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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
Peculiar Headgear.

Not far from charming Lake Bourget
is q place seldom visited by travellers
Bourg-en-Bress is a pretty and we'll
built town occupying the centre OF a
fertile plain on the left bank OF the
Reyssouze in France.
The streets are clean and we'll made,
with air and water circulating IN abund-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

THE throes of inventive genius have
resulted in the birth of another scheme
for utilizing the power of Niagara.
The last project exploited contemplated
transmitting the power of the falls to
New York City through an electric
cable about the size Of barrel, and at
a roughly estimated cost of 100000
q mile for plant and operating ez-
DnOcaS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
Trials of q GrOcer's Life.

stranger-"Do you keep cheese here|
Grocer-"Yes, sir; can I put you up a
few pounds2" .,
stranger-"Is it rich and strong'
Grocer-"Yes, sir; will twenty pounds
be sufficient" :,
"That's rather too mucn'
Grocer-"About ten pounds them
stranger-"Well, no; I just want
enough to bait mouse-trap with"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23
MAPLE SUGAR.
OLD-TIME AND PRESENT WAY OF
MAKING THE SYRUP.
The Sugaring Season in Vermont is
the Farmers Carnival Month
Sugar Parties in
the Woods.

SHORT time ago
the young and old of
Vermont realized
that sugar season was
. at hand, and the long
looked for picnic was
within their grasp.
In this, like all others,
things are not as they
Used to be. An age
ago the farmer and
his boys, in the fall
OF the year when the
harvest was ended,
uo,,16 take their ayes
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

..nce. Spacious and beautiful avenues
lead from the interior of the town to the
environs. -, =
The women in the neighborhood OF
Bours and Macon are most picturesque
and pretty. Their headgear is very
peculiar and gives them the appearance
of wearing a wedding cake on their
heads.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23

+ "Who was the elderly lady I saw you
walking with the other day9"
"My wife,"
"You're joking"
"Oh, no! It's the bitter truth. ."-Fte-
oende Blaetter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-23


Noll turned to Mrs. King, with q
somewhat disappointed look upon his
lace, as Lima tainted.
"Take her, Mrs. King, and do all for
her you can, but do not, on peril Of
your life, let her escape. We hare but
little time now to get away from here.
Unfortunately they are on our track,
and fear may discover us. I will go
and prepare everything for departure,
while you must restore that girl as
much as possible.
"Dress her in that long black dress
that I brought yesterday, and veil her
closely. She must not be recognized
by any one in this vicinity or all /
lost.
member, Tuliy, warn her to make
no effort to escape, and to make no
noise.
Il am in fearful pain, and must get
relief. One of those weak-mindel,
low, scheming farmers has shot me in
the arm.
II am now going to get carriage,
and will be on the main road about
dark. You come to the end of the path
and start slowly on down the road. !
Will meet You somewhere. -
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
TnE Mornlnp MOVE saYs:

One Of the funniest things in current
political discussion is the antipathy OF
Democratic free traders to the home
market.
II is funny to the protectioList manu-
facturer who has hypnotized the farmer
into paying two bushels Of wheat for a
pruning knife which, in normal mar
ket. should cost him one bushel, and
twenty baskets of peaches for a plow
which. in a normal market, should cost
him ten baskets only. That makes the
sham "home market" fraud anything but
funny to the farmer and to the Democrat
who sympathizes with him, in
stead Of with the rich monopolist
The News proceeds to explain and apollo
gize for the home market" on all sorts
Of pleas intended to comfort the farmer
and persuade him that he should be very
happy in his perfected home market
elysium Of low prices and mortgaged
farms. The News continues.
But It is said that with this great home
market Of over 3, 1000, 900 persons lying at
our very doors the condition Of our farm
ers is not satisfactory. That is true.
In this elysium Of home market
which the tariff robbers have been
building up for twenty-five years
"the condition Of our farmers is not
satisfactory Then there must be some
thing wrong with the theory on which
the tariff robbers have been hypnotizine
the farmers into believing that taxes
paid to support failing factory, would
make the farmers richer 1t begins tc
dawn upon the farmer that he would
have been richer If he had kept his
money. The theory Of the home market
cannot stand against the condition Of the
farmer.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
The Human Eye.

