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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
A Urummer,s Close Call.

"a close call2 Yes, I had one once, "
and the drummer sighed as though the
recollection gave him pain. II was
standing in the Baltimore and Ohio
depot at Washington on the day that
Garfield was shot by Guiteau. l don't
know what resemblance there was be,
tween myself aud Garfield, but I heard
man say, as he passed near me as
stood at the door of the waiting room,
4 will kill you in about an hour This
startled me, of course, and would have
asked for police protection had not the
man walked hurriedly away. 1 went to
my hotel and in just about an hour
heard the news that Garfield had been
shot. I suppose would have been mis-,
taken for the PRESIDENT if had been at
the depot, and l consider this the closest
call ever had" The drummer walked
away, and the reporter is still figuring on
the possibilities that surrounded the
truthful commercial tourist on that
eventful day.-Atlanta Constitution.
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Casting A Cruisers Ram.

Describing the process of casting the
ram for the new United States cruiser
San Francisco, the San Francisco
Chronicle says: At one o'clock Foreman
J. w. Calvin, of the Pacific Rolling
Mills, accompanied by E. Francis, fore
man of the molders, assembled the stag
ing on the south side of the monster
furnace, where twenty-si1 thousand
pounds of boiling, bubbling steel were
imprisoned. A tlve-ton kettle had, in
the meantime, been switched off on a
side track, where it was heated to red
hot degree. On the command OF the
foreman, Calvin, it was lifted from its
position on the side switch, and placed
upon q miniature railroad track leading
from the mouth of the caldron where
the melted steel was confined. Having
been placed directly underneath the
spout, four sturdy workmen, by aid OF
ram, drove the clay bulkhead from the
mouth of the chute, and instantly after
so doing q stream of white metal steel
was seen to flow along the chute and in.
to the kettle, sending up a shower OF
fiery sparks in all directions magnlti-
Gently grand to behold. This imposing
scene lasted just for two minutes and
fifty seconds. when one of the workmen
with rammer knocked section out of
the chute and permitted the flowing
steel to run through the space beneath.
The kettle was instantly ran along the
short railroad track distance of twenty
five feet, when it was stopped directly
over a square-shaped receptacle. A
few sharp jerks of lever, by one OF the
assistants, opened an aperture through
which the melted steel ran into the re-
ceptacle already mentioned. At the
same instant a flash, with report as If
q conclusion had occurred, was seen to
shoot up from an ad accent tube like
opening. This was eau ed by an eX-
plcsion of the hot and cold air coming
in contact in the space prepared under
meath for the melted steel, which has by
this time formed the PROV of the cruiser
San Francisco. In just thirty seconds
the twenty-six thousand pounds of steel
had left the kettle through a six-lnch
nozzle and run into the mold.
The casting was witnessed by Lleuten-
ants F. p. Gilmore and Il. H. Gclt, of
the United States Navy, who have
charge of certain sections of the work on
the new craft on behalf of the Govern
ment. The PROV of the cruiser San
Francisco will be raised from its mold
and taken to the trimming shop, where
the super6uous matter will be Clipped
off, and the cut-water put in proper
condition to be placed in position on the
vessel
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Americas Sweet Corn.

Maize, lea maize, of which this is a
variety, might we'll be adopted for one
of our national emblems. 1t is closely
connected with the history of the alb
origines, and has proved a priceless
legacy to the white man, since many q
fortune has been found in a cornheld.
All maize contains large per cent. OF
sngar, for it is cousin of the sugar cane.
Sweet corn has been developed from the
ordinary varieties by long and careful Sc
lection. The kernels are white and much
sweeter than those of yellow corn, and
become wrinkled when dry.
AS its harvest season comes while the
ear is green instead of rip, sweet corn is
suited to a season cut short by early
frosts.
Corn packing is an industry which
has grown rapidly during the last ten
years. 1t is said to have originated at
Portland, Maine, through the expert
ments of Isaac and Nathan Winslow, the
Canada yellow corn being used at first.
To-day the 'sweet corn be!t' of Maine,
which produces sweet crisp crop, in
cludes about 20, 900 acres of land, and
20, 900, 900 cans are put up annually.
In 1887 Portland firms alone packed
IA, 900, 900 cans %, 900 cans of succotash
were also put up by single company.
The variety of corn most extensively
raised for packing is the early Crosby.
When corn canning began almost every
operation was done by hand, and bleed
ing fingers, etc.. made corn factory an
undesirable place to visit if one ever
hoped to relish canned corn again.
But American ingenuity has changed
all this, and now, by the help of ma
chinery, a bushel of corn can be husked,
silked, cut and put in the cans ready to
seal in three minutes-less time than it
could be husked and silked by hand.
Portland, Me-, is also headquarters for all
sorts of corn neutrality-suspicious. Globe.
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A New Comet.

