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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1910-09-15

FROM US
TO YOU

When you buy Washington Muir
sery Company's trees, you deal d.
rect with a responsible concern.
Each individual order is drawn on
the company's own order blanks and
is entered in the customers own
name and should a misunderstood
ing ever occur you know to whom
to look.
We have a personal interest in
pleasing our customers. We could
not have built up our large business
on other than correct methods.
Our stock is produced under the
most favorable conditions to develop
and mature healthy, hardy, we'll
rooted, fully matured trees. Soil
as fertile as ever made, water as
needed, months of sunshine, contin-
uous cultivation and care, and a
splendid fall season for hardening
the wood fiber before digging, en-
ables us to make good our claim for
superior stock.
When digging time comes we
handle this work expeditiously and
with a system that guarantees our
customers what they have ordered.
If our agent fails to see you, drop
us line.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Sensible Settlement.

Another victory for arbitration
and therefore peace and goodwill be-
tween nation resulted when the ar
filtration court at the Hague set
tied the difference which for a cen
fury have existed between this coun-
try and Great Britain. Behaps not
one of them was important enough
to have provoked a war, but some
of them have caused a good deal Of
friction and unpleasantness, and it
is a good thing every day that they
are disposed of for good. OF course
extremists on both sides of the wat
err will be some what dissatisfied in
asmuch as neither side got all it ask
ed. But probably each got what it
expected and that is the main thing.
How much better it is to settle ques-
tons in this way than to go 10 war,
and have many men killed and mil
lions of dollars spent in carrying it
on.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Watch Out For This Fungus.

DR.. Perley Spaulding, of the bureau
of plant industry, calls attention in
Science" to the fact that he has found
a dangerous European fungus on
white pine trees imported into this
country from Germany. AS he states,
it is a we'll known fact that a fungus
disease introduced into a new climate
is usually much more vIrulent III it's
attacks than in its native country.
This fungus prevents the cultivation
of Pinus Strobus in certain sections Of
Europe where the fungus is indigen.
GUS. We can hardly doubt that it will
be even more destructive should it
once obtain a foothold in America,
The white pine is the tree upon which
depends the entire reforesteration
movement which has been developed
in the northeastern states. Peri
dermium Strobi threatens the profit.
able use of this species and thus di.
rectly concerns all who are connected
with the reforestation question in this
section. At the present stage in this
movement it would be a national cal.
amity to allow this fungus to become
established in America.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Don't Need Them.

More than 100000 immigrants
with their foreign speech, manners
and customs, and ideas Of govern
ment landed upon our shores last
year. 1t taxes the assimilative ca
pacity Of the nation to convert them
into real Americans. With The older
people that is not often possible, but
with the children it is different. The
common schools form a vast crucible
into which the children are put to
come forth with the stamp Of Ameri-
ca upon them and to become earnest,
enthusiastic and helpful citizens. But
after all it is a severe strain and
no other nation could do it. Many
of these immigrants are undesirable
as citizens, and we are glad they
don't come to the South. We would
he glad to have all the Germans,
Irish, Scandinavians and such peo-
pie as these come among us, but we
do not need the black hand gang
and the people of that Tx. We car
get along better without them than
with them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Optimism in Business.

The commercial life both encour-
ages and needs the optimist spirit.
It's rewards are not ideal nor vague,
but tangible and we'll within the reach
Of human effort, and they are acces
sible to the hopes, at least of all
classes. Moreover, ones advance in
1t may be vastly accelerated at any
moment by some lucky or skillful
stroke. And, on the other hand, a
sanguine, confident mood is peculiarly
needed for the enter prises and specu-
lations by which alone commerce can
be sustained and expanded. In the
most thoroughly and intensely COM
m~ercialized community that has ever
existed a sufficient concentration Of
thought on the bright side" will GER
tainly be effected by the mere facts
of the case, and if the forces of altru-
ism and olG-fashioned religion have
any quarrel to prosecute with the
spirit of trade, they may, it seems,
feel themselves free to carry on these
quarrels a l'outrance without weak.
ening their opposition by any alliance
in respect OF Optimism"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
The ChinamarL In Business.

