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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
A MINISTER'S STORY.
II Didn't Have the Intended Effect
Upon the Congregation.

Upon the Congregation.
1t Is said that a New England min
lister once told the following story just
before the collection was taken up:
II have heard of man, prosperous
aud well to do. who went to church
one Sunday and put cent-just a
plain copper cent-in the collection
box.
ION the way home he was overtaken
by sudden heavy shower and. hav-
ing no umbrella, crawled into hol-
low log by the roadside to keep him
self dry until the downpour was over.
"Soon the log began to swell. and
the wetter It got the more 1t swelled
until the sides finally closed In on the
prosperous citizen and held him In a
grip like wise.
'rhc rain ceased. hut the nnfOrtu-
nate man was unable to move hand
or foot. He shouted for help. but no
one heard him. He was about to give
up In despair when he suddenly thought
of the cent he had dropped into the
collection box that day, and 1t made
him feel so mean and small that he
crawled right out of the log without
any further trouble.
"Now, II you expect to get caught In
a shower and be obliged to take refuge
in a hollow log on the way home, by
all means put cent in the contribu-
ton basket! II you don't anticipate a
crisis Of that sort-well. you will know
what to do when the basket Is passed"
The minister expected a shower OF
silver and bills TO follow this story,
but unfortunately just as the collec-
ton began black cloud passed over.
head, 1t suddenly began to sprinkle,
and the pennies fairly rained into the
contribution basket. Only one quar-
ter, a solitary dime and lone nickel
were found among the coppers, and
they got In before the shower began.
The congregation, 1t seems. had all
left their umbrellas at home, and they
were not taking any chances.-New
York Times.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08

Police Captaln-You say that an au-
tomobile containing several persons
sped along the street and struck down
an old man? New Ofiicer-Yis, scr.
Police Captain--And that after chas-
ing this auto for several blocks you
finally succeeded In getting the mum
Der? New Officer-Yis. sor. Police
Captain-Good. What was the mum
Der? New Officer-There wor just
foive persons in tn car. sor!-Circle
Magazine.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
Positive Reasons.

The Macintosh. why don't
you come to church now? Macintosh
For three reasons. sir. Firstly. !
dinna like yer theology; secondly, !
dinna like yer singin'. and. thirdly. 1t
was In your kirk first met my wife.
Dundee Advertiser.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
Essentials Of oratory.

II have my speech nearly COM
pleted."
II suppose you have marshaled your
arguments IN serried ranks!"
mo: haven't taken up that part Of
1t. But have selected my anecdotes"
Washington Star.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
ANOTHER
WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Gardiner, Maine.-"I have been o
great sufferer from organic troubles

anda severe female
weakness. 4 h e
doctor said / would
have to go to the
hospital for an
operation, but /
could not bear to
think of 1t. i de.
cided to try Lydia
l.. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
and Sanative w ash
and was entirely
clired after three
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
The Sister States.

Probably the sister states are: Miss
Ouri. the Misses Sippi. Ida Ho. Mary
Land, CallIe Fornia Allie Bama. Lou
isa Anna, Della Ware and Minnie
Sota.-Letts Iowa Record.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
NATTER avn BLANKET FREE

With every Horse and Mule. For further nfor-
nation see SUPERINTENDENT. at Company.s
Stables 103-705 SOUTH PAcA SITS. NEAR
PRATT STREET. z BLOCKS FROM b. a O.
STATION. G. and p. Phone. 3ss3-M ST PAUL
Branches-Richmond. Va. and all the principal
cities South.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
Sea Gives Up It's Wealth.

