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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-28
The Eleventh Hour.

cit is truc," said a merchant to a
clergyman, II am not satisfied with my
present condition. am not of a settled
mind in religion, as you express it. Still
I am not utterly hopeless. l may yet
enter the vineyard, even at the eleventh
hour"
"Ah! your allusion is to the Saviour's
parable of the laborcrs who wrought one
hour at the end of the day. But you
have overlooked the fact that these men
accepted the first olrcr."
'tls that so?'
"Ccrtainly. They said to the lord Of
the vineyard, No man hath hired u.s.
They welcomed his first offer immediate
ly."
"Truc; 1 had not thought Of that be-
fore. But the thief on the cross, even
while dying, was saved"
Eyes; but is it likely that he even
had ever rejected al offer of salvation us
preached by Christ and Ills Apostles?
He had been robbcr by profession. In
the resorts and haunts to which he had
been accustomed the Gospel may never
have been preached. Is there not some
reason to believe that he, too, accepted
the first offer!"
"Why, you seem dcsirous to quench
my last spark of hope"
."Why should l not? Such hope is of
illusion. You have really no promise on
acceptance ut some future time. Now the
accepted time! Begin now"
GLOW shall l bcgin?"
''Juss as the poor lepcr did when he
met Jesus by the way, and committed
his body to the Great Physician in order
to be healed. So commit your soul to
Him as present Saviour. Then serve
Him from love; the next, even the most
common duty of life that you have to
perform, do it as service unto Him.
Will you accept the first offer? Your
eyes are open to see your peril. Beware
OF delay-beware!"
You arc right. May God help me!
fear l have been living in kind Of de-
lusion on this subject"
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Temperance Notes.

For drunkenness, drink cold water; for
health, rise early; to be happy, be honest; ;
to please all, mind your own business
Thornton.
Sir Henry Allsop has taken pains to in
form the world through the London Times
that he has definitely retired from the
brewing business.
The Baptist Total Abstinence associa-
ton, of England, numbers in its ranks
III ministers, 2,6SS church officers
and s12 students, making total of
5,Os1, having an increase of 355 over last
year. .
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A bcggar, and hopelcssly blind at
that! How sad q case! He cannot 90
to any celebrated physician, and it were
useless if he could. lie has heard of one,
Gnvalids are quick to learn such facts)
who cures the blind. But he has never
been to Jericho. he ever Gomez
shall I know it if he come, and knowing
it can gain an audience? Painful and
oft repeated questions, suspcnding his
hopes on the frail thread of remote con-
tingencies.
But one day, there is crowd rushing
along trampling over and by the poor
blind man. Hearing the multitude he
asked what it meant" The answer
thrills him by the double fact so briefly
told. 1t is Jesus, and he is "passing
by" 1t is the moment of the mans life.
Jesus alone can help him, was then at
Jericho for the first and last time, and
was even then leaving. What thread
for blind man to find and follow! He
calls, is opposed, calls louder, is heard,
Jesus stops; speaks to him; docs for
him all he asks; he sees the Lord
of cory and follows him in the way
with gazing, feasting, adoring eyes.
Oh! many blind sinners sit by the way
side of the world. Once in their life
Jesus comes near, nearer, nearest, but is
tpassing by" How much for them
hangs on that fact at that precise time?
You were in crowd, or in some deep
sorrow, or with his disciples, or alone
with the Holy Spirit, when he was ''pass-
ing" And you knew he was going by.
Did you call, and did he stop and answer
you?
There is a critical point for every sim
full bcggar when Jesus goes out once at
Jericho's gate. The Christian looks
back to it, and so does the lost sinner.
1t may seem a trivial thing at the time to
let him pass by. But opposition should
not prevent our calling after him. For
they who call are answered. And Oh!
the wonder of the mercy, Jesus of Naza-
reth will stop, and help, when poor blind
sinners call after him Boston Re0ien
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Fashion Notes.

