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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Easy to have rheumatism. just as easy
to get rid Of it with St. Jacobs Oil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Atimelyill Essay on Artichokes IS sent out
free by j. Vissering, Alton, LII. Seed 81 bu.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

The man whose cause is wrong Is sure
to be the loser If he gains it.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

With cold neuralgia increases. With st
Jacobs Oil 1t decreases and Is cured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

1t takes hot fire to purify goid.-Ram':
Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Icy pavements and bruises give aches and
pains. st. Jacobs Oil gives cure, comfort.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Just try a Zoe box OF Cascarets candy ca
thartic, finest liver and bowel regulator made
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Poultry manure mixed with dry earth
is good top dressing for the lawn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03
A Wonderful Statement
From Mrs. McGilIas to Mrs. Pinkham

think it my duty, dear Mrs. Pink
ham, to tell you what your wonderful
Compound has done for me.
was dreadfully ill-the doctors said
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Frost bites are like burns and scalds. AL
are cured by St. Jacobs Oil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Don't give a tract where bread is needed
nlost.-Ram's Horn.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03

Cold stiffens a sprained muscle. st. !
cobs Oil warns, softens and cures it.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-03
PRoPAGATING TANK.

!. Heating Pipe; 2, End View; 3, Tank Com
pleIe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Size Of Geniuses.

Most men of genius have been giants
or dwarfs, or at least have been tall or
short, according to Havelock Ellis.
He does not say, however, that all
giants and dwarfs are geniuses. MIR.
Ellis has looked up the dimensions OF
over 800 gifted men, and he finds that
142 were tall, 125 short and seventy.
four of middle height, which he places
ut between five feet four and five feet
pine.
Any one can follow out this line Of
comparison. To take few familiar
names-Washington and Wellington
were tall, so were Sherman and Gus
ter. Napoleon, Grant and Sheridan
were short. Lincoln was the tallest
of our Presidents, except the first.
Grant probably was as short as any.
General Roberts is 30 short as to be
called Little Bobs. And Mcclellan
was called Little Mac.
Another fruitful subject of inquiry
would be the size of heads of noted
men. General Miles has one Of the
largest and finest shaped heads ever
known, ranking with the celebrated
cranium of Daniel Webster. On the
other hand, Emerson had one of the
smallest of heads.-New York Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
California's Gold.

Come down to the hard realities OF
arithmetic and the scales and Cali
fornia will turn out probably three
times as much gold this year as the
whole of the frozen Northwest. Prob
ably no part of the world will be more
the gamer than California by these
discoveries. An increase in the pro-
duction of gold is of little benefit to
the world at large. The gold-fnders
create a new effective demand which is
mostly supplied by producers in their
immediate neighborhood. The real
gain to the world by the placers OF
California lies in the development of
the agricultural, horticultural and in
dustrial resources of this magnificent
region, which otherwise might have
lain dormant for another half-century.
We cannot look for any such gain to
the world by turning attention to the
bleak, inhospitable shores of Alaska.
1t is true there are great industrial
possibilities in the fisheries and the
coal mines, and these no doubt will
feel the stimulus; but the country as
a whole will never make good resi-
dence property. The Californians who
90 there will all come back to us to
spend their money when they have
made their everlasting fortunes.-San
Francisco Examiner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Heat or Sunstroke.

Direct exposure to the rays Of the
sun is not necessary to cause heat
stroke. A hot damp atmosphere is
more likely to cause it than hot dry
atmosphere.
Anything that lessons the vital pow
ers of the human body predisposes 90
sun or heat-stroke.
A hos supper with wine, and few
drinks in the morning before going on
a parade, has caused many business
man to fall prostrate under the infu'
ence of excessive heat.
1t is dangerous thing for any per-
son not accustomed to marching to
Join parade on hot day. If it is to
be done, eat very sparingly of animal
food, Go not drink any alcoholic
liquors, wine or beer. Eat fruit freely
and drink an abundance of water.
As soon as q person falls from a
sun-stroke he should be taken to q
shady rlace and his clothes removed.
Apply ice water over his chest and
body. Do not be timid about it; ap-
ply it boldly, freely and persistently.
Lose no time in getting physician,
but be sure and keep up the cold ap-
plication until he arrives, as irrepara-
Bile injury may result from neglecting
the patient at this critical moment
H. Duncan Stewart, M. D., in the
Healthy Home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Gophcrs Destroy q Canal.

