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'?" .'l?.-; "* <" "*. >" v ~ . yv;>-^. . . . , - - -,., ?... .. . ; ' " .... ... . . . . ,,v - ' " ' The Abbeville Press and Banner. | BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1901. ESTABLISHED 1844 1 ? 4 CAPT. F. U Decribes Scenes in a Japanese of How He Dined?A Curiou July 24.1901. | At Sea U. S. A. T. "Meade." | Today Is Thursday. aud we expect to reach San Francisco Saturday. u/- \tuiitin fust. Hbnut mldniifht of the I 4th July. The 'ooat would have nailed at 4 p. m., but General McArtbur, who wai* one of tbe Dan senders, could not very well fail to attend a reception given In his honor by tbe new gov ernor. Judge Taft, so the Meade waited, with sieam up, uIh return from ashore and then started out of the haibor. Tbetlrstfew daynot our trip were very uneventful, although the passenger list was large, tbe people seemed quiet and subdued. I was waked upon tbe mornlug of the 9th from a cot In which I had slept on deck to keep cool, to find the boat entering a very picturesque harbor, whlob proved to be thatoi Nagasaki. 'l'he queer little Japanese light bouse at the entrance looked very odd In tbo early dawD. Japan has certainly tbe advantage of being characteristic, eveu In tbe imitation of west ern nations. As we were delayed a few moments waiting for the health officer to come aboard, befor?proceeding down tht harbor, I bad time to go below, get dressed and return with my camera lo get the benefit of the picturesq ue scenery as we steamed several miles through a narrow chaunel to our anchorage opposite the city. By this time the sun was well up and I got itome pictures, which I hope will turn out nicely?tbe only ones I was able to <? is non 111 nfTV.nre to use a camera around Nagasaki; aud 1 was told Ibat the Japs bad taken especial pleasure in sendlug to the penitentiary two Russian officers who had been detected violating this law. Tbe> would probably not be so severe on an American, but I did not care to lake any chance* , of missing the Meade, so ray Japanese pictures were taken at long range. One of our first things that attracted our at tentlon was the native way of propelling a boat, instead of rowing or sculllug irom the centre of the stern, a Jap moves his craft by means of a long pole resting on one corner ol the stern and reaching back diagonally over the boat. Standing so as to face the side o1 the latter, be pushes bis end of thepole acrosthe boat and then pulls It back again with 11 twist of the wrist, in this way he gets up a very respectable speed and manipulates a boat 20 or 30 feet long, with considerable ease. Before the Meade had let her anchorage, we were surrounded by three "Sampans." and as soon as the gaug plank was lowered a stream of enterprising tradesmen and peddlers came aboard with a most varied assortment ol wares. Tbe tailors seemed to be out in particularly j strong foroe aud would guarantee a satisfac tory suit, made to order from any of their samples in six hours time. A good many ol the passengers Invested In clothes, especially those officers who bad been In the provinces and bad noopportunlty tokeepsupplled with presentable wardrobes. As it was uncertain whether 1 would need furs lor Kouih Dakota, or duck for Texas, I did not invest. AB BOOH tta puwsiuitr LUC woi |i6?kv>u n~.v alongKlde and the real business of the day began. The coal passers were Japanese men aud women, and a queer looking lot they were. I was particularly struck wttb their social Ideas as to dress reform?or more correctly dress omission?and the entire absense 01 any embarrassing false modesty about appearances in public. Juki as the work was about to begin one of the women fell overboard. On being pulled back by ber companion^ she stood on the deck of the lighter and made a complete change of clothes with u<> more apparent consciousness than an American woman would show lu adjusting ber bat. I Many of the women had their children with them. If the family contained a girt or nine I or ten, the latter carried at least one buby, ; slung on ber back so as to leave only it*; head and neck free to wabble about. If no| girl was available, the mother cirrtedtbe! baby la the same way wolle she worked with the coal baskets. It Is nothing uncommon to see a party of children playing together) with the girls carrying their baby brothers I aud sisters about, the latter half the time fas; aaleep In the midst ol the Jahber and noise, with tbelv heads hanging back and bobbing up and down with every motion of inhuman perambulator. It evidently pays to | be a boy iu Japan. After breakfast 1 went ashore and spent the morning looking about In the stores to see what I wanted to buy. It was very Interest-1 lug and many of the things were very tempt lug. As I knew, however, that we would have j two or three days In which to make our pur-1 chases i did more looking around than buy- { lng. Tne Japs are fully alive to the fact that1 Americans are particularly load of being swindled, and humor the lancy for all they I are worth, especially when a transport Is In I the way. The arrival of troops en route Is j the signal lor the doubling, at least, of all j prices, and some enterprising tradesmen keep ! a special set of price tags to put on when a | transport Is reported iu sight. At the same j time they do business with the smiling geu-| lallty of a man wno is uomg you a ravor, oui t enjoys It because be likes you so much. Id tbe afternoon Craig, Scbofield uud I took | Jlnrlklshaws and rode about town and out j into the suburbs, ending up wiib some more I shopping. The 'Jlnrlklsbaw" Is a great Institution. It Is practically a little two wheeled buggy, Just large enough to bold oue per- | son, with a muscular Utile Jap In place of a horse, it involves none ot tbe responsibility of driving, and has all tbe iatter's advantage from a material standpoint. I was particularly pleased wbeD 1 settled my first bill, and