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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-28

7 cakes Octagon Soap Csc,
8 boxes Search Light Matches
10c, 10 lbs Keg Soda Csc, Rice
SC lb at Cash Bargain Store.
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G0-FLY
Born.

Go-Fly keeps flies of horses and cattle. 25c
and SOC. At all drug stores. lot
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-28
Wanted to Buy.

ToMrs. w. R. Bradley, a daughter, Tues
day, July q, 1905.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-28
DIRE DISTRESS.
It Is Near at Hand to Hundreds OF
AbbevilIe Readers.

Don't neglect an aching back.
Backache is the kidneys cry for
help.
Neglect h%urrying to their aid
Means that urinary troubles follow
quickly
Dire distress, diabetes, Bright's dis
aqsa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-28

Farmers Union will meet lat Sharon on
Thursday Aug. 5.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-28

Good quality yard wide
White Homespun only Sc I'D
at Cash Bargain Store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe. ]


We admire a mean man who gets out
Of town, and does not try to live it
down.
One important reason for a mans
loving his wife is that there is no scan
dal connected with it.
After mans sweetheart has step
ped on his foot he is apt to lose the
notion that she is a fairy
The look on any married woman's
face should convince the girls that the
men are not worth the eXertion neces-
sary to catch one.
There isn't anything in the world
that will put heavier crepe on wo-
mans prospects than an attempt to
get even with man.
Possibly it occurs to you that Lysan-
der John Appleton's name appears in
the Globe a good deal. 1t doesn't ap-
pear half as often as he tries to get it
in; every Globe reporter is always
fighting Appleton items.
This is the way an Atchison weather
prophet acts: He will say: I'VE VIII
have rain" No rain that day. Then
he will say next day: I'VE will have
RAIN No rain He keeps this up I'M
til there is rain. and then the weather
prophet says: What did I tell yOu!'
In many towns the women howl anG
cry for their rights. There is no sucn
noise in Atchison. Yesterday an Atch-
ison man did something that did not
please the woman he married. We
them. but he had her arrested for
whipping him.
The worrying man always has some
thing to worry about; If it isn't one
thing. it's another. It's in his blood to
worry; he can't help it. 1t is useless
to talk to him about worry being bad
for the liver; he knows it, but worries
Roadway YOU make in overcoming
your bad habits.
Daysey Mayme Appleton recently
visited in the country. Il like it, shs
wrote home; "the morning concerts OF
the birds. the pure air, the unobstruct-
ed horizon and sky arouse the tender
est emotions in me: Everything de-
lights me but that expression Stop the
hogs 7 hear it twice a day, and am
coming home tomorrow"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
Bean Soup For Alcoholism.

The "bean soup remedy introduced
by Sheriff William w. Worreu as one
of his economy and reform plans is
not only saving Burlington county sew
eral hundred dollars monthly, but is
making more real converts to temper
ance than any other cure yet discover
ed. Criminologists who have studied
the phenomenal results of the bean
soup program pronounce it a greater
success than the wash and work.
edict by which the new sheriff has
cleaned the county of tramps.
Tramps were the scourge of small
cities and towns about the county
when Mr.. Worreu went into office.
Past conditions at the Jail had made it
a handy winter retreat for the idle.
When Mr.. WorreH made the tramp
prisoners battle, wash their cells, and
do all the work about the jail, there
was such a bolt to other counties that
the saving on the tramps board bill
alone would pay for new Jail build
ing
The sheriff a few days ago began to
apply his new plan to the dipSoman-
iacS sent Up as 'steadies." When the
tramps deserted the prison work was
given to the habitual drunkards. but
in addition, the sheriff prescribed a
daily menu of bean soup for all such
prisoners.
Protests from some of the prisoners
under the unchanging diet of bean
soup are reaching the OuleT world.
One came to Police Captain Shumard
of Burlington, yesterday. It says, in
part:
Dear Cap: 1 am writing to see il
you can't get some of my time taken
off I don't like the bean soup they
serve out over here. They don't even
use white beans any more. They
make it out of yellow cans. But it's
bean soup just the same, and nothing
but bean soup every day. Damn the
beans! I am q sobered man now, and
can keep sober five months, for if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
JAYHAWKER JCTS

