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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
FAMINE HORROR
About 2o,oOO,0oo People Face
to- Face With Starvation
Crops in Seven Provinces Fan and I'D
Twenty-one Haryests Are Very
Poer-Parents Sell Girls.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-Princes
G. p. Lyof and orbeliani. the repre-
s~entatives OF thee Moscow zemstyo
famine relief organization. who have
Just returned from the stricken dis
tricts, have, given the following de-
scription of the conditions in the
famine provinces:
The crops in seven provinces, Sa-
mara, Saratov, Bembirsk, Kazans
Penza, Tamboy and Ufa, were prac-
tically total failures. In twenty7one
provinces the harvests were very
poor. About twenty million people
win need assistance for from four to-
ten months to stave OF Staryations
until the new crops are available
Contrasted with other years the pres
emit famine is the largest since 1885,
that of 1905, though affecting eigh-
teen million persons, being far less
intense.
In some regions the Inhabitants
have been suffering from starvation
for ten years; passable crops having
been gathered in only two out OF the
ten years. Prince Lvof believes the
Government estimate Of $50,000,00O5
for famine relief is inadequate. The
Moscow zemstvo relief organization
calculates that $75,000.000 and pos
sibly more will be necessary.
Though the conditions In the fam-
inc regions are now most ~distreSsings
the real terrors will begin In Janu-
airy. The zemstvos organization funds
$3O0,000, will then be exhausted,
and the Relief COMMITTEES will be
compelled to cease their efforts to-
save the lives Of the starving. peas
ants. Prince Lvof complained that
the local officials, for political rea-
sons, are nH;rfering with the estab-s
lishment of soup kitchens and the
rendering of medical assistance. He
reported a number OF cases where
petty ~functionaries prohibited assist
ance being given to famine sufferers.
The villages are conVulsed by
agrarian troubles, though the inhab-E
itants are actually in the greatest
need Of food. Hunger, and epidemics
of typhus and scurVy, which usually
begin In February, have already ap-.
peared in, these provinces, TuIa,
Kazan and Samara, and as the win
ter progresses more epidemics are an
ticipated.
On the strength of his practical
knowledge Prince Lvof reafirmed
the truth Of the report, lately official
ly denied, that girls In Kazan Prov
ince had been sold into slavery and
taken to Mohammedan harems In the
Caucasus. He said the sales were
masked under the guise OF entering
domestic service, but that did nor
affect the truth of the first statements
made. Hundreds Of families in the
Volga provinces, the Prince added,
were focking to the already over
populated towns.
Prince Orbeliani, who extended his
trip to the Turgai steppesS said that
a famine was raging among the Ktr-
ghiz and the Bashkir tribes. The
horses and cattle of these nomad
tribes were perishing from hunger
and the owners were killing them for
their hides. The trfbesmen, accord
ing to the Prince, will face complete
ruin next year.
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SUICIDE TO AVOID ERRORS.
Railroad Man Lived in Constant Fear
of Causing Disaster.

