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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01
Cirrnlar Skirt.

Full skirts, that are confined over
the hips, yet take soft and graceful
folds below. make the latest shown.
This May Manton one is circular and
is arranged in small tucks at the up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01
A Revolution in Lace.

Last year one couldn't get lacea
coarse enough. The thing was perhaps
overdone.- which accounts for the rev.
olution in favor of more dainty, fra.
gile trimmings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01
A CaDrice of Fashion.

Only a gathered cap in lieu Of q
sleeve is another of fashions caprices
for summer dress gowns, reviving an
old-time node.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01
Female Trouble
Not Recognized
as Catarrh.

are lined by mucous membranes. Any mu-
cous membrane is subject to catarrh. .
Catarrh of one organ is exactly the same
as catarrh of any other organ. What will
cure catarrh of the head will also cure ca
tarrh of the pelvic organs. Peruna cures
these cases simply because it cures the ca
tarrh.
Most of the women afflicted with pelvic
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01
A Quaint Effect.

Many evenings gowns have Dor.
rowed that quaint old fashion of OPEN
ing over a gay petticoat in front.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01
Fancy Trimmings.

Fancy trimmings. a S well as but
tons. will be q feature Of the early
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01
Most of the Ailments Peculiar to the
Female Sex Are Due to Catarrh of
the Pelvic Organs.

Peruna has cured thousands Of cases Of
female weakness. AS a rule, however, be-
fore Peruna is resorted to several other
remedies have been tried in vain. A great
many of the patients have taken local
treatment, submitted themselves to surgical
operations, and taken all sorts of doctors
stuff, without any result.
The reason of so many failures is the
fact that diseases peculiar to the female
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01

France averages forty-two marriages
to the divorce. N119
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01

for the medium size IS ten yards TWEEN.
ty-one inches wide. eight yards TWEEN.
ty-seven inches wide. or five and one.
half yards forty-four inches wide.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01

sex are not COmMON-
ly recognized as be-
ing caused by ca
tarrh. These organs
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-06-01

Sold throughout. the world. cuticura Soap, &C., ONT;
ment, Soc, Resolvent, SOC. I'm form o. Sh0eo y M S sntsT.
house So; Paris, : Rue de Ia Pal, BoEou, lSI Columbus
Ave. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole PIoprietof-
L. Send Tor 1.-The Great Humor Cura'
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

mill settlement and follows round ths
shoulder Of the mountain into valley
after valley where, between the trunks
and purple ranges, and at last the sea
itself for a moment beyond miles Of
serried growth as yet too remote for
any but the hunter. We are even hero
not to be without neighbors, for twice
in the i've miles we come upon small
cabins waiting. closed and clean. for
their summer owners to come and
make them alive again.
In a very short time our two skilled
woodsmen make a trail to the spot
chosen for the house-a sunny opening
twenty yards from a big pool. Here
we slept and at dawn returned upon
our way. this being but q beginning
to be carried out at later visit
Thus ended the quest OF our first red
wood. We came back to the city to
dream Of it all the days and nights
of the six months which must pass
until we go again For our home
stead" is now legally established and
needs only perseverance and time to
settle its permanency. And now we are
waiting for the list OF November-for
then we shall make the dearest Of joys
out Of a duty and must go up once
more
The next visit will see the house COM
pleted and the time Of real residence
begin.
Three straight trees about my head.
Warm brown. piny earth my bed,
Sunset and stars and solemn dawn,
feel Gods great world swinging on
DOROTHEA MOORE.
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But, oh, the years gone by! when she
came with only her husband. drawn
over the mud with an OK team. When
after a day of mighty tasks the weary
man took his lantern and worked until
midnight at road-making that fortune
might come to meet them; days Of Ill
ness, of cruel anxiety, of accident far
from surgeon or nurse-all this had
been a daily part of the past of these
two brave and loving people.
A day and night at the camp Of the
Three Trees, where were, indeed, all the
comforts of home-stoves. lamps, mir
rors and cupboards-made US only the
more eager to get clear away by the
lonely, lovely trail to the deep brown
pools of the tiny Indian River, where
was to be our own Camp Of Comfort.
With tender old memories OF fishing
days on the brown stream" OF White
face and about Chocorua one could not
but the deer might come upon US, un-
afraid, and even the cats and foxes
might keep house at respectful dis
tance and the chiDmunks have the
freedom Of the hearth.
The trail winding so as to make a
good five miles of what the LATEST
crow could fly in one was almost of
the picnic variety for ease until one
reached the last half mile Of under
brush. Here new trail had to be made,
both for man and beast.
The forest is neither damp nor dark.
but kindly. warm and CHEEKY, with
open glades full of flowers and long
grass. The trail rises sharply from the
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

