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College BOYS as Conductors.

Among the employees of the Peoples
Traction Company, of Philadelphia,
last summer, were about fifty college
students, many OF whom served as
conductors. They earned on an sv-
erags fifteen dollars a week, and were
able thus to lay by quite sum for the
coming year of study. The Superin-
tendent, speaking of fifteen OF them,
students in the Jefferson Medical Col
lege, as they handed in their resigna-
tions one day, said that they made the
best conductors in the employ of the
company, which was very sorry to
to lose their services. New York In
dependent.
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plete retirement even upon the arrival
of winter ice and snow. In fact, the
bicycle will be one OF the big things
on ice during the coming season. From
the suggestion thrown out by boy
who lashed an ordinary skate to the
front wheel of his safety, and was en-
abled to make good time over the sur
face Of frozen lake, two enterprising
young men in Chicago have invented
and patented an ice bicycle, and
formed company for its manufacture.
With the first perfected model one
of the inventors made mile in one
minute and twenty seconds, and this
can be improved upon, the skill of the
rider being the only limit to the posi-
bilities in the line of records. The
general features of the ice bicycle are
conveyed in the cut. The change
from the normal bicycle to the ice
machine can tie made IN FIVE minutes.
The rear tire is debated and the
toothed band of steel slipped over it.
The tire is then inflated until the ten.
sion is sufficient to hold the band
firmly in place. The cut sufficiently
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-30
A Petrihed Queen.

A curious tale is told by passengers
Just arrived from Alaska on the steam
er City of Topeka of the discovery
made by one of their number, Seat
tie man named Brennan, on Prince OF
Wales Island. On a recent expedition
he chanced to visit one OF the least
accessible villages OF the isolated tribes
on Prince of Wales Island, and there
saw the mysterious divinity that is
supposed to keep watch and ward over
the tribe, former priestess or queen,
who, by some rare action of the pc
culiar soil in which her r'burial place
was made, turned her into solid stone.
Years later the rude grave was un-
covered by chance, and the petriied
body was found. Ihe natives en-
throned 1t in place of honor in the
village. Brennan claims to be the
first white man to see the statue
Victoria british Columbial Letter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-30
Shark Fishing.

Among the great variety Of fish that
are caught on the coast of Southern
California. says the Los Angeles
Times, the shark is generally regarded
merely as a curiosity. 1t is a fact that
sharks are caught for commercial pur-
poses, and the industry pays very
well. McGarvin, fisherman who
lives at Alamitos Bay, few miles
south of Long Beach, makes quite q
business of catching sharks by means
of stout lines fastened to stakes on
shore. He recently caught as many
as eighty in one day. The chief value
of the shark is in the oil, although the
Chinese consider the fins of the fish
quite delicacy.
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WHO ARE THE 6oon ?

Is there danger of adopting too narrow.
formal, and precise an idea OF what consti-
tutes religion, and 80 Judging other peoples
character and conduct with an unwise sever
ity? We think there is. Faber tells US that
"the love OF God is broader than the meas
ure Of mans mind" that I'VE make His
love too narrow by false limits OF our own,
and we magnify His strictness with q zeal
He will not own" This Is undoubtedly true.
The fault Of the sons Of Zebedee
is still the fault of many sincere
and ardent but misled disciples.
We like to think, and we believe we have
right to think, that there are more good peo.
ple In the world, than on the surface OF
things and tried by conve ntional standards,
there appear to be. Not al have really
bowed the knee to Baal whom Elijah is apt
to set down as idolaters. Large allowance
may Justly be made for defects Of education,
difference of training, peculiarities OF posi-
ton. None but God knows all the elements
that enter the complex problem of moral
desert. It were we'll that We spoke more
carefully about such matters than we gener-
ally do.
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SHE FORGOT HER NAME.
A woman's Remarkable Loss OF Memory
in England.

