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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
A FARM DOG SHOULD BE TRAINED.

When dog is kept on o farm this
animal should be specially trained. A
dog should lead and not drive. 1t should
be trained to 60 slow with all the ami
mails and never to run. This point is
worthy of remembrance by persons as
well. A man cannot run as fast as a
calf or a COW, and while dog can run
faster, such fast running is bad for the
COWS. But for service in caring for farm
stock dog may be easily and pro6tably
dispensed with. More COWS, by ninety
nine-hundredths, are hurt than are helped
by dogs. Probably dogs usefulness is
confined to the destruction of vermin,
the legitimate pursuit of game, and the
terror of midnight prowlers and thieves.
It may be usefully employed in gather
ing flock of sheep when rightly trained
and in preventing straying flock kept
in pastoral style. But on the farm the
animals are far better without the rough
and often misguided service of dog.
And when a dog is kept it should be
-eonfned strictly to its special purpose
and prevented from prowling at large
Neao York Times.
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A Wonderful Baboon.

Jack, the baboon 30 we'll known to
all who ever had occasion to pass through
the Uitenage (Cape Colony Railway sta
ton, has, says o writer iu tho Colonies
and India, gone to that bourne from
which no baboon ever returns, much to
the regret of the country side. Jack
was one of the most intelligent of tho
ape tribe ever captured, and he was re-
garded as quite q rcgular railway en-
ployc at Uitenage. He took his turn at
working the signals and showing trollcys
about.
When requested to do so hc would go
TO his masters cottage, hunt for and find
any article required, and then, after
carefully locking the door, ho would re-
move the key and bring both It and tho
article he was sent to fetch to his mas.
ter. Tho latter had lost both his legs,
and consequently found Jack valuable
helpmate.
The baboon was also noted through
the district as fair lightweight boxer,
and he had also been trained to use the
singlestick with singular adroiness. he
uever drank anything stronger than
waser, and was unmarried.
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Novel Mode Of Signaling.

A very interesting signaling expert
ment was made at High Point, near Port
Jervis, by E. E. schermerhorn, of New
York city, the party signaled to being h
brother, George Schcrmerhorn, who "
at Sans Point, near Ellenville. Th,
distance in an air line was about twenty
seven and one-half miles. Mr.. Schermer-
horn had previously advised bis friends
TO be in readiness to answer signals at 9
stated hour. The signaling was done by
rejecting the sunlight by small mirror
and was very successful, the first signal
from High Point being answered by o
corresponding fash from Sans Point.
The signals were continued for half On
hour to the delight of large number of
people who were at the inn Witnessing
this novel mode of signaling.-New York
Times.
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Pctrifying Water.

Near River Raisin postofice, Washte.
uaw County, Mich, is spring thirty or
forty feet back from the bank of the
river, which has the peculiar property of
petrifying everything over which the
water flows. As the ground is compare.
lively level, the water spreads out through
tho grasses and moss for q width of forty
Or fifty feet on its way to the river, and
stiffens and solidifes every blade it
touches until it sounds like walking on
egg shells to pass across the place. The
bank of the river was formerly low, but
has been built up to q height of several
feet by the limestone that has formed on
everything touched by the water. Beauti-
full specimens of petrifed moss, acorns,
,ticks, etc., can be picked up oil about
the place.-Dstwt Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
EASTURTICMS.

= Comparatively few seem to know the
value of the nasturtium as bedding
plant. We have bed ten feet in diam
eter, in a sunny place on the lawn, which
has ever refused to look decent, no mat
ter what plants we rut in it. This may
in measure have been due to large
maple at the north and noble elm at
the east of it-whose roots find there
good feeding ground. This year we have
filled it with dwarf nasturtiums, and sue
cess is complete. The whole surface is
covered with rich green foliage in vari-
Gus shades, and flowers of dark crimson,
bright scarlet, maroon spotted, golden
yellow, and creamy-white colors, so
blended as to give the bed an ever
changing appearance. There is another,
q practical charm to be added, viz, its
cheapneSs. Ten cents did it; paper of
mixed seed, planted half an inch deep
and one foot apart each way, as soon as
the soil is warm and inviting, is all the
cultural instruction necessary for the
most perfect success.-American Agri-
culturist.
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WC0ming ThrO' the RYE"

