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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-14
Walking Down Hill Makes Bow Legs.

sBow legged people are generally
thought to have involuntarily deformed
themselves by crawling when in infancy"
said physician and surgeon to Dispatch
writer. ."Not so," continued the M. D.,
.'for in number of years of practice I
have paid attention to the many NAL
formed people who have had their limbs
bowed even after maturity"
"Whya" was the inquisitive interjec-
ton.
sWell, it is peculiar fact that per-
sons residing in altitudinous houses-of
which there are numberless in both Pitts
burg and Allegheny-are the ones to
whom refer. The daily ascent and de-
scent of hills, where the horse cars or in
clines do not traverse, has been the cause
of more crooked limbs than was ever
thought of. The ascent of hill, of,
course, makes muscular development; but
in the descent person throws the entire
weight of his body upon the knee and
ankle joints, which relax in order to ease
the strain upon the forelimb, and the
main weight falls for support upon the
ankles. There is superabundance of
avoirdupois bearing down on them, which
naturally causes them to crook, thus
throwing the limb from the ankle to the
knee into 'bow' shape.
"The only remedy I could suggest
would be for all hill denizens to descend"
D;spQtch.
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Pixies Peak AscensiOns.

Pixies Peak ascensions are no longer
at all hazardous. On the contrary, you
take morning train at Colorado Springs
or Manitou for Cascade Canyon, where
new and perfectly comfortable carriages
are in waiting. The trip is made behind
four-in-hand team of strong horses to
the Halfway House, where mules are
substituted. The first two-thirds of the
road is as good as any turnpike. Near
the top there is such scarcity of soil
and such an abundance of water that the
road in many places is rocky, but in no
place is it unsafe. The grade is very
easy, the maximum being ten per cent,
or rise of ten feet in one hundred. The
views, of course, are magnificent, not
only from the summit but at all points
on the journey. An hour is spent on the
summit, where one can see Colorado
Springs laid out on the plains like
checker board; also Manitou, the Garden
of the Gods. Denver and Pueblo may
be located and the mountain views north,
west, and south of the continental di-
vide, the Sangre de Christie range and of
the snow crests of the Spanish Peaks must
be experienced to be appreciated.
The trip to the top is made in five
hours, giving thirty minutes for a very
fair rs cent dinner at the Halfway House,
and the descent requires three hours.
The top is waste of brown stone. Flow
ers and grass grow as high as there is any
soil. Wild forget-me-nots, with full
sized flower, and scarcely half an inch of
stem are very abundant, often being
found under the snow, far above the
timber line, which is about IL, 900 feet.
The old Government signal station was
abandoned last October. 1t was found
that observations at so great an altitude
were of no practical value to the service
at large. A man is in charge of the
property with nothing to do but draw
$50 per month, charge 81 for poor meals,
25 cents for coffee, and 81 each for pho
tographs. The trip, however, is grand
one and is well worth the S. per head
charged by the carriage owners. The
climb to and from the elevation of ID, 147
feet is made between $50 A. NJ. and 6
P. NJ, and is no more fatiguing than any
other carriage ride of thirty-two miles,
Chicago San. ....
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CHICKS ON THE FARM.

Poultry reared with free range of Or
chard and meadow are the largest and also
finest in plumage and symmetry. They
have prouder carriage and look of
thrift and health not often seen in chicks
reared within the limits of town lots. If
the breeder must, of necessity, limit the
range, he must provide artifcially the
advantages which the country supplies.
Insects he must replace with chopped
meat, and lacking grass range, he must
cut grass and clover daily. Shade must
be provided during the summer, otherwise
failure is sure. Poultry raising and
fruit culture 60 hsnd in hand, and may be
combined on the same ground. An Or
chard is much benefited by allowing
fowls freerange, as the crop of harmful
insects is kept down. In the heat of
summer the young chicks will grow and
thrive in the shady orchards, and pick up
much of their living init. If the breeder
lacks these advantages, and is compelled
to raise his fowls in confinement, he may,
by extra care, raise fair birds; but even
with the best attention they will never
equal in beauty of plumage and vigor of
constitution and size the country reared
chicks that have developed their muscles
in many aforaging expedition.-New York
Watness.
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Bugs That Laugh ut Heat.