An Oklahoma City enterprise has
been ruined by the gopher pest. 1t
was thought that the rapidly flowing
North Canadian River eould be used
to operate all the mills that could be
placed on IT'S banks at Oklahoma City.
The fall was nearly thirty feet and it
was expected that 1000 horse power
would be developed. A canal five
miles long WAS constructed, ut an ex-
pense of $4,000. 1t was diked part
Of the way and the river was crossed
twice. The canal is twenty-five feet
wide and four feet deep, and when
four inches of water was let in at the
head gate an electric light plant and
large Touring mill were run with ease,
but an unsuspected enemy soon caused
disaster to the enterprise. The banks
of the canal were of porous, sandy
soil and gophers attacked the dixie,
the holes which the animals burrowed
widened into crevasses and the sandy
dikes were easily swept away, causing
constant and expensive repairs.
Finally the entire canal became
wrecked, and farmers are now plowing
up the right of wap saDd the canal is
cona~ -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Sick Headache.

In a talk on "slck headaches" a
doctor says that there are three things
which must be attended to in order to
relieve the pain. The light in the
room must be darkened, 30 that the
eyes. which are so sensitive during
an attack of "sick headache" will be
relieved from any strain. The tenn
perature must be kept even, although
the patient may prefer q lower one
than is ordinarily comfortable. The
hands and feet are usually cold, at
least during part of an attack of sick
headache. When this period prevails,
a hot mustard foot-bath, soaking the
hands in hot water, and putting q
warm piece of flannel about the body,
are often of inestimable service in
lessening the pain and shortening the
duration of the attack. While employ
ing these measures, a mustard leaf
such as your druggist sells in little tin
boxes-applied to the back of the
neck will be found to be valuable
accessory. Persons who suffer habit
ually from "sick headaches" can near
ly always predict the advent of an at
tack; and if they can, an emetic Of hot
water, followed by laxative dose of
salts or magnesia, might save the
pain they otherwise may suffer. It
is, as matter of routine domestic
treatment, good plan to wash out
the stomach in the beginning of the
attack, even when it has not been an
ticipated. This may be done without
much discomfort by swallowing enough
lukewarm water to give the stomach
feeling of tension. The rejection Of
this clears the stomach of mucous and
irritants which may tend to aggravate
the complaint:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
A Fast Colt.

Several men gathered about horse
near the western market in Detroit,
= says the Free Press, commenting upon
the prominence of the beasts ribs and
general lean and lankiness, The ami
NAL belonged to farmer living near
Ypsilanti, and, it was said, never per-
mitted grass to grow under its feet on
the road. The farmer was not pleased
with the remarks and the strong infer
enees that the poor thing had never
realized the sensation of corn and oats.
"What do you call your horse?"
was asked.
"Cyclone; and don't he look it?" re-
piled the man from the rural districts.
Cyclone! What name. He GER
tainly looks as if. one had struck him"
'That's what happened to him, my
friend. It was just like this. You re-
member the awful breeze we had out
to Ypsilanti about three years ago?
This feller was a sucking colt at the
time. and was in the barn with two
horses. The cyclone, regular old hum
AhOA, Ooh1o sniOuS nAu pA1 uohOo phO ooA -
on its legs and dropped it nigh onto
100 yards away. After the twister had
raised all the hob, fences and sheds it
could we went out to look things up.
The two horses were stone dead, and
the colt, would you believe it, was no.
where to be found.
'Next day I turned over the hen
coop, which lay in the field half mile
away. Right in that coop and lying
on the door, which faced down, was
the colt. He commenced kicking when
he heard US, and we took him out in
hurry. He wasn't scared bit, I
tell you, and was cool as a cucumber.
The neighbors say they saw the coop
goin' through the air and the colt af-
ter it. The little feller caught the
coop and got inside of it to save him
self, that's what he did. That's the
plain truth, and if you don't believe
it ask the colt. Good-day, strangers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25

