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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
Sending Songs by Telephone.

The long distance telephon e, in con-
nection with the phonograph, has been
employed between New York and Phila.
delphia to illustrate a lecture given in
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, by
w. J. Hammer, of Mr.. Edison's labora.
tory, on the life and inventions of
Thomas A. Edison. The New York as.
sistants in the experiment were assem-
b!ed in the operating room of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com.
pany.
Miss Ellie Stewart, soprano singer in
St. Patrick's Cathedral, aud Theodore
Hoch. the cornetist, rendered musical
selections in the operating room, which
were transmitted through 10S miles OF
wire, six miles of which were under
ground, to the hall of the institute in
Philadelphia A carbon transmitter and
q chalk receiver were used. The cornet
solos were transmitted clearly and dis
tinctly, and could be heard in all parts
of the hall. Miss Stewards songs could
not be heard 80 we'll. In a second ex-
pertinent the music was sent by tele.
phone from phonograph, into which it
was played and sung in this city. The
same pieces were sent three times in
succession from the same cylinder. This
was afterward varied by receiving the
music at Philadelphia into phonograph
connected with the telephone in the in.
stitute from which it was afterward rem.
dered to the audience.
By means of a telephone circuit, the
performers at No. lS Cort!andt street
were enabled to hear, by listening a. the
telephones, their own music repeated
from the phonograph by way of Phila-
delphia. - Commercial Adgertlssr.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
Relics OF Chicago'S Great Fire.

go you see that old photograph
hanging up therei" asked man ID
Clayton's place. "Well," he continued,
'that is the old court house-the ruins
of it after the great fire of 1871, l mean.
Up in that shattered tower hung the Big
bell. Of course, it fell when the flames
destroyed it's supports. don't know
whether Harry Everhart caught it or moi
as it fell, but he was soon on the ground
and secured the debris. Before the frt
was out he had purchased the remains o.
the bell aud had arranged to have th'
bell metal modelled into small bells Of
relics of the fire. Every one around
town soon wore upon his watch chain
tinkling reminder of the big disaster
At first these miniature bells sold fo
$3.50 each, and every one was accom-
panied by a certificate attcsting its geni
ineness. The depot for these little bell'
was in an old dwelling in the brick BLOCK
at the northeast corner of Wabash avenue
and Rarman street. I would not say
that Harry 'watercd his stock exactly!
but he sold thousands of small bells
more, in fact, than it would seem could
lie nodded from the big court housl
bell. Pretty soon, as the novelty wort
off. the price went down, and finally
YOU could buy q small court house bel
relic for O quarter. ~ Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
The New York Longacre.

A correspondent wants to know VIII,
the vicinity of Broadway, from Forfeit
to tiflieth street, is called "Longacre.
The reason is because there are grea
many carriage makers there. Some o.
the largest carriage manufactures in th'
world have chosen that locality, either fol
stores or factories. The name Gomez
from London, where there is IL locality
known as "Longacre," which is noted al!
the centre of the carriage trade, and
naturally the New York locality got tn,
same name in the same way that good
many other London names have goi
settled in New York. There is one diff
ference, however. In the London Long
acre the streets are rather narrow, whit
in the New York Longscre the street,
are wide. At the junction of Broadway,
Seventh avenue, ard Forty-secold street
the street becomes very wide. Thu
carriage makers settled there when thl
land was not so valuable as it is now
The origin of the term "Longacre" j!
London goes back to antiquity.--Ms
York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
The "GIare" OF Our White Skins.

Nothing is more common than for
Europeans to complain of the difficulty
they have in individualizing men of dark
races who to the eye of the white man
seem all more or less alike. The natives
of India have apparently the same diff.
Guilty with white men. Some men of
the Lancashire Regiment stationed at
Penares recently broke loose and raided
liquor shop in neighboring village.
Some of the culprits were so drunk that
the authorities easily discovered them,
but in order to spot the remainder the
regiment was paraded, and the villagers
we're asked to point out the guilty men.
They absolutely failed to do so in
single case, whereupon a native paper,
commenting on the incident, says Not
o doubt of it. One of the most difficult
teats under the sun is to identify Euro
pcaps-they are so much alike with their
loud, Caring white color. We wonder
whether their friends and relati ms are at
O loss as to who's who. ."-London Gl0Le.
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Tn tba little boa. aoa;n and AGAIN had |

