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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-12
Danger in Setting Watches.

A great many watches are spoiled by
the large clocks and chronometers which
pretend to give correct time. A man
going along the street sees chrcnom-
eter in jewelers. show window, and as
thermometer" is very big word, he
feels certain that the machine must
keep the best of time, SO he sets his
watch. A day or two later he sees a
bigger thermometer in another place
and as his watch is not in accordance
with it, he regulates his timepiece by
the newly discovered instrument. Then
he sets it again by one of the large
street clocks, and in trying to keep with
all the public timepieces in the city he
soon finds his watch will not go at all
A watch should not, when in proper
condition, be set moro than once in sir
months or year, and then by watch
maker who knows how to handle IT.
Interview in ST. Louis Globe Democrat
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-12
A Woman Attacked by Hogs.

Mrs. Edward Tracey, the wife of a
small farmer, living near Columbus,
Ohio, had a terrible adventure some
weeks past with drove of infuriated
hogs which attacked her, and but for
the lady's activity would have torn her
to pieces The hogs, or most of them,
had on that day been bought by her
husband from a drover who had
brought them from an adjacent county,
and it was supposed that the animals
were half starved and rendered desper-
ate. Mrs. Tracey entered the pen
where they we're confined with a bucket
of corn in one hand and carrying pail
of water in the other, when the hogs
rushed upon her, knocking the vessels
from her hands and nearly throwing
her down.
She ran to small oak few feet
from her, and being an active woman
swung herself by branch up into the
tree, but not until her dress had been
torn to shreds and her limbs and feet
badly bitten by the bristling, furious
herd. She remained in the oak for a
couple of hours, when she was discov-
cred by laborer employed on the
farm, who with much difficulty sue
ceeded in driving the still angry hogs
away. and assisted her to the house.
She had lost a great deal of blood and
was unable to use her limbs for some
weeks. Philadelphia Times.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-12

A brides first lesson is to respect the
extreme sensitiveness of her husband
who doesn't want people to know he
has Just been married. Consequently
she will be wise if after her first jour
ney she assumes a gown that has seen
wear; if she will forget to look around
in a startled manner whenever her hus-
band is gone from her side, as it is not
likely that he is either going to be lost
or stolen. The next thing is not to kiss
him or hold his hand in public, or call
him darling" Any woman can make
a man feel her love without making
him ridiculous.
Another thing for her to learn is,
when she is at a hotel, not to grow
confidential with the chambermaid,
not to give her piece of her wedding
cake and tell her all about the marriage
ceremony, and tell her how she looked.
You think this is never donea Ask at
some large hotel And she shouldn't
giggle or look surprised when she gets a
letter from her mother addressed to
her i'm her married name. Men are
particularly sensitive creatures about
some things, and they are rather given
to think woman don't want a name
when she acts in this way.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-12
Bernllarllt's Dogs.

The lovers of dramatic art in Austria
liza who are anxiously anticipating
Sara Bernhardt's visit thither do not
know how narrowly they missed being
wofully disappointed, and all because
of Sara's dogs and the Australian
laws against the same That is to say,
the colonies are not warning against
the divine Sara's pets in particular,
but they have stringent dog laws down
there, and everything of canine kind
that is imported has to go into quaran-
tine for three months. They take no
chances on hydrophobia in Australia.
Nine. Bernhardt had not anticipated
this, and when she was told day or
two ago it was all her managers could
do to prevent her packing up instantly
and boiling back to Paris, dogs and all,
a most indignant woman.
keep my dogs for three months9"
she exclaimed tragically. "Nevaire!"
Finally it was suggested that the
case was not hopeless if she were will
ing to be at little extra expense.
Money!" she cried. "How can you
mention it9 Anythingl Everything!
But save my dogs.
So a cablegram has been sent to
Auckland, New Zealand, and a physi-
clan secured who will board the steara-
er on which Sara travels on her ar
rival there, and thence to Sydney
continue in constant attendance on her
pets. He will then make out and sign
a certificate Of their being in perfect
health, and by means of this it is be-
lieved that the Sydney authorities may
be placated and landing gained for
the dogs.
And these little precautions will cost
Sara the Divine just about $1,000.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-12
ODDS AND ENDS.

