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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-01
DR.. Ayers
Cherry Pectoral
Enn in Sweden.

General Baron Rappe, Swedish
Minister. of War, has just suffered a
penalty for very amusing slight to
royal ceremony. The day before
Christmas King Oscar summoned a
cabinet council to the palace. At the
last MON ent General Rappe, who is
notoriously absent minded, having on
his full uniform, as required by the
regulations, forgot to put on his
plumed chapeau. and hastily clapped
his ordinary silk hat on his unfortun-
ate head. No one happened to zee
him en- route till he approached the
palace. The King and the rest of the
cabinet, looking out of the window,
saw the motley War Minister ap-
preaching, and burst into loud outlaws
at his unceremonlous appearance.
They chafed him without mercy, and
the King, to censure his absence OF
mind, put him under three days ar.
rest as provided by the military regu
lations forbidding the wearing OF ci.
william attire in conjunction with mill
tary uniform.
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The English Tramp.

Whoever, queries a writer in the
Saturday Review, analyzing the way.
farer's characteristics, heard habit
ual tramp sing, or even whistle? AS
he comes slouching down the sunny
side of the road his very walk gives
the lie to any romantic notion about
him. He does not walk; he merely
shufles, weak -kneed and narrow
chested, expectorating freely as he
goes. The wind on the heath has no
call for him. He hates the country,
and regards the open road merely as O
wearisome way from one common
lodging house or casual ward to an
other. AS a representative of the true
vagabond, to whom the wind and the
smell of earth and the warmth of the
sun are sheer physical delights, he is
the greatest fraud that ever novelist
or a cockney essayist imagined. He
is nothing but an unspeakable dirty
and spiritless man, prowling along
with an eye to stealing or begging
enough for a lodging house or to ca
rouse with other members of his tribe.
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Runts Among Pigs.

It is quite rare with young sows. or
those that have not been properly fed,
to have one or more pigs smaller than
the rest, and which are commonly
called "runts." Such pigs should
generally be killed as soon as born.
They will eat as much as pig that
will be much thriftier, and at nine or
ten months old will weigh forty to fifty
pounds more. Thus keeping the pig
longer only makes the loss on it the
greater. It is much better, however,
to prevent runt pigs than to be at the
trouble of killing them. Give the SOW
bearing pigs plentiful feeding each
day of fine wheat middlings and skim
milk, and even though she be. young
she will not be likely to cast runts.
When the SOW becomes old and has
attained her growth, she does not need
the bone and muscle forming material
for herself, and, therefore, most Of it
goes to the pigs she is carrying. 1t is
not good to give breeding sows corn
or corn meal. Often when thus fed
the SOW will herself fatten, while her
pigs will be all runts. A breeding
SOW should be kept from growing fat.
But she can be literally fed with the
kind of feed that is best adapted to
making milk,
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SwitzerIand's Falling Mountain.

The din OF falling rocks and rubble
continues at Airolo, Switzerland, when
fresh portions of the mountain break
away from time to time. The ruined
mass of stones, trees and houses
measures not less than five hundred
thousand cubic metres, and the dam
age caused is estimated at over $780,
600.
As further downfalIs are feared, it
has been proposed to blow down with
mines the whole mass in one great
avalanche. and 30 end the prevailing
terror. r.-Berne correspondence ct ~
London Mail
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own State last summer I was i'm.
pressed with the number of farm let.
ter boxes I'saw along the roads. These
were generally of the sort shown in the
cut, and, as can be seen, are no dis
tgurement- least to the farmyards
lying behind them. A stout post is
set by the roadside in a position to be
readily approached by the team con-
veying the mail from one point to an
other. The box has sloping cover
that should project on oil sides, to
keep out the. rain. 1t should be high
enough so that the driver can reach it
easily from his seat. One or two
steps make the box accessible from
the ground. The driver of the mail
wagon OF stage from one town to an
other is hired to take from the box
each day the lett srs and papers to be
mailed, and to bring back and deposit
in the box the mail he finds for the
family at the distant postofice. The
cost per month for such service is
comparatively small, while the result
is in reality the bringing of tho post
office to ones doors. There are doubt
less many farms not now enjoying this
privilege that might easily take ad-
vantage of it. The only requisite is
that o mail wagon should pass that
way. The letter box and an arrange.
ment with the mail carrier do the
rest. In this way also shopping can
be done by the mail carrier, and the
purchase left in the box on the return
trip, a memorandum of wants having
been left in the box in the morning,
with the money to pay for the articles
and q small fee for the doing of the
service. Such things tend to lessen
the isolation of farm life, and to bring
added conveniences to it, and for this
reason are to be commended.-New
York Tribune.
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A Bank OF Brides.

