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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-25
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Character determines condition.
Home is the harbor Of the heart.
Life is ever more than literature.
Greatness appears in little things.
Strength comes through struggle.
Prejudice puts it's eyes in its pocket
Feeding malice is fostering murder.
Men differ not so much in their faith
as in their phrases.
Sin is no more essential to salvation
than disease to hcalth.
The best time to attend to Eour
neighbor's affairs is III your sleep.
When a man falls in love with heav
en- be learns how to love this earth.
A man is not doing his levei best who
is content to stay on the same Level.
a reputation for eating chicken is
not the only thing essential i'll a good
pastor.
A man who has only flowers in the
garden Of his life does not need to
build a wall about it.
The man who fails while trying to
do good has more honor than he who
succeeds by accident.
When there is room for I'LL wo'
mans love in the heart of poodle no
man need Re sorry he has lost it.
The hungry one is apt to think that
he has heavens full meal when he
has only caught the fragrance Of tha
kitchen.-Ram's Horn.
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THE FAIR CASE SETTLED
Over q Million faid by His Relatives
to End All Suits.
Aged hrs. Nelson. the Mother Of Mrs.
Charles L. Fair. Will Divide Over
S1,5OO,OOO Among Relatives.

New York City.-After many months
OF court controversy and private nego.
tiation> the legal battle for the $1,000
900 estate left by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
L. Fair, who We're killed OH August
ii, 1902, in an automobile accident In
France. was settled in a manner satis-
factory to all the parties interested.
While the exact amount paid never
may become known. it was reported
from an authoritative source, it was
$1.5OO,0OO in cash and jewels, furniture
and other property valued at $100,0OO
The reason publicly given for ending
this hotly contested suit was that the
notoriety Of the case was impairing the
health Of Mrs. Nelson. who represented
the heirs Of Mrs. Fair. and causing
great annoyance to Mrs. Oelrichs and
Mrs. Vanderbilt Another reason why
both sides. were eager to end the liti-
CATION was that the legal proceedings
in France, New York and California
were a heavy drain on the estate of
$7.000,00O and that the dozen lawyers
were reaping a rich harvest at the
expense Of both sides. Mrs. Oelrlchs
and Mrs. Vanderbilt agree to pay the
counsel fees of the Nelson's and give
them a goodly sum. and the Nelson's
promise never to annoy those women
again.
The diplomacy of Colonel William
Jay, Mrs. Oelrichs brother-in-law, Is
said to have brought about theFend Of
the will contest. Beekman &sChanler
represented the Nelson's in the case,
and so ready were they to ciose the
case they did not take even an hours
,fdelay before they signed the final order
Of settlement.
The formal end of the case came
when Justice Blschoff dismissed the
complaint of the Nelson's. They had
asked the court to cancel an agree
ment they had made with Mrs. Oel-
richs and Mrs. Vanderbilt whereby
they accepted S178,000 to settle the
case. The Justice Furthermore enjoined
the Nelson's from bringing further pro-
ceedings against the daughters Of
"Jim" Fair, all of which was in ac-
cordance with the private agreement.
Directly after Mr. and Mrs. Charles
L. Fair were killed, in August. 1902, in
an auto accident in France Mrs. Oel-
richs and Mrs. Vanderbilt directed
Colonel William Jay, their attorney. to
settle with Mrs. Fairs relatives, the
Nelson's, at any price, and so avoid the
annoyance Of. a contest. The Nelson's
jumped at the offer of Colonel Jay and
the agreement was signed. But when
they heard that Charles Fair had left
$7.0OO,0OO they thought their $17S,0O0
too small and cried FRAUD" 1t was
their contention that Mrs. Fair sur
vived her husband several minutes.
and that the estate was theirs. They
said the dead mans sisters had tricked
them into an unjust settlement.
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Limited Sight of Reptiles.

