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Range Horses.
prey.

The day of the range horse is over.
It has become such drug on tho mar.
ket that for several years past stock
men have not branded the young
horses growing up. The horses on the
plains now are about one-half without
brands and have relapsed into o per.
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LIKE A BIRD.
NEW FLYING MACHINE IN
VENTED BY A GERMAN.
RThe Inventor Thinks He Has Solved
The Problem of Aerial Naviga-
tion-Huge Wings Driven
BY Carbonated Gas.
BERLIN correspondent of the

X BERLIN correspondent of the
n Pittsburg Dispatch says:
NJ Herr Arthur Stentzel, of AL
tona, believes he has solved the
problem of aerial navigation. 1t has
long been the aim of the flying ma
chine enthusiast to construct some
thing that would practically be the
prototype of bird. 1t is on this prln-
oiple that he has constructed his ma
chine. Its two great sections resem-
BILE the wings of gigantic bird more
than all else. With them the inventor
claims that ne can move through the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-28

Governor Smith. the new Executive
of Montana, advises the amending of
the State constitution to provide that
the million acres of land owned by the
State be not sold, but leased, and that
persons residing on these lands be
exempt from all taxation on personal
property and improvements.
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THE HALL OF A HOUSE,
An Attractive Feature Of the Mod
ern Dwelling.

In the furnishing of modern house
the hall constitutes one Of the most
serious problems, but there is one
consolation. If one solves it success
fully the hall becomes one of the most
attractive features of the entire house.
1t then ceases to be mere passage.
way, and becomes veritable room,
and one which, strangely enough, will
be more generally used than almost
any other in the house. In the con.
ventionsl city dwelling, when the hall
is long, narrow and dark, with high
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-28

The biggest fsh story of the season
comes from North Carolina. Captain
Tarkenton recently caught in Pamlico
River sturgeon that measured nine
and half feet in length and weighed
about three hundred pounds.
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. ,y,,rd.- Nexer Committed.

Joseph Murdock, of Scott County, Vir-
ginia, who was supposed to have been muir
derei twenty-five years ago, and for when
crime Bud" Lindsay served twenty-one
years in tho Virginia penitentiary; mas re,
turned to his former home. Lindsay died
recently
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-28
UNCLE SAM'S ORIGINAL ATTIRE.

Somewhat Different From the Mod
ern Figure.
The original Uncle Sam of song and
cartoon was 80 different from the
modern figure, with its long striped
pantaloons, that our readers will be
interested to see the costume as some
of the students of history say it should
be. In the first place, say these
authorities, he should wear high hat,
slightly bell crowned and of felted
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the head of tie bird was visible in the
darkness. The kiwi was torpid and
lazy in the daytime, but at night it
was seen to dart about, thrusting its
illuminated beak in every worm bur-
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Spain In the New World.

Eighty years ago Spain's territory
in the new world amounted to 5.OOO,.
900 square miles. OF this empire
Cuba and Porto Rico are the only
remnants, $4,000 square miles.
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There Is such thing as putting ourselves
in the way of Gods overfowing love and
letting it beat upon US till the response OF
love to Him comes. not by struggle, not even
by deliberation, but by necessity, as the
echo comes when the sound strikes the
rock.-Phillips Brooks.
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"We, too, would wear unspotted
The garments of the King,
Would have the royal perfume
About our path to cling,
, And unto all beholders
A lilied beauty bring"
Thought answereth alone to thought,
And Soul with soul hath kin; .
The outward God he findeth not, ..
Who finds not God within. =
F. L. Hosmer.
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RELIGIOUS READING,
WE WILL HAVE FAITH.


The way is long and dreary,
The path is bleak and bare;
Our feet are worn and weary,
But we will not despair.
More heavy was thy burden,
More desolate thy way:
o Lamb Of God. who takest
The sin OF the world away,
Have mercy on US.
Our hearts are faint with sorrow,
Heavy and hard to bear,
For We dread the bitter tomorrow,
But we will not despair.
Thou knewest all our anguish,
And thou wilt bid it cease;
o Lamb OF God, who takest
The sin vi the wo:id away,
Give US thy peace ..
Adelaide A. Proctor.
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TROUBLE.

