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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
At a Fair in SAVOY.

So'o
Cl&s- to the gandarmcric there stands
a caravan, the portal of which is deco
rated with a picture calculated to strike
tcrro: into the doughtiest heart. 1t rep.
rescnts n French sailor being leisurcly
eaten up by Il band of savages. AL
though thes luck!css mariner is almost
dismembcred. the expression of his face
bctokcns an intense interest in the ulti-
mate fate Of his W left leg, which is, to
all appearances, literally Il bone of CON
tention between two Of the bon wants.
4 r2d-tutted cap and Il striped jersey,
lying near, would lead one to suppcse
that q beloved comradc is by this time
undergoing the process of digestion.
And above all this is richly-cmblazoned
scroll, which states with pardonable
tautology that for two sous Il head the
public can see the man-eating cannibal
from Patagonia. The door is opened as
the clock strikes twelve and the booth is
opened. In an iron cnge is the savage,
clad in little more than a string of shells
and an elaborate hcaddrcss. He is but
small and, despite his dusky skin, is by
no means so terrible rs one might have
expected. The proprietor of the show
is u volublc little Gascon, who rapidly
relates the history of the cannibal and
the thrilling incidents of his capture.
The story finished, the keeper cuts with
a short sword some raw meat from a
joint and, unbolting the cage door, filings
it to the savage. The latter scizcs it and
tears at it ~ravenously. The keeper turns
away for a moment to rclight his cigar
cite, when a wild shrek is heard and a
general stampede commences The Gas
con, it seems, has omitted to bolt the
door, and the cannibal, having seized q
club which had hitherto been lying in
the corner Of his cage, has dashed out
among the audience. Well might the
women clasp their children and cry for
aid. The proprietor, however, is equal
to the emergency. Throwing himself
with drawn sword before the savage, he
drives him back, inch by inch, to the
dim reccsses Of his lair. The door is
once more boltcd, and the keeper is over
whelmed with gratitude and caporal
cigars. His heroism is the talk of the
fair, and the booth is crammed all day
long. The other showmen. however,
laugh increlulously. Every fair COM
menccs, they say, with n similarly tragic
occurrence, and they hint that Cheuzcl,
the ''m:n-eating GAMBLE" is q very
harmless native Of the South Pacific
Islands, with IN u%nrequitcd attachment
for the pig-faced lady, and q pretty taste
in the matter Of entire London Globe.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
WORDS Of WISDOM.

Jealousy is tao apprehension of ST.
periority.
The love Of all things springs from tho
love Of one.
Who ovcrcomes by force hath over
come but half his foe.
Thc finest fruit earth holds uD TO its
Maker is Il finished man.
Good thoughts arc no better tnAn good
dreams, unless they arc executed.
NO rules can make amiability: our
minds and approximations make that.
All history is only the prccepts of
moral philosophy reduced into examples.
The Innocence of the intention abates
nothing Of the mischief Of the example.
Malice and hatred arc very frctting.
and apt to make our minds sore and un-
easy.
Mere beauty ever was, and ever is. and
ever will be, but n secondary thing, cx-
cept to fools.
Though mems persons ought not to be
hated, yet without all peradventurc their
practices justly may.
A mans nature runs either to herbs or
weeds; therefore let him s%casonably water
the one and destroy the other!
1t was the policy of the good old gen.
tleman to make his children feel that
home was the happiest place in the world;
and 1 value this delicious home feeling
as one of the choicest gifts a parent can
bestow.
IT'S pitiful, says Emerson, the things
by which we are rich or poor-a matter
of coins, coats and carpets, II little more
or less stone, or wood, or paint, the
fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck
of naked Indians, of whom one is proud
in the possession of q glass bead or a red
feather, and the rest miserable in tho
want of it.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Dollar Dinners for Half Price.

