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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
CAKE N POETRY.

What art thou, Life? A fleeing day OF
change,
A trembling dawn on o wide-reaching,
restless sea?
a fervid noon-Eve's shadow, dim and
strange?
con, that reminds me. must bake some
cake for tea.)
Thy morn is beautiful, oh Life! Il ought
TO glance into the cookbook, so to make
quite sure.
"Three eggs-a cup of cream" just as
With ali its dreams, so high, so true, SC
purel
Grand is thy full, sweet ~noontide, ("sift the
-four
And stir it in:" I'm glad the ovens hot
When lofty purpose arms the soul with
power.
("Raisins and currants, one cup each,
with spice.'D
Night, and the days fulhllmentl Oh, how
How wondrous is this mysteryl ("Theu
add about
a ~teaspoonful OF lemon flavoring"-therel
Now, while 1t bakes, I'll write my poem
Madelinss. Bridges, in Ladies' Home Jour.
nal.
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Lounging Gowns.

Now. perhaps, at the moment, in
spite of the brown linen revelations in
undergarments and the a~ugmenting
splendors Of the millinery displays,
nothing is more refreshing to the al
ready footsore shopper, her brain daz-
zled with money changing and close
bargaining, than those chosen corners
of the big shops where tea gowns and
breakfast negligees 7 displayed.
There is so much doing in this quar-
ter just now for a revival of a fashion
has sprung up unexpectedly, women
have decided that it is both q pretty
and appropriate thing to breakfast in
artistic volantes, crown their heads
with caps and rather make a function of
the early toilet, that non but the fam
lily see.
For this reason we find, in both
elaborate and simple styles, the most
charming breakfasting robes, which
are something of a cross between the
wrapper and the too elaborate tea
gown. With each and everyone,
though a cap is worn, whether the
wearer is a debutante or the mother OF
a debutante. The old women, how
ever, rather affects caps that tie under
the chin, while the spinsters and young
married women cling to the coquettish
topknots, snoods of ribbon and bow
knots or falls of flmy lace al dmuslin.
New Orleans Picayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
First White Child.

The first child of English parents
born in America was Virginia Dare.
the daughter of Ananias Dare and
Eleanor White, members of one of the
bands of colonists sent out to the
newly-discovered country by Sir Wal
ter Raleigh.
This event took place on August 10,
1857, and, appropriately enough, one
Of the counties on Roanoke Islands is
called Dare County. While Virginia
was the first English subject born in
the then distant land, number Of COL
onists had settled in America two years
previously; but they returned to Eng
land in 1886.
In order to commemorate this settle.
ment, a memorial has just been erected
on the site of old Fort Raleigh, on
Roanoke Island. This memorial bears
an inscription stating that: "On this
site, in August, 1856, the colonists
sent from England by Sir Walter
Raleigh built the fort called the New
Fort, in Virginia"
It was peculiarly appropriate that
the first child born in America should
be christened in the name of the State
which owed its own title to the desire
to pay a courtly compliment to the
Virgin Queen of England.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
First sundav-school in the World.

In recounting the ministrations Of
John Wesley in Georgia, where the
famous preacher sowed the first seeds
of Methodism in America, the Rev. W.
J. Scott, D.. D., in the Ladies' Home
Journal, claims that Wesley estab.
lished the first Sunday-school in the
world, at Savannah. In connection
with his other labors, which were in.
deed prodigious, Wesley soon after HE
arrival in Georgia, in 1875, began to
provide for the Sunday-school ~instruc.
ton of the children of the parish. His
devotion to children at times almost
amounted to infatuation. Children
we're likewise equally attached to him,
as shown in their intercourse with him.
Both on week days and Sabbaths he
gave no little attention to educational
work. AS q preliminary labor on the
Sabbath, before the evening service, he
required them to convene in the church,
at which time he catechised them
thoroughly and furnished them with
additional teaching from the Bible
itself.
"In the present Wesleyan Memorial
Church, in Savannah, Georgia, there
is a Sunday-school room into which
hundreds of children crowd for Sun
day instruction. The original school
was less in number, but it was un-
qu~estionably the first Sunday-school
in the world. When taught by Wes-
ley it numbered between sixty and
seventy-fve scholars, but from all &C
counts there were few, if any, Indian
boys in his earlier classes. A very
high authority, Sir Charles Reed, NJ.
p, LID, of England, is clearly of
the opinion that this Sunday-school
was the first founded in the world, and
that it antedates by a hslf century the
secular instruction of Robert Raikes
at Gloucester, England, as we'll as the
first school in America upon Rakes'
plan, which was established in the city
of New York"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
HYMN Writer Dead.