A notable loss of memory case, involving
a confusion Of personality, Is engaging the
attention of scientists In England. A lady
who was sitting on the promenade at Brigh-
ton found herself unable to tell her name,
address or anything connected with her life.
She said that she felt something break inside
Of her head.
The authorities not being able to find out
anything about her, had her sent to the
workhouse. There was not 4 single mark on
her clothing, letters or anything else that
would assist in the discovery OF her identity.
She conversed as an educated woman on
the things around her, and wrote in similar
manner to the doctors who examined her,
but her mind was an absolute blank 80 fur Us
the past was concerned.
The woman was described widely and her
case was discussed at length by the newspa-
pers. Her husband, who is a civil engineer
In London, finally turned up and was recog-
nized by her. Shs unaccountabiy lett her
home week before. She has no idea how
she went to Brighton. The doctors say that
while she was struggling to remember her
name, she often said it WAS Trilby. Then she
said it could not be that She signed her
letters "Mrs. ANYBODY"
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NOVEL BICYCLES.
TIE WHEEL PUT TO STRANGE
AND CURIOUS USES.
Rapidly Laying Telegraph Wires
With Observation-Disclosures Can
non by Means of " Bike"
An Ice Bicycle.

TYHE New York World de-
scribes q number of novel
uses to which the bicycle will
be put. 1t says:
R. a. Wolff, of New York, who has
invented many novelties in the bicycle
line, including magazine rapid firing
gun, controlled by the cyclist, and q
tricycle. cannon elsewhere described,
has Just made public his last appli-
ance for rapidly laying provisional
military telegraph or telephone wire.
The illustration shows the general
idea.
On the handle bar of the bicycle is
secured bracket constructed to hold
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The Powder. Monkeys RetOrt.

Once, when one of Farragut's gun.
boats on the Mississippi was just 60
ing into action, one of the powder
monkeys was noticed by an officer
kneeling by one of the guns saying
his prayers. The officer sneeringly
asked him what he was dong, and if
he was afraid.
"No, l was praying, said he.
"Well, what were you praying for?"
"Praying," said the lad, "that the
enemy's bullets may be distributed
the same way as the prize-money is
principally among the officers"
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AN IMPORTANT. DISTINCTION.

On q great occasion Richard Watson de-
clared: "Une fundamental principle Of
Wesleyan Methodism is anti-sectarianism
and q catholic spirit" This is true, as all
Methodist history from Wesley down makes
evident. Yet it also shows that Methodism
stands strongly for denominationalism and
a spirit of loyalty to Its own
ideas. The combination thus indicated
seems to us just the right one. Any body OF
Christians is sure to be weak and unlnhuen.
tial that does not thoroughly respect ltselt
and vigorously carry out its own special mis-
sion: but 1t can do this without despising or
railing at their bodies, or comprising heaven
and earth to make proselytes from them. To
live and let live. think and let think, to be
manly and at the same time friendly, is Meth
Odisms Way,
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Fight With a Wounded Eagle.

E. Leary, of South Harpswell, Me-. mem
bnr OF the crew of the steamboat Merrlcon-
neag. had fight with an eagle few morn
ings ago. Leary WAS out in dory and shot
the bird In the wing. When he drew the bird
into the boat the eagle planted one OF its
talons in his right arm and at the same time
with its beak got u firm hold OF his other
arm, and set up 4 vigorous attack with its
wings. Leary was unable to wrest his arms
from the eagles grasp, and only BY reaching
forward and grasping in his teeth the birds
neck was he able to overcome his adversary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-30
Canada's Debt Increased.

The financial statement OF the Dominion
OF Canada for the year ended June 30 last
shows the total revenue for that period to
nave been $50. .929, 800 aud the expenditures
a3S, ,009, ,341. leaving deficit OF S4.079, ,532.
There was also added to the capital account
$4,000, 900. The total net debt on June 81
was 1882, ,999, ,472, an increase Of S6, SIC, ,443.
For the first quarter OF the fiscal year the
finances show an increase OF over $500 900,
as compared with the previous year.
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explains the attachment of the skate
device.
The blade is hollow ground, render
ing lateral slipping impossible. The
weight of the machine remains unal-
tered. The device is quite cheap,
costing less than $40, and for that rea-
son cycling on ice is sure to become
popular if not the reigning fad OF the
winter,
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COMMUNION WITH HIM.

