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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-20

When Mr.. E. V. Smalley, Of Minneapolis,
was at The Helena the other day DR.. Cole
told him the story about the Chicago. St.
Paul & Minneapolis drummers, that ap-
peared i'll print short time ago, their ex-
was never finished" said Mr.. Smalley, when
the final rub came on the Minneapolis man.
The fellow from my town may be behind
Chicago, but he leaves the St. Paul man in
the shade, and as for tho Montanian, he
never washes at all.''
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-20

There is no man SO happy as a man Of action
hours seem Short while the years. measured b,
true measure of Life. Our mission here is to sell
very Best Goods at the lowest possible prices, is
is the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
The Presidents Room.

Now that the Stewart mansion is to be-
come a clubhouse, says New York
paper, it has come out that it contained
one sacred apartment. 1t was on the
second floor, and furnished at cost OF
$4,000. There were carpets and furnl-
ture of the most expensive kind, crys-
tai chandelier, marble statues and fine
paintings. 1t was fitted up for the use OF
General Grant, then in the first year OF
his term as President of the United
States. 1t will be recalled that General
Grant sent A. T. Stewards name to the
Senate for Secretary of the Treasury. 1t
was then discovered that the Constltu-
tion would not permit an adopted citizen
to take this place. But Mr.. Stewart, ap-
preciating the Presidents desire to honor
him, became from that moment warmer
friend than ever of General Grant. This
room in his palatial mansion was fur
nished expressly for the use of the Presi-
dent. A latchkey to the mansion and a
key to the room were sent to him, with
the directions that whenever he wanted
to come to New York and have resting
spell this room would be at his disposal.
General Grant, in the eight years that he
was President, occupied it many times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02

and even then with a difference. Thus
the mother of daughter wears hers in
bodice; but the proud mother of son
sets hers in the middle of her forehead
with the balls falling over her eyebrows.
From this honorcd position it is some
times torn and flung in rage and defiance
at the feet of the husband when some do.
mestic difference of opinion has induced
him unduly to chastise the wearer.
Earrings are made of different patterns.
Some are small, to hang from the lobe of
the ear; some are very large, to hook
over the ear and are supported by strings
tied at the top of the head beneath the
headdress. The long, dangling chains
which always hang from these large ear
rings are decorated at intervals with lots
of rough coral and with colored glass
beads.
The diadems worn by Kabyle beauty,
are very handsome and original. They
are usually made of three plaques of
metal Joined together by hemispheres of
bright metal, which have a very striking
effect.
The plaques are always enamelled and
enriched with round pieces of coral set
in rows, such as are seen in Jewish high
priests breastplate. The diadem is
placed around the turban-shaped head
dress and is supported in its place by
means of small hooks, which fasten on
the ton of the turban. A row of varied
pendants bangles over the eyebrows
Jepelers' Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
Finding Water With a Diyining- Rod.

The divining-rod as a means of finding
a good supply of water stood a successful
trial recently at Oundle, England. W.
Todd, a landowner, requiring we'll on
a portion of his property, sent for q
"diviner" named Pearson. There had
been considerable difficulty in obtaining
supply of water in the town, and the
Oundle Commissioners had spent $4OO in
trial borings, conducted by a professional
man, which proved futile. In the pres.
sence of a number of spectators, Pear
son, with the usual V-shaped hazel twig,
walked over the estate. In several places
the twig was visibly agitated, but the
"divincr" kept on until the twig almost
bent itself double in his hands. At this
spot we'll was sunk, with the result that
at seventeen feet water was found in such
abundance that it rapidly rose to within
three feet of the surface, at which height
it has since remained. During the max
ing of the we'll the water percolated into
it so rapidly that at frequent intervals
operations had to be suspended to pump
out the water.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
A Rie Bnllet Story.

