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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
A Model Vehicle.

The handsome and fashionable wife of
Levi P. Morton is noted for the pos.
session of a most remarkable coachman
William White, who sits stitfly On the
high drivers seat of Mrs. Morton's car
riage, was once in the employ of the
Prince of Wales, and was brought to this
country by the Marquis of Lorne, while
that arislocrat was Gove-nor-General of
Canada. He has been in the employ of
LeviP. Morton for four or five years,
and is q sort of example to the other
family coachmen of Fifth avenue in de-
pertinent. The manner in which he tips
his hat upon being questioned or an
swpring, his stiff backed pose on his
seat, his handling of the reins and whip
in everything he is taken as model.
Even the livery stable proprietors, in
outfitting equipagts that are meant to
be mistaken for the private turnouts of
their customers, are accustomed to point
White out to their drivers as an exhibit
of what they ought to aim at. But Mis-.
Morton's carriage has interior comforts
that are not for snow. A diminutive
clock is set into the side where she can
see it at glance, and thus, in making
q round of calls or keeping other en-
gagements, she may know the time with
out the bother of taking out a watch. In
a drawer are compactly arranged a hand
glass, and hair bru,h and comb, to be
used in the carriage whenever the slight
est mishap of toilet requires attention.
A bearskin rug contains a fat tin re-
ceptacle for hot water, and is thus kept
in a condition to warm the feet. Like
many of the vehicles made to order for
ladies OF wealth, the back seat of this
one is of height, breadth and up
holstered shape exactly suited to be
easiest for Mrs. Morton. This carriage,
although not singular in its appoint
ments of luxury, is one of the newest in
manufacture, and nothing more complete
is owned by an Astor or Vanderbilt
Picayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
Beasts of Burden in China.

Cinnamon have such regard for beasts
of burden, such as the OF and the mule,
that they make companions OF them
when alive and never use their meat for
food when they are dead. These animals
usually live in the same building with
their masters, but in separate apart
ment, which is especially devoted to
them. They are not required to eat at
the family table unless they wish to, and
meals are served in their rooms without
extra charge. They arc expected to re-
port any incivility or inattcntion on the
part of servants to the master of the
house. A pair of oxen can reside in the
house of their master aud en- Joy all the
privacy they would have in a stall of
their own, and sensitive and retiring
mule is never in any danger of being in
truded upon. Yet some people think
Cinnamon are not polite.-Tsras Svt-
mas
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
The TuIip Mania in Holland.

A remarkable financial delusion (for
it could hardly be called swindle) was
the tulip mania of Holland.
Conrad Gesner introduced the tulip
into Europe in 1884, and in Holland, for
some reason unknown, it sprang into
great favor with the wealthy and fash
ionable burghers. In another year its
popularity had increased and gardeners
were propagating new species, many OF
which brought great prices for their
rarity. One bulb of the Admiral so:d
for 44O0 f1orins. Another variety, the
Semper Augustus, brought $500 tlorins;
One hundred thousand florins was palo
for forty roots in Rotterdam. and that
transaction started the gambling, =,
This was in 1876. Everybody had
gone tulip mad. Grave old DutchmeI
smoked their pipes and talked tulips;
Noblemen turned gardeners aud raised
tulips. On 'Change tulips were listed,
and puts, calls and futures were watched
as closely as "Old Hutch" or Phil Ar
mour watch the hog and wheat markets.
People of all classes invested all the
money they could rake and scrape IN
tulips. Business doomed for awhile ana
fortunes were lost and won.
The Dutch seemed to think that tor
all time to come people in all parts OF
the world would continue to pay 1aou-
lous prices for Hollands tulips. The
flower had already achieved short
lived popularity in Paris and London,
but fashionable people were tlrlng OF
the new plaything. Even the Haarlem,
wonderful variety, of which one root
sold for twelve acres of improved ground
in 80, grew common, and seemingly all
at once the tulip market s'umped. -,
Then there was howl. Tulips coulo
hardly be given away. Every man was
accusing his neighbor OF having led him
into the craze. Defaults on contracts
and payments were common all over
Holland. The courts refused to take
cognizance of them because they were
gambling, and it was years before the
country fully recovered, though it was
in most cases merely a shifting OF
wea tn, not taking it out of the country.
TO this day, however, the genuine
Hollandcr looks upon his tulips as the
English farmer does his fat cattle or the
Kentuckian his blue-grass-fed brood
marco
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
The Thinking Habit.

