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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-02-07
Foreign.


DR.. I. NJ. Cline, Chief OF the Weather
Bureau OF Texas, Is in Mexico establishing
Observations in all the Mexican Gulf ports.
Major Lallande, Chief Of Police OF Qua
:enala, Il former resident OF Michigan, has
jeen murdered while trying to make an ar
lest In q mlntug rillagein that country.
The Emperor OF Germany is conyln ced
hat the present educational system Is not
practicul enough. aud he has formulated a
plan For reforms In the nlSh schools OIL the
,mpire. Oct" G,. - :
The iron and stee! manufacturers OF
france have lodged protest with the
Commerce Committee OF the Chamber
against the ratification OF the commercial
treaty with the Uuited States. 80
The Royal Commission appointed to as
certain the cause OF railway accidents in
The United Kingdom recommends that all
railways be compelled to use automatic
car couplers. ....
The Provincial Government OF British
Columbia has declared its intention OF so
amending it's alien exclusion law rs to
hereafter permit Americans to hold claims
purchased from Canadian locators.
Tho officials OF. the Bnnk OF Peru. at
Lima, received from their branch bank Ia
London two boxes, each OF which was sup
posed to contain $25.003 but upon bolnI
opened one OF the boxes was lound 20 De
lliled with bags OF shot. ..
It is stated semi-oflciaily that the new
German Naval bill will ask for Sl5S .OOO ,oOo.
The expenditures will extend over sixteen
years.
The Mexican Government is taxing strict
means to prevent the Introduction OF tue
II ,rI has fnrhiddbl y69Sels
from Brnzil to enter any Mexican port.
The whole Rhine district is Threatened
with floods, owing to the masses OF snow
and frequent thaws. humoef OIL tue
MoseIle towns are now flooded.
The Minister of Bolivia had conference
with mombers OF the Brazilian Govern
ment. He claims the State OF Amazonns Is
aiding GalTsz In Aer', and demands tna'
Brazil send.troops aud vessels 10 sIoJu'
gate tue rebel Government.
<sThe Duke OF Teck, who died in, surrey
|zEaE1and, had been insane since tlssneatn IL ,
Ea5 Duehess, and had beenseeH$.an.aSy y
tnd restrain: Hls death Wss nasseneu %,
The Rusaisa iraacisd Poltay ,ss H a .ssS ssa
tons, ran ;aSar klbau, olaaS asassS,, " a. +
The roltaYa 6a!ls s a I. y. te.elspa s. y
1894 at acosto aso, ,0oe.' -
1Tiial waves higher than have peer
known for long lime have sIept ~. ai9ns 4 !.,l.
the Chilean coast dolns gnssssss a - eas' s,
age. s.ssss,ast ss4., IN sFrsnch Gov.
arnment wus passed bythe Ghambsr ol
Deputies by vote Of r. the vote was
on nm Interpolation OF the governments
attitude toward the strikers OF ST. EAenue'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-02-07
TO REPAIR THE CONSTITUTION.
Bill to RECON- mission the Old FriEate ke
~. s$fr,ortel Eayorabiy.

:. ,.5 ported Favorably.
eWAshTadFoS, D. G. (speclaD.-SenatoI
sTilsmans from the Senate Committee or
sEayai Affairs, reported favorabIy the bill
authartzing the Secretary OF the Navy to
psrf6iE fsie fepair OF the old United State;
fflgate Constitution and to recommissio'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-02-07
PLAGUE Bacillus Found Oh Rats.

Plague Bacillus Found Oh Rats. ~
The bacillus OF the bubontc plague. reHs
ing in Adelaide, Australia, has haea fonnE
on dead rats in a place where q splaEMa
tient was isolated. The Australi lian sedl:
onles have declared Adsiaids an nssctsd
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-02-07
Domestic.

