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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Globe Sights.

Some people are not better than
others, but they are more cautious.
. When the average man has a closet
to himself. it is ten chances to IL
that his wife has two closets.
When the father and son join to-
gether in jokes on the mother it is
one sign they are very fond of her.
We have noticed that you will find
some mighty poor musicians in those
homes where Saint Cecilia hangs
above the piano.
The women have such a monopoly OF
the good things in life that somehow
it looks odd to send flowers to a funeral
when the dead is a man.
Every girl at a certain time in her
life regards herself as some WIG
Gagged Thing. pacing a limited space
between dish washing and sewing, try
ing to get out.
The word freedom brings tears to
.he eyes Of an Atchison woman. She
is ruled by a hired girl in the back OF
the house, and by the family princess
in the front Of the house.-Atchinson
,GiCbe,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
The-Inuustrlal Loafer.

The really busy man is often the man
who appear to have nothing to do.
Sometimes the alleged busy man is
simply a fussy man. j. F. Morgan is
said to be slow to move and slow to
speak. Admiral Togo, it is said. ap-
pears to have more leisure than any
man on his fleet. Mr.. Rockefeller is
very deliberate in speech and action.
A tendency to talk much, far from
proving a man Importantly busy, tends
to stamp him an amateur in large af-
fairs. Some of us have heard the story
of the fellow just out of Jail Dragging
of his busy days. What do you
mean" said 4 bystander who knew his
record. you've just left solitary at
Concord Prison. How could you be
busy there?" well" was the reply.
Il had Il thirteen puzzle and prickly
heat" One mans work is %another's
leisure, and the busiest mar may seem
to be Il ,oafer.-Saturday Evening
Posi-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
The English Wheat Crop.

, The wheat area of the United King
dom this year is the smallest on record,
being LOO, 900 acres. The average for
the preceding ten years was 1,S2I,9Sl
acres. But the total yield this year ap'
pears to be somewhat in excess of that
of 1895, the year of next smallest area.
being about 100000 900 bushels. This
is about 10000 0 quarters, and will
leave the kingdom dependent on over
sea supplies for about 27,OoO'oN
quarters GIG 900, 900 bushels), either as
wheat or -four. This years crop is s.
OOO,O 900 bushels short Of last years,
and the yield per acre-twenty-three
bushels-is two bushels less. The
quality is generally fine this year,
though the straw is unusually short
which is attributed to the summer
drought, during which, however, the
grain seemed to thrive. being then we'll
established. Prices are expected to
advance someWhat.-Consular Reports.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Putting in a Word For Papa.

The daughter Of an uptown physic.
ian of credit and renown is a bright
little girl Of seven, who has been much
petted by her admiring friends. Per-
haps this has spoiled her 4 little, but
she is so sweet and entertaining that
visitors take to her at once. One OF
these visitors, a new neighbor, made a
call on the child's mother, and soon
had the little maid in her lap. In the
chatter which followed the woman
made some allusion to the little ones
grandmother.
"Why, don't you know" cried the
child.
know what, dear?" asked the Wis.
itor.
"Why," said the child. grandma is
dead. and Aunt Susan is dead, and
most al! papa's patients are dead.
toor'-New York Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
School For Emicrants.

The progress that is made.in Tdevcl'
oping colonial holdings depends almost
entirely on the intelligence Of the in.
flowing population, and as all the great
nations possessing colonies are anx'
ious to build them up rapidly, every eff
fort is bent to direct ambitious, we'll
informed young men to emigrate to
these lands. Germany has recently
gone so far as to establish 4 school fol
the training of emigrants. The school
will be conducted in connection with
the Hohenheim Gardens, and will offer
n and two-year courses in those stud.
les, such as scientific agriculture, mod
ern stock raising, ETC., that it will fit
the students for their battle in new
lands. Particular attention, Of course,
will be given to information relative
to the countries in which the students
anticipate settling.
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FOREIGN.

