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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-09-14
That O Yard.

Country people have the opportunity
Of making their surroundings beauti-
full. but how seldom do we see an at
tractive dooryard in the so-called
country towns? In many places even
the grass is not allowed to grow up
and beautify the yard. The chickens
are turned out and become the scav-
engers-they roam about at will. do
ing more harm than good. Most farm
ers leave the cultivation of the front
yard to the women of the household;
this is not right, for although they can
plant the seeds and bulbs and do the
wedding necessary, they are not able
to do the rough work that generally is
required to bring about an attractive
yard. Unless the soil is excellent and
will produce q good crop of grass the
yard should be plowed, enriched with
dressing, then seeded down with grass
seed and clover. Care should be TAX
en- that the young grass is not tramp
led upon and has a good, vigorous
start. Such a lawn will last for years
and give the owner much satisfaction.
But a poor lawn may be enriched with
dressing of hard wood ashes, seed
may be sown in bare spots, and while
this may not give such a beautiful
lawn. it is often done, as one dislikes
to plow up the yard-it is so insight
ly-and it must be done early in the
season to give best results.-Agricul.
tural Epitomist.
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Keep the ice compartment full Of
ice.
The mora ice the greater the ccon-
ony.
Ice saving schemes are absurd. d.
feating the purpose Of the rafrigera.
tor.
1t is the food that is to be kept in.
stead of the ice. Keeping the ice in
tic sick room or al a picnic is another
matter.
Overripe fruits and vegetables are a
menace to the health if left in the re-
frigerator.
4 cellar Or otncr damp spot is &c
place for the refrigerator On the 9TH
er hand, 1t should Got be put out Of
doors unprotected.
If much Ice be used on the table and
for other purposes. an authority adj
vises a storage box for extra ice.
It should be sponged out often with
warm water in which a little soda has
been dissolved, and the drain should
not be neglected.
Should ants get into a refrigerator
q saucer Of tartar emetic mixed with
sugar and water should be placed
there. 1t will drive them away.
Do not think of covering the shelves
with cloth or paper any more than
you do the ice. There must be good
circulation, with consequent melting
of ice, to preserve the food therein.
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NCL SAM NOT TO FIGHT
Our Fleet Called Away From hry
Active Demonstration.
The President Decides Not TO Force
Matters at Shanghai-Consuls Meet
to Discuss the Predicanent.

Washington, D. C.-Under no condi-
tons will American warships take q
hand in any trouble at Shanghai be-
tween Japan and Russia Or between
either Of the belligerents and China.
They will not interfere to maintain
the integrity Of China nor even to pro-
tect American property or the Amer
lean colony, which is one OF the largest
Of the foreign settlements in Shanghai.
The dock Mt which the Russian
cruiser Askold is lying adjoins the
| American concession, and an attack on
her would amount to q ~bombarding of
the American colony. If an attack
is threatened Consult General Goodnow
will demand a delay long enough 10
let all Americans withdraw to a place
Of safety. He will do nothing further,
except file a protest. The question Of
indemnity will be left to be disposed
of after the war.
This policy was decided on after a
conference between Acting Secretary
of State Adee and Acting Secretary
of the Navy Darling and q telephone
consultation with the President at
Oyster Bay, N. Y.
The order that Admiral Stirling and
Consul General Goodnow keep hands
off came directly from Mr.. Roosevelt.
This applies not only to Shanghai
but to Chefoo, where the probability
OF trouble is indicated, and to all other
Chinese ports. Consul Fowler cabled
from Chefoo that the authorities there
fear the JAPANESE will try to destroy
the wireless telegraph station over the
Russian Consulate, by which, the Jap
anese think, communication with Port
Arthur is maintained.
If the commanders Of the two Rus
sian ships at Shanghai decide to 60 out
side and fight the waiting Japanese
ships Admiral Stirling will offer them
safe conduct to the three-mile limit,
where Chinese jurisdiction ends-a
simple act Of courtesy provided for by
the regulations of all navies, and it is
Admiral Strings perOgative to make
the offer, because China cannot escort
the Russians and he has the biggest
foreign fleet there.
1t is officially stated that if the de-
stroyer Chatncey did follow the jap
anese torpedo boat up the river, it was
not with the intention of preventing or.
taking a hand in. any trouble. She
may either have been watching things
Or going to her regular anchorage, OPP
posite the American concession and
close to the Askold.
Mfr. Goodnow cabled that the Taotai
had asked the consuls for advice and
he, as dean of the corps, called a meet
ing.
Instructions we're Immediately sent
him to take no action which would in
any way involve this country.
Mr.. Goodnow later reported that the
consuls could not agree on what to do,
and had decided % ask their Govern
ments for instructions. His message
indicates that the other cohsuls had
looked TO the United States TO take the
lead. i,
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The Advantage of Salt.

