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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
Reading Everything.

HI has read everything" is a fire.
quent remark made when a scholarly
man is under discussion. How abb
surd such a statement is will appear
when the fact is mentioned that in the
Congressional Library at Washington
there are Over 100000 volumes. If
they were placed side Ivy side they
would fill a shelf fifty miles long. If
a man started to read this collection at
the rate of n volume a Gay. it would
take him 1850 years to get through,
and while the man would he at work
on this vast library the printers would
be turning out more than $4,000 new
books a year. From these figures it
will be seen that it is idle to think of
reading everything. or even to read all
the best books. The greatest readers
among u distinguished men have
had their favorite books. which they
read and reread. Certain books in
our language are called classics. They
are models Of style and full Of ideas and
illustrations. Modern writers 20 to
these old authors and get Jumps of
solid gold which they proceed to beat
out very thin. Why should we take
the gold leaf article when we can 90
to the original mines and get solid mug
gets? The old novels are the best.
The old poets have not been equalled.
Too many of our new books are writ
ten hastily to sell. They are of an in
ferior quality and can not profit us in
any way. A man. therefore. need not
be ashamed to say that he has not read
the last new book. When forty new
books appear every day it is impossible
to read them all.-AtiantG Constitu-
ton.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
When Day Meets Night.

Out to the west tho spent day kisses night,
And with ono parting glow of passion dies
In gold and red; u woman's wistful eyes
Look out across tho hills, u band Of light
Plays on her parted hair, there softly dwells, Il
And throws II glory DER her girlish dream;
The sheep slow nestle down beside the
stream,
And cattle wander with their tinkling bells.
The clouds, sun-lushed, cling round the days.
decline;
The woman's eyes grow tender; shadows
creep;
Gold turns to gray; a sharp dividing line
Parts earth and heaven. Adown tho westerns
height
The calm cold dark has kissed the day to-
sleep;
The wistful eyes look out across the night.
Charles w. Goldman, in HarperA
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
Almost nm Editor.

The other day the man who draws
ashes away from two or three news
paper Offices dumped a load on Gar
field avenue, beyond the pavement.
In no time at all a score Of Polaok
women and children were paving
over the load in search Of treasures,
and one child came across a large
piece Of old roller composition. He
washed off the ashes in a mud puddle
near by, but had only taken one bite
when along came a Polack laborer and
"held him up" for the stuff. He
broke a bite, smacked his lips and
started for home with the prize
wrapped up in an old coat.
Although press rollers are composed
Of nothing worse thar glue and molas-
ses, it is quite probable that ere this
the Polack has been taken with a
"spelr and sent for 4 doctor. If the
doctor has been puzzled over the COM
plant this will give him an eye-open-
er, and if the Polack has bemoaned
his greenness in picking up taffy he
may be consoled by the thought that
1.-The path of the roller leads to the
editorial northumberland Free
Press.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
Eth ?" said Mrs. Medley.

"EhP" said Mrs. Medley.
Didn't you get my letter." said
Philips wife.
Letter r
Mrs. Medley was more convinced
than aver that she was asleep and
dreaming.
Il wrote you all about it," said Mrs.
Phil. Don't you know? am Silvia
Grey. met Philip when he came out
to Denver to look at the new mill-ma-
%chinery, and he Would be married i'm
m%ediately. He said he was sure you
would forgive him. VIII you forgive
him, Aunt Nedley?"
"Yes, my dear, I WILL" said Mrs.
Medley, her face Frightening up like
the full moon peeping through mist
wreaths. "But why didn't they tell
me you were Silvia Gregg"
"Philip wanted to surprise you"
said Silvia, hanging her head.
"Well, he has surprised me-" said
Mrs. Medley.
She went back to Hampden with the
mill superintendent and his wife, and
slept in the pretty pink-and- white bed,
room which Silvia had prepared for
her with so much pains; and she prais-
ed Silvia's chicken-salad and prune-
pies, and she even condescended to ap-
prove of Phebe's half-completed silk
counterpart; for life was all couleu,'
de rose for her now.
1t is great thing for a woman of
Mrs. Nedley's age to have her own
way !-Relen Forrest Grares.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
The Boy that Was Buried.

