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LOST.

A lady's pin, with chain and gold dol
lar attached. Finder please leave at
this office. w. A. STEIN.
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For 50. a lot is delivered every week
to the buyer in Hills First addition.
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"LoOK UP,

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ing woman. Every one Of the
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It's a powerful general, as well
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ientire female system. It regll-
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ing sleep, and restores health and
strength.
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The steamer Mendell has left for Port
land to be repaired.
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Lost-At the Brownie show Tuesday
evening, a purse containing $3.50. Find
er will be suitably rewarded. C. p. Up
shur.
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BEVERAGES.

ONLY THE PUREST Wines and
liquors are sold at Alex C~ampbell's
Gem.
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FOR SALE.

CHANCE FOR ALL-Men Of small
means can buy real estate in Hills first
addition.
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LOTS FOR s2.-Call at the Astoria
Real Estate Exchange and get a lot
in Hills First Addition for 50.
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In every case of Catarrh that seems
hopeless, you can depend upon Doctor
Sage's Catarrh Remedy for q cure.
It's proprietors are so sure of 1t that
they'll pay $500 cash for any incnrable
case. Sold by all druggists.
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Tor alterations, displacements, bearing
down sensations, periodical pains, and all
+" female complaints . and weaknesses, "Fa-
vorite Prescription" is the only guaranteed
remedy. II it ever fails to benefit or cure,
you have your money back.
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DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
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FIREWORKS-Wing Lee has just re-
celved a full line of fireworks of all
kinds, at all prices. 500 Third street.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-03-07
Change in Southern Methods.

The enforced economy of the last
two years has caused complete change
in Southern farm methods and the
credit system is being superseded by
q cash basis. The low price of cotton
for the last few years forced upon
farmers the necessity of raising their
own food stuffs, and added to this was
the decision of bankers and factors to
advance much less money on cotton
than formerly. The result has been a
change that for the time being, while
passing from the credit system, with
its liberal buying, to a cash system,
requiring the closest economy, there
has heen less trade with farmers, and
hence q decreased volume Of general
business in the South.
But this has brought about a more
solid condition of the business in farm
trade throughout the South than we
have had for many years. Merchants
are carrying small stocks and buying
only as needed. Farmers are paying
off their debts to such an extent that,
without exception, letters from bankers
say that the farmers are less in debt
than for years. The money that
formerly went North and West for
provisions and grain has been retained
at home. and the full result is that
this section is probably less in debt to
its own banks and less in debt to the
North and West for supplies than in
any year since the war ended.-New
York World.
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Most Destructive Of Weapons.

The reply to this question nat
urally divides itself into weapons
which have been tried in actual war.
fare, and those whose powers have
only been tested by experiment. OF
the former the distinction would be
about equally divided between the
torpedo and the machine-gun. In the
Chilean war the Blanca Encalada,
struck by one torpedo, went down in
few minutes with 400 men on board.
The same war proved that no living
creature can remain in an exposed po-
sition within the range of machine
gun fire for more than few minutes,
and this conclusion is accepted by all
authorities. Ii the second category
the palm must be given to NJ. Turpin's
new 'twar machine" which is q light
calibre machine-gun, manipulated by
four men and drawn on carriage by
two horses. It will project a. hail of
25, 900 missiles every fifteen seconds at
range of nearly three miles, over
space measuring 100 yards each way.
Yankee Blade.
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Sat on the Hat.

