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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-07-26
He Stroye to Please.

The boy who tackles new Job may
always expect to be, for awhile at
least, the butt for jokes and pranks
from all the other boys in the place.
A clerk in big Chicago hotel tells OF
a new bellboy vic was recently en-
ployed. On the irst day the house
keeper met him in one of the Railways
staggering under the weight OF two
fire buckets" filled to the brim with
water.
"Here, boy, what are you doing?"
she asked.
why, the other kids told me l had
to change the water in these buckets
every day, and I'm doing that.
"And do you know" said the clerk,
"that boy had put fresh water in 2i5
buckets? But I guess it didn't do any
harm to have the water freshened up
bit, anyhow. ."-Chicago News.
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TBXASFL0ODLOSS HEAVY
Damage to Crops Estimated at Not
Less Than $40,0OO,0O0.
MILES OF LAND INUNDATED.

Contributions Are Now Being Received
From All sections-Distrlcts Organized
Adjacent to the Inundsted Region For
the Distribution Of supplieA AGovernor
sayers Receives $500 From New York
AUSTIN, Texas (speciaD.-A careful CAL
culation made by Judge N. A. Cravens,
private secretary to Governor Sayers, from
the reports on file In his Office, shows that
the overaowed district extends from
McLennan County to the Cult in Brazorla
County, distance OF about 325 miles. The
aver age width OF the inundated portion Of
the valley is about ten miles. In some
places the water covered the rich agricul.
Lural land to width OF fifteen miles, while
at other points the width was not more
than four miles.
Taking these conservative figures as a
basis 1t is calculated that the area inun-
dated Is nearly 81 900, 900 acres. Estimat-
Ing the cotton'yield at only one bale per
acre and the value OF each bale at $40, and
calculating that only one-twentieth Of the
inundated district was planted in cotton,
the loss from that source alone will be S2O,.
900, 900. The damage to other crops will
amount to an equal sum, making total es.
timated loss In crops alone OF SAC, ,000, 900.
It Is asserted by those who have been
throughout the Inundated region that the
above estimate Is not any too high.
The water hus covered the growing cot
ton, corn and sugar cane so long that 1t
Is now assured that the loss OF those crops
Is complete, and that 1t will be too late In
the season to replant. It will be several
months before the two thousand and more
country road bridges can be replaced ow-
ing to the fact that the State Legislature
at its recent session passed a.law requiring
that all couGtry bridges must be construct
ed on contract, and that the bids must be
asked through advertisements. There Is
no provision for such an emergency as ex.
lists at present. The cost OF the destroyed
bridges runs from $500 to S16,0 900 each.
The estimated railroad loss from the
food Is from "a 4,000, 900 to ST, ZOO, 900. The
Houston and Texas Central, 1t is said, will
have to rebuild the entire road between
Calvert and Hearne, and its total e1pendt-
lures In Robertson County will reach fully
half million dollars. The Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas losses near Sealy and Dewey
will be equally large, and the Gull, COL
orado and Santa Fe and the Southern
Pacific are afflicted keenly In many places.
Governor Sayers is In constant receipt OF
reports from the numerous committees IN
charge Of the work of rescuing ard dis.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-07-26
| A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

Write II, the Poem That Was Such Fa.
vorite With Miss Willxrd-The Out
look FROM the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Standpoint.
Miss Frances E. Willard recommended
every young person to learn and SPEAK
these verses:l
Write It on the workhouse gate,
Write It on the schoolboy slate,
Write It on the copy book,
That the young may. often look,
"Whers there's drink:there's daDger'
Write It on the churchyard mound,
Where the rum slain dead are found,
Write 1t on the gallows high,
Write 1t for all paasers-by,
"Where there's drink there's danger"
Write 1t In the nations laws,
BIotting out the license clause;
Write 1t on each ballot white,
SO 1t can be rend Alright,
"Where there's drink there's danger.
Write 1t on our ships that sail,
Borne along by storm and gale,
Write 1t large in letters plain
Over every land and main,
"Where there's drink there's DANGER.
Write 1t over every gate.
On the church and halls OF State,
In the hearts of.every band,
In the laws OF every land,
"Where there's drink there's dangeN
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LHNGLEY'S FLY
ING MHCHINE.
: Will Carry Six Men and Travel
100 Miles an Hour.

