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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-06-04
C,usc For National Pride.

The british Board o; Trade furnishes
table concerning the consumption OF in;oxt.
ica,imc iig,ors in four countries. showing
that the United States Is consuming !csS
than half as much per capita as Great
Britain, France or Germany.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-06-04
Car Hopea For nm Heir.

The hopes OF Russia for IN heir to
the throne have been revived by tie
announcement that the CZar.na is ex-
pectcd 10 become I mother in Scpteln.
Der.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-06-04
Fertile Source OF Inebriety.

Drinking in business hou"s. standing
drinks ut bars. and treating are responsible
for NOR than hall the drunkenness which
ovcrtakes mn. The drunkcrn ness Of wom-
en- must have other Causes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-06-04
How Much Ono Reads.

A French statistician has calcu ed that
the human eye travels over 2oOf ards in
reading q novel. 4 human bei1 caleu'
lated to get through 25O0 miles feadins
LII a lifetime - -.-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-06-04
Unanswered.

Why Is It that some men named Will.
lam are known as Bill. while others Of
the same name are known as Will?-
Atchison Globe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-06-04
Tho couptry.s shoddy Mills.

The number OF shoddy mills in the Uni:
ted States in 1900 was lOj. an increase Of
twelve per cent, as compared with :he
number the year before.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-06-04
Rriliah Miniater fo Cuha-

King Edward has appointed L. b.. G..
Garden. at present Onsul-Gcncral "
Havana, British Minister to Cuba.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
BEEF PRICES TUMBLING.
from to ; Cents
POunl-CattIe Cheaper.
Baltimore Sum-

Baltimore Sum
HouskeeDers in Baltimore are happy to
learn of drop in the prices of meat.
which occurred this week. The reduction
has mainly been on beef. which has de-
clined from 2 to ) cents a pound. Various
reasons are given for the reduction, but
dealers say the main one is that the re-
ceipts have been very heavy recently and
the supply exceeds the demand.
One of the largest dealers in Hol1ins
Market said yesterday that beef on the
hoof has dropped / II cents a pound in
the past two months, which means 8
cents a pound less to the consumer. First
as follows: Porterhouse steak. from % to
20 cents a pound: sirloin, from IS and 20
to 16 cents: round steak from 16 to IA
cents; prime roasts, from IS and 20 to
Is and IS cents; chuck roasts, from 10 and
- to and 10 cents
The informant referred to believes that
the drop in prices is only temporary and
due to congestion of Western beef A
large quantity of this beef had been tied
up on the railroads because Of the extra
ordinary heavy freight traffic, he said
and now it has been dumped into Bal
tinore all at once 1t must be sold
promptly and hence prices have been cut
down.
There is q ru1nor that the Beef Combi-
nation cut prices in order to deal a death
blow to an Independent firm of packers,
but dealers do not believe this.
1t is stated, however, that cattle are
cheaper now than they have been for a
year.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
TELEPHONES.
INTERSTATE BATTLE.

That was glorious foot-hai' game
,,.ycd here Yesterday between the teams
from the Universities of North Caroi''ia
and Virginia.
II was hotly contested from start 10
ending. hui the time-li.nit having EXPIRED
g had 10 be closed, and as drawn batt'e
the advantage was somewhat with inc
Carolinians who were very proud OF their
achievement as they had rlsht
20 be. How the contest would
have ended. could it have been fought 20
:, finish we shall not undertake to say
!, would be mere guess work to do SO.
7,,,+ This we do "know'-that the next
game between these robustious young lei
lows will prove of more than interstate
,,terest. 1t will be looked forward 10
as great event by lovers OF 1oot-oa'i
the country over
Each team may return nome WIN 'iie
consciousness of duty we'll done; OF
hard fight bravely made and with the
firm resolve to do even better the next
time.
our respects to both of them!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
To-DAY,s CASE AGAIN.

