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Warren, ILL.,, the water supply is dis.
tributed according to the Engineering
News, from q water tower of masonry
l02 feet high from the water table to
the bottom of the tank. The masonry
is founded on solid rock about twelve
or thirteen feet below the water table.
At the level of the water table the
walls are four feet thick, and from this
they decrease with a uniform taper to
thickness OF two feet at the top. The
masonry is of limestone laid in cement
mortar. The tank is made of red
Louisiana cypress and is twenty-fou
,eet high and twenty-one feet in dia-
meter, with capacity of 1000 gallons.
The standpipe which supplies the
water to the mains is ten inches in
diameter and is connected with the
bottom of the tank with an expansion
oint and balance float valve. This
ralve automatically shuts off the water
when the tank is full.
Water is pumped to the tower from
! deep we'll located in the brick power
house about sixty feet away. This
veil is about 800 feet deep. The
water is lifted from the well to the top
If the tower without rehandling.
Eventually the water will be discharged
nto reservoir, where it will be
handled by another pump for fire
service, but in the meantime a very
air pressure is had direct from the
ank, which is elevated some forty or
fifty feet above the larger part of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-22
DECREASE IN IMMIGRATION.
An Increase Expected Under Improving
business Conditions.

The United States Treasury Department.
has prepared figures showing the lmmlgra.
tion for July. The total was IA, 4,756, against
21 ,476 for the corresponding month last
wear. This decrease is considered rather
remarkable, in view of the stimulus in busi-
ness conditions in the United States IN the
last few months, experience having demon
strated that the tide Of immigration tol-
lows closely the opportunities which exist
here for those seeking better conditions
under which to make the struggle for Ire
In the last few years Of depression im IL
grafton steadily decreased. Last year the
total was less than the number which came
in a single year from Germany alone. IL IS
believed at the Treasury Department tnat
the figures for July are ebb-tide hSures,
and that rs soon as the improving business
situation in the United States becomes
matter Of public knowledge in Europe the
immigration to this country will once more
begin to increase. ,oo,
Of the total OF 14,756 Immigrants, lo'+
came through Canada. The largest num-
her. 1928, came from Italy. Russia was
next with 2376; Germany sent 1877 ana Ire
land 1885. The figures for July, like those
for the last fiscal year, show a predoml-
nance in the number of female over male
Immigrants from Ireland. This is the only
country from which more women than men
come
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"Out Of Sorts"

Many common expressions are of
legitimate parentage, although most
people believe that they spring up like
Copsy. The printing craft, for in
stance, originated several very popu-
ar sayings. Take the case of man
Who is "out of sorts" In hand
composition printing office the word
sorts" applies to the letters and
marks which should be in the type
,ase, but which are frequently miss
ng. A man who, in the days before
he coming of linotype machines,
'ound his ''e" box barren or his COM
ma box desolate and bankrupt was
said to be out of those particular sorts.
By his profanity the calamity was
made known, and by his impatient re-
marks to this day is the man who is
,ut of sorts known, whether he is a
banker or a policeman.-Chicago Rec
,rd
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BILLIONS OF STAMPS.
UNCLE SAM PRINTS AN ENORMOUS
NUMBER EACH YEAR.

ALI Kinds and Colors, From the Pink Two
Center to the Lordly One Hundred
Dollar Stamp-HOw They Are Turned
Out by the Washington Bureau.
Uncle Sam makes and issues in the
course of year postage and other
four billions. The exact number for
the last year of which record is OBJ
tainable, says the New York World,
was 4,243, ,2S9, 261. 1t is hard for the
human mind to realize the magnitude
of sum as great as four billions. A
better idea, probably, can be obtained
of the size of the stamp output for a
year by the statement that if they were
pasted together, end for end, the strip
thus obtained would encircle the earth
seven times around at the equator.
There were all sorts and conditions
of stamps in this aggregate of four bill
lions. There were postage stamps,
from the humble little one-center and
the familiar pink two-center that every
one sees to the lordly one hundred
dollar stamp that lives an exclusive
life and never shows itself to the vul-
gar herd. The latter is called peri
odical stamp. 1t is sold to the pub
fishers of periodicals, who present it
to the postmaster with so many pounds
of mail matter, and the stamp is then
cancelled and kept in book. Over
ten thousand of these were pointed last
year.
There were about one hundred mil
lion of the long green beer stamps used
in the internal revenue service, that
you see the barkeeper remove from
the bunghole when he taps fresh keS.
There were about four hundred mil
lion of the little green stamps that seal
the end of cigarette box. There were
more than half billion of tobacco
strip stamps, with countless millions
of other kinds.
The everyday two-cent stamp, with
its cheerful pink color and mucilaginous
back, was printed to the number of
little more than two billions. If the
magnitude of this number is difficult
to grasp, it is easy enough to measure
a two-cent stamp and figure for ones
self how many thousand miles those
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accounted for and, locked in vault.
Until the last plate is in no employe
of the division is allowed to leave the
building.
The plate now being finished, it is
sent to the pressroom. Some of the
stamps are printed upon hand presses
and others upon revolving steam
presses. The day Visited the Bureau
the hand pressmen were working upon
beer stamps. There were twenty of
these upon sheet, and the printer and
his assistant were enabled to turn out
from 700 to 800 sheets a day. The
pressman's assistant is always young
girl, as womans deft touch is re-
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

