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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-05-13
State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.
By the County Board Of Education

To ]. A. Brown, F. Y. Pressly and T. r. Black
we'll, Trustees for School District No. 3S:
1T APPEARING TO THE SATISFAC rION
OF the County Board OF Education that the
laws whereby an election may be held for the
purpose Of levying special tax OF three mills
in District Nc. SS, had been complied with, IL
is therefore ordered that you hold an election
in the town Of Due West. at the usual voting
place on Saturday, the 10th day Of May, 1903.
for the purpose Of determining whether the
said tax shall be levied or not.
That you give the notice required By law
before holding said election.
FRANK C. DuPRE,
Chairman.
K. +. GILLIAN,
J. FRASER LYON,
County Board OF Education.
April IA, 1908. u
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The greatest potato eaters are the people
of Germany and Belgium. The oonsump-
tion of this vegetab BILE averages 100 pounds
per annum for each person.
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You can find some 'XQniSite cut glass and
china at the store of A. NJ. Smith j. Co.
Boys like the style hothers like the man
and making and fathers like The price of the
Mrs. Jane Hopkins line of chidrens clothing
to be found at Hall & hnderson's.
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A Towel In Addition.

There is NO use going to the dry goods store
90 inch towel by buying q 4S ID. sack OF "Clif.
ton" flour. When you buy "Clinon" you not
only get the best -four made, but get the
towel In addition. l.. T. & T. M. Miller.
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After La Grippe.

Lest o worse thing befall, rebuild the con.
sumed tissues and renew the supply OF red
blood corpuscles with the quickest digested
and most nutritious flour made-"Cllfton."
II Ia the product OF native Kentucky wheat.
---.'T.r-. L. T, T, NJ. Miller.
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ACHE

we have quick and sure relief. Our
HEADACHE POWDERS act like u
charm on the racked and throbbing
head. They clear the brain and
strengthen the nerves. They are the
most effective cure for nervous and
sick headaches. Contain nothing in
furious and leave no bad after effects
Price 25c per box of one dozen. Gen.
uine grip capsules at
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DR.. Phifer Called Home.
DR.. Fred Phifer was called home by tel
egram on Thursday and will be out Of thu
city for several days.
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Stark,s Stable,

Ia the place TO hire the best vehicles, the
Rentlest horses, and the fastest travellers II
You want safe ride and quick drive call al
Stark's Stables. 1t
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Teachers Examination,

YNHE REGULAR EXAMINATION FOR
Il white and coored teachers will be held
at Abbevile Court House, Friday, May 22nd
1903. Beginning at nine O'Clock a. m.
+. G. DUPRE,
Co. Supt. OF Ed.
May 5, 1903. If
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Sarayed or Stolen.

One mouse colored, dish faced mule about
IL hands high. Anyone taking him up noti-
~. r. o. Edwards,
Abbeville.
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EIiekering Lights

, : EII6AOIIuR
The hickering electric light may be caused
by the slipping OF the driving belt Of the ma
chinery.
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According to the official reports Of the
Japanese government the island empire
contains 81, ,bs0 teachers.
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Speeds Drug Store.
SamDle Sale Too.

Big line OF drummer's samples at New
York cost-shirts, undershirts hose, suspen
penders, fans, overalls, parasols, ties. etc.
May 5, l903 w. d. Barkrdale.
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Try our Egg Phosphates. MilfOrd's Drug
Store.
We are the people for fine soap OF every
kind. Milford's Drug Store.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