A Madrid (Spain) letter tells this
story of the cholera epidemic: In U1ea,
Murcia, there was attacked a man of
over middle age, the father of a fami-
ly, and also his little boy, aged IL,
called Jose Gomez. The father died,
and a few days after, at 6 in the after
noon, the boy died also, and was carri-
ed Immediately to the c%hurchyard, at
the same time when the gravedigger
was finishing his days toll. He view
ed the last arrival, but although the
grave was almost filled up he threw in
the dead body and went away. Upon
the next morning. as he opened the
cemetery gate, the first thing he saw
was Jose Gomez, almost naked, just as
he was buried, amusing himself.
"Hullo!' exclaimed the astonished
g~ravedigger, "who took you out Of
that?" Nobody" replied the boy,
cheerfully, II came out myself"
"Bueno (good); come here, I wish to
speak to you" Ell chico the little
one). believing that he was to be
treated to another burial, began to
run, and did not stop until he reached
his mothers cottage, whom he fright
ened out Of hor wits, as she believed
he had come from the other world.
"Where Is your father?" was the first
question put by the poor m "Oh,
he stayed there: but give mo somo.
thing to eat, mother, for i am very
hungry" The mother broke out into
cries and lamentations, and the neigh
bors crowded in and tried to surround
the chico. who fled and endeavored to
hide himself. believing firmly those
attempts were premonitory of another
funeral. In tho end he was caught
and put to bed, all the time protesting
that his n malady was hunger. So
they gave him his breakfast, and now
he is the pride Of the village as he
runs about stoning dogs. which. It
seems, was his favorite recreation
before he was attacked by cholera
The final touch in the story is a strik-
ing instance of the truth of what the
poet sang: "They change their sky,
not their dispositions, who 60 across
the SEAS"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
HUMOROUS.

Proud Hesh-The naughty aristo-
crat.
The bird for literary men-The reed
bird.
The woman question: "Now isn't
this a pretty time of night for you to
get homer"
"Good gracious !! said the hen, when
she discovered porcelain eggs in her
nest. 81 shall be a bricklayer next"
"The battle is not always to the
strong" said the judge as he awarded
the butter premium at a county fair.
An organist who advertised for vo-
calists for a church choir, headed his
advertisement : Good chants for the
right parties"
Mrs. Montague: do you sing, Mr..
De LyleP' Mr.. De Lyle with a supe-
rior SMILEY: 81 belong to the college
glee club" Mrs. Montague (disap-
pointed): "Oh, I'm so sorry. 1 hoped
that you sang"
''They have discovered footprints
three feet long in the sands of Oregon.
supposed to belong to a lost race" 1t
is impossible to conceive how a race
that made footprints three feet long
could get lost.
Dude-"You love me, then, Miss
Lydia?" Lydia-"Love is perhaps
somewhat too much to say. At least
l have sympathy for you, because your
face resembles so much that of my
poor dead Fido."
"He's not what you call strictly
handsome" said the major, beaming
through his glasses on a homely baby
that lay bowling in his mothers arms,
''but it's the kind of face that grows
on YOU" "It's not the kind of face
that ever grew on you," was the in
dignant and unexpected reply of the
maternal being "you'd be better look
ing if it had !"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
Texas Rivers.

The Texas river is an institution
that is peculiarly Texan. In the
southern portion of the State many Of
the rivers and streams manage to get
along during the summer with very
little water. Near Ell Paso it has fire.
quently occurred that the natives
have had to dig wells in the dry bed
of the Rio Grande, in order to get
drinking water. For many miles the
river bed was as dry as two volumes
of the Congressional Record.
The writer has crossed the Nueces
river without knowing it. The dust
was sc thick that he did not perceive
that the road crossed the dry bed of
the river. About two hours after l
crossed the Nueces river without
knowing it, a tidal wave six feet high
came rolling down the river bed. Six
hours afterward the river had risen
thirty feet. and before twenty-four
hours had passed away the river in
some places was upward of three miles
wide, and at the place where I stirred
up the dust the raging waters were
deep enough to float the Great East
ern.
The Cibolo is a creek. between Aus
tin and Antonio. that for many miles
rum almost altogether under ground.
1t consists of a succession of pools. The
water sinks out of sight. and reappears
a mile or SO distant. The banks of the
Cibolo are quite steep, and in some
places are forty or fifty feet, which
makes it very difficult for wagons to
cross, particularly in wet weather.
The San Antonio. Comal. San Mar
cos, ~Gaudaloupe, Brazos. and Sabine
rivers do not become actually dry, but
in summer they dwindle away to al
most nothing. The statement that the
water gets so low that the catfish have
to stand on their heads and fan them
selves with their tails to keep cool is
exaggerated q little.
The habit the Texas rivers have Of
rising sixty feet in twenty-four hours
makes the building of railroads very
expensive in Texas. The bridges over
the apparently most Insignificant
streams have to be made very high.
and of the most durable material.
When a stranger sees an immense
bridge over a small stream, he is in
clined to suggest that the people sell
the bridge and buy ONE water to put
in the creek, but after there has been a
rise it would be more appropriate to
sell some water to buy a new bridge
4. E. Street IN 7'euas SUthngs..
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
Self-Sumcing.