+~Californians have solved the prob
lens Of the alchemists and are max
ing gold out of sea water, says Will
lam Briggs, writing in the Technical
World Magazine. "The Golden State
has taken golden treasure out Of her
mountains, has made her valleys
yield millions Of dollars worth of
golden fruit, has 'amassed tourist gold
in exchange for her sunshine, and
now turns to the great lazy Pacific
and ransacks its Golfers. "
"There is no rush OF. prospectors 20
the new field, however, as the gold is
coming out of the e in the form of
salts of potassium, magnesium and
bromide, which would elude the pan
and the rocker of the prospector.
cot several 'd~iggings' of this ma
ture, one at least is active and pros
porous and mi is approaching activ-
ity. The San Pedro Salt Company,
which recently entered the field, has
succeeded in manufacturing a guam
THY and quality Of salt which has
found a ready market and has already
assumed a place among the exports
Of the port of San Pedro. The fact
that San Pedro is a lively and thirty
ing port, with almost no outgoing
cargoes, makes the development of
this trade both easy and important.
Since the first Of last year the coast
ing schooners returning to the north
ern coast have taken away owe a
thousand tons Of this sea salt"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
MODERN BANQUET
WOULD AMAZE NERO.
Sisnor Ferrero Says Luxury Of
His Time Not Comparable With
That of To-Day.

corruption and Progress in the
Ancient and Modern World" was the
subject of the lecture in which Sig
nor Ferrero, the Italian historian
shattered all the popular ideas of
Roman corruption when he spoke be-
fore a large audience at Columbia
University. After having stripped
the romantic garb from the history
of Cleopatra on Wednesday, Signor
Ferrero attacked ideas regarding the
vices Of ancient Rome in IN equally
forceful manner.
IF we read the ancient sources
we can see that the idea of Roman
corruption has been exaggerated" he
said; that we. have made for our
selves out of this much famed Rom
an luxury a notion highly romantic.
But we need not delude ourselves.
Rome even at the height of its spen-
dor was poor in comparison with the
modern world. Even when Rome
stood as a metropolis for an immense
empire it was less wealthy and less
imposing than a great city Of present
Europe or America.
eve have pictured the imperial
banquets of ancient Rome Is func-
tions of unheard OF splandor; but If
Nero could come to life and see the
dining room Of a great hotel Of Paris
or New York he would admire 1t far
more than the hall in which he gave
his feasts.
Gin the modern world every in
crease of consumption. every waste,
every vice seems permissible; indeed,
almost meritorious, because men of
industry, gain by the diffusion of
luxury, by the spread of vice. II,
for example, the beer makers and dis
tillers Of alcohol were not more pow
erful in the electoral field than the
philosophers and academicians, the
governments would have more easily
recognized that the popular classes
cannot be allowed to poison them
selves or future generations with
chronic DRUNKENNESS.
Fabulous wealth is wasted by men
and women to-day in luxury that is
not to satisfy some reasonable need,
but to show others of their kind how
rich they are, or, further, to make
others believe them richer than they
are."-New York Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
introduced it's use will no doubt b
He must have been a

introduced its use will no doubt be
universal. 1t consists of miniature
springing boards, which are strapped
to the shoes. A slight depression of
the feet causes the wearer to spring
forward; the harder the depression
the longer the jump. The inventor
claims that a person equipped with
the spring boards a travel faster
than another person running, and but
little effort or eXertion is required to
cause momentum. They are in every
way safe for young children, as there
is nc danger of the child falling or Of
the device becoming unamanageable,
as with roller skates. They will IN
doubtedly prove to be a great amuse-
ment for youngsters. both boys and
girls, and w may soon look for
streets full of live jumping jacks.
They will also be used by acrobats in
stead of the springing board now usu-
ally employed.-Washington Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
An Order For BIueberries.

The fame of those Surry blueber-
ries has reached to the Far West. j.
A. Haines, of Ellsworth, recently ad-
vertised the Surry b]lueberries in the
Ellsworth American. Last week he
received an order for twelve cans to
be shipped to Ogden, Utah. The or
der came from DR.. A. s. Condor, OF
that city. and was accompanied by a
copy of the advertisement and a let
ter in which DR.. Condor said be
wished to taste again the blueberries
which as a boy he picked about his
home in Penobscot and Orland.
Doubtless some of the berries he will
get from the Surryfactory came from
the same plains in Orland which the
doctor wandered yer in his youthful
days.-Kennebec Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
What's in a Name?