A few days since Frank Woodward, OF
Albany, N. Y, who was visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas B. Smith in Fair Haven,
received a peculiar present from Cali
fornia. It was sent to him by Leland
Stanford, the millionaire Senator, whose
wife is an aunt of Woodward, and also OF
Mrs. Smith. Mr.. Woodward opened the
box and found three salamanders packed
in cotton. These bugs are more read
about than gazed upon. They were
found in caverns by some of Mr.. Stan
ford's employees, and Mr.. Stanford sent
them East. The three bugs travelled the
5000 miles without ''visible means of
support" unless it was the cotton, but on
arriving they were very frisky and evi-
IDENTIFY in good spirits. They are chunky
little fellows about two inches long, and
resemble nothing as much as they do a
piece of steel. They look like raw steel
and act like it-that is, they seem to be
metallic and invulnerable. They are
alike insensible to heat and cold, and can
be toasted on a red-hot stove or seated
upon an ice cake without their composure
being in the least disturbed.-NeW Rare'a
Palladium.
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High Speed on Railroads.

There are many things connected with
high speeds on railways which tax the
ingenuity of locomotive engineers to the
utmost. The lines have to be made
strong enough to Withstand the heavy
blows of the locomotive, for the other
portions of the running plant are light
in comparison. A railway train at sixty
miles an hour may be compared to huge
projectile and subject to the same laws.
The momentum is the product of the
weight of the train, multiplied by the
square of the velocity of feet per second
and if we allow train of 120 tons, trav-
cling at the rate of sixty miles an hour,
then the work required to bring it to a
standstill would be IA, 400 foot tons ex-
erted through one minute, OF nearly a
thousand horse power, which gives some
idea of its destructive force if,unhapplly,
it should come into action; and yet this
terrific power is so entirely under COM
mand that the strength of a child turning
the small handle of the vacuum brake can
bring the train to stand in few Sec
onds.-Chambsrs's Journal.
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IMPROVE THE PASTURES.

One of the greatest neglects in Ameri-
can agriculture, is that of not properly
cultivating pasture lands. In England
farmers pay almost as much attention to
these as they do to their meadows; and
there is very little difference between
them in the annual yield of grass There
are lands so stony or rough of surface
that they cannot be prepared for i'm
proved pasturage except at too great ex-
pense. These must be left to their natu-
raj state and to yield such grass as they
can without cultivation. But when the
soil is moderately good, and not too
billy or rocky, it-should be put in fine
condition, and the grass thus made to
come forth early in the spring, endure
through the summer heat and last till late
autumn-in fact the same as in the mead
ows-so that large instead of scant profits
may be annually obtained. Greater at
tention should be paid when stocking the
land by using variety of seeds, and SOW
ing twice or thrice the quantity generally
allowed. There is gain instead of loss
made by this, as good, thick stand is
secured the first season, instead of being
obliged to wait the second or third year
for the grass to spread fully, and fully
cover the surface. By sowing variety
of seed, the sort best suited to the soil
will gradually take precedence and be-
come permanent. It cannot always be
told, even by the most experienced farm
ers, which sort will triumph; it must be
left for time to determine. .-Mew York
Tribune.
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after will make the richest sort. Put,

