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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
TIE STREET TRAIN ORDERED N.

The trailing street dress is not going
to devastate the land. The indications
during the summer were that it might,
and there was much unhappiness in con-
sequence. This was one of the most in
comprehensive edicts of fashion that the
mind of man had been disturbed with
for some time, and his protest was loud
against 1t from the outset. But mans
influence in this case, as in others like it,
was not powerful, and the trailing street
dress threatened to sweep all before it,
rs it did everything behind it. The pull
pit thundered against the street train,
the press stepped on it, but it moved on
as if it were the admiration CT every eye.
Last week came the news from Paris that
the abominatior would have to 60, and
of course this will be the end of it.
PGis gave US this fashion and Paris can
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and the speculator sold out at about 200
per cent. profit. The fur takes name
from the province of Astrakhan, in which
huge focks of curly sheep are kept
wholly for the sake of their skins.
Those of them that the furrier loves die
young-in fifteen minutes of birth. Their
skins come in huge bales to the weird
eastern city that Is the largest entrepot
on earth for such unsavory nerchan disc.
For there you get, too, sable, lynx,
otter, the rare blue and silver fox, Sibe-
rian wolf, not to mention dog and goat
skins, for rugs. Both the last two
animals are bred extensively throughout
Mantchooria. Indeed, dog rauching Is
leading industry. A Mantchoo bellies
dowry is SO many dogs and bales of their
skins.
Next to this source Of supply comes
the Hudson Bay Company. Afterward
the agencies scattered over the Western
and Northern United States. Though
fur-bearing animals are plenty enough in
the South, their hair is not close and fine.
enough to give the skins commercial
value. American furs come chiefly from
the pear, otter, lynx, mink, beaver,
skunk and mrsk,at. Opossum and coon
skins are Likewise native, but hardly
worth mention among leading sorts.
The seal supply, as all know, come
mainly from the Pribylov Islands-the
westernmost bit of earth flying the Stars
and Stripes. They are rocky, ,forbidding
and storm bcaten-ft for nothing under
heaven but the seal rookeries that abound
on them and have done time out Of mind.
It was by following these herds of the
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Married to Sare His Fruit.

A rather unique and hasty wedding
took place at Clinton, Wednesday, In
the Office of the County Physician. W.
C. Cone, aged fifty years, widower of
six months, farmer and blacksmith, of
Chalk Level, St. Clair County, applied
to the physician to know if he had any
''wimmem" on the Poor Farm, and
stated that he wanted to marry, and
wanted to 60 with the Doctor to the
farm, which they did, and Cone selected
Irene Switzerland, aged thirty, who had
been to the asylum, but was returned to
the Henry County Poor Farm as incur
able. She agreed to marry him and was
taken to town and they were legally mar.
ried. Cone stated that he had lots OF
fruit that needed taking care of, and he
got married this way because it was
quickest and cheapest Cartilage (Ao.)
Democrat.
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went sh-when numbers OF people were
still u, and about. The idea of muir
derous affray occurring at such time
and without the slightest noise or notice
to q soul-it's too preposterous"
There was no afray," I replied. "The
doctor tells us death was instantaneous.
Besides, what was to prevent the muir
derer from waiting here in secret, hiding
till his victim came 10 bed?"
Where could he have come from?"
asked the manager, testify.
Anywhere; from the next room; down
stairs. It is perfectly possible. Anybody
can come and 60 here as he pleases-in-
side the hotel, you understandable all
hours of the night.
That would imply that YOU think the
murderer was one Of the lodgers in the
hotel" newcomer said, addressing him
self directly to me.
What! YOU here, Hasnip?" began the
manager. Has the chief"
But the other, sharp eyed, elderly
man, with hard, impassive face, fringed
with sandy hair, made an almost lmper-
ceptible gesture, and the manager held
his tongue.
It was, as I afterward learned, MIR.
Hasnip, the smartest of the detectives
belonging to the Bythesea police force.
Ali the probabilities are that the muir
derer was, probably is, an inmate Of the
hotel, replied in firm tone, more and
more enamored of my own theory.
What right have you to come to such
conclusion?" asked the manager, turning
upon me.
1T is an accusation, an unfair, and, I
feel, unjustifsble accusation against all
of us, said another voice, rather hotly.
The champion of the visitors at the
hotel was no other than Captain Faw-
cett.
Il am included in the accusation, then,
as am staying here myself, replied,
quietly. But base my conclusions
this was said to the manager, and not to
the irascible Captain Fawcett-"upon the
simple fact that no one from outside could
easily introduce himself into the hotel at
3 late hour-not without attracting atten-
ton, I mean"
well, there is the fre-escape, said
Captain Fawcett, fighting hard for his
own views, which seemed intended mainly
to exonerate all who had occupied the
hotel.
"Ahal' The interjection was uttered
softly by the detective, who Immediately
left the room.
aIs there anything to show that the
6re-escape has been used?" asked the doc
:or, and the question had the effect Of
emptying the room.
(To BE CONTINUED
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PRINTED CHIFFON.


