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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
A Modern knight Crusader.

The Hetman ON Achlnotf, the leader
of the proposed expedition of missiona-
ries into ADyssinia, on which the Rus-
sian Government has placed an embargo,
is a Cossack General whose record as a
knight errant and leader of freelanc ces IS
far more suited to figure in the chronl'
cles of the Middles Ages than in the
history of the prosaic ninteenth century.
He is man of remarkably unprepos-
sesslng appearance, with red, dlshev-
eled hair. a restless eye, a bulls neck,
and the figure of an athlete. After va
rious exciting adventures in the Cau-
casus, he turned up in Abyssinia about
three years ago, and succeeded IN con-
ouering, at his own expense, about
twenty miles of territory on the adjacent
east coast of Africa. There he set up a
SOFT of independent Government which
he named New Moscow. After hard
fight he secured from the native King:
from whom he seized the territory treaty
recognizing him as a sovereign: Some
months ago he returned to Russia to Sc
cure cole nists for his settlement. The
Russian Government has never looked
upon his proceedings with much favor,
and appears to have formally put an ex-
tinguisher upon it. When AschlnoFt lett
New Moscow there were only no Rus
slams, all Cossacks, in his settlement
Pailadelphia telegraph.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Walking on Clutches.

A New York Graphic reporter sat be-
side two men in a Third avenue surface
care. One of them had lost leg, aud
his crutches were beside him. IL sup
pose" said his friend to the lame man,
you dread the approach of slippery
weather. 1t must give you good deal
of trouble to get about"
eyes" replied the lame man." we do
slip around little at first, but almost
every one who depends on canes or
crutches has them fixed this way tor
winter" lifting one of his own as he
spoke and showing a stout brad in the
end. "You see," he said, "that unless
a freezing spell comes on Unexpectedly
q lame man is generally better off than
some who are obliged to trust to their
own legs"
81 suppose that q good deal of the
sympathy we feel for lame people IS
wasted, then9" said the first speaker.
81 am afraid some of it is" replied
the lame man. sit is IN my case any
way. I've got one good leg and one
wooden one and two crutches, and for
lust walking around on the street or any
where else on a level I don't ask any one
for favors. In fact, can, with my four
legs. outwalk almost anybody who de-
pends on his two. But when it comes
to going up and down stairs it is little
hard sometimes. In old times there used
to be a one.legged fireman in New York,
and all the show he asked was chance
to swing his crutch, Then he would
take hold of the drag-rope and do his
share of the going, tell YOU"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Dangers Of Nail Nibbling.

GA novel incident resulting from a
habit of very common prevalence among
nervous people was brought to my notice
recently" said a leading physician Of
Philadelphia to reporter the other day.
"A young lady presented herself at my
Office and complained of constant irri-
tation in her throat. Two weeks pre-
viously she had been taken with a very
severe attack of sore throat, which was
treated by the family physician. Under
his care, she said, the Inflammation
quickly subsided, but there still remained
a sensation of irritation. Examination
revealed a small tleshy looking object
about the size of kernel of wheat ad-
herent to the tissues posterior to the left
tonsil by the one end. The other parts
of the throat were normal. The little
mass could not be detached by cotton
covered probe, but by the use of forceps
it was easily removed and on examination
proved to be piece of finger nail which
had become embedded in a cheesy de-
post. A broken piece of the nail was
also removed from under the mucous
membrane at the same spot by sharp.
pointed probe. The lady then confessed
to the habit of biting her tinger-nails,
and moreover could remember that day
or two previous to her throat trouble a
piece of nail she had bitten OF had be-
come lost in her mouth, but after it had
caused a. fit of coughing, she had forgot
ten all about it until reminded by the
discovery"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
An ImDOrtant Discovery.