The Atlanta (Ga.) Journal has received
the following inquiry:
"Did Burns mean river called Rye
or a field of grain of that name when he
wrote his song of "Coming Thro' the
Rye9" -
Burns found this old song, replies the
Journal, as he did the song OF "Auld
Lang Syne" and others, floating in the
mind of the common people of Scotland,
and gave to it the brilliance and grace of
his own genius. The poem is founded
upon q singular custom in connection
with the crossing of the little river Rye.
This is q shallow stream, crossed by
means of stepping stones. ''1f q laddie
met lassic coming through the Rye, "
and he kissed her, it was plainly nobody's
business but theirs, and the custom per-
mittcd it.
The lassic in crossing was not in a
position to resist such little passages Of
love, as she had to use her hands to hold
up her skirts. Hence the lines in the
song:
Dragged oil her petticoatie
Coming through the Rye.
Clearly it was stream that was meant,
as any reading of the poem md little
knowledge of Scotland will show.
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food; but in no case do these have so
depressing an effect, perhaps, as with
the females that are to supply the dairy.
The calf that, with proper feeding dur
ing the period of growth and after COM
ing to the milking period, might have
become a three-hundred- pound butter
COW, will hardly exceed one hundred or
one hundred and twenty-five pounds of
butter per year under the neglcctful,
haphazard plan of feeding, which is also
quite likely to precede IN insufficient
milk ration when the calf has become q
cow. To obtain COW of the highest
capacity for production, it is not too soon
to begin nearly year before she is born.
That is, have due regard to the butter
qualities of the sire and dam from which
she is to be raised. 1t is as foolish to
expect butter from poor stock as to look
for figs from thistles. 1t is not so impor-
tant that the dam should have the high
est milking qualities, though this will
undoubtedly give the most satisfactory
results, as rule; but it is essential that
the sire be pure-bred of butter family
and from high productiveness. A scrub
bull may have no dairy qualities in his
blood. 1t IS simply lottery, with the
chances against one, to patronize such o
sire.
From the day of the calf's birth It
should have tho full measure of such
food, as much as it needs for growth,
and as much as it can digest-but in no
case more. 1t should be kept growing
without interruption. The sooner it IS
developed the less will be tho expense,
both of care and feed; for it is certainly
more expensive to spend three years in
attaining a size that could have been
reached in two. There is better devel-
opment also in the latter case.
When practicable, it has been found
we'll to feed skim milk from calfhood till
the heifer comes into milk herself. tits
fed warm during the first month. Ground
oats and fine bran will also be valuable
assistants in growing bono and tissue.
These are especially important in the
winter as an addition to the hay ration,
which should be clover hay If obtainable.
If silage can be added, or an occasional
feed of finely pulped roots, so much tho
better. Such foods, with warm quarters,
a dry bed, and plenty of good water, in
winter, bring heifer to her full ca.
pacity as producer of butter. When
she begins to give milk, it should be
kept in mind that, for largest yield, she
must have as much Of we'll balanced
ration as she can digest. The measure
of proftably feeding we'll bred butter
COW ceases only when the we'll balanced
ration is fed in excess of her ability to
turn 1t into dairy products.
A9riculturist.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
CARE OF HARVESTING MACHINES.