A beautiful novelty is printed chiffon,
whichis being shown by the leading i'm
porting and retail dry goods houses. The
printed designs represent rosebuds, vio-
lets and other pretty lowered effects in
their natural colors, scattered over a
white ground, and the same patterns are
also shown printed on black chiffon. The
goods are forty-fve inches wide and are
inten led to be draped over silk founda-
tions, making very beautiful costumes.
Price per yard at retail from $1.75 to
$3.50. For neck and sleeve trimming,
the design is printed on either edge Of
the usual width goods, both white and
black, and to match the wider fabric
just referred to, price eighty-fve cents
per yard. The whole will make beau
tiful evening costume, aud the trade
realized already indicates q good season
on these beautiful goods, which will
probably be closed out early.-Msv York
Dry Goods Chronicle.
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take It away. Blessed be the name Of

take It away. Blessed be the name Of
Paris! While the ladies were persistent
In clinging to this bad habit in the face|
of disappearing public sentiment, there
are already indications that they will give
it up more readily than any other FASH
ionable folly to which they have ever
been addicted. They never liked it, and
many ladies, with great credit to them
selves refused absolutely to yield to the
absurd decree. The majority of those
who did consent to drag this fashionable
ball and chain did it under protest. Al
woman's dainty tastes in the matter of
gowns revolted at the suggestion Of d.
dress dragging over the filthy Streets.
and she drops the train, as one may sayi
with positive pleasure. If she cares for
the approvalo of mere man in such matters
she has it without reserve.-Cieago Rerl
aid. " OK ~ *
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TIE LovKRg QUARREL.
BIZ JEFF1E PoRBUsH-HANAFoRn.

eave him back his letters,
The locket, his picture, and ring;
We quarreled, and this was the ending,
So kept not a single thing.
Oh yes I did keep the rosebud
He fastened that night in my hair,
Then told pne how fondlv he loved me,
And called me his darling, so fair
really did think that he loved me,
And thought him so manly and true
And now we have parted in anger,
Wouldn't believe it, would you?
! hope you don't think feel badly;
You're mistaken indeed, don't care;
It wasn't my fault that we quarreled;
Wouldn't have been such D bear.
lis his place to ask for forgiveness,
So I'll firt just as much as can.
And then I won't speak II I meet him
That's such an excellent plan.
But bark there's his ring at the door-beu; |;
Yes, tbs his step on the floor;
] never knew how much I loved him
wait, darling, III open the doorT
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The Salt Of the Earth.

