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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
in a little place That appeared to have
been set apart, and which bore evidence
of having been cared for at ono time,
was a grave marked with q board on
which was written:
FLORA.
Died August IL, 1879,
"There is rest for tho weary"

AS Jones began to tell me about the
occupant of this grave he headed for the
house, and we walked slowly away to-
gethcr. That was a girl" he SAID, as
If he thought l might imagine that Flora
was the name Of some dcsporado. "Shc
came through here that summer looking
for her husband. She was from Illinois
somewhere, and he was a bad egg, I
guess. Two or three times she stopped
here, always getting thinner and paler
and sadder. My old woman took pity
on her and found out what she was up to.
Then we tried to find her man, but it
was no go. You can't put your finger
on a fellow that's wanted in these parts.
She stayed here several weeks, Watching
everybody that passed, and at last, as
hope and strength faded away, she fell
sick and died. We buried her out there.
and my wife told ME what to put On the
board, which l reckon amt bad. Flora
was q nice girl, but she didn't have no
sand. That's what I wanted to put on
the board, but Mrs. Jones objected. She
said that when women died here she was
going to write the boards, and; as that
seemed reasonable I let her do it. That's
the only one, though. and hope thereW
never be another"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
History of Coffee.

It was somewhat singular to trace the
manner in which arose the now common
beverage of coffee, without which few
persons, in any half or fully civilized
country in the world, make breakfast.
At the time Columbus discovered Amer
lea it had never been known or used. 1t
grew only in Arabia and Upper Ethiopia.
The discovery of its use rs a beverage is
ascribed to the superior of a monastery
in Arabia, who, DESTROYS Of preventing
the monks from sleeping at their noc-
turnal services, made them drink tho in
fusion of coffee upon the reports of shep-
herds, who observed that their nocks
were more lively after browsing on the
fruit of that plant. Its reputation spread
through the adjacent countries, and in
200 years it reached Paris. A single
plant, brought there in 1914, became the
parent stock of French coffee plantations
in the Vest Indies. The Dutch intro
duceu it into Java and the East Indies.
The extent of the consumption now can
hardly be realized.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Tho Fruit OF tho Lips.

God says: 81 create the fruit of the
lips" lisa. lvii. 10. True and loving
words arc like the ripe fruit that falls
from a good tree. All such trees God
creates now, as lie made the first trees
that grew in Eden. How much more
beautiful is this inspired figure than the
fable of the fairy whose words were like
pearls falling from her lips. Pearls arc
beautiful, but fruit is both beautiful and
nutritious. We need something to feed
upon as we'll rs something to admire.
The starving traveller in the desert who
found a bag Of diamonds was disap-
pointed. "Oh that it were q bag of
bcansw he cried. And so when VIC hear
eloquent speeches that arc as cold rs icc-
bcrgs, we turn away with u gnawing
hunger at the heart. We say, oh that
these trees were like those which God
made to grow in His garden, not only
s'plcasant to the sight" but 'good for
food"
We thought of this divine figure n
Sabbath morning. We were in tho great
congregation. We hung, with thousands
of other hearers, upon the lips of q man
of God. lie spoke as if those lips had
been touched with a live coal from the
altar. His prayers lifted our souls up
into the prescnce-chamber of God. We
seemed to stand by tho throne of grace,
and hear the voice of Jesus intcrceding
for us. And then tho sermon. It was
so thoughtful, so Scriptural, SO rich in
its expressions of the truth, so mellow
in its manifest experiences of the truth,
so sweet in its spirit of charity and
brothcrly love! We felt rs if we were
in some noble orchard, sitting under the
shade Of a tree loaded with fruit, whose
branches bent down until VIC could reach
and pluck all that we needed. AS we
feastcd on those ''wcrds of life" we
thought such trees God only can create.
A true minister, who feeds his people
''with knowledge and understanding"
is the gift of God as really as the trees
of paradise. And such ministers are like
trees, also, because they require growth
and culture. A scion Just set out in tho
orchard does not furnish fruit for many
years. It will have a few leaves the first
season. But it must be dug about and
fertilized and pruned and watered and
kissed by the sun, again and again, sea-
son after season, ere tho full fru,tage an.
pears. And so the man whom God calls
to teach and comfort His people must
not only be converted, and thus become
= plant of righteousness, but he must
study and pray. He must be tempted
and disciplined until he learns that there
Is no wisdom but that which comes from
God, and no strength but in Him. It is
In this way that God creates the fruit of
the lips, by raising up and training men
to speak for Him. Let, then, all who
have faithful and wise and loving pastors
give God the glory and the praise. In
krior.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14