sit is wonderful to know how many
prominent business men, who would not
put their hands in your pocket to pick
your purse for any consideration, will
stand in with restaurant walters to beat
the establishment" said q prominent
hotel man.
"How is the game worked?"
1T is a simple thing, but it depends
entirely upon the large crowds that
throng fashionable restaurants at dinner
time. When sixty or seventy men ure
eating in one room the cashier can't see
what each one has unless he leaves his
desk, and it is very easy for a customer
at the farther end of the apartment to
eat a ninety-cent dinner ind pay for a
thirty or forty cent meal.
"RowW
"In this way: Tho customer gives IT,:
waiter a daily tip of a dime. The waiter
is careful to sec that his bencfactor gets
q thirty-cent check, say every time he
eats a ni~nety-cent meal. The check is
paid at the counter and no one is the
wiser"
"Are walters never caught at these
tricks""
"Cf course, once in q great while. A
chap that wore his white apron at the
end of that eating bar for six months"
said the speaker, pointing to the bar,
tgot caught at last. He was in the
habit of giving IN old, white-mustached
gentleman soup. roast, three or four
vegetables, dessert, coffee, and often q
few crackers and Roquefort cheese, every
day. Well, that customer ought to have
paid 81 4 meal, but he never brought in
n check for over fifty cents. At last the
cashier took note of the meal provided
for half q dollar. I called the waiter up
after inspecting one dinner purchased by
that man and the ffty-ccnt check turned
in. and bounced the waiter. 1t had q
good moral effect among the other
walters, forty in ALL"
els there no means to prevent this
beating the house!"
The hotel man shook his head sadly as
he said: "Not entirely"
But whenever n waiter i'm his place
gets regular tips that waiter is suspected
and watched. News.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Recipes.

SMOKED BEEF WITH SAUCE. Cut the
beef as thin as possible and pour boil
ing water over it; let it stand for a few
minutes and then drain off the water.
Put the beef in afrying-pan, on the back
of the range, and let it dry O little; then
add a piece of butter and drcdge a little
-four over it, and stir until the flour is
we'll mixed and smooth; add a little
cream and serve hot.
GREEN PEA PANcAXEs.-A cup of
boiled green peas, rubbed smooth with a
t%easpoonful of butter and season with
salt and pepper; should have been put
aside after dinner yesterday for this pur-
pose. Mix with it now a cupful of milk,
two beaten eggs and three tablespoon
fuls of prepared -four. Beat to a soft
batter and bake as you would griddle
cakes.
LEMON BIscU1T.-One cup butter, two
and onc-half cupfuls Of sugar, four eggs,
one and one-half pints Of -four, n tea
spoonful Of baking powder, juice of one
lemon. Mix the butter, sugar and beaten
eggs smooth add the -four, sifted with
the powder, and the extract. Flour the
board, roll II the dough one-fourth
inch thick and cut out with a large round
cutter, lay out on a creased tin, wash
over with milk and lay thin slice of cit
ron on each. Bake in q quick oven ten
minutes.
WAFFLEs FOR BREAKFAST OR LUNCH.
Pass one pint of warm soft boiled rice
through q sieve and add to it a small
teaspooniul of salt, tablespoonful Of
flour sifted with two. ~teaspoonfuls of
J baking powder. Beat the whites of
F, three eggs to a stiff froth. Beat the
yolks of three eggs as light as possible
and mix with three gills of milk; stir
the mixture into the rice and flour and
! add an ounce of melted. butter. Addthe
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14

surface; but the Ameri,an method
mas the glue equally in eac( strip. Ac-
cordingly the two strips ardglued alike.
Filling the leads is doneby girls, sit.
ting at brass covered tables The frs,
takes q groovcd slip with Ter left hand
and q bunch of leads I'M her riuht.
Spreading these out in her fingers like
the sticks of q fan. she dcxerously lays
them in the grooves and passes the
filled slip to the girl at the let, who puts
over it another slip whichhas lust re.
ceivcd a coating of hot glue fl4om a brush
welded by u third. Any two slips fiji
together and the united pairs are laid in
a row and pressed together in an iron
frame by a screw, and the row Of slips i.
left to dry. The rough ends o. the slips
and the projecting parts are nett ground
smooth against q wheel covered with
sand paper, and are then ready for tn.
most interesting and characteristic pro.
cess of all-that of separating and sha.
ping.
The work of separating and shaping
them is done by the same operation of 6
single machine. The slips are fed one
by one under a revolving cutter, which
separates and rounds them on one side
by cutting away the superfluous wood.
AS they come from under the cutter they
are turned over and passed under a Sec
ond one, which does the same work on
the other side, 80 that they fall into tho
basket in a continuous stream, six wide,
of finished pencils. -Brooklyn Eagle.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Making Butter.