Mr.. W. r. Brooke, of Geneva, has an
nounced the discovery of comet. 1t
was in the northwest at evening, and
only about thirty degrees from the sun,
so that it does not remain long above the
horizon after sunset. For this reason
very few observations have been secured.
At the Dudley Observatory the new
comet has been observed on three nights.
The comet is quite faint. Professor Boss
calculated an orbit for the stranger and
the result was telegraphed by code mes.
sage to the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, in Cleve-
land, and to the Earl of Crawford and to
the Astronomical Intelligence Bureau in
Berlin, Germany. The new comet will
not be an interesting object in the popu-
lar sense. 1t is slowly approaching the
earth, but receding from the sun. 1t is
now in the lower part of the constellation
Great Bear, and is moving toward Leo.
It is at present 142, 900, 900 miles from
the earth. The path of this comet is not
similar to that of any recorded comet.
In all probability it will not again return
to the earth in thousands of years, if at
alL-Mv York Sun.
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Dull, heavy headache, obstruction Of the
nasal passages, discharges falling from the
head into the throat, sometimes profuse, wa
terry, and acrid at others, thick, tenacious,
mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid; the eyes
are weak, watery, and infamed; there is ring
ing in the ears, deafness, hacking or coughing
to clear the throat. expectoration Of offensive ~
matter, together with sscabs from ulcers; the
voice is changed and has q nasal twang: the
breath is offensive; smell and taste are i'm
paired; there is a sensation of dizziness; with
mental depression, hacking cough and gen.
eral debility. If you have all, or any consider
able number of these symptoms, you are suf-
fering from Nasal Catarrh. The more compli-
Gated your disease has become, the greater the
number and diversity of symptoms. Thousands
Of cases annually without nanfesting haf OF
and end in the grave No disease is so COM
mon more deceptive and dangerous, or less IS,
physicians. Five hundred dollars reward is
offered by the manufacturers Of DR.. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy, for case Of catarrh which they
cannot cure. Remedy sold by druggists, at
only so cents
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A WOndrOus Wedding Gift.

One very curious wedding present in
the South Kensington Museum, in Lon.
don, should not be overlooked by visit
ors to that institution. 1t consists of
set of most wondrously constructed
models of Chinese houses, temples and
gardens, mainly composed of precious
stones. These models were sent by the
Emperor of China as gift to Josephine
upon the occasion of her marriage with
the Emperor Napoleon, and they have a
curious history attached to them, for on
their way from China they were captured
by the English, and for many years were
preserved in the East India Museum.
Upon the conclusion of peace, the Eng
lish offered to restore these valuable
gifts, but they were then declined, and
have therefore become the property of
the English nation, and now form q
great attraction to the Chinese Depart
ment of the South Kensington Museum.
-C5mmerciaI Advertiser.
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Care of Cows and Calves.

There is nothing more important in
the way of perfecting the dairy herd
than that of getting the cows into good
habits. Just as good habits are the
governing principle of the growing
child, so it is with the coming cow. She
is the pure creature of habit, and this
trait should be cultivated and trained.
The character of the cow seems to par
take strongly of her surroundings, and
this is governed by tie nature of the
man who directs the farm. If he is
careless and ignorant, the COW is certain
to equally careless and ignorant, and if
be is pushing, energetic and 60 ahead in
his style of business the cow will respond
TO these sentiments. By simply looking
at the farm you can usually tell the style
of animal you will find on the farm.
From this we learn that the mans
mind is the starting point from which
all good or evil flows throughout the
whole working of the farm and the
animals on it. Just as he wills it, so it
Will be, and there is no escaping this
conclusion no!matter how much he may
lay the responsibility to luck, the weather
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The Coffee Harvest.

