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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05

The relation to the public OF Mr.. LYMAN
J. GAGE. prospective Secretary OF the Treasury
in President MCKINLEY's Cabinet is Of gen.
eral concern. On Feb. ! the New York World
published what purported 10 be Mr.. GAGE's
views on finance. one OF which favored
the retirement OF tho greenbAcks. So i'm
probable did II seem that q gentleman who
had accepted q post in the Cabinet Of an
administration which would not come into
existence for moe than a month. and which,
from political circumstances would begin its
duties with exceptional need o: wisdom and
tact, should venture to proclaim = financial
policy Of no relation whatsoever TO the simple
lines OF his party. that tho Journal asked Mr..
GAGE about Il and asserted that IL had re-
csived the following reply:
THAT supposed interview IL only Q parta, report of
an address delivered by mo about two yean ago. l
have had no Interview with any ona Lilo"
This was naturally received with comfort
oven by tho greenback abolition!sts. Tho
Erening Post sisnihed the relief IL felt from
reading the Journals publication when IL con-
fessed that "the FORMULATION Of Mr.. CAGES
views on finance by q newspaper interview
within twenty-four hours after receiving tho
notification of mis- appointment would have
gone far to destroy his influence with Congress
and the public"
Now, however. the World says that Mr.. GAGE
did have an interview with its reporter, and
that in response to the reporters request that
he should declare himself on financial questions
he pointed To his recent speech as his present
views. thus making substantially an original
declaration OF his principles.
Either tho World. or the Journal, or Mr.. GAGE
therefore, is guilty OF deception. II neither OF
the newspapers lies in this instance. Mr.. GAGE's
telegram to the journal was distinctly disin.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05
The same for All.
PROM the Caronens Times.

From Tho Chronicle Times.
II tho legislators or the various States are deter.
mined that "trusts" and partnerships must go. well
aud good; but let there bo no Partially. Along with
tho combinations of wealth let there be included
every combination Of labor as well. In the grand
sweeping out process.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05
sa.p,sle.. s.cr.ux.n....

FROM ne Indianapolis Journal
The Young WHEEL nm afraid George was intori.
Gated last night
me sympAini,,ng Friend-He didn't go to bed with
N 6n! he took Thorn on and tucked them under
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05
HIpo.te for Mr.. nopLIu-.

To TIM EarroR ~ TuE srN-Nr N'Hn '"'"r
form Mr. Jerome Hopkins that "rr'u ,u N,-c7'r,
Ia an opera by Psirotti. and Il rrrcaD1nnr ~"
Acaaemy, Of Nuslc in New YORK under tur l.rrGiips
HIsir, max Maretkek, with such artists as NV"
/. los oIETrA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05
Did the Trouble Originate with a
Banker KohlsaatI
Fro,. the Boston Traveller.

II Major Mckinley indorses Mr., Cages. and Mr..
Gage COCA on advocating his un.American yiews.
the Republican Administrations will become more
odious, even before IL comes into power. than the
Cleveland administration did In its whole four years
Of rule.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05
A Tricudly OpIm.un.

TO the Enron Oh T!E SvS-S.r. A, ace. n'0E y
trustworthy TaE S.>. eos. B.. ""i@
any'h'ni In existence today. Ions ru., Ne
bHNS.NuToS, Feb O.. KS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-05

LccAL rEws-The City and Suburban News Bureau
ot the UurxD Phsss and Nrv Yonx AssocArED
Pnrss IL At ~ 20 10 Ann street. All information
and documents for public use Instantly dissent
mated TO the press OF the whole country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Eccentric Millionaires.

Mere money-making seems not to
have satisfied Barney Barnato. He
wanted to have the fun of spending
money, too, and to enjoy everything it
would buy. His taste in this par
ticular is in vivid contrast to that of
the late MI. Joseph Richardson, of
New York, who died June s., leaving a
fortune estimated at thirty millions.
He was about eighty-three years old,
and his long life had apparently been
passed very much to his satisfaction.
was a contractor of great energy
and diligence, and laid the founda-
tons of his fortune in that calling. He
was a millionaire when the Civil War
began, and as long as he lived he kept
on earning more money, and investing
his gains with excellent judgment. He
built water-works, railroads and many
great buildings, and was very proud Of
some of his professional exploits; but
the work for which he was most ia
nous was the erection of a four-story
house on q fve-foot strip of land at
the northwest corner of Lexington
avenue and Eighty-seeond street. He
happened to own that little strip OF
land. A mai who had planned to
build a block adjoining it offered him
$1,000 for his holding. He wanted
$4,000, and failing to get it, concluded
to build himself a house, which he did
very ingeniously, and lived in it for
fifteen years. He had a summer place
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, but the fve-foot
house was his home for half the year.
Mr.. Richardson's ideas were some
what peculiar, and recall those of the
late Mr.. Fayerweather, who left 80
much money to colleges; but we can
not deny him the measure of respect
which is due to a man who lives out
his life according to his own prefer
ences instead of patterring after some
one else. He liked to make money,
and he made a great deal; he liked to
save money, and he saved nearly all
he made; he did not enjoy spending
money, so he spent little. By his will
he left $50, 900 to a clergyman, ST. 500
to the Central Park Baptist Church,
and the rest of his fortune to his wife
and two children.-Harper's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
To Break Up a Sitting Hen.

