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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
How Animals Lose Their WIldness.

The strange way in which animals
change their habits of life, owing to-
their environments, is nowhere moro.
apparent than in menageries. Is
would hardly. be imagined that tho
slow, phlegmatio Galapsgos turtle,
could ever be converted into almost
lively animal, ever on the watch for
some visitor who might offer it .
cracker or nut. In the Central Park
Menagerie every day these unwieldy
tortoises can be seen to raise them
selves on their forefeet on the wire
work and stretch out their neck to get
the offered gift. It is strange to see
them dividing and almost quarrelling
with the rabbits when some small boy
who has gathered some handfuls OF
grass throws them into the enclosure. d
The rabbits sit down on their launches
within few inches of their strange
companions, and pick out the tid-bits
from the food that is offered them.
often taking particularly tender
piece of grass out of the very mouths
of the turtles. ~ -
The lions and tigers, pumas and
jsgusrs take no notice of the men and
women that are ever passing in front
of them. They just look out and blink
at them, but let dog be brought any
where near the, cage. Then they show
their savage nature at once, ndspring
up, glaring out savagely, while their
tails switch nervously from flank to
flank. This was particularly noticeable
a few days during the sultry weather. )
The big Bengal tiger had had its meal
and was enjoying its siesta. Nothing
could induce it to rise, until woman,
who was leading an Alaskan dog, raised
it to her arms. The tiger sprang to
its legs in moment, glared out in an
it's fury, showing his cruel teeth and
snarled, while old Jack, the lion, who
lives next door, arose in all his majesty
and roared. That small experience
must have shortened that dogs life
by six months.
Environment has had it's effect upon
the bears. The cinnamon and grizzlies
are not friendly in their wild homes, 2
though in the mensgerie they are
happy family. The Sinking fo1es
and wolves can be noticed to have lost
part of their natural distrust of man,
and the timid deer as well, as rule,
come up fearlessly and court the at
tention of the public. New York Tri-
bune ......g 1854 ~
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Malaria.

DR.. b. M. Clark has printed memoir
of his experience with malaria during
q residence of nine years in India.
How formidable barrier to civiliza-
tion malaria is may be inferred from
the fact that to this disease alone is at
tributed not loss than half the deaths
throughout the world. 1t is not con-
fined to rich, low-lying soil, but is
found even in sandy deserts devoid OF
any vegetation. Once it finds lodg.
ment ia the system, it cannot be wholly
eradicated, and 1t is beyond the reach
of acclimatization. Only two races are
proof against it, the negoes of the
grain coast OF Western Africa and the
Taurus OF Northern India. Modern
medicine and sanitation are equally
powerless in dealing with it.
In some pisces in India, where the
cities and towns are built in defiance of
all rules OF health, malaria never is
known. AS preventives, the Doctor
suggests the turning Of swamp lands
into lakes, and the planting of suoh
trees as will retain water and shade
the soil. For such purposes tho Gu
calyptus is, therefore, useless; but the
plantain and banana should answer
veil.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
WILL YOU TAKE A sHEEP?

A valuable friend and an old farmer. about
the time that the temperance reform was be-
ginning to exert healthful influence In the
country, said to bis newly hired man:
Jonathan, did not mention to you, when
hired you that think Of trying to do my
work this year without rum. How much
moro must give you to do without?"
ooh" said Jonathan, II don't care much
about it; you may give me what you please"
s.Well. said the farmer, ~ will give you q
sheep in the fall. if you will do without. "
agreed" said Jonathan.
The eldest son then said:
Father, will you give me sheep If will
do without rum2"
sYes, Marshall, you shall have sheep II
you will do without ?"
The youngest son, STRIPPING then said:
Father will you give mo sheep If will
do Without"
"Yes, Chandler, you shall have a sheep
also, il you do without rum"
Presently Chandler speaks again:
"Father, hadn't you better take sheep,
too2"
This was q poser; he hardly thought he
could give up the "good creature" yet, but
the appeal was from source not to be easily
disregarded. The result was the demon was
henceforth banished from the "premises" to
the great Joy and ultimate happiness OF all
concerned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
Popular Witehcraft in England.

