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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-23
A Mother and her Child.

An extraordinary case came before
ustice Wandcll in the Jefferson Market
police court, in New York. Mrs. Nc
Quiston, IN octOroon, charged MIR. Me-
Ouiston with stealing her child. She
declared that the child was not his and
that he had deserted her. She said that
she wanted her child, but did not want
to punish the man. The justice. after
consideration. said that he should decide
that. as the father had possession, and
the mother did not care to punish him
for the manner of obtaining it, the father
should keep the child. The mother. if
she could not settle with him amirably,
could obtain redress through Il civil pro-
cess by proving her claim and allcga-
tons. The man hurried from the court
and carried the child to Il street car. As
he stepped upon the platform the woman
sprang ut him. struck him in tn" face.
tore the child from his arms and fled.
She was pursued and arrested. and WAS
soon again before Justice WaEdrll.
When ut the bar she said: ".Judgr,
could not help 1.-THE WAS stealing my
baby. III do it again. Forget where
YOU are and remember only that you are
Il man. that am Il woman, and that |
am Il mother in your power. Judge,
YOU lust dealt out some hare. law to
me. What is law for one parent ought
to be law for the other. | stand here
lust exact ~ rs he stood here Il few mo-
mrnt.; ago. Now give him the law us
YOU gaze il tn me. y" it and b" just. |
could NOT see the justice then; can Sc"
it now and beg it for myself
The justice finally decided that the
mother should keep her child.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-23
An AppreciatiYe Old Party.

Sometimes it is rather difficult to sus.
tain conversation even with man
who is apparently willing to talk. Yes,
terday, on the G. B. &, Q. train coiiiiha
east from Fairfield, two men occupied a
seat just in front of me. One of them
was pleasant-looking old man, and the
other was young man, who looked like
a student. They appeared to be strang.
ers to each other, and for some miles
they rode in silence. Then our train
paused q moment to catch its breath al
siding and freight train went thun-
dering past us. Then the. young man
turned to his neighbor and said:
"What wonderful thing is a rail
road"
"Eh?" said the old gentleman, look
ing i {, up with pleased expression
II say railroad" repeated the young
man, sis Il wonderful thing"
"Oh!" said the old man, delighted, SIS
itp"
The SUDDENLY looking young man
looked as though he didn't know just ex-
actly what to say to that, and nobody
blamed him.
But the old man was too we'll pleased
to find talkative friend to permit the
conversation to die such an untimely
death as that, so he asked, in brisk, in
terested tones:
"Why is it?"
The young man looked rs though he
didn't exactly know why, rs indeed any
man might have looked under the cir
cumstahces, out he gathered himself and
said, with little oratorical flourish:
"Why it winds through the valleys
and scales almost inaccessible mountain
heights; it creeps along the dizzy ledges
of the beating precipice and stretches
away, hundreds of miles across the
smiling plains and the limitless prairies
it pierces the rock-ribbed hills, and
where it cannot climb it burrows; it
winds around"
Old gentleman, in q fine burst of en-
thusiasm:
"Oh, does itp"
Now, what could any man say to that ?
The young man felt just that way, and
all the fire died out of his eyes and the
flush faded away from his cheeks, and
somehow he found himself wishing that
he had that old man in dark and lone
ly tunnel on the Union Pacific railroad,
and no one by to stop the murder. Of
course he sank into profound, abashed
silence, but the old party was by this
time thoroughly interested in the sub
ject, and he spurred his young companion
on by saying, after an apparently intense
intellectual effort:
Er-ef-but why? whn' fUr?"
The young man made one more effort
to entertain his enthusiastic comrade,
and answered his rather childish ques-
ton, growing in earnestness as he went
on:
"Why, to meet the ceaseless demands
of restless trade; to annihilate space and
bring the climates close together; tc
pour the gold and silver into the treas.
ury vaults at Washington; to bring the
corn of Iowa to the port of New York
to empty the wheat fields of Minnesot;
into the elevators Of Baltimore; to-
Old gentleman, fairly carried off hi:
feet with excitement:
"Ground, fences and ALP"
Then the young man glued his nose tt
the window and riyeted his whole atten
ton to the landscape, and the old part.
vainH endeavored to draw him ou
again. He was enthusiastic enough, wa
the old man, but somehow he didn'
have the flow of language to express it
Hu3Cb.eUe
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-23
That Awful Cow.