ing the beetles in check. Good culti-
vation and repeated hoeing are abso-
lutely necessary, but the vines in
these operations, as we'll as in picking,
should be disturbed as little as pos
sible. It is the large number of
marketable pickles which is wanted
rather than large size of the individual
pickle. The size most in demand is
three inches in length. The more
promptly we pick the three-inch size,
the more pickles the area will furnish,
and therefore the greater the returns
and profits. An experienced grower
says in Michigan Farmer:
''The larger the number grown on
a given territory the more profit, hence
they should be picked very close. The
bulk of the crop should be of the
smallest or medium size. Those over
looked can be utilized, but the fewer
the better, and none must be allowed
to mature. Care must be taken to dis
turb the vines as little as possible; in
this regard children with their bare
feet are preferable to grown people,
and our experience leads us to believe
that children can, quite as easily as
grown-ups, be taught to pick them
clean" -,,,..>r-,.a-.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
How to Grow Pickles.

Before we can think of picking Gu
cumbers we must grow them, and that
is not always an easy matter, especial
" where the blight Qeaf-blight,
bacterial blight is sure annual visi-
tor. This disease often perhaps
usually, here and in many other local
ities) sweeps through the patches, first
taking a plant here and there, and con-
tinuing it's attacks until every plant in
the patch, long before the end of the
season, has succumbed. The way is
to plant on strictly new soil, prefer
ably some sandy or mucky loan, rather
moist than otherwise, but thoroughly
drained. Persistent spraying with
Bordeaux mixture seems to have good
effect in keeping foliage healthy, and
if Paris green is added to it. in keep
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
The Queens Physician.

DR.. James Reidis to Queen Victoria
what DR.. Schweniger has been to
Prince Bismarck. And tile keeper Of
the monarch's health has even more
important duty than the keeper of the
monarch's conscience. At the same
time Sir James Reid has always had a
mach easier patient in the Queen than
his brother physician has had in the
ex-Chancellor Of Germany. A patient
who, like Prince Bismarck, would
swallow vast quantities of porter and
champagne, sometimes needed careful
doctoring. The Queen has been en-
dowed by nature with first rate con.
stitution, of which she has taken good
oere
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Cinnamon for Dysentery,

A surgeon in the British army in
India writes that he has for several
years employed with success in the
treatment of dysentery very simple
remedy, consisting of one drachm Of
cinnamon bark reduced to fine pow
der and made into ball with few
drops of water, this to be taken every
morning and evening. He has found
this remedy a very successful one.
He had learned of it from a Persian
medical work, the remedy being very
popular in Persia. The virtues Of
this remedy may be due to the anti
septic or germicidal properties of oil
of cinnamon. Lancet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Dairy Dots.


Taste decides the merit of butter.
Color is subservient to taste in but
ter.
Quality is of more importance than
quantity.
Bad water will make impure, un-
wholesome milk.
It is uncleanly to wet the hands
while milking, and should always be
avoided.
To improve the milking qualities of
dairy herd, use bulls only from the
best mixers.
Dairy heifers should always be han
died familiarly from the first and there
will be no trouble.
The chief advantage of the creamery
system is cheapness of product from
the saving of labor.
No dairyman can make uniformly
good butter unless his COWS are fed
literally with wholesome food
Dairying has one advantage in that
its products are always in the line of
food, and hence always in demand.
Proper management of the dairy
gives the farmer continuous income,
something he does not have with most
lines of farming.
Feeding and general care and man
agement have as much to do with in
creasing the product of the COWS as
breeding or blood.
If the air is warmer than the cream,
.he purity of the cream and the fine
flavor of the butter will be impaired
by exposure to it.
After cream becomes sour the more
ripening given it the more it depreciates,
and the sooner it is SKINNED and
churned the better.
The milk cans, pals and other ves-
sells should be kept clean by first wash
ing in tepid water and then scalding
thoroughly in boiling water.
Clean pastures, with good clean
water and proper care, is the surest
preventive of bitter milk. Weeds,
especially ragweed, cause bitter milk.
In a majority of eases kicking COWS
are made SO by cruelty and harsh words.
To have gentle COWS it is essential to
treat them kindly from the time they
are cslyes. es.-Apricultural Fnitomist
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
How to Drink Water.