The extent to which witchcraft
sbounds to-day in England is consid-
ersbly underestimated. Servant girls
buy dragons blood and throw il on
the fire in order that they may see in
its smoke the faces of their future
husbands One man, who bought large
quantities Of it, confessed that he
burnt it to make his curses more po-
tent and sure. he got q decent living
by cursing professionally the enemies
of other people. Within a few hun
dred yards of where am writing this
there lives young woman who pliesa
thriving trade as prophetic witch;
and, as neighbor expresses it, tthere
are on some days three or four Car
riage' ladies come to consult her,
I.have been in scores of houses up
on the doors of which there are horse
shoes nailed for luck. My 'landlady
almost shrieks murder if by chance I
place shoe on the table. On the last
night of the old year her husband goes
out at q quarter to twelve, and then
comes home to let in the new year.
Nobody but the husband must let it in.
They were angry when I called this q
superstition. One swallow makes q
summer in some folks eyes. Once my
landlady let some friend in first, and
all that year nothing save bad luck and
sickness came to that house. II our
maid sees two knives on my plate, or
two spoons in my saucer, she clears
everything away save those and the
cloth then she stands gazing at me
fixedly like stuffed pig, and I have
positively to remove one knife or
spoon before she will touch, the plat
ter ... 49,, E.: .-r -si
In the cottages,' when winter fires
are burning, both old and young seize
hold of the cinders that fly out from
the CRATE, and decide as to whether
they represent cofins or money-boxes.
Winding sheets on the tallow candles
bring dismsy and dread into many
faces. Tea stalks that swim in the
cup represent strangers, and are test
ed with view to discover whether
they will be men or women, tail or
short. Death-watches, magpies and
gray horses are symbolic, and forhoda
good or evil, according to circum-
stances. .-Harper's Magazine.
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RELIGIOUS READING,
DE NOT coSronnED To- TIE. WORLD.

There is great danger that you may be.
There cling to our natures, elements of de-
p-avity, even after our introduction into the
kingdom Of Christ, by which this world may
draw US into affinity with itself too close for
eminent spirituality. So peculiar and init
mate are our relations to tho world, that q
100 complacent disposition. desire Of pleas
ing, fear of offending, dread OF ndicule,
shrinking from singula.ity, may influence
us to hurtful ai1lliation with its spirit and
manners.
When notice that professed follower OF
Jesus Christ manifests moro absorbing de-
sire for temporal than for spiritual prosperi-
ty, for the accumulation Of wealth than for
promoting the glory of God; is more earnest
to procure for his children Golfer Of gold
than crown OF Life, want to say affection
ately to him-be not conformed to this world.
WhenI hear aprofessor Of religion convers-
ing with animation and interest about crops.
markets, politics, news and fashions, and
then notice that he Is silent and indifferent
when religious subjects arc themes Of CONVEX
sation, want to remind him OF the exhorta-
ton OF Paul-be not eonformed to this world.
When I observe q professor Of religion
seeding and enjoying the society Of ungodly
men, more than that Of the saints, more
punctual and cheerful iu his attendance at q
social or convivial party than at the prayer
meeting and the sanctuary, l should like
kindly to whisper in his ear-be not conform
ed to this world.
When behold q professor Of religion
painting and grasping after the plaudits and
honors Of earth, eager to bind about his
temples fading wreath, climbing until ab-
sorbed In his strugglings upon crumbling
pedestal Of earthly fame, want to direct his
eye to the exhortation-be not conformed to.
this world
When see q Christian female decorated
with the gaudy trappings Of fashion, eager
to catch the gaze and admiration Of the vain
and thoughtless, initiating the glitter Of the
dissolute, and exciting the envy Of the poor,
I want to thunder in her car. so loudly as to
startle and awaken her eonsoience-Ee not
conformed to this world.
When observe Christian mother sending
her children to the ballroom and the theatre,
the fashionable assembly and the festive
party, among the profligate and licentious, to
perfect their education, and polish their man
ners, whilst weep for her children. I want
to repeat to the misguided parent the charge
Of Paul-be not conformed to this world
[From the Watchman and Reflector.
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OBLIGATION TO DO GOOD.

