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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
SIGHT Recovered After Many Years.

Twenty nine years of total blindness
and now old John Mcdonald, OF Water
bury, Conn.,, over sixty years OF age, can
see.
"You will find father walking in the
garden" said his daughter, cheerful
and attractive little dressmaker, when
the New York Press reporter called at
the door of SO Franklin street, where the
blind man has lived for years.
A sturdy old Irish gentleman, though
wrinkled and gray, and with stout cane
in his hand, was deserted through the
foliage, walking erect and happy, with
no uncertain step.
"Good morning." he cried, heartily.
eyes, I can see again. I can see the
roses and the honeysuckles, my hands
and my shirt, my shadow on the gravel
walk and my two feet as they step out
from under me. I can see your face, too.
"It is just twenty-nine years DOW since
I had my fteye removed. I was living
in Prospect then. I am from Ireland,
you know. All the Yankees out there
in Prospect advised me to leave the
doctors alone, and wish I had now. 1t
was for some sort of cataract that my
left eye was treated. Blindness is COM
mon in my family"
''But what doctor has helped to cure
you?'
''No, DOCTOR" he said,' with disdain.
II was taken i'll three weeks ago. I had
terrible pains in my head back of my
right eye. did not know what I was
about, whether awake or asleep. When
I began to get we'll the other day !
noticed that I could see my hands. Every
day since then I have come to see better.
My daughter Mary has written to my son
in New Haven, who has livery business
there. He will come on and take me to
some expert physicians. But I have no
faith in doctors. got my sight inde-
pendent of them"
Mr.. McDonald's experience has puzzled
all the Waterbury physicians who have
heard of it. Gases of restored sight are
common when blindness has been caused
by temporary Inflammation, but recovery
from an optical disease of twenty-nine.
years. standing is an event unprecedented
in medical history.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
A Colossal Flower.

; In the farthest southeastern island of
of the Philippine group, Mindinao, upon
lone of its mountains, Parag, in the
neighborhood of the highest peak on the
island, the volcano, Apo, q party of bot
anical and geographical explorers found
recently at the height of $500 feet
above the sea level, colossal flower.
The discoverer, DR.. Alexander Schaden-
berg, could scarcely believe his eyes when
he saw, amid the low growing bushes,
the immense buds of this flower, like gi-
gantic brown cabbage heads. But he
was still more astonished when he found
a specimen in full bloom, five-petaled
flower nearly yard in diameter large
as carriage wheel, in fact. The enor-
nous blossom was borne on sort of vine
creeping on the ground. 1t was known
by the natives who accompanied DR..
Schadenberg, who called it boo. The
party had no scale by which the weight of
the flower could be assertained,
but they improvised a swinging
scale using their boxes and specimens
as weights. Weighing these when op-
portunity served, it was found that
single flower weighed over twenty-five
pounds.
1t was impossible to transport the fresh
flower, so the travellers photographed it
and dried number of its leaves by the
heat of fire. DR.. Schadenberg then
sent the photographs and dried speci-
mems to the Royal Botanical Gardens at
Breslau, where the learned director i'm
mediately recognized it as specimen OF
the Raf1esia, plant formerly discovered
in Sumatra, and named after the English
Governor, Sir Stafford Rafles. The new
flower was accordingly named Rafiesi"
Schadenbergia. The five petals OF. this
immense flower are oval and creamy
white, and grow around center filed
with countless violet-hued stamens,
thicker and longer in the female, or fer
tile flower, than in the infertile.
The Raflesias are stemless plants, the
flowers springing Immediately from the
surface of the branches, and are immersed
among the scales which represent leaves.
Even this mass is parasitical plant
Prairie Farmer.
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FRUITFUL ROADSIDE,