latter will make the richest sort. Put
two-thirds of the milk into large tub,
and raise the temperature of the last
third to that of new milk. The whole
quantity is then whisked together, the
rennet added, and the tub covered over;
in this state it is allowed to stand until it
is completely turned, when the curd is
struck down several times with the skim
ming dish, after which it is allowed
to subside. The vat covered with cheese
cloth is next placed over the tub and
filed with curd by means of q skinner;
the curd is pressed down with the hands
and more added as it sinks, until the
curd rises above the edge of the vat to
about two inches. Now add the proper
quantity of salt, after which place q
board over it and under it and apply
pressure for two or three hours. The
cheese is next turned out and surrounded
by fresh cheese-cloth, and pressure
again applied for eight or ten hours, when
it is commonly removed from the press,
salted over again, and pressed again
for twelve to twenty hours. The quality
of the cheese depends on this part of
the process to great extent, as if any of
the whey is left in it, it will not keep.
Further, the cheese must be washed in
warm water, wiped dry, and placed in a
cool place to ripen. This is a bare out
line of the process of making cheese.
Experience will quickly teach more than
we could tell in q column. It is impor.
tant to have a good rennet, which should
never be taken from a calf that has not
sucked, or that is not at least two days
old.-Courier-JournaI. -.
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A Persian Solomon.

The Shah of Persia has a numerous
family. His .frstborn is Massoud Mira,
whose official title is Zil-es-Sultan
CsShadow of the King'O. He has been
Governor of Ispahan for many years, and
has amassed enormous wealth, if all re-
ports be true, by means the most despic-
able. He lacks, it is said, the Humanity
of his father, and of the many ''practical
Jokes" told about him, the following is a
specimen: During the melon season a
soldier had picked melon and devoured
it without paying the peasant for it the
stipulated price. The peasant went to
complain to Massoud Mira, whose ear is
always open to the lowest. After listen
ing to his plant he said: "Well, you
shall have justice. Twill test this mat
ter to the core. Bring in the soldier" !"
The gormandizing soldier was brought in.
"Cut this man open," he said to his exc
cutioner. ''If there is melon inside, "
he added to the peasant, "you will get
your money; if not, off goes your head. "
The soldier was cut open, the melon
found, and the peasant paid .-Ne'0 York
Observer. ,a a- -a
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BRITTLENEss OF THE HooF.

A hard hoof is desirable rather than
otherwise, as the foot will not wear so
much when the horse goes unshod in the
summer; but it tends to become brittle
and break away under the strain of the
shoe nails. If the hoof is brittle in this
way it is an advantage rather than other
wise, as the injury by breaking can easily
be prevented by keeping the hoofs
dressed with mixture of vaseline and
glycerine. If the hoof, however, crumbles
at the sole and around the walls into soft
powder, this indicates disease of the horn
induced by an infamed condition of the
foot, and often follows an attack of
founder Qaminitis or fever of the feet).
This should be treated by the use of q
cooling laxative, as pound of epson
salts and bran mashes for food for time;
the feet should be poulticed with inseed
meal until all heat about them is removed,
and then dressed daily with the vaselinc
and glycerine mixture. This condition
of the feet is frequently produced by the
horse standing in soft manure, which rots
the horn and causes the brittleness COM
planned of.-Mew York Times.
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The Japanese Cooking Stove.

The japanese, with all their ingenuity,
have never produced anything that an
American would consider satisfactory in
the way of cooking stove. The jap
anese kitchen has a little range or furnace,
made of plaster, with three compartments
for fire and circular orifice above each,
in which to place pot or kettle. There
is no chimney tlue and no draught. The
faggots are placed in the open furnace
and lighted. The smoke issues from the
opening and fills the kitchen. The Cor
cans use similar stove or range. For
heating the japanese have little portable
braziers or boxes, hibaches, in which
charcoal is burned. If a man gets cold,
as he frequently does, he clasps one of
these boxes in his arm and then wraps a
blanket around himself and the box
Washington Star. .,f 81,
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Cheese a Fair Substitute for Meat.