One of our prominent ranchers has
been laid up for several weeks with a
very sore foot, caused by what appeared
to be huge carbuncle on the heel. Mon
day afternoon the swelling broke and an
old-time bullet emerged from the tester.
He was a soldier in the civil war and was
shot in the feshy part of the leg, between
the hip and knee, at the battle Of Antie-
tam.
The bullet was never extracted, and he
has suffered more or less pain at various
times ever since, the sensation apparently
working down the limb as the missile
slowly worked its way to the surface.
Two years ago his knee was so bad that
he was unable to walk for some months,
and the lameness was caused by the bull
let IN it's passage by the joint. He is now
rapidly regaining good health and has
had the relic of the hot times made into
watch charm Gialev (Caz.> Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
FLUFFY HAIR.

Pretty "fuffy' hair is always lovely on
a womau's head. The temperament of a
woman may sometimes be told by the ar
rangement of her hair, and one would
not certainly imagine much softness OF
feeling existing where the hair is dragged
straight back from the face, twisted in a
severe tight knot and pinned in a way to
warrant it remaining so for week, if
necessary.
A woman with long face, high cheek
bones and long neck should never wear
the hair dressed in lengthwise braids or
twists or on the top of her head, for by
SO doing the length and thinness are &C
centuated and apparently increased. Let
the hair for such face be dressed in a
broad braided or twisted coil, worn on
the back rather than the top of the head.
The nose, however, should always be
taken into account in such directions. If
the prominence on the back of the head
accentuates the too long or too large
nose in front, some other style had better
be adopted. The English plaits is style
brought out a year ago, when 1t was
called the Dutch braids. It was worn at
first only in riding, as the small, tight
braids, pinned closely and smoothly to
the head, kept the hair in place better
than most arrangements. 1t has gradu-
ally increased in popularity until it is
now often seen on the street below walk
ing hats. Although allowable for the
promenade, it is too severe for house OF
evening wear. Long and very even hail
is required for this style of dressing the
hair, however. Boston Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
FASHION NOTES.

Pale yellow and green is fashionable
color combination.
Black grenadine dresses will be very
fashionable next summer.
Sashes of soft brocaded silk and printed
Grape will lend their beauty t. the sum-
mer promenadess
Every cloth dress necessitates new
pair of walking shoes, the uppers to be
made of the material.
The skirts of checked and plaid dresses
are usually made in kilt plaids, or have
long, slightly draped overskirts.
Tartan plaids when made up in travel
ing dresses sometimes have the draperies
finished with fringes, like shawl.
Strings of coral, of pink, red and
white, and of turquoise beads, will be
very much worn with the summer gowns.
Some of the corset covers arc 80 beau
tiful that ladies who n:e addicted to pho
Biography wear nothing else for a bust
portrait.
Effective yanels for plain dress skirts
are produced by side or box-plaitings,
arranged to appear as if upon the founda-
ton skirt.
With black toilet, even if remodeled,
red jacket, red slippers, red stockings
and red sash or girdle are considered
haute nouveaute.
Among the newest things in evening
slippers is to have the high pompadour
heels covered with bronze to the black
patent leather shoe.
Aprons have become quite "fad"
since the straight skirts came back, and
are made by young ladies for fairs and
bazaars in great variety.
Ultra -fashionables,, it isl said, will
affect larger designs in printed and other
silks than have been seen since the men,
orable Dolly Warden period.
Young ladies choose the round waists
for all kinds of dress goods, and their
older sisters wear short basques, without
plaits, and very simple in outline.
Gingham gowns for this season will be
largely trimmed with embroidery, used as
yokes, Spanish jackets, collars, cuffs and
insertion in the straight plain skirts.
The latest innovation in hosiery is lace.
They come from London, have the soles,
toes and heels plain woven, while the
rest of the stocking is the filmiest kind
of open work.
Girls of all ages wear broad-brimmed
hats of French felt or English straw,
garnitured with clusters of small ostrich
tips and wide ribbon scarfs, or with en-
tire wreaths of ostrich tips.
Get round full skirt of black silk;
make zouave jacket of tire-red velvet
over waist of white null, cambria or
linen; put your feet in scarlet slippers,
and you will be dressed for a picture
frame.
The fashionable black note is produced
in millinery by velvet and faille ribbons,
jet and lace, placed among the bright
colors. Such combinations, however,
require artistic treatment, and should not
be INDUCED in by amateur milliners.
Early importations of millinery show
but few changes in shape. Hat crowns
are triAc higher, but brims remain very
broad in front and close at the back.
Bonnets arc in the favorite capote shape,
but somewhat higher at the back than
formerly, decided improvement.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
A Magical Plaster.