Galen Wilson says in tho New York
Tribune: Maple, elm and ash are favorite
roadside trees since the Lombardy poplar
was discarded; but almost everywhere
people have fallen into the error of plant
ing too thickly and permitting them to
gow too tall, SO that they shade the
highway continuously. Ina wet season
the roads are thereby kept muddy all the
time, the sun having no opportunity to
dry them, and it is a relief to get away
where there are no trees but better travel
ing. This should not be. In view from
my window is reach of east-and-west
road, and Oh the south side of it is a
row of cherry trees thirty feet high and
several rods apart, just the right distance
to serve as posts for wire fence. These
trees answer four-fold purpose.
They supply sufficient shade without
keeping the road muddy; increase the
beauty of the landscape as much as any
trees can; make excellent living posts to
support fence wires; and they are just
now loaded with delicious fruit, and all
passers-by are welcome to help them
selves. By heading in the branches at
odd spells they can be kept at their pres
ent height, and thus remain permanently
feature of use and beauty. The object
of planting trees by the ~ayside is to fur
nish shade and add to the good appear
ance of the highway, and as fruit trees
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
. Long Life With a Broken Neck.

The unfortunate Mr.. Hill in this city,
is not the first man who has lived with
broken neck. In certain North Caro-
lima district before the war it was the
practice to send to Congress the man who
could lift the heaviest weight. When
the champion got the seat he held it until
he was literally lifted out of it by more
muscular man. One gentleman won it by
lifting two barrels of turpentine, but
after holding it several terms he was chal-
lenged to contest it with an opponent,
who undertook to lift three barrels of
turpentine at once. He did it, lifting
one barrel with each hand and third
on his head, but the effort broke his neck,
or rather crushed the cervical vertebra.
The accident did not kill him, and he was
elected to Congress and served many
terms, using an artificial support for his
head. Of course the spinal cord was not
injured or he'would have been paralyzed.
San Francisco Alta.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
ENGLISH BEEF SOUP.

Let soup stock hot and strained be
ready. Put in saucepan two slices of
raw ham, an onion cut up, carrot, one
half a turnip, ,one-half pound of butter,
a bay leaf, and few whole peppers.
Let these be fried until thoroughly
Drowned and then mix in a cupful of
-four and let brown again. Then dilute
with three quarts of hot stock and can
of tomatoes and allow to boil for an
hour. Cut in small dice-sized pieces two
carrots and one turnip and parboil in
salted water. Cut one pound of cooked
lean soup-meat in small pieces. Parboil
one-half a pound of barley. Then strain
the soup, skimming off all fat, and add
the boiled vegetables, the meat and bar
ley, season with salt and pepper, and let
boil for fifteen minutes more. Finish
with the juice of one-half lemon and a
small portion Worcestershire sauce
Chicago Neos.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
Science of Sciences and Art Of Arts.

Agriculture is the art of all arts, the
science of all sciences, the life Of all life;
and when agriculture is lanPuishing and
dying all other industries and professions
and avocations must of necessity decline,
in time, in the same ratio, for all are de-
pendent upon agriculture for life and
subsistence. Statistics prove (and figures
are cited) that our agriculture is on the
decline and that while other industries
and vocations bring prosperity, the
farmer grows poorer year by year. Our
soil is rich, our crops are large, and yet
the farmers financial status does not i'm.
prove but grows daily and yearly from
bad to worse. The situation demands
most careful, prayerful thought.
A tremendous responsibility rests upon
parents in the education of their children.
1t is the duty of every parent to so edu.
cate the child that said child when of
mature age may possess such education
and training in some profession, trade or
avocation as to fit him for making an
honest living.
Colonel Polk spoke of the value of
agricultural schools and how they had
increased in Germany and France and
England and other countries, and what
fostering care the Governments of these
countries bestowed upon them-fully re-
alizing the necessity of such agricultural
education aud skill as affecting the vel!
fare and prosperity of each individual
country. He said there were 1S4 agri.
cultural schools in Germany and hun
dreds in England. He spoke of the grand
work accomplished by Gilbert and
Lawes of England in scientific agri-
cultural experiments, and how Great
Britain and the civilized world at large
are beginning to more fully and com.
pletely appreciate the grand work per-
formed by these men. The progress
made in agricultural science has been far
greater within the present century than
for centuries.-Picayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
THICK OF THIN SEEDING