| In the little boat again and again had
Richard tried to turn its head toward
the land, but with each trial it took ID
so much water that he was forced to
give up the attempt. Nothing could bd
done but keep off and face the boiling
sea. Very few words were spoken. Mrs.
Swing kept bailing as fast as possible,
with only the shell of horseshoe crab tc
work with.
At length came wave like small
hill, up which the boat rode gallently,
and then suddenly Richard shouted:
"They're coming for US, mother. ]
see boat just outside the harbor."
Then the tears sprang to Mrs. Swings
eyes. She stopped bailing for mo.
ment to look towards the shore. All
she could see was a wall of water shut
ting out the land.
"Courage, mother" Dick said.
Every rise and fall of the oar was
prayer; every dip of the poor old crab
Shell was petition for life.
! Cut from Cromwell Harbor, seven
miles to the eastward, and hidden from
sight by Bright Head, steamed the tug
Good Heart. Never had its Captain
stood watching the sea with more earnest
gaze. Never was steam applied with
more generous hand. Twas the woman
and the boy in the boat out at sea that
lived in the gaze, in the steam and IN the
fuel, and Good Heart bore away with
cordial speed till Br ght Head was won
and weathercd.
~ see il" shouted the Captain,
"though how it's lived to get there's
more'n know" and he gave directions
to steam outside.
Richards attention was so divided be.
tween the pillows and the land and the
friendly boat, and Mrs. Swing was so in.
tent on bailing, that neither of them
saw the tug until it was upon them, and
hailing voice shouted:
"Hold on till We pick you up"
1t seemed "a if voice from heaven had
spoken. Even bluff old Captain Rose up
in the bclfry of the church, eJaculated,
THANK God" as he saw the tug come
to.
The shock of the call, the sight of the
black, throbbing tug, friendly as they
seemed, yet came near swamplng the
boat, for Richard let i! turn, and the last
strength he had was put forth in hold
ing it up to the wind until line was
cast off, and even then he had no power
to make it fast. 1t was Mrs. Swing who
tried to obey the commands that came
but could not.
Finally the tugs boat was lowered. It
was no easy task to get to leeward and
board the Good Heart, which held its
breath, bracing itself against the waves
almost as thing of life to do its kindly
Office. Richard and his mother had
been saved.
"Give 'em a signal! Give 'em three"
and the steam whistle blew three shrieks
that went over the bay and up the har-
Dor and over against the meeting house
stecple, until old Captain Rose fell down
on his knees to utter the first prayer of
thankfulness his little Dolly had ever
heard her father offer.-NeO Ydr1
fro ubjr
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
The Kauri Gum.

II. P. Barber says in the New York
Star that the kauri gum makes up
more than two-ifths of the commercial
products of New Zealand. The kauri
gum is used in the making of varnish,
and enters into the composition of four.
tifths of all that is made in the United
States. 1t is found only in New Zea.
land, north of Auckland, and is a de-.
posit from trees which disappeared con-
turies ago, probably through some con.
vulsion of nature. About eight thousand
men, all, with few exceptions, white, are
employed in gathering it. They are
scattered over the country, some of them
as far as $50 miles from Auckland. The
gum i below the surface and is discov-
cred by prodding the earth with steel
pointed spear. An expert can tell the
instant he strikes deposit by the resist
ance. When he discovers it he camps
AID commences to dig.
The field is frequently twenty miles
from settlement. but the storekeepers
send pack horses with supplies weekly or
semi weekly, and take back gum. A
horse can carry 200 pounds of the pro-
duct. The gum when taken from the
ground is covered with an earthly crust.
This is washed of by the miners. The
storckccper, when he gathers together
one, two. or five tons, according to his
ability to pay for it, ships it around to
Auckland, where it is sold to the packers
in bags of $50 pounds each, who assort
it according to quality. There are four
teen different qualities sent to the New
York market. Its value depends upon
the color, the lightest coor being the
best. The most valuable is the East
Coast gum, which sells from $2l5 to
1920 q ton. The ordinary gum, which
is four-ffths of the whole product,
brings $175 ton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLET CANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS
The Rest Angel of All.