Referring to the proceedings to over
throw the Virginia Constitution. instituted
by Mr. John s. Wise en- behalf Of his ne
gro clients, the Pittsbucg dispatch
says:
This case will open the whole question
of the enforcement OF the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments. If the Constitu-
ton Of Virginia DISTINGUISHING the negroes
is declared binding, then the constitu-
tional provision requiring the States re-
presentation in Congress to be reduced
in proportion to the number Of voters so
excluded will be pressed. An enforcement
of the Constitution in that respect would
affect Massa chusetts with It's educational
restriction on the suffrage Connecticut
with similar qualification. and all the
Southern States where the negro has
been disfranchised.''
AS we understand Mr.. Wise's averments
touching the repugnancy Of the Virginia.
Constitution to the fourteenth and f1f-
teenth amendments to the Federal Con-
stitution are vague and general. Indeed,
only constructiveiy does he attack the
Virginia organic law on the ground in
question. Moreover. where he does this
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
LONGEST IN THE HOUSE.

The Washington Post of a recent date
had an article from the pen of Leslie
j. Perry anent the national speakership
in which the writer says:
Several thousand different individuals
have been honored with seats in the
House of Representatives since its origin,
l13 years ago. but those who have served
twenty years and upward number only
twenty-eight. They are as follows in the
order of tenure.
Then follows a list of such persons
which credits the late w. S. Holman, of
Indiana. With the longest servce-thirty
and one-half years. Mr.. Holman died
April %. 1897. and consequently his SEP
vice was thirty years one month and
nineteen days.
Mr.. Perry strangely omits Thomas
Newton of Norfolk, in this State, who
served from March A. 1901. TO March 9,
1880, when his seat was awarded to
George Loyal. Mr. Newton thus served
twenty-nne years and six days He was
chosen to Congress again and served
from March l. 1881. to March 3, 1888, or
thirty-one years and six days in all, and
SO his record is that of the person who
in the history of the House has served
the longest.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
The killing of Mrs. Gore.
New York Sum-

New York Sum-
A beautiful young American woman,
Mrs. Gore, was killed in Paris, few
days ago, in the apartment of a Rus
sian baritone named Rydewski She
had been studying music for some time
in Paris. was in moderate circumstances.
and although she had been divorced from
her husband, since her death he has tes-
titled that she was a woman Of exem-
plary character.
Gore with his devotion for some time,
and it would appear from letters writ
ten by the decedent to her aunt in this
country, that the attentions of the Rus
sian were not agreeable, and that be-
cause of his peculiar character Mrs.
Gore was in fear of danger.
Little is known of the actual occurrence,
because only two human beings were
in the apartment when the fatal
shot was fired, which 1t is conceded came
from a revolver belonging to the Rus
sian. The ball entered the extreme right
OF Mrs. Cores right eye, cutting the lg-
aments behind the eye. forcing it out,
and emerging at the left side Of the
head.
The Russian said that he was lying
on the bed fully dressed while Mrs.
Mrs. Gore was seated at the foot of the
bed. her legs hanging down on the side
nearest the wall, and her body thrown
backward on the feather quilt which had
been rolled to form a cushion. Wishing
to take something from the night table.
he knocked off the revolver, which went
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
PRETTY DINWlDDIE WEDDING.
Marriage OF Mr.. r. E. Hawkes. and
Miss Tena Ella Butler.

WILSON, VA. November 27.-(Spe-
ciail-One of the most beautiful and
fashionable weddings of the season took
place at Grace church tonight. in the
presence of a large assemblage of rela-
tives and friends. when Mr.. r. E. Hawkse
of Amelia county. red to the altar Miss
Ella Butler, youngest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. a. G. Butterworth, of Wilson
Va. The bride, who is a handsome bru-
nette. was attired in white organdie
with accordion pleated founces, satin
ribbons, and lace, OVER which fell the
fancy folds of the bridal veil, caught with
orange blossoms.
The bridal party entered as follows:
First, the ribbon girl. little Ada Blanche
Perkins. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs D. w.
Perkins. in a costume of white orgaudie.
who advanced and removed the ribbon
indicating the reserved seats. Then came
the ushers. A1essrs. G.. H Vim. of Din
widdie. and Nuna Boiling of Amelia,
Next followed the walters. who wert
Misses Sallic Eutterworth. only sister of
the bride. with Mr., Jimmie Coleman:
Carrie Hawkes., sister OF the groom,
with Mr.. Willie Bridgeforth. The walters
were gowned in white organdie and
lace. Mrs. D. w. Perkins. attired In
old rose. was dame of honor. The aisle.
rostrum. and altar were covered In white
cloth. Flowers and lighted wax tapers
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
North Cnro1ina,s Twin City.
(Washington Post.)