Mr.. Dudley w. Adams, Orange County,
Florida, wrires us as follows concerning
a recent article in the american Agri-
cultstrist:: professor Blout says rich
land requires less seed than poor. Why,
Professor2 In Florida we have some very
poor, as we'll as some very rich land. On
poor land three pecks of oats sown per
acre will produce fair crop. If three
bushels per acre are sown the crop will
never head out. The largest crop of
whr!t ever grew while living in Iowa
was produced from less than two pecks
of seed Fer acre. That was on rich land.
The Professor is quite correct when he
says: The greatest enemy to the success
full germination and healthy growth of
the wheat plant is wheat and in long
experience have invariably found that
the poorer the soil the greater the dam
age from crowding. On rich soil a
thin seeding will tiller and make the
plants thick enough for a maximum crop.
On poor land thin seeding will not tiller,
so there will be fair heads on the few
stalks, but if by thick seeding the num-
Der of stalks is increased, the size of
heads will diminish more than the num-
Der will increase"
The question and remarks having been
submitted by use to Professor A. E.
Blout, he replies as follows:
erich land requires less seed than
poor. 'Why2' asks your Florida cores
pondent. Because, wheat, oats, etc.,
have characteristics peculiar to them
selves, which, if not favored, prevent
the plant from making a successful
growth and yield. Tillering is one char
acteristic-and a very important one, too.
A single wheat plant requires space and
sunlight to carry out this habit, or it
will, like poor, crowded people, become
weak, impotent, and unproductive of
good results.
"Good wheat land-not alluvial soils,
or soils heavily manured-stimulates
termination and an early growth, mas
much that the plants power is shown in
the stooling or multiplication of many
stalks from one grain. Poor land fails
very manifestly in these two most i'm
portant and mechanical operations. 1t
neither stimulates termination nor early
growth, but merely acts as reservoir
to hold and supply the grain with mois-
ture, while the atmosphere imperfectly
does its share toward the development.
The shappy medium in both richness of
soil and amount of seed necessary to
produces crop of good quality and guam
tity must be carefully considered by the
farmer. Too rich soil produces too many
tillers, too much stalk and too rank
growth, all to the great detriment of
sound, plump grain"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
BONES FOR GRAPE-vINEs.

To cause grape-vines to grow most Wig
orously throw few bones into the hole
when planting out. Oyster-shells are also
good for the same purpose, and may be
mixed with the bones to advantage.
Therefore don't waste any bones or shells,
but utilize them in the manner suggested
If you plant any vines. In case you have
grape-vines growing bury the bones near
them, or reduce the bones to ashes and
apply the latter to the vines of the vege-
table garden. It will pay good dividends
better than ordinary bank or railroad
stock.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
FRUIT CAKE THAT Is EASY TO MAKE

A FRUIT CAKE THAT IS EASY TO MAKE
While making cake for sheep-shearers
I thought that there must be some OF
your readers, writes Canandaigua (N.
" young lady to the Detroit Free Press,
who would like to know how to make a
farmers fruit cake that, though rich and
hearty and universally liked, especially
by the men folks, is yet Inexpensive.
Take one cup of dried apples, soak over
night in water enough to cover them.
Then chop fine, add one cup of syrup to
the water in which they were soaked and
boil all till the apples are tender and the
syrup very rich and thick. After this is
cool add it the last thing to the follow
ing: Two well beaten eggs, one cup OF
sugar, ore and one-third cups of sour
cream, or two-thirds of cup of sour
milk and two-thirds of a cup of butter,
three teaspoonfuls of soda, one-half cup
of raisins, one-half cup of currants, flour
enough to form stiff batter; bake half
an hour in q moderate oven.
Dried apples prepared in this way can
hardly be told from citron. Indeed,
when well made this cake is good enough
for any occasion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
sAGo WITH FRUIT.