Topeka society, we regret to note,
is again in a state of wild excitement.
A Topeka girl is going to marry an
army officer and the cut-glass circle
is all agog. We are frank to say that
the girl in the case Is a very admir-
able young woman, who has easily
deserved the tremendous popularity
she has enjoyed. We do not know
the man personally, but we have nc
doubt that he is a fine, likable, manly
fellow. Most army officers are. But
in heavens name why all this fan.
fare of the tomtoms, this sounding
of the hswgags? >. Scot
Laughlin, who died in Topeka Sun
day, went to his grave obscure, un-
honored and unsung, except by those
who were fortunate enough to toll by
his side. And yet, in unselish devo-
ton to duty, in strict adherence to
principle, in fairness, honesty and
punctilious courtesy, no army officer
ever surpassed Scot Laughlin. Few
men were his superior Intellectually.
None turned a more cheerful face to
keen afaiction or exhibited more OF
the instincts of a gentleman. But
we do not recall that there was any
wild excitement when he married q
Topeka girl. Wherefore, we say
pish, ,tush, pollyrot and pip. Also
fapdoodle. No vaudeville joke is as
funny as small town society in the
presence of an,army oficer.--Topeka
CaDital.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03

metal work. In the valuable collec-
ton Of Peruvian antiquities brought
to Philadelphia by j. Randolph Clay,
who was United States Minister to
that country nearly fifty years ago,
are two bronze implements, one of
them terminating in two figures of
monkeys, dressed in Spanish costumes
and riding mules. Until a few years
ago these instruments were believed
to be knives or choppers, but it is now
known that they were used for cut
ting the wool of llamas, alpacas and
vicunas, a Peruvian vase having been
recently discovered on which a man
is depicted in the act of shearing a
native animal with a similar tool
Philadelphia Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
A Strange Farm.

One of the strangest farms in the
world is situated in Southern Cali.
fornia, 265 feet below the level of the
sea. The place is known as Salton.
It is a salt farm of about 1000 acres'
Here the salt lies, as deposited by
nature, from six to sixteen inches in
depth. The salt farmers are busy
harvesting this crop the year round;
and, though the harvest has contin.
ued for owe twenty years, during
which time more than 10000 tons
of salt have been harvested, only ten
of the 1000 acres Of the farm have
been worked. The salt is first plowed
up into burrows; it is then thrown
into conical piles by men with bar
rows, after which it is taken to the
reduction works nearby, and put into
marketable. condition. The work is
done by. Mexicans and Chinese, the in
tense hea6s being more than Amer
leans a endure.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
LATEST News.
BY WIRE.

Rev. W. T. Tracy Found.
Ell Paso, Te1as.-Rev. W. T. Tracy
pastor of an Episcopal church OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, who was lost during.
| the recent storm in the G~uadeloupe
Mountains Of New Mexico, has been
; found alive in an abandoned hut IN
the foothills.
Big Virginia Land Deal.
Roanoke, Va.-One of the largest
deals in timber and coal lands ever
made in Southwestern. Virginia has
! just been consummated between land
| owners of Russell and Buchanan
| counties, and w. H. Crockett and A.
P. Pearly, of Williamsport, Pa, and
Captain Fugate and g. e. Boyd, OF
Virginia. The company is backed By
$12,600,000 and has bought $4,000
acres, mostly In Buchanan County. d
Liliuokalani Pressing Her Claim.
Washington, D. C.-After years Of
vain endeayor to obtain compensation
for the loss Of her kingdom, Liliuo-
kalani, ex-Queen of Hawaii, appeared
before the House Committee on
Claims to press her claim. She 81
willing to accept s25e,000 as q COM
plete settlement.
Mark Hanna III Born. 4
Cleveland, Ohio.-Marcus Alonzo
Hanna III Is the name given the son
of M. A. Hanna. The father is the
grandson Of the late Senator Hanna
and son of Dan r. Hanna. The moth
er was formerly Miss Adele Pratt, OF
New York City.
Lobbyists Excluded.
Boston.-Thes Massachusetts Sem
ate adopted the recommendation OF
the Committee on Rules, excluding
! legislative agents and counsel from
the Senate chamber and corridors.
Mother and Children Burned.
Ashland, Wis.-Mrs. Nathan Sher.
rard and her four children we're
burned to death at Echlin's Camp.
Sherrard tried to save his family and
was dragged out frightfully burned.
Filipinos Become Citizens.
New Orleans. = Several hundred
| Filipinos colonized in Louisiana will
ask the courts to make them Amert-
ian citizens.
President Eliot Honored.
Boston. - President Charles w,
| Eliot, of Harvard, has been elected
president Of Harvard Alumni Asso-i
| NfdftNn y . sF-#f. ..ETFFL HEn-fErLi H.EEEyI.TGg
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
Wagner's Opera Cut.