NhFdSHliiS lOii OSt.J
eff you want to see q Sure-enough live
town, where things are humming mer-
rily in every line of human industry,
come down to Winstcn-Salem and look
us over said Mr.. William A. Blair. a
banker and owner of street railways, to
a Post reporter at the New Willard
II violate no confidence in declaring
that our town is the most progressive
wake and prosperous place in
North Carolina. It heads the list Of
towns in our State in the total of freight
express, telegraph, and postal receipts.
and it is only a question of a few years
lation.
ITO give you an idea Of the magnitude
Of the tobacco business of Winston
Salem. it is enough to say that We con-
tribute in the way OF, revenue to the gov
ernmeEt for taxes on plug tobacco about
50 O00 900 annually. Over 1000 900 pounds
Of leaf tobacco are sold weekly. 1t is a
common thing to see 20Q0 wagons from
the country arrive in q day.
"In addition. we have many other pros
porous industries, knitting and furniture
factories, cottCn-mils, wagon and buggy
factories. fertilizer plants, and the like
originated the plan of the merger of the
cotton-nills of the South, and l am in q
position to know that the merger is an
assured success. Plants representing over
$40 600, 900 are now in the combination, en-
bracing the strongest and best-paying
ones in several States"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28

his contentious are incidentals and "hll-
Eers In Of his omnibus bill or petition.
We have never attached much
importance to the case as
whole and least Of all have we
thought there was. cause to worry
about these features. And for two rea-
sons: First. the Virginia Constitution ap-
plies the same test to both white and
colored applicants for registration ana
the privilege Of voting. and leaves open
to the .disfranchised' of both races
the way-and the same way-to become
qualified to exercise the right of suffrage.
In the second place. the constitutional
convention numbered among its members
some Of the ablcst lawyers III the Com
monwealth. and it is well-known that IN
der their advice and as the result of their
study the convention took every precau-
ton against the possibility of the work
OF its hands being successfully assaiied
as obnoxious to the Federal constitutional
provisions enfranchsng the negro. But
that apart If the case shall open UP
the whole question of the enforcement OF
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the Federal Constitution. it Will not
as our contemporary indicates, be tEe
South alone that will be interested in the
result, and would suffer from decision
in favor of the compliments.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
In the Blcsscd IsIes.

Chicago Record-Herald)
Oh, there are no trusts to bother
In those islands far away.
Where the natives never scurry
After dollars and ne'er Worry
Over bills such as the butchers
And the grocers make us pay.
There they loiter in the shade,
Caring not how moneys made.
Never thinking Of the trightful cost Of
meat,
Never frettng Ger the price
That is charged for coal and ice,
Picking square meals from the branches
when they think it's time to eat,
And then sitting down and resting while
the bugs crawl DER their feet.
Oh. there are no trusts to squeeze them,
They are free from buying hats,
And they pay no hard-earned dollars
Out for shirts and cuffs and collars,
They are not compelled to huddle
Up in siX-by-seven flats;
Tai!ors never make them wear
Ugly, baggv trousers there,
And they slave not that the milliner may
thrive;
With no mergers and no rings
Adding to the gloom of things.
They sit resting, caring nothing for the
wealth for which we strive.
They but lol and hunt the woodtick and
are glad to be alive.
S. e. KISER.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
RETAIL TOBACCON1STS.