There probably isn't a woman III Noltii
A,nnr;ca who isn't afraid Of cows, ana
there is not 4 cow in Nortll tt'iiein."
which would harm one llalr OF an! W.,
mans head if it had the best cllahce ~
the world and no other JOB on ha''u' n,
Wednesday forenoon i stray cow pt,J
hans from the country for taste OF DaIe"
hoy. found Il gate open and entered
vayd on Second street. The woman came
r. thc front door dressed to 60 OUT, Dui
sreinr fhc cow she uttered scream anu
hurried back. There wasn't Il thing III
tLc ward for the cow to damage OF ea..
and beine tired she raised her cud:: iay'
down and began to chew away rs II Sii'
had aot home from long visit TO Lu-
rome. The woman next appeared III Il
side window and called upon the cow 10
"git out" A dog might have sol.
but the cow didn't. Then the woman
threw a rar ut the cow and called Tor tllc
dor, The dog didn't come and th' fag
didn't scare. Then the woman shooka pll,
low ut the cow and peremptorliE olnIi.uu ,u
her off the premises, but the Do'ih. i.,,,,
closed her eyes and let her thouShlS iui!
ahead to tlv time. As the COW ""uial, .I
90. and rs the woman couldn't 20 ti'i .i,I
DOW did, sterncr measures were resortco
to 4 tin pan waS heldout OF the VIM
cow and beaten with spoon, but Iilat
cow couldn't be fooled into brlisylnG tliat
fourth of July had come. lIien ll!r Inc
woman went into the back yaru to thto"
clubs over the fence and knock 4 coup"
of horns off. The first one Int t'r, VIII VIII
dow and the next one bange" the Dimes
on the next house. and the cow llntn>
stuck tighter than ever. Cries M -!
out were again rCSortc,l to wItll1ul I'-
feet. and then the woman wa."ilc" IL 'i''
front door till she saw Il boy come h,nhT
and she opened it and cried out: Ui; h;
boy. there's horrible cow III our y;'Eu.
Prop the gate open and get H!I the ooSi J
and police you can and drive llcr out alI'
III 1--WE YOU whole quarter OF dollar.
Hurry up, for she looks as if sim was ~ Tr'-
tinr ready to come ri@h: in here! IT,
hoy "humprd the dangerous ;!ll:'ha.
oui in thirty seconds. received lIS pay
and the woman gave up %":n& down
town for fear she would harra nervous
s,vu. ..-IJfiIUH Fii Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-23
He Got his Dinner.

Rev. Mr.. travelled far to preach
to congregation at. After the ser
mon he waited very patiently, evidently
expecting some of his brethren to invite
him to dinner. In this he was disappoint-
ed. One after another departed. until the
house was almost as empty as the minis
ter's stomach. Summoning resolution,
however, he walked up to an elderly
looking gentleman, and gravely said !:
"Will you 60 home to dinner with ME
to-day, brother?"
"Where do you live?" :.
about twenty miles from this, sir"
"No," said the man, coloring; but
you must 60 with me-" q
"Thank you'll will cheerful1y."
After that time the minister was M
more troubled about his dinner.
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Oldest and Coolest Town In the World.

According TO IIumDOIUt lHC OIHtSt
town in the world is Jakutsk, 5000 in
habitants, Eastern Siberia. 1t is not only
the Oldest but probably, also, the coolest.
The ground remains always frozen to the
depth of 300 feet, except in midsummer,
when it thaws three feet Mt the surface.
The mean temperature for the year is
l3.7oF. For ten days in August the
thermometer goes us high us $50. From
November to February the temperature
remains between 42o and G8o below
zero. The river Lena remains frozen for
nine months of the year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-23
'Nhe MNrlict in Rhyme.

The Macon (MisS.) SIN dropped int"
poetry to represent thr state of the mar
krt the other day, with the following re-
suit:
Cotton-Drooping. & GtoS:
Whisky-lsriSk, - strigM;
Incon-Stcn,l,, q to7.
Sug,r-l'rinr, Inns r,nrhcd II;
nchnng"l. from tn TO-;
I,mttrr-l'iru. nn rr. or when
Tho wrnthcr's cool enough, and then
1t rates. in lots nj %;
Eggs Ii il not alive;
Cheese is livrly--crnwling up;
Collrc-Wrnk, inclined To ,lrnor'
Lard slips up t" nnd
just where Iildcn slipped -
But we arc slipping into politics, and
cannot proceed any further"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-23
The Violet.