The new self-binder harvestcrs are very
cumbrous and difficult to get under
shelter easily. There are few gates that
they can be driven through except with
the greatest care. AS consequence
they are usually left out of doors until
the harvest is completed, and quite often
until the completion of threshing makes
room for them on wide barn floors.
Every man who owns harvester should
at once provide an oilcloth cover large
enough to protect every part from be-
coming wet. These costly machines rust
and rot more than their wear in service.
The rustling of the iron portions and the
swelling and shrinking of wood work
soon makes the parts work unevenly.
Often after a single years use the har-
vester thus neglected costs more to make
it rim as it should than the work it does
is worth. After all the seasons work is
completed the harvester should be taken
apart, and each piece laid so that it will
not only be free from dampness, but will
not be liable to be bent or warped before
being put together again. If the har-
vester is left standing, care should be
taken to see that all parts are properly
supported. We knew harvester, which,
after q summers use was carefully
housed, and when brought out the next
season the cutting bar had sagged so
that it had to be taken to the black
smiths and straightened before the
knifes would work freely in it. All the
iron parts should be cleaned and oiled
before storing, to keep them from rust
ing.-BoSton CulticQtur.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
CARE OF GOSLINGS.

CAKE Ot pOSLlNOS.
= For the first three or four days, says q
Western farmer, goslings must be kept
warm and dry, and fed on oatmeal or bar
ley-meal, mixed with milk, if easily pro-
durable, if not, with water. They will
begin to grow in about week. For a
week or two they should not be turned
out until late in the morning, and should
always be taken in early in the evening.
Their great enemy is the cramp, which
can be kept off by making them sleep on
dry straw. A little boiled rice daily as
slsts their growth, with corn, of course,
as soon as they can it. When goslings
are first allowed to go at large with their
mother, every plant of hemlock which
grows within their range should be pulled
up, as they are very apt to eat it, and 1t
generally proves fatal. Nightshade is
equally pernicious to them, and they have
been known to be poisoned by eating
sprigs of yew tree.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
A Sailors Ashes Inurned in the Sea.

A novel funeral ceremony took place
on board the iron steamboat Taurus the
other afternoon. The ashes of Captain
Richard Bearse, who had been for long
time commander of one of the Cromwell
line of steamboats,, and who died, were
committed to the deep in accordance
with the wish of the deceased. The
body was cremated at Fresh Pond, Long
Island, and the ceremony of committing
the ashes to the sea took place about
three miles from shore bearing on the
Highland light. The steamboat was
brought to and the Stars and Stripes
draped over the ships side. As the line
was cast off and the case dropped into
the sea, Captain Hobbs made few ap'
propriatc remarks. The passengers we're
greatly interested in the unusual Incl
dent-Neu York. Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
Cleaning Stained Books.

Often, through care!essness, the pages
of valuable books become stained. An
old grease spot may be removed by ap-
plying solution Of caustic potash to the
back of the leaf. This may cause the
printing to fade, but that can be re-
stored by weak application of muriatic
acid-about twenty-five parts Of water
to one of acid. A fresh spot is removed
easily by chloroform or benzine, aud ink
spots disappear by an application OF
oxalic acid and hot water, which will also
take off rust spots.-Neu York Telegram.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
A Ten-StOry Steel Building.

The new ten-story steel building Of
Chicago, of Rand, McNally 6 Co., the
publishers, will contain,it is announced,
fifteen miles of steel railway sixty-6ve-
pound rails in the foundation, besides
the twelve-inch and twcnty-inch beams.
There will be twelve miles of fifteen. inch
steel beams and channels; two and one
half miles of ties and angles in the roof;
seven miles of tic rods; ten miles of 2
steel in the columns; twelve miles OF
steam pipe, 100000 rivets and bolts,
and seven acres of floors, the boards OF
which would reach 250 miles, if laid
end to end.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
Killed by O Pet Leopard.

At the palace of Bangkok the other
day performing leopard was brought
in for the amusement Of one of the young
Sianese Princes. In one Princes retinue
was young girl of about fourteen years
of age. The leopard jumped on her
breast. 1t was merely in play, said the
animals caretakers, who begged her
not to be frightened, but in another mo-
mcnt the leopard had seized the girl by
the throat, and she died in sight OF the
Mortified spectators. s-DenaocrGt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
The Horned Toad Industry.