found tbat for some five hours uxe, my bill was 128 oents in our money. In the evening we took In some of the tea 1 houses, I presume tbat tbe oues we Bee are | kept up chiefly by the patronage ot torelgn sight-seeing people, but they are quite Inter-! eating nevertheless. The best one of these j we saw was beautifully clean and neat, the j floor being covered with the freshest of matt | in*. We understood how It was kept so fresh ; when the proprietor made us take oil' our I shoes at tbe door. Tbe Japs have the custom of leaving their shoes outside, and Insist on ! its being compiled with by foreigners in their | temples, tea bouses, &c. The chief objection I saw to the custom was j the fact tbat the people, and especially the women, save trouble by wearing simply toe slippers, sometimes set in top of heavy wooden clogs; as these have no heels to hold them od, It Is necessary in walking to drag the ft el aloug tbe grouud to prevent them from slipping of)', and that gives a very ungraceful walk. On entering tbe tea house and removing our shoes, we were shown into a pretty, cool room, with thicker matllug than usual to take the place of chairs. The celling which was new, was covered with Innumerable little paper wheels, fastened by pins, a necessary precaution to circumvent the liitle devils ibat otherwise luiest a new bouse. The dancing which formed the main feature of the entertainment, as we did not care for the tea and cake, wa-* lnteiestlng chiefly an a novelty. It did not strike me as remarkably graceful, though the costumes of the geishas made tbe scene a very bright aud attractive one. Tbe music was most remarkable, although the Instruments themselves were Dot very different in appearance from banjos and drums. The banjo-like Instrument was picked on the principle of the mandolin, except that tbe "pick," Instead of being the size ot a twenty-five cent piece, was built on the general lines of a meat cleaver, aud was about eight Inches lODg. The music and daDcing was accompanied oinoincr that could be comuared ouiv ion very disorderly cat concert, l'he most Interesting tblng In tbeattalr was the appearance of the actresses themselves. The best of the geishas are about ten or twelve years old, aud in the quaint gowns they suggest nothing so macb as daluty little pieces of doll mechanism. The representations we are accustomed to see of Japanese costumes, &c\, are not at all exaggerated, and the Utile ladles that look at you from a Ian or piece of tapestry are just like these one seen on the streets or in the houses ot Nagasaki. I did not, however, 11 ud the women especially pretty, iu fact I only saw two or three that could be classed as such. The second day ol our stny, I spent principally In the shopping district. Menober took me to a curio shop, wbicn proved so fascinating that 1 spent most of the day there. The worn to i>e seen was of the greatest variety and beauty, and benefitted ine more than anjthlDK 1 ever saw In a store. Satsuma and clolsomlc ware, beautiful work In silver, gold, bronze, ivory, wood, tine porcelain and eartnen ware of every sort; old o.nnni Th?rfl WHS nOtllllllr thut ikuu nnt worth looking ut. It 1h Just Kuch things an are most troublesome to get through the cus torn officers. hut I could uot refrain from pur chasing a few pieces of work?very modest ones, needless to say, for the finer specimens sell for enormous sums. That night Menoher Invited me to join u tl. >J. PARKER. ! Town, and Tells Something, s People of Curious Customs. | I party that wrh going to take In a fancy little I ? iHDnnese dinner Una iiad been go tie u up for J ' Ms benefit by a frleud who was an old resi i * dent of Nagasaki. There wer<* ten iu the par- j} ty. Including some English officer*. 1 We lind to shed our shoes as usual at tbejr entrance, aud dl<l not get slippers In their J place, so we paddled around over the matting 1 In our stocking feet to the dining room, a 1 very pretty and spacious pavlllloo opeD on ' two sides. A merry little woman who acted ,, as guide, motioned us to seats on cnshlons ar- ' ranged In a serol-clrcle at one end of tbe frootn. We were hardly sealed with our feet J crossed under us, when half a dozen smiling Jyoung waitresses appeared and supplied each 1 of us with a deferential oriental greeting, and ? -i plate with three or four Utile CHkes covered " with pink and green fancy Icing, evidently * the tlrst course. While we were sampling 1 these there was A funny 1 i11<e patter ol bare 0 leet on the inattiug and three of the cutest D little geishas came Hailing In and "kow n towed" very prettily lu front of us, bobblDg 0 their little heads down to tbe door, and then running over and sitting down In the middle 5 of our circle, looking Just like three pretty ^ little glils coming in for a romp. This tnade p a girl apiece for the diners, and by the time ? the second course was served, we each bad a ^ little J:tp seated In iront ol our plates, jabber- * log away most sociably, just as though we !] understood everything said. Tub second course consisted of several disb- 0 es brought lu ou ten pretty little Japan ware trays, one for each person. The tlrst thing I 0 tackled was a soup drunk from a cblua bowl, . the foundation of which was fish and sea ? weed. I have tasted worse results from bet- n ler material. The next dish was raw fish. * Served a good deal with the appearance of ?! cold slaw salad. Chop sticks appeared on the 1 scene at this stage and onr girls had a great time teaching us bow to use tbem. A side , dish to the tlsh was a bowl oJ large beans ,, evidently boiled In syrup, also to be mastered '' with the chop sticks, and a plate of what ? seemed to be two or three green vegetables. I' A.t this stage the girls rau out and came back '( In great glee with a lot of bottles, containing ? sague, a drink served hot In little shell-like , bowls, holding about a small wine glass full. ^ The sague tasted to me like a strong white