In the dietary of the laboring classes,
cheese plays not unimportant part; it
has been pronounced by a high authority
to afford concentrated and economic
food. It can be always at hand, it re-
quires no cooking, and may be considered
fair substitute for meat, combining
heat-giving and fesh-forming elements
in very useful proportions. From the
great variety of cheeses thrown upon the
market at the present day, no exact estl-
mate can be given of its nutritive value,
for this depends upon the amount OF
butter and casein which, it contains.
One cheese may be made from the richest
of unseparated milk, produced from
high-class cows, fed on rich pasture; an
other may be made from the thinnest OF
skim-milk; and ingenuity can now make
cheese with very little, or, indeed, with
out any milk at all. Beans are said to
answer the purpose. It does not appear
that any injurious ingredient are en-
ployed in the Justification of this article;
simply substances foreign to that which
it processes to be. A fair sample of
cheese ought to contain two thousand
six hundred and sixty grains of carbon
(besides free hydrogen), and three hun
dred and fifty grains Of nitrogen in each
pound. It is an economical food, espe-
cially if, as Sir Erasmus Wilson main
tanned, not more than one ounce ought
to be eaten at q meal, But this limit of
quantity is surely only the fad of par
ticular mind.-Argonaut. T..s' ~, E.s
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THE POTATO ROT.

Every year the farmers dread the po-
tato rot, which has done great damage in
seasons past. The rot first appeared in
Ireland in 1S47 and was imported into
this country but recently. It is fungus
which grows within the plant, filing the
cells with white threads, (which bear small
balls or capsules containing black spores.
It is these black spores which discolor the
potatoes and from which the new plants
spring. If diseased potatoes are left in
the ground they infect the land and pro.
pagate pest for the next seasons crop of
potatoes. When the potatoes die and rot
in the ground the small spores turn into
dust and rise in the air to be carried away
to some other field. The disease spreads
rapidly in this way. The best way to
destroy the germ is to gather up all of
the potatoes, small and large, and boil
them for the fowl and swine. This will
kill the spores and prevent the spread of
the disease. Never feed them to the ami
mails before boiling them.
The damaged potatoes should be kept
from the sound ones after they are dug.
It is we'll, then, to dust the sound ones
with fresh, air-slaked lime, which will
destroy any adhering spores. Keep the
potatoes dry, too, as this will tend to
keep the spores dormant. In selecting
seed potatoes never take one that shows
any black places; then roll the cuttings
in air-slaked lime. The potato rot is
strictly contagious and it should be killed
wherever it manifests itself. If every
farmer would be as careful in dealing
with his crop of potatoes the rot would
soon be exterminated and never heard
from again in this country Washington
Star, ,
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
cInnAeEs THAT DO NOT HEAD.

The defective cabbages in the fall are
those that have been checked in growth
during summer. To head properly a
cabbage should grow without ceasing
after it has recovered from the shock of
transplanting. The shock is perhaps
useful, as it supplies the plant with new
set of roots. If a dry time comes on,
water literally with water in which COM
mercial fertilizers have been dissolved.
No crop grown will prove better for this
labor than cabbage. It may make the
difference between cabbage head and a
mess of unstable leaves.-Boston Culti-
Gator.
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Mankind's Average Age.

The average age at which mankind die
is now forty years, and is steadily on the
increase. The United States, despite the
talk about the rapidity with which the
Americans wear themselves out, forges
ahead of every other nation on earth in
respect to the longevity of its citizens,
fifty-fve years being the average here.
Of all the nations of Europe Russia is the
most of a favorite with the death angel.
Boston Cultiuator.
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A Bic Trout Farm.

Pennsylvania has big trout farm near
Emans station, on the East Pennsylvania
Railroad. There are eight ponds at the
farm, (which number by actual count
"a, 700 brook trout and $500 California
trout from one to four years of sge."
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It Don't Pay

To use uncertain means when suffering from
diseases Of the liver, blood or LUNGS, such. as
bMousness, or Liver complaint" skin dis
eases, scrofulous sores or swelltngs, or from
tion Of the lungs) when DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery Is guaranteed to cure all
these affections. II taken in time, or money
paid for 1t will by proW pity refunded. - 90.
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DIRECTIONS FOR CHEESE MANUFACTURES.
The materials employed in making
cheese are milk and rennet. The milk
may be of any kind from the very poorest
to that which is rich in cream. The
former will make very mean cheese. the
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J 49, Forced to Leave Home. =
! Over 90 people were forced to leave their
homes yesterday to call for a free trial pack
age OF Lanes Family Medicine. If your blood
is bad, your liver and kidneys out of order, IL
YOU are constipated and have headache and an
unsiehtly 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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A School of the Highest Order for Young
T,adiea. -- 90