Il Is universally true that If man knows
wbst Is right, and does not do 1t, he is guilty
of sin. II he understands what his duty is /;
if he has the means of doing good to others 4;
if by his name, his influence, his wealth; he
can promote good cause; If he can consist
emily with other duties, relieve the distressed,
the poor, the prisoner, the oppressed; il he
can send the gospel to other lands or can
wipe away the teur of the mourner; If he
has talents by which he can raise voice that
shall be heard in favor oftemperance, chastity,
liberty and religion. he is under Obligations to
do it, and if, by Incidence, or averice, or sell
flshness or tho dread OF the loss of popularity,
he does not do it, he is guilty Of sin before
God. No man can be re leased from the obllga-
ton to do goodi in thisworld to the extent his
ability; no one should desire to be. The high
est privilege conferred on a mortal, besides
that of securing the salvation OF his own soul,
is that of doing good to others-of alleviating
sorrow, instructing ignorance, raising up the
bowed down, comforting those that mourn,
delivering the wronsed and the oppressed,
supplying tho wants OF the needy, guiding
inilirers into the way OF truth, and sending
liberty, knowledge and salvation around the
world If man does not do this when he
has means, he sins against his own soul,
against humanity, and against his Maker; il
he does it choerfully. and ia. the extent OF his
means. it Gkens him more than anything else
to God.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
A LETTER BY CLEVELAND.
The President Explains His Position
on Financial Matters.

The President Explains His Position
on Financial Matters.
The following letter from President Glove
land to Governor Northen, Of Georgia, in
which the Pres sidcnt states his position on
he financial question at some length, Is pub
ished:
"ExEcUTIvE MANSION,
"WAsHINaToN, September 25.
'Hon. W. J. Northen.
'My Dear Sir: hardly know how to re-
ply to your letter of the 18th inst. 1t seems
to me that I am quite plainly on record con-
cerning the financial question. My letter
accepting tho nomination to the Presidency,
when read in connection with the message
lately sent to the Congress in extraordinary
session, appears to me to be very explicit.
81 want currency that is stable and safe
in the hands of our people,. will not hnofT-
ingly be implicated In q condition That will
Justly make me in the least cegree answer
able to any laborer or fexmer In the United
States for shrinksge in the purchasing
power OF the dollar he has received for full
dollars worth Of work, or for good dol.
lars worth OF the product Of his toll.
'I not only want our currency to be OF
such a character that all kinds OF dollars
viii be of equal purchasing power at home,
bat want it to be Of such q character as
will demonstrate abroad our wisdom and
good faith, thus placing US upon firm
foundation and credit among the Nations Of
the earth.
"I want our financial condition and the
laws relating to our currency safe and re-
assuring, that those who have money will
spend and invest ii in business and new
enterprises, instead OF boarding 1t. You
cannot cure fright by calling 1t foolish and
unreasonable, and you cannot prevent the
frightened man from boarding his money.
"I want good, sound and stable money,
and q condition of confidence that will keep
it in use.
"Within the limits OF what have written,
am friend of silver, but Ibelieve its proper
readjustment Of our currency legislation and
the inauguration OF a consistent and COM
prehensive financial scheme.
81 think such thing can only be entered
upon prof1tably and hopefully after the re-
peal OF the law, which is charged with all our
financial woes. In the present state Of the
public mind this law cannot be built upon
nor patched IN such way as to relieve the
situation.
'T am therefore opposed to the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver by this country
alone and and am in favor OF
the immediate and unconditional repeal OF
the purchasing clause Of the so-called Sher-
man law.
II confess am astonished by the oppo-
sition in the Senate to such prompt action as
would relieve the present unfortunate situa-
tion.
"My daily prayer is that the delay occa-
stoned by such opposition may not be the
cause of plunging the country into deeper
depression than have yet known, and that
the Democratic party may not be justly held
responsibIeefor such catastrophe Yours
very truly, GROVER CLEvElAND.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
CURIOUS FACTS.

