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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
X. n. HaddOn d Co

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Have opened branch store at Due West,
s. c., where they will show one OF the most
attractive lines Of Millinery, Dress Goods,
Silks, Velvets and Trimmings. In all the
latest and up.to-date styles. We extend q
cordial Invitation to all OF our friends to call
and examine our daily arrivals In the above
line. Respectfully,
r. NJ. Haddon & Co. i
A nice line OF purses and pocket books at
DuPre's Book store.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.

AbbevilIe County, Sept. IL. 1900.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-21
THE CHICAGO POST OFFICE.
May Have Pneumatic Tube system
Increased Appropriation Made by
Congress for It's Extension.

1t was agreed by the house post
Office committee to appropriate .$725,-
600 for the postal pneumatic tube
system. This is an increase of $780,
900 over last year, and was allowed
at the instance of Mr.. Lorimer. 1t
is the understanding Chicago will DE
one of the first cities which will feel
the effects of the increase, and the
new system will be installed there
If the amount is not reduced. The
appropriation is placed at the dis
posal of the postmaster general, who
will apportion it among the different
cities in proportion to their needs,
Mr.. Lorimer, who has been working
to have the pneumatic tube system
installed in the Chicago post Office,
says he is confident of having the in
crease accepted by the house. Last
year he was successful in having in
corporated in the postal appropriation
bill an increase of 100000 for this
service over the previous year, but
when that measure was considered in
the house the Chicagoan was i'll. In
his absence the item was stricken out.
If the bill is adopted in its present
shape the postmaster general will or
der the substations, branch post Of
fees, the railroad stations and the
stock yards connected by tube with
the main Office, and in all probability
the street car and wagon service will
be abolished.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-21
A TIME FOR HEROES.

A cavalry saber hangs upon the wall.
All battered and twisted and eaten by
rust;
Twas new when its owner heard Liberty
call,
And into his fingers the weapon was
thrust,
And many a desperate battle. I ween,
This rusty and battered old saber has seen.
My little boys ask me again and again,
A hundred odd auestions-'what good.
does II do?"
-'And why is it rustyr' and what makes
that stain
At the handler" and What is it worth
Pa, to your
The little chap never heard Liberty call.
He hasn't heard Freedoms harsh lesson
tell him the story-how up through the
OF Malvern Hills battle the enemy came;
Up! Up to the cannon until the line broke
Bent, wavered and vanished-scorched
out by the flame;
How over the cannon one brave fellow lay
The saber held tight In his dead hand that
day.
My little boy ponders the tale at my knee
II wish we had sabers and fighting" he
cries.
"T wish there were tyrants and men to set
And heroes to suffer and fight for prize.
There isn't a war or chance to be brave.
Or swords to be carried, or country to
save"
All! little boy! Never found hero time.
In all of the ages that history knows,
So filled up as this age with chances sub
lime ED
For meeting and conauering deadliest
foes.
Not with the old saber can you win your
fight,
Your weapon is forged out of justice and
right.
For falsehood chains truth and injustice Is
strong,
And ignorance tramples on Liberty's law.
The country needs men with hatred for
wrong,
A heart without fear and life without
flaw.
And nothing is nobler, my boy, than the
fight,
That honest hearts make to be true to the
right
Rural New Yorker.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-21
Mail shirt Of a Dervi.h warrior.

The shirt is made of rings, every
ring from piece of steel wire w
inches long and about one-sixteenth
of an inch thick. The ends OF the
piece of wire are fattened out, holes
are punched through them, one end IL
turned on to the other. and they ara
fastened together by q small rivet.
Every ring connects four others. Tho
wire differs somewhat in thickness,
not by design seemingly so as to
make one part of the shirt stronger
than another, but from material OF
uniform thickness running short. In
parts where the rings are free to
jingle together they are worn very
thin. Round the neck is band Of
three thicknesses of red leather, stir
like the stock worn formerly in our
army. 1t is 2A inches high, and on
the outside is decorated with orna-
mental lines like toolings made by q
bookbinder.-Notes and Queries.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-21
shakespearean Relic Found.

A well-authenticated Shakespear-
can relic, an earthenware jug, given
by him to his sister Joan, is on sale
in London. 1t is shaped like mod
ern coffee pot, decorated with heather
figures in hold relief, and
topped with a silver cap and edging
of engraved silver.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-21
Great stnr Photoxraph.