shifted and the Aloha sailed straight
on. the men coiled UP the ropes and
soon the shouts astern died out in the
hiss of the wake.
But 1t wasn't to save trouble that
they paid no heed. An hour later the
man at the wheel cast loose life buoy
and roared out:
Man overboardl'
The captain came on deck, all hands
were called, the ship was hove TO and
boat lowered. They spent an hour
hunting, but of course It wasn't likely
that they would find a man dropped
six miles astern.
A week after the Aloha came into
Honolulu and officially reported her
mate lost at sea.
The Aloha hauled UP alongside the
railroad dock and began discharging
her cargo of coal. The crew were en-
ployed on deck manipulating burtons
and whips and driving winches, while
the Kanakas filed the buckets below.
BY Saturday you could no longer jump
down the hatchways to the top of the
cargo.
1t was nearly noon. The men ex-
pected to knock off early and were in
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

branches at the top and the great
spreading base, where the roots take
deep hold on the good earth as the tall
plumed head swings and sways IN the
upper air, the very aristocrat Of trees
strong. clean and high bred.
There are very few of us who would
give up our bread and butter, even IL It
came by way of q lumber mill. And
there are lumbermen now here and
there. more thickly as the knowledge Of
true forestry grows, who can be trusted
to cut and forest their timber as scien-
tifically as does Germany, who long ago
learned her costly lesson.
The mill within sound of whose saws
our first stay was made was run on
the wickedly wasteful plan of stump
age for revenue only, and was creating
desolation and blackness all about.
Fortunately it was but q small con-
Germ. The work is slow and difficult,
the way out with the cut timber hard
and long, so that as. yet the trans
gressor had been able to ruin little
more than one section of the finest
trees.
but QUITE apart AioAi tic opHoAiSu
traffic In trees, what courage and grit
it had taken all these wilderness years.
We heard by and by all about it,. Now
the dark-eyed little wife-pretty still
has a comfortable house, with conve-
nience or two to boot: now when she
cooks for nineteen men she has compe-
tent help: now her two tat brown boys
have a real goat and cart, and for a
while every winter go to town to school.
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pretty good humor. laughing and
handying jokes with one another.
Suddenly there came a crash-a
bucket dropped on deck, almost driv-
ing through the planks and nearly kill
Ing big Steve at the burton. The man
driving the ford winch stood stiff, his
face the color of a snakes belly, his
eyes bulging. The others were about
to swear at him, but following his
rigid gaze. horror likewise stiffened
them. Complete stiffness had come
over the busy scene. All eyes were
fixed on something on the dock.
Picking its way through the line of
freight cars on the wharf came the
towering figure. of the drowned" mate
--Trig Olafsen. The apparition leaped
clear of a coal pile and landed at the
foot of the gangway. The cabin boy.
cleaning the gangway brass, looked up,
gave a frightened scream and bolted
down into the cabin.
Only one man about there had never
seen the mates big figure. and he was
the dock watchman. AS he did not see
anything particularly ghostly in 1t this
first time, and besides. had pretty
clear conscience, he took no part in
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the panic that followed. He is the only
one capable of giving'a concise, impair
tial account OF what happened-the
1 have heard the watchman tell the
story several times, and he always
tells 1t in a humorous vein. To him
1t was extremely funny. You see, he
did not know the mate should have
been dead ten days.
Trig Olafsen came UP the gangway,
his head thrown UP like a lion smell
ing freshssmeat. The plank quivered
beneath his ponderous tread. His
huge mustache trailed back over his
set jaws. his hair bristled and his big
hairy arms were swollen and bare to
the elbows for he had thrown off his
hat and coat on the dock. He paused
at the top for just one moment, then.
with roar like breakers on a reef,
he bounded to the deck.
The watchman says he never saw
such a wild scramble--it couldn't be
compared to the panic at Waikiki,
when the tiger got loose in the circus
menagerie. Not only the ship but
the whole island was much too small
for the Aloha's crew just then.
The ghost seized a capstan bar from
the rack at the break of the poop and
charged amidships. Five of the men
leaped overheard and swan frantic
ally across the harbor to the mail
dock. Two fed to the rigging and the
rest sprang to the dock, a drop of
nearly ten feet. Up the track they
pelted, Trig Olafsen after them, hurl-
ing the capstan bar ahead of him,
picking it up again when he got to
it. and roaring out blood-curdling
oaths In Morse and English all the
while.
Here the watchman became hysteri-
cal and saw no more until Olafsen re-
appeared on the deserted deck. roar
ing and fuming among the empty coal
buckets and using most unghostly Ian
guage. Then the skipper came up
from below and staggered against the
skylight, white as a water-soaked
corpse.
What in de name of de Flying
Dutchman's figurehead ye starin' at
me like dat for?" roared Trig Olaf
sen.
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roads even IL chosen merely as in
vestment.
It was therefore with hearts at
rest both commercially and estheti-
cally that our mutual minds were
made up to visit for its first holding
down a bit of redwood forest on the
Indian River-after 1t has decided to
let go its dignity and become creek.
How deiiciously, adorably alike are
all real country towns" everywhere.
So full of the good, plain, common
American life as far from outer poet
ry as it is full of inner worth.
Arranging with one of the wood wag-
ons going out empty at dawn to take
us and our possible penates. we spend
the active hours Of the afternoon gath
ering them TO central point for great
er ease In the morning. our timed
things having been cannily purchased
in the city and sent by freight rates
fitted to campers purses and ideas.
Each of the quartet has light down
quilt, fully protected by a canvas cover.
sewed firmly but professionally into a
sleeping bag which can be turned out
in the sun during the daylight. These
with a bale OF clean straw make the
bedding. especially as we need fear no
rain. Nails, hinges. lock and one or
two modest sets OF lights" as they
are called, are all the purchases for the
cabin be, as the rest will be found
on the spot. For two men will select
what their woodcraft tells them is a
good shake tree and in few hours
the little wilderness abode in the clean
primeval woods will be ready, as SIM
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