sAtea special municipal election In Hell.
sha, Mont, 1T has been decided to buy an
Isslectrtc Hight plant at cost OF $50, 900, and
10 bond the city for $500 900 to buy or build
water3workspiant. ~.
! SIdnAy Gs Hawson, OF, Arlington, Ore, a
f,nembeg ofthe Oregon Legislature. commit
I sst Suicide by shooting himself In the
}|eads sIt is snid that domestic troubles
lsJe zt1s cause.
p No more enlisted men Of volunteer re5i.
Enents are to be sent to the Philippines.
+ There Is a Federal position at Chapel,
Hartford County, Nd, that no one wants.
It is the postoflce. Nobody could be
found to take charge OF 1t, and SO It will BIZ
closed up. ..r '. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Gilbert, OF Can
ION, Conn.,, celebrated their golden we'd
ding at their home. Relatives and friends
rom Bridgeport, New Haven, Danbury and
other places called ou them..
The statement OF the State Dispensary
u South Carolina for the year 1899 has
3eeu completed. During the year the
amount OF profits going to the counties,
owns and cities was ,$22O, ,49s. The net
profits to the State which got to the credit
II the school fund are $193, ,689, making the
otal net profits S4t4, 1871. The total gross
! profits for the yoar were $4s5, $40. The
otal receipts for the yearswere 81, ,6SS. 93o.
Two daughters OF the Rev. G.. N. Day
we're dro 9ned iu Shaffer's fork OF Cheat
River, W. Va. They we're crossing the
elver on horseback. The horse fell down,
throwing them from Ills back. The father
,uw the accident, but his skif sank before
le could reach his children.
A church In Leavenworth. Kan, has OBJ
aimed Circuit Court judgment against
.he Chicago und Great Western Railway
Company for disturbing Sunday services
,y working trains near the church.
Marshal o. Wagner, OF Toledo, Ohio
The inadel whose conversion to Christian
ity was recently announced, has burned
his Ene library, consisting OF the writings
of infldels.
The British bark Inverlochy arrived at
San Francisco. Cal, l49 days from swan
sen. aud the British ship Kilburn, $50 days
from London.
William Hummell, held at Willlamsport,
Penn. under the charge ofquadruple muir
Ter OF bis family, has confessed. He re-
used to give any motive for tue crime. He
will he tried next March.
The Evening Post, OF Louisville, Ky, has
sensational article declaring that trea-
,on and revolution are in progress. 1t suys
hat 100 coo men would 20 to Frankfort II
he situation WIS understood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-02-07
An EnclIsh Soldiers Testimony.


An English soldier recently returned
from India, aud at temperance meeting
he attended said that he had only been
home few hours but was proud to bear
testimony In favor Of total abstinence. He
had been In engagements on the frontier,
marched under the burning rays OF an In
dian sun, camped and lived on the Htma-
lnyas where the snow was ever present,
represented his country In swimming.
cricket and football matches, and amidst
it all enjoyed good health and had not
tasted drop OF Intoxicating liquor. Drink
was the greatest enemy young soldier
had TO contend With In India. 1t unhtteo
him for action. rendered him more linoieto
fall into vicious habits, and was most dan
gerous to health. As Secretary OF tue army
Temperance Association in his regiment.
he had carefully complied the returns OF
crime, sickness, ETC., and butfo the drink,
crime would almost be unknown and the
hospital cases reduced more than one-hall'
The teetota soldier was more to be de-
pended upon when dangerous work had 70
be done, and his superior officers USED 10
select men from the members OF the A. L.
A. on such occasions, and these nen were
not ashamed to be known as "HaVelocks
SututS."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
A REAL IMPERIALIST.

Frank G. Carpenter has interviewed
a general who does not believe the
American people have any right to dis
cuss questions of the greatest import
ance to the nation. involving an entire
change in our ideals and methods Of
government, because the people con-
cerned read the discussions. In the
course Of the interview General Hughes
remarks: 81 believe a great deal Of
harm is being done by the people Of the
United States discussing the advisable
ity of leaving the islands. All such re-
ports are published over here, and they
have led the people to believe that the
Americans will eventually give up the
struggle"
If this were the rule of national con-
duct any political corruptionist could
sr-ing a colonial or international
scheme and cut off all criticism or dis
cussion by claiming that the people in
terested would hear of what was being
said. Back in the time OF the tyrant
George the English people were per-
mitted to take sides and to discuss the
merits of the American revolutfon--and
there were more colonists who could
read than there are Filipinos. Are we
required 70 be more despotic than was
George III?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
QUITE A DIFFERENCE.

