The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-09-01

The following were few of the max
inns of that king Of printers, Benjamin
Franklin: Trade is the mother of mon
ey be beforehand with your business !;
spend and be free, but make no waste /;
prayer and provender hinder no jour
ney; credit is like looking-glass, easil y
broken; he who looks not before, finds
himself behind; keep thy office and thy
office will keep thee; they can never
thrive who spend their time in beer
houses and in gamlng-houscs Goa
helps them who help themselves
A Medical correspondent Of an Eng
lish Journal says that the advantages Of
asparagus are not sufficiently apprecia-
ted. Those who suffer with rheumatism
are cured in few days by feeding ON
this delicious esculent; and more cronic
cases are much relieved, especially if
the patient avoids all acids, whether in
food or beverage. The Jerusalem arti-
choke has similar effect in relieving
rheumatism. 1t may be we'll to remark
that most plants which grow naturally
near the seac0ast contain more or less
iodine and in all rheumatic complaints
iodine has long been favorite remedy.
WHIsKEY AND PRAYER. - Collector
L. G. Carpenter returned from Green
vile on Saturday, and reports that the
preAious evening some of his deputies
arrived in that city from a raid, in which
they had captured two barrels of whis-
KEY, country wagon and two mules,
and two men as prisoners. The singu-
la-ity of this capture is that it was made
at a camp meeting Of white citizens in
the country Union- Herald.
This is q nice item. How could COL
lector Carpenter learn that the capture
was made at q camp meeting-meet!ngs
not visited much by United States In
ternal Revenue officers? - GrecnviUe
Nc,Us.
Saratoga has been visited by an unu-
sual number of Governors and eX-Gov-
ernors this summer, and on the books Of
the hotels have appeared the names of
Governor Tilden, Ex-Governor Graham,
Ex-Governor Hoffman, Governor Hen
bricks, of Indiana, Ex-Governor Aiken,
of South Carolina, Ex-Governor Jenk-
ms, of Georgia, and eX-Governer Bigler.
f. II. Arrow Smith, a resident of
Williamsburg County, near the North
Eastern Railroad, has, we are reliably
Informed, had large fortune-some-
thing over a half million dollars left
him by the death Of his grand mother
in England. He has had, up to the
lime of her death, to make his daily
bread by the sweat of his own brow, and
knows, therefore, how to appreciate his
recent good luck.-Tr1e Southron.
Mistress-',Let you 20 to evening
school, Mary? Why, 1 thought you
could read?" "Well, ma'am, 1 does
know my letters fusrate so longs they
keep all in a row, but just as soon as
they gifts mixed up into words Pm
beat"
"Get out of the way! What are you
good for?" said cross old man to a lit
tie bright eyed urchin, who happened
to stand in his way. The little fellow,
as he stepped one side, replied very gent
ly: 81 hey make men Of such things as
we arc"
\ rustic couple, newly married.
marched into drug store and called
for soda water. The obliging clerk in
quircd what syrup they would have in
it, when the swain, deliberately leaning
over the counter, replied, stranger,
money is no object to me; put sugar in
it,"
lust think of it! It costs one million
two hundred and fifty thousand five
hundred and eighty nine dollars and ten
cents to keep the women of this country
in imported corsets for one year: What
O. waste-EXchange Stay! it's not q
waste; it is one OF their means Of
support.
Here is what the radicals say in an
Ohio campaign song:
In 1892
Columbus crossed the oceans blue,
lie found the Aztec in his place
He found the copper colored race
He found land to white men new
But here he tound-Bill Allen, too!
and security are essential to
n progressiye accumulation of wealth.