The Rest Angel of All.
From the portals Of Eden forth banished, our
mother,
Poor Eve, looking back where the lurid
sword shone,
Had doubtless heartache go bitter no other
In all the worlds annals such sorrow had
known.
And yet, had she dreamed that what seemed
so distressing
Had comfort beneath it, and ease for the
I fancy, the tears at their fountain re-
pressing,
She had uttered thanksgiving at blessing
for bane
In the moment when Eden was barred from
their vision,
To Adam and Eve came visitant high,
With the light on his brow of beauty
Elysian,
The grace in his port of a guest from the
sky,
And hand in their hands laid he lightly,
Was the voice of bis greeting, compelling
and glad,
Till the pulse Of their being upleaped like
And straight they forgot to be fearful and
Oh daughter of Eve, would you know that
divinest,
That holiest com fortsr after the fall,
That seraph whose mission forever is finest,
The one mid all angels, best angel of ala
Not Peacs, and not Faith, and not Love, and
not Pardon
The angel we call when the mists gather
mirk:
Nay, heaven itself stoops this angel to
guerdon:
His name let me whisper-"the Angel OF
Work.
Margaret E. Sangster, in Bazar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
Stnry of tie American Flag.

In Great Brington Church, Northamp.
tonshire, England, is tablet of brass,
bearing this inscription:
Here lies inferred ye bodies of Elizabi
Washington, widdowe who changed this life
for immortallittie ye l9 Of March 1862! Also
We body of Robert Washington Gent. HeI
late husband second some Of Robert Wash
iugton of Solgrave in ye County Of North.
Esur: Who departed this life ye 10th oi
March 1922 After they lived lovingly to,
gether in this Parish
The father of the elder Robert, whose
name is recorded above, was Laurence
Washington, who was Mayor of North
ampton.
IN 1888 the manor of Solgravc, part OF
the old Priory of st. Andrew, wal
granted him. Here, at the manor house
of Solgrave, are still the Washington
arms-the stars and stripes-engraveo
on stone. The elder Eobert sold the es
tate of Solgrave.
There was q long list of Washing.
tons. Laurence. son of the second lob.
ert, married Margaret Butler, and had a
family of eight sons and nine daughters.
Sir William, his eldest son, married the
sister of George Villiers, the Duke OF
Buckingham. Another son, Laurence,
was on oxford scholar. John, third
son, who was made Knight in 1857,
came to America, where he married Ann
Pope. His son, Laurence, married Mil.
dred Warner.
Augustine, the second son of the last
Laurence, married Nary Bell, the mother
of the first President of the United
States of America, George Washington,
who was born February y, 1882. While
Washington was President National
flag was proposed, and it was suggested
which suggestion was adopted-that
its emblem should be taken from the
Washington arms, consisting of stars and
stripes, surmounted BY raven; the last
TO be replaced 10y our National bird, the
eagle, with spreading wings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
A School of Housewifery.

Mrs Logan, widow of General John
A. Logan, is looking into a scheme
which she will put into execution when
she returns to this country. In Germany
there is custom which sends girls, after
they have finished school, to live year
in the household of some noted house
wife, who teaches them all the accom-.
plishments which it is held fitting a
hausemutter should acquire. This is
the system Mrs. Logan is making a
study, and her idea is 10 found just such
home in this country, where girls can take
postgraduate course of year learning
all these important accomplishments
NeD Yors Graphic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
The Classic Seyen-Stringcd Lyrc.

The Tyre of seven strings, all of the
same length but of different thicknesses
and tuned to tension necessary for the
production of several notes, is attributed
to Pythagoras. The strings were named
as follows: Nete, Parancte, paramcse,
mes,, lichanos, parhypate and hypate,
the names referring to the positions Of
the strings, as netc, nearest to player
aud highest pitch; parnete, next to
nete; paramese, next to middle; licha-
nos, fore6ngcr string: paryphate. next
to farthest, and hypate farthest from
the player and lowest in tone. Just
how they were tuned cannot he clearly
known. At any rate. the ancients pos.
sessed drums, ss-inged and wind instru.
ments, and were not wanting in the
material to produce orchestral Effects
. Times. Democrat. '..2r ;.,-.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Safe bind. safe find.