Pink Is the favorite summer color.
The fly spider lays an egg as large a
itself.
A Piccadilly jeweler displays for sale
a necklace. the price OF which Is $37.-
500.
There are 1900 different kinds of
postage stamps in the world.
Dona Isidora C.,usino, OF Chill, who
has yearly income of $500, 900, is said
to he the richest woman in the world.
Never trust the man who habitually
speaks evil OF himself. That one habit
shows at glance that he is untruth.
full.
Nearly one-fifth OF the entire popula-
ton OF the United States live in the
fifty chief cities, which have popula-
ton of over 1900, 900.
The jewel box of Lolita Paullinia, of
whom Pliny speaks, contained jewelry
to the amount of 322.916 English
pounds.
Professor Mary e. Byrd, of Smith
college, has been elected to member
ship by the British Astronomical asso-
citation.
In the city of London one square
mile of area has fifty-seven churches
belonging to the Church of England
and other twenty belonging to Non
conformist bodies.
B. L. Farjeon, the novelist, is an ex-
pert stenographer. He carries note
book with him at all times, and when
an idea strikes him he jots it down for
future USE
A person whose nose, ears, hands or
feet have been frozen, should be taken
into cold room, and the afflicted mem-
Der rubbed with snow, iced water and
wet cloths
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-12

The brusque and fussy i'm.
pulse Of these days Of false
impression would rate down
all as worthless because one
is unworthy.
As if there were no notes
in sunbeams
Or comets among stars
Or cataracts in peaceful
rivers !
Because one remedy pro-
fesses to do what it never
was adapted to do, are all
remedies worthless?
Because one doctor lets his
patient die, arc all humbugs :
1t requires a fine eye and
a finer brain to discriminate
Ito draw the difcrc.t;c.l line.
They say" that Or. ficrcc's
Golden Medical Discovery and
DR.. Pierce's Favoritc Prescrip-
ton have cured thousands.
They say" for weak sys-
TEN there's nothing better than
the Discovery" and that the
/" Favorite Prescription " is the
hope of debilitStcd, feeble
women who need a restora-
tive tonic and bracing nervine.
And here's the proof
Try one or both. If they
don't help you, tell the Worlds
Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton so, and you get your
money back again.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-12
A Great Preacher Defined.

Apropos of Phillips Brooks and his
elevation to the episcopate, it may be
worth while to recall the witticism per
petrated at the great Bostonian's ex-
pense by Henry Flanders upon the &C.
casion some years ago when DR.. Brooks
was under consideration for bishop
ric. .'Who is Phillips Brooksw asked
an innocent Philadelphian. "Oh, I"
said Flanders, ''he's an Episcopalian
with leaninss toward Christianity. "
San Francisco Argonaut.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
WJanan Max"

"Japan wax" as it is called, is OBJ
tanned from tree, the Rhus Succedanea,
which grows in Japan, China and the
East Indies. The japanese call it Hale,
or Haze. The tree commences to bear
fruit when five or six years old, and in
creases its product every year, till, at the
age of fifty years, single tree will pro-
duce $50 to 400 pounds of berries, from
which seventy to eighty pounds of wax
can he obtained. The wax is formed in
the middle of the berry, between the
skin and the seed, like the pulp of
grape. 1t is extracted by boiling the
berries in water and allowing it to cool,
when the wax separates from the skin
and seed, sinking to the bottom of the
vessel in solid cake. The specific gravity
of the wax is 0.970, and its melting
point 131 degrees Fahrenheit. 1t is
largely used, either alone or mixed with
tallow, by the Chinese in the manufac-
ture of candles. This tree should not be
confounded with the "tallow tree" Of
China, which has pith of solid tallow
in all trees that have fully matpred.-
Picayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
s August.
Flower r.

Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca,
Mo-, during the past two years has
been affected with Neuralgia of the
Head, Stomach and Womb, and
writes: my food did not seem to
strengthen me at all and my appe-
tite was very variable. My face
was yellow, my head dull, and I had
such pains in my left side. In the
morning when I got up I would
have flow of mucus in the mouth,
and a bad, bitter taste. Sometimes
my breath became short, and I had
such queer, tumbling, palpitating
sensations around the heart. sIached
all day under the shoulder blades,
in the left side, and down the back
of my limbs. 1t seemed to be worse
in the wet, cold weather of Winter
and Spring; and whenever the spells
came on, my feet and hands would
turn cold, and I could pet no sleep
at all. tried everywhere, and got
no relief before using August Flower
Then the change came. It has done
me a wond-rful deal Of good during
the time have taken it and is work.
ing a complete cure" O.
G. G. CPrr" "~'e Man 'fr. Woodbury.. MI.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
dependent for woods of this description

dependent for woods of this description
on our own production, as our importa-
tions of them are very small, the major
ity of these coming in on the skins, in
which condition their value is second
ary and not a primary consideration.
Pullers, since the first of the year, have
been kept unusually busy and report that
they have had a smaller number of skins
during the past year than for several
previous years.
AS stated by the authority above
quoted, formerly the major part of our
pulled wool was produced in tho East,
but since sheep began to be slaughtered
in the West, instead Of being shipped
alive, the industry has rapidly declined
in the East, particularly in New York.
It is further said that Armour and Swift
each pull about 5000 skins day, and
that Swift has increased the capacity of
his factory 80 that hereafter the output
will be about 5000 skins instead of 5000
as heretofore.
One additional reason which may be
given for the present scarcity of these
woods in Eastern markets is the increas-
ing consumption in the Middle States.
Swift reports that about four-ffths of
the woods pulled in his factory last year
were taken by Western manufacturers.-
New York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
Calls for Domestic Animals.

