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Tho Duke De, Yeragua's Revenge.

A dark, handsome gentleman, with
side-whiskers and foreign air, stepped
into the Telegraph Office on the Co.
lumbian Fair grounds at Chicago, and
asked courteously:
els this the ofico of the telegraph,
senor?"
'It amt anything else," carelessly
replied the operator, one of those
choice essences of Chicago whose only
perfume is crudity.
81 would, send telegram" said the
stranger, quietly.
"Would you?" drawled the op-
orator; "well, why don't you send it?"
The visitors heavy eyebrows raised,
but he said quietly; 'How many Of
the words have permit to send fol
twenty-five of the cents:"
'Ten," snapped tho operator,
shortly.
''Only so few MS ten:" asked the
stranger. "They gave twelve to twenty
abroad, senor."
''Ten words for a quarter, or she
don't 60" snarled the operator. "How
much do you want for twenty-five
cents?"
The visitors dark eyes cleaned dan
gerously and his firm lips closed.
IT send but ten of the words fo1
that money, then senor?"
"Yes."
"And the name, does it go free,
senor?"
eyes"
A strange smile chased itself around
the corners of the naughty mouth, and
picking up pen the stranger quietly
wrote:
His Honor. the Mayor OF Columbus. Ohio
Twill visit your city en- route to New York.
CHRIsIoBAL CoLoN.
De Toledo y Larreatagui de Ia Corda
Ramirez. de Baquedans y Gante, Vice-Ad-
miral Adelantadp.. Mayor de las 1ndias,
Marquis de Jamaica, Duke de Veragua y
de la Vega, Grandee de Ia Spain. Senatorio
de Ia Kingdom. Caballero de la Insigne
Orden del Toison de. Orc, Grand Cruz de
Carlos Ill, Grand Cruz de la Conception
de villaviciosa. Gentil Hombre de CamarG:
de King Alfonso XIII.
The operator took one wild look at
the message-then he tainted dead
away.
The stranger was the Duke de We
ragua. - Cincinnati Commercial-Ga-
Zette,
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Tore Down Homes to Buy Food.

A Methodist missionary at Pekin
writes to the Missionary Society s head
quarters in this city that the famine
in North China reduced the people in
some sections to such straits thst in
many cases they tore down their
houses to sell the lumber for food.
"1have never witnessed such abject
misery" he says, las I have seen in
the Pel-Yin district the past winter.
The people have largely subsisted on
the .shin-pai-tzu' or darnel or tares.
After partsking of it one has feeling
of safety, but it does not nourish or
satisfy hunger.
II have near me as I write piece
of bread such as is found in their
homes, made of tares grass.
1.-THE almost annual suffering
throughout this district is caused by
the Hung-Ho, or Muddy River, the
bed of which, on account of constant
sitting and dikings, has been raised
some fifteen or twenty feet above the
surrounding country. A break in its
banks causes widespread suffering"
By means of funds sent him, this
missionary WAS able to give some relief
to 10 families. New York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-02
A State Camp of Valley Forge.

The Governor Ct Pennsylvania
signed the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture appropriating s25, 900 for the
acquisition by the State of certain
property on the hills abor:. Old Va
ley Forge. 1t is proposed topurchase
this land and convert it into a pu ollc
park and camp ground for the State
militia.
The country around the Valley Forge
not valley forge simply, for at the
time of its erection it was the only
forge in all the Schuylkill Valley
above Philadelphis, and was then
known, and properly 80 now, as 'the"
Valley Forge-is terra incognita to
the hundreds of visitors who annually
pay devout and patriotic pilgrimage
to that shrine of thu Nations hopes
and prayers in the desperate winter Of
1777-7S.
A visit to the Potts mansion, which
then was the headquarters Of Wash
ington, stroll up the road to the
Washington Inn, and the pilgrimage
is completed. The Washington head
quarters will not be the sole attraction
that will bring visitors to the little
station perched on the high river
bank. There is q road that leads off
the right past the Washington Inn. 1t
is a not much frequented thorough
fare, because it is il-kept and goes
winding up hill and down dale in
sinuous way and over rocks in places
which are menace to axles and other
running gear, no matter how stout.
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One of Arizopa's Wonders.

For many years Heidelburg Univer-
sity has had the honor of owning the
largest barrel, or ''tun," as they call
it, in the world. They have had the
honor, although, according to the San
, Francisco Call, it does not belong to
them, for Arizona has q barrel that
makes theirs fade into insignifcance.
The one at Heidelburg will not hold
liquid, neither will the one in Arizona.
In this they are the same, but are diff
ferent in many other ways. Arizona's
barrel is the work of nature, and it is
on high peak of mountain, about five
miles from Aguas Calientas, which is
in the Catalina Mountains, about six
teen miles from a railroad. The barrel
is one of those peculiar rock forma-
lions and is about 200 feet high, and
the top of it is at least 1000 feet above
the valley. It can be seen for miles
before the traveller gets to It, and its
appearance is most deceiving. 1t re-
quires no effort of the imagination to
seethe large utensil of Bacchus perched
on its peak with glass under its faucet
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-02
4 Puzzling Question.