After the performance of the Got
terdammerung" in Paris recently &C.
cording to Figaro, complaint was ems
tered by Wagner enthusiasts because
the opera had not been performed
in its entirety. The directors, Mas.
sager and Broussau, made reply in
an open letter to the effect that to
render the complete work several
times in one week would overtax the
performers, and ''inasmuch as we
give four hours and twenty minutes
of music. we should not be blamed
for emitting parts which could be rem.
dered in seventeen minutes"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
Costly Palace.

Parliament house, Melbourne.
which has been rushed by 1.-The nu.
employed" of the commonwealth cap
ital, is the costliest legislative palace
in Greater Britain. A million has
been expended on it, and it is not yet
completed. 1t belongs to the Parlia.
ment Of Victoria, but since fedora
ton it has been the meeting place
of the Parliament of the common
wealth, its moving to a wing
of the exhibition building close by
London Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
KNOWING THINGS TOO WELL,
Sometimes Too Well Trained a Mem
... r Plays Odd Tricks. ~ =

ory Plays Odd Tricks. Z
Very often folks get to knowing
thing so we'll that they don't have to
think to remember it. Take, for in
stance, your home address. II you
have been living in the same house In
the same street for years your adj
. dress gets easier and easier to recall,
Except, sometimes. 1t doesn't take
the influence of liquor to make you
forget, either. 1t merely is that you
know it too well.
There was a man who was In the
habit of writing letters to a girl and
after a year Or 80 he got to know
her address by heart. One day, long
after he started writing to her, he
was addressing an envelope to the
young woman, when suddenly he be.
came suspicious of the number he
had written. He read 1t aloud and
tried other schemes Of convincing
himself. He wrote the same mum.
bers on other sheets of paper, but
they did not seem entirely right.
Eventually he had to go over to
call on the girl, instead Of writing.
in order to satisfy himself that he
still knew the address. His figures
had been perfectly all right, but the
trouble was that he knew them too
well.
That sometimes cur to a person
giving an address in a store. 1t slips
out so naturally that when by chance
the shopman repeats BLANK Blank.
ety-blankth street," you begin to
. wonder If you have it right, after all.
And the first breath Of suspicion
kills your chances of remembering
correctly. You simply have to go to
the directory to verify the place you
live in, and naturally that leads to
suspicious on the part of the shop.
keeper.-New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
Waistcoat in Parts.

A resident Of Chicago has created
a coat and vest combined in one
which 1t Is claimed has many advan.
tages over the present cut. The chief
claim for the new arrangement is that
the vest, being made in two parts, the
back and front, enables the wearer to
remove the back entirely at such
times as the temperature demands
lighter clothing without laying the
wearer open to the accusation of be-
ing partially dressed, as he Is some.
times when he lays aside his vest en-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
Peruvian Relics.

In the Pennsylvania Museum, Mem
orial Hall, exhibited with the collec-
ton of old pewter, are three exam
pies of Peruvian figure work in lead,
dating back probably to the Spanish
Conquest. The central figure repre-
sents a man with mitre and crozier,
apparently a Spanish bishop or abbot.
Another is intended to portray a
knight or soldier, holding in one hand
a two-handed sword. On his head
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03

1t will come somewhat as q surprise etc the people of this Christian coun-
try to learn that a Hindu temple has just been dedicated in San Francisco by
the members of the local Vedanta Society The interior Of this building, the
cornerstone of which was laid in 1905, is similar to that Of a n ordinary
house If worship, and it is only by its exterior, with its domes, towers N
minarHs. that the stranger Is given notice that the architecture o another
people and cline has been transplanted into the midst Of Western progress
and civilization along with the teachings of the Vedas themselves. The
dedicatory services we're simple, consisting Of music, a prayer and sermon.
Gala liUes and greens served as decorations On the platform were two
large pictures of noted expounders of the Vedanta faith, dressed in their
native Hindu costume-J. DeRowe, in Christian Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
BY CABLE.
British s~hipowners to Unite.