Science gives Us interesting details aboue
what the human eye has been and what u
may bee. rae. lle Eedas u Ind.a, which are
the most ancient written documents, attest
that at fines most remote but still recorded
ia history only two eolors were lnown--black
and red. A very long time elapsed before
the eye could perceive the color yellow, and
a still longer time before green could he dis
tinguished; and it is remarkable that in the
most ancient language the term which desig-
mated yellow insensibly passed TO the signif-
cation Of green. The Greeks bad, according
to the generally received opinion, the per-
ception Of colors very highly developed, and
yet authors Of more recent date assure us
that in the time OF Alexander the Great the
Greek painters knew but four colors, viz,
white, black, red and yellow
The words TO designate blue and violet
were wanting to the Greeks in the most an
cient times OF their history, they calling these
colors gray and black 1t is thus the colors
in the rainbow were only distinguished grad
ually, and the great Aristotle only knew four
Of them. IL is well known fact that when
the colors Of the prism are photographed
there remains outside the limit OF the blue
and violet III the spectrum distinct impress
sion which our eyes do not recognize as q
color. Psychologists tell us that it is reason
able to suppose that as the color organ be-
comes more highly developed, and even be-
fore the human eye becomes perfect, this out
side band will evolve into a color perfectly
discernible. Chicago Times.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
SHAM REFORM.

Ina wall entitled Detectives Needed
the Morning News says:
The frequent reports of petty robber-
les, by sneak thieves and professional
burglars, emphasize the need Of a detec-
tive force in this city, or a fund which
can be used IN paying expert detectives
when the occasion demands. With the
exception Of the robbery on Saturday
night the amount Of property stolen at
any one place has been very insignificant,
but the sense of insecurity which the re-
currence of these depredations creates
Is very wearing upon those
of nervous temperament. The
present police force is inadequate to
insure proper watchfulness over the dis.
tricts entrusted to its care, and the bold
ness Of some Of the recent robberies
clearly indicates that the guardians of
the peace have shrswd and dangerous
men TO cope with. There should be q
secret force employed to ascertain what
the thieves intend to do, so that when a
robbery takes place the police may
know their man, and take him in"
before he has time to make himself
appear like an innocent man.
Thisis confession Of the failure Of th'
reform city government" which wa.
advocated so hotly by the Every Even
ing and by the Republicans
Since the present reform mayor" anc
superlatively reform chief Of police" as
aumed office there have been constant
requests for more money, more men ant
more facilities. There has also bssn 1
constant increase Of crime Since thes'
reiormers were inaugurated more money
has been expended, more men have beer
appointed, patrol wagon has been pro
vided, matron appointed and bette
means in every way afforded for keeping
the city in order But there is no bette
order; indeed, the city is not SO orderl,
as it was under men who did more worl
and made less profession.
The reason is that we have only shan
reform. The Every Evening joined will
the Republicans and brought forth thi
sham. for which there has been al
unending succession Of lamentations
excuses and apologies.
1t is not fact that more men ar
needed, but better men and fewer poll
ticiAns
1t seems that the chief reform accom-
plished was that Of turning out ever,
old officer to put working Republican 0
a Grand Army man in his place
With such reform" it is not strang
that we have had sandwich scandal an
constant apologies. At the next election
the people should take the matter Il
their own hands and elect men who ar
not shams, but real men.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
Cans Preve His Charges.

"Henlopen," in the Georgetown Dem
ocrat says: The Republican chairman of
the County Committee after the resolu.
tion to call the editor Of the Morning
News before the investigating committee
had time to see him and post him, and
If be can't prove what he says, you per-
ceive that our 'thunder" amounts TO
nothing more than the rattling of tin
investigation for the purpose of making
political capital out of it, that all Of US
''bosses" admit, but we have digged pit
and have fallen into it ourselves, and
how to get ont is what is bothering us.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
A breathing Cave.

