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Druggist-Tho manufacturers Of this
beef tea sell 1t at tho actual cost of pro-
ductiOn-
Purchaser-l should think thoy >pURtSd
full
Druggist r,nchs they matco all
tho limitations themselves. Munsey' q
Weekly.
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Messrs. Cara, Mckinley & Co., of this
city, arc putting up the magnificent
galvanized iron front of the Fidelity
building on Salon avenue.
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merit The many friends of the groom
in this section will unite in wishing
him and his fair bride happy future.
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a SLY THIEF.

Charles LanGston Takes a Purse From
Anderson Terry's Pocket.
Charles Langston, an impudent-look-
ing negro man, was arrested yesterday
by Officers Merrlman and Mabry at
divers saloon for stealing S4.95 from
Anderson Terry.
Terry is an old negro and highly re-
spected. Langston asked him for a
chew of tobacco, and being told that he
had none Langston insisted that he be
allowed to feel in his pockets The old
man raised his arm and allowed him to
do so. Langston Immediately felt
something like purse which contained
money. he Immediately seized it and
ran off.
Terry got out warrant for the negro
and the police soon found him at divers
saloon, and locked him up at the Sta
ton house.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-28
Oueen VictOria's Old Cook.

One of Queen Victorias most lovaSle
traits of character Is her kindness to her
servants. Among those who visited Her
Majesty during her stay in France last
spring was NJ. Trasteur, who for quarter
of century filled the post of head cook
at Windsor Castle. About twelve years
ago he resigned his Office and withdrew
to Collie, little village in the vicinity
of Grasse. A few days after the queens
arrival at the latter place he called at
her hotel. Being informed of his pres
ence Her Majesty summoned him to her
apartments aud received him with the
utmost kindness, going so fur as to even
insist on his sitting down by her side
an honor rarely conferred upon the high
est mobiles and dignitaries of her empire
while she chatted with him at consid-
erable length, referring several times to
his long and honorable career in her
service. NJ. Trasteur is in receipt Of
handsome pension from the royal civil
hst-a pension amounting to more than
twice the amount of that granted to
generals, admirals or literary celebrities
fox distinguished services to the Crown.
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Surprising Results in q Prune Orchard.

Colonel A. E. Cochran, e San Diego
(Cal.) lawyer, owns prune orchard in
Sonoma County, near Healdsburg, which
has astonished him. He told about it at
the Palace Hotel:
~ have discovered that by cutting
prune trees back in a new and rather
peculiar way it is possible to get tree
which will live twice as long as an ordi-
nary tree and bear heavily every year.
I learned this secret from gardener who
had been employed during most Of his
ife in the best prune district in the old
world, ,and who was here only for visit.
have eleven acres on my ranch which
how we'll how the experiment succeeds.
Ordinarily, of course, prune trees bear
n the third year. But these were not
permitted to produce fruit at all until
The fourth year, and then only a small
quantity. This is the fifth year, and off
The trees on the eleven acres take more
han twenty tons of prunes. But this
s nothing to what expect next year,
Tor if the season is good one those
trees will yield not less than sixty tons.
"The secret is all in cutting back to
get large trunk. The trunks on the
prune trees on that eleven acres of land
are all half again as large as one would
expect. The object is to give the tree
body and power so that it will not die
easily, and will be capable of supporting
an enormous yield. The cutting is done
from the centre: the large limbs being
cut off close to the trunk. The tree is
not clipped at all on the top, and little
on the sides. I am convinced that If
the pruue raisers of this State would use
the method the prune crop of California
would soon be doubled on the present
acreage.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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AMOUNT OF CHEESE IN MILK.