| you hear lot about the American
love Of fair play observes the Man
| haitian Mercury. but no umpire was
! ever mobbed for letting the home
| team win
1t occurs to the editor of the Burns
! Citizen that most men like to run a
washing machine-in front of a hard
ware store.
Senator Brady remarks that "the
public utilities bin is a live wire yet"
Charlie Blaklesley awnts to know if
| this is why the legislature put it IN
foreground?
There is no hope for that Centralia
farmer who is Dragging that he not
only has not bought motor car yet,
but he hasn't even had the graphic
phone fever.
when a mans wife goes away
from home for week." remarks Tom
Thompson, ''the neighbors are really
disappointed if he behaves himself
while she is gone
The Dighton Herald says that the
reason the European police are keep
ing such close tab on Bill White is
because the European police can't
tell the difference between boss
buster and an anarchist.
rs there anything prettier in this
world than little old bullet headed,
fat necked baby?" inquiries the Law
renee World. And the Fort Scott Re
publican makes reply: ITS all a
would award the prize to the baby's
1S-year-old aunt"
Fred Beatty bought a nice. slick,
black chauffeur's leather cap when he
bought his auto. The first day he
came chanting down town he
wrecked his machine and hasn't been
able to get it fixed, but you bet he's
wearing that new cap every day, all
right, all right.-Howard Courant
The Sylvia Sun thinks that "the
editor who sandwiches a lot of dis
gusting patent medicine ads between
news items in his local columns over
looks a bet. He might rent his shirt
bosom to carry an ad of pale pills for
pink people, and herald DR.. Kings
alleged discovery in red ink on his
old bald head"
It is said there was quite little
kicking, and came near being a riot
in the penitentiary at Lansing on
Sunday. The inmates demanded
green turtle soup, fried chicken and
ice cream for dinner and when the
new warden apologized for not being
able to fill the order there was gen
eral dissatisfaction expressed, and
movement was started among the in
mates to demand the resignation of
the new warden. Report says that he
only succeeded in saving his reputa-
ton, and probably his job by calling
attention to the fact that he had
agreed to quit as soon as Governor
Stubs could find a man who know
something about the warden business
to take the salary. - Lawrence
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
QUAKEE NlEDITATToNs.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record
Stretching the truth won't make II
last any longer.
The girl who IL quick to see faults is
apt to remain an old maid.
A thing that is not to be sncezed at
appeals to the victim OF hay fever.
Lots of things 80 without saying. but
a laxative woman isn't one OF them.
The trolley car conductor Is not 4
numismatist. but ne is nevertheless a
coin collector.
Nell-"He told me / was a bird"
Belle-"Oh, he was just trying to stuff
you. You know he's taxidermist''
The trouble with the fellow who Is
making u fool of himself is that he
generally wants 10 work overtime on
the job.
Overheard at the bah game. He
you Will notice that the catcher wears
a mask She-"I would. too, II I had
his face"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


lFIOiH the chicago News.
No. Cordelia. stays do not make o
woman staid.
Do you think others envy you be-
cause of your shrewdness?
More spinsters might marry IL other
women didn't marry so often
From a wOman's viewpoint a court
of last resort is a divorce court.
You can make an enemy of a friend
by convincing him that he's a fool
It's harder for a man to raise bees
than it is for bees to raise a man.
You may has observed that satisfied
people as rule, keep quiet about IT,
When people get divorce the real
reason doesn't always show on the sur
face.
fashioned honesty should never
be allowed to drift into the has-bcen
class.
The bark of the average dog is worse
than his bite; the bark is usually kept
up all night.
Did you ever see a self-muda man
who was able to talk to a stranger for
ten minutes without mentioning the
fact?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
SOME BASE INGRATTTUDE.