WASHINGTON, D. G. (SpeciaN.-
Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley,
of the Smithsonian Institution, is
credited by scientists and inventors
with having perfected a flying ma
chine that in mechanical construction
and simplicity of detail is vast I'M
provement over his so-called aero
drome that circled in the air over the
waters of the Potomac three years
ago.
The new machine is no working
model, but is said to be able to carry
in it's cur as many as six men and
travel easily at rate of 100 miles an
hour under the absolute mastery OF
its engineer and pilot.
Added interest accrues to this new
machine since the appropriation of
the United States Board of Ordnance,
made last fall, has been employed in
its construction. The sum of $25. 900
was put in Professor Langley's hands
by this department of the War Bureau
in Washington, after the professor
had explained his plans and the posi-
bilities he believed to be within his
power to attain.
The engine is built of aluminium
and steel, and though its power is
great the total weight of this device is
only forty-seven pounds.
The machine is built largely of
aluminium, and the body or car is
about twenty-five feet long, six feet
wide and eight feet deep. The car
tapers at each end and is we'll supplied
with windows. Entrance is effected
through two doorways, one on either
side of the forward end of the car.
These doors lead directly into the
main room of the car. For an e1-
tended trip this main room will be
fitted out with hammocks, cooking
utensils and other articles of the
kitchen and sleeping room that the
traveller would find necessary aud
convenient.
Back of this room is second
apartment which secretly holds the
vital organism Of the new aerial mon
ster. Here it is where the liqui6ed
air is developed which has been util-
lied with such magnificent genius by
Professor Langley. 1t furnishes
power to the engine; it reduces to q
liquid the buoyant gases that are the
initial lifting power of the whole con-
trivance: it supplies fresh air for the
car at all times, and is also an ever
ready refrigerant that will preserve
fresh meats and other foods most
needed on long voyage in the air or
water.
The engine, of course, is a wonder
in itself of ightness, compactness
and as power producer. Though
weighing only forty-seven pounds, it
serves to drive the aerodrome at the
speed of at least 100 miles an hour,
and can operate at the same time d
small dynamo, to which it can be
easily geared.
Back of the engine-room is the stor
age-room, having ample space for al
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Newsy GleanIn2s.

Jung Lu, favorite OF tho Emr ress D ow-
ager, Is said to be scheming to make him
self ruler OF China.
In some parts OF Russia the only food fol-
the people consists at present in acorns,
leaves and the soft bark OF trees.
A thousand tons OF fodder and war ma
!wlch Arsenal, England, to South Africa.
Johnson's Island, Lake Erie which was
famous as prison for Confederate sol.
oilers during the Civil War, has been sold
lat auction for S45 900.
There are twentv-three volunteer Ameri-
can soldiers in prison at Santiago, Cuba,
under sentences ranging from three months
to two aad half years.
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strands or more. While the braiding
is being done the rawhile is kept
drawn as taut as possible. When the
rope-usually about fifty feet in
length--is completed it is buried in
the ground, where it is allowed to re.
main for two or three weeks. Then
it is dug up and stretched by means
of heavy weights. The hair is then
sandpapered of, the rope is creased
with mutton tallow and the loop is
made. A lariat of this sort is priced
by its owner as something more valu-
able than Jewels or fine linen, and
many an old-time 'cow-puncher"
would not sell his lariat for its weight
in gold.
The boy, however, who wishes to
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Deweys flagship will be presented when arrives at
York the State
Washington citizens Washington spared expense
Olympia The principal
Victory intended be symbolic of the
triumph of American This figure
the the punch bowl
Or when not table the figure can be
Victory the most
set great which the of Admiral
Dewey officer and VIII on board the Olympia on the
morning punch bowl tray end
stand coffee pot tea pot pitcher and
different boat and two low
center piece of eanda having seven
There tour
dozen cut glass cups specially designed for the Olympia
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ENDEAVORERS IN DETROIT
They Hold the Most Successful Con-
vention in the Sooiety's History.
The secretary's Report Shows Member.
ship OF 3,5OO,OOO-The Old Officers
Were Unanimously Reelected.