Cincinnati. Ohio. - Constant fear
that he would make a mistake that
would cause a wreck and death to
many drove James Oliver Page. aged
forty, day foreman in the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad yards, to blow his
brains out. Page was a conscien-
tiousaman. His position was a re-
spopsible one. A slight error might
have caused a calamity. Page felt
this deeply and when he came home
from work he would worry over er-
rors he might have overlooked.
The burden of his position bore
heavily on his mind and he became
nervous and RESPONDENT. He awoke
early to build a fire in the furnace OF
his home. He had been in the cellar
a long time when his wife awoke.
She called and when she heard no
answer she walked down into the
cellar and found her husband'r
body.
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We are told about the great
slaughter the Indians used to make
among the buffalo in the good old
days, but this success was not to be
attributed to their good marksman-
ship, because they killed these noble
beasts with their guns almost "boute
touchant.'
One thing about their mode of
loadin5 and firing might be interest,
ing IT, readers of the present day in
asmIch as a generation has been
boz and has grown up since the last
buffalo roamed the plains.
The Indians and halfbreeds VINO
went on these periodical round-ups
were armed with and preferred the
old nor'west muZzle-loading flint lock.
They could load and fire with such
rapidity that one would almost fancy
they carried a repeating gun. Sus-
pended under their right arm by a
deer thong was a common cows horn
of powder and in a pouch at their
belt a handful or two of bullets.
AS the horse galloped up to the
herd, the Indian would pour a charge
of powder into his left hand, trans
fer it into the barrel of the gun, give
the butt a pound on the saddle, and
out of his mouth drop On top a bull
let. AS the lead rolled down the bar
rel it carried in it's wet state parti-
cles of powder that stuck on the
sides, and settled on top Of the pow
der charge. No rod OF ramming was
used.
The gun was carried muzzle up,
resting on the hollow OF left arm un-
to such time as the Indian desired to
fire. The quarry being sc close no
aim was required. On DETECTING the
barrel the trigger was pulled before
the ball had time to roll clear of the
powder.
The Indians saw that their buffalo
guns had very large touch-holes,
thereby assuring the pan being
primed. When all the balls were
fred a few others were chucked into
the mouth and merrily went on the
game.-Forest and Stream.
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SHIP CAPTAIN FROZEN.
Died After Reaching Shore With
Crew-Sailor Lost.

Digby, N. S.-Captain Berry, Of the
three-masted schooner Emma R. Har-
vey, was frozen to death near here
after the Harvey had gone to pieces,
and he and all but one of his crew
had forced their way through the
breakers to land. One seaman was
drowned, but the other members or
the crew found shelter and were re-
yived. &s
The Harvey, of Bucksport, Me.
sailed from Applesland, Ms, bound
tor New York, with q cargo Of lum,
BIER. Coming down the western coast
Of Nova Scotia she had a constant
fight with wind and wave, and en-
countered terrific gale. Driven be
fore the northwestern, with the tenn
perature lowering about the zero
mark, the Harvey, reached q point
Just of SIoan's Cove, eight miles east
of Digby Gut, when a tremendous
gust of wind hurled the three-mastsr
ashore and every man on board was
thrown into the water. The captain
came ashore with the others, but fell
on the beach some distance away and
was frozen to death. One seaman
was drowned after the vessel went to-
pieces.
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Fight With Tobacco Trust.

Louisville, Ky.-The destruction Of
tobacco stemmeries in Princeton by q
mob is the result Of the strife which
has been in progress for several years
between tobacco growers and the To-
bacco Trust.
An association. was formed some
time ago in the dark tobacco section
Of the State to pool the products Of
the different planters and sell them
in their own warehouses. instead Of
in the field, and thus raise the price
of tobacco, which had become so low
as to make it improbable to the
growers.
The Tobacco Trust fought the as
ISOLATION vigorously. and some Of the
farmers refused to join. The organ
ization, however, obtained a majority
Of the planters and succeeded in
bringing up the price of tobacco. =
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FARMERS BURN FAcT0R|Es|
Trust Tobacco Destroyed Al
Princeton, KY
.aEply the Torch to stemmeries Con.
trolled by Tobacco and Snuff
Companies In Reprisal.