Repties' sight is generally good, and
is probably their most acute sense. yet
their vision is very limited. Croco-
dies cannot distinguish a man at dis
.tances over ten times their length.
Fish sec for only short distances. Inc
vision Of serpents is poor; the boa coll
strctor, for example. can see no
farther than one third his own length.
Some snakes see 10 farther than one
eighth Of their length. Frogs are bet
ter endowed aud see twenty times
their own length. The hearing of
nearly all reptiles is even worse than
their sight. Most Of them are dear, es-
pecially boa constructors. Deaf as an
adder" represents CAREFUL obserYa.
tinn of n,ir ancestors.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.
A silhouetts On "My Chromatic-Nosed
Friend" from the Pen OF Bob Bur.
Idette. Which Makes . Good Common


a Silhouetts on "My Chromatic-Nosed
Friend" from the Pen Of Bob Bur.
Idette. Which Makes . Good Common
sense Temperance Sermon.
For good, common sense temperance
sermon brought right down to practical,
everyday experience, there could be moth
ing better. than the following from the
pen of Bob Burdette. What he says Of
liquor drinking may be applied with equal
force to all other expensive habits that
seem but small items when counted sim
gly, but which. when figured up as a
whole, amount to enough to build a home
in few years, or to start man IN buSi-
ness. He says
"Nfy homeless friend with the chro-
matte nose, while you are stirring up the
sugar in a ten-cent glass Of gin. let me
give you fact to wash down with it. For
some years you have been drinking good
improved farm at the rate of 100 square
feet at the gulp. If you doubt this state
ment, figure it out for yourself. An acre
contains 43, $50 square feet. Estimating,
for convenience, the land at $43.56 an
just one mill per square foot. Now pour
down the dose, and imagine you arc swal.
lowing strawberry patch. Call in your
friends, and have them help you swal-
low that 5OO-foot garden. Get on a pro-
longed spree, an6 see how long it will
take you to swallow enough pasture land
for cow. There is dirt in it-3O0 feet Of
good, rich dirt, worth S43.56 an acre.
"Now is good time to- look the matter
square in the face, and cut off the expen.
sive and useless custom of throwing
money-fve, ten, twenty, or thirty cents
at time-into the beer and whisky till
and save it instead, as the beginning OF q
fund to buy farm or home. There is one
thing sure as truth, and that is, that you
can't give your earnings to somebody else,
and also keep them for yourself. The
men you give them to will neither buy
you farm or build you home. They
may build homes with the money your
give them, but the homes will be for
themselves. and the farms they buy will
be for themselves. Wherever you plant
it there it will grow If you drop It on
another's soil, he will harvest the crop;
if you plant it for yourself, you may reap
the fruitful increase, and gather the golden
grain into you own granary, where by
every. God:given right it belongs
American Homes.
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King EIGHT Years Old.

The youngest king in the world i
Daudi Chua, king of Uganda, who i
now about eight. He holds his cour
seated on a scarlet throne, with /
leopard skin mat under his feet an,
bearing in his hand toy gun. The
British exercise a protectorate over
the young king and his kingdom and
have established for him sort OF
parliament which he opens regularly
with much pomp. Little Daudi Chua
speaks English and gives state dinners,
at which there is curious mixture of
African and European foods and Gus
toms, though the royal table is sup
piled with fine linen, cut glass and
silver brought from London.
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Nothing Lost.

= "They take tremendous precautions
at the mint so that no specie shall be
lost" said an Englshman, with a rem
iniscence of an article he had been
reading on the subject. every scrap
Of refuse is burned in order that not
the slightest vestige of metal shall be
wasted. The working clothes of the
men are burned, too, when they are
worn out and they even burn the carts
which are used in carrying the bullion
to the mint.
"Well," said the American in the
guess we go one better than that in
our immortal country. I'VE burn the
refuse. and the clothes and the carts.
Yes. sir, we do all that. and, what is
more. when a man dies who has
worked there we have him cremated."
Then they talked about the weather.
london Fun.
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Sporting BrevitieS.

