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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Farm and Garden Notes.
arm dHu UHrueH Notes'
Bounce the lazy hired man.
Economic labor on the farm.

Bounce the lazy hired man.
Economic labor on the farm.
Kill the hens that lay no eggs.
Push every acre for all it is worth.
Keep an account with each field on
the farm.
A hog knows the difference between
a kick and an ear of corn.
No soil was eyer so rich that it could
not proitably utilize the manure made
on the farm.
If you can do twice the work with a
new machine that you can with your
old one, buy a new one.
A little linseed meal fed a cow be-
fore calving will not hurt her any; OF
after calving, for that matter.
Cultivate a bitter enmity to every
weed that grows. Try to feel toward
it as q dog does toward a cat.
Try peas for stock. Sow broadcast
or drill. They are at the top as green
forage for hogs, cows or any other
stock.
The horse should be put to hard
work in the spring gradually. The
animal is not in the best condition in
early spring.
There is no objection to making
barns warm; but they should be well
ventilated even if the temperature
must go below freezing point.
1t requires but a small amount Of
capital to get a start with sheep, and
in opening up a new farm they will
help materially in the early income.
The good dairy COW makes a profit
on each dollars worth of feed, and the
more suitable food we a get her to
eat the more profit we are certain to
get.
To avoid scratches or grease heel,
keep the legs and feet clean. A
good plan is to wash off the limbs
clean at night with cloth and warm
water, wiping them thoroughly dry.
The demand of the times is for what
is commonly termed ''baby beef" that
is, beef from eighteen to twenty-four-
month-old animals. Herefords, Short
horns and Angus cattle make this
beef.
Some men never speak kindly to a
horse, and, therefore, never have a
kind horse. Get the affection of your
horse, and you have taken the most
important step toward getting his best
services.
Take the horse to the harness shop
and see that a collar fits him before
you buy it. His working capacity de-
ponds much upon his harness. With
CALLED S houlders he will not pull stead
lily and squarely, and the pain will
affect hi 8 whole nervous organization
and lead to general arrangement and
incapacity.
Rye is extensively used in North
England for pig feeding. In Denmark,
where it is fed extensively, it has the
reputation of producing about the
same amount of pork from a given
weight of grain as barley. The quality
of the pork produced is nearly as good
as that made from barley, which stands
at the head of the list. of pork of the
finest quality.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
of Snow.

About the end Of January, or when
he sun again appears above the hori-
ION, many families at the two Eskimo
villages near Point Barrow, in Alaska,
leave their winter houses and travel
inland seventy-fve or one hundred
niles to hunt reindeer along the uppsr
waters of the large rivers that flow in
10 the Arctic Ocean east of the point.
Here they encamp in large, comfort
able snow houses, usually dug out in
4 solid snowdrift. Like all Eskimo
winter houses, these are entered by
means of a long, low tunnel; and
opening out of one side of this tunnel
there is a fireplace built of snow slabs.
A young man and his wife moved
down from Point Barrow after winter
had set in, and, as there was 10 ac-
commodation for them in any of the
permanent wooden houses, they built
themselves a small hut from blocks Of
snow and roofsd it over with sailcloth.
I made them a visit one afternoon, and
found the house pretty cold and un-
comfortable in spite of the large stone
lamp that was burning all the time.
The entrance tunnel was about ten
feet long; at the left hand as you en-
tered, and close to the door. was the
fireplace. This was about two and a
half feet square, and neatly built Of
slabs of snow, with a smoke hole at
the top and a stick stuck across at the
proper height to hang a pot on. When
the first fire is built in such a fire.
place, there is considerable melting Of
the surface of the snow, but as soon
as the fire is allowed to go out this
freezes to a hard glaze of ice, which
afterward melts only a very little.
These freplaces are used only for cook
ing, as the Eskimos rely wholly on the
oil lamps for warming the DWELLING
Lippincott's Magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Planting Co rn.

In the experiments at the Ohio sta
ton the highest per cent. of sound corn
has been reached from an average stand
of n stalk every eighteen inches, but
the total yield has not been so large as
from closer planting. The most profit
able yield has come from giving a foot
in linear length of row to each plant,
the rows being three and a half feet
apart. On the bottom lands at Colum-
bus it did not seem to make any differ
ence whether the plants stood twelve
inches apart, two every twenty-four
inches, three every thirty-six inches or
four every forty-eight inches; but on
the thin clay upland at Wooster the
best yields thus far have been from a
stand Of one stalk every twelve inches
or two every twenty-four inches further
grouping has reduced the yield, as has
also closer planting. Farm, Stock and
Home,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Too Little Alone with God.