It is so natural for the hen to sit
after continuous laying until her egg
supply is temporarily exhausted that
we used when keeping hens to let
them have their own way generally
and bring off their broods. One of
the most beautiful sights in the farm
yard is the mother hen watching her
little brood, calling them to a ~favorite
morsel, or uttering the warning cry
which every little chick understands
when some strange object above her
gives the alarm. A piece of news
paper blown by the wind is to the
hens imagination a dangerous bird of
prey. While the hen is sitting, if she
is fed and watered twice a day she is
probably recovering her strength and
bringing forward another lot of eggs
quite as fast as she would be if run
ming at large. 1t really does the hen
good to raise her little family, and
with the Asiatic breeds we doubt
whether you will lose any eggs by it.
The trouble is that while the hen is
sitting she is usually partly starved,
and so it takes longer for her to re-
cover. If fed only wheat with plenty
of pure water, and in separate dish the
curd of milk, Plymouth Rock hens
will often begin to lay eggs while kept
in the coop with chicks too small to
care for themselves. Yet it is not
hard to prevent the hen from sitting
if you want to. Place the hen in a coop
where she can have no place to make
q nest, and with a young rooster from
another pen, if possible. After a few
days of this treatment, giving only
water and wheat grains, the hens may
be turned out and will oon 60 to lay
ing again.-Boston Cultivator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
The Oldest PlOMmaker.

Chicago has the oldest plowmaker
in the United States. His name is
David Bradley, and he is at the head
of a big manufacturing company on
the West Side. Mr.. Bradley first
worked at the business in Syracuse,
n. Y, in 1882. In 1885 he came to
Chicago, which then numbered 25O0
inhabitants and a camp of several
thousand Indians. to help erect the
first iron foundry established here.
Mr.. Bradley was the first man to
bring pig-iron into Chicago. In con-
nection with the foundry which he
helped to build was a machine shop,
and the establishment soon began
along with its other business the manu-
facture of plows. MI. Bradley by the
growth of his business was finally
forced to build a little town Of his
own, which is known as Bradley, III.
Mr.. Bradley has passedhis eighty-fifth
birthday, but is still hale and hearty,
and thoroughly enjoys the prosperity
which hard work has brought him.
The active business has been sur
rendered to his sons.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Gulls as Rivals of Homing Pigeons.

J. G. Thompson, the well-known
surveyor and thrifty rancher at Mono
Lake, has been making some interest
ing experiments. Last year he OBJ
tanned two dozen gull eggs from one of
the islands in the lake and placed them
under hens to hatch, fifteen young
gulls or outlets being the result, the
homliest things that ever wore feathers
all legs, bills and squawk.' They
matured and became very tame, feed
ing with the other fowls and showing
no inclination to fly away.
From careful observation Of the
habits of these migratory birds, thou
sands of which visit the lake every
year, he had come to the conclusion
that as messengers they might prove
equal or superior to carrier pigeons,
and resolved to demonstrate it. The
first experiment was made two weeks
ago, when two birds were set free
about sixty miles south of Mono Lake.
In a little more than an hour they
were back at the ranch, feeding as
usual. Inc SUCCESS VI VIC hIS9 NCh-
ture was so marked that he made ar
rangements for further tests. Two
birds were sent to San Francisco and
another pair to Independence, in Inyo
County, to be freed at a certain time.
1t is about ITS miles on an air line
from Mono Lake to the bay, and about
ninety miles from independence, from
which latter place the birds returned
in less than two hours. The pair that
were turned loose in San Francisco ar
rived at the ranch in four and a half
hours from the time they were liber-
ated, showing q greater speed than
that of the homing pigeon. The gull
is q strong and swift flyer. When he
has pressing engagements he thinks
nothing of showing forty or sixty miles
hour behind him, and for a long
distance he is the toughest kind of a
slayer. Mr.. Thompson is consider
ably elated over the results of his ex-
periments, which he will continue, be-
that the gull as a messenger
bird is far superior to the pigeon
California Territorial.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
A Toad as q Ta1isman.
The Western Morning News report

