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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-27
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Russia is despotic, but sensible in some
things. Her saloon keepers are no longer
allowed to sell liquor to working men on
credit
A Birmingham man, while under the in
fucuce of drink, knocked of his great too
with hammer, imagining that he was cut
ting his throat with a carving knife.
The official census at the Madison County
IN. " roorhouse shows that eighty per
cent. of the inmates were obliged to seek for
admittanc, there because OF lntemperance.
Rev.O C. Brown says: 81 can tell you
how to stop pauperism in this country In
four words Stop the drink traffic Liquor
is responsible for eight-ninths OF the pauper-
ism of America"
One hundred and fifty times as much as is
annually paid to the clergymen OF the United
States, and one hundred and eighty times as
world for the cause OF missions, is annually
expended to support the liquor traffic.
The Ohio State Grange says: "Ten dollars
n,id for drinks creates market for corn to
the value of fraction over eleven cents.
Ten dollars expended for pork, even with
the present exorbitant profits OF butchers1
creates a market for corn to the value OF
375. Every bushel Of corn used by the
distIllery therefore cuts OFF the market for
over thirty bushels of corn made into PORE
A large truck drove up to the salesrooms
of q wholesale wine merchant IN Beaver
street New York, the other day and un-
loaded couple Of cords of brand-neW WINE
cases. The cases were empty and, aitnougea
made here they bore the name and stamp OF
a French wine manufacturer Passers-by
who stumbled over the empty cases won
dered what kind Of wine the Beaver street
DEALER intended to put in them.
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A coyEY OF YOUNG osTR1cuEs.

uIf YOU will walk this way" said the
superintendent, ii will show you the
Youngest ostrichcs ever exhibited in
America, here or anywhere else. have
number in little inclosurc down here,
which were Matched only day before yes
terday, and they arc we'll worth seeing"
We walked toward little brook on
the bank of which stood framework Of
boards which looked something like
hot-bed in q vegetable garden. 1t had a
roof partly of boards and partly of glass,
and underneath the panes were several
birds about the size of half-grown gos-
lings. They were as lively as sparrows,
jumping hithcr and thither, pecking at
the gravel in one corner of their cage or
nibbling at the tender shoots of alfalfa
clover growing in another. The sash
was lifted off and The Superintendent
went into their cage to catch one of the
covey. He had a pretty lively chase OF
it around the narrow limits of the in
closure, but finally succeeded in catching
one of the largest. The young ostrich
was covered with down soft as satin and
as glossy as if it had been oiled. There
was slight moulting of white-tipped,
fluffy feathers all over its body, and down
the back of its neck was broad stripe
of jet-black color, merging into shaded
brown and very pretty. There were ten
IN all, ranging in age from three days to
three weeks. The Superintendent
dropped the one he had caught and
picked up another and q smaller one a
moment later. The rapid growth of the
ostrich can be imagined from the Super
intendent's assertion that in sixteen
months the bird will have reached
stature of eight or nine feet when stand
ing erect.
''What is the value ofa young ostrich2'
| I asked.
"We value them at 500 each when
thev are Matched, and their value in.
c.eascs with their age. They yield their
first crop of feathers when they are six
teen months old. After that we get at
least two crops of feathers every year
from them"
"And for how many years will a bird
continue to yield q paying amount OF
plumes9"
"oh, they live to q good age, and so
long as they live yield irst-class feathers.
The male birds--all those big black fel-
lows you see up there on the hillside are
males-of course pay the best, for it is
from them that we get the finest plumes.
From the female birds we get the brown
and gray feathers. These have to be
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

