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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24
Just One Glass.

Boys and girls, you will very likely,
if you are in the company of those who
use wine or beer, be urged to take "just
one glass;" and will be told that one
glass will not hurt any one. Don't be-
ieve any such nonsense. One glass has
done more mischief and caused more
trouble than you have any idea Of. Let
me tell you how a sea captain lost his
family and all his earthly possessions
just through one glass of liquor. He
owned a neat little vessel, and had four
men sailing with him, one of whom was
his brother. On one trip he took his
wife and two children. One stormy
night his brother was to stand watch,
and foolishly enough, at the coaxings OF
the seamen, took lone glass, they telling
him that he could better perform his duties
on that very severe night. He was not ac-
customed to using liquor and it over
powered him so that he fell asleep. The
vessel took its own course, and when the
Captain awoke he found it was wrecked.
He took his wife and one of his little
ones in his arms, she took the other, and
FOR hours they battled in the cold waves,
longing for day to break. After hours Of
suffering one of the little one was swept
away by the merciless waves, and little
after the other one was carried away also.
That was bad enough, and he hoped he
might still have strength to get his wife
to land. But she could not stand the ev-
posure nor endure the battling, and died
just as he was nearing shore. Bereft of
wife, children, and vessel, which was his
all-all because of zone glass" of rum.
One glass may effect you when you arc
in need of firm hand and clear brain.
These you want always. THIN let drink
alone.-Temperancs Banner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24
Eradication,

DR.. Felix L. Oswald, a well-known
scientist, in an article upon the alcohol
question in late number of the Forum,
says:
''The friends of reform have at last
recognized the truth that the temperate
use of alcohol is but the first stage of
progressive and shame-proof disease, and
that. moderation and repudiaton failing,
we must adopt the motto of eradication
We must direct our blows against the
roots of the upas-tree; and there is no
doubt that the shsrpcst, if not cheap.
est, tool would be the general en-.
forcement of prohibition. The pen.
alitics of severe proscriptive
law would sap the basis of the
poison traffic by making its risk out
weigh its profits, especially the profits
of catering to an ever-decreasing de-
mand. For the very means used to evade
those risks would alono diminish the
perils of temptation to thousands OF
young men of that class owing their
ruin less to innate depravity than to the
evil influence of an obtrusive example.
The army of topers would die out from
want of recruits wherever the causes oi
intemperance are limited to the tempta.
tions of the rum-shop with its garist
splendor and its sham promises of social
Measures.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24
A Significant Change.

The Lewiston (Mainc) Journal men.
tions the recent launching of four.
masted schooner, named "King Philip"
at Camden, on which occasion it says:
"a real Penobscot Indian tribe now IN
Camp Camden, dressed in Indian costume
representing King Philip, being descend
ants of that tribe, stood on the deck OF
of the schooner at the bow, and as soon
as she started broke bottle containing
instead of rum, pure spring water from
Mount Hope and Bristol, Rhode Island,
in honor of the prohibition sentiment OF
Maine and Rhode Island. About q
thousand people, it is sail, witnessed
the launching, including the owners from
Taunton and Providence" If those
who sail the "King Phi lip" hereafter al
ways use pure water and abjure the rum,
the chances for prosperous future for
the new vessel and the owners will be
greatly enhanced.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24
Kalsomine and Whitewash.

Kalsomine for walls and ceilings is
wash made of whiting mixed with water
and glue. It may be used white or
tinted with dry colols The wall should
first be washed with sponge and warm
water, and any cracks should be filled
with plaster Paris before the kalsomlne
is applied. To prepare kalsomine dis
solve quarter of pound of white glue
in cold water, allowing it to stand over
night. In the mornining it may be
heated gradually, unit. pc fectly smooth.
Mix eight pounds of whiting with hot
water, add the glue, stirring all together.
Should this be quite thick, add warm
water until it becomes about the con-
sistency of cream. This IS applied with
a kalsomiue brush, flat brush with a
short handle. Should there be any dark,
stained places they should be painted
with shellac before the ceiling is kalso'
mined.
Lime is great purifier, and coat OF
whitcwash on cellar walls or any walls
gives clean, wholesome smell and look.
Ordinarily, wh.tewash is made by pour
ing hot water over quick-llme. care
should be taken to use plenty OF not
water at first, so that the lime may be-
come thoroug ghly Stacked. Cold water
NAV be added aftcrward to thin it II
necessary. A little blueing put in Will
give q cleaner white. When used in the
Cellar it is sometimes O good plan to mix
in small quantity of copperas or cay
enne pepper; these are said to keep
vermin away. When the whltewash IS
intended for outside work the addition
of tallow or grease is recommended IN
the proportion of pound to pailftu,l
of whitewash. In this case dilute with
hot water
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24
RELIGIOUS READING.
Not Lost.