4hO fAV1OSS
Lonely and sweet violet grew
The meadow weeds among.
One morn rosy shepherd maid, ...,.
With careless heart and idle tread. 49,.
Came by, = .sr.. ~
Came by
The meadow lands and sung.
"Ah," said the violet, "would were
Some stately garden flower!
That might p1the-ed be and pressed
One little hour to her sweet breast.
Ah, me! .....,
All, me o.. ....-...r..
Only one little hour! ... .,J. 3,
On came the rosy shepherd lass, ,tg..
With heart that idly beat, '7"] v'a
And crushed the violet in the grass. u
It only said, Chow sweet! g..
How sweetw it said, with fainting moa
"fI must die, 10 die alone ''"'1'
For her,
For her, .,,.... s...r
10 die at her dear feet" s.-t asa.
-Frorn The German OF Goethe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-23

Rev. DR.. Ingram. who died recently
in Shrtlaud nj the age Of l03. is said TO
have been the oldest minister in the
wnrld. Four generations Of the fn@ramS
have lived in the same house in Shrt-
land, and they were long generations.
too. TIN tlrrrasrd'> father died ut the
agr Of l0O. and his grandfather 1T los.
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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. G. BENET.
The Last Lap.

I'm on my last lap, boys,
And have not won the race;
I've done my level best, boys,
And kept steady face;
But now leave the track; boys,
cannot stand the pace.
Cheers, rpusing cheers, for those who win,
Renown and wreaths and gold,
Whilst friends crowd round with open hands,
And I'm out in the cold.
I'm left out in the cold, boys,
With aching feet and sore;
And, oh the aching of my heart
But that will ache no more.
I'm on my last lap, boys,
But have not won the race;
And those had better leave the track
Who cannot stand the pace.
1 felt SO strong at starting,
My sinews seemed of steel;
My nerves, my bones, my muscles, al
We're sound from head to heel.
My shoes they sorely chafed my feet,
And Well, hardly know
The track was soft, the air was foul,
scarcely had show.
Pm on my last lap, boys,
But have not won the race;
And those had better leave the track
Who cannot stand the pace.
AT times I'd forge bit ahend,
And then I'd fall behind;
Some jeered me as toiled around,
A few good souls were kind.
I've tralnped this track for weary years;
I've done my level best
For half century of laps,
And now 90 to rest.
Pm on my last lap, boys,
But have not won the race;
And those had better leave the track
Who cannot stand the pace.
Ihave no pile to leave behind.
No trophies, and no fame;
No prizes for my little brood,
Save, perhaps, an honest name.
It's been woeful strain, boys,
But now I'll have some ease;
One lap to all eternity,
And 90 it as you please.
Pm on my last lap, boys,
But have not won the race;
And those had better leave the track
Who cannot stand the pace.
Harper Weekly
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Leavenworth, Kansas, has Il cham
pagne factory.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-03-21
The Romance Of Death.

It IS not little singular that the Greeks
have ca icely ever failed to make the death
of their literary heroes as remarkable as
their lives. Homer, they rell Us, died of q
broken heart, because be could not guess q
riddle. AS Holaee hal peen warned by a
witch that chatterbox would be bis death,
SO had Homer been wa.ned by an oracle
that he would be killed by riddle. And
his day came. See-or rather hearing. for
the tradition of his blindness is too uniyer-
sal TO be observation-disclosures young fishermen
In a boat, he ask ID the q what sroit they
had had. To which they replied, "As
many as we caught we left, and SIS many
as We could not catch we carry with u.s.
This was too much for the author of the
lliad. He guessed 9nd guessed till he
could guess no longer, and finally died of
sheer vexation. According to Gregory
Naizenzen, Justin Matyr and Eustathias,
Aristotle went off in precisely the Same
way, because be could not understand q
more interesting riddle set by nature,-
namely the cause Of the ebbing aud fow-i
lug of the Euripus "Slnce, "Ehe indig,
nsntly exclaimed, 81 cannot conceive the
Ealipus, let ths Eurirus receive melt
Diodorus, the ingenious inventor Of the
horned and veiled sophism, having met
with his match in one Stilpe, who caught,
him with another sophism, which he was.
unable To solve. wrote a hook n h ,,1t IL and
died Of despair. EE
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Silver Nile Romance.
Virginia. Ney., Chronicle.