A Hymn of Thanksgiving-A Things in
the Hands of the Fatier-A Prayer for
Strength Discipline Brings Courage
The Self Life Banner.
For the dear love that kept US through the
night, .
And gave our senses to sleeps gentle sway,
For the new miracle Of dawning light.
Flushing the east with prophecies of day.
We thank thee, o, our God!
For the fresh life that through our being
flows,
With It's full tide to strengthen and to bless,
For calm, sweet thoughts, uprising from
repose.
We praise thee. o, our God!
Thou knowest our needs, thy fulness will
supply
Our blindness.-let thy hand still lead us on,
Till, visited by the dayspring from on high,
Our prayer, one only. "Let thy will be
done,"
We breathe to thee. o. God! ~
w. a.. Burleigh.
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two billions would stretch if pasted end

two billions would stretch if pasted end
to end.
All of the stamps used by the United
States are printed at Washington in
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, the same institution that turns
out the paper money of the Govern
ment. Formerly they were made by
the bank note companies in New York,
but in 1898 Uncle Sam concluded that
as he was going into the printing
business very extensively at his capital
he might as we'll save the profits on
the stamp making. The Bureau makes
the plates from which the stamps are
printed, does the press work and
manufactures the mucilage. Only the
paper and the ink are purchased in
open market. This preparation of the
mucilage is an art in itself, and is con-
Quoted upon purely hygienic prin-
ciples, for the benefit of the several
billions of people who annually lick
postage stamps.
The operation of the manufacture of
postage stamps through the several
branches is an exceedingly interesting
one to follow. A small army of men
and young women, skilled artisans, are
employed in the work, and the great
red brick building on the banks of the
Potomac under the shadow of the
Washington monument is busy bee
hive for eight hours in the day.
The first step in the manufacture of
postage and revenue stamps is the
making Of the plates from which they
are to be printed. The plate for the
ordinary two-cent stamp of everyday
use is a sheet of steel twenty-one
inches by about thirteen inches. The
engraver uses a sheet of soft steel upon
which he engraves the design of four
hundred stamps.
The custody of these plates, together
with others, is confded to one man.
Every afternoon the plates must be
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APrayer for Strength.

OGod, in whose presence Is our loves
content. help US 81 to use all human affec-
tions that they may speak to US OF thee.
Pardon their failures and shortcomings
and make them wholly thine. For strength
in ministry to those we love-, for opportun-
tiles Of service and for glad humility In re-
ceiving. we humbly pray. To love is thy
gift. Help us to use 1t no6ly, In all sorrow
and all delight. Choose thou our happiness
and sustain US with thy patience in our
grief. When in humility Of self-knowledge
others bring US. may we grow strong and
pure by the remembrance OF their affection:
we are awed and humbled by the thought
Of thy great love in Christ o God. Help US
to know its power for joyful righteousness.
And NAV that holy love surround and purify
all earthly ties of affection, that they may be
as enduring as our life that Is bid with
Christ in God. And to thee be praise,
God. through Jesus Christ, our Lord
Aman
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A Battle For Life in the Congo Rapids.

