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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
Where the Moccasins Come From.

"Moccasins, the genuine article made
by Indians, are not found in Eastern
trade to any extent" said travelling
salesman for a New York firm to Syn
reporter. "They can only be found in
the West; but even there the supply is
limited and quickly exhausted"
"Don't the red men make moccaslns
for sale to customers direct?"
"No, not as general thing. The
indians have a peculiar process of tan
ming the leather, which makes it very
pliabe and soft. 1t is quite different
from the stock found in factories, and is
mach tougher and finer in quality"
"What do the Indians get for their
moccasins2"
"They have no regular prices. They
often exchange them for food or
clothing"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
The Rainbow rs a Weather Prophet.

As weather prophet the ralnDoW's
fame is widespread. Abundance of proof
of this is given by its name. 1t is the
rainbow in English, Italian, German,
Picardy, Gaelic, Breton and in the Toda
dialect of India. Germans also cal it
"weather sign," and it is also "water-
bow" in Gaelic and Finnish, and s'cloud-
bow" in Arabian. 1t is believed in Nor.
mandy that rain will come in nine days
after the appearance of rainbow. The
weather proverbs concerning the rain
bow are more or less widely known.
Many are simple variations of the fol-
lowing:
Rainbow at night, shepherds delight;
Rainbow at morning, shepnerds nave "arn-
ing.
Or, as the old English work has it:
The rainbow in the mornin'
Gies the shepherd warnin'
To gar his girt cwat on his back;
The rainbow at night
Is the shepherds delight,
For then no girt cwat does he lack.
The nautical version is also well
known:
Rainbow at night, sailors delight;
Rainbow in the morning, sailors take warn.
ing.
The French form of the proverb has it:
Rainbow in the morning,
Little man take thy way;
Rainbow at eve,
Little man, do not leave.
In a curio collection of weather
signs collected by the signal bureau
there is much recorded concerning the
rainbow as a meteorological indicator in
this country. 1t is widely belle, ed that
it is sign that the rain will come:
If there is rainbow at eve,
It will rain and leave.
A morning rainbow is usually indica'
tive of more rain, or of short, heavy rains;
night bow, of coming fair weather.
Two or three bows are thought to fore
shadow pleasant weather presently, but
settled bad weather in few days. If the
bow break up all once it is a sign that
severe weather will follow, and that rain
will follow after a drought or fair
weather after wet. When the green color
is prominent rain and cool weather will
follow, but wind and rain will occur
after a rainbow in which prcdominates.
A rainbow in the air signifies the next
day will be clear:
rainbow at morn, put your hook in the corn,
A rainbow at eve, put pour head in the sheave.
When seen in the distance, the rain
bow means fair weather; when near at
hand in The mountains, bad weather for
crops. When it does not touch water
clear weather will follow. A morning
bow indicates rain, noon bow sight
and heavy rain, and an evening bow fair
weather. An easterly bow indicates clear
weather tho next day; one in the west
means more rain the same day. A rain
bow in spring precedes fair weather for
forty-two hours.
The appearance of the rainbow over
certain lake IN Russia foretells drought to
the fisherman, and they fear to go on the
water bee use it produces a whirlwind
or water spout, which will overflow the
boats. Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
up the Leadville Chronicle and read the
following short paragraph:

