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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-25
Thankful for One Thing.

t'Vasilievitch, said the Car of Russia
to servant the other morning, "have
you looked under the carpet for nitro
glycerine and examined the hair brush
for dynamite bombs and tested the coffee
for strychnine and made the cook cat
part of the rolls and looked down cellar
for barrels of gunpowdcr and sent orders
for all the suspicious persons arrested
around the palace last night 10 be hung?"
"Yes, most noble sire!" answered the at
tendant. "Then help me on with my
woven steel-link ulster and call the pla.
toon OF police to escort me across the hall
to the dining room. There is not much
enjoyment in this kind of life but |
thank heaven every day now that don't
live in Chicago. ."-Estellins (Dok.) RsA.
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To-day invite you to a grander banquet

To-day invite you to grander banquet
than any I have mentioned. My Lord, tho
King, is the banqueter. Angels are the cup
bearers. All the redeemed are ths guests
The halls Of eternal love, frescoed with light,
and paved with joy, and curtained With un-
fading beauty, are the banlueting p lace. The
harmonies Of eternity are the music. The
chalices Of heaven are the plate: and ! am
one of the servants coming out with both
hands filled with invitations, scattering them
everywhere; and Of that, for yourselves, you
might break the seal Of the invitation and
read the words written in red ink OF blood
by the tremulous hand Of dying Christ:
"Come now, for all things are ready"
After this day has rolled by and the night
has come, may you have rosy sleep guarded
by Him who never shmbers! May you
awake in the morning strong and welll But,
oh, art thou despiser Of God! Is the COM
ing night the last night on eartha Shouldest
thou be awakened in the night by some
thing. thou knowest not what, and there be
shadows floating in the room, and hand
writing on the wall, and you feel that your
last hour is come, and there be fainting at
the heart, and a tremor in the limb, and
catching of the breath-then thy doom
would be but en- echo Of the words Of my
text: Sin that night was Belshazzar, the
King Of the Chaldeans slain"
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JinrikiSha Men.

A iinrikisha man is sort OF man
horse, who put himself between the thllls
of a two wheeled vehicle in Japan, and
draws passengers long distances with re-
markable speed. A Japan correspondent
of the New York Tribune writes:
The iinrikisha men Of Japan are pa
thetic class. Their lives are limited to
few years after they begin the business,
and vet their ranks are kept full by new
recruits. Their queer little ways are
constant source of amusement and sur
prise to the new conner. When A
had been here but few weeks, she called
q iinrikisha one morning, as she wanted
to 90 to the opposite side of the bluff,
more than half q mile off. Previously
she had made the same trip IN
brougham on fine mornings.
She was no sooner seated in the jim
rikisha and well tucked up in her lap
robe, than the little Jap was of like q
shot without asking or being tod where
he should take her. A. said to her.
self:
"Wcll, now, this is queer! I wonder
if you know where I want to 60? Very
we'll. you can go ahead, and I'll see: 1
shall not volunteer any unasked-tor IN
formation now"
The little man apparently needed none,
for he continued on fast trot. As
wonder increased momentarily; the fun
became exciting; she laughed quietly to
herself. At last he stopped, dropped
the thi!ls, and relieved her of the lap
robe with an air of absolute assurance
that she was where she had planned to
no-and she was. Not word had
passed between them.
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At Ninety in the Shade.
All the world seems very dreary,

All the world seems very dreary,
And our toiling makes us weary,
And we sigh for generous draughts of lemon
ade,
When the stHh is redly growing,
And the preparations flowing,
And the mercury's at ninety In the shade.
When the flies are irritating,
And a-down the beIld head skating,
By what method shall our misery be allayed!
Shall we seek the ocean beaches
Where mosquitoes cannot reach us?
When the mercury's at ninety in the shade.
Let us understand it fully
That we've got to take things coolly
And nothing stronger drink than lemonade,
Put all care aside and worry
And do nothing in hurry ~.
When the mercurys ut ninety in the shade.
Boston Courier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-25
The Infamy of the Liquor Traffic.