Simla, the summer capital of the
Indian Empire, is pretty pine-treed
place we'll up in the foothills of the
Himalayas. A feature of Simla life
is the annual fair held by the native
hills people, an attractive item of
which is q "Bank of Brides in an
amphitheatre, where sit numbers Of
young women who thus calmly an
nounce that they are candidates for
hymeneal honors. Some of these
aspirants to matrimony so patiently
awaiting a choosing are quite pretty,
and have intelligent faces; but those
Of Mongol caste must needs linger
long for partner, if personal beauty
enters into the equation.-Woman's
Home Companion.
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Caribou Blinded by Duelling.

The Indian guide Jim Paul was once
hunting on the Gaspereaux plains,
New Brunswick, when he saw large
bull caribou coming straight toward
him through a clump of stunted
spruce. The animal frequently col
ided with the trees and seemed to
take no notice of the Indian. "Sar-
ts." said Jim. 'tI tink dat caribou
waJ drunk. Bambye when he git
pretty close I shoot him. sartin he
was mighty ole caribou, for he was
blind and had no teeth and no horns" I"
In the mating season it is not uncom-
mon for caribou males to be blinded
by thrusts received in their furious
duels for the mastery of the herd.
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The Eject Of Inbreeding.

Among the sheep the direct lose
from close inbreeding is the most ap-
parent. The degeneration of a flock
IS so rapid that you can almost see it
from one generation to another. It
naturally follows that the need oi
thoroughbred rams from other focks
to add new blood to the sheep is
greater in focks that have been inbred
for a Succession of years.
The first thing noticeable in the
line of degeneration is the undersize
of the lambs. The animals actually
show smaller size from one generation
to another, and if the inbreeding is
kept up they become small and puny
creatures, or at least O fair percentage
of the lambs will be thus undersized.
The loss is of itself twofold. The
lamb that is undersized produces less
wool because there is smaller surface
for it to grow on. In the course ol
several generations the amount OF sur
face may decrease by almost square
foot. Count up how much wool ia
produced on a square foot OF the
sleeps hide, and you will get at the
exact loss. Then the undersized lamb
yields so much less meat for the
butcher. The loss here, too, is con-
siderable, and when finally sent to be
killed the loss on the wool and the
mutton will make q rather startling
sum.
But this is not the only loss .sus-
tanned from inbreeding. The wool grad
ually grows thinner on the hide of the
poor, scrubby sheep. Only one hair
is found where before two grew. The
inherent weakness of the animals
shows itself in the thin crop of wool,
the same as an old man, or one suffer.
ing from long sickness or insidious
disease. The quality Of the wool nat.
urally degenerates along with the
other things. Place the wool of o
scrub on the scales, and it is found
wanting in weight. Place it then be.
fore the sorter and quicker, and they
quickly mark it down as second class.
The fibre lacks something that experts
can quickly distinguish.
Here are the four losses: less NUT.
ton, less surface for the wool, less
wool to the square inch and inferior
quality of wool, which brings only the
lowest prices in the markets.-E. P.
Smith, in American Cultivator.
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cut. Where the fowl house is inside
another building, or has a hallway,
this plan can be easily and conven-
iently used. Long boxes are used
tor the nests, each having a partition
across the middle with round open
ing through it large enough for hen
to pass through. Two other round
openings for each nest are made. One
in the outside of the box, as shown,
another in the partition of the hen
pen. Place the box against the out
side of the partition so that the two
openings will come together, when the
hen can enter and pass around into
the dark nest. A hinged cover gives
access to the eggs.
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* AGRICULTURAL. *
Breeding Turkeys.