pie and beautifully complete as If a
Ruskin himself has had the supervis-
ing. For how can one commit crimes
with just an AK and a straight, smooth
redwood tree? All the psychology of
the occasion demands and gets sim
plicity.
As we leave the railroad town at 6
o'clock, our big horses. delighted no
doubt at so light load, but not to
be surprised out of the strong, quiet
pace to which they are used, we have
all the long, bright day before us. And
we ask nothing better than this slow
circling of the flank of the mountain,
around us fields glowing In the thou
sand rich browns of California sum-
mer and each mile opening fresh vistas
of far wooded ranges as tenderly blue
and tremulous as the tiny bluettes Of
the roadside. Before we have quite
left the open foothill country we hear
the bells ringing on the arched yokes
of the approaching teams, warning us
that we must meet at the ''turnouts."
pientifully placed along this splendid
county road.
BY noon we are near the tap o. the
hill" We still have the brilliant, glow
ing mahogany OF the madrona-the
slender tan oak, high-ankled and soft
skinned as an Eastern birch. Still there
are abundant wild flowers, purple and
white and gold. Oh, gold Of all tints!
And then at last the sequoia-a very
prince royal of trees. The long. straight
stem, gray in shade and glowing In
sunshine. rising with such slender dis
tinction to the sky. The few feathery
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