The Western Morning News reports
a remarkable case of superstition. A
young woman in Penzance had suf-
fered from fits, and she adopted a
remedy which would be to most peo-
pie almost as repulsive as the disease
itself. She procured live toad, placed
it in a bag, hung it around her neck
and carried it next her body! The
woman was cured of her fits, but she
was being medically attended at the
Penzanoe Infrmary at the same time.
The woman believes, however, that
this was a coincidence, and that her
strange talisman was the instrument
of her cure.-South Wales Daily News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
New York States Great Park.

There are between 1400 and 1900
lakes in the Adirondack wilderness,
and on the shores of a large number
of them are cottages or camps with
greater or less professions to artistic
beauty. These lakes are so joined
that one a make a tour of the wilder
ness almost entirely by boat. This
gives great varietyto camping grounds
and camp life. A number OF new cot
tages are in course of construction,
and additions and improvements are
being made at many places.-Utica
N. W Observer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
High Farming on Cheap Land.


The greatest difficulty in the way of
good farming in this country has al
ways been that prices Of land were so
low that those engagedin farming have
been tempted to buy more land than
they could proftably work. There
should always be an amount of work
ing capital equal to at least half Of
what is invested in land. This should
be done wen though the land be only
partly paid for. It is much better to
leave a part of the cost of land put in
q mortgage whose interest can be met
every year, than to pay all the money
down and leave nothing to work the
land with. In a great majority Of
cases it is the floating capital, rather
than that invested in land, which pays
the greatest rate of profit. Farmers
have been complaining for years that
the merchant, who makes ten to TWEEN
ty-fve per cent. on his merchantable
stock, has the advantage of them.
They are tied to their farms, and like
the man holding fast by the VOLTS tail,
cannot, safely, let 60, while it takes all
their energies to simply hold on and
prevent the wolf from turning and
rending them.
On high-priced land near cities most
of the high-priced farm stock is kept.
1t is usually far more profitable than
the stock of the merchant, for that, eE-
cept in case of a change in the mar
kets, cannot increase in value, and is
much more likely to decrease. The
merchants stock cannot increase in
amount as can that of the breeder. To
be sure, the breeder has losses by
casualties to animals, but these are
fully Offset if not more by the bad
debts that the merchant accumulates
on his ledger. If the breeder manages
rightly his stock may be made to in
crease with it's product thirty to more
than one hundred per cent. There is
no kind of business SC safe from loss,
other than farming, that pays so we'll
as this. Why then is it that so many
farmers are poor? 1t is because they
trust too much to their land to sustain
them without having the capital to
make the best use of it.
Most low-priced land is so because
it is far from market; that may make
such land unsuitable for growing the
fancy breeds of stock that can usually
only be sold by having those who in
tend purchasing visit the farm and in
speeding stock on the ground. Yet
when o farmer is known to have an
extra good class of stock he will find
customers for it, even if they do find
it not very convenient to visit and IN
spect it. There is no surer way to
make the farm richer than to use it for
stock-breeding purposes. If the fer
tility is put into the soil, there need
be no fear that some mea will be
found for makingi it profitable. TWAS
the virgin and fertile soils of the
Northwest that attracted settlement
from all parts Of the world. Increase
fertility anywhere and the land will
never lack purchasers. American
C%ultiyator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
A Great Train to the Seventh Annual Con-
vention Baptist Young People at
Chattanooga, Tenn.

The grandest trip of the season has been
arranged. over the Southern Railway, for
Chattanooga and Nashville. A personally
New York July 18th. returning July 2ith,
visiting Washington. Ashevile. Chattanooga,
Nashville. Norfolk and Old Point Comfort
and young. This is the official tour for the
delegates from Maine. New Hampshire. Yer
mont, Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Eastern
Pennsylvania. MARYLAND. District Of Column
bia. and the Vircinias and Carolinas. A large
delegation from Connecticut and New York
will Join the party.
Write to any agent of the Southern Railway
for full particulars. descriptive matter of the
great rout' to Chattanooga Through the
Land of the Skv." New York office. 21 Broad
way; Boston office. 29S Washington Street.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Growing FAN Turnips.

