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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
4 WOMAN'S
"a x ' ' INFLUENCE,

She bent her head, pretending to ex;;
anime the cleaning stones, but raised
st Immediately, to say rather slowly
Tell me what you wish most, and you
shall have it.
/ Brian gave a questioning glance al
her half-averted face. He hesitated
but ONLY for a second. The next he had
caught her in his arms, and holding hel
against his beating heart he pressed
long, passionate kiss upon her passive
lips.
She made not the slightest resistance
though her face had grown very Whlte.
He laid his own Interpretation upon
this sign. "You are angry, he SAID,
allowing her to 60 at last.
NO, no, not angry; that was your
Christmas gift.
She spoke with an effort and once
more fell to admiring her pin. Brian
watched her with q longing she felt
rather than saw. To avoid his eyes she
drew her chair closer to the fire and
buried her head in its cushioned back.
1T is odd," remarked Brian, after an
awkward pause. Il think the world
would smile to know that husband is
only permitted to kiss his wife on
christmas day"
Some other time wewill talk Of that,
Brian. Not now. 1t will only stir up
old discords.
There is always the shadow of dis
cord between US, was the answer given
with sigh. Heaven knows l should
like to be different man; but as must
be what am, why can we not be happy
together?"
aAre you unhappy"
you know I am. What pleasure can
you find in hearing me say so? You
know your love is the one thing long
for. Yet you will kill yourself IN the
interest Of others, while for me-
He paused with passion more elo-
quent than words. Margaret could not
reply Immediately. A strange, nervous
weakness benumbed her faculties, and
she waited for a stronger moment TO
answer his reproaches.
You speak unjustly," she said at last,
with great effort. Il do not take pleas
ure in your unhappiness. If you knew
how utterly exhausted ! am, you would
spare such remarks. They pain me. l
II can't bear them now."
She had risen from her chair with the
last words, and with sudden trembling
swayed as though she would faint.
Margaret" he cried, catching her in
his arms, tell me the trouble.
Il am only tired" was the answer,
with half sob as her head rested for a
second on his shoulder. only very
tired"
Il have been a brute, he rejoined,
penitently. Il should have seen you
were ill. Let me do something for you,
darling" :,
"Oh, no, Brian; thank you. I shall
be better when I have slept. / need
only that, think. I must say good
night now
With a sigh he let her 60 from him,
and she moved away unsteadily; but
coming back under the impulse Of an
after thought, she said, very slowly:
Brian, won't you try to believe that
want to see you happy and contented,
and that try very hard to make you so?
If l am not better woman it is not be-
cause I do not strive to be-
NO MORE" cried Brian, with much
warmth. Margaret, you hurt me. Not
to win your love, but to be worthy Of it,
that should be my ambition. You are
too good for me, l. Goodnight"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01

flag was also used quite extensively.
This was a plain blue flag with white
field in the upper left hand corner,
divided into four squares by a red
cross. The other first square was q
sphere, divided, emblematical of
American as the new world. The
Massachusetts troops had number OF
these flags, but instead of the sphere
put a green pine tree in the white
square.
Our Stars and Stripes was ll9 years
old on the 14th of last June, and in
the celebration of our one hundred
and twentieth independence Day
something of it's history may we'll be
remembered by all patriotic Ameri'
cans.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
STRIFE ON SINGING OF DIXIE"
Basis of the Refusal of Georgia Pupil to
Take His Diploma.

rake his Dlploma'
For the first time In the South's history
"Dixie" has caused discord in Gainesville,
Ga, among the 900 inhabitants. various
degrees Of harsh feelings have been expended,
and the Public School Board is in trouble.
The graduating class of the Cartersville
High School consisted OF eight members,
seven OF whom received their diplomas. Will
son Oopgers Fite, the eight boy, declined to
receive his sheepskin despite the fact that
he had finished fourth In bis class. The
defamation contest was the cause Of the re-
fusal. Young Fite claims that the judges
were unduly influenced.
After the speech of Edward Dwelle, on
"The New South" (Grady), the band, at the
request of persons IN the theatre, played
"Dixie" The thrilling music increased the
enthusiasm that the speech had stirred and
Dwelle was given prize on oratory.
Not only has Fite refused his diploma,
but he has entered protest against the de-
cison OF the judges, asserting that they
were unduly Influenced by the interjection
of "Dl1ie" into the programme Of Dwelle's
speech.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
4 Patriotic Thing.