A Battle For Life in the Congo Rapids.
"Cruelty in the Congo Free State
is the title of the final paper made up
from the journals of the late E. j.
Glave, and it appears in the Century.
Mr.. Glave tells the following story:
Stanley Pool is majestic place, and
is we'll named, for it is monster pool.
At each end it is narrow, and widens
out in the middle. It is studded with
islands and sandbanks, and encircled
by hills more or less timbered.
A native of Kinssssa is said once to
have passed safely the rapids below
Leopoldville. He was in canoe, and
endeavored to cross the river, but was
swept into the rapids. By dexterous
padding he managed to keep his bark
afoat through two miles Of the widest
waters; then she filed and swamped,
and the native swan safely to a small
island. Here he remained six days.
To cross the rapids and relieve him
was impossible. Every day he could
be seen waving his arms franticafly,
and his cries for help could sometimes
be heard above the. roar of the waters.
After six days he was reduced by hun
ger, and determined to risk his life
He gathered together some light logs,
lashed these with vines into rude
sort of raft, then dropped down from
the end of the island, and, padding
with O stick, was hurled about by the
rapids, which, however, are not sc
strong as above; and although carried
down a great distance, he managed OF
last, by working his craft into a back
current, to get ashore. Battered:
terrified, and almost dead with hunger,
he reached fishing camp.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-22
Wales Licensed to Give Pills.

The Prince of Wales, at the last
meeting of the Royal College of PLY.
sicians, having been solemnly elected
d member of that august body, from
now on has the right to commence
medical practice in the United King
dom without any interference on the
part of the authorities. 1t is hardly
necessary to say that England's future
king understands little or nothing
about medicine, and that his doctorship
of medicine as well as his brevat as q
physician is only of an honorary char
acter.-Chicago Record.
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Discipline Brings Courage.

The life that has not known and accepted
sorrow is strangely crude and untaught. 1t
can Meth help nor teach. for it has never
learned. The life that has spurned the
lesson OF sorrow, or failed to read it Alright,
is cold and hard: but the life that has been
disciplined by sorrow is courageous, and iuH
life glares. It has no half-tones or mercifui
shadows. Disappointment in life Is inevi-
table. Pain is the common lot OF humanity.
sharp sorrow, at one time or another, will
come to each OF US, II indeed it has not al
ready come. But this same sorrow Is a
gentle teacher, and reveals many things that
It would be hard to understand.-Anna
Robertson Brown.
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A Woman Colonel.

Miss Lewis Butt is colonel on the
staff of Governor Atkinson, of Georgia.
There is only one other woman colonel
in the United States, and that is COL
onel Nellie Ely, of Tennessee. Dur.
ing the Civil War the dashing Confed.
crate cavalry leader appointed more
than one fair Virginian aide-de-camp
OH his staff, and it is recorded that the
prettiest Of them, Fairfax girl, re-
paid Stuart by marrying Union Off.
cer.-New York Journal.
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Paris Rainfall,

From records extending back t.
1850, M. Camille Flammarion find
that the rainfall of Paris has gradual.
increased about three inches, beinI
now q little more than twenty-five
inches year. The amount of differ
ence seems to indicate that the IN
crease is real and not due to create
accuracy of observation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-22
Our First Thought for God.

That the period Immediately after rising
should be scrupulously consecrated to Godi
that the earliest thoughts Of the homage OF
self dedication should be renewed before
starting on another pilgrimage; that we
should listen to his small voice OF warning or
encouragement as it issues from his written
inner word or from the inner consciousness,
or from the outer world-all this Is SO essen
tiallv bound up with the peace and holiness
of the day that one might almost say the two
are inseparable. The tone and sentiment
and feeling throughout the day are sure to
take their coloring from the morning hour.
-Goulhurn.
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dark. Pedro is pretty red pigeon,
is three years old; and is owned by
Secretary Tallens, of the club. Pedro
is a brother of Lulu, the winner of
the 5OO-mile race in Mississippi. Both
are imported birds. When Pedro Or
rived at Mishawaka he flew straight to
his loft, seeming none the worse for
the journey.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-22
The SelfLife a Barrier.

You often see beautiful fruit displayed be-
hind plate glass window or IN some snop;
and the hungry little boys look and long for
it. but they cannot reach it. If you were to
tell one of them who has never seen glass to
take some, he might attempt It but he finds
something invisible between him and that
fruit. Just so many Christians can see that
Gods gifts are beautiful, but they cannot
take, because the self-life comes In between,
even though they cannot see 1t. What glo-
rious blessings we should have II we were
only willing to give up the self-life and take
what God has prepared Tor uswn3a s., .ha oh,y my
of the Holy Ghost-Rev. Andrew Murray.
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women are paid from $3.50 to 50 per

women are palu from S1.OO 10 SZ per
day.
When the perfect sheets are thus as
sorted and counted, they pass to the
storage vault, freproof and alright
structure. The Bureau keeps sto ok
of about six hundred million stamps
on hand constantly. They are fur
nished to the Postoffice Department at
the rate of about twelve millions day,
upon requisition by the Third Assist
ant Postmaster General. A steel
wagon, with padlocked doors and ac-
companied by a guard of armed men,
conveys the stamps to the Postofice
Department. This wagon is also used
to transport currency and bank notes
to the Treasury Department, and goes
trundling along the street with mill
ions of money inside of it.
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The Attltude of Strength.