Through trouble, with surprise we find
The soul is lifted high.
As birds against gentle wind
More easily can fly.
George Bancroft Griffith.
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GOOD EOR EVIL

On clouds that strive to dim its light
The sun still pours its glory bright;
So in our treatment Of a foe,
A smiling. gen'rous front we'll show!
George Bancroft Griffith.
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Training a Jubilee Team.

Queen victoria's team of eight cream.col-
,red horses which are to draw her state car
.iage at the celebration in London next June
IRE now being exercised In the streets 80 as
% accustom them to the traffic.
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Florida is agitating the subject of a
reformatory for youthful criminals.
The newspapers OF the State are advo.
eating it.
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A UNIQUE BANNER.
An American Flag Made Entirely of
Butterflies.

Butterflies.
Patriotic Americans have depicted
the National flag in all manner of ways
with all manner of substances, but,
says the New York World. it remained
for an Englishman, John Hampson, CT
Newark, n. j., to make the Stars and
Stripes in butterflies.
For four years Mr.. Hampson has
labored with the delicate little beau
ties in making his flag, which is about
20x24 inches.
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1t is part of my religion to look well
after the cheerfulnesses OF life and let the
dismals shift for themselves. NJ
Alcott.
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Last year about $31, 900, 900 worth
of tobacco was smoked in Spain-an
average of $1.S0 per her head.
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row it came across, gently. feeling for
the inhsbitant OF the burrow and
dragging it forth, little by little, tax.
ing the greatest care not to break its
prey.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-28

The people of the United States con.
sumed 1900, 900 punches of bananas
during 1896.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-28

The wine production OF Russia has
doubled within the last fourteen years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-04-28

"And Duty opens wide the door
BY which Love enters free,
The Love whose rule is largest life
And purest liberty"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-25

of the North American continent, and
Bristol considers herself especially con-
cerned, because it was from that ia
nous port that Cabot and his col
leagues sailed in the Matthew on her
most successful voyage, on which she
sighted the North American continent.
The site for the monument is the sum-
nit of Brandon in the heart of the CITY,
The hill is twenty-five acres in extent
and has been donated by the town
council to the purpose. The monument
Will take the form of an ornate tower,
which has been designed by w. V.
Cough, the eminent English architect.
The movement is under the guidance
and patronage of the Marquis of Duff
ferin. The Cabot monument commit
tee, before appealing for funds, was al
ready in possession Of $4,000, which is
one-ffth of the amount necessary for
the building of the memorial tower.
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ideal statues are largely destitute Of
character. OF the tr:thfulness of the
busts we know nothing, and, indeed. it
is remarkable to notice how greatly the
portrait busts Of the same man differ
from each other. There are ten or
twelve busts of Julius Caesar, for in
stance, each so different from all the
others that it would be impossible to
Identify them as belonging to the same
man, and the same popularity may be
noticed in the case Of several other
celebrities of that age.
The sculptors Of our own day are still,
to some extent, fettered by the trali-
tions of the ancient art canons, but the
painters have burst their bonds and
established ideals Of their own. In so
doing, they have freed themselves, not
only from the thralldom of the ancient
art rules, but also from the almost
equally rigorous bondage of the Re
naissance art. The present age, in art
as in almost everything else, has brok-
en- away, to no inconsiderable extent,
from the domination OF its predecessors,
and the artists have created for them
selves new ideals, which appeal more
strongly than those Of former times to
the public taste, because they are more
truthful to nature than their predeces-
sors. One touch of nature in art, as in
poetry or fiction, makes the whole
world kin, and in this fact may be
found an explanation of the popularity
of such paintings as '"The AnoeluS"
1t is to art what the picture OF Tiny
Tim, with his plaintive God bless us
every one" is to literature; a perfect bit
of characterization, done in irreproach-
able style and with the strictest regard
to detail and coloring.
Where the whole modern artistic
world has taken the same course, COM
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-06-25
WOULDN'T MARRY j. G. FAIR.
How the California Senator Got the
Mittcn in His Youth.

How the California Senator Got the
Mittcn in His Youth.
Because he loved so ardently, for
which reason she thought him ''too
SOFT" Miss Lizzie Hardin refused
James G. Fair to marry Thomas
Bryan. That was years and years ago,
before the great bonanza days on the
Comstoclz lode, when Senator Fair was
plain Jim" Fair and both were young.
Indeed, Lizzie was only Is years old
and Jim" had but recently reached
his majority. Mrs. Bryan is widow
now and still lives on the old farm in
the Sonoma valley, California. She
was asked about her acquaintance with
Mr.. Fair and how he came to propose
marriage. She said:
"Yes, he wanted to marry me-" said
Mrs. Bryan, slowly. 81 was very young
then-hardly Is when he first proposed.
We never quarreled. I thought every
thing of him as q friend-he was so
kind I couldn't help liking him that
way-and 1 suppose l should have had
him if he hadn't thought so much of
me. The more he showed that he liked
me the less cared for him-I thought
he was too SOFT" she explained, illus
trating the perversity Of feminine hu-
manity the world over.
snow, Mr.. Bryan never showed that
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etc.,, so placed as to form pockets or
brackets every four inches. On this
same axle are two more wheels (B and
81. is an eighteen-inch cog wheel
which, by cog chain, is conected with
a fve-inch wheel CO. on the upper axle.
On the same axle with G and propelled
by it is the chain wheel (D), which is
just the same as is seen on all chain
pumps for the purpose of drawing the
rubber buckets or sucks.
The pumpstock (c) is just an ordinary
tWO-inch tube, which reaches to the top
Of the drive wheel, and empies the
water into it's bucketed rim. The
weight Of the water in the rim turns
the drive wheel, and so puts the ma
bottom empties into a trough placed
for that purpose. This trough (F) is
sectioned, four-ffths being on one side
of the division and one-fifth on the
other. The water caught in the small
er section is for use, that in the larger
, section, or four-ffths of the water
pumped, is by Il neat device emptied
into chain of buckets which hang on
| wheel q. OF course these full of water
will cause it to turn with pour equal
| to the weight of four-fifths of the water
pumped. Each bucket as it reaches the
bottom of the we'll inverts and comes
up empty. AS wheel e is fast on the
axle of the drive wheel this extra
weight adds power.
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'oTHE TOMBS."
For Over Half a Century Counectett
with the Crimes of New York.

For Over Half a Century Councctecr
with the Crimes of New York.
The most famous prison in the Un1-
ted States is the Tombs, of New York.
Which is now being demolished to make
room for a more commodious structure,
The building, which was constructed OF
gray granite, was erected between 1888,
and 1928, being completed in the latter
year. 1t has housed during its less
than three score years of existence half
a million prisoners; some famous or:
Infamous in the history Of crime, other,
unfortunates who We're glad to be con-
fined there during the winter months,
regaining their freedom in the spring.
Before the passage of the law fixing
electrocution as the official means OF
ending forfeited lives in the State,
there We're many executions in the
Tombs. All told. there were sixty
hangings. Among the inmates of the
Tombs who suffered the extreme pen
atty of the law within it's walls was
Capt. Nathaniel Gordon, the slave
trader. Gordon sailed from Havana
in the summer of 1850 in the ship Erie,
bound for the west coast of Africa, and
was captured on his return voyage
with nearly 900 negroes packed in the,
hold, by the United States cruiser
Monongahela, in which he and his,
mates were brought prisoners to New
York, and after short detention in
the Eldridge street Jail, were transfer.
red for safekeeping until trial to the.
Tombs.
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DiStreS SSinC,
parison.

