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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
kitchen garden, those who would secure
a fine growth of lettuce should give their

kitchen garden, those who would secure
a I'm growth of lettuce should give their
chief attention to its culture in tho early
summer or in the autumn months. The
heat and aridity of moderately dry sum
mers too generally hurry it's growth into
Towering and the seed form.
10 secure the autumn crop, q sowing
should be made during the second or
third week in July, choosing cloudy or
rainy weather if possible. For main crop
the seed is usually sown by market
gardeners in the open ground about the
middle of September, and transplanted
to cold frames as o as large enough to
handle, being wintered over in the same
manner as early cabbage. Plants have
been known to come out in the spring
perfectly fresh, from seed sown in the
open ground in the middle Of September.
Lettuce Is a plant of comparatively ten
der growth, and unless care is taken to
promptly destroy all weeds, it may be
quickly choked up so as to be worthless.
The kinds best to use arc those known as
Black Seeded Simpson and S%alamandcr;
the one is a curled leaf variety; the other
IS plain or smooth leavcd, and forms a
solid head.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Fashion NOteS.

Black tullc tabliers embroidered with
colored beads appear.
Net beaded with dull pearls is exceed
ing soft and beautiful.
Beaded gloves are n novelty which are
promised us for street wear.
Triangular jets are very stylish fo1
trimming all sorts of head gear.
The Austrian c%olors, black and yellow,
predominant in millinery and parasols.
White chenille embroidery and Roman
pearls are the trimmings of bridal gowns.
Butterflies and blossoms OF chenille are
sold ready to be applied to net or tulle.
crimson guipure lace, forty inches
wide, has narrow cdging to correspond.
Chenille and beads are worked in
effectively together on the new %louncine
laces.
If the hair is worn high a bonnet must
be small to form the apex to the monu-
ment.
Black silks arc loaded down with let.
n are a glittcring, %jingling mass of
beads.
Japanese Grape of bright colors is used
Tor vests for black grenadine or silk
dresses.
This simmer is to be o parasol season,
and the %stcreotyped styles of frames have
quite gone by.
Hats have peculiar shapes this season;
one resembles the paper bag in common
use with the groccrs.
Silk skirts of every hue. fascinating
with their different trimmings of lace are
shown to cover the maillots.
Doublc-breasted jackets of plaid wool
In shades of ecru or brown are worn
with black or colored dresses.
Plain silk skirts will be worn with
.polonaises of cambria or sateen with
p%ompadour or foulard designs.
Single flat and raised designs in silk
passementerie are very effective in trim
ming the flat panels tabliers now so much
used.
The irrepressible jersey is protean in its
forms. 1t is hardly to be recognized, so
elaborate is it in design and s'enrich-
ment."
Silk cashmere comes in many of the
pretty new shades. Stripes or spots in
chenille appear On almost all of the nov
city dress goods.
A bright ribbon, a guaze scarf, O,
trimming with lace, transforms last
years costume into a new n to all in.
tents and purposes.
Canvas goods are shown in variety of
designs amounting to a craze, and If the
people follow the bent of the manufac-
turer the streets must be we'll can.
vassed.
Black lace and jet will be used to
trim foulard or India silks in the new
shades OF bronze, yellow-grcen, poppy
red and electric blue. The sashes of
these costumes are usually of black and
MORE antique.
Crazy cloth appears this year in extra.
ordinary variety. 1t is easily put in or,
der when soiled, as it requires no iron.
ing, owing to its crape-like surface. I,
is to be had in every shade of plai,
color without figure, and also with
cream-white ground covered with deli
designs.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Tho Ideal Potato.

Ny ideal of a perfect potato, writes a
correspondent of the Rural New Yorker,
IS of medium size, with a clean,
white skin (although any kind of color
would not be Objectionable, provided it
possessed all the other qualifcations),
with very shallow or slightly raised eyes;
hcsh pure white, cooking dry and foury;
without any earthly or other decided
Aavor, unless it should be a peculiar
autty taste, occasionally found in some
sorts when grown under favorable con-
dltions. The plant should be stout, but
not rank, and the tops should not be too
spreading, while the yield of marketable
tubers should be large, with very few or
no small ones. 1t should be a good
keeper, retaining its early good quality
until late in the season. The tubers
should grow compactly in the hill, and
ee produced at a shallow depth, without
any tendency to grow out of the soil.
borrower, it should be adapted to a
wide range of country, retaining its size,
quality, productiveness, etc., nearly
everywhere, on an almost infinite variety
OF soils. Although we have hundreds of
Var1etics, we have as yet no single potato
with all the above qualifications. In
order to bring about this desired i'm
Provement there is evidently but one
way-to save the fruit of sorts most
nearly approaching the sideal' in cvery
particular (cross-brecding or hybrid1zing,
II possible, kinds which together possess
all tha is desired), and plant the seeds
from these fruits until the perfect ideal
potato is obtained.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Birds aud Pells.

