus described: "The trite saying
that blood will out is exemplified in
tho idiot savant, who is never found
among the lower orders. A curious
case Of this kind is reckoned among
the pupils of this school. So remarkable
are his powers of memory that after
listening to sermon, or other dis.
course, he is able to repeat it, verbati m
preserving, also, the intonations of th
speaker. AS test of this singular
faculty the lad was once taken to Media
to attend a lecture upon some scientific
matter, and the next day was asked to
repeat it. To the astonishment of all
he readily repeated the entire lecture,
rendering Latin phrases and technicali-
ties as glibly as the vernacular; yet in
Ills mentality the reflective power was
dull and feeble, and he was unable to
convert into practical sense the knowl.
edge he so lightly acquired"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Want of Courage.

A sreat deal of talent is lost to the
world for the want of courage. Every
day sends to the grave number ol
obscure men, who have only remained
in obscurity because their timidity has
prevented their first effort, and who, il
they could have been induced to begin,
would, III all probability, have gone
great lengths in the career Of fame. The
fact is, in order to do anything in this
world that is worth doing we must not
stand shivering on the brink, and think
of the cold and danger, but jump in and
scramble as we can. 1t will not do to
be perpetually calculating risks and ad.
justing nice chances. 1t did very well
before the flood when q man could con.
suit his friends upon publication for
one hundred and fifty YEARS, and then
live to see its success for six or seven
centuries afterward, but at present a
man waits, and doubts, and hesitates,
and consults his brother and his uncle
and his particular friends. till one day
he finds that he is sixty years OF age;
that he has lost so much time in conf
sulting first cousins and particular
friends that he has no time left to folio "
their advice. There is no time for over
sQueamishness ut present, the oppor.
tunity so easily slips away, the very
period Of his life ut which man chooses
to venture. if ever, is SO confined, that
it is no bad rule to preach up the neccs'
sity, in such instances, Of little vic
lcnce to feelings and to efforts made in
defiance to strict and sober calculation
Sydney Smith,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
WHY the Law Is Uncertain.

Language is an imperfect instrument
for the expression of ideas. Not Il few
of its forms are ambiguous-that IS.
they speak in two ways. Reader and
hearers are left in old Isaac's perplcxity.
The voice is that of Jacob, the hand is
that of Esau.
Many of the terms of language are
equivocal. They have two meanings,
so that the reader is in doubt rs to the
mind or intention of the writer.
Tho who draft statutes know how
difficult it is to frame law which shall
be free from ambiguous expressions or
eouivocal terms. Judge Story once told
personal incident, which illustrates
this difficulty.
He was employed by Congress to
draft an act. So important was it that
he spent eix months in trying to perfect
its phraseology. His purpose was to
make the statute so clear that the most
astute lawyer should not be able to cast
the shadow of doubt upon its mean-
ing.
The draft. proving satisfactory to the
lawyers in Congress, became law IN
less than year, suit, involving the in
depreciation of this very law, came be-
fore the court over which Judge Story
presided. Having heardthe arguments
of the able attorneys, the ejudgc confessed
that he was unable TO decide upon the
meaning of statute which he himself
had framed.
He. of course. knew what he had
meant to put into the law. But the
criticisms of the two lawyers showed
him that he had used such ambiguous
expressions that it was doubtful if lie
had said what he meant to have said.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Mrs. Oakey's Advice.

"a woman chooses for her profession
the head Of a household. Let her moi
enter on it lightly. Properly viewed, ii
is the most elevated Of all professions.
She has in her hands the welfare and
direction of few or many people, but i
is a work which cannot be neglected. Ii
is her duty to see that her home is clean
airy, cheerful, happy and its various
economies attended to.
A mistress should 60 through hcl
house every morning, praise where praise
is due, and quietly find fault with any
carelessness or omission, thinking
nothing beneath her notice, but with
gentle authority which admits OF nc
question.
Do not live with a fine house over
YOUR head and subsist in the basement
few people out of your family know OF
care. how you live. Let your house
large or small, be kept for the benefit o,
those who live in it. Warmth and light
are better than fine furniture, and good
beds better than fine bedsteads.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Blind Letters.

A writer upon postoffice matters in
the Philadelphia Press says some OF the
blind letters are very curious. The fol-
lowing are samples:
MRs. JOHN SMITH.
In care of her dad.
This, it is to be feared. will not be re-
ceived. for who Mrs. John Smith is
would be hard to trace or where her dad
lives. Anotheris
l.. LOGAN,
Logan City, Penna.
It. is very easy to see That the writer
of this simply rexrote the last name in
his mind instead Of the one he ought ia
have written. Orctaved Canady ?. D.
office for Margaret Kennedy is perhaps
meant for Ontario, Dut it is safer to send
the letter to the dead letter Office than
to try.
Miss Bridget Carr Undcrhill Anco.
ncr Virgin St Ga is hard to deciphcr
Here is Il letter to Mrs. #. }. Carlilc G,
which is little too much abbreviated
even for the blind man to read.
In the foreign mail there lies 4 letter
sufficiently stamped to be sent, but
which, it is to be feared, will not reach
its destination. for it is supcrscrihed
To her Magusty
Queen of England
London.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Another Cure or Diphtheria.