The amount of cheese which can be
made from milk will vary somewhat ac-
cording to the breed of cattle; quality Of
food, and method of handling the milk.
In other words, it will vary with the
amount of solid matter in the milk.
The old rule for estimating used to be
about nine pounds of milk to one pound
of cheese as it came from the press, and
this would shrink in curing at least ten
per cent, so that ninety pounds of milk
would give ten pounds Of cheese at the
press, which would be nine pounds when
fit to send to market, and 81 pounds
when old and well ripened. Probably
this is fair estimate of the average
product when the milk comes up to the
standard of thirteen per cent. solids.
With cheese, as with butter, it usually
requires more pounds OF milk to the
pound of product when the COWS are
fresh in milk, or when giving fresh
yield upon good grass feed, than when
they are giving less milk. A very wet
season and rank growing grass also re.
duces the per centage of solids in the
milk. k.-Boston Cultirator.
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g. august
Flower
N Y N u-42

7 had kAen troubled five months
with Dyspepsia. The doctors told
me it was chtonic. I had a fullness
after eating and a heavy load in the
pit of my stomach. I suffered fre-
quently from a Water Brash of clear
matter. Sometimes a deathly Sick
ness at the Stomach would overtake
me. Then again I would have the
terrible pains of Wind Colic. At
such times I would try to belch and
could not. was working then for
Thomas McHenry, Druggist, Cor.
Irwin and Western Ave-, Allegheny
City, Pa, in whose employ ! had
been for seven years. Finally I used
August Flower, and after using just:
one'bottle for two weeks, was en-
tirely relieved of all the trouble. Z
can now eat things dared not touch.
before. Iwould like to refer you to
Mr.. McHenry, for whom I worked,
who knows all about my condition,
and from whom I bought the medi-l
cine. I live with r1y wife and family
at 90 James St., Allegheny City, Pa.
Signed, JOHN D. Cox. q
G. G. GREEN Sole Manufactured,
Woodbury., New Jersey, U. s.. A.:
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No More Artificial Teeth.

Old age is robbed of half its horrors
and much of its deformity by the brill
liant discovery of Moscow dentist. DR..
Zuamensky, who, according to a pos
sibly over sanguine Russian contempor-
ary, has delighted the civilized world
by his skill in making teeth grow in
toothless gums. After experimenting on
dogs he tried the effects of his method in
human beings, and the success was COM
plete. The teeth are made of gutta
percha, porcelain or metal, as may be
desired. The root of the false tooth
has some holes bored in it. Holes are
now bored into the jaw, and into the
hole the false tooth is stuck as is nail
IN wood. In a short time tender
growth starts up the cavity of the false
tooth, and this growth hardening, the
tooth becomes fixed in position. These
new teeth can, according to the inventor,
be placed in the alveolus of a natural
tooth, and thus, when a diseased tooth
is pulled out metal or porcelain sub
stitute can be inserted in its place, with
out incurring any risk of transferring
disease, as happened in Hunters days,
when the apparently sound teeth of poor
persons when transplanted, not infre-
quently conveyed disease. There are
several minor inconsistencies in this
statement, but it would be ungracious to
look such noble gift in the mouth, es-
pecially as, according to dentists of au-
tnority, our race is destined eventually
to become edentulous.-NedicGI Press.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

A good character shines by its own
light.
He that lacks time to mourn lacks
time to mend.
If you feel angry, beware lest you be-
come reveugeful.
The frown of friend is better than
the smile of fool.
Want of care does more damage than
want of knowledge.
He hath a good judgment that relieth
not wholly on his own.
A man is little the better for liking
himself, if nobody likes him.
Denial is based on ignorance. To the
informed mind possibilities are uulim-
tied.
It is we'll to be dethroned before one
has done anything to deserve dethrone-
ment.
Talking and eloquence are not the
same; to speak, and to speak well are
two things.
There is brand OF humility more Of
fensive than the arrogance it usually
accompanies.
Avoid circumlocution in language.
Words, like cannon balls, should 60
straight to their mark.
Enough discomfort may be gotten out
of almost any proposition to meet the
absolute necessities of life.
Tears alleged to flow from material
causes occasion no Uncomfortable sur
prise among the materialists.
The verb ''to be happy" has neither
present, past nor future. It should be
corrugated in the conditional.
As birds traverse the air and poets
speak in rhyme and rhythm, so nature
performs her daily acts in miracles.
The silent man may be a reservoir of
experienced knowledge, but the world
will be no wiser for having him in its
midst.
Profanity never did any man the least
good. No man is richer, happier or
wiser for it. It commends no one to
society; it is disgusting to refined people
and abomniable to the good.
There is nothing which helps US to
feel that our lives have been worth iv-
ing so much as the humble but grateful
consciousness that we have helped some
other soul to fill its destiny.
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In Mental Ruts.