J* wine that had been heated, but it Is a native * drink made, I think, from rice. The third course started off with a sort of , broth, and Included dishes that I could not 11 place at all. In fact tbe only thing recognize- w ble that appeared from this one, was some e very tasteless native peaches, served peeled, a but whole. . As soon as tbe dinner was over tbe geishas 11 got out their drums and banjos and proceed- a ed to go through a variety of dances. In tbe a internals they would seat themselves beside P us and chat away most sociably, trying to learn English word* and teach us Japanese P ones. Their brightness and vivacity made h ,, very striking contrast to the heavy stupid J: manners of tbe women of our island posses r. slons. " We broke up and started for the dock Just 0 In lime to get caught lu a heavy rain, through f' wblcb my Jlnrlklsbaw man plodded along l* with all tbe stolidity of an old cart horse. Next morning, the 11th, at ten o'clock we 1,1 left our anchorage aud started on the long ? stretch to San Francisco. Capt. F. LeJ. Parker has been In Manila. Jj* Philippine Islands.for some months; has been * assigned to 12th Cavalry, stationed at Fort V Saun, Houston, Texas, one of the new cavalrj d regiments; Is apprehensive that he will not . be able to come east as his reniment will probabiy be ordered to the Philippines. ^ m i a SANTUC SIFTINGS. \ 7* c Clone of Revival Meelliijf? FIsIiIuk *j ParllCN?Ice Cream Festival. f Santuc. S. C., Aug. 11.1901. I Misses Eliza and Inez Crimes, of William- c ston, are spending a while with their aunt, a Miss Jannie Gordon of this place, and with 1 ibeir cousin oi Abbeville, Mr. Harvey Wilson. c They are two beautiful young ludles. t Mr. Fietewood Crowther carried Miss Dora e Knox to her home at Antrevllle last Sunday. H Miss Knox has beeu spending sometime with her friend, Mrs. Crowther. t Miss Lila Stephensou leturntd home two 8 weeks ago from litsley, wht-re slie has been c confined witn typhoid fever ever since last f November. Miss Lila is looking as well as 1 could be expected after such a protracted L illness. 1 The young people enjoyed a fishing party r upon the river 'net Wednesday aud au ice f cream festival at Mr. J lui Klug's last Satur- ' dav night. v Mrs. Jesse Nelson Is spending this week 1 with her mother, Mrs. Stokes, ol Antrevllle. c Mica Uorvmullu Sihaur nl It?u VUuot a ..on t r Mouday nlgbt with Mrs. Thomas Mlllord. c Air. Evans Gordon ban returned from 1 Spartanburg and Is now boarding at the Ul?-nu Etbei Inn In the city. c Mr. Elijah Ethrldge who has been critically e 111 Is now able to sn up. e Mauler Charlie Mlliord, ol Antrevllle. if) spending tbe week with his coueiu Master Frank Mlllord. Miss Jessie Stephenson la on a two weeks vl*it to one of her aunts below Abbeville. Bob Simmons, one of tbe S. A. L. firemen spt'nt Wedne^ay night in our community. The protracted services of Gllgal church have closed. There were several additions. Kevs. Stokes assisted lu the meeting and was much liked. Mrs. Fletewood Crowther and Mtsa Mamie Stephenson attended tbe meeting at sbilob last wtek. Miss Kaille Mllford Is spending a few weeks with her cousin Miss Jennie Milford, of Antreviile. Miss Lily Smith spent last week with ber cousins. Misses Maggie and Allle Stephenson. Mrs. \Vm. Dawson has about recovered from a severe atiack of sore eyes. A crowd from around here spent last week at Calhoun Kalis fishing. They bad splendid luck, i hey say they caught more fl?h than they knew what to do with. One oi the flab weighed '20 pounds. ; Klete Stokes from Antrevllle Is vUltlng * friends at Ibis writing. DEATH AT SUPPER TABLE Two of the UiipmIn are IiiNtautly J Killed and Other.* lire Hurled I'll- I vouacloiiM From the Table. 1 Special to The Dally News. i Greenville, S. C., August 12.?A heavy rain 1 land thunder storm visited Greenville last < I night. The storm concentrated over the ] i northwestern portion of the city, .where the ' Poe mills and the American Spinning Com- I | pany's mills are located. These mills have large vlllag'S. Perry Levi, an operator of the spinning company, 1 occupies a six room house, ills daughter had 1 company for supper. The family was at the ! tahie when a sharp clap of thunder, accora pan led by a blaze of lightning, lore through i be top of tbe house, darting through all the J rooms, spiluierlng floors and furniture, and ] entering the dining room where the family wereeaiing, instantly killing Victoria Levi and Walter Busby. Misses Levander, Alba and Reulab Hussel, Annie Bell and Cllngtnan 1 Ward were painfully shocked, all ol tbem knocked from their seats unconscious. 1 They are yet In a bad condition, but the physicians think they will recover. Miss Levi whh tweniy-two years old, and 1 Busby sixteen,' both operaiives. A sirange thing Is that not one pane of glass . was broken In ttie hou?e, although the weather-bonding was ripped oil in many places. (heap Knlex?Seal?onr?l Air I, I no. The Seaboard Air Line Railway is now offering very low and attractive rates to the I'an-AtnerlcHn Exposition at liuttUlo, with choice ol several routes. Double dally service from all points on its line lu South Carolina, with through Pullman Service. For lull information editress your nearest agent or write to Win. Butler. Jr., lHvlston Passenger Agent, Savannah. Ga. C'AI.I. al P. Rosenberg A Co'wstore and net a copy ol the 'Interlude," edited l?y the ladies for the hen?flt of the Charleston ExpoHltlou. Only Hi cents. Two fresh boxes of Iluyler's and Nunnnly's ju"t arrivf d t>y express, all size packages, call and get. your girl a nice box while It is fresh j at the Speed Drug Co. The most up-to-date caudy sold is lluyler's the Speed Drug Co, SERMON TO THE TEACHERS dr. Gordon Deliver* hu Instructive and Imores ting1 IMsconrse to the While Teacher* of Abbeville County Ht the llaptlftt Chiirch Sunday Night anil to tbe Colored Teacher* at William* Academy Holiday Morning;. Special cervices