There is trouble over the famous Ma
varro flats in New York, the model and
mammoth apartment buildings that were
TO revolutionize methods of living, min
imize the ~inconvenicnces and annoyances
md afford the maxima of comfort, lux
Try and convenience for housekeepers.
The plan doesn't appear to have proved
wholly successful, and the insurance
company which holds a mortgage of ST.
)40, 900 on the buildings is to foreclose
Its claim, while sums aggregating $40,-
600 are due for taxes, water-rent and
other incidentals. The condition of af-
fairs seems to indicate that there is a line
in apartment-house building which it
isn't safe to pass. Persons who can af-
lord to pay for such accommodations as
The Navarro plan promised not unnatu-
rally prefer in most cases to own their
swn houses.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Animals Doctoring Themselves.

A French physician and savant says
that. animals are as good practitioners of
medicine as q majority of the human
species, and that in hygiene man may
take a lesson from them. Elephants,
stays, birds and ants wash themselves or
battle. Some animals get rid of parasites
by the use of dust, mud or clay. Those
suffering from fever restrict their diet,
keep quiet, seek darkness and airy places.
drink water, and sometimes plunge
into it.
If q dog loses his appetite, he eats
''dog's grass" Sheep when i'll seek out
certain herbs, and puss also finds an
emetic or q purgatlvo in a certain species
of grass or herbs. When a dog is con-
stipated, he eats fatty substances with
avidity. An animal suffering from rheu-
matism keeps in the sun. The warrior
ants have ambulances, and when an in
vestigator cut the antenne of an ant,
other ants covered the wound with a
transparent fluid, from their mouths.
A wounded chinpanzee stops the bleed
ing of a wound by placing leaves
and grass on the wound. A dog
on being stung on the muzzle by a viper,
plunged his head repeatedly for several
days in running water, and recovered. A
sporting dog was run over by a carriage.
During three weeks in winter he re-
manned lying in a brook, whore his food
was taken to him, and he also recovered.
a terrier dog hurt his right eye. He re-
manned lying under q counter, avoiding
light and heat, although he had previ-
ously been in the habit of Keeping close
to the fro. He rested, abstaincd from
food, licked his paw. and applied 1t to
the wounded eye.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
kIOwA CHARLEY.
March IS, 1875. Jim Sears.

ooh, we'll, yes" said Jones. ssJim
was here a good dea! in his day. He
was always On the go, the queerest chap
you ever saw, mighty quick with his gun,
aud always anxious to get the drop on
somebody. He'd drink a quart of whis-.
ky easy at q time. Here's another man
in here somewhere that he left me. Yes.
that's him, right there; that one marked
'Greaser." 1 didn't know his name.
Jim killed him here before breakfast one
morning, and gave me SIS to plant him"
"Where Is Jim MOVIE" I ventured to
ask.
Jones looked around, shading his hslf-
closed eyes with a hairy fist, as De re:
piled:
I've got him in here somewhere. Ho
came up here on the. warpath q few years
ago, and got laid out. There was a ball
here, and several of the. boys were. over
from F~erguson's ranch They knew all
about Jim, and when he tried to get a
bead on one of them two others dropped
him from behind. 1t was about the
prettiest piece Of work hat was ever
done here, if 1 do, say it. Jim never
moved. I dragged him out myself and
planted him the next morning. Did you
read what his monument says2 I threw
myself on that"
I leaned over, and with some difficulty
deciphered the following:
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Quaar Tavern.