Where the land is fresh and free
from the seeds of foul weeds, fall
turnip seed may be sown broadcast
from the first of July until the middle
of August, depending on the season,
and covered with a light smoothing or
brush harrow. Prepare the land very
carefully and pulverize and compact
the seedbed thoroughly. New ground
the second year from sod gives best re-
suits. The soil is then rich in plant
food and in good filth. A piece of
sod ground broken during the sum-
mel and seeded to wheat in the fell
makes an excellent turnip field the
following season, after the wheat has
been harvested. Ordinarily suchdand
will not produce a sufficient number
of weeds to interfere with the full de-
velopment of the turnips. -Four or
five pounds of seed to the acre will
give about the right stand.
In sections of the country where
new land is not available, truck
patches from which early vegetables
have been removed will answer
admirably. Often wheat land is
plowed as soon as the gain has
been removed and seeded to
turnips. The ground must be rich,
for turnips are gross feeders, but soil
containing al excess of vegetable mat
ter will IL an excessive growth of
tops, to the detriment of root devel-
opment. A cool, moist climate is very
favorable to the growth Of turnips and
for thisreason the seed should be put
in late if the season is dry, then most
of the growth will take place in fall.
While broadcasting answers very
we'll on new land, the best results are
obtained only when sown in rows and
cultivated. Have the rows about two
feet apart and the plants anywhere
from six to twelve inches apart in the
row. Give level culture, keep the
land free from weeds and stir the sur
face often.
Turnips are a valuable winter feed
for sheep and cattle, particularly the
former. When fed to milk COWS give
just after milking. Otherwise the
milk may be given an unpleasant odor
and the butter al undesirable faint.
They must not be fed in excess to any
stock but when other s%ucculent feeds
cannot be fed, turnips are invaluable.
American Agriculturist.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Feeding Pigs Regularly.

Much depends in feeding pigs on
giving their food at regular intervals.
Then the pig will very soon become
used to this, and will not expect his
food until the next regulal feeding
time comes. The old saying that a
~squealing pig loses a pound of fat
every time 1t squeals has this much Of
truth in it, that the irregular times
for feeding which occasion most of
the squealing is the surest way to de-
stroy digestion. This in pigs is not
so strong as is often supposed. The
pig is greedy by nature. Others must
see to it that it does not eat more nor
oftener than is good for it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Rooster That Fights Steam Engines.

A rooster belonging to Mr.. J. II.
Burkholder. at Oaks, is credited with
being the gamest cock OF the walk.
When an engine stops at Oaks and
lets off steam, the rooster will ruffe
his feathers and make a dash at the
steaming monster as if he would like
to wear = out with his spurs and bill.
He has even been seen to go so far as
to jump on the cowcatcher of a NOV
ing engine. The rooster is of the
game variety, and his nerve seems to
be unlimited. -Paducah (Ky.) Regis
Tor
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Military Dogs.

WILTSHIRE Germans are making the
best use OF pigeons the Russians are
using dogs for the transmission of mes
sages and more especially as protectors
of advanced outposts and isolated SEN
tries. The dogs are deployed in fight
ing order, and at a given signal bound
forward to the skirmishes, taking with
them supplies of cartridges placed in
little saddles. Both in this duty and
the conveyance of messages the dogs are
stated to have shown a high degree of
intelligence, rejecting great credit
upon those responsible for their train
ing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-14
Horse Hints.

Being gentle with a horse will help
him to be gentle.
Keep the colt fat and he will make
an easy-going horse.
Sores on horses shoulders are large
ly the result of ill-itting collars.
An excess of food weakens a work.
ing animal and disables it from work.
If young teams are overloaded they
are apt to become discouraged or
vicious.
Take the forse to the harness shop
and see tina. a collar fits him before
you buy it.
To a very considerable extent the
most costly farming is that done with
poor teams.
The farmers will always be poor
who continue to raise $50 horses at Ill
eipense Of 500.
Blood, food, care and training are
the essentials necessary for producing
q first-class horse.
There are few diseases to which
horses are subject but are easier pre-
vented than cured.
Good grooming does not only add
to the animals comfort, but to its
healthfulness as well.
The best farm horse is the one with
a kind and tractable disposition, we'll
broken and serviceable.
Feeding n little wheat bran with the
other grain will help to make tho
horses hair sleek and glossy.
The feed and care necessary to raise
a Door horse costs as much in every
way as it does for one of the best.
A horse needs exercise every day
to keep his system properly regulated
and make his hair bright and sleek.
When the horse is brought in from
work he should be given a good drink;
if too warm to drink he is too warm to
eat.