j sago with fruit is an appetizing des-
,sert and one that is especially nice in warm
weather. Soak cupful of sago in half
milk and water; then add it to a quart
of boiling milk, stirring it until it be-
comes thick, and let it cool. In pud-
ding dish put layer of peaches, or other
fruit if you prefer it, and on this layer
of sago, and another of the fruit, using
little sugar if needed, and so on until the
dish is full. Set it on the ice. Serve
with sweetened cream.-Prairie Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

When recipes call for cupful it means
just half pint; this amount in granu-
lated sugar weighs just half pound.
Salt will curdle new milk; so in pre-
pairing custards or porridges the salt
should not be added until the dish is pre-
pared.
Red pepper pods or few pieces Of
charcoal thrown into the pot in which
onions, cabbages, etc., are being boiled
will prevent the unpleasant odor.
Two tablespoonfuls of washing soda in
q gallon of boiling water makes good
disinfectant for the kitchen sink. Pour
it in at night, while it is still at boiling
heat.
Tin pans can be prevented from rust
ing by heating them and rubbing we'll with
linseed oil and heating again. Wood
ashes or whiting (Which is betteD mixed
with kerosene will brighten them.
Make list, in the order in which you
pack them, of the contents of your wool
len chest, and paste it on the outside.
Then the articles at the head of the list
will be in the bottom of the box.
Rusty black cashmere should besponged
with equal parts of alcohol and ammonia,
diluted with little warm water. When
pressing use piece of alpaca or un-
dressed cambria next the warm iron.
If ironed when damp, and pressed till
dry, table linen takes certain stiffness
which is more permanent and less subject
to creases than the stiffness of starch,
which is also injurious to the fabric.
Lime and alkali stains may be re-
moved from white goods by simply wash
ing. In the case of colored goods and
silks the goods should be moistened and
citric acid, much diluted, applied with
the finger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
cAuLFLowER OR BROCCOLI, TO BOIL.

Choose those very white, close and
compact; trim off all decayed leaves, and
cut the stock off close to the head; open
the flower little in places and wash;
place them, head down, in salt and water
for two hours previous to dressing, which
will draw out all insects; put into boil
ing water, with heaping tablespoon OF
salt to each two quarts of water; boil
briskly fifteen to twenty minutes over
good fire, keeping the saucepan uncov-
cred, skimming the water several times,
When boiled tender, take up, drain, and
if large heads, place upright in q dish,
and serve with plain melted butter, pour
ing little ION the flower; or a white
sauce or drawn butter may be used with
it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
Climate for Consumptiyes.

The several climates of Florida, Colorado
and California have each been much prescri bed
for sufferers from lung disease, yet thousands
Of the natives in those States die of this fatal
malady. A far more reliable remedy is to be
had in every drug store in the land. and one
can be used at home; a remedy which IS sold
tfue guarantee that, If taken in time and given
fair trial, It will effect a cure, or money paid
for it will be promptly returned. We refer to-
that world famed remedy for consumption Tor
lung-scrofula) known as DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t is the only remedy for this
terrible disease possessed Of such superior cur.
ative properties as to warrant its manufactur-
ers in selling it under guarantee.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31

Over go people were forced to leave their
homes yesterday to call for free trial pack
age OF Lanes Family Medicine. If your bloc
is bad, your liver and kidneys out Of order, If
you are constipated and have headache and an
unsightly complexion, don't fail to call on any
druggist to-day for free sample Of this grand
remedy. The ladies praise it. Everyone likes
It. Large-size package so cents.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
HOW TO TRAP HAWKS.

According to a New England authority
the best way to trap hawks that he ever
heard of is to set up post ten feet high
near the poultry yard with perch on it.
On this perch set Q common steel trap,
baited with chickens head or dead
chicken. The hawks like to perch on
some such point OF observation before
taking their final swoop down among the
chicks, and are very apt to get caught
In such an arrangement.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31

The herring-sardine business is an
enterprise of considerable magnitude i'll
Maine. There are now forty factories in
the State, and this season the product
reached 100000 cases, against 450, 900
cases last year. -..
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of various kinds accomplish this double
purpose, and also furnish abundance of
fruit, there can be no question as to what
trees should be planted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31

Don't you 1pdnt to sdrC noneD, clothes, time.
labor, fuel and health? All these can be saved
IL YOU will t,.U Dobbins's Electric Soap. We
say "t1y," knowing if you try it once, you will
always use it. Have your grocer order.
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Forced to LEAVE Home.