DETROIT, Mich. (speclaD.-Fuily 10000
delegates attended the Christian Endeavor
Convention which has just been held In
this city, besides thousands Of visitors who
are not connected with the society, but
who came.here to attend the meetings. Tbs
convention was the most successful u the
history OF the society. At the first bust
ness session OF the convention In Tent
Endeavor more than 10000 people were
called to order by the Rev. Dr.: Nemiah
Boynton, of Detroit. After devotional ex-
ercises, led by P. 8. Foster, OF Washington,
Secretary John Willis Baer submitted his
annual report.
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ObeYed the Injunction.

Senator Clark, of Montana, recent
ly laid an asphalt walk before his
Western home, and, the composition
being not yet dry, caused a temporary
boardwalk to be erected, with the sign,
Take the Boardwalk. Some local
wags noted this, and the day after its
appearance carried off the walk, and
wrote under the sign the words, "We
Have"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-07-26
Questions Easy to Answ er.

Who with healthy, untainted blood
wishes to have body like that OF the sots
whom be meets? Who with a vigorous,
clear brain cares about exchanging 1t for
the mental incapacity which they exhibit?
Who with a clean, pure heart would Ike
to have his filled with such obscentty, pro-
family and vIeness as come forth from
theirs? "Ba not among winebibbers.
Choose better companions.
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vessel will consist of two men, one to
care for the engine and the other as a
lookout or pilot. who also directs the
steering apparatus. The entire struc-
ture in its present perfect shape has
cost only $1,000.
Professor Langley has been an in
v.stigator and builder of machines de-
signed for aerial navigation during a
period of over ten years. He has con-
structed as many as twenty-five mod
els of one kind or another.
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minute are calculated to produce the
100 miles an hour speed. The pad
die wheels are five feet six inches in
diameter, and are made of aluminium,
with steel braces.
Above the wheels and extending
from end to end of the machine in o
curve that slightly droops toward the
rear are the wings or sails. Each sail
extends twenty-four feet from the side
of the car, and considering the width
of the car, six feet, the total width OF
the aerodrome from the tip of its
wings is ffty-four feet. In 'he stern
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-07-26
An Old Law Still In Force.

We learned the other day OF a man VIII.
poasted that he had taken bottle OF wine
every day for fifty years and had never
been injured by 1t. But Of bis twelve chill
iren, six died In infancy, one was idtotte,
one became insane, and the other tour
grew up to be nervous invslids. Men ma
It impossible to get away from the OLD law
laid down thousands OF years ago thar
"The sins OF the fathers shall be visited
anon their children" It Is terrible thing
for fathers to commit sins for which their
children will have to pay the penalty, but
men are doing 80 on every hand.-Herald
and PraSbYter.
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PLAN OF THE NEW WARsHlPs.
The Six New Cruisers Are to Be Sheathed
and Copper Bottomed.

WASHINGTON. D. G. (SpeciaD.-The six
new cruisers OF the Des Molnes class for
which Congress made appropriation at its
last session are in one respect, that OF be-
ing sheathed and coppered, a radical de-.
parturs from previous practice, but they
are in every respect up to date:
The general dimensions and features OF
the D es Moines will be as follows:
Length on load water line, 292 feet;
length, extreme, 30S feet inches; breadth,
extreme, about 43 feet; full.load displaee-
ment, about 3400 tons; total coal bsnker
capacity, not less than 700 tons; speed on
trial, 1611 knots; type OF engines, vertical
inverted, four cylinder, triple expansion,
estimated indicated horsepower. 45OO tons.
Main battery-Ten tlve-inch ffty-callber
breech loading rapid-flre guns.
Auxiliary battery-Eisht si1-pounder
rapid-flre guns, two one-pounder raptd-hre
guns, four Colt machine guns.
Sail area about 5000 square feet.
The guns will be designed for smokeless
powder and the flve-inch guns vii. be more
effective than the old type OF si1-inch guns.
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He said that there was now. nm official
enrolment OF 55,S13 societies, with total
membership OF 3,500,0O0. The report
ties had expended fully half million
dollars in missionary work during the past
year, and had donated various sums to
other charities and toward defraying e1-
penses OF educating men for the ministry.
Francis E. Clark, the President, followed
Mr.. Baer, delivering his annual address to
the members.
Treasurer William Shaw's report showed
the finances to be in good shape. The pub
lishiug departments receipts at Boston
we're $69, ,037 .25 and at Chicago $13, ,22S.67.
After deductiDg expenses the balance on
hand at both places Is $S103.93.
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p, T. Barnuln's Advice.