Safe bind, safe find.
Honor is better than wealth.
The biggest calf makes not the Swest-
est veal.
Never haggle about the basket If you
get the fruit.
He that saveth his dinner will have
the more supper.
There is winter enough for the snipe
and woodcock too.
Correction of error is the plainest
proof of energy and mastery.
Poverty is not a sin, but it is twice as
bad in the opinion of the world.
Measure not men by Sundays, without
regarding what they do all the week
after.
"Faithful are the wounds of friend"
and there are none more punctiliously
given.
True genius lurketh under cover,
while arrogance stalks abroad in the full
light of day.
The wisest fish long escapes the most
dangerous hooks and is finally caught
with bent-up pin.
Life consists in the alternate process of
learning and unlesrning; but it Is often
wiser to unlearn than to learn.
Conviction is in itself power. The
man who is sure of what he says gives as
,, surance to those who hear him.
Four things come not back-the
spoken word, the sped arrow, the past
,, life, the neglected opportunity.
Life is a casket not precious in itself,
but valuable in proportion to what for
tune, or industry, or virtue has placed
within it.
Sympathy for the poor is all right as
far as it goes, but sympathy dou't count
like greenbacks when it comes to cloth
ing the uufortunates aud filling their
lard orq
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
Queen vfctoria's Hoop. skirts.

The following anecdote is told to illus
trate the readiness with which Partisan
fash on are adopted, even by the most
rigidly patriotic of prin.esses: cat the
epoch of the arrival of Queen Victoria
in Paris, in 1856, on visit to the En-
peror and Empress, the latter had just
brought hooped-skirts into vogue. The
Queen forthwith sent off a messenger to
purchase one for her, and on her next
approach before her imperial host and
hostess her skirts were expanded into
the new and fashionable amplitude. But
her Majesty had not complehended the
necessary methods of tying the tapes
that held the hoops in place, aud her
crinol;ne presented an extraordinary and
sharcless aspect. 1t Was the mperor
himself, who, with his own imperial
hands, set tine rebclious petticoats to
rights, and gave to his royal guest a
lesson as to the proper method of don
ming the new fashioned adjunct of femi-
nine costume"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
Wells Injurious to the Eyes.

"Well. one woman has come out, see
against our wearing veils," said one of q
trio of shoppers on Sixth avenue.
"Who is she" queried one.
"She is Di Grace Peckham, and she is
a specialist in diseases of the eyes, be-
lieve."
"a veil protects The hair aud keeps it
well arranged" chimed in the third,
land it protects my forehead and. wards
off neuralgia, and it never did my eyes
any harm. Everybody wears Hading
wells nowadays, and l shall wear veil
for one."
"Yes, Of course, as long rs it's fash
ionable we will wear them; but do you
know the IIading is worse than any
othe:. It's heavier, and it's seldom raised
from the time it's put on till it's re-
movtd, because It's fastened around the
neck. My doctor was speaking to me
about it the last time l saw h IN. He
said it was injurious to the mechanical
seeing apparatus, since d constant ad-
iusting ofmuscles and lenses is re iuired,
and striving to obtain clear image for
the retina. 1t is extremely wearing to
the brain, which has great deal to do
with touching up and finishing 0 the
picture which fails upon the vision, and
in making the mental image perfect
one, NO matter what the external one
may be. Ie.ls of dotted lace and daz-
cling white illusion may gle rise in
few weeks to an irritable condition of
the eyes that years will not remove
Mu York Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
: ~
Yesterday.