tie slum angels born with an appetite
for drink, they have a hard time ahead
of them If they grow to womanhood.
Why They Drink.
The cause of the degradation is the
wretched home life, laziness and In
temperance. Thirty thousand families
IN Glasgow live in one-roomed flats.
Sometimes, indeed, six or, seven fami-
lies live in one long room, with only
a chalk mark or piece of rope dividing
the rented space. Huddled together in
such masses-men, women and chill
dren-only the grossest immortality
can result. Shelter houses are being
built rapidly, however, where men may
find comfortable nights lodging for a
pittance. ssyzss..ssss-
About these shelters on Saturday
nights men are gathered by the score,
while women with children stand near
by begging their husbands for cop
pers. There are a few shelters for
women also, where for eight cents in
American money a woman may stay
over night and have place to cook
her own tea and breakfast. But these
shelters do not take the place Of a
home, for no provision is made for the
children. A little one may sleep with
the mother till 1T is five years old, but
the beds are narrow, like the hunks of
a steamer, and generally there are half
a dozen youngsters. The shelters,
however, are an Improvement over the
tenements, and in them people are
obliged to live decently.
Redeeming Features.
A large home has been established
for married men with children who
haYe drunken wives. The "wee kid
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

not Scotch by birth. The one tenth
who are Scotch come mostly from the
highlands; peasants, who expect the
streets of Glasgow to be filled with
gold. They do not get on well and
move from one poor fiat to another I'M
til hunger and the want of good-fel-
lowship make the drink habit almost
inevitable. =.
One pathetic fact should be noticed
even among these hopeless creatures.
They are still women, and some few
of them have a trace of modesty left.
They rail at one another for getting 80
shamefully drunk and say, "You will
go down below, and you deserve 1t,
you dol"
A certain woman was calling out to
some young men, but seeing a Sal
walton lassie passing close beside her
she hid her face and sneaked back to
the wall. A moment later she ran after
the lassie, exclaiming Indeed, miss,
they were my own sons 1 was CALM"
They were not, of course, but the wom-
an still had vestige of mOdesty left
to be ashamed of her language in the
presence of pure woman. An old
granny had been struck by the police
man-and most deservedly, too-but
her lip began to bleed, and she cried
out, well, you shouldn't strike me,
even If 1 am drunk, for I'm a woman"
The churches, both Protestant and
Catholic, the Salvation Army, Social
Settlement workers, the city corpora
ton and every good man and woman
in Glasgow is trying to help the
drunken women. Sympathy, better
houses, widened streets, education and
the higher life are factors used in the
attempt to solve this problem.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
From Amateur Photograph Taken by Her Son. and
gaphed by the Countess For the Globe.

his place at the end of the table
Madame Tolstoy presides at the other
end and she insists equally emphati-
cally on having a well-appointed table
for herself and her children.
Doesn't Indorse All the Counts Views.
1t is perhaps not so strange after all
that she is not an enthusiastic follower
OF her husbands extreme views, see
ing she has suffered such great de-
pr1vation on account of them. She
thinks many of the counts ideas are
true, but she, believes that the family
has right to enough to eat, that the
children have right to a good educa-
ton and that she has a right to pass
her last days free from financial wor-
r1es she has always had.
Her receptions on Saturday. when
she is in Moscow, are crowded with
bright, interesting people, strangers
from many parts of the world, the
rich and the poor. She is gracious to
everyone talks to you in whatever
language you like-German, French.
English Russian-will discuss the lit
erature of your own or any other coun-
try, can talk politics, science, or how
to bring up babies!
Truly remarkable woman!
Fond of Americans.
When we called at the Moscow home
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

for there has been a. bitter feud be-
tween the Hohenzollerns and the
Guelphs of Hanover for the last thirty
six years. In the war of 1866 the king
of Hanover, the grandfather of Prln-
cess Alexandra, was led by his warm
friendship for the emperor of Francis
Joseph to take the losing side. with
the result that when Prussia had
crushed Austria he was dethroned and
his doninions added to the Prussian
crown. There is still a Guelph party
in Hanover, and every year, on the
Duke of Cumberland's birthday,
deputation comes to Gmunden to bring
him the greeting of his loyal sub
iects in Hanover" The Guelphian
movement in Hanover, however, is
suppressed with an iron hand by the
most approved German police methods.
Since the crash the royal family has
lived In Austria, at PenZing, near VI
emma and at Gmunden. in Upper Aus
tria. The head of the family uses his
English title, Cumberland, but keeps
up all the state and ceremony of q
king at his residences.
Princess Alexandra is the maternal
granddaughter of the king of Den
mark, and is consequently niece to the
empress mother of Russia and her
namesake, the queen of England as
There have been repeated reports of
a reconciliation between HohenZol-
lerns and Hanovarians during the last
few years, and Emperor Francis Jo-
seph has done his utmost to bring II
about Hitherto such a reconciliation
has not taken place. SO that the crown
prince and Princess Alexandra have
never seen each other. However. II the
political difficulties were overcome. the
personal ones doubtless would be ar
ranged with as much facility as in
other royal matches.
Princess Alexandra is a tall, pleas
ant-looking girl, but not particularly
beautiful. She Is an enthusiastic
yachtswoman. and sails her own boat
over the waters of the treacherous
Gmunden lake. She has been much at
the Austrian court. where the Cumber-
lands take precedence OF everyone and
are treated as a reignfng family. She
is Protestant. and therefore reli-
ligiously eligible to be the German
crown princes bride.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
Typical Stun Scene in Glasgow City Women"
hop-which, by the way, are
usually close together.
All Drunkards Toeether.