The look Of sympathy. the gentle word
Spoken so low that only angels heard,
The secret act Of pure sslf-sacrifce.
Unseen by men, but marked by angels eyes
These are not lost.
The happy dreams that gladdened all our
youth,
When dreams had less Of self and more Of
truth,
The childhood's faith, so tranquil and 80
sweet,
Which sat like Mary at the Masters f3
These are not lost
The kindly plan devised for others good,
So seldom guesse |, so little understood,
The quiet, steadfast love that strove to win
Some wanderer from the ways Of sin,
These are not lost.
Not lost, o Lord! for in thy city bright
Our eyes shall see the past by clearer light;
And things long hidden from Our gaze below
Thou wilt reveal, and we shall surely know
These are not lost.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24

It is foolish to try to live on past ex-
pericnce 1t is very dangerous. if not
fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe
because of something that we felt or did
twenty years ago.-Spurgeon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24

Yesterday is yours no longer; to-mor-
NOW may be never yours; but to-day is
yours, and in the living present you may
stretch forward to the things that C
before. " Farrar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24

The lark goes singing toward heaven;
but if she stops the motion of her wings
then straightway she falls. So it is
with him who prays not. Prayer is tho
movement of the wings of the soul; it
bears one heavenward, but without
prayer we sink.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-24

spent in idleness or in dissiration, or in
s'roping i'm other victims. Wh,l man is
accustomed to gathering scores and hundreds
of dollars in little while he will not have
tsWhy,h said a merchant, 'why should
bother myself here in su b hard, tedious
and annoying way to make $50 when can
maks twice that in one night down at Bill
ie's?' Ahl how this crime has dulled the
carpenters saw, and cut the bands OF the
factory wheel, and broken the teeth Of the
farmers harrow, and shattered with
strange lighting the batteries of the philoso-
pher. What dull work plowing corn when
In one evening in the village saloon the
farmer makes and loses the price OF a harvest:
What dull work in the honest round OF
business making ten, twenty, tfty, one
hundred dollars, when in the same
time you could make and lose the value
of whole seasons profits Oh. how
Killing it is t. all industry. John Broak
was sent out from Bremen as an agent to
England and the United States. After a
while his employers found out that there
must be something wrong. Investigation was
made. It was found out that he was de-
faulter for sS5,030. He had lost SO 600 IN
Lombard street, London. He had lost $4,000
in Fulton street. He had lost $4,000 in New
Orle1ns, Then he was arrested. Then he
was imprisoned. Then he escaped. Then ne
returned to gambling pra:tices. Then ne
died a maniac in an asylum. Gambling is
pry that is already thrust under some OF the
Commercial establishments of Brooklyn. and
viii viii come the whole concern, crushing
reputation, home and immortal souls;
The evil is stupendous. And what is more sad
about it is that there are no consultations for
a'pambler when he suffers loss II man IS
honest ard fails, God pities and society COM
miserates but will you tell me from what
tree of the forest there oozes balm for the
broken heart Of a gambler? In the bottle
where God keeps the tears Of His children,
are there any tears OF gamblers!
Does the wind that blows health
into the cheeks Of the invalid
and that cools the heated brow Of the laborer,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
The Vest as a Lung Protector