l now II lake among tho hills,
Serene and bright and full and free,
United by any mountain rills,
And with no outlet to tho sen.
And yet | marvel if there be
Found amy where through oil the land;
So gold-and .jcwel-rimm'd II cup,
AS Nature with her Hcbe hand
Here brims. and knecling, offers up.
Its molten surface gives tho sky
In sottest sapphire beauty back;
And when the storm comes scudding by,
Dark with its stress of thunder -rnck-
Although its blue be Hinged with black,
The tempest has no power to dash
The creamy swell against the shore,
Nor with defiant onset, lash
The ripple to a sullsn roar.
From secret sources stored away
Beneath its'own sweet wuter, flows
The unseen strength, that day by day
Keeps it in such supreme rcpose
AS never shallow current shows:
Its edges flush with tcnder green,
That lures from far tho hungry herds,
And in it's STOPPING copse IRE seen
Inc nests Of thousand brooding birds.
Oh, for Il nature like the likes.
A-glcum amid our summer hills
That gives, ungrudged its own, nor takes;
Tint ever keeps it's calm, and stills
lis heart, se~lf.centred, even when ills
Impend with drift Of tempest-foam;
That woos tho weary, und above
All other, weaves n ncsted home
For every wandering wing of love!
Il. Preston, in Woman's Journal.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1885-10-14
A LITTLE SURPRISE.

1t was a chilly November night
when the train got into Hampden.
Hampden was one of those new, un-
finished places which required the
brightest of sunlight. tho greenest
frame of quivering leaves. to make
them at all ~presentablc. And in the
gray, uncompromising medium of the
November dusk, Hampden looked
dreary enough, with the dark Chin
neys Of the new silk mill rising out Of
the hemlock woods, the staring Queen
Anne depot, the church, which bore a
strong family resemblance to a child's
wooden toy, and the stone quarry to
the left, which reminded the thought
full looker-on of a gigantic fortifca-
ton in an unfinished state.
"Humph" said Mrs. Medley, as she
looked around her. "a queer p!ace!"
Her niece, Phebe, was there to meet
her, with a box-wagon and a white
uosed old horse.
"Folks can't always choose where
they're to live" said Phebe, who was
always in a state of ~antagonism to
Mrs. Medley. And Hampden is good
enough for mer'
How is Philip?" said Mrs. Medley.
"Philip is WELL" said Phebe. as she
helped the depot.boy to hoist Aunt
Ncdley's trunk into the wagon.
Philip Barrow was Mrs. Nedley's
favorite nephew. She had paid his
bills at school, superintended his for
tunes, and finally purchased for him a
share in the new silk mills.
Hes all I've got" said Mrs. Ned
ley, Except Phebe, and Phebe and 1
g did hitch horses together. And
l want him to succeed in the world"
But within a few days a new claim
ant had arisen to Aunt Nedley's pro-
lection and tender consideration.
"To-be-sure she is no relation to
me-" said Mrs. Medley. "But her
mother was my dearest friend, and I
think I will adopt her :for my own"
And it was scarcely an hour from
the time in which she learned that
Silvia Grey was an orphan, that she
wrote a kind letter to the girl, invit-
ing her to come to the East for a visit.
"If you like it, my dear, there need
be no occasion for your ever going
back" she wrote. "We are both alone.
Let us be companions to one another"
She had waited and waited, and no
reply had arrived; and while che wait
ID, a plan had developed itself in her
mind.
IF she is her mothers daughter,
he can't help being pretty" said Mrs.
Medley. "Phil is a handsome lad.
he shall marry Phil !!
And this explains Mrs. Nedley's
Essence at Hampden.
NJ suppose you are still keeping
House FOR Philip" said she to Phebe,
% they drove along in the chill twi-
light.
"No," said Phebe, skillfully guiding
the old horse down a steep place in the
road.
II boards. ell ?" said Mrs. Medley.
mo, he don't board" answered
Phebe. "His wife keeps house fol
him"
/ "What?" said Mrs. Medley.
"He is married." announced Phebe,
very much in the tone in which she
might have said at is a cold evening"
or "The train is late"
.Philip marriedr repeated the old
lady--"married! Stop, Phebe-don't
drive a step further! Turn around al
once. Take me to the station. III
return taConcord."
"Ain.t you going to see Philip
asked PheRe.
"Not if1he is married." answered
Mrs. Medley In q choked voice.
.Hssa proper nice wife
pieaded 4 You'll like her"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30
IL. LOUIS.