One Of the peculiar industries of Kern
County, is the collection and shipment
of horned toada. They are sold to the
Chinese, who use them for medicinal pur.
poses. They are considered especially
valuable in the treatment of rheumatism.
The formula is as follows: Two parts
whisky and one part horned toad; mix
and let it stand one year. 1t may then
be taken internally or applied externally
to the rheumatic parts.-Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
Proficient in Eleven Languages.

It is stated that Marion Crawford, the
novelist, is proficient in the use of no
fewer than eleven languages-English,
German, French, Italian, Latin, Greek,
SanscrIt, Arabic, Persian, Russian AMI
Turkish. 1t is evident that when Mr..
Crawford, blindly feeling about in the
dark for door, stumbles over rocking
chair, he is able to give his feelings ade-
quate expression. Even the incidental
advantages of culture are not to be de-
spised.-.Nep York Tribune.
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Too long
deluded - the unhappy victim of
catarrh in the head. He's been
told that it can't be cured Don't
you believe it. 1t can be, and it
is-no matter how bad or of how
long standing. It has been done
for thousands by DR.. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy. Other so called
remedies may paUiate for time |;
this cures for all time. By its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it conquers the worst
cases. Its makers offer, in good
faith, a reward of $500 for a case
of catarrh which they cannot cure.
They are able to pay it. Are you
able to take it2
The symptoms of catarrh are,
headache, obstruction Of nose, dis
charges falling into throat, some
times profuse, watery, and acrid, at
others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody, putrid and often
sive; eyes weak, ringing in ears,
deafness; offensive breath; smel!
and taste impaired, and general
debility. Only a few of these
symptoms likely to be present at
once. Thousands of cases terml-
nate in Consumption and end in the
grave, without ever having mani,
tested all these symptoms. DR..
Sage's Remedy cures the worst
cases. so cents, by druggists.
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DEVELOPING THE uEIFERs.

: 1t was once very prevalent idea (and
is still. in some quarters, unfortunately
that any kind of rough fodder is good
enough for young stock, whether steers
or heifers. Swalc hay and dry corn
stalks have made many poor milker
that with proper feeding might have been
credit to the herd. Stunted growth
and poor development can be seen in all
kinds Of stock, because Of insufficient
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Gunter'sC
Guntcr's chain is a meas

Guntcr's chain is q meas,
adopted in land surveying. 1tH
two yards in length and contains
links, each link consequently being 7.5S
inches long. The length of the chain
was fixed at twenty-five yards because
o square whose side is twenty-five yards
Zone chain) contains exactly ITO acres; !;
in other words, rectangular plot OF
ground one chain in width and ten chains
in length contains one acre. Eighty
chains contain one mile in length, and con-
sequently square mile contains $40 acres.
For surveying and laying out plots and
building lots, chain of fifty feet, or one
of twenty-five feet (the usual frontage Of a
loD is usually employed by survivors,
NeU York Dispatch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
Yicissitudes of q SeYen-Year. Old.

Pasadena, CAL, has seven-year-oh
boy whose adventures promise to be more
numerous and thrilling than those re-
counted in any dime novel. Inside Of
three weeks he has fallen out Of second
story window, been shot in the eye with
q air-gun, land had both legs crushed in a
railway turntable.-New York. Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20

A soap that Is soft Is t,dl NJ tudtcr, half OF
two-thirds its weight probably, thus you pay
bins's Electric Soap Is al soap and no adul.
teration, therefore the cheapest and best Try
T,,1,h
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20

It is said that q bunch of clover hung
up in o sitting room or bedroom will
clear 1t of flies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20

1.-THE effect of Halls Catarrh Cure is wonder.
full Write him about it. Sold by Druggists
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20

THE illiterate inhabitants Of Portugal are
officially stated at eighty two per cent. Of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20

FITS stopped free by DIR. KL1SE's GREAT
NERVE RESToRER. No Fits after first days
use Marvellous cures. Treatise AMI S2 trial
bottle free. DIR. Kline. a3l Arch St., Phila-, Pa
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THE Christianity Of Heligoland Is purely
English in origin.
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If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp.
sons kye-w ater. druggists sell at25c per bottl,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-01
THE TWO CONDEMNED MEN.
How They Received the Intelligence ~
the Respite.