The InEamy OF the Liquor Traffic.
The liquor traffic is the prolific source
of large proportion Of the misery that
now exists in the world, and also the in
stigator and melting. cau:e of nearly all
the crimes that are committed. We
might charge these crimes to individuals
and their perverted appctites, but we al
ways find that allurement is q much
stronger incentive to intoxication than
dcIiberation, therefore we 60 to the
fountain-head and charge this crime and
misery to the rum-seller, this debasing
and curse of curses, this foul and terri
bic incubus that weighs 80 heavily on the
fairest and best homes of our country,
that destroys our business, pauperizcs
the people and sends thousands of tho
best men of our country to untimely
graves, and leaves behind wall of an
guish from broken hearts and helpless
orphans; these arsenals of riot and de-
bauchery that put our lives and property
in constant jeopardy, that fill our jails
and prisons, and cause a stream of crime
and wretchcdness to flow like molten
lava over the best interests of our coun.
try. All these and much more are the
direct and immediate results of the
wicked and mercenary crime of rum-sell-
ing, crime that has been tolerated and
sanctioned through the influence of our
social surroundings, large moneyed inter-
ests, together with the ignorance of the
people as to the nature of the vile COM
pounds foisted on them, and the clamor
of the perverted appctites of its many
victims.
The people are sovereign in authority
and have absolute control of this monster
evil, and are therefore responsible to each
other for the continuation of this awful
devastation that is being constantly per-
petrated by these rum-sellers. In our
sovereign capacity we are guilty of sane
tioning these outrages on the property,
the lives, the health and the welfare Of
the community.-W Jennings Demorest
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-25
Cost of Drinking.

It appears, says a Washington dis
patch, that the consumption of beer in
creased 1924, $50 barrels. The con-
sumption in 1885 was greater than ever
before, and, adding the officially re-
ported increase, it appears that no less
than GAG, 900, 900 gallons of beer were
consumed last year. The population is
$1,000, 900, but the consumption for the
year ending June 80 must be reckoned
upon the mean population for that year,
which was about 50, 1870 On that
basis the consumption of beer appears to
have been 1888 for every inhabitant,
babies included. Considering that
large part of the population does not
consume beer at all, this seems to imply
an enormous consumption to those who
do, and yet, since those who use beer at
all certainly consume as much as half
pint daily, they would at that rate get
rid of twenty three gallons each. APP
parently the consumption is about equiva-
lent to a pint day for half the adult
population.
The increase in the consumption of
whisky was 1906, 1OS gallons, which
makes the consumption for the year TO-
76S,O1O gallons, or 1.19 gallons per
capita. That is much more than was
consumed in the years of depression, the
fiscal years 1878 and 1879, when the tax
was the same. that it is now, but it is
much below the consumption of 1888 or
1884, when the quantity was 1.41 and
1.42 gallons per capita. The increase in
the consumption of beer, which has risen
from seven gallons to nearly eleven gal
Ions since 1S7s-9, accounts for some
diminution in the use of spirits, and
probably the rapid spread of prohibition
at the South has affected the consump-
tion still more. Fifteen years ago, when
the tax was only fifty cents per gallon
the consumption ranged between ont
and half and two gallons per capita.
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
The Temperance Army.

The Temperance Army,
Cheers for the Temperance Army;
Behold, the brave hearts come
Beneath white, white banner,
But not to martial drum.
They come from Western prairies,
And Southland fair as May,
And pine-clad Northern hillsides,
And Eastern homes to-day.
Cheers for the Temperance Army,
The brave, bravo Temperance Army,
The onward.marching army,
Whose ranks will win the day.
They come to break the fetters
That bind demons slaves;
They come to keep their brothers
From filling drunkards' graves.
o brave and loyal Army!
Your cause is grand and right;
God speed you on to triumph
Beneath your flag of white.
Cheers for the Temperance Army,
The brave, brave Temperance Army,
The mountaineering Army,
Who fight for truth and right.
-.,Ebsn E Rerford, in temperance Banner.
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On furniture, as we behold 1t In the shops,
with this delicate aud mastery work.
Yet many of our young painters might be
worse employed than in spending real
thought and putting real good work on
articles of daily use, which We have come
to regard, unhappily, as necessarily ugly
because utilitarian. Q,leen.
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Temperance Notes.