Premier Combes announced that he
would present to the commission or
Parliament the Governments measure
for the separation Of church and state.
General Kuropatkin has been SUBJ
stantially reinforced, according to 4
Toxic report.
Pope Plus X. was aston: 1hed at the
size of the majority in the French
Chamber u%pholCing the policy OF the
Premier, Nj. Combes, in the direction
Of the separation Of Church and State.
Two Americans, Messrs. Schiess and
Tommins, who represent American
capitalists, have received a concession
from the Government for the eXploita-
ton Of Haytien timber lands which
amounts to a practical monopoly of the
industry in this Republic.
The Spanish steamer Buenos Ayres,
for whose safety fears were enter
tanned, arrived at Havana, Cuba.
Sir Robert Hart has been decorated
by the Emperor of Japan for negotiat-
ing the Chinese customs treaty with
Japan.
Count Boni de Castellane and NJ.
Deschanpl made speeches in the Cham
Der of Deputies en- the question Of Il
separation Of church and state i'll
France.
A special cable dispatch from Milan,
Italy. says that the Benedict Com'
pauy had Il contract with Russia to
supply 100000 impenetrable cuirasses,
refusing a contract with japan, where
upon the latter protested TO ne Italian
Government and negotiations We're
broken off
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Airship About TO Ascend.

Inns craft. Captain Baldwin intends
soon to construct another frame that
will be six feet longer and fifteen
pounds lighter. He thinks it will in
crease the speed and facilitate the
steering.
So confident is tie inventor and
builder of success that he has already
entered his airship in the S1,0OO,OU
prize competition at the Worlds Fair.
Captain Baldwin expects to start soon
for st. Louis with his aerial machine.
In working the ship the propeller
may be reversed at pleasure, thus
pushing the vessel backward. When
ever the same is necessary or desirable.
The trials showed that the ship very
readily obeyed her hcim.-Scientihc
American.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
MINOR EYENTSOF THE WEEK
WASHINGTON,

The Supreme Court granted the mo.
ton to advance the case of Senator
Burton, Of Kansas, and fixed the day
for the hearing.
Secretary Taft made final arrange
ments fer. his "trip to Panama. He will
sail from Pensacola on the cruiser Co.
lumbia.
Gen. George D. Ruggles. retired, for
several years manager Of the Soldiers
Home in Washington, died there.
Captain H. N. seeley, Inspector Of
Hulls, in Boston, Mass, and It. C..
Mersereau, Assistant Inspector Of Boil.
crs. in New York City, have been ap-
pointed to succeed Inspectors Dumont
and Barrett, Of the steamboat inspec-
ton service in New York, who were re-
moved from Office by Secretary Met
calf, Of the Department Of Commerce.
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Saved.

"But the trouble with life insurance
is that you never can get anything out
of it yourself. It's all a dead weight
for the benefit of son ebody else. You
merely carry the load. and when you
put it down that's the end Of the case,
as far as you're concerned"
"No, you're off there. My life las
been saved by the insurance I'm carry
ing"
Say. you don't think I'm weak
minded or anything like that, do you?
How could your insurance have the
least thing to do with saving your
lifew
"The doctors were going to operate
on me for appendicitis. but the in
surance companies that are interested
in me rushed in and stopped them.
It's a great thing. Better take out g
policy for a couple Of hundred thou
sand dollars."-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
4 o N Of

Out of the life that was lone and unblest,
Peace after pain, and the song for the
sigh;
There are kind hearts and hands. and we re
loving them best;
Good-by to you, Lady, Good-by..
Fhe fair flowers fade near au lce-mantled
But somewhere Lies honey Is sweet i the
comb.
pne. to a world that is tinsel and strange
Where Joy is a phantom, and hope can
but die.
And one to a world where the hearts never
change;
Good-by to you. Lady, Good-hy::.
There are storm-iands IN lite wnere the
wild breakers foam,
But somewhere LIES honey is sweet i the
comb.
AT the gates of your palace the dead days
will throng.
| Like ghosts from the shadows Of earth
and Of sky;
j ara hidden away in the lilies of song;
Good-by to you, Lady, Good-by:
(Tde rocks for the wrecks, as all starless
they roam;
But somewhere life's honey Ia sweet i the
comb.
Land of all lcveliness-land Of all light!
Land of life's dreams, where the dreams
never die!r
God lead you there, when your soul feels
the night
Eood-by to you, Lady, Good-by! .
Nov, the joy O the billows-the fleece o
the foam, =.
be a world where life's honey is sweet i
the comb.
Frank L. Stanton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
SiEcCs
Modern Methods Of WARTIME Tend to
shorten Theia Duration.