The subject of diphtheria is attract
ing the attention OF the press from its
ravagcs in some of the Western towns,
where the authorities have had to close
the public schools and forbid public
funerals Of its victims. The benzolc
acid treatment, from the prescription OF
Mr.. Shishkin, the Russian minister,
does not seem to find much favor with
the medical profession. as they say that
it has been tried and it has failed. The
sulphuric acid treatment, rs used IN
Australia. has been very successful
there. The following prescription has
been tried with great success, it IS SAID,
in Washington:
Ferri sub-sulph., Q drachms; aqua,
ounces. Use as gargle every l, 2, or
8 hours, according to severity OF symp-
toms.
This ran be used with an atomlzer
in case of children too young to garglec.
Iron is also given internally as tonic
in the following prescriptions:
Ferri sub-sulph., l drachm; syr. sim
ple, 6 OF. From a quarter to a whole
teaspoonful every hour, according to
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
Winter.
The cold winds from the northward rca7 :
The quivsring snow.fakes th,ckly i.I'

The cold winds from the northward rear :
The quivering snow.fakes th,ckly i.I,
And cover with velvet pail
The russell sward oi mead and moor
And standing at bis cottage door,
The laborer thinks OF labor scant,
And sees the haggard hand OF want
Throw shadows on his chamber floor.
The children shout for joy, and cry
"a merry Christmas" as they see
The whitened cloak Of bush and treag
And the soft feathers in the sky.
They know not why tho iather's eye
Is sad and heavy through the storm;
They only know the fire is warm,
And that the skating time is nigh.
And he to whom they look for bread
IL filed with many doubts and tears,
For in the bowling wind he hears
OF days that must be idly led.
And little ones must still be ted,
Though work be scarce and winter lonei
And though the willing hands be 81 strong,
They cannot thaw earth's frozen bed.
" - IN
Oh, winter! winter! bright and gay
To some, with what an irrn grip
Thou holdest many silent lip, =
That cannot words of gladness say!
Then, while we feel thy brightness, may
We ieol for those whose hearts are full
OF bitterness, that has no lull
Till winter days are gone away!
-H1rppr's BJ1af
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
What Good Pictures are Worth.

At recent auction sale in New York
of oil paintings the following prices for
some of the finest pictures in the collec-
ton were obtained: Jazet's "Dividing
the Spoils," SLIPS: DeCamp's East
ern Slave Market" $50; Van Marcke's
"Cattle, near Bordeaux" $500; Clay's
"Harbor, Dutch Coast" 2,075; Schrey-
er's "Arab Caravan ut Rest" SO, 425
Palmaroli's "The Pretty Model" 81, 725
Van Mieris' "Tarquin and Lucretia,
$1,000; Demadraze's "A Spanish
Dance" Sl,325; Machitti's italian
Water Carriers" Sl,025; Troyon's
"Pasturage-Valley of the Toucques, y
Sl,l20: Meissoneir's "a Halt ut the
Cabaret" $2,225. The prices received
| for the paintings aggregated S77, l4o.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
A New Years Song.

l wonder what kind Of a year it will be;
worry and ponder for fear shall see
A lack OF this comfort and jollity;
But we welcome the year
With soul-stirring cheer;
For a year is a matter OF months and days;
1t comes and it goes, hut an honest friend
stays.
Old Time is a coward who murders unseen,
His footballs OF velvet cross over the green,
Leaving death in his path to show where he
has been;
But shake off the tear
AS l welcome the year,
knowing this, that Old Time moves around
in ring,
And must bring back the flowers again in the
spring.
The year that is dead think did his best,
And brought many Joys to my home and My
breast,
So 1 press his cold hand as he sinks to his
rest,
While an unspoken fear
Greets the incoming year,
That the new will not love us as we'll rs the
old;
But the last year is sale, and its story is told.
What's year but a canvas where each, by
his art,
Pants scene or fragment from out his own
heart,
To be hissed or applauded when shown in tine
y mart!
Then hurrah for the year!
Let US shake off our fear,
And unroll the canvas, and mark out our
& plan, .
, For the years and Old Time arc the servants
of man.
Old Time seems a sluggard, when bringing a
Joy,
And when laden with sorrow he trips like
But he brings something new when he comes
= to destroy;
50 we greet the New Year
With smile and cheer,
And we make Father Time do our work while
he stays,
For the New Year and Old bringeth some
thing to praise.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14

No true lady will bounce out Of the
room and slam the door after her when
asked to forego her new silk dress for a
few days and let her husband settle an
old cigar bill.-Detroh Free Press. And
no true man, simply because he edits a
paptr. will rush into print with bis
family troubles. - Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14