The German Emperor likes to study
the characters of his group of small
SONS, and to that end has given them o
room next to the one used for business
purposes for himself. A certain great
scientific man having on one occasion
an interview with the Emperor, left
his hat in the adjoining vestibule.
There the little brothers discovered it,
and the Crown Prince, explaining to
the younger ones that ''papa" some.
times sat on his opera hat and it came
all right again, proceeded to give a
practical illustration of this statement,
to the ruin of the beaver. The EN-.
peror's door suddenly opened, and
s'papa" and the professor appeared.
Like manly little fellow the Crown
Prince owned up, apologized to the
laughing professor, and went off to
buy for the old gentleman new hat
with his small pocket money.
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powerful hind legs of the kangaroo
which killed outright and another was
mortally wounded.
These death dealing blows were
given by hugging the dogs closely with
the short forelegs and ripping them
with the large, sharp middle claw OF
one hind leg, while the other leg and
the tail afforded a firm base on which
to sit upright.
But our pack, sufficiently large to
afford such loss as this soon brought
their worn-out prey to the ground by
their superior numbers and combined
weight. He proved to be veritable
grandfather of the flock, quite seven
and one-half feet tall.
Kangaroo hide is now valuable ar
ticle in the leather market, and the
hunters try to be in at the death to
prevent the dogs from too greatly
mutilating the skin.
Although every part OF the flesh IS
good eating, little but the tail is saved
for that purpose, as the body and legs
are nearly all bone and tough muscle.
Detroit Free Press.
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MastOdOn Bones Found.

The people of Frankfort, Marshall
County, Kansas, are greatly excited
over the discovery Of a mastodon's
tooth dug up in the streets of that
town. The peculiar thing about it is
that minister, Rev. S. M. Hopkins,
found it in front of his residence, and
as he is superstitious, the good man
thinks it is terrible warning, and
has preached about it to his congrega-
tion, assuring them that it is the fore
runner of trouble to that people.
When Rev. Mr.. Hopkins found this
mammoth tooth he called in the
neighbors and a measurement was
made OF it. The great tusk measured
fourteen inches in length, six inches
in width and six inches from the
grinding surface to the end of the
remaining portion of the fangs.
The bone portion of the tooth is
petri6ed, but the enamel is just as
bright and perfect as it ever. was. It
is an interesting specimen and people
have travelled many miles to look at
it. Parties have been digging for
other evidences Of former mastodon,
and have been rewarded with rich
finds. They unearthed several monster
bones, showing that mastodon of
great proportions died their many
years ago. st. Louis Republic.
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German Soldiers on Snowshoes,