WnrAr-Higher: Nc. . He'd jan. Sc
@S7c; February, sG]f@ s63sc: March. Ss2<@
Zoe. CoRN--Higher; 36dS6kc January,
.5JS6SGIsc Feb. OATs-Lowcr: January,
30@3oISc; May, :1J6c. RYE-Qmet: 75c.-
BAMEY-Sleady nc t5@s5c. Provisions
Pork lower; Sl2.t0. Dry Salt Meats quiet
81 $3.50. 6.s0,- Cos. Bacon steady ut
s7.3sIf, 745. Land higher: $3.50
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30
CINCINNATI.
Family 90 GOA 90.

FLouH-Fair demand: Family s3.60d400.
WBEAT-Fim at SIC. CoRN-Strong ut
4fc. OATs-Weak ut S31Sc. RyE-Steady;
1.c. pEovIsIoNs-Pork steady at Sl2.5O;-
Lard firm nj $685. Bulk Meats s5.O09
@6.t0 Bacon s5.5O(d7.75.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30

Catarrh Is a very prevalent disease, with
distressing and offensive symptoms. Hoods
Sarsaparlla gives ready relief and speedy
euro, from the fact 1t acts through the blood,
and thus reaches every part Of the system.
~ suffered with catarrh fifteen years. Took
Hoods Sarsaparllla and am not troubled any
with catarrh. and my general health Is much
better" ]. w LrLLIs. Postal Clerk Chicago
& st. Louis Railroad.
al suffered with catarrh or years tried
many wonderful cures, inhalers, etc., spend
ingnearly one hundred dollars without benefit.
tried Hoods Sarsaparilla, and was greatly
improved" M. A. ABBEY, Worcester, Mass.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is characterized by
three pcculiarities 1st, the combination Of
remedial agents; I'd, the proportion; Sd, tho
process OF securing tho active medicinal
qualities. The result is medicine OF unusual
strength, effecting cures hitherto unknown.
Send for book containing additional evidence.
floods SarsaparIlla tones up my system,
seems to make me over" j. +. THOMPSON,
Register OF Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
"Hoods Sarsaparilla beats all others, and
isworth Its weight In gold" ]. HARRINGTON,
$50 Bank Street, New York City.
Hoods Sarsaparilia
Sold by all druggists. 81 six for ss. Made
only by O. /. HOOD g. CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30
BAlTINIOI,F.

WnEAT-Wesiern higher; No. . Winter
Fed Spot and January, 90d9olfc; Feb,
e0If@W. CoIY--Mixed JAN, .t0x@5lc.-
OATc-Wesiern White. 37msSc: Mixed do,
3z6S0c. JlyE- Quiet at 72i<@73.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30
Prices paid IN Owosso on Friday Morning
of This Week.
CHICAGO.

WHEAr-Lower: JAM, 7ya 7s14c; Feb,
5SH@ 7Sxc: Msrch. 7SX o19Ac.
LoRN-Lower; Jan, 371S size; Feb,
S7H@3 71Sc: March, 3iss 37%c.
OATs-Higher; January .7sl e2INc; Feb,
21X027Xc.
IEovisIoNs-Mess Pork higher: Jan,
s12.25Co ~ 271f; Feb, s12 25d IL 211<; Mich,
S12.35@123Il{. Lard-S,eady; JAM, S6:SS
@6e5; Feb, S6.s59 g6S5; March, s6.9o9
6.95.
Cloice to fancy steers SIS 7ad 6 25
Good to choice steers. ............ 4SOd55 81
Medium TO fair steers. ......... 400 d47o
UOGs-Market firm. Sales ranged from
s465a5.00 for heavy; "a 40Cd4.70 for light
bUTTER-Steady. We quote: Choice to
10 good do. COO Soc: good TO fancy Dairy at
COG c4c; common 10 lair do. l5alSc.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30
MILWAUKEE.

WnEAT-Higher;J JAM, TIC; Feb, THO
GoRN-Firm NJ 311fc for No.. OhTsnL y.
Firm: No..2 White. e79zc. RyE-Dui,
6516c for No. J. BAME,- Higher ~ ofA
for No o
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30
NEW YORK.

WuRAT-Higher; No. Feb. 90x %
Ole; March. 92e 92ssc; April, s3aH@ o4c.n %
loEN- Iuei; Mixed v eslern spot, %
dt515c.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-01-30

Z. L. Brewer sells the best pure Gum,
Crack proof. Rubber Boot in tho market,
for only 81 so.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-06
LORD woLSELEY UNDER FIRE.