The truest Joy we have in life is in
making others glad.
Laughing helps US through Che world;
crying keeps US back.
Our memories are the echoes of joys
and griefs forever gone.
Life is not so short but there is always
time enough for courtesy.
About the most difficult effort we can
make is to realize our own ideals.
The flower that opens first to the sun
shine keenest suffers from the frost.
To give praise sincerely is only just
expression of our recognition of true
worth.
We love ourselves Notwithstanding our
faults, and we ought to love our friends
in a like manner.
That is brave little soul, indeed, that
has the power to turn its "doublc-pains
to double-praise."
1t would seem to be preferable to wear
out, rather than to be saved from rust
by an applied polish.
Character does not usually sustain sud-
den changes: age is most generally the
development OF yci:.s.
Getting into a passion is a good deal
like getting into briar bush. The bush
comes out all right, but you don't.
'Tis not always what we have accom-
plished, but what we had hoped to, that
has afforded US the most satisfaction.
Happiness lies concealed in our rduties,
which, when fulfilled, give it forth as
the opening rose gives forth fragrance.
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up, massive, iron bound gates, of the
same heavy material, and little frame
house occupied by two sturdy and deter
mined looking men, guard the secrets OF
that odd looking inclosure on the side OF
the little mountain.
To the sightseer or casual visitor who
passes the great plank inelosed fields, an
array of moving heads, with bulging
eyes and gaping mouths of immense
size, convey very little idea of what sort
Of stock is being reared there. These
heads, numbering dozens and even scores
at times, seem to be lifted up out of
nothingness, poked high into the air and
lunged swiftly over the top of the plank
fence in the direction Of the visitor. A
sharp hiss emitted just as the glaring
eyes and wide-open mouth come into
sight might prove a very effective object
lesson to hard drinker.
But the heads are not those of monster
scrpents. The eyes which glare and
never blink or move ore not the eyes OF
antcdiluvian reptiles, but belong to On
inoffcnsive bird. The gaping mouth is
the mouth of an ostrich, and within that
planked inclosure are more than hun
dred of them fully grown. But the array
of heads and bare necks, twisting and
writhing to and fro, cannot fail to con-
jurc up before the mind of visitor
nest of gigantic serpents, wriggling and
Kissing in their cndeavors to get over the
high fence to devour him.
Once within these iron-bound gates the
sightseer will witness sights which can
not be seen elsewhere OF this continent
and nowhere else on the globe save in
the vicinity of Cape Town, South Africa.
The ostrich industry was begun in this
country eight years ago, but the birds
then brought from Abyssinia did not
thrive, and after year or more, this at
tempt to raise them for their plumes was
abandoned. But other persons were
quick to see that if birds of a suf-
fciently hardy nature could be imported
to stand the climate of Southern Cali
fornia, there would be a large revenue of
profit in the business. The gentlemen
who own this farm determined to try the
South African ostrich and young birds
were imported under the skillful manage
ment of the foreman, who still has the
farm II charge. There were twenty of
these ostriches and they first saw the
farm near Fullerton, little more than
six years ago. Of the original birds inn
ported, sixteen still survive and of thd
four dead, only one died from sickness,
the others having injured thcmselvei
fatally, by falling into bitches in thd
night time. From the flock of twenty
birds, 140 have been reare6:, but owing
to death from accider+, only 124 OF them
were on the farEi when the World party
visited it last week.
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eggs, tucked her head under her wing
and went to sleep.
"Come this way now," said the Super
intendent, "and III show you the full
grown birds, not yet mated off, over in
the big paddock. They are bad lot
just now, for they are mating and the
males like to show off. Don't get too
near the fence, for they will kick you if
they can"
AS soon as we stopped they came up to
the fence and snapped at our hats in q
friendly sort of way. The Super1ntend-
ent took up stick and ratified it be-
tween the boards of the fence. Instantly
there was a crash as of heavy blow, ac-
companied by shrill hiss. Crash after
crash followed as one of the ostriches
kicked at the stick held in the Superin-
tendent's hand. He thrust his great foot
forward with lightning-like rapidity and
every time his horn-shod great toe struck
the fence it left an indentation almost an
inch deep. 1t was an exhibition of kick
ing such as I had never seen elsewhere,
and I had much rather see that ostrich
practise on the plank fence than on any
part of my anatomy.
The feeding of the giant birds is in
teresting. In the evening they eat grain,
principally oats and rolled barley, but for
their other meals they are fed finely
chopped green alfalfa. The fields of al
falfa on the ranch afford an unlimited
supply of nourishing food for the birds
and they thrive upon it perfectly. 1t is
the food the ostrich gets in South Africa,
and he does as we'll on it in California as
there. The alfalfa is brought in from
the fields by the wagon-load, then chopped
in feed-cutter very finely and thrown
into the feeding.boxes in the various in
closures in unlimited quantities. The
birds eat little at time, but eat often.
They are not gluttons nor gourmands,
though they will cat and swallow any
thing. They drink large quantities of
water and spend their time in chasing one
another around the paddocks.
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AN OSTRICH TWO WEEKS OLD.
husband, scratched little more dirt
here and dug little deeper there, until
he had apparently carried out the orders
OF his spouse. She then sat down in the
nest, ruffled her feathers, kicked and
scratched little and finally pronounced
the nest fit. Then they both went gos-
siping around by the fence, letting the
inhabitants of the ostrich village into the
secret that they had the latest-improved
and best-appointed nest in all ostrichdom
and were about to hatch brood which
should be the envy and wonder of all be-
holders.
In an adjoining inclosure an ostrich
hen was just going on her nest. She had
told her better half that he might take q
little stroll, and he was cantering to-
ward the feed trough at the further side
of the corral as fast as horse could run.
The female in this particular instance
was a very Lad hen. The Superintend-
ent had taken two eggs from the nest.
and she had caught him at it. He had
the eggs outside of the fence, but he
couldn't put them back for fear the bird
would kick him. So, as the only alter
native, he laid them down carefully just
inside the inclosure and the hen rolled
them back one by one, using her head
as lever. Then she fuffed her feathers
little, uttered defiant hiss at the i'm
pudent visitors who had caused her nest
to be disturbed, squatted down over her
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ELEVEN YEARS WITHOUT A SALOON.