The best results in growing turkeys
are from yearling hens bred to
sobbler two years old, and three
would be still better. The young hen
will lay more eggs the first year than
abe will in any year after, and if she
mates with gobbler two years or
over the young turks will be active
md vigorous. Watch the hen turkey
carefully, and remove her first eggs as
soon as laid, lest they become chilled,
Two and sometimes three settings of
turkey eggs must be taken from the
young turkeys and set under common
hens before the hen turkey will sit
steadily herself. The hen turkey
must be confined mornings when she
has young chicks. or she will draggle
them through the wet grass, and thus
kill them.
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Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury.

smell and Completely derange thewhole syste m
when entering it th rough the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except On
from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the goou you
Cure manufactured by F. ]. Cheney. & Co.,
Toledo. O., contains no mercury, and is taken
acting directly upon the blood ana
Halls i'atarrh Cure be sure to get the genuine.
It is taken internally. and is made in Toledo,
Ohio. by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
ER~ Sold by Druggists; price, T5c: per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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WOMAM'S
PECULIAR
NLS

these serious ills of women for H
quarter of a century. Failure to F.
secure proper advice should not =
excuse the women of to-day, for i
the wisest counsel can be had CE
without charge. Write to Mrs. M
Pinkham for it. Her address @-A
Is Lynn. Mass. .H#
Among the multitude of wo- .G43M
men helped by Mrs. Pinkham TN
and by Lydia E. Pinkham's -&
Vegetable Compound, is MRS. JosE.H
KING, Sabina, Ohio. She writes: |
dear MRS. PINKHAM-Will you
kindly allow me the pleasure of ex.
pressing my gratitude for the wonder
full relief have experienced by taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I suffered for a long time
with falling of the womb. and those
terrible bearing-down pains, and it
seemed as though my back would never
stop aching; also had leucorrhea, dull
headaches, could not sleep. was weak
and life was burden to me. Idoctored
for several years, but it did no good.
My husband wanted me to try your
medicine, and I am so thankful that I
did. have taken four bottles of the
Compound and box of Liver Pills, and
can state that if more ladies would only
fair trial they would bless the day they
ment. My heart is full of gratitude to
her medicine has done for me, It is Wor
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cally out of the question. He simply,
went over the field as machine would,
regardless of the requirements Of the
soil. As result a shrinkage Of fifteen
bushels per acre was experienced. A.
machine man on the farm is worse than
an unruly animal, for they (the ami
mals) can be tied down, with the as
surance that they will come to time,
but with the other fellow nothing can
be done. Corn, like all other crops in
one respect, has to be well cared tor
from the very beginning to get best
results. Some places in the field may
need deep cultivation, while others
may require shallow, and if man is
so absorbed in something else that he
does not notice this difference in these
places he is not on the road to success.
full farming. Thus it may be easily
seen that, usually speaking. if man
understands the requirements of his
farm it would surely pay him as we'll,
if not better, to stay at home and do
his own work or take the place of the
$1S man instead of accepting $50 a
month eIsewhere;-Elias F. Brown, in
the New England Homestead.
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What Our knowledge is Good For.

The attainment OF skill IS the alpha
as it is the omega of science. 1t was
the attempt to gain perfection in his
everyday work that led primeval man
to take the first steps in that great
movement of which the fruition ap-
pears in the final development Of our
modern universities. For a man of
highest culture, also, the end and OBJ
iect of study is, as Aristotle teaches
US, not the attainment of knowledge,
bvt the perfecting of conduct, and
this is true not only when we con-
ceive OF conduct as our action in rela-
tion to other men, but also if we look
upon it as action in relation to the OBJ
iects and conditions which surround
US. - From 1.-THE Field of Art" IN
Scribner's.
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A Farm Letter Box.

It is the misfortune of many coun'
try places to be far from the post.
Office. 1t is possible that free rural
delivery may be an established fact
in time, but that time is not yet. In
the meantime, any plan that will make
the mails more accessible to farming
communities is to be welcomed. In q
number of long drives through my
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Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathsr'
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all I'M
purities from the body; Begin to-day TO
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,- beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, lOc. 25c, SOC.
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A New Nesting Advancement.

To make dark nests inside hen
house is q matter involving not a lit
tie work. At even then the nests
often prove q nuisance, since the
fowls roost on them and soil them
constantly. A handy contrivance for
securing dark nests is shown in the
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The Plant System reaches the finest re-
sorts in Florida, Cuba, Jamaica and Porto
Rico. Tickets by both rail and water from
the East. Five steamships weekly be-
tween Port Tampa, Key West and Havana.
Beautifully illustrated literature, maps,
rates, etc., upon application 10 ]. j. Farms
worth, Eastern Pass. Agent, Plant System,
PSI Broadway, New York.
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Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Goto your druggist to-day and get
sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 81
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
RerOus.
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IOaded Down.

