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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-05

Tohate is the same thing as to kill.
An evil thought is the mother OF am
evil act.
Worry kills more people than the
smallpox. 80.
A step in the dark may be a step
toward death.
A gentle spirit is better projections
than a coat of mail.
When you try to be good try to be-
good for something.
Many man is right in his heart who
is wrong in his head. i
A lie in the heart is no winter than!
it is in horse trade. ~. ..
People who borrow trouble never
have to 60 far to find it. " -
Hungry men never call for cake
What they want is bread.
As soon as sin is hated we are will
ing to 60 to war and fight it.
When people begin to think right
they will begin to live right.
The new man will do by nature What
the old man could not do by law. !!
The surest way to make bad mani
mad is to tell him the truth about him
self. .... '.'
There are men who have a creed q
rod long who do business with o short
yardstick. |
The man who starts out to be res
former should be well prepared for bad!
roads and rough weather.
Give some people the power to move
mountains, and how soon they would
ruin the farms of their neighbour
RAMS Horn. ... !. ... -.
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canals are looked after by special Of
fcer, paid and chosen by the inhabit-
ants of the district in which the canal
is situated. The water is brought to
the fields either directly from the SUBJ
ordinate canals, CT by means of water
wheels or scoops. The water wheels
are turned in the usual primitive way,
by the current OF waterfall, an oZ or
horse being employed when necessary.
Attached to the rims of the wheels are
numerous wooden or earthen jars,
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CAN'T AFFORD IT.

Two men stopped at fruit dealers. Said
one: "What is the price of strawberries?"
Twenty cents basket"
"Twenty cents basket! You'll have to
sell them to rich folks. I can't afford them.
The old woman will have to do without straw
berries this time. Come along, Jerry; let's
60 and take drink"
They started Off for the barroom, and II
they spent any less than the price Of two
boxes Of berries beforethey went homo it was
O wonder. A drinker and "good fellow"
can afford to spend money in treating men
who don't care rap about him, when he
"can't afford" to spend half the same amount
in charity or church dues, or in buying some
thing for the wife and children who have the
first and most sacred claim upon him and all
that he owns
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the field is plowed from five to ten
times, by means of O plow composed of
a small, pointed share, tipped with q
small piece of iron. The pole is fast
ened so close to the root of the share
that the ground is penetrated to the
depth of only few inches. Oxen are
employed in plowing, and the amount
of land which one pair of oxen can
work has become the unit of husban-
dry. Every "tanap" has forty or fifty
loads of manure plowed in, and at each
blowing the burrows must run at right
angles to the previous ones.
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stood ready to be adiudged criminal,
rather than anger your father against
YOU with a revelation Of your mutual
love. We will await his return, and II
he disproves the charge that he is q
convict, your father shall be made to
do you both justice, and Ralph Prescott
shall be unmasked in his true colors."
But sickness came sooner than old
Geonrey thought. His hours were num-
bered, and he knew it.
Afraid Of the willy cunning Of Elliott,
If he left Ruth his fortune, he divided il
as known to the reader, and left the bulk
OF it to her husband at her suggestion.
All this Ruth wrote to Paul Dalton;
all this, sick at heart, the enraged,
batted, upscrupulops Ralph read
Now she babe her husband return.
He was wealthy now, and what might
not money do to untangle the knotted
skein Of his mysterious life.
Ralph Prescott stole from that room
with pale, perturbed face.
He reclosed the window as he found
it-he left no trace of his felonious visit.
He knew all now, and that informa-
tion was weighty, vital.
To Ruth his true character was fully
revealed, and II he dared openly to per-
secute her she possessed the means Of
proving him to be the thief OF Maple
Leaf Farm. Furthermore, for lo7e Of
the man she had welded, she would use
that knowledge if he tried to annoy her
again. -
Paul Dalton had captured the double
prize-bride and fortune.
What should he do? His natural i'm
pulse was to seize on all the ready cash
he could get his hands on, and, like the
craven he was, sneak out Of the lives
and memories Of those he had wronged.
A thought Of revenge, however, q
subtle suggestion of thought, hopeful
belief that there was yet one weak point
In the armor Of his foes, awoke last
desperate combativeness in Ralph Pres
cott' g wicked heart.
If Paul Dalton should die, he glow
cred in sinister hiss Of hate, then all
the fortune would revert to Ruth. Who
knows what may happen2 The tramp
told me much. Paul Dalton is con-
vict, let him say what he likes. I will
anticipate Ruth. I will SO at once to
Ferndale. will dig up this mans past,
that may effectuolly blight his future.
Oh, there is some way out Of this laby-,
rinth Of mystery. there must be some
compensation for all he has made me
lose!"
And, hiding the fact that his own evil
plottings had been the cause Of his mis-
fortunes alone, Ralph Prescott, at early
dawn, started on horseback on the trail
of the man who had SO mysteriously
disappeared.
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Great DrOves of Big Game.