"Many years ago, when the art of ad-
vertising was in its infancy, Toole, the
English comedian, was not above taking
a little advertisement, though he now
declares himself to be too modest to en-
ter into competition with professors OF
the art. On one occasion he was out
walking when he observed a crowd
standing round man who was appar-
emily pretending to be in fit. "Let
me pass" cried Toole, elbowing his way
through the crowd; II am doctor"
The crowd ssfell back to right and left,
and the self-appointcd physician found
himself opposite his patient. His meas
ures were somewhat heroic, for, after
punching and pinching the sufferer, he
took something out of his pocket and
stuck it on the mans forehead, and jam
ming his hat over it "to keep it from the
air" exclaimed: "The effect of that plas-
ter will be simply magical. Take off his
hat in few minutes and he will be COM
.pletely recovered. Pm pressed for time"
With these words he made his escape.
The crowd became denser every minute,
awaiting the effects of the wonderful
cure, and after the necessary time had
elapsed the patients hat was removed.
With surprise they gazed at the "plaS-
ter" 1t was piece of white paper on
which was inscribed in large red capitals:
Go AND SEE TooIE ii DEAR,
Err THAN LIFE.n +:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
A Mothers Mistake.

A curious story is told at the Capitol
at the expense of a member Of Congress
who, while of no small calibre intellect
ually, has not been blessed with an
abundance of avoirdupois. He has a
wife who is much taller than he is and
who also is we'll known to her children
as strict disciplinarian. One evening,
so the story goes, she heard noise in the
nursery at bedtime. She promptly seized
her slipper and started fer the scene of
the uproar. Just as she reached the door
the children extinguishcd the light.
Stretching out her hand she captured one
of the boys, and to judge from the out
cries he made the spanking was thorough
ly effective. But the mother was some
what surprised at the conduct of the Sec
ond sufferer. Instead of sobbing, he
yelled protestations in a strong voice,
and at last swore roundly. The mother,
astonished, jumped up and letting him
fall from her knee to the floor exclaimed
tenderly:
SIS that you, hubby?"
Overwhelmed with confusion he adj
mitted that it was her chubby" she had
been spanking. After they had retired
amid the mufled laughter of the children,
who were trying to restrain it by stuffing
pillows into their moths, explanations
followed. He, too, Lad heard the noise
and with the same object in view rs his
wife had gone to the nursery, where he
had been caugh. by his spouse.
Hereafter lie VOWS that he will allow
his wife f, discipline the children un-
aided .Neoo YorE Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
OYSTER CHARTREUsE.

Take a rather high loaf of stale bread
and carve out a basket with sides about
an inch thick. The inside of the basket
and other pieces of bread left from the
loaf may be dried in the oven and sifted,
or used for dressing the turkey. When
the basket is ready dip in a kettle of
boiling-hot fat deep enough to cover it,
and as soon as it is brown drain it on
paper and prepare the oysters. First
put pint of cream to boil with slice of
onion; as soon as it boils add large
tablespoonful of flour, mixed first in a
little milk. Season the cream with salt
and pepper, a speck of cayenne is good,
and let it cook for five minutes. Let the
oysters come to the boiling point in their
own liquor. Skim them and drain off
the liquor and throw it away, and add
the oysters to the cream. Let the oys-
tiers boil up once in the cream and pour
them in the basket of fried bread; set on
low platter. Garnish the dish with
parsley.-.Neu York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
KISS HER AND TELL HER so.

