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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-10
HINTS ON HAIR-DREssING.

More than a year ago N. Virgile, the
celebrated Partisan hair-dresser, declared
that the hair must again be worn low on
the neck, either In Catogan or in plaits
coiled together like the Catogan. The
fashion has very recently been adopted
in New York, and it is having hard
struggle for existence, as it is undeniably
unbecoming to the majority of faces. A
long face should not have the hair ar
ranged so low as to make it look longer,
and a short round face appears shorter
when the hair is placed directly in the
back. A woman with long face should
dress her hair at the back of the head
"half high" The curly bangs should be
brought over the forehead and temples
to broaden the face. If the neck is very
long it should be covered somewhat with
short curls or frizzes. The roundfaced
woman finds herself most charming with
her hair dressed high on her head. The
Catogan loop may be worn if she has a
long neck.
Women with broad foreheads should
dress the hair high, with very little on
the temples. The woman with the low
brow will find the pompadour becoming.
Unfortunates with reoeding foreheads
should have the hair welfcurled in front,
and the bad effect Of high cheek bones
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-10
Romance Of a Long-Lost Zine.

1t will be remembered by old timers
the excitement engendered in 1865 by
the silver bearing rock brought to Fort
Simcoe, Washington, by an old Indian
named Zokeseye. During that summer
Mortimer Thorpe, Charles A. Splawn and
others put in their undivided time look
ing for the mine. A man named Walker
gained the confidence of Zokeseye, who
promised to reveal the location of the
treasure; but Walker, after visiting the
rock, which showed up marvelously rich,
died before again reaching this place, and
Zokeseye dying soon afterward the secret
was lost. Since then there have been
many searching parties for the ledge, aud
probably no one has been more persistent
in the hunt than Captain ]. T. Simmons,
of Yakima, who on Wednesday returned
from the mountains with -four sack full
of specimens, and, with some pardonable
mystery, claims he has found the long
sought Zokeseye mine. He says it is no
wonder the location has not before been
rediscovered, as the place is so inaccessi-
BILE that even his sheperd dog could not
follow him to it. The rock has been
deposited in the First National bank, and
is the wonder of those who are COM
petent to judge ore. Experts say it will
ytrid 5000 per ton~Yakima Herald.
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A WOMAN ENGINEER.

Chicago has female engineer who
runs an engine at q laundry. The fact
has been brought into prominence by a
complaint made to the Board of Exam
lining Engineers that she is working with
out certificate. The law provides that
all engineers shall procure certificates of
ability, which shall be issued to them
upon their passing an examination, with
which requirement this young woman
has failed to comply. She has had
charge of the engine tor two years, apd
does her own firing, her own mending of
broken machinery, and is, in fact, an all
around mechanic of no mean ability.
This phenomenon is good-looking, not
over twenty-five, and manages to keep
herself looking charming, even at the
grimy work of her choice. She had,
previous to her debut as an engineer,
worked at the laundry, and, proving her
mechanical ability by numerous tinker
ings of machinery, was, when the pro-
prietor found himself short an engineer,
trusted with the charge of the little en-
CINE. All she needed was trial, and now
She reigns supreme, the goddess of the
engine-room. 81 expect to get certifi-
cate for her." said her employer this
morning. "She will have no trouble in
passing the required examination, as she
knows more about the machinery than
half the male engineers. ''-NeD York
Telegram.
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FASHIONS NEWEST coLoRs.

A long time ago people used to think
that blue was essentially q color for
blondes and angels. Nobody can dis
pute its being the color for angels, but it
certainly is not the one to be chosen by o
blonde. The fair skin looks cold enough,
and when blue, especially pale blue, s
put near it the effect given is very un-
desirable, because what was clear white
before becomes pallor now. Blondes
had much better wear any of the rose
shades, bright scarlet, warm brown, or
dark green, leaving the very trying pale
blue to the brown-haired lassie with a
bright color, or the warm brunette whose
skin does not know the unsightly touch
of sallowness. Everybody likes a rose
colored lining, and to be in vogue this
season everybody ought to have a rose
colored frock-in cotton or wool, in silk
or tulle. It is always most charitable in
bringing out ones best features and
toning down ones worst. Combined
with white the pink shades are as dainty
as bit of old china, and will suggest
the pretty pink and white ladies whom
Watteau painted on fans, who played at
little Trianoa with Marie Antoinette,
laughed and jested, and yet did not fear
when they had to face death on the
guillotine for the sake OF the King and
Queen.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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He Did q Wholesale Business.

