davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

room. The tea room contains dell
cately carved white marble chimney
piece, ornamented with three exquisite
bas reliefs upon skyblue ground. The
doors are mahogany, the stairways are
graceful and winding, and the bedrooms
all hexagonal in shape. A noble cluster
of Lombardy poplars, which he trans.
planted from Europe, shade the lanes OF
the house, and there is lovely stretch
of lawn on all sides.
The family graveyard reminds one OF
beautiful old flower garden which has
been abandoned. As that exquisite line OF
Goldsmith's beautifully phrases it:
The country blooms-a garden and grave.
The tomb of Jefferson is simple ODE.
lisk of rough granite, to the left OF
which rests his wife, to the right his
youngest daughter, and at the head OF
these three graves are the remain OF his
eldest Daughter, his favorite child,
Martha Randolph, who survived him:
His wife died ten years after their
marriage, and upon her tomb is ro-
mantle Greek inscription, which trans
lated reads:
And though spirits in future state be
oblivious of the past, he will even there re-
member his lonely companion.
The epitaph upon Jefferson's tomb,
which he dictated for himself IN his
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
Apples as Medicine.

Chemically, the apple is composed Of
vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar, gum,
chlorophyl, malic acid, gallic acid, lime
and much water. Furthermore, the Ger
man analysts say that the apple contains
a larger percentage of PHOSPHORUS than
any other fruit or vegetable. The phos.
phorous is admirably adapted for renew
ing the essential nervous matter, lecithin,
of the brain and spinal cord. It's, per-
haps, for the same reason, rudely under.
stood that old Scandinavian traditions
represent the apple the food of the gods,
who, when they felt themselves to be
growing feeble and infrm, resorted to
this fruit for renewing their powers of
mind and body. Also. the acids of the
apple are of signal use for men of seden-
tary habits, whose livers are sluggish in
action, those acids serving to eliminate
from the body noxous matters, which,
if retained, would make the brain heavy
and dull, or bring about jaundice or
skin eruptions and other allied troubles.
Some such an experience must have
led to our custom of taking apple sauce
with roast pork, rich goose. aud like
dishes. The malic acid of ripe apples,
either raw or cooked, will neutralize any
excess of chalky matter engendered by
eating too much meat. It is also the
fact that such fresh fruits as the apple,
the pear, the plum, when taken ripe and
without sugar, diminish acidity in the
stomach, rather than provoke it. Their
vegetable sauces and juices are convert
ed into alkaline carbonates, which tend
to counteract dity.-Southern Clinic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
The Tomato.

To many persons there is something
extremely unpleasant, nPt to say often
sive, in the flavor of the tomato, while to
others its peculiar acid is relished more
than any other vegetable. It is taste
easily cultivated by those who have not
yet come to like it, and one it were wise
for them to cultivate.
A physician of some celebrity con
siders the tomato an invaluable article OF
diet, and ascribes to it very important
medicinal properties. lie declares that
the tomato is one of the most powerful
deohstrucnts in the materia medica, and
that besides its valuable apericnt quail.
ties, in all those affections of the liver OF
other organs where calomel is indicated,
it is the most effective and least harmful
remedial agent known to the medical
world. A chemical extract can be OBJ
tanned flom it which will altogether su.
persede the use of calomel in the treat
nent of diseases. Dysentery has been
successfully treated by this article of diet
alone, and when used simply as an arti.
Gle of food, is said to be almost SOW.
ereign remedy for indigestion.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
half mile farther. Ten miles to the
north. in the range of hills, is Mont