It is scarcely believable that the banks
of Missouri, particularly those of kan
sas City in that state. are furnishing
funds to pay the expenses of fight
which is about to be wagcd against the
ansas law providing for the guarantee
of the deposits in the state banks. Such
action smacks OF the basest ingratitude.
To the surplus funds of the banks of
Kansas and also to a big portion of
the huge deposits IN Kansas banks do
many of the Kansas City, Mo, banks
owe their prosperity and the commr nd
ing positions that they occupy in the
banking world of this country. The
banks of Kansas have used these Mis-
souri banks as repositories for the
Urge sums Of money that they have
been unable to use at home here to
the bsst advantage. These deposits
have meant a great deal to the Kansas
city banks and to the business inter
ests of that town. It has placed at
their disposal large sums of money
which they would not have had other
wise.
And now these Missouri banks, which
have been so favored. are reported to
be turning like snakes in the grass
and providing the slime to grease the
able to convince the courts that the
Kansas bank guaranty law should be
declared null and void. This law was
demanded by the people of Kansas. It
is generally acceptable to the bankers
of this state. In fact the bankers of
Kansas played d most important part
in the framing and passage of this leg
islatiOn.
If it turns out to be true that the
Kansas City bankers are concerned il;
Flaming an assault on the guaranty
law measures of retaliation should be
immediately adopted against them and
these measures cannot be too severe.
1t is respectfully suggested to the Mis-
souri, bankers that they attend to their
own business. There would appear to
be plenty of room for this from the his
tory of banking in Kansas City of al
not too distant date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
THAW,S SANITY.

Like the famous Banquo'S ghost the
Harry K. Thaw case will not down.
Probably most folks are tired of read
ing about it in editorial columns as well
as news columns. But as it continues,
it grows more interesting, especially
Eoorcerning the efforts of Mr.. Jerome
and expert alienists for the prosecution
to prove that the young man is insane.
Some of these efforts are Iaughable to
the extreme. Or Gardner, one of the
physicians employed at the Matteawan
state hospital for New Yorks insane
criminals, was on the witness stand
the other cay. He delivered the opinion
that Thaw is insane. He based this
opinion on his observations of Thaw's
actions since he has been in conf1ne
ment. He had a volumtnous record of
these actions from which he picked
certain of them showing the defective
mental makeup of the notorious young
man.
ore instance he cited was that Thaw
became peevish when ne was refused
a drink of whisky for which he asked.
This would be the action of natural
man w1o had been as accustomed as
vas Thaw to the use Of liquor. Then
again, Thaw frequently played cards
with other inmates. When they made
plumbers he called them asses" "donk
oys'' and the like.
This is just exactly the way most
persons who are credited with being
sane act under similar circumstances.
Indeed, If all the card players in the
world who become angry and call their
partners asses" for their mistakes
were adjudged to he insane for that
reason, there wouldn't be enough in
sane asylums to care for a small frac
ton Of them.
Instead Of proving Thaw insane with
a rehearsal of such actions of his as
these, the expert aienists for the pros
ecutiou would seem to be really prov
irg that he is pretty much of a nor
rial man, mentally speaking. All of this
goes to show the almost utter unreHa-
tility of expert testimony in insanity
cases. The experts viii go to any
erds, regardless Of how ridiculous they
may be, to prove the point that they
are being paid to prove.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The 'ealIy heavy homework in some
families IS the making of the bread
and cake.
X
Reaching a conclusion is not hard.
The difficulty lies in being able to stick
to it.
Folks that are able to make both
ends meet generally have something
else to worry them.
y
It's far from being the case that
Parents always lose their daughters on
their getting married
e y
There's a lot OF talk about marriage
being failure, yet widows and widow
ers appear to be keen to try it again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05

Graham said, looking earnestly down at
her.
Margaret sat 5psechless; 1t seemed
so unreal. so like a dream.
Don't ne shocked tY the impetuous-
Eess of my wooing," he went on, a
thrilling tenderness in his deep voice
we never loiter over things in the
hustliEs land where I have nede my
home. 1 came back to Tloxboro %
marry the other Margaret Burton. But
It's you I want. Do you think-you
could eVer-loVe me?''
into the sparrow's song, and the leafy
boughs, tossing in the wind, seemed to
laugh for very happiness.
Il know l could Margaret answered
softly.-(C Copyrighted. 1909. by Associa-
ted Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05