More than 5000 cyclists from the
many cities made a run thr0nSh the
park system. Boston. Mass. sitter
Lieutenant General NclsonA. Miles had
addressed them.
The University Of Pennsylvania Ia
crosse team defeated the College OK
the City Of New York on Franklin
Field. Philadelphia, by the one-sided
score of s:y 70 nothing
Elmnnl Russell. captain Of the Uni
versity or Pennsylvania track team.
and five other members of the squad
have been dismissed from the training
table bv Shell. .ba coach
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Intemperance Cause Of Cancer:

An inquiry by DR.. Alfred Wolff into the,
mysterious cause of cancer has yielded an
unexpected conclusion which promises tenn
perance advocates q new and powerful ar
gument. Taking the widest possible sur
vey of cancer areas throughout Europe and
in the United States, Dr. Wolff discovers.
that all the districts of high cancer NOR
tality are districts in which beer or cider
is largely drunk. Bavaria, for instance,
heads the list in Germany, and Salisbury in
Austria-both great beer drinking pro-
vinces. In France the statistics are still
more striking. There is the most marked
contrast between the high cancer mortal
ity in beer drinking departments and the
low death rate from cancer elsewhere. The
increase in cancer in England during re-
cent years, Dr. Wolff thinls, has probably
direct relation to the increased consump-
ton of beer. What it is. in beer that con-
veys infection is not clear; that is a matter
for further investigation. Another conclu-
sion to which all the figures point is that
cancer is most common in thickiy wooded
districts abounding in water. DIR. Wolff's
researches show the strongest evidence
that cancer is contagious and that habits
and environment have much more to do
with the disease than race or heredity.-
Leslie's Weekly.
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Miners Lives.

A dispatch from Pottsville states that
"in order to reduce the danger Of accidents
in the anthracite mines to minimum
and to assure steadier work by the men.
the officials of district No. 8 will hereafter
discharge all miners who become incom.
petent by reason Of drink
Such action is common among railways.
But owing to the laxity of miners lives.
the decision of district No. 9 is an In.
novation, and it is particularly interesting
because it was suggested by the employees
themselves.
These miners recognize the risk to their
own lives involved in the careles5ness OF
fellow.workmen befuddled by drink. Their
own safety demands sobriety all along the
line. Their course was. dictated by sell
protection.
The lines are closing up against the man
who drinks. Employers everywhere are
realizing that the employe who gives a.
part of himself over to slavery of liquor
is not the man they want. They want a.
full man not part Of the time, tat one who
is a whole man with full sense all the
time.
1t is becoming more and more impera'
tive every year that the man who has SER
vices to sell should recognize these facts.
The school of experience is hard oneer
but it teaches orouIhly.-National Ad'
yOcatc.
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nov of tbe Farm Horse IL Over.

The day of the horse as a heavy Ia
borer on American farms has ended,
and the machinery will more and more
be operated by one Of the three motive
powers-steam, gasoline and electric
ity. The trackless trolley farms have
today loomed up as experimental in
vestments which thoroughly work out
all that was claimed for them. With
cheaper power derived from the rivers
and waterfalls, electricity will extend
to all parts of the country. and small
and large farming implements will be
operated thereby. Electric power is
cheaper than horse power, even when
ordinary fuel is used to operate the
engines, and when the power can be
supplied from some river it will be lar
cheaper than steam in any FORM
Washington Post.
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propeller at the extreme point of the
torpedo is part of an Ingenious safety
device for preventing premature ex'
plosion in handling. When not in use
the firing pin is held in check by a
sleeve; but as soon as the torpedo
strikes the water. the rotation of the
little propellers releases the sleeve and
leaves the firing pin ready to strike
the decorating primer the moment the
torpedo meets an obstruction.
The "secret chamber" is the most
ingenious part of this most ingenious
piece of mechanism. Its piston. pen
dulum. and springs perform the i'm
portant work Of regulating the hori-
zontal rudders which keep the torpe-
do at the proper depth. Immediately
in front Of the secret chamber is a
narrow compartment perforated on its
walls to allow the outside water to
enter. The front wall Of the secret
chamber carries a piston, which can
move in the direction Of the axis of
the torpedo. The pressure Of the wa
ter is resisted by three coiled springs.
At a certain predetermined depth, ac-
cording to the tension on the springs,
the springs and water pressure will
be in equilibrium: below that depth
the piston will be driven in by the wa
ter pressure. and above it the springs
will push forward the piston. To pre-
vent too sudden oscillation in this ac-
ton, the piston is connected to the rod
of a swinging pendulum. The mo-
ton of the piston is communicated
by rods, which pass through the hol-
low stay rods of the air chamber to the
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TELEGRAPH TTaEWHIT!MC.
IN Ingenious Machine NFhica sends and
Receives Messages.