- The W. G. T. U has rightfully been
called organized "mother love-"
The town of Salem, n. c., has per-
mitted no liquor to enter its limits for
one hundred years.
London druggist sold in one year at
one liquor house more strychnine than
the whole city used incidentally.
,}Grcat Britain has over 1900 societies
Tor young people based on total absti-
nence, with a membership of 100000.
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The population of Rhode Island, &C.
cording to the census of 1885, was 3O4,-
as4, Of whom l46, 1893 were males and
157, S91 females.
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Suicides In Large Cities.

The following specially obtained sta
tistics give the number of suicides in
each of the leading cities in the United
States during the year 1885:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-25
An Outerowth ofthe License System

Outerowth of the License System.
The New York Sun recently gave de-
scription of the paintings in some Of tho
leading bar-rooms of New York city,
showing some of them to contain from
100000 to 100000 each in paintings,
statuary etc, to make the path to perdi-
ton attractive and fascinating. These
saloons are the product and Legitimate
outgrowth of the license system. The
plea that license ''restricts' is utterly
false and falla,ious. The young men
who frequent these gildcd pathways to
hell arc first assured that that these
places are licensed, legalizcd and pro-
tccted by the strong right arm of the
law, and hence are legitimate and ncccs-
sary to the public good and welfare. One
of these gilded saloons will do more to
lure souls down to eternal ruin than a
hundred Glow dives" that only take
the cast off victims when so robbed of
their money and dcbauched of character
as not to be fit to associate with the new
'customcrs" which these more Gre
spectacle" saloons are receiving. The
gildcd "saloon must CO. in order that
tho young men may be saved. God and
truth and the right arc stronger than all
the wealth of the world combined. Ma.
tional Temperance Adgocate.
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zone 80 years. :
The methods of self-destruction were
various, but the principal means COM
pared. with those shown in the census
record were as follows:
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OF the total number of suicides in New
York, IS were native born, 152 were
foreign born, 1877 were males, and 40
were females. Those who were married
numbered 73; widowers and widows, 26;
single persons. so, and SO whose marital
relations were unknown. The record of
the occupations of those who sought
death at their own hands ought TO throw
some light upon the question as to
whether poverty is to any great extent
the cause of suicide. 1t does not, how
ever. The statistics are as follows:
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Brooklyn go. .... so Buffalo. ........... II
The number of suicides to population
in 1885, which is the only comparison
of value, is given below:
San Fran Il to $500 Cincinnati 1 to 1900
st. Louis. L to 5, 100 Boston. :. IL to $500
Chicago. L to $500 Buffalo. L to IL 200
N. Orleans. L to 5000 Phila. IL to 1900
New York. L to 6,700 Brooklyn. i to IA ,00o
Newark. II to $500 Baltimore to 14,9
The above statistics show two curious
facts. 1. That the number of suicides to
population is greater on the Pacific.
coast, and decreases in almost an arith-
metical ratio, city by city, until the
Atlantic coast is reached. 2. That
Brooklyn, which is practically part of
the city of New York, has less than half
the number of suicides that the latter
has. The census of 1880 places the
number of suicides in the United States
at to 10000 of population, while the
statistics above show that the average
in the twelve cities named is 1 to 8, ,450,
which indicates that self-destruction is
nearly two and half times greater in
the large cities than in the towns and
villages.
Research shows that the details of sui.
cides in New York apply generally to the
other cities mentioned, and in fact to the
whole country. This is shown by the
following record of the ages of suicides
in New York during 1885 compared with
those in the United States for the cens'Is
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in 1885, which is the only comparison
of value. is given below:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-25