George Wickham, the brother of ex-
Mayor Wickham, who has just returned
from Europe and dazzled the other d;a-
mond merchants with the splendor of
his importations, describes al eccentric
establishment in Shoreditch, London,
known as 'Dirty Dicks" The original
proprietor would not have the spiders
disturbed nor the floor swept, and was
initiated by a chop house in Thames
street, New York. But he had other pc
culiarities which are not observed by his
successors. No person could be served
twice Mt his bar on the same day. Ways
who tried to deceive the landlord by
walking out and then coming back
through another door, with their coat
collars turned up and their hats tipped
over their eyes, discovered that the bar
keeper was keen enough to detect them,
and that the rule was inlexiblc. All
drinks were the same price. For three
pence you might take a glass of ale, OF
gin, of brandy or of champagne. The
Queer tavern in a street of London, which
corresponds to our Bowery, was the first
place in which champagne was. sold by
the glass. AS patent corks were not yet
invented, the cranky proprietor preferred
to spoil a whole pint of the wine rather
than violate his own regulation about
prices.-NeD York Star.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
HIS PRIVATE. GRAVEYARD,
a CURIOSITY OF LIFE IN THE. IN.
DIAN TERRITORY.
Ihe Cottonwood Boards at Jones's
Station, and What They SiSnified

Ihc Cottonwood Boards at Jones's
Station. and What They SiSniied
Odd Mortuary Inscriptions.
A letter from Joncs's Station, Indian
Territory, to the New York San says:
The traveller in these parts encounters
some curious people. When we reached
here last night it was too dark to see
anything outside of the old house which
it. was said was ''Joncs's." Jones himself,
an early settler was Hospitality inclined,
and. though rough and peculiar, was not
ono to suggest unpleasant suspicious.
Rising carly this morning, L looked out
OF the one window in my room, aud per-
ccivcd in the grass not far away a num-
Der OF cottonwood boards standing up
right, with marks on each which I could
not dcciphcr. At first I thought Il shed
of some kind had stood there, but at last
the idea dawned upon me that the place
was Il graveyard.
After breakfast, which was well served
by Jones's wife and blooming daughter,
the latter rs neat and comely a girl as
one would care to see. l walked to the
front of the house with Jones and asked
him what those boards in the rear of the
house were. Jones looked puzzled for a
minute and started off to see for himself.
1 following. Just as he turned the corner
of the house he stopped short and OK.
claimed rather petulantly, I thought:
ooh, that there's my private cemetery,
my own cemetery. Everybody has one
out here. l amt had any use for it for
so long that I almost forgot it was out
there. The grass is getting pretty high,
and my eyesight ain't what it vas, but
that's it, stranger. It's a cemetery"
l wantei to inspect the place a little
CLOSER, and had u great curiosity to know
more about it, which Jones appears to
have recognized, for he moved on with
me through the tall grass until we came
to the graves. On the board at the head
OF the first grave was this:
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
ONE EYED MAN.
Killed Sept. %, 1874. Jim Sears.

"That," said Jones, sis all 1 know
about him. He came here one night
and got into q fight with Jim, and Jim
laid him out, leaving him here on my
hands. I'm sort of systematic in my
ways, and SO, thinking that perhaps some
one would want him, 1 marked that
stick, and set it up so that I could tell
which was which. You see at first l
didn't go to that trouble, because I could
carry them, all in my mind, but after a
while I got a little mixed, and to be sure
about them I just adopted this plan.
Jim Sears was a very reckless fellow, but
he meant we'll"
"He appears to have been a good Gus
toner of yours" 1 said, rs moved along
a peg and read aloud this inscription:
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
READING,
Mystery OF Chastisement.
We glory il tribulation also."-IiOm. SIS.

Mystery OF Chastisement.
eve glory il tribulation also."-Rom. SIS.
Within thi leaf, to every eye.
So little worth, doth hidden liz
Most rare md subtitle fraSrancy.
Wouldst tlou its secret strength unbinds'
Crush it, md th' u shalt perfume find
Sweet as Arabia's spicy wind.
lnthis dul stone, SO poor, II bare
~ shape ,r ~Iustre, patient are
viii y tor Lheea jewel rare.
But first must skillful hands essay,
With fileand flint, to clear away
The til1nwhich hides its fire from day.
This leaf2 this stone? 1t is thy heart;
1t must be crushed by pain, and smart,
1t must 70 c.cansed by sorrows art.
Ere it will yield u fragrance sweet,
Ere it will shine a jewel meet
To lay before thy dear Lords feet.
Hymns Of the Ages:
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
deleterious mineral that it is wholly un.
fit to drink

