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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
"The Man With the Lantern"

One of the greatest terrors of the
Pennsylvania oil region is 1.-The man
with the lantern" He has been the cause
of more needless cont1agrations among
oil wells than anything else, and has cost
the region millions of dollars. He is
usually an employe about the wells, and,
in nine cases out of ten, man Of ex.
perience and intelligence; but he will
persist in taking the chances in paying 9
visit now and then to some gas-enveloped
oil tank, carrying the lighted lantern
with him. The result isn't always dis
astrous, but that is not to the credit OF
the man with the lantern. Usually an
explosion results. If destructive fire
does not follow that, the fact will be
without precedent. Sometimes the cause
of fire of this kind will not be quite
certain at first, but it only needs a roll
call of the employees of that particular
property and the taking of an account OF
the tool house stock to ascertain the
cause. There will be one employe short,
and the number of lanterns will be less
one. Then it is known that the man
with the lantern has been wa king.
The man with the lantern first ap
peared in history in 1914. It was at
Marietta, Ohio. Nobody knew what pc.
troleum was in those days, but in dig.
ging a well out there once oil was discov
cred. 1t was called 'fossil oil" by the
local savants. There was great deal Of
gas with it. a lot of the oil was col
lected in cistern One night the mau
with the lantern came stalking on the
scene, but the pyrotechnical wonders
and splendors that were displayed in that
vicinity for days and nights as a result OF
his visit failed to compensate his widow
and six small children for his transfgu.
ration. He materialized with the Le-
ginning of oil operations in the vicinity
of Titusville twenty-eight years ago, and
his dread apparition will continue to
walk abroad as long as oil wells last.
The girl with the oil can has mission
on earth similar to that of the man with
the lantern. But her work being con.
formed to the domestic hearth, of course,
does not concern the oil trade in bust.
ness way. She is first mentioned in
history back in the early days of Oil
Creek. The Widow McCiintock, owner
Of the great McClintock farm, was the
first one on record who fastened her fire
with the oil con with the result that has
since become painfully familiar. 1t wae
through that careless act of hers that her
adopted son, John Steele, was left father
less and motherless on cold and cheer
less world with only $2I00 day coming
in from the McClintock wells for him to
keep the wolf from the door with.
Everybody knows how Johnny Steele
("Coal Oil Johnny'D got along. His for
tune disappeared almost as quickly as
the oil can that gave it to him.-Neu
Y0rE Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
Successful American Women.

About ten years ago family consist.
ing OF mother and three daughters came
to Paris from the United States for the
purpose of educating the girls and CIV
ing them special advantages in the work
which they had undertaken. The mother
was American, the father, then deceased,
a German, but the daughters, who were
very young at this time, were thoroughly
American in pluck, and in their de-
termination to get on and make the most
of their opportunities. I will pass over
the years of trial and struggle this brave
little family endured before they began
to experience the benefit of their muny
sacrifices, or before they began to meet
with the recognition their talents-dc-
served. To day, however, one daughter
is a rising. artist with q much praised
picture in last years salon, for which she
received honorable mention;" the sec
ond daughter is the only woman physi-
clan in France who has been admitted
to the most famous surgical hospital
here in Paris, and is now the wife of a
distinguished young scientist. who takes
her name with his own. The third girl
"a charming young woman she is, too
chose astronomy for her profession,
and is at this moment the only woman
cmplored at the observatory here; in
fact. the only one of her sex who has
been intrusted with the responsible
position of an "observing" astronomer
regularly employed by the Government.
This is an uncommon record for one
family, especially so in country where
the progress of women in the higher
professions is still viewed with surprise,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
The Fanlons Granite Quarries.