1.-The only difference between the
government provided for Porto Rico
and the government existing in Arizo-
na," says a champion of colonialism,
lis that the upper branch Of the legisla-
ture in Porto Rico is to be appointed by
the president instead of being elected
by the people, and this is a distinction
rather than difference" Why GER
tainly. Among the ill-natured COM
plants made by the so-called patriots
of our American revolution against the
government Of that great civilizer and
philanthropist, George III, were these:
HE has erected a multitude of new
offices and sent hither swarms of Off
GERS to harass our people and eat out
their substance.
''He has combined with others to sub
ject US to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution and unacknowledged by
our laws, giving his assent to their acts
of pretended legislation"
The American "colonists'' arraigned
their sovereign for cutting off our
trade with all parts OF the world, for
imposing taxes on us without our con-
sent" for suspending our legislatures
and declaring the right of his own leg
islatures to legislate for us, and for
abdicating local government.
Was it "a distinction rather than a
difference" between what the king gave
the colonists and what they declared
they were entitled TO have?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
GIVE THEM NO QUARTER.

Police Judge Timmony made a re-
mark the other day which entities him
to the respect and gratitude of the
entire community.
mo man charged with wife beating
will ever be let go on his own recog-
nizance by this court" said his honor
There al too many wife heaters in
the world. IL there were more magis-
trates like Timnony there would be
fewer Of these brutes at large. So long
as they place the punishment for wife
beating on the same plane with minor
offenses the ruffians who have wives to
beat Will beat. them.
The only effectual way to decrease
this kind of brutality is to give the
culprit the full penalty every time. to
show him no leniency at any stage Of
the proceedings when his guilt is once
established. The old whipping post
was abandoned as barbarous but it
ought to be used in dealing with these
barbarians yet.
There is. no excuse for letting wife
heaters off easy. Judge Timmony has
the correct idea
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
OLD DAGUERREOTYPR.


Saturday Evening Post)
I'd in the attic found them, locked in
the cedar chest.
Where. the POWERED gowns lie folded.
which once were brave as the best:
And. like the queer old jackets and the
WalStcoats gay with stripes,
They tell of a WORKOUT fashion-these
old daguerreotypes.
Quaint little folding cases. fastened with
tiny hook,
Seemingly made to tempt one to lift I'D
the latch and look;
Innings of purple and velvet, odd little
Circling the faded faces brought from the
days of old.
Grandpa and grandma, taken ever so long
ago.
Grandma's bonnet a marvel, grandua's
collar a show;
Mother a tiny TOddler, with rings on her
baby hands,
Painted-lest none should notice-in gilt
tering gflded bands.
Aunts and uncles and cousins, a starchv
and stiff array,
Lovers and brides, then blooming, but
now so wrinkled and gray.
Out through the misty glasses they gaze
at me. sitting here,
Opening the quaint old cases with q smile
that is half a tear.
will smile no more, little pictures, for
heartless it was. in truth
To drag TO the cruel daylight these ghosts
of a vanished youth
Go back to your cedar chamber, your
gowns and your lavender.
And dream, mid their bygOne graces. of
the wonderful days that were.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
A New Story Of Edison.

In Success a hitherto unpublished Incl
dent is given OF the way Thomas a. Edi-
son introduced himself TO a telegraph
manager in New York:
A tall young countryman looking as
green as a suit Of "butternut" clothes and
a SLOUGH hat could make him, applied for
work in the Broad street, New York, Of
fee of Maury Smith, in 1871 Mr. Smith
was manager of the consolidated tele-
graph lines, then in opposition to the
Western Union. Like all other managers,
he could make room Tor an expert Operdt-
or and tod the young rustic that an en-
gagement depended altogether upon his
skill
Try me; I can keep up with the best
of EN-" said the stranger.
Mr. Smith noticed that the applicant
appeared TO be quite dear; but, OUt OF Gu
r1OSlty, and possibly with the idea OF hav-
ing some tun with him, he gave him Ia
bic and told him to receive a message
then due from Washington.
You viii have TO WOrk pretty fast" he
warned him, Tor our Washington man is
IN the habit of rushing things"
As matter OF fact, there was no mes
sage expected from Washington, nor did
the wire lead there. Mr.. Smith connected
the receiver with a sender" in another
part OF the same operating room and put
his fastest operator, Dick Hutchinson.
at work sending d 3 U00-WOrd message. Ed
lson, for IL was he, grasped pen, and,
as soon as the instrument began to click
dashed OF the copy IN large, round, eli
gible hand While deaf to ali other sounds
he could catch the fainteSt metallic click
On came the message, faster and faster,
twenty, thirty, forty words a minute. a
crowd of operators gathered around, Gu
riosity, and then amaZement, depicted on
their faces. Page after page was reeled
on, with never a break, and with the last
click OF the instrument the forty-minute
message had been received perfectly and
lay in heap OF manuscript on the table
The young mans triumph was complete
Hutchinson rushed up and shook hands
with him, and Mr.. Smith gave him a lob
on the spot.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
PROJECTED FARMERS TRUST.