Rev. Dr. J. L. Hurlbut widely known In,
connection with Sunday-school and Chautau-
qua work was lately in Ottawa, Kansas, con-
Quoting session of the Chautauqua Assem-
bly,, and in letter to the Central Nep Jersey,
Times writes: II am at present in city Of
500 inhabitants - Ottawa, in Franklin.
County, Kansas-where no liquor saloon has,
been open in eleven years. A young man,
twenty-one years old, told mo last evening
that he did not remember ever seeing bar
or saloon in the city, and that he had never
seen drunken man in the streets of Ottawa
Think Of boy growing up to manhood with
out seeing either dram-shop or drunkardE :.
city" What a boon it would indeed be to-
the young men, and to the homes Of the ma
ton, If the saloon were as effectively banished
from every city and town in the and!-Nd--
tioudl Adrocdte.
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dyed before they can be marketed, and
then they are shorter and ighher in body
than the plumes from the males. The
feathers from the female birds are made
into tips and short plumes, and bring
much less, comparatively, than the long,
heavy plumes of the males"
'How do you pluck the feathersT [
asked, dec;rous of seeing the operation,
If possible.
II cannot pluck bird for you now,
because we are through with that work
for this month, but if you will walk up
into the main corrals I'll show you how
it is done"
Up on the side of the sloping hill are
sixteen small squares within the main in
closure. These little squares are about
forty feet each way and accommodate q
male and female bird. In them the
young are raised, and into them it is very
dangerous for the keepers to 60 during
the breeding season. In one corner OF
the inclosure was triangular pen of
boards, just large enough to admit the
body of an ostrich. A stout bar stand
ing by the fence could be used to drop
into place as soon as the bird had been
driven into the pen. Then a stocking
slipped over his head shut off his sight
and he was as effectually prisoner as if
he had been thrown upon the ground
and tied. When an ostrich is thus i'm
prisoned one of the keepers reaches
through the bars of the pen, lifts up his
wings, and with a pair of keen-edged
nippers clips off the plume quills just
above the skin, allowing the stumps to
remain in the flesh. These are subse-
quently shed by the bird, and imme-
diately thereafter new plume continues
to grow. From six to ten plumes of the
finest quality are obtained from each side
of the bird twice a year, to say nothing
of the smaller plumes and tips from the
back and tail.
Thy devotion of the male bird to the
female amounts almost to alteration. He
guards her nest day and night and will
fight furiously to protect her from an
imaginary danger. He relieves her on
the nest at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and
remains there until 8 o'clock the next
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ties rs district engineer of postal tele-
graphs, several instances of injury to
poles in the neighborhood of Shipton-on-
Stour, caused by large holes being
driven into and almost through them,
were brought under his notice. A watch
was set and the depredator discovered
in the form of what the watchman de-
scribed as "stock- eagle" which, when
shot, turned out to be poor little wood
pecker.
The bird is thought to have been mis-.
led by the humming noise conducted
through the wood from the wires, into
the belief that store of insect dellcacies
awaited extraction from the interior, and
with energy worthy of q better result it
"slogged" away until it had arrived
within half an inch of the opposite side.
Then the fatal shot terminated the work.
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LONGING.
BY james PRANKlMYITTa

