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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-04
IF r E e

10 every woman call
insat the store this week
we will present d little
book on The Proper
Care and Cure of the
Feet gratis, whether
she buys or not. Every
woman with foot all
ments should study this
book closely. Follow
ing its hints and pre-
scriptions will save
many a pang! Given
free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-04
F r e E

With every pair of
"Jenness Miller" Shoes
sold this week I'VE shall
give one of the Jenness
Miller magnificent illus
trated Physical I'm
provement Calendars"
which retail for one
dollar throughout the
United States. 1t COLI
tains a full course of
Physical Culture Elk r-
else Instructions, with
illustrations.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Bicvcles In the German Army.

The German military papers have
just published the report of the Minis
ter of War regarding the results of the
Introduction of bicycles into the army
and the training of bicycle corps dur.
ing the year 1856, says the Philadel-
phia Record. A large number of ex.
detrimental runs were made and the
bicycles were also employed in maneu.
vers to advantage. The average Of
the runs was about thirty-fve miles,
with an average speed of nine and one.
half miles per hour, including stops.
The greatest speed obtained was twelve
miles per hour in a run of thirty miles.
The greatest distance covered in any
one run was one hundred and thirty
miles an hour, including stops. The
soldiers attached to the bicycle service
we're given practical training on the
wheel, but also received instruction in
accommodating, reading of the map,
etc. Not long ago Lieutenant vop
Puttkammer tried to dispatch a mess.
age by relay bicyclists going and com.
ing a distance of twenty-eight miles.
He had placed four relays of three BIZ
cyclists each.a points six miles apart
and three dispatches were taken each
way, the cyclists speed exceeding thir.
teen miles per hour. 1t is estimated
by the Minister of War that after for
by days training a company mounted
On bicycles should be able to v one
hundred and twenty miles a day with
full arms and equipment. The present
weight of the military bicycle, which
is of the folding type, is thirty-twc
pounds, but the new type, Of which o
large number has been ordered, will
weigh six pounds less. The principal
economy will be found in the abandon
ment of chain gearing and the substi'
tuition of a cog-wheel driving gear.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Indian Agriculturists.

The Indians on the Shoshone reser.
walton have to the present time this
season sown 125, 900 pounds Of grain,
and it is expected they will SOW as
much more before the close of the
planting season. The Department i.
not giving the seed to the Indians this
year as heretofore, but is loaning il
and expects the Indians to repay il
when they harvest their crops. The
pupils of the Indian school are farm.
ing extensively under the direction OF
the Indian agent, Captain Wilson, and
the teachers of the school. They
have put out 10, 900 cabbage plants
and have a model garden. A test will
be made on the farm with sugar beet
seed, the Departmental vingfurnished
a large quantity for experiment. Under
the present management of Indian
affairs the Indians of the Shoshone
reservation are improving rapidly in
condition, and the majority of the
tribe will soon become self-support-
ing. Great interest is being taken by
the Indians in school work, and the
agency school is having a very SUI
cessful erm.-Omaha (Neb.) Bee.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
A New Bait for Mice.

One observant housekeeper has
found out that mice and croton bugs
dc not invade the same premises at
the same time. The mice scare away
the bugs. In a consideration of the
two evils it is rather difficult, from a
housekseper's point of view, which to
choose. This same housekeeper, says
the New York Evening Post, finds
that the ordinary round, many-holed
spring traps, baited with something
soft, like a piece of suet or pork, which
will cling to the hook and resist efforts
of the willy little creatures to dislodge,
is the best means of getting rid OF
them. With this method should be
practiced also the starvation plan,
which is to have every crumb of food,
every dust of sugar, oatmeal or other
f%arinaceous substance, anything, IN
fact, that could afford them oppor.
tunity for satisfying appetite, kept
carefully away from them. The holes
by which they find access to closet
shelves should be filled with pieces Of
gum camphor. With patience and the
perseverance, that is the cost of all
success, this pest, eve in seriously
infested houses, can be eXterminated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Railroads Conquer China.