Both banks of the Amazon River are
fringed with sugar and coffee plantations
of vast extent. The coffee trees are
naturally about twenty-five feet in
height, but in order to improve the
quality of their fruit are kept pruned to
about six feet. The Nbush bears a snow
white blossom of exquisite fragrance,
which after dropping is succeeded BY a
small green button. This develops into
a pink berry, which when ripe announces
it by becoming a deep purple. It is
then plucked, and after passing through
the processes of drying, husklng. win
moving, summing and sorting becomes
the coffee of commerce.-Saa Francisco
Chronicle.
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or the moon. Lay the blame for what
goes wrong to your own head, and nine
times out of ten you will have reached
the origin of all your troubles. Teach
your cows that they have certain duties
to perform at certain hours OF the day,
and it is wonderful how promptly they
will respond to your reasonable require
ments. But this must be done with re-
ligious regularity, not only in matters
of importance, but particularly IN those
points of apparent small necessity:
Cows should not only be fed and MIXED
at regular hours, but they should be
made to always occupy the same stalls,
and be MIXED in the same order. These
little things 90 a great way in fixing
her character, and often settle the point
of profit or loss in the years work.
Teaching calves to drink is an art that
some men have great trouble in learn
ING. At the same time it is easy enough
if you only 90 about it in the right way.
There is great difference IN the capacc-
ity of calves Tor learning to take their
food in this way, just as 1T is with chill
dren, but little patience and persls-
tence will cure the most obstinate cases.
In the first place the calf must be made
actually hungry, so as to sharpen Its wits
and make it know just what 1t wants
Now back it into corner and mold it
firm with one arm around the neck.
Push its head into the pail Of warm milk
and put finger in its mouth. Some
say the finger should enter over the un-
der lip. If the calf has not been unduly
excited it will begin to suck the finger,
which should be gradually withdrawn,
but held ready to enter the mouth again
when the calf stops drinking.
Two or three lessons will cure the most
stupid calf, and right here let US give
warning that calves must not be fed
slim-milk when too young, or cold
milk at any time, if you do not want to
kill them. Even though they survive
for few weeks, you are laying the
foundation for future disease if you do
not respect this warning. The young
stomach cannot handle cod milk, while
skim-miik does not contain sufficient
fat and especially heating quality enough
to meet the absolute requirements OF
the young animal. If you have taken
the natural oil out of the milk you must
then replace it with an artificial substi-
tute in the shape of cotton seed or lin
seed oil, in proper proportions, accord
ing to the age and size of the ca!f. The
farmer who is not willing to take this
trouble with the calves had far better
leave them to suck the dams at loss OF
milk, for otherwise he will lose the
calves Dairymln.
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N.aman,a NIadelfY.

Many women are prevented by Feelings q
delicacy from consulting physician In tnoees
Of her peculiarly delicate organism, and TIE
most serious results are often caused by tnn
neglect. To such persons Dr. Pierce's Fayor1n
sure and safe cure for all those distressing dis
orders to which women are peculiarly sub5ect
while it saves modest girl or woman from tnS
embarrassment of a personal consultation Wlt0
only medicine for woman's peculiar weak
nesses and ailments. sold by druggists, undera
positive guarantee from the manufacturer.
that it viii give satisfaction In every case, or
money will be refunded. See guarantee on
bottle wrapper.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