The young German Emperor is in
defatigable in his hunt for everything
that is novel or can be turned to &C.
count for his pet hobby, the perfec-
ton of the German Army. His latest
move is the introduction of snowshoes
for the use of his soldiers in the
northern part of the Empire. Re-
Gently the sharpshooters OF the Bran
denburg garrison appeared for the
first time with this novel equipment.
One division was on skates and the
other on snowshoes, and mock battle
was fought on the River Spree, near
the woods of Luebbensu. The fight
was very spirited while it lasted and
many comical mishaps not down on
the programme kept the Emperor in
exc client humor. The sight of half a
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world, is possibly swifter. I firmly
believe that on a single mile stretch
along railroad track, if it were 80 ar
ranged that the kangaroo could not
leave the track, a locomotive would
have to considerably exceed the rate
of o mile o minute to overtake the
animal.
The expression, "enough to make a
horse laugh" applies excellently to q
kangaroo at full speed. The Jump
into the air is quite high. often six or
eight feet, as it must be to cover
such immense distances as are possible
to them. Fifteen to twenty feet is an
average Jump, but thirty-four foot
Jump has been actually measured.
Our kangaroo made for the first
cover it saw, and, however dense the
brush or low hanging the branches of
the trees, managed to rush along near
ly as fast as in the open. OF course
the leaps in such a place were not so
long, perhaps hardly ten feet each,
but they were more frequent, and the
speed remained remarkable.
One who has not ridden at high
speed through such places can hardly
picture the intense nervous strain re-
sulting from dodging a limb here or
barely escaping tree trunk there,
with innumerable switches and small
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trical men to learn of the absolute
uniqueness of the method by which
this has been accomplished.
The Nelston probe was named after
the great French surgeon who invented
it. He was called in to treat Carl.
baldi. who had bullet in his body.
Nelaton was unable to locate it and
the italian patriots life was despaired
of. Nelaton sat up one whole night
thinking. It finally occurred to him
to use an ordinary probe with a
smooth, round piece of porcelain on
the end. By insertingit in the wound
he hoped to get lead markings on the
white piece of porcelain, showing
where the bullet lay. To think was to
act, and on the next day the experiment
was tried. Sure enough, when the
probe was inserted and removed lead
markings were found on the bulb OF
the probe. The bullet was located
and Garibaldi was saved.
The discovery by DR.. John d. Grid
ner, of this city, was almost ass dra-
matte as that of the Nelaton probe.
DR.. Girdner had tried for years to de-
wise some surer means of locating bull
lets than was possible with the ordin-
ary probe. Some years ago somebody
had invented an electric bullet probe,
which depended on battery-cel to
supply the current. But the trouble
was that as soon as the end OF the probe
was inserted in the flesh an electric
circuit would be established through
the flesh itself, and the electric bell
would ring. So it was not known
whether a bullet had been touched or
not. One night it occurred to DR..
Girdner that the body itself might
contain enough of current to operate
a bell or telephone receiver. Ex..
pertinent proved the fact and the diff
fculty was overcome.
The principle of the instrument is
as follows: The metal bulb is placed
in the wounded persons mouth, the
telephone receiver is held to the sur
geon's ear and the probe is inserted in
the hole made by the bullet. The bulb
in the mouth and the probe are made
of the same metal, copper being pre-
ferred; and because they are the same
no manifestation is heard in the tele-
phone. But as soon as the leaden hul.
let is touched it brings another metal
into the circuit. The human body
then Immediately becomes one I'M.
mense cell, which generates current
strong enough to operate the tele-
phone, 80 that as soon as the bullet is
touched a click is heard in the tele-
phone, and the location of the bullet
is established beyond a doubt. New
York World.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The shake is thing of the past in
the French Army.
Gauze is believed to have this name
because it was first made at GAIA.
Lawn is fine linen bleached on the
lawn instead of the ordinary drying
ground.
AS leaper the kangaroo is ahead of
all. Tt readily jumps from sixty to
seventy feet.
The first finger is sacred to Jupiter,
and is supposed to indicate the nobler
elements of character.
Five hundred thousand men are es-
timated to ride in the elevators Of
New York City every day.
The public executioner of Austria
wears pair of new white gloves every
time he carries out a capital sentence.
In Chinese the letter 81" has 145
ways of being pronounced, and each
pronunciation has a different mean.
ing.
The London and Northwestern Rail-
road passes through more than half of
the ffty-three counties of England
and Wales.
Most of the school states come from
Pennsylvania, where there are large
slate quarries. Some come from Yer
mont and Ohio.
An odd collection is that of one OF
the county officials Of Maine, who has
gathered feathers from almost every
kind of bird that flies.
Only one-fourth of the American
shipping is engaged on the high seas,
seventy-seven per cent. being river,
lake and cossting trade.
The Chautauqua salute, waving q
white handkerchief, was first given at
the request of Chancellor Vincent, as
greeting to deaf mute.
A man who died short time ago at
Berlin, N. Y, left a dairy which he
began when eighteen years old and
continued for ffty-two years.
A French priest stationed at Jerusa-
lem has been the fortunate finder of
ga talent of the time of King David. "
1t was unearthed in his dooryard.
A French fisherman who threw his
line into the Seine Canal, near st.
Dennis, on December 20, got hold of
a package containing 17s railway
bonds worth $4,000.
Growing blackberries and mush-
rooms, by law, are not private prop
erty in England. One may be prose
cuted for trespsss on land where they
grow, but not for theft in taking
them.
During the Franco-Prussian war the
Germans fired 10000, 900 rifle cart
tridges and $685. 900 charges of artil-
lery, killing or mortally wounding
$1,000 Frenchmen, showing that 40O
shots are required to kill or mortally
wound one man.
The statue on the dome Of the Capt.
tol at Washington represents Free
dom. 1t is nineteen feet six inches
high and weighs 1895 pounds. 1t
was modelled by Thomas Crawford, an
American sculptor, who died in 1857.
It was put in position IN 1865.
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General Wallace's Romance.

