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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

A poet asks "Who shall g fret to tho
shadowy land--my love or ! ?" II they eon-
template committing suicide, we suggest that
they toss up cen,-hoads. be goes frs, -
tails, she goes last.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

4 merchant. may manage 10 grub along
without Advertising. and so may a msa empty
hoeshsad Of water with teaspoon, but both
are decidedly tedious undertakings.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

Mr. Hayes he's arepnialiop for ' goolaess," +"
and now he has nominG,e,l On Angel ~ Min
ister 10 China. An Angel. ought ~ &c at
home among the Celcslials.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

A young lady who read that ut is lucky 10
pick up horseshoe" happened ia black
smith shop the other day, aud picked mp ore
and dropped it with surprisiog sntdenucsl.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

Up TO tho present time the Delaware peach
crop is all right; but there is no telling wien
pound cake with frosing will be carried
across the state sndpip all The buds
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15
When a rowing gang Of weetern out

laws feel. collectively, the cravings OF The in
ner man. they simply board an overland train.
seat themselves 10 its sumptuous dining car,
place fheir murderous looking seven shooters
suggcsti7aly before them aud proceed to more
tban sample square neal iFhcre is
co0o1c
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

What must be done with the kissing preach
er? Chorus Of male sinners mCz1le him. -
". i. Commercial AdcerfiS'er, faa amoch mus-
lin already - PLiiadeildia Builsnr
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

A Sunday school scholar. requested TO learn
Matthew XIV IS and a." asionisbed tho
teacher with The exclamation; Can, b. done,
'taiut iu the blocks -
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

The new bonanza in Nevada is right on
liue with an old lode iha, was once verg rich.
Thus do great mines run 10 the sane chaanel.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

Ia San Antonia il took four STOUT Asckmen
10 rob Mexican candy peddler Co. two sticks
Of candy. He oush, have taken h's ,w9 sticks
and licked them. f,l,,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

The men who expect To te eiec'ea e an oi-
fce without spending money must understand
the art Of political economy
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

New Jersey has been disappointed 10 her
cranberry crop. hui law sakes walk ill she
begins 10 grind out her Fr.nch champagne
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

"Pinafore show-bills are printed on 'arge
type. so that "hc who reads mag Fn1.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

The members Of the baud have decIdei that
their base drum Is Of the feminine sender. os'
cause she bangs her air.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

When you get through using yocf hi;een
puzzles, give them to tue poor. We must get
rid Of the poor some way.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

Entirelv sessopsble;
III winter night fair label
Ill spring upon my knees and Iell
No girl Is hand summer tlao she,
Aud that she eu.yup marry re
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15
The Old Family Journal.
VARIETY

We are returning to our census as =a'ioh.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15
wNI. BURNETT,

Justice of the Peace,
AND
Commissioner Of Circuit and County Courts.
Office ia Lac Library Budding, Charies'o'e".
February Is, 1919
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-05-15

(tARPETING, and Floor and Table Oil Cloths
I for sale BY ,-,,,,,rv
Dec. Is, 1879. G W. l. hLAhoLEl'
GROWN Fluting Machines, for sale by
Jpne DCkE 4 GALLAHER.
'--''' HI. COOKE.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
Making Flad Br0d.1

We dismounted at Gjelde, and found
ourselves in a mountain hut or cottage,
the interior so dark that we could
scarcely distinguish the long deal table
at one end, q rough chair or bench here
and there, and a bed in q kind Of re-
cess. A woman, the sole occupant,
appeared glad to see any n coming
up from the world, though that world
might be 70 larger or more important
than Aardal. Opposite this nut was
another, where sat a woman and a girl
near a braize fire, in a chimney almost
as big as the hut itself. The woman
was rolling out some oat.cake dough
into the thickness Of q sixpence, large
and round about two feet in diameter.
When rolled it seemed tough and hard,
more like paper than anything else.
This, with acrobatic dexterity and the
aid of a long thin stick, she tossed
upon a large flat piece Of iron, q sort OF
frying-pan without sides, and placed II
upon the embers. When baked it is
tossed again on to a pile lying beside
her. This was called "had-brod," and
fiat it certainly was in every sense Of
the word-tastelees, and containing,
one supposed, q small amount of nour-
ishment. But the Norwcgians seem
able to keep life in the body with what
would be gradual starvation to other
people. No doubt their free, healthy
life, which calls for the smallest posi-
bic wear and tear of the nervous sys.
tenn, counts for q great deal in the mat
ter. For, with it all, they are hardy
and c%ontcntcd. The old woman sitting
Fear her braize fire, baking her bread,
was a veritable picture; a strange pic
ture of lie, full of rough power; a GER
tain silent eloquence that carried its
lesson, if one chose to see the applica
ton. She looked at us in a kindly man.
ner. and nodded, but never moved from
her position or ceased from her work.
-Good Words.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Senate.