To this day in England. and also IN
some towns in this country. the pace
where tobacco is retailed to customers
IS called 1.-The tobacconist's' or the "tobac-
co shop" And it was the former custom
for all such shops to advertise them-
selves by means of painted wooden IN
dams, which were set up on the sidewalk.
Sometimes the Indian held a tonahawk
aioft; quite often he held bow and
arrow; quite often he displayed
bundle of leaf tobacco
These were all-and the only-Eood In
clans. Most of them have disappeared,
and in this country at least. the places OF
business they advertised are no longer
spoken of as of yore. but are known as
INC stores of retail tobacco dealers. The
change of name and the counterfeit pre-
sentiment of the noble red man disappeared
together. and without apparent justitica
ton in either case.
The New York retailers just now are
ined up in battle array. and are going
Cor" one another in lively style. There
would now be a peculiar appropriate
hess in marshaling their Indian allies, if
they could be found, for many scalps are
being sought for and we dare say some
may be easily taken.
The casus belli is the invasion Of the re-
tailers' field of business by the United
Cigar Stores Company, which the mem
bers say is backed by the American To-
bacco Company. The latter company we
know something about. Evidences of its
prosperity and enterprise are to be seen
in many places in Richmond. where it
has numerous great factories and ware
houses. and where it employs thousands
ST hands. It is the same company that
went to the Virginia Legislature and got
a charter, whereupon certain planters
raised great outcry and steps
were at once taken to repeal 1t. Then the
corporators quietly went to New Jersey,
md without trouble got the lioeral and
1utiicient charter with which 1t does
business in Richmond and other Virginia
towns. That was almost the beginning
ST New Jerseys highly profitable charter
business. The State requires a small an
auai tax from each company chartered
BY il, and realizes a grand total nearly
sufficient to pay the expenses of the gov
eminent. Moreover. il is constructing the
best public road system in the world.
and has surplus of about 100000 in the
treasury.
But all that aside. The situation in
New York city is that me retailers allege
that the United Cigar Stores company
is an instrument of the American Tobac-
90 Company. On the other hand the
American Tobacco Company disclaims any
and all connection with IT, The other
dealers. however persist In saying that
their charge is correct. and they declare
that the trust sells all Its goods at cut
rates to the Cigar Stores Company. so
as to enable them TO sell at cut prices
and drive the other retailers to the
WALL
Night before last the New York retail
\ ers held meeting in Maennerchor Hal,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
CHEMICAL BOARDiNGH0USE.
Government Kitchen Not IN Headi-
ness to Feed yo:7-seers.

Twelve eXpectant government clelhs
filed down to the Bureau of Chemistry Or
the Agricultural Department at preak-
fast time yesterday morning. Wnettlns
their appetites for their first meal upon
Professor Wiley's acknowledgements
meats and other foods; upon which they
have agreed to diet for a year in the
interest of science. But they were disap-
pointed
Professor Wiley met the young enthus-
lasts at the door and told them that the
dining-room had not yet been completed.
owing to trouble in finding an official
painter at leisure. When told that they
could not break their fast until one week
hence the young men sought less scien-
tific eating places for the seven days
which must elapse before the government
dining-rooms are ready for business and
tho official clearinghouse opened for
guests
The twelve young clerks volunteered
some time ago to eat chemically prepared
food under the direction of Professor
Wiley, at the Agricultural Bureau. in
order to ascertain. for the benefit of sci
ence. whether or not food stuffs treated
with boraX and various acids are injurious
to the human system. Heretofore animals
have been experimental upon but now
the experts want subjects who can tell
their symptoms to the doctors of science
to live upon such food for n year or more
and the clerks who were disappointed in
their first meal yesterday were those
who had been selected for the tests, with
the understanding that their board should
be at the expence of a. generous gov
eminent.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28

The day OF the lightning rod is rap
idly passing. The governments latest
census returns show that this device Tor
protecting the house is very little USED
to-day. No electrical manufacturing
establishment reports it among its pro-
ducts, and so far as the census experts
has been able to ascertain only one Amer
lean electrical engineering firm makes
a business Of putting UP the rods or de-
signing them. So far as large cities are
concerned, disastrous lightning strokes are
reported to be mucn more rare than tor
,nerly, and the decrease is accounted Tor
bv the network of acknowledgement
wires and other apparatus with when
the cities are now interviewer and sur
rounded Another protection against as
astrous lightning strokes in cities is the
great amount of metallic roofing. which,
it IS said, "disperses' the electricity
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
The Legislators, Pen Knife
(Montgomerv. Ala Aduertiser