One of our "passioI poets" has lately
published q metaphysical poem, one
stanza of which will suffice 10 give an
idea of what it is:
Think health, and health will find you ,
As certain as the day,
And pain will lag behind you
And lose you on the way.
Why not pursue this same line OF reason
ing to the bitter end, somewhat after this
fashion?
Think wealth, and you will getlt
A million, more or less;
Think silk, and in the closet
You'll find gros grain dress.
Think land, when you are drowning,
Beyond all human reach,
AMI by this happy theory
You'll b, washed up on the beach
Think bread when you are hungry,
And feast will there be spreud;
Think sleep when you are weary.
And you'll find yourself in bed.
However much "thinking' may help
to materalize all the good things thus
promised, one grand result will certainly
be accom- plished, for it cannot be denied
that the thinking habit will produce q
thoughtful generation. -Harpa's Nontha
lu. .r,..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
CURIOUS FACTS.

Over 1900 patents on cycles have been
taken out in this country.
The Indians of Oldtown Island, Me-,
have organized a printing firm.
The fight between the Monitor and.
Merrimac took place March 9, 1852.
A Connecticut couple were recentlyj
married after courtship of twenty-fou'
years.
A Paris chemist has at last succeeded
IN making real diamonds from q secret
composition.
Chicago has built more tall buildings
during the last year than any other city
in the country.
A goose with her wings tied was sent'
over Niagara's Falls the other day and
hoated away alive. rl...5t
There is boy in Iowa who has lost.
both hands, both feet, both ears and
most of his nose by frost bites.
The largest cannon in the world Is at
Client, Belgium. The diameter of the
bore is two and three-quarter feet.
Twenty years ago there were ninety
two lightning rod factories in the United
States. To-day there are but three.
A New Jersey jumper advertises HIM,
self as ''the only and original Sam Patch.
who has been In temporary retirement
The enterprising people of Troy.
N. Y, are already talking about cele-
brating the centennial of their great
collar and cuff industry in 1929.
A New York coin collector who had
his museum inspected the other day was
gratitied to learn that he had only sixty.
six bogus coins IN the collection of 740.
They generally run about half. 10 .5% 3
The last. sailing vessel built for the
United States navy was the Constella-
ton, completed in 1855. She is at pres
ent in commission as practice ship,
attached to the Naval Academy.
The maltese cat of drug store in
Poughkeepsie, N. T., recently alta
! thirty teaches worth twenty five cents
each, and box of lactate powder. The
entire cost of the meal was $3.50 5
The word Gramercy, used to desig-
nate the locality. Grsmercy Park in New
York city,is derived from 'der Kromme
See," which is the name given to that
district in an old map, still extant.
Last spring the Brighton Beach on.
W Hotel was rolled back from the ocean,
which threatened its destruction. It ia
now thought that it will have to be
moved again on account of the damage
done by the recent storms. 3.s.
There is fashion even in tombstones.
White marble monuments are going out
and but few headstones are now made
for the fashionable dead in white mate4
rial. Granite in dark shades is the pre-
vailing rage, and nearly all the new
monuments are being made in that
material.
The Maharajah Of Jaypore, India, is
building temple that will cost million
dollars. The architecture will be most
elaborate, and every workman, from
architect to coolie, is native. Carved
marble pillars, weighing several tons
are lifted into place with no help from
steam or modern machinery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
A Maine Mother.