Salt in whitewash will make it stick
better.
Wash the mica of the stove doors
with salt and vinegar.
Brasswork can be kept beautifully
bright by occasionally rubbing with
salt and vinegar.
Damp salt will remove the discolora-
ton of cups and saucers caused by tea
and careless washing.
When broiling steak throw a little
salt on the Goals and the blaze from
dripping fat will not annoy.
To clean willow furniture use salt
and water. Apply it with nail brush,
scrub we'll and dry thoroughly.
Salt as o tooth powder is better than
almost anything that can be bought.
1t keeps the teeth brilliantly white
snd the gums hard and rosy.
Carpets may be greatly frightened
by first sweeping thoroughly and then
going over them with clean cloth and
clear salt and water. Use cupful OF
coarse salt to q large basin of water.
If the feet are tender or painful
after long standing or walking great
relief can be had by bathing them in
salt and water. A handful of salt to
, gallon of water is the right proper
ION. Have the water as hot as can
3SGzsrtably be borne.
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much like that for sewing gloves, by
help of which one girl might do the
work of three.
Here, as in most other callings, there
is room at the top. First. class work of
any sort is more than fairly paid. De-
signers, indeed. get wages that compare
more than favorably with more preten-
tious callings. Most Of them are Of
foreign birth. But your fur cape,
madam, was most likely grown and
dressed and cut and sewed in the United
States.-Mu York Recorder. . o..
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A FURIOUS drunken Chicago brute
chased his wife upstairs, brandishing
a hatchet, but she escaped him by
jumping out of the second-story win
dow. In court he stated that he was
a victim Of his wife's violent temper,
and his fine was suspended on condif
tion that be would behave HIMSELF
Tine quality of mercy appears to have
been badly strained in this case.
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vIcToR1A's WALKS.

Queen Victoria, of England, now
walks seven miles daily, in and about the
woods of Balmoral, having been told
that this would prove the most efectual
cure for obesity and bring back complete
health.
She has string of weary court ladies
tramping in her train, and IN mortal
dread of the wind and waters, about
which Her Majesty is extremely callous.
When the draggled procession gets home
after each walk the attending ladies are
ready to faint.-Neu York Journal.
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WINTER FUR STYLES,

"Natural skins will be the style this
winter" comes the statement from the
furrier. "This is decided change from
last year, when the dyed pelts were most
in favor. Shoulder capes will be ex-
tended and jackets will be worn longer.
Eighteen to twenty-one inches in shoul.
der capes, thirty to thirty.two inches in
jackets will be the leading lengths. The
mink or American sable will still remain
the choicest fur. Everything will have
fur on t."-Boston Transcript.
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
HOW TO DRESS TO BE HEALTHY.

Dress, to be perfectly compatible with
healthy life, should fit loosely, should be
light, warm and porous, should be
adapted to the season as to color, should
be throughout every part Of the cloth
Ing, upper as we'll as under, frequently
changed, and should be at all times scru-
pulously clean. The wearing of clothes
until they are threadbsre is an invariable
error in all that respects the health, to
say nothing of the comfort of the wearer.
-NeD York Herald. ~
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Thirty.fou Stories Tall.

This is picture of the proposed tallest
building in the world, which it is pro.
posed to erect in Chicago. It is to be
the temple of the Illinois Odd Fellows
and an Office building besides. The
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The supply of gutta percha is being
apidly reduced and the French Govern
ment has undertaken to produce it in AL
geria.
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THE JEWELED HAIRPIN;;
The Strange Tragedy Of the
Grand Hotel.
BY ARTHUR GRIFF1THS.
CHAPTER I.
A TERRIFIED cHAMBERMAID.