were held iu tbe Baptist ihurrh .Sunday evening for the teachers atending the Hummer institute now )n session lere. A mo*t excellent sermon wan preached o tbein by Mr. Uordon form the text "Is not he life more than meat, and the body than alment?" He started oui by Raying that mr nnlilin uoIwiaIb trnm ii unhiarM. unrLhv Ol be attention of every Christian pulpit in tbe and. It would be a helpful custom if all tbe nlnlHters should give a discourse upon them mnually at the opening or tbe school year, "he baseH of our public school system is laid leep in tbe Bible and In the work of Christ, "he Jewish system was chiefly domestic Jbrlstiautty is essentially a spirit of educaion, tbe drawing out of man Godward forver. As such it is the foundation ol all that si best in our civilization and tbe public cbool la only one wmong the many stars In he crown of our Lord Christ. He believed ur popular education had been tbe chief aeans in tbe hands of God in making us In tiany respects the greatest nation on tbe artb. A comparison will show that no other atlon equals us In public school advantages, lur American libraries have '20,000,000 more olumes than are In tbe libraries of Great Britain, and nearly all Europe combined lur colleges and universities number over 400 nil have in them over 100,000 student*. Eng?nd has 7,000 students, Germany 25 000, Italy Jpercentol population, France, 15 pe<- cent f population and in Uolted States 24J^ per ent of population are students. We nave ver 850,000 teachers in our common schools. He said that obc of tbe great faults of tbe Lmerlcan people today was the tendency to measure almost every thing by the dollar . 1 1 n>K..? ronl/tln ilrlfllnff Intn lauuuru. xureu tub v?*.6 .u?v otmnerclalism aud many people seem lo tiink that education has for its object or end tie accumulation of fortune. He did not rlsb any oue to misunderstand him, tnat be ecrled fortune. Fortune is good because of be possibilities that are wrapped np Id it, ut fortune as an end of human attainment i despicable The man wbo pnsseses bis mune is a king; the man wbo is possessed y his fortune is a slave. The radius of the jau who posseses his fortune is as broad as be universe of God. The radius of tbe man 'bo is possessed by his fortune Is no greater 3an the distance from the center to the ciruruferenceof the penny on which his being i based. The doctrine of fortune is a doc rlne of little and littleness. It is a doctrine rblcb has no outlook. It begins in self and nds In self. Ii. deceives all things which do ot tend to self advancement. Suppose a man gains both wealth and repuillon. t.tie lesson* ol this day Is that fortune lay take Itself wings and vanish In an bour ud reputation may recede as the ebb tide asses out into the ocean and when these blngs are goue and nothing left behind, how oor and plltlful and parvalant is tbe patch f manhood that oucecalled them his. Educa Ion, that Is simply knowledge possessed for ommerclal advantages puts a rnau but very tile higher In God's universe than the easts of burden. An education which eacbes no higher and has no other outuiir u (utjil at Its fundamental point. t will be In tlm") destructive to the best ocial Interests. He said he most earnestly rotested aeulnst this commercial view of ducatlon which Is all too common In Ameri an life and which Is the one fatal evil lying oduy at the foundation of our public school ystem. An education which has no higher bject or end than (he accumulation oi fort une euvesoutofsight ethical training which is ue to the fundamental fact of manhood. It guores the great law of social solidarity and uterdepeodence and makes no account oi tod in the building of thestructure of society, le said he would rather be as poor as Lazarus ,ud as ignorant as a black slave with Christ n his soul and a hope of a final resurrection han to be the richest master of affairs drift ug dowu ward and death ward on the souleless nderless, sparless, shoreless, cordless shallop if an education that dethrones the God of tbe ml verse and gives no outlook for humanity, .'he end of education Is to prepare man to fulil tbe purposes oi human existence, that Is, o live completely. Tbe ultimate end of edulatlon Is character. Character is the resultml In the field of moral choice of tbe forces bat there operate. It Is a condition not a lommodlty. A man who has been through be schools is not thereby necessarily educatd and a man who has been to no school at ill Is not thereby necessarily uneducated, lome men find their educational center at be anvil, at the plow, In the office, and In tbe hop. Some men never find their educationleuter no matter how well they may be >laced. That man or woman will be a blessng who lives to fulfil tbe purpose for which le or she were created, Character Is real uanhood, and what the world needs today Is eal manhood and not money. A nation can trouper with but little wealth if it has maniood, but It cannot prosper with bands full ot wealth If It has uo manhood. Take the his ory of Home lor example. If be is right that haracter, which Is another name for right elatlous to God and man, Is the end ot edu ailon. No small responsibility rests upon be teacher Id our public Reboots. The teach ir has a very Important part iu the butldmg >f the character of the children. Many parmis leave this largely to the teacher. Teachirn held largely tbe destiny of ibis nation In belr bands. Therefore ll Is expected of them o have no lower aim In teaching than tbe eal eud of education, the building of characer In Itielr pulpits. Teach nol for tbe money bat Is In it, but because of the good that can >e done. Tbe one who teaches for the dollar s not worthy the name of teacher. May the jord bless each teacher In their euduous vork and give them a glittering star-tilled srown and the highest seat In tbe kingdom vhen time 1b no more. The discourse was attentively listened to by k large congregation. But when Mr. Gordon