As stated in THE STAR yesterday, the papers
respiting the death sentence in the Of Lewis
Williams and Benjamin Hawkins who were
TO have been hanged tomorrow. were taken TO
the jail by the Rev. Mr.. Roberts and the pris-
oners notified Williams Was first called in aud
said he felt very thankful 20 the President and
the friends who had interested themselves ia
his behalf. He had not expected sny elemency
and il the sentence was carried ont il would be
what he had expected. but anything done by
his friends would be all right.
Then Hawkins was informed OF the Presi-
dents action. and after expressing his thanks
FOR what had been done invited Mr.. Roberts.
Dr. Howard and Rev. Mr. Stokes OF North Caro-
lima into his cell and dropping on his knees.
offered feryent prayer. in which he expressed
thanks that the President had been led 90 take
the action announced. thanks 20 the friends
who had interested themselves IN his behalf
and regret for his past life, saying that against
good advice he had suffered himself 90 be led
estray. He closed by submitting himself 20
Gods will and praying for Divine assistance 20
enable HIM 10 bear mp under any trial which
beset him. He then arose from has knees aud
conversed cheerfnlly with his visitors. saying
he had never felt better in his life. both bodily
and spiritually. He had not expected any fur
Their delay, he said. and was fully prepared 10
suffer the penalty. hut he was satisfied that
what had been done was for the best
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-01
HO: FOR THE Sunny SOUTH.
An Excursion OF Washington Newspaper
Men on for Augusta.

In response to an invitation from the city OF
Augusta. Ga, and through the courtesy of the
Piedmont Air Line management: party of
forty-eight newspaper men left Washington at
n0 a m. today to spend a few days as the
guests OF that city and road Jas. l. Taylor.
the general passenger agent Of the road. ae-
companied the excursion and took charge of
the party on behalf of his line. Three special
Pullman cars, generously provided against want
and accident. we're attached 10 the regular
train, which will arrive in Augusta at 10 am.
tomorrow. While there the visitors will be
given AZ object lesson in southern hospitality.
an old-fashioned barbecue being feature of
the gustatory program The party will return
sunday evening.
possible to leave their duties here. of this num-
Der being W. Z. Curtis, NJ. +. Ihmsen. II. c.
Clarke, +. p. Morgan. Paul Wolf. Tom 4.
hannun, L. j. Gibson, Smith u. Fry. Fred ID.
Mussey, s. +. Hudson. Willis b. Hawkins,
Marshall Cushing, J. V. Cracroft and Chas.
Boynton, jr.
ihe following are those who went: F. r.
Barrett, Fred A. q. Handy, q. II. Apperson
Perry s. Heath, +. p. Ferris. A. W. Dunn. F. IL.
hosford. IL. W. Spofford. j. II. Henry. Lewis
:: Lang. Z. E. Roberts, f. q. Dunnell. Thos.
McSheehy, John s. Shriver, Walter Wellman.
I. Z. Leupp, Hobart Brooks. F. V. DeGraw. &.
A. Hamilton, W. II. Bell. Geo H. Walker II.
n. Thompson, H. l.. Merrick. Clifford Rose. II.
v. Oulahan. Amos Cummings, GEO. T. Gill
land, Nj. p. Handy, W. f. Amin. l.. Garthe. W
l. Crounse. w. NJ. Handy. Chas +. Towle. L. L.
tearn. II. b. +. mcfarland James Il. Young.
=. ;. Connor, c. A. Conant. A. II. y Davis, w
n. Young. +. A. Markle, W. J. Hampton. J. y
Van Antwerp, James L. Taylor. Henry f.
Eiand. A. J. Dodge, Hon. John NJ. Allen and
Fletcher Hodges