An English expert on b~uttcr-maklng
Of ahigh-cl%ss sample for himself by de-
ihcratcly breaking Il roll in half, and
then rcrctt ;Ae operation upon an infc-
rior sample. Country salt butter-why
will people continue to tavcr the con-
sumner with the flavor Of salt instead Of
the flavor of butter?-ls, in nine cases
out OF ten, either bad in grain or strcaky.
Strcakiness, which is most obnoxious to
the Judge, is more common where salt is
largely used, because the salt has much
to do with the fault. Makers, too, who
salt on the table instead of with brine
make more streaky butter than others.
Streaky butter is not only disagrccablc
to the eye, but it is evidence of inferior
workmanship; it tells that the butter is
not of high flavor; that it will not keep,
and that it contains an abnormal guam
tity Of salt, Of water, or both. Indeed,
it is the presence of water, for which
salt has a common affinity, that caused
the undesirable appearance. After a GER
tain point, mere bulk of salt is of no
value rs a preventative of butter; hence
the objection of those who prefer to salt
on the table instead of in the churn is
unfounded. Sailing with brine when
the butter is granular gives the maker
perfect command e the strength of the
salt, and is not only the most sensible
but the most practicable method.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14

frothed whites; mix all thoroughly to-
gether and pour into q wafic-iron, bak-
ing Il delicate brown. The %waAle-iron
should be heated, wei! creased and filled
two..hirIs iull with the mixture.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14

Watcrproofs 4 light weight WOODEN
material in dark md medium tints arc
preferable to thoses of rubber. The ma
terial sheds water and has none Of th6
unpleasant odor of India rubber.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Soup from Horse Meat.

Every day, at early morning, noon and
evening, in Paris, you will see poor pco-
pie gathering at certain shabby cook
shops in the quarters of B%elleville, Mont
martere, the Batignolles and other of the
sections outside the boulcvards, where
poverty houses thickest, each armed
with a tin pail. a pitcher or something
else calculated to carry liquid. These
rcccptaclcs are duly filled with thin but
strong and savory broth, ladled from
huge, steaming cauldrons, and which
costs only u cent or two a quart. I have
drunk this bouillon. and found it nour-
ishing and good. It is made of the bones
and scraps ofhorse meat, after the choicer
pieces are sold to the cheap restaurants,
and the very essence and marrow of the
meat are in it, for the boiling is kept up
until the bones are fairly honeycombed
and the meat reduced to shreds like bits
of Irvine. This broth provides the prin-
cipal animal nourishment for the average
laborcr in the gay city. He adds to it a
few vegetables, thickens it with bread
and if, having, as the cookbook might
say, been seasoned to ~taste," makes a
palatablc and hearty meal. No other
meat but that of the horse is employed
for this purpose. Beef is far too cxpcn-
sive for such use, for it sells at nearly
double what it brings in America, and
the scraps and bones are all readily pur.
chased at proportionate rates.-New Yo,1
Ne1s.
Early marriages is the rule among
French Canadians. Originating in the
early history of the country, when women
were few and the government and church
alike encouraged girls in their teens tc
become wives, the practice has become
permanent, and for lads who have moi
reached their majority to be fathers and
girls Of sixteen to become mothers ID; toe
common to cause remark.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Poultry Notes.

If you starve your hens you will not
fattcn your egg basket.
Guinea fowls are excellent sentincls
against hawks, cats or other war
mints."
Do not hatch Bantams before Scptem-
Der, if you would have them beautiful
and ~diminutivc.
The Game fowl makes an excellent
mother for young chicks, and are the
best sentinels against hawks.
Among the new breeds the white Ply
mouth Rocks and white Wyandcttcs
seem largely in the ascendancy.
The Plymouth Rock and Wyandottcs
are both most admirably adapted to the
farm. Good layers, excellent table
fowls, and with all the necessary and i'm
portant qualities for the farm.
Turkeys are great foragers, and will
gather their entire food from the fields
during the summer; at the same time de-
stroying myriads of bugs, g~rasshoppers,
worms, ETC., that prey upon the crops.
If you wish your young chicks to grow
rapidly and thrive at this season of the
year, give them frequently scraps of fresh
meat from the refuse you will find at
every butcher shop; they are exceeding
ly fond of it. ~-
Above all things else, if you would be
a successful poultry raiser, keep things
clean about the hcn-houses and runs; it
will pay handsomely t. give them pro-
por:ionatcly as much attention as you do
other live stock.
Should fowls be. troubled with 'sscaly
leg make a mixture of three ounces of
sweet oil, one ounce of sulphur, and
twenty drops of carbolic acid, and anoint
the legs two or three times a week until
cured; first, however, wash with soap
and water.
1t is very seldom that much can be ac-
complished BY helping chickens out of
the shell, but if it must be done. open
the shell at the large end, removing it
and the membrane covering the chick
about one-third of the way down. 1t
requires steady hand, however, to dc
much good in such instances Western
Pbwmdn.
The Portland daily press., 1886-08-30
Bogus Prohibitionists.
New York Tribune

