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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-18
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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-18
Archie Sands benefit to night.

WIN be Held Wednesday Afternoon.
The Stuart w. c. II. U. will hereafter
ibid its regular Wednesday afternoon
meeting from $3.50 to 1870 o'clock in the
lecture room Of the Y. M. c. A. 1t is
earne silly requested that the members
b, punctual in attendance.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-18
Our Prices the Very Lowest

The New Printed Dimities. tinte
and white grounds-very desirable.
Ginghams in Scotch and Domestic.
Percales in new shades
Printed and Plain Cotton Crepes,
New Shirt Waists.
New Blazer and Eaton Suits just
opened, skirts are made in the late
Umbrella Style. The Jackets have the
Large Full Sleeves.
New Capes, in Tan, Green, Navy and
Brown.
New Hosiery in Tans, Cardinal and
Fancies for Ladies and Children.
Everything New in Complete
Assortment.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-18

SrRornER's Ioduretted Sarsaparilla.
Dollar size bottle for SEC at your drug
gists
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-04-18

An aNusion to the material is all our
space will permit:
Black silk Genadines, figured and
striped, in the new chiffon effects.
Plain and figured China Silks in new
effects.
New Changeable Silks for shirt
waists and trimmings.
Reseda Greens and Heliotrope in
dress fabrics of all sorts.
New Changeable Effect Woolens in a
great variety of styles.
French Broche Satines. very new,
both light and dark grounds, neat
Dresden figures.
Printed Figured Swiss in new styles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
Bicycles Not Available for War.

The use of the bicycle for military
purposes, after having developed with
great rapidity in France, has suddenly
received check General Loizillon,
tie Minister of War, has, it appears,
little faith in it. He has issued an Or
der that the cyclist corps are only to
be used on prepared ground
In time of war, he says, their use,
even if no account is taken of the liza
bility of the machines to break, is like
ly to cause serious miscalculations, and
they can only rarely be substituted for
men on horseback. The cyclists hence
forth, therefore, or until some success
sor to General Loizillon more favor
able to them is appointed, will be
reserved, by his instructions, for gar
rison duty. for the great maneuvres,
and in time of war for certain easy
communications at the rear of the
forces.-London News.
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Highest of all in Leavenng u S. Govt Report
R3&a:!:!! O! BskiRg BsMds3!
ABSOLUTELY PURE
An Indians Queer Title.

Quin-ne-mo-se, formerly chief OF
the Cpur d'Alene Indians, is one ct
the most favored of men in Spokane
County. Quin-ne-mo-se has farm Of
167 acres lying on the south side of the
Spokane River, about fourteen miles
above Spokane. When Assessor Leg
horn was putting values upon farming
property in this county he put Quin's
land at a good round sum. Quin pro-
duced Government patent for the
land, in which occurs this clause This
patent is issued upon the express con-
dition that the title hereby conveyed
shall not be subject to alienation or
incumbrance, either by voluntary con-
veyance or by judgment, decree or
order of any court, or subject to taxa
tion of any character, bvt shall remain
inalienable and not subject to taxa
ton for the period Of twenty years.
from the date hereof, as approved
January 1s, 1881" Everybody apollo
gized, and the Board of Equalization
wiped Quin's name from the books.
This is the only title of the kind in the
country, the Commissioners say
Spokane (Washington) Review.
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BLACK TEETH IN SWINE.

symptoms of black teeth in swine
are many, writes a correspondent.
Loss of appetite with continual squeal-
ing and stunted growth are the first
symptoms with some pigs. I have a
pig which had a good appetite, grew
fat and didn't squeal, except when
hungry, that had black teeth. I de-
tected them by q weakness in his hind
legs and an enlargement of the joints.
I have seen heavy hogs with their hind
legs nearly ruined by having black
teeth. We knock or pulled out
these teeth; then the legs soon get
straight and strong and the hog does
we'll. I once knew a farmer who had
ct one time five pigs that had lost the
use of their hind legs and we're stunted
in growth. He became disgusted with
the bad condition of these pigs and
shot them. He afterward learned that
black teeth caused the trouble. Black
teeth are found on both upper and
lower jaw, front. These teeth are
sometimes brown instead of black.
The only remedy that I know of for
black teeth is to rid the swine of them,
and the sooner the better, as no hog
or pig can thrive and do well that has
them long. As far as my experience
goes black teeth come only once, and
with the pigs. New York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
CARE OF CREAM.