Genial old Izaak Walton himself mad
not keener fisherman's instinct than
was possessed by old Zimri Skillings,
who fiourished in a Western State a
good many years ago. One day, Zimri
took his rod and line and "wums," as
he called them, and started off for a
four days fishing trip.
He had been gone but one day when
his poor old wife died unexpectedly,
and neighbor hastened off in pursuit
of Zimri. He was found silently but
profoundly happy, with his line cast in
the Cinnamon River. He turned pale
and was at first speeclless with e1no-
ton when told of his loss.
Its too bad, Zimri," said the sympa-
thetic neighbor; whereupon Zimri
found voice enough to say:
oval, sh'd say so-with the pic-rel
bitin' ez I amt seen 'em bite fer a
year!'' And he gulped down another
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suoJect While it might be satisf,ctorv
" some, might also be extremely dis
.astefcl to others. The belle of M
Money would hardly shine In Paris
WINE the most beautiful Chinese won
aa would not come up to Euronoon
iueas, vet these ladies are douht]pss
very beautiful in the eyes of the oa1.
hilts Oh their respective countries how
ever much their charms might lack Of
salls1ylns the aesthetic tastes of the
oesiuA OF other lands. But among the
Caucasian races there has been a GEM
efai consensus of artistic opinion as to
"lat constitutes female beauty. Req
oiaflty OF features, without unlne
prominence on the part of any one.
plullpness OF face and form, medium
helSht, all parts of the body in Just and
proper proportion, color and expression.
are regarded rs the main points of
beauty, and w.ilc some Of these have
received scrupulous attention from fhe
ancient sculptors when doing ideal
WORK one has been notably neglected.
ancient portrait busts are full of ey-
preston. and, in this connection. it is
a singular fact that there is compara-
lively little difference in the type of
countenance between the women of the
time OF the Caesars and the women of
our own age. When they were repre-
senting in marble or bronze the f,,
lures of living women. the ancient
sculptors were true to life, but the mo-
ment they departed from the COPY set
before them and attempted to idealize
they became meaningless. There is not
an atom of expression in the face of
Venus as it has come down to US in in
Vulnerable statues and busts; the fca.
tures are irreproachable, but the face is
that OF doll, and the same lack of ex
preston is observable in the Junos. the
Minervas, the MUSES., the Graces. and
other ideal female faces which the
Greek and Roman sculptoNs preserved
for us in bronze and marble. In seek
ing to avoid positiveness of expression.
as in portraits, they lost all, and pre-
sented regular features, but nothing
more. While the ancient portrait busts
are, therefore, admirable, the ancient
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The Year.

The countries and nations of the
world, with few exceptions, begin the
year with January 1, but that this sys-
TEN is arbitrary and based upon moth
ing in particular does not even need to
be proved. The ancient Egyptians,
Chaldeans, Persians, Syrians, Phoeni-
clans and Carthaginians each began
their year with the autumnal equinox,
or about September 222. Among the
Greeks the beginning of the yaer was
at the time Of the winter solstice down
to t32 B. c., when the "Metonic cycle"
was introduced, after which the new
year begin on June %. In England
from the time of the 14th century until
1852, the legal and ecclesiastical year
began on March 25.
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THE ToMBs, NEW YoRK's FAMOUS PRISON.