In one OF the last letters written by P. T.
Barnum, Just discovered he thus advised
young men: Keep your brain free from
the fumes OF alcohol, your blood free from
its taint. Avoid tobacco as the poison It
reallyis. Keep yourself clean, physically
and morally. Give your body the care
YOU would give to any machine OF which
you require much good work."
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Humble Birthplace OF a President.

One of the oldest houses in the
South is the building shown in the
accompanying pictu'e, in Raleigh,
N. c., which was the birthplace of
President Andrew johnson. It is
very small affair, only eighteen feet
front and eleven deep, and contains
but two rooms. In the upper room,
which is only seven by nine feet in
size, and as smoke-dried as a Lap
lander's hut, Andrew obnson was born.
For many years the house has been oc-
cupied by colored people; and an old
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-07-26
Attempted to Kill Ex-Kins Milan.

Former King Milan, father OF King Alex
ander OF servla, narrowly escaped assas-
sinatIor at Belgrade, few days ago.
The woAld-be murderer Is under arrest.
Hs 1red four revolver shots, one OF which
crazed HIS Majesty, slightly wounding
him In the back, another wounding In the
hand Adjutant Lukitch, who was with him.
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"auntie" who now lives there tells
visitors that she believes some day
"dese people will carry de ole house
off. Ebery one oh dem tears off a big
splinter" Jacob Johnson, the Presi-
dents father, was a tailor here, and
his wife was maid of all work at the
old Union Hotel on the site of the
present postoffise. Jacob lost his life
in a mill-pond while attempting to
save the life OF a drowning friend. IL
1866 q monument was erected to him
near the scene of his heroic deed.
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Como Exhibition Burned Out.

The Volta Electrical Exhibition, which
was being held at Como, Italy, has been
entirely destroyed by fire, due to defective
electric wiresa Many relics OF Volta per-
!shed. There was no loss OF life.
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SHOT AS A SPY BY FlLIPINOS.
Pennsylvania Soldier Captured and Sho
While Scouting Near Caloocan.

DIG SCUutIHK UFHr OHIUoCHHs
ALTOONA, Penn. (SpeciaD.-A comrade OF
Grant Cullom, of Company c. Tenth Penn.
sylvania Volunteers, until recently in SER
vice in the Philippines, has written to
friends here that Cullo n was captured and
shot as spy at Caloocan. Cullom was
fluent in tho Spanish language, and for
that reason was detached as an order y to
Genera Otis. Near Caloocau he ente ed
the Fl ipino lines, but a rainstorm de.
stroyed his disguise. He was cansured
and shot in sight OF the American outpost.
Cullom leaves widowed mother resid-
ing In Beaver Falls.
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Gsneral Walker Is Acquitted.

At Bristol, Va, the jury in the case OF
General James A. Walker, charged with
shooting Lawyer Hamilton, returned
verdict OF not guilty.
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provisions and even additional freight
and gearing that would be used IN a
long journey.
The so-called pilot-house occupies
the forward end next to the main or
entrance room. Slightly abaft OF
amidships on the outside of the ma
chine on either side are the paddle
wheels that at 1000 revolutions Der
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France prohibits the use OF cement
floors for powder magazines. 1t is
said that particles Of sand, getting IN
to the cracks of cement floors, cause
ignition OF the powder by friction.
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An American Woman Honored.

Mrs. May Wright sewall, President OF
the United States Council Of the Women's
International Council, has been elected to
succeed the Countess OF Aberdeen as Pres
ident OF tho Women's International Coun-
Gil, which will hold its next meeting in Der.
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The coffee plant is indigenous to
Asia and Africa, but the greater part
of the worlds product now comos from
the Western Hemisphere.
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A Sad Scene.