The Ninetieth was one OF the regi-
ments destined for China which Lord
Canning's swift steamers eontrlved to
catch On route and divert 70 India 10 aid
in the quelling of the great rnutiny that
had broken out with so fell an unex-
pectedness. The gallant "Perthshire
Greybreeks" we're included in the
column which Sir Colin Campbell led
from Cawnpore to the second relief OF
Lucknow. From the Dilkoosha Sir
Colin had sent the Black Watch
down the slope on tine Martiniere.
The Ninety-third and the Sihhs had
made CHASTITY shambles of the once
beautiful Secunderabagh garden. Peel's
men OF. the shannon. were slogging
with their ships guns into the massive
structure OF the Shah Nujeej, prepare
tory 10 carrying it by escalade out of
the branches OF a tree which grew
against the wall of the shrine WoIse-
ley, with his. two companions of the
Ninetieth, was sent TO the left TO carry
Mess House. The way to its compound
wall was across the open. WOlseley's
| fellows took with them couple OF light
| guns. SO fierce was the Sepoy fire that,
| to use WolseIey's own quaint colloquia-
ism, 1.-The bullets dropped off the tires
of the wheels like peas off drum"
The Mess House was carried with Z
rush. Wolseley with his own hand, in
| the midst OF the haiistorIn OF bullets,
pulling down the flag of the mutlneers
from the staff in its roof, and planting
J., =, =, l.
carried. Beyond the Mess House lay
the Palace known az TIE Notice Mahal,
| the last rebel post separating the reIiev-
ing force from their euvironed faiaF-
countrymen. WolseIey led his detach
ment forward to the assault OK the Notice
Mahal which IL its tnrn, was taken and
eIearCd after hard. fighting and eveie
| loss. II 3 operation consume ated the
relief. Between the Motee Mahal and
the steam engine post. lay only Mr..
Martins house, which the rebels had
evacuated. Young Mcorsom ran the
gauntlet. and the connection was es-
tsbNsheds .It4was Wo!seley who greet
ed the Gpaat courier of the besiegej.
Woi e y took part in the ha d
| fighting which ought aiolJ
the final reduction of Lucknow
and in the energetic marching and hight
ing all over Dude. whereby the late Sir
Hope Grant contributed SO greatly to
the stamping out OF the great revolt. on
the final extinguishment of which VOL
seley found himself a brevet Lieuten.
ant-Colonel at the age OF twenty-six-
Quick promotion certainly. from Ensi q
70 I.ientenant-Co Colonel in eight years
but every step in the rank had been
honestly won at the point of the sword.
= Archibald Eor5es
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-06
Cable Clicks

LoSpoS, September SD is reported
that Sir Francis Hart, British Ambassa
dor TO China, is very actively engaged
in endeavoripg to induce the Pekin gov
lefnment to,so execute the provisions OF
| the Anglo-Chinese commercial under
st4nding recently reached between the
| two nations as TO give the English firms
| the preference in, the work of construct
| ing various railways and other internal
| Improvements decided OIL, and for the
construction of which the Germans have
recently been making such strong over
lures. Ia.
Static. the new United States minister
at Rome. has been heartily welcomed
by the italian press. He. will visit
Signor De Pretio, president OF the ltal-
ian Ministry. at his villa in Bellagia.
near Lake Como, before presenting his
credentials.
q From Berlin ii is rumored that Prince
Bismarck Intends. to propose to the
Reichstag a further increase of the
duties on cereals against all countries
bur Austria and Hungary.
Prussia has. sanctioned the plan for
the projected ship canal WHICH it is
proposed to cut from Kiel on the Baltic
to point on the lower Elbe near
in the German ocean. The
entire cost of the work is placed at 1885,
900 900 marks, Of which Prussia stands
ready to contribute 100000 marks
The bill for the construction of this
canal VIII be submitted to the Bundles
rath after vacation.
Artists from Berlin, Munich, Ham
burg, Dresden. Carlsluhe and Vienna,
have been invited TO attend the sixteen
sratituors performances of Parsifai,
rustan snd Isolde, 10 be given at the
Beyruth Theatre, ,Herren Richter,
Mattel and Levi are to conduct the
performances. ~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-06
Another Brute.

CouNcrL BLUFFS, Iowa, September s.
On April 18th, 1885, Mrs. symes
Avery died at Taunton, Somerset, Eng
land, leaving an estate valued at $780,.
coo to her two children, Ada H. and
David Symes, aged IA and 10. Charles
Avery, step-father of the children, alb
Quoted them and brought them to this
city, where he has been living since
June 18th, with che .14-year-old girl as
his wife. Ed. II. Hodges, of Somerset,
England, the legal guardian of the
children, arrived here to-day, and took
possession of them.