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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-03
Undue Thoughtfulness.

It seems ungracious to write 1t but we are
persuaded that many women err in the direc-
tion Of being too thoughtful for husband
and children or perhaps 1t would be better
to say, In suffering their thoughtfulness to
manifest itself in a series OF petty cares and
anxieties that have no real relations to the
well-being OF the recipients, ard, indeed,
tend to become burdensome to those they
love. Have you never paid visit where
your host was 80 fussily anxious to have
your wants anticipated that you were glad
to catch at any decent excuse for shortening
the visit? You would much rather have
been left to yourself. There were things
that you would rather do for yourself than
have any one else do for you. Very few
men really enjoy having the details Of their
daily life immeshed in multitude of atten-
tions, and rs for children, it is easily possible
to give them 80 much anxiety and care that
they grow up to regard the attentions OF q
fond mother as their right, and to lack self
reliance and generous attention to the COM
fort OF others. You can find plenty OF chill
dren who by receiving the constant devotion
and self-sacriflce of their mothers have
themselves become incapable Of considera-
tion for others. Undue thoughtfulness for
others, without sense Of proportion, may
easily make an otherwise admirable woman
fussy wife, who spoils her children.
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A Social Homily.

In almost every family or company you
will find one or two persons who manage to
get about what they want by making them
selves generally disagreeable until they get
it. Rather than have "scene" or a con-
troversy, the rest give in to them. Like
highwaymen they levy upon the good nature
or politeness Of others as the price Of peace.
Their friends and associates owe duty to
these people which they should not neglect
to perform. It is to resist their demands,
and cause them to learn that the rights,
comforts and conyeniences Of others are
quite as important as their own. We owe
them this service not simply for the sake Of
protecting our own rights. but for the sake
OF their moral training 1t Is a bad thing
for them to get In the habit OF compelling
the acquiescence OF others In their whims as
price Of their good nature. We have no
right to contribute to the strengthening Of
such disagreeable and unjust temper. It
Is a good thing for child, and, for the mat
ter of that, for grown up people, to learn
thoroughly that they cannot enforce con-
cessions by being disagreeable. The tenn
porary discomfort that 1t may occasion to
teach them effectively this lesson will be
more than made up by the advantages to
themselves and others OF having them learn
1t thoroughly.
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Somali's Hairy Sheep.

In an interesting communication to
the State Department W. W. Master
son, United States Consul at Alden,
Arabia, describes the Somali or black
head sheep. This animal is seen little
outside of its natural habitat, although
it is hardy and would undoubtedly
thrive in almost any country. A few.
years ago number of the sheep were
placed in the Geological Gardens at
Frankfort, Germany, and some of them
are there yet and healthy. The pecul-
iarity of this sheep is that it has no
wool, but fine hair, like dog or cat.
On its head and part of it's neck this
hair is jet black, while on the rest of
the body it is pure white. In Somali
land the earth is exceedingly barren,
and as the sheep move about in aocks
they sometimes enter barren waste
with virtually no vegetation, that it
takes several days to cross. So na-
ture has equipped the black head
sheep much as the camel is equipped
for enduring long time without food
or drink. At the root of the tail of
the black-head sheep there is lump
of solid fat weighing four or five
pounds. When the sheep has no food
it derives nourishment from this lump,
as camel from it's hump.
The black. head Sheep are used as
beasts of burden by the natives, and
in photographs sent by Consul Mas
terson they are heavily laden for q
journey. Their skins possess consid-
erable value and are exported mostly
to New York. Last year the value of
skins exported amounted to $685.
4S1.14. The wealth Of the natives of
Somali land is estimated by the num-
Der of sheep they own.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
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the head of the man of the future will

the head of the man of the future will
look.
The new race, he says, will use no
language because it will need none.
The interchange of thought between
individuals because it will be simply a
mental effort on the part of each unac-
companied by any physical manifesta-
tion whatever. As one person evolves
his idea the other will instantly grasp
it by means of subtle telepathy,
which even now is the gift in more
or less modified form of many people
who are only vaguely conscious of
their strange power, and, in many in
stances, too timid and fearful of ridi-
cule to publicly confess it or attempt
to develop it. With future genera
tions this gift will become more and
more frequent in individuals and OF
greater and greater power, until this
silent interchange of thought is at last
as common as is now speech and writ
ing. Nor will his powers stop even
there. He not only will be able to ex-
change thoughts with people thousands
of leagues away, but will be able to
see them as distinctly as though they
were physically present and even see
if he chooses what is passing anywhere
in the world. There will be an end Of
eyes and ears, the gross physical chan
nels through sensations now must pass
to the mind. They will all 60, for they
will all be useless-as useless as the
mechanism of the voice, by which SEN
sations and ideas are now conveyed
from the mind outward. There may
be some scar or meaningless excres-
ence where these organs once were,
just as. now there are physiological
suggestions of mans ape origin-hu-
initiating reminders of the brute an
cestry from which the godlike being
was evolved. But that will be all, and
even that will melt away and disap-
pear at last.
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Locomotive Built In Ten Hours.