The funeral of Miss Maria Straub,
we'll known to Chicago and the West
as a writer of hymns for the Church
and Sunday-school, who died recently
took place in Chicago.
Miss Straub was the author Of nearly
200 hymns, all of which have been sci
to music by American composers.
Among the best known of her works
are the temperance hymn, "Gird' on
Your Sword of Trust" and "Wave,
Columbia, Wave Thy Banner"
She was an ardent worker in the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
and, although ~contending with a life
of bodily affection, welded an import
ant influence through her ~writings.-
New York Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
A Short-Lived Island,

In 1867 q new shoal was discovered
in the group of the Tonga, OF Friendly
Islands. In 1877 smoke was seen
wei the shoal. In 1885 the shcal had
become a volcanic island, more than
two miles long and 240 feet high, and
a fierce eruption was taking place
within it. In 1886 the island had be.
gun to shrink in dimensions. although
the next year it's highest point was 1876
feet above sea level. In 1889 its
height had diminished one-half, and
the ocean close around it was more
than a mile deep. In 1892 the island
rose only twenty-five feet above sea
level. According to the latest infor-
nation it's complete disappearance, I'M
der the action of the waves, will not
be long delayed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
The Ornamental Parlor Maid.

It has been a growing custom for
those young men Of sufficient leisure
to make afternoon calls on their lady
friends and sip with them a cup oftea.
The custom is bound to become i'm
mensely popular should the feature
thus enunciated become universal.
Here is something decidedly new:
It is the ornamental parlor maid, a
lady-like being, whose waist belt must
not measure over sixteen inches and
who is consequently the embodiment
of "style." She is permitted to wear
q dark blue serge costume, with white
cuffs and collar, while upon her per-
fectly dressed hair perches a coquet-
fish white cap. Considering her cor
seted condition, no labor save that OF
handing cups of tea in the drawing
room is expected of her. But, please,
think what a new element of danger
this modish handmaiden may intro
duce into certain households! She is
a prize ~fgurehead of homework; the
envied of all her peers; the admired
of every visitor of the masculine gen.
der; the criticised of every other wo-
man who hasn't thought Of setting up
q sixteen-inch waist tea bearer. Well,
we'll, perhaps we had better stick tc
the thin-legged footman or to the but,
Ter or even to a plebeian "girl" who
doesn't 60 to a manicure after ALL
Boston Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
Strange Clew to q Murder.

A rich Russian banker had been
discovered murdered in mis- house in
St. Petersburg, says a writer in the
Green Bag. There was no clew, but
in the room there was found a cigar
mouth-piece containing part Of a cigar
of such an expensive kind that it was
supposed the banker himself had been
smoking it just before the crime had
been committed.
On close examination the mouth
piece was found to be ri away by
the teeth of its owner, but the dead
mans teeth did lot fit the indentation.
The servants were n by one ex-
amined, and it was then found that
the hollows of the mouthpiece COM
pared exactly to the formation of the
front teeth of the cook, to whom no
suspicion had been attached. He al
terward confessed to the murder.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
A Four-Dollar Gold Piece.