AS long as there are postotflcesA custon
houses, big bridges, and the like to build
the State of Maine is sure to come in to
a generous share of the money expended
. in their construction, for there is granit'
enough down here, says Bangor lette1
to the New York Sun, to build brldgs
to Ireland, and it is of the very fnes'
kind, too. Sections of Names geology
cal makeup are distributed all over
country in the form of magnificent pu
lie and private editces, and many 9 p1
of metropolitan, pavement, as far West
St. Louis, is composed of granite bloc
from the auarries of this State. y
Island, Vinal Haven, Blue Hill, N
Waldo, Gouldsboro, and Sullivan, o
the Eastern coast, have long been famou|
for their quarries, and now Hallowel1,
on the Kennebec. is becoming 9 grea|
place for the knights of the hammer AM
drill. Four hundred men are at VOL
there now, and business is boomin,
Granite is being taken out for the Metro
politau Museum of Art and the Amer1l
can Bank building, New York, and fol
the ten-story Bank of Commerce build
ing in Pittsburg, Penn. land the contract
for monumental and tomb work now oi
hand amount to Sl00,o00 The shaft q
the John Wentworth monument y
Chicago was qusrrjed and cut at Ha4
lowell. This shaft Is fifty-two feet long
weighs sixty-fve tons, and was shipped
to Chicago on two cars specially bui
for the purpose. Some very creditab
sculpturing is done at Hallowell, largt
building being devoted specially to sue
work. The sculptors are now at wor
upon eighteen life.size figures for tn
Bible Building in New York city, an
the last of the figures for the Plymoua
monument has just been expressed.
life.size plaster bust of the late Govern
Bodwell has recently been complet'
and is pronounced a work of genul1
art. twill be copied in marble, aI
the reproduction placed on exhibition
the State House this winter. A b2
granite quarry is handy thing to q
around town, for the quarrymen g
good wages, and there are so many
them that their patronage brings JOY
the hearts of the shopkeepers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
A Butler Masquerades as q Diplomat

On one occasion while British Minister
in Washington, Lord sackville's trusted
butler asked for and obtained permission
to visit Baltimore for a few days. In
media.ely his arrival there he drove tc
one of the leading hotels and registered
as Hon. Lionel Sackville West. An
hour or two later note was handed to
him. in which the writer stated that
although personally unacquainted with
the British Minister they were desirous
of extending to him the hospitality OF
their house during his stay and closed
with an invitation that he would be theil
guest at dinner that evening. This in
yita,ion was accepted by the butler, whe
arraved himself IN full dress attire and
actually attended the dinner. where
throughout the evening he maintained
his assumed character with such clever.
ness that neither his entertainer nor the
guests asked in his honor ever suspected
that he was other than just what he re.
presented himself to be, the Minister
Pleuipotentiary from the Court of st.
es.-New York Graphic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
Regulating Women's Coiffnres.

In mediaval times, when It was quite an
every day occurrence for laws to be passed
regulating the quality of the material, as
we'll as the fashion and establishment of
clothes to be worn by various grades of
society, it is no matter of surprise to
find that head dresses shared in these
sumptuary laws, and that, as one in
stance, the Mayor of Chester issued, in
the thirty-second year of the reign of
Henry VIII, an edict that, to distin-
guish married from unmarried women.
no unmarried woman was to be allowed
to wear white or colored caps, and that
no woman was to wear a hat unless when
sho rode or went abroad into the coun-
try Woman's World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
A Clever Woman.

Once, while an Englishwoman was
travelling in the West, she was obliged
to take a seat in one crowded Cur, while
her friends entered next.
Her peighbor in the seat was dis
agreeable-looking fellow, whose features
showed an alarming amount of low cum
ming, promising actual knaveTy. In
spite of the Englishwoman's distrust OF
him, she fell asleep, and was awakened
by feeling her companion withdrawing
his hand from her pocket.
Her first impulse was to raise an alarm
her second, to ascertain the extent of
her loss. 1t proved that the thief had
only succeeded in taking her baggage
checks, and as his ticket was marked
"Chicago," the lady resolved to wait
until they reached that place, also her
destination.
The train ran into the station at
Chicago, the pickpocket made his way
to the door, and the lady walked beside
him. A baggage express messenger was
passing by the car, and the lady stopped
him.
This gentleman has the checks for
my baggage" she said, pointing to the
thief.
The messenger turned to the man who,
astonished aJ the srddenness with which
the tables had been turned, hastily pro-
duced the checks and disappeared in the
crowd,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
Wonderful Sense of Touch.