hop-which, by the way, are
usually close together.
All Drunkards Together.
When once a woman begins to drink
here, she is done for" Is quotation in
this Scotch city and one believes it true
after an evening in the Sums Old
gray-headed women, with weak, dissi-
p&ted faces and torn rags for scanty
covering. reel through the streets beg
ging ceppers, with which to buy more
drink. Young men, themselves the
WcSse for liquor, exclaim, GIVE the
bare-footed old grannies a penny-we
hope we'll never come to that!" The
middle-age topers are the coarsest of
al. Their hair matted in tawny snarls,
dresses haif fastened and their speech
too foul for repetition. Some of the
worst characters appear in striped
black and white flannel petticoats, and
these women are called the Petit
coatefs.s.
One "Pethcoater', was on an unusu-
ally high spree on the Saturday night
the writer=went through the Bridget"
AS Bridge Gate street is called. Mad
with drink this fighting woman rushed
home to her attic, put out her children,
and with Ratchet smashed the fur
niture and even tore to pieces the chill
dren's clothes. The oldest boy, eleven,
went for the police, but in the mean
time the Infatuated mother had nailed
up the door and defied them to enter.
Thus in one nights intoxication the
"Petticoater" had broken up her home,
destroyed the household treasures and
cast her children into the street.
Children That Are Topers.
The young women for the most part
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

covered that she shifted the conversa-
ton from books and socialistic doc
trines-we were trying to get her to
discuss her husbands ideas-to the ex-
tremely feminine topic of frocks.
You have just come from Paris
what are they wearing?" she asked,
and then laughed as she saw we were
love pretty things" she said, in half
apology. 1t is so recently that I have
seen anything of the world
She evaded skillfully any criticism of
the counts work and theories of life,
but she said very freely that she re-
joiced in having her eldest daughter
back again in the family circle. This
girl was an ardent disciple of her faith
er's and nearly ruined her health by
working in the fields and eating bad
food.
The count came in for moment be-
fore we left, extremely feeble and look
ing aged in comparison to his wife.
He began to ak in an abrupt way,
interested to know about America, but
haranguing against it's worldly spirit,
scarcely looking at us at all, his eyes
cleaning with a strange, fanatical fire.
We watched the countess while he
was talking and her expressive face
betrayed the diSapproval she would not
utter 1t was so plain that we were
all struck by it. She took occasion
soon to interrupt the count, and bade
us goodbye with a charming smile
and almost look of pleading. We
felt as if she had begged our pardon
collectively and individually.
The next day / wrote to her to ask
for photograph and she replied at
once, sending several. which she said
had been taken by her eldest son and
which she herself thought were good
likenesses. Each one bore her auto
graph, which 1 had not been bold
enough to ask for.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
MAY Be EMPRESS
Princess Alexandra Is Eiigl-
BILE for the Crown Prince.