J. 81. Babsndorf says that while
coming over the trail along Salmon
River he saw hundreds of mountain
sheep, deer and elk browsing along
the bottom lands near the river. They
seemed quite tame, and only stopped
long enough from feeding to look up
as he passed within 200 yards of them.
In one bunch of mountain sheep he
counted over 100. Mr.. Bnbandorf
says the bars along Salmon River are
favorite resort for large game every
winter that is driven out of the high
mountains by the deep snow. w.-Asotin
(Washington) Sentinel.
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CHAPTER x.
WHAT THE LETTER TOLD

It was fortunate for the secret plans
Of Ralph Prescott that the occupant OF
tho adjoining apartment slept, for SO abb
sorbed was he in reading the letter that
Law before him that he was impervious to
snght for the time being.
: That letter was in Ruth's well-known
dainty handwriting. It was addressed
to Paul Dalton, her husband and it was
O chronicle Of events rather than an Or
dinary epistle.
Il do not know where you are, 1t be-
gan. when we parted ut the altar,
with faith supreme in your loyalty,
only asked to know that you hao gone
to make q final effort to clear mp the
mystery Of your life.
Since then, events have happened
that you must know. have but one
oiue to your whereabouts. You men
toned Fe-nda!o once. At haphazard,
wrote you there yesterday, asking you
TO return here speedily.
Tonight, recalling still another town,
I write you there also. Come back, for
while your fair name must not go un-
cleared, have outwitted the man who
strove to blast your reputation--Ralph
Prescott"
AQO IQSp, III uCTSe lluS5, luo
told the story OF Ruth the outcast.
Driven from her fathers door, she
had wandered wretchedly in the snowy
nigh.
An inspiration Of faith In her ole
grandfather, Geoflrey Forsythe, sent
her steps thither. She had not mis-
taken the affection OF the old recluse.
He bad received her with open arms.
He had listened to her pitiful story;
hesympathized with her; he questioned
her particularly in detail as to the vari-
uus sums of money that her father had
missed, the dates of the distractions,
and much concerning the habits and ac-
tions Of Ralph Prescott for month
past.
Putting together what he knew and
What she revealed, old Geoffrey Forsythe
amazed Ruth by denouncing Ralph Pres
colt as the real thief
He said that of late he had heard con-
siderable about the schemer's gambling
proclivitics. He had employed man
to watch him. He knew of almost ev-
cry money deal Of the young man. He
now knew that certain amounts he had
paiG correspcp~ed exactly with the
sums John ru;ott had lost: in fact, he
proved Ralph Prescott to be the thief,
beyond dispute.
i had begun 10 suspect that he was
hvpocritical time server, he had told
Ruth. My eyes were just beginning TO
open to the sacrifice WAS demanding OF
yon in wedding man who has no claim
upon me, except for sentimental re-
gard ON my part for his dead mother.
luth, you will stay here. Disguised,
you will be my nurse until can explore
still more deeply into this knave's de-
ception. Your happiness is everything
in life to me. A woman's heart cannot
usually he wrong in estimating the char
after Of the mau she loves. have
faith in Paul Dalton, In q man who
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rrNrERAScE NEWS AND NOTES