-"One time while I was with pros
pecting party out in the mountains OF
Colorado" said the miner, "winter came
on US and We had to 60 into camp for the
season. We remained there so long that
our salt meat had grown to be monoton-
Gus, and so occasionally one of US would
90 out and shoot mountain sheep or
other game. One day Gunnison Jim
took stroll in search of fresh meat, but
we were astonished to see him, very
shortly after he started, coming down a
hillside with leaps that would have done
credit to Salvador, the late turf winner,
or giant kangaroo. As he neared the
camp we saw he was pursued by huge
black bear, aud as he came into the
stockade, ten feet at a stride, he ez.
claimed between short breathsH 'Here ]
come, boys, with meat enough for al!
winter |"-Fairhavsn (Kashington) Her
aM
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WHEN AN ARAB WIDOW MARRIEs.

An Arab woman, when left widow,
mourns her husband devoutly, but, like
other widows, if she has the opportunity
she may be married again. The night
before her second marriage she pays a
visit to her first husbands grave. There
she kneels and prays him not to be Of
Tended. As, however, she feels he will
be offended, the widow brings with her
q donkey, laden with two goats skins
filed with water. The prayer ended,
she proceeds to pour the water on the
grave, to keep the first husband cool un-
der the circumstances about to take
place; and, having we'll saturated him,
she thea departs.-Chatter.
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Chinese Pottery SMindles.

The Chinese potters are guilty of the
crossest swindles in the production of
bogus old porcclains. What are known
as single color porcelains, that is: pot
terry in one tint, like the beef's blood,
liver, blue, peach, apple green and other
colors command almost fabulous prices
from collectors. The value of ancient
Chinese ware in their estimation rests on
its perfect color and its age. The
modern potters of China initiate the
colors and the trademarks of the ancient
potters on the bottoms of vases and
other objects. There they dispose of
the forgeries to the agents of American
and English houses who reside in China
and are constantly on the lookout for
such prizes. Every great piece of pot
terry manufactured in China in the past
has been counterfeited. The leading
collectors of the world, public and
private, have been imposed on with these
forgeries. They arc next to impossible
to detect, except by the Chinese them
selves, but there are few experts in
this country and abroad who can be re-
lied on to form fair judgment of the
false from the true. They 60 mainly by
the sound Of the pottery when it is
raped rather than by its colors. AL
though the sinful Celestial of the present
day can initiate old colors and old sig
natures, he cannot, it is said, reproduce
tle peculiar quality of clay out of which
the ancient pottery was made; and the
ring of his productions is harsher and
less musical than theirs. 1t is by this
that the experts detect his dishonesty
New York Neles.
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GENERAL LEES DAUGHTER.

It is said that Miss Mary Lee, the
youngest daughter of the General, has a
most wonderful memory for names and
faces. Once met, even the most ordinary
person is never forgotten; years after
ward she can call him by name and re-
member all the details of the former
meeting.
The young lady has spent the last five
years in Portugal, France, Russia and tue
some woman, with charming mann ers
md q conversational brilliancy that makes
her the admired centre Of all the parties
she attends. She returned to America
10 witness the unwilling Of thestatue of
her father and will remain in this coun-
try until next spring, when she intends
to sail for Rome.-NeD York World.
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Gloves of Chicken Skin.

Gloves of chicken skin were in vogue
in the early part of the seventeenth CEN
tury. These were used at night to give
the hand whiteness and delicacy. Thin
and delicate gloves were first made at
Limerick. They were SO thin that they
could be put in walnut shell. Cough
says that gloves were not worn by all
women before the Reformation. But
this is not absolutely correct, for Chaucer
speaks in his translation of the "Romaunt
of the Rose" Of Idleness;
And for to keep her hands fayre
OF gloves white she had pair
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GOOD ROADS INTO FIELDS.

