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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
THE GUNMAKER OF ILION.
JEFFERSON NJ. .CLOUGH REFUSES A
TEMPTING OFFER FROM THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
His Health was too Poor to Permit Atten-
ton to Business. A Great Sufferer
fo- Many Years But Has Now
Tennrerpd. ..

H.
ton to Business. A Great Sufferer
fo- Many Years But Has Now
Recovered.
From the Springfield, Mass, CntoH)
There isn't a gun manufacturer in ths
United States who does not know Jefferson
NJ. Clough. and why: Because he has been
intimately associated all his life with the ce-
ve!cpment OF the two best American rites,
the Remington and Winchester. For years
lie was Superintendent Of the E. Remington
Sons great factory at lion. N. Y. After
leaving there he refused tempting offer Of
the Chinese Government to 60 to China 20
superintend their government factoues.-
and accepted instead the SUPERINTENDENT Of
the Winchester-Arms Co.. at New Haven. at
salary Of 1880 a year.
1t was after this long term Of active labor
as business man that he found himself in
capacitated for further service by the en-
largo which rheumatism, had laid upor him
and resigned his position more than two
years ago. and returned to Belehertown,
Mass, where he low lives and owns the
Phelps farm, a retired spot where he has Eve
hundred acres of land.
Being man of means he did lot snare the
cost and was treated by leading physicians
and by baths at celebrated springs without
receiving any benefit worth notice. During
the summer Of 1893 and the winter Of 1884
Mr.. ,Clough was confined to his house IN
Belchertown. being unable to rise from his
bed without assistance, and suffering con-
tinually with acute pains and with no taste
or desire for food, nor'was he able to obtain
sufficient sleep.
Early In the year 1894 Mr.. Clough heard Of
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
He began taking these pills about the first Of
March, 1894, and continued to do so until
the first part OF September following. The
first effect notieedwas better appetite and
he began to note more ability to help himself
of the bed and to be better generally Last
August Qs94) he was able to go alone to his
summer residence and farm OF 1853 acres on
Grenadier Island. among the Thousand
Islands, in the river st. Lawrence, where
from the highest land OF his farm he COM
mands view for 13 miles down the river,
and 60 OF the Thousand Islands can be seen.
Instead of being confined to his bed Mr..
Clough is now and has been for some time
able to be about the farm to direct the
men employed there and he is thankful for
what DR.. Williams Pink Pills have done for.
him.
These pills are manufactured by the DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady,
n Y, and are sold only in boxes bearing the
firms trade mark and wrapper, at so cents a
box or six boxes for $3.50, and are never sold
in bulk. They may be had OF all druggists.
or direct by mail from DR.. Williams Medi..
cine Company. .a
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
FLATTERY THAT WON.

Chow did Hopson manage to be-
come engaged to the wealthy Miss An
tique? I thought she was a man
hater."
$50 she was, but when he advised
her not to get bell for ber bicycle,
for when she rode it there was already
one on it, she Immediately succuLbed. I"
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
CAUTIOUS.

Doctor-s'Take stated amount Of
exercise daily"
Patient -"Will it be enough if I
walk twice around nv wife's theatre
hat every day."
Doctor" You'd better not risk
over-exerting yourself at first. Begin
with once and increase the laps as
you feel able. "--Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

Nervous system paralyzed by nicotine
means lost manhood. weak eyes. and a
general all gone look and feeling that robs
life of its pleasure. Tobacco is the root OF
many an impotent symptom. and No-To-Bae
a guaranteed cure that will make YOU strong,
vigorous and happy in more ways than one.
No-To-Ba" guaranteed and sold by Drug
gists everywhere. Book. titled Don't To-
bacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away" Ad.
Sterling Remedy Co.. New York or Chicago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
HONESTLY WON.

"How did you get your title of
'General?'" asked the hero-worship-
iuS girl.
81 cnt my way to it," was the proud
reply.
''On the field?'
"No; in Bill Wiggins's hotel. There
was only two men in our town that
hal ever been in the army at all, so
we cut the cards to see which should
be General and which Colonel -
Washington Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
SHE WOULD NOT BE FLATTERED.