The devil knows too much to waste his
time in trying TO make drunkard out Of I
stingy man.
Consider the enormous amount OF valuable
time wasted in and around saloons, fully one
half is much rs is srent i'll useful effort.
You can generally tell by mans tracks
which way he is going. Ii they point to-
ward the saloon he is not ON his way to
heaven.
Consider that nine-tcnths OF all the money
spent for drink comes from the pockets of
the laborinS men. and that this is large
part OF all the money they earn.
N. Pasteur states that, when bitten by
mad dog. n man who hab;tually uses lntoX-
icating spirits is more difficult to cure than
temperate man Yes, and when bitten by any
other disease.
General Booth has $50 men, mostly broken
down drunkards at one time, working on his
farm q few miles cut of London; and they
are described as decent, industrious, useful
and enthusiastic lot OF people now.
The midnight attempt to blow up. by dyna-
mite, tho houses of citizens Of Muscatine.
Iowu, who had tried to enforce the laws
against liquor-selling. reveals malignity
such US no legitimate business could evoke.
The liquor traffic not only destroys men, but
it tends to make those who conduct it dan
gerous to society. y.-Independent. .
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TEMPERANCE.
NOT cRRpITABLE TO THE MEN.

In recent sermon DR.. Lyman Abbott said
81 am very glad the Woman's Christian TEN.
perance Union is fighting tho temperance
battle, but I do not think it is very creditable
to us men that we leave it to be fought by
the women. In the old legend St. George
fought the battle for tho deliverence OF wo-
men in modern life the woman fights the
battle and st. George sits on the fence to see
how il is going on"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-05
A Years Hunting Bill.

About four millions and half ster-
ling are spent on hunting in Great
Britain and Ireland, independent of
the expenses of carriage horses, covered
hacks ind travelling expenses. There
are $50 packs of hounds and about
1000 horses are required to follow
them
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-05

which fill from the canal, and as they
reach the top, pour the water into
pipe leading to the reservoir. The
scoop is q large wooden shovel, with q
long handle, suspended by rope to
pole leaning over the canal, and is
worked by hand, the leverage of the
swing being sufficient to throw the
water up five OF six feet. For cotton
and tobacco, water is brought through
the fields in small bitches, and allowed
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-05
WHY pr1,e1As ro,LERs ARE POOR.

The Belgians seem to excel all the rest OF
Europe in their devotion to alcohoi: ,l'n, Inero
and only 5000 schools that is to say, there
is one inn or :estaminet" to every thirty
nine Belgians, and only one school to every
l176. It must be remembered, however:
that the children do not drink ut all and
shat the women drink little in most OF these
houses, 30 that one drinking house is
needed to satisfy the thirst OF every fifteen
ndult male BelpianS
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ASIATIC FARMING.
METHODS OF CULTIVATION IN
TURKESTAN.
Land is Valued According to the
Quantity Of Water Procurable-
How Cotton is Raised
Peculiar Ways.

JLTIvATED land
in Western Asia,
writes F. C. Chap
pell in the Amer
lean Agriculturist,
is found in t b e
mountainous dis
tricts, watered by
springs and autumn
rainr, or consists OF
those plains which
have been brought
under cultivation
by irrigation. The
former district is
naturally the more
extensive, and pro-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-05

ust rs Mr.. Woodlands was falling to
the ground, the effect being to make
the latter appear as if performing an
acrobatic impossibility by supporting
himself horizontally on the reins.-
Londcp Graphic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-05

skirt of this gown is very popular
orc. It is comparatively tight-titting
to the knees, below which point
widely gored piece is set on, giving a
very decided flare. New York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-05

the farmers being, 1 need hardly say,
very much in advance of those in the
far away province of semerechia.
When wheat or barley is to be sown,
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ITO BE CONTINUED.l
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-06
BRISTOL.