James Cooper, proprietor of a store in
Steubenville, Ohio, has been totally
blind for number of years, losing his
sight by disease contracted in the army,
but attends to his business without help,
makes change of all kinds of money,
paper or silver, as though he had both
eyes, it being impossible to deceive him
in the denomination of the bills. He
draws a large pension on account of his
disability. and in his business has ac-
cumulated quite fortune. - Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
Education of Japanese Women.

The better class of Japanese women
are by no means uneducatrd. They re-
ceive, am told, better training than
the women of any other Oriental nation,
and they arc better treated than those
of any other A>iatic nation. The Japan.
ese girl can, as o rule, read and write
japanese. She learns al about house
hold matters, and she takes the whole
charge OF the household. This is her
sphere, and she is known rs the honora-
bic mistress of the household. Her
husband has no right to be meddling
with the cooking stove. She pays the
servants and the market bills. In the
case of the poorer merchants she often
acts as one of the clerks in the stores
and takes the place of the husband
when he is not present. In the country
you will find her often working in the
fields, and at Nikko saw great mum.
hers of women who acted US the leaders of
pack horses carrying copper and goods
up and down the mountains. Still,
think tho women here have an easier
time than those of the lower classes of
Germany or Holland, and you see fewer
labor hardened faces among the other
sex here than you do in many of the
countries Of Europe.
The wife is, however, after all but lit
tie better than servant of the husband.
and the ties of marriage and divorce are
here so loose that he can dispense with
her at pleasure Marriage In Japan is
not attended with the solemnity and re-
ligious ceremony of the American we'd
ding. 1t is civil contract and the
negotiations for it 60 on, as q rule.
through the parents. The young man
and woman have no preliminary court
ship, and the seeing one another for one
or two times is the only chance they have
of deciding whether there is any COM
patibility of temperament.-FranA G.
Carpenter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Where an Eternal Leap Year Exists.

Equal rights prevail in the Isthmus Of
Darien, so far as courting is concerned.
Either the man or woman may pop the
question: In Ukraine, Poland, the
girl always does it. She goes to the
house of the man she loves and boldly
makes known her sentiments. Should
her suit not be successful, she makes it
awkard for the man by hanging round
until it is, or till its hopelessness is
proved by long delay.-NsD York Wit
ness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
WHEN LOVE PASSED BY.
Twas busy with my ploughing,

Twas busy with my ploughing,
When Love passed by.
''Come,n she cried, "forsake thy drudging
Iife's delights are few and grudging;
What hath man of all his striving,
All his planning and contriving,
Here beneath the skys
When the grave opes to receive him,
Wealth and wit and honors leave him
Love endures for aye!'
But answered: 81 am ploughing.
When with straight and even furrow
All the field is covered thorough
Twill follow"
Love passed by.
Twas busy with my sowing,
When Love passed by.
''Conae," she cried, ''give DER thy toiling;
For thou MOL thou hast but moiling:-
Follow me, where meadows fertile
Bloom unsown with rose and myrtle,
Laughing to the sky:
Laugh for Joy the thousand flowers
Birds and brools-the laughing hours
All unnoted fly"
But I answered: IL am sowing.
When my acres all are planted,
Gladly to thy realm enchanted
Twill follow"
Love passed by.
Ivns busy with my reaping,
When love passed by.
'tCome," she cried, "thou planted'st grieving,
Ripened sorrows art thou sheaving.
II the heart lie fallow, vain is
Garnerea store. Thy wealth of grain is
Less than Loves least sigh.
Haste thee-for the hours fast dwindle
Ere the pyre of Hope shall kindle
In life's western sky"
But answered: II am reaping.
When with song of youth and maiden,
Home the hock-cart comes, full-laden,
Twill follow"
Love passed by.
Ihad gathered in my harvest,
When Love passed by.
s'Stny," called-to her, swift speeding.
Turning not. my cry unheeding,-
'IStay, O Love, fain would follow
Stay thy flight, o feet-winged swallow
Cleaving twilight sky!
! nm old and worn and weary,
Void my fields and heart-and dreary,
With thee would I fly.
Garnered woe is all my harvest,
Sad ghosts of my dead hopes haunt me,
Fierce regrets, like demons, taunt me-
Ssay!-I follow"
Love passed by.
Solomon Soils Cohen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09