A discovery which promises to be OF
the utmost importance to the Southern
States has been made by DR.. c. +. Pan
knin, Of Charleston, s. G.
At different times many experiments
looking to the cultivation of ram!c have
been made in the South, and the plant,
it has been found. can be grown without
difficulty. 1t will grow anywhere that
cotton grows, at TO expense whatever
for cultivation. 1t grows like weed,
and is not sub Get to the ravages OF
worms, nor is it liable to any OF the
other maladies to which the more tender
cotton is subject. kamie, then, can be
grown without difficulty. The trouble
hitherto has been to find quick and in
extensive way in which the bark of the
ramic plant could be prepared for manu-
facture without injury to the peculiar
quality and value Of the fibre. 1t is such
y process as that which has been so long
sought which DR.. Panknin has discov-
cred.
Without any mechanical process OF
consequence, and by simple chemical
treatment, occupying in all from forty
eight to sixty hours, the bark OF the
ramie is brought into condition to be
carded and spun, so that in this condi-
ton it is available for all the various
uses for the different textile materials,
such as the finest Gotten and silk. DIR.
Panknin has been engaged on his cx-
neriment for a considerable time, and has
now brought it to satisfactory conclu-
sion. 90,
The process is of the simplest possible
character. annie is cultivated and manu-
factured for use in fine domestic goods,
linens and similar cloths, but the process
is kept secret, and the right to make use
of it is not sold. The specimens OF the
ramie stock sub; b;ected to treatment by
DIR. Panknln show the utter destruction
of the skin or bark of the plant, and OF
the v;scous or glutinous matter which
holds the iibrcs together. The fibre is
ready for spinning. The cost OF prepar-
ing the plant is said to be trihing'-Ae"
Ilr,. ILmsS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
An Oyster Trust.

A new industry has been established
at City Island, which is the centre Of
the oyster trade for places on Long.
Island Sound. y trust has been formed
by some of the dealers on the island, and
they have opened an establishment
whs:c the oysters arc opened and shipped
to Bullalo, Chicago and other points in
thc interior. The association employs
from thirty to fifty men, who have never
before had steady employment in winter.
and send away more than lift, thousand
oysters day. The men work by the
niece and earn from $50 to $3.50 per
day. They are paid 81 per 1000 for
opening oysters. and one man o few
DAYS ago opened 1000 in one day. The
oysters are put up in eight-gallon pals,
500 to a pail. The association has ex-
hausted nearly all the City Island crop
for the season, and will now make de-
mand on Norwalk, which is the great
oyster ground of Connecticut.-Ne~
Y,rk Commercial L4dter.aser.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Beauty of Irish Women.

The Irish ladies are perhaps the pref
tiest in the wide world, always excepting
their fair cousins, the Yankee bellos.
Their features, it is true, are less regular
than those of English women. but they
triumph over them with their soft
creamy compilations, their large, appeal.
ing gray-olue eyes and long lashes, and
q sort of indetinable charm and demure
coquetry, yet thoroughly modest man
ners. every third Irish woman" I"
wrote Queen Victoria in her diary when
last visiting the country, sis beautiful,
and some of them remarkably so. Their
hair aud eyes are simply lovely" Apart
from personal charms, it is impossible
not to admire the gentle grace and dig
nifty of the wives and daughters Of the
Emerald Isle. Go where you will, de-
fy you to find an Irish woman who is
otherwise than naturally distinguished
the very barmaids being superior in
bearing and speech to many English
Duchcsses. The list of beauties is long
one, and looking back we can recall his
tories OF the extraordinary loveiness OF
the three Miss Cummings, who, when
they came up to London, had actually
to he escorted in Hyde Park by q guard
of soldiers sent by order of the Secrc-
tary of State, so overwhelmingly was the
crowd pressing upon them. Then there
were Lady Denny, Lady Cahir, Lady
Clare and many others, to say nothing
of the present young Duchess of l.einster,
one of the most attractive women of this
or any other day.-.San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Intensive Gardening.