a pleasant SURF 4 ~ givea Joseph
II IL at his re sideac upon Munro avenue
Saturday evening nv the operatives 81
Namuuit mill, in which he was foreman of
the weave shop. Advanced age has COM
I elled him TO retire, and this gathering
was | honor Of his 10th birthday. The fol-
loving are among those who gathered to
paw hiin respect: Mr.. aud Mrs. Eber Hill,
William Andrews and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Speakman, Messrs. Cheatam. Swan,
Andrews. Dill and their families, Mrs.
Carter and daughter, Mrs. Edwin Philips
and brother.
AS the election takes place in March
for town officers the general topic Of CON
yersation is, Who are we going TO have
for town officers? Quite a number OF
prominent men have been spoken of. if
thev can be prevailed upon To allow their
names TO be used, among whom are eX-
Councilman Gibson, stephen w. Church,
james Tobin, James A.. Newman, An
drew Lynch. Ezra Mason, Augustus T..
Nerone.
The schooner Lubec, Burton, master,
from Calais, Me-, is at anchor below,
with loss of foretopmast aud flying jib-
boom gone. with a load Of lumber Tor
Fall River.
The following are among those VINO
spent the Sabbath In town Horace
Maynard OF Riynham, James Leach Of
Wocnsocket, Mrs. Joseph Brainard and
daughter OF MISS Dellu Nile
Of Taunton aud James Card Of Paw
tucket.
The town council held its regular
monthly meeting this afternoon at 2
o'clock.
The mercury stood here on Sunday
morning at 6 o'clock at 2 degrees below
zero, at z o'clock at zero, and at = O'Clock
2 above. The harbor is again frozen over
as far down the bay as the eye can see.
Quite a number OF vessels are at anchor
down the bay, in tie ice, loaded with
coal, bound 10 Providence and Fall River.
The musicale and ball OF the Bristol
Cornet band at G.. 4. Il Hall Friday
evening, will be exceptionally attractive.
william n. Burgess, clerk In tue Office
Of Earle & Prew's express, has recently
been appointed agent OF the Baldwin
European Express company.
Mr.. Rockwell arrived this morning
from Providence with n number of me-
chanics to put into st. Michael's church
"A water motor for the organ.
4 social gathering of the members
will take place at the rectory OF Trinity
church this evening, by invitation of the
rector, the Rev. William Il. Trotter.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-06
IT'S ANNUAL MEETING.

The Providence and Worcester Elects
Directors, but Defers the Election OF
Ofhcers.
The annual meeting of the Providence
and Worcester railroad was held at the
offices of the company in Butler Exchange
today at 1880.
President Goddard presided. After the
reading of the call and transient pre-
liminary business. the election of seven
directors for the ensuing year took place.
The following names were presented, aud
by ballot were chosen: Moses b. /. God
dard. Warwick. II. l.; Joseph f. Davis,
Boston. Mass; Jonas G.. Clark, Worces-
ter, Mass: John w. Danielson, Provi-
dence. X. l.; G.. Marston Within, Whit
i~nsYille, Mass; A.. George Bullock. Wor.
%cester, Mass; John Nicholas Brown,
Newport, II. l.
The following resolution was passed.:
"FOted, That the board of directors be
authorized to have prepared amended
bylaws TO be submitted az a subsequent
meeting OF the corporation for approval"
The report OF the committee on election
of directors reported that twenty-three
stockholders were represented, 4,93S
shares and a vote of lis.
The annual election of officers for the
coming year will be held some time dur
ing the week.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-06
TWO WERE KILLED
AND THIEF FiTiLLT M URED IN
A WRECK ON THE n. IND O.
4 Passenger Train Going ut the Rate OF
Sixty Miles per Hour Dashed Into a
Freight.

PITTsBURG, Feb. Ga passenger train
ran wild twelve miles from Williams's
station early this morning on the Balti-
more and Ohio aud crashed into "A freight
while going at the rate of over sixty
miles an hour.
Twenty-four cars were smashed up.
Engineer Wallace of the passenger and
Conductor Nez of the freight are dead
under the mass.
Many are badly injured including
several passengers.
The rails were so slippery that the
brakes would not hold aud the train
rushed down grade TO its destruction.
Nez and Wallace were killed instantly.
william inland, II fireman belonging
in Glynwood, and Conductor Dunlap Of
the passenger train and Flagman Grimes
were taken from the wreck fatally in
jured.
a large force Of men are now searching
the ruins. aud is is feared that many
Others badly injured will be found.
The wreck occurred at the foot Of a
mountain, and the engineer lost control
of the train owing to the slippery rails
and down grade, and il plunged into the
freight while going at top speed.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-06
DR.. GRAVES FREE MAN
What is Said of the Case in This City
in its Present Phases.
OPINIONS OF THE LEGAL MEN.
George j. West Says That IL Was the
Most Infamous Trial Ever Held In
This Country and Explains the Legal
status of DR.. Graves.

