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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
WORDS OF WISDOM.

A little of everything is nothing in the
main.
A civil denial is better than rude
grunt.
We are to look for the origin of man
in paradise, not in the geological gar
den.
Health is the second blessing that we
mortals are capable of, blessing that
money cannot buy.
It is the easiest business in the world
TO do thing. The learning how is where
the difficulty exists.
There is a good deal of religion that is
like morning cloud-as soon as the sun
gets hotit disappears.
True bravery is shown by performing
without witness what one might be
capable of doing before all the world.
A lie is breach of promise; for who
ever addresses his discourse to another
tacitly promises to speak the truth, be-
cause he knows the truth is expected.
No man for any considerable period
can wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude without finally getting
bewildered as to which may be the true.
There always comes some smooth run
ming to every skein before all is done.
You mustn try to see through the whole
slkein or to straighten it all out into
singl, thread before you begin to wind;
that makes snarl always. There is al
ways an end, and it IS what you have got
to take hold of.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
An Critical Illusion.

NJ. De Parvellc has called the attention
of the French Academy of Sciences to q
curious illusion of the vision which may
account for the apparent oscillation or
swinging of stars sometimes observed,
and called by the Germans Stern
schwanken. Win the eye looks for
some time at a small, feebly lighted body,
itself being in complete darkness, the
body appears to oscilate or describe GER
tain curves. 1t is phenomenon of the
subjective order, and appears to be of the
same nature as the movement of star
observed when person leans the he'd
against wall, and fixes his eye upon the
star. The star appears to be agitated in
its place and to oscillate rapidly. In
order that the motion may be noticed,
there should be no moon, and the sky
should be clear. A lunette takes away
the apparent motion.-.Seisntiic A"se'1-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
WAITING.

They have gone through life together,
They have braved its stormy weather,
Many year;
Time has fl:hed from beauty's treasures,
But love scorns the hoard he measures,
With leer.
Mid the worlds turmoil and fretting,
They'd no tears, and vain regretting
For the past;
AL their troubles firmly brea>ting,
They have found the time for resting
Sweet, at last.
There are graves upon the meadow
Baby ferns that lie in shadow,
Dark and still;
All! they felt life's fountain drying
When they looked on baby, dying,
But-"Thy will"
Now with pulses throbbing steady,
Hand in hand, they're waiting, ready;
Not s.gh
For the time that's swiftly fleeting,
There will be joyous meeting
By and by.
Hollis ". Field, in Detroit Free Press
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
Clay.Eaters.

have seen 'sandhillcrs" in certain
parts of North and South Carolina, and
some within ten mi es of Columbia, while
engaged in eating their dinner, and have
observed them consume, with evldent
relish, large quantities of clay, and what's
more, have joined in their frugal repast
and partaken of some of the stuff myself,
says u North Carolina doctor in the At
lanta Constellation. 1t isncarly tas:eless,
but some of the cay eating epicurcs pro-
fcss to enjoy it because of delicate ia
vor it possesses. 1t is white, devoid OF
grit and not unlike the kaolin of which
plates and saut ers are made. There is
nothing disagrecablc about this clay and
it may be taken into the stomach with
impunity. ltis not injurious as an article
of diet, indeed many contend that it in
sures longevity and wards off several dis
eases. There ere well auth; nticated in
stances of wonderful longevity among
''clay EATERS" and it is we'll understood
by such of the faculty as have studied the
subject that none of the 'sandhll!ers'
ever su~er with indigestion or dyspepsia,
and ha' never known one to die Of con-
sumption; in fact, foolish as it may seem,
am constrained to believe that this
TRANCE habit exempts the "clay- eaters"
from many of the ailments to which the rest
of th. human family are heirs. OF course
there is nothing very succulent or nutri-
tious about slice Of clay, but 1t GER
tainly allays the gnawings of hunger.
This is done by distending the walls Of
the stomach. 1t is not to be expected
that clay diet will take ent rely the
place of bread and meat, but it does this
to q certain extent.
In my country practice, which occa-
sionally carries me out into the sandhills
occasionally I say, for although the sand.
Killers are the sickl:est looking, most
cadaverous and woe, be-gone beings in
the world, they are the heal!hiest), have
good opportunities to study their pecu-
liar habits. They can sub,ist on exceed
ingly limited quantities of meat; in fact
they get very little to eat, and that fat
bacon, about thrice week. They are
not lazy, but decidedly shilt.ess. They
are troubled with few wants, however,
aud these are supplied easily.
"Do they e,t only one sort of clayl"
Gas a general thing, yes" was the
reply, tbut sometimes their table is gar
nished by kind of yellowish mari, some
what scarce, which they consume with q
keen relish. 1t is said to taste sweet, and
they use It as dessert. They, however,
draw the line at red clay. This not even
their ironclad stomachs can digest.
Don't you eat red clay9' Ia,ked a gawky
old fellow. NO, surree," was his ami
mated response; Il have occasionally
had er brick in my hat, but I'll be blamed
eff l banker after making my bowels a
brickyard.'"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
The Hair Suddenly Turning Wtite.