The bill to provide a commission tor the
adjudication OF damages to the Norwegian
bark Atlantic, by collision with the U. S.
Vandalia, and for payment of any award
made by said con- emission, was passed.
The bill TO promote tho etflci' ncy OF The
navy was passed. Itprovides that naval 9th.
GERS found unfit to perform their duties by
reason OF drunkenness or other incapacity no,
caused by the performance oil duty, shall not
be placed on the retired list, but discharged
with one years pay.
The bill for the erection OF lighthouse Oh
Whale rock, Narrngausett bay, was passed.
The bill to reduce the price Of public lands
within railroad limits from 81 so to 81 .25 pei
acre was passed.
A communication was received from the
secretary OF the interior transmitting in re.
Spouse to a resolution OF inquiry a report Of
the commissioner OF education upon the state
of technical and industrial education in the
United Sites. Referred.
Mr., Beck, from the committee on appro-
priations, reported with amendments the
sundry civil appropriation bill.
The House bill prohibiting government suits
against timber trespassers on public lands
prior to March /, 1879. and enabling defend
ants in suits now pending to settle them by
acquiring title to the lands under existing
laws was advocated by Mr.. Jones, Of Florida.
The section reducing from $2.5Ito $l.25 per
acre lands whose price was raised more than
twenty years before the passage OF this act on
account of giants OF alternate sections tor
railroad purposes was stricken out on motion
OF Mr.. Ingalls,. AS thus amended the bill was
passed.
Mr.. Jones, from the committee on public
lands, reported iavorably the House joint reso.
luton tor the erection OF a monument to maIk
the birthplace OF George Washington, an
appropriating $3n, zoe therefor. He asked its
immediate consideration. Placed on the
calendar.
The conference report of the p~ostofice ap-
propriation bill was concurred in.
The amendment reported by the committee
on the District OF Columbia repeating the
statute requiring police appointces to be ex.
soldiers OF the civil war was adopted by a
party vote.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
aIance ut Newspaper Life.

Oh, this great absorbing, ~cavernous
Kissing, roaring, foaming maelstrom OF
journalism! How it sucks in talent,
genius, learning, brains, hopes, an
Billions, aspirations! Of the hundreds
who are called, how few are chosen!
What infinite variety of ability it de-
mands! What tact, Knack, care and in
dustry! We must speak well oil each
other, old friends, for nobody else Will
have much to say Of US! We are to the
temple of fame as curbstone BROKERS are
to the legitimate exchange. We must
content ourselves with making all the
noise possible while we are living, for
very little noise shall we make after we
have finally departed.
Of the toll which q newspaper de-
mands, of the unceasing attention which
it exacts, OF the judicious care which
it re ,uires, the great public Of readers
takes no account. Those who come to
breakfast table, more or less bilious,
expect to find in their morning sheet
something like perfection, and 90 not
mean to say that they are not right IN
expecting it. But when they glance
hastily over the columns, ard then jul
dicially declare that there is nothing
in them, they may ofteh forget that
there is everything in them Of imnort-
ance which has happened in the whole
world during the last twenty-four hours
that fifty. seventy-five, 100. maybe
$50, men toiled all night while these
snap critics were sleeping. their heads,
as Carlyle says, full of the foolishest
dreams "-worked to make up this great
compendium, this map, the picture OF q
day, "its fluctuations and its vast con.
Germs" 1t might lead the dissatisfied
purchaser to revise his Judgment, if he
could stand between n and two O'Clock
in the morning in the composing room
of a great journal, and witness the in
tense excitement, all kept well under in
well-regulated offices, which character
ICES the "maKe-up" OF the sheet which
he sometimes dismisses so contemptu-
ously. The night editor, if then in a
state to speak to anybody nationally
might tell him that the great point was
not so much what should 60 in as what
should be left out. For there never
wa morning paper yet Which was pig
enough for all the matter prepared Tor
it; and there never can be. The larger
the sheet the more news will come to
it-for every additional column, three
columns of intelligence. or Of matter OF
some sort, will demand admission.
Again, the rule is that there shall be no
mistakes. 1t is in%cxorabie. yet thrice
happy is the journal in which it is never
violated. There are more mistakes
than the sagacious public yer finds
out. Nowhere is q newspaper SO crit
ciscd as in its own oflice.-Charles 1
G0r0d0n.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
Indian Rain-Makers.