The fond husband was seeing his wife OFF
country. AS She got into the train. he
said: But, my dear; won't you take some
$500 70 SaE =, vi. 20. she tespohoeo
from home. '-TatleF.
Sillcus-Yes; she has threatened 10 make
things unpleasant for him. Cynicus-Is that
so? When are they gong 20 be married.
Philadelphia Record.
Miss Knox-There's scandalous story
about her in this mornings Daily HowleT.
Miss Goodart-But you can't believe any
thing you read in that paper. Miss Knox
L can II want to.-CathOlic Standard ard
Times.
Old Gent (brJised and bIeeding)-Tve
been blackjacked and robbed and Don't
bother me; I'm timing motor cart
Ally Sloper.
said she would not marry him till he ar
rived at years Of discretion. Brooklyn
Il don't have to be Il darned fool to be
a P aiIc5 snapped the a,rguier Then"
do it?'-Cleveland Leader.
stella-Are they economical? Belia-Yes;
they el0ped to save the cost of wedding
a divorce.-New York sun.
The Major-I saved that rose YOU gave
me last week, Miss Antique. for though
It IT'S, is withe9red, it still reminds me Of you!
MISS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Work ana
Evangelist.
biggern mine, Mother-But Arthurs has
q much larger hole in II than yours has,
Bobby.-St. Louis Post-Disppatch.
Waiter-The gent in the other room says
Jhere chicken in his egg. Manager
Cuts.
Rather hard cold you've got there. old
man; taking anything for it?' mo, I'be
uot You see. id bleases the baby so buch
to hear be sneeze.' Life.
Doctor, do you think the operation will
prove fatal?' If 1t does, II shant cost you
a cent Houston Post.
Prehistoric Beliefs this the place where
a girl fell into the water last week and a
took her to his cave and married herr
prehistoric Man Cnervously)--I believe il
81 Bits BUT can't swim a str0l'e--Illustrated
They say it takes three generations to
make a perfect gentleman Three gin
rickeys often do IL Just as effcctfveiv''-
Pfttsburg Post.
What kind Of part have I in the new
R Ine, 4 Is there any chance Of my pleas
die in the first act."-Judge.
The man with the CLASSY eye and prefer
naturally solemn demeanor put down a
sovereign at the booking office at Charing
Cross and demanded a ticket. What sta
tom, snapped the booking clerk The
would-be traveller steadied himself What
stations have your" he asked. with quiet
dfgntty.-London Globe.
Hamfatt--Aha! I've a letter from me
friend Boothby. but I like not his diction.
Barnstorm-What says the old Thespian?
Hamfatt-Thus: 1--WE are separated nv
hundreds of miles, but there are many
ties between us.'-Cleveland Leader
DO you believe everything your husband
tells you Yes. except his promise to
weed the garden when he comes home from
work. Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
Electric Subway for Mail.

Plans are now under consideration
for an underground electric railway in
Vienna for the transmission of postal
matter. 1t is proposed to link to-
gether the chief postofice and sixty
four substations and the nine railway
stations in the city. Letters, newspa-
pers. and parcels will be carried over
this line instead of in wagons through
the streets. It is estimated that the
line would take the place of 450 mail
wagons and 700 horses, which now
make some $500 journeys through the
CITY every day.
The railway will be built in a sub
way five feet high and a little less in
width. Each car will carry 80 pack
ages, which is equal to the capacity
of a one-horse mail wagon. Trains of
eight cars will be run every 20 min
utes from $50 in the morning till 10
O'Clock at night. They will carry no
motormen, but will be operated from
dispatch stations, and will travel about
90 miles an hour.-Vienna correspond
ence of the Pail Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
fpoN OTHER PENS