montgomery, Ala. Advertiser)
Inc people who inhabit the grand old
Commonwealth of Virginia are almost as
conservative. especially in then. Legisla-
ture as they are lin New Hampshire. A
IONS While ago, when some of us Wer,
very much younger than we now are.
people wrote with quill pens, and one Of
the essentials to a scholar who had any
writing TO do was pen-knife with which
to make and mend his pens AS the law
makers were supposed to know how to
write and as it was necessary to have
them properly equipped, the State not
only supplied them with ink and pape.,
but with quilts. and with pen-knives to
trim them with
The quill pens have long since gone the
way OF many other obsolete things be-
longing to other days among the
stationery furnished the Lawmakers
the pen-knife is still an item and each
member is supplied with one. although
nothing but metal pens are used They
don't make pens any more but they son,-
times trim their nails. and some of them
probably pick their teeth with the knives
given them by the State in obedience
to ancient custom. And we notice too,
that the Richmond Dispatch fayors hang
ing TO the old custom, saying:
We'll, the members serve for very mod
est pay, and perquisites are dear to us
all. The State can afford this annual
distribution of pocket knives It's q
custom not to be honored in the breach.
indeed. we shouldn't mind if they brought
back the quill pen and the snuff-box.
yea, and the legislator with queued hair.
blue swallow-tailed coat, and brass but
tons. and knee breeches and buckles on
Shoes
There's an ancient of days for YOU.
and a would-be resuscitator of the Gus
toms of the Cavaliers. We would ride
some miles-on a pass-to see a legisla-
two body decked out in the styles which
prevailed wher Patrick Henry was
laundering treason to the assembled wis
dom Of Virginia. and Governor Dunmore
was LEAVING a level coat-tail behind him
as he made tracks for the nearest Eng
fish war-ship. Possibly the style of dress
then used was necessary to impress the
common people with the highness and
dignity of those who had been selected
to make laws for them. but there Is no
such need now, and the members would
make themselves objects of sridicule
They would be much more appropriately
dressed. in accordance with the spirit of
the present day. If they would wear foot
ball uniform. That would put them LII
the head of the procession in the vulgar
eye. Furnishing them with pen-knives Is
merely a survival. but what the Dispatch
suggests would be q retrogression.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-28
KEEP 1T IN POLITICS.

BY Washington correspondents it is
gathered that among returning Senators
and Representatives there is almost uni
proposition to appoint q non-partisan
commission to deal scientifically with the
tariff. There is pretty general con-
cession that the story of the
proposed new commission would be but a
repetition of that of the commission Of
1888 Its labors would amount to nil, and
the reward Of its members for their trou-
bic would be nothing but virtual flouting
by Congress.
But it is also stated that by many Re-
is held that the sentiment" for tariff re-
vision is strong enough to warrant con
sderation" of the subject by Congress
sional committee. Therefore. the sugges-
ton has been made-and is growing in
favor. it is said-that Joint tariff COM
mittee from the membership of the Sem
ate Committee on Finance and the House
Committee on Ways and Means be ap-
pointed, to sit during the recess of Con-
gress next summer and recommend such
changes as it deems advisable.
In the view of the Springfield CMass.)
Republican, the appointment of such
committee would mean the same thing as
the appointment Of a commission. and
that is an effort to stave off the whole
question. And in that view we coincide
fully The majority in Congress have no
idea of touching the tariff. further than
juggling with it. in the hope Of quoting
the revolt in their own party against
Dingleyism and the trusts. and removing
the issue, if possible from the arena of
public discussion. The appointment of a
Congressional tariff commission would be
a case of great cry and no wool, except
in so far as was involved the policy of
trying to pull the wool over the eyes OF
the people, and blind them touching Re
publican insincerity in the matter. Sena-
tor Allison is one Republican who is frank
enough to admit that the tariff question is
in politics and that he believes it is there
to stay. Not only is it in politics. but it
is 1.-The issue between the two great par
ties, and must be fought out in the field
of politics if there is ever to be reform
Republican talk of revision within that
party is at the last Republican acknowl-
edgement of these facts and an evidence
of Republican desire to avoid the strug-
gle. But this latter phase of the matter
affords all the more reaso why the Dem
ocrats should keep the issue prominently
in politics and force the fighting in the
open, from now until and through the
next Presidential campaign.