The long and happy welded life Of
General Lew Wallace is, it seems,
founded upon a pretty romance. He
was but nineteen years old when serv-
ing his country in the Mexican War.
A comrade talked much Of certain
Susan Elston, who lived in his. home
town, Charlottesville, Ind, and young
Lieutenant Wallace, in consequence,
became enamored of girl whom he
never seen. As soon as he left Mexico
he journeyed to Charlottesville, made
Miss Elston's acquaintance, and three
years later they were married. Mrs.
Wallace is described as slight and OF
medium height, with regular features
and beautiful brown hair, which is
now tlnged with gray. She has been
all her life an omnivorous reader, and
at her best is brilliant and witty con-
versationalist.
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Greatest Refrigerator in the World.

Perhaps the greatest refrigerator in
the world is that in the Royal Institu-
tion, London, where Professor Dewar
has been giving his lectures to young
people. The professor has been show
ing the youngsters some wonderful
things, among others iquefed All.
To produce liquefed air you must
have temperature of something like
$40 degrees below zero, which ought
to be cold enough for even the polar
bears at the Zoo. One sharp young
ster asked the professor what it cost
to liquefy air, but the professor appar.
emily was afraid to answer him, al
though the cost has not been betrayed
by the institution itself, but by scme
generous friends of science. Ire
mendous exhausting engines and
massive air-compressing machines are
used. The color of liquid air is pale
blue, and when drop of it is put on
the surface of water, it dances around
like drop of water on red-hot iron,
because the surface of the water Is
much hotter than red-hot iron COM
pared to the temperature of the lique-
fed air. Finally, the drop OF air
freezes little cup of ice in the water,
but it soon evaporates, as the ice is so
hot that it causes the drop to boil.
Liquid air is not a handy thing to
carry around in the vest pocket. II
will remain liquid for forty hours i!
great precautions are taken. 1t must
be put in Theoretically sealed bottle,
which is inclosed in another vessel, sc
that the air surrounding the inne1
bottle is completely exhausted; the
inner vessel must also have coating
of mercury around it to form mirror,
80 that any radiant heat will be re
Aected back. Oxygen, when liquitied
seems to lose all it's properties of pro
noting combustion. At such tenn.
perature as $50 degrees below zero oil
chemical action seems to stop; it is a
''freeze OUT" as it might be termed.
If phosphorus is put in liquid oxygen
it will not burn. Curiously enough,
liquid air is highly magnetic, and will
jump to magnet as if it were drops
of molten iron.-Detroit Free Press,
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The Mirage.

Mirage is a phenomenon extremely
common at sea in certain localities.
especially in high latitudes, and some
times also witnessed on land, particu'
larly in Lower Egypt, Persia, Tartary'
the western plains Of America, and on
the margins of rivers or lakes, or or
the seashore. Under it are classed the
appearance of distant objects as double,
or as if suspended in the air, erect OF
inverted. Generally, when q ship ls
above the horizon, only one image,
and that inverted, is found; brit when
it is wholly or in great part below the
horizon, double images, one erect and
the other inverted, are frequently
seen.-Ynnkee Blade.
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Highest Of all in Leavening Power latest U. S. Govt Report
RH!A!:'!,!! q! BskiRg BSxas2
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY. PURE
A Busy Household.