At the Allegheny observatory re-
Gently Prof. Wadsworth made pho
togrnph on curved plate, including
the whole constellation of Orion and
adjacent regions of the sky, covering
in all more than 1000 square degrees.
1t is estimated that the plate con-
tains the images of more than $4,000
stars whose positions can be meas
ured.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-21
Nh Roam IN pIoxx.

In view of the almost innumerable
kopjes mentioned as existing in the
Transvaal, some curiosity Is ex-
pressed, says the st. Louis Star, al
to where the Beers do their farming.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-04-21

there stood mother with the photo
graph in her hand.
"Humph!" exclaimed father, $50
you have not gone DOWN." and his
voice was not conciliatory, for he felt
that every one that morning, him
self included, was wearing his heart
on his sleeve, and sense of lost Dig
nifty was irritating him.
Mothers heart swelled at the tone;
she put down the photograph and
looked up at father with look in
which reproach and sorrow mingled,
and then suddenly she turned aside,
and her hands busted themselves
among the brushes and trays on the
dressing table, for her quick eye had
detected that father was wearing odd
boots-a buttoned and n laced-up one.
To think of it! He, the soul of pre-
cision, to thus betray himself. But
there his abstraction stood confessed.
And oh, how mother loved him for
IL! He had been such stole, too.
Well, there was no accounting for
mans ways, but, thank God, he had
put on odd boots that morning. She
no longer felt lonely in her grief. He
cared, too; his heart was aching also
for their sons departure. oh, those
blessed odd boots!
She knew his nature, and stood for
moment wondering how best to tell
him of his mistake without annoying
him. And presently mother, on her
way downstairs, tapped at the dress
ing-room outer door. "One of your
lace boots" she said. 81 stumbled over
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Former Governor Drake. of Iowa,
has given $500000 to Drake Univer-
sity.
Sir William Harcourt, the British
Liberal leader, denies that he will re-
tire from politics.
Bethany College in Kansas has con-
ferred the degree of LID on Repre-
sentative Dolliyer, of Iowa.
General Andre, the new Minister of
War of France, is in his sixty-third
year, tall, of great physical vigor and
intellectual.
The University of Rochester has con-
ferred the degree of Doctor of Laws
upon General Elwell Stephen Otis of
the class of '5S.
Congressman John Allen, of Missis-
sippi, has intimated to several of his
friends that he will probably retire at
the end of his present term. He has
served in all eight consecutive terms.
President McKinley's liking for the
red carnation seems to be unfailing.
He has dozen sent him from the
White House greenhouses every day
and nearly always wears one when
out for his daily drive.
Sir Charles Tupper, who has an
bounced his intention of retiring from
Canadian public life, is verging on
The eighties, and is the sole survivor
Of the makers of the Dominion. lie
is native of Nova Scotia.
Professor Eliot. of Harvard, the
other day received from several Har-
| yard alumni now serving in the Phil
| .ppines a large and valuable collection
! of native arms, ornaments and manu-
| scripts for the university museum.
Secretary Long has sent to Speaker
Myers, of the Massachusetts House,
| handsome big gavel for the Speak
| er's desk The head is made from
wood of the Olympia, and the handle
from the rail of the Spanish gunboat
Sandoval, captured in the late war.
Ii Hung Chang maintains, at his
| own expense, 5000 soldiers as body
guard. They are the best paid sol
diers in the empire.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
CYCLING NOTES.