BERLIN, Sept. 26.-Again is the
gossip revived that Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria has smoothed away
the obstacles that have stood between
the crown prince of Germany and
Princess Alexandra of Cumberland,
and that the Hanoverian girl has good
prospects of becoming empress of
Germany some day. The fact is that,
whereas the crown prince is now of
marriageable age, the crop OF prin-
cesses suited to him in years, health,
religion and politics is extremely linn
tied. Two or three English princesses
are available and suitable. and rumor
has repeatedly engaged him to one or
other of them, and Emperor William is
understood to be rather in favor of
such match. But the emperor re-
members the unpopularity Of his
mother in Germany and the rooted OBJ
lection of the German public to have
an English empress. So it is that the
name of Princess Alexandra comes up
again.
If the crown prince of Germany
Inarries Princess Alexandra of Cum
berland it will be a romantic match.
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we went without letters of Introduction
OF any sort, but our Russian guide told
US that, being Americans, we would he
sure to be welcomed. But how to con-
vey message of our nationality to
Nine. Tolstoi was different matter.
The servant at the door swore that
the countess was not in town. Then.
when we said we knew she was, he
swore that she was not at home
well, here stay until she re-
turns" dramatically exclaimed a girl
in the party, and we all promptly sat
ourselves down in the hall and looked
defiance at the big Russian servant in
his faultiess uniform and grand air. We
had not long to wait until one of the
daughters came through, and when we
explained that We were Americans, she
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
WILD ANIMALS SUFFER
FROM SEA SICKNESS
Voyage Is Dreaded by Tiger, Who
Whines PitifuIIy.

A French scientist has made some
very interesting observations as to the
love of different animals for the sea.
The Polar bear is the only one that
takes to the sea. and is quite jolly when
aboard ship. All others violently re-
sent trip on water, and vociferously
give vent to their feelings until sea-
sickness brings silence. The tiger suf-
fers most of all. The mere sight of a
ship makes him uncomfortable, and
when on board he whines pitifully, his
eyes water continually, and he rubs
his stomach with his terrible paws.
Horses are very bad sailors, and often
perish on a sea voyage. Oxen are
heroic in their attempts not to give
way to sickness. Elephants do not like
the sea, but they are amenable to med
zeal treatment. A good remedy is a
bucketful of hot water, containing
three and a half pints of whisky and
seven ounces of quinine.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

COUNTESS IOI STOY DESERVES
SOME OF HER HUSBANDS FAME
dto Fight
of the Rights That Her Husband
Her Home Moscow and of the Family Life

tess frequently use, and dainty tea
table always ready for passing guest.
Opening out from the drawing room
is the counts study lined with books
and portraits of friends in many parts
of the world, and furnished with a fine
old walnut writing desk. Before the
counts long illness, last winter-an ILL
ness which still hangs on and necessi-
tates the family's remaining in the
country-the countess spent many
hours Of each day with her husband
in this study, helping him in his work.
The dining room is furnished as sim
ply as upon the country estate, but
everything bears the mark of a refined
feminine taste. The count insists On
using nothing but a pewter plate, mug,
knife and fork. and they are always at
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
The ToIstoy Sitting Room at the Town House in Moscow

q pretty Nttle house in Moscow which
gives her chance to see something of
life AID people and know what is GO
ing on IN the world. 1t stands in
delightful garden and there is a brick
wall. seven feet high, surrounding it,
so that the family I've there almost as
secluded as in the country. The house
is low and two-storied, plastered on
the outside, as 1T is the custom in Rus
Hia, and with small windows.
There is a small room on the first
floor where visitors are generally
shown first, then taken to the draw
ing-room up stairs. where the countess
IS TO be found. 1t is large room with
low ceiling, furnished very simply,
with few good pictures, a grand
piano. which both the count and coun-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

gave the pompous servant a sound
rating in rapid Russian, then babe US
welcome in perfect English and took
US up stairs, where Nine. Tolstoi sat
reading in the drawing room.
Pardon the servant" she said. "Of
course we could not possibly receive
all the travellers who call unintroduced,
for SO many come from mere curiosity.
But we make exceptions for Amer
leans whenever we can. We feel that
they are our best friends next to our
own countrypeople"
Years of maternity have given the
countess a staid, sensible manner, and
her face is very motherly, her smile
very sympathetic. She was dressed
with a simplicity that changing fash
ion could not affect But we soon dis
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