"The monotony of certain lines of
business and slight use of the mental
faculties consequent upon familiarity
with simple, unvarying routine" said
an observant gentleman, "soon gives a
stolid, apathetic, half idiotic cast in the
human countenauce. Take the average
elevated railway ticket agent or gats-
man, or park official, or theatre door
keeper, or anybody else who has little
or no variety in his daily life, and in a
short time his face is as blank as piece
of putty. A wooden impassiveness Of
feature takes the place Of what we term
expression, and the intellectual powers
relapse into that dormant state that char
acterizes alike the savage and the idi-
otic. You will gee the same thing in
the idle, listless man about town, who is
too lazy to work or think, and hasn't
enough energy or even inclination to be
bad. 1t is irritating to talk to such peo-
pie. The restless, nervous man OF keen
intellectual edge who comes in contact
with them chafes inwardly and some.
times outwardly. Half the trouble and
friction that arises between individual
members of the great, active, hustling
public and officials of various lower
grades IS from this very fact. Neither
the offender nor the offended under
stands the seat of the difficulty in deal
ing with each otl er. There are theatri-
cal officials in the box Office and at the
door whom the average man of intelli-
gence can scarcely address without the
itching desire to club. The hotel clerk
generally arouses the same animosity. -
Ne.o York Herald.
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WOOD ASHES AS A FERTILIZER.

The use of wood ashes as fertilizer
should be more generally understood.
Hardwood ashes are much richer in
potash than soft-wood ashes and are rel.
atively more valuable. Leached wood
ashes are hardly worth more than the
labor of spreading on the land as rule,
but on light sandy soil they have a
tendency to compact, which Is an aid to
its physical condition, but it does not
act as manure. Unbleached wood
ashes is almost a special fertilizer for all
fruit crops and only needs the addition
of a little nitrogcnous material to make
it complete. They should never be
mixed with such nitrogenous manures as
hen manure and other animal excrements
for they start chemical action in conse-
quence, the nitrogen is thrown off in the
form of ammonia and is wasted. In
bleached ashes form often cheap source
of potash. York World.
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A R0adbed in the River.

A section of the levee, 210 feet in
length, at point between the Mobine
Lumber Mill aud the box factory in
South Helena, Ark, suddenly gave away
the other afternoon and SUNK to a depth
of about ten feet. At the point in ques-
tion the levee is used by the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad as
a roadbed. The theory Of the civil en-
gineer is that bed of quicksand lies
some forty feet below the surface and
that the action of the water upon it and
the running Of heavy trains over it
gradually caused the quicksand to wash
out that in course of time and that the
levee collapsed. A similar cave or COL
lapse occurred in the levee about two
years ago.-Msu Orleans Picayune.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.

VALUE OF ASHES ON GARDEN GROUND.
A garden cannot be made sufficiently
fertile by the use of ashes alone. They
are exceedingly useful as far as they go,
but this is not far enough. Plants need
all the elements that are contained in the
ashes, but these are only the mineral
elements of the plants, and the iudispen-
sable nitrogen is wanting. If this is
supplied in the form of some good ferti-
lizer, the mixture will be a complete
manure. A good way to supply the
nitrogen would be as nitrate of soda, of
which, for garden, 200 pounds to the
acre would not be too much.-Neo York
Times.
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HOT PATTIEs.

