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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
Characteristic of Old Age.

The characteristic changes which 60
along with old age, and to which
the final stoppage of the ma
chinery of life is due, are seen
to be mostly degenerations of
structures in which the normal active
tissues are replaced by materials of infe-
rior quality. Fat and lime salts are
very poor substitutes for the healthy,
contractile musc'e, or the transparent
structures of the eye. 1t has been thought
by some that if we could prevent the
introduction of earthly salts into the
body by way >of food and drink, the
right arteries and degenerations.. gen
orally of age might be prevented. The
plan proposed for thus forestaling age is
as follows: Drink nothing but diluted
water, or a drink containing phosphoric
acid and the juice of lemons, Of
which distilled water is the basis. Eat
no vegetable containing much Of the
earthly salts. THIS would exclude
spinach, cabbage, etc. No tea nor cof-
fee. Take plenty OF milk. A much more
rational diet would be one containing but
little albuminous food, plenty of milk,
no eggs nor lean meat, but as much fats
as can be taken without discomfort. 1t
has been observed that calcareous de-
generation is almost always preceded by
chronic changes in the kidneys, and
these are certainly hastened by a diet of
lean meat, eggs and the like.-Glote-
Democrat
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
An Aer0naut's Awful DrOp.

'It is claimed by the balloonist,
Baldwin, that he has dropped 5000 feet
from balloon with parachute. shall
drop at least O,00O feet, and shall
attempt what no other balloonist ever
did. shall drop with the chute closed,
leaving it entirely to the air to open the
chute"
So said Edward D. Hogan to a group
of newspaper men, who had assembled
at Jackson, Mich, on large vacant lot
to see him make his foolhardy venture.
After he stepped in the car and gave
orders for the ropes holding the aerial car
to the ground be cast of, the balloon
shot up almost straight to distance of
fully 10, 900 feet. 1t then settled about
400 feet and hung like ball in the
heavens. The anxious and ex tied crowd
of people on the ground watched the
balloon with bated breath. The re-
porters were provided with powerful
glasses, and saw Hogan make ready to
jump.
"He'll weaken" said some one.
"No," cried another, che is getting
out"
The chute was closed. Hogan drew
it up till he reached the ropes to which
he iashed himself. He did not expect
the chute to open for the first 200 or
800 feet, and he was afraid he might be
shaken off the bar by the rapidity of
the fall unless he took the precaution to
fasten himself. When he stepped on the
edge of the car to spring of into space
some of the spectators grew pale and
sick. Surely this daring man was going
to certain death.
A shout of terror goes up. Hogan
has Jumped. Down like cannon ball
he fell for 200 feet. The chute has not
yet opened. Down it came like q
gigantic elongated bird. He was falling
like a meteor, and the spectators shut
their eyes while still keeping their
glasses elevated. Suddenly shout goes
up. The chute has caught the air. 1t
opens like the wings of monster eagle.
Hogan's flight downward was almost
stopped with jerk. Then the chute
settles down to steady journey earth
ward with its passenger, and in three
minutes from the time the reckless man
left the balloon he landed safely in an
open field some little distance from where
the ascent was made. - Globe Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
Women's Rights in the Orient.

Ladies in the district of the Celestial
Shun-te ought to be admired by the ad-
vocates of women's rights wherever they
are to be met with, if the manner, in
which they assert those rights, as related
by the Cliness Times, be not an exagger.
alton of the truth. It is stated by the
paper referred to that young ladies in
that part of China league themselves into
societies, each member of which takes o
solemn oath that she will not marry, or
that, if she marrieS, she will not live with
her husband until every member of the
society has entered into matrimony.
And, strange to say, according to the
Chinese Times, the VOW is kept, and
brides, after the wedding ceremony, in
variably return to their homes, declin-
ing to make their appearance among their
husbands families again, save on the
occasion of New Year, or some other
festival. Then they condescend to be-
stow little attention upon their hus-
bands; but they refuse to partake of
food or drink under his roof, and once
the festival is over they depart again with
the utmost expedition. Husbands, we
are told, are, in consequence of this ex-
traordinary oath taken by the leaguers,
frequently deprived for many years of
the society of their wives; but they sub
NIT meekly to the conditions imposed
npon them, it rarely happening that
force is employed to detaiu the ladies
when they deign to pay their partners a
flying visit. .-London Standard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
bare suspicion of steel or gilt passe-
menterie.

