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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
PICTURESQUE Old San Diego.

Old Town, or new San Diego, CAL,
was once the center of civilization and
has historical interest at this later day,
with its broad streets, wide plaza and old
abode houses. Here the missionaries, OF
Jesuit priests, says correspondent OF
the Springfield Repu5lican, erected Q
church that has mostly crumbled away.
The friar's garden bears no vestige of ita
olden glory. Cactus hedges, some old
date palms, and some trees still bearing
olives are all that remain to tell the tale
of past grandeur. Among the literary
lights who are making their homes ir
San Diego are Bryant, the historiani
Charles Edwin Markham, who writes fol
the Century, and has charming villa in
q canyon retreat; Miss Estelle Thomp'
son, q story teller for the Youths Com.
panion, and Lee Hardy, the Texas author
and novelist, who has recently come tc
live in this bay climate that has such
healing properties. Joaquin Miller owns
several lots of Pacific beach, and antici-
pates making summer home for himself
there in the near future. Scattered along
the beach are some fanciful homes-and
many more are contemplated. When one
thinks that two or three years ago he
could rent boat for fifty cents day,
and sail from the city over to this beach,
that had not house on its. shores, or
any signs of civilization, you will under
stand that the story here told to-day and
so happily illustrated, is not such mar.
yelous tale.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
IN THE NATTER OF MOTHS.

More than one hundred and fifty years
ago Reaumur, observing that clothing
moths never attacked the wool and hair
on living animals, inferred that the natural
odor Of the wool, or the oily matter in it,
was distasteful to them, says ClothSer and
Furnisher. Consequently he rubbed
various garments with the wool of fresh
pelts, and also wet other garments with
the water in which wool had been washed,
and found that they were never attacked
by moths. Experiments with tobacco
smoke and the odors of spirits of turpen-
tine showed that both were equally de-
structive, but it was necessary to close the
rooms very tightly and keep the fumes
very dense in them for twenty-four hours
to obtain satisfactory results.
Chests of cedar or sprigs of this tree
are so disagreeable to them that they will
not deposit their eggs where this odor is
at all strong, but should the eggs be
laid before the garments are packed away
the odor will not prevent the Matching Of
the eggs, nor the destructive work of the
Larvae afterward. Clothing may also be
protected from moths by packing it in
stout cotton or paper bags, made perfectly
tight, but this must be done before the
moths appear on the wing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
Best Way to Copy Drawings.

A new method of copying drawings
which may be found of service in archi'
tects Offices is given in the Deutehes
Baumgewer6es Blatt. Any kind Of opaque
drawing paper in ordinary use may be
employed for this purpose, stretched in
the usual way over the drawing to be
copied or traced. Then by the aid of
cotton pad the paper is soaked with ben
zine. The pad causes the benzine to en-
ter the pores of the paper, rendering the
paper more transparent than the finest
tracing paper. The most delicate tinta
show through the paper so treated, and
may be copied with the greatest ease, fol
pencil, India ink or water colorS take
equally well on the benzinized surface.
The paper is neither creased nor torn, re-
naming whole and supple. Indeed pen.
Gil marks and water color tintings last
better upon paper treated in this way
than on any other kind of tracing paper,
the former being rather difficult to re.
move by rubber. When large drawings
are to be dealt with the benzine treat
ment is only applied to parts at time,
thus keeping pace with the rapidity OF
advancement with the work. When the
copy is completed the benzine rapidly
evaporates and the paper assumes its orig.
inal white and opaque appearance with
out betraying the faintest trace of the
benzine. If it is desired to fix lead pen
Gil marks on ordinary drawing or tracing
paper, this may be done by wetting it
with milk and drying in the air.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
COLoRING BUTTER.