We are far t o little alone with God and
this, l am persuaded, is one Of the very sad
dest features in our modern Christian living.
It is work, work, work-at the very best
some weli-meant, Martha-like serving but
where are the more devoted Marys, who
find the shortest, surest way to the heart Of
Jesus by ceasing very much from self-willed,
se~lf-appointed tolls and sitting humbly at
His feet to let Him carry on His blessed work
within ourselves? If the Mary-like method
were carried out more, it might abridge
considerably the amount Of work apparent
ly accomplished, but it would ineomparably
enhance the quality. What though we
should lose a hupdredweight and get instead
of it only q pound-if the hu~ndredweight
lost were only cad and the pound gained
were pure gold?--Methodist Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
True Christian Like Full Moon.

Some professors Of religion are like the
young moon that shines feeoly above the
horizon for an hour or two, and then goes
down. The true Christian should be like
the full moon that sheds its steady beams
the whole night through. Clouds may oc-
casionally float across and hide it; spots Cd
the surface can be detected with the naked
eye. But in spite OF all these blemishings,
he steady orb is there, rejecting the glory
Of the sun OF righteousness, and shining Oh
and on until it Is swallowed up in the glo-
rlous day-dawn of heaven. To be all this
Is within the possibility Of every soul, even
the humblest and most tempted, il that soul
will simply continue in the light and love Of
Christ. Theodore L.. Cuyler, D. D.
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The Levenge of

To win and hold a friend we are CON-
PEELED to keep ourselves at his ideal point.
and in turn OUT love makes on him the same
appeal. All around the circle Of our best
beloved it Is this idea'izing that gives to love
its beauty and its pain and it's mighty lever
age on characterize beauty, because that
idealiz ng is the secret Of loves glow, is
pain. because that idealizing makes the con-
slant peril Of its vanishing; its leverage to
uplift character, because this same idealiz-
ing is a constant challenge between every
two, compelling each to be his best. what
is the secret of your ~life?"asked Mrs. Brown
ing of Charles Kingsley; ''tell me, that l
may make mine beautiful, too" He re-
piled, Il had a friend."-Rev. W.. c. Gan
nett
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"Strawing-in" Potatoes.

When the season is late, and es-
pecially when it is wet, the following
method of planting potatoes often
produces an astonishing crop. 1t is
regularly followed by a potato grove r
in Illinois who grows q large acreage
every year, and always with success.
Where weeds abound it is sometimes
necessary to go through the patch and
pull cut the weeds once during the
season, but this is not a very large
task. Sometimes the potatoes are not
covered with soil at all, but it is better
to do this, as it gives the roots abetter
chance to take hold.
Put the potatoes in good ground,
cover about two inches with dirt, then
cover with straw about O foot and o
half deep, and your potatoes are 'laid
by" till time to dig them in the fall.
The vines will grow up through the
straw, foxtail and weeds will never see
daylight. When your potatoes are
ripe pitch the straw away and the
potatoes are nearly all on top of the
ground. This method has been tried
in this vicinity for twenty years with
the best of results in every case. Try
it and be convinced. THE Silver
Knight.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Making Cornrows Straight.

Much labor in cultivation may be
saved by making corn lows straight.
1t is very hard to hold the cultivator
80 as to miss hills that are alternately
a few inches out of plumb line one side
or the other. The result is that in try
ing to save the hills it is impossible to
cultivate the soil as it should be or to
take all the weeds. With the corn in
a straight line earth may be drawn
from the stalk and thrown back again
so as to destroy all the weeds while
they are small. 1t requires not only a
true eye in the driver, but an active,
strong horse to draw the marker
straight across the field. It is not
every man or horse that can ever be
taught to do it. Those who can should
be paid extra for the job, for their work
is really skilled labor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Pitched Headlong by a ThunderboIt.;,

Ernest Gadboise, a young man en-
,loyed on his fathers farm on the
Salem turnpike, in Connecticut, was
struck by lightning at Lefingwell.
while driving home. The bolt threw
aim from the wagon into the gutter,
and rendered him unconscious. The
horse was knocked down and the
wagon overturned. How long he was
unconscious he is unable to determine,
but he was helped into a neighboring
dwelling. Neither he nor his horse
was permanently injured. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Hard Times and Emigration.

Emigration from the United States has
increased about twelve per cent, and
"hard times" is the reason quoted for the
condition. A steamship agent said that
thousands of people went abroad this sea.
son becau5 SO they had no employment, and
would rat her wait for something to turn up
in the way Of work in their native land thar
In this country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
nevive the fony Lxpress.

On the fftieth anniversary of the Nor
mons arrival in the Great Salt Lake VAL
ley, which will be celebrated July "a, the
old pony express will BIZ re-established and
messages sent overland by them. The old
stage coaches, which were the only means
of transportation fifty years ago, will be
dragged from their hiding places, and put
into service for the time being.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Be Not q Stranger.