Gent-"Mademoiselle looks more
beautiful every day"
Lady-''You have been telling me
so for good many years; what hor-
rid fright I must have been to start
with. h."-L'Illustration
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THE UNHAPPY GROOM.

Friend--"What makes you write all
the tlme?'
Groom-elect-t'Fracticiug how to
write Jibson and wife on hotel regis
ter without having the clerk ask me if
we're newly married" - Syracuse
Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
THOSE MUppLEp ORATORS.

"I enjoyed your lecture on the
financial issue very much" said the
citizen to the orator, ''but I would
like to ask you one question.
"Certainly," said the orator; "go
ahead.
"What side of the question are you
on?"-Chicago Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
AN INDIGNITY.

Warden-"Well, what's the trou-
ble?"
Prisoner-'tI've been uniustly hu-
inflated. I am serving term for not
being able to account for $1,000. 900,
end you've put me in a cell with
man who is doing time for counterfeit
ing nickles. San Francisco Exam.
iner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
To Cleanse the system

Efrectually yet gently, when costive or bilious,
or when the blood is impure or sluggish,to per-
manently cure habi,ual constipation, to awak-
en- the kidneys and liver to healthy activity
without irritating or weakening them, to dis
pei headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup OF
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
SOMETIMES THE WAY.

SOMETIMES lib Na1.
"Who's this man who has grown so
rich in your ward?"
"Oh, that's Skayte, an ignorant sort
of fellow"
sAnd the man who's bankrupt"
'sThat's Mazzles, the eminent au-
thority on inanciering. - Chicago
Record.
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81 nm but one - he nrred,

IL am but one," he urged.
81 know it, reioined the Arctic po.
t.ntate. "but if I admit You therell
be all the way from fourteen to l56
relief expeditions after you, and our
people will know no such thing as
privacy"
OF course, it was nobody's business,
but he did not mind saying he was not
born yesterday. Detroit Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
A THEORY INDoRsED.

"What the Indian needs" said the
eminent sociologist, "is rational sys-
tenn of supervision"
:'That's right, replied the nan who
has lived IN the far West; what the
Indian needs is gettin' his rations to
i'm regular an enough of ;em."-
Washington Star.
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no MISUNDERSTANDING

$50 the insolent fellow refused to
pay his rent.
"He did not say so in words, but
he intimated it.
Chow SOP"
"He kicked me downstairs. LA
Figaro.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
A TRUTHFUL SAYING.

"Well," muttered the collector, as
he sank YEARLY into chair and
turned to his employer, "there is one
old saying that l can vouch for"
"What is it?"
.'The one that says: You never find
a man out till you trust him. '"-At-
lanta Constitution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
THE ART OF CONQUEST.

"Has the King of Umsquog ever in
suited us?" asked Great Britain.
Never" replied the warrior.
"Well, 60 out and irritate him a
bit. Hes got some ground that I'd
like to own" "-Washington Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
The Greatest rledical Discovery
of the Age.
KENNEDY'S !,
Medical Discovery.
DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROyBURY. MASS,

Has discovered In one OF our common
pasture weeds remedy that cures every
kind OF Humor. from the worst Scro.ula
down to common pimple.
He has tried It in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed except in two cases
(both thunder humor). He has now in
his possession over two hundred certif-
Gates OF its value, all within twenty miles
OF Boston. Send postal card for book.
A benefit is always experienced from the
first bottle, and perfect cure Is warranted
when the right quantity is taken
When the lungs are affected It causes
shooting pains. like needles passing
through them; the same with the Liver
or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts
being stopped, and always disappears in
week after taking 1t. Read the label.
II the stomach Is foul or bilious It will
cause squeamish feelings at first
No change Of diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you can get and enough OF 1t.
Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed
time. Sold by all Druggists
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

Halls Catarrh Cure is liquid and is taken
internally, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Write for les
timonials, free. Manufactured by
F. j. CHENEY q, Co. Toledo, D,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

DR.. Kilmer's SWAMP ROOT cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet srh Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton. n. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
ION the ield?'
TIE RELIEF.