bare suspicion of steel or gilt passe-
menterie.
Picture dresses are the rage with fair
Parisiennes, and are copied to the
minutest detail from the first empire,
the directory or the reigns of the last
three Louises.
Corsages run more and more to ex-
tremes, are either short, round and very
fully draped, or else preternaturally
long, straight and slender, both in out
line and in ornament.
White blonde over a skirt of white
moire, with many loops and big cabbage
bows of moss green or bright yellow
faille ribbon, is bridesmaids gown that
has the merit of oddity.
Many imported gowns are wholly with
out steels, and have but the bare suspi-
cion of cushion at the top; but the
best native modistes use still q moderate
reed, put twelve to fifteen inches below
the belt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
Touching Plea for the Owl.

The owl is not handsome bird, nor
is it tuneful one. In the pools OF beauty
the owl would sell in the field, and no
buyer would invest nickel on him in a
one hundred dollar pool as against the
California. linnet or meadow lark as a
singer. While not q beauty, however,
the owl has a broad, benevolent, open
face-a sort of Henry Ward Beecher CT
Daniel Webster physiognomy, and we
would never accuse him OF putting up
an underground or star chamber job on
his fel!ow-birds on the eve of conven-
ton. The ground owl of California is
in no way related to the Eastern owl,
who makes night dismal with his
screeching, and besides is painfully.
ignorant Of the difference between meum
ct tuum, or, in other words, he is thief.
Honesty is plainly written on our owls
face. He is not, as rule, aggressive or
rombativc, never even resenting slur
as to his lack of beauty or vocal accom-
plishment. Mice and snakes are his
natural enemies, and the carcasses OF these
worse than nuisances around his modest
quarters bear testimony to the fact that
when he goes for the snake or the mouse
he is in the campaign for business pur-
poses A protest is mere entered against
the small boy who either with muzzle or
breech- loader wantonly turns loose and
slaughters the owl-as the young sports
man (Y) frequently does. The recent
rabbit drives have lessened the number
of jack rabbits hereabouts, but these
rodents of prey-score one, reader, tor
not inAicting "pests" on you-are still
painfully numerous, and the young
marksman might profitabIy employ a few
hours relaxation from attending school
or playing hooky, by practi:ing on the
worst of the farmers foes.-Fresno (Cat.)
Erp0sitor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
Transplanting q Rabbits Eye.

One of the most delicate and notable
surgical operations performed in the
world occurred in Philadelphia recently,
it being the transplanting of portion
of the eye of rabbit to human being.
The OBJ ;ect of the operation was to re-
lieSe the obscurity of the eye OF the pa
tient, which was caused by inf1amma-
ton, and which produced in time an
OPAQUE surface. The patient was SER
want girl, whose eyes had become almost
totally useless, so far as vision was con.
cerned, by reason of the whitish coating
which made both of the orbits opaque,
and she was 80 nearly blind that ob;e
of a considerable size were barely dis
tinguishable.
The operation took place at the Ger
mantown Hospital, under the imme-
diate direction OF DR.. l.. Webster Cox.
the ophthalmic surgeon of the institu-
ton, who witnessed one of the only two
other operations of this nature which
have been performed in the world-in
Germany last ycar-both performed by
Prof. Won Nipple, of Glassen, Germany;
The Professor had first devised and had
manufactured for the purpose very deli
cate instrument, which, by means of a
clockwork attachment, not only bores
into the cornea of the eye, but also reg
listers the exact depth of the puncture'
In this way very small portion or the
cornea is cut from one Of the eyes OF
rabbit, and piece corresponding IN size
is taken from the a flicted eye of the hu'
man patient, boti being taken from a
point directly in front Of the pupil. Both
the raj bit and the patient are first placed
under the influence of the local anTs-
thetic cocaine, and the rabbits eye was
selected by reason of its similarity to
the human eye, and because it is dis.
tinctly herbacious animal, the blood of
which is less liable to communicating in
fluences than that of other animals whose
food is composed principally of animal
matter. r.-NeW York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
Origin of the Strawberry.