half a mile farther. Ten miles to the
north, in the range of hills, is Mont
peier, President Msdison's home, and
three miles southwark is Indian Camp,
once an estate Of President Monroe.
Truly, this is an ideaE site for home,
and must have been in those days 8
beautiful retreat for man like Jefferson
after the turmoils of public life. There
he gathered around him men of science
and political fame who fashioned our
Government and to whom this genera
ton owes its present greatness.
The residence betrays fine sense of
taste as we'll as practical idea OF those
comforts which render home life so de-
lichtful in the South, and possesses an
architectural beauty which pleases the
eve even in its decay. The main pavil-
ion, which has wing on either side, is
entered by two graceful portlcos, sup
ported by slender doric pillars, and the
building is surmounted by miniature
rotunda which floods the whole interior
with light. The hall is thirty feet square,
with high ceiling and music gallery.
In the center of the ceiling is an eagle in
low relief surrounded by eighteen stars,
the number of States in the Union in
1912. The saloon, where Jefferson en-
tertained, is finished in inlaid satinwood
and rosewood, the cornices being heavy
and richly carved. A bust of Voltaire
is all that remains of the splendid collec'
ton of paintings and statuary which
once graced this beautiful drawing
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
The Composition OF Rock.

Chemists have discovered that there arc
nearly seventy kinds of elementary mat
ter existing in and on the earth. There
are doubtless many undiscovered ele-
ments. When it is remembered that
chemisty as an exact science ls but little
over hundred years old, we must not
chide it for not having entirely com.
pleted its Investigations. The ideas
which have been advanced to the effect
that there is only one kind of matter, and
that all so-called elements are only forms
of this original element, are purely ny.
potheses, which yet await proof. OF all
these forms of matter there are less than
twenty which are of interest from an
agricultural point of view. These i'm.
pOr1ant elements will be briefly de-
scribed. The order in which they are
mentioned show approximately the rela-
tive abundance in which they exist; but
it must be remembered that it is not
always possible to state definitely that
this or that clement occurs in the greater
quantity. The classification, therefore,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

lower plane. lne SllC, w, plauo III
plane B, at the same distance from the
edge as the line, (a), will serve to allow
it to pass through this plane. In the
center of the latter draw straight line
at right angles with the hinge or joint,
and along this line glue piece of card
board, G. Finally, fourth piece, D,
provided with q slit and glued to the
posterior edge of the plane, B, will
serve to keep the piece, G, at right
angles with the latter. Divide the small
arc into degrees.
The sun dial will then be finished, tut
before gluing the three pieces OF which
it is constructed, care must be taken to
draw upon the plane, B, circumference
around the point that is to be occupied
by the base of G and to divide it into
sectors of fifteen degrees. To this effect
apply a leg of the compasses upon line
at right angles with the intersection of
the planes, A and B, snd lay off radius
on each side, and then divide the arcs
thus obtained twice into two parts. 1t
remains to place our instrument in the
meridian. To this effect we may use
watch, and, so to speak, set our sun dial.
The only difficulty with this instru-
ment is that it will become injured by
rain. By using a tumbler, a dial may
be made that will not be ruined by
storms. As seen from the illustration,
Fig. 2, piece of thick cardboard, hav-
ing small aperature in the center closed
with cork, is ATTACHED to the bottom
of the glass, but before doing this, fix
in the interior of the glass a band of
paper (b), upon which the hours have
been marked. Then fix knitting
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
THIS rs THE FISH.

The fish is nearly all head and rcscm-
bles the whale in many particulars. Il
measures four feet from nose to tip of
tail. The width of the head is just three
feet.
1t weighs forty pounds. The fish has
an immense mouth, though its throat is
very small. Sailors say the fish belongs
to the angular family which frequents
the waters off the coast of England.
Hansen was sitting on the guard rail
of the revenue cutter, which docks near
the Barge Office, when he heard splash
ing sound. He looked over tho side
and saw the fish. He grabbed boat
hook and struck at the head. The fish
ducked, but Hansen waited, and when
the fish showed up again got in blow
that killed it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
Indian Jewellers and Siiversmiths.