TIE different manufactu- ing establishments
of Ohio produced S34S, SIG, $50 last year from
canitaI re o2n2 QQO S26
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HARVARD COLLEGE has received $500, 900 in
gifts during the past year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31

COTTON SEED, which used to be thrown
away, now makes rs, 000 GOO gallons OF oil year.
IN
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31

The newest engagement ring is of
twisted GOLD without stone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
a Fair Trial

We recommend "Tansill's Punch" Cigar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31

Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but use DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy. OF druggists.
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w COLLEGE, W. Pennington, O.. 60 years. Both
sexes. Seven departments. Board and Tuition slO0
per year. REV. E. B. WEBSTER, A. NJ, President.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
AT CHEYENNE.

Young Lochinvar came In from the west
With fringe on his trousers and fur on his vest;
The width Of his hat brim could nowhere be beat,
His number ten brogans were chock full OF feet
His gfrdle was horrent with pistols and things
And he fourished handful OF aces on kings
The fair Mariana safe watching star,
When who should turn up but the young Lochin-
varl
Her pulchritude gave him pectoral glow
And he refined up his boss with stentorian whoa,
Then turned on the maiden a rapturous grin
And modestly asked If he mightnt step in.
With presence Of mind that was marvellous quite,
The fair Mariana replied that he might;
So In through the portal strobe young Lochinvar,
Pre-empted the claim and cleaned out the bar;
Though the Justice allowed he want wholly to
blame
He taxed him ten dollars and costs, just the same.
Eugene Field.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10

About the same number of men
were engaged at the battle of Water
loo and at the battle of Gettsburg,
and the loss of the combatants was
nearly the same.
The Paris exposition will open on
Nav ). A series of grand fetes has
been arranged to last all through the
summer. The exposition will end
in September with the award OF
prizes.
Dapite the talk about Smith being
such a common name, those of Green,
White. Brown and Davis beat TT in
the United States by Is per cent
Even John" is not as common as
"Joe."
Alexander Won Kotzebue, the young
est son of the famous dramatist tc
whom Sheridan was indebted for the
original of 1.-THE Stranger" and 'Piz
arro.n has lately died at Munich in
his seventy-sixth year. Like his
brothers, he was in the Imperial Rus
sian service, and held the post o.
court painter at st. Petersburg.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
BJCKLENs ARNICAssALvE.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhe4m, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chllbiains,
Corns, and ali Skin EruptiOns, and positive
ly cures Piles, or no pay required: IL Is
money refunded. Price q cents per box;
For sale by all druggists, DRESS, and
THOMPSON & Co.'S, wholesale. Q-913-1y
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

Confirm our statement when we say that Ack-
er's English Remedy is in every way superior
THROAT and Lungs In Whooping Cough and
Group it is magic and relieves at once. we Of
fer YOU sample bottle free. Remember this
Remedy is sold by ,.,,.,,,,,,
RAGLAND N ChaOhNbh-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
A Pleasing Sense

OF health and strength renewed and
of ease and comfort follows the use OF
Syrup of Figs, as it acts In harmony
with nature to effectually cleanse the
system when costive or bilious. For
sale in SOC and Sl.OO bottles Dl all
leading druggists. 5-ll-lm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-04-10
GUARD AGAINST THE STRIKE,

And always have bottle of Acker's English
Remedy in the house. You cannot tell how
soon Group may strike your little one, or
cold or cough may fasten itself upon you,
one dose is a preventative and few doses a
nositiye cure. All Throat and Lung troubles
Wien to it's treatment. A sample bottle, is
given Won free and the Remedy is sold by
Ragland & ShaChner. W