A curiosity in the shape of a S. gold
piece was offered at the sub-treasury
in Cincinnati. This is probably the
first time in the history of the office
that a coin of that denomination was
ever beheld by the attaches. The
coin came from the Fifth National
Bank, to which one of the depositors
had taken it to find out how much it
was worth. The tellers at the bank
we're unable to decide the question,
and the coin was sent to Uncle Sans
employees in the Federal Building, but
no one there would accept it for the
Treasury for its face value.
Coin Teller Robert Brasher, who is a
numismatist of considerable repute, as
we'll as Teller White, who is consid-
cred one of the most expert counter
felt detectors in the country, and
Cashier Stout, said that they had
never heard of the Government coin
ing a piece of money of that denomina-
ton, and that they would not accept it
even at its face value. The tables CIV
ing the coinage of money from the
earliest date to the present time were
lookedup, but there was no record OF
the Government ever having coined a
81 gold piece. The coin that was pre-
sented was placed on the scales and
was found to weigh 10S 2-10 grains,
making it worth about twenty cents
more than it's face value.
The description of the coin is as
follows: It is almost the size of a SIS
gold piece. On the face around the
outer edge are the words: Omitted
| States of America" Just underneath
this, in small type, are the words: "E
! Pluribus Unum." In the center Is a
star bearing the following: "One
stella, 400 cents" Underneath the
star, in small letters, are the words'
"Deo est Gloria" On the diverse
side, in the centre, is a head of the
Goddess of Liberty. Above this on
the outer edge are thirteen small stars.
Between the stars are the following
letters and figures: 6, G, 8, s, 7, G,
7, G, R, A, NJ, S. Underneath the
head is the observation-disclosures
ENQUIRER.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
PITH AND POINT.

"stark is a bicycle crank, isn'the?"
'I should say he was. When it rains
he stays home and runs his cyclic.
meter. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The difference between the astrono.
mer and the chorus girl is that one
studies the stars and the other under.
studies them. -Philadelphia Record.
First Bicycle Girl-"Oh, yes; I
often fall of, but I always land on my
feet" Second Ditto-'I think you
said you were from Chicago. Boston
Transcript. =.
"These lake excursions seem so lone.
some" Lonesome? Why, I am
with you" "Yes, I know, but !
couldn't bring my wheel along. Chi.
caeo Record.
Fuddy-"I understand that Wigley
spends most of his evenings here at
your house," Duddy-"I had an i'm.
preston that it was my evenings that
he spends ere."-Boston Transcript.
There's the bicycle face and the bicycle
back,
With it's queer, a%ltitudinous curve;
Andthe bicycle tongue, in the middle hung,
And the s%corcher's bicycle nerve.
Queensland Wheel.
Watts-"Getting a little rest out
your way since the piano girl took to
the wheel, aren't you?" Potts-"Naw.
Her bicycle suit is louder than than
the piano was."-Indianapolis Jour.
nal.
"What made you quit the club,
Billy?" treason enough, I can tell
you. worked five years to be elected
Treasurer and then they insisted on
putting in a cash register. "-Detroit
Free Press.
Barrow-"That's a dandy wheel
you have there, old man. I'll take a
little spin on it some day. By the way,
what kind of a wheel do you think l
ought to rider" Marrow-''One OF
your OWL. "-Brooklyn Life.
ct told her I was afraid to kiss he1
while we were on the tandem for feal
We would both fall off,. "What did
she say?" "She said she hoped
didn't call myself an experienced
wheelman."-Chicago Record.
Gent (solicitously)-"Sir, I have
here some indestructible pieplates.'
MIR. Hall Bedroome (grimly)-"Well.
you have come to the right house tt
sell them. That's the sort of pies
Mrs: Skinner gives us."-Puck.
Mrs. Eastlake-"You visited Venice
while you were in Europe, I hear,
Mrs. Trotter?" Mrs. Trotter-"Yes.
indeed, and we were rowed about by
one of the chandeliers for which that
city is noted. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Fuddy-''They say you have a lik'
ing for Miss Spontel." Duddy-
"Nonsense! The woman is insuppor'
table" Fuddy-'That's just it. You
won't have to support her. She's got
enough for two."-Boston Transcript
Gobang-'I think I'll do quite 6
little shooting this summer. I wonder
what the close season is?" Buckshot
-"Well, in your case, old man, ]
fancy if you applied to the legislature,
they'd throw the whole year open tc
you,"-Truth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
Crystals.