The Chinese are invariably court
eous and considerable II you take them
In the right way. Superstition, OF
course, is deeply %engrafted in their
natures, and a kind Of Kismet policy.
after the policy Of the Turks, taken
possession of them, so that whatever
is going to happen will happen, and
there the matter ends, says the
Shanghai Mercury.
Battling against fate for a China
man is sheer waste Of time, and he
simply bows his head to the newt
able. Take, for example, the strict
attention Or rather the devotion that
Is paid to "feng-shui" on the Yangtze.
Feng-shui is the superstition that de.
termines good site or locality, and If a
town on the Yangtze has not a good
feng-shui, trade will not come to it
and it will be ruined.
A town named Pei-Shih had it's
pagoda in the wrong place, not far
enough down the river, in fact, the
result being that Pei-Shih was left
out in the cold. All the talk in the
world would not convince the Pei-Shih
folk that the depression could arise
from any other cause than that of
bad feng-shul, SO they pulled the pa.
coda down and built another one in
supposed right spot. So far prosperity
has not returned to fei-Shih, though
the inhabitants live in hope.
The city Of Wanshein, on the other
hand, has perfect fcng-shui, two fine
pagodas, one a Thousand feet high,
below the town, while Wanshien itself
is very prosperous. The fact that
Wanshien is situated in a most fer
tile valley, where wheat, barley and
the poppy flourish a%bundantly, does
not concern the Inhabitants of these
places so much as the feng-shui site.
This absurd idea in the Chinese mind
is only one of thousands like it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Pride.

Some people are very much afraid
of pride, confounding it with arro-
gance. Pride differs from arrogance
in that it is based upon the genuine,
not the false.
One sort of pride makes a mar hold
up his head and feel himself a man.
It will not allow bin to do a mean &C
ton, or associate with bad company.
It leads him to earn his own living
and to pay his debts; to cheat no man
out Of so much as a penny. This
pride will lead him to be honorable in
business; to make his word as good as
his bond; to scorn deception.
The right pride leads a man to do
his duty as a citizen. Should he hold
an office, he performs the duties Of
that office to the best of his ability.
He takes an active part in public af-
fairs. He shows pride in being a good
neighbor and friend. He is an honor
able, upright man, worthy of the re-
spect of all who know him and Of the
community in which he lives.
A wrong pride puffs a man up with
a sense of his own importance. He
feels himself superior to others and
%endeavors to impress them with that
superiority. He makes himself dis
agreeable when he imagines there is
not sufficient attention paid to him.
He is so great in his own estimation
that every one else appears small to
him. He fails to give them their just
due. He thinks more of the regard
others owe him than of that he owes
to others. He is the mouse who
thinks to cast a shadow like an ele
plant"
For such pride the world has nc
use. For the right pride the demand
is far, far greater than the supply
Milwaukee Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
CensureS Pistol Toting.

In passing sentence on Claude c..
CAN'T, of Swansea, who had been
convicted of carrying concealed wea-
pons, after he had been acquitted of
murder in the Lexington court, Judge
Gage said the killing of Coughman
by CAN'T was directly due to the car
rying of concealed weapons and he
warned the young man-to never again
carry a weapon. II do not W a
pistol myself" said Judge Gage, land
there is not a pistol in my house.
The man who has a pistol, whether
on his person or in his home, GER
tainly has a dangerous instrument,
and something that is calculated to
make a man desperate"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
WITH CRIME.
White Boys Arrested for Post Office
Robbery in Virginia.