Man naturally wants the earth, or at
least that particular part of it which
adioins his particular estate, but he
makes great mistake when he engages
in farming on an extensive scale.
Prince Krapotkine, who has made
careful study Of the subject in France,
gives number of instances in the coun-
try districts around Paris, where COM
! paratively ignorant farmers have made
small market gardens enormously pro-
ductive. One farm is mentioned by him
of two and seven -tenths acres which
produced annually 125 tons of market
vegetables of all kinds. The owner of
this farm. by building walls to protect
his lands from cold winds, by whitening
the walls to secure all possible radiated
heat, and by the constant and sudicious
use Of fertilizers, has his little farm in
a productive condition from the lst of
January to the last of December. By
simple and inexpensive means he has
practically located his farm in the
tropics.
A French gardener does not care what
kind of soil he starts with. He would
be satisfied with an asphalt pavement,
because he makes his soil, and so much
of it that he has 20 sell it to keep his
place from being gradually raised above
the level of the surrounding country.
When q farmer once understands tho
laws o. chemistry he has no difficulty in
making soil that contains oil the ma
terials needed for plant life.
Prince Krapotkine speaks of one gar.
dener who has covered half an acre with
a glass roof, and run steam pipes, sup.
piled by small boiler under the ground
sheltered by this covering. The result
has been that he has cut every day for
ten months from 1000 to 1900 large
punches of asparagus, product which
under ordinary conditions would require
sixty acres of land. But this result has
been surpassed by an English farmer.
who has one. acre mushroom farm which
yields him an annual income of $oUOO.
Under the French method of culture it
would be possible to make one square
mile support 10U0 human beings. on
such a scale of productive capacity this
country would support a population OF
8, 600, 600, 900. Even when we knock
off fair percentage for mistakes, exag
gerations and unfavorable conditions, 1t
will be seen that We are in no danger OF
having an overpopulation for many cen
turies to come.-ticayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Home of Vegetable Ivory.

The plant yielding the vegetable ivory,
or ivory nuts of commerce, is a native
Of south America. and is the most en-
tens;vely found on the banks Of the river
Magdaleua, in Colombia. 1t grows mostly
in Separate groves not mixed with other
trees or shrubs, and only in q warm,
damn atmosphere. 1t is u palm-like
nlaut, Of which the fruit consists of a
cponglomeratcd head composed Of six or
SC cn drupcs, each containing from six
to nine seeds. In its very young state
the seed contains clear huid, which as
it gets older become milky and of sweet
taste and gradually continues to change
until it becomes so hard as to make it a
valuable substitute for animal ivory.
The seeds are imported as corozo nuts,
or ivory nuts, and many small articles Of
turnery are made from them, such as
cane heads, knobs, buttons, etc.-Nsw
York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
A Farmer With Immoyable Jaws.

Newspapers at the present time col
tain many interesting stories OF old Pc
pie who are hearty, but it is doubtful
q more curious case than the one
ported by the Fall River GLOBE has bel
published. 1t is that of Dartmoul
farmer named William Bennett, who
nearly sixty years of age. He was bol
at Tiverton, r. l., and lived for maj
years in comfortable farmhouse on Il
main road to Newport.
When he was about five years OF 81
he was attacked with child's disea!
for which DR.. West was engaged to p1
scribe. The DR.. West mentioned livf
in a large mansion below Bridgepo1
and was an ancestor of the presei
family which resides in that vicinity.
the time of Mr.. Benefits illness, sally
tion was a favorite form of treatmei|
Calomel was the drug ordered and q
miuistered to the patient. Either frd
carelessness or other cause the mercur1
preparation lodged in the boys Jaw
and q cancerous sore was developel
For many weeks his life was despair
of. Finally the growth was killed, p
when it disappeared it was found th
the muscles of the child's jaws We
ruined, and. like the upper, the low
Jaw would always remain fixed. To
gain strength it was necessary to ha|
all his food specially prepared befg
it was given to him. When placed
fore him he managed to squeeze it in
tween his lips which were slowly recoy
ing from the almost fatal work done
the deadly drug. The salivary gllan
were not injured By the burning Of !
calomel. Bennett recovered after 10
illness, and grew up as most Rho
Island boys do who spend a life on
farm. He pays visits to the Fall ltiY
marketmen, with whom he has do
business for nearly fifty years.
is a ruddy-f featured portly man OF gen
temperament, and with the exception
a slight facial defect, he shows no sig
of the accident which have kept his ia
immovable for so many years.-Bos
Herald,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Tea Drinking on the Increase.