"The horse thief who broke into my
shop last night" said the faIse.hair
merchant, reminded me very much
of fre-cracker.
"How was that?" asked his friend.
"He went off with a bang" sighed
the hair merchant. .-Harper's Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
Peculiar Death Of n Diver.

A marine diver named Colwell lost his
life at Harbor Springs, Mich, In the wreck
ing operations on the sunken steamer Ca
yuga. He was employed by Captain Reed,
and was lowered In the diving rig to the
sunken boat. Five minutes later he was
hoisted to the surface, and when his helmet
was removed his head was found to be
crushed. The cause is unknown. - ...
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01

HE flag of the
United States, that
glorious emblem
of red, white and
blue which every
Fourth of July
proudly waves on
the tops of hun
dreds of hagpoles,
cupolas, domes
and scores of other
sioht1v r,laces in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
His Cup OYerf0Wed.

Gimlet-"Did you have good time
on the Fourth, Johnny?"
Johnny-"Did I? Well, sayl Ma
amt got over the Mysteries yet"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
BORN IN PHILADELPHIA.

white, in blue held, representing O
new constellation.
BORN IN PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia has the honor of being
the scene OF the birth OF this flag, as
year previous it gave birth to the
country's freedom. 1t is also an in
teresting fact that the old house in
which the first regular United States
flag was made is still standing. This
house is at 239 Arch street and is now
occupied by Mrs. Munday, who, be-
sides showing patriotic visitors the
room in which General Washington
gave Betsy Ross the rough design for
the flag, dispenses over small coun.
ter in front of the house pipes and to-
bacco. The house. although about
800 years old, is still in an excellent
state of preservation. 1t is a small
two-story brick building, being the
second one of it's kind erected in Phil
adelphia, the bricks having been sent
over from England. This house, in
1777, was occupied by Mrs. Elizabeth
Ross, but she is known in history sim
ply as Betsy Ross.
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I heard it ring all through the night
In joyful tones supreme
As though from freedoms far-of heigh
The melody did stream;
And liberty
o. liberty
It's only constant theme,
And liberty
o! liberty
It shouted through my dream.
It seemed to lift, to rise, to float
Ne olthe joyful Strain;
TIE pulsing accents seemed to gloat
On that one rich refrain;
And liberty
o! liberty
It echoed through my brain,
And liberty
o! liberty
It called and called again.
All through the dreamful, happy night
heard its voice outpour-
The "poor old bell" the people said,
"Would ring, ah. evermore."
But liberty
o. liberty
heard it DER and DER,
And liberty
Oh. liberty
As in the days Of yore.
And does it ring no morc?-ah me!
They spoke who were not wise,
Its voice is rolling round the world
Such music never dies.
Still liberty
D! liberty
Increasingly it cries,
And liberty
o. liberty
a listening world replies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01
LIBERTYS EMBLEM.

EVOLUTION OF THE STARS AEr STRIPES
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-01

flag OF the United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white !;
that the Union be thirteen stars,
white, in blue field, representing
new constellation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
A Scandal in the Senate.
ON the New York Times,