Cattle should be regularly supplied
nth a certain amount of salt. The
fdition Of a pinch of salt is found to
kercise a beneficial influence, not only
pom the Digestion of the food. but
pom the general health of the animals.
ibis is specially so in the case of dairy
bws whose milk yield is found to be
ery appreciably influenced by the
fesence or absence of salt in the food
wen them.
In some experiments carried out 4
Nv years ago in Europe, it was found
bat the addition Or Withholding Of
pit from the food given to dairy COWS
feant a considerable variation in the
lantity of milk produced by them. In
be case Of such animals. it is thought
bat the salt not only exercises a Sene-
cial effect upon the digestion of the
bod, but $50 acts as some sort OF a
imulant to the nilk-secreting organs.
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FOREIGN.

President AmadOr denied the report.
ed occupation by Panama Of q part OF
Cauca's territory.
President Castro wants the United
States to await the action of Venezue-
la courts regarding the property Of tile
American Asphalt Company.
Revolutionists in both Paraguay and
Uruguay have gained substantial vic
tories over the Government forces.
An imperial ukase called the colors
reserves from forty-live districts Of the
Russian Provinces.
This is the best Alpine season known
in twelve years, according to report
specially cabled from various noun
taineering centres in Switzerland.
Struck by q train near Jerseyviiie.
Ont, Mrs. Leonard Dodge and Mrs.
Thomas Knox were killed.
Many barges were lost, or were in
danger in a heavy gale that prevailed
on Long Island Sound.
E%Xigences of the public service will
prevent Sir Robert Finlay, British At
torney-General, from attending the H.
ternational Conference of Jurists at
st. Louis, Mo.
Mr.. Balfour, at the British Associa-
ton meeting, took part in the discus
sion or the cotton supply deficiency for
the Lancashire manufactures.
The ParaguayaE rebels captured a
town and 200 Government soldiers
garrisoned in it.
Two thousand Paris (France) ang-
lerS. according to 4 special cable dis
patch, had Il fishing contest last week.
Achillian, the fayorite Corfu estate
of the late Austrian Empress, has been
sold to 4 Greek banker for 100000.
The rigor Of Russian divorce laws
affecting adulterers was modified by
the Holy Synod in case Of those who
do public penauce.
Prince Henry OF Prussia LEFT Berlin
for st. Petersburg to be one Of the god
fathers to the heir of Russia's throne.
Forest fires iii the Northwest and
British Columbia caused heavy dam
age.
Prince Obolensky assumed his func-
tons as Governor-Gencral Of Finland,
to succeed General Bobrikof, who was
aSsassinatcd.
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Milk ERYer.

The Department Of Agriculture has
recently issued Circular No. 10, of the
Bureau of Animal Industry. entitled
Milk Fever; It's Simple and Success
full Treatment" 1t gives a complete
description of the a~stonishingly Sue
cessful results obtained in the treat
ment of this heretofore extremely
fatal malady by the injection of fill.
tered atmospheric air into the udder.
| Milk fever affects we'll nourished.
heavy milking ows in ali the large
dairy districts of this country. and IS
| characterized by the complete paral-
ysis of the animal shortly after caiv-
ing. AS it attacks the best milking
COWS in the herd and at q time when
| the milk flow is the heaviest, the dis
east is one which has caused very Sc
we're losses in u dairy industry. 1t
is. therefore, of the greatest import
ance that every milk producer &C.
| quaint himself with the present eX-
timely successful treatment and
| should provide himself with 4 suit
able apparatus for injecting sterile air
| through each teat until the udder is
we'll distended. This air treatment is
by far the most simple and practi.
cable, as well as the most efficaciOus
and harmless one yer used, and has
reduced the mortality from the dis
ease to almost nothing. 1t is easy OF
manipulation. requires but little time.
and is readily accomplished by means
Of the apparatus suggested by the
bureau. Up to within recent times
most stringent measures were resort
Ell to 81 every careful dairyman to
prevent the disease in his herd. How
ever. since the air treatment has 50
greatly reduced, and even i'll some
cases oblitcrItcd. the mortality. pre-
vention is no longer such IN import.
ant problem. and therefore preventive
measures. such as starving, blood let
ting, ETC. which have q severe and
lasting effect upon the animals, should
be abandoned. The most recent pre-.
ventive treatment suggested is in line
with the favorable results obtained by
the injection of air into the udder. 1t
consists in allowing the susceptible
COW to retain in the udder for TWEEN
ty-four hours following calving all the
milk except the small quantity re.
quired by the calf. The d%istention of
the udder naturally follows as in the
air treatment and acts as preventive
against milk fever.
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FOul