A physician writing in the Sanitar-
ian thinks that the avearge person
does not know how to drink water.
Then he proceeds to give the follow
ing advice:
The effects produced by the drink
ing of water vary with the manner in
which it is drunk. If, for instance, q
pint of cold water be swallowed at a
large iraught, or if it be taken in two
portion with short interval between,
certain definite effects follow-effects
which differ from those which would
have resulted from the same quantity
taken by slipping.
Slipping is q powerful stimulant to
the circulation-a thing which ordin.
ary drinking is not. During the act of
slipping the action of the nerve which
slows the beats Of the hearts, abolished,
and as a consequence that organ con-
tracts much more rapidly, the pulse
beats more quickly, and the circula-
ton in various parts of the body is in
creased. In addition to this we also
find that the pressure under which the
bile is secreted is raised by the slipping
of fluid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25

and rests upon the top of the brick.
work, so that it can be raised and re.
moved. It has handle at one end
and lip at the other, so that it can be
emptied directedly into pals or tubs
or car, be pulled off the brickwork
upon wheelbarrow and wheeled away
to the barn or hog house. A light
cover sets upon the top when over the
fire. If the boiler is to be, used out Of
doors, it should be made of galvanized
iron to prevent rusting. If the boiler
is very large, an iron rod can be placed
across the middle of the opening in
the brickwork to support the bottom
of the boiler. This arrangement will
be found convenient where food is
often boiled for stock.-New York
Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
without Tires or Handle Bars.

Joe Henley, the Kansas City wheel
man, who has performed some daring
cycling feats on The high bridge Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
way over the Missouri River, set all
his former efforts at naught Sunday af-
ternoon. He rode the eastern outer
edge of the structure on racing wheel
which had been stripped of it's tires and
handle bars. AS an appetizer for this
perilous feat he rode the lofty bridge
and trestle without pedals. A. N.
Davis, 81. D. Spellman, Martin Brother
son, James Cummings, G. E. Morri-
son and G. F. Starr were with Henley
and are ready to make affidavit to the
performance.-Kansas City Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
The Oldest Railway Servant.

Joseph Smith, a native Of Liver.
pool, but now residing in Washington,
D. O., and who has just celebrated
his ninety-sixth birthday, claims to be
the oldest railway servant in the
world. He was in the employment of
the Liverpool Railway in 1880, and
was an eyewitness of the fatal acci-
dent to Mr.. Huskisson at the opening
ceremony. He has also distinct re-
membrance of the excitement exhib.
tied by the Duke of Wellington, who
was present.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Clover Seed.

If the farmer wants crop of clover
seed, he should cut the first crop as
early as possible, says Hoard's Dairy
man. The clover plant is biennial.
That means that it takes two years for
it to blossom and seed. Now, if the
first crop is allowed to stand until it
blossoms, and the seed commences to
form, there will be but very little seed
in the second crop. The point is, to
turn all the seeding instinct and power
of the root into the second crop.
Hence, the necessity of cutting the
first crop much earlier than is usually
done, when it is cut for hay alone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
GOOD ROADS NOTES.
he Road Question in Arkansas.