In the range of mountains in western
North Carolina known as the "Fork Rangev
a most singular phenomenon exists. 1t is the
breathing Cayen In the summer months
a current of air comes from it so strongly
that person cannot walk against it, while
in tho winter the rush of air inward is Just
as great
The cool air from the cave in summer is
felt sometimes for miles in direct line from
the mouth Of the cave. AT times most un-
pleasant odor is emitted from the current
from dead animals sucked in and killed by com
ing in violent contact with the walls The loss
Of cattle and other stock in that section dur
ing the winter months is always great, and is
accounted for in this way: They range too
near the mouth Of the cave, and the current
carries them in.
At times, when the change from inhalation
to exhalation begins, the air is filed with
hairs of the various animals; not infrequent-
ly small dry bones have been carried for over
a mile from the mouth of the cave as though
shot from an air gun. The air has been known
to change quite suddenly during exhalation
from cold to quite hot, accompanied by ter
rible roaring and gurgling sound.
Many scientific men have visited the place,
but the phenomenon still remains unex-
planned; the residents of that section fear a
volcanic eruption. Something is wrong, sure.
Nashville American.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
A coLoREp Boys CRIME
When Arrested He Confessss to Firing a
DnIlet nt Passing Train


CHESTER, Pa, March 16.-Chief of
Police Newsome and Special Officer X. II.
Cray, in the employ of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, made an inn
portant capture yesterday. On the night
of the 18th instant, while north bound
express on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road was speeding by Fairview station, a
bullet crashed through window of a
coach, in which were seated number of
the officials of the railroad who were re-
turning from an Eastern tour of inspec-
tion
Officer Gray was at once placed on the
trial of the offender, and this afternoon
he telephoned to chief Of police Newsome
to meet him at Ridley, as he believed he
had run his prey to earth. The chief hast
ened to the place and arrested colored
boy named Theodore Bryan, 15 years Of
age.
At frst the boy denied all knowledge of
the affair but afterwards confessed to Chief
Newsome that he stood about 500 feet
from the station when the train passed,
and fred the shot. He claimed that he
did not intend to hurt anyone, but did
the shooting for fun.
A % calibre revolver and lot of cart
ridges were found upon him. He was
brought to Chester and Mayor Coates
held him in $500 He will be taken to the
county jail tomorrow.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
pENINsuLA pARAeRAPns.

c. F. Griffenberg. father Of the editor
Of this paper, was appointed postmaster
at Odessa on Monday. He has been an
active worker in the Republican party
for forty years and has been a close
friend and supporter Of Senator Higgins.
--SeRford Review.
Mrs. N. B. Smithers, superintendent
of the jail work of this state, in her
report says that our jails should be self
supporting. and suggests that the
prisoners be put to work, and asks that
some sphi.anthropie people visit the jails
OF the state before the next session of the
State Legislature and formulate some
plan for much-needed reform in this
matter.
We have come to the conclusion that
IL we were to remain in Seaford ten
years longer, we could not gain the ex-
plicit confidence of the people. We did
not come here to beat anyone, but with
honest intentions, and are frank to say,
that when we leave here it will be with
a knowledge that we have done our full
duty towards those with whom we have
bsen connected by business rela-
1 tions -Seaford Review.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
niol,le uIrnself.

Thinkers who discuss "identityn and 'the
egon may nevertheless have no more real con-
ception Of the true self than certain little
girl whose dog was her chief delight. One
day, however, Diclsie died. and then his mis-
tress grieved and would not be comforted.
A few days after his burial in the garden
she sat with her mother near the syringa
bush which shaded his grave.
Mamma, she said, thoughtfully, ''where
is Diekien
"Why, down there under the syringa. said
her mother; don't you remember we put
him there, and covered him with earthln
"Yes, but Dickie hims-lfp
''We put him in the ground there, dear
No one has disturbed him.
''Oh, know his head and his ears and his
paws and tail and the rest of him are there,
but what want is to know what has become
Of the real Dickief'
1t was the self which shone out through
Dickie's loving brown eyes which she SO sadly
missed Youths Companion.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
NEWSPAPERS OPINION.
Professors aud Proteotionista.