Speaking of rain-makers among our
people and the Creeks, says the Cherokee
Advocate, they had them in allthe tribes.
Many years ago we were returning
home from a journey, and at the ford OF
the Illinois river, seven miles from
town, we found a large gathering OF
Creek Indians. those that then lived
below Park Hill. They were in gay
attire. Some of four people were present
who informed US that they had gathered
for the purpose of making it rain We
halted to see what next. Two elderlT
men retired a short distance, and they
appeared to be mumbling prayers, we
presume c%onjuring is the name for it,
but after some time a fire was made on
the bank, when these two c%onjarers
gave an order and a young man plunged
into the river; the river was very deep
and when he came up he had a blue cat
fish in his hand, which vas taken by
one of the two old men AM thrown into
the fire. There was profound stiffness
while the fish was being consumed,
There was more mumbling and other
staange ceremonies going on when W.
resumed our journey. 1t rained thai
night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
Words OF Wisdom.

Better face n danger once than be al
ways in fear.
A house is no home unless it contain
food and fire for the mind as well as the
body.
If the cock OF the tongue be not set
by the dial Of the heart, it will not 20
right. 1870.
The hardest trial 10 your heart is to
attempt to hear q rivals failure with
out weak triumph.
They that do nothing are in the
readiest way TO do that which is worse
than nothing. =.
Those who give not till they die,
show that they would not then if they
could keep it any longer.
Innocence is q flower which withers
when. touched, but blooms not again,
though watered with tears.
No one ought to enjoy what is too
good for him; he ought TO make him
Self worthy OF it. and rise to its level.
One Of The best rules in conversation
is v to say a thing which my of
the company can reasonably wish had
been left unsaid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
House.

The general deficiency appropriation Dill
with amendments was passed.
A resolution for final adjournment on tho
10th inst. was agreed to without debate by
LOG yeas to 6S nays.
The bill to repeal the act extending tho
Voelter patent for the wool-pulp process was
laid on the table, an adverse report having
been made on it. :.
Mr.. Cox introduced a bill relative to q hip
cana; across the Isthmus OF Darien. 1t re-
cites the statement that $50, OOO, OOO have been
offered by United States citizens to foreign
nnrties TO assist them in carrying out tho
scheme of a ship-canal across the lsthmus OF
Darien, and declares that any attempt on the
mart of such citizens to PREJUDICE the question
bv extending the assistance OF their capital to
a foreign undertaking is unpatriotlc and un-
wise.
Mr.. Haskell moved to suspend the rules
and pass the Senate bill ratifying the ute
agreement, with the amendments OF the
House committee thereto. The bill having
been read, Mr.. Haskell said that there were
Two roads open to the government. one was
to PASS this bill by which the United States
secured n large domain at q small price, anu
by which the Indians were protected IN thelS
r;ohts: the other was to abandon this bill and
~ mndertake TO maintain q vast mineral dis
tr;ct in Colorado as an Indian reservation.
The bill was passed.
Mr.. Hutchins offered and advocated the
massage of a resolution authorizing the presi-
d, mt OF The Senate and the speaker OF the
House TO represent tho United States Con-
rrcss at the centennial anniversary OF the
Capture oil Andre, to DO held at Tarrytown,
N. Y, September %. Agreed to.
Mr.. Reagan submitted the conference report
on the river and harbor appropriation bill as
agreed to by the conference committee. The
bill appropliates about $4,000 moro than
was originally appropriated by the House.
Agteed 10.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
The BicyClc.