The practice of coloring butter is to be
condemned for two reasons: 1t is fraudu-
lent, and therefore dishonest, and it is IL
.kgal. 1t misrepresents the character of
be butter, and the majority of consul
l4ers are deceived by it. 1t is unneces-
sary, and is practiced solely to please the
eye and to meet the popular delusion that
high-colored butter is superior in quality
to the pale-colored. An excellent color
may be procured by adequate and judi
cious feeding and the keeping of COWS
whose butter has the desirable tint. The
oleomargarine law provides that any mix
ture of oil with butter renders itliable to
the tax. AS penal statutes are to be
strictly construed, the quantity of the
ell mixed is not an element to be con-
sidered, otherwise where could the line
be drawn2 So that when colored oil is
mixed with the cream to tint the butter
1t is, in fact and in truth, an adultera-
ton, which renders the maker of the
mixture liable to the onerous tax on oleo-
margarine, and puts him in a dangerous
position of liability to prosecution. If
the potash coloring solutions are used in
stead of the oil, one is on the other horn
of the dilemma, which is equally sharp,
and prosecution for adulterating food
would impend.-Neu York Times.
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Eastern Beggars.

Beggary throughout the East is a
thriving profession. There are guilds of
beggars, besides the numerous commu-
mites OF dervishes who are semi-religious
mendicants. Many families have been
beggars for generations, and are mendi-
cants from choice. Some of these pro-
fessional beggars are actually wealthy.
Four-and-twenty years ago the writer
we'll remembers case. The Chief Beg
gar (the title was not conferred in deris-
ion) gave his daughter in marriage to a
substantial farmer. The girls dowry
consisted of two freehold houses, the
rooms of which were entirely filled with
dry pieces of bread, and the sales of these
begged crusts subsequently realized a
considerable sum, being disposed of as
food for cattle. It must be remembered
that in the East there is no organized
charity, that most Mussulmans are ex-
ceedingly charitable, many giving away
fifth and some even third of their
income. Under such circumstances it is
not be wondered at that the professional
beggar thrives.-Goo2 Words.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
TO BROIL A BEEFSTEAK.

The only way to make beefsteak de-
Ecious is to broil it, and the only way to
get the full benefit of it is to take pains
in broiling. The first requisite is per-
feet broiler; second, a good, clear fire,
either wood or coal; third, good steak.
My way of broiling stake is as follows:
use cast iron broiler, circular in form,
convex, with radiators three quarters of
an inch in height at regular intervals,
with raised opening at the top of the
cone; futed gutter passes around the
broiler to receive the drip. Now comes
the secret. There is tin cover, deep
enough not to touch the steak, with four
half inch holes in the top and wooden
knob in the centre to handle it with.
Now for the steak. It should be just
what one can afford and never be less than
one inch in thickness. I remove the
bone and the thin skin from the outside
of the fat and make little incisions to
prevent curling. If for four people,
with different tastes, I cut in four equal
parts; now, with small piece of suet,
grease the tops of the radiators, lay the
steak on in its original shape, now place
the cover on, carefully remove the stove
lid, place the broiler over the opening,
and procee6to broil to suit the taste of
each by raising the cover. I can govern
the broiling, as portion can be used at
any time. By this way all the rich juices
ces of the meat are retained. The dish
to receive the broiled steak should be hot
and covered. No salt should be used
until the steak is removed from the broil-
er, than liberal amount of butter should
be spread on (not previously melted, as
heat has a tendency to make it rancid),
and salt to taste and serve hot. The art
once acquired you will never eat steak
broiled any other way.
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regulation and change will work won-
ders. Bulk is as necessary in winter time
for poultry as for cattle. Green feed, j
such as cabbage, carrots, turnips and
beets, is excellent. If it difficult to pro-
cure these, hay, especially clover hay,
may be used to advantage, if properly
treated. To make it edible for fowls, it
must be cut into very short lengths and
soaked over night in warm water. Clo-
yer contains quite large percentage of
lime and phosphates, and will help the
hens in winter laying.
In feeding it should be mixed with
grain in about the following proportions:
To every bucketful of dry cut hay add
ten pounds of corn meal, ground oats
and bran. Linseed meal in the proper
ton of about pound to every ten of
the mixture and an ounce of salt, well
stirred in, will make the food more ac-
ceptable as we'll as healthy. Vary this
feed in the morning with warm mess Of
middlings, barley meal and potatoes, and
at night with wheat, and you ought to
make a good profit on eggs this winter.
Farm, Field and Stockman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
A Chinese Bank.

