The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-05-12
ABBEVILLE s. C., THURSDAY MORNING; MAY 1a1 1889


for lifo
fairest prospects havo bccn hopelcssly
lighted-strongest tics of friendship Ills
scvered-lovc transformed to hate--hcar,.
brokcn-homcs made dcsolatc through tho
daily playing of this merry gamo of scan
daP Il: our tircsidcs-in our waIks-in on,
social gatherings. The most Jealous PLAYER
having no evil end in view, if told that he
has dealt blow TO friend or done :
nciGhIor wrong, would meet the charr,
indignant and aghast. Yet the game goc.
on bravcly, from day to day We vii
play 1t, quite innocent Of malice give =
buffet to tho flying ta!c to send it
onward half expiring with laughter
at the quaint, fantastic shapes it ms
sumcs.
Without presuning to don the solemn
robes OF tho social rcformcr, which might
float from unrcgal shoulders with as little
grace rs tho usurpcd lions skin in tho f:,-
bic, may wo not venture to sugg .st an an
t'do'e to the bane Of this popular death
dealing game! We fear it is ono almost
too simple to striko-yct simplest herb.
have couhtcracted dcadlicst poisons. 1,
lies i'll rosoIutcly setting our faces against
creditins any injurious rumor hy tho rcllct
ton that the story is, in all probability, al,
illustration Of tho marvellous metamor
phoses wrought by that magical gamo Of
scandal which we, aud all the world arc
merrily playing.
DIR. Duff said recently at meeting al
Calcutta, Caste has, like cedar. struck its
roots deep into every crcvicc Of the Hindu
nature, wound itself, like the ivy, round
every stem and branch Of Hindu intellect
and tingcd, as with Il scarlet dye, every
feeling and emotion of the Hindu heart.
1t reaches to the unborn chill-it directs
the nursing Of the infant. 1t shapes The
training of youth-it regulates the actions
of manhood-it settles the attributes Of old
age. 1t enters into and modilies every re.
lationship of life-it moulds and gives com
plcxion to every department of society.
Food, and raimcnt, and the very functions
OF nature must obey its sovereign voice.
With ovcry personal habit, every domestic
usage, every social custom, it is inscpara-
bly, interviewer. From tho cradle to tho
funeral pail, it sits like presiding gcnius
at the helm, guiding, directing and de-.
tcrminlng every movement Of the inner and
outer man. l'eyond tho ashes of the
funeral pile, it follows tho discmbodicd
spirit TO tho world Of shades, and fixes its
destiny there
The relation between tho Scandinavian
and tho Hindu faiths: sThis remarkable
tcnot,' (thc belief that the gods created
by Bralam would como to an end at the
same time that the car;l, does,) is unpar
allcled, wo bcliovc, in the religions of the
world, save in that of the old Norscmon of
Europe, who beloved that Odin and his
dozen sobordilate gods ruled only for an
appointed timo and would be ovcrtakcn
at last by that dread day called tho twi-
light Of gods,' when all things were to como
to an end. Is not this twilight of the
gods the Brahman's might of Brahma!' z
Observe, also, as another striking indca
ton of tho relationship between the Scandi
navians and the Indian Aryans, that, just
as the latter had their sacred Mount Meru
i'll the middle Of the earth, with the sea
surrounding all and other worlds lying con
centric around it, SO the Morse had their
Mount Asgard, 0ho abode of Odin az tho
Ass'r,) in the midst Of Midgarl or the
middle car,ll,' &c.--EacAwood.
n Printing Telegraph Fcat-As an evil
dcrco Of tho success of the printing
telegraph, statement has been pub
iishcd from Which we take the following
particulars:
Every day for tlrec consecutive weeks
from five to six columns of Sick les' trial
were sent to New York from Washington
City, over the wires Of tho American Tele
graph Company, at an average Of 1000 10
$500 words per hour, and with an accu
racy almost miraculous. In order to come
within the mark, we will put tho average at
from 10000 to 5000 words per day, max
ing the aggregate for the twenty days about
one hundred columns, and furnishing mat
ter enough for an octave volume of six
hundred closely printed pages, and this,
too, without serious detrimont 10 very
heavy business to the regular private pat
rons ef the line. 1t is believed that such
feat in tclegraphing has never before been
performed.
A printer at a dinner table, being asked
if he would take some pudding, replied ::
Owing to a crowd Of other matter | am
unable TO make room for it. Ills inside
was already full.
A captain Of a privatcer, who had been
IN an engagement, wrote to his owners