The bicycle is evidently the coming
horse, fully comprehending all the adj
vantages of horseblck-riding as q
healthful exercise. and excelling in all
the pleasures OF the country tourist.
The veiocipede of 4 few years ago is
among the things that were, although
it did good service for the time in
Strengthening the backs and filling the
chests of school-boys and collegians at
some risk, on account of detects in cor.
struction; but these defec's have all
been surmounted in The bicycle, and
the risk of injury from riding it is really
less than that of the horse. and less
fatiguing. The public is already familiar
with the extraordinary tour of Mr.. Rol-
Inns last summer from New York, by
way of Saratoga and Rochester, to Chi
cago and back. which, we are assured
by MIR. Rollins himself, was a tour Of
pleasure in all respccts-neither alleged
with, O followed by any unusual
fatigue or discomfort, not ven such as
usually follows a day on horseback.
Considering the straight,jacket system
and other restraints common to edu-
cational institutions and counting
looluo, lLC uiCS GIG Is TIC lIlOSU llIlpOI GiuG
mechanical contribution to the promo
ton ofhealth ofmodern times; ard not
for males only. but for females it emil
nently merits commentator. Ladies'
riding habits adapted to the bicycle
would at least be equally graceful with
those of horseback riding, while the
convenience and advantages to be de-
rived from the use of the bicycle in the
muscles and lungs render it superior
to any form of physical exer-
else hitherto devised. And of the
many bicycle-riding and tourists clubs
now in process of formation for the
summer, we hope soon to hear of in
creased attractions by reason of the in
terest not only, but of the actual par
~ticipation in them by the ladies-in all
their pleasures and bene6ts.-1As SAM
tartan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23

York, and now stands at the head of the New
Yo.k law firm OF Arthur, Phelps, Kuevals &
Ransom. he always took a leading part in
State and city politics. He was appointed
Collector OF the Port of New York by Presi-
dent Grant November 81, 1872, to succeed
Thomas Murphy, holding the office until July
20, 1878, when he was removed by President
Hayes because he was accused OF being in the
way OF the success OF the civil service policy
of the administration. Since his removal from
Office lie hus devoted his time 10 his law busi-
ness and to State and National politics.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
Baby Prizes, $500.

An eminent bankers wife Of -, n.
Y, has induced the %proprietors of that
great medicine, Hop Bitters. to offer $500
in prizes to the youngest child that says
Hop Bitters plainly, in any language,
between May l, 1880, and July 4, 1881.
This is a liberal and interesting offer,
and everybody and his wife should send
two. cent stamp to the Hop Bitters Mfg
Co., Rochester. N. Y, U. S. A., fol
circular, giving full particulars, and be-
gin at once to teach the children to say
HOB Bitters and secure the prize-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23

Camel's hair scarfs are embroidered
in eolors for summer wear.
Almost every color is blended IN the
head embroideries which trim costly
gowns.
Oatmeal cloth for dresses now has
threads of red and blue silk woven in its
tissue.
Very little mantles with long ends
are cut from plated silk and worn IN
the street.
Shoes with white embroidery went
out of favor almost before they were
introduced.
Handkerchief costumes will be easily
cut up for busters. which is something
in their favor.
Gold and black braid placed in alter
nate rows are used for some perfectly
amazing hats. .
Black and white double-faced ribbons
are the prettiest trimming for black and
white lace dresses.
Squares of Brussels net with the hem
embroidered in pale colored dots are
worn around the neck.
Scarfs of plaid zephyr cloth and fans
of zephvr let into the founce are used
to brighten bunting dresses:
The satin plaitings used TOR lllumlna-
ton are placed on light evening dresses
as well as walking costumes.
Imitation Mechlin lace needs a very
little stifening to make 1t look well,
but starch spoiis Breton Languedoc.
Spotted foulards are made into prln-
cess dresses for little girls, and Madras
handkerchiefs are worn with them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23