ONeIlSculuS 10 luJoAiooo'
Let COWS and calves have access to
plenty of pure water and salt.
Use only perfectly seasoned grape
baskets; g5een baskets cause mold
Every sheep raiser makes his own luck,
according to the care and attention he
gives his flock.
Clean up the farm. Neglected fence
corners and rubbish piles harbor insect
pests, especially chinch bugs.
Club root in cabbages is prevented by
making the seed bed on new ground OF
ground not used for cabbage for severa?
years.
It is said that land infested with cut
worms may be relieved of these pests
~ ploughihg under a crop OF buck
wheat.
The peach borer has been vanquished
in the peach belt of Michigan by dig
ging out the borer in late September and
early May.
Prominent fruit growers find that
thinned peaches are Of superior size
and excellence and sell much better than
the unthinned ones.
Never wat for rain when you have a
crop under cultivation; keep right on
cultivating and you will be surprised to
find how your crop will Withstand the
drouth.
The elements of the fundamental
principles of farming are: Soil, heat,
moisture, muscle and brain power. The
commingling of these five elements pro-
duce the key to successful farming.
The great preponderence of testimony
shows that soft food is better for cattle
than is dry feed, and that in the dairy it
is no trouble, with plenty of ensilage, tc
keep up summer flow of milk all the
year.
Shade is necessary for the currant. A
good crop cannot be successfully grown
on au open space, unless the ground is
deeply worked and then mulched. The
gooseberry seems to do best in partial
shade.
Quicklime is as indispensable in 8
dairy as ice. 1t is exceedingly absorb
tive of moisture, taking up one-third OF
its weight aud falling slowly to a fine,
dry powder, without any appearance Of
moisture.
Cultivate to keep the weeds from using
the plant food needed for the crop Of
grain; cultivate that the air may pene.
trate the soil, thereby carrying the gasee
among the roots and developing more
plant food.
The New York Experiment Station
discovered, few years ago, that seed.
corn nearest the tip produced the strong
est and best plants that from the butt,
next best, and that from the middle of
the ear the poorest.
Ensilage, and especially good corn en-
silage, when compared with dry corn
fodder, or with other feeding stuffs,
produces results so satisfactory as to
surprise the chemist, and which chem
istry cannot explain.
The warmer the milk when set, the
more complete will be the separation of
the cream from the milk at any given
lower temperature; and the more rapidly
the temperature falls, the more rapid
will be the separation of the cream from
the milk.
! If one has bearing apple orchard now
is the time to turn the old SOW and pigs
in to pick up the windtalls. They de-.
stroy thousands of worms that would
otherwise 60 into the ground to again
come forth in different form to propa.
gate the species.
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The making of grass ensilage is all the
rage in England.
A Family Gathering.

Have you a father? Have you mother?
Have you son or daughter, sister or brother
who has not yet taken Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, the guaranteed remedy for
the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Group and
all Throat and Lung troubles? If SO, why?
when a sample bottle is gladly given to you
free by any druggist and the large size costs
only 50c and 81
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Painting the Trunks of Trees.

Rural Neu Yorker tells of farmer who
for nearly twenty years has painted the
trunks of his apple trees to protect them
against the borer with lead and oil paint.
The paint is applied from little below
the soil to a foot above. He finds this
entirely effective, while the body Of the
tree is not in the least injured. He has
tried other preventives, such as tar
paper, removing and crushing them with
q wire, lime-wash, etc., but prefers the
paint simply because it is entirely elec-
tive and easily applied. The trees are
painted as rule every year in early
May.
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TIE CHARLES A. VoGELER CO.. Baltimore. Ei.

country's early social lie.
The pion GERS were strong, rugged,
healthy. Warmers Log Cabin Cough
and Consumption Remedy is reproduc-
ton of one of the best of the old time
roots and herbs remedies, which kept
them we'll. Everybody praises 'Tippe
canoe" as stomach tonic.
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How to Overcome the Dangers Of Ex.
posure.

posure.
Francis O'Reilly, the well known livery man
of No. IS Prince street. New York, says OF ALL
COCKS Porous PLAsTERs:
For the last forty two years have been en-.
gagged in the livery and hacking business.
am greatly aided by my four boys. We are
much exposed to the weather, and we have
found ALLcocK's PLAsTERs Of very great SER
vice. We use them as chest protectors, placing
one on the chest and one on the pit Of the stom-
ach They not only ward off the cold, but act
as tonic.
We are frequently affected with rheuma-
tism, kinks in the back, and pains in the side;
but one or two of ALLcocK's PLAsTERs quickly
cure US. My wife and daughter have been
using ALLcocK's pLAsTERs for weak back and
think the world of them. I have now been
using them for twenty years, and always have
q box Id the house."
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The cremationists of London are
about to erect chapel at an expense OF
$25, 900, in connection with their crema.
torium at Woking.
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To Make Hens Lay.