Oves eleven million dozen of eggs
were imported from Canada last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05

Congress shall be thought necessary, and shall
succeed in changing the revenue laws. Boob in
defeating just and large claims against Gov
ernmont, which viii have 10 be paid sooner or
later and might advantageously be paid now
when TIE Treasury is overlooking, and in de-
feating all measures to reduce the revenue, the
flibustering minority has 90 shaped things that
an excess Of receipts over expenditures is insyi-
table. If bonds continue to be offered at prices
which the Governments chooses to pay, the
surplus can be employed as ii has been Of late
But failure to obtain bonds at reasonable
rates would result in an accumulation OF cur
rency in the Treasury. This would not OF
necessity be misfortune By any means, but
1t is important at the threshold of new Adj
ministraHon to realize exactly what the Do
Nothing Congress has done, under the dicta-
tion Of revolutionary minority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
s.rrs FoR the BENEFIT or ARTISTS

.....r paintings, organized By tho Art
a $3.50, A,d society and tho Artists Fund Sos
,latv VIII begin at the Fifth Avenue oaAenes san
ss .,a contInus on Wednesday and THURSDAY
..sn,n9s Ths purpose Of these societies deserves
,ubstansal support, and t Is TO De hopeo uAs NV
anti AZ the sales may prove encouraging. Yonsns
seventy drawings and paintings o5 the iA'e 3. " -
, Ia .gsnty five paintings contributed By men,
- ~ The Artists Fund Society viii be sod ior 'ns
henest Of Mr. Darley's estate.
rrn,s Gale should interest collectors Of Americans
s- A. viii hardly be disputed that Mfr. barley $1,000
among tho nrst Of the old school OF American nuss
traitors Like many painters Of his time. ms eeisl
esnck.ton was obtained at home under many ais<o-
yantaues hut his sympathy with American themes
and hiz aptness In characssnasssn nave sNn -.
work q lasting interest Danisy might Des c.,ie1
member Of the old Knickcrbocker SGT Oh nsfsu' -
,, r IN sbis coection which recalls his first worry
me i,I,rsation Of The Library Of American Humo
Su. As illustrations minor Si s srsas Il Z ss 70 M
Sst parisss reputation was estaslshed By as oss
line drawings for ae lS e Would DO interesting 70
soc collection OF these designs and others msas hot
yudds Margaret for Cooper and tos pc q ssdcsss
me s s,tst senno tas and industry and also h
limitations few subjects like ON w h ynsors
paas,ns are reminders OF the artists visit % rusvt
aiter the close OF the war; but nearly al these s' s
represent characteristic phases OF Amet,sssn ,avs.
There arc ss' sseess = farm studies end draw
ings OF indians and Of the experiences o. a.,
hs earlier years OF our wess ossas ss' and two
three Rosoutonary sccnes 1he werkmansa,ey, q
sometimes seem naive according ~. sne sincerity snd
spirit, Wills they are often learkssrs. .s sss
Hnt barioys work Is too well known 70 nsol ss,ton
SION 81 this time, and we desisc onv y eNN
ISs:s assspss ,eseags S.,s.. y a ss s,
Wait seec 4 = Af,er 5e RAIN Sr. 1rerSn4 49,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
1Ee1sL1TToY FoR THE INSANE.


The Assembly Committee ON State Charitable
Institutions have made favorable report on
General Batcheller's bill providing for the
transfer of the insane from county to State
ssylums. In so doing the committee simply
responded TO public sentiment. The proposed
Legislation grew out OF a state of things which
may Justly be said to be an indictments Of the
wisdom and philanthropy Of this great Com
monwealth. The last annual report Of the
State Board of Charities demonstrated that
there was crying need Of change In thecare
Of the insane, and the Investigations Of the
State Charitable Aid Society extending through
many years have established the Same facS
These two great charitable organizations agree
that If the insane are to have the treatment 10
which they are entitled they must be State
and not county charge. This conclusion IL
Endorsed by the State Medical Society, which
has petitioned the Legislature to pass the
Batcheller bill, and by all the other leading
medical associations in the State.
1t is right to expect that a measure 50 benef-
cent and so strongly urged on purely unselfsh
and pubHo-spirited grounds win not fail II
ought TO pass by unanimous vote.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05