"And they came and sat down before
the CITY," is the way in which old
writers referred to that simplest and
most ancient form Of warfare in which
one combatant penned his adversary
within 4 wall and waited for thirst
or starvation to force a surrender.
The siege is so Old a part of the art
OF war that it is almost in~stinctive.
Nan may, indeed. have learned it from
the lower animals. for any New EEg-
land town can still produce a dog
whose chief joy in life is to lay Siege
to a w%oodchuck's hole, and when the
prisoner grows unwary and makes 4
sally. to cut off his retreat and capture
him by assault.
Nearly every considerable war has
had it's notable sieges, some Of which
have given birth to great literature and
great pictures. To the siege of Troy
we owe the Had and the Aeneid. and
to the relief Of Lucknow that story
which will always stir Scottish hearts.
of, the girl whose keen ears first caught
the notes of the bagpipes.
During the siege Of Paris the usual
sufferings of beleaguerment were ag.
gravated by divisions and insubordina.
ton among the defenders. The tor
lures Of famine. which drove men to
fish for starving rats in the sewers.
were followed by the greater horror OF
the Commune. The defenders Of the
city greatly outnumbered the be-
siegers; yet the city fell in eour and l
half months.
Plevna and Vicksburg will be re-
membered, the one for tie enormous
loss of life sustained in successive as
saults and s%allies, -ninety-6ve thou.
sand in alI,-and the other not only for
the cost in life, but for the extensive
mining and countermining and tile
large number of prisoners taken.
Modern methods Of warfare tend to
shorten the duration of sieges. The
advantage. in the long run. is always
with the assaiIant, and his ability to
bring up great guns has cut off any
possibility of such a siege as that or
Ashdod, which. according to Herolo-
tus, lasted. Twenty-Five years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Have You Got Them :

Do you fee! anxious and p~reoccupied
when the gas man goes by:
Do you sleep badly?
Do you so to bed hungry?
Does your heart palpitate when you
see a steak?
Is there IN all-gone feeling in your
pocket:
Do you have nightmares?
Do you DO mental arithmetic every
time you contemplate the purchase OF
"coffee-and"?
Have you a hunted look:
Do you walk down dark alleys when
you go downtown?
Beware! Those are the symptoms.
You're busted.-Sau Francisco Bull
letin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
An INGENIOUS TIGER TRAP.

A correspondent writes to the London Graphic: Il seEd you a sketch of
a ingenious tiger trap used by the natives in Cam Rank Bay, IN isolated
part of Cochin China. 1t is constructed as follows. A tree log is followed
out in the form of a cylinder, and around both ends strong iron spikes
are fixed. which project inwards, leaving a Il aperture of about six inches.
A parah dog OIL small pig is placed inside through a rapdoor and serves a
half for the tiger, or large black panther, which abounds in the noun
famous part Of the country. The animals paw. onc pushed in to drag ut
te bait. cannot be withdrawn, and III the struggles for freedom the brute
onr tbe more strongly impales itself OIL the spikes. All the native villages
are protected by strong palisades, but in spite of them the tigers make great
havoc among the Annamites, frequently breaking Il n carrying o. auF
mr. their live stork"-PhMadelDhia Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
A Night Life-Sayinc Euoy.

4 novel %hfe-saving device has been
added to the equipment Of steamers on
Lake Michigan i'll the night buoy,
designed to prevent the drowning Of
persons falling from 4 vessel in the
darkness. The buoy. above which will
burn a brilliant gas jet, is by means
Of chemicals lighted as soon as it
strikes the water. The devices are be-
ing fitted aboard tie steH&lers Column
hna rld Virginia c. tho Goodrich linz.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16

soldiers are firing from a rifle pit they
are obliged to expose their heads. To
obviate this Mr.. Waller has put a lit
tie mirror on the rife. which permits
the soldier to aim with the greatest
accuracy and yet keep himself hidden
Experiments taken with this device
have given good results. The mirror
may be taken off and hidden in a box
In the butt-end of the riae.-Philadel.
Min Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
No Merger For Arizona.