vas about two ebirds through his sermou the ire bell rang and the cry of Are was heard on be street, and that caused about half of his songregatlon to make a precipitous rush lor tbe itreet to see where the fire waB. Mr. Gordon juit preacblhgand tbe choir sangahymnand n about ten minutes most of those who left ,be church came back when they found that he lire was several miles iu the country, and ,be sermon was finished without any further nterruptlon. At the request of the colored teachers Mr, Sordon delivered the same discourse at the :olored Institute Monday morning, and ai be close all the teachers most graciously i o -lil.. ? .,^1.. . K., ? Lro \A7 U Y1 ? ? Wluil in Mail ? It makeB the majority of church goers have :hat "tired feeling" when they hear mlnlB ersofthe gospel teaching wroDg ideas and naking erroneous statements when expouud' ng to the congregation the holy scripture* from the sacrea desk. It was my hup not long ago. In listening tc i minister preach a sermon, to hear hlra roiikethe statement frequeuty during his diS' :ourse that man was Immortal. This state oient Is much older than this generation. It is more aged than would be the great, greal eracd lathers of the ministers of today were they still living. In fact it reaches way hack yonder thousands of years ago. The firsi church it was preactied in was ?he garden o: Eden and the minister who first made tbt statement was no other than the Devil himself. It Is considered today by Botnt that to deny man's natural Immortality if equivalent to a denial of the Hittle Itself, bui Instead of this being tbe cane just the oppositt Is so. There Ib no truth more plainly taughl In the scriptures tban that the future exlstance of man depends absolutely upon eithei ti resurrection of the dead or a translation without seeing death at all. l'aul, In writing of the resurrection of the dead, says, "a mac wouiit be fooilsh to lead aChristlan life, heal crossesand keep hlmso'f under continual di* clullne If there was not a future resurrection to look forward to after death. Let hltn on Joy life lor tomorrow he dies and that Is thf end of him lorever." Hut. If man is Imuor tal, deat h N not the end of him, there would he no need of a resurrection, and Paul would be guilty of a tait-eluKid. Rut l'aul was nol telling u falsehood. He was writing uudei the guidance of the spirit and was stating th< truth of (?od. Man is by nature mortal. He is told to reek for Immortality, why, pray, must he seek loi that which be already has? We are told thai Immortnlltv U'i)l hp hut t iirwtit tliu rluhl. eous after their resurrect Ion. A train wean told that Ood alone has I ram or In Illy. Ht only 1h Immortal t?y nature. And lastly w< are told tliat Immortality whn brought ti light by Christ at His resurrection and In onlj obtainable to us by the acceptance of Him ai our Saviour and a resurrection of the dead. It 1h a well known fact toall students of th? bible that immortality Is the gift of God to b< bestowed upon the righteous at the resurrect tlon and Is not a natural birthright. Many ministers preach the natural Immor tallty of rn'iu, but, out of justloe toal ml ulsters of the gospel for whom I have tlx greatest love and respect, I honestly don' think that one out of a hundred real I v bellevei It. W. 11. M. ADULTERATED COFFEE. GROCER WHITE FOUND GUILTY OF VIOLATING OHIO'S PURE FOOD LAWS. IatereitluK Facta Concerning: the Koaatlnif of Coffee BrcHght Out by Scientific Experta?Presence of Bacteria. Toledo, 0., Aug. 3.?The jury in Judge Heck's court in this city has found James "White, a local grocer, guilty of selling adulterated coffee. The prosecution was based on a package of Ar buckles Ariosa coffee. The State of Ohio, through the Ture Food Commission, prosecuted "White. The case was on trial for nearly a month and attracted national attention. The manufacturers of Ariosa coffee conducted the defense for Grocer White. The best attorneys in the country were retained to defend him, but, after a short consultation, a verdict of guilty was returned by the jury. The State of Ohio considers this a big victory. Fure Food Commissuoner Blackburn has been waging a warfare on spurious food articles and. the department has been successful. The complaint of the State of Ohio was that Ariosa coffee was coated with a substance which concealed defects in tne conee auu rnauu it uijycur ucim than it Is. The State charged this coating or glazing was a favorable medium for the propagation of bacteria. Prof. G. A. Kirchmaien, otf this city, a well known chemist, was the principal witness foe the State. He had ma'de scientific examinations of samples of Ariosa purchased from Grocer White in the open market lie found that each Ariosa berry contained ao average of 300 bacteria. Mr. Kirclimaier further testified that other coffees he examined contained few bacteria or none at all. He declared that the glazed coffee was not a wholesome food product. Chemist Schmidt, of Cincinnati, corroborated the testimony'of Prof. K3rchmaier. The State did not .present further testimony. The defense through the Arbucldes, who prepared this glazed coffee, secured some of the most eminent chemists and scientists in the United States to give testimony in their behalf. Prof. II. W. Wiley, of the United States Agricultural Department; Prof. Vaughn of Ann Arbor University; Profs. BJeile and Webber, of the Ohio State University, were called to defend Arioea. Dr. Wiley had made a carefol examination nf thp method of manufacturing Ario sa. He told of the 19,000,000 eggs used by the Arbuckles yearly la the preparation of this glazing. On this point In cross examination, the State's attorney deftly drew from him the information that these eggs might be kept in cold storage by the Arbuckles for a year or two at a time. The experts who heard Dr. "Wiley's testimony were pleased to be able to "catch" so famous a chemist. The doctor at one point in his testimony explained very