Our common strawberry is one Of the
most widely ditfused plants, partly
owing to the small size of its seeds,
which birds, attracted by the feshy part
in which they are found, carry to great
distances. 1t grows wild in Europe
from Lapland and the Shetland Isles to
the mountain ranges of the South; in
Madeira, Spain, Sicily and Greece; IN
Asia from Armenia and the North of
Syria to Daburia. 1t is wild in the
United States, in Iceland, in Mexico
and around Quito, South America. Its
habitat extends around the North Pole
in temperate climes except in Eastern
Siberia. The Greeks and Romans did
not cultivate this berry, and no one did
until the fifteenth or the sixteenth century
in Europe. The variety known as Vir-
ginian strawberry is indigenous in Can
ada and the Eastern States of this
country, and is the source of some Of the
best cultivated varieties, in its crosses
with the Chilli berry. The Virginian
berry was introduced into the English
gardens in 1929. The Chilli strawberry
was brought into France in 1715, and
after cultivation in the Museum of Nat
ural History, it spread to England and
elsewhere. .-Go9d Housekespi''a.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
The Honey Bee in History.

It was estimated over 800 years ago
by DeMoptfort, who then wrote work
on bees in French, that between 500and
600 authors had preceded him on the
subject of bee-keeping. Most of these
books were written in Latin and are lost
to the world, very few having been
handed down to us. From remote an:
tiquity the practice has prevailed in
Egypt of collecting great numbers OF
hives in vessels on the Nile, and trans
porting them from pasture to pasture ac-
cording to the succession OF flowers IN
the different districts. A somewhat
similar practice prevails on the Rhone In
France, and the conveying of bees from
place to place has been usual in Greece,
Asia Minor and Persia from the earliest
date. = -
Strange to say, it is claimed that the,
honey-bee was not native of the western!
continent. We are told that without
doubt, there were no houey-bees here
until introduced by the Caucasian race.
This seems the, more strange, as it IS said
that all the continents and islands OF
the eastern hemisphere abound with
them. 1t is one more illustration of the
inextricable puzzles connected with the
geographical distribution OF animals.
Mt Hybla, in Sicily. on account OF it's
great variety of odoriferous flowers and
abundance of money, has been POLITICALLY,
called the empire of bees, and Hymettus
in Attica, is in the same way famous.
The German, black or brown bee, is the
variety best known, as through all the
ages it has been most widely distributed.
We find, however, that the Italians were
known both to Aristotle and Virgil, who
sang of the variegated, golden bee.-
Farm, Field and stochman.
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was applying his miraculous lotion to
her rheumatic leg. When she was dis
closed with flourish to the gaze of the
crowd again she stood upright, walked
about on her supposedly cured limbs, and
vehemently declared that miracle had
been wrought. The sale of the bottled
liquid was brisk for a while after that.
I should not have suspected the woman
of malingering, for she did it cleverly,
only that I had seen her 60 through
with precisely the same performance the
week before, and less than ten miles
away. I learned that she was some
what broken down but still clever i'm.
pelsonator of old women. and the man
ager of the medical show is her brother.
-NeD York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
Fashion Notes.
Bonnets are small and hats big.

Bonnets are small and hats big.
The Directory gown grows apace.
Crepe is in high favor for headgear.
Ribbons are worn in profusion and of
all kinds.
Flowing lines and long soft curves
have the call.
"Pomegranite heart" is the newest
color introduced by Worth.
Coarse striped bonnets, draped with
colored lisse, are new fancy.
Toe caps of French patent leather are
seen on many of the new shoes.
Milan straw and French chip are again
fashionable in hats andbonnets.
MANY of the new dress trimmings are
in the form Of gal!oons, having straight
edges.
Pale. pink and gray is likely to be a
fayorite color combination in cotton
dresses.
Black lace jerseys, beaded with jet,
gold or steel, are in high favor for even
ing wear.
Jerseys of shot silk are shown, but
they are not nearly as pretty as the
palmer ones.
Over CATERS are in fashion again ;
these usually are of cloth of color to
match the costume.
Crushed roses, around or under the
crown, are the favorite garniture for
summer white hats.
White laccs in Chantilly patterns are
extensively used, and are as pretty and
durable as the black.
Miniature high combs of Jet are shown
in sets, one for the centre and one for
each side of the coiffure.
Pretty pinafores for littleIchildren are
made of white striped nainsook, with a
low bodice and fnll skirt.
Satin ribbon, an eighth of an inch in
width, is often threaded upon the en-
broidery used upon infants cloaks.
Soft silk, China silk and fancy COM
bines are worn by lad es who prefer
color to white in their und"rclothing.
Shot silks are much used for the petit
coat worn next the dress, or admissible
even without dress, and worn with a
matinee.
The newest laces are neither cream nor
ecru, but might be called tea.tinted,
suggesting the pale, delicate hue of the
tea rose.
The "common sense shoe" has now a
large patronage in spite of the fact that
it is not comely, but then it Is so very
comfortable.
Wash dresses for little girls are some
times made with full skirts and belted
waists, with eight or ten feather-stitched
tucks down the front aud back.
Sprays and clusters of faded roses,
windtorn till sometimes but three petals
cling to the stems, are the latest
ssrealistic" effect in bonnet flowers.
Dinner gowns for summer are made
short, and for white ones brocade lace
over moire, with gold passementerie and
standing collar Of gold braid, is voted
saylish.
The new straw embroidery is the most
stylish garniture for white canvas and
crepeline corsages, though they may have
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS
Satisfied,