it as it is. Daniel did not misinterpret or
modify the handwriting on the wall. 1t is
all foolishness to eXpecta minister Of the gos-
pei to preach always things that the people
preach to you to-day. Shall I tell you Of the
dignity of human nature. Shall l tell you Of
the wonders that our race has accomplished!
"Oh. MOI" you say, "tell me the message that
came from God" I will II there Is any
handwriting on the wall, it is this lesson:
Repent, accept Of Christ and be saved.n I
might talk of great many other things, but
that is the message, and so declare it. Jesus
never fattered those to whom he preached.
He said to those who did wrong and who
were offensive in his sight: ''Ye generation
Of vipers ye whited sepulchres! how can
ye escape the damnation Of hell Z" Paul the
Apostle preached before man who was not
ready to hear him preach What subject did
he take! Did he say: "Oh, you are good
man, a very fins man, very noble manF
No: he preached of Righteousness, to man
who was unrighteous; of temperance, to
man who was the victim. of bad appetltes; OF
the judgment to come, to man who was
unfit for it. So we must always declare the
message that happens to come to us. Daniel
must read it as it is. A minister preached
before James Of England, who was James
VI. Of Scotland. What subject did he take!
The King was noted all over the world for
being unsettled and wavering in his ideas
What did the minister preach about to this
man who was James I. Of England and
James vi. OF Scotland! He took for his text,
James l.. T.: He that wavereth is like q
wave Of the sea driven with ths wind and
tossed" Hugh Latimer offended the King
by sermon he preached, and the King said;
''Hugh Latimer, come and apologize" II
| will, said Hugh Latimer. So the day was
appointed, and the Kings chapel was
full OF Lords and Dukes, and the
| mighty men and women OF the country, for
Hugh Latimer was to apologize. He began
| his sermon by saying: Hugh Latimer, be-
think thee! Thou art in the presence Of thine
| earthly King, who can destroy thy body
But bethink thee, Hugh Latimer, tnat thou
art in the presence Of the King Of Heaven
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Begin the education of the heart, not
with the cultivation of noble propensi-
hes, but with the cutting away of those
that are evil. When once the noxious
herbs are withercd and rooted out, then
the more noble plants, strong in them
,slves, will shoot upward. The virtues,
like the body, become strong and healthy
more by labor than nourishmeat. -Richt-
kr.
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OF Racine duu DloilclC. n0 ~ P"' 'AAo
paper, the colophons, all being re-
produced with unscrupulous accuracy,
and then palmed off as genuine
upon the unwary purchaser. The
manufacture still prospers, aided
with the photogravure process and
the arts of fac simile. So also are
old letters and autographs successfully
aoated, signed by Cardinal de Retz or
Colbert, or whom you please, fetching o
rood price, and almost challenging scru-
tiny. The history of the Shapiro forgeries
of the Pentateuch are fresh in the recol-
lection of our readers. They were offered
at the moderate price of 81 900, 600 ster-
ling. So also the famous vernis Martin
can still be bough ght at Paris, very like, but
still not genuine; and clever painters,
whose work IS as good as Lancrets, can
be found to figure as Watteaus with no
mean success. But at present the secret
of the real Martin veTnis remains as I'M
peretrabic as it is exquisite.
In buying old oak furniture, the buyer
should notice the presence or absence OF
the st:es" or cross-bars near the floor,
which arc invariably in tine construction
Of the seventeenth-century jo:ners. The
forgcr is apt to forget this, and thus
himself brand the work as spurious.
Decoration was formerly the proper art
of guild of Florcntine artists in the
fourteenth century. Painters, jewelers.,
cneravers and metal workers lived in Il
happy state of cooperative harmony, Sc
that Golfer or caskct might bear the
suct essive impress of many clever hands
as the enamel, the setting, the lock, the
'ewel work, would each be executed by
an artist st-craftman, skilled at Dello, OF
Collini, or Ghiberti. 1t will scarcely dc
% contrast the revived mode of painting
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-05-08