Between forty and fifty years ago quill
pens were i'll general use in the schools.
and the pupils who could make or mend
a pen were considered quite accomplished.
The quilts most commonly used for pens
arc those of the goose. Swan ouills are
considered better, but they are cxpen-
slve. Other quilts, such as turkey, eagle.
and others, have also been used more or
less, while crow and raven auills have
been used for drawing purposes, and for
making fine lines. Only the five outer
wing feathers of the goose are used for
quilts, the second and third being the
best, white those of the left wing are pre-
ferred to those of the right wing, from
the fact of their curving outward from
the writer using them. Quilts plucked
from living birds in the spring are the
best, those from dead, and especially fat
tened birds, being useless. Quilts have
to be prepared for use by heating in a
and bath from 100 to 100 degrees F.),
and afterwards scraping away the outer
fatty membrane. Aiur cooling tho. quilts
are elastic, somewhat brittle, and are
then cut to suit.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Mind I'm armin

Inc idea has generally prevailed in the
past, and possibly more by farmers than
others, that for the business of farming
But little intellectual training was neces.
sary. A willingness to work on in the
Old routine, that has been transmitted
from the practices of the past, was all
that could be safely relied on for success.
This narrow view, born and kept alive
by ignorance only, is a mistaken fallacv
OF the past, fast dying out, rather than
the sentiment of intelligent, present
thought. The agriculture of TODAY is
not based on manual labor alone. The
education of the mental faculties, as we'll
Is the training of the hand to work skill
FULLY, Is recognized as an essential in fit
ting for the life work of the farm. Upon
these, intelligence and labor combined.
nest the hope of progress in agriculture.
And yet it may be questioned if farmers
fully appreciate the value to their chill.
dren OF a home training and education
m the work and in the business of the
Farm. Each year there go out from the
farms young men and women to assume
the work of managing farms for them
selves. Are these young men and women
as we'll educated and trained in the work
ana business affairs of the farm as thew
the sons and daughters of farmers, ought,
with their opportunities, to be2 We fear
ahere is yet too much of Indifference in
parents in teaching their children the
business of farming, not only as a trade.
0u1 as a profession. 1t ought to be kept
constantly IN view that the training and
education needed by the farmer can
largely be learned at home, and that the
practical knowledge thus gained will be
d inestimable value; so much CAPITAL
with which to begin the business of farm.
mg.-Maine Farmer.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25

nurse. She was his amanuensis, writin,
at his dictation; his private secretary,
consulting authorities and examining OBJ.
scure points, thus doing for him work
which he could not do.
1t was by her sympathetic and intelli.
gent help that the book was prepared
He could not work more than two bour.
a day, and often weeks passed when he
could not do the slightest mental labor.
In those days of enforced idlcncss, she
was busy getting ready matter for him to
work over when the propitious hours
should come.
Dir William Napier, the historian Of
the P%eninsular War, was effectively
helped by his wife in the preparation OF
MS great work. A great mass of docu.
ments, some of them in cipher, had to DO
translated and epitomizcd. Lady Maple,
did it all. The historians handy ritino
was almost illcgiblc-he himself could
hardly read it after it had been written
twcnty-four hours.
She took the rough, intcrlincd sheets
ana made n copy of them for the printer.
She did all, reading, dcciphcring, cpl
tomlsing, and copying, without for a day
ncglcctlng the care and education of a
large family.
When Wellington heard of her skill
IN deciphering the contents of KING
Joseph Bonapartc's portfolios, and the
correspondence captured at Vittoria, he
said:
II would have given twenty thousand
pounds to any person who could have
done this for me in the Pcninsula."-
Youths Companion.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Male Escorts Unnecessary.

Number of matrons of high social no.
sltlon in Washington have for some wears
been in the habit of going to the theatre
and elsewhere with young ladies unat-
tended ny gentlemen. Last spring one
party for the opera was composed entire
ly OF ladies, a married lady and several
young girls, and the opera occurring at a
theatre where a request is made regularly
on the programme that the audience
promenade between the acts, the young
girls in couples walked about during the
entr'actcs.
The wife of the late Senator Charles
Sumner, during the time she was married
to him, used to take one or more other
ladies with her to the theatre and have
no male escort at such times. TWENTY
years ago Mrs. John Sherman, wife of
Senator Sherman, expressed surprise
when a widow from Louisville, KY, told
her that she and her daughter had not at
tended a party to which Mrs. Sherman
had invited them because they had no
escort, and Mrs. Sherman said she never
thought of waiting for her husband to
escort her and her niece Gan elderly sister
of Mrs. Don Cameron, now the wife of
Gen Miles,. anywhere, because he was
generally too busy to do SO, so she and
Miss Sherman went everywhere alone to-
gcther.- Washington Letter.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Household Hints.

Seal the juice left from canning fruits
In small bottles and keep for making
fruit pudding sauce.
II gilt frames, when new, are covered
with a coat of white varnish, all spccks
can then be washed off with water with
out harm.
Strong brine may be used to advan-
tagc in washing bcdsteads. Hot alum
water is also good for this purpose.
If the wall about the stove has been
smoked by the stove, cover the black
patches with gum-shellac, and they will
not strike through either paint or kalso-
mine.
A %teaspoonful of borax put In the last
water in which clothes are rinsed will
whiten them wonderfully. Pound the
borax SO it will dissolve easily. This is
especially good to rcmove the yellow
that time gives to white garments that
have been laid away two or three years.
Fresh Herrings.-Wash and drain; put
IN a baking pan; add salt, pepper, two
or three chopped onions, parsley and
thyme; cover with equal parts of vine
gar and water, and bake one hour in a
slow oven.
Raised Doughnuts. I'm the morning
take N pint of warm milk, n cup of
sugar, one-half teacup of yeast, a little
salt, and set a sponge, making it rather
thick. At night add one cup of sugar,
one-half cup of lard, and two eggs,
knead up and let it stand till morning.
Then roll out thin, cut round, and let it
stand on the molding board till light.
Fried Potatoes them and boil
in sailed water; do not let them boil
until they are soft. Beat one egg, and
have ready some fine cracker crumbs; roll
the potato in the egg, and then the
cracker, and fry in butter until a light
brown, turning frequently that the color
may be uniform; or the potatoes may be
dropped into hot lard. In this case, a
cloth should be laid over a plate and the
potatoes should be drained for a moment
IN this before sending them to the table.
Tomato Catsup.-Skin the tomatoes
and cook them we'll. Press them through
a sieve, and to each five pints add three
pints of good cider vinegar. Boil slowly
along (about two hours) until it begins
to thlcken; then add n tablespoonful
OF ground cloves, n of allspice, one of
cinnamon, n of pepper and three
grated nutmegs. Boil till very thick,
between six and eight hours, and add
tablespoonfuls of fine salt. When
thoroughly cold bottle, cork and seal it.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Took His Degree.

"Are you a member of the Knights Of
LaborW
mo, but I had one last week"
"Had one7 What do you meanp
"Had a night Of labor. My baby had
the collie from nine o'clock until day
light. n-GrapAic.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Tho Caro- of Horses.

IA SoXo Oh ftOraO0s
A leading veterinary surgeon in con-
Versatlon with a reporter for the Mail
n Ezpress today, said: sWant of or
binary care often ruins some of the hest
horses. Even those people employed to
take charge of the animals often neglect
some OF the simplest things. Every horse
should be reshod at least once a month
After each days work the animals feet
Should be carefully examined, to ascer-
tain that the shoes are in good order and
graVel or stones removed. Twice each
week the feet should be carefully looked
at broken nails replaced, loose shoes
fastened and projecting clinches reduced.
once a week the feet should be stuffed
with haxsced meal or wet clay. Any un-
healthy condition OF the hoof ought to be
Immediately attended to-. Horses REQUIRE
careful grooming and should be rubbed
dry when used; not allowed to stand
without rubbing when heated. Occasional
sponging of the nostrils with a weak
mixture of vinegar and water is also
beneficial. The practice of using a hose
or stream of cold water on a horse when
heated is very injurious. Care should be
exercised to see that the feed is kent free
from dust, foreign substances and bad
odor. Small quantities fed frequently
are best for the animals. Bran mash
should be given once a week, never Of.
tener than twice, except when it is de-
slraple as a purge. Glauber Salts given
once a week will help to keep the horse
healthy. Watering a horse while warm
or Immediately after eating is bad; but
before eating it is not Objectionable, or
while at work. Stables should be kent
clean, well ventilated and free from
smells. The feed-boxes should be scrupu-
lousy clean, and washed once a week with
vinegar and water. Those animals af-
fected with CHAMBERS or discharge from
the nostrils should be isolated and kept
tied. Man and beast are both in Hanger
Of infection therefrom. In places and
vicinity where IN infected animal ia thus
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25

In Stuttgart Germany, tae tricycle. has
been adopted by the Government for the
postal service.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Seeds and Weeds,

ho" AohS u sccu VIII retain Its vitality
IS a question which can never be settled,
because people cannot live long enough
to decide it. The past season an old
fence row dividing a garden from a field,
which ncighbors say has not been dis
turDed for at least a century, was spaded
up, and produced a thick growth of
wild mustard. This is a common weed in
my neighborhood, and comes up when
ever any new land is cleared or old
meadow or garden is plowed or spaded
deeply, or wherever the earth is thrown
out from newly dug cellars. 1t is said
that the heaps of earth which have been
left around old European mines undis-
turbed since the ancient Romans left
them became covered with the common
weeds OF the country as soon rs they are
turned over. I have recently seen
newly cleared forest land springing ND
thickly with red top grass, and this is
the common natural heritage over extern
slve areas, and on the tops of the mount
aims in the Blue Ridge country from
West Virginia to Alabama. Every back
woods farmer knows how the common
tire weed springs up on newly cleared
and burned timber land. All these well
known facts tend to show that seeds Of
many varieties OF plants are practically
l~ndestructible by any natural causes in
the soil. Hence the greatest caution is
to be observed in keeping seeds of
weeds out of manure and from the soil.
There are few things which are impos-
slble when one determines to do them.
and the clearing of a farm or garden of
weeds is quite easily possible. The way
TO 90 this IS to never let a weed seed. In
time the stock will be exhausted. The
usual ''how-not-to-do-it" plan is to spend
a great deal of labor with the c%ultivator
ana the hoe in roofing out weeds while a
crop is young, and then when the very
worst time-the seeding time--arriras
the crop is ''laid by" as it is called. and
the weeds are left to ripen, and scatter
their seeds on the soil to make work for
another year. If a farmer is asked what
IS the greatest drawback to his success
will tell you it is the nuisance Of
weeds, but the Northern farmer has n
very 1alnt lde of them as compared with
the Southern farmers, and vet these
Southern farmers arc the most careless If
any IN his respect.-Nep York Times.
Daily Republican., 1886-05-27

Last night turee sailors came to the
Western Hotel. kept by Maeklem *
Wood, Fonrth 81 Orange streets. Ask
ing for a light lamp was given them,
and they went cut TO an outbuiiding
AS oneof the men passed out he grabbed
a hard towel and stuffed it under his
coat, but Mi. Wood, noticing the ac-
tion, called him back and made the
man disgcrge the towel. He said he
only intended TO hapG II outside the
door. Mr.. Macklem having retired
about II o'clock, but not yet having
gone aslaep, heard the men out in the
stables, ard heard thein say something
about getting into q carriage. Present.
| ly the mon came in and departed, and
although Mr.. Woods suspicious were
aroused, he could not zee that they has
| taken anything.
| THIS morning, however, a farmer wht
remained at the hotel all night missed
an oVerCoAt which, With two blankets
he had stuffed into a bag and had LET
all in the stable Office Suspicion a
once rested on the aailorH, and at 81
early hour this morning MIR. Macklen
endeav9red to pet search warrant, bu
not knowing the names of the partie
the warrant was not issued. Sergean
McVey and Patrolman Mcclure, how
, ever, readily volunteered their services
aud started for coat lying at the fec
OF Thorne street. They found one {
the men there, but he know nothing
the coat.
4 They then went to vessel lying
the foot of Orange street, where III,
found the other two men, and Gergesi
9 McVey being pointed out the man W
2 slipped the towel, rightly conclude
l. that he was the man who took the %
The Sergeant told him that as 10 won
= get his back lashed any how for s'ca
4. Ing towel, he might as well give /
10 the coat he had taken. The man I
N tempted to deny that be took the &C
+ but finding nc let up in the eyes OF T
o officers, he took the Sergeant to whe
=, the coat was hidden and gays it up.
Daily Republican., 1886-05-27
ParnalI,A alLast Link -