CAPTAIN Davis, of the fve-masted
schooner Governor Ames, recently built
at Waldoboro, Me-, had a remarkable
mother. She was not content in bring
ing up her own eleven sons and daughters
in the way they should go, but adopted
two or three other children. She was
tie doctor of the whole neighborhood.
Physicians were few and inexperienced.
as is usual in small country places, and
Mrs. Davis was always sent for in q
hurry when any one was sick. Many
were the men she saved from death.
One man, given up for dead by every
body else, is now a very wealthy citizen
of a Western State. Often there would
be two calls for her at once, and in one
case a couple of men carried her a half
mile through snow waist deep to the
sick bed of friend. She was presen:
at the birth of every child born in tie
village for oSer forty ears.-LsUiston
Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
Kissed BY Mary Anderson.

Here is a pretty story of Miss Mary
Anderson, the great actress, told in the
Boston Transcript: A few days ago, as
Miss Anderson was passing through one
of the great dry goods stores, the sales.
men recognized her and whispered to
each other:
"Tnere goes Mary Anderson"
A little cash boy, hearing the remark
too late to see her face, exclaimed:
"Oh2 why didn't you let me know in
timei 1 haven't got money enough to 60
to see her play, but might have looked
at her."
The lady had not passed out of hear.
ing. Turning back she stopped and
kissed the boy.
"There, my lad" she said, "you can
not only say that you have seen Mary
Anderson, but that she has kissed you"
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stranger. But as a rule they return,
upon festivities, to visit the old folks;
even these visits any member of her
husbands family could forbid her from
making.
One of the reasons the Chinese bellies
weep instead of laughing, as bellies do in
this country upon the eve of their mar
riage, is probably because they know
their times of freedom and ease are at an
end, or, at least, until they become
middle-aged or old women. The moment
the bride has thrown down her veil of
thirty days, she is, as a rule, put to the
most menial of domestic duties, by the
mother or elder sister-in-law. Chinese
husbands are not supposed to own their
wives until after the death of their
parents. 1t is considered unfilial for a
man to take wife and leave his parents.
There is no redress on the part OF such
young married women for injustice done
to them by their cruel mothers in law,
except to drown them in silent tears.
Three days before the actual marriage
takes place, the Chinese belle, for the
first time in her life, has her face shaved
of any possible hair. This is done by
the skillful blending of two stout, silkeu
threads made into an oblong moose, and
twisted in such manner that when this
moose or loop is opened with the fingers
of the operator the opening would spring
together so quickly that it would cut of
the finest hair on the skin without the
least pain. The parts to be shaved are
first well rubbed with warm pine ashes.
This process is called "Cho Mien." OF
the 'ifemale shave" Her next shave
would be after her thirty days silence in
her new home.
The girlhood bang is now combed up
and tied with the rest OF her hair, as this
bang distinguishes the unmarried from
the married women in China.
The bride does not put on her best
apparel upon this memorial day, but the
poorest clothes she has, and over them
all is an immense red bag or curtain.
This is thrown over her head and thus
shuts her entire person from view, so
that at a distance she resembles a red
bag moving. But just before she is car
ried to the sedan-chair marriage hearsel,
she is given bowl of rice soup. This
she takes into her mouth and sQuirts
three times toward the south, which
means that after her marriage she would
have rice more than enough 10 eat for
three generations. Daughters Of Amerlca.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
Fashion Notes.