Princeton, Ky.-The tobacco stem
meries of john Steger and JohnaG c.
Orr, the latter controlled by the I'm.
perial Tobacco Company, Of New
York, were destroyed by a fire which
was kindled against them by a mob
Of masked men. Several cottages in
the vicinity were badly damaged, but
nobody was hurt. The loss is esti.
mated at about $4,000.
The mob, which numbered about
300 men, entered Princeton between
1 and 2 O'Clock a. M, seized the
night town marshal and disarmed
him. They then went to the factor
les and quickly applied the torch.
The masked men stood on guard,
permitting nobody to come near I'M.
til the buildings we're completely
e%nveloped in flames and help was
useless. A squad Of the mob took
charge of the telephone office and no
word Of the affair was permitted to
60 out.
When the mob saw that the fire
was beyond control they left the
town, going in the direction Of Hop
k~insville, d~ischarging revolvers and
rifles as they departed. The fire de-
partment then came out, but could
do nothing more than prevent the
fire from destroying buildings in the
vicinity.
The Steger factory is controlled by
the American Snuff Company, and
Mr.. Steger is the Princeton agent for
that concern. Mr.. Orr Is the repre-
sentative Of the Imperial Company.
There was about 10000 pounds Of
tobacco In each warehouse and all Of
1t was burned.
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les. It is certainly a very old usage.
It is etiquette thus to address the
King and Queen Of England. 1t is
not etiquette to address him as "Your
Majesty" but simply Sir" Among
well-bred American men the habit of
using "sir" is not common, except I'M
addressing strangers, or possibly men
of advanced age, or men for whom
great veneration is entertained.
Among equals the custom, In ordin-
airy conversation, does not exist. We
speak more particularly of city
dwellers. There can be no question.
that the use of yes" and mo" with
out any supplementary title Is some
what curt, but there can be no ques-
ton also that among the educated
city jewellers of the United States the
custom of using "sir" and "ma'am"
has fallen into desuetude.-San
Francisco Argonaut. -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
FOE TWICE BURNS THEIR HOME
This Time the Barn and Live Stock
Go With It.

York, Pa.-Awakeued by the
noises made by the live stock in her
barn, which was being burned to the
ground, Mrs. Peter Runk, who lives
near York, grabbed a lamp and start
ed downstairs. She tripped on her
night clothes, and in the fall the lamp
exploded and burned down the house
and its contents. Mrs. Runk man
aged to crawl out Of the house and
escaped death. All her live stock
was destroyed in the fire at the barn.
ThesRunks are the victims Of some
enemy, who has twice made them
suffer from fire. About one year ago
Mr.. and Mrs. Runk left their homo
for a short trip, and when they re-
turned 1t had been burned to the
ground.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
THE WORLD.

They say the worlds a sham and life a
9 lease
Of nightmare nothing nicknamed Time,
and we
Ghost voyagers in undiscovered seas
Where fact is feign; mirage, reality.
Where all is vain and vanity is all,
And eyes look out and only know they
stare
AT conjured coast whose beacons rise and
fall,
And vanish with the hopes that feigned
them there.
Where sea-shell measures urge a phantom
dance
Till fancied pleasure browns imagined
Till Death stares madness out of counte-
nance
And vanity is all and all is vain.
1t may be as my friends allege:
I'm pressed to move that life is some
thing more;
And vet a linnet on a hawthorne hedge
Still wants explaining and accounting for.
Ralph Hodgson, in Saturday Review.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
Does Away With Sweeping.

One of the greatest inventions of
the present time is the suction ma
chine for renovating and cleaning
hotels, apartment houses, etc. No
sweeping is necessary. The power
necessary to operate the apparatus is
furnished by an engine fitted with a
wagon and supplied by means Of rub
Der hose. The dust is forced into the
machine by suction, 1t being possible
to clean every part of the room, CELL
ings, floors, walls, furniture, etc. Up
to the present time this machine has
been used for large operations only.
Now a Chicago inventor has patented
a similar machine, which can be
used in every household. The power
apparatus is stationed in an clubhouse
or other out-of-the-way place and
the renovator, reduced in size so that
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
but this does not SCI
case. Inventors still a.
mt for some device tn;

household necessity, as they realize
it will command aready market. AZ
an example, an Iowa man has pat
ented a knife for cutting potatoes
that does eight times the work of the
ordinary knife. Instead of requir-
ing eight cuts to divide the potato
into pieces it is all done in one OPP
Grafton. The illustration shows the
construction of this knife, no de-
scription being necessary. Six small
blades and one centre blade, attached
to a handle, are all that Is requiSed.
One stab at a potato divides it into
eight pieces, each piece being practt-
cally the same size. In hotels, res
taurants, ETC., where thousands of
potatoes are cut up each day, this
knife would save considerable labor
and time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26