There is another attitude as important as
that of truth and OF duty for the develop
ment men Of great personality. 1t is the attitude
described in the word Glove" Ever and
everywhere be a lover! The occupying OF
such point of truth and duty and love will
make YOU a personality which shall be like
cathed raj, strong with the strength OF but
tressed principles, beautiful with the memo
ry of holy deeds, and seen from afar as the
symbol of the presence OF God.-Charles r.
Thwing
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Chattel Slavery In Missouri.

According to an old law in st. Louis,
a man may be sold at auction to the
highest bidder for term of siS
months service for deserting his wife
and failing to support her. The law
is to be applied in the case of con-
irmed loafer, and an announcement OF
his sale is posted on the front door OF
the City Court House.-Chicago Jour.
nal.
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practical commercial service of the
civilized American; heretofore the Eski
mo dog has been used in all expedi-
tions through the Klondike country.
That the reindeer possesses tremend-
GUS advantages over the Eskimo dog
is illustrated in the matter of their re-
spective food. That of the dog must
be carried, while the reindeer paws the
snow from the roots on which he sub
sists.-New York World.
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Survived O Great Fall.

John Swan, Of New York City, Harvard
senior, fell 300 feet from a precipice on
Monument Mountain, between Stockbridge
and Great Darlington, Mass. His left arm
and leg were broken and injury to the
mine Is feared.
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Went Like Hot Cakes.

The Cleveland Plaindealer tells an
amusing anecdote of the ruse a mem.
Der of the Ohio Legislature adopted to
get rid of big pile of agricultural re,
ports that had accumulated in his
office. One Of his neighbors fixed him
ap placard reading:
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COUNTESS OF ANCAsTER.

ior- General Sir Henry Ewart, the
Queens equerry. This fact and the
very high social position of the Coun-
tess herself, give more than ordinary
Importance to her opinions upon mat
ters concerning society, and dancing
is certainly one of these.
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Dinner Was Late and He Hanged Himself.

Andrew Heinritz, twenty-seven years old,
living at Williamsburg, suburb OF Pitts
burg, Penn, made an engagement Wild
friends to 60 to Turtle Greek: His wits
cooked dinner late and he saw he had missed
:he train. He had an ungovernable tenn
per, and, after scolding his wife, went doWn
% the cellar. His friends came to so With
him on a later train. Heinritzs wife sent
:hem downstairs, and they found him hang
ing dead by rope.
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A COUNTESS CREATES A STIR.

5ne DeCIHres THU DHHCIHS 11as OVkoft
Grated Into o Graceless Romp.
The Countess of Ancaster, who has
,reated a great stir in the fashionable
world of London by her declaration
hat dancing has degenerated into a
raceless romp, is the wife of Lord
Willoughby de Eresby, the Baron of
Aveland. The Countess daughter,
evelyn Clernentina, is married to Ma
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PRINCE OF PIGEONS.
He Few 1000 Miles in Seventy-fve Hours
and Holds the Worlds Record.

and Holds the Worlds Record.
Pedro, the great homing pigeon
which broke the worlds record for
1000 miles in his swift journey in the
air from New Orleans to Mishawaka,
Ind, is the pride of the Mishawaka
Homing Club. Pedro's superb race
was made in seventy-fve hours total,
or less than fifty hours of actual fly
ing. Carrier pigeons never work after
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Big Price for Apples.

One farmer in the Shenandoah Valley, OF
Virginia, has sold his crop OF apples-40O0
barrels-to London Arm for $3.50 per bar
rel.
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A HIGH WATER TOWER.
Is 1O2 Feet High and Has a Capacity OF
1000 Gallons.

The towns of the plain districts are
forced to resort to various expedients
to obtain O suitable pressure for the
distribution of their water supply. At
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-22

During the year 1896 dead dogs to
the number of 10,002 were taken out
of Chicago.
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KLONDIKE PALACE CARS.
First Effort to Put Reindeer to Use III
America.

The rush to the Klondike has been
the means of establishing a novel
transportation line at Circle City,
Alaska. Twenty sturdy bucks have
been selected from the United States
Government reindeer herd at Teller's
Station and are now on their way to
the mining districts. This is the first
effort to press the reindeer into the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-22

Crude petroleum is an excellent
remedy ior rheumatism. ---------
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Be true and real in all thy sacred acts; re-
member with whom thou hast to do.
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