The city is tea drenched, tea soaked.
It would not he surprising to see a fog
hang over it from the steam of tea. Every
woman who is anything of woman at
all owns one Of those cast iron, hooked
parlor tripods which hang a tea kettle
over an alcohol lamp, keeping things hot
for whose may drop in for cup of an
afternoon. The tea tripod is becoming
as essential an article OF furniture as the
two and four shade lamps which stand
on pedcstals and confer the latest touch
of elegance on the drawing room. Two
or four. Milady abors three. She thinks
a three shade lamp unlucky. Can it be
that she is growing supcrstitious these
days!-Ntw loi,& Null uad Express.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Fashion Notes.

Carnation brooches arc feature.
Shoulder knots of flowers are again in
vogue.
Fur boas have become triumphant
success.
Plush and cloth are combined in many
of the newest cloaks.
White, green and rose are preferred
colors for evening toilets.
The hair is worn both high and low,
as best becomes the wearer.
Russian lambskin is popular fur with
ladies who wear mourning.
Empire designs are selected for even
ing gowns by fashionable women.
Bracelets in rope pattern are irrcgu-
larly studded with enameled pansics.
White undrcsscd kid gloves are much
worn with Empire dresses on full dress
occasions.
Fur fronts which cover the wearcr from
throat to feet are seen upon the newest
cloth cloaks.
The most stylish evening gloves ale in
pale tan or apricot shades, with the backs
finely corded.
Empire green, a cold tint similar to
Nile green, isa popular shade Tor tulle or
crepe ball gowns.
Open-face watches are quite popular,
especially when made with view to
wearing OH a chatelaine.
Coronets of rose petals are feature OF
many dark velvet bonnets, and they are
becoming TO most faces.
Garlands of artificial flowers are used
upon evening toilcttes in greater pro-
fusion than for many years.
For day gowns wool is emphatically
the wear-and the dircctoire redingote
the favorite design for them.
Clusters of velvet violets are used to
trim round hats Of dark velvet, and also
to fasten buas of black lace.
A thick binding of short-haired fur,
seal, beaver, Persian lamb, ETC., is popu'
lar trimming of cloth jackets.
.Gauze fans, powdered over with very
tiny kittens heads, are even more Vlo-
lently new than the bat wings.
A new queen chain has as a pendant
tiny fan, the upper half of which is
ornamentcd with cnameled flowers.
The newest gumpes for little girls
have hcmstitchcd ruihes edged with Val
enciennes about the neck and sleeves.
London now ordains dinner card of
rough board with gilt cd ges, and the
owners crest in gold as its sole orna-
ment.
The Empire fan is of gauze, with o
border Of ribbons painted in gay colors,
or else the gay stripes are lengthWlse
along the sticks.
CorscletS, with shoulder straps, or else
narrow baby sleeves, are worn in great
numbers over half-high guimpes of crepe
lisse or silk muslin.
! A tuft of silver-tipped white ostrich
feathers is favorite hair ornament with
ladies anywhere in that dcbatable land
! of age between thirty and fifty.
! The slender effect now so much sought
in walking costumes is best attained by
wearing with them shoulder cape and
deep cuIrs of heavy long fleeced fur.
| Black monkey is used for capes, col
lars, cuffs, mulfs and bands down the
front of long cloaks, and is, if possible,
more sought after than when first intro
duced.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Intellectual Women as Wives.