deleterious mineral that it is wholly un.
tit to drink.
Traversing these deserts, moro particu-
larly in the neighborhood of the noun
ta!ns, are numerous deep ~ravines, having
steep sides and broad, evenly sloping
bottoms. They are tho creations of the
cloud bursts which ore not uncommon
here, and which, when they occur, fill
these channels with water III a very few
minutes. The flood. which soon sub
sides. carries down great quantities Of
sand and gravel; but the greater portion
IS swept down and deposited ut its
mouth, where it forms moraincs stretch.
ing far out into the plain below. A ray.
inc so eroded and aftcrward partially
filled up is called a s'wash'-"aryoyo
seco" of the Spaniards.
So far as running streams Or useful!
forests arc concerned, this may I've called
4 waterlcss and a timbcrless land. The
only trees found growing in it, save some
willow and cottonwood along the Color.
ado River, consist of the several varieties.
Of the palm, q worthless wood, and the
mesquite, which, though useless for lun,
Der, makes an excellent fuel. Bunch
grass of a nutritious kind is found grow
ing over a large portion of these deserts;
sparscly in some places and very abund-
antly in others. Much of the soil here is,
in fact, exceedingly fertile, and with
irrigation capable of producing largo
crops of both fruit and grain; it's stcrility
is due only to its dryness. The cactus
of many varieties abounds. 1t is q vile
shrub. detested alike by man and brute.
Reptiles take shelter under it, but do not
feed upon it. The only animals that
abide in these fields Of desolation are
hares, rabbits, and coyotes. There are
no Indians; ever the Digger can not 1.-Two
here. Birds ore rarely seen. The rep
tile family is represented by the lizard,
the horned TODD, and the rattlesnake.-
Overland Monthly.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
jim SEARS.
Killed by Ferguson's Boys, 1881.
He was
The Terror of the Trail =
This monument erected over his bones
BY one of his friends, old Jake Jones.

After expressing my approval of this
inscription I passed along and studied
the other headboards. One was a blank,
and after I had looked at it for some
time Jones said:
"You won't find anything ON that
board. That's a plain one. I know
who's in there, and the man who is there
knows what brought him there. He
came here and tried to coax my daughter
off and I fixed him. That wouldn't have
been necessary, perhaps, only he thought
he could scare me by making believe draw
a gun. 1 only had a knife, but he got
the whole of it clean through him. My
girl didn't like it, and I came near hav-
ing a row with her. Still, she is a good
girl, and I'll stand by her. That's the
only one I ever put here myself. All the
others came to me, and some of the kill
ings didn't even happen in my place.
Here's one, for instance, that was brought
here by the boys from Campbell's place,
and that's the monument they put up
themselves"
I read on the weather-beaten stick:
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
LADIES' COLUMN.
Mrs. Cleveland in Church.

h. -
"When Mrs. Cleveland goes to church,
says Il Washington letter to the Memphis
A~Dalanche, ''as soon as she enters tho
pew and takes a seat, she drops her
pretty head upon her daintily glovcd
hand and devotes Il moment to silent
prayer. Then she settles herself for \
quiet attention upon the service. She
knows, of course. that she is the target
of every eye in the church, and, though
she tries to conceal her embarrassment,
she is not able to do so entirely. When
the pastor gives out the hymn she is glad
to turn her attention to the hymn book
and forget the Uncomfortable feeling
which is the natural result OF being
stared at. Whenthe ministcrlends in prayer
her head is bowed, and it drops q little
lower when he prays for the chief magis-
trate of the nation and adds a petition
for those that are dear to him. She
does not tidget about and lean up in the
corner and rest her head upon her hand
as Grover docs, but sits straight and quiet,
SSShAh \" LIN III ~ L
to end. or course she fans herself con
stantly, for she would not be u woman if
she did not. When the basket goes
around, she drops her contribution mod
estly into it, and when the closing hymn
is given out, finds not only the hymn but
the doxology corresponding in metre
with it, and follows them CLOSELY to the
end. When the services end, every neck
is craued to get a look at her face and
figure. She tries to appear unconcerned,
bows to the church people near her
whom she knows, talks a little to those
nearest her, and is evidently relieved
when the carriage door bangs and she is
hidden from view of the crowd that was
gathered on the sidewalk to see her pass
from the church door TO the carriage.
Throughout, her conduct is full of dig
nifty and gentle grace"
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
Fashion Notes.