According to the annual report OF
the Governor of Arizona, the territorial
population has Increased to between
1G5. 900 and 10000. Tho Governor
says that the people of Arizona would
desire that their commonwealth re-
main a territory indefinitely rather
than be joined with New Mexico III
Statehood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
SHOT DEAD ON A TRAIN.
Killed by q Negro Porter in
Arkansas-Lynching Feared.

ASAAA
Little Rock, Ark.-P. A. Atwood. g
conductor employed by the st. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad,
was shot and killed on a train near
Farrell Station by Houston Hooker, a
negro porter. Hooker's alleged griev-
lnce against Conductor Atwood was
that the latter slapped him in the face
after ~reprimanding him on the ground
that he had been inattentive to pas
sengers.
Hooker was brought here for safe
keeping. A small party tried to take
the negro from the officers after they
left the train, but the attempt was
frustrated. The whereabouts Of the
prisoner is known only to the authori-
Ties. :,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Mail.

:. mail bag captured by the Eoers in
1890 has just been recovered. 1t con-
tanned forty-sevea registered letters, in
which were about $3.50 in cash, a num-
Der of postal orders, a draft for $1,000,
documents involving Il sum Of $4,000.
checks, official papers and two wul%-
NV York WCrld.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Care of School Children in Brussels.

In Brussels every school child is med
ically examined once in every ten days
Its eyes, teeth, ears, and general ply
steal condition are overhau.ed. If it
looks weak and puny they give it doses
Of cod liver oil OF some suitable tonic.
At midday it gets a substantial meal,
thanks to private benevolence assisted
by communal funds, and the greatest
care is taken to see that no child goes
ill-shod, ill-clad,, or ill-fed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
GUN SIGHTING DEVICE.
Permits Men to F r. F. 0 a Pit With
out EXpoSure.

A rather elaborate device for the
purpose Of accurately aiming a gun
from behind a wall or tree was miro
duced some time ago and attracted
considerable attention among the mill
tary men of the world. A much simpler
device to accomplish this same pur-
pose has been invented by G. Waller.
an officer in the Swedish army. When
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Women Have Close Call.

Tons of stone detached from the cor
nice of the Catholic ProtectOry, in the
Bronx, in New York City. crashed
through the roof Of the chapel, mar
:owly missing six sisters who were
Enecling at prayer
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Three Children Kidnapped

Kidnapped by tiieir mother while Oh
heir way home from school. the three
children of ID. Percy Morgan are at
The home Of Mrs. Morgan. at Harrison,
n. Y, guarded by detectives.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
HAVANA STUDENTS RIoToUS.
Cause Suspension of Street Car Serv-
ice by Their Acts.

OduSe DuSUSHsIVH Oh 0t1ceI Our D@IF~
ice by Their Acts.
Havana, Crba. - Manager Green
wood, of the Havana electric railway.
stopped the service on the line in con-
sequence Of a series Of attacks on the
Ears by students of Havana Univer-
sity. This action Immediately elected
The necessary. guarantees from the au-
thorities of the university that the
students would be compelled to stop
their practice Of stoning the cars.
1t is understood that Mr. Green
woods action vas partly prompted by
the fact that a Judge recently set at
liberty fifty students who had been ar
rested for stone throwing and other
wise molesting the service.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
LIEUT.. H. A: ROBERTS KILLED.
Was Fatally Kicked by a Mule While
on q Hunting Trip.

on q Hunting Tip.
Fort Riley, Kan.-Lieut. H. A. Rob-
erts, of the Seventh Cavalry, died here
after an operation for injuries received
in an accident. Lieut.. Roberts and q
number of other officers were out hunt
ing, when part Of the harness Of a mule
became unhitched. Lieut.. Roberts
tried to adjust it, when the mule kicked
him and threw him back under the
wagon. A wheel passed over him.
Lieut.. Roberts was from Savannah,
Ga.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

a force under Lieutenant Pogge, Of
The Manila Constabulary, has. defeated
a large number Of Pulajanes in the
mountains Of! eastern, Samar. killing
the notorious outlaw, Ovomo, and fifty
OF his followers.s*
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FREIGHT STEAMER STRANDED.
Massachusetts, Ashore on Abaco Island
Cruiser to the Rescue.