KISS HER AND TELL HER so.
You've a neat little wife at home, John,
As ssweet as you wish to see;
As faithful and gentle hearted,
As fond wife can be:
A genuine home-loTing woman,
Not caring for fuss or show;
She's dearer to you than life, John;
Then kiss her and tell her so.
Your dinners are promptly served, John,
AS, likewise. your breakfast and tea;
Your wardrobe is always in order,
With buttons where buttons should be.
Her house isa cosy home nest, John,
A heaven of rest below:
You think she's a rare little treasure;
Then kiss her and tell her so.
Shesa good wife and true to you, John,
Let fortune be foul or fair:
OF whatever comes to you, John,
She cheerfully bears her share.
You believe she's brave, true helper,
And perhaps far more than you know,
1t will tighten her end Of the load, John,
To kiss her and tell her So
There's a crossroad somewhere in life, John,
Where hand on a guiding stone,
Will signal one lover the river"
And the other must go on alone.
Should she reach the last milestone first,
John,
Twill be comfort amid your woe
To know that while loving her here, John,
You kissed her and told her so.
-Woman'S Magazine
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
GOOD COFFEE.

To those who do not own French
coffee pot Marion Harland advises the
following method for making good cof-
fee: Mix with cupful of ground cof-
fee one of cold water, in which has been
stirred the white and crushed shell of
raw egg. Put the mixture into ascalded
coffee boiler, and shake we'll before add
ing quart and half pint of boiling
water. Boil quickly-taking care it
does not bubble over at the top-for fif-
teen minutes, scrape the sides of the
boiler and dash in suddenly half cupful
of cold water. Draw the pot to the
coolest side of the range, where it cannot
possibly boil, let the beverage settle on
the lees for from three to five minutes,
and draw off gently into scalded table
pot or urn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

The mothers kitchen is the girls best
cooking school.
Tarnished paint may be cleaned by
rubbing with cloth wet with kerosene.
Scratches in varnish are removed if a
coarse cloth we'll saturated with llnseed
oil is laid over them.
Marks on tables caused by hot dishes
may be removed by kerosene rubbed in
we'll with a little cologne water, rubbed
dry with another cloth.
If any housekeeper finds it imperative
to clean windows on an icy cold day, she
can accomplish it safely by using a cloth
dampened with alcohol, which never
freezes.
For ingroving toe nails use equal parts
of mutton tallow, CASTLE soap and white
sugar made into salve; apply until the
swelling issdown, then trim the nail in
the center.
To starch collars, make some gum
water of clean gum arabic; keep it in a
bottle. and when wished work little of
it in and triae of common soda into the
the ordinary starch. 1t adds both gloss
and stiffness to the collars.
1t is a common occurrence for chill
dren to get beans, grains of corn and
other foreign substances up their noses.
This simple remedy is worth remember
ing: Get the child to open its mouth,
applying your mouth over it and blow
hard. The offending substance will be
expelled from its nose.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
THE LIFE OF A POETESs.

Rose Hartwick Thorpe, the author Of
"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" t." is
now living in the South for the benefit of
her husbands health, but as her own
health suffers there, they think of max
ing Southern California their future
home. She is now woman of thirty
nine, and she wrote the well-known
verses when she was under seventeen.
All she got for them was letter of
thanks from the editor of Detroit news
paper to whom she sent the lines. She is
native of Indiana, and passed her child
hood in great poverty. She says: "Of
all dull, prosaic lives, mine was the dull
est and most prosaic." When she wrote
"Curfew" she had no education and no
knowledge of books, though she after
ward applied herself to them and became
school teacher. But even during her
early married life it was mere important
to her reputation among her ncighbors
that she should "keep house" in ap-
proved fashion than that she should write
well, and she remarks: "Until the year
1880 I was laundry-maid, cook, seam
stress and nurse for my children" This
experience recalls the story of Mrs.
George Ripley, to whom suspended Har-
ward students used to go to be coached.
Some one is said to have found her list
cning at the same time to one boy who
was reciting Greek, and another who was
demonstrating proposition in analytic,
while she shclled peas and rocked the
baby's cradle with her foot. Chicago
Inter. OccNn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
PLAIN CHICKEN SALAD.