Just what becomes Of the shoes
which should adorn the missing foot
of one-legged man is matter OF
some interest, and should furnish food
for thought to minds of c speculative
tendency. While the number of men
who actually have but one leg is not
large, there are many who from one
cause or another wear but one shoe, or
from som9 discrepancy in their feet
have to have one shoe of an especial
pattern. There are also the men with
artificial legs, who, although they wear
a pair of shoes, tread much more
lightly on the artifcialleg than on the
natural one, making one shoe last
about three times as long as the other.
There are some shoe stores which,
buying their goods directly from the
manufacturers, are willing to sell q
one-legged man single shoe, sending
the other back to the factory to be
mated; but almost the universal Gus
tom is to sell only whole pairs. The
question then arises, "What becomes
of the large number of new shoes
which are bought in this way, and
which are entirely useless to their
owners?" The solution Of the prob.
lem seems to be at present yeiled in OBJ
scurlty,. and to be, known only to the
one-legged shoe wcarer himself. None
of the local shoe dealers who were
questioned could give any information
on the subject which was in any way
tinged with probability, nor could they
tell where such information could be
had. Boston Transcript.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

The occupants of balloon a mile
high command radius of ninety-s
miles.
A depth of 2409 fathoms has been
lately found in the Mediterranean, the
greatest yet known in the sea.
A meteorological station has been
established at Siberia, Palestine, a
place 6S2 feet below the level of the
Mediterranean Sea.
Photography has now reached the
point where an object travelling at the
rate of 10000 miles an hour can be
photographed by means Of the electric
fash.
Making wrought iron pipe direct
from bars is the process recently
started in rolling mill at Stubenvile,
Ohio. If it works it means complete
change in pipe manufacture.
1t appears that the camel does good
deal of harm in Egypt by eating the
trees as they are growing up. cal
ready the massive Cairo camel is type
distinct from other camels, SURPRISING
all in it's cumbrous, massive proper
tons"
The name of "zodiacal light" has
been given to singular appearance
frequently witnessed soon after sunset
or Just before sunrise. 1t may be
seen at all seasons of the year in low
ATTITUDES, and is obviously due to
illuminated water surrounding the
sun.
In the museum at Cambridge, Eng.
land, is the skeleton and stuffed skin
of an adult hybrid between lion anG
tigress. This, with several distinct
itters by different parents, was bor1
in the same menagerie. Dissection
showed that the creatures would have
been sterile.
4 railway train travelling night and
day at the rate of fifty miles an hour
would reach the moon in six months,
the sun in 200 years, and Alpha
Centauri, the nearest of the fixed
stars, in $1,000, 900 years. A ball from
O gun, travelling at the rate of 200
miles an hour, would not reach Alpha
Centauri in less than 2, 700, 900 years
A remarkable new Medara, or jelly
fish, hes been found to occur in Lake
Tanganyika, Africa, q "fresh water"
lake, though the water is slightly
brackish. 1t is entirely different from
the ielyfsh found living few years
ago in the Victoria Lily-tank of the
Kew Gardens, at London, and repre-
sents distinct family, whose exact
position is unknown.
Nearly all animal life has been pro-
vided with some means OF defense.
Among the curious ones is that given
the horned toad. Under certain cir
cumstances, especially when the crea-
ture has reason to fear attack, it will
discharge blood red liquid at the sup
posed enemy with great precision for q q
distance of five or six feet. The liquid
does not appear to be poisonous, but
seems to be designed chiefly to tenn
porarily blind the attacking party.
A recent electrical invention of in
terest to horsemen is the electrical
stable alarm. An alarm bell is placed
in the sleeping apartment of the groom
and connected with spring circuit
closer by means of small insulated
wire. The circuit closer. is operated
by light, flexible cord stretched
across the rear of the stalls. When
the horses are disturbed in the night
by being backed out of their stalls by
thieves or any other cause, an alarm is
instantly sounded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-02
The Proposed New Headgear For the
United States Army.