| Toe clips are gradually coming into
| favor with wheelmen.
Most of the wheels seen on the road
are equipped with coaster brakes.
Women cyclists this season prefer
high-framed machines with saddles
well forward.
Last year the imports of bicycles
into Sweden amounted in value to
about $1,775,000.
South Carolina is preparing to in
troduce sidepath and wide tire laws
in the next Legislature.
1t is estimated that more miles of
sidepath throughout the country will
be built this year than ever before.
There seems to be craze with a
number of riders to perform long-dis-
tance feats. The folly of such acts
ought to be readily seen.
Jimmy Michael was beaten easily by
Burns Pierce in a twenty-mile motor
paced race at Charles River Park, at
Cambridge, Mass, III the slow time of
1929 3-5. A strong wind made record
time impossible.
The cycle record from New York to
Boston has been broken by Betram
e. Russell, of Springfield, Mass. His
time was twenty hours and three min
utes, being three hours and twenty
nine minutes better than the previous
record, made by Warren +. Taylor two
years ago.
A peculiar feature of the competi-
tions for club trophies won in century
runs is that The smaller and newer
clubs score more frequently than their
larger and older rivals. The large
clubs compete infreGuently, and so the
little ones find it possible to win both
first and second prizes.
Many folk never think of indating
their tires unless they are going out
for ride. Rubber tires allowed to
stand slack for any length of time
lose vitality, and fail, even when
pumped to their tightest, to run with
the ease and spring of those that are
constantly kept inflated.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Mertes, of Chicago, is batting at a
terrific clip.
Doyle, Mercer and Selbach are the
base runners among the New Yorks.
The st. Louis centrefielder, Dillard,
thus far holds the record for put-outs
in the field.
Pitcher Seymour, of Boston, has
been farmed to the Chicago American
League team.
The veteran infielder, Quinn, has re-
ceived his unconditional release from
the ST. Louis Club.
Freeman, of Boston, made twenty
five home runs while member of the
Washingtons last year
The plan to restore the double um-
pire system has been dropped by the
magnates because of the extra ex-
pense.
Brooklyn has in Kelley, Keller,
Jones, Dahlen and Montreville a quin-
tette that has made nearly all of the
teams runs so far.
Interference by batsmeu with catch
ers about to throw is becoming a reg
ular fad in the League. The umpi1es
should squelch the habit.
1t is feared that Wallace, of st
Louis, will never again play ball. His
injured knee has belome stiff and he
will probably be lame forever.
Since Long Joined the Bostons he
has been playing wonderful all
around game. Incidentally, too, the
Boston team has been winning.
Hillebrand, Princeton's star twirler,
denies the report that he will join
the Boston team. He says he never
had any idea of playing professionally.
Neither McGraw nor Robinson is ON
the reserve list of the st. Louis Club
for next season. Both will be inde-
pendent of any club at the end of
this season.
Pennsylvania seems to be the base
ball State this season. Philadelphia
and Pittsburg are turning out larger
audiences than any other cities on the
League circuit.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
NEWS OF THE STATE.
vineland,s Founder Dead.


Charles K. Lands died at his home
in Vineland from paralysis. He was
the founder of Vineland, Hammonton,
Landisville, Sea Isle City, New Italy
and other smaller south Jersey towns.
He was born in Philadelphia on March
16, 1884, and studied law in the Office
of Benjamin H. Brewster, being ad-
mitted to the Bar before he had
reached his majority, but two years
later ceased to practice. He became
interested in land schemes and pur-
chased 5000 acres of land, locating
Hammonton on this ground. He sold
the land to actual settlers, and it was
made condition of every deed that
liquor should never be sold upon the
lot. In 1861 he purchased a tract of
fifty square miles of land, and on this
Vineland and it's surrounding villages
have been built. He started Sea Isle
City as a temperance seaside resort,
and New Italy as farming settlement
for Italians. BY the terms of his will
two sons, Richard w. Meade Lam
dis and James Montevert Lands, are
disinherited. The largest part of the
big estate is given to his sister, Miss
Matilda Lands. Small legacies were
made to trusted Office employees and
charitable organizations in Vineland.
The sons have retained counsel and
will contest the will.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
ERIE RAILROAD,
n NeM York. LaaYe Main Static

To New York, Leave Main Statfon
at 80. 600, 6.36, .7.o4. 7.27, 7.48, 800.
$40, $3.50, o.27, 1881, II.Io, 1901, Ie.23.
I2.47, I.I2, 2.II, 3.oI, 3.56, AL, s34,
s.s7, $50, 500, 8.3I, o.17, $50. Io.3fs
1871.
Sunday-7.27, 7.s9, $3.50. o.33. IQ3I
I1.2S. 1923, 1888, 1.2o. 2,2o, 3,Qf,
400, 500, 5.s7. 100, 7.56, $3.50, o.I7, 9.5o.
tI.3I.
Leave New York for Passaic at 400,
5.4s, $50, 7.4s, o.3o, 1890, 1900, 100,
2. 90, 2,4o. 3.23, 1888. 4.o8, 4.3S, 500. SIS.
$50, 5.4s, 900, 6.15, e. 80, 100, 7.3o, $50.
9.I5, 1890 1890, I2.Is,
SundaY-4.oo, 7.3o, o,3o, 1890, 12.oQ.
1890, 100, 2.I5, 800. 4,3o, $50, o,3o
7.3o, $3.50, $50, 1890, 1890, 12.15.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
'HHIRESS TO A FORTUNE.
Servant Girl Inherits $3,000,000
From the Man She Nursed.
SAVED HIM FROM CONSUMPTION.
Patient Was a Wealthy German Mer-
chant-when He Recovered offered to
Marry His Nurse-Her Parents OBJ
jected and She Came to This Country
- He Leaves Her His Entire Fortune.