Jhareb On unforgotteu story
OF the days when We were young,
Ihere's q sweet end blissful story
OF tho days when we were young;
OF the times we went a-wooing.
Went a-billing and a-oootng,
VOy sad heart-mischief doing
In the days when We were young.
All, those seasons filed with glamour
Ah, those days when we were youngi
An unvexed with worldly clamor
We're the days when We were young.
Blue eyes beaconed US to tender,
1nred as on to glad surrender,
Under skies Of vernal splendor
In the days when We were young.
Sang the birds their blithest measures
J In the days when We were young.
Bloomed the earth with greenest treasurer
In the DAYS when We we're young;
Hand in hand we walked together
An the lengths Of young loves tether,
Never queryins US whether
We should ever thus be young.
Blest for ave the recollection
Ofthe days when We were youngi
Eorrowful the reerospection
On the days when We were young.
Wiser We, as we afe older.
RtronHet- Drained, and haply bolder-
Yet s1aek l-our hearts are colder
Than In days when We were young.
And the wearied souls that ponder
On the days when they were young,
Onward look with repturous wonder
From the days when they were young
10 tho time OF joyvas greeting,
To the place Of happy meeting,
With the voice Of faith repeating
We shall evermore be young
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TEMPERANCE.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY
I saw farmer when the day was done;
The setting sun had sought its crimson bed,
And the mild stars came forward one py
saw the sturdy farmer, and said: y
what have you done to-dayi =
O, farmer, say"
TO- I've sown the wheat in yondcr field,
And pruned my orchard to increase the
And turned the furrow for patch of corn
This have done since morn"
saw blacksmith in his snithy door,
When the day had vanished and the west
grew red,
And oil the weary noise and strife were o'eri
/ saw the kindly blacksmith, and said:
What have you done to-day?
o, blacksmith, sayr'
20, I have made two plow shares all com.
plete
And nailed the shoes on many horses feet,
And, 0, my friend, cannot tell you half p
The man of muscle answered with laugh.
saw miller when the day had gone,
And all the sunshine from the hills had fed,
A1d tender shadows crept across the lawn;
saw dusty miller, and I said: ~
What have you done to-day?
q, miller grey?'
20, I have watched my mill from morn tilk
night,
Did ever you see -four so snowy whiteP
And many are the mouths to-day I've feed.m
The merry miller laughed as this he said.
I saw another when the night drew nigh.
And turned each daily toiler from his task,
When gold and crimson cloudlets decked the
sky.
'What have you done to-day9
Drink-seller, sayF
But the drink seller turned with dropping
head,
And not single word in answer said.
What had he done? His work, he knew full
we'll,
Was plunging souls in deepest hell!
"Alas, drink-seller, on that awful day
When death shall call you, and your race Z
is run, -
How can you answer? What can you sayf
When God shall question you, What have.
you done?
How can you meet the eye
Of the Most High9
When night approaches and the day grows
late,
Think you to find your way to Heavens.
gate? s
Think you to dwell with the souls Of right
eous men?
Think you to enter in? If not, what then9,'
Ella Wheeler Wilcor..
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The Fastest Animal on Earth.

The fastest thing on earth for mile is
q crack thoroughbred horse-remember
we are not now speaking of birds OF the
air, but only of beasts Of the field, and
the thoroughbred race horse in his best
state can outrun any antelope, deer or
wild creature that puts its feet to the
rround.-New York Tribune.
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Silk From Wild Hemp.

