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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

The Schiller statue WAS unveiled in
Fnirmount Park, Philadelphia, Oh
Nj jnday.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

Mr.. Hewitt is said to suff'r night
after night, for weeks ut time, from
sleepiessncss.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

George Alfred Townsend's new
story, KATY of Catoctin," will be is
sued by the Appletons this week.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

Emperor William has given $4,000
marks to erect monument to Martin
Lltilur in Brooklyn.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

SwIF,r's SPECIFIC This wonderful
blood purifier has received the en-
dorsement of many of the leading
pbysicians both in this country and
Europe, and the hundreds OF persons
il has cured of cancer, catarrh, scrof-
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blood faint is remarkable. Nothing
like il has ever been known before.
This medicine is for sale in every
drug store, not only in this country,
but abroad, which shows it's popular
itv. Are any of our readers troubled
with any of these complaints Ii So
/ for IL very small sum of money You
can be made perfectly well and hap
py.-N. O. Picayune, Sept 2, 1856.
The first S. S. S., or SwiTts Spe-
cfc, ever brought to Atlanta, Texas,
was bought by T. Cnvcn & Co., drug
gists. Aaron Biuydes had been IN
bad health for long time and could
ret no relief. He WAS almost blind,
Mr. Caven induced him to take bot
tie of S. S. S. The first bottle brought
him out on the streets, md the sec
ond made complete cure; and Aaron
is yet living and well, end can be in
terviewed at any time with reference
TO the facts. He is u coloroi man
living here in Atlanta, Texas. $. 5, >.
is now sold by MI druggists in this
country. -Journnl, Atlanta, Texas.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free.
TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co, Drawer B,
Atlanta, Ga.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

Eugene Fed, the Chicago humor-
list, hes gone to the mineral springs
at st. Clair, Mich, for his health.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

m nT n fields are scarce, hut those who write TO
Hill Stinson h Co Portland, Maine, will receive
EzaII | free, full information about work which
Hill they can do and 1--we at home, that will pay
VI " LII them from IS 10 81 per day. Some have
earned over So day Either young old CAPITAL
required You started free Those who start
absolutely OF snug little fortunes. All
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-04

A granite statue to General Hal
leck has been erected in Golden Gate
Pnrk, SIN Francisco.
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CCs.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
Fourteen Mistakes or Life.

Somebody has condensed the mistakes
of life, and arrived at the conclusion that
there are fourteen of them. Most people
would say, if they are told the truth,
that there was no limit to the mistakes of
life; that they were like the drops in the
ocean or the sands of the shore in num-
Der, but it is we'll to be accurate. Here,
then, are fourteen great mistakes: cit
is a great mistake to set up our own
standard of right and wrong, and judge
people accordingly; to Measure the en-
joyment of others by our own; to expect
uniformity of opinion in this world; to
look for judgement and experience in
youth; to endeavor to mould all DISPOSE
tons alike; to yield to immaterial t%riies;
to look for perfection in our own actions
to worry ourselves and others with what
cannot be remidied not to alleviate all
that needs alienation rs far as lies in our
power; to consider everything impossi-
BILE that we cannot perform; to believe
only what our finite minds can grasp; to
expect to be able To understand every
thing.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
A Regular Philantrophist.