Baltimore sun.
There is perhaps no American mer
chant who has made so thorough a study
Of Spanish-American comm srcial affairs
as exMayor Grace of New York. He has
not only unusually large business and
financial interests in Peru, where his
brother resides as the representative of
the firm; The has also personal knowl-
edge Of the South American states gen r
ally, and particularly Of the adjacent re-
publics Of Bolivia and Chill, the latter
being the most progressive state Of
the whole group. The opinion Of
the ex mayor, who himself passed
many years Of his life in South America,
understands the language, and has made
himself acquainted with the habits, Gus
toms and needs of the people, is there
fore of value. He does not think that
much practical good can come out Of the
Pan-American Congress. He points out.
as one reason of his opinion, and it must
be regarded as strong one, that the de-
legates to the congress are literary and
professional men, that they do not rep
resent the commercial elements of their
respective states, and that their judg-
meat would have very little influence on
the walks of trade, If, with the know
ledge they have acquired Of our
wealth ~and resources they could carry
home with them propositions looking to
treaty Of reciprocity, they might sue
ceed In enlisting the merchants In the
project. This, however, would meet
with so much opposition on the part Of
our protectionists that no such agreo-
meRt could be made, and in the absence
of an amended tariff, Mr.. Grace does not
see how the Pan-American Congress can
materially enlarge our trade with South
America. The delegates. moreover, ex.
pressly avowed on their arrival that
whatever conclusions the congress might
reach they were vested with no power
to bind their respective governments.
AS matters now stand we are
prevented by our tariff from taking the
wool and copper ore Of Chilli, the WOO
and sugar of Peru, the wool of the
Argentine Confederation or of Brazil
and these are the principal products ol
exchange, except coffee. the hides anC
meats of the Argentine Republic and tn,
nitre beds, now owned by Chilli anC
worked by a syndicate, which finds il
England the principal market for thai
| important product Mr. Grace does bui
repeat what our consuls have so Otter
written-that unless we can exchange
our commodities in South American
markets for their raw products W,
cannot lenlarge our trade will
them One other point mad
by Mr. Grace will be new to thl
generality Of our people He says tina
''the business of the Spanish American
republics, as Of a great part Of thu
world to-day, is done by cable, which
brings all markets close together. Ever,
day cargoes of goods are offered at cur
rent quotations, figured down to thi
lowest possible margin Of profit. 1t il
all question Of price. 1t offers from
Germany and England are lower thar
offers from this country Germany O
England gets the market. That we are
in no condition to offer our goods in com
petition with England or Germany and
that we are still less able to take theii
raw products in return, everybody knows
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
Beware Of Unneoessarr Ornaments.

A pamphlet is little thing, but it will 60
hard with il if it can't get lost and give its
slave long foreDoon's work trying to find
it. lnaniInate objects, having no souls to
save, have no incentive to do right; they pre-
fer to make all the trouble they can. A piece
of silver on a table previously unacquainted
with silver will boldly assert its claim to have
everything, not only on the table but in the
room, Of nature that viii harmonic with
it, richly upholstered chair in the parlor
may incontinentlY Danish all the other chairs
from that apartment to the attic; a delicate
pair of gloves will necessitate a new and ex-
pensive costume; an ornamental bell handle
viii call for a new front door, which win de-
mand a new house, which will insist upon a
velvet lawn with flowers and shrubbery.
Having earned our bread and butter by the
sweat of the brow, let US beware Of bringing
the entire body into a state Of active perspir-
alton merely for the sake of getting sugar to
spread upon the butter.-Toronto Globe.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
Government Property in New York.

The United States government has been
very fortunate in its New York purchases
1t sold the old postofflce at auction for $780,
600, which yielded a profit Of $4,000. 1t
paid for the site Of the sub-treasury S225, 600
and could readily sell it for six times that
sum, and then the assay Office, its most re-
cent purchase, which cost a half million,
would now be cheap at double that price
Turning from New York to Brooklyn, the
navy yard, which contains forty acres, and
cost 81 900 an acre, is now valued at a mil
lion. Governors Island, which cost about
the same amount, is now worth two millions.
New York, indeed, has always being lucky
spot for the nation, for the government was
founded here, and all national movements
ia this city have been in the highest degree
protitable.-New York Letter in Rochester
Democrat
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Thrown NON Hls Wagon.