clearly how it Is that the egg put into the coffee pot by the house wife settles the coffee. He said that the heat coagulates tlx; egg, and as it sinks to the bottom of the pot it carries the fine particles of coffee with it, and thus clarifies the drink. It is the act of coagulation in the coffee pot that does the work. Later on in his cross examination, he had to admit that when the egg was put on Ariosa coffee .at the factor}- it became coagulated, ana as egg cannot be coagulated but once, that the coating on coffee was practically no value, as a "settler" when It reached the coffee pot Prof. Wiley acknowledged that the glazing might be a favorable medium for the propagation of bacteria, although he would not testify positively either way because he was not a bacteriologist. Prof. Vaughn, of Ann Arbor, also a i witness for the Arbuckles, said he found bacteria on Ariosa coffee. Prof. Rleile. another witness for the ' defense, found any number of lively bacteria on Ariosa coffee he examined, and he agreed that glazed coffee surely ! was a more favorable medium for the propagation of bacteria than vmglazed coffee. > Pure Food Commissioner Blackburn says: "Tlie state is very muca ciulcu over its victory against this, corpora! tion. We are now considering the advisability of informing every grocer in the State of Ohio that it is an Infraction of the laws to sell ^rioea, and at | the same time give warning to con sumers that the coffee Is an adulterated food article." The verdict of the jury in this case is : of nationad importance because a gieat t many other States have pure food laws [ like that of Ohio, and It is natural to i suppose that similar action will te ; taken by other Pure Food Commis sioners to prevent the sale of glazed [ coffees. Washington'* Faitidloni Klnam&n. J Lawrence, earl of Ferrers, a distant I relative of George Washington, bad a. : most tyrannical temper, and one day in. i a fit of passion he cut down with his ; sword his steward, an old gentleman ! named Johnson. The latter had given. [ no provocation for the de*d, and the i crime was an act of brutality inexcusar ble save that the earl may not have ; been well balanced meaitally. He was i brought to trial for killinig Johnson [! and demanded and received the privi j lege of being tried by his peeirs. I j The house of lords was thrcoiged dur i1 Ing the hearing. The eviden.ee proved *' to be conclusive, and Ferrem was sen* tenced to be banged at Tyburn. Aps peals were made to the kin;; for clem> ency, but in vain. Ferrers njet his fate "i with considerable bravado.. He "was - carefully attired for tbe o-acasion and J Insisted on providing a silken cord for i the ceremony. To this wbi jn thtf execu' tloner agreed, and the earl was turned off otherwise like any ottier feloo. BAD ROADS TO BLAME. Why the Farmers In the East Find Thelx Business Unprofitable. A highly important feature of the highways question is the effect good or bad roads have npon the local market* and their sources of supply, says the New York Tribune. In all the cities and large towns of the state there is a de mand for farm products and for the bulkier and heavier products, Bach as hay and straw and grain. In many cases the surrounding country is quite capable of supplying that demand; in all cases it should do so as far as possible; in most cases it does not. Instead, supplies are brought in by rail or canal from far away, perhaps from other states; while at the same time, within a few miles of the market thus supplied, are farms that have bees abandoned as not worth working and others whose owners are in chronio disrnntent And desnair at the annarent im possibility of getting profitable prices for their crops. The big farzns of the west, they say, monopolize the markets, and so farming here no longer pays. Now, one prime secret of the trouble lies in the bad roads, which keep the producer and the consumer apart by makiug it difficult, if not impossible, for the farmers to get their produce to market The farmer 1,000 miles away oan get his crops to market by rail or oanal more easily and more cheaply than the farmer only ten miles away oan haul his in over roads that are so hilly and rough and miry that half a ton is a heavy load for a horse to draw at a slow footpace. It is not that farms in the east are no longer productive, nor that the eastern market no longer offers fair prices. It is that the roads between the farms and the markets are so bad as to make shipment unprofitable. Good roads through~ ? ? ? ^1% 4-U A OUC me iarmiug rugiuus aujatouo w >w cities and towns would do more than anything else to restore prosperity to the farmers, enabling them to get their goods to the best possible market easily, promptly and cheaply. Good roads wonld mean good farms, good markets, good prices and good times for all conoeraed. MONTANA HIGHWAYS. Becent Ltwa Provide For Their Systematic Improvement. The highways of Montana, by a bill passed by the Btate legislature, are placed in the charge of the county surveyor, and the old office of road supervisor, usually held by an inexperienced man, is abolished. The act defines the powers and duties of county surveyors and provides for their compensation. By this act each of these officers is required to keep the highways in hii ! county clear of obstruction and in good I repair and maintain bridges, to make all plans and specifications for new roads and bridges, to report to the county commissioners on all work completed, ; and if tbe work is done according ta the plans, specifications and contraot he is to draw his vouchers for the same before payment is made. The county surveyor is chairman oi all boards of viewers of roads, keepa tbe records of road surveys and is the general superintendent of all roads. He may employ labor, teams, etc., and has power to contract for all work not exceeding $200 in cost. For larger amounts the approval of a majority of the board of county commissioners