closing hours ss4hsstase Dspsssnsns Os sense.
s tional rnmors Of naval battle IN /, Samoan
waters, but he was also startled y sae reap q
pearance Of seube on 'ny $500 .t,.otsS .a ~ -
ssI1,or = Tamasese, drove Maliebos from Apia,
o o1TJ ra; I. the German flag early in 1888.
ATT After Gree Gposneosum was recalled By the United
e,,atos Government fOr procsiming an Ameri-
can CAMP professionals, steubel also left Samoa Az
the Washington conference seore'ary = b pa,
referred to this disappearance - 81 os.ai 70
b1,ke to the consul-General, but eae German
Mini Minister oonradiCbsd him and explained that
s1ss' had been transferred TO Copenhagen
s sveu nrom s Secretary Baysrd must have
i learned with dismay in bis closing hours at
the Departments that stsubd 90 far from on be-
ing disoredited by the zeal dlspiayea oS =, MIN m
~ -" hehan Of Tamasese, had been sent back to
Sar 60, and that his restoration 10 power was
ss e IN Berlin as concession to the
American Government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05
PERSONAL.

cir Edwin Arnold has Just had large tumor re-
moved from his head, and he VIII soon discard the
slmIl cap he has lepg been wearing: He recenuy
underwent an operation for nepatc aoscess
To look at Judge Cooley, Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, who to be bound IN calf,
and as unsentsmental as his own work on the Laws
OF corporations no one would suppose that he would
ever elope with GIRL but that was tho way he got
his wise. The affair DIDN'T happen very recently,
says SThs Warrington POST and has created no
sensation IN washington society th winter, for very
few people know tc facts even suspect that Jndgs
essy .s S$s fS sSa ss sSs
thirty years ego She how presides over bis house
= Ann As a he pSsS o s0cH IR ss .s 2, &c
ssS S g ' g sSa g can ss e1a
nectcnt Chief Justceship offered to him BY Governor
BuIkolsy he g now United States DISTRICT Judge, a
iits position, with hait.pay pension on retirement
Miss Jeanette HGford, dauehsg Of President Hari-
sons private secretary, s pictured IN The Flords
Tlmes-Unions as eighteen years old and fair type
Of the robust Western girl Her cheeks arc rosy
with tho flush OF health her eyer arc deep blue
her hair brown, and she Is quito pretty, but hei
wonderful voice Is one Of her principal sstrsSa?ns
ing a. she inheis the talent from her, she hsyinl
once beea TIE possessor Of one OF the voices
Mr. r. Bcllingham, who has Just retired nom en-
gfne-drvins on tHs Great Northern Railway ungandl
after forty years. service, has had wsnferf career
In is4s he was driver on the railway between Padi
and Rouen. Whom tho revolution broke out which
caused Louis Philippe to fec, he remained q. his post
and drove tho last train which went from Roucn u
paris prior TO the mob burning the bridge across the
seine ana by that cutting on galway eommunl
eaton with the northern provinces OF France, Afte
nat he returned to England and drove the st train
EOrncase and from that time up 70 few weeks since
he has renamed at work on the line between horn
anything approaching serious accident
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-05

81 this sort cannot hghSfuily be coIngsts1 = ].
t, .i il court The analogy 10 Grand July
inouest suggested by one member q 700 V Tn.
, n,;.sse 4, sss mncb more nearly perfect Inc
,,,,,;t,ss mn pose is, or ought to be- TO ses
out the truth, t.e whole truth, ane n 49, ts S
the Truth. Ii the Witnesses will 40 wnao u -,
can q tbi, end, they need have no iear' ~. ~,
need thew feel under any necessity Of sngaglns =
LAWYERS to protect them. The facs enao , Sa ~
haws =. do,s q IN itself arcuses the suspioi on
that they felt themselves in need Of lssa. nslp
Still The committee are doubtless lar ninueu
~ onoh not to let this circumstance preluaice
Al. IL, ;rdS