There are too many small share
holders in the great farming industry
for an agricultural trust to be formed.
They are competitors and can not help
themselves. They cannot close down
half the farms to let the others supply
the demand. They cannot limit their
production 20 per cent to shorten the
worlds supply. It takes ali they can
raise to keep them going. 1t takes more
10 pay the interest on their mortgages.
1t takes still more to buy at the rising
prices put on every necessity of their
occupation and life by the commercial
combines which hold them at their
mercy.
II the farmer wants relief he must
seek it at the polls. He can't accomplish
much by cutting down the product of
his farm when it isn't half enough al
ready. Billionaire corporations can work
the trust racket. The ballot is all that
the farmer can WELD in self-defense.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
THE OGDEN GATEWAY.
Bv Colonel Timothv Cede.l

The Ogden gateway is one of the
great public questions that is likely to
demand serious consideration in the
near future. This is not an interna-
tiOnal question, but it's internal i'm
portance is of more than ordinary
magnitude.
Up to the present time, the discussion
of the subject has been mainly between
the railroads. They are interested in
the question some way, but 1 don't
know just how.
The present understanding is that
the gateway is open, but the public is
probably not fully advised of this fact.
The preponderance of public sentiment
appears to be in favor of keeping the
gate open. This conclusion is not
reached by any personal canvass of the
situation, but 1 get the information
from a prominent Salt Lake physician,
who is in a position to feel the public
pulse; but who does not care to have
his identity disclosed. at present.
Some enthusiasts who favor closing
the gate, say that the Chinese should be
kept out of the country, if We have to
close the gate and build a barbed wire
fence all the way to Dillon, Mont.
Some of our best Republican politicians
think we have the same right to close
the gateway and shut out the COM
merce of the Pacific states, that we
have to levy a tariff on the products Of
Porto Rico. There is a suspicion that
any attempt to close the gateway.
would be construed as an effort to con-
fine the entire trade of our western
colonies to the Pacific states and cut
off a large revenue from the Atlantic
seaboard.
Utah is interested in keeping the
gateway open in order 10 have free
markets on both coasts. Salt Lake
would not like to be forced to choose
which side of the gate it would be on,
in case it is to be closed. The position
Of Utah. therefore. could be considered
as neutral.
From the above outline it will be
readily seen that there is q diversity
of opinion and large interests involved.
The administration has not outlined
any definite policy on the question
However, it is believed that the presi-
dent in his next annual message will
call the attention of congress to this
matter, and probably appoint a com
mission. There are two distinct ad
vantages about a commission. 1t gives
everybody an opportunity TO tell
the commission what to do, and
is naturally slow, it gives ample
time to adjust Objectionable features
so as to meet public approval. or to
change the policy entirely if it proves
unpopular.
An open door policy in China and a
closed gateway at ogden, would be
inconsistent from an administration
standpoint
In case of a misunderstanding on
this gateway question, which might
result in war between the east and
west, the result would be disastrous to
the east. For misunderstanding it as
tactical proposition, on the logical
reasoning Of Spencer Wilkinson: In
the present unpreparedness of the east
the army of the United States. which
is chiefly in the Pacific, could easily be
transported TO San Francisco and
Ogden and the gateway would be bat
tered down at the first charge and the
eastern states be overrun by the lep-
rouS hordeS of Asia
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
EASTER AND ITS LESSON.