A locomotive was recently built in
ten hours at the Stratford works of the
Great Eastern railway. twas main
line goods engine with tender. Be-
fore the actual construction COM
menced the various component parts
were placed close at hand, ready for
fitting together. The workmen began
early in the morning, and continued
briskly till the breakfast bell sounded.
After half an hours rest the work.
men returned to their task, and Ia
bored steadily until the dinner hour,
and thus the work proceeded until the
engine was at last completed, with the
exception of a coat of paint. This
was quickly laid on with a spraying
machine, and in less than half an hour
was perfectly dry. The locomotive
was then sent on a trial journey a few
miles on the line, and all proved salts
factory, 80 it was sent with luggage
train to Peterborough. Ithas been in
active service ever since, and is proudly
displayed as a marvel of engineering
quickness.
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were also shaven chins. Now there
are four barber shops and two or three
signs reading "Troy Laundry" There
is also bath house in course of con-
struction, and this is a luxury that
tired men coming off the trail will ap-
preciate. Lumber is still scarce, rough
lumber OF nine dollars per thousand
feet at Seattle selling for about twenty
five dollars here. There is little doubt
that hundred or more buildings will
be erected during the next thirty days.
Now, what are the prospects of
Skaguay's permanency? The men who
are building the wharves and the three
story hotel and other buildings evil
dently believe in its future growth and
prosperity. Yet there is nothing to
give it the slightest hope of perma-
nency except as an entrance to the
gold regions. That they do not at the
present time possess any such en-
trance that is at all what a highway
for the expected crowds in the spring
should be is conceded. But the in
tention now is to build wagon road
along the Skaguay River to the foot of
the mountain. This will cost great
deal of money, but it will in all prob
ability be carried out, for every one
who has made an investment here un-
derstands the situation. 1t is esti-
mated that from 100000 to $50, 900
gold seekers will flock to Alaska next
spring, and that they will begin to
come in in February. Skaguay must
be able to announce long before then
better trail than the present one or
the trade will pass her by and the
town boom will be "hushed" She
will also have others besides the Dyea
trail to compete with, and, in short,
her future depends entirely upon her
making the best inland route to the
Yukon territory that can be made.
Her citizens are remarkably public
spirited and liberal. A town meeting
two nights ago subscribed $1,000 for
fire protection in few moments. A
surveyor is now mapping out route
for a wagon road along the river.
Money will have to be raised to meet
the cost of this road and work on it
be started Immediately to insure the
permanency of Skaguay as port and
as town of even its present proper
tlOns
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here as at Juneau or any other north.
ern point.
But the visitor must not expect luxu-
ries. He must be content with bunk
and provide his own bedding. The
bunk will. cost him from seventy-fve
cents night up. Meals at cheap res
taurants are fifty cents each. He will,
however, in all probability, hire tiny
shack and learn to cook for himself if
he is to be gold hunter. Then, as
before stated, he will find the price Of
the bare necessaries of life no higher
in proportion than Seattle. Flour is
$3.50 per sack, potatoes S1.25, bacon
twelve to fifteen cents per pound.
The infant city is we'll laid out, and
not only on Broadway but on most of
the side streets on either side up to
where the trail turns off to the left into
the timber there are new stores and
residences. Among the timber also
there are many merchants. in tents or
rough shacks. In the early history of
the city-that is, three weeks ago
boiled shirts were publicly derided, as
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can, and woe to him whose belongings
chance to be near the bottom of the
huge pile.
I watched the steamer Queen unload
in this way. There was good deal
of hustling, necessarily, but I heard
no complaint of any goods being stolen
or lost--except temporarily. In fact,
the whole community seems wonder
fully honest considering that the black
sheep of the continent are herding in
this direction.
Merchants in tents leave their goods
hanging outside all right; pilgrims
leave their camps on the trail, with all
their belongings scattered about; yet
but few cases of pilfering have been
heard OF, and only one theft of money.
This was in the case of man named
W. 81. Dawson, of Seattle, who for
twelve days had S14O0 in his kit under
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-03
Killing Rabbits For Their Fur.