1.-THE Pueblos are the jewellers of the
aborigines," said Captain Howard Bar
ker. "They cut, grind and polish tur-
quoises, and, although their work is
quite primitive, it is much sought after
by members of other tribes. The Pu-
eblos get in return for it many of the
necessaries of Indian life. As many US
ten ponies are sometimes given for fine
string of turquoises, polished and strung
by these primitive lapidaries. The
Navajos have been long and justly
famed for their silver work, which is o
much priced article of barter among
Indian tribe. The Navajos use mostly
coin silver in their work. In making
small ornaments the coin is not melted,
but is beaten out thin and shaped to
suit. A few chisels and hammers, O
wooden block; and small furnace con-
stitute the kit of tools of one of these
dusky silversmi:hs. ."-St.Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

It's memorable coincidence in the
country's history that Adams and Jeffer-
son both died at the same hour, the
same day, and that day the Fourth OF
July-the anniversary of Americas in.
dependence, which we secured tn rough
the efforts of their patriotism and states
manship. -.
That interest incident to association
seemed to still linger over the place, but
the hand of time has made its cruel
impress there, and what was once a
beautiful home surrounded by aprincely
plantation is now but q simple country
seat.-Chicago Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

wreath of fair young day hung over
the purple hills, when the writer made
his pilgrimage to that classic retreat
which was in former years the Mecca of
the scholar and the statesman, the
patriot and the soldier, for there the
great parent of American freedom lived
and lies buried.
Monticello, meaning in italian ''Little
Mountain" is suggestive of the surperb
eminence upon which the mansion was
built. The name was given and the
house planned by Mr.. Jefferson himself.
The place commands fine view of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
IT is not often that even the most

IT Is not often that even the most
accomplished swindler can count so
many as three thousand victims. But
Of all the easiest forms Of duping tho
human animal the matrimonial swim
die Is said to be the easiest. So per-
haps we need not be surprised to
learn that whole regiments Of noodles
answered the advertisement in a
French newspaper which announced
that a young orphan lady, with a
splendid income, wished to marry a
serious and refined gentleman. Ii
was not until multitudes Of these
hoaxed persons, each Of whom had
paid a SO fee to the intermediary,
clamored for justice that the police
intervened.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

Blue Ridge Mountains for $50 miles,
and brings under the eye one of the
boldest and most beautiful horizons in
the world. The surrounding country Is
one of panoramic beauty-the azure
mountains, the landscape dotted here
and there with thriving villages and
cosy homesteads, and the picturesque
Rivanna River that binds the base of the
hills like silver band aud them me-
anders off among the plaius-form a
prospect that enchants the vision. In
the valley reposes the pretty town of
Charlottesville, with that fine architec-
tural pile, the University of Virginia
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

needle (c) in the axis of the glass by
passing it through small apertures made
in advance In the cardboard and cork.
Fix the glass with cement to board (6
that will be traversed by the,needle.
We shall thus obtain the instrument
shown, which it will then suffice to set,
"a il was shown in the first case.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
MRS. BoRDNER.

wears old when Washington died, and
the Chicago Herald says she distinctly re.
members the sorrow of the people on
that occasion. Her husband, Peter
Bordner, died in 1881, when ho was but
ten months from being 100 years old.
Thirteen children were born to them, of
whom ten are living, and their de-
scendauts, including twenty.four great
children, now number 353 persons.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

WHEN the Mayor Of Omaha wishes
to adjourn council meeting he sum-
mons the police force, and, after they
have drawn and poised their clubs,
states his desires with parliamentary
concisencss Then all the motions
are out of order, particularly such as
tendency toward the hip pocket,
and the meeting adiourns.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
Old Soils Timepiccc.

A French writer gives iu La Nature a
description of an easy method of con-
structing two simple and serviceable
forms of sun dials. The one shown III
the first illustration is made by taking
piece of Bristol board, about the size OF
a playing card, and, with a penknife,
making an 1neision so as to obtain two
planes, A and B Gig. y, united to.
gether as if by hinge. By means of
compass a sectional piece is cut from the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

Thomas G. Yeager, of Danville, KY,
while out hunting the other day, was
fatally wounded by an accidental dis
charge from his gun. His dog jumped
upon it, striking the trigger, causing the
charge to explode.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
Here's q Queer Fish.

Old sea dogs thronged Fulton Market
in New York one day recently, says the
World of that city, to look at the curl
GUS fish killed by Charles Hansen, deck
hand on the revenue cutter Washington
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
She Remembers Washlngton's Death.