The following directions for the
care of cream are taken from a circu-
lar distributed by the Ontario College:
The cream should be kept sweet un-
til twenty-four hours before churnlng
by keeping cool either in the creamer
box or in q cool cellar. Get a cream
vessel tin is preferably large enough
to hold the cream for whole churn-
ing. If there is not sufficient for a
churning from one skimming, stir the
cream thoroughly at every addition OF
fresh cream.
In summer warm the cream to sixty
three or sixty-five degrees twenty-four
hours before You wish to churn, and it
will be about the right degree of sour
ness or ripeness in that time, but, as
soon as it becomes slightly thickened
and sour, churn it. 1t is not advisa-
able to allow the cream to become
warmer than sixty-three degrees in
warm weather. In winter the riren-
ing temperature will be from sixty
four to seventy degrees. In case the
cream does not sour properly In
twenty-four hours, it is a good plan to
add small quantity (about two per
cent of sour milk or sour cream to
act us starter.
All changes in cream should be ef-
fected gradually. Never add hot or
very cold water directly to the cream
to warm or cool it. To effect this, set
the cream vessel in another vessel con-
tanning warm or cold water, and stir
the cream all the time it is being
warmed or cooled. Do not allow the
milk or cream to freeze. If the butter
is white, a small amount Of good but
ter color may be added to the cream
Just before commencing to churn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
A Town without Deserving Poor.

There is town in Ontario, Canada,
of about 1000 inhabitants, which, if it
was located in Jersey, would be the
Mecca of tramps. 1t seems that big
fair was held there some months ago,
and in order to have an object it was
decided to devote the proceeds to the
deserving poor. A snug sum was
netted, and the committee were in
structed how to portion out the money.
The next thing was to find the deserv-
ing poor, and this proved by far the
hardest task the committee had ever
tackled. The town was ransacked
from one end to another, but not a
single deserving poor person was
found. The search was kept up for
some time, but it proved utterly fruit
less. Newark. Call.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
A Cows Omniyer0us Appetite.

I Most people are probably OF the
opinion that the goat and the ostrich
rank highest as omniverous animals.
1t is not so generally known, however,
that q COW takes often very curious
things into her stomach. The United
States Department of Agriculture has
given space in its exhibit In the Gov
ernment Building to collection OF va
rious objects which have been taken
from the stomachs of cattle killed for
beef at the stock yards. The most
amazing of these objects is the iron
tooth of huge hay rake, such as Is
drawn by two horses upon the Western
prairies. This iron tooth is curved
and is four feet eight inches long by
about quarter of an inch thick. 1t
was taken from the Sstomach of a Texas
steer, which was to all external appear
ances in the best of health when
killed. From the stomach of another
Texas steer was taken an iron bolt,
thirteen and half inches long by five
eights of an inch thick. In rather
small COW were found objects as fol-
lows:
One Masonic emblem, one dime, one
copper cent, two watch rings, one fin
ger ring and number of stones. In
another cows stomach were found one
silver dollar, one silver watch chain,
one brass hair pin, door knob and
seven nails or pieces of nails. One OF
the most curious features OF this re-
markable collection is lot of twenty.
three hair balls. They were all found
in the stomach of Texas COW which
was butchered at the stock yards only
a short time ago. When she was killed
the animal was in good health, but
small. She weighed when dressed for
beef $50 pounds. These hair balls are
each perfectly solid, hard, circular
mass. The largest one is five inches
in diameter, and the smallest about an
inch and half. The balls are formed
by the animal licking itself. The hail
comes off and adheres to the tongue.
1t is then swallowed, and once in the
stomach is rolled up and compressed
into the globular mass described.-
Chicago Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
HOUSEHOLD MATrEls,.
DO WOMEN KNowP

That rubber should be carefully kept
away from oil, as oil softens and makes
it unfit for use.
That as soothing and cooling appli-
cation for the skin nothing surpasses
a few slices of fresh cucumber rubbed
gently over the face.
That Russian tea is most refresh
ing and cooling summer drink. Milk.
of course, is omitted and sugar added
to the hot tea, with a slice Of lemon.
That after the Juice has been squeezed
from lemons the peels may be utilized
for cleaning brass. Dip them in COM
mon salt and scour with dry brick
dust.
That gauze veil is the best protec-
tion for sensitive skin during hot
weather, and on no account should a
thick veil with large spots be worn.
That one doesn't "make calls" any
more, but "pays visite' instead. As
if it made any difference, only when
one is in Rome one must do as tho
Romans do.
That old paint and varnish may bo
removed by an emulsion formed of two
parts of ammonia shaken up with one
part of turpentine. 1t will soften them
SO they may easily be scraped off.
That Turkish toweling in pure whitc
is considered the most correct thing
for the covering of chairs and couches
in the summer sitting-room. The
toweling, while apt to show dirt more
quickly than other fabrics, may yet
be- sent to the wash tub, its place in
the mean time being taken by fresh
set of the same, whence it energies as
daintily fresh and attractive rs ever
New York Recorder.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
SpOnging on Two Continents.