A wireless telegraph writer. 0: zrro-
r;aDh as it is called ior tilH sake OF
,rcvity. has Aaoa invented b. III EhS-
;shman. Tho ZerograDh III appearance
'esamb!cs all ordinary typewriter. but
! is OF SIMMER construction. with Il
,ayboard figured with the signs Of the
ctters and numerals. which can be
printed or te!egraphed to any number
If Instruments. Each instrument. the
nTentor explains. is at once receiver
md q transmitter. enabling operators
o converse With one another i'll writ
ne, and thus obyiating misunder-
standings. which are apt to occur III
rleDhonic communications. SO Lar
messages have been sent only lor
short distance. but it is intended TO eX'
pertinent over wider spaces. and 1T is
loped that messages can be sent TO
my distance that ether waves VIII
AIRY. The machine is always ready
;or immediate use. and as there IS no
n mechanism which requires to be
wound up in order to obtain sJnchron-
sm the operator has both hands Tree
for manipulation.
Another advantage claimed for the
.aycntiou will be Of special Importance
IN military affairs. Messages cannot
oe picked Up. TO quote the inventors
owu words: In sending message
you are sounding two ether waves
which allow you a choice Of htty-sS
signs. and these are given direct
print. either as letters or figures. AD'
so!ute secrecy is thus obtained. The
only way to intercept messages WoElo
De to employ a similar instrument.
which would have to be synchron!zeo
10 the same degree as the transmitting
instrument. Lastly. these machines
will receive their messages (Which are
given at present at a speed of twenty
five words minute) without anybody
being present, and would thus be or
great advantage in a signal DoX: rs
the signal nan will receive clearly
printed instructions should he be aD'
sent the time the message, is sent to
him. Nor will the machines work only
without wires I gave lecture 10
Paris before the Society Of Engineers,
of which I am member, during
which | sent messages to Brussels.
while telephone communication was
going on over the same wires. l have
sent messages also between Berlin
and Frankfort
The apparatus consists OF type
writer. which, by depressing key,
sends two impulses. Each letter re
quires only two impulses, and the DIFF
ferent letters are obtained by means
of the time interval between these ini
pulses. For wireless purposes these
impulses operate a switch connection
with the induction coil. thus making
the sparks for sending the ether
waves. The induction coil is con
nected with an aerial as we'll as ap
earth wire. 70 turn the apparatus
into a receiving instrument it is only
necessary to move switch, which is
placed beneath the typewriter. This
makes all the connections to the re
ceiving apparatus, which consists of o
coherer and a very sensitive relay
The Inventive Age.
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BATTLE WITH PERUVIANS.
Brazilian Force Repulsed in an Attack
After Losing Many Killed.

Rio Janeiro, Brazil - News has
been received Of another battle in
the upper Purus Valley. Colonel
Arujo, who started from Chand'
less with 22O men, attacked the Peru
vians at Santa Rosa. The fight lasted
twenty-four hours. Finally Colonel
Arujo had to withdraw after losing
many killed and wounded. Colonel
Arujo says the battle was fought un-
der unfavorable conditions.
1t is announced that the negotiations
are continuing with favorable indica-
tions. Baron de Rio Branco. Minister
of Foreign Affairs, declared that Bra
zil is disposed to submit the matter to
arbitra ton If it could not be settled by
direct negotiations, but that 1t is neces-
sary that Peru specify her claims.
Meanwhile the military and naval
preparatio continue.
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dairy lunch rooms, where hot soups are
procurable, and do not necessitate the
use Of the molars.
At any rate, such patent was grant
ed, and the accompanying picture
shows not only its extreme simplicity,
but, also, seems to indicate that it can
and will do it's work we'll. Toothed
wheels, carried in a handle. are run
backward and forth over the toughest
meat until it has been brought to such
a state that it can be readily mistaken
for the most tender and the most tooth
some venison.
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TO MAKE MEAT TENDER

1t must have been conscience
stricken clearinghouse keeper who
was the other day granted a patent for
q machine to render meat tender.
Doubtless she had tired of hearing the
complaints and the pointless jokes of
her boarders concerning her steaks and
probably she had lost her star boarder,
who having broken all his front teeth
in efforts to masticate the meat set be-
fore him, left her in sheer despair to
join for all time the patrons Of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-05-25
Tho Large)t Banks.