Yesterday is dead
And lies at rest. ,
No breathing stirs
The white.robed breast;
The groans and sobbing
Are hushei at last,
Thanks be to Heaven!
Such pains are past.
Seek not to rouse
Its unquiet ghost;
Conjure no phantom
OF what is lost;
Come away softly,
And make no moan,
Leaving thy perished hope
Dead and alone.
Zoe Dana UnderhiR, in Scribne".
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20

Missouri is the only State in the Uni
that makes no provision for her milit
In 1856 there were seven regiments
the State, while now there are but tvI
numbering 1900 men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20

A fund is being raised in San Fro
cisco to found. memorial Garibal
school, where Italian history can
taught to young Italian-Amsricans.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20

1t was through the fainting Of the
horror-stricken girl, and the confusion
incident to her resuscitation, that the
story got out Chicago Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
SPRING FANCrES
THE YoUEG MAN.

THE YoUse MAN.
In the spring the youth bis person In the u
est fashions decks,
And begins to cast admiring glances on
other sex;
In the spring a nameless yearning, somethi1
that he cannot trace,
Comes upon him when he meets maide
with pretty face;
And the futtering Of ribbon, or the pe3
fume Of glove,
Thrills his pulses, and his "fancy Lightly
turns to thoughts Of love-"
IL
THE YOUNG WOMAN.
In the spring the maiden dofts the glos
sealskin sacque she wore,
Which enables her to don q bigger bust
than before.
Then she puts on light garments, snow
laces, ribbons gay,
And gorgeous hat the climax caps OF h5
new spring array.
All the secrets Of the toilet uses with
woman's skill,
For her heart, too, Is responsive to the se
sons magic thrill.
III.
BOTH.
Soon some strange mysterious process brtp1
together youth and maid;
There are meetings in the moonlight, the5
are whisperings in the shade.
Wanderings in secluded places, often TIL
hour is late.
Loving glances. sweet confessions, stol1
kisses at the gate.
Petty quarrels, over nothing, that p
misery fill life's cup.
Pride's surrender, explanations and delicior
mskings up.
When the tender grass Is springing and u
opening buds appear,
When the birds are gayly singing, and tn
skies are blue and clear.
Thus its course in spring loverunnethl q
minating in the May, ~
With parental blessings and the naming
the wedding day.
Boston Courier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
Why an Engagement Was Broken.

why an Engagement Was Broken.
The North Side romance of Mr.. Beb.
Der, the shoe clerk, and Miss Temple,
which began with the fitting of a shoe
and ended in runaway match to Cali
fornia, bade fair to have its counterpart
on the South Side. A Wabash shoe
clerk, who is one of the elite of his pro.
fession, and Rhodes avenue girl had
advanced through the initial stages of
courtship to an engagement.
Yesterday, while down town, she
dropped into the shoe store. The en-
trance of customer few moments later
drew the clerk from her side, and she
amused herself by looking over some new
samples of evening slippers.
Il called only to see you," she sad on
his return, shut now that l have seen
them 1 must have these, tapping with
her fingers the dainties, No. -.
81 cts see if they'll tit," he said,
though he knew they would.
she had not come prepared to expose
her foot for fit, but there was no rea-
sonable excuse for refusing, and she sub
mitted with demurring little smile.
Out of its shoe came the shapely right
foot. cased in black silk hos,. She
set it down at once on the white rug
but the quick movement was lost at The
moment on the lover.
The fitting began. Presently he drew
his hand sharply from the bottom of her
foot. A drop of blood welled from the
tip of his secold finger. The awful
truth was revealed to him. Without
looking up he quickly finished the tit
ring, boxed the slippers, aud was re-
l:evcd by the advent of several custom
ers. A couple of hours after reaching
home the tiancee received this by mes
scnger:
Miss -: You will no doubt be sur-
priSed at a note so soon after our meeting,
and one opening in such formal manner
But | believe the situation calls for un-
eGuivocal action from me, an at once. In
iitting your slipper lit seems an age rather
Than barely all hour ago, such las been my
agony since the revelation), my hand was
prcked by pin in your stocking under the
Ioes excuse my directness, but frankness is
necessary in matter like this). / could
lave pardoned a hole in the toe of your
Itocking, but hole deliberately folded un-
Ter and pinned down indicates Characters
i;cs from which the woman ] would make
ny wife must be free. Alter this note our
Engagement is, OF course, at an end. As you
will not care to wear longer the ring gave
fou, suggest that you sell it and invest the
proceeds In complete earning outfit
NFRANK C.n