LIABILITY BREEDS PROBATION
There are of course honorable ex-
ceptions here among our employers.
Some of them from motives of hui
mainly keep their factories abreast
Of the times in this phase of equip
ment But to the best of our
recollection nearly every delegation of
foreign visiting experts going the
rounds of our great manufacturing
plants and mines has expressed sur
prise at their comparative lack OF
safety devices.
Wonderfully complete in every
mechanical advance and eXpedient for
improving output and economiztng
production cost, they are far behind
English and German plants for
minimizing the risks of handling or
being continually about machinery.
These risks spring largely from that
carelessn ess of workers. bred by IA
miliarity with them. But that does
alter the principle.
Given a stricter and director system
of compensation for injury, and the
provision of safety devices would
follow automatically. The class OF
employers who are callous to the
more generous consideration would
then be quick to see their own IN
terest in providing them.
Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
TCLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
J 60 any address at the rate of ten
cents week or thirty cents a month
k(hy mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out Of town
the State Journal VIII be to you Hike
q daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFrom the New York e!

There's hardly any visit so enjoya bic
as when you know you'll have 10 do it
gain
Women arc much more particular
about references for their servants
than for their friends.
It's so natural for a girl to hirt that
when she's doing it she acts just a. IL
she were saying her catechism.
An ambition is what a man thinks he
could do to benefit the world; a mission
is what he tries 20 do to support his
family.
A girl wearing ball slippers could gee
lost in d blizzard with a beau and
never think of catching cold but be
afraid of dying from pneumonia II she
had to cross the street in rubber boots
with her father in light drizzle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05

cruciating torture, but none of them
could have been more effective in the
latter regard than a plan which has
been adopted by a New Jersey sheriff
for Kidding his community OF tramps.
He chains the hoboes to trees and then
sets a band of fuTlhedged Jersey mos
quitoes on them. Naturally, in min
ute or two, the knights of the road are
quite anxious for an opportunity to
leave town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
vaccinating the Nerritos.

In order to vaccinate successfully
the NegritOs who dwell in the noun
tains of Bataan and Zambales the
services of two Negrito chiefs have
been secured and the work of vacci-
nation is being pushed along as rap
idly as possible.
Heretofore it has been difficult to
round up all the Negritos for the
vaccinator, and the novel scheme of
placing the chiefs in charge was final
ly adopted. They Immediately con-
sented to undertake the work, are de-
lighted with the service, and are not
allowing any members of the tribes
to escape them. In a number of in
stances it has been known that Negri-
tos have spread the disease among the
residents of the loWlands, and the
present scheme promises to put COM
plete stop to this.
The chiefs are accompanied by an
experienced vaccinator to see that
everything is properly done, but they
themselves are doing the work They
make regular reports, too and when
they run out of subjects make an in
spection of those vaccinated, and all
upon whom the vaccination has not
properly taken are Immediately sub
jected to another treatment with the
vaccine.-Manila Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05
Lord roberts as a Collector.

The fact Is not generally Known that
Lord Roberts, who celebrated his
golden wedding the other day, is a
great collector of curios. His charm
ing house. Englemere, Ascot, is liter
aIly crammed with odds and ends
picked up from time to time, nearly
all of which have some interesting
story attached to them.
One of the most curious of these is
an irreguIarIy shaped piece of dirty
white rag, which greatly puzzles all
who behold it for the first time. 1t
is the flag of truce which General
Cronje sent in to announce his sur
render at Paardeberg.-T
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05

In defense of the feminine headgesr
of prevailing fashions the Boston Her
aid quotes a Mrs. Whooper as follows:
"You can say all the sighting things
you please about my headwear, but
it's no worse for me to have a big hat
in the afternoon or evening than it is
for you to have a big head in the
rr,nrrnfrn >,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-05

There is something to be said in
favor of the new jackson cocktail" It
is credited with the effect of making
a man rob his own trunk. The great
trouble with other Intoxicating liquors
Is that they have a tendency TO make
the men who use them rob the trunks
of other fellows