In controlling the movements of do.
mestic animals by the voice, besides
words of ordinary import, man uses q
variety of peculiar terms, calls and mar
ticulate sounds-not to include whistling
which varies in different localities.
In driving yoked cattle and harnessed
horses, teamsters cry "get up" Casually
"git ep); "click, click" (tongue against
the teetb); "gee," "haw," "whoa,' or
"wo," "whosh, " "back," etc. All of
the above are used in English speaking
countries. In Continental Europe the
same terms are expressed as "arri, !"
"juh," "jah," "yio," etc. In the United
States "gee' directs the animals away
from the driver, hence to the right; but
in England the same term has the oppo-
site effect, because the "drive side" is
different to what it is here. In Virginia
the mule drivers ''gee" their teams with
a cry of "hey-yee-ee-a." In Norfolk
"woosh-we" is used to the same effect.
In France "hue" and "hu-haut" turns
the team to the right; in Germany the
words "hott" and "hotte," while in
Russia the term 'haita' serves the same
purpose. To direct animals to the left
another series of terms is used. In call
ing cattle in the field the following cries
are used in the localities given: BOSS,
bosse," "sake, sake" (Connecticut);
1000, coo" and ''sook, sook' (Virgiuia).
In Maryland they say, "sookey' and
"sookew." "Kope, kope" is the COM
mon call for horses over most Of the
United States. In Maryland and Ala
bama they say "kope: nanny" when they
call sheep.-iSt. Louis Republic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
THE NEW NET DRESSES.

'sHave you seen the new net dresses2
] don't like them, they are too communi-
eative."
"Why, for PHYS sake, what do you
mean9"
'sJust what say, they are too COM
municative. You buy one, and see what
a fix YOU will be in. l have one, and
every time put it on l wish Inever had
been born. Everything sticks to it. If
you sit on the beach when you get up
you are covered with shells, minnows,
dirt. If you chat con6dentially with a
young man and get interested and sit
little near him, the wool from his suit
clings to the netting, and every one of
your friends knows right away with
whom you have been spending your time.
Oh, they are horrid things! The mer-
chants are advertising them big, but I
wouldn't have another for any money"
The speakers were two women ravag-
ing the Broadway dry goods stores for
wardrobes for a season at Newport
Neu York Recorder.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
fety Bridges.

Next to mining disasters railway acci-
dents have done most to counterbalance
the partiality of nature in exempting
large portions of the TEMPERATE Zone
from the earthquake and tornadoes Of
the equatorial regions. In the United
States alone the perils of the iron high
ways have proved more destructive Of
human life than the wrath of hostile ele-
ments IN the tropics of the entire West
ern Hemisphere. and, since the invention
of air-brakes, no other contrivance has
promised to do as much in diminishing
those perils as the device by which a
French engineer now proposes to in
sure the safety of railway bridges. This
apparatus is founded on the principle
that weak link in the construction Of
suspension bridges, etc., will betray it.
self by yielding more readily to uni
form strain, and will greatly lessen the
possibility of such disasters as that of
the Ashtabula express and the Swiss ex-
cursion train.-Neao York Voice.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
CULTIvATING HUCKLEBERRIEs.

Many people have failed in their at
tempts to cultivate huckleberries. The
California Fruit Grower says there is but
one way to grow this fruit successfully.
The bushes will not grow satisfactorily,
if at all, when given clean cultivation.
The roots require shade and the plants
should be set close together and cut
down low at first, so that the branches
will spread out and shaoe the roots. In
addition to this, mulching of leaves,
such as they are accustomed to in the
woods, should be given. They will al
ways grow better in partially shaded
places than in the open field.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
Five Thousand Years Old.

Mr.. Flenders Petrie has made another
important discovery in Egypt, at Medium,
where he has untombed the oldest dated
Egyptian temple yet found, and the only
pyramid temple known. 1t was buried
under forty feet of rubbish, and belongs
to the old Empire. Hieratic inscriptions
in black paint within the chambers fix
the name of the builder as Suefru, King,
connecting the third and fourth dynas-
ties, and sometimes placed in one or the
other $4,000 B. c., or earlier). Mr.. Pc
trie thinks the rubbish choked up the
entrance about three hundred years after
the erection of thu temple, which is
situated in front of the eastern face of q
pyramid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
BUILT A COTTAGE HERSELF.