Line some small molds with puff pas
Try. Make a mixture of one.qusrter
pound of raw veal, three ounces Of kid
ney fat, some lemon peel, chop very fine,
and stir in spices, salt and pepper to taste,
moistening the whole with good strong
stock. Put spoonful of this in the
patty mold, covering it with some pastry
very lightly to allow it to rise. Brush it
over with the yoke of an egg and bake.
Or: Beat to a cream one-quarter pound
of fresh butter, add the yolk of an egg,
one tablespoonful of flour and one of
milk, MIX with this some remains Of
meat (veal or chicken preferred chopped
very fine, salt, pepper and nutmeg to
taste. Make this into balls the size of
walnut, put them into patty-molds lined
with pastry and bake as above. Or: Line
deep patty-molds as above, and prepare
a mixture of fillets of game or chicken, a
little sweetbread, and some chopped
morsels; stew this in a sauce. pan with
some melted butter, -four, squeeze OF
demon, some good stock, salt and pepper
to taste. Let this cool when quite
ready, fill your patties almost full and
bake for an hour, after having put on
the pastry cover.-Neao York Ledger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-28
The Story of Dresden China.

The first hard porcelain made in Eu-
rope-for majolica, Palissy ware, and
others of the sort are pottery, and not
porcelain-was the lovely Dresden ware;
and in that line nothing has ever been
made to exceed its beauty. Its flowers,
its ribbons and ornaments, are perfection
in design and color; there is rumor
that real lace is put into the clay before
firing for the parts representing lace,
but how that may be we do not know.
It owes its existence to an accident. The
chemist, who mad been imprisoned by
the Electo1 in order to find the secret of
making gold and of the elixir of life,
having come across some substance re-
sembling porcelain in the bottom of a
crucible, was unable to get it of pure
tint, till rider one day found a peculiar
white clay on his horses hoofs, which ne
had dried and sifted and sold for hair
powder, and the unfortunate chemist,
using it and observing its weight, exper-
imented with it, and straightway the
Dresden ware-or Nielsen, as it is more
correctly called-became a success, the
first sculptors and colorists Of the day
lending their art to its perfection. Cru
city, or rather ty-anny, has often attend
ed on Dresden china; for Freder OK the
Great, having sent great quaint les OF
this white earth to Berlin, took captive
the best workers in the Nielsen and sent
them after it, never allowing them to see
home again; and presently he obliged
the Jews in his dominion to buy the china
he thus manufactured by refusing them
marriage licenses till they had procured q
service, thus gaining an immense annual
revenue .-Harrer's Bazar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-28
SAVING SEEDS.

The average farmer and gardener had
better pay twice what the seeds now cost
him than to save his own, and yet with
proper care better article than can be
bought may be secured, and this at little
cost. Every man wants the best, and
that is the best which suits him the best.
There is a great diversity of taste; no
two agree as to which is the best, as the
same seed grown under different circum-
stances will produce different results.
Some prefer one form, color, or flavor;
another quite the reverse. This is an
individual matter, and cannot be settled
by argument We all have our pref
erences as to species or types, whether in
vegetable, fruit or flower; and we want
the best of chosen type This can only
be had by selection of the plant that pro-
duces just such flowers or vegetables as
we prefer, and save the seeds from such
for future use. 1t requires great care
snd no little skill to make selections valu-
able.
After a choice of plants has beer made
the first flowers should not be allowed to
SEEDS they are never SO perfect as those
that come later; so that it is difficult to
establish the type. If the second are all
that is desired, if they are improvements
over those of previous years, do not let
Others on the same plant ripen seed, but
carefully remove all buds except the one
saved. and let that have all the vigor of
the plant until the seeds are ripe. Then
if the plant produces more flowers, it is
well enough, but the contents of one
capsule will be sufficient 70 keep up the
stock, and the seeds will be the best
that can be produced. The same is true
with vegetables. Do not save the first
squash, cucumber or tomato that forms;
the plant does not produce its best fruit
early. Cut it away, and if the second is
satisfactory let it have the full strength
of the plant. This is the manner in
which types are improved and new va.
rieties produced. Whenever flowers or
vegetables show the slightest improve
ment or change it is sure indication of
: new, perhaps distinct variety. From