The Eskimo chieftain was as hard
as to his heart as the bergs Of his ma
tive Businesses.
"Eack," he commanded.
The explorer was lam to parley
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
A REWARD OF MERIT.

REWARD OF MERIT.
"Goodluck has had his salary raised !;
was it for extra work?"
eyes. He always listens when the
proprietor tells his baby's smart say
ings." ."-Tid-Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
Worse Than Rum.

Indigestion spoils more lives than rum. But
you think you have malaria" or grip or
something worse. The trouble is all in the
digestive tract. Ripans Tabules bring sort
and their hahtual use keeps the whole system
in tone. Get them of Your druSgist.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

One of the most popular religious
books in Japan is "Pilgrim's Prog
ress," illustrated by japanese artists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
SHERIFF WILL WIPE OUT THE GANG.

SHERIFF. WILL WIPE OUT THE GANG.
''You say the desperados came in
and cleaned out the town."
Eyes; and now the town people are
out securing the country."-Kansas
City Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

The production of sugar in the West
Indies shows an annual increase of L.
100000 tons.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

Icebergs in the Atlantic sometimes
last for 200 years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

What Turned Her Head-Sheriff Will
Wipe Out the Gang-An In
dignity-The Unhappy
Groom, Etc.
She had lovely neck.
And everybody said
Who, indeed, might doubt it?-
That that's what turned her head.
Detroit Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
Tobacco DESTROYS Vitality.

It is estimated that electric cars have a.
ready displaced / 500, 900 horses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces iniamma-
tinn allaYs pain. cures wind collie. 25c. Il bottle
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

Some of the giant cactus trees Of Arizona
are over sixty feet in height.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
If You are Tired

All the time, without special eXer;ion, as
tired in the morning as when you retire AT
night. you may depend upon il. your blood
is impure and is lacking in vitality. That is
why it does not supply strength to nerves
raaI
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26
Hoods Sarsaparilsa

To purify and enrich Your blood. 4 few bot
ties OF this great medicine will give you
strength and vitality because it will max:
pure blood. Get Hoods.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thom:-
cons Eye-water. Druggists sell at PIC per Gottie
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-02-26

Piso's Cure for Cons umption has no equtl
as Cough medic ne.-F. NJ. ABBOTT, 3S} Sen-
eca Street, Buffalo, y. y. May 9. 1884.
The National tribune., 1896-08-27
An AristOcratic Club.
Inr.. lT.a......,..

In the United States it is not unusual to
say that there liz no aristocracy. There is.
Perhaps, for the most part, it is imported.
At all events there is now in New York
decidedly aristocratic German club The
tie which binds the members of this club
together is misfortune. Without q single
exception its members have been at one
time or another officers in the German
army or navy, or have held high govern
mental positions. Gambling, duelliDg, OF
some other scandal has caused their exile.
Most people can recall the gambling scandal
which occurred in 1893 at Hanover. In con-
sequence of that scandal SO officers were
stripped Of their rank and exiled. Three
gentlemen made their headquarters at Ho-
boken, and they formed the nucleus of the
present club, which has grown to great pro-
portions 1t will also be recalled that last
January the Kaiser ordered that the rolls
be purged of such Of the officers who had
got hopelessly entangled with the money
lending sharks. As result, 40 young
mobiles landed in New York the latter part
of the month of January, aud were fondly
received by their fellow officers, who had
been previously bapished. This shows
good feeling among the German officers who
get into trouble.
The National tribune., 1896-08-27

A capital story is told of brave and dis
tinguished officer, who ut one time COM
manded the Poonah Division. His Lordship
was noted for his hobbies, one of which was
amateur gardening, tbe Steam of which he
worked off by vigorously encouraging SOL
diers' gardens in the Station, says the Phila-
delphia american. o.
To please the General, Thomas Atkins was
often ordered OH fatigue duty of gardening
nature, and many silent prayers were often
offered up for the General, which, if answer
ed, would certainly not make place Tor
him in heaven.
One morning early the General was taking
a stroll in multi when he saw three or four
private soldiers raking about the compound.
Much pleased, he remarked:
We'll, men, nice thing gardening is, isn't
it? see you are taking Oil interest In il"
:" Do we, indeed" growled one of them in
reply. "That's all you know. We've got
an old fool Of General here who is mad on
gardening, and we are sent here on fatigue
to scrape this gravel about, in ease he should
pass this way"
Tableau!
The National tribune., 1896-08-27
lHE 0ETTERHALF.