In world where there is go much to ruffle
the spirits plumes. how needful that enter
ing into the secret Of Gods pavilion which
will bring it back to composure and peace!
In world where there is 80 much to sadden
and depress how blessed the communion
with him in whom is the one true source and
fountain of all true gladness and abiding
ioy! In a world where so much is ever seek
ing 10 unhallow our spirits, to render them
common and profane, how high the privilege
of consecrating them anew in prayer to holi'
ness and to God Trench.
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In looking forward to future life. let us
recolIect that we have not to sustain all its
toll. to endure all ills sufferings. or to en-
counter all its crosses at once. One moment
comes laden with its own little burden, then
Ilies. and is succeeded by another no heavier
ttan the last if one could be sustained. so
can another anil another r-Jane Taylor.
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an assault, namely, to wit, that the
said five Thidas did, one and all, de-
scribe and apostrophize the said Cor.
goschillitz as bologna sausage" The
warrant was at once placed in the
hands of every detective Of Chief
O'Connor's force.
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suitable plate provided with a bind
ing post, to which latter one wire from
the battery is secured. The plate il
provided with head, in order that it
can be driven into the ground.
The end of the wire may be secured
in the pintle of the reel. and placed in
electrical connection with the battery
through the metallic frame of the BIZ
cycle, in which case the rubber tires
of the bicycle will give perfect insu:
lation from the ground; or, at the end
of the line, the wire may be cut and
secured directly to the binding post
at the battery.
With wheel constructed AS de.
scribed, q telegraphic or telephone
circuit can be quickly established be-
tween headquarters and outlying posts,
or between two or more outlying posts !;
and reports received and instructions
given with great facility.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-30
A Bacxwoods Orator Honored.

Clarksvllle, Tenn, has unveiled statue.
to Gustavus Henry. ''the eagle orator OF
Tennessee" who was prominent in politics
fifty yea.s ago.
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4 Bfcycle on Ice.

Tho bicycle does not 60 into com
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-10-30

Bicycle Cannon.
The Superintendent of bicycle
company is engaged in the perfection
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help, and II all heaven had armed 1tSel1 10
keep Him back, II the gates of life had been
boiled and double barred, Christ would have
flung the everlasting doors from their
hinges, and would have sprung forth, scat
terlng the hindering hosts OF heaven like
chaff before the whirlwind, as He cried:
sLo! come to suffer. Lo! come to die"
Christ--a willing sacrifice. Willing to take
Bethlehem humiliation, and Sanhedrln out
rage, and whipping post 1naltreament, and
Golgotha butchery. Willing to be bound.
Willing to suffer. Willing to die. Willing to
save.
How does this affect your Do not your
pain struck Christi Get down at His feet,
o ye people. Put your lips against the wound
In His right foot and help kiss away the
pang. Wipe the foam from His dying lip.
Get under the cross until you feel the bap-
tism OF His rushing tears. Take Him into
your heart with warmest love and undylng
enthusiasm. By your resistanceS you have
abused Him long enough. Christ is willing
TO save YOU. Are you willing to be saved2
It seems to me as if this moment were
throbbing with the invitations OF an all COM
passionate God.
I have been told that the cathedral Of st.
Mark stands in a quarter in the center OF the
CITY of Venice, and that when the clock
strikes II at noon all the birds from the city
and the regions round about the city fly to
the square and settle down. 1t came in tins
wise: large hearted woman. passing, one
MONDAY across the square, saw some blrds
shivering in the cold, and she scattered some
crumbs of bread among them. The day,
at the same hour, she scattered more crumbs
of bread among them, and so on from year
to year until the day of her death. In her
will she bequeathed certain amount OF
money to keep up the same practice, and
now at the first stroke Of the bell at noon
the birds begin to come there, and when the
clock has struck IL the square is covered
with them. How beautifully suggestive!
Christ comes out to feed thy soul to-day.
The more hungry you feel yourselves to be
the better it is. 1t is noon, and the gospel
clock strikes -. Come In focks! Come
az doves to the window! All the air is filled
| with tho liquid chine: Come! Comel
! Come.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-05