+ A farmer should take care to keep easy
and safe ways of ingrcss and egress to his
cultivated fields. More wagons are broken
down by going through deep burrows or
over ridges than by twice the travel on
smooth highways. Often in repairing a
road the pathmastcr will, if not pre-
vented, spoil the way in or out of field
that the farmer has made. The farmer
should not allow this to be done. The
field, if good for anything, ought to load
a wagon many times during the year, and
will also require good many heavy loads
of manure. The easy entrance to the
field may therefore be quite as important
to farmer as to have good roads in the
middle of his highway.-B0st0n CultiOa-
tor.
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It was Ben Johnson, we be-

It was Ben Johnson, we be-
lieve, who, when asked MAI
locks question, SIS life worth
living replied i" That de-
pends on the A0sr." And Ben
Johnson doubtless saw the
double point to the pun.
The liver active quick
life rosy, everything bright,
mountains of trouble melt like
mountains of snow. .
The liver sluggish-life dull
everything blue, molehills OF
worry rise into mountains Of
anxiety, and as a result-sick
headache, dizziness, constipa-
ton.
Two ways are open. Cure
permanently, or relieve tenn
porarily. Take a pill and sue
fer, or take a pill and get well
Shock the system by an over
dose, or coax it by a mild,
pleasant way. .
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are the mild means. They
work effectively, without pain.
and leave the system strong.
One, little, sugar coated pei
let is enough, although a
whole vial costs but IS cents.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
THE BOOK CURE FOR Bakers.

THE BOOK CURE FOR Bakers.
y There was very balky horse in Dover,
N. H., which nobody could drive. A
kind gentleman undertook to drive him
through the White Mountains. His
owner laughed, and said: "You cannot
drive him out of town, much less
through the mountains" He said qui-
etly: ~ think will manage him." and
he did, in this way: He filed the car
riage box with books, and when the
horse baked he quietly flung the reins on
the hook, took out book and began to
read, and waited patiently until the
horse saw fit to start. This he did two or
three times, and the horse was cured
Our Dumb animals.
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Offended tho Empress.

The Veritzins were mobiles of enormous
wealth and power. Paul held high
Office in court. One night, glittering
with Jewels and orders, the young Prince,
who was one of the handsomest men in
Russia, danced in quadrille opposite
the Empress.
AS she passed him in the dance, she
fancicd that his eyes scanned her gross
figure with covert amusement. After the
quadrille she beckoned to him, and with
a smile handed him her tiny ivory tab.
lets, containing seven pages, one for each
day in the week. On the first was writ
ten:
1.-THE Imperial ballroom, St. Peters.
burg"
On the last:
1.-THE mines, Siberia"
He read it; his face grew gray as that
of a corpse, he bowed low, kissed hei
hand, and withdrew, "taking," says the
old chronicle, ''his wife, the beautiful
Princess of Novgorod, with him." he
was heard to say, as he left the ball
room:
''My minutes arc numbered; let us not
lose one"
Flight or resistance was impossible.
The hold of Catherine on her victims
was inexorable as death. Prince VERT
zin was forced to remain passive in his
palace, while each day the power, the
wealth, and the happiness that life had
given him were stripped from.
First he was degraded from all his off.
ces at Court; next, his estates were con-
fscated by the Crown; bis friends wer
forbidden to hold any communion with
him; his very name, one of the mobiles
in Russia, was taken from him, and he
was given that of serf. Then his wife
and children we're driven out Of thu
palace to herd with beggars."
4'On the last day." says the record,
4.Paul Veritzin, in rags and barefoot,
chained to o convict, babe an eternal
farewell to his home, and departed to the
dark and icy North. He was seen OF
men no more. ."-Chatter.
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Gladst0ne's Library.

In Mr.. Gladstone's library of 25,00o
volumes are two which we're given to
him in 1915, when the future statesman
and bibliophile celebrated his fifth birth
day, one of the two shabby little book
lets being the gift of the admirable Mrs.
Hannah More-his "Holy Hannah" as
Horace Walpole used to call her-then
already seventy years of age, but taking
great delight in clever children, in which
class her young friend, "Billy'' Glad
stone, was conspicuous.-AtIanta Con-
stituti0n.
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A Regiment of Flat Noses.