Mr.. James Hess makes very sensi-
BILE suggestion, in the Herald Of Health,
when he calls attention to the absurdity
of our present curious habit of wear
ing cambric-back vests, while the fronts
are of a heavy material and sometimes
wadded, and urges the propriety of
protection for both sides of the lungs.
The habit, of course, has grown from
belief that the outer coat is sufficient
protection for the back, while the chest
needs warmer covering, on account of
the coat being open. But it seems a
disproval of the reasoning that the first
unpleasant sensations of chilliness are
the so-called " creepers running down
the spine. Even when the warmest
wooden material is selected for suit
ing, the tailor, unless otherwise Or
dered, will invariably make the back of
the vest of some thin flimsy material,
like cambria or silk, though he may
deem it advisable to pad the front with
cotton wadding. There is no proper
reason why the back of the vest should
be made so insufficient. The front may
be made intentionally thick, and still
fail to protect the lungs unless the back
is made equally thick and warm. In
front they are protected about five
times as much as in the back by cloth
ing, ribs, flesh, muscle and fat. In the
back the lungs come almost to the sur
face, and therefore need more pro-
lection. Mr.. Hess asserts that it has
been his custom for two years past, and
that many gentlemen to whom he has
mentioned the matter have had their
vests made with good, warm backs,
and after winters trial are quite en-
thusiastic over the change. They have
passed through the entire winter and
spring without once taking cold, which
is the best evidence in support of the
thick vestback proposition, that could
be adduced.-POpular Science NeUS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Questions Answered,

f. w. p, FREETowN, MAss.-This cor
respondent writes: 81 lost my right arm at
the shoulder-torn off by a cannon ball
June 30, 1862. The wound was dressed
under a fire so hot and deadly that | was
moved during the operation. The surgeons,
fearing that they should get killed before the
operation was completed, | was left behind
to die or be taken prisoner, but managed
to escape, and from that wound | was off
duty only thirty days. / was in another
battle in less than two months. The stump
of my arm is so short that / cannot use an
entitled to $40 pension under the recent act
of congress increasing pensions, and wheth-
er it is necessary to make an application for
it. 1nSUer.-Commission of Pensions
Black has decided that where the stump is
not sufficient to attach an artificial limb to
it that the soldier it entitled to an increase
of $50 to S45 a month. No application or
employment of an attorney is necessary.
j. S. D., HARDwICK. Congress passed a
law about the time it adjourned, in August,
making provisions for continuing the fur
nishing of headstones for unmarked graves
of soldiers and sailors and arrangements for
supplying all that may be required to June
80, 1882. Blank applications for these stones
can be made only to the quartermaster-gen-
eral, U. S. A, Washington, ID. c.
G. w. H., WATERBURY.-There is no law
in this state exempting pension money, or
property purchased with pension money,
from attachment. By a recent decision of
the supreme court of Maine it was decided
that the United States laws did not exempt
it from attachment after the money had
been actually paid to the pensioner
S. III. d., WEST RANDoLPH.-If you con-
tracted disability while serving in the regl-
lar army you are entitled to pension, even
if you did not receive injury until 1870.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10

Captain Richard Smith of Vershire felic-
itously spoke for the Second Regiment
Colonel w. G.. Veazey was called upon
as the representative of the Third Regi-
ment. Colonel Veazey narrated the
history of this regiment and told the
story of the part taken in the battle OF Get
tysburg by the Vermont troops. He paid
a most fitting tribute to the gallantry and
soldierly qualities of General Hancock and
said he regarded him as the greatest corps
commander in the Army of the Potomac.
Colonel Veazey related his personal expert
ence with General Hancock on the third
day at Gettysburg, and wildly recalled the
circumstances and scenes attending the
charge made by STANDARDS Brigade on
PickettS Division under Hancock's com
mand. Colonel Veazey spoke most elo-
quently, and his speech was considered one
of the best ever delivered at a reunion.
Colonel George w. Hooker was called
upon to speak for the Fourth Regiment.
He said that this regiment, like all others
that went from the state, had an honorable
record; that its losses attested its gallantry
and fighting qualities. Colonel Hooker fit
tingly alluded to the patriotism of the
women of the North during the war, and
said that their devotion to the Union and
the sacrifices which they made for the cause
deserved the highest praise.
General Edward II. Ripley was selected
to speak for the Fifth Regiment. Colonel
Walker. in calling upon General Ripley for
speech, mentioned the TACT that General
Ripley was the first Union officer to enter
Richmond after its downfall, and that he
had the honor to hoist the Stars and Stripes
over Libby prison and effect the release of
the Union prisoners confined in that con-
federate den. General Ripley modestly told
the story of the occupation of Richmond by
federal troops under his command.
General Stephen Thomas responded for
the Eighth regiment. After briefly relating
the part taken by this regiment in the war;
he called upon Captain Buffum of Boston
to act as his substitute. Captain Bufum
spoke of the spirit of loyalty and patriotism
which inspired the boys in blue to fight for
the Union and urged the necessity of incul-
eating the lessons of the war to the rising
generation if we would preserve the fruits
and achievements of the victory for the
Union.
Owing to the lateness of the hour, no
other speakers were called upon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Soldiers Home.