The people who have complained that Mr..
Blaine was too reserved in his remarks
about prohibition are either insincere or in
cable of understanding plain speech. The
latest speech by him is called San Attack on
Prohibitionists" lying title which is vain
ly used to hide the fact that Mr.. Blaine de-
monstrated in the clearest manner that as
sistant Democrats of Maine were not Pro-
hibitionists at heart, nor did they seek to
promote the cause of prohibition. He
showed that the Republican party of Maine
was in favor of prohibition, while the Re-
publican party of the nation was not COM
mitted to that mode of dealing with the
evils of intemperance; that the acts of the
Republican party of Maine gave it that char
acter; that at the desire of temperance re-
formers it has made many changes, nearly
change every year for many years, in order
to render prohibitory legislation more eff
fectiye that the only reasonable object and
only possible effect OF the separate Prohibi-
tion ticket, now put up in Maine, was to
elect Democrats, who had been hostile to
Temperance legislation in all forms. The
persons whose real purpose is to help the
Democratic foes OF prohibition Mr.. Blaine
assailed, as is his wont, without hesitation.
This is what organs of the grog-shop
Democracy call ''assailing the Prohibition
ists." A poor opinion these organs must
have of the intelligence of sincere advocates
Of prohibition if they fancy that such an au-
men there may be so ignorant, or so blinded
by the prejudice which often robs sincere
men of ali power to do good that they can
not not realize the faitnlessness of the pretended
Of I'M Maine sbt to tn the s9use Of
clear exposition. But the great majority of
sincere prohibtionists throughout the coun-
fry See that Mr.. Blaine is right, and that
The Portland daily press., 1886-08-30
A:FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
A Powder Magazine In Chicago
Struck by Lightning.
Several Persons Killed and Many
Others Seriously Injured.
The Shock of the Explosion Felt
Miles Away.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2o.-Lightning struck Laf-
lin & Rand Powder Co.'S magazine about
915 this evening, causing an explosion
which killed one person, fatally iniuring
four, painfully injuring a number of others,
and destroyed about $4,000 worth of prop
erty. The scene of the disaster is about two
miles from the extreme southwestern edge
of the city. For half mile around the mag
azine the scene now is one of desolation and
destruction and not building within mile
of the magazine escaped damage. The mag
azine was 70x40, of brick, with slate roof.
Heavy stones are scattered in the neighbor-
ing fields, trees are stripped of their foliage,
fences overthrown and telegraph wires
snapped. The whole of Cook county was
of glass, some distance away were broken.
The shock caved in two magazines of the
Oriental Powder Co. near by, and also those
belonging to the Warren Powder Co., Hazard
Dupont Coz and Ferreit Dynamite Compa..
ny. The bodies Of the killed and some of
the injured were fearfully mutilated.. The
dead and fatally injured are: Miss Carrie
Ahernworth, killed instantly; Peter Kean,
farmer, ribs broken and fearfully burned,
John Guhl, teamster, ribs broken, right leg
Guhl, skull crushed; Eliza Devine, right leg
crushed to jelly and breast transfixed by strip
of glass. When the first shock of the maga-
zine explosion was received the Jesuit Soci-
ETY. of the Holy Family, at 12Sth street and
Blue Island Avenue, five miles distant.
70 o'clock mass was going on in the
basement of the building. The building
shook and seemed about to fall. A panic
ensued and everybody rushed for the street.
Women tainted and many were trampled,
but very few were badly hurt although
vast number received serious bruises. The
exploded magazine contained, it is estimated,
dynamite. In the neighboriHg tea store
houses there were 100000 pounds of dyna-
mite and twice as much powder. Not one of
the buildings had lightning rods or con-
ductOrS
The Portland daily press., 1886-08-30
GENERAL NEWS.