Do intellectual women make the best
partners for life? asks a writer III the
Baltimore Neaos. Emerson says ''it is
not beauty that inspires the deepest
passion" and Jean Paul Richter de-
clared that he would not lead a woman
into the matrimonial moose whom 1t
would not delight to hear him read the
learned reviews of Gottingeu, or the
universal German library, when they
sounded his praise, though it might be
in some degree exaggerated. John
Stuart Mill regarded the institution OF
marriage in its highest aim and aspect
as "a union of two persons of cultivated
faculties, identical in opinion and pur-
poses, between whom there exists that
best kind of equality, similarity of
powers with reciprocal superiority in
them, so that one can enjoy the luxury
of looking up to the other and can have
alternately the pleasure of leading and
being led in the path of development. "
But other men of genius have thought
differently on the subject. 1t is an
oft-quoted saying of DIR. Johnston that
ga man in general is better pleased when
he has good dinner on the table than
when his wife talks Greek" Racine had
an ilitcratc wife and was accustomed to
boastfully declare that she could not
read any of his tragedies. l:ufresny
married his washerwoman. Goethe's
wife was woman of mediocre capacity.
Hcine said Of the woman he loved: "She
has never read line of my writings and
does not even know what poet is"
Therese Lavasseur, the last flame of
I,ousseau, could not tell the time of day.
GLOW many of the wise and learned, y
says Thackeray, "have married their
cooks? Did not Lord Eldon, himself
the most prudent of men, make a run;
away match2 Were not Achilles and
Ajax both in love with their servant
maids" Seven hundred people sat up
all night to see the beautiful Duchess Of
Hamilton get in her carriage. but woulo
one in thousand lose wink Of sleep tt
get glimpse of the learned wife of the
puudit Yainavalka, who discoursed will
the Indian in Sanscrit ON the vexeo
problems of lifel
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
The Prize Cattle of England.

The champion beast in England is a
splendid Devon steer, whose sire re. .oicess
in the popular name of Gladstone, and
which be ongs to Norwich man, but
which was bred at Tavistock. Just un-
der three years of age, this animal tips
the beam at $50 hundredweight and a
quarter. How does that look, says the
patriotic visitor, for the roast beef OF ola
England' At the Birmingham show the
Judges proclaimed this steer the best OF
its breed they had seen, and the lsling-
ton wise men have crowned the editice
of Gladstone pere's fame by the supreme
award of all, to say nothing of being
first in his class, best of his breed, and
the best male in the show. When l
looked at him he did not seem much
affected by all this honor; but am
afraid he will be rather cut up before
long. His closest rival was u black
Scotch heifer from Ross-shlre, pro-
nounced little beauty, and awarded a
S25U cup as the best lady in the show.
EWuldelphia telegraph.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Indians With Artistic Skill.

A Virginia City newspaper says II
Piute, now in Jail on charge of m,
der, displays great skill in drawing, a
has made a picture of the prison, as se
from the yard, that is really tine.s I
newspaper further says that the Piu
have a natural taste for drawing, a
that many of them are able to draw VI
good pictules of railroad trains and
like. The children made all kinds
animals in clay, as naturally as VIII
children model mud pies: and even
stupidest looking of the bucks will W
a pencil dash off without the slight
hesitation map OF anE portion of COZ
trv with which he is acquainted, putt
ali the rivers, lakes and mountains
their proper places. and giving
whole proportional dimensions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
A Safe That DeficS Burglars.

1t Is a saying of the police that lock
is no sooner invented than burglar
finds way to open it. The safe makers,
however, have at last built strong box
which dcties the crackman's effort. 1t
consists of an arrangement in the casing
of the safe of a lot of steel balls, which
are loosely arranged so that drill can
not be used on them. They turn around,
and even if a drill would pierce one 1t
would only fall and let another ball into
it's place. An Eastern burglar has de.
vised all electric machine to make an ell
trance into safes. but the device is so
clumsy that it can never become popu-
lar feature of the "kit. ."-,St. Louis Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Patches on the Cheek,

It has been asserted gravely that
ladies are to wear mouches, or "patches, ="
as in the old days of Louis MIL, Louis
NV, and the two following monarchs,
says Paris letter. The patches will be
coquettishly placed on dainty cheeks
and alabaster shoulders, and will be
sprinklcd, when safely in position, with
the dimmest suggeition OF pearl powder.
The fashionable coifeurs of Paris are
already rehearsing their parts, and
practice the art by planting mouches on
the rigid features and immovable busts
of the wonderful waxen etfigies that
adorn their shop windows and hairdress-
ing saloons. In the days of Ia pompa:
dour patch under the eye was called
dangerous, that under the chin la fatale.
and that near the mouth rassassinc.
Equally fantastic names would no doubt
be devised for the nineteenth century
mouches which are seen to be the mode.