In Mediterranean sponge fishing
divers are employed, says the Cincin-
natl Tribune.
The diver is carried down by a
broad, fiat slab of marble of about
twenty-five pounds weight, which he
holds at arms length in front of him,
and which he uses to guide his flight,
to protect bis head when he first
strikes and to keep him down when ne
walks on the bottom.
Fifteen to twenty fathoms is the
average depth, while two minutes is
the usual duration of the dive. Each
diver puts the sponge he pulls into q
net bag that hangs from his neck.
When he is ready to ascend he jerks
rope and is quickly pulled to the sur
face.
In Florida sponging crew is divided
into twos, each pair consisting of a
sssculler" and a "hooker" supplied
with a small yawl known as dingy.
The former stands in the stern of the
dingy and sculls it slowly and steadily
forward, being prepared to stop it and
hold it exactly in place at moments
notice from the "hooker," J." who, kneel.
ing amidships, with the upper half OF
his body projecting over the side,
scans the bottom for suitable sponges.
In order to assist in this scanning a
sponge glass is used. 1t consists OF an
ordinary wooden bucket with glass
bottom fixed in with putty.
The handle is placed around the neck
of the sthooker,' while the glass itself
is placed fat upon the water, while the
"hooker's" head is thrust we'll down
into the bucket. By this means he
can see very small objects at con-
siderable depth. And he has his
hands free to plunge the hooked pole
down and pierce the sponge, sometimes
at depth of thirty-fve feet, as soon
as sighted. ...
After landing catch the sponges
are beaten to cleanse them; afterwsrd
they are dipped into weak solution
of lime and seawater, to give them the
yellow color so well known In the
markets. .#
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11

China M. E. Missions, and there are
now connected with them over 1000
Chinese Christians. Tien Ang Dong
at Foo-Chow is the mother Of all tho
churches in which these thousands now
worship. Foo-Chow is the chief cen
ter of Methodist work in South China.
They have there an Anglo-C Chinese col
lege, theological school, boys board
ing school, girls boarding school,
womans' school aud womans' hospital.
The numbers OF Christians connected
With these institutions has increased So
that the Chinese ediice will not &C
commodate them. Last year a gal.
lery was added, but even now this Is
too small. Efforts are now being made
to raise fund for rebuilding the Iler
Ang Dong edifice with twice the pres
ent capacity. Mail and Express.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
BEES AND HONEY.

Gleanings in Bee Culture recon-
mends q mixture of white lead and
zinc for painting beehives, putting on
first coat of lead as primer, then
mixing lead and zinc finish the paint
ing. This paint will not fake off as
either lead or zinc will do fused sepa-
rately.
It requires about 5000 bees to make
a pound weight. Some tests are re-
ported by Professor Koons in the Clean
ings, in which by careful estimates the
number of bees varied from 4l4l to
1866. The average of these figures
was 1882. Swarms of bees vary from
four to nine pounds, but are usually
between four and five pounds, or be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 bees.
Bees do not rob while honey is
plentiful. They will not rob other
bees during temporary shutdown OF
work from storm or other cause. They
like "day off, as humans do, but
after twenty-four hours they are i'm
patient to go to work. If there is no
honey for them to gather there will be
liability that they will take to rob-
bing.
A correspondent of Gleanings in
Bee Culture does not believe that
robbing bees permanently retain this
bad habit. The saying 'once robber
always a robt sr" has no truth In it.
If honey flowers become plentiful the
robber bees will 60 to work again.
But it must be added that when rob
bers once get the notion of attacking
O. weak hive it had better be destroyed,
as it is nearly impossible to keep them
from it thereafter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11