SHo hononUo1o VuoHt"SeV" " "0"VH'
Mrs. Christina Bordner has just cele.
brated her 103d birthday in Lewistown,
H., at the home Of her aged son. Mrs.
Bordner, whose maiden name was Chris
tina Losh, was born on one of the Ger.
man frontier settlements of Pennsly-
vania, October 26, 1889. She was ten
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

In round numbers the total value Of
ali property in Pennsylvania is found to
be under $500, 100000. And the total
taxes paid amounts to $40, 1893, 906.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
MONTICELLO.
WHERE ONCE LIVED THOMAS
JEFFERSON.
Formerly a Princely Plantation. 1t ts
Falling into Picturesque Decay
Resting Place OF the Author
OF the "Declaration."

FTER Mount Yer
non, the home and
tomb of Washing
ton, on the banks of
the Potomac, Monti-
cello, the old family
seat of Thomas JEFF
ferson, is perhaps the
most beautiful spot of
historic interestin the
State of Virginia.
1t was in the early
summer time, the
air was fragrant with
the perfume of wild
flowers, the dew was
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
last hours, is splendid epitome of hie
life, and withal modest enough:
Here was Buried
THOMAS JEFFERSON,

Author of the Declaration Of In:
dependence, of the Statute OF:
Virginia for Religious Free:
dom, and Father Of the UNI:
versity of Virginia. !:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

may not be strictly correct, but is at
least apparently so. Below they are
placed in two classes, viz, metAlloids
and metals. American Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

fresh in the new mown hay, sheep bells
rang across the slopes sweet as an elfn
chime, bees went murmuriag through
the apple blossoms, and the bridal
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

watch or q diamond ring IL Wouio 10
temptation to the pillagers.
Ah,. my friend8 Il we have made tnls
world our god, when We die we viii sec our
idol ground to pieces by our pillow, and we
viii have to drink it in bitter regrets for the
wasted opportunities of q lifetime. Soon we
will bs zone. Oh, this Is sffeeting world;
II is a diving worldl A man who had wor.
shiped It all his days, in his dying moment
described himself when he said, ''FooN fool!
foolr,
want YOU to change temples, and to give
up the Worship of this unsatisfying and cruel
god for the service Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Here is the gold that will never crumble.
Here are securities that will never fail. here
ara banks that will never break. Here Is an
altar on which there has been one sacrifice
once for all. Here is q God who will COM
fort YOU when you are in trouble, and soothe
YOU when you are sick, and save you when
you die.
When your parents have breathed their
last and the old wrinkled and trembling
hands can no more be put upon your head
for blessing, He will be to you father and
mother both, giving you the defense or the
one and the comfort oil the other, ana "hen
your children go away from yon, the sweet
darlings, you will not kiss them good oy
forever. He only wants to hold them Ior
YOU little while He will give them back
to you again, and he will have them all
waiting for you at the gates OF eternal
welcome. -,
oh, what God He is! He will allow you
to co ne so close this morning that you can
nut your arms around His neck, while De IN
response will put His arms around your
neck, and all the windows OF heaven VIII 90
hoistei to let the redeemed look out and see
the spectacle Of a rejoicing. father ana re-
turned prodigal locked in glorious embrace.
Quit worshiping the golden calf and DOW
vnis day before Him in whose presence We
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30