In the course of few weeks it is ex-
pected that Chinese banking house will
be opened in the heart of Chinatown. The
originators of the project include MIR.
Chu Fong, the most dressy of Cinnamon
and cashier of several importing firms and
many other Mott street firms. The in
stitution will be the first of its kind in
this country. It is the desire of Mr. Chu
Fong and his associates in the scheme to
run the bank upon the basis of a savings
institution. A small rate of interest is to
be paid to each regular depositor, and
the money is to be let out on a bigger in
terest to legitimate Chinese business
houses in Mott street. The present rate
of interest in Mott street is between ten
and fifteen per cent for all small loans on
good security. tits a very singular thing,
and yet it is an undeniable fact, especial
ly in this city, that the more ignorant Q
Ohinaman is in the English language and
ways the more money he has. As rule
those Cinnamon who know how to talk
and deal with the Americans are the poor
est.--NeU York Telegram.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
Are Your Hens Moultin2 z

Many people have learned by experience
that Sheridan's Condition Powder given once
daily, in the food, will supply the needed ma
terial to strengthen and invigorate sick chick
ems or moulting hens and get them to lay
ing earlier than anything else on earth. Mrs.
Edwin Brown, East Greenwich, R. L, says:
81 could not do without Sheridan's Condi
ton Powder when hens are moulting. use
itfor gapes and diarrhoea; for when chickens
are small they often droop and die. To q
pint of clabbered milk Iadd a teaspoonful of
the powder, mix well, and let the chicks eat
all they will once day; it does seem to be
just what they need, they soon become so
vigorous. People laughed at me when be-
gan to use Sheridan's Powder, and had no
idea I should win a premium. They laugh
best who laugh last, however. got more
eggs than any of my neighbors, and some of
them had over 100 hens" For so cts. IS.
johnson & Co.. Boston, Mass, will send two
Is cent packs, five packs for 81; or, for 1.20,
one large "a pound can Of Powders, post
paid; SIX cans for IS, express prepaid. For
5cts. copy Of the best Poultry paper sent
most paid
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
The Weight Of the Whale.

Nilsson remarks that the weight of the
great Greenland or right whale is loo
tons, or 22O, 900 pounds, equal to that OF
eighty-eight elephants or 44o bears.
The whalebone in such a whale may be
taken at 1850 pounds and the oil at from
14O to 170 tons. The remains of the
fossil whale which have been found on
the coast of Ystad, in the Baltic, and
even far inland in Wangapanse, Wcster,
gothland betoken whale which, al
though not more than between fifty and
sixty feet in length, must at least have
had body twenty-seven times larger and
heavier than that of the common or right
whale.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
A Live Bug for an Ornament.

One of the most interesting of the lit
tic bits of quaint South American LIE
which have been added to New York's
street panorama by the spanish-speaking
delegates to the Commercial Congress
was noticed in Fourth avenue street car.
The car was well filed when it reached
Eighteenth street on its way downtown,
and most of the passengers looked like
business men immersed in their morning
papers. By the side of a young man in
a soft hat-a very dark haired and black
eyed young man--sat handsome young
woman.
Suddenly the young woman gave lit
tie scream, sprang to her feet, brushing
something away in the meantime and
hastily left the car. The dark young
man in the soft hat smiled, picked up a
long green bug which hung from the
lapel of his coat by a tiny gold chain
some eighteen inches long, and replacing
the curious creature on his breast went
on reading. Everybody in the car then
began looking at the bug which had
CTnWlGO away llOll GuC ludoVSh oA~ DASeSSAS
up OIL the young woman's shoulder. The
bug looked like double Scarabeus, al
most, in fact, as if it were two beetles
united by the very narrow waist about
which the slender gold links bound it.
It was about an inch and one-eighth long,
and each of the lobes of its body was
nearly half an inch broad. The head
was distinguished from the other end by
short, black mandibles, and there were
six black legs, three on each side, which
looked exactly like those of spider.
These South American bugs, which are
used as personal ornaments, have several
times recently been exhibited as curiosi-
ties in the windows of Broadway jewel
ers. The one seen in the street car is the
property of Mr.. Garcia Perez y Riera, a
young Gautemalan, who chose this occa-
sion for visit to New York. He says
it is harmless and quite tame.-Ne'0 York
W0r71
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
Treatment Of Pneumonia by Ice.