wi UIoCk U tHO HSOoCUS'
Nassau, N. P.-The Atlantic Trans
port Line freight steamship Massachu-
Setts, from Cardiff for New Orleans,
stranded off Abaco, Bahama Islands.
She is resting easily.
Washington, D. C.-Secretary Nor
ton ordered the protected cruiser Ia
coma, Commander Reginald F. Mich
olson commanding. to 90 in search OF
the steamship Massachusetts,. The
vessel was reported lost about twenty
miles north of the Old Bahama Chan
mel by the steamer Ontendeta. which
has arrived at Port Tampa. e,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
Admiral Vansittart Dead.

A report from London. Eng. says
that Vice-Adniral Edward WestDy
Eansittart, C. B., is dead. He Was
BON July q. 1913. and retired in 1s73k.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
NEW RUSSIAN LOAN ARRANGED.

s27O, 00O,O 900 to Be Raised in Germany,
France, Belgium and Holland.
London, EnS.-A new Russian loan Of
S27O,OOO,O 900, according to the Brussels
correspondent Of the Standard, has
virtually been arranged.
The first portion of this loan. $T0,-
lO0,O it is expected, will be issued
IN January. Half the loan has been
reserved to Germany, and the remain
Ter TO France. Belgium and Holland.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-11-16
POSTMASTER VAN COLT DEAD.
Chief of New York City Postal Service
Passes Away.

New York City.-Cornelius Van Colt,
Postmaster Of New York City, died
suddenly at 3.25 o'clock in the after
noon at the residence Of his son. Rich
ard Van Colt. at 1913 West Eighty
sixth street. For 4 long time the post
master had suffered from attacks OF
acute indigestion and weakness Of
the throat which brought on occasional
hemorrhages.
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xxxxxxxAPTAIN r. S. BALDWIN,
BY J. Mayne Baltimore.

ENN5KKSAPIAIN /. >. bALD WIN,
*~*X of Oakland, Cal, is the re-
y cent inventor and conStruc-
y x9 tor Of what proves to be a
kXex&X& very successful dirigi5le
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-10-20

Ex-President Cleveland is an unimag-
NATIVE man. and for this, and other good
reasons, his recent magazine article en-
titled why Young Man Should Vote
the Democratic Ticket" is short. point
less and unconvincing.
1t takes good deal of fervid fancy.
and knack for invention, TO construct
an argument upon theme like that. Mr..
Cleveland was evidently ill at ease with
his subject. Probably few young men
will read the article, anyway, and no one
will be influenced by it.
The young men of America live in the
present, and hope for the future. They
do not care to be even holding post
mortems on dead issues, nor to spend
their days holding back the wheels OF ac-
ton and progress.
The young men of the United States
are alive. And they will vote the Repub-
lican ticket this fall.
The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-10-20

classes; that the army and navy are too
big; that the nation has been run extrav-
agantly and that the expenditures for the
army. navy, pension list. Panama canal,
rural free delivery service, irrigation
schemes and other grand purposes Of na-
tional development must be reduced; that
the .benedcent despotism" OF the Re-
publican party esta blished and maintain
Ell by the people must give way to that
Democracy OF which he Is the leader, and
which proposes to stand the country on
ita head as a beginning of the reform.
The Judge would have hard row to
hoe" IL he began to talk in public and
tell the Westerner he must do as the
Fastener does. and to assure the laborer
In shop and field that reformatory legis-
lation mnst at first be for the relief Of
the wealthy.
He recognizes his weakness in these
matters-knows that he could not sped-
fy as to his accusations, could not con-
vince as to his proposed reforms; could
not successfully defend the revolutions
which his party proposes to inaugurate
in public affairs.
He is wise to recognize thus early In
the campaign that ''silence is golden"