Out on the plains they are killing
jack rabbits by the hundreds for the
fur hat trade. The rabbits are so en-
ormous on the Western Kansas plains
that they can be scared up by the
score simply by dragging over the sod
a long wire that will brush the grasses.
Behind this, as horses haul it forward,
come the hunters, and they shoot the
hares without mercy, filling the wag-
ons by the end of the day. The skins
are quoted as follows: Good skins, 8
cents each; damaged, half price; culls
and pieces, cents pound; cottontail
rabbits, 8 cents pound. The Kan
sas farmers are putting in their time
in this. way and are making money.
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northern to the southern side of the
bay, thus blocking off all further COM
petition in this line. This will be
known commonly as the Juneau Pier,
its promoters being J. P. Jorgensen n,
hardware merchant; E. Valentine,
jeweller, and E. D. Sylvester, editor
of the Searchlight, all of Juneau. The
other pier will be known as the Seattle
Dock, as it is largely backed by capital
from that Sound city. This starts
from the street south of Broadway and
runs straight to the completed dock
under the cliff. Both will have ware
houses, to 'shich goods will be taken
direct from the ship, and there await
the proper claimants.
These two great piers are impressive
to the incoming stranger, who knows
that the town is only month old, but
as to the rest he can see but little from
the steamers decks. Tents dot the
shore the whole of it's width, with here
and there n small wooden building.
The latter are rapidly taking the place
of the canvas homes and stores, fol
the reason that cold weather and heavy
rains have set in, and more especially
very high winds. Captain Mckinney,
the Chairman of the Vigilance Com.
mittee, estimates that there are now
one hundred aud fifty buildings Of
wood, and that there would have been
many more but for the scarcity OF lum:
Der. There is sawmill hard at work
now, lumber is coming in by every
steamer, and nearly every one having
the purpose to winter here is putting
up habitation of wood. Many are
erecting larger and more substantial
buildings than their needs require, as
a speculation, hoping to sell at large
profit when the rush is renewed next
spring and when they once more pack
up for the Klondike.
Probably rs many as fifty of such
substantial dwellings are going up.
A curious phase of the situation
among those who have decided to win
ter here is that nearly every one OF
them believes that he has just the nat
ural gifts necessary to make asuccess-
full merchant. They are all putting
their great stakes into goods, which
they hope to turn into money again,
with large profit, by the spring, and
then sell out an established business
when the weather permits them to
leave for the gold fields. Thus is the
new city building up. There are thir-
teen saloons. a majority of their pro-
prietors having plans for getting to
the Klondike as soon as possible, and
there are between three and four hun
dred merchants of whom the same
thing may be said.
Not only on Broadway, but along
the intersecting streets and among the
big timbers on each side of the trail,
are these merchants tents and stores,
little and big, and all sorts and condi-
tions of men are interested in them,
from the spectacled, muscleless store
clerk, clumsily handling the saw and
the axe on his new building, to the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-03
A school of Drunkenness.s. :