About ten o'clock yesterday morning q
crowbar was dropped down the main YER
tical shaft of the Savage mine from the
ssrface, and went directly through cage
at The bottom, piercing the bonnet and
floor. No one was ON the cage at the time,
and no one was hurt, jet Il is unpleasant TO
ono making o trip into mine to reflect that
such things sometimes do occur. Az the
bar fell something over 500 yards, it was
travelling with the rapidity and vim Of q
cannon ball when il struck the cage. A bit
OF gravel. no larger than filbert sings like
q bullet toward the latter end Of such q
journey. A dog once fell into shaft at
Gold Hill, and though the shaft was but
800 feet IN depth, two men upon whom the
animal landed were killed, as was also the
clumsy cur that failed TO cross the top of
the shaft. a rat once fell down the Con-
solidated Virginia shaft in attempting 10
spring across q compartment, from wall
plate to wall plate. and 100 feet below
landed on the bald head of q miner and ex-
ploded lire bomb, causing the miner 10
think rock had cut open tho top 81 bis
skull and let out bis brains. A grain Of
bird shot dropped into the top Of shaft
1900 feet Iii depth would probably barry it-
self In plank Or any piecs Of wood i
might happen 10 strike nc the bottom.
This being the case. w repeat shat Il il
not pleasant to think of such things as
scrowbass going down shafts.
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The Natural Rulsy Of Indians.
From, the Washington siar.

Or. McGillicuddy, the new agent at Red
Cloud, says he has learned in his expert
ence with red men that physician can
have more influence with them than any
body else, mot excepting Catholic priests.
Whom they hare once been placed under 2
physicians care and have received tangible
benefit from it, they have graat respect for
him. He succeeded, while with the Red
Cloud Indians, In 50 far gaining their con-
fidenoe and overcoming their superstition
as to attend their women In several cases
OF confinement, which they will not allow
even their medicine men 70 do. The salu-
tary effects of medical treatment IN these
cases did much 10 give me their friendship
He opened hospital for tho sick At f1rss
be could only obtain tnTue inmates, the In
tiians having strong prejudice against It.
The number increased, however, 70 mp
wards OF two huadred per month, treated
inside and outside. He proposes 20 p'lrsne
the same onufse, and give item the benefit
of medical practice which WAS largely
obtained in hospital work. He believes be
can soon have successful hospital II OPP
Grafton, With nurses from their ON num-
bar
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1879-03-21
Is There q CAM 1e Conscience !?
From the London Spectat or.

SIR: You have frequently published let
ters containing stories bearing on the ques-
tion ON the moral nature and the future of
the lower animals. ] venture TO send you
some facts about a dog, narrated to me by
q lady, whose name and address I enclose
for your own satisfaction, and at my re-
quest written down by her as. follows:
! A young fox. terrier, about eight months
old, took a great fancy to q small brush of
Indian workmanship that Was lying on the
drawing-room tsble. 1t bai been punished
more than once for jumping on the table
and taking it. On one occasion the little
dog was left alone in the room accidentally.
On my return it jumped to greet me as
usual, and said, ." Have you been good
little dog while you have been left alone ?''
Immediately it put it's tail between its legs
and skunk into an adjoining rooia, and
brought back the little brush In it's mouth
from where it had hidden It. Twas much
struck with what appeared TO nae remark
able instance OF a dog possessing con
science, and a few months afJerward find.
ing it again alone in the same room, ask
ed the same question while patting it, At
once / saw ii: had been up to aome
mischief, for with the same look of shame
lit walked slowly to one of the windows,
where it lay down with its nose pointing to
q letter bitten and torn into shreds. On q
third occasion it showed me whore it had
strewn number OF little tickets about the
fo0r. for doing which it had been reproyed
previously. cannot account for the facts
except BY supposing the dog must have .
conscience. sssters..,s.a
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Horrors of V;visection.
From the Boston Post,