81 don't see why you regard Jones so
highly. He seems like a very common
fellow to me-"
"There is where you arc mistaken; he
is the most generous man alive. He is
passionately fond of music. He loves to
play the violin and to sing"
81 presume he plays and sings for his
friends. That isn't 80 unusual as to call
for all this ~culogy."
81 was just about to say that in spite
of his love for these amusemcnts he re-
strains himself, and no ono ever heard
him sing or play. I tel, you, old man, he
is more than generous; he is q regular
philantrophist. "-Puck.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Hc who forsces calamitics suffers them
twice over.
If n life will bear examination in every
hour of it, it is pure indeed.
If we did but know how little some en-
joy the things they possess, there would
not be much envy i'll the world.
True honor is that which %rcfrains frora
doing in secret what it would not do
openly, and where other laws arc want
ing imposes q law upon itself.
Ono unquict, pcrvcrsc disposition dis
tcmpcrs the peace and unity of a whole
family or society, as ono Earring instru-
ment will spoil a whole concert.
1.-Two on what you have; live, if you
can, on less. Do not borrow, either for
vanity or pleasure; the vanity will end in
shame, and the pleasure in regret.
IF wo could only give ourselves half an
hours serious reflection at the close Of
every day, We should every week preach
to ourselves seven of the best sermons
that could be uttered.
To feel always more disposed to see
the favorable than the unfovorablc side
of things, is a turn of mind which is
moro happy to possess than to be born to
an estate of ten thousand a year.
There is one special reason why VIC
should cndcavor to make children as
happy as possible, which is that their
carly youth forms a pleasant or unplcas-
ant background to all their after life.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
How to Choose an Orange.

The very sweetest orange and the
richest is the black or r~usty-coatcd fruit.
Pick out the dingiest oranges in the box,
md you will get the best. Another way
to choose oranges is by weight. The
heaviest are the best, because they have
the thinncst skin and more weight of
juice. Thick-skin oranges arc apt to be
dry; they either weigh less because of
having so much skin or because of the
poverty of the juice in these particular
specimens. A slight freezing on the
tree causes this condition in otherwise
fine fruit. The 'kid-glove" oranges are
tho two varieties of small fruit grown in
Florida from stocks respectively brought
from China and from Tangiers. They
are called "Mandarin" and ''Tangcrine."
They may be eaten without soiling akid
glove, because the skin is loose and the
little "gores" Or pockets of juice come
apart very clearly and without breaking.
All the above applies to Florida oranges
The Jamaica and Havana oranges are
much paler yellow, and their juice is
usually of more acid quality than the
homegrown oranges.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
Cutting Mahogany In Mexico.

In Mexico the season for cutting ma
hogany usually commences about August.
Gangs of Indian borcrs arc employed,
consisting of two to fifty each, undsr the
direction of a captain. Each gang has
also a cazador, or "~huntsman," whose
duty it is to search the trackless forest
for suitable trees to be felled, and to
guide the wood cutters to the places.
The felled trees of a single season are
scattered over SC wide a space that miles
of roadway have to be made to reach
them, and numerous rude bridges col.
structed over the rivers that lie in the
way. All the larger logs have to be
~'tsquared" before they arc brought away
on rude wheeled trucks along these for
est roads. Each truck requires seven
pairs of oxen, and the work could be
much more expeditiously done by our
portable railway and plantation engines.
The implements used by the Mexicans in
this trade are rude and insufficient, large
quantities of timber being often spoiled
by their insuficiency, combined with the
ignorance of the workmen Employed
Boston Budoet.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
Surviving Terrible Wounds.