The Chinese government is slowly
but surely pushing forward the rail
road from Tientsin to Pekin, and it is
expected that soon the traveller will be
able to 60 by rail from the seashore to
the gates of the mysterious capital.
This will add about ninety miles to the
124 of the road from Tientsin to the
Kaiping coal mines, which now con-
stitute the railway system of China.
The spell of prejudice has been broken
and several other railway enterprises
are now on foot. The chief of these, a
great trunk line from Pekin south
westerly to Hankow on the coast, a
distance of some 400 miles, has al
ready been started, with a small gov
eminent subsidy, but its rapid con
struction is not to be expected. A
short road from Shanghai to Woosung
is also in progress.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Successful Shad Culture.

Fish Commissioner James A. Bill,
of Connecticut, has written q letter
giving some striking results of shad
culture. In Five-Mile River, about
nine miles from the mouth of the Con-
necticut, the Fish Commission in 1889
PLACED experimentally half Il million
shad fry. No shad hadb been takeni in the
river for years, but fonr years later, in
1893, more than 1000 were taken. This
year the fish have been more numer-
Gus there and in the Connecticut River
than for amy one of many years here.
fore, and the best fishing of the seasop
has been done in the smaller stream.
Commissioner Bill says. also, that the
size of the shad has been materially
increased by stripping only the largest
shad to obtain spawn.-New York
Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30

This country has witnessed so many
revolutions in methods of locomotlon
that he is a bold man who ventures to
declare what may not happen in mat
tiers of that sort. The steam locomo-
tive is much younger than many men
now living, and there are many who
predict that it will be a back number
before many more years have passed.
The predictions of the general substl-
tuition of electricity for steam as 8
motive power are becoming moro
frequent and more confident. This
generation will probably see their fall
illment in a large measure. And now
comes from no less noted a seer than
Thomas A. Edison that the bicycle is
in danger of losing something of its
wonderful and rapidly acquired popu-
larity. Mr.. Edison believes that there
will soon be on the market a light and
noiseless motor-bicycle which will re-
tail at 500 or less, and says that when
the new machine appears it will make
the bicycle take second place AS rapidly
as the bicycle has displaced the horse.
There are now many makes of horse
less carriages, and they are being i'm
proved constantly. They are still so
expensive, however, that their use is
very limited, and they are seldom seen
outside Of the great cities.
Such a motor-vehicle as Mr.. Edison
expects would certainly cut deep into
the bicycle business, but at present
the bicycle moves ahead conquering
and to conquer. And no matter what
may come the bicycle will remain with
US for the convenience, comfort and
Joy of mankind, even though some
n~ew-fangled thing should capture a
part of its present constituency.-At-
lanta Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
SCALING WITHOUT A LADDER.
4 Pyramid of Soldiers Enables Men to
Surmount q 31-Foot Wall.