My God, permit me not to be
stranger to myself and thee:
Amid a thousand thoughts I rove,
Eorgetful of thy highest love.
Be earth with all her strife withdrawn;
Let noise and vanity be gone.
In secret silence Of the mind,
My heaven, and there my God, 1 find.
-Wpttl
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IN
PREGNANT THoUN
WORLDS CREATEy

The Trials and The Reward-N
Becomes q Pleasure-A Prayer
Thine Eyes-Be Frequently AloneN
God -Leveage of Love-Not q Strang\
For the JOY set before thee
The cross.
For the gain that comes after
The loss.
For the morning that smileth-
The night.
For the peace of the victor
The fight.
For the white rose OF goodness
The thorn.
For the Spirits deep wisdom
Mems scorn.
For the sunshine OF gladness-
The rain.
For the fruit Of Gods pruning
The pain.
For the clear bells OF triumph
A knell.
For the sweet kiss OF meeting
Farewell.
For the height Of the mountain
The steep.
For the waking in heaven
Deaths sleep.
Christian Commonwealth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Novel Use for q Pigeon.

Anew York broker, not long ago, by use
of q hon,irg pigeon which he had taken
with him on a fishing excursion, sent an
order to his broker that made $4,000 for
him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
LIGHTNING Twice in One Place.

At Erath Station, near Abbeville, La.
Stanville Theriot was killed by lightning,
and two hours later Mrs. Ernest Carrie was
instantly killed by q bolt in the same
house..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Onions for the Market.

One whose experience gives his
words authority writes as follows in
the New England Homestead: Onion
growing may be divided into culture
in the kitchen garden, the market
garden and on the farm. In the
ket garden the first thing under con-
sideration is the soil. The best suited
for the onion is a dry, sandy loan, not
wet or soggy, for if i. is, you will have
nothing but scullions at the end of
the season. Take a piece of land that
has had early potatoes, and as soon as
these are dug haul on plenty of we'll
rotted barnyard manure; spread e
ly. Plow, not too deep, but just deep
enough to cover the manure Then
SOW rye on it at the rate of six BUSH
els per acre.
Don't be afraid of sowing your rye
zoo early in the fall. Don't pillow too
early in the spring, but give the rye
n chance to start. By blowing it again
in the spring you get all your manure
On top, just where you want it for
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Charcoal.

The value of charcoal for poultry
cannot be too widely known. Both
fowls and chicks are fond of it. Judge
G.. O. Brown says there is not suf-
6cient attention given to the impor-
lance of having the charcoal fresh
when it is used for poultry. Charcoal
has wonderful absorbent powers,
especially for gases. Only a small
quantity should be put into the feed
hoppers at q time, on account of the
absorptive nature. Before placing it
where the poultry can get it it is best
to heat it we'll, which will have q ten
dency both to drive off impurities
which have become absorbed and to
refreshen and make it of that crispy
or cracking nature characteristic of
fresh-burned charcoal. Keep the
charcoal in some vessel that is thor
oughly dry and have q. t~ight-ftting
cover to exclude the air.
As o corrective of injudicious over
feeding, as a remedy in bowel trou-
bles, and as a preventive Of indiges-
ton, charcoal has no equals. Feed
every other day, making it about the
size of corr for fowls, and the size Of
wheat for chicks.
Charred corr on cob is an excellent
way for giving charcoal. Place a few
ears of lori in the oven, and keep
them there until they are burned
black to the cob. Corn charcoal can
thus be made as wanted. The older
and dryer the corn the easier it will be
to make charcoal and the better it will
be-,
The best way to feed is to give just
what the fowls will eat up clean. In
that way it is little exposed to the air.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
To Reyolutionize the Steel Industry.

Richard King, superintendent Of steel
works in Be!!evillc, Mo-, has invented a new
ings which, it is said, will revolutionize
the industry.
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Beet Sugar Grown by Salvationists.
A rich Californian has agreed to turn
over 5000 acres OF land to the Salvation
Army for the cultivation Of the sugar beet
by u colony Of the unemployed, and to pay
"a a ton for the beets.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Prohtless Mills.

New England cotton mills haven't earned
q dividend In three years.
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Business Steadily Improving.