The Soldiers Home in Vermont has been
located at Bennington. This was the result
of the meeting of the trustees held in Mont
pelier on the 4th instant. The Home has
$4,000 in the savings bank and property
in Bennington worth $4,000. They have
surplus buildings mot needed for the ac-
commodation of the Home) that can be sold
for at least $1,000. General Wells, presi-
dent of the Home, thinks that with an ap-
preparation of $4,000 and the income of the
property at Bennington that the Home can
be opened to all the needy soldiers in Yer
mont and support them for the next two
years. The trustees have canvassed the
state very carefully and find about seventy
five veterans now in the poor-houses of Yer
mont 1t is for this class of soldiers that
the Home is established. The trustees are
Redfeld Proctor, Frederick Billings, G.. G.
Kinsman, A. b. Franklin, Hugh Henry, p.
Z. Pitkin, j. G. Stearns, Franklin Fair
banks, Josiah Grout, George T. Childs, II.
X. Ide, William Wells, j. j. Estey, A. b.
Valentine, Warren Gibbs, u. NJ. Mansur,
Frank Kenfield and A. S. Tracy. The mat
ter of Soldiers Home and of state aid to
the needy soldiers was thoroughly con-
sidered by the session of the legislature in
1884, and it was then decided that a home
would be cheaper and meet the wants of
the soldiers better than state aid alone. 1t
was also thought best to authorize the trus-
tees to aid needy soldiers with families at
their homes to an amount not to exceed the
cost or keeping an inmate at the Home. The
trustees We're selected from different Sec
tons of the state in order to be able to
ascertain the wants of soldiers and have
them cared for as they deserved. Other
states have Soldiers Homes and some pro-
vide state aid also.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Family Quarrels.

have no respect for the woman who
runs around among her neighbors and
friends talking about her husbands
shortcomings, and the various points
of difference between him and herself.
And | have great contempt for the man
who is given to airing his matrimonial
grievances abroad. No third party can
adjust the differences that may exist
between man and his wife. If he
and she cannot settle their own affairs
they must go unsettled. There is moth
ing more destructive to the peace and
happiness of home than the daily
little chickering's and bits of fault-fnd-
ing in which so many husbands and
wives indulge. OF course there are
the blue Monday" sort of days,
when nothing goes right, and spirit
of evil seems to have taken possession
of the entire household. Such days
come to the best regulated families.
It's human nature. It'san out-cropping
of our innate tendency to 90 wrong at
times. Sometimes am glad that such
days come to our house, for we are all
so glad and happy after we have
kissed and made up" all around. l
never say anything when l hear hus-
bands and wives declare that in all the
ten, fifteen, or twenty years of their
married lives they have never had ga
single cross word,n | keep mum be-
cause hate to tell them don't believe
what they say, and | just don't believe
it, We are not angels, and only angels
could live that way. But whatever our
differences, do let us keep them to our
selves. Disasters follows in the wake
of the man or woman who tells to the
world his or her quarrels with Mary or
John. Mum is the word.-ZenaS Dane,
IN Good Housekeeping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Your Children