Cohen Moore and Walker Hayes
two white boys, about Is years of
age, yer carried from Greenville
Monday night to North Holster, Va ,
charged with the robbery of the POST
Office at that place. They hare been
in jail at Greenville for about two
weeks.
The boys were first suspected when
they were found by Sheriff Poole
and his deputy, Mr.. Hunsin yer, to
be selling stamps in large quantities.
to several Greenville people at ralf
price. They were apprehende.i and
lodged in jail and a number Of pieces
Of evidence we're collected, before
which n of the boys broke down
and made a confession. Parties who
had bought the stamps were found,
and there were also located in differ
ent parts Of the city articles of CLOTH
ing, which were identified as belong
ing to the postmaster at North Hols-
ten.
1t is alleged that the boys robbed
the post office at that place some
months back and afterwards made
their way to the Greenville section.
About 1925 worth of stamps was
taken out and a number of articles
Of minor value. Of the stamps about
$50 worth has been recovered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
MUsKRATs FOR FUR AND FOOD.
Trapping Them a Large Industry on
Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Trapping the little rnuskrat and sell
ing It's fur and meat form a thriving
industry down on the Eastern shore
Of Maryland. According to the Fur
News, the trappers will receive about
$500 900 this year for their catch OF
the furry denizens of the swamps. In
Dorcester county alone the muskrat
dealers have been paid 100000 for
this seasons pelts, to say nothing OF
what they received from the sale OF
meat, this alone more than paying the
rental of the marshes, the cost of the
traps and the expense of looking aftel
them. The prices offered by buyers
this season ranged from 80 to Is ceEts
g. hide, the hide from the kitten, or
young rat, which had been considered
almost worthless, bringing the former
price. Says the Fur News
The big black rat commanded the
top of the market always, the black
fur being considered the finest as well
as the most durable. The fur of the
brown rat is less valuable because of
the color and coarseness of the hair.
It generally brings from Is to %
cents less than the rur of the black
rat.
There are few sections of the
United States where the meat of the
muskrat is used for food, as it is OH
the eastern shore of Maryland. In
many sections of the country the
little rodent is looked upon with
disdain by those who claim to
know a good thing when they see 1t,
but when they talk of it as being all
unclean animal,and unfit for the table.
it shows how little they know of this,
the cleanest of all animals that live
The great majority Of people are
prejudiced against the muskrat be-
cause it bears the name Of rat. BY
n other name it would eagerly be
sought after by epicures. The roots
and herbs of the marshes, on when
alone it subsists, are thoroughly
scrubbed by the little animal before
it will allow them to come on its
table"
Defending the muskrat from the
charge Of being an unclean little
beast, Fur News's authority declares
that the house in which it lives, made
Of the marsh grasses, and towering
above the highwater mark, is always
as dry as a powder magazine and
spotlessly clean, so there is nothing
about the much.despised rat of the
great marshes to make it other than
what it really is, 1.-The cleanest and
most toothsome little animal that can
be cooked up and served" The
writer AIDES that at all the leading
restaurants on the eastern shore the
muskrat in season takes the leading
part at midnight suppers. He believes
that the musKrat industry Of Mary
land peninsula bids fair 10 over step
the oyster industry.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
DEATHS FROM tNAESTHETICs.
They are Small in Proportion t.
Cases, but Caution is Necessary.

SoSSo y Sdah'Oh 10
The melancholy death under an an
aesthetic Of Hon. T. \. Powys, the
Young heir and only son Of Lord Lii
ford, in the course Of an operation
not generally aSsociat' d with any
idea OF danger, is an event which VIII
direct public attention to the dangers
attendant upon thu use of an~aesthetics
in general and upon the !. ~cautions
necessary in ORDER to reducs these
dams, rs to d minimum. From the re
port of the inquest upon Mr.. Powys, II
appears that he was suffering iron
the enlargements at the back C the
throat which are commonly known a:
ldenoid engagements, whicn are no.
attended by an immediate danger t.
life. A professional anaesthetist wa'
emplore dto conduct the administra
ton and he began his proceedings BY
a complete examination of the patient
in whose condition he discovered
nothing to call for more than ordinary
caution. The anaesthetic used was a
mixture of chloroform with ether, and
1t was not until the operation was
nearly completed that a sudden failing
of respiration gave warning of i'm
minent danger. A post-mortem exam
nation disclosed the existence OF a
condition called status lymphatlcGs,
which appears not to be dlscoVerable
during life and which involves special
Hanger in the use of anaesthetlcs.
The occasional occurrence Of fatal
consequences from the administration
of chloroform or of ether, however,
much to be deplored in the individual
instances, should not be permitted to
divert attention from the enormous
number of cases in which they save
life by permitting the performance OF
operations which it would be impos'
sible to accomplish without their aid.
II may be safely said that, in round
numbers, there are 5000 successful
administrations of anaesthetics for
every death attributable to them; and
it is only the immense number Of
operations which they have rendered
possible and successful explains the
comparatively small number of fatal
accidents which have occurred in a
given hospital or in a given time.
Notwithstanding the vast preponder-
ance of safety, it is impossible to deny
the existence of a certain, or rather
of an uncertain, amount of real dan
ger, and hence there is a very general
feeling that the powerful drugs con-
cerned have been employed in the past
with somewhat greater freedom than
is entirely Observation-Disclosures Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Two Special Judges.