SATISFIED.
As flowers lean outward to the light,
l lean to thee;
The one who makes the darkness bright;
The North Star in moonless night
Thou art to me.
As children trust and know no fear,
trust in thee;
Heaven, in thy presence, seemeth here:
Where thou art, whether far or near,
IT'S sweet to be.
As travellers long, when worn and tired,
Their home to see,
So my heart, wandering far and wide,
Finding its goal, Is satisfied
To rest in thee.
Sarah K. Bolton.
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PLANT A TREE!
He who plants a t lee,

He who plants tee,
Plants a hope
Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope;
Leaves unfold into horizons free.
So mans life must climb
From the clods Of time
Unto heavens sublime.
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree,
What the glory of thy boughs shall bel
He who plants tree,
Plants Joy;
Plants comfort that will never cloy;
Every day fresh reality,
Beautiful and strong,
To whose shelter throng
Creatures blithe with song.
II thou couldst but know, thou happy tree,
OF the bliss that shall inhabit thee!
He who plants tree
He plants peace.
Under its green curtain jargons cease.
Leaf and zephyr murmur soothingly;
Shadows soft with sleep
Down tired eyelids creep,
Balm Of slumber deep.
Never hast thou dreamed, thou blessed tree,
OF the benediction thou shalt be.
He who plants tree
He plants youth;
Vigor won for centuries, in sooth;
Life Of time, that hints eternity!
Boughs their strength uprear,
New shoots, every year,
On old growths appear.
Thou shalt teach the ages, sturdy tree,
Youth of soul is immortality.
He who plants tree
He plants love;
Tents Of GOODNESS spreading out above
Wayfarers, he may not live to see.
Gifts that grow, are best;
Hands that bless, are blest;
Plant! Life does the rest!
Heaven and earth help him who plants tree,
And his work its own reward shall be-
Lucy Larcom, in Youths Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
A Convenience to Housekeepers.

A Convenience to Housekeepers.
The New Century Guild of Working
women in Philadelphia has made ar
rangements to send out by the day or
half day expert persons to sweep, dust,
do chamber work, clean silver, wash
windows and all the many things neces-
sary to keep a house in order. 1t is
thought that better class of help can
be thus obtained from young women
who do not object to the work, but to
the living out. There are a great
many of the new flat buildings
which have restaurants, and the
families occupying thee flats dispense
for the most part with cooks and have
their meals furn shed. The Guild fur
nishes them waitress by the day and a
girl to come in for two hours every
morning to sweep and dust, and by this
arrangement they not only live far more
chearly, but dispense with the discom-
fort of having 10 furnish sleeping apart
ments for servants in the narrow limits
of their flats.-Neao York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
American Girls Have Small Feet.