A plucky and independent girl is Miss
Elizabeth More, of Eageworth, Penn.
With her own hands she recently built q
neat little cottage, laying the founds-
tions, plastering the walls of the differ
ent rooms and performing all the car
penter work to builders taste. To do
this she found it necessary to don male
attire. and young girl friend helped
her over the hardest part of the work.
Miss More is said to be as pretty as she
Is energetic. She was once protege of
Jane Gray swisshelm, and the lessons
hat stern champion Of woman's rights
taught her have apparently not been for
gotten. Chicago Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
The CamphOr Tree.

The camphor tree is attracting general
attention as one that can be grown for
profit, or ornament and shade. 1t is one
of the most beautiful of the shade trees,
is very hardy, standing temperature of
twenty F., and it is a rapid grower,
forming plants eighteen TO twenty-six
inches from the seed the first season. 1t
has done we'll in Florida and California.
At present the great advance in the cost
of camphor is creating more interest IN
its production. The demand for it to
use in the manufacture of smokeless ex-
plosives is one cause for the sharp in
crease in price. The tree grows to be
fifty feet in height. It does we'll in a
climate like that of Yuma and in q soil
like that of the valley west of town. The
Agricultural Department at Washington
will have large number of plants for
distribution next spring. Why not plant
the camphor in place of the pepper and
other useless shade trees9-1xeson (Ari-
soad) Star. -: :s;.-,,.ss =.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
RoUP IN HOT WEATHER.

Don't waste time and energy trying to
win back to life chickens which are bad
ly affected with roup at this time of
year. 1t is apt to be loves labor lost.
You can easily waste enough time over
sick chicken to buy two or three well
ones. Give the sick bird prompt, Wig
orous and intelligent treatment, and then
if che shows no signs of recovery stop
her suffering with equal promptness.
This plan is much less cruel and more
economical than trying to prolong what
will probably never be profitable ex-
istence.
Bichromate of potash, says an au-
thority, is the best remedy for roup, and
it is the drug used by physicians for
diphtheria. 1t comes in powder, and
the strongest that can be obtained at the
druggists should be used for this pur
pose. 1t should be given dry on the
tongue in doses as large as a medium
sized pea, and it should be given four
times in twenty-four hours, followed
each time by washing head, throat and
nostrils with chlorinated soda water or
weak vinegar. A little later a small diet
of cruel with meat and onions in it and
little milk puch should be given.
Kerosene is good remedy, but it is
so harsh that the birds suffer fesrfully.
Cool fresh water, with little iron in it,
should be kept near the chickens suffer
ing from roap. Generally roup comes
from the introduction of new stock in
the poultry yard, and the best way to
avoid this is to keep new poultry in
another yard for week or two. When
the birds are convalescent they should
be given strengthening food and tonics,
and be protected from strong, bullying
chickens which would only worry them
and probably induce relapse. Roup
treated in this way should be cured in
ten days; if not it is generally a hopeless
case.-Farm, Field AMI Stockmaa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
TINE TO CLEAR A SWAMP.

The driest time of the year, which is
in the early fall, is the best time to clear
and drain a swamp. The clearing of
the ground and the draining may 80 on
simultaneously. The easiest way to get
rid of the tussocks is to pull them out
by the roots with strong three-pronged
grabhook and a chain drawn bya pair
of oxen. After drying the rubbish 1t
should be burned in small heaps, which
will not consume the soil or set fire to
the deep ground, where the fire is apt to
smoider and become difficult to extln-
guish.-Mep York Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19
Ingenious Cup and Saucer.

An ingenious cup and saucer has been
devised for the special purpose of keep.
ing the food of invalids warm when re-
quired. The cup is nodded with three
feet, allowing an air space of about half
an inch between it's bottom and the
saucer. In the centre of the saucer is a
rimmed depression, within which is
placed a piece of lighted charcoal,
which is supplied at cheap rate in the
form of tablets. From this there are no
fumes or unpleasant smells, and the food
of the invalid, of whatever nature it
may happen to be, is kept warm for fully
an hour.-Chicago Neaes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-19

EDeTy one S1VeTS;
from Catarrh in. the Head. Those
who don't haye'it suffer from those
who do. It's a disease you can't,
keep to yourself.
Here are some of tho symptoms:
Headache, obstruction Of nose, dis!
charges falling into throat, some
times profuse, watery, and acrid,
at others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody, putrid, and offen-s
sive; eyes weak, ringing in ears,
deafness !; offensive breath; smell
and taste impaired, and general de-
bility. But only few of these
likely t. be present at once. 81
The cure for it-for Catarrh it
self, and all the troubles that come
from ia perfect and permanent
cure, is DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The worst cases yield to its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties. A record of 25 years
has proved that to its .proprietors
and they're willing to prove it.
to you. se
They do it in this way: If they
can't cure your Catarrh, no matter
how bad your case, or of how long.
standing, they'll pay you $500 in
cash. Can you have better proof Of
the healing power of q medicine