HAD Just nnlsned dressing,
one Sunday morning, in my
bedroom upon the first fool
Of the Grand Hotel, Bythe-
SEQ, when I was startled by
q loud scream in the pas
sage. 1t was followed by an:
other and another. I found
on going to my door, that
they proceeded from an
afrighted chambermaid, who
was shrieking as she ran
wildly down the corridor.
Sounds so unusual and so
disturbing caused, not
strangely, o great commo-
tion. The other occupants
of the rooms on the same
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SOME time since It was discovered
that certain insurance companies had
added sun stroke to the causes Of
death, a list of which is printed in very
small type in their rolicie', for which
they will not be responsible. Now q
company has placed asphyxiation in
the same list. There is no reason for
the exception of either ailment from
tho operation Of the policies and it is
simply bit of sharp practice which
tde courts should rebuke at the first
opportunity.
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4 FEW weeks ago the Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage preached at Green
Mountain Falls, Colo, to large and
enthusiastic crow6. Col. Bob Ingec'
soil delivered a discourse the other
day at the same place. He was
greeted by small and scared audi
encc. A cloudburst had just made
terrible havoc in the vicinity. His
hearers half suspected the lecture
had something to do with it, and
seemed fearful some other convulsion
Of nature was hanging over them.
The Colonel's hostility to the heav-
emily powers will be bitterer than ever
henceforth. BE will never forgive an
apparent discrimination against him
self and in favor of Talmage.
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Small farms are the order on the Island
OF Jersey. where many of them consist of
from ten to twenty acres only.
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The new National Library building,
now in course of erection at Washing
ton, will cost $4,000, 600.
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plans call for thirty-four stories-twenty
in the main part of the building and
fourteen in the tower. 1t will be $50
|eet tall and 1T by 21O feet on the
ground
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sea that the good Dutch Admiral Priby-
Low discovered them and made himself a
name in geography. He deserves statue
from women as the man who made seal
sacques possible possession.
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the arm and was dragging her away.
Il tell you this is no place for you, An
ma. See, Clara is half fainting."
Even as he spoke the girls face grew
CHASTITY white, and her tall, slight frame
swayed to and fro, as though but for his
arm she would have fallen to the ground.
Come away, come awav," said MRS.
Sarsfeld. hoarsely.
It <as clear, too, that she was oven
come with the horror of the scene.
Snatching at the arm that Captain Faw.
cett offered her. she retreated along th
passage, while her husband followed,
half leading, half supporting his nearly
unconscious sister-in-law.
I returned to No. SO, where the man.
sger was the center Of group of people,
still busily and excitedly discussing the
curious catastrophe.
There is nothing to be afraid Of, he
was saying, in answer, no doubt, to
alarms more or less openly expressed by
others than the Sarsfelds.
You say that very coolly, yet We may
all be murdered in our beds tonight, like
this poor fellow" protested one Of the
visitors.
AT any rate he was not in his bed" re.
plled the manager. lou Will observe ne
had not undressed. He had not even laid
down on the bed. See, it is quite smooth
and tidy. No one has touched it, far less
slept in it,"
He must have been attacked directly
he came upstairs, said, following out a
line of thought Of my own. Quite early
in the night, l mean"
How do you know that, Mr.. Leslie?"
asked the manager, turning on me rather
brusque!y. There is nothing to indicate
that such was the case"
1T is mo-e than probable, nevertheless D.
interposed the doctor. death must
have occurred nine or ten hours ago; OF
that have never had the smallest doubt" I"
That would take us back to II or IL
o'clock last night" said the manager,
sloitl:; and with visible impatience be
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
Home Matters.

Whole cloves, it is said, will exter-
inmate the moth.
After eggs are broken they should
be covered until used.
Brass work can be kept beautifully
bright by occasionally rubbing with
salt and vinegar.
Washing floors and shelves with
strong pepper tea, or hot alum or borax
water, will destroy ants and reaches.
When acid of any kind gets on
clothing spirits of ammonia will kill 1t.
Apply chloroform to restore the color.
A little borax put in the water before
washing red or red-bordered table
cloths and napkins will prevent their
fading.
If cellar has n damp smell and
cannot be thoroughly ventilated, a few
trays of charcoal set around on the
| floor, shelves and lodges, will make
the air pure and sweet.
Take black court plaster, moisten
enough to make it stick, and mend the
| small cracks and holes in your silk
umbrella by pressing it on the wrong
! side with a warm iron over thin
paper.
The simplest. way to fumigate Il
room is to heat an iron shovel very
hot and then pour vinegar upon it,
drop by drop. The steam arising from
this is disinfectant. Doors or win
dows should be opened that it may
escape.
| Hair brushes should be washed i'll
soda and warm water or ammonia and
cold water, dipping the bristles fire.
lquently downward into the water, but
Keeping the backs as dry as possible
when the bristles look clean rinse the
brush in cold water, shake it without
wiping the bristles and set in the air to
dry. Soap should not be used, for il
softens the bristles.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
Emmett Letter.