A correspondent of Notes and Queries
states that Sir Erasmus Wilson, in his
work "Healthy Skins" gives the follow
ine instances of the human hair suddenly
becoming white: A girl whose hair
"became as white as a pocket handler
chicl" on the shock of receiving news OF
her lovers death; a lady who became
gray in few days on finding her sister
dead in bed by her side; Sir Thomas
More, on the night before his execution;
two cases recorded by Boreilus, three by
Daniel Turner, one by DR.. Cassan and
few miscellaneous cases, of whl.h the
most remarkable is the follow ing: "a
gentleman on his marriage, when about
forty years old, had dark head OF hair,
but on his return from his wedding trip
had become so completely snow-white,
even to his eyebrows. that his friends al
most doubted his identity" He also
mentions the case of John Libeny, a
would be assassin of the Emperor of
Austria whose hair turned snow-white
in the forty eight hours preceding his
execution. In the same work is given
The case of peasant, recorded by the
Italian, DR.. Sarti, whose skin gradually
darkened after a sudden shock of fear,
until it became quite black.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
A Flash ofLightning.

Nothing, in the long run, commands
higher reward in the world than perse-
verance and thoroughness. Here is IN
incident in point: =
A young lad in Pennsylvania who was
supporting himself as a stenographer.
studied in his leisure time the art of pho,
Biography. Photography has been 9
craze for years past with American boys,
and tens of thousands of young lads are
going about with their cameras taking
pictures. Most of the u, however, grow
tired OF the pursuit in short time, and
give it up, without, probably, having
made creditable picture. But this boy
was as anxious and ca eful with the
amusement as if his livelihood depended
on it, and studied not only the practice,
but the theory of the art. An exhibition
was given in Philadelphia q few years
ago of all electrical discoveries and
machinery. Among the exhibits was
photograph of storm. This boy dis.
covered that no one had ever succeeded
in photographing fash of lightning.
He resolved to attempt this scientific
feat, which was pronounced impossible.
The lightning must paint its own like
ness, hence the photograph must be
taken at night. For two years whenever
there was storm he put on waterproof
and carried his camera to the roof OF
the house. The prepared plated was put
in. and turned to the quarter of the sky
from which the fla b would probably
come. But the lightnings, no more tanned
than in the days of Job, will not come e.
our bidding. and say unto us: 'tHere We
are." The lad watched, in the drench,
ing rain upon the house-top, through
every stormy night for two years, and
spoiled one hundred and sixty plates in
attempting to catch the evannscent fash.
But on the hundred and sixty first plate
there appeared the black sky, riven by
dazzing stream of electric Gghtl . For
the first time IN the history of the world
there was a true picture of fash Of
lightning.
Copies of this picture are now to be
found all over the world, and the boy
received letters from all the scieatific
men of Europe congratu!at:ng him on
his success.
Audubon, the ornithologist, spent
hours every day standing up to the chin
in the waters of the bayoux of Louisiana,
studying a certain moth. His wife com.
planned that he had thus brought on con.
gestion of the lungs, and permanently
injured his health.
"Possibly," he sad, with indifference.
"But there can be 10 v no doubt as to the
species of that moth"
We hear much complaint among young
men entering life that there is no room
for them in any business or profession.
There is room in each for zeal and thor
oughness, and they never fail to command
success and recognition, even in the
making of picture or the study of q
moth Youths Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
A Story in Figures.