Mr.. Puxton tells us that a trappcr
named Glass and his companion were one
day setting their beaver traps in a stream
near the River Platte, when they saw q
large bear turning up tho turf close by,
searching for roots. The men crcpt to
tho thickct, fired at him, and wounded
him severely. The animal groancd,
jumped up from the ground, and snort
ing with pain and fury, charged tow
ards the place from whence came the
smoke Of the rifles. The men rushed
through the thickct, but their speed was
impcded by the underwood, so that the
infuriatcd beast soon came up with them;
at that moment Glass stumbled and fell.
When he rose, the bear stood before him
on its kinds legs; he called instantly to
his companion to fire, he himself sending
the contents of his pistol into the bears
body, which, with the blood streaming
f.om its nose and mouth, knocked the
pistol away with one paw while it stuck
the claws of the other into the flesh of
his antagonist and rolled with him on
the ground. Glass managed to reach his
knife and plunge it several times into
the bear, whilo the latter was tearing his
flesh with tooth and claw. At length,
blinded with blood and exhaustion, the
knife fell from Glass's hand, and he
tainted. His companion fed to the
camp and told his party of the sad fate
of their companion. Assistance was in
stantly sent. Glass still breathcd, but
the bear lay dead across him. The trap
per's flesh was torn away in slips, and
Jumps of of it lay beside him; his scalp
hung bleeding over his face, which was
much torn. The men, thinking he was
already dead, dragged the bear off his
body and took away his hunting-shirt,
moccasins, and arms, and returned to
the camp, saying they had completed his
burial. Months elasped, and some of
the party were on their way to a trading
port with skins, when they saw a horse
man approach them with a face so scar
red and disfgurcd that they could not
distinguish his features. Tho stranger
accosted one of the party, exclaiming in
a hollow voice, "Hurrah, Bill, my boy,
you thought I was killed, did you2 Just
hand mo over my horse and gun, lad.
I'm not dead yet, you see. Astonishment
and horror seized the party, some of
whom believed him both dead and buried.
Glass told them that he knew not how
long he had lain inscnsible, but when he
revived he was obliged to subsist on the
bears flesh. AS soon as he had strength
to crawl, he tore off as much of it as he
could carry, and crcpt down to the river.
He had suffered torturcs from wounds,
cold, and hunger before he reached the
fortress, eighty miles distant, living
meantime chiefly on roots and bcrrics.-
Tho Moon.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
Fastest Shaving on Record.
'"Talking about quick shavcs. s.

"Talking about quick shavcs, said a
passenger on a Rock Island suburban
train, 81 came down to the depot the
other day just four minutes before train
time. I ran into that shop across the
way, kept by Mrs. Whatshernamo, and
said, Gimme a three-minute shave. All
right said she; sit down. And Pm
blamed if she didn't go over my face in
good shape in just three minutes by the
watch, and I got brushed off and caught
my train nicely"
This stirred up the story-tellers. Ono
man had been shaved in two minutes,
another in a minute and a half and 80 on.
"Just wait till you hear from me" said
a low-browed, tough-looking passenger.
'For seven years I shaved in a shop
where one barber run the same razor over
an average of sixty faces an hour. What
do you think of that7"
Impossible" exclaimed several listen
ers in chorus.
'No, it isn't impossible" continued
the low-browed man. "This barber
didn't do anything but use his razor.
The men lathered their own faces while
waiting their turn, and a boy handed
him freshly honed razors. Seven or
eight slashes was a shave, and the GUS
toners wiped their own faces after leav-
ing the chair"
Chow much did the barber charge a
headq
"Nothing; and he got no wages. He
was the barber in Jacksonville Prison"
Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
His Regular Wash. Day.

'Isn't this train about two hours late2'
asked a passenger of the conductor on a
branch Dakota road.
eyes, I reckon bout that much"
"'Well, what's the troubled"
"Oh, it's Monday"
"What's that got to do with it."
"Why, you see, I can't never get as
good a start Monday morning-have to
tend the baby while my wife gets out
washing, you know. Just you wait till
tomorrow morning and I'll pull out be-
fore sunrise. "-Estelzine Dakota Bell.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
Qucon-Roarin1.


Mrs. L. Harrison, in the Prairie Far
naer, gives her views of the nodus oper-
and of queen-raising. Persons who have
kept bees for any length of time have
noticed that some colonies whose condi-
lions are the same as the remainder of
the apiary, produce more honey than
others. These colonies are the ones to
breed from, if honey is the object in
view. If a colony is deprived of its
queen, in six hours the bees will be con-
structing cells to raise another. Worker
eggs, or larvae not over three days old,
are used for rearing queens. Some breed
ers claim that the best results follow
when the bees have access to eggs only.
Bees seem to prefer to raise queens on
new white combs; such a one should b.,
given to the breeding colony, and placed
IN the centre of the hive; holes might be
cut In it, making convenient edges for
the bees to attach their queen cells.
so that they can be easily removed, if de-
sirable to do so. On the third day this
comb should be given to queepless bees,
and they will Immediately commence en-
larging cells. On the twelfth day, if it
is desirable to preserve the queens, all
cells should be removed but one, as the
first n that energies will de-
stroy all rivals. Those who make a spe-
cialty of rearing queens remove the frame
to an incubator and examine it, often re-
moving the queens to a nucleus as fast as
Matched. Those who have not a convcn-
fence of this kind can cut out the cells,
and give them TO nuclei, previously form
ed long enough to have cells of their
own. We have had cells destroyed by
giving them to newly formed nuclei, but
never lose them if they have cells of their
own. To save the time of inserting cells
we often wait until the bees have eaten
off the outside covering, showing that
the queen will soon be out, and then re-
move the cell with adhering comb. so
that it will fit between the frames of
honey, placing point downward, and in
a short time the queen is out. We pre-
serve cells with variations; sometimes we
place them over cages. similar to a cover
of a tin pepper box, only the tops are of
wire cloth; and again cut out cells and
put them into cages (made of wire cloth
by rolling around the broom handle, with
shoppers at each end), and place them in
the cluster. If young queens are intro
duced when they are only a few days old
they are generally well received. !
Silver has been discovered and mines
partially worked in twenty.one counties
of Texas.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
Manure For PIants.

Manure in aliquid form I have never
found to be of any benefit to young
plants till after the turn of the days, say
the first of February, when it should be
given out sparingly, as the plant will not
take it in large quantities ; as the plants
get older they will take more in proper
ton. Any good manure is useful for
making it. Fresh COW droppings, n
peck to fifty gallons of water, thorough
ly dissolved, and let stand till clear be-
fore using, is good. Let the plants be
fairly dry before applying it. Sheep and
chicken manure are also excellent for
the same purpose, but must be used in
much less proportions, say three-fourths
less than COW manure. Guano and
blood manures are also good by the way
of change, for plants of nearly all de-
scriptiohs, particularly roses. Under
artificial cultivation, these are greatly
benefited with a change of food after
the plants lave absorbed the food which
Che soil naturally contained.-American
Florist.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
A FRIDAY Year.

Persons who have a superstitious dread
of Friday will not be pleased to learn that
this is a thoroughly Friday year. It
came in on Friday, will go out on Friday
and will have fifty. three Fridays. There
are four months in the year that have five
Fridays each; changes of the moon occur
five times on a Friday, and the longest
and shortest day of the year falls on o
Friday.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
SCRAPS.

oSAsFAA
1t has been demonstrated by Mr.. ]. w.
Slater that c%atcrpillars are affected by
magnetic currents, which hinder their
development and even kill them.
Those species of birds like the ostrich,
which have not developed the ability to
dy, but use their wings mainly to assist
in running or swimming, have flat breasts
while the species marked by great power
of wing, nave developed a keel shaped
breast for a particular arrangement of
the muscles.
Photographs have lately been made in
Philadelphia by light afforded by a flash
of lightning. The durations of a light
ming flash varies between one onc-thous-
andth and ono tcn-thousandth of a Sec
ond and the fact that a fair picture was
obtained shows the wonderful sensitive
ness Of the Photographic plate.
From recent experiments by DR.. Par.
son on tho disinfcction of clothes and
bedding by heat, the conclusion is
reached that the germs of the ordinary
infectious diseases cannot withstand an
exposure of an hour to dry heat of 900
degrees F., or an exposure of five min
utcs to boiling water or steam ut 212
degrees.
One of the curiositics of light and heat
is the fact that rays Of the sun should
pass through acakc of ice without melt
ing it ut all, as is the case when the
thermometer stands little above zero.
That the rays of heat actually penetrate
the ice is shown by the fact that a lens
of ice may be used for setting fire to in
flammablc substances.
A startling condition of things in Rus
sia, so far us the prevalence of blindness
is concerned, has been disclosed by the
publication Of statistics showing the
number Of persons examined for military
service, who proved to be disqualified on
account of blindness. The ratio of total
" blind recruits in Russia is about one
to 1875; while in England there arc 1915
persons to every one who is totally blind,
and moro than 400 to each totally blind
person in Saxony and Denmark.
It was NJ. Pastcur who some years ago
saved tho silk worms of his native
country from a disease that was fast dcs-
troying them. The late President Theirs
said that Pastcur's services in that matter
saved to France more than the immense
sum which that country had to pay to
Germany as indemnity after the war. NJ.
Pastcur has also been warmly thanked
by the shecp-brecdcrs of France for his
mcccssful efforts some years ago in stay
ing an epidemic which was rapidly des-
troying their floocks.
According to DR.. f. Bonavia, a cor
respondent Of the Gardeners Chronicle,
tho lemon is much more valuable as a
fcbrifuge than is commonly supposed.
Hc thinks it ought to be moro extensive
ly employed in medicine, especially in
India, where, when compounded with
nm extract from the Khatta orange, lemon
Juice is as effective as quininc in the
treatment of simple intermittent fever
Just at present the demand for lemons is
so small in comparison with the crop that
much of the fruit has gone to waste in
Sicily.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
Household Hints.