WASHINGTON. May 1O.-There appears
to be danger that the honorable the Senate
OF the United States Is about to be out
to an impro per use in spite Of itself. From
many conversations with Senators 1t is
ascertalhed that there Is a strong cSnvic-
ton In the Senate that the clause in the
river ana harbor appropriation bill pro-
viding for the improvement of Santa
Monica. Instead of San Pedro, as the har-
Dor of Los Angeles, Cal, has been advance
ed by selfish motives and strengthened by
the exercise of forbidden and abhorrent
forces" and that do what they will the
Senators who know this feel that they will
be unable to vote against the harbor which
Senator White says Is to be improved at
the demand and for the benefit of Mr..
Hun ungton.
1t is really too bad atout the Senate
This Santa Monica question begins to op-
press the honorable body like a scandal.
Senators who feel that they ought to have
greater moral strength and who are on the
point of crying aloLd to be prevented from
voting for thing they are convinced is
wrong go about whimpering to acuuaint-
ances out of the Senate that the lobbyists
of the Santa Monica improvement swarm
in the Senate Hobbies and committee rooms,
and even invade the Senate corridor and
marble room, in defiance of the stiff rules
of the Senate, to buttonhole Senators who
have not been won to the support of Mr.
11untington's plans to get the government
to spend nearly s3.O000OO to provide him
with terminal facilities for the Southern
Pacific railroad. when the government en-
gineers have reported against the improve
ment preferred by MIR. Huntington and in
favor of San Pedro.
If Senators really were vexed by the In
vason of the Senate marble room by lob
byists-all Of them as familiar objects as
the clock of tho Serate-they know that
there really is no occasion to invoke the
aid Of the newspapers to clear ont the lob
byists. peremptory order to Col. Bright,
the serges nt-at-arms, by any one Senator
would secure. the exclusion for an indefinite
time of lobbyists, even from the outer halls
Of the Sci ate II it was considered desira-
BILE to so exclude them The sergeant-at-
arms is a man of nerve, and he has no
fears Of lobbyists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
Washington stock Exchange.

Sales regular call-1c O'Clock ND. c. 3.6Js,
Disfrie Title. at s MS %;i G Il 51
Goyernment Bonds. $. Is, registered, l0ss
$, Is 1895, III bid L. $ Is, is5i, iI2i. bid.
-, District Of Columbia B2Gds 2o-year fund os log
IS, 1901, currency, no bid Water stock IS 1gu3.
currency, III bid. sGos, funding, currency, I'D
Miscellaneous Bonds Metropolitan Railroad Is,
6 l sk asked, Ne BSt ra Eseae 'q1 s
So asked. lexington Railroad Is, 100 hid IOS
asked: Columbia Railroad IS, lib bid. l14l9 asked
Washington Gas Company Is, series A, no bid,
~ asked. Washington Gas Company Gs. series B,
~ bid Washington Gas Company cow. is, lB
apeake and Potomac Telephone Is. 100 bid. IO3
asked ak American SECURITY and Trust IS. T. and A,
-, 100 bid Washington Market Company LIST 6s
ISs S Sd Market COMPANY osSy imp 6
los bid. Masonic Hall Association rs, lU5 bid
"SshnSsIn Bank hf s ipfen s c IS S hid
bid. Bank Of the Republic 2!o hid; MeIropoiiatn,
Columbia, 1870 bid. Capital. liz hid West Ind.
I I" hi, bid Traders', - hid, loo asked. lincoln
Safe Deposit and Trust Conpani, s.-National Safe
DEPOSIT sta and To-, Trust, l2o asked Washington Loan
and Trust l4l bid, lac asked. Washington safe
Railroad Stocks.-CaPltal Traction Company. 70
hid. IS asked Metropolitan. 1l7l5 bid 1T9H
asked. Columbia. 81 bid, O. asked. Belt. 80 asked
10 lid 80 asked.
Gas snd Electric Light Washington Gaa
40 BID. Georgetown Gas, AZ lid 80 asked. Z. s.
Electric Light, lis bid. llSl2 asked.
Insurance Stocks.-Firemen' Ihid. Franklin.
IS bid. Metropolitan, IS old. Corcoran. 80 I'D
Potomac, Go bid. Arlington 13s bid. Germaur
American. Us bid. National Union. 10 bid Co
umbia IL bid Riggs, rs bid Peoples, 5M eid
Lincoln, "a. bid. SIS asked. Commercial, As bid.
Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate Title i01
bid. 40 asked. Columbia Title Jal bid washine.
ton Title bid. District Title, ~ bid. 10 asked
Telephone Stocks.-Pennsylyania, IS bid 80 asked
Chesapeake and Potomac, 81 bid. American Craps
ophone, bid, So asked. Pneumatic Gun Carriage
20 bid % asked.
Miscellaneous Stocks. - Mcrgcnthller Linotyp>
128 bid, 100 asked. Lanston Monotype. bid \
asked Washington Market 10 bid. Great Fall
Ice, 40 bid, $50 asked. Lincoln Hall, 90 asked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
MIR. CLEVELAND AND CUBA. .
The President Expected Soon to De-
clare His Position.