As Mr.. Robert Grayson, the owner OF the
famous Holy Cross mine, wes descending the
shaft in the second level, the bucket rope
parted when near the bottom, and he was
thrown violently to the bottom Of the SHAFT
sustaining injuries which 1t is feared are
fatal Dr.. Wisner, who was called in, told
the injured man if he had any directions to
give as to the disposal of his effects he had
better do 80 at once. He said his will and
letter of instructions were in Counselor
Peters's hands, and shortly after became un-
conscious. He is not expected to live through
the night
In the next issue was this:
Mr.. Graydon, Of the Holy Cross Mine,
died short y after midnight. Counselor Peters,
who held the letter Of instruction in his
hands, which was in an envelope indorsed:
s.To be opened only after my death, says
that he opened it in the presence of witnesses,
and that the only instructions 1t contained
were a request to find il Mrs. Elinor Gray
and her daughter Eunice were living at No.
- Clermont avenue, Brooklyn, n. Y, aud in
that event to notify them OF his death, as
they were his widow and daughter, and that
his real name was Robert Gray.
His will leaves that after the payment OF
his just debts the property reyerts TO the
mother for natural life, and at her death to
20 solely to the daughter. mr Graydon: or
his mine to st Louis syndicate for $3.50. 900,
and the transfer Of the deeds was to have
taken place next Saturday.
I gave myself my own assignment for
that and many succeeding days. Eunice
and made the trip to Gunnison armed
with the proper proof of her identity,
and carried out thu terms of her fathers
contract. The mine pays her about
$4,000 monthly; the firm of which Mr..
Gray was member has been paid in full
with interest," and no longer fear the
frown of the city editor, but rather pat.
ronize him when I drop in on him and
take him over to the Astor House lunch
eon.-DTake's Magazine.
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tions made to one hundred and fifty per-
sons-a good beginning for such quiet,
unostentatious charity. -
The work never tagged through the
long summer. The givers were liberal,
the workers also. It seemed as though
every one had been waiting for just this
chance. Even corporations, supposed to
be soulless, became liberal and generous
to an unwonted extent. Railroads trans
ported free of expense all baskets and
parce:s for the Flower Mission, not only
over the roads, but always found among
the employees at the depots some one to
carry the packages to the church.
From a town in Massachusetts, twice q
week came two or three washtubs of gar
den and wild flowers.
At the close of the first season, in Oc-
tober, 1869, 671S bouquets had been dis.
tributed, besides plants and fruit. The
sewing girls, the inmates of hospitals,
asylums and prisons were among the
recipients.
During the second year of the Mission
over II, 900 bouquets were distributed,
besides 1900 pond lilies, the latter
chiefly from one friend. Statistics, how
ever, give very little idea of the work
plished, least of all of the amount
of happiness conferred, the human hearts
filled with grateful love and the blessing
which enriches the giver even more than
the receiver.
The Children's Aid Society have
created similar mission. Some ladies
who had witnessed the working of the
Hollis street charity established Flower
Mission on Seventh avenue. On Fourth
avenue also q room is devoted to the
mission two days of each week during
the summer.-New York Telegram.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
The Origin of Flower Missions.

There is nothing more beautiful than
flowers. 1t was not until the Fourth
Ward mission girls put sweet country
roses into the windows OF the poor that
they could get them to learn to read and
sew. 1t was flowers that unlocked the
hearts of the brutal, drunken mothers of
innocent young children who had no
childhood.
One of the most interesting of all the
charity organizations in Sew York is the
Flower Mission. Fifteen or sixteen years
ago a young girl living in one cf the
suburban towns of New York noticed
the great waste of flowers and fruit in
tho gardens of the wealthy. In the city
she knew that there were vast numbers of
poor suffering souls who had none Of
these things. Here, on the one side,
was the need, the demand; on the other,
its counterpart, its possible fulfilment.
Not only in the fields and woods. but
in Conservatives and greenhouses, were
countless blossoms that might, if only
there was way, gladden. some hearts.
'If thing is desirable there is way
to it,. The suggestion passed on to the
night and to the left, and the first Sun
day in May, 1860, in several of the city
churches a brief notice was read inviting
all having either fruit or flowers to spare
to send their gifts to Hollis Street
Church, which would be open on Mon
dav and Thursday mornings from eight
to twelve for the reception and distribu.
ton of flowers and fruit to the sick and
poor in the city.
On the first day contributions were re.
ceiyed from thirteen sources, distribu-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
How He Won His Wife.

The Omaha Herald recalls the manner
in which the late Attorney-General
Brewster won his second wife. She was
the widowed daughter of his old friend,
Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treas
ury. She had supported herself after
her fathers death as a clerk in the Treas
ury Department, and was very beauti-
full woman. The words in which MIR.
Brewster is said to have sought her
hand are certainly not uncharacteristic
of the man: "You are beautiful, dear
madam, and am hldeous, but it will not
be the first instance of the mating OF
beauty and the beast, and although you
may never love me, you shall never re-
gret marrying me-" It was happy
union, for Mr. Brewster was devotedly
attached to his home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
An Inaudible Laugh.

In one of his letters to the beautiful
Theodosia, Aaron Burr implored his
daughter to cultivate an inaudible laugh,
and that is precisely what fashionable
women are doing in Chicago. The train
ing is individual, and may be pursued to
suit the face, features and fancy Of the
anti-laugher, who, mirror in hand,
studies her glass continually. If the chin
is pretty in contour and modelling and
teeth white, the pupil must learn to laugh
with her lips, but wear q rigid brow and
steady eyes. Are the teeth unsightly,
then she she will have a woeful time,
for the mouth must be. kept closed, and
how to laugh with the eyes and not
wrinkle the face is task. Handbooks
and teachers of the art of expression tell
the students to train the eyes to smile,
and caution them against the habit of
tightly closing the eyes when pleasing
sensation is felt, habit which pretna-
turely wrinkles the lower lids and works
crows feet about the corners of the
eyes.-Inter- Ocean.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
Exhaustion From Dress.