in a bit at once.
Slack away your spanker sheet" he
ordered next.
A man did so. but the block on the
boom jammed. The mate leaned over
the railing to overhaul the sheet. Sud
denly it cleared. and the boom shot
out with a jerk to leeward. The mate
had been leaning against the boom, so
naturally he went with it, but not haY-
ing wings he fell. and a minute later
was shouting in the ships wake.
The mates watch was made up
partly Of Melbourne larrikins and part
ly of Frisco roughs, an unwholesome
mixture. Olafsen had not been very
courteous to them on the trip, and
they remembered ii now Of all times
The ship was making a good six
knots. and even had the helmsman
brought her UP into the wind it would
have taken a good hour to pick up the
mate. But the wheel remained IN
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possible and at sacrifice one must own
q few Sequoias-if only to put one
tiny barrier before the ruthless AK
man. who. with the Eastern million
aire at his broad back, is buying and
burning and cutting everywhere over
the splendid coast woods Of California.
To the idea OF IAN investment" we
were perfectly cold, but as a tree Of
ones own we glowed. For we had
come safely but wholly ingloriously
through the stages of real estate, oil
stocks and gold certificates no richer
except in hopes deferred and some
philosophy.
But as neither native nor adopted
Californian thinks twice OF distances,
to go one hundred and twenty-five
miles for summer camp. with the
forest primeval thrown in, seemed
rather privilege than a burden.
Homestead requires the proper fling
OF applications In the land offices; the
speedy building Of a cabin and the
sleeping upon the claim not less often
than twice a year until the purchase
at the end Of fourteen months, or un-
I'll by a continued residence of fve
years the claim is fully established
with no other cost than this implies.
Naturally ones full intention at
first is TO buy in" as the phrase goes,
for one cannot travel always to one
spot, for ones leisure and the law per-
mits of no substitute sleepers. Prices
range from 50 to 81 an acre. as the
land has different values and is apt
to be worth much more If one can
afford to await the coming of the rail-
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

IF you have knocked about Hone
lulu much you will have heard OF
Trig Olafsen. But perhaps you are
a stranger there. Then go down
to the docks some Sunday morning
when the seamen are loafing about the
gangways and ask. They viii sing
you the saga Of Trig Olafsen. 1t will
come couched in language hideously
profane. but no matter. you will learn
All about Trig Olafsen.
Perhaps. if they are in a good hu-
NOR they VIII tell you Of Trig Olafsen's
long swim with liberal criticism of the
ways Of Providence in preserving the
morally unit. For Olafsen's notoriety
as a hard case bucko mate equals his
fame as a swimmer.
IL YOU should ever meet Trig Olafsen
you Wit understand why he is feared
Bis Of BODY. arms like thighs, gnarled
aIG hairy; a liCnlike head on q bull
neck. a tawny mustache dropping over
ponderous saws and hair OF the most
fiery hue-such a man is Trig Olafsen.
Sailors on the West Coast viii rule or
be ruled. Trig Olafsen has never been
ruled in spite Of many efforts on the
part OF insubordinate crews to sub
due him. crowd cf Irishmen tried
Il once on the Island queen, but Trig
piled into them and smote with the
, mighty arm Of his Viking forefathers.
Those were the days when Dave Kala-
kaua's banner dOated from the palace
towers and from the gaffs Of a dozen
good sailing ships. Trig Olafsen was
mate OF the Hawaiian bark Aloha, then
in the sugar, lumber and coal trade
coal from Australia to Honolulu, thence
70 San Francisco with sugar and back
20 Australia with Puget Sound lumber.
From a sailors point OF view this
was an ideal run, and the Aloha was
q first rate ship for living and easy to
handle, but her crews invariably left
at the end OF each passage. Few made
q full trip. AS they didn't stop to col
left their wages. the owners found il
profitable TO retain Trig Olafsen in
their service. But on one trip they
almost lost him.
The Aloha had cleared the doldrums
and had barely caught the northeast
trades. 1t happened in the morning
watch, about o'clock. The yards
were braced sharp UP on the port tack,
and IL the Aloha was making her
course, that was about all. The mate,
shifting the wind, to take prompt ad-
vantage OF any favorable change, kept
faithful watch by the weather mizzen
rigging. The men were just taking cof-
fee when the breeze hauled aft a trifie
Instead OF waiting until they had fn-
ished, Olafsen gave the order to square
The San Francisco call., 1904-04-17

Life is far better fun than people dream
who fall asleep among the chimney stacks and
telegraph wires."-R. L. Stevenson.
"A YER three years ago a tired man
left his Office in San Francisco
TO gather dust and his clients to
compromise and went a-fishing.
When he came back-quite made over
he told strange tales Of the cold thin
trout streams OF the Northern red
woods Also in his perfectly American
and lawyerlike way he quietly consult
ed the Government maps-very good
ones, toO-and haunted the dingy land
Offices to such purpose that a year
later he surprised and charmed his
family by carrying them of sectionally
20 the forests Mendocino, where
they not only acquired merit in the
joys Of camp living but the begin
ming Of title TO some acres Of glor-
ious virgin forest.
Five years OF life in the semi
tropics OF California teaches one for
ever the biessedness OF a tree. Its in
estimable value in the semi-arid land
-scape; its breath of coolness; it's be-
nign shelter.
Think, then, az the unanimity OF the
family determination when il was told
that far of and obscure there were
still one or two-and literally only one
OF two-sections Of the forest still open
under the State homestead law. II
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He really didn't swear by the Flying
Dutchman's fgurehead: it was some
thing decidedly more expressive than
y,
The Grit-advocate., 1904-02-19
40 nu. u.e.ron, vh.., Per A.