About Congress there is a general, though
vague expectation that the President Is
going to take more definite action with re-
lation to Cuba. The rumors of message
or proclamation on the subject which have
from time to time started were active this
morning and do not appear to be dependent
entirely on the Competitor incident.
The reference of the case Of the con-
demned prisoners of the Competitor to the
Madrid authorities is expected to result In
saving the lives of the Americans.
The announcement made formally to the
newspapers this morning by Secretary Oh
rey that at thu request of the United
States the Spanish government had ordered
stay of execution until this government
could present the case under the treaty, Is
Ie gardeG practically insurinS the relief
OF the Americans from the death penalty.
The opinion is briefly expressed by the
best authorities on international matters
that war would surely result from the exc
cution of Milton if the circumstances are
as they appear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
MOUSE IN A TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.
lie Created Considerable Excitement
Before He Was Captured.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
plain, ordinary, mischievous mouse had
more fun with the telephone service of the
city and the Sunset connections for about
ten minutes last night than could have
been bought for heaps OF nckels The
young ladies who answer hellos and make
wrong switches did not recover their COM
posture for some time
The mouse first peeped through a crack
under the switchboard in the Sunset room.
His little black, beidy eyes giittered mis-
chievously for a moment and then he
started on scamper across the room.
He had only gone a few feet when there
was screech from the young lady near
est him. The girl next to her took up
the scream and maze a rush for the man
ager's desk.
The other girls. one by one. Joined In the
chorus and sought places beyond the reach
or the frightened animal The bells went
unheeded. and in the midst of the excite
ment the janitor rushed to the rescue. At
his appearance the mouse fled.
For few moments all was serene again
and then came a scream from one of the
young ladies at the local switchboard. In
few seconds the score or so of girls in
that room were screaming in chorus and
balancing themselves on convenient perch
es. The mouse in it's excitement sought a
place OF refuge in a corner, and there the
Janitor had it al his mercy. AS its body
was carried out the girls resumed their
places. but the answering hellos had an
echo of the scream in them for over an
hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
Kipling and His Brother-in-Law,

Saturday Rudyard Kipling had his broth
er-in-law. Beatty Balestier, arrested at Brat
tleboro, VT, on the charge of threatening to
do him personal damage. Balestier had
,feard it said Kipling had helped him fnan-
cially. and. meeting the jungle story writer
in the road told him he would give him
week in which to deny the report and If by
that time he did not, he should proceed to
whip him. Balestier was put under bonds
to keep the peace. but could not furnish bail.
Kipling offered to furnish the bond, but
Balestier refused.
Beatty has been sort of pet of the Bale
sitter family. and there is reason for saw
ing that Rudyard Kipling has also been ex
ceedingly kind to the young man. Well-au-
thenticated reports say that Mr. Kipling
has assisted his brother-in-law to the ex-
tent Of 81, 800, and perhaps to a considerably
larger amount, but this Beatty emphatically
denies.
Kipling has grown in popular favor in
Brattleboro. The, ill-feeling excited by his
earliest syndicated newspaper story from
that section, describing some of the pecu-
Harities of the villagers, has worn away. and
he Is now widely respected. On the other
hand, KiGling has been taught by his knoWl-
edge of men to respect hundreds of the peo-
pie Of Brattleboro who have the sturdy viz
tues Of the New Englandsrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11