SurmOunC q ol-COOC WILL.
Corporal Leary, the limberest man
1T Fort Sheridan, took the chance of
breaking his neck and tumbling the
storming pyramids of forty-one soldiers
in a bruised heap Saturday as he
sprang upward from the shoulders of
Private Miller, caught with three
fingers of his left hand the top of the
high wooden wall behind which lurked
the enemy, hung for one perilous in
slant, and then gallantly pulled him
self to the top, seized his rifle, and
sprang into the midst of the foe on the
other side of the improvised parapet in
the Coliseum gallery.
The human pyramid swayed, but
held its sturdy place while gallant
infantrymen swept up the stalwart
shoulders and over the thirty-one-foot
wall to Corporal Leary's support, while
a platoon of twenty-five men kept the
enemy away in front of the wall.
1t was at this point that the regular
army officers, who were watching the
fray from the Coliseum gallery, led
the applause, for Corporal Leary and
his comrades had broken the worlds
escalading record by three feet. As
a partial reward for his daring feat
Corporal Leary will be recommended
by Lieutenant Percival G. Lowe, in
command of the camp, for promotion.
When Corporal Leary climbed to
the apex of the pyramid and stood on
the shoulders of the men in the top
row, the tips of his fingers lacked five
inches of reaching the top of the wall.
The highest wall that was ever escaladed
before was twenty-eight feet, and the
men who climbed over that in the
military carnival at New York broke
the worlds record then. The wall at
the Coliseum was thirty-one feet high,
and it took just four minutes to scale
it.
Eighteen of the heaviest and strong
est men in the regiment formed the
base of the pyramid, ten mounted on
their shoulders and leaned against the
wall, six stood on the shoulders of the
ten, four on the shoulders of the six,
and three on the shoulders of the four.
Corporal Leary scrambled up this
escalading pyramid of blue, and stood
On the shoulders of the top three,
braced against the wall.
When he stretched out his arms, and
found his fingers would not reach the
edge of the wall, he crouched, and
then, rs the human mountain swayed
dizzily beneath his feet, with the
mighty and yet delicate effort Of the
trained athlete he sprang boldly five
inches upward at the edge of the
barrier. He tried to grasp the top of
the parapet with both hands, but only
three fingers of his left hand went
high enough. The pyramid under
him was still swaying. He held to
the hazardous edge by the three
fingers for an instant, and then, with a
heave and a twist, pulling his whole
body up, caught the wall with the
other hand. An instant after he was
On the enemy's side of the barricade.
Chicago Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Rapid Motion Affects Children.

DR.. John Madison Taylor, in an
article on Children of Feeble Resist
ance; Their Care and Management"
published in the Medical Times and
Hospital Gazette, December 10. 1896,
says that it is very unwise to submit
babies to rapid journeys and the look
ing out of windows at swiftly passing
objects while flying along. He says
that he has seen migraine develop ap-
parently through the custom of giving
small children exercise in a carriage
with a pair of fast horses every day.
Certain instances of profound distur-
bance have been caused by this means,
and it is reasonable to infer that q
continuance of such measures may
produce lasting damage upon so deli
cate an organ as the eye, and the
whole sensitive organism is thus i'm
periled. 1t is also unwise to encour-
age a child to sleep while being driven
about. The motion is both regular
and subject to sudden irregularities.
The persistence of one kind of mo-
ton up and down is bad, not only pro-
ducing unsound sleep, but keeping up
a molecular agitation which has little
to recommend it. If the infant be suf-
fciently old to sit up or be held up
by the nurse, a strain is put upon the
spinal column. Thus continuous mild
conclusions are administered to the
brain and spinal cord; the eye is put
upon q strain, thus acting directly
upon the brain; an element of excite
ment is introduced, and physiological
irritability is the probable result
Medical Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
A Africa.

DR.. Schulz, who has just returned
to London from Africa, says that 'the
public impression that the continent
of Africa is no longer the unexplored
area of the old map is a mistake"
What has been done is to stake out
territories along definite routes, but
within these lines the country is gen.
orally as unknown as in the time OF
Mungo Park. DR.. Schulz has traversed
and surveyed a vast tract of country
which NO white traveller has ever seen
before. This new territory lies be-
tween the British dominions in the
west and northwest, and the Congo
and German territories in the south
west and west. Through these IN
known lands flows a large river called
by the natives Chobe, which empties
itself into the Zambeze.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
How Thread is Numbered.

The numbers on the spools express
the number of shanks" which can be
wound from a pound of thread. The
very finest spinning rarely exceeds
three hundred hanks to the pound,
while in the very coarsest there is
about two hanks. The more common
qualities, however, those from which
sewing thread is usually made, run
from ten to seventy hanks to the
pound, and the spools on which it is
wound are numbered from ten to sev.
enty in accordance. Popular Science
News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Jelly From Coal.

In Perthshire lately, workmen en-,
gagged in cutting some deep drainage
trenches dug into a bed of old peat
some feet below the surface. At the
bottom of this was a layer six inches
thick of a kind OF tough, black jelly.
Some of it was thrown out, and soon
dried in the sun, when it was found to
have hardened into q brittle substance
not unlike anthracite coal. It burned
with a clear, bright flame, and left an
ash quite like ordinary coal. All coal
has been peat at one time or another,
and here it is supposed we have caught
it in the actual process Of transforma,
ton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
GOTHAM'S SUMMER DAYS.
CllMPSES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE AND
ATTIRE IN GREATER NEW YORK.