A method of growing crystals Of
unusual lustre and transparency has
been described to the French Academy
by P. de VAUDEVILLE. The small crys-
tai is mounted in such a name that
it can be continuously rotated several
times in O second while growing in the
saturated solution. Alum crystals
grown in this way at fifty degrees sue.
cessively lose their dodecahedron and
cube faces, and at last have only those
of the octahedron. Especially fine re-
suits were obtained with potassium
and ammonia alums, copper sulphate
and sodium chlorate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
Steam Pilot Boats.

The pilots of Sandy Hook are about
to adopt the use of steam for the first
time. They have always q prejudice
in favor of sailing vessels, although
several of the Southern ports have had
steam pilot boats for many years. The
new steamer being built for the New
York pilots at Wilmington is entirely
of steel, 155 feet long, nineteen feet
seven inches deep and twenty-ive-foot
beam, with Accommodations for twenty
five persons. She will be able to make
twelve miles al hour.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
Y Resented an Act of PoIiteness.

If she had been a plain-looking, mid
dle-aged woman I don't think she
would have resented it, but as she was
an uncommonly handsome girl of
twenty or thereabouts, and wore O
stunning tailor-made suit of dark
green, with a white vest, and a bunch
of white cock plumes in her hat, she
mistook an act of politeness for imper-
Thence and "trun him down." as Chin
ME Fadden would say, with great vio-
lence.
She was going from the ferry to the
railway station, and carrying a dress
suit case in one hand and a natty UNI
brella in the other. He looked like a
gentleman, and I am sure he was one,
if physiognomy is any key to charac-
ter, but Miss Disdain evidently mis-
took him for a "masher," and when,
as the boat reached the landing, he
stepped up and asked permission to
carry her dress-suit case, she gave him
q look hat was loaded with dynamite,
and said:
cit is not at all necessary, SIR"
His cheeks colored crimson. He
stepped back as if he had been stung,
and lifting his hat again, begged her
pardon and tried to hide himself in the
throng. 1 thought she might have
thanked him, and her neglect to do so
showed that she was not q well-bred
girl. Fifty years ago-yes, ten years
ago, a woman would have expected
such an attention, and q dozen men
would have offered to carry her lug
gage between the railway train and
the boat, but nowadays a gentleman
dare not offer to do an act of p~oliteness
without being slapped in the face. I
said something to that effect to Mrs.
Worldwise, who also had witnessed
the incident, when she fared up, as
women will when their sex is criticised,
and said:
"Girls are compelled to protect
themselves from unwelcome attention. "
a"But If she had been a plain girl she
would have accepted his Offer" I sug-
gested.
eff she had been a plain girl there
would have been no offer to accept"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
SCROFULA CURED
A Military Guild.

The Mohammedan population of the
Turkish Empire has been very aptly
compared to an immense religious con-
fraternity; it is, in fact, a vast military
guild or brotherhood, according to the
author of the Sultan and His Subjects,
bound to obey the commands of its su-
preme chiefs, the Sheik-ul-Islam and
the Sultan. Every Turk ought, in a
! certain sense, to be q priest and a war
flor. Remembering this fact, we can
readily understandable ease with which
the spirit of fanaticism is reused in
those portions of the empire where the
Turks are in the majority, and the fe-
rocity with which an otherwise docile
and somewhat Indifferent nstured peo-
pie will behave under the influence of
what I may call religious intoxication."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
Peculiar Slab Of Stone.

A peculiar slab of stone was found
in a coal mine at Webster City, Iowa,
100 feet below the surface. tits about
two feet long by n foot wide and
four inches thick. The surface is ar.
tistically carved in diamond-shaped
squares, with the face of an old man
in each square. Of the faces all but
two are looking to the right. The
features of each are identical, bearing
q peculiar mark in the shape Of a dent
in the forehead.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
replied the fountain of wisdom.-Wlll:
lam E. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
The Millinery World.