The War Department Of the United
States now has under consideration q
change in the headgear of the soldiers
and officers to replace the forage cap
and helmet now worn in the service.
The Detroit Free Press publishes cuts
of the proposed innovation. The
forage cap, intended for all branches
of the army, is what is known as the
German pattern, and it is claimed for
it that the visor, being turned down
instead of being straight, gives more
protection to the eyes. The top is
soft and pliable and has the advantage
of keeping the head cool. Many
officers favor its adoption, while not
few look upon it with disfavor, owing
to the fact that it is almost the exact
counterpart in shape, but, of course,
not in material, of those SO frequently
met with on the heads of emigrants
from the Fatherland.
The other design, known as the
busby, is for the cavalry and is exactly
similar to that worn by the Eighteenth
Hussars, of the English Army. 1t is
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august, !,
Flower"

,/"I am Post Master here and keep
Store. Ihave kept August Flower
for sale for some time. I think it is
splendid medicine" E. A. Bond,
P. M, Pavilion Centre, NY.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, the head, the blood, thenerves
all 60 wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first. Put that
right at once by using August
Flower. It assures good appetite
and a good digestion. 0
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Remains Of
FORT WASHINGTON.
This Fort was Built December, 1777,
and Occupied Until Juno 1s, 177s.

The remains of the fork. ~ redoubt,
for it was one of the focr built by the
army, are remarkably well preserved,
considering the devastation that has
visited the vicinity. Unmindful of the
memories associated with the place,
the owner of the property some years
ago felled all the timber worth any
thing on the place. Within plain
sight of Fort Washington is Fort
Huntingdon, or the clump of trees in
the plowed field which marks its site.
The old redoubt still stands, but q
great grove of oaks and butterwoods
has sprung up around it. 1t is on the
land of Charles Johnston, while Fort
Washington is on the estate of Colonel
Rodgers. Mail and Express.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-02
Farmer Versus Baker.

A certain baker in business in o
small town in Normandy obtained his
supply of butter from q farmer in the
neighborhood. One day he discovered
that the pats, which were supposed to
weigh three pounds each, were not up
to the standard, and further examine
tion revealed a steady diminution in
the daily provision. At last the baker
lodged formal complaint against the
farmer, and the affair was brought be-
fore the local court.
"Have you scales?" inquired the
magistrate. .s. -. -
eyes, Monsieur le Juge," WAS tho
reply. ,
"And have you any weights?" con
tinued the Judge. An answer this
time in the negative was as promptly
given.
"But how did you manage to weigh
your butter?" asked the magistrate.
Then the farmer related that ever
since the baker had taken his butter he
had returned the compliment by buy,
ing his bread. The baker supplied
him with three-pound loaves, and he
had used them as weights for his but
ter. SIT is his fault, not mine, if the
weight is not correct" added the
farmer, who was speedily acquitted
and left the court in triumph with an
escort of friends and admirers. Since
this trial the farmer is said to have
been supplied with more than his due
provision of bread; but he has taken
good care not to fall into the opposite
error, cud the baker has now his three
posnd pats of butter, full weight, but
not an ounce more.-London Tele'
graph.
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Standardization.

Imagination has too much to do
With mans practice on himself. One
who reads the little text book on
physiology in the schools will imme-
diately discern in every rumble of his
intestines the kind of action the gas
trio juices are taking on the food that
has gone into the stomach, and he soon
becomes, if he pushes his Investigations
further, a monomanias on hygiene. 1t
is true that a man or woman who has
arrived at the age of forty years oug ght
to be able to decide at glance the
kind of food suited best to their di-
gestive organs, and experience ought
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Warming to Gum Chewers.

It is said that the human mouth Is
surely but steadily moving toward the
left of the face, owing to the tendency
to chew with the teeth on the right
side. 1t is to be hoped that in some
way gum chewing may be suppressed,
for if it increases there is danger that
a race may be developed whose mouths
will be located in the back of the head.
To remedy this defect, some centuries
of the vigorous chewing would be re-
quired to bring the mouth back to it's
proper position. Boston Courier.
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The Marksman Instinct.

Zera Colburn and other living cal.
culating machines were unable to ex-
plain the methods of their arithmetical
feats, and the best marksmen would
find it equally difficult to define the
secret of their marvellous success. 81
miss whenever I. try to take aim in
routine fashion" said Lawyer Dickin-
son, who came 80 near terminating the
career of Hickory Jackson, and Doctor
Carver describes his talent as ga sort
of instinct developed by practice, and
possibly aided by hereditary transmits
sion. "-Detroit Free Press.
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This, according to local tradition, is
the Oldest thoroughfsre in the section.
The old rife-pits look like neg
lected ditch, running through the
forest. Trees thick as a mans body
grew out of the sides, and in places
had dragged down the earth till the
pits we're almost even with the sur.
rounding land.
Planted on the highest point Of
the earth-works is blackboard with
cut-in letters of white:
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
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; effectualIy cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and levers
and permanently curing constipation;
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Md
news, 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.
Tfactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being well informed, you, will not
accept any substitute if offered.
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The English Postoficc authorities
have decided that communications
printed in typewriting type may be
sent at printed-natter rates. Not less
than twenty copies may be posted at
the same time.
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Relics of an Ancient Race.