On account of the sickness of
Judge j. C. Klugh, Governor Ansel
Thursday evening made two appoint
of special Judges.
The Hon. B. H. Moss, of Orange
burg, will hold Court at Orangeburg
Of October 3 and in Dorchester
County at the term beginning Octo-
Der 10, the latter being General Ses-
sions, and the Orangeburg Court of
Common Pleas.
The Hon j. Otey Reed, of ST.
George, will hold the Court of Com
mon Pleas and General Sessions in
Berkeley County, beginning Novem-
Der 7, and the term of Court in Cal
houn, both Common Pleas and Cen
eral Sessions, beginning November
81. Judge Klugh has been assigned
to this work of the LIST circuit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
CAN'T Goes Free.

Claude C. CAN'T, Of Swansea, was
acquitted by a jury at Lexington on
Thursday for the murder Of Fred
Caughman on the streets Of Swansea
January 20, last. The jury re-
NAMED ont one hour. Later Can't
was convicted on the charge of car
rying concealed weapons and was
sentenced to pay a fine Of 500 or
serve 80 day in the county jail. The
fine was paid and CAN'T was imme-
diately released.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Robbed by Bandit.

After robbing W. K. Ewing, a we'll
known business man Of San Antonio.
Texas, and his companions. two
prominent society women, of money
and jewels valued at s1,400 two
masked highwaymen seized their au-
tomobile and escaped. Mr.. Ewing
and party were on the way 10 a club
near the city,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Wanted-.Every man, woman and
child in South Carolina to know
that the "Alco" brand of Sash,
Doors and Blinds are the best
and are made only by the Augusta
Lumber Company, who manufac-
ture everything in Lumber and
Millwork and whose watchword IL
equality" Write Augusta Lum.
Der Company, Augusta, Georgia,
for prices on any order, large or
small.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Snake i'm a jug.

After using all the buttermilk she
had gotten from a neighbor and pour
ed in a jug, Mrs. T. F. Parks. of
Bold Spring, Ca, emptied the jug
and found a good sized highland
m%occasin had been having a butter
milk bath for several days.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Child Run Down.

AT Mobile, Ala, Walker L. Bras
we'll, the four-year-old child of Rob-
ert L, Braswell, was instantly killed
in front of the boys parents home
on Duphin Way Thursday afternoon
by running in front of a street car.
The body was badly mangled. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

For sale-Milch COWS, Jerseys, and
grades Of good breeding, register
ed jersey male calves. White Col
lie dogs, (registered). Also SER
vice from a registered, beautiful
white Collie Ten ($10) dollars
guaranteed, Bronze turkeys, and
Yarmouth hogs. Address II. 3.
Sans, Jonesville, 8. c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Electric engines Will haul the ships
through the Panama Canal when the
big ditch is completed. This will pre-
ven serious accidents and collisions.
The electric engines will run on spec.
tally constructed tracks on the bank.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Lands for Sale.