CINCINNATI, o., May 26-In the
Home Rule debate in the English House
OF Commons yeste rday Mr.. Trevelyan
quoted an alleged remark OF Mr.. Par
nell to the effect that he would not rest
until the last link that connected Ire.
land with England had been broken.
Mr.. Parnell demanded the date and
place of the speech, and Mr.. Trevelyan
replied Cincinnati
A reporter looking over the files of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette finds
tnat Mr.. Parnell delivered a speech in
Music Hall, Friday evening, February
~, 1850. The speech was reported by
III. W. Schrage, one of the most rapid
and accurate stenographers in the
U Aited States. The paragraph referred
to by Mr.. Trevelyan was in the follow.
ling words:
When he have undermined English
I Improvement we have paved the way
for Ireland to take her place among tbs
+ nations OF the earth. And let us no
4 forget that that Ia the ultimate goal a
which all we Irishmen aim. None o
US, whether We are In America or ii
Ireland or wherever we may be, will b
Satisfied until we have destroyed tn
!ast link which keeps Ireland bound +
England"
Daily Republican., 1886-05-27
EBIEIb

WALTEK.-In Philade1phia, On the 25th
inst, George 5. WaltUs, formerly OF this
city.
Tho remains may be viewed at the resi-
dence OF his sister, Mrs. Sarah Kitchen 6l9
West Fifth street, this city, from to 2
p. m. Friday, the 2Sth inst lntermont pri-
vate.
GARRETT-In this city, on the 18th Inst,
Ell Garrett, in tho Both year Of his age.
Relatives and friends are respectfully In.
vited to attend his funeral from his late
re 'idence, No. 1915 Delaware avenue, OIL
Seventh day afternoon, at O'Clock Inter
ment at Wilmington and Brandywine Gene
terry, |
DANBY.-In this city, on May rs, Byror
D4nby
Friends are respectfully Invited to attend
/, the funeral from his residence S35 WestFiff
street, on friday, May IS, at o'clock p M
| Interment private
| WARE at Port Norris, New Jersey, Ma!
20 1888, Rebecca W. Uakford, wife Q
| Edwin AI. Ware.
Daily Republican., 1886-05-27

In the L. s. Senate on Wednesday, the
lin for the taxation of railroad grant
lands was taken up and discussed, ut
was laid aside for the Chinese bill. Mr.
Sherman explained that this bill was sim
ply intended TO explain the meaning of
the existing law relating TO Chinese i'm
migration. After some debate the mea-
sure was postponed and the Senate ad-
journed. -.
In the House, the Dunn Free Ship bill
being the special order Tor the day, but
its friends being DESTROYS of making way
for the Oleomargarine bill, the order was
made continuous one, and the former
bill will be called up at the earliest OPP
portunity, A fnrther conference was or
dered on the Post-Otlice Appropriation
bill. The House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the oleomargarine
bill, and general debate was closed. On
motion Of Mr. Breckenridge, Of Ken
lucky, an amendment was adopted-65to
43-to the section defining "butter," so
as to exclude from thst definition that
produce OF milk or cream when additional
coloring matter is used. Mr.. Btumm, OF
Penna., led the debate into the tariff field
ard Messrs Morrison, Grosvenor,
Weaver and Hepburne participated. Mr..
Hammond offered an amendment making
1t unlawful Tor any merchant or shop
keeper in the District Of Columbia or the
Territories to sell oleomargGriHe without
labelling it in a conspicuous manner, and
requiring hotel restaurant and boarding.
house keepers who use oleOmargarine tc
place in their dining rooms plaeard
bearing the words, "this house USES
oleomargarine," and to have the SAINT
words printed on the bin of fare Agreed
TO, 81 to -. He also offered an amend
ment pr yiding penalty for the violation
OF this provis on. Lost 81 to 100. Mr.
Durham, Of Illinois, moved to reduc,
from 5000 To 800 the special tax on man
ufaClurers of oleOmargatinr. Mr.. Find
lay, Of Maryland, offered an amendmen
providing that no manufacturers of oleo
| margarine shall export the same to an,
port in Her Maiesty's Eas. Indian POS
sessions inhahited.by the Parsees or Fir
| WorshippeEs, or to any part OF the woTlt
where this sect may reside, and providin
further, that the provisions OF the bill
shall extend to the manufacture and sal
OF sausages as far as practicable, undo
such regulations as the Secretary of til
Interior may prescribe. Laughter,
Pending action the Committee rose, an
the House adjourned,