Providence people have no reason to
feel much concern for 4. Thatcher
Graves. His history as far as it relates
to this city is not very creditable TO him,
but they have never felt. or at least,
many OF them never have, hat he was
fairly convicted OF the murder Of Mrs.
Barnaby. Scarcely anyone in this city,
or in fact in the East. ever believed that
the trial was "A fair one or that the evil
dence was sufficient.
The news from Denver that DR.. Graves
had been granted a new trial aud admit
ted to bail was not much of a surprise
and IL the case never came up again and
the doctor went free without a trial that
would not be much of "a surprise, either.
When the News bulletined the state
ment that DIR. Graves had been granted
n new trial some days ago. a tail old gem
tleman stopped in front of the board aud
read, Graves gets a new trial" He
walked away mutterlnZ, well ! That's
the last of him" That is about what
everybody in Providence thinks now. In
order 20 yet the exact legal standing of
the case a NEWS reporter was sent to see
some of the lawyers and most Of them
said as they always have 1that DR.. Graves
ought TO have "a new trial and that the
other one was not fair, in fact it was a
farce.
George j. West, who is as familiar with
criminal cases as n lawyer in the state,
said that the case stood just as though
there had never been a trial and DIR.
Graves stood In the position OF n man in
dicjed and arraigned bnt not tried.
The trial in Denver" he said, "WGs
the most Infamous one ever held IN this
country. One OF the old prophets prophe-
sled after death aud Mrs. Barnaby told
of her dislike for Graves long after she
was dead. Ii the case had been tried in
Providence by any one of a dozen lawyers
a motion that the jury return a verdict
Of not guilty would have been made on
the spot and IL would ave been granted"
"A legal blizzard is not necessarily a
lawyer" continued Mr.. Wes', "and
some of those fellows make mt gro IN. 1t
is almost impossible TO think OF a Judge
allowing sucn testimony TO be admitted.
H. Rhode Island no judge would tolerate
IL. IL would have been thrown out with
out even the objection OF the prisoners
counsel.
The new trial being granted and the
case being nolle pressed would be about
as good as an acquittal. OF course the
case could be brought up again if any
evidence was found. even II IL was nolle
pressed. The only thing which does
away with an indictment is a verdict
either guilty or mot guilty."
"By the way, II that il all sou want 10
ask me-" said Mr.. West, "What did YOU
think OF that fight in the school board
the other night?"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-06
THAT DRIVEWAY.

The Commercial Bulletin on the Pro-
posed boulevard Along the Pawtucket.
The Pawtucket Commercial Bulletin
praises Providence because of its fine
streets. 1t speaks of the widening OF
Greenwich street and of the improve
ment made.
la regard to the proposed driveway
along the western bank OF the Pawtucket
river, beginning at Red bridge and ex-
tending ms far as Division street bridge,
~Pawtucket, the Bulletin says:
The plan is SO begin the new drive at
Angel street in Providence just above
Red Bridge. and by a gentle decline reach
the level OF the river opposite Gable Cot
tage, then skirting the edge Of the river
along by the N~arragansett Boat Club
building, and by the way the road 10 this
point is nearly all completed. Here il
makes n turn to the left around a projec-
ton Of land forming "A part OF Blackstone
Park, aud then on by the beautiful Her
mit's Cove, which is divided in the center
by a brook that comes tumbling down an
embankment in the form of "A
cascade from the grounds OF
tue Butler Insane Asylum, and
empties its sparkling waters into the
river. III you have never seen this cove,
1t will pay you to devote one day 20 in.
vestigate its wonders sometime in the
spring, after the birds have begun TO
tune up again and nature has put on her
summer clothing. Passing the asylum
grounds, aud there are no more beautiful
grounds anywhere than these. then by
Swan Point and riverside Cemetef ies.
underneath embellishments towering TO "a
considerable height, on the edge Of the
water all the way. and finally connecting
with the main highways again Just be-
low the Cos company's wharf.