THERE are about 5000 locomotives in tho
United States. 80
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$500 offered for an incurable case Of Catarrh
In the Head, by the proprietors Of Dr. sage's
Ramedy . g. %. ~, .--' ...
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THE Michigan wool crop this year is estima-
ted at IL $3.50 600 pounds. ..r
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1ngham University, Le Roy, N. Y, estab-
nshed over fifty years, offers superior adVan-
tages in it's Literary, Music and Art DEPART
ments. Excellent home. Attention given to
social culture. Rates moderate. Send. for
catalogue. Address Miss R. N. Webster,
PRINCIPAL ., ... "" go
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Penny wise and pound foolish" are those
who think It sco1,onu to use cheap soda and
rosin soaps, instead of the good old Dobbing's
Electric Soap; for sale by all grocers since lsA.
Try 1t once. Be sure, buy genuine.
- o enn nm ,oun5o NJ hon ev
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Forced to Leave Home.

TIE limbs of many Mifain County Penno
Il ees are dying from locust stings.
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Ask your druggist for "Tansill's Punch"
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CALToRsA sent $500, 900 pounds Of hone
to Europe last year.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-05
LOCAL MELANGE.
The Settlement Between
Orange and Los Angeles.
THE GARRETT CASE ON TRIAL
Malta Repeats the Story of Her
Wr0ngs-Other Matters In
the Courts.

The matter Of where to pay taxes on
property in the new county of Orange
he's been vexed question for some
weeks. As fast as q point Of settlement
appeared reached, new difficulty came
up. The California Code ct Section 8, ,975,
says: When county is divided or the
boundary is altered all taxes levied be-
fore the division was made or the bound
ary changed, must be collected by the
officers of and belonging to the county
in which the territory was situated before
the division or change was made.
That seemed to settle it that Los An
geles county should collect the taxes, and
good lawyers 80 thought; but then came
up the question, when is the levy made ?
The Supervisors have agreed that 1t is
made when the Board of Supervisors
fix tie rate and not until then. This
gives the collection of the taxes in Orange
county to the officers of that new
county. State Comptroller John P. Dunn
takes the same view, as is evidenced by
his dispatch the substance of which ie
appended to the report of the proceed.
ings of the Board of Supervisors as it ap.
pears in the HERALD today. This re.
lieves the people of Orange county from
sll further doubt. They will pay taxes
at Santa Ana.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-05
THE LUCAS TRIAL.
The Lawyers Have Their lnnIngs
at 1t Now.

The Lawyers Have Their lnnImgD
at It Now.
In the case of Detective Lucas against
the Examiner, for $50, 900 damages, the
first part of yesterday morning was taken
up by the plaintiff in putting on testi-
mony to establish his good character.
W. W. Holcomb, lawyer, Captain A..
M. Thornton, Under Sheriff, and B. G.
Weir, Deputy Clerk OF the Supreme
Court of this State. swore that they knew
Lucas character to be of good repute.
Fred Lambourne was put on the stand
by the defense to show that Gaines
visited his place just prior to it's being
bnrglarized, and that he was there at
that time as representative of Lucas in
his detective capacity.
An unsuccessful fight was made by
plaintiffs counsel to prevent the intro
duction of the record of the conviction
of Lucas in the United States Court ON
an indictment for falsely personating q
revenue officer and taking money from
violators of the revenue laws in Butte
and Plumas counties, for which he was
sentenced to pay fine 500 and serve
eight months imprisonment in the Ala
media County Jail.
It was stipulated that in the argument
both sides have two hours. Col. Wells
opened for the plaintiff and epoke yes
terday afternoon three. quarters of an
hour. This morning Mr.. Dibbla will
speak two hours for the defense and be
followed by Mr.. Allen, who will close
for the.pleintif in AMI hour and quarter.