is required. The salary received varies with the class of county, from $750 to $2,00C per year. Viewers and all assistants oi the county surveyor may not receivc more than $3 per day. ROADS THAT AKt INttutu. Henry Watter?on'? Idea la That They B4 Local, Not National. Henry Watterson takes issue with c good roads advocate who insists thai the general government should hav< charge of road making?that there should be national highways built anc maintained at public expense. The good roads that are needed, sayi the Chicago Times-Herald, those thai are most needed, in the language oJ Colonel Wattersou, are those that "leac from the farm to the railroad, the mill, the factory, the school, the ohurch, th( ferry and the market." This apt remark of Colonel Wattersoi is a condensation, a simplification, ai absolutely plain presentation of what ii most wanted in the matter or gooc roads. Carry out that idea, and wha: will be wanting? It will meet the re quirements of the farmer; it will sav< the farming element hundreds of mil lions of dollars every year; it will mee the expectations of the pleasure seeker it will add to the value of every foot o: land in the country; it will be of valui to every merchant and every profession al man; it will be a source of pleasure and profit to all classes, in all oommu nities. A Muddy Boad. One day this week, as a teamster wai slowly working his way through thi quagmire commonly known as a conn ty road between the (Jammings hil and Fossil, he espied a hat in oni of the ruts in front of him. As thi headgear appeared to be in fairly goo< condition he dismounted to pick it up As he raised the hat he was astonishec to hear a voice coming from under i exclaim: "Hold on I That's my hat!' As soon as he had gathered his breatl and wits the teamster asked, "What ari you doing down there?" Which brough forth the reply: "I'm in big luck to bi where I am. There's a horso underneatl me."?Fossil (Or.) Journal. Worth Remembering. The community with the best roadi is veiy likely to be the best community ! A narrow tiro will dig a rut, but i good broad tire will roll it shut. The depth of a road is more to b i dreaded than its length. I The state of the road tells the size o the load. . i y HUB DEEP WITH MUD ROADSOF ILLINOIS WERE IMPASSABLE THIS SPRING. Farmers Unable to Get to Town For Week*?Creameries Unable to Get Milk. Schools Were Closed?Even the Dead Conld Not Be Decently Burled. No better argument for good roads Was ever spoken' or written than the record of business stagnation which the farmers of Illinois have experienced daring this spring because of lack of decent roads. For more than a month they were unable to get to town to purchase the necessaries of life; pupils and teachers could not get to the schools; creameries were closed because milk could not be delivered, most of which must have been a total loss, and .even the dead had to be temporarily buried on the homesteads, the mud being so deep as to be absolutely impassable. "Rnt Illinois ia not alone in this em bargo of mud. There are few if any IN THE SPRINGTIME. [From Good Roads.] states in this country that cannot duplicate this condition this spring or any other for that matter. It is a constantly recurring evil that will continue so long as present methods* of highway construction and repair prevail. Here are a few items taken from the Chicago Evening Post of March 29. They relate a familiar tale: A ?Tf. in rto-rt t.n imnoflflible to I get about in tbe country witb a load. Light milk -wagons are drawn into tbe city each morning by four horses instead of two. Tbe stage which runs between Geneva and Batavia has had difficulty getting through with four horses. This, too, is on the famous Elgin-Aurora bicycle course, which 1 guidebooks call the best strip of road around Chicago. Elgin.?Roads in this vicinity are praotically impassable, except for light ' loads. The bottom is hub deep, i Galena.?The roads in Jo Daviess county are impaseable. Farmers cannot get in to market with produce. UnI dertakers and liverymen are unable to > attend funerals in the country, as i hearses and carriages canpot be drawn ' over the roads. Harvey.?Tbe impassable condition of the roads throughout Thornton town> ship has praotically suspended traffic l between Chicago and Harvey during ? the last two weeks. Yesterday the first delivery wagon for over a week got ! through from Chicago Heights, but I with only a half load. > Joliet.? Joliet is completely embar? goed from tbe outside, so far as the I country is concerned. It is absolutely . fny farmora tn rfiRflh the citV. iUipUOail/AV 4V* w . I Funerals in the country have been disL posed of by temporary interment on the homestead land. Farmers come in with i four and six horses for coal and gro' ceries. ' Lemont.?The roads in the country ? near Lemont are so bad that farmers cannot get to town without using four horses, and the wheels sink down in clay to the hub. They cannot travel more than one-eighth of a mile with' out stopping to rest the horses. Naperville.?The roads were never as k bad in 20 years as now. Mud is axle 5 deep. Farmers do not venture out to ' market unless necessity drives them to 5 it. ' Princeton.?The roads in many sections of Bureau county are impassable. 3 Much inconvenience and financial loss ^ is being occasioned to farmers who for f four weeks have been unable to draw I any loads. > Woodstock.?The roads in this section > are the worst in many years, witn warm winds they might be in fair con1 dition in two or three weeks. 