Milwaukee, Wis. (SpeciaD.-As a re-
ward for having carefully nursed an
invalid through trying siege of sick
ness, servant girl of this city has
fallen heir to $3,OOOOOO. This amount
was left to her by her grateful patient.
who wanted to marry her, but the
union was prevented by the girls par
ents, who opposed the match because
the invalid suffered from consumption.
The girl is Erna hide, twenty-four
years old, and employed as servant girl
IN the household Of r. A. Johnston,
the cracker manufacturer of this city.
She received word few days ago
that she had fallen heir to fortune
estimated to be worth 100000 marks
from the estate of man in Berlin,
Germany. Miss hide left for New
York City, so as to be able to take pas
sage for Europe on the Auguste Victo-
ria. She will proceed at once to Ber-
lin to claim the legacy.
About seven years ago Miss hide
was engaged to nurse a wealthy pa
tient in a German hospital. She had
prompted, she supposed, largely out of
kindness. She would have been mar
ried to him but for the strenuous OBJ
jections of her parents, who refused
to permit it, as he was consumptive.
She then left the hospital. and the last
information obtained by her was six
years ago, when her former patient,
whose business was to make clothing
for royalty, had accumulates. an enor-
nous fortune.
After leaving her occupation as ii
curse she obtained employment with
royal families as maid, and about a
year and half ago came to America.
Mrs. Wiedersheim has corroborated
the girls story. Miss hide is about
five feet seven inches tall, has pale,
though full face. She refused to give
the name of her benefactor, on the ad-
vice of lawyers, who told her she
would make enemies of possible living
relatives. The man is said to have
only one near relative, brother, with
whom he had differed, and who is not
supposed to have been mentioned in
she will
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
DAY DUc'S VISION.

First He Saw the Whites Destroyed, But
He Was Persuaded to Guess Again.
Walker, MINI. (SpeciaD.-There is
absolutely no prospect of trouble here
with the Indians. The reported wild
excitement said to have been caused
by the Indian Messiah has subsided.
One of the young Indians, named
Day Dug Vince, recOunted a wonder
full vision shown him by the ''Great
White Spirit" He said his vision in
formed him of terrible storm which
would destroy all white people and all
Christian Indians. Captain Mercer
promptly arrested him, and told him to
have another ''visiOn," in which all
good Indians who would stay at home
would not be hurt.
Day Dug at once had the requested
revelation" and the uprising was
averted.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
In All Parts Of the State.

A new schoolhouse, to cost $1,000, is
to be erected at Stanton. 4
The Atlantic County salt and hay
crop will be unusually large this sea-
son.
The strawberry crop in the vicinity
of Vineland is unusually large this
year.
Farmers of Gloucester and Salem
Counties are already picking ripe to-
matOeS.
Eldora strawberry growers will lose
great quantity of their crop, owing
to the scarcity of pickers.
Since the recent fires at Evan the
citizens have started a movement to
get protection in that line.
The wild huckleberry crop in the
Atlantic County swamps promises to
be the largest for many years.
The indications are that Oxford will
have a silk mill. Capitalists are ne
gotiating for the purchase of the old
nail factory.
Salem people are elated over the
report that trolley line is to centre
at that city and have branches run
ming in all directions.
While the hay crop of Gloucester
County is not an extraordinary one
in quantity, yet the quality surpasses
that of the yield in many years.
The Camden County Board of Free
holders adopted plans and specif1ca-
tions for the new $4,000 one-story
brick building for the meetings of the
board.
A number of peach growers in the
vicinity of Whitehouse have Killed
their groves by applying too much
crude petroleum to rid the trees OF the
San Jose scale.
Mrs. John Cole, of Readington, cap
tured an eagle by climbing a tree forty
feet high. The eagle had chain on
its leg and was made prisoner by the
chain catching in the branches.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
Yellow Fever in Mexioo.

Yellow fever has spread to every
part of the isthmus of Tehuantepec.
1t is unusually virulent and is causing
many deaths, particularly among the
American planters and railway en-
ployes. A number of these residents
have died from the disease and others
are fleeing to the United States. The
disease has also made it's appearance,
in Vera Cruz, and fears are enter
tanned by the health authoritieS that it
will spread to all the Gulf ports Of
Mexico.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
Distressing Stomach Disease

Permanently cured by the mastery
power Of South American Nervine Tonic.
fnvalids need suffer no longer. because
this great remedy can cure them all. It
Is cure for the whole world Of stomach
weakness and indigestion. The cure be.
gins with the first dose. The relief 1t
brings is marvellous and surprising. It
makes no failurej never dissappofnts.
No matter how long you have suffered,
your cure is certain under the use Of this
great health-giving force. Pleasant and
always safe. Sold by Van Ripper & Co.,
druggist, Main ave., Passaic, N. ].
tjy 20
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
Peach Prospects Bright.