81 notice that the school census, just
taken, gives Chicago a population of q
little more than 7Ol,0J0," said white
haired man who loves figures and statis-
tics. The old man was sitting on the
rear seat of Madison street car, and his
remarks were addressed to no one in par
ticular, but. seemingly, to all in general.
"Seven hundred thousand makes quite
city," he went on; now, how many OF
YOU youngsters can tell me the number OF
cities in the world having population
greater than Chicagoa Not one of you.
That's just what l expected" -
Then the old man invited the boys to
guess at the number, and their estimates
ranged from 100 to 90.
''You are all off," continued the sta
tistic:an, .siust as expected you would
be. The general idea is that there are
scores and even hundreds of greater
cities than Chicago, but that is a great
mistake. There are just seven more
populous cities than Chicago on the face
of the earth. London is first, with four
millions; Paris second, with two millions
and half; Canton third, with about a
million and a half; New York, fourth
with about fourteen hundred thousand;
Berlin fifth, with 100000 Vienna
sixth, with / 100, ,O00 ard Fhiladel hia
seventh, with millio, Chicago is the
eighth city and eighth wonder of the
world. True, there are in China five
cities esides Canton-Siangtan, Singan-
fu, Tschantschau !u, Tientsin and
T<chingtu-fu-which are estimated each
to have about million population, but
no census was ever taken, and, at any
rate, these places arc hardly worthy the
name of cities, being mere clusters OF
villages covering hundreds of square
miles of territory .-Chicayo Herald. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
Moonlight Nights Bad for Locomotive
Engineers.

'NIooniight nights-they are the bane
of railroad rnginecrs, said a head official
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. "All
engineers dread moonlight nights. They
try their nerves to the utmost. Engineers
like to run on dark nights. On moon
light night the trouble with them is no
trouble at all--shadows. An engineer,
looking out from his engine, sees before
him all manners of shadows. He is sule
that the dark shadow across the track he
sees is man or rock, or some kind of
an obstruction. Going around curves,
along hill sides, many curious shadows
are outlined on the track, and very often
an engineer is so worked up over nights
ride that he is scarcely able to perform
his duties.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
A Fair Poetic Start.

Nell was serious child, with pen
chant for poetry. She had stood for
long time looking out at the snow-storm,
when her mother asked:
"Nyhat ale You thinking of, DEAR"
"Ch, l was Just making poetry" she
answered, with sigh.
"But what was it2" Can't you tell
mammal"
'fter considerable urging she repeated
with great feeling:
'Tis sad, sad thing to stand and beg
While the winter winds do blow,
For the cold creeps up the little ones leg
And makes her shiver so!
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29
The Grocer.
A grocer cannot take lis Els

A grocer cannot take lis Els
Or even G K rest,
For he's to market while the BIS
Sleep E z in their nest.
He has to watch with all his rs
When customers S A
To help themselves, OF other Us
They'd steal his fine R A.
He makes big profits OH his rs,
With sugar mixes S a.
And grinds with ,offee lots Of P's
Or N E thing at hand.
Slow payers he must net X Q's
Because, in X G trusts,
With all the caution he may US
Sure in the n D busts.
When for a man he cuts H Els
A big P G will weigh
And wrap Il ere the buyer C's
It's mouldy with D K.
Most everyone the grocer O's
But. if he's Y q will
Shut down on each dead B 7 knows
And have no N T till.
H. c. Dodge. il, Tid-Bits
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29

The island of Chiloc, on the southwest
coast of South America, he's 200 days of
cold rain and sleet in the year. Yet ca.
tarrhs and pulmonary troubles are said
to be very rare among the native dwellers
in this remarkable climate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-29

Even snakes have their uses. In Cali.
fornia they destroy gophers and ground
squirrels, and the local papers express
the opinion that some varieties OF snakes
ought to be protected by law.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02
Your County Paper.