JEFFERSON DAVIS, ex-President of
the late Confederacy has made his trip
through Alabama and Georgia, and
returned to his home at Bowler. He
was received with great applause at
every stop Of the train. At Macon,
Georgia, he was introduced by Judge
Chas. A. Harris, TO nm immense au-
dience. This called up recollections
of the past when his wife and infant
daughter were stopping there with the
family of Mr.. Howell Cobb, at the
close of the war. Mr. Davis made a
few touching remarks, said, !" the visit
to Macon filed his heart with tender
emotions" "around it cling loving
memories" and be asked his daughter
10 rise up and let tho people Of Macon
see the little Confederate girl, now a
Young lady. His trip from Atlanta
to Savannah was said to DO a contin-
nous ovation. Because be was invited
and addressed the citizens Of Mont
gomery, Ala, q few citizens, we are
'orry TO say, at Albany, New York,
ook ii upon themselves to express in
on account Of the resnrrec-
ion Of Jefferson Davis. We know the
sigls-soasa Press Of the North is MT
ietsg ashamed cf The movement. We
lsaTe no hatred. bat we do have feel
rs q sorrow sor any man, North Or
hpnth, wlAe hAA % belistlad hiinsall AZ
w taAAs pasA u snSh 4 nanssnsapt.
Knowing be hes been pronspiaa is slol
~ b envy o. lea into & Through
ignorance Mr Lewis il Qua ii shel
true thinkers Of Tho Mr., and every
SoulhsFn man loves him, and Il ncs
aohaned Of II.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-05-08

The subject Of this sketch was
born in jackson county, Miss, Nov.
2ath, 1851, was raised in that couaty,
was married, and lived there until
about four years ago, when he removed
to this parish, settling near the Bur-
leson q Bros Mills. On the goth
aagy Of April Nh. BaFleson had the
misfortune to have his hand crushed
in the planning mill at Decsport, and
although The shock was great and
the pain intense, bis family thought
he was doing very well, up to Friday,
Both nlt., when sitting in the doorway
he experienced chilly sensation and
began to grow rapidly worse, showing
evident signs of tetanas, or lockjaw.
The family physician was summoned,
and did everything possible, but could
only give temporary relief, aud, be con-
tinued to grow worse until Monday
morning, Bird inst, at about o'clock,
when death closed his earthly career.
Mr.. Burleson was a generous, warm
hearted man of quiet, modest and
nnassuming nature, trne friend, q
noble brother, a loving companion and
an indulgent father. His demise,
which was SO unexpected, was a shock
to the community, and his loss creates
an aching void in the heart of many
a warm friend.
The bereaved have onr deepest
sympathies, and we commend the
grief stricken companion and her four
fatherless little ones to the care of
Him, who has promised to be q father
to the fatherless and husband to the
widow.
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strike ENDED.


III answer 70 d communication from
Governor Curtin and others, to the
General Executive Board Nights Of
Labor Of America, the following was
received:
est, LOUIS, May 3, 1886
Hon. Al. Curtin, w. II. Crane, ]. II. Outh-
waite, a. \. Parker, james Buchanan, j.
w. Stewart
GEETLEMEN-Y Your communication
Of May ! was placed before the joint
executive boards, and the following
resolutions were adopted:
ResolUea, That the communication
from the Congressional committee be
received and the request granted that
the time for calling the strike off be
left for the General Executive board.
In view Of the fact that business is
suffering, and having the interest of
the whole people at heart, we willing
ly declare the strike at an end, to take
effect Tuesday, May 4, 1886.
Trusting this action will meet with
the approval of the public and assist
in bringing capital and labor in closer
relationship, we remain, very truly
yours, JOHN W. HAYES,
For the Executive Board of the
Knights Of Labor"
This is done in the interest of the
people of St. Louis, and for the sake
of peace. Thus ends the strike on
Goulds Southwest System of roads.