1 Whiting, Ind.?The roads in this seo' tion for miles around are in a terrible I state. In many places they are utterly & impassable to vehicles of any kind. Kankakee.?Most of the highways in } Kankakee township are stoned and are " in fairly good condition. In some parts ' of the county a wagon wheel will sink to its hub. " Waukegan.?The highways in the out3 skirts of Waukegan and the surrounding " country are simply frightful. The counJ try people are mudbound. A number of country echools are closed because it is too hard for teachers and pupils to get to them. Yorkville.?The publio highways are an impassable gulf in most places, and the hitherto sound, reliable gravel roads I are cut through to the bottom. Milk wagons have abandoned their routes 9 and creameries have been compelled to , 3lose for want of the milk and cream supply. Four horse teams come to town - - - "? m 1 3 X3 3 ?.,ii j for half ton loads 01 coax auu uau grout difficulty in returning. $ ' ~ Pat the Convicts at Work. J To set the inmates of the state prisj ons at work building such roads would a be a particularly appropriate proceeding. The criminal is an enemy of the community and of the general welfare, and he would thus he made to minister to one of the chief needs of the cominunity and to promote the general welfare in the most effectual manner. He would be getting the occupation he needs for a his own health, he would be much more than paying the cost of his trial and b confinement, and ho would be conferring a permanent and incalculably f great benefit upon all classes of hones* people in the state.?Exchange. /,, . i ? / , - - MAIL CLOSES, Nnllit Cotnlnfr ho<I Going Every Hoar In Cbe May. Hoars that the mails close at the Abbeville post office: 9.05 a. m. going North on the Southern. 10 50 a. m. going Mouth on the Southern. 10.50 a. m. going to Hodges. 1140 a. m. going Mouth on the R. A. L. 11.40 a. m. going North on the S. A. L. 1.10 p. in. going North on the Southern. 1.10 p. in. going to Hodges. 2.35 p. m. going South H. A. L. 8.55 p. m. going North S. A. L. 5.40 p. in. going South Southern. 8.00 p. m. going North and South S. A. L. Robt. S. Link, Postmaster' mil kin ic n Mad of TbHl Boy of Your*. Will Tn? rnal JL uiiv/ispuvi) iM xvv/va VVU* UMM Teach that boy to be accurate. If be be not taught accuracy in childhood he will never learn it in manhood. Teach him to speafc accurately on all subjects, and he will scorn to tell a lie. Teach your boy the valuable lesson of consideration for the feelings of others.* Teach him to disdain revenge. Impress bim with this beautiful sentiment: "Write injuries in dust, but kindness in marble." Let your boy be boyish. A mannish boy. a boy who is a man before his time, is a disagreeable object. 1 never taKe any slock id me socalled "good boys"?boys who never get ioto mischief. It is a good thing if they die young, for they generally turn out bad men. Early instill into your boy's mind decision of character. The undecided boy is sure to become a nambypamby man. He will be as Dryden says: "Everything by starts, and nothing long." S Teach your boy courtesy; "Manners make the man, says the proverb. True politeness is rapidly becoming in this country one of the lost arts. ;'-a Do not itive your boy expensive notions. Bring him up to be simple ',jZ3 in his habits and pleasures. Have your boy to look upon labor as a real dignity, and idleness as a disgrace. , Teach your boy to be frank and open. If he has carelessly broken anything and takes the full blame upon himself and makes no excuse about It, dou't punish him, but commend him for his honesty, and he will grow up every inch a man. Teach him to be strictly honest in all his dealings with his brothers. If be disregards their rights, he will ? :';>J grow up to disregard the rights of men. "As the twig is bent the tree inclines." * ' VjftSs Put your boy on his honor. Trus* his honor. Nothing will improve his character more. The boy that always t, requires looking after is in danger. Be your boy's companion. Treat him as a gentleman ; and if such . A? treatment does not make him a gentleman, nothing will. Teach him that the best whiskey sling is to sling the bottle out of the - ;2s window, and the best dice throw Is to throw the dice away. Tell bim not to despise little thing?. Life is made up of little thingp, The "little things" in the aggregate :.*JJ make up whatever is great. If he mahpfl the little events of life beautiful and good, then will life be full of beauty ood goodness. Teach your boy to be self-reliant. "Ability and nece-sity dwell near each other," said Pythagoras. Let him learn no other language but this: "You have your own way to ' !(-s make, and it depends upon your own exertion whether you shall sink or Is swim, survive or perish." The wisest charity is to help a boy :J| to helpbimself. Teach your boy that there is no such thing as "luck." Good pluck is good luck. Whole hearted energy crowns men with honors. The word "can't" ought not to be , found in your boy's vocabulary Don't flinch. Never fly the track. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Teach your boy that the use of tobacco is a filthy, costly and unhealthy habit. The boy with a cigar in his mouth, a swageer in his walk, impudence on bis face, a care for nothingi-?? nesd in nis manners, oiuer umu uid v father (judging from his demeanor) is going too fast. He should be stoppkl. The chances are ten to one that in a dishonored grave will lie the buried hopes of a father, the joy of a mother's / heart and the pride of sisters. Teach your boy that if he does not wish to be a nobody, or something much worse than a nobody, he must guard his youth. Never permit your boy to associate with your neighbors, badly managed / boys. "He who goes with wolves soon learns to howl." A boy readily copies all'that he sees done, good or bad. A t>oy's temper and habits will be formed on a model of those with whom he associates. " NOTICE! / % IflfiFHOflSf 1 II 11 11 JL II V V V * i / THE llllllft HBHE IS NOW HEADY TO STORE Cotton, Grain, Guano, Heavy Groceries AP ALL FARM PRODUCTS, J I 11/511 A Ioa Ra Dranirorl tn Pi*Aq<? flTld It TT III rtiav iwpuivM w - Store all Hay Brought to Market. The Com pony will continue to erect other building** cutllclent to meet all the demands tor Ntorage. JOHN LYON, MANACER. June 12,1901. tf f \'v^ v- ii*