1t is your county paper upon
which you rely to fight your battles.
1t is your county paper that is your
representative abroad. 1t is your
county paper that advocates public
improvements of all kinds that are
calculated to build up your county.
1t is your county paper that continu-
ally seeks to build up your waste
places by showing your county OF
city's advantages, and thereby induc.
ing capital from abroad to find re-
munerative place Of investment III
your midst. 1t is your county pa
per that publishes your home news
that tells you what is going on, moi
only in your own county, but in you'
neighborlng counties. You can ge
St. Louis papers for as small rat
per aanum as you can your local pa
per, and the city paper will furms'
YOU as much reading matter, but yo'
are not sustaining a paper tina
gives your own county news, that dc
tends you in the midst OF good o
evil reports, and is ever a reilah'
friend. The city papers care nothip
for you beyond your dollar. Ar
YOU taking your county paper, an
thereby helping your best friends
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02

The Institute presented the
following record: Enrolment luz
members. which is an increase over
last years enrolment of 25 per cent.
Is per cent. of the members are reg
ular subscribers to educational pa
pers, 40 own unabridged dictona-
ries, A own cyclopedias, 62 have
attended Institutes before the pres
ent one, and the average number OF
Institutes attended by all members
81. The average salary paid to male
members is S55 per month the COM
ing year, and average for lady mem
bers $50 per month, the aversge o'
both male and female beng over S44
per month. 65 per cent. OF the
teachers attended some Norma
school, or underwent some specia
training for the profession, snd q
per cent. expect to make teaching
their life's work. This certainly Is
grand record and every citizen in th
county should feel proud Of it. 1t !
encouraging to know that Audrain
not only noted for her progressiV
ministers of the gospel, lawyer
doctors, editors, and substantial Ia
mers. but also for her progressiv'
enlightened pedagogues.
The committee on permanent o
!. ganizasion made the following repo
e which was adopted. Officers Tor :
ensuing year:
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02
Millennium Not Here Yet.

FROM tDt htioAu
Burglars, pickpockets and such like
are reported to have done quite land
office business at the Mexico fair. Still
the fair was blooming success, thanks
to the intelligentiy directed enterprise
of the LEDGER and the Intelifgencer.
And these would be serenely happy
but for the obtrusive theological pecu-
liarities of Bro. Whitten and the al
legged treason of two county convention
delegates. Then, too, as further thorn
in the yitals of the public tranquility
and their own, there are Bros. Kincaid
and Gallaher. who have been for long
time and with exasperating success Ia
boring how not to do. All thisis GER
tsinly trying enough; so much SO. In
deed that we feel like congratulating ou'
Mexico fellow-craftsmen upon the
brilliant success of their united labors
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02
nd Our Hope for the Future Vigorous Work the Living Present
MEXICO. MISSOURI, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER q 1886

President, Jno. p. Gass; secretary,
Miss Eva White; assistant secretary,
Miss Maggie Torreyson; treasurer,
Alex Bruce.
Executive committee-B. w. Tor
reyson, J. N. Cross, Miss Elizabeth
Talbot.
Vice Presidents-Salt River, j. <.
Jesse; Wilson, G. w. Edwards; Sa-
ling, j. b. Roberts; Loutre, <. w.
johnson; Linn, HATTIE Ball; Prairie,
M. A. Corner; Cuivre, Mrs. Emma
Leake. J. K. Pool,
G. T. ToRBEYsoN,
ID. A. MCMILLAN,
Committee.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02
THE LAST DAY.
Adjournment of the Teachers
Normal Institute.
AUDRAIN LEADS THE STATE In
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
Complete List of Teachers and Where
They will Hold Forth-Res.
olutiOns, Notes, &c.