Boil a nice plump chicken until per-
fectly tender. When done stand away
until perfectly cold, then remove the skin
and fat, and cut the meat into dice. Do
not chop it. Mix with it an equal
amount of white celery cut into small
pieces. Hard boil three eggs, mash the
yolks, add to them three raw yolks, and
four tablespoonfuls of thick cream, rub
to smooth paste, then add four table
spoonfuls of olive oil, half teaspoonful of
salt, half teaspoonful of mustard, a dash
of cayenne, and two tablespoonfuls of
vinegar. Season the chicken and Gel
cry lightly with salt, mix the dressing
with them, and it is ready to serve
Observer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
ECONOMY IN DRESS.

Economy in the matter of dress lies
more in taking care of what clothes you
have than in having fewer or in spend
ing less on them. In order to practise
this economy have in your room clothes
brush, a whisk broom and small cam
els hair brush; also have handy a bottle
of ammonia, one of benzine and a small
sponge for applying either of them.
Then never hang a dress away with a
spot on it. If the missing buttons can
not be at once sewed on or the rips in the
gloves and dresses mended, it should be
done at the first spare moment, that
everything may be ready to put on if
obliged to dress in hurry. Wherever
the most sewing is done it is a good plan
to have bag with several compartments,
one for shoe buttons, coarse thread and
needles, another for darning cottons of
all colors and degrees of fineness, third
for buttons of every description, one for
the best pieces of old kid gloves, and an
other for the legs of worn out hose. The
sixth may contain pieces of each of your
dresses. The kid glove compartment
should contain silks for mcnding, fine
needles and small buttons. IF every
thing is handy the dreaded mending will
not seem half so hard task.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
The BNrler Line.

Do any of our people ever query how
the dividing line between the United
States and the Dominion of Canada is
marked, and how travellers in those wild
regions northwest of the Great Lakes can
tell when they step from the domains OF
Uncle Sam into those of Queen Vlctorias
For many years the question of boun-
Diary between the United States and the
possessions of Great Britain was dis
cussed, and at last, at the convention OF
London, held in 1918, the forty-ninth
parallel of north latitude was
decided upon. A parallel of lat
itude, however, being an imaginary line,
is very poor guide to traveller, so the
next thing to do was to mark that line so
that all who passed that way should
know where it was located.
Accordingly, the country in that vicin-
ity was surveyed, and monuments were
set up at even mile intervals, the British
placing one between every Two OF ours.
These extend from the Lake of the
Woods to the Rocky Mountains. Where
the line enters forests, the timber is cut
down, the ground cleared a rod wide;
where it crosses small lakes, stone cairns
have been built, sometimes being eigh-
teen feet under water and eight above; in
other places earth mounds, 7x14 feet,
have been built. The most of these
monuments, which number 33S in all ,are
of iron. 1t was found that the most
solid wooden posts were not proof against
the ravages of the Indians, prairie fires,
and the weather, so that nothing but
iron would do. These pillars are hollow
iron castings, fitted over solid cedar
posts, and we'll bolted through, and are
sunk four feet in the ground. They are
eight feet high, eight inches square at
base, and four at the top, and upon op-
posite sides, facing north and south, are
the inscriptions cast in letters two inches
high: "Convention of London" and
"October 20, 1873" The pillars weigh
2s5 pounds each, and were made at De-
tfoit, Mich Wide-Aacaks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
A Huge Meteorite.

In a catalogue of Mexican meteorites,
one mass is mentioned which was broken
up and fell liz widely dispersed fragments,
portions being found in three places at
the angles of q triangle whose two longer
sides were some fifty-fve miles and thir-
ty-five miles. In one of these places two
plates were discosered about $50 yards
apsrt, having eyidestly formed one huge
plate, weighing more than eighty tons,
which broke near the ground.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
A SkBYLE woMAN's ORNAMENTS.

The principal jewels of Kabyle wo-
man arc double shoulder pins, joined to-
gether by chain-sometimes with an
amulet in the middle, used for fastening
the dress on the shoulders. Her dress
owes very little to the art of the @ress-
maker. The bodice is formed auew each
morning, by being secured on the shoul-
ders by these pins, which are generally
alike.
Brooches are of many different forms
and sizes. The large round brooch with
hanging chains and ball pendants is only
yorn after q woman has borne a child,