Green is still leading color, especially
for combination with black or white.
Golden initials, as earrings, have more
of novelty than of good taste in theit
favor.
The latest dangler for the chain or the
chatelaine is silver or nickel locket for
car fare.
Princess gowns, when worn by very
young women, almost invariably button
in the back.
Some very handsome new party shoes
are of white kid, with heels of chased
gold or silver.
The fancy of London jewellers runs all
to open designs set in small diamonds or
other precious stones.
A new boa is wide and fat about the
throat and down the front, ending with
boas of bear or other long-halred fur.
White gloves are now fashionable for
evening wear with white dresses, but
light tan are oftener chosen, even by
bridesmaids.
Evening gloves should reach to the
lower edge of the short sleeve. are in
mousquetaire shape, and simply corded
on the back.
Watered silk gauzes are new, and very
effective when used for evening cos
tunes, with deep feather ruches about
the hem of the skirt.
The hair may be worn low or high to
suit the taste of the wearer. 1t must,
however, be either one or the other as the
fashion demands an extreme.
The slender effect nowso much sought
in walking costumes may be attained by
wearing with them shoulder cape and
deep cuffs of long heeced fur.
Bla"k monkey fur continues to grow in
popularity and is used quite extensively
for capes, collars, cuffs, muffs and bands
down the front of long cloaks.
A new trimming for cloth gowns is
cloth applique upon fur in the puckered
flower designs Of ribbon embroidery.
The edges are covered with cord Of con-
trasting color.
A Partisan fancy for evening gowns in
the Empire style is the wearing of four
or five unhemmed skirts of tnlle. the
uppermost one bordered with fifteen
rows of soutache braid.
Watches at present reign supreme.
They are used for everything-for card
cases, umbrellas, bracelets, bags. A
fashionable woman in Paris has put them
in rosettes on her slippers.
Deep yokes of passementerie are the
only trimmings seen on the new accor-
deon -pleated cloaks. Over this is worn
in the coolest weather pointed shoul.
der cape or collar of some rich fur.
The exquisitely fine India camel's-hair
goods and Henrietta cloths imported
this winter present wide and beautiful
range of artistic dyes not obtainable
in any other fabrics of corresponding
price.
Heavy checked tweed, made into a
gown of rigid simplicity. is incompara-
Bile for walking. Added to this, for cold
weather, is a newmarket OF the same
material, with overlapping capes and
huge buttons, and long enough to touch
the dress hem.
The velvet evening gown Is the favor.
ite in Paris. Toilets OF black velvet are
furnished with panels Ut black Chantilly
over petticoat of gold satin, embroidered
in black and gold. The same black and
gold embroidery appears upon tie point
ed plastron of the velvet waist. The
sleeves are long under the arm and short
on top or else draped la Grecque.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
DOMINION.

Spirit and clay
Strange yoke-fellows theyl
Spirit and clay,
Linked for day,
Then away, away
Tarrying not for yea or nay
One comrade goes;
Daisies bloom over ones repose.
What did it mean, this union hriefa
Strange! Could the sky!ing by no other birth
Have come to earth?
For the twain were at war, till for base relief,
The nobler cringed-ay, shame to to Il
Cringed to the clay, and its sce2lre fell,
And all the world did see
The usurper's victory.
Sweet is the rest
In earth's mother breast;
Sweeter the rest
Up with the blest,
When earth's transient guest
Flies through the vast like bird to its nest.
When time is done,
Quenched all the fires of star and sun,
Calm DER the wreck shall thu spirit soar.
Yet (shuddering heavens, breathe not the
tale,
Lest angels wail)
Wrecks more than matter are strewn on
life's shore
When spirit with clay is too weak to cope.
Child of such destiny!-horn to such hopel
Behold that fair hope lost.
And weep for battles cost.
Spirit or clay
Shall the scepter sways
Spirit or clay,
Which shall obey,
Since either may?
(Trembles the balance such issues to weigh
Dissolve we must
The dust return to its kindred dust;
And shall it not bow to the lordlier mate
And willing wait on its proud behest,
Till God see best
That itself be lifted from mean estate?
For He who created dishonoreth not,
And even the dust shall be unforgot,
And spirit to glorifed clay
Be linked for an endless day!
-Rosalie II. Broadus, in Independent.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS
Maidens Coquettish and Coy.

Maidens Coquettish and Coy.
Rather inclined to bs pretty,
Rather inclined to be good,
Rather inclined to vague, underlined
Feeling Of sweet sisterhood
Toward the young fellows who love her
When they have asked for hand.
Rather inclined to vague, underlined
Feeling they don't understand.
Fact is this maiden can't help it
Natural born co4uette--
Rather inclined not to make up her mind
To marry-that is, not just yet.
Sister she'll be to them all, and
Loving. and faithful, and true;
Rather inclined round her finger to wind
About-say dozen or two.
Chicago Times.
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Tyranny.