CAN Sorts has received letter from
DIR. Thomas F. Quinby, of Portland, now a
student at the University of Heidelberg, in
Germany, from which be takes the liberty
to make the following extlast for the bene-
fit of the readers of the Post. From DIR.
Quipby's account of the cruelties to which
dumb animals are subjected in the disseot-
ing rooms of the University, it would seem
to most people that a socity +. {. p. of c. e..
a. might be organized in Heidelberg to a
good purpose, and we respectfully call the
attention of disciples of Mr.. Beigh to the
extract below "K-. the Psychologist, Is
the most cruel butcher Of dogs and rabbits
that ever saw. He never uses ether or
chloroform, and many times no morphine.
The creature is laid upon it's back, its four
legs are confined by strap, with an iron
hand aroand its mouth to keep IL from
shrieking, and then the fiend sits calmly
down, knife in hand, and dissects the un-
fortunate animal alive, cutting off blood
vessels, nerves, &C., indiscriminately.
once saw him cut off IS vessels ON one side
to get at certain nerve, and, failing, he
proceeded to cut the other side, when left
the room thoroughly disgusted With the
man and proceedings. At another time he
had dogs mouth SO tightly bound with
his iron strap that the poor creature was
suffocated on the table. In the whole course
of my study, embracing considerable time
spent in Brunswick at the Maine General
Hospital, at Columbia University and New
York hospitals, never saw a tithe of the
barbarity displayed that / have seen in the
few weeks that have been here. believe
it to be more TO satisfy an innate love Of
cruelty than for the advancement ofscience.
However, may be somewhat prejudiced. !"
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W6AT The WITS SAY.

| The Bible is the best fire-escape.- - Wheeg
ing Leader.
The Buffalo Express offers this as the
motto of partisanship: United we steal,
divided we can't"
There are three good aids to the devil in
this life-poverty. politics and the tooth
ache.-Toledo Commercial.
The Graphic says ga large ear denotes
| generosity" Now watch the smile on the
mouth of the benevolent mule.
If Congress should remove the tax on
matches it won't cost as much TO get mar
ried, will it ?-Cin. Commercial.
Joaquin Miller declares that he longs to
return to the woods; and let US hope that
he will do so before che game laws are in
force acknowledgement.
| A little fellow of six years, at the South
End, told one Of his older brothers that be
| is t'going TO always tell the truth, land then
| the boys won't have to go to school on his
birthday. y.n-B0ston Journal. -
The editor of the Cincinnati Saturday
Night discovered that his girl wore two
sets of gold-mounted false teeth, and he sat
down and wrotea poem entitled, "Rich and
| rare were the gums she wore"
A sworn-of man may gradually crawl
back to intemperance by taking crab. apple
cider.-N. O. PieayuBe. But if he wishes
to go through ON the first ballot, little
Irish whisky will do the work. Little Rock
Gazette.
Did you ever" asked brother humor-
ist of Josh Billings, "stand at the hall door
after your lecture and listen to what tho
people said about it as they passed out?n
Replied Josh 81 did -once "a pause and a
sigh) but I'll never do it again."
They begged him to play little. He
seemed a little bsshful at first, but after a
while began to paw the ivory vigorously.
'What powerv' said a listener to the
owner of the piano. Yes" exclaimed the
latter in alarm, "he seems to have consid-
cradle mu sole; but he ought to know that
this isn't gymnasium"
When woman spends three hours in a
hot kitchen, and roasts her brains ont, al
most, in preparing a tempting and appe-
tizing dinner for her husband, to which he
sits down without a word OF commenda-
tien, and replies, when asked how he likes
his dinner, "Oh, it will do - the tired-out
wife doesn't feel encouraged to waste much
time on his supper.-Nor. Herald.
The other day DR.. Mary Walker applied
at the ladies' gallery of the Senate for ad-
mission. "You can't go in here" said the
doorkeeper, unless accompanied by Ia
dies" But am lady," replied the infu-
rated doctor. "That may be-" said the
puzzled doorkeeper, sit isn't for me to
say; but I'm id if you can 60 in here
unless you dress like one. - Washington
Post.
I" William II. Wheeler tells the N. Y.
Herald that Evarts gives the best dinner in
Washington. That may all be, but, by
the way, who is this Wheeler ?'-Detroit
FREQ Press. "Why, don't you know ?
He is the gentleman who ran against
man named Hendricks. and knocked him
SO far into the middle Of two years ago
that he hasn't been heard Of since. -
Norristoacn Herald.
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PETRiFIED SToYEWooD Captain VIM.
Jones, who has been over TO Caribou,
brought back with him remarkable natu-
raj curiosity. Il is section Of stovewood
sawed from tree about nine inches in d.
ameter. In splitting it Captain Jones dis
closed pine cone, irnbedded id the wood,
which, by the pressure OF The annual growth
of the wood. is as hard as adamant, and
which retains It's natural purple color. Il
was evidently one Of the topmost cones
when the tree was young. The stem Of
the cons was caught BY about the sixth
annual growth, and the rings Of the rood
show that Il gradually envelopad. and had
been finally hidden for over six years be-
fore the axe of ths woodmaa gave i ! show
for resurrection 81 Gsorgslossa Coli -
agey.