Crinoline is much used for shaping
hats, and..it can be twisted, tucked,
doubled and waved to suit any style
of face. For large faces, hats should
have much ribbon and floral decora-
ton, and if the ribbon be fancy and
gauzy it should be put on IN big
punches. In fact, a profusion OF trim
ming, especially flowers, is to be OBJ
served in nearly all the seasons mil
lineTy.
The fashionable hats and bonnets,
particularly those from Paris, have
somewhat harsh color combinations,
which only "a Partisan milliner can
make effective. A hat of black straw
may be ornamented with dark red and
orange yellow. or with "fresh-leaf"
green, violet and black.
Canvas sailors are'now as much worn
as straw ones; but they should be
trimmed with ample bows of ribbon,
and some fine flowers to cover the
crown of the head when the hair is
worn low.
Many charming toques have a
foundation Duplicated net, gauze, chit
fon or silk muslin, trimmed with
medium-sized flowers and feathers,
often of two OF three c%olors, or bird-of-
paradise plumes. Toques are always
becoming to young people, but for
summer wear they are ruinous to the
complexion. Wide, hoppy hats give a
rural air which can be affected ct no
other season.
Leghorns are very enchanting on
youthful heads; but the very coarse
straws now in vogue are a godsend to
the middle-aged woman, because their
ruggedness comedies agreeably with
even O wrinkle or two.
Bonnets are much appreciated for
dressy wear. The latest caprice goes
up to a point in the middle. Theater
bonnets are made of gold plat, or
spangled and embroidered lace, and
are trimmed with quantities of violets.
The hair is much waved beneath them.
The bonnet itself goes fat on the hair
in front, and a rd-of-paradise aigrette,
held by a jeweled buckle, stands up
from the side, or from the centre OF
the crown.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
IN SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS.

Special Rates From All Points on Southern
Railway to Convention of Internatfona
Christian workers. Black Mountain,
n. c., July 18th to August 9Th.
For the Christian Work and Bible Study
Assembly of the international Chrlstlan
Workers Association. held on the grounds
of the Mountain Retreat at Black Mountain,
n. G.. J"ly Goth to 18th inclusive. the So-thern
Railway has granted one fare. Going tckats
may be purchased July IS. 70 and ~. with
final tine limit nit, AuC Ca tbd 5 TINS ,Tnst s5nem GGEri IS
tan Workers Association. Rev. Floyd w;
Tompkins. IT.. Rector Of Grace Episc99pai
Church. Providence. RI President, n Kew.
John c. Collins, New Haven. Conn, Secre-
tarv. The altitude O. the assembly rounds
at Black Mountain. varies from gov f.St+o 20
grounds "or a nominal sum to any who desire
to pitch their tents and make a camp du,inS
the time of the assembly. 1t is ONLY : miles
from Mt. Mitchell. the highest mountain this
side of the Rockies. Full particulars can be
obtained rom any ticket agent on tie Soutn,
ern Railway. or General Eastern ONCE, al
Broadway, New York { ity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-28
Real Rest and Comfort.

There Is a powder to be shaken into the
shoes called Aliens Foot-Ease, invented by
Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y, which
druggists and shoe dealers say Is the best
thing they have ever sold to cure sore and
tender or aching feet. Some dealers claim
that it makes tight or new shoes feel easy.
It certainly will cure corns and bunions and
relieve instantly sweating, hot or smarting
feet. It costs only a quarter, and the invent
or will send a sample free to any address.
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Shown on Dry Goods Counters.

Lace insertings in leaf designs.
Cotton Japanese rugs for summer
use.
Chiffon wells for general and fattar-
ing wear.
White organdie froeks lined with
white lawn.
Shirt waists of black foulard OF lawn
for mourning.
Black China crepe fer mourning
evening toilettes.
Alpine hats Of various styles and
values ready trimmed.
White ribbon belts and collars for
colored pique blouse costumes.
Turnover collars and cuffs of fancy
designs of linen, batiste, etc.
Green muslin gowns trimmed with
black lace inserting and velvet ribbon.
Colored linen Elton suits trimmed
with heavy lace and contrasting bind
ing.
Cotton canvas gowns lined with a
color and trimmed with black velvet
ribbon.
White duck gowns trimmed with ac-
c~essories of colored duck braided in
white.
Girls empire and REFER jackets and
long coats of colored pique, with hats
or bonnets to match.