6scIEzMlX6E

State Geologist Perkins, OF YER
mont, reports that the asbestos mines
of that State are not profitable be-
cause the rock is too hard.
So successful has the application
of the X-rays been in the treatment
Of children suffering from ringworm,
that the Metropolitan Asylums
Board, London, has been enabled to
discontinue the use Of M Of the two
institutions reserved for SUCH cases.
DR.. Symes Thompson says the
length of time taken in communicat-
ing by touch is o~ne-seventh of a sec
ond before there is a consciousness OF
the touch. When a sound Is heard
the interval is one-sixth of a second;
when the object is seen the interval
is ~one-ffth of a second; in the case
of a thought it is one-fortieth of a
second. H
The Oregon Electric Railway Com
pany has arranged to penetrate the
willamette valley south Of Portland
with an electric road constructed for
the handling Of freight as well as
passengers. It will be constructed of
seventy pound rails on rock ballasted
road bed, with a maximum grade OF
20 per cent. and a maximum curva-
ture. of five degrees.
Reinforced concrete piles have al
ways been constructed by depositing
concrete around reinforcing bars or
frames in wooden molds. In Europe
the molds are commonly set on end,
but this practice is not universal;
in America the most common prac-
tice is to lay the mold horizontally
on the ground. Indeed, we recall
but M instance-the mo1ding of
twelve inch piles on end for the pier
construction at Atlantic City, N. j..
in American work Of piles nodded
endwise.
1t is, estimated that at least 2,000,-
900 bales Of cotton are lost through
out the South every year because Of
frost and scattered cotton left in the
field by the pickers. A machine has
been invented called the cotton. sepa-
rator, which will save nearly all this
loss. It remains to be tested, how
ever. It is claimed for it that the
cotton boil can be saved by this ma
chine for grinding and feeding to
cattle, which will be of great value
to the cotton growers. The separa-
tor uses a series Of saws operated
by a pneumatic system.
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Prominent People.

The late Major-General William
R. Shafter, who died at Bakersfield,
CAL, left an estate of $4,000.
Marquis Ito and Field Marshals
Yapagata anE Oyama have been
created princes by the Japanese EN-
peror.
Nine. Melba has such a good mem
DRY that she can learn an entire opera
in one week. She does most of her
studying in bed.
Prince Henry of Reuss, of the Ger
man imperial family, spent seVeraI
hours in Washington, ID. C., being
lunched at the German Embassy
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
MORE USES FOR DEERsKINs.
Prices Therefore Going Up in the
Maine Woods the Last Year or So.

One firm in Bangor, Me-, has agents
all over Northern Maine toying deer
hides, and thousands Of the hides are
received here every season and
shipped to Boston to be tanned,
writes the Bangor (Me.) correspond
emit Of the New York Sun.
. 1t is only within the last year or
two that the traffic in deer hides has
reached large proportions. A few
years ago a. deer hide Of the best
quality could be bought for half a
dollar, and the hides were thought
of so little account that unless the
man who killed the deer had some
use for the skin he threw 1t away.
The deer hides are now used by
the manufacturers of gloves and
other articles, and there is a steady
demand for them. The demand is
shown by the fact that the hides have
increased almost threefofd In value
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
The Field Of Sports.

Rhyolite, New, has offered $4,000
for a fight between Dick Hyland and
Battling Nelson.
The number of deaths from foot.
ball this year vas two less than the
number last season.
The English Lawn Tennis Associa.
ton refuses to vote Beale G. Wright.
as the American representative on
the English council.
At the recent exhibition Of the
Royal Agricultural Society, of Vic
toria, in Australia, the exhibit %,
trotting stations rivaled that OF the
thoroughbreds in quality.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
APPLES FOR EVERYBODY.
80, 120, 900 Barrels the Estimated Pro-
duction in the Country This Year.