Drunkards are made In various ways.
Here Is one. "Now, just watch those chill
dren. They'll drink half that beer before
they get home, and their mother will scoldi
me for not giving good pint, and I've
given nearly quart" said bartender OF
a downtown saloon the other day. to q
representative of the New York Herald, re-
ferring to two little girls Of six and eight,
thinly clad, who came for pint OF beer.
They had scarcely got outside the saloon.
door when the one that carried the tin pail
lifted 1t to her lips and took draught.f j
Then her companion> enjoyed q few swal-
lows. A little farther on they entered q;
tenement-house hallway, and both again
took sip. =
'I have lots Of such customers" said the
bartender. "Girls and boys and women
form haltour trade. We call 1t family
trade. 1t pays our expenses. But 1 tell
you what-balf the children who come here
drink. That's how drunkards are made.
Their parents send them for beer. They
see the old folks tipple, and begin to taste
the beer themselves. Few OF the children
who come in here for beer or ale carry
full pint home. Sometimes two or three
come in together, and II you'll watch them
you'll hear them begging the one who car
rles the pail for drink. We must sell It,
however, when their parents send for 1t.
We are bound to do so. Business Is bust-
uess. We do Lot keep temperance shop.
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Skaguay is a modern wonder. Not
many weeks ago the place practically
did not exist. To-day, with its care.
fully laid out streets and its scores OF
we'll stocked and cosy private dwell
ings, it presents all the appearance OF
thriving Northwestern town. Houses
are being rushed up with astonishing
rapidity, while merchants are SO
numerous and enterprising that COM
petition has already reduced their
wares to almost bottom prices. The
starting up of steam laundry has
caused the tsbiled shirt" to be accepted
as good form in this out of the way
settlement, while the establishment OF
thirteen saloons plainly indicates the
prevalence of generous atmosphere
of coDviviality.
The New York Herald's special cor
respondent, in an entertaining article
published herewith, gives a graphic
description of Skaguay as he found 1t
entering the fourth week of its NUM-
cipal existence. He says:
Nothing in the history of Western
boom towns will compare with the
mushroom growth of Skaguay. Ben
Moore, the man who located the town
site, left for the Sound on August 10, at
which date there was his own log
cabin, the store and the bunkhouse OF
the Alaska and Northwest Trading
Company and number OF tents.
When he returned there were whole
streets of wooden dwellings, which the
owners had themselves located and
had paid a registry fee to United
States Commissioner Smith of five
dollars. Not only were these new
corners permitted to locate on Captain
Moore's land on payment of the fee,
but it is said that Mr.. Smith accepted
the fee and gave registration receipt
: to half dozen different people for the
same plot of land. The newly ap-
pointed Laud Commissioner and
Register, Mr.. Dudley, will therefore
have some difficulty in unravelling the
conflicting real estate ownership on the
town site.
Skaguay is on tide fiat, with tide
running over twenty feet, and there
fore has stretch of half a mile below
tidewater mark. All the passengers
by big steamers are taken of in row
boats, with pull of from one to two
miles, according to the state of the
tide, when they are carried on the
backs of the boatmen to comparatively
dry land. It is amusing to hear the
shrieks of the women when on the
back of the boatmen splashing through
the water.
Only month ago, when the Will
annette landed her couple of thousands
of gold seekers, all the freight and
passengers. luggage were landed in
tnese small boats, or small scows, and
dumped on the shore pell NELL, hig-
gledy.piggledy, from which each owner
had to hurry to secure his particular
goods before the rapidly incoming
tide ruined them or swept them away.
Immense scows are now in use, big
enough to take the whole of a ships
cargo. These, when loaded, float to
shore on a high tide, and each owner
gets out his own goods as soon as he
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-03
Two KeRs of Rum.

Late one autumn whaler on her return
voyage brought up in front Of populous
village on an island in the northern part OF
the Behring Sea. A lively trade ensued
with the natives, who were anxious to make
their bargains quickly and go In pursuit Of
the walrus which are now passing, and
which every year provided the winters food
supply. But in addition to the legitimate
articles Of trade, couple Of kegs Of strong
rum were put ashore, and the schooner
sailed away:fsr San Francisco with all the
wealth Of the village.
By the time the natives had finished the
rum, and got over its effects, the walrus
had passed, there was no supply Of food
put up for the winter, and Ice was begin
ming to drift in the sea. The result was
inevitable. The next whaler that called at
the island was able to take home an inter-
esting collection of bones and skulls OF the
Eskimo type to an chronological institution,
but there was no man, woman, or child left
alive to tell the story Of starvation and
death.-From Through the Subarctic Forest,
by Washburton Pike.
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The Ministry of Life.

God permits US to dig In the fields, to
work In factories, to write In offices; not be-
cause In this way we are to earn our living,
We We must learn the lesson upon which the
game Is founded. The loaf upon OUT table
Is no less miracle than the mama that fell
In the desert; but God allows US to handle
and carry the loaf, that we may be taught
the deeper truth hidden within. How to
meet adversely, how to withstand prosper
ity, how to overcome difficulty, how to be-
patient in tribulation, how tn value and ex-
ercise faith. loyalty to trust, devotion to
duty, faithfulness under the strongest temp
tation, courage and self-reliance-al these
are developed under the teachings Of Gods
providence, and life in its every part is 8
divine school having lessons Of the divinest
character,
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a pile of feed in his tent. He left his
tent often in perfect confidence, but
one day he found his belongings had
oeen disturbed and that the money
was gone.
Another Seattle man at once gave
him S1OO with which to take out his
feed, for he had already gotten his
goods some distance along the trail.
But this was only the beginning of
Davison's bad luck. He was one of the
first on the trail, and worked beyond
his strength. Just past the summit
he had an attack of pneumonia, and,
getting worse instead of better, had to
give up. He is now here waiting for
the next steamer, having left his out
fit with his partner, who hopes to sell
it to some one who will pay for the
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stolid backwoodsman, to whom the
making OF change is difficult mental
operation.
One would think that the town
would be overdone with so many mer-
chants, and perhaps it will be soon,
when the steamers are fewer and pas
sengers on them not numerous enough
to be worth mentioning. But there is
a population of over five hundred still
in tents, and it is believed that there
will be continual coming and going
until the beginning of December, to
be then renewed the month following.
So many merchants, however, has had
the effect of bringing down prices,
which, considering the freight charges,
are now rapidly getting to the bottom,
making it nearly as cheap to winter