The London Lancet says that the weak
ness and fatigue of which 50 many women
complain as a result of walking is only
the s'natural exhaustion from carrying q
burden OF clothes that few strong men
would care to bear. Not only are the
ordinary movements of the legs and arms
injuriously impeded, but the waist is
encirc!ed as with belt or hoop, to
which a load heavier than felon's chain
is attached" Everybody knows how
true this is. Women themselves do not
contradict it, but with courage p!tiful
to see, they carry the burden until ab-
solutely disabled by sickness, even then
preferring to resort to doctors and tonics
rather than to abandon the "stylish !"
heavy garments which they know are so
injurious. It is the old story-''you pays
your money and you takes your choice"
The freedom to choose that which is
hurtful involves the penalty of suffering,
-ihe price paid for knowledge, and the
opposite privilege bring its equally in
evitable consequences of health, happi-
ness and peace.-Laaos Of Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS
A Woman's Noble Work.

The Hospital for Incurable Children,
in London, England, was started by a
lady who, after while, gathered about
hel a Jealous committee. 1t has grown
until first the single house, then the two
small houses, became ute ly inadequate
to meeting the demands made for adj
mittance by parents of heavily stricken
children The hospital for eleven years
ha, taken in suffering little ones d s.
charged from other hospitals as incur.
ables, and keeps them tenderly nursed
until they die; or it cures obstinate cases
of disease, enabling patients who would
have been bedridden to use their limbs
and earn living. .-Good Cheer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
PRAISE AND BLAME.

So the world gives me blame!
All, could the world but know
What secret springs Of shame
And sell. .abasement how
From my cleft heart, below
The sources Of all blame!
And friends have given me praise:
Yet none have hit the love
That spans my nights and days,
Nor seen the little dove
That flies so far above
The arrows Of their praise.
u 7. Tro,obridge, in Youths Companion
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16
Superhuous| Hair.

It must ever remain mystery why q
woman will permit dozen or more rank
hairs to mar the beauty of IN otherwise
lovely face when minimum amount of
care would suffice to correct the blemish.
Moles usually come from birth. They
are varied In size and are apt to be
studded with three or four long hairs.
Any skilled physic an can remove the
blemish, but if an aversion is felt to the
operation bit of caustic will burn away
the hair. Then. too, odious hair may be
cut away-cut continually if need be,
lust as one trims the nails or las&es.
Better than the scissors is O pair of
tweezers, with which the hairs can be
removed individually. There are plenty
of manicures in the city who make pro-
fesson of treating such irritations with
electric needles, by means of which each
hair is rooted and the cell burnt out. A
slight soreness is left for few days, but
the annoyance ceases when the sore heals.
ANY day in the week the operation may
be witnessed, the most common case be-
ing the meeting of the eyebrows, which
frequently changes the whole apr rearance
of the face. Another disorder IS the
cowlick, of which men as a rule
complain, and to overcome which they
submit to a term of treatment, the ex-
traction of seven hairs being a good
hours work. But electricity, or no
electricity, a woman who values a nice
appearance should not nourish whisk
Of hair. Get hand-glass and pull out
the ngly little crop. and continue the
operation until the roots have been re-
moved or the nerves killed. Among the
French ladies who are prone to mus
taches shaving is made part of the daily
toilet, or else the dark suits of down are
treated with cosmetics and powdered a
dead white Chicago Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-16

over, but could call the next evening
if I would, to see how her mother was,
so did not wait at the bridge and took
a lonely ride.
When reached home that night I
found note from mother asking me to
come at once to Mrs. Gray's. arrived
there only to find my worst fears real
lied. The poor woman had had return
of the hemorrhage shortly after my
mothers arrival, the physician had been
unable to stop it, and her life had ebbed
, away.
There is no need to tell of the quiet
funeral, or of the drive back from the
family plot to our own home, where
mother insisted Eunice should stay for a
few days, until she had learned better to
bear her grief. The days grew to weeks
and every time mention was made by the
poor girl of the necessity of her going
home and back to her work, mother
said: "Not yet"
What use is there to tell how they two
grew to love each other, or Of the state
of my own heart, for I was we'll aware
that Eln:ce knew, even if had not
spoken.
One night as we sat by the fire in our
snug parlor mother said gently:
"Eunice, dear, you have no mother, !
have no daughter. Twill gladly be your
mother if you will be my child"
knelt at her feet and said: ''For my
sake"
And so she stayed. The cottage where
her mother died was rented entire, and
brought hcl in enough means to obviate
any daily toll, and when June of last
year was Brightest she really became my
mo hers daughter and my wife.
There is very little romance in all
this, you say, and that. no doubt, is the
fact, and here is where it comes in.
.,bout a month ago, as I was looking
over thc exchanges in the Office. I picked
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09
Business Chances,

A nice business with good will and fixtures,
business suitable for lady or invalid, one OF
the best locations in the CITY. The rent OF
house only go per month. Price 800. az
The best business of the kind in the state OF
with good security. Do not ask about this un.
less you mean business. (42)
A good paying. neat little business, good
well, stock and fixtures; for $500.
For Rent-A beer saloon, with fixtures and
furniture-new room house and good loca.
ton. Only Sl3 per month. As
Grocery and Sundries store, on railroad, l.
miles from city, doing good business; post
office and express can be had II desired; for
sale cheap; owner going to Europe. Ask fOr
particu 10
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09

wrist. and dragged II over my shoulder,
and the next moment | felt something
pressed under my nose, and liquid
trickling through my mustache on 10 my
lips IL had a sweet taste, and a strong
smell Of apples, that mounted at once to
my brain. l seemed to be no longer
touching the ground, but whirling round
and round through space; my arms drop
ped by my side.
/ knew that was powerless, yet re-
tanned certain kind OF consciousness.
was sensible that the difficulty of breath
ing no longer troubled me. I knew that
the man was binding my arms TO the
post, and remember thinking, in the
unused manner of a half-intoxicated per-
son, what fool he must be to bind me
when could no longer make resistance.
was perfectly conscious when he began
to tie my feet to the post below, for had
then sufficiently overcome the effect OF
the opiate TO think of resistance. tried
to struggle and to scream, but to no pur-
pose; my will had lost all power over my
muscle. And this terrible impotency re-
minded me of Van Hoeck's half-uttered
smile: "Cramped in a coffin, and the
clods falling-fallingr
What astonished me was the surprising
facility with which the man executed his
work in the darkness that then prevailed.
He seemed to have no difficulty at all in
finding the ends of the sheets with which
he bound me, and knotting them secure
ly. And when was safely pinioned, he
unbuckled the strap that bound the Great
Hesper to my wrist, without having TO
seek for the tongue of the strap, as | my
self might have had to do.
well, that's gone," said to myself;
''and, now he has the diamond, he will
go too"
But he had not yet finished. And af
ter brief interval, during which he
might have been buckling the Great Hes
per upon his own wrist, heard sound
that knew only too well.
Click.
1t was the spring that locked the long
blade of my clasp-knife when it was
opened.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09

For Sale.
Lots on Government Hill.
Lots on Dignowity Hill.
Lots on Prospect Hill.
Lots on Tobn Hill.
Lots near Arkansas Pass depot.
Lots near Sunset depot.
Lots near International depot. 9-l2-tf
HAMBLErON HADLEy g. co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09

S0~>o the Children. They are es-
SoNSS pecially liable to sudden
Colds, Coughs, Group, Whooping Cough.
etc. We guarantee Acker's English
Remedy 8 positive cure. It saves
hours of anxious watching. Sold by
For sale by Ragland & Kennedy. "
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09

A FRAME HOUSE OF seven rooms. nearly
n new, fine yard with hydrant and cistern
water, half block from street ear line and only
hve minutes walk from Main plaza, a fine hot
half cash. EEllSo
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09

M ON>> of the good things of this
NANNt life are sorrowfully let
alone on account of Dyspepsia. Aclser's
Dyspepsia Tablets will cure Dyspepsia,
Indigestion and Constipation; sold on a
positive guarantee at 25 and so cents, by
For sale by Ragland.& Kennedy. ly
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-02-09
FOR SALE:

RoCk HOUSE OF ten rooms, stable, a very
IL large lot with river front and good shade,
three blocks from court house. Price 5000,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-22
BINGHAuTONs MUNICIPAL MUDDLE

DEMOCRATIC BoLTERs U>IrE WITH REPUBLICANS
TO DEFEAT DAVIS.
BTSGHAMToN., Jan. 81 ,Spccidb.-lhe astDavis Dem
ocrats held meeting at their rooms last evening and
resolved to amalganats with the Republicans in the
coming election by voting for Republican candi
dates Tue Republicans disposed to do better By the
bslters than to ask thsm To vote entirely for Rspu5
cans They propose to hold consrsncs with the anti
Davis men at which such candidates can be agreed
upon shall be sla ell.
1t is now yreb,bs that Tracy r. Morgan will bs the
nominee for Mayer he is not only a Republican
but bitter an l-Davis Han. Anti Davis Democrats Will
be nominated for supervisors and straight Republicans
for adermss This will fix matters that the printing
the session laws isr the year will he given The
De0crdt the anti Davis organ TO tho exclusion OF The
Leaer. whcn first last and all the line Justified
til. OF s BIsS Davis. and abused hs OPP
ponsnts rhsre are lew Republicans in favsr OF the
Mall-s site and by this csmbih atien the Democratic
must be beaten. IL indeed, 1t makes any aem-
nations at all.
The IDEA here outlined is very popular and is being
discussed all the city That It will be carried out
seems crrtaia petition sskisg for such arrasgoment
was IN the th, Afternoon mi was quickly signed
by several nunret OF the Leading Deascrats, including
these vine formerly signed the protest against DAVIS