As the result of an amicable suit for par
htion, there will be a trustees sale here
this afternoon of d valuable piece of real
estate. which has never yet been out of
the possession of the original proprietor,
Anthony Holmead, or his descendants The
property. containing about $4,000 square
feet. or nearly ten acres, is situated on
kalorama Heights between Massachusetts,
and Connecticut avenues. having a 'front.'
age of about fifty feet on Florida avenue
1t originally belonged to Anthony Holmead,
one of the original propr:ators of land out
OF which the District formed. and it
mas never left the family, having been in
heritsd by Sophia s kol, a daughter of
his. the heirs of whom petitioned for its
sale and partition. The sale will be held I
40 this afternoon by Trustees Richard f
Pairo. a grandson of the original proprie-
tor, and Leo Simmons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
A Maine Samson.
ON the Lewiston Journal.

FROM tle Lewiston JOurDdl.
Bar Harbor. the home of the famous
bull wrestler. has produced another Sam
son, DR.. F. c. Ames, who has been enter
tanning the Bangor folks with such seats
as bending gas pipe and iron bars, and
finally wound up the exhibition by lifting
three men, whose combined weight was
525 pounds, and walking about the room
with them as easily as an ordinary man
would carry basket of feathers The
heaviest of them, weighing 80 pounds
was perched on his shoulders while he
carried the other two, weighing l45 and
80, respectively, in his arms.
In the Penobscot exchange he lifted a
load of 500 pounds and carried it around
the room with ease. This feat was wit
messed by several well-known men. Last
winter in Bar Harbor he lifted a load of
1I5 pounds. The most remarkable feature
of this physical wonder is that Dr. Ames
was a weak man and wreck from disease
ten years ago, but by dint of careful train
ing he has developed his muscles and body,
until today he is perfect giant. Therein
is how he beats Sardow and the other
giants of these days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
RaiIrOading In Venezuela.

From the Indianapolis News.
Neither time nor space is left to tell of the
great German railway to Valencia, a feat of
engineering and wild scenic grandeur I'M
equaled; running, not through mountain,
as with us, but along with them. as if to give
you every possible vista of gorge, valley,
precipice and waterfall. often passing In
descent the same blood-curdling abyss again
and again. Go over it from Caracas, not
toward Caracas, if you would avoid dscom-
fort, and pass through it's hundred tunnels
and over it's two hundred bridges without
being choked by smoke. In view Of tho
startling rise in values along this railway,
from so, two years ago, paid for an entire
valley, now worth s1OO.OOO in acreage of
sugar and coffee. with no acres for sale net
ting 10 per cent on 100000, and bearing all
the time three crops year
Nor can l tell of the great feat Of these
Yankee German railroad builders in throw
ing a cable across an entire valley, from
mountain to mountain. miles long, to swing
across material, that railroad building might
proceed from three points at once and be
finished ahead of time. instead Of as usual,
behind time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
LIVED WITHOUT A BRAIN.
Human Paradox Who Has Been n
Mystery to Physicians.

From the Wilkesbarre Record.
Williamsport man has surprised the
scientists by living for years without a
brain. John BLY,. aged twenty years. who
died recently. had suffered for a long time
with a tumor. which grew into the very
base Of the brain and occasoned his death
The growth had a visible effect upon his
the medical profession. The tumor was i'm
bedded too deeply into the brain tissue to
admit OF an operation. 1t was found that
the tumor was nearly as large as a billiard
ball. 1t was SO located as to demoraIiZe
che nerves Of the sight center, and as a
consequence. young BLY, was blind for over
three years
1t was developed at the autopsy that the
entire brain had been followed out by the
action Of the tumor The cavity vas at
least five inches in length and was filed
with pus. All that was left of the brain
was thin shell, composed of the tougher
tissues, which were less susceptible to the
process Of decay. When an incision was
made in the shell the whole mass COLLAPSED
The circumstance which made the case
almost unprecedented in the annals Of
the patient retained his nationality and
faculties under the circumstances He had
the senses of touch, tas.e hearing and
smell. had very tolerable control of his
iocomotor muscles, could talk, and in fact
was comparatively disconnected in no
other way than by .he loss Of vision His
retention of memory was remarkable He
was able to memorize poems up TO within
two weeks of his death