-
suppose you viii have to let him go; but he
puts his wife and children in an equIpage
that is the amazsment Of the avenues, and
the driver lashes the horses into two whirl.
winds and the spokes fash in the sun, and
the golden hsadgear Of the harness CLEANS,
until Black Calamity takes the bits OF the
horses and stops thsm, and shouts to the
luxurious occupants Of the equipage, .Get
ourp They get out. They get down. Inas
husband and father flung his family so hard
they never got up again. There was tne
mark on them for life-tne marx OF sPn1
hoof-rhs death dealing hoot OF the golden
calf. ......
Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on one
occasion, twenty-five THOUSAND oxsn and one
hundred aad twenty THOUSAND sheep; but
that was tame sacrifice compared with tne
multitude OF meu who are sacrificing them
selves on this altar Of the golden calf, and
ssoriicinp their families with them. The
soldiers OF General Havelock In India
walked literally ankle deep in the blood OF
the uhouss Of massacre" where two hum
dred women and children had been slain by
the Sepoys; but the blood around about
this altar Of the goldsn calf flows up to the
knee. flows to the girdle, fows to the
shoulder, flows to the lip. Great God OF
heaven and earth, have mercy The golden
calf has none
Still the degrading worship goes, on, and
tho deyotees Eneel and kiss the dust, and
count their golden beads. and cross them
sa,vss with the blood Of their own sacrifice.
The music rolls on under the arches; 1t is
made Of clinking silver ana cnpSlng eoia
spd bpoksrs sGs % shops and the voices Of ali the
Changes. The soprano Of the worship Is
carried by the tinid voices Of men a % Who have ave
yolIs out from those who for ten years of ini.
ouity have been doubly damned. Chorus of
Voices rejoicing over what they have made.
Chorus Of voices wailing over what they
have lost.
The temple Of which I speak stanis open
day and night, and there is the glittering
god with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar Of sacrifice.
new victims every moment on it and there
are the kneeling devotses, and the doxology
Of tho worship rolls on, while death stands
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-12
PRESERVES The DEAD.
Missouri Earth In Better Than Any EN-
balmIDE Fluid.

Missouri Earth In Better Than Any EN-
t u balminE' Fluid.
most singular fact In relation to
the remarkable preservation of human
bodies inferred at Glenwood Springs,
Mo-, presumably by the chemical proper
ties of the everything lime strata, has
just come to light. The old cemetery
IN Glenwood Springs, says the Globe
Democrat, was abandoned some years
ago, when the town grew and enlarged
its limits so that the burying ground
became included therein, and a beauti-
full and romantic spot overlooking the
valley was chosen for the homes of the
dead on mesa not far from the old
burial site. When, a comparatively
short time afterward, on account of the
rapid growth of the town, it was de-
cided to remove the remains of the pio-.
neers from the old to the new cemetery,
but little attention was given the mat
ter beyond that shown by the local au-
thorities in seeing that the work of dis
lnterment was properly carried out,
which was left in charge of the sexton.
There were about thirty bodies to re-
move, and they were all in time inferred
in the new cemetery. The work was
done slowly, and scarcely any body but
the sexton and his assistants were
present when a grave was opened, and
when the remains were taken out they
were not disturbed but left inclosed in
the coffins, which were found in a re-
narkabfe state of preservation, consid-
ersng the fact that they had been buried,
in many cases, from five to seven years.
This finally led to an inspection by the
sexton, ont of mere curiosity, of one Of
the bodies, and great was his surprise
to find the remains in tho condition of
those that had only been inferred but
short time-that is before decompo-
aition had set in. The body was not
shrunlsen nor in any way changed, ap-
parently, from what it was when first
buried, but, on the contrary, the flesh
was soft, the limbs pliable, and the
features as natural as life. Many of
the other bodies in fact all of those
that were eshumed after the condi-
ton of the one mentioned was discov-
cred, were found to be in the same ex-
traordinary state of preservation.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-12
DYING BY INCHES.

Hov q Man Felt who Suffered from Pro-
gressIve Paralysis.
A Los Angeles physician told us the,
other day, says the Pomona Progress,
that the most trying time ia all his cx-
perience was during the past five weeks,
when he stood hopelessly by and saw
poor ranchman near Puente die by
inches of what is known as progressive
paralysis.
The patient was first taken ia one
big toe. In q short time the limb vas
paralyzed to the knee. Two physicians
were called, and all the known reme-
dies were applied to stay the progress
of the deadening attack, but in vain.
Hour by hour death moved on it's VIC
tim. The patient was propped up in an
armchair and fully realized his con-
dition. He awaited the end with the
coolness and bravery of a martyR, AS
the line of death crept nearer and
nearer bis henrt he made calculations
as to how much longer: he could live.
He said: "Now It has reached the
5ody," indicating the exact place with
is finger. In a little while he said:
1t has reached the bottom of my
>ngs." Another short wait and he
nd, family: 1T has touched my heart, -
md he fell over dead!