sentenced to be hanged in the court,
yard OF the prison on February 21,p
1862. On the day before the execution
he attempted suicide by poison, but
was resuscitated. At the last moment
he broke down utterly, and it was only,
by the administration of stinulantsl
that he was enabled TO walk, supported
to the scaffold, where he was hanged. :,
surrounded by a strong guard Of Uni,
ted States marines.
AT one time three men were hangedi
in the Tombs at the same time and att
another, four. Suicide has also been!
frequent among men condemned toi
death; but of recent years, owing toa
the isolation of such prisoners and the,
strict watch kept on them, few att
tempts at sef-destruction had beel'
successful.
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iseses,' by Bernard; "At the Feast" by
Leon Fortnnski; "rraumerei'' and
"Song.' by konral Kiefel: 'rle Water
Carrier" by Blaas; and ssHhe Flower
Girl" by Edmund de Pury. There are
hundreds of others, but the striking in
dlvlduality OF the art of the present day
may be as well exhibited by one ex-
ample as by dozen or hundred and
these Illustrations are typical of the
whole.
The cause Of the remarkable differ
ence is not difficult to find. The artists
OF our time have vivid apprehension
OF the fact that the closer the approxi-
nation of art to nature, the truer be-
comes the picture as an art work, and
also IS q glimpse of one phase of life.
In "Traumerei," for instance, there is
the suggestion, not only of a charming
face ana figure, but also of train Of
reflection and reminiscence. 1t is a
beautiful picture, also suggestive. and
the beholder feels certain that behind it
lies whole romance, a three-yolume
novel, with plot, incidents and dcnoue-
ment complete. So also round the
Water Carrier" and the "FIower Girl"
fancy can play and weave web of
imagery which shall make them prin-
cesses in disguise, or heiresses who are
Kept from their estates by the machina-
tions Of heavy villain. who, sooner or
later, will come to justice and be COM
PEELED to give them possession of their
own. They are more attractive than
the ideal characters, the Graces, the
MUSES. Of the Renaissance painters, be,
cause they are truer to life.
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&ere the names of men living in the
PeAt street; while, if the talk be of
painting. ZeuNis and Pausias and APPEL
H. ana number of others figure with
FQual prominence and familiarity as
Ae writer's descant ON the superiority
ancient art to modern and prove, to
fAetf own satisfaction, that the painters
~ our own time ought to be painting
feAces instead Of faces, and that the
|ScUlptors would better be employed in
lpFeaking macadam than in chiseling
anarble
j ideals are we'll enough in their way
FL lact the world, without them, would
pFooably not amount to much; but in
pounding their praises it is well to re-
Ethefhber that it is quite possible not
|phiy Tor every age to have its own, but
Elso that those of a succeeding age may
f. a decided improvement on such as
[i''Fe gone before. Owen Meredith says
fs2mewhere in "Lucile":
dwarf on dead giants shoulders sees
nan the live giants eyesight availed to
explore.
ne saying is just as true now as
nch he stole it from George Sands
II E,1o'cl and made it as much his own as
ne could by putting it in rhyme and
"'s'ef. Artistically, the painters Of the
Er'NSeht day stand on the shoulders of
muse Who have gone before them, and
''e aple to create models Of their own.
aftlcularly is this the case in the
t"s'@f OF female beauty. Every age
E','" country has its own standards or
4 'V''s III this matter, and what would
~ considered a perfect type in one
~ ",, NJ oe regarded as deficient in am
''Ael' so that 4 dogmatic ruling on the
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influences of the cigarette" declared
Ramon G. Garcia of the City of MeXi-
co, who is stopping at the st. Nicho-
las. 1T is wrong to attribute the ori-
gin Of the cigarette to the Spaniards.
l have given the matter a good deal of
Investigation, and l have established
beyond doubt that the Spaniards first
got a whiff of the cigarette when they
invaded Mexico under Ctrtez. The Az
tees then used tobacco in no other
form, and the Spaniards learned from
them how to roll the little package into
smokable shape. They introduced the
cigarette into Europe, and by that
route it found it's way into America,
though it was nearly 200 years reach
ing here. The Aztecs were also using
cocoa and it's product, chocolate, when
Cortez conquered them, and it was not
long till the whole of Europe was eat
ing the various preparations of this
bean. Wher, the Spaniards first tasted
they named it thoebromus, from the
Greek words meaning food Of the
gods ST. Louis Republic.
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Zebras for Farm Work.

On several South African jarms cx-
periments have been tried with zebras.
They become as tame as ponies, auf
are readily broken in for draught-
work. The object of their tanners has
been to breed mule which, like the.
zebra, is proof against the tsetsc-t!y.,
The zebras themselves will run welh
enough in mule team, though they
cannot stand overdl'iFing.
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gerstoWn, where, for some time, it has
been building and now stands.
The drive wheel CAY is eight feet in
diameter and rests on bali bearings.
Its rim is a metal trough six inches
wide and four inches deep, with metal
strips indicated by dotted lines a, 4,
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"TRAUMEREI."-KoNRAD KIEFEI,.

cen them, says q writer in the Globe
mocrat. In really learned art crit
SIN, thenames Of PraXiteles and Phii-
!. .Agesanler and Alcamenes. Apol-
!ius and Tauriscus. and Chares, and
'omenes. and Lysippus, and Myron
: Is faniliar}y used as though they