DUsF1esb oFoHuaJ
Leading business men in Cleveland,
Ohio, in interviews say business Is steadily
improving.
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30

OF course I am not speaking of rspresen-
tative women-of Eve, who ruined the race
by one fruit picking; Of Jael, who drove a
spike through the head OF Sisera, the war
rior; Of Esther, who oyercame royalty; OF
Abigail, who stopped q host by her own
beautiful prowess; Of Mary, who nursed
the worlds Saviour; Of Grandmother Lois,
immortalized in her grandson Timothy; Of
Charlotte Corday, who drove the dagger
through the heart Of the assassin OF her
lover, or OF Marie Antoinette, who by n
look from the balcony Of her castle quieted
a mob, her own scaffold the throne OF for
giveness and womanly courage. I speak
not OF these extraordinary persons, but OF
those who, unambitious for political
power, as wives and mothers and sisters and
daughters, attend to the thousand sweet
offices OF home.
When at last we come to calculate the
forces that decided the destiny Of nations.
it will be found that the mightie5t and
grandest influence came from home, where
the wife cheered up dependency and far
tigue and sorrow by her W sympathy,
and the mother trained her child for hea-
ven, starting the little feet on the path to
the celestial city, and the sisters by their
gentleness refined the manners OF the
brother, and the daughters were diligenti in
their kindness to the aged, throwing
wreaths of blessing on the road that led
father and mother down the steep Of years.
God bless our homes. And may the home
on earth be the vestibule Of our home
in heaven, in which place we may all
~meet-father, mother, son, daughter,
brother, sister, grandfather and grand
mother and grandehild, and the entire
group OF precious ones, Of whom we must
say, in the words Of transporting Charles
Wesley:
Cine family, we dwell in Him;
One church above, beneath.
Though now divided by the stream
The narrow stream Of death
One army Of the living God,
To His command We bow.
Part of the host have crossed the food.
And part are crossing now.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-10
The Great Wall Of China.

"China abounds in great wallis"
remarks a Pekin correspondent in
a recent letter; "walled country,
walled cities, walled villages, wall
ed palaces and temples-wall at
ter wall and wall within wall. But
the greatest of all is the great wall
of China, built 2l3 years before
our era, of great slabs of well-hewn
stone laid in regular courses some
twenty feet high, and then topped
out with large, hard burned brick,
the ramparts high and thick and
castellated for use Of arms. 1t was
built to keep the warlike Tartars
out-25 feet high by 40 feet thick,
1900 miles long, with room on top
for six horses to be ridden abreast.
For 1400 years it kept those hordes
at bay, in the main, and is just as
good and firm and strong as when
put in place. How one feels while
standing on this vast work, scruti-
niziDg its old masonry, its queer
old cannon, and ambitious sweep
along the mountain crest. In
speechless awe we strOlled or sat
and gazed in silent WONDER
huDdled miles Of this gigantic
work, built on the rugged, craggy
mountain tops, vaulting over gor-
ges, spanning wild streams, net
ting the river archways with huge,
hard bars of copper; with double
gates, and swinging doors and
bars set thick with iron armor-a
wonder in the world, before which
the old-time classic wonders, all
gone now, save the great pyramid
were toys. An engineer in Sew.
ards party here, some years ago,
gave it as his opinion that the cost
Of this wall, figuring labor at the
same rate, would more than equal
that of all the 100000 miles of
railroad in the United States. The
material it contains would build Il
wall six feet high and two feet
thick straight around the globe.
Yet this was done in oply twenty
years, without a trace of debt or
bond. 1t is the greatest individual
labor the world has ever known.
You stand before it AS before the
great Omnipotent-bowed aud 81
lent.n
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-10

The latest news from the the
alter of European complications, if
not of actual hostilities, is to the
effect, that the little Kingdom of
Greece is defiant and will not sub
init to the ultimatum of the powers
to withdraw her troops from the
Island of Crete and cease to inter
fere between the hated, despotic
and tyraunical Turk and his OPP.
pressed and misgoverned sub.
,jects. While the termination of q
war between Greece and Turkey,
without extraneous assistance in
favor Of the former, is not a matter
of doubt or uncertainty, yet the
christian powers of Europe cannot
afford to turn the scale in favor ot
the Moslem tyrant, by any pre-
tense Of coercion against the
christian Kingdom of Greece.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-10
Dangers of The Grip.

The greatest danger from La.
Grippe is of its resulting in pneu
monia. If reasonable care is used,
however, and Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy taken, all danger will be
avoided Among the tens OF
thousands who have used this rem
edy for la grippe, we have yet to
learn of a single case having result
ed in pneumonia, which shows con-
clusiyely that this remedy is q GER
tain preventive of that dread dis.
ease. 1t will effect a permanent
cure iu less time than any other
treatment. The % and 80 cent
sizes for sale by Phoenix Drug
Store.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-03-10
Two Lives Saved.

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of junction
City, Ills, was told by her doctors
she had Consumption and that
there was no hope for her, but two
bottles of DR.. Kings New Dis
coyery completely cured her and
she says saved her life. Mr.. Thos.
Eggers, 139 Florida St, San Fran
cisco, suffered from a dreadful cold,
approaching Consumption, tried
without result everything else then
bought one bottle of DR.. Kings
New Discovery aud in two weeks
was cured. He is naturally thank
full. 1t is such results, Of which
these are samples, that prove the
efficacy Of this medicine in Coughs
and Colds. Free trial bottles at
Eagle Drug Store.