Busy-handed must have been the
women-folk of century and half
ago. It is recorded that one family in
Newport, P. l., made, in the space of
eighteen months, 4s7 yards of cloth
earding, spinning, dyeing and weav-
ing every inch of material used, and
also accomplished the knitting Of
thirty-six pairs of stockings-not the
thin, delicate, and often fimsy ho-
siery seen nowadays, but auch as
would bear much heavy use, and even
be ''handed down to posterity." 1t is
added that another Newport family
distinguished themselves by making,
in the space of four years, $50 yards
of woolen cloth, two coverlets, two
bedticks, and all the stockings needed
for the family.-Detroit Free Press.
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A Novel Fire Alarm.

A novel fire alarm has been pro,
duced in France. 1t consists OF a
hollow sphere of aluminium supported
at one end of an arm, with counter
poise at the other end, and two being
arranged to balance at the ordinary
temperature and pressure OF the a1r.
The apparatus is not sensitive enough
to record natural changes OF pressure,
ETC., but if some unusual cause, such
as fire, or even large accumulation OF
coal gas in the atmosphere, disturbs
the specific gravity Of the air, the ball
drops and rings an electric alarm ID
ng.-New York Telegram.
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The Horseshoe as q Mascot.

The superstition that associates the
horseshoe with good luck is very old.
It is said to prevail not only among
English speaking people, but in all
races of Europe and Asia. Antiquar-
ians are undecided whether its origin
has to do from the material from
which the horseshoe is made or with
its shape. Some writer's on this sub
ject have surmised that the lucky
qualities attributed to the horseshoe
were derived from it's fancied resem-
blance to the halo pictures about the
heads Of saints, but this connection is
highly improbable, as it is known that
the superstition certainly ante-dates
Christianity.-St. Louis Republic.
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branches beating in the face and
across the hands. The horse becomes
entirely oblivious of the rider on his
back, and follows the hounds where
ever he finds space for his own body.
If the low hanging limb be sufficiently
high to escape his back he forgets the
danger to the rider, or in turning a
sharp corner around a tree thinks
nothing of the peril OF breaking a
riders leg.
However, we soon found that cover
hunting, while most trying to a hum
ter, was even worse for the hunted,
and that his speed was evidently
Stacking, the more rapid, shorter
Jumps and the tree lodging having be-
gun to tell on the "old man."
1t is seldom that kangaroo gives
up in cover they usually take to the
open, where they can have full swing
for all four legs in the final fight with
the dogs. In our case this was quick
and sharp affair. The first two of the
poor hounds received blows from the
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A Safe, Sound Trust.

Not corporations alone make the best
trusts, for morally speaking we place reliance
In things most successful, and thereby estab-
Esh most substantial trust, and this Is the
way to do it. "My wife," says Mr.. j. W.
Ames, Fairmont, Neb., suffered intensely
with sciatica, and was helpless. I tried many
things to no purpose. Although the doctors
said mo- I got bottle Of st. Jacobs Oil and
tried 1t. It stopped the pain and in O short
time she had no use for crutches." Now
here is trust founded ON the surety of cure
from the experience of being cured. Let any
doubling Thomas take the same course and
make trust for himself.
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Grass and Glover Seed.

Thelargest grower Of Grass and Clover Seed
In the world is Salzer. La Crosse, Wis. Over
80 hardy varieties, with lowest prices!
Special low freight to New York, Pa. and the
East.
IFYou WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT with
40 postage to tho John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La
Crosse, Wis, you will receive eleven packages
grass and clover sorts and his mammoth farm
seed catalogue: full of good things for the far
1ner, the gardener ard the citizen. A
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Beware Of Ointmeuts for Catarrh That
No Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering 1t th ough the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do Is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Cure manufactured by f. j. Cheney % Co.,
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine
It is taken internally, and Is made In Toledo,
TSold by Druggists, price 7bc. per bottle.
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A CheaD IcehOuse.

A Missoula (Montana) man has per-
fected plan for "corraling an ava
lanche." He has found an immense
gorge of snow which never melts, and
he proposes to excavate it and use it
for cold storage for dressed meat for
shipment East. Detroit Free Press.