The air is loaded down with pains and
aches, ind SC -le systems take them in like
a sponge. St. Jacobs Oil rubbed in will
take the pain away and leave cure.
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Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag.
netic. full Of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac. the wonder-worl1er that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran-
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
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The Lutherans in the United States
have about 1000 congregations, 5000
ministers and membership of 60o,-
900.
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The French Canadians comprise thirty
per cent. Of the entire population OF the
D Dominion.
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Lanes Family Medicine.

Moves the bowels each day, In order to
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently
on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head-
ache. Price 25 and soc.
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The public awards the palm to Hale's Honey
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one Minute
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Icannot speak too highly Of Piso's Cure foI foI
Consumption.-Mrs. FRANK N oBBs, 2l5 w. "a
ST. New York. Oct 90, 1884,
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Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous.
ness after first days use OF DR.. Kine's Great
Nerve Restorer S2trial bottle and treatise free
DR r. IT. KLINE, Ltd, 93l Arch ST., Phila., Pa
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens tho gums, reduces lnhamma-
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! II Hangs
| o.

II it was only health, we
might let It cling.
But il is a cough. One cold
no sooner passes of before
another comes. But it's the
same old cough all the time.
And it's. the same old story,
TOO. There Is first the cold,
then the cough, then pneu-
monia or consumption with the
long sickness, and life tremb.
; ling in the balance.
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Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
i0c 25c. II G. c. c fail. druggists refund money.
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To Florida Resorts.

At present there is only one Protestant
church on the whole island OF Porto Rico.
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Out OF every million persons $4,000 die
from gout,
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To Cure a Cold in One Day.

It is estimated that New York City e1-
pends S25, 900 900 year in charity.
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About 65,O0O0 900 pounds Of beet sugar
were raised in California last year.
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It is estimated that about 1000 900 bi.
cycles have been made in Europe and
America.
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All the year around chronic or neglected
rheumatism hangs on. 1t Is worse in chilly,
damp weather, but never so bad that St..
Jacobs Oil can't promptly cure it.
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The population OF the soudan is num-
bered at 100000, nearly all wholly un-
edr cated
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Have used Dr.Seth Arnold's Cough Killer for
Whooping Coughwith good results; ID C;kEMP,
1875 No. Carey St.. Baltimore. Nd, July II. 1888.
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THE Ills Of women conspirs against domestic harmony
Some arrangement of the Cenerative organs IL
the main of most of the unhsppiness In tho
household.
Tho husband can't understand these troubles The male
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Besuty II Blood Deep.

The average length Of whales jawbone
Is seven feet.
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Great Britain and Ireland lave an or
chard area OF 226, ,059 acres.
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Newfoundland is now the sizta cop.
reproducing country in the world.
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practical and
sympathe etic.
Mrs. Pinkham
has been curing
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To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10c or 25c
Il c. c. c. fail to cure. druggists refund money
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There we're 25,043 marriages in Indiana
last wear.
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IN Westminster Abbey 1l73 persons have
been buried,
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The Year Round.

At the recent Paris show 1853 different
motor carriages were exhibited.
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Wipe Out.

: It is the specific virtue Of penetration
in St. Jacobs Oh which carries 1t right
Gown to the sciatic nerve in the cure OF
Sciatica, and the effect Is to soothe 'ne
nerve and wipe out ,he pain.
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NoB Saadab0MM
Not Quite Useless.
2sls5ll5smE7

Hood, Pills cure liver ills: non.rrltating and
the only cathartic to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla
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Noman's hair usually begins to grow
gray when she is about thirty-fve.
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In Iloilo, Philippine Islands, there Is not
hotel or public conveyance.
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Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets .
Druggists refund money fit fails TO cure. :
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It IS a felony to run a crap game in Ten
nessee under a new law.
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Coughs Lead to Consumption.

benevolent assimilation" has succeeded
''being touched" as common slang.
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The shipyards OF Great Britain could
turn out a big steamship livery day OF the
year.