A VILLAGE HELD UP BY HORNETS.
Centre Moriches, L. l., is being held
up by swarm of hornets that have q
nest in the branches of tree on one Of
the main streets. They hold posses
sion of the thoroughfare for more than
block, and Justice George T. Osborne
has been asked to take steps to have
them taken into custody. Apparently
the justice is in as much of a quandary
as are the residents of the place. He
is anxious to have the pests removed,
but so far has been unable to find any
one brave enough to undertake the
Job. In the mean time the pests go
humming about and stinging at their
own sweet will. The other day they
attacked Miss Louise Benjamin and her
cousin, who ventured within the block.
The Two women were badly stung.
Other unwary pedestrians have met
with a SIMILAR reception. Unless the
pests arc soon removed, the villagers
say they will appeal to the governor to
call out the militia.
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REAL ESTATE. sc.
NJ. B. HARLOW & CO.,
Real Estate Loan G Insurance Brokers,
NO. 1e7 S. ROYAL STREET.
FOR sALE.

A decided bargain. Good location. Eight
rooms and bath. New Frame House. Large
lot. Good dry cellar. Furnace. Gas, Water
and closets throughout. If sold this week
can be bought for So, 100.
$100 cash if sold this week. $3.50 in easy
payments will buy four.room Frame House.
Lot 19x113' 5" to 20-feet alley.
A very desirable Brick House on Royal
street, between Prince and Duke; 8 rooms
modern Improvements. Price $4,000.
A Fine Three-story Brick, business prop
erty on King street, near Royal, occupied by
Mrs. Wenzell, Milliner. Price $4,000.
Duke street, 15.room Brick House; a. m.
i location unsurpassed. Price $500;
81, 5000 cash balance to suit purchaser.
Prince street, near Alfred, 12-room Brick
House; large lot; choice locality. Price
$500. Easy terms.
Pitt street, a Beautiful Home; 10 rooms !;
a. M. j.; lot S2x12 side alley; fruit flowers,
and plenty of shade. Price $4,000.
We have for sale very fine Business Prop
erty on north side of King, between Royal
and Pitt Streets Price $4,000.
store and Dwelling southwest corner queen
and Pitt streets. Price $4,000.
Large Three-Story Brick, Fairfax street,
between Cameron and Queen, 8 rooms and
bath, metal roof good cellar with vault terms
easy. Price So, 500.
A Beautiful Home, LA south Patrick
street, Three Story Brick House; a. m. i. !;
lot 63x144 to paved court and alley; stable
and carriage house; fruit trees and shade.
Price Sc, 900 on easy terms
House and Lot, Cameron and Patrick
streets, southwest corner. Price $4,000.
Easy payments.
A nice Frame House. s17 Queen street; lot
13x1O0 to 10-foot alley. Price very low.
Terms easy.
House and Lot, south side of Prince street,
between Pitt and Royal; 2ox8o; Frame
House. Price 81, 200.
LOTS.
Prince street, near Alfred, Lot 25x1O0
eet to an alley. Improved by two small
Brick Houses, 81, 400.
Five splendid Building Lots; 2Ox74; st.
cAsaph street between Queen and Princess,
$500 each. Very easy terms.
Eight Desirable Building Lots on Lee
street, east side, between Wilkes and Gibbon.
Price 1925 per lot, easy terms.
A very fine Lot on Washington street. be-
tween Wythe and Madison streets. Price
$500.
Thirteen Lots on south side of Gibbon
street, between Royal and Pitt, 20xl00,
Brick House. Price Tor the whole $3 1000.
Very easy terms.
One of the most desirable Lots in the city,
Cameron street, near Christ Church, 45x90.
Price So, 1000.
-Four nicely situated Lots on Payne street,
between Pendleton and Wythe streets Price
9150. Cash $25, LIS per week. Size 1890
feet. ~ .;dy
Patrick street, near King, Two Lots,
17lhx107 feet. each 5000.
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HAD TWENTY-TWO WIVES.