'Tis said that tyranny is dead,
And despotism powerless lies:
How can this be when over me
Fair Ethel so doth tyrannizs9
And yet-and yet-do not forget
! am content her slave to DO!
/ am not fain to break the chain,
So sweet I find Is tyranny.
Clinton ScoiLard, in Hdrper's.
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advanced step 1t became certain lnat tne
lion was in for lark.
"While I was frightened almost to
death" said the man, 81 had sense
enough to humor him. jumped at him,
and he trisked and bounded like q
puppy. Then I retreated. and he ran
after me. 1t was two miles to the village,
and we kept up the play until within q
few rods OF the first hut. 1had my hand
on him twenty times, and when entered
the village had some of the hairs Of his
name to prove the particulars of my ad-
venture
While the tiger has more natural
ferocity than the lion, he IS not to be
dreaded as much when enraged. In
charging among the beaters the tiger is
generally satisfied with knocking single
person down. and after this feat he will
Invariably make bolt. The lion, on
the contrary, if once aroused to fight for
his life, means to die right there, after
doing all the harm he can.
We were in the Matable Land, Africa
"a Government expedition consisting
of upward of 200 men-and had gone
into camp two hours before sundown
one dav ut pool when one of the white
men fired at q lion who was making off.
; The king of beasts had been ''snooling"
, in the shade of some bushes in the open
plain, and had remained quiet in hopes
we would pass. When he saw US 60 into
camp he made sneak for the forest. q
quarter of mile away, and had almost
reached it when the shot was fired. There
, was no hope of hitting him, but more by
, accident than intention the ball struck
The target. The lion was wounded in
the ham. We saw him turn and bite at
the wound, and were lau2hlng Mt his
antics when he suddenly headed for the
, camp. Although he was big fellow,
his name stood up until it seemed as II
he was the size of two.year-old steer.
, His leaps were something tremendous,
and he roared at every spring.
At least twenty shots were fired at the
lion as he charged, and some OF the
/ bullets flung dirt into his face, but We
MIGHT as we'll have tried to stop a hurrl
cane. He had been insulted ano
q wounded aud he wanted revenge. Inc
first thing he came to was horse hltcheo
- to the hind wheel OF wagon. he
( knocked the horse over as nc sprang
lacerating its back in terrible manner
Then he knocked down native, break
S ing tho mans collar bone, pulled another
= down aud shook the life out of him, ano
E then attacked second horse. He wa!
< or the horses back as two of US free
and hit him hard. He fell to the ground
q rolled over, and then sprang to the sea
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-31
THE HORSE BREEDERS EXHIBITION.

1t should be borne i'm mind that the
fifth annual meeting of the Vermont
Association of Road and Trotting Horse
Breeders will be held at Rutland on the
three days beginning with the 2Sth of
August mex The money offered in
stakes and premiums is larger than ever
before, and the interest manifested in
the enterprise is greater, so that it is
fair to predict a meeting even more sue
cessful than any of its predecessors.
The membership fee has been reduced to
two dollars, for which trihing sum any
resident Nermonter (~unless objected to-
can become a member and share all the
privileges of membership, including free
ticket to the three days exhibition, and
the right to exhibit stock. The success
of the association has been largely due
to the entirely clean and unobjectionable
character of its exhibitions, its fair and
able management and the prompt fulfil
ment of its obligations. The association
guarantees that there will be no change
III tIo "oisc III thtse respects. III aims
to return to the public in the form of
added money, premiums, and the i'm
%provement of public exhibition grounds,
every dollar of its receipts, and to give
the best exhibition of the kind that is
held in New England. 1t affords at its
meetings the very best market, as well
as the best place of exhibition for fine
horses that has eyer been been known in
the State.
Entries to stakes and purses close on
the 10th of June, and should be made
to F. ii. Harrington, Secretary, Brandon,
of whom entry blanks and full informa-
ton can be obtained by application.