Helen Gould and Her Simple Gown-some
New Costumes Worn by Prominent
women-The Latest Ideas in Hats and
Trimmings A Jewel of Femininity'
Especial New York Letter..
New York has changed! So says
the elderly beau of fifty years ago, and
he signs as his thoughts wander back
into the mist Of by-gone years. Per-
haps after all he is right, and yet as
stood before the full length portrait OF
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe at the
Metropolitan Museum I thought that
every decade had its philanthropists
and Miss Helen Gould is the Good
Samaritan of to-day. I saw Miss
Gould on Broadway last week. She
was d~ecorous, quiet, self-possessed,
although many eyes followed in her
direction. Stately as always, we'll
groomed and well-togged, her simple
gown of rich blue checked cloth made
with an open front jacket, with which
a front Of soft crepe du chene was
worn, looked very attractive on a dull
day.
Speaking of new gowns, quaint
Katherine Florence of the Never
Again Company" who has not yet
packed off to Europe, occupied a box
at Keith's Monday afternoon. Miss
Florence looked smart in a short Elton
jacket with revered fronts. She had
on a soft shirt front with high turn
down collar and cravat a Ia my
Friend From India" Miss Shannon,
who is like some fragile bit of delicate
china, accompanied her. I noticed
her gown of green whipcord fitted her
trim figure closely, and was orna-
mented with black braid across the
front and on the skirt. Her hat was
trimmed with berries, leaves and rib
bon.
AThere is such a variety in hats that
one knows not what to choose. In
the window of a shop on Fifth avenue
T saw a round hat made of fine straw
which is worn cooked. The brim rolls
slightly at the right side and the flat
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sign. No wardrobe is complete with
out one gown at least.
Leather trimming is still much III
vogue, particularly the white kid
deliberately embroidered. The latter
is used to a vast extent for boleros,
cuffs, collars, etc. ,
Gowns of to-day-such as those used
for golfng, tennis, boating and the
like must have a strict tailor finish to
he correct.
"Regsy" Arnold and his fair tiancee'
Miss Violet Iii Zerega, have been the
recipients of many congratulatory DIN
ners of late. They are both popular IN
the younger set, and Miss di Zerega Is
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Insomnia.

Sir James Crichton Browne, the ex-
pert on brain diseases, holds that in
somnia is not attended with such dis
astrous consequences as is commonly
supposed. 1t is not as dangerous as
the solicitude of the sufferer. He sug-
gests that the brains of literary men,
who are the most frequent victims, &C,
quire the trick of the heart, which
takes a doze of q fraction of q second
after each beat and SO manages to get
six hours rest in twenty-four. Some
brains, in cases of insomnia, sleep in
sections, different brain centers going
off duty in turn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Oueenly Courtesy to q Statue.

Here is a new,story about Queen
Victoria: 1t was suggested to her that
FQueen Anne's statue, opposite St.
Paul's, should be removed for the lu-
bilee Thanksgiving services, in order
that the view might not be o~bstructed.
But Her Majesty refused to sanction
the proposal. 81 am unwilling to al
low the statue to be displaced" the
Queen is said to have remarked. eff
I permit it, some n may consider it
a justification for removing my statue
some day on a similar occasion. -
London Truth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30

crown was surmounted by a chaplet of
roses of the Louis XVI. period. The
left side was ornamented with a bow
of ecru lace and two white ostrich
plumes stood upright in the centre OF
the bow.
The ~profusion of fchus, vests and
berthes is simply fascinating. They
are made in silk, mulls, organdies and
nainsook and trimmed with valen-
oiennes and Mechlin laces.
Grenadines-gossamery in web and
delicate in texture are legion in de-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Goldfish in Niagara River.