Road overseers, do you know that
you are sending countless souls to
eternal punishment? 1t may be that
you are. Men, women and children
in johnson County are cussing, people
in the Indian Territory are cussing,
some in Kansas are cussing, and now
and then we can smell the essence OF
profanity from Illinois and Indiana
in fact, the entire Western Hemi-
sphere is cussing by sections about the
condition of our roads. Mend the
roads for the Lords sake as well as
for your own. You know you travel
the same roads that these other people
travel and may become profane your
self.-Clarksville ARK. Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Preventing Egg-Eating.

If an egg is broken the. e..hens will eat
it, and it is by eggs being broken that
the hens learn the vice, as they never
eat eggs unless they first find one
broken. The only way to prevent the
hens from eating eggs after they once
begin is to make a nest with top,
compelling the hen to walk in to reach
the nest, and have the box raised ten
inches from the floor, 80 that the hen
cannot stand near the box to eat the
eggs. When she goes on the nest she
cannot do any harm, as she must come
off and stand up to eat the eggs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Novel Cooking Method.

In Bosnia one of the Austrian bat
teries had to so into action just as din
ner time came on, and the artillery
men, resolved not to lose meal, cut
their meat into small trips, placed il
on the breech of their guns and cooked
it by the heat of the metal. They
found it delicious, and voted the biz
sick la cutasse lie cannon infinitely
superior to beefsteaks cooked under
the pommel of the saddle, Tartar
fashiOn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Hcw's This I?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward fo1
any ca.e of Catarrh that cannot b.. cured b5
Halls Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & Co., Pops, Toledo O..
We, the undersigned, have known f. ]. Che
ney Tor the last Is years. and believe him per.
fectly honors BILE in all business tran actions
and financially able to carry out any obiga-
ton m de by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo.
Oh o.
WALD1Na, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
Ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of tn system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists. Testimonials free. ...
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
The Kaiser and Nansen.

When Kridtjof Nansen passed the
day with Emperor William, the EN-
peror introduced his children to his
guest in characteristic manner. Aftel
dinner the young Princes were called.
They filed in and stood "at attention
in military style. "Shake hands with
this gentleman" said the Emperor
'Look we'll a: him. Some day you
will be able to understand what bis
work isl and then you will be glad te
be able to say yon have met him."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Rules For Chicken Raisers.

P. 81. Jacobs, in the Poultry Keeper,
gives few rules that should be often
referred to by chicken raisers:
Ten hens in house 10x10 feet are
enough. The yard should be at least
ten times as large as the floor of the
house. Ten weeks from shell to mar
ket is the time allotted a broiler chick.
Ten cents a pound is about the aver
age price of hens in market for the
whole year.
Ten cents should feed chicken ten
weeks, and it should then weigh two
pounds.
Ten months a year is usually the
highest limit of time during which q
hen will lay.
Ten hens with one male is about the
proper proportion.
Ten quarts of corn, or it's equivalent,
should feed hen ten weeks, if she is
of large breed, but ten qa 2rts for
three months is fairer proportion.
Ten pounds is a good weight for
males of the larger breeds, one year
old.
Ten eggs is the average number to
each pound.
Ten focks, each consisting of ten
hens, are enough for an acre.
Ten chicks, when just hatched,
weigh about one pound.
Ten hens should lay about 1000 eggs
during the year. This allows for some
laying more than 100 eggs each, while
others may not lay so many.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
Try Aliens Foot-Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this
season your feet feel swo lien and hot, and get
tired easily. II you have smarting feet or
tight shoes, try Aliens Foot-Ease., 1t cools
prevents swollen and sweating feet, blistera
and callous spots. Relieves corns and bgnions
o. all pain and gives rest and comfort Try II
h-iap. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores
@or Is cents. Trial package FREE. Address,
ALLEN g. OLMsTED, Leroy. n. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-25
A Handy Farm Boiler.

The ordinary farm boiler, or set
kettle, is unhandy from the fact that
the contents after each boiling must
be laboriously dipped out. The cut
shows boiler that avoids this difficult
ty, for the boiler itself is made Of
sheetiron (the heaviest to be obtained),