- ...r ThSllIOu NOtcS.
White silk stockings are quite the thing
as q novelty in foot wear.
Corduroy is the most desirable material
for boys ~knockabout suits.
Black jersey silk gloves are embroid.
cred on the back in fine jets.
The skirts of pongee dresses have a
broad band Of colored velvet ut the bot
tom.
Black lace skirts are worn with bodices
of colored crepe de chine, silk, satin or
MORE antique.
Wide white Hercules braid fringed and
knottcd at the ends is used as sash belts
for little girls.
Turkish crepes are among the prettiest
inexpensive cotton dress goods. Laces
trim them admirably.
Afternoon dresses of faille yelled with
lace have overdresses of figured silk,
having the same colored ground as the
plain faille.
Deep collars of lace reaching to the
shoulders are worn with afternoon
dresses. They are finished about the
Throat with q band and bow of the vel
wet or ribbon with which the dress is
ltrimmed.
NghFE.-.J saF .
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14

A Pittsburg builder of cheap houses
uses matched flooring instead of lath and
plaster. On this cotton cloth is glued,
and on the cloth wall paper is pasted.
This he claims is better and cheaper than
plaster, and thus houses can be built
In cold weather.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14

The Australian colonies are all legis.
dating against the Chinese.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-09-14
A Romantic Wedding.

Herman Kr0use and Anna EcSchen-
bach, each of whom was born in the lit
tie German town Of Friederichsaw on the
Rhine about thirty-eight years ago, and
whose peculiar outfit and small acquaint-
ance with the English language indicated
that they were strangers to these shores,
were married yesterday by Mayor Whit
ney in his Office In the City Hall, Brook
Ign. The Mayor and Secretary Phillips
each kissed the bride and wished the
couple all kinds of prosperity. 1t was
not until after they had gone that the
Mayor learned that the marriage was the
climax of a long and romantic attach
ment. The story is that Herman and
Anna, when a boy and a girl together in
the little town on the Rhine, had fallen
in love. When the Franco-German war
broke out Herman became a soldier
and Anna, with equal patriotism,
accompanied his corps as a nurse
in lone of the Red Cross Hospita!
wagons. Early in the campaign Her
man, with a score of his comrades, were
mown down by q French shell, and being
supposed to be dead, he was buried with
others in a trench. During the night
Anna went to the trench and dug up the
body of her supposed lover. To her
surprise he showed signs of life. He
was sent to the hospital and he recov-
cred. Annals grief, however, was in
tense when she was informed that an in
jury to his skull was of such a nature
that he could never recover his reason.
Years rolled on, Krausc remaining in q
military hospital and Anna in her native
village. Her father had meanwhile come
to this country, and nearly two years ago,
in despair of ever seeing Krause restored
to reason, she joined him in Brooklyn.
Last fall o German physician succeeded
in performing an operation on Krause's
skull, which brought it back to its nor
NAL condition, and this restored his rea-
son. He then thought of the girl who
had followed him to the war and saved
his life, and he never rested until he
found her in this country.
The marriage followed as a matter of
course. Mayor Whitney, who believes
the story, says it is not more improbable
than other tales of love and war which
he has heard.-Neo York Sun.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-13
y. q r. pASsENGKR TRAVEL.
Bill Nye's Mine.

"Bill Nye" and q syndicate Of journal.
!s.s have been mining. The works OF the
Aladdin are now shut down. The remarks
Of the President Of the company upon the
condition Of the properly are here repro.
ducsd. and they will strike q responsive
chord In the heart OF many q San Fran.
ciscan: at Ia not o very good mine il a
man wants /. as . source OF revenue, but
makes a mighty good we'll. The water is
cold and clear as crystal. II it stood in
Boston instead of out there In Northern
Colorado, where you can't get at IL more
than three months in the year. 1t would be
worth $3.50. The great fault of the Alad-
din mine 10 its poverty IS a mine and its
isolation ID a we'll"