The feet of American women are small
compared with those of English women,
as everybody knows. Means are offered
of making notes of this fact in travelling
in England. At Abottsford not long
ago party of tourists, chiefly women,
were seated in the waiting room till the
guide should appear to take them on a
tour of inspection. An American, who
had a place outside the partial circle
made by the visitors, happened to have
his eye attracted toward the fifteen or
twenty pairs of feet before him. With
out looking up he glanced from one pair
to another After the examination he
decided that all but two were English.
When he turned his eyes upward to the
faces he found that the owner of one of
the pair of feet he had picked out as
American was his own sister. The other,
who soon after expressed her contempt
for some article under inspection, could
not be mistaken in either accent or tone
of voice for anything than a ''down
East" country woman of the most pro-
nounced type.-NeaO York Pres.
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It is estimated that there are ~, 0OO,i
OOo Protestants and 1000, 900 Roman
Catholics in the United States.
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It is the struggle and not the attain.
ment that measures characters.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-03
WACO.
Why Sherif Ford Failed to Get His Man.
Taken to Texarkana.

Why Sherfn Ford Failed to Get His Man
Taken to Texarkana.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO. TEX, Jan. 2.-Deputy Sheriff
Dan Ford has returned from Tennessee
whittier he had gone after Charley Cor
rick for the murder of J. M. Turner In
East Waco in 1875. Governor Taylor re.
fused to give up Corrlck and assigned the
following reasons: /. That Corrick was
young man when the crime was COM
mitted and the killing was done while
under the influence OF liquor and in 6
heated quarrel with Turner. 2. That
committed, Corrick had been q useful
and law-abiding citizen. 3. That he
was now married man with vile and
little children dependent upon him for q
support. 4. That 1t was against public
policy to give Corrick up. Mr.. Ford feels
very much chsgrined and dissp-
pointed IN not getting his msn, besides
the actual expenses of the trip that he
will have &c lose. He says that Corrick
was in Nashville all the time he was
there, and never made any attempt to
elude him.
Charles MOBILES, q United States prls-
oner incarcerated in the Waco jail, be-
came so low with pneumonia that the au-
thorities have been compelled to remove
him to more comfortable quarters.
The County court convened this morn.
ing and adjourned for the legal holiday
The banks and good number of the
stores have closed to-day.
The Isaac Lewis stock OF dry goods
valued ct $4,000, will be sold at sheriff.
sale next Monday, unless restrained bJ
some Of the creditors, which Is though
will be the case.
W. j. Brock, who was arrested in Cory
ell county by United States Marsha
Waller. charged with being the leader II
the Arkansas train robbery Of Decembe,
8, WAS taken 10 Texarksna yesterday.
Deputy Sheriff MCGEE returned to-day
from Greenville with young Simmons
charged with perjury in the sensationa
divorce suit Of Nettie Hougt
Simmons vs.. Newton G. Sim
mons, his father. His testimony st ths
time, in reference to the criminal conduc
of his step-mother, Mrs. Simmons, Gre
sted s great deal OF indignation TOWARD
him, SO much so that he fed from here a.
soon IS he gave his testimony.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-03
BUTCHERED By BANDITS.
The Mexioans Shot and Killed In q Lonely
Place.

Place.
NoGALEs, A. T., Jan. 2.-The following
account is given OF the killing few days
ago Of Santiago Rojss and his son Frsn-
cisco end grandson Manuel near Rancho
Densrsjos, on the road to Vantanos, ct
which place Leon Baldwin was killed.
While driving the hack mules together
early IN the morning Manuel Roj SO dis
covered q man on horseback in an unfre-
quented locality. He assured his COM
psnion snd the three started to
oversake the rider. While follow
ing up the trail they ran into
the camp OF party of fourteen bancits
belonging to Bernsl's band and were fred
upon. Santiago Rojss' head WAS blown
literally into pieces. Frsncisco's body
was found full of bullet holes. IN the
body OF Manuel which had g number OF
wounds six bullet holes were found. The
bandits 1ifed the pockets snd from Fran
cisco took $500 which he was taking to
Vantsnos. The hacks were left intact.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-03
TeXhfkSnS,
Special to the Gazette.

SpeclaI 70 the GhZette.
TExARKANA, Tex, Jan. "A young
man named Frank Tolan was arrested to-
day for obtaining goods from several
merchants on the Arkansas side of the
city on forged orders. Among the goods
bought YVES tine overcoat. The trial OF
the accused was set for tomorrow in
Justice Hays court and he is IN Jail TO
awsit examination.
Major Norwood of JEFF erson is here
making arrangements to establish a new
bank, which will be known as the Inter
State Bank and will commence operations
about the 10th inst. Major Norwood snd
Colonel E. W. Taylor of Jefferson own
most of the stock.