Mrs. Geo. Saville called on her
friends here last Monday.
frankie Cary returned from her va.
cation last Monday evening.
VIM. Hodgins, supervisor of Brock
way, spent Sunday with DIR. Abbott.
DR.. J. ID. O'Neill, of London, Ont.
visited DR.. j. A. Thompson last Sun
day.
Daniel Guilfoyl, an old resident
was laid to rest i'll Kenockee cemetary
last Monday.
Mrs. Thos. Cowhy is still unconsciou'
from the paralytic stroke, and little
hope for her recovery is entertained.
ID. NJ. Sullivan took out beer license
last week. This is the first license
taken out in the village for two years
VIM. Brinkman, who has for twenty
years past made the wagons, buggies
etc. for the people of this vicinity, il
James Cogley's shops, babe his friends
good bye Saturday morning. He goes
20 join his family in Detroit. No mar
would be more missed than Billy.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
Melvin Letter.

Mrs. III. j. McPhee went to Port
Huron on Monday.
Stella Darcy, of Yale, Sundayed
with Jennie Murray.
Mrs. Dingman went to Chicago tC
attend her daughter who is sick.
Mrs. Dewey and Mrs. VIM. Murray
visited at Mr., Reeds i'll Brockway last
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Wharton and
Sarah Wilson, of Yale, visited in town
on Sunday. 90
Elmer Moore and the Misses Avery
of Roseburg visited at VIM. Moore
last Sunday.
Chas. Dingman and James Regain
returned from the lumber regions
where they have been selling books
and jewelry.
Mrs. Griswold, of FOwlerville, has
been visiting her son, j. +. Griswold
who has been very sick with Ia grippe
the past two weeks.
Elder James If. Morton, formerly
pastor Of the NJ. +. church of this
place, was killed at Lake Charles, La,
on the Kansas City, Watkins q Gulf
railway.
Richard Morgan, of Marlette, has
taken charge of the section formerly
under the supervision of Chas. Nc
Kinnon, and has moved his family
into the Hardy house.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
Brown City Letter.

Cora Lutes visited with her parents
last Sunday.
Chas. Gage visited Yale and Valley
Centre last Sunday.
The Maccabce blowout on the 2lst
called many to town.
The ladies' band gave an excellent
sugar social on the both.
d. A. Reign, of Marlette, made n
pleasant call here saturday.
DR.. Lister brought his visit to close
in Saginaw and returned last week.
Mr.. Burgess is erecting fine dwell
ing on his farm, one mile and half
east of here.
Our brick yard keeps steadily in
motion every day and is turning out
some fine brick.
The Misses Porte have returned
from North Branch and are visiting
their sister, Mrs. j. Windsor.
The NJ. +. Sunday school will give an
entertainment soon, to secure funds
for the purchase of some new singing
books.
Mr.. WEIGH, an old resident of this
community, died Tuesday evening,
and was buried Wednesday in the
Speaker cemetery.
The Maccabee lodge of this place is
now in the most flourishing condition
it has been since its organization. n.
$. Boyngton, of Port Huron, held u
school of Maccabee instruction Wednes-
day evening and at the close of the
meeting the Maccabees' wives met
them at the hall, headed by the band
and extended them an invitation,
which was gladly accepted, to repair
to the hall and partake of refresh
ments, after which most pleasing
program was rendered. The ladies
presented the lodge with fine banner
and after listening TO appropriate
speeches from many eminent speakers,
the meeting was over. The kind acts
of the ladies will always be remem-
bered 10y Avery tent Of this place.
The beautiful singing and elegant
band music helped make the occasion
still more enjoyable. Every thing
passed off pleasantly, and the ladies'
have the heartfelt thanks Of the lodge.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-22
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