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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-06-05
ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION.
The President Appeals TO-. the School Children
TO Observe II Thoughtfully.

Washington, D. G. - President
Roosevelt issued a kind of personal
proclamation to 1.-THE school children
Of the United States" 1t contains an
appeal to them to observe Arbor Day
in a thoughtful spirit, with the pur-
pose of preserving the forests Tor
future generations. This is the
Presidents appeal:
To the School Children of the United
States:
Arbor Day (Which means simply
"tree day. is now observed in every
State in our Union and mainly in the
schools. At various times from Janu-
airy to December, but chiefly in this
month of April, you give a day or
part of a day to special exercises and
perhaps to actual tree planting in
recognition Of the Importance OF trees
to us as a nation and Of what they
yield in adornme1t, comfort and use
full products to the communities in
which you live.
1t is well that you should celebrate
your Arbor Day thoughtfully, Tor
within your lifetime the nations need
of trees will become serious. We of
an older generation can get along
with what we have, though with
growing hardship; but in your full
manhood and womanhood you will
want what nature once so bountifully
supplied and man so thoughtlessly
destroyed; and because of that want
you will reproach US not for what we
have used but for what We have
wasted.
For the nation, as for the man or
woman and the boy or girl, the road
to success is the right use of what we
have and the improvement Of present
opportunity. If you neglect to pre-
pare yourselves o Tor the duties
and responsibilities which will fall
upon you later, if you do not learn
the things which you will need to
know when your school days are over,
O will suffer the consequences SO
any nation which in it's youth lives
only for the day reaps without SOW
ing and consumes without husband
ing, must expect the penalty of the
prodigal whose labor could with diff
Guilty find him the bare means OF life.
A people without children would
face a hopeless future; a country
without trees is almost as hopeless;
forests which are so used that they
cannot renew themselves will soon
vanish and with them all their bene-
fits. A true forest is not merely a
storehouse full of wood, but, as it
we're, a factory of wood, and at the
same time a reservoir Of water.
When you help to preserve nj for
ests or to plant new one you are
acting the part of good citizens. The
value of forestry deserves, therefore,
to be taught in the schools, which
aim to make good citizens of you. II
your Arbor Day exercises help you to
realize what benefits each one of you
receives from the forests and how by
your assistance these benefits may
continue, they will serve a good end.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
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Time Table Humor.

Up to the present time there has
been a somewhat straitlaced avoid
ance of humor in the time tables and
official announcements of railway
companies which has earned for those
compilations a certain reputation for
dulness. Something In one OF the
London and Northwestern Railways
notices gives us reason to hope that
this tradition is breaking dowa. II
tells us that in future only one motor
bus will run between Harrow and
Watford. The times Of departures
and arrival OF, this lonely and friend
less thing are given, followed by this
strange saying: ""The company gives
notice that the motor buses shall not
start or arrive at the times specified
in the bills. London Daily News.
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ARB0R DAY ANNUAL ISSUED.
Advice Regarding Trse-plantins Sent to the
Schools,

New York City.-The Arbor Day
annual for Friday, May 8, has been
sent out to the schools of the State
by the Education Department at AL
bany. The pamphlet is illustrated,
some of the cuts showing how the
happy natural location of a country
schoolhouse may be improved by sys-
tematic planting.
A letter from A. S. Draper, Com
missioner of Education, to the schools
is contained in the annual, and there
are chapters on trees and shrubs for
school grounds, the forests of New
York, and a description OF the Fair
view Garden School at Yonkers. In
discussing t~ree-planting, the annual
says: .,
During the past eleven years there
have been planted on the school
grounds Of the State of New York
1859 trees. From the establish
ment of Arbor Day in 1889 until
1896 there were planted 145,241
trees, making a total in the past
| eighteen years Of 31S,920. There are
over 10000 school commission dis
tricts in the State: This would give
more than thirty trees to every dis
trict if they were proportionately dis
ktributed.
Since the establishment Of Arbor
Day practically every district has at
n time or another reported the
| planting of some trees. An inquiry
| recently addressed to the school COM
| missioners revealed the fact that
there are over 1000 districts in the
| State with absolutely no trees or
| shrubs on their school grounds, and
many others with only a few stray
Cling trees. Further than that, a
very small per cent. Of the whole
number OF districts give any sort or
attention to the care Of their grounds.
Apparently, there is more need
for the care of trees and shrubs than
there is for actual planting. 1t is
easy enough for an enthusiastic
teacher to work up appropriate cere-
monies for Arbor Day, but. to toften
the teacher finds no practical re-
sponse from the patrons. of the school.
1T ought to be understood by
school officers everywhere that mere
sentiment will not arouse the patrons
of a school district to beautify theiI
| school grounds. The whole matter
must in some way be put before them
| on a plain business basis. They must
see that it pays, as in the end it most
certainly does, to paint the school
house whenever it. needs it, to plant
and care for trees and shrubs about
the grounds, and give the whole place
an inviting air of cleanliness and re-
spectability that commands the re-
| spect and admiration of the stranger
| and teaches an invaluable lesson TO
the home community"
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BABY WASTED TO SKELETON.
In Torments With Terrible Sores or
Face and Body-Tore at Flesh
-Cured nv Cnticura.

MY little son, when about a year and
a half old, began to have sores come out
on his face. They began to come on his
arms, then on other parts of his body, and
then one came on his chest, worse than
the others. Still he grew worse. At the
end of about a year and half of suffering
he grew so bad 1 had to tie his hands in
cloths at night to keep him from scratch
ing the sores and tearing the flesh. He got
to be a mere skeleton and was hardly able
to walk. l sent to the drug store and got
a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuti'
cura Ointment, and at the end of about
two months the sores were all well. He
has never had any sores of any kind since.
and I can sincerely say that only for
the C%uticura Remedies my precious child
would have died from those terrible sores.
I used only one cake of Soap and about
three boxes of Ointment. Mrs. Egbert
Sheldon. R. F. D., Mol. Woodville, Conn,
April %, 1906"
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Engineerinv Keats of the. knrients.

141kh
There is not an engineer in the.
| world who will not admit that the
marvellous accomplishments: Of the
ancient Egyptians in building the
pyramids is unparalleled by amy mod
ern engineering achievements
The pyramids of Gizeh, erected
more than 5000 years ago, stand as
the monuments Of a departed race
These vast silent hulks OF masonry.
are objects Of wonder and enVy TO
the modern engineer. They are per-
feet in masonry, and some OF them
contain blocks of stone weighing
| from 800 to 500 tons. The most re-
markable thing about the construe-
ton of these pyramids is that the
stone of which they are built must
have been brought hundreds OF miles
across deserts and over mountains.
Even with all the appliances OF
this age, it would have been a well
nigh impossible feat to transport this
material over the same routes the
Egyptians brought it with no I'M
provements whatever. There seems
every reason to believe that these an
cient children Of the Nile carried the
immense blocks of granite by hand
or horse power. .
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Refuses Library in a Care.

"The DEVILS Grotto," a cave near
Beauvoir en- Royans, has been held
in superstitious awe by the residents
in the neighborhood, who lately have
been frightened by reports Of mystic,
rious lights seen In the cave after
nightfall.
\ magistrate and several police
men visited the cave, and on pene-
trating to the interior found a man;
with long matted hair and beard,
who said his name was Andre Faure.
The cave contained an electric gener-
ator, and was brilliantly illuminated.
Faure was fitting up shelves to &C
commodate some thousands of vol
umes which were stacked in the!cave.
-IAondQh Evening Standard.
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ROMANTIC DEVONSHIRE
The Lard Made Famous by Phlpotts'
Novels.

Philpotts has made MS familiar
with romantic Devonshire, in his fas-
cinating novels, The River" Chill
dren of the MIST etc. The charac-
Gers are very human; the people there
drink coffee with the same results as
elsewhere. A writer at Rock House,
Orchard Hill, Bideford, North Devon,
states:
For 80 years I drank coffee for
breakfast and dinner but some 5
years ago l found that it was produc-
ing indigestion and heartburn, and
was making me restless at night.
These symptoms were followed by
brain flag and a sluggish mental con-
dition.
when I realized this, l made up
my mind that to quit drinking coffee
and having read of Postum, I con-
cluded to try it. l had it carefully
made, according to directions, and
found to my agreeable surprise at the
end of a week, that 1 no longer suf-
fered from either indigestion, heart
DuTQ, OF UTdlu ldS, anu lho 1 SOui0
drink it at night and secure restful
and refreshing sleep.
Since that time we have entirely
discontinued the use of the old kind
of coffee, growing fonder and fonder
Of Postum as time goes on. My di-
gestire organs certainly do their work
much better now than before, a re-
suit due to Postum Food Coffee, l am
satisfied.
LAS a table beverage we find (for
all the members of my family use it,
that when properly made it is most
refreshing and agreeable, of delicious
favour and aroma. Vigilance is,
however, necessary to secure this, for
unless the servants are watched they
are likely to neglect the thorough
boiling which it must have in order
to extract the goodness from the
cereal" Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little
book, THE Road to MELVILLE" IL
pkgs. There's a reason"
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Some Object in Nature Should
Be Given Pupils to Study

Ithica, N. Y.-Several weeks be-
fore Arbor Day some object in nature
should be given to each pupil to
study, so that the results of personal
observations may be contributed to
the celebration of the day. The older
girls and boys may make a profitable
study of trees of the, neighborhood.
Have each pupil select a tree, meas
ure its. height and girth, examine its
bark and of branching, and
its leaves and their arrangement.
Drawings of the trees before and
after the leaves appear may be made
and the grain of the wood. the COM
mercial value of the tree, its beauty
and strength described. Children OF
the primary grades may SOW seeds ID
little pots or boxes in time to exhibit
the plants on Arbor Day.
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Cats.

A cat may purr and purr, and be a
villain. Once let the cuisine fall be-
low the proper mark, and off goes the
ungrateful (but %shrewdly) animal to
stop with friends who will look after
him better. That is the keynote of
the feline character, shrewdness. It
is the human traits in their charae-
ters which make men call cats selfish.
The motto of the cat is Business is
business" If a man takes this as his
motto, and acts up to it, we call him
a successful man, and we allow him
to write absurd essays on Hints to
Young Lads" and so on, in u pa
pers. But we do not honor the cat.
London Globe.
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Her Decision.

A poor girl noted for her prudence
and practicability has lately been
bordering the problem of whether to
buy an umbrella, which she needs
very much, but doesn't at all want,
or an Angora kitten, which she
doesn't exactly need, but wants so
much that it keeps her awake nights.
The other day she settled it to her
own satisfaction by deciding on the
kitten, which she thinks is ever so
much more practical than an UNI
brella, because you a only use an
umbrella when it is raining, but a
kitten you have with you always. Be-
sides, you can borrow an umbrella,
but nobody would lend an Angora.-
Topeka State Journal.
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having run down from $50 to 125
pounds. I was having terrible pain
in the kidneys, and the secTetions
passed almost involuntarily. My left
leg swelled until it was "a inches
around, and the doctor tapped it
night and morning until I could no
longer stand it, and then he advised
amputation. I refused, and began
using Doan's Kidney Pills. The
swelling subsidized gradually, the
urine became natural and all my
pains and aches disappeared. have
been we'll now for nine years since
using Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. so cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo,
N. Y.
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rye For Trees.

One. of the curiosities of modern
forestry is the care of beautiful Old
shade trees. The amputation OF dis
eased or dead limbs is as carefully
performed to prevent further decay
from the elements as in surgical op-
erations on human beings. Decay
ing cavities are cleaned and filled
with a preserving cement, as is done
by the modern dentist. And the
latest advance is to build a tin roof
along the upper surface of wide
spreading branches where little hol-
lows might hold dampness and pro-
mote decay. Some handsome pat
eiarchs we'll deserve it.-Bosten Her
aid
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Feminine Notes.

Miss Rose l.. Doonan, president OF
the Wellesley College Rowing Asso-
cation, is the champion sculler among
students of American colleges for
women.
The only Englishwoman admitted
by royal decree in recent years to any
of the ancient orders of chivalry is
Queen Alexandra, who is a Lady of
the Garter.
Luther Burbank has a rival in Miss
Nettie Metcalf, of Warren, Ohio, who
claims the distinction of being 1.-The
only woman in America who has orig
mated a breed of chickens"
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Value Of ArOOr Day--OVer
200, 900 Trees Planted

Albany, N. Y.-Arbor Day has a
two-sided value. 1t teaches to chill
dren a love of nature and Of natures
handiwork, the tree, and in the &C
companying feature Of the observance
OF the day-the planting of trees-lt
replenishes the stock OF trees, Whlcn
for mans use or misuse, has been
sadly depleted. 1t has added to the
State over 100000 trees. While this
is scarcely. a corporal's guard to. the
grand army Of trees which has ruth
lessly been cut down, still it is some
thing-an accomplishment that has a
distinct value.
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Tho Field of SPORTS.

Ed Holly, the ST. Louis shortstop,
was at one time a sparring partner
of Jack Root.
The Jockey Club will make a for
NAL request of all big turf plungers
not to bet heavily this season.
PENNSYLVANIA University won a
swimming contest from the Missouri
Athletic Club, BY IS to s, at st.
Louis.
King Alfonso has offered a cup for
a series Of races between Spanish and
| American yachts at San Sebastian,
| and the Eastern Y. c., Of Boston, Will
| seud boats there
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ChildhOod'S Worst Terror.

An examination of 1900 children
recently made in the west of America
shows that thunder storms are by far
the worst terror of childhood. After
ward, in the order set down, come
snakes, strangers, darkness, fire,
death, disease, wild animals, police
men, water, insects and ghosts. In
the fear of rats and mice girls ex-
coed boys in the ratio Of seventy-fve
to sixteen. In boys fear begins to
diminish after the fifteenth year, in
girls after the eighteenth.-Dundee
Advertiser.
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Cleared the Place Of Rats,

The ingenuity OF a South NoTfoIE,
Conn, workman in tying a small bell
around the neck Of q rat and then
l~iberating it has completely freed the
company's factory of an arnIy 6ef
these pests.
The noise Of the tinkifng ben
frightened them away.-London RI-
press.
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AbOut Noted People.

Senator Elkins says the railroads
are not overcapitalized.
Senator Bailey now owns about
600 acres of land in Fayette County,
Ky.
A bronze statue of John W. Mac
kay in miners costume is to be un-
yelled at Reno next September, on
the occasion of the dedication OF the
Mackay School of Mines, given to the
University of Nevada by Mr.. Mackay.
Joseph Choate, at the Schurz me-
mortal meeting, introduced Mr.,
Cleveland as the first citizen OF the
nation
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REGARD AYoidable MutlatiOn
Of a. Tree. as: a CrimG

Atlanta. Gait will be we'll on
Arbor Day to teach children to plant
trees, and equally it will be well TO
teach them-and adults, TOTO
a r for them, to stop abusing them,
to regard avoidable mutilation OF a.
tree as a crime and to exercise a GER
tain vigilance in guarding them from
harm and in promoting their SYM
metrical and sturdy growth. In the
most favorable circumstances, life IN
city streets is a struggle for trees;
If their life there is to be prolonged
and is to be made profitable as a
source of beauty, health and comfort,
thew will need all the aid and protec-
ton we can give them.
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says: Il had been
showing symptoms of
kidney trouble from
the time I was mus
tered out of the ar
my, but in all my life
l never suffered as in
1897. Headaches,
dizziness and Sleep
~lessness, first, and
then dropsy. I was
weak and HELPLESS,
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FIVE SHOCKS TO KILL him.
Little Murderer Sexton Hardest Sub
iect in Ten Years.

Auburn, N. Y.-Edward Sexton,
who was convicted at Canandaigua on
Friday, April 20, 1904, OF murder in
the first degree for killing Thomas
Mahaney, was put to death by cleo
tricity at Auburn Prison.
Sexton was of small stature and
slight, but it required five distinct
contacts before he was declared dead.
The contacts ranged from 1910 volts
at three amperes to 1740 volts at
eight State Electrician
Davis, who oficiated at the e~lectrocu-
ton. said that Sexton was one of the
hardest subjects that had been in the
chair in the last ten years.
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MUTINY IN RIGA PRISON.
Seven Men Killed and Twelve
Wounded by the Troops.

Riga, Russia.-There was a serious
mutiny in the local prison. Thirty
three inmates attacked and overpow-
cred the superintendent and the war
dens of the establishment. Troops
we're then summoned and opened
fire. Seven of the mutineers were
killed and twelve wounded. Nine
soldiers were wounded in the ARRAY,
which lasted an hour. The superin-
tendent of the prison was badly
beaten.
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AIRS. w. H. SIMMONS, lilo E. 9Th
WI St., Kansas City, Mo-, member of
the National Annuity Association,
writes:
my health was excellent until about a
year ago, when l had a complete collapse
prom proper o1 rests aggd SOCIALLY too man n0' la se't suppe sns
My stomach was in a dreadful condition,
and my ncrves all 1Instrung.
Il was advised by a friend TO try Pc
runa, and eventually / bought a bottle. l
took it and then another, and kept using
it for three months.
AT the end Of that time my health was
restored, my nerves no longer troubled me,
and | felt Myself once more :id able to
assume my social position: ] certainly fee!
that PeTLnG Is DESERVING Of praise"
There are many reasons why society
women break down, why their nervous
systems fail, why they have systemic or
pelvic catarrh. Indeed, they are especially
liable to these ailments. No wonder they
require the protection of Peruna. It Is
their shield and safeguard.
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FIVE DEAD IN WRECK.

Great Northern Fast Train Goes over
Embankment and Burns.
Bartlett, N. D.-Speeding at forty
miles an hour, on a straight track,
the Great Northern west-bound ORR
entail Limited was derailed L
burned four miles from this village.
w. 3. Jones, the mail clerk, and four
unidentified Greeks were killed. Of
fcials Of the road believe that the
wreck was ~incendiary.
The wreck occurred on the line di-
viding Nelson and Ramsey counties,
the mail car completely jumping over
the engine and landing in Ramsey
County, while the remainder of the
wrecked train burned in Nelson
County,
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Publicity Organizations Proposals.

At a meeting Of the National Pub
licity Bill Organization in New York
City ex-senator w. E. Chandler de-
Tended President Roosevelt from the
sarcastic attack of Col. Alexander
Troup, Of Connecticut. w. j. Bryan
proposed drastic legislation to pro-
hibit the contribution Of political
campaign funds by trusts.
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A wireless telegraph station at
Point Iona, CAL, recently picked
up a message which a battIeship I'm
the Atlantic was sending to- Wash
ington, D. C..
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Preferred Death to Knife.

The arrival of a trained nurse and
the paraphernalia necessary for a
surgical operation so terrified John
l.. Cummings, Of Norway, Me-, that
he shot himself through the heart,
preferring death rather than the sur
eeon'S knife.
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Affords an Opportunity For
Improving School Grounds

Washington, D. C.-Arbor Day al
fords an opportunity for improving
the school grounds, and teachers
must be constant in their EFFORTS 10
carry out the suggestions in last
years annual if the desired results
are to be accomplished.
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Tennessee House For Bryan

The Tennessee House at Nashville,
before sine die adjournment adopted
a resolution declaring William j.
BRYAN the logical candidate of the
Democratic party for President in
taoo
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lee Trust Must Open Books.

Justice Greenbaum ordered the
American Ice Company to open all us
books for the inspection of Attorney
General Jackson, Of New York, VINO
has brought suit against the concern
alleging violation of the Antitrust
law.
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SIS is Murder Price Of Terrorists.
II was announced that in the
course of police Investigations into
the recent murder of a physician at
Warsaw, Russian Poland, by a hired
terrorist it was established that S15
each is the price paid by the %terrorists
of Warsaw for murder.
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Woman Lived 100 Years.

Mrs. Hannah Armsworthy, aged
1O9 years, is dead at the home OF her
son near Queenport, Guysboro Coun-
ty, N. S. She was the Oldest person
in NOYa Scotia.