Editor EVENING JOURNAL.
Please give place in your columns to a
few lines. calling the attention of the
Street Commissioners to the deplorable
condition of Lancaster avenue, between
Union street and the B. 8 0. railroad.
On Saturday the 10 instant, as farmer,
was going from the city in two-horse
market wagon. he got into one Of those
dangerous holes, broke his wagon in such
a manner as to let the front wheels out
and allow the body Of the wagon to fall
suddenly. The driver was thrown on the
pike, cutting and bruising his face
terribly He is so patched up with court
plasters, that his friends hardly knew
him.
There are several Of these bad places
which should be attended to at once, so
that the farmers coming to market with
their produce could travel without being
in constant dread Of losing their lives.
II these streets we're put in proper condi-
tion, the tax payers would be better sat
isied, and the city have fewer damage
suits A TAX PAYER.
Wilmington, March II, 1890.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
Speak Up. sporry.

s Georgetown Democrat.
The Morning News processes for itself
and Tor the party to be eager for full
investigation Of the bogus order matter
in this county. Whilst accusing the
Democrats Of not being in earnest in
their desire to probe the crookedness to
the bottom, 1t says the Republicans are
endeavoring to throw an electric
light upon the whole business and
show up the guilty parties. So
much for professions, but how about the
practice. There certainly must
be more back Of this than appears
upon the surface. 1t may be that in
their partisan efforts snsg has been
struck that might affect their own
friends. As a last resort the Morning
News endeavors to shield itself behind
its honor and compares it's relation to
its informant with that Of an attorney
to his client. Communications be-
tween the latter are privileged by law /,
but such cannot be said Of the former,
and it Is a weak subtarfuge to pre-.
vent all the truth from seeing the
light, whether the charges made are
true or false.
The Democrats we're trying to steal
political thunder, were they2 II seems
queer way to do this by proving fraud
by Republican witness. You must
come again Mr. Morning News. What
you have so far said does not in the least
prove that the majority Of the COMMITTEES
are not engaged in partisan investiga-
tion and that the Democratic members
are not in earnest in sitting the matter
thoroughly.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
Weather.

Indications for Delaware aud Maryland,
p. m. Fair weather; southwesterly
winds; warmer Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday,
New York Herald Forecasts The ''cold
waves" influence win probably decline
slowly in this section to-day, with the
easterly advance Of the depression north
Of the lakes. which will cause brisk to
high winds ain the southern quadrants
as it crosses the upper New England
coast. A storm viii probably move from
the Southwest toward the Middle
Atlantic coasts to-day, with a
renewal Iof last weeks heavy
rains in the Lower Mississippi
Valley. Temperature fell in the eastern
part Of the United States yesterday, but
rose in the interior and western portions
the chief minima reported were
Rockliffe, 10 degrees, and Rochester and
Montreal, Is degrees; the chief maxima
were Palestine, 66 degrees, and San
Antonio and Pueblo, GA degrees.
BRynard's thermometer, 2 a. m. 40;
0 a. m. 80 II a m, 43; p. m. A.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17

They not only do not bend every effort to
obtain subsidies but they actually re-
fuse TO be subsidized when the mighty
Mississippi is threatening to leave its
banks and destroy millions Of property
Those people may not have arrived at that
high state Of civilization which pre-
fers and promotes negro above white
man, but they are not insolent, i'm
pudens and threatening beggars and sub
sidY hunters.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
SINK or Gang MAY.

CAPE MAY, March 16.--The o.masted
schooner Nellie G. Paine, Captain Dott-
ridge, from Lewis Cove, Me-, with cargo
of ice for Philadelphia, sunk at her
anchor this morning near Brandywine
shoals, upon which she struck last night
during a northwest gale. The captain
and crew landed here this afternoon, aud
are ibeing cared for at Cape May Point
Life Saving Station. The Paine is an old
vessel owned in,.Boston and partly in
sured.
Evening journal., 1890-03-17
rha rlonr Moth.

A -four moth, imported in grain from Italy
and known as the scourge Of the Mediterra-
mean, has made its appearance in Ontario
mills. On two occasions Q mill was cleansed
thoroughly with chemicals, to no purpose,
the elevators. walls, ceilings, cracks, crevices
and every machine being again IN very
short time completely infested with moths,
coooons and caterpillars, until there was no
use going on, and work ceased. The insect, if
once propagated in the west, might become a
national calamity worse than the Colorado
beetle Philadelphia Record.