DR.. Fieandt, writing in Duodecim, a
Finnish medical journal, states that he
has now treated no less than LOG cases of
pneumonia with ice, and with the best re-
suits. Though ten of the cases were of
double pneumonia, only three out of the
whole number succumbed, notwithstand
ing that the epidemic was by no means a
slight one. The method adopted was to
apply over the affected lung an India
rubber bag containing ice continuously
for from twelve to twenty-four hours
after the crisis. In addition to the local
treatment the patients were given such
medicines as are usually employed, that
is to say, opium, ipecacuanha, digitalis,
brandy, etc. The method has, we may
remark, received of late some attention
in this country-London Lancet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
A Reliable Dry Weather Sign.

Speaking Of the dry weather, says the
St. Louis Republic, a close observer OF
nature remarked to the man about town ::
II have a dry weather sign which for
years I have never known to fail, and it
at the same time illustrates the great
wisdom of small creatures, and that is
this: Whenever you see the grass of the
lawn or field covered with numerous
small webs, as you have doubtless often
seen, you may depend on it that the
weather will be dry for some time.
"The tiny creatures seem to know
with unerring wisdom when to spread
their tents and they require no time to
make calculations, for 1 have frequently
noticed them Immediately on the cessa.
ton Ct rain"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
Biggest Gun in the World.

A cast steel gun weighing 235 tons has
just been shipped by Messrs. Krupp from
Hamburg for Cronstadt. The caliber OF
the gun is thirteen and one-fourth inches,
the barrel is forty feet in length. The
range of the gun is over eleven miles,
and it will fire two shots per minute,
each shot costing between $1250 and
$1,000. At the trials of the gun held in
the presence of Russian officers at Mep-
pen, the range of the Essen firm, the
projectile, four feet long and weighing
1900 pounds, and propelled by charge
of 700 pounds of powder, penetrated
nineteen and one-half inches of armor
and went 1912 yards beyond the target.
The gun is the largest in existence.
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MILK TWICE A DAY.

According to no less an authority in
dairy matters than Colonel F. D. Curtis,
the old-fashioned notion to milk only in
the morning after COWS drop off in their
yield is a mistake. If worth milking at
all COW is worth milking twice o day.
She will not only give more, but the milk
will be of great deal better quality. 1t
does not do milk any good to remain in
the udder so many hours after it is
secreted, and it does not do the COW any
good. Just why the last milk drawn is
the best is unexplained. But we know
it is the richest, and if the reason is be-
cause it Is the last secreted, then the
twenty-four hours rule of milking is a
poor one in more than one sense-poor
in quantity and quality.-NeU York
World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
VARIETY IN FEEDING.

You can't take something from moth
ing, neither can you make poultry pay
without reasonable outlay of care and
attention. Too many men buy an expen
sive brand of fowls and think that when
this is done their money is made. The
fact is that high bred fowls like fine stock
of any kind require extra care. A scrub
hen will live in cold, dirty chicken
house with nothing but corn for food,
'aBd, not pay for its feed to be sure, but
keep alive. But the better paying
fowls won't stand it. Anything that
makes the hens comfortable and healthy
will have its effect. Variety in food is
one of the most necessary things in pro-
noting good health. Overfeeding is al
most as bad as starvation, but careful
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
An Unexplored Country.

Thibet is the only known country on
earth not open to missions. 1t has an
area of $50, 900 square miles. The great
est length from east to west is 1900
miles, and the population is estimated at
100000. 1t is the stronghold of Bud
dhism. Lhassa, the capital,i is the "Rome"
of the Buddhists, and the Dalai Lama is
the Buddhist pope. He is supreme III
both temporal and spiritual things. One
monastery has about five thousand Bud
dhist priests, ,and there are about six thou
sand in the country. Thibet is virgin
soil for missions. The country is tribu-
tary to China.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
PROPER FOOD FOR CHICKS.