The country Northern New Mex
ico) abounds in many ruins of the
prehistoric race of America. In
Canyon Largo, in Southern Colorado,
there is quite tier of cliff dwelling
villages, in which much valuable pot
tery is said to have ks@s found. But
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-02

The National salute for the Presi-
dent is twenty. one guns. This was
fixed by law i'll 1919, and previous to
that time the Presidential salute con-
sisted Of the fringe one gun. fo1 every
State
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as if ready to be filled. A large fissure
in certain spot forms bunghole. 1t
does not look like barrel unless seen
from the plain; on all other sides it is
simply rugged rock. It is a soft
granite formation of volcanic origin,
and is crumbling to piecssall the time.
It is 30 soft that half dozen men
with picks could knock it to pieces in
q few days.
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to teach them never to touch any food
that disagrees with them. This is true
also of drinking. When a man 10
forty years of age he ought to under
stand himself sufficiently to guard
against all imprudences in either eat
ing or drinking or working, but that
is about all he ought to know about it.
He expects to be employed as an e1-
pert on others in his own line of study, !.
and he ought to be willing to recipro!
cate by employing a physician when
he is sick. Austin Statesman. r',l
The wheat area of Indis'is estimated
~ OF nm 00n ooroo . fs.t.y. :. . -.
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saws: ".The effect Of Halls Catarrh Cure is
wonderful" Write him about it. Sold by
DRUGGISTS TIC.
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Gutta percha was introduced into
Europe from Malaga in 1852. The
annual consumption now is 1000, 900
pounds.
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this was evidently the chief city and
capital of the cliff dwellers, as the
pow-wow holes and foundations of
large public buildings and the plaza
about them would indicate. This is
indeed the Pompeii of America, and
well worth the attention of the scien-
tifc world generally.
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In 1862 France had 101, 500 thresh
ing machines, of which 1850 were
worked by steam.
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could find no cure for 1t. But I began to take
Hoods Sarsaparilla and in one month find
that Hoods sarsaparilla cures both poor blood
and dyspepsia, for am now perfectly
soeu." n. B.-Be sure to get Hoods.
Hoods pills arc purely vegetable, and do no:
purge pain or grippe. Sold BY all druggists Is cts.
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We Cure Rupture.

No matter Of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, testimonials, ETC., to s. J.
Hollensworth G. Co, Owego, Tioga Co., n. Y.
Price 81: by mail, Sl.l5.
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made of black astrakhan cloth, and
will weigh, complete, about ten
ounces. It also has sloping visor,
but very small. The cut shown is for
officers. For enlisted men it will be
the same minus the pompon or top c.
nament. Every cavalry officer at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, twenty in ell,
favor its adoption.
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A GOOD Appetite

Is impaired by Hoods
Sarsaparilla, which tones
the digestion so that all
symptoms Of Dyspep-
sia are removed. Mr..
Robert w. w. Denvir, Of
23S Franklin Street, Long
Island City, N. z, says:
" For two years I suffer-,
ed with dyspepsia, and
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4 GENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN ~ SfLIi
A SIX pieces, waste silk, Embroidery aud Spool
silk. Pleasant profitable employment. 49,
a EATON Miltonboro, VT.
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Baltimore, Nd. has an ordinance
prohibiting kissing in the city parks
The males are fined 500 and the fe-
males So. ,iEy 80
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Beecham's Pills instead Of sloshy mineral
waters. Beecham's-no others. IS cts. box.
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COUGH nights? On going to bed take O dose
of Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup.
St. Landry democrat., 1893-08-12
Diplomacy Junketing.

"Nearly all of the members of the
foreign legations at Washington" said
State Department official to me, care
always ready for free junket at the
expense of the government, and they are
not afflicted with any modesty in press
ing their claims on the State Department.
If the department yielded to all their
demands the contingent fund at the dis
posal of the Secretary would be exhausted
in the first three months of every fiscal
year. l will mention case in point.
The State Department issued invitations
to all the legations at Washington
to visit the opening of the Worlds
Fair Each legation was requested
to state how much space it desired
to occupy in the special train. One
of the smaller legations put in an appli-
ton for eleven sections! Did he get
theml Hardly. Secretary Gresham no,
tilted the minister that one section had
been placed at his disposal. Think of a
legation with not over half dozen en-
ployees applying for eleven sections.
Doubtless the minister intended to trans
port the entire social colony of his ma
ton in Washington to Chicago at Uncle
Sans expense. He was no marked ex-
ception to the rule. Had Secretary
Gresham honored all the requests made
by the members of the Diplomatic Corps
he would have been compelled to secure
four or five special trains instead of one."
New York Press.