Mary Davis, colored girl 13 years old, was
arrested at Wilmington, Mass, Saturday,
charged with Wholesale poisoning. FIVE per,
sons were made sick by arsenic, put VIII
probably recover.
The names selected for three OF the new
naval cruisers, for the construction OF wnlcn
contracts will soon be advertised f0r, are
the Newark, the Charleston, and the Baitlo BAIL
more. The latter is the twin-screW, 4,oVto
ton vessel which is designed to be the last-
est ship afoat
Lawrence Donovan, New York printer,
jumped from Brooklyn bridge for wager ol
$500 at $50 Saturday morning. boat MaS S,ad a
the river containing some friends VINO plchou
him up. He was not injured by the JUMP
but was arrested and fined $40 for obstruct-
ing the bridge.
A destructive prairie fire has ragged In r. ro.- @
ter and Sully counties, Dakota, since ioT0 ond
day. Potter county is almost barren ;aan anu
badly burned. There is no way Oh estiina-
ting the damage at present. ,.
Two slight shocks of earthquake were iei'
at Augusta Ga, Saturday morhlnis, mo4:Ilii I, o+o,1
slight shock was also noticed at whining VIM
NJ
At Buffalo driving park Saturday alter
noon T.. + Hamlin's mare Belle Hamlln
trotted an exhibition mile in 2'lo4' hoi Pi0-
vious record was 2.184.
Saturday, wagon, containing t9ree nnen, 1sas =
two women and a number Oh c cnllun0I,, ,o los
crossing bridge over road neaI Doain; Daii@;;
Texas, when the structure gave way Piooipa, snIao
tating the whole party to the grouna' fiIinG HIG
forty feet below. Three men "elo A-oN
and the others seriously hurt
While a number of workmen were engaged
in erecting a saw mill on French creek,
West Virginia, IA miles from BUCK ;hahnai,
Saturday, the structure collapsed, instantly
killing four men,
The Portland daily press., 1886-08-30
The New York Strike.

New YORK, Aug. 29.-At the Belt line
stables in New York this morning the OLD
hands made a common attack upon the new
men who had been employed during the tie
up. and five of the latter were beaten SO bad
ly that they had to be taken to the hospital.
CAPTAIN Killed and his policemen were IN
charge at the stables when the old hands
went to work A big disturbance occurred
early on one of the gangways leading up
from the stables to the upper loft. A squad
of policemen rushed up and came. upon
knot of men kicking and punching each
other in desperate manner. The nlght
gang of ''scabs," that had been at work up
Stairs in going down had met the striking
old hands returning to work and fight mad
broken out. 1t was conducted with great
vigor, and blood was running freely Wnen
the police clubs got at work and scattered tne
lighters. -Four Of the ''scabs" were severely
beaten. They were some of cargo OF men
sent on from Washington yesterday, TO take
the strikers places. They were all oadly
bruised and had ugly cuts on their heads ana
faces. The strikers were arrested and Locked
up. charged with assault. The "scabs, tnat
were the cause of the discomfort were quletiy
sent away, and at II Superintendent Harris
telegraphed that police protection was no
longer needed, The police were Wlthdra"h
at noon
The Portland daily press., 1886-08-30
An UnIucky Bark.

CoHAssETT, Mass, Aug. 29.-During
dense fog this forenoon the large Dark, 10
seph A. Ropes of New York, Capt. Seabpry.
10fi days from Madagascar, with cargo OF
hides consigned to Boston parties ran ashore re
on ''Gramposses" at flood tide and was soiao ieie
high and dry on the rocks. The tug Confidence
is In attendance and as the vessel is unln-
jured and lying easy she is expected to come
off with the next tide. The captain rel reports RI
though he was standing off and on during the
entire forenoon he did not once hear fog sig
nails from Minot Ledge Light which IS IS very Ty
this statement he is confirmed by the entire
crew Ropes had an unfortunate voyage on
the passage out. When 400 miles from Mac Sd
agascar she ran into an immense whale;
completely smashing her stern. She repaired
at Zanzibar. On her return, when a 1eW
days out, the captains wife was selzed VIII WI IL
Zanzibar fever and died, her remains Delhs
preserved and are now on board. AT late
hour tonight the vessel is still on the rocKS'
but the sea is very calm.