2rDry bread soaked in either warm
water or milk makes the best food for
young chicks until they are three weeks
old. At ten days old begin to give an
evening feed of cracked wheat. When
three weeks old give corn bread crumbled
fine three times day, alternating with
the soaked bread and plenty of greens.
Let them have plenty of pure water at all
times. They should have good range,
but not be allowed to run in the grass
until after the dew is off.-Neao York
Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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The moon is never right while the seed
bed is cloddy.
Country roads are too often paved with
good intentions.
No man ever reaped foul wheat from
clean ground and clean seed.
When prices are low it is just the time
to improve your farm animals.
If there were more drains on the farm
there would be fewer druggists in the
village.
Make easy and short the way to the
butcher of the animal that has learned to
break fences.
Good farming consists as much in over
coming adverse circumstances as in i'm
proving fully favorable opportunities.
On an average, the man with the
fewest clods in the field in the fall has
the most wheat in the field the next
summer.
Plants which may be desired for the
window garden during the winter should
now be given some extra care in the way
of pruning, watering, etc.
The price of butter is improving.
Have you kept your cows in condition to
enable you to reap the benefit of this i'm
provement2 If not, why nota
Let the hogs clean up the waste apples
and peaches under the trees, and there
will be fewer waste fruit next year.
There will also be better hogs this year.
You cannot increase your products
without increasing your expenses; but
production increases at faster rate than
expenses increase. Herein is the greater
profit of good farming.
II you can find nothing better to hold
the top on stack of hay, a few hills of
corn pulled up by the roots and tied to-
gether at the tips, when hung over the
stack at proper distances will answer
very well.
The second crop of clover makes a
irst-class feed for hogs during the
winter and should be cut and stored
away especially for this purpose. If sup
piled regularly they will consume con-
siderable quantity during the winter.
1t. is of no use to expect to make
money in the chicken business unless you
are willing to watch early and late; and,
unless you are fond of poultry. The de-
tails are minute, but each one is i'm
portant, and they all lead to success if
rightly followed.
If your young fowls are roosting on
perches, see that the perches. are made
of fiat strips with the corners rounded,
instead of round poles, as this latter is
frequently the cause of crooked bones.
Look to this in time; yonr chicks are
worthy of your care and protection at
this stage of their growth.
Don't fail to utilize all the turnip
tops the garden affords. They make fine
chicken feed. Either throw them on the
ground, turnips and all, for chickens to
pick at, or tie them in punches with q
coarse string that will not cut, and
weigh them down with a rock. The
turnips themselves, if. cooked, mashed
and mixed with bran and shorts, make
excellent feed for laying hens and grow
ing chicks.
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FEEDING FOR BACON.

There is something else to be aimed
for in breeding and feeding hogs besides
, the amount of lard they will make. The
best market at present is reserved for
good bacon hogs. Buyers understand
that hog fed nothing but corn, while
he may be heavy is coarse, soft and
spongy. A hard constitution is what the
successful breeder should try to attain.
Pick out the best breeding stock, neat,
AJump and well boned but avoid the
coarse lubberly stock. Vary the food
lfrom corn to the more nitrogenous foods,
as rye, oats, bran, shorts, middlings,
oil meal, grass and clover, with an ample
supply of good ashes, which is one of
Che best bone builders and worm de-
stroyers. We should make distinction
between feeding and fattening. Corn
furnishes very little health sustaining,
flesh-producing food; it is made up so
largely of carbonaceous material that fat
is almost its only product. After the
pigs are well grown and have good strong
frames and constitutions they may be fed
on corn with profit. But even then care
should be taken or over feeding in one
direction will injure their health. Hog
cholera is often proof of bad feeding,
and always takes the most hold on con-
stitutions weakened by constant corn
diet.-Farns, Field and Stockman.