1t used to be said of the Rev. DIR. A.
p. Peabody, that he was SO absent.
minded he would 20 to party, get in
tercsted in conversation, tie his legs up
in a silk handkerchief, and when lie
started to leave his seat he would fall
upon his face, baving forgotten to unite
the handkerchief. Upon one :emarka-
BILE occasion he is said to have broken
up a scwing-circlc by calmly and un-
consciously stufling two-tlirds of the
white skirt of a young lady's dress into
his coat pocket, under the impression
that it was his own pocket handker-
chief.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14

Curtains are not for ornament, but
use, drop them, shut out the cold, and
have an open fire. 1t is the best of lux
uries, an ornament and cheerful COM
panion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14

The new, railroad was duly con-
structed. directly across the boggy depth
ofold Miles Grey's cranberry swamp,
and the $4,000 was placed to Mrs. Mar
maduke Redfield's account in the near
est national bank, and Mrs. Pythchlcy
! thinks she has made mistake in TAX
ing the gold eagles instead of the cram
berry swamp-but young Doctor Ded-
ling thinks his mistake was greater
still.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14

The Pennsylvania State.training school
for feeble-minded children, at Media,
has lust been visitedby II correspondent
of the Springfield Republican,: He FUN
over three hundred yca,g idiots unde :
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14


siderable reputation as an author, takes
a strong interest in contemporary Swe-
dish literature, and is sometimes rather
free in his criticisms of well-knoWn
writers. He lately passed an untavor-
able Judgment on a new work by BJorn-
son, expressing ut the same time con.
tempt for the general character OF his
work. The indignant poet at once wrote
to his majesty demanding that he should
either apologize for the insult or grant
the only satisfaction that would be ac-
cepted by man of honor. The. king
was prosaic enough to hand the letter
to the police authorieties of Stockholm,
who forthwith instituted proceedings
against the writer. Bj2rnson suddenl ly
discovered that a change of air would
suit him, and has now ample leisure to
consider whether Il king should have
the right to express \ literary opinion
only at the risk of his life.
A convict in the Wisconsin State
prison refused to 60 to his cell when or
dered ly the warden to do so. IhG
warden held watch in one hand and
a pistol in the other, and said: l
will give you three minutes to obey,
:.nd if you don't / shall shoot you"
The convict doggedly folded his arms
and stood still. Minute after minute
passed, the warden counting them out
aloud. This was in the workshop. and
the prisoners were spectators OF The
scene. When the three minutes had eX-
pircd, the warden took deliberate aim
at the convict's heart and said: "Ill
give you two minutes more, and Iswear
IN xii, you then if you don't go to your
cell" 4 defiant curse was the only re-
ply. At the end of the extra two
minutes the pistol was fired, and the
convict fell dead. The officer is sus-
tanned by the higher prison authorities,
who say that his course was perfectly
proper under the circumstances; but the
district-attorney Of the county will try
him under an indictment for murder.
The Pennsylvania State. training schoo
for feeble-minded children, at Media
has Just been visitedby II correspondent
of the Springfield Republican,: lie fun
over three hundred yca,g idiots unde
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14

Upon the subject OF Keeping boys on
The farm, an old farmer has this to say:
my eldest son is near twenty-one years
of age, and the other boys in the neigh
borhood younger than he have left their
parents. Mine have stuck to me when
/ most needed their services, and al
tribute this result to the fact that have
tried to make their home pleasant.
have furnished them with attractive
and useful reading, and when night
comes, and the days work is ended, in
stead of running with other boys to the
railroad station and adjoining towns.
they gather around the great lamp and
become interested in their books and
papers," -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14

Henry II. Stanley is now ascending
the Congo, bound once more for the
heart OF Africa, but by "a different route.
He has taken the name of Swinburne "
for some unknown reason. He has tif-
teen Europeans, sixty-four Arabs and
several hundred natives under his Or
ders. His fleet consists of a small river
steamer. with two cabins for thirty per-
sons, three steam launches and three
barges, in which are slowed supplies
and goods. He is acting for the Inter-
national Association, of which the King
of Belgium is president.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-12-23
LOCAL ENTELLlGEN CE.


The Reno Gazette says that L. w.
Crutcher, who owns large herds OF cat
tie in Northwestern Hamboldt, is CIR
eulating at Reno petition to Congress,
calling for legislation to prevent the
spread of that deadly cattle
pleuro pneumenia The petition asks
for the appointment of veterinary in
spectors, whose duty it shall be to de-
termine the extent Of the infected dis
tricts. 1t recommends the adoption OF
the bill introduced by General Keller,
of Ohio, providing for the supervision
of infected cattle.
Mr.. Crutcher thinks that the disease
has not vet extended west of the Mis-
souri, river. Inter State transportation,
unless under proper supervision, is, how
ever, likely to spread the disease into the
Western States and Territories. It's in
PRODUCTION into this State would cause
irreparable loss to our cattle men, and
there is urgent need OF the legislation
sought.