Naycnura Sakusaburo, q druggist OF
Hikone, in Omi, Japan, has succeeded IN
converting wild hemp (yachyo) into o
substance possessing all the essential
qualities of silk. Nothing is said about
the process, but it is asserted that trial
of the thread has been made at the first
silk-weaving establishment in kioto and
other factories with excellent results in
every case. The plant in question grows
on moors and hillsidcs. Its fiber is said
to be strong and glossy, in no wise in
ferior to silk when properly prepared:
Cultivation on an extended scale would
present no difficulties. Chicago Herald.
1T is not 30 much what a man does as
- +, 1ovou that decides his DESTINY,
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A Telegraph Pole Bore.

The woodpecker and portion of tele-
graph-post here represented were re-
Gently exhibited to the Cardiff Natural
ists' Society by the President, John
GaYey. In the course of his official du-
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morning, taking his "watch" with al
most clock-ike regularity. He does two
thirds Of the duty of setting and there
fore two-thirds of the labor of Matching
a brood of young.
1 had an opportunity, in one of the
smaller corrals, of witnessing the build
ing of q permanent nest. The female
bird trotted around the lot in peculiar
manner, now aad then pecking at the
ground with her bill. Finally she found
o SPOT to her liking and scratched up the
sandy loan little with her foot. Then
she walked away, proud and happy in
the knowledge that she had found the
proper place for digging the family nest.
She retired to further corner Of the lot
and sat down. Then the male bird, o
handsome, black -plumed fellow, strutted
over to the spot where the head OF the
house had scratched away the turf. BE
went to work with will and soon his
big, two .toed feet, armed with their
heavy claws, had dug out quite hole in
the soft sand. He did not stop until he
had made an excavation fully as broad as
the body of his beloved mate and about
q foot in depth. Then he spoke to her
in ostrich language and she Immediately
came to the nest. There were some
modern improvements which he had
overlooked, perhaps, for she wasn't
pleased with it exactly. She gave him
few more instructions and sat down to
watch the progress Of the work. The
old fellow went to work like dutlfal
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In some wheat planting experiments,
when the seed was covered but half an
inch it came up in about eleven days,
while that covered three inches was over
twenty days in coming up.
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One car pudding company in Pennsyl,
yauia has on hand orders for 29,oOo
freight cars. The largest order is TOR
10000.
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AN OSTRICH RANCH.
RAISING THE QUEER BIRD In
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
He Tights Like a Wild Cat II Hi
:. Home is 1nvaded-HarmlessW With
a Stocking Over His Head
-Plucking the Feathers

AVS O Santa Ana
(Cal.) letter to the
New York World:
On the sleping side
of @ foothiEl in the
San Bernandinc
range of mountains,
in Southern Califor-
MIA, is the queerest
little ranch in all the
Golden State. A
high fence of hem
lock planklng, with
,ovnrv crack stoDne(l
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A limited liability company has been
formed in London to build new crema'
tory.
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Stanley's Dinner Service.

Housewives will be interested in the
following list, which is no other than Mr..
and Mrs. Stanley's silver. dinner service.
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following llst, Wnlcn IS no otner IMAM MI
and Mrs. Stanley's silver. dinner service.
It is solid silver.
36 table forks. 1S ice spoons.
"a table spoons. helping spoons.
"a dessert spoons Pair grape scissors.
"a dessert forks. Pair sugar tongs.
"a teaspoons. dessert dishes.
l soup ladle. ! epersns:
2 GRAVY spoons. entree dishes.
sauce ladies. 2candelabra.
IS dessert knives. 2chased beakers.
IS dessert SPOONS. 2 sauce boats.
1S dessert forks.
These desirable articles are presented
by the Emin Pasha Relief Committee to
"Henry NJ. Stanley, on his wedding day,
July 12, 1890, in commemoratlon Of
duty nobly done and great enterprise
splendidly achieved in Darkest Africa. !"
Pail Mall Budqet.
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1T ia not 30 much what q man does as
what he loves that decides his destiny.