British Shipowners to Unite.
Newcastle, England. - Shipownersl
of Northern England met and took
the first steps toward the formation
of an international union Of shipoWn-
ers.
Persian Prince Commits Suicide.
st. Petersburg.-Shaf Khan, 8 Per-
sian prince in the Russian service.
committed suicide because he had
been relieved Of! the command OF the
Fifteenth Dragons. )
Chileans Beat U.s.S. Marksmen.
Talcanuano, Chile.-A team of of-
GERS from the American Pacific feet
took part In a shooting match with
Chilean marksmen, In which the Chi
leans won. The feet has left for Val.
paraiso.
France Must Yield to Venezuela.
Paris.-Senor Jose de J. Paul, the
Venezuelan special envoy, says that
he will demand of the French Cable
Company as a condition Of a settle
ment Of the controversy with Vene-
zuela that a continuous cable shall
connect La Guayra and Martinique.
The accusation against the company
was that the coast line was used to
assist the Matos revolution.
Car Rioters Kill. :
Rio Jareiro.-The tramway strike
conflict is becoming s~erious.i in spite OF
the Intervention of the police, and a
crowd attacked and burned several
cars. It is said that more than 100
were wounded and several were
killed.
Troops Fill Lisbon. i
London.-Dispatches from Lisbon
state that great apprehension exists
in Lisbon owing to the belief that the
Republicans are about to attempt a
coup de main. The city Is filed with
troops, and a number Of arrests have
been made.
Admiral R~ojestvensky Dead.
St. Petersburg, Russia.-Vive-Ad'
miral Rojestvensky, who was In com.
mand of the Russian feet in May
1905, when it was virtually annihit
lated by the Japanese in the Battle OF
the Sea of Japan, Is dead. Neuralgia
of the heart was the cause. Snow
Petrovitch Rojestyensky had bee1
about forty years in the Russian MAJ
val service. "
China Seizes Telegraph Office.
Pekin, China. - The Diplomatic.
Corps are protesting against the seiz
ure of the Pekin telegraph Office,
which in 1901 it was agreed should
be under foreign superintendence.
Russia Ordered 1857 Executed.
st. Petersburg, Russia.-Vice-Ad.
were 1857 persons sentenced to death
in the empire duringthe Russian year
just ended. OF this number 782rwera
executed. The maximum for any
month was 268 death sentences, with
119 executions.
Prince De Sagan Must Pay.
Paris, France.-Prince de Sagan.
husband of the former Anna Gould,
was ordered to pay $4,000 to a no.
tary in Senlis, from whom he Dor.
rowed this amount in 1907.
Priest Leads $4,000 Moros.
Manila, P. Lied by the MAD
Priest" recently released from Bill
bid prison, $4,000 natives Of the ISL
and of Baslin, district of Zamboanga,
are on the rampage. Several clashes
between the Moros and Filipino scouts
have been reported. The scouts have
succeeded in disarming the rebellious'
Moros.
Steamer Sinks in Rapids.
Antwerp, Holland. A message
from Leopoldville, Congo Free State.
says the steamer Capitaine Skagers-
troom sank in the rapids and fifteen
people were drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
Clocks Are Fast.

Whether there is some occult rea-
son for it or not is uncertain, but it
Is a fact that nearly all Of the clocks
in the hotels of New York City are
fast. The average of ~fastness in
twelve hotels within a half mile Of
Herald Square, as observed, was four
and one-half minutes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-02-03
The Earliest Corn.

The earliest mention Of corn in
what is now Kansas is found in the
account of Coronado's expedition in
1541-42. Professor Williston found
charred corn in the ruins of prehis-
toric Indian pueblos in Scott County,
estimated by him to be at least two
and a half centuries old. Bourgmont
found the Kaw Indians cultivating
corr on the present town site of Doni-
phan, in 1924.