London and duped into spending their
all upon their useless quest. 1t can
not be discovered who inserted the
false advertisement in the Australian
newspapers nor who sent the letter re-
ceived by the Goodwins on reaching
London. Evidently, however, the au-
thor of this Joke was perfectly con-
versant with the Goodwin's family his
tory
The case of the two men has made
a sensation in this country. and public
sentiment is in favor of raising a fund
for the purpose of sending them back
as "a thing that England owes them"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

dies" as the Scotch express it. are
taken care of at an absurdly small
sum and the father is with them at
night. This picture of sin and shame
would be untrue to life did it not cor
tam soIae bright patches here and
there. Besides these shelters and in
stltuuons, there are pleasant parks In
the very heart of the slums, a fine peo-
pies palace and art gallery, and op-
portunity for every woman who viii
try at all to live clean. One home took
In young woman that Saturday
night who is only thirty-two and has
been in prison seventy-four times. The
good people of Glasgow gives the sew
enty-tlmes" opportunity to it's drunken
women.
Nfne-tenths of the women In the
police courts. prisons and refugees are
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

wear coarse shawls, and with great
de1tness they wind them first about
thelr babies, and then around them
selves. Every young woman seems to
De mother, but they pay scant at
tention to the little ones about the
only protection baby gets being the
support from the shawl. 1 have seen
girls of eleven and thirteen so intoxi-
Gated that they could not walk straight.
Even the little girls of six and seven
congregate outside the saloons wait
ing for peep in, or hoping that
mother" will let them have a "drap."
The little waits are barefooted and
half-naked. The droop in the corner
Of the mouths of many of these little
people indicate plainly the depression
caused by cruelty and neglect, to-
gether with Ill health and hunger. Lit
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
''CITY OF DRUNKEN WOMFN''
THEY. NOW CALL GLASGOW
cocn Home OF Socialism Has More
Saloon Reform

GLASGOW, Sept. 25.-There is no
city in the world that has SO many
drunken women in proportion to its
SIZE as Glasgow. AS breeding place
for female topers neither London, Paris
nor New York can compare with the
Scotch town which prides itself on the
progress it has made in almost every
-hind of municipal reform
1t is no exaggeration to say that an
american walking in the evening
through Glasgow's poorer quarters =
through Salt Market street, Bridge
Gate or High street-soon begins to
ask hiNself If there can be any sober
woman in that part of the city. Here
In the course of an hour, one may see
nearly a thousand women pass in vari-
Gus stages Of intoxication, nearly all of
them looking either for saloon or
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

public poor box. Meanwhile, two sis
ters of the Goodwins have turned up
in London, having learned from the
newspapers of their brothers straits.
From them, the disappointed fortune
seeker has learned that their Uncle
Holland" did die many years ago, leav
ing about $4,000, which was be-
queathed, however, to some illegiti-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

mate children of his with small re-
version to his nieces. the only ones Of
his brothers family whom he remem-
bered in his will. The sisters have no
means of their own, both being com
panions" and are unable to do any
thing of consequence to assist their
brother.
But there is no light upon the mys-
terry of why these two inoffensive old
men were dragged from Australia to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27
Relieved.

SO the physicians thought you had APP
pendicitis?'
Yes" answered Mrs Cumrox, "and I
was ever SO relieved to learn that they.
were mistaken. Appendicitis Is going
completely out of style, you know
Washington Star.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-06-26
NOTICE.

The committee has made ar.
rangements whereby the dele.
gates and visitors to the Grand
Lodge can be cared for at the rate
of $1.0O ner day. All delegates
and members who expect to at
tend the Grand Lodge in Des
Moines should send their names
to the chairman of the committee,
VIM. Coalson, Des Moines, so
that the committee can arrange
for stopping places for everyone
who expect to be in attendance.
If this isdone the committee will
not be handicapped when the
delegates and friends begin to
come in, and all visitors will
know just where they are going
to be accommodated.