But it is in the pastures that shrubs
md bushes most abound. Especially
+ this the case where only cattle are
|ept. When there were sheep on
|carly every farm there were not
.early as many bushes as now. and for
bis purpose it might be found profit
5ble if more sheep were kept. Unless
pasture is OverStocked. cattle will
bay little attention to the browsing
Il bushes.
4 Where bushes abound to any extent
hey should be mown or cut every
RImmer, and August has been con-
fdered a good time for this kind Of
FORK. 1t is not to be expected that
ne cutting is going to eXterminate
hem. but it will give them a good set
lack. and if the practice is continued
Iery year it will not be long before
hey will be practically destroyed. In
assures thickly set with bushes An
bra goats would often prove the best
EterminatOrs.
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8l= WFM i
HfM!|REGRES q !


Batter Bread-One-half cupful OF
boiled hominy. half 4 cuptul OF White
Indian meal, two eggs, one cupful OF
milk. one %teaspoonful Of salt, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder and one
fourth cupful of melted butter: beat
we'll: make in q buttered earthen dish
half an hour.
Gooseberry Jam-Top and stem the
g~ooseberries; to every pound of fruit
allow one pound Of sugar; put the
g]ooseberries into the preserving ket.
tie and barely cover them with cold
water: after they are we'll boiled TO
pieces add the sugar and cook half an
hour; put into jars and tumblers, and
when cold cover with paper.
Celery Root Salad-Pare tile celery
roots; then put them into cold water
for twenty minutes. then put them in
q stewpan, pour cold water over them,
add a little salt and cook until tender
pour off the water; cut the roots in
slices and when cold pour over q
French dressing made Of n teaspoon.
full of salad oil and three teaSpoonfuls
of vinegar, a little salt and pepper to
season.
Okra and Rice-Wash and slice suf.
fcient okra pods to treasure one
quart; cut half a pound of rather
lean ham into dice; scaid, skin and cut
in pieces four tomatoes; put with the
okra in a stewpan; add one medium
sized onion (sliccd). and one and one.
half cupfuls of water or stock and one
sweet pepper chopped fine; simmer
half an hour; add salt to season; pile
hot boiled rice in the centre of the plat
ter and pour okra around it.
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Sheep on the Farm.

The truth is that the presence of 4
lock of sheep on a farm that appears
% be thrifty and happy may always
be- accepted as a certificate Of the
bility and good character of the far
her. not only as such, but as a man as
yell. This criterion has such a natural
|oincidence that it strikes even the in
experienced passer-by, as it did a we'll
fnown missionary, a good man who
lid a vast amount of good in the early
lays and who ,.sed to say that when
travelling on a mission he would al
bays stop if possible with a farmer
|ver night who had 4 we'll conditioned
lock of sheep in his fields. because he
Fould find a good-natured. k%indly-dis-
|ositioned host.-Ame.ican Sheep
Breeder.
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Alfalfa For Hogs.

A swine grower who has been trying
llfalfa pasture for his hogs says that
eaily they should not be pastured on
j till the third season after sowing, as
requires three seasons he says for
he plant to get we'll established. and
1 the swine are turned onto it before,
is likely to become seriously injured.
fhe best results in %pasturing swine on
Italia come from the growing animals
nd when the alfalfa pasture is used
or growing hogs, it is estimated that
he grain ration may be cut one-half
t least. There is the further advan-
hge in p%asturius that the hogs do not
8equire so much care as when in con-
lnement or on a range Of limited area,
I'd this is quite IN item in the expense
Il raising swine.
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Fruit Growing For Profit.