1loubOhOlu ltlhtBs
The great secret of sweeping without
making a big dust, is to have a damp
broom, take short sweeps and keep the
broom near the floor.
BY rubbing with a damp flannel dipped
in the best whiting, the brown discolora-
tions may be taken out of cups in which
custards have baked.
A teaspoonful of borax put in the last
water in which clothes arc rinscd, will
whitcn them wonderfully. Pound the bo-
rax so it will dissolve easily.
Back window stills are made more at
t~ractivc if painted a soft green or red and
and filled with some plant. An oblong
box of livc-forevcr OF creeping Charlie
will grow luxuriently and require but
little care.
Great attention should be given to the
piano cover, the mantcl and table dra-
perry. They may not be placed near each
other, but a green piano cover, a garnet
valance and a blue table scarf will spoil
the harmony of color in any room. An
inexpensive piano cover, and one that
will be found really pretty, is made out
of dull gray horse blanket of light quail
ty. The edge is embroidered in o, run
ming vine OF n%asturtiums.
Goldfish steaks arc palatable cooked in
this way: Dip the steaks in beaten
eggs, then in yellow corn meal, and fry
them a rich brown in pork fat. Before
serving sprinkle the steaks with a little
salt and pepper and lemon juice.
Potatoes to be served with fish are OK
cellent prepared in this manner: Peel
raw potatoes and cut them in balls with
a vegetable cutter. Mince half an onion
and fry it brown with plenty of butter or
lard; add one gill Of hot water, season.
ing to taste, and cook the potatoes in the
mixture.
Sometimes the hindquarter of lamb or
young mutton will be found to be of
strong flavor. This fault will not be dis
covered until the loin chops have been
broiled. To overcome the defect, before
baking the leg parboil it. When nearly
cooked remove it from the water, dredgo
it with flour and bake it until done.
Fried chicken is always relished and
is especially nice with a cream sauce.
Clean a young chicken, divide it in quar-
tiers, season the pieces with salt md pep
per md sprinkle with flour; place two
ounces of butter in 4 frying-pan on the
fire, and, when quite hot. put in the
pieces of chicken and fry a golden
brown; arrange the pieces on a dish,
pour around them a sauce made as fol-
lows, and serve hot: Mix a tablespoon
full of -four smoothly with a gill of cold
milk and add half a pint of warm milk;
melt one ounce Of butter and season it
with a little salt and pepper; turn the
milk into the butter, beating all the
time, and as soon as it is thick pour it
around the chicken.-Ne,o York CONNER
r;o1
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-15
An Irrepressible.

Mamma-Well, Bobby, what do you
say to the lady for giving you the cake7
Bobby dunno.
Mamma-Oh, yes, you do. Come, now,
say what I have taught you to say; real
pretty.
Bobby (after a struggle)-Gimme some
o Of that cakel-Id Bna