The news comes from St. Petersburg,
Russia, of the centenary celebration OF
the First Regiment of the Guard-the
regiment raised by the Car Paul.
The men of the regiment had to be the
tallest that could be found in the empire,
but it was incumbent also that only fiat
nosed men should be enlisted into this
favored corps, in order to accommodate
the peculiar headpiece which they wear.
The conditions are, as far as possible,
maintained to this day.-Chicago NeHs.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Sow some turnips.
Thin out the root crop.
Keep preparing for the fair.
Oversee your own threshing.
This is the season for budding.
Clean the granary for new grain.
Celery will do we'll in shady, moist
(not wet) place.
Do not let any weeds 60 to seed around
your house or barn.
Look out or the suckers will crowd out
last springs gratis.
Hoe your currant bushes as you do the
rest of the plants in the garden.
There is no more healthy summer
drink than good, fresh buttcrmilk.
In banking up celery be careful not to
get soil into the hearts of the plants.
Remember that one of the most i'm
portant cares of the farm is the care of
health.
Whoever depends upon the public for
a market must consult the wants of the
public.
The kerosene emulsion will kill all
kinds of plant lice. Try it OF your
cabbage.
Generally the nearer the market the
better the product when it reaches the
consumer.
There is no benefit in applying to your
soil any ingredient which it already has
in abundance.
Early varieties of snap-beans and beets
put in now may give you nice dish before
frost-try few.
Grow for home use what is liked at
home; grow for the market what the
market calls for.
If you have a good crop of weeds in
your corn field, be surprised if you harvest
good crop of corn.
Farm work is hard work, but who can
take leisure day and feel it less in his
business than the farmer2
Keep vigorous growth of vegetables
in all moist and malarial places. 1t will
absorb the malarial gases.
Happy is the one who possesses
thrifty vegetable garden within driving
distances of summer resort.
The potato bug, the cucurlio, the cut
worm, the horer and the apple moth are
the five greatest enemies of the farmer,
and he must keep them down or they
will keep him down.
Beets are good crop to grow for
mich cows. They are more nutritious
than turnips and do not impart the dis.
agreeable favor that is often noticed of
milk from COWS fed on turnips.
Common sense urges farmers to give
themselves and the teams good long
rest after the midday meal. Rarely is
work so pressing as to make the non-ob-
servance of this rule profitable.
Education does more for poor farm
than fertilizers. 1t grows better crops
and breeds better stock. What many
DOOR farm, with its scrawny cattle and
foul acres, wants is heavy application
of brains.
Look out for your hogs. When they
are full give them cool, comfortable
place to sleep. This will make them
grow and get fat rapidly, because they
are satisfied. The place must be dry,
clean and well ventilated.
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can be modified by arranging the hair in
q cluster of small curls on the temples.
The coming fall style will be the full,
wavy appearance all over the head, with
a loosely twisted knot low in the nape
of the neck. The wavy effect is gained
by the use of the Lcntheric pins, without
irons or heat. The result is natural
wave, large and deep, which makes the
hair look doubly thick. The process is
very simple, and the relief from gas or
spirit lamp delightful.-Neo York World.
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FASHION NOTES.