A man in Wisconsin is the possesso1
of curiosity in the shape of horned
hog.
Giraffes have become very scarce
since the Dervishes seized the basin oi
the upper Nile.
In early England the town crier was
employed to give notice of an ap-
preaching wedding.
Butter, which is almost indispensa-
bic to the meal nowadays, was for
merly used solely as an ointment.
The sails alone of the yacht vigllant,
some of which are largely of silk, cost
$14, 900, and this for material only.
MEDIEVAL doctors considered chips
from the gallows on which somebody
had been hanged good remedy for
ague.
In Westphalia and Saxony the un-
fortunate mortals who happen to be
beaten with broomstick firmly believe
themselves doomed to die of consump-
tion.
During the Fourteenth Century a
practice prevailed among the wealthy
Italians of having twelve wedding
rings. one for each month, each set
with different symbolic stone.
The emblem of an open hand has
been favorite device on coins. It
has been found on the coins of India,
of Phoenicia, Mexico, Rome. and was
frequently employed as a device on the
skin currency of our aborigines.
Triplets were born to woman at
Nyack, N. Y, few days ago. The
children-two boys and girls--were
joined by ligature precisely like that
which united the Sismese twins.
They lived only seven hours after
birth.
A Chinese incurable residing in the
interior of China was told by native
doctors that the only hope for him
was baby.s brains, which must be eaten
Immediately after the child's birth.
One evening he found parcel con-
tanning i've child. he shattered its
head and devoured its brain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
TOLASSO NIAGARA.

Turbine Wheels OF 5000 Horse Power
to Be Placed in Position.
Three of. tho immense turbine water
wheels. with their auxiliary mechanism,
which were built in Philadelphia at cost Of
S2O5, 900. each, for the purpose of utilizing
the stupendous power OF Niagara Falls for
industrial purposes, will shortly be placed
in position. Each wheel is expected to de-
velop 5000 horse power.
The plant will 10 erected some distance
above the Falls.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
A CAPTAINS SUICIDE.
Kills Himself When Court Martial
Finds Him Guilty.

Captain Tomassevicz Of the Russian artil-
lery was arraigned before Court Martial at
Warsaw, Poland, to answer charges preferred
against him of ill-treating O sentinel and
forging certain documents. The evidence
adduced was overwhelming against the ac-
cused, and the court speedily found him
guilty and sentenced him to exile in Siberia.
AS soon as the finding of the court mar
tial was announced. Captain Tomassericz
drew a revolver and shot himself dead.
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DEHoRN1NG cattle seems to have
become permanent Institution. One
man is engaged In breeding the horns
of, and now the United States Bu-
reau of Animal Industry promul-
gates formula for altogether pre-
venting their growth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18

In response to the call issued by Governor
Stone, Of Missouri, for a Convention repre-
senting the Southern States, to formulate
plans for increasing immigration and ad-
vancing their material prosperity, Governor
Tillman sent letter to Governor Stone, in
forming him that ho had appointed twenty
delegates to represent South Carolipa at ths
proposed Convention.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18
FAIR BUILDING BURNED.

An Incendiary Destroys the Stark
County (Ohio) County Show.
The extensive stables OF tho Stark County
(Ohio) Agricultural Association were de-
stroyed by fire few nights ago, and with
them perished thirty head OF '1aluable cattle
that were on exhibition of the county fair.
The fire was incendiary. Private exhibitors
lost considerable of their personal effects in
the fire. The loss is estimated at S75.00
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18

THAT familiar advice, "Let dogs
delight to bark and bite" is perhaps
the only instance on record where a
dog fight has been encouraged by tho
muse. e.-Washington Star.
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"SoLED out, he murmured to him
self. as the father OF his best girl
gave him lift at o'clock In the
morning Press
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-18