Niagara River is said to be teemine
with goldfish, but rs they are hard tt
catch and bad to eat they are not re
garded as n very desirable acquisition
They have been e e there only within
the past year. The fish are said t.
have come from q creek in Forest Law1
Cemetery, Buffalo, N. Y, where q few
we're placed several years ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease. a powder for the feet; II
stantly takes the sting out of corns and bun,
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery OF
the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight-ht'
cure for sweating, callous and hot. tired, ach-
ing feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps
Trial package FREE. Address, Allen ). Olm-
sted, LIE Roy. n. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
4 Town of Caves.

The city of Bantam, in Grea'
Bucharia, is cut in the side of a noun
tain. There are II, 900 artificial caves.
some very large, and two statues, one
ninety and the other twenty feet high
each hewn from a single stone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
ChicaCo's Novel Fruit Ordinance.

A fruit ordinance adopted by the
Chicago Council provides hat all fruit
packages, except those containing
grapes or bananas, shall contain quarts,
pecks or bushels, or multiples thereof,
and that the quantity of fruit shall he
conspicuously marked on the outside
Of the package.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
A Vacation Trip to the Tennessee Centen'
NAL and the Mountains of Western
North Carolina.

Where can you GO for a short vacation
and have a more delightful time. than to make
q trip to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition
at Nashville? The round trip rate: by rail
days. The Pennsylvania and Southern Rail
way operate a through line of Pullman draw
ing-room and sleeping cars, leaving New YORK
"Jand Of the Sky" Asheville. \. ca more
delightful spot on earth cannot be found;
Stop over and visit the Vanderbilt estate, and
numerous other attractive points OF interest,"
Write to the New York Office, 81 Broadway,
New York. for information. Copies of illus
trated pamphlet of summerhomes and resorts,
mailed upon application, enclosing two cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30

face put everything else in shadow,
and I sincerely congratulate MI. Ar
mold upon choosing this exquisite
jewel of femininity.
The costumes illustrated herewith
were designed by The National Cloak
Co., of New York.
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any's the other day. She was sex
changing gifts" and her flushed face
and perplexed brow made her a very
attractive picture. She wore IN ex-
ceedingly plain frock of chocolate
cheviot, consisting of a well hanging
skirt and blazer jacket, which displayed
a soft front of pink null and q crush
collar of ribbon and lace. Her hat was
a "dream," but the sunshine of her
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30
BICYCLE

The greatest sensa-
ton of the season in
the bicycle market has
been occasioned by
four Of The leading
manufacturers com.
bining to protect the
retail trade from be-
ing imposed upon by
agents and others who
have no reputation to
lose, as bicycle deal
ers. This COM ina-
ton, of which the John
P.Lovell Arms Co. are
the moving spirits.
have forced down the
price of high grade
wheels SO that there
Is now 10 reason why
q o~yc1icf chDul6 ride
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30

Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous.
ness after first days use of DR.. Hines Great
Nerve Restorer. 81 trial bottle and treatise free
DR.. r. II. KLINE. Ltd. &l Arch St, Phila.,Pa
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Piso's Cure cured me Of a Throat and Lunf
trouble Of three years standing.-E. CADY
Huntington. Ind, Nov. l2, 1894.
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J.. S. Parker, Fredonia. \. Y, says: Shall
not call on you for the 500 reward, for l be:
Neve Halls Catarrh Cure will cure any case OF
catarrh. Was very bad" Write him for par
t%iculars. Sold by Druggists, 15c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums reducinglnf1amma-
lion. allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c.a bottle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-30

Falling in with the right people
often helps a man up.-Richmond
Dispatch.
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BENJ. 8. LOWELL, q CyCI1SG EHOuIu TUE
Treas. Lowell Arms Co. anything but a first
class, guaranteed wheel, and at prices charged
from the nameless and uuguaranteed wheels.
bination on the part Of those who handle
low grade wheels, but the public will be the
winners, thanks to the Lowell Arms Co. A
catalogue of our regular bicycle stock and g
Combination mailed free on application.
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Think o it, ladies'; on permanentlybe beau
Observation-Disclosures Glenn'sSulphur SoaI
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