able scientific expeditions in search of
fossils. One was to Pine Ridge, the
famous scene of the recent Sioux In
dian outbreak, where he and others
discovered myriads Of a strangely
curious fossil, called by them DEVILS
corkscrews. The other WAS to Phillips
County, Kansas, where Professor
Marshland discovered wealth Of
rhinooeros, elephant and mastodon re-
mains, of whose existence nobody
hitherto mad dreamed. The cork
screws are as much as eight feet long,
actual corkscrews in shape, and are
often eight inches through. He esti-
mates that there are 400 square miles
of them, yet, strange to say, notwith-
standing the vast number of scientific
expeditions hitherto, none Of them has
been discovered before. The cork
screws are silicate, and they are found
in silicious sandstone. In many
places they stick through the sand
rock of the hills, the stone being worn
off by the elements, and the silicate
spiral, being harder, having remained.
It is no trouble, the professor ssys, to
strip the sand away from them. 1t is
rather soft, and the men can work fast.
Some of the strange spirals are coiled
about central spire, like vine about
tree. Then at the bottom or root of
the spire are curious protuberances
each way, and rising toward the sur
face of the ground at something like
thirty-one degrees. They are often
quite as long as the corkscrew spiral.
. 'sThese devils corkscrews which
stick out over Pine Ridge and border
on the Bad Lands" said Professor
Marshland to q Chronicle man, "are
most singular things. Nobody knows
what they are or how they were made.
At first it was thought by some that
the spirals were caused by some sort
of a burrowing, the theory being that
some animal had burrowed, rabbit
like, and that the hole had filled with
silicious sand and hardened. But this
theory wouldn't do, because it ap-
peared that whatever the spirals were
they were of marine formation, and
whether animal or vegetable, had
grown under the sea- From all we
could gather we are inclined to believe
the devils corkscrews are a curious
form of the sponge, yet even that Is by
no means certain. Other remarkable
things were what We found imbedded
in them and forming part. Once
we found the.skeleton of little ami
NAL like q rat, and at another time We
found the skeleton of snake.
The corkscrew region extends from
the Niobrara River to Pine Bidge and
almost to the Hat Creek Basin. The
corkscrews are almost as true as If
made by lathe and are right-handed
and left-handed indiscriminately. The
great transverse pieces, called rhizomes
or underground stems, project in all
directions out of the banks and bluffs
like logs. Some are as large as ordi'
nary barrels, others as large as hogs
heads. When half disclosed in the
bluffs they look like large sawlogs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11

What shall he use it with to get the
best results? If his only aim were to
get the most immediate benefit from
it he should use it directly on the crcp
that brings him most money. This
will be always the crop that requires
most labor and skill to produce. But
the farmer who owns his farm is con-
cerned quite as much for its future as
for its present productiveness. he
cannot afford, even under pressure OF
seeming necessity, to sell the fertility
of his land by the bushel until its de-
creasing productiveness makes longer
cultivation impossible. Thousands
have gone this road, and have only
found their mistake when too late to
retract their steps.
However Important immediate re-
suits may seem, the careful farmer
looks to next year and the year after.
1t takes exceptional crops to make the
farmer Indifferent to the future of his
soil. But the true economy consists
in combining both immediate and fu-
ture benefit by applying manures
chiefly to clover and other crops which
themselves add to soil fertility, and
thus make it serve both ends. 1t is
here that grain farmers have an ad-
vantage over those who grow hoed
crops exclusively. The farmer who
grows grain can and should always SOW
clover with it. Then all the manure
he applies to the grain crop serves a
double purpose. The hoed crop may
make the most money per acre, but,
if it is grown year after year, it de-
mands the yearly purchase of large
amount of manure. That will take off
the profits. The alienation of grain
seeded with clover, and then after one
or two years growth the clover plowed
under as green manure for some hoed
crop, secures both the immediate prof
it and the permanent benefit to
the soil which every good farmer
seeks.-American Cultivator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement ana
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation;
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
RAISING suNF1owERs FOR HENS.

The necessity for a variety of food
for chickens is generally understood,
but very few people are aware of the
value of sunAowers as hen food. They
are very productive of oil, are eaten
greedily and give a peculiar lustre to
the feathers. have one-eighth OF an
acre planted in this crop, and propose
to bind them into bundles and stow
them away for winter use.
The heads can be thrown into the
hen house, where the chickens will
soon pick out the seeds, thus giving
them exercise as well as variety. With
plenty of other grain within reach they
will eat no more sunfower seeds than
are beneficial to them. The seed can
be bought at our seed stores for 81
per bushel, at which price it ought to
be more generally used than it is. 1
think great plot of sunhowers, with
their great yellow faces turned to the
sun, an agreeable sight.-Kansas
Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
Historic Church.

The honor of being the Oldest Meth
odist Episcopal Church in China be-
longs to Tien Ang Dong, or the
Church of the Peace of Heaven at Foo
Chow. Tt was built in 1856.
From that beginning great thinge
have come. Scores of Christian
churches may now be found within
the bounds of the Foo-chow confer
ence with an aggregate attendance OF
about 5000 members and probationers
ut their regular Sunday services. From
Foo-Chow went out the men who
founded Central China and North
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11
Water-Tight Doors in Warships.

The London Graphic gives, among
other pictures Of the recent British
naval man9uvres, one depicting the
manner in which, by sounding horn,
the signal "Close water-tight doors
was given on the Galatea This order
becomes necessary in the presence OF
danger arising from threatening prox
unity to another vessel, or from actual
collision, and discipline and readiness
in its execution are OF the highest i'm
portance. Frank Leslie's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11

There Is more Catarrh in this section OF tho
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed 10 %
tncurable. For great many years doGtoIs pro-
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced 1t lncuraole.
acience has proven catarrh to be oonstitu-
tional disease and therefore requires oonstltu-
fjonal treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, man
ufactured BY F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from 10drops 70
and MUCOUS surfaces Of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case 1t fails 70
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials
free. Address
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