The fifth annual session OF the
Audrain county Normal Institute
closed to-day. All agree as with one
voice that the present session was de-
cidedly the more successful in all re-
spects than any of ITS predecessors.
This is as it should be. 1t means
better methods of teaching and con-
seouen,ly more successful work IN
the school room. Audrain is justly
proud of it's Normal Institute. The
time is quickly coming when next to
certificate from the county
commissioner a certificate OF attend
ance from the Normal Institute will
he the best recommendation teacher
can produce. Below we give the
names of the members of the Institute,
their postoffice address and place OF
teaching, so far as we could learn.
ITf Won are a director or friend of ed
ucation cut this out and paste it III
your scrap book. 1t means some
thing, therefore is valuable. 1t shows
at a glance who is trying to improve
. their method of teaching and qualify
themselves by keeping abreast OF thu
times in educational methods ane
who is content to be veritabl'
> .sSqueers," jogging along in the ruts
!, ,,Look for your teachers name and i
YOU don't find it in the list give hin
a gentle reminder about once wee
= during the coming year and mex
i session he will surely be on hand. Th
teachers of Audraln owe Prof. Gas
q much for the able manner in whic
e he has conducted the Institute an
), the many precept points be has give
IT them. Long may he live to carr
d on the grand work of developing an
,e perfectipg higher and better sy'
ten of education.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02
MAHoNE of Virginia says he Is not
a candidate for congress.
Correct to q Dot.

From the Moberly Monitor.
We have known Greed Garter OF
Audrain for many years, and there Is
not in all that county truer or more
honest man. The dissatisfaction wlth
his nomination is as senseless as IL
is unjust. The people and not Creed
Carter are responsible for his nomina-
tiou and now that he has been nomi-
mated no true Democrat however
much he may have preferred Clay OF
Locke, can afford to go back on hum
He will be elected, no matter wna'
the dissatisfaction may be, and he
will be an honor to the county.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02
Correct.

ErOin TIE CulcdAo 4>cWo.
What we remarked of the Rev. Sc m
Jones several months ago is becom-
ing the general opinion now, as we
see it expressed in divers exchanges
We said that MIR. Jones was a COM
mon scold and slangy one, and we
predicted that he could not long re-
tain his hold on public popularity.
There is nothing more tedious than
slang-there is nothing that wears
out sooner or drops further. MIR.
Jones is a slangwhanger; his ram
bunctious speeches do not please US
they simply make us feel sorry for
Mr.. Jones and for the cause he rep
resents. We do not believe that the
Christian religion should be cragged
down to the gutter; the habitues OF
the gutter, we think, should rather
be raised to the dignity and the puri
ty of that religion. We approve o1
no methods that are calculated II
the extent of one jot or one title tha
reverence and that awe in which di
3 ginity and the worship of divinit.
have always been invested. And
s speaks we'll for the religious senti
ment Of the people of our country
: we think, that the seal of disprovs
has been put upon the coarse meth
dds of the Georgia evangelist.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02
GeId Brick Swindle.
From the Farber Eye

We understand that Mr.. WomEack, Oh
raaaonia came near being victim OF
the gold brick swindle in st. Louis a ie"
davs since. The swindlers were In Lad
80 and took Mr.. Wommack down to
the city with them. The Gtooe-De'Aoera'
sta.es that one old party was SO anxious
80 huv a brick that the police were ex'
,ac.ine him to come to the station hous'
"a ,.i, one of the swindiers out after b
h.s heen arrested and locked up.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02

The editor of the Jntetttgencer
claws the earth up in his wrath, and'
as usual, winds up with free abuse
of the editor of the LEDGER. The
weather is getting cooler and we like
it. Because his subscribers are for
saking him, and his friends are kick
ino holes in him on account OF his
asinine policy, is no reason he
should wipe the earth up with US
After he has lived in Audrain few
months longer he will know that th'
yeomanry of the Democratic party
and not an editor and his clique
cont, oil the destinies of the same.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02

CRop advices have been more
favorable from nearly all sections, in
consequence of more or less abund-
ant rains, and more favorable esti-
mates of the corn, cotton and tobacco
crops are entertained. Corn esti-
mates now fall between 1851 and
1850 million bushels, and cotton
estimates between and Ct million
bales. The former are $50 to 800
million bushels and the latter $50 to
TOO thousand bales below full aver.
ages.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1886-09-02

ACCORDING to the self-conssituted
Judge and ruler of the Democratic
party Of Audrain county, S. B. Cook,
il was a terrible crime for man to
oppose the nomination of one OF his
clan; but it is all right to wink at
and encourage the defeat of Irregular
nominee of the party whose only
crime is, "we did not name him."