Profit in fruit growing depends on
attention to the smallest details. The
merchant who gives attention to the
smallest details of his business will,
in most cases, succeed. The manufaC-
turer, if the price of his products is
low, will make a profit out of his waste
material. If the farmer is 4 fruit
grower would give the same attention
as the merchant or manufacturer.
profit would be assured: bur in most
cases the trea is planted. cattle are
allowed to destroy. or II" care or at
tention is paid to it. If the tree comes
iSto bearing, it is not cultivated.
pruned. or III any way cared for. The
result will be small, knotty. almost
worthless fruit.
If profit in fruit growing is to be
secured, let it be given through cult
walton, careful pruning, spray at h
proper time; thoroughly examine your
trees at least twice each. year for bor-
ars.-S. A. Gutshalf, in the American
C%ultiYator.
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TORNADO WIPES OUT A TOWN.
Three Killed and Fifty Persons Injured
in Willow Lakes, S. D.

Bryant, S. D.-The town of Willow
Lakes is nearly in ruins and over half
of Bryant is destroyed as the result Of
4 tornado. Railway, service on the st.
Paul road was abandoned and tele-
graph communication over the State
was interrupted. The storm centre
was near Willow Lakes, a town of $50
inhabitants.
Three persons were killed there and
more than 100 persons are injured,
and it is feared the bodies of many
dead are HI the ruins.
Willow Lakes before the storm had
a bank, a weekly paper, a hotel, cream
cry, three churches and four grain ele-
vators. The property loss may reach
$500 900.
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British Admiral Eight Months Old.

The youngest British Admiral is
only eight months old.
The infant Marquis Of Donegal is
the hereditary Lord High Admiral of
Tough Neagh, but the office carries
with it neither emoluments nor duties.
1t is an obsolete naval command, which
dates from the time of Queen Eliza.
beth, when it. was necessary to main
tain a naval force on Tough Neagh to
over-awe the natives of Tyrone, Derry,
Armagh and Antrim; with whom sew
eral actions were fought.-Lordon
Daily Mail.
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Fall Seeding to Grass.

Fields are frequently. seeded to grass
ia the fall. This is done without any
Prop, and in some cases is found to be
more successful than spring seeding
long with a crop of grain. This work
|houid be done in August or early Sep
|ember on ground well prepared, that
5 made of fine filth. smooth and we'll
|ertilized. Where this system works
hell there should be a good success
With the crops of hay to follow. as
Ihey will have the entire benefit of the
fertilizers applied.
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DOMESTIC.

Four were hurt by the ditching of .
Santa Fee train near Topeka, Kan. The
cause Of accident is unknown.
Two brothers met at Grand Rapids,
Mich, n Of whom was tried twenty
years ago in Oneida County. n. T.. for
the others murder.
Chicago GILL packers have devised a
scheme for housing the nonunion en-
ployes, to put them under Federal pro-
lection, if necessary. The stockyards
were entirely surrounded by pickets.
Bail has been refused Special Con-
stables Ransom, Stanil and Cherry, at
Selma, Ala. who. it is claimed, allowed
4 negro to be taken from them and
lynched.
John G.. Gates, it was reported at
Saratoga, NY, lost $4,000 at faro.
T~hirty-tive persons, twenty-thr Of
them children, are homeless neal Van
couyer, Wash, as the result of an in
cendiary fire, which burned two days.
Seven lives were lost in a cloud
burst at Globe, Ariz,, and $4,000 0
property loss vas occasioned.
One hundred and fifty cloak cutters
in Cleveland, Ohio, have joined the
striking cloak makers, making 1000
persons in that trade now out for in
creased wages and the ''closed shop"
While trying to make an arrest. City
Marshal w. w. Rainbolt was killed
at Forest City, Ark, by JOHN Williams.
an %cx-convict, who was in turn killed
by other officers.
The murdered body Of Caroline Apuz-
20. bride of a few weeks, was found
in her OOH in a New York City lodg-
ing house. Her husband. Camille
Apuzzo, was strangely missing.
DR.. Henry Hartwell, a wealthy re.
tired physician, of New Milford, Conn,
was induced by confidence men to
draw $4,000 from a bank and was then
sandba@ged and robbed.
The steamers Colonial and Neoshoto.
of the Gilchrist Line, were beached at
points in Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
a storm having forced them to seek
shelter.
Chicago Gill; packers issued a state
ment declaring they will not enter into
any agreement with the striking
butchers.
Prof. Henry F. Osborn, of Columbia
University. received the honorary de-
gree Of doctor of sciences from the
Cambridge University, England.
Secretary Morton is on his tour of in
spection of the navy yards.
Miss Alice Wells, Of Connecticut.
granddaughter of Gideon Wells. Sec
rotary of the Navy from 1861 to 1860.
will christen the battleship Connect
cut September p.
A Chicago limited train on the Rock
Island was wrecked near Altamount.
Mo. Two were fatally injured and
fifteen others badly hurt.
Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, wife of the
Chief Justice Of the United States Su-
preme Court. died suddenly at her sum
mer cottage, Sorrento, Me.
Philip Weinseimer. president of, the
Building Trades Alliance, who had
been arrested in New York City on an
eXtortion charge, was indicted.
Rufus Lesseur, q negro, charged with
several burglaries, vas shot to death
by q mob at Thomaston, Ala.
The thirtieth annual convention of
the Catholic Young Mems National
Union opened in Buffalo, N. Y. with
200 delegates.
By the capsizing of a boat near
Brunswick. Mo-. Henry Arthur, Lena
Garrett and Belle Dorosche were
drowned.
Crops near Winnipeg, MINI, were
damaged, and one death was caused
by a violent storm.
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GROVER
TO MINIMIZE FOREST FIRES.
New Devices For Suppression of Smoke
and Spark Nuisance.