A dispatch from Dublin, Ca, says ::
Quite a sensation was created in this
part of the State Yesterday when it was
learned that man giving his name as
J. E. Barbour was the husband Of
twenty-five wives. Barber came to
Lothsir, in Montgomery county, about
year ago, with q handsome young
woman and baby, whom he claimed as
his wife and child. He came well re-
commended and procured employment
with a naval firm as blacksmith. His
winning and unassumipg manners
brought him in contact with the best
families, ard the utmost confidence was
reposed in him. As soon as his busi-
ness became somewhat monotonous he
came here, and, in company with an
other gentleman, embarked in the bar
rel stave business. The work proved
profitable, for he pocketed all the avail
able cash and lavished it on fast wo-
men, cutting swell in general.
While here he visited the house of an
old woman named Gray. The house
hold consisted of the mother and four
daughters. Barber's visits were quite
frequent. He at once became
infatuated with one of the VIC
men, Mrs. Bette Gray, q buxom
young widow, and the love was recip-
rocated, Barber asking her hand in.
marriage. His smooth tongue won the
woman over. Yesterday large crowd
of spectators assembled ut the Gray
domicile and witnessed the nuptials.
Squire James Jones performed the cere-
mony. AS soon as the contracting par
ties were made man and wife Barber
called the ministering official aside, and
in audible tone said:
'Squire, am happy to inform you
that this woman is my twenty-second
wife, and in few days l will have my
twenty.third in tow
Squire Jones was astonished. He
hastily informed the witnesses; and an
investigation was directed. Before any
legal steps could be taken Barber and
his wife had taken French leave for
parts unknown. Mrs. Barber No. q is
left in destitute condition, having
neither money nor friends. She says
that her marriage was mock affair,
she being under the influence of OPT
ates during the performance of the
ceremony, and that the official was sn
impostor. Her maiden name was Viii
ly, and her home is in Marion county,
Fla. She comes from respectable par
ents. Barber is from Orange county,
Fla, and somewhere in those regions
several living wives would like to hear
from him. While connected with the
ave business he feeced merchants and
boarding house keepers out of large
sums of money.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 9th, 1895.
rIyO ANNIE E. JOHNSTON, widow of
4 Horace S. Johnston, deceased Annie e.
Johnston, guardian of Amelia Johnston, an
infant under the age Of twenty-one years,
and of Caldwell S. Johnston, also an
infant under the age of twenty.one years;
Thurston B. Johnston and Alice his wife;
Milton 81. Johnston and May his wife;
Braxton B. Johnston and Elizabeth his
wife: Walter A. Johnston and Lizzie
s. his wife; Kate A. Bastianelh and
Adrian Bastianelli her husband; MARY A.
Davis. Amelia Johnston, and Caldwell S.
Johnston, infants under the age OF twenty
one years and Thurston B. Johnston and
Walter A. Johnston, trustees under the last
will and testament of Horace A. Johnston, de-
ceased, and the American Security and Trust
Company of the District of Columbia, substi-
tuted trustee under the said will.
You will please take notice that the under
signed commissioners appointed by tho Coun-
ty Court of Alexandria county, Virginia, to
ascertain a just compensation to the owners Of
land upon the line of improvement within the
county of Alexandria, Virginia, for such lands
as are proposed to be taken by the Washing
ton, Alexandria and Mt. Vernon Electric
Railway Company for its purposes, will meet
upon the lands whereof you are tenants OF
the freehold in said county on the 11th day
of September, 1895, at 10:30 o'clock g. m. to
ascertain the compensation to be paid to you
by the said company for so much of the said
lands in said county proposed by the said
company to be taken for its purposes.
JOHN ROBERTSON,
JOHN w. SLATER, Comm'rs.
ROBERT WALKER,
aug9 dot
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Are You Ever Annoyed

by buzzing or roaring sound in your head {?
Have you difficulty in hearing distinctly? (?
Are you troubled with continual dropping
of mucus. irritating the throat or causing you
to cough? Is your breath unpleasantly af-
fected and accompanied with bad taste? Is
your hearing less acute? Ifso, you have ca.
tarrh and should at once procure bottle of
Ely's Cream Balm, the best known remedy.
The Balm will give instant relief.