1t seems strange, in view Of the sa-
cred significance of Easter as it is Oh
served today, 20 recall that it was once
heather festival Of the first Tn2gnifi-
eence. The name is derived from Os-
terra, the goodies who in heather my
thology, personffied the morning or the
east, the opening of the season, the
budding of spring. the beginning of a
new life. Some of the learned philolo-
gists claim that the word Easter, in
spite Of the fact that the festival Of
Ostera is perpetuated as a Christian
holy day, came from the old Saxon
word "oster," or ''osten." which means
rising; that it typifies the rising of ma
ture and stands as a symbol Of the
resurrection. In support of this theory
attention is called TO the fact that the
Anglo-Saxon name of April was Ester
monath, and that it is still known in
Germany as Ostermonath.
This was the month in which the
heather celebrated the dawn of spring
with a feast IN the temple of Ostera.
The Jewish passover was celebrated
on or about the 14rh day Of the month
Abid afterwards called Nisan-or to be
modern, within day or two, before or
after, the vernal equinox.
The early Christians tried to locate
the festival permanently in April. but
there were dissensions. The eastern
churches adopted the 14th day Of Nissan
as the day Of the crucifxion and OBJ
served Easter on the third day there
after, no matter on what day of the
week IL occurred. The western churches
observed the nearest Sunday to the full
moon Of Nissan. Constantine settled the
controversy by declaring that Easter
should be always the first Sunday after
the full moon which occurs on or next
after March q; and IL 'he full moon
happens to be on Sunday, the follow
ing Sunday is the day observed.
Many and peculiar customs have
come down to us through the ages
closely connected with the celebration
OF Easter. One Of the most common
and characteristic is that Of coloring
eggs. This was no doubt intended to
symballze the revivification of nature,
the prev aihng idea in every form Of the
days observance. IS the nests Of the
birds are filed with eggs Of every color
IN the spring, from which will burst the
song and soul Of joy 10 mount the
skies on ureless wings and All the uni
verse with harmony and hope, so rises
the immortal from the shell of clay to
join the chorus Of the blest.
Easter teaches lesson Of human
hope All Christian creeds and denom-
inations everywhere unite in comment
Grating thu resurrection OF Christ. The
sun Of love reflects a rainbow in the
tears 81 humanity. and devout believers
gather hope in the vision with its prom
Use Of their own survival of the tomb.
AS solemn Good Friday ie followed by
joyous Easter, 50 are the sorrows Of the
here softened by the hope of a happy
hereafter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
Boer and BnfOn.

: Lo in these forlornest limits back to rock
= hunt thing and followed for prey
= Saddest offspring the Silent Ones great stock,
y He shorn O. hope, sullenly bay
= Ali the changed not all the years
=
= Iron Of that ancient blood that found fears
\ Alva's name,
\ Here as by Northland meadows stands the race
Srnly grappled stronger foeman, face
= Here is never dixie to open, and no wave
y To oppression friendly food,
= Either Sidney gallant brave,
\ With purest sword that shed tyrant's blood.
Sons of her that in the worlds great midnight
\ The earliest light,
by forgotten deserted
She bright;
of those that fell by Leyden, n
These shall well remember how die for native land
= She that heard not cared not when arose the cry
lips made bloody by Turkish heel
She that with turned head and drawback BY
would plucked the steel;
She that smugly psamed the swests peace Others
And force abhorred-
= This she that upon her weakest brothers
Ere her siren song grown cold,
Warning for and little paltry gold.
that might have crowned the cnturys closing hour
Aglow like morning signs of peace;
She that might her sunless power
And blown the trump that bids all to
= She the flag has stained a deeper crimson
With blood before;
= She has called upon head,
Curse bowed of yore;
= She still true traditions
Once again the sake Of trade"
= progress" she would call it when bullet sings
Across the barren burrows trannpIed track;
Progress" march Of torch and flame filings
light shadow back;
progress" goes sows
His direst seed,
\ When about
+ The hands O greed;
= Shall call it progress" when this bitter
= Bears of fierce undying all is
: Blazon victories these pgmies, you have need,
+ Sing songs of triumph, make the airs
= Echo with the praise this your gallant deed,
3 Where thousands bearded twenty their lair
+ Shouting streets the future loud acclaim
Z Will avail,
+ When its sure, relentless finger points to shame
y This wTetched tale;
= All your songs will
CHARLES E RUSSELL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15

lean press may also explain the proper
tionately small output of American au-
thors as compared with the population
Of the two countries.
In this country the newspapers with
their miscellany and their mammoth
Sundaz- editions. accomplish what is
done by books and booklets elsewhere.
in fact, there are thousands of Amer
leans who depend upon the daily press
and the Sunday newspaper for informa-
ton on science. art, and for literature
Of every character. The short story. the
serial, the sermon, a chronicle of cur
rent events, a review of historical mat
ters, a comparison of the past and the
preeent-these go to make up the poor
mans library in this country; and the
busy man who reads his daily paper
has little time for books and brochures.