The little Summer girl wears frocks very
much like those she wore last year, and her
Autumn and Winter frocks viii not differ
very much. despite the statements always
made that the styles for little girls follow
closely those for the mothers. The simplest
frocks are always the most fashionable for
children. froek hanging full from snort,
rounded, pointed, or straight yoke, with friii
over the shoulders and another at the throat,
and with rather full sleeves, gathered into
ruffied wristband, is always graceful and pretty
for little girl, and it is style that can be
used for musIins, wash-sik ks, or for soft cash
mere the cashmere having frilis OF silk A
pretty fancy in arranging the SMITH girls hair
is 10 tie the short locks away from tho brows at
the temples with ribbeas. Tho riboous are
tied in little square bows. The hair IS caught
The National tribune., 1896-08-27
ARMY AND NAVY.


Lieut.. Moss 25th Inf, and eight soldiers,
heavily accoute1ed and carrying four days rar
tiens last week covered the distance between
Forts Mssoula and Harrison. Mont, 132 miles,
including the passage Of Rocky Range, in %
hours on bicycles The heaviest wheel, with
pack and rider, weighed 272 pounds; Iightest,
2O2 pounds; average weight, 240 This is the
first detachment put on the road by the United
States Army, to test the practicability OF the
bicycle as machine for military purposes III
mountain country. The tour entered upon
covers 1000 miles, including round Of the
National Park, return to this point. run to
Fort Assinaboine. northern Montana, and back
by way of Fort Harrison to Fort Missoula.
Col. William l.. Hughes in charge OF the
Quartermaster's Depot at Baltimore, will be re.
relieved from duty there on Oct. 13 and placed
OH the Retired List by operation of the age
limit. Col. Hughes has recently been pro-
NOTED by the advancement Of Col. Sawteile to
be Brigadier- General, and is the junior officer
at present of his grade. The detail at BaHi-
more is considered desirable by Army officers.
and there will doubt be lively competl-
ton for the vacancy. COL Hughes is native
of Tennessee, from which State he was APP
pointed to the Military Academy, July, 1852,
and was graduated four years later and APP
pointed Second Lieutenant of Infantry. lie
was made Captain and Assistant Quartermas'
ter during the war, and saw much active serv-
Ice. LII 1910 uo DcCaDo - m'Jot VI b'o wi Pos
and on July 10, 1880. a Colonel.
The Medical Hospital Corps at Fort Riley.
Kan has been abandoned by Surg Gen. Stern
berg, who lately made al inspection OF that
institution. Forty young men were under III
struction there for the duties OF hospital stew
ards the intention being to send them TO Posts
west of the Mississippi River, where their
services might he needed. 1t was found, how
ever, that Fort Riley was too remote from most
of the military stations in the West, aud very
| few of the students we're assigned to duty en-
| account Of the excessive cost Of transportation
| from that station to other points where they
were needed DR.. Sternberg has. therefore,
| designated a post in each OF the Western Mill
tary Departments, where smaller class will be
| maintained and will be able to furnish the ex-
pert aid which is required.
The Army Medical Department will make q
! trial of the Bertilon system of Identification.
| 1t is on the suggestion Of an Army Surgeon,
| who believes the method is an improvement
| over the present practice of keeping track OF
deserters and other undeb liable characters who
| may attempt to re-enter the Army. recently
| mentioned in these columns. The Army Sur
ceens, however, do not believe the French sys-
| tenn will be an improvement over the prevailing
| practice. They fear that the liability OF error
is greater especially where there is so much
| likelihood OF carelessness of operators. The
| War Department., however, has sent to Paris
for set of the BertiIlon instruments, aud a
thorough examination will DO made into the
| system.
The National tribune., 1896-08-27
The Monument to JEFF Davis.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: What
strange anomalies are presented to Us at the
present time. While the people of this
country denounce Gen. Weyler for the
atrocities which are enacted in Cuba under
his rule, part of our people eulogize and
erect monuments to the memory of o man
who was even worse than Gen. Weyler, and
under whose Administration the most in
human cruelties were committed, which
even put the Iuquisition to shame. This
man, represented by some of the people of
the United States as q martyr to lost
cause, and of whom they seem to be proud,
is Jefferson Davis, aud if cruelties and atroc-
titles perpetrated by man, and which could
have been prevented, constitute virtues, JEFF
ferson Davis, like Nero Of old, will live in
the memory OF the people forever. While
believe that there is no ill-feeling between
the men in blue and those who wore the
gray, I also know that wrath and indigna-
ton often overcomes Northern veterans
when they remember the sufferings they
had to endure in Southern prisons, and the
men who were the cause of it, and drum
head court-martial. with verdict to be
shot," would have been, and always will be,
more fitting tribute to such men than the
erection of monuments.-F. APPENZELLER,
Adiutant, Post 334, LIE Raysville, N. Y.
The National tribune., 1896-08-27