Whoever would do good in the world ought
not to deal rcnsure. We ought not to de-
strov. but rather to constrlrt.-Goetho.
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easier shall the profounds of the ocean be-
come to US, and more and more lis opulence
Of color and plant unroll, especially as evil
leroys submarine boat" has been construct
cd, making 1t possible to navigate under the
sea almost as we'll as On the surface OF the
sea, and unless God In His mercy banishes
war from the earth whole fleets Of, armed
ships far down under the water move on to
blow up the argosies that float the surface.
May such submarine ships be used for laying
open the wonders Of Gods workings in the
great deep and never for human devastation!
Oh. the msrvels OF the water world !! These
so-called seaweeds are the pasture fields and
deep. Not one species OF them can be spared
from the economy of nature. Valleys and
mountains and plants miles underneath the
waves are all covered with fora and fauna.
Sunken Alps and Apennines and Himalayas
OF Atlantic and Pacific oceans. continent
that once connected Europe and America, so
that in the ages past men came on foot
across from where England is to where we
now stand all sunken and now covered with
the growths Of the sea as it once was covered
with Srowths OF the land.
England and Ireland once all one piece Of
land. but now much Of it 50 far sunken as to
make q channel, and Ireland has become an
island. The islands, for the most part, are
only the foreheads Of sunken continents.
The sea conquering the land all nlonG the
coasts and crumbling the hemispheres wider
and wider become the subaqueous do
minions. Thank God that skilled by
drosrapners nave made us maps and charts
of the rivers and lakes and seas and shown
US something OF the work Of the eternal God
in the water world.
Thank God that the great Virginian. Lieu
tenant Maury lived to give us "The Physical
Geography Of the Sea-" and that men OF
genius have gone forth to study the so-called
weeds that wrapped about Jonah's head and
have found them to be coronals Of beauty,
and when the tide receded these scientists
have waded down and picked up divlnely
pictured leaves ofthe ocean, the naturalists,
Pike and Hooper and Walters, gathering
them from the beach of Long Island Sound,
and DR.. Blodgett preserving them from the
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Auburns so beautiful on the land as there are
banked and terraoed and scooped and hung
in the depths Of tho sea. The bodies OF our
koundered and sunken friends are girdled
and canopied and housed with such GlorIeS
las attend no other Metropolis.
They were swamped In lifeboats, or they
struck on Goodwin sands or Deal beach or
The Skerries, and were never heard OF, or dis
appeared with the City OF Boston, or the Vile
de Havre, or the Cymbria or were run down
In fishing smack that put out from New
foundland. But dismiss your previous gloom
about the horrors OF ocean entombment.
When Sebastopol was besieSed In the
mnnding the Russian navy, saw that the
only way to keep the English out of the hsr-
,bor was to sink all the Russian ships of war
in the roadstead, and 80 100 vessels sank.
When. after the war was over, our American
Iengineer, Gowan. descended to the depths
I'm diving bell, it was an impressive spec
tacle.
One hundred buried ships! But it is that
way nearly all across the Atlantic Ocean.
Ships sunk not by command Of admirals,
but by the command of cyclones.
But thev all had sublime burial and the sur
roundings amid which they sleep the last
sleep are more imposing than the Tai Mahal,
the mausoleum with walls incrusted with
precious stones and built by the great mogul
of India over his empress. Your departed
ones were buried in the gardens Of the sea,
fenced off by hedges OF coralllne.
: The greatest obSequies ever known on the
land we're those Of Moses. where no one but
God was present. The sublime report Of that
entonbment is in the book Of Deuteronomy.
which says that the Lord buried him, and Of
those who have gone down to slumber in the
deep the same may be said. ''The Lord buried
them" AS Christ was buried in garden, so
your shipwrecked friends and those who
could not survive till they reached port were
put down amid iridescence-':I the midst Of
The garden there was sepulcher."
1t has always been mystery what was the
particular mode by which George G. Cook
man, the pulpit orator OF the Methodist
Church and the chaplain of the American
Congress, left this life after embarking for
England on the steamship President, March
11th, 1s41. The ship never arrived In port.