The other day we were spending few
hours in a neighborlng town. As we were
passing along the street We noticed the
Grape on the door OF a small cottage. Ah.
we knew OF the sorrow within. beloved
mother had been taken. She had lived to
a good old age. Children and grandchtl-
dren had grown up about her.
As we were walking along, middle aged
man drew near. He was talkutive, very
much so. Hts brain was crazed with
liquor. His language was punctuated with
oaths. Judge OF our surprise when he re-
gan to talk OF his mother lying dead In the
house. Not words OF fllial affection or OF
sorrow dropped from his lips. Oh, to what
depths OF even brutishness drink Will bring
a man. How 1t will change loving son to
a heartless wretch even In the presence Of
death itself.
Such scenes are unanswerable arguments
Tor the banishment OF the drink curse from
our land.-Nor,hwestern Mail.
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Fixed Bayonets Quell Rioters.
Regular soldiers dispersed street-car
rioters In London, Ont, few days ago. at
the point Of the bayonet.
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Decline in Liquor.Drinklng.

The silver anniversary meeting Of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union in
Seattle In October next will be the first
gathering Of the organization on the Pa
cilc coast. Miss Anna Gordon, Secretary
OF the Union for the United States, and al
so Corresponding Secretary TOR the world
organization, says that the records OF the
Union show that during the year following
Miss Wlllard's death there were more addf-
tions than during any other year In the
Unions history. The growth during the
past year has been large, and there was
never time when the outlook was moro
hopeful than to-day. The Union has some
800, 900 members In the United States. It
has branches In forty countries, In all parts
OF the world, with. q total membership OF
about SOC, 900. Australia Is said to be par
ticularly we'll organized. Branches are
aoursbing In India, In Africa, In China and
in the principal countries OF Europe. In
the last-named country tho movement ts
slower than In most places, for 1t is found
to be difficult field to cultivate.
The Union Is so we'll organized and has
covered its field 80 completely that 1t has
forty departments OF activity which are
distinctly recognized. That under Miss
Gordon's care is work among children.
Miss Gordon's review OF the field TOR the
twenty-five years OF the life OF the Union
was most interesting. Without. any ques-
ton, she says, great progress has been
made IN the drinking habits OF the people.
Not only has there been a percept!ble de-
cline OF social drinking. but the business
value. OF total abstinence Is being recog-
nlzed mere and more. The case OF the
southern Pacific Railroad is given. Orders
we're issued that no one should be employed
by the road but total abstainers-a fact
which obtains. with. other roads also. But
1t was found that II saloons were suffered
to remain where the men could get liquor
easily, there was danger tothe road. Honce
an additional order has been given that no
liquor-selling shall be permitted IN any
building which Is the property OF the road.
One OF the leading business men OF CHI
cago, himself not a tota. ahstainer, yet
recognizes the value OF abstinence so
much in his business that he has made q
rule that only abstainers shall be employed.
In many places agreements are secured on
the part OF dealers In real estate whereby
clause is put into the deed that the sale
OF liquor shall never be permitted on the
premises.
Lately there has seemed to be an In
crease OF drinking at home on the part OF
some people who have been In Europe and
have put in practice here what they found
abroad. But this does not Offset the broad
generalization that during the last twenty
i've years the uee OF liquor has declined,
and that the Quito ok for the future Is most
encouraging from the Unions point OF
view. The instruction OF children In tenn.
perance matters Is now advanced 80 we'll
that only three States In our country fati
to require Temperance instruction by law.
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London enjoys greater area OF
open spaces than any other capital in
the world.
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President Summoned Governor Roosevelt.
Governor Roosevelt went to Washington

Governor Roosevelt went to Washington
a few days ago to have conference with
President Mckinley at the White House.
He went In response to telegraphlc
summons from the President. The pur-
pose OF the President In summoning the
Governor was to have talk with him re-
garding the organization OF the ten new
regiments OF volunteers about to be re-
cruited, aud particularly with reference to
the appointment OF principal officers for
tho regiments.