Among the numerous causes Of for.
est fires probably the most prolific
means of all is the shower Of sparks
which are thrown high in the air from
locomotives. Various remedies for this
danger have been suggested. Legal
pressure has brought into the field nu.
merous spark-arresters, notably in the
Adirondacks; but great damage was
done before these were finally put
into anything like general use. An.
other arrester has recently been sug.
gested, which is now in use on some OF
the Western railroads, although for a
different purpose. This device is sim.
pie in construction, inexpensive and
adaptable to any style of locomotive.
It consists chiefly Of a specially con-
structed hood, which is extended above
the top of the stack, at the height Of
about two feet, and interferes but lit
tie, if at all, with the draught. Its
motive consists solely in DETECTING the
sparks downward, so that they fall
harmlessly on the roadbed. Even in
case of a high wind the cinders are so
effectualIy detected downward that
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der" which won the prize is known as

der" which won the prize is known as
Lempereur.
AS will be seen from the two illus
trations it consists of a number of
steel plates, connected at their extrem-
tiles by two encircling chains. The
plates are corrugated. on their inner
surfaces apparently with the object Of
preventing any Creeping upon the
cover. 1t is claimed for this device
hat it cannot leave the tire; that it
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To Stains.

To remove fruit stains pour boiling
water over the stained surface. Ar
range the cloth in such a manner that
the water passes through a single
thickness and from 4 height above it.
To remove obstinate fruit stains use
three ounces oxalic acid to one pint
water. Wet the stain with the solu-
ton, place over a kettle of hot water
in the steam or in the sunshine. Rinse
we'll the instant the stain disappears
with ammonia to counteract the acid
remaining. Then rinse it thoroughly
again.
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Sporting Breyities.

Frank L. Kramer won tie hvp-miis
n. c. \. circuit championship race at
tic Yai,sburg cycle track.
Bryn Mawr defeated MyoFia in the
final polo match for The Narragansett
Cup by 4 score of 11;H TO II
W. 4. Larned and w. J. Ciothier
We're among the winners in the third
round Of the tennis tournament at
Southampton. J.. L.
Point Judith defeated the Country
Club. of Westminster. by % goals TO
10 in the opening game Of the POLO
tournament at Newport.
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ANTI-SKIDDER IN PLACE,

cannot heat, and may be removed or
affixed in i few minutes. When not
in use it can be rolled up into i very
small compass, and therefore takes up
very little room on the car. 1t is said
to add considerably to the life of the
tires. and to constitute an absolute
protection against puncture and side
slip, without reducing the resilieacy of
the tire.
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Temperature aud Grains.

Experiments show that rye and win
ter wheat will terminate in 4 soil the
Temperature Of which is thirty-two
degrees; barley. oats. fax. peas and
Flower will sprout at thirty-hve de-
Erees; turnips the same. carrots at
f~hirty-eight, and beans at forty de-
srees. If these experiments have been
carefully conducted they demonstrate
fhat some plants will spsout zen be-
low the freezing point.