Baltimore has a new institution in the
shape of q big a loaded with hot
coffee, which is driven about the streets
for the accommodation Of laborers. A
cup of the beverage ) sold Tor three
cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23

vegetine put up in this form comes within
the reach OF all. By making the medicine
yourself you can, from Il SOC. package con.
tanning the banks, roots and herbs, make two
bottles of the liquid Vegetine. Thousands
will gladly avail themselves Of this oppor.
tunity, who have the conveniences to make
the medicine. Full directions in every pack.
age.
Vegetine in powder form is sold by all
drug. lists and general s:orcs. If you cannot
buy it OF them, enclose fifty cents in postage
stamps for one package, or one dollar for two
packages, and ! will send it by return mail.
n. r, Stevens, Boston, Mass.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23

The custom of the Fijians, that when
assman dies his widow must be strangled
by her brother, resulted in the arrange
ment by which she is told to expel her
breath as long rs possible and give a
signal, when the cord is frightened and
almost Immediately all is over.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23
TIMELY TOPICS.

Italian statisticians calculate that
fifty thousand Italians emigrate to the
North and South Americas yearly. UP
to 1871 South America had received
227, $50 italian settlers. The numbers
now leaving the peninsula are alarm
ing the landowners; during March a
single steamer bore away to Monte
video 1900, and other steamers shipped
nearly rs many at a load.
Sixty spies are paid by the state in
Turkey to hang about the baZars ana
| streets, attending as much as possible
to everybody else's business, and to
bring to the palace regularly their bud
gets of small talk and gossip, while hVe
professional takers are always on hand
to retail the scandal thus collected to
the royal ears. His majesty, it is
feared, might be sometimes dull, and
so sixty men are kept as q gossiping
staff. to made sure of somebody being
always on the spot with joke, a story
or q scrap of news.
Retired officers of the United States
army have cost the government pretty
penny in salaries since the passage OF
the law providing for them no less a
sum than $3.50, FOL. There are some
400 officers on the list, and their pay
runs rs follows: heterogeneous get
$685. annually; brigadicr-generals,
81, 1926; colonies, S3,375; lieutenant
colonies, 49, 6O; majors, $685.; cap
tains, SO, 100; first l%ieutenants, Sl,237.5 so
10 Sl.575; second ~lieutenants, ST. ,050 to
Sl,470; chaplains, Sl,495 to $3.50.
Enormous rs are the aggregate stakes
of an English racing season, and large
as are the profits that fall sometimes
to the winners, the apparent gains OF
the fortunate few are deceptive to a
superficial glance. Apart from the
fact that those supporters of the turf
who are in the habit of betting often
overbalance their heavy winnings by
their losses, even the legitimate gains
by stakes are offset by great stable ex:
penses. The cost of fitting up and
maintaining an adequate stable, with
its horses Of all ages and in all stages
of preparation, its trainers and attend.
ants, and thereafter the entrance fees
and Jockeys fees Of the races, make an
actual gain from this pursuit an excep'
tional experience.
The Northwestern Lunabernaan remarke
that each years product of nearly H.,
600, 900 feet OF timber in the United
| States, signifies the total extinction
and wiping out of a given quantity,
which cannot be restored in the natural
order of things. 1t is useless to argue
that the amount now in sight is vast
and sufficient for a generation to come.
The fact remains that the limit is grow
ing narrower each year, and the circle
of commercial timber growth is being
brought into smaller limits. The Gen.
ters Of the pine lumber production OF
fifty years ago are now. many of them,
importers Of lumber, and in all the dis
appearance Of pine is noted in the prom:
inence given to hemlock, spruce, and
other timbers suited only for coarsel
uses. Unlike cotton, another crop will.
not take the place of the present one,
Unlike iron. there is no illimita BILE and
inexhaustible deposits which ages may
draw Upon with impunity, and without
fear of exhaustion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23

An old maxim says that "A miss is
as good as a mile" Then a miss OF
miles is equal to a mile of misses. Pass
the mile OF ,Lisses this way please. We
are just odd enough to have a pre-
ference, that's al .-Danielsoh nile Senti
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-23

Cellars thoroughly treated with white
wash made yellow with cop?eras (sul-
plate of irony willnot be considered de-
sirable h%abitations by rats and mice.