New York City.-The apple crop
In the United States has just been es-
iimated at 3~6,120,000 barrels. This
Is 12,625,000 barrels more than the
1905 crop, and may explain why the
New York Central road has been
forced to place an embargo on the
apple shipments from the north.
The estimated crop in New York
State is 100000 barrels, or larger
by 100000 barrels than the produc-
ton in any other State. The esti-
mated New York crop equals the
crops in Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee
combined, and If equally distributed
to the people of the State would give
half a barrel to each man, woman and
child,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
TOWN RUINED By FLOOD,
Clifton, Ariz., Dam Breaks, Destroy
ing Life and Property.

Bisbee, Ariz. - Anywhere from
seven to twenty persons are reported
drowned in the food that came down
the San Francisco River and Chase
Creek and struck the town of Ciifton.t
The principal business section of the
town was almost ruined. The food
was caused by the bursting of the
Detroit dam. Mrs. Joseph Throm
was caught in a falling building and
killed. The other members of the
family had narrow escapes. One CT
the saloons which, was washed away
carried several men into the raging
water and they are believed to have
been drowned. A woman and child
we're lost in a small restaurant which
was dashed to pieces in the food.
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ers might be offered there to their
deities by the anxious Japanese for
the success of the armies Of the Mix
ado during the recent war. The tiny
temple contains q sacred image, and
during the campaign prayers were
said daily in the tower and religious
services held at it's base.
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Little Susie's {

After a week at the g.
Susie was being wetghe
when she came sh
scales at forty-nine p
Uncle Jack, land now
forty-two."
obi" cried Susie,
two pounds backwa
per's Weekly.
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A Canadian Ambassador.

A London paper declared that 1t
would be a wise course for the I'm
perial Government to appoint a Can
adam as British Ambassador at
Washington.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-12-26
An Hawaiian Curio.

A curious tower is to be seen in
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. 1t was
built by the Japanese residents. 1t
is what is termed a "prayer-tower,"'
and was erected in order that pray.
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The life of the great guns Of a
modern battleship is almost q defn-
lite number of discharges. After they
have been fred about so many times
they may be expected soon to break.
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American to Advise Siam.

Professor H. e. Strobel resigned
as Bemis professor of international
law at the Harvard Law School to be-
come general adviser of the Govern
ment of Siam.
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mLos An
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the public
the children
'sir" and
parents con-
and think
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dressed. But
teachers say
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,urden their
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It "sir" and
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Convicted of Murder.

A first degree murder verdict was
returned at Canton, O., against Jas.
Cornelius for killing his wife.
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Every day the inhabitants Of the
United Kingdom away $1,000
900 worth of shoe leather.
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1t can be manipulated by anybody.
Expert skill is not required. In
cleaning the rooms the dust is gath
cred up in the collector, and when
the entire house is cleaned the reno
vator is taken to the cellar and the
dust removed. Its superiority over
the ordinary method of sweeping will
be at once apparent.
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Hudson River Closed.

The Hudson River was closed to
navigation, it being the earliest tie
up since 1890, with four exceptions.
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In Russia there are no fewer than
eighty-six general holidays in the
year.
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ns IN Real Estate

Loans on Real Estate.
A bill authorizing National banks
to make loans on real estate security
was passed.
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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-06-07
VEGETABLE

In the lecture on vegetable cookery
Mrs. Rorer said: "All vegetables go
over the fire in boiling water. Green
vegetables in sailed water. Under
ground vegetables, such as roots and
tubers, in uLsalted water. Vegetables
are of four classes-those that contain
nitrogen, without starch, as mush-
rooms; those rich in nitrogen. with a
goodly amount Of starch and oil. as
peas, beans and lentils; the succulent
vegetables, which are largely water
the bulk foods-as lettuce and spinach;
vegetables containing sugar and starch,
without heterogeneous matter, as pota-
toes, beets, parsnips, etc. 1t is not
necessary that the water should boil
rapidly, except for cooking rice, and
here the motion washes the grains
apart and keeps them separate, but
they must boil OF they will absorb the
water and become heavy. The starchy
vegetables must be taken from the fire
the moment they are done, OF they will
absorb the water and become heavy,
unpalatable and indigestible."