Introduced by The {. 5. Dept. Of AFR
II is a tremendous cropper. yielding ID
good land so bu. per acre, and on dry.
arid lands. such as are found In Mont.
Idaho, the Dakotas, Colo. etc. 1t will
yield from 40 to 60 bu. This Wheat and
Speltz and Hanna Barley and Bromus
Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass.
makes 1t possible to grow and fatten
hogs and cattle wherever soil Is found.
JUST SEND 10c AND THIS NOTICE
to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis. and they will send you
free a sample OF this Wheat and other
farm seeds. together with their great
catalog alone worth $4,000 to any
The Grit-advocate., 1904-02-19
greatly
thereby believe
Of
thirty standing

THE season of catching cold is upon
us. The cough and the sneeze and
nasal twang are to be heard on every
hand. The origin of chronic catarrh, the
most common and dreadful Of diseases, is
cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh gen.
orally begins A person catches cold,
which hangs on longer than usual. The
cold generally starts in the head and
throat Then follows sensitiveness of the
air passages which incline one to catch
cold very easily. At last the person has a
cold all the while seemingly, more or less
discharge from the nose, hawking, spit
ting, frequent clearing of the throat, nos
trils stopped up, full feeling in the head
and sore, inflamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at the
very beginning. A bottle Of Peruna prop
erly used never fails to cure a common
cold, thus preventing chronic catarrh.
While many people have been cured Of
chronic catarrh by. single bottle Of
Peruna, yet, as rule, when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly fixed, more than one
bottle is necessary to complete cure.
Peruna has cured cases innumerable
Of catarrh of twenty years. standing.
It is the best, il not the only internal
remedy for chronic catarrh In existence.
But prevention is far better than cure
Every person subject to catching cold
should take Peruna at once at the slight
est symptom of cold or sore throat at
this season Of the year and thus prevent
what is almost certain to end in chronic
catarrh,
The Grit-advocate., 1904-02-19
FRACos IN A BALE OF HAY.
Frauds in Watch Cases..

According TO an article in the Cincinnati
Commercial. a iifty-one pound stone was
recently found in that city secreted in q
bale Of hay of eighty pounds.
This Is not rs bad as finding lump OF
lead OF nearly onc-half the weight Of the
solid gold watch case secreted in the cen.
ter OF the case.
Gold watch cases are sold by weight
and no one can see where this lead is Sc.
creted until the springs of the case are
taken out aud the lead Will be found Sc
creted behird them.
These cases are made by companies who
profess to be honest but furnish the means
to the dishonest to rob the public. II is
not pleasant for anyone to find that he has
lugged lump of lead in his watch case.
Another trick the makers of spurious
solid gold watch cases Is to stamp the case
"U. S. Assay The United States does
not stamp any article made out OF gold
and silver except coin. and the fakir. by
using this stamp, wants to make the public
believe that the government had something
TO do with the stamping or guaranteeing
the fneness OF watch cases.
Another trick OF the watch fakir Is to
advertise u watch described as a solid gold
filed watch with twenty or twenty-five
year guarantee These watches are gem
orally sent c. O. D., and il the purchaser
has paid for the watch he finds that the
Company which guaranteed the watch to
wear is not in existence.
The Dueber-H Hampdcn Watch Company
Of Canton, Ohio, who are constantly ex-
posing these frauds, will furnish the
names of the manufacturers who are N
this questionable business.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-02-19
manned" from the PuIrit.

Sydney Smith once dared Sir Archl.
bald Macdonald to come and hear him
preach at St. Paul's cathedral III you
do shall name you from the pulpit"
he said. Undeterred by his threat.
Sir Archibald went to st. Paul's. After
sydney Smith had entered the pulpit
he looked hard at him and was then
seized with wonderful fit of sneez.
ing-"Ar-chie, archie. ar-chie!" after
which he proceeded to deliver an ex.
cellent sermon.