In the United States the largest bank
is the National City Bank Of New
York, with a combined capital and sur
alus of almost Si2,O00,000. In second
olace comes the National Bank Of
Commerce, with S35.5OO.000. and in
chird place the First National Bank.
With S23 100000. The largest bank
outside Of New York is the First Ma
:ional Bank of Chicago with q COM
oincd capital and surplus OF S15,00O.-
)00.
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FIattcring Cut Noisy.

Lady Cromer. when. with her hus'
oand. LORD Cromer. and Countess Val
Ii Glcichcn, making Il tour i'll tha
SOudan, became in time accustomed 10
he peculiar welcome" Of The SOndan
,se women, which at first is somewhat
:rying 20 the nerves EGrh native
woman present omits pnc'liia: long.
;hril cries. the while she meats Wig
,rously upon any object that happens
% be near at hand that will produce
'ool volume CT sound.
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HUSBAND rs THE MASTER.
May Even Eject His Mother-in-LaW
From His Wife's House.

Columbus, Ohio.-In affirming a judS-
ment of the Circuit Court OF Erie Coun-
ty, the State Supreme Court has af-
frmed the right Of married man to
rule his domicile as against his moth
er-in-law.
Oscar w. Green forbade his wifes
mother to enter his house. but ignoring
his order she presumed to visit at the
house. He elected her and she had
him arrested for: assault and battery
He goes free. His wife owned the
property.
The Supreme Court holds that the
husband is the master Of the house.
whether the. wife owns the property OF
not, and as such be may deny any per-
son admittance and may use force to
eject, IL necessary.
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Idiots From Druukards,.

P;utarch says: Gone drunkard begcts
another" and Aristotle, Drunken women
bring forth children like unto themselves
A report was made to the Legislature, Of
Massachusetts, by Dr. Howe on idiocy.; he
had learned the habits of the parents o.!
800 idiots, and l4J, nearly half, are report
ed as known to be habitLnl drunkards.
showing the enfeebled constitution OF the
children Of drunEards.
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Fearful HAyaCcs.

At a recent meeting Paris of the fouh
chief temperance societies Of France. pre-
sided over by NJ Casmir-rerier, il wa:
shown that absinth: among the uprer ane
middle classes and brandy aiisong the low
er classes are making f:arf.il rdvaGes;: Inc
land of light zines" and ''niodarata
drinkers is even as otiier lands. Pubhs
sentiment is rising. The Catholic ana
Prot$etaAt clergy, army surgeons ant' "iT
ilian reformers arc uniting 10 mves.sA''
anl avert this nationa! peril!
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IDLE PUPIL KILLED.

Teacher Struck Him With Ruler and
is Charged With His Death.
Des Moines. Iowa-C. N. Jensen. a
school teacher, at Graettinger, Iowa. IS
under arrest for the killing of the nine
year-old son Of Barney Elsenbast.
Young Elsenbast was remiss in his
studies, and the teacher ordered him to
study his lesson continually for an
hour. The boy indulged in mild
prank and hesitated about complying.
Thereupon Jensen seized a ruler and
struck him several blows on the head.
The boy was dazed. but apparently re-
covered and did as he was hidden.
That night he was taken seriously i'll
and next day he died. An autopsy es-
tablished that the blows were RESPONSE
BILE for his death.
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Novel Accident Proves Fatal.

While Charles H. Ramsey. aged
eighteen years, was carrying piece
Of iron pipe on his shoulder. at Read
ing. Pa. one end Of it came in contact
with live electric wire and the young
man was shocked to death.
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Winter Wheat Improves.

a general improvement in the con-
dition of winter wheat is Indicated. es-
pecially over the western parts oil the
winter wheat 1elt and in the Middle
Atlantic States.
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Only G550 deaths from cholera in the
Turkish Empire were reported for the
year ended February % last. but eX-
perts believe the real number was
three times as large.
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A Strong poiMt.

The acreage arre-ta for drunkenness ii
the Scandinavian cities are louf. and one
half times the number average Tor all tht
American cities in the same class.
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Rain falls more frequently between
3 o'clock and O'clock in the morning
than at any other time during the
twenty four hours. ...-.. s.-