Necklaces of all kinds have been re-
vived.
Bonnets are as small and hats as large
as it is possible for woman to wear them.
Cornfowers, feur-dc-lis and orchids
are used for decorating the picture hats.
Entire bodiccs or waists made of beads
on foundation of net are something
new.
Even the dresses of toddlers uncertain
of locomotlon brush the ground and raise
the dust.
Some of the full sleeves are tied in at
three places with bands and bows of
bright ribbons.
Deep girdles, we'll boned after the
peasant bodice, are put on the new toilets
of white and figured silk.
Narrow handkerchief hens are liked,
with trimming of the popular and al
ways refined Valenciennes lace.
Small bonnets made entirely of ostrich
feathers with tiny bird one side, is o
novelty just fresh from the other side.
In outing shirts stripes are the rage,i
but plaids are also popular. They come
in cheviots, Madras, flannel, silk and other
material.
In blazers, solid colors are rather div
ing out the stripes, which have prevailed
long enough to become monotonous, if
not common.
The striped wool-and-cotton fannels
are liked for summer petticoats, with
stripes of color on white, and the edges
scalloped with color.
Dresses are no longer made of piece
lace, but founcings of both white and
black. The old-time founces of real
lace are very desirable.
Gold is in favor. There is rage for
gold lace, gold braid, gold passcmenterie
and gold ribbons. Gold collars have lost
none of their worshipers.
The so-called cream breakfast coat is o
white flannel jacket made with loose
front, lined with pale blue silk and
trimmed with gold braid.
A white flannel shirt and jacket with
navy blue OF red blouse Of surah or In
dian silk Is a striking and pretty dress
for tennis or for yachting.
Flannel gowns for tennis, yachting or
general yachting wear have plain flannel
for the skirt and jacket, with a blouse
of striped flannel wash silk or percale.
The ladies do not tire of the blazer
or neglige coat 1t grows in favor and
the new shapes make their appearance
almost daily. The vest is made to
match.
Collars, cuffs, plastrons, bands and
rufles are powdered with small flowers,
stars or dots wrought in grayish blue
pink or rcd cotton, and buttonholed in
scallops of color.
Brown is the favorite color for shop
ping, walking or travelling gowns. The
material is one of the light woolens made
for summer wear. These come in plaids,
checks, stripes and figured effects, or
polka dots.
Some of the pretticst dotted Swiss
muslins have large woven spots over the
greater part Of their surface, and wide
border of open embroidery in designs of
eyelets with scallops of eyelets on the
edge. This scalloped border is used on
the waist to form a fitted corslet, its
scalloped edge coming up high around
the bust, and its seams Joined by bead
ing or ladder stitching; above this fin
ishing out the high-necked waist, is full
guimpe made of bias puffs of plain Swiss
muslin joined by beading, with a double
ruffle of Valenciennes lace around the
neck.
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broad end down, in wheat bran and keep
in cool place. Correspondents have
reported success with the plan of pack
ing eggs, broad end down, in dry salt.
Other smear the eggs with linseed oil and
pack in wheat bran. Preserved by what
ever method, it is imperative that the
eggs be fresh when packed and that the
packages be kept in cool place, where
the temperature will be even as possible.
-Nep York World.
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Keen Books Well Aired.

Nothing is more disagreeable than the
musty odor of books. Housewives are
often puzzled to know where the odoz
comes from, and not stopping to think
that the books require dry air constantly.
The musty odor of the bookcase be-
takens the decay of the volumes. Lat
lice doors with light curtains are the
best devices for bookcases.-MsV Hors
Lona.n1l
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
GRAY IS FASHIONABLE.

Gray, of the clear dove tint, that has
always been numbered among the artists
colors. is more fashionable than ever be-
fore, not only for house, but fete, coach
ing and driving dresses. Heretofore
silver and steel passementerie have been
used used in trimming the soft, aesthetic
gray gown; now white is chosen in
silk null, marabout, braid and lace bor-
ders.-Neoo York Sun.
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NO uousEwoRK FOR ESKIMO GIRLS.

An Eskimo girl has an indolent time
of it. There is no housewoIk to do.
There are no household utensils of any
kind; no brooms with which to sweep;
even no water for washing. The blubber
of the whales, the flesh of the polar bear
and 6sh-their only articles of food-are
eaten frozen and raw. Only the very
sick or old, or infants, ever taste heated
meat. As for washing, an Eskimo does
not understand the erm.-Courier- Jour-
nal.
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Gratifying to All.
The high position attained and the universal
acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid
fruit remedy, Syrup Of Figs, as the most excel
lent laxative known, illustrate the value Of
the qualities on which its success Is based and
are abundantly gratifying to the California
Fig Syrup Company.
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The centennial of the discovery OF
coal in Pennsylvania is to be celebrated
in 1891.