The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

Iowa To-Day WnerC liquor is ClGneT Hull ulttctu :
ed or sold, wholesale or retail. Missouri, under
q highlEcense law, makes a better shoWlns
in respect to reducing the number of saloons
tnan lowe: does under n prohibitlon law.
we readily admit; That it prevents the sale
Of 1t We most emphaticalIy deny: And this
denial is not based on what we have heard
but on personal observation:
In your editorial columns of last week you
PROFOUND this question: '"Did any man ever
see an Observation-Disclosures. who was not q
pronounced friend of temperance" Al
though it would not be difficult to discover a
spell 1t, running through this query, yet we
will presume that it Is asked In good faith
and answer 1t in the saline spirit Yes; the
writer has seen many anti prohibitionists
who wore not "pronounced' friends of tenn
perance or any other kind of friends. Now,
having given you " frank answer 10 your
question, permit us to ask you one, Is IT nee
esSary that a man should be u prOhibitlonlst
to be q friend OF temperance?
It may be Jews to some of your readers to
be told that under favorable circumstances
than many of our railroads. The E1yuria re-
Gently averaged 1871 knots from land TO land:
A calculation shows that 1911 knots are equal
to 81 .004 statute miles, which is better, time
San Francisco, they averaging but 2l.9O3 stat
ute miles an hour.
At a Sabbath.school not a thousand miles
from here, the lesson embracing the miracle
Of the loaves and fishes, the teacher asked
one of the little boys of his class how he &C:
counted for the fact that five loaves Of bread
were made to serve five thousand people.
"Well," replied young hopeful, Il don't
know; but l suppose the bread must have
been the same kind that my sister Mary
bakes, and very few Of the people could eat
it,"
We notice that n man was convicted in an
Ohio court not long since of "burratry," his
neighbors having sought that way to get
clear of him. Not many persons are aware
persons becomes too troublesome, by. reason
Of his disposition to fOnlent diSSension and
strife, he can be proceeded against by law
and punished according to the degree CT his
regret is that the law is not general and fire.
luently appealed 10. There should be some
lawful way of those whose only object in life
is to a others unhappy.
We dislike very much to refer to mistakes
made by printers, but one In n paragraph or
our1ast weeks correspondence SO completely
reversed our meaning that we must needs
call attention to it.. The last clause OF the
first sentence of the paragraph defining the
position of the Democratic party on Prohibi-
ton was written thus. $40 If there Is one
principle Of the Democratic party more dis
tinctire than another it Is opposition to stump.
luary laws" The typos changed the word
"distinctive" into obstructive" thus entire
ly changing our meaning and Inaking'us say
what was tarthest from our thoughts. We
were not discussing the merits or the demer-
its of Prohibition and even If we had been
we would not nave been foolish enough to
say that opposition to sumptuary laws was
the most obstructive" principle of the Dem,
ocratic party In the face Of the fact that the
Democracy had just trtumplled In a national
election on a platform declaring thai 1t Was
SO opposed.
The death of Mrs. Robert Burdette, wife Of
the well-kuown humorist of that name, has
just come under our notice. The married LIE
of this couple, presenting as it did an exam
pie OF clinging support on the part OF the
the husband rarely If ever equalled, merits
more than a passing notice. Just after their
engagement Mrs. Burdette had a very violent
attack Of fever, which left her not only a
cripple for life but a hopeless invalid. Real
izing that in this condition she would BIZ on
ly Il burden to Mr.. Burdette, she wrote to him
and asked to be released from the engage
mcnt. But like the true man that he IS he
less condition. made her more dear to him
than ever, and insisting On their marriage,
the was performed. she was q
great sufferer thereafter. In the summer Mr..
Burdette wOnld take her to some seaside re-
sort, and the tender manner IN which ne
cared for and watched over her, lifting her IN
and out OF the little carriage which he had
procured for her and wheeling her around as
q mother would her infant, won for him the
admiration Of all who looked upon this rare
picture of mans devotion to woman. Mrs.
Burdette was a deyout. Christian, and when
the message OF death came she was fully Pre-.
pared to go. Just before her death her little
by, moved boy a sudden impulse, rushed TO
her side and threw his arms about her. She
kissed him fondly and said, "God bless my
baby" This was her last blessing on earth.
When the end had nearly come She said in
broken accents, checked by her troubled
my spirit" and then with her last tleeting
breath eXclaiming, ".Mo:her! Mothcr!!" her
pure spirit passed from earth to heaven, and
the wasted body rested without pain for the
first time in many years. Mrs. Burdette was
as near Il perfect woman as it Is possible for
poor, weak humanity to be, and the writer,
who knew her well. desires to pay this feeble
tribute to her memory.