Put two or more quarts of water in a
kettle, and one large seed pepper or two
small ones, then put the kettle over the
fire. When the wa:er bo;ls stir in the
coarse Indian meal until you have a
thick mush. Let it cpok an hour or so !;
feed hot. Horseradish IS chopped fine
and stirred into musb, as prepared in
the above directions, and for results we
are getting from five to ten eggs per
day; whereas, previous to feeding, We
had not had eggs for a long time. We
hear good deal of complaint from other
people about not getting eggs. To such
we would Warmly recommend cooked
feed fed hot. Boiled apple skins sea-
soned with red pepper, or boiled pota-
toes seasoned with horseradish are good
for feed; much better than uncooked
food. Corn, when fed to the hen by
Itself, has a tendency to fatten rather
than produce the more profitable egg
laying. A spoonful of sulphur stirred
with their teed occasionally will rid
them of vermin and tone up their sys-
tem,-Ptcdyuae.
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Roup in Fowls.

Under the gulse of roup are various
forms of disease arising from the same
cause. The symptoms are generally;
they lose ambition. and in the last stages
throw their heads forward and make a
shrill cough. Treatment: Remove the
fowl from connection with other fowls
as it is very contagious. Wet the top of
the head with spirits of camphor and put
little under the wing and between the
legs; do not put too much in the latter
places, as it may blister. Soak two or
three small crackers in hot water or milk
and add cayenne red pepper the size
of very small pea and about one-half
teaspoonful brandy. If the fowl does
not eat the preparation force it down;
keep all other feed from the fowl aud
give this mixture two or three times
day until better, and feed very lightly
for few dsys.-Country Gentleman.
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It is stated that over 500, 900 rose
plants are annually imported into
America, from England, France and
Holland,
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Washing Dairy Utensils.

Some wash pans, pals and watts care
fully with cold water, in which is 10
little salt or soda; then rinse, and
then thoroughly scald with hot
water. Others pour on boiling water
first; sometimes rinse with cold water,
more often with hot. Then there are
Others who are not very particular about
any method. The first plan is far
superior. The idea is to get all the milk
Oh, and out of the pals, etc., before
scaldIng. Boiling water seems to cook
milk, cream and buttermilk onto and
into the utensils. and there, like any
other milk substance, there is a change
soon that imparts its bad influence to the
succeeding messes of milk. As between
all hot and all cold water to wash dairy
fixtures, take the latter with little salt,
and far better results would follow. The
wooden churn had better stand with good
BRINE in it than be washed as many peo-
pie do by "boiling' all the butter adher-
Ing to the inside of churn into the wood,
instead of first securing it off with a
little water and salt, and then proceed
ing to wash. Stone churns, unless hav-
ing perfect glazing, soon get the stone
walls filled with oil through the pores of
the imperfect glazing, and if cream
stands in this churn any length of time
it absorbs some of this old cream, and
the butter, however we'll made, will
soon deteriorate in quality.-Ts Sto:k-
man.
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Private Banks in Berlin have bought Rus.
sian funds to the amount Of 100000 roubles.
Jack and Jill each took pill,
Old-fashioned kind-full grown;
Iack,s went daMn-hnt with q frOM


Jill died from cause unknown"
Smiles will supersede many frowns, and
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets entirely
supersede, as they bid fair to do, the large and
less efficient pill of our forefathers. Every DAY
they gain new laurelsl Most popular when
most ills aboundi
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Symptoms of Catarrh.

It is estimated that over four million dollars
worth of furs were shipped from Alaska during
the mast year.
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II AFFLICTED with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle