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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
A Cure for S.eeplessness.

The terrible evil of insomnia has so
many different sources that the utmost
we can hope from any single arti6ce is te
afford relief from it under one special
form. l venture to think I have hit upon
a plan which thus remedies a very com.
mon mot an aggravated) kind of sleep.
lessness; and, with your permission, will
endeavor to make your readers who may
be fellow sufferers sharers in my little
discovery. -.
1t is now, belie7e, generally accepted
that our conscious, daylight thinking
processes arc carried on in the sinister
half of olr> brains-i. e., in the lobe
which controls the action of the right
arm and leg. Pondering OIL the use oi
the dexter half of the brain-pt s'ibly in
all unconscious cerebration, and IN what.
soever may be genuine Of the mysteries
of planchette and sprite-rapping-l came
to the conclusion Shared no doubt BY
many other better qualified inquirers;
that We dream with this lobe, and that
the fantastic, Immoral, sprite-like char.
acter of dreams is. in some way, trace.
able to that fact. The practical inference
then struck me: to bring back sleep when
lost, we must quiet the conscious, think.
ing sinister side of our brains, and bring
into activity only the dream side, the
dexter lobe. To do this, the only plan
could devise was to compel myself tc
put aside every waking thought, even
soothing and pleasant ones, and every
effort of daylight memory, such as 60 mt
ing numbers or the repetition of easy
flowing verses, the latter having been my
not wholly unsuccessful practice for
many years. Instead of all this, I saw l
must think of dream, the mole recent
the better, and 60 over and over the
scene it presented. Armed with this idea,
the next time found myself awakening
at = or o'clock in the morning, instead
of merely trying to Danish painful
thoughts and :elIeatirg, aswas my habit,
that recommendable soporifc, "Paradise
and the Peri" reverted at once to the
cream from which | had awakened, and
tried to 90 on with it. In moment ]
was asleep! And from that moment the
experiment, often repeated, has scarcely
ever failed. Not seldom the result is
sudden as the fall of curtain, and seems
like a charm. A friend to whom have
confded my little discovery tells me that
without any preliminary theorizing about
the lobes of the brain she had hit upon
the same plan to produce sleep, and had
found it wonderfully etfcacious.
1 should be very glad to hear if other
sufferers can obtain the precious boon in
the same way. The evils of prolonged
wakefulness and of the drug-taking to
which its victims are too often driven are
alike so terrible that make no apology
for offering my humble contribution Of
one more harmless remedy to obviate
then.- ..0ndtn Spectator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
TIE OLD DINNER HORN.

II REV JOEL SwARTZ.
Pys heard many q strain that has thrilled
me with Joy,
But none can lay, since the day l was
born,
Has pleased me as we'll as when small boy
Iheard on the farm the old dinner horn
The tube was of tin, yard or so long,
And was blown for ''the boys" at noon and
at morn,
Amonotone din was a welcome, come in,
Come in, my dear boys, to the call OF the
horn!n
With appetite keen, near the noon of the
day,
Whether reaping the grain or plowing the
corn,
o. building the fence or tossing the hay.
Oh, sweet to my soul was the sound of the
A mothers fond lips pressed the trumpet of
tin,
She blew her full soul through the barley
and corn.
seem to hear still her welcome, come inl
Come in, my dear boy, to the call Of the
hornln
But the harvest is reaped and the fences are
made,
And gone are the boys who furrowed the
corn,
And all save myself, in the grave yard are
laid
With the dear precious one who winded
the horn.
The trumpet of tin keep in my room,
Though dented and battered and homely
and old
Iprize and revere it-a precious heirloom
Of mother and home-more precious than
gold.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
CURIOUS FACTS.

Asmall town in Michigan has seven
brass bands.
A horned snake five feet in length has
been killed in Georgia.
"Left.handed Thunder" is the name
of an Indian chief in Dakota.
A New Jersey couple were recently.
married after courtship Of twcnty-foug
years. s... .' ?. ~ stfL,
An apricot tree at Orange, Cal, has
yielded 1000 pounds of perfect fruit this
season. ~ a
The king of Uganda has over his royal
hut the only lightning rod in Centrsi
Africa. ....,.,.... a.. ~
A woman of visalia, Cal, has two pct
humming birds that will alight on her
hands when called. I'd 81,
London now has several lines Of half
penny "buses," which connect with the
various horse-car lines.
Helen of Troy had long nose, end
ing in a good deal of tip, and runs
ming down in straight line from her
forehead.
An artesian we'll sunk under the sif
waters of New York Bay on The, Jei
side, produces pure fresh water
abundance. IL y
ALondon expert gives this as an nm
failing remedy tor sea-sickness: Hold
your breath and contract your abdomi
nal muscles"
The Circassian beauty is young wof
man with dark, piercing eyes and dnk
hair, standing out straight around 5he
head like an electrified mop.
Melville Demon, Dakota man, ~
said to be the homeliest man in the
United States. He possesses handsoms1
fortune of s., 600, 900, however.
A radish weighing three and bali
pounds and measuring twenty inches ~!
circumference is on exhibition in Dublin
It was grown by Dr.. Buchan, Of Reedy|
Springs, Ga.
Some big peaches have been grown IA
Oregon this. season. The record was
beaten By an East Portland fruit grower
who raised freestoue peach that mead
sured eleven and a quarter inches inscif
conference. ~ asa IS! y ID; 3
A remarkably attractive lobster wa
caught at Norwich, Conn.,, q few day
ago. It's uppe. parts were of the deli
cate tinge of, old-fashioned blue chinaS
and beneath the color was beautiful
blush white. l~a 80
There are two sunsower stalks Of na-|
tural growth at Rochelle. Fla, one ot|
c,b;ob boo rtNrn ond. fho' ,othay = ttS3i
blooms and buds. The stalks are about
ten feet high, with branches reaching out
about six feet. y aas
A well.to.do citizen of Macon, Gal
uses for bathtub zinc. lined coffin box
1t was intended to contain the coffin Sot|
his neighbor, but proved to be too Large
to enter the grave, and was bought BY it
present owner for song.
San Francisco newspapers are discuss
ing the wonderful strength Of Hans
Hansen, q seaman on the revenue cutterl
Corwin. For raising a ;disturbance|
on board ship he was put in irons, hutl
giving his wrists sudden wrench be-
snapped the tough steel bracelets as ia
they had been made of paper. Fsj
A queer incident took place at a.
Lowers home at Griffin, Ga. "A colony
of black bees had been living peaceabl3
near tribe of Italian bees for years un
til Tuesday, when the black bees st
tempted to rob their yellow neighbors
A fierce fight was the result in whicl
hundreds Of the black robbers werl
killed. .s..... III - 49,, . 2 "a
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
BUDGET OF FUN.
SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
The Summer After-The One Thing
Needful-Only a Brief Res
pite-A Wife's Fears,
Etc, Etc.

stood once more on the dear old beach
Where we'd parted the year before,
And sitting there in the self-same spot
I saw my love once more.
The dress she wore was the one loved,
A simple gown of white,
And 1 asked myself, "When she put it on
Did she know would come tonight"
the moon shone bright as closer drew,
And lsnelt at her feet on the sand.
Where told her how had loved her long,
An I ventured to take her hand.
With silvery laugh she raised her head,
And then, oh, horrible shock!
l saw that twas only Rosalie's maid
In Rosalie's last years frock!
-Cornelia Redmond, in Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
The Healthy Bengalcsc,

1t is said of Bengalese tribe, the Os-
walls of NIarwar, India, that while cholera
RACES on all sides of them not one las
ever taken the disease, much less sue.
cumbed to it, and they attribute their
immunity to their sanitory rules. Ac.
cording to the precepts of their religion
they never touch animal food nor spiritu-
Gus liquors; they dine early, and sup on
milk and fruit. Wherever au Oswal
goes he never breaks these rules. 1t is
not added. but it is quite safe to presume,
that a measure, at least, of cleanliness
goes with these other religio-sanitary
o .dinances.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
What Will He Do With It?

81 have nothing for you to eat, my
good man," said the young wife, ''but
if you need any clothes here is gar
ment of my husbands that you may
have. He has several others like it and
doesn't need this"
The tramp looked at the elaborate
yellow and green dressing gown, en-
brodered with blue roses and red hum
ming birds. and walked off slowly,
scratching hi; head in dazed manner.
-ChEag0 Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
Offended.

Young Mr.. Banks weighs trife over
two hundred pounds and is somewhat
sensitive about it. He was calling on
his girl the other evening when she said
naively:
ooh, Mr.. Banks, would you just as
leave sit in this easy chair as in that
rocker?"
'sCertainly, certainly" replied Banks
gallantly, as he changed from one chair
so the other.
"Oh, thanks" she murmured, "you
are very kind. I have an atlas full OF
such lovely ferns under the cushion OF
that easy chair, and you -"
"Good night" said Banks stift1y, as
he walked away, never, never, never to
return.-Time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
Raseball's Victims,

Miss Ethel (of Boston)-'1 under
stand, Clara, that young Mr.. Mason, who
was very attentive to you last month, is
engaged to Miss Racket, of Phila-
delphia."
Miss Clara (of New York).-"Ye5; I
released MIR. Mason on Thursday, and
and do you know it wasn't two days be-
fore he had signed. with that Phila.
delphia girl. l."-Ttme.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
A Slight Misunderstanding.

"Stranger, I heard you say that you
had just returned from a tour of the
State2'
"Yes. SIR"
Chow is the corn crops"
"Immense.
elbow many bushels do you think it
will average to the acrc?",
II scarcely understand you. I am a
chiropodist, and bushels have nothing to
do with my business. ."-Nebraska State
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
Only a Brief Respitc.

Infatuated Youth (after three hours
visit)-"Miss Maud, I must CO."
infatuated Ma;deu-"Well, Charlie;
but you will call again soon, | hope"
infatuated Youth-"I will be back in
fifteen minutes. ."-Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
The One Thing Needful.

Mr.. G. de Hurst-"Ah, waitaw, what
did the cook use in cutting these mutton
chops" 49,,
Anatole- cleaver, sir, of course!"
Mr.. C. de Hurst-"Aw, good! Bring
me one!n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
That Undiscovered Country.

Little Mabel-"Oh, mammal Where's
Protest2"
Mamma -"My dear child: I never
heard of such a place. Why do you
ask"
Little -"Because, I heard papa
say this morning he'd have to go there
this afternoon, sure's shooting. ."-ldea.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
Something Else.

Diner TO slow waiter)-"Some roast
beef, we'll done, potatoes and glass of
milk"
Waiter-"Yessir; anything else, sirs"
Dlner-"Yes; Id like it this after
noon. .n-,Js30e.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
A Wifa'S Fears.

Wife ITO country editor)-"Aren'tyou
feeling well tonight, John2"
Country Editor-"Not very, my dear.
An indignant subscriber came into the
office this afternoon and mopped up the
aoor with me-"
Wife Observation-Disclosures, John, L
hope he didn't stop his paper, too."-
Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
Home, Swe { Home.

Featherly-"Are you pretty full up
at your boarding house, Dumleya"
Dumley-"Ies, there are two brides,
three dowagers, grass widow, retired
army officer with one leg, and myself" "
Fcatherly-"That is full household.
for a fact. What kind OF fare do you
get?"
Dunlley-"Warfare "-Epoe1.
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And they have occupied seats on op-
posite sides of the vessel since.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19
Wanted.

A spark of the fire of genius that kin.
dies enthusiasm.
Feathers from the wings of the i'm
agination.
Spokes from the wheel of fortune.
A drop of the distilled altar of the
flowers of rhetoric.
\ cheese made out of the milky whey.
a bucket of pure water from the wells
of despair.
Cement for split sides after reading
the above jokes.-Lys.
Father Had an Offensive Weapon.
"Willie," sorrowfulIy observed the
little girl to her juvenile adorer, ''papa
says Pm too young to have sweetheart,
and | must quit running out and playing
with you. He says you mustn't come
here so much"
''lm not afraid of your papa, Katie, I"
said Willie, stoutly. 'He needn't think
he can scare me because he's u big dealer
in lumber"
"Yes, but he deals in shingles, Willie,
big, fiat shingles"
THAT sof'' said Willie, turning away
sadly.-Calcdgo ITl0une.
Precise.
Alfonso de Beriot-"You say you are
snperstitious, Miss Gushington, but
would you dare to be married on
FridayW
Miss Gushington - "What! Next
Friday? Why, dear Alfonso, you are so
sudden and so unconventional"
"lou quite misunderstood me. Ipro-
tcst-I didn't propose"
"That's all right, Alfonso, you didn't
propose as they usually do, but ! like it
jus: the same. Yes, dear, it shall be
Friday"
Alfouse swoons. .-SpriHq:eM Unln'
Mr.. Bachfeller's Sugsestiveness.
"Oh, look at that pretty bird, Mr..
Bachfcller." said Miss Nevershy, point
ing to big gull swooping in broad cir
cles over the sea.
eyes" said Mr.. Bachfeller, with an
awful effort to be jocular, 'tand it's not
the only pretty gull | can see, Miss
Nevershy. Both of them are as grace
full as can be, and"
Isn't that bird fishing for some
thing"
"Yes- but- but didn't mean to sug-
gest that you were"
-. s'That will do, Mr.. 'Bachfeller-T see
mamma is beckoning to me-"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-19

The fishing grounds off the coast of
Labrador are comparatively of recent
date, and but few cod were caught there
previous to the revolution. In the Pill.
grims' time the subject of fishing had
become an important one. The Dutch
had at the time 1000 vessels engaged
in their herring fishery. In 1o12
British whalers went armed, and
the British Russia Company had
received monopoly of the whale fishery
The year following, Holland recei' ed the
same privilege, and in 1913 the contro-
versy eliminated in a general war. In
1924 the Pilgrims sent vessel to England
laden with fish, cured with salt of their
own manufacture, and in 1926 opened
a trade with the fishing vessels at Mon
hogan. Fifty years after the settlement
of Plymouth the profits of the mackerel,
bass and herring fisheries at Cape Cod
were granted to found free school.
Maine and New Hampshire were early
ged in fish ng, deriving 'arge profits
iroc, the industry The settlement of
Massachusetts can be traced directly to
the fisheries. In 1924 the Pilgrims at
Plymouth and merchants iu England
built fishing stage and provided other
accommodations at Cape Ann. Fish
were exported from Boston for the first
time in 1888, and Governor Winthrop
was interested in the voyage. In IA
the first schooner was built at Gloucester
by Andrew Robinson. When she was
launched bystander, looking on. ey-
claimed: "uh, how she schoons!" and
Robinson replied: "a schooner let her
be-" and thus the popular type of fishing
aud coasting craft had its origin. At
the breaking out of the revolution there
were mere than six thousand men en-
gagged in the fisheries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-10-18
RuRRlep IN tiER caApLs.

A Connecticut dispatch SAYS that
there was buried in the little village
churchyard of Walingford a few days
ago, in a coffin made out of Il cradle
which rocked her 10 sleep when babe,
Mrs. Roth Hall. aged seventy-foul
wears From carly childhood she had
expressed a desire to be buried in a
coffin made from her cradle, and the
desire grew Instead OF decreasing IS the
years rolled by. She made many
efforts 10 have the cradle so constructed
rs 10 form coffin, but nobody seemed
willing to do the work. Finally Miss
Sally Hall, of Brooklyn, \. Y, rela-
tive Of the family of Editor David Nj.
Stone. of the journal Of Commerce,
wrote about the old lady's desire to Mr.
Stone. That gentleman promptly said
he would see that her wish was realized.
Mr.. Stone instructed Undertaken Girls
weld TO do the job, and he began al
orce.
When the caskct had been completed
is was carried TO tie home of Mrs. Hall
and deposited upon the floor in front OF
her bed. where the poor woman Law
dying. This was also her wish, and
for many hours she admired IT, aud
reciied its family history, which wa;
famous. II remained there for two
weeks until she died. Not a visitor
who called was allowed TO leave the
room without infinitely examining the
easket. and the delight the dying
woman took out of it was remarkable.
1t had been her desire, she said to have
ii made into lounge long ago, and
then constructed into 4 coffin just pricl
10 her dc mise ITO be rocked in it, tc
rest upon it and to be buried in it have
been my lifelong Wish, explained Mrs.
Hall Her funeral was largely attended
There were no services he d, there was
no minister present. This, too, was
Der vii. every hing being carried out
just as she had planned and prayed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-10-18
"Oh. lord. | nover murdered Frank

Barclay Why, I'm that tender-hearted
wouldn't Intentionally hurt fly. Do look
like Elurdercr'
Harry was fain to confess that he did not
Murder was hardly the role Of such cring-
ing, cowardly, contemplate specimen Of
degraded humanity
"The man who committed the atrocious
crime wore that watch chain, and, since you
will not say what you have done with it, the
odium must rest on you. l give you one
last chance TO make clean breast of it.
Speak, or in ten minutes you shall be in a
prison cell. Now, sir''
81 dare not tell. The whole gang would
bc down on me- 1t would be as much as my
life is worth"
"Your life is not worth much if you are
silent. But, If you prefer to so before a
jury
"No, mol will confess all; but couldn't
my testimony be kept darlxi Surely there
is no necessity to drag poor innocent fell
low into troublc-besides, I'm going TO re-
form and JON a church and be model
young man"
'1f in five minutes you have not given mo
the whole history of that watch chain,"
said Harry, ominously CHANGING at clock
on the mantel-piece, 'off you go to Jail"
Beads of perspiration stood on Platt's
brow. He was evidently weighing in his
mind whetlcr IL would be safer to risk a
court of justice or the vengeance of the DIS
reputable crew into whose hands he had
fallen, but movement on Harry's part as
the clock struck goaded him to dare future
danger II he could only get out Of his pres
ont scrape.
"Stop, / will tell you all,n he cried,
moistening bis parched lips and looking so
utterly frightened that Harry, to whom
cowardice was q crime, could scarce refrain
from kicking him; 81 lost money gambling
with some fellows. owed them more than
could pay and gave one Of them McKenzie's
watch and chain as security, which meant
10 redeem rs soon rs luck turned
"A likely story, indeed. If that was all,
why did you mako such a fuss about cx-
planning mattersf
"Ah, SIR, you do not know these men.
Why, II Bin Chatterton-''
"Chattcrtonl All, now I see it all. You
arc telling the truth at last. Out with the
whole story, man, and do not be such a cow
ard. viii see you safe from him"
"Oh, Chatterton can't hurt me; he died
last night He was shot in a gambling
house on Twelfth street, and when went
to his lodgings this morning they told me no
was dead"
Harry's face fell.
81 don't believe this part Of the story"
he said, grimly; however, we will soon
test ITS truth. for you shall show me the
way to his lodgings
"What Go with your
" Yes; but you need not show yourself"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-10-18

disconsolately leaning against fence, and
whom he at once recognized as The hero Of
the jackson dispatch episode.
"And you arc Harry Winthrop was the
cordial response. "Ah, this Is a glorious
surprise, for we all thought you were
dead
"You thought me dcadr'
"Indeed VIC did. Your friend, Lecroix,
brought the news to our place last fall He
said, think. that you had fallen in n raid
with somo Of Moseby's men, and that,
though he had performed prodigies of valor
in your behalf, life was extinct when he
reached your side.n
What object could he have in concoct-
ing such tale as that!n Harry asked, in
dismay.
"Oh, I suppose he wanted to get on tho
blind side Of Kate for whom he has al
ways evinced sncakng Kindness was
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-10-18

man to distraction, Tor he Is man OF strong
passions, and, what with whisky and what
with disappointment he il now little better
than q raving lunatic. Why, this morning
while / was away from home he terrified
Kate half out Of her wits by swearing that
his love was turned TO hate, and that be
would be avenged on her. ! am positively
alarmed for her safety, and If / can only
come across him mean to stick to him till
the delirium of bad whisky and evil pas
sions is out of him.n
"Well, don't let me detain you, then. If !
come across him / viii have him in irons
before no can say jack Robinson. BY the
bye, l was just going 70 see your father"
"Oh, I'm glad of that. The house is on
the right, at the top of the hill-big, old
tumble-down place-was boarding house,
but the rats and mice and Frobishams have
it all to themselves noEy.n
Harry had no difficulty in finding the
house, dingy mansion which had evidently
seen better days, but which now with bind
less and shattered windows and battered
walls, looked indeed o cherries abode.
Dismounting and throwing the bride Of
his horse to his orderly, he climbed tho
stone steps and knocked at tho door. There
was no answer. Again and again he re-
echoes reverberating through the dismal
rooms, and was about to retire with the Bit
ter feeling that some member Of the family
had seen him-perhaps Kate berself-and
refused Co grant him admission, when he
thought he heard cry--yes, he was sure of
tia woman's voice calling for help. With
out pausing to listen twice, he flung him
self with fury on the door, and to his Joy
tho rusted iron lock gave way, so, calling TO
the orderly to tie up his horses and follow
him, he dashed into the interior Of the house.
The lower rooms were silent, but from the
second or third floor came the sound Of
scuffling and angry voices.
"Hclp, hclp For tho love OF Heaven,
helpl' reached him in tones that gave wings
10 his foot
He was just IN time. Over tho PROSTATE
form OF Kato Frobisham, his eyes rolling liz
frenzy, his hand cIltching her white throat;
stood Alphonso Lecroix.
With bound Hairy fell upon him and
dashed him to the floor, where for moment
he lay painting and glaring like some wild