q, IT
the engraving she is shown with her right
arm about the form of the vigorous and manly
figure representing Youth. and with her left
arm extended with index finger pointing to
the Constitution. The new certificates have
been declared inartistic by the aesthetic por-
ton of the public, and will now probably be
condemned by the deiendefs of the American
type of pbysiognomy snd anatomy.
4
Secretaries Carlisle and Lamont visited the
President at Gray Gables last week. It is de-
MED that the meeting was by appointment or
had any political Significance.
The National tribune., 1896-08-27

In Lippincotts for September there is very
clever article contrasting the heroine of the
past with the modern product. In one point
at least the modern heroine is not so truly ro-
inantic and that is as to her hair-and tits
pity tits so. Recently there has been change.
The heroine's hair does not come down as fire.
quently as in the past. After giving the sub
ject serious thought, have come to the con-
clusion that this sdue not so much to the pres
ent low price Of har-pins, which places them
within the reach of all. as to the fashion of
wearing the; hair that has prevailed during the
last few years. Imagine how the heroine would
look with wavy section on either side of her
head and her back hair as straight as japanese
dolls! Nowadays her tresses content them
selves with ripping back from her shell-like
ears, while the wind lifts the light curls from
her white brow, or caresses stray lock that has
fallen lovingly against her snowy neck"
Lady Henry Somerset Miss Wizards temper
anco friend, is planning a model settlement
for women inebriates. She proposes TO estab-
lish them in comfortable little cottages. and to
treat them as patients rather than as criminals.
They are to have light work to do-chicken-
! raising, Bookkeeping, dairy work, and other
| tasks. Each woman is to be charged $f.25 a
week for her living, and each is to be paid a
fair sum for her work, and whatever she re-
ceives above the SIPS is to be her own. The
conditions of life are to be as healthful as mod
ern ideas of hygiene, diet and sanitation ear
make Them and there will be resident physi
| clans to attend them in sickness. Cheerful
entertainments have been planned for. so tina
there may be play as well as work IS part o
| the reform.
/ ELSIE PoMERoY McELRoY.
The National tribune., 1896-08-27
Observation-Disclosures.

The President Promotes Col. Sawteiio to
Gen. Batchelder's Place.
Tho President has filled the vacancy made
by the retirement of Quartermaster-Generai
Batchelder by the promotion OF Col. Charles u.
Sawtele, the next in rank. Gen. Sawteile was
appointed to West Point from Maine. and
Graduated in 1854. when he was commissioned
q Second lieutenant in he ID q. S. He be-
came Captain and A. O. NJ. May II, 1861, and
WAS assigned to the Army of the Potomac he
The National tribune., 1896-08-27
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS,

The Democratic. Populist and Silver Head
quarters all now under one roof ia this city.
in the building that was once Wormiey's Hotel.
This building is monument TO the intelii-
Gsnce. industry and thrift OF . colored man,