Peach growers have already COM
menced to place estimates on their
probable yields this year. All the
growers report that the prospects for
an immense yield are most gratifying.
1t is estimated that 10000 baskets
will be shipped from Annandale,
where Peter +. Hoffman predicts that
he alone will market 10000 baskets
of the lucious fruit,
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
JUST KILL THE BURGLARS.



the R0bberies There.
Chicago (SpeciaD.- "Hold-up men
and burglars, these fellows who are
making SO much trouble on the West
Side just at present, should @e dealt
with summarily," said Captain Camp
bell of the Warren cyenue police sta
tion. 81 think, aft a trial, they
should be taken to the lake front and
shot. If few of them understood
that it meant death t, ply their nefari
Gus business and shoot innocent citi.
zens, there would be less of that kind
of work.
Legal authorities are not in favor
of the radical measures advocated by
the police department, though Chief
Ripley says such action, as suggested
by Captain Campbell, would result
beneficially. .+,.,...
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
BoERs REFUSE TO GIVE UP.
COmmandant Botha Declines to Accep
General Roberts's Suggestion.

Commandant Botha Declines to Accep I
General Roberts's Suggestion.
London (By Cable. = General Rob-
erts, according to a Boer dispatch from
Machadodorp, sent a message to Com
mandant- General Louis Botha sug-
gesting disarmament, and compliment
ing the bravery Of the burghers. 1t
was pointed out that the surrender
would be without dishonor to the
,burghers, and would prevent much
suffering.
General Botha asked for six days
larmistice, in order to confer and con-
slider. General Roberts consented to
five days. Finally General Botha de-
,,clined to accept the proposal, and hos
ItilitieS were renewed.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
MARRIED ON BASEBALL FIELD;
Happy Pair Made One at the Home of the
Greenvil1e Club.

Greenville Club.
Ashtabula, Penn. (SpeciaD.-The un-
usual spectacle of a wedding at the
baseball grounds regaled the rooters
who gathered at Greenville to witness
the game between the local team and
a visiting nine.
Just before the time for starting the
game the happy couple. with the at
tending friends and the clergyman,
gathered at the home plate, on which
the contracting parties stood during
the ceremony that made them man
and wife.
The bride is Miss Clara Heck and
the bridegroom Peter Cline, of Green.
vile. Mr.. Kline is baseball enthu-
siast, and for two seasons has played
shortstop for the Greenvilles.
The Baseball Association showed it's
appreciation of his services when, fol.
lowing the ceremony, it bestowed
upon the pair some beautiful presents.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
Women Vote For New School,

AT special election in Cape May
the Board of Education was author
lied to erect a new schoolhouse, to
cost $4,000. The vote was very light,
only eighty-eight voting out of per-
haps 1000 eligible. Under the new law
women are entitled to vote at school
elections, except for trustees, and
about twenty-five women availed
themselves of the opportunity.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
Favors a Military Road.

Boulevard Commissioner Lewis, OF
Hudson County, said that he had de-
cided to advocate the construction
of a military road, $50 feet wide,
from Jersey City to Camden, one-half
the cost to be borne by the Govern
ment, one-quarter by the State and
one-quarter by the counties. He said
it would be valuable for training the
National Guardsmen in long marches.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
Walter Goddard Dead.

Walter Goddard, former Collector Of
the Port of Bridgeport, died at his res.
idence in Bridgeport from paralytic
shock. He was sixty-six years old.
He was born in London, but came to
this country about half century ago.
He was appointed Collector by Presi-
dent Cleveland, deposed during the
Harrison administration. and reap
pointed by President Cleveland during
his second term.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
Murder and Suicide.

A. W. Jennings, farmer living at
Saddle Run, was shot and killed by
Edward Burnett, his adopted son. The
murderer then turned the revolver
with which he killed his guardian
upon himself and sent a. bullet into his
head The cause of the tragedy is a
mystery.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-23
The Boycott in St. Louis.

The controversy between the transit
company and it's striking employees in
St Louis has developed into struggle
between capital and labor along the
lines of boycott.