700 acres, Z miles Americas; 400
acres red and gray level lands; bal
ance sandy loan, slightly rolling.
clay subsoil under all; we'll improv-
ed; good dwelling, ginnery, tenant
houses, etc. $500 per acre. One.
half cash.
100 acres, 2 1-2 miles Cuthbert;
no waste lands, red pebble, clay sub
soil; 2 good tenant houses, barn
cotton house. $4,000 per acre.
800 acres, Z miles Cuthbert; 8
miles Coleman; 8 room house, 2
good tenant houses; gray and peb-
BILE and sandy loan, with clay sub
soil; rented 8 bales of cotton. g..
900 in cash.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
Names Fatal Waters,

Sixty-one persons, all but seven
of them residents of Maine, lost their
lives by drowning in the waters of
that State during the summer just
closed. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

For Sale-Up-to-date Georgia Peach
Farm; thirty thousand crates this
year. Also improved Georgia farms
and farm lands. Write for par
ticulars. H. F. Strobeeker, Macon,
Ga.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

1882 Acres of Good Farm Land
400 cultivated under fence, bal
ance will saw 100000 feet Of
yellow pine lumber. A steam gin
and gristmill; 6 room dwelling,
out houses, 8 tenant houses, three
miles of railroad station. Only
$3.50 per acre to take all. Write
J. NJ. McNeel, McRae, Ga.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

The hookworm and parisitical dis
eases cured by the q. u. Specific.
Trial bottles sent on receipt of ten
cents to owe postage and pack
age. The q. q. Specific Co., Buff
falo, n. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Latest :Fiction-Our little booklet,
Books of the Month" contains a
brief synopsis of all the latest
books. 1t is free. Write for it.
Sims Book Store, Orangeburg, S. C..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Wanted Salesmen-A few more hus-
tiers on our new Standard Atlas.
New census 500 available. Spleen
did opportunities for money max
ing. Excellent line for ex-teach-
ers. Write The Scarborough Com
pany, Charlotte, N. C.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Wanted-to buy your hides, skins,
tallow, wool, beeswax, etc., at
highest market prices and settle
ment sent promptly. Telephone
1920. Wilse w. Martin, Colum-
bia, S. G.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Mississippi Delta Lands.-Why toll
your life away on the poor farms
your grandfather wore out? Come
to Mississippi Delta where n al
grow more than ten can gather.
I have what you want at the right
price and terms. Come or write
w. T. Pitts, Indianola, Miss.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Male Teachers Wanted for good viii
lage and rural schools. If open to
offer write for special enrolment
offer. Can place you at once.
Southern Teachers Agency, Col
umbia, S. C.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Wanted--Men to take fifteen days
practical cotton course, accept
good positions during the fall.
Charlotte Cotton Company, Char
lotte, N. G..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Wanted-Men and ladies to take 3
months Practical course. Expert
management. High salaried posi-
tons guaranteed. Write for cata-
logue now. Charlotte Telegraph
School, Charlotte, N. C..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Cut this QUIT may not appear
again. How gamblers win, at slot
machines, cards, dice, etc., by Sc
cret systems. Get wise. Circular
free. Ham. B. Co., Box 1917,
Hammond, Ind.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28
CLASSIFIED COLUMN
Ship your calves, hogs, sheep, lambs,
etc., to The Parlor Market, Augus-
ia, Ca, 1913 Broad Street.
Summer Boarders Wanted-Rates
$500 to $500 per week. No con-
sumptives taken. Mrs. Wade Har-
rison, McAlpiu House, Saluda, N.
G.

Queen Liver Pills are used by thous-
ands who want to keep well-25c
a box. Queen Chemical Co., New
port, R. L.
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y
Write for list to the,
SOUTHERN LAND COMPANY,
Ga, Cuthbert, Ga,
or Thomaston, Ga.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Boy and Girl Agents-Sell "a pack
ages of post cards for us at 10
cents each and receive a camera
or a%eroplane free; send no money;
write today. Empire Specially
Co., Dept 8, SO Nostrand Ave,
Brooklyn, \. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

South Georgia.-Illustrated bookley
descriptive of this finest farming
section of the South sent free by
addressing w. L. Glessner, Angus
ia, Ga.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Farms for Sale in North and South
Carolina and Virginia. Ask for
large list. State your wants. R.
E. Prince, Raleigh. N. c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-28

Wanted.-Men to take thirty days
practical course in u machine
shops and learn automobile bust
ness. Positions secured graduates
$500 per week and up. Char
lotte Auto School, Charlotte, N. G..