Are constantly exposed to danger from
Colds, Whooping Cough, Group, and
diseases peculiar to the throat and
lungs. For such ailments, Ayers
Cherry Pectoral, promptly adminis-
tered, affords speedy relief and cure.
As remedy for Whooping Cough,
with which many of our children were
afflicted, we used, during the past VIM
ter, with much satisfaction, Ayers
Cherry Pectoral. For this affection, we
consider this preparation the most eff
cacious of all the medicines which have
come to our knowledge. - Mary Park
hurst, PreceptreSs, Home for Little
Wanderers, Doncaster, Md.
My children have been peculiarly sub
lect to attacks of Group, and l failed to
find any effective remedy until | COM
menced administering Ayers Cherry
Pectoral. This preparation relieves the
difficulty of breathing and invariably
cures the complaint. = David G.. Starks,
Chatham, Columbia Co., n. Y.
| have used Ayers Cherry Pectoral
in my family for many years, and
have found it especially valuable in
Whooping Cough. This medicine allays
all irritation, prevents Inflammation from
extending to the lungs, and quickly sub
dues any tendency to Lung Complaint.
j. b. Wellington, Plainville, Mich.
| find no medicine so effective, for
Group and Whooping Cough, as Ayers
Cherry Pectoral. 1t was the means of
saving the life of my little boy, only six
months old, carrying him safely through
the worst case of Whooping Cough ever
saw. Jane Malone, Piney Flats, Tenn.
Ayers Cherry PectoraI,
Prepared by DIR. C. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass
Sold by all Druggists. Price 81; six bottles, So.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10

CATARRH is a very prevalent and ex-
ceedingly disagreeable disease, liable,
if neglected, to develop into serious
consumption. Being constitutional
disease, 1T requires constitutional
remedy like Hoods Sarsaparilla, which,
acting through the blood, reaches every
part of the system, effecting radical
and permanent cure of catarrh in even
its most severe forms. Made only by
G. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Pensions Granted.

To Charles II. Bailey, Wells River $40 a
month and $1,000 arrears; William Fort,
East Hardwick; S12 month and $3.50 ar
rears William w. Spearin, Roxbury, S12 a
month and $3.50 arrears; Winslow g. Rol-
Inns, South Woodbury., an increase from 81
to SIG month and 81 $50 arrears Addison
F. Eaton, Bridgewater, an increase from $4
to SO month"; Joshua ID. Barber, North
field, an increase from 81 to IS month;
Stephen Bodo, Groton, an increase from IS
to SO month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10

THE brand of Cain was not more fearful
than are the marks of skin diseases and yet
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery I"
is certain cure for all of them. Blotches,
pimples, eruptions, pustules, scaly incrus-
tations, humps, intiamed patches, salt
rheum letter, boils, carbuncles, ulcers, old
sores, are by its use healed quickly and per-
manently.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-10
Gbe firesioe.
The Homeless Rich.

The homeless poor have certain
predetermined polarity of life which
may have its hardships, but has also its
definiteness of purpose. But the peo-
pie who, by means of abundant wealth,
are freed from this centripeta! force,
and whose life becomes kind of see
mic vagabondism and nomadic vagrancy,
are class for which the social scien-
lists should take thought. | have in
mind one family which is good exam
pie of the type. The husband and
father is the owner of an immense
mandatory here, and his wealth is
great. There is the mother and
young lady daughter whose lives offer
them the perfect freedom that wealth
and leisure insure. They could live
abroad or at home, the father being a
man of liberal tastes and freedom from
business routine. They could own a
house in the city fitted up to their lik-
ing. They could have a summer villa
at the sea, or pass the summer abroad,
or travel anywhere through our own
country. Instead, they live the nomad-
ic life that involves constant Interrupt
ton and the hardships and discomforts
of moving the machinery and impedi-
ments of life from pillar to post. They
passed winter at city hotel, the en-
tire furnishings of a beautiful home
they had once owned being stored, for
an indefinite time, in Boston ware
house. Suddenly, before it was time
to leave town for the summer, circum-
stances forced them to change their
hotel. They tried another for short
time-the time being too brief to make
it worth while to fairly "settle" in
their rooms-and then they started on
a series of summer migrations in some
of the inland resorts. In midsummer
they returned to Boston and stayed
few days at downtown hotel, in the
midst of noise and traffic that was I'M
ceasing night and day, while they could
prospect for a seaside hotel, to which
they went, to find small rooms, poor
service, and the usual inconvenience
of living in trunks. In few days
more this hotel closes. l met the
daughter of the house yesterday, who
RECALLED me with touching account of
their summer migrations and hardships,
and of the anXieties that beset them in
finding apartments in town for the win
ter. The entire family now appear to
be engaged in this search. Boston
Correspondence.