Canvas cloth has fronts of wooden lace
to correspond.
White wooden material has stripes of
colored plush.
Buttons are growing with the other
extremes of fashion.
Blue and brown is favorite combina-
tion for street costumes.
Camels' hair serge with plush stripes 10.
shown in all the leading colsrs.
A wide sash of watered ribbon makes
the finish of stylish lace costume.
New trimmings for costumes have .
combination of beads, braid and che
mile.
Fine seersucker, in pale blue, pink or
ecru, is embroidered with edelweiss in
white.
Copper braid is used on outer garments
in place of either silver or bullion as be-
ing newer.
Mikado parasols have the points turned
upward and are made of striped or en-
broidered silk.
Cheviots with fine line checks in mode
colors are made up in walking suits with
jacket to correspond.
Soft beiges have figured borders OF
contrasting or harmonizing tints. They
are also plain and with bourette stripes.
Persian silk with overshot threads
that give crinkled effect are shown in
all dark and evening colors. Some have
stripes of different colors.
White handkerchiefs are bordered
with hand-embroidered daisies in blue,
white or red. Handkerchiefs for mourn
ing have the daisies in black. =.
Lace costumes which were so popular
last season are to be worn very generally
this summer, and some French models
are particularly attractive and pretty.
"Stylish and ugly" are the terms
which no longer apply to the dressing OF
the young lady of the period. This sea-
sons fashions are both graceful and ele-
giant.
English styles in outer garments COM
prise some large checks in cheviots.
These jackets are made as simply as pos
sible, fastened with large bronze or ivory
buttons.
Nuns yelling is in great variety; it has
crinkled stripes, or has a bourette or frise
surface, the loops being exceedingly fine.
The plain sorts are finer than those OF.
last season. .
Beaded grenadine forms a part of al
most all the dress wraps of the season to
come. These are not only beaded with
jets, but with bronze, plomb and cash.
mere beads.
Lace gloves in all the pale evening
tints are among the new fancies. The
edges are bordered with beads or founces,
and in black the effect is striking when
worn over q white hand and arm.
A new style of plastron is made of
plated jetted net. 1t ends in point at
the waist, fastened with loops of black
satin ribbon. 1t is edged with arrow
head beads and is finished with turn
down Byron collar of jetted net.
Moire silk enters largely into the man.
ufacture of many elegant costumes, and
not alone those of black. For moss
grees, medium blues, light browns and
greys are found in the richest moires, and
these form the trimming or whole under
dresses, of wooden costumes in shsdes cor
responding.
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thing about sewing and have little diff

thing about sewing, and have little diff
Guilty in hemming and stitching, but
when it comes to fitting, trimming, and
finishing dresses, where real taste and
judgment are required, the novice often
finds rocky road. Each dressmaker has
peculiar way of finishing q dress, as
each tailor has of making coat"
"What can dressmaker earn after she
has learned the trade9"
"It depends upon her skill and ability.
If she is smart she can get $3.50 day,
otherwise she may not get more than
$3.50. That is after she has taken les
sons for one season. Foreladies, who
superintend the work, receive an average
of $25 week. They are women of long
experience in the trade. So far as dress.
making at home is concerned, the paper
patterns manufactured by q number Of
houses in this city have greatly simplified
matters. You see that chart on the
wall"
eyes" he replied, "but I don't under
stand it." ..
81 don't expect you to-" said the lady,
"but any woman, with the aid of that
diagram and paper patterns, can be her
own dressmaker, although she may never
have taken lesson in her life. OF
course, anybody who intends to make
dressmaking business must have the
aid of an experienced teacher. As with
many other trades, apprentices get no
pay while they are learning" -"
'Ts your business one that men ever
take up9" 81
'oh., yes, there are male dressmakers
in this city2" -
''Do they make more money than
women2" -
'From So to $6 week more. Men are
better than women at making waists,
which are in some particulars like the
coat you wear, but I never saw one who
could drape skirt properly"
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IT has been lately asserted in scien,
tific circles that the idea that nam.
mails had passed through a period of
aquatic growth, as shown by the exist
ence of the whale, should be exactly re.
versed. That is, the anatomy of the
wha'e has been found to show that at
one time it was four-footed beast. It
retains eviden of having had at one
time hairy covering, while it also re-
tains sets of rudimentary teeth charac
teristic of land animal rather than b
marine one. These teeth vanish at an
early period of the whales life, often
even before il is born,
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No One to Defend the Saloon.

No One to Defend the Saloon.
One of the most promising signs Of the
march of temperance reform is the dearth
of defenders for the saloon. Not many
years ago respectable men pretended to
claim that the saloon had decent mis-
sion. Now it is generally CO needed that
there is no other side to the argument
against the liquor traffic. One man will
attempt to apologize for the saloon be-
cause the drug stores sell in violation OF
the law, and another may say ''you can't
stop the sale any way" but we have met
no man in long while who attempted
to champion the saloon per Sc. Good
people may differ as to methods, but few
will deny that the saloon is the conspicu-
GUS curse of modern society, or that the
suppression of the sale of liquor as bev-
erage is consummation devoutly to be
wished. Social habits formed in its un
healthy atmosphere are sapping the vi
tality of the young, the middle-aged and
the old. Fast in their embrace they hold
with Shiny talons armies of men whom
nature fitted for positions of usefulness
and honor, instead of for the degrad-
ing career to which they are doomed by
a remorseless destroyer. 1t is high time
to press a relentless warfare against
this baleful influence, and it is gratify-
ing to notice the rising indignation
against it. Verify the saloon-keeper is
welcome to all the glory he can find in
the little cheap success he reaps here
and there. We know he is violating
the statutes; we know he feels almost
sure Of triumph over law and the op-
position of good citizenship, but his
doom is none the less sure. We believe
the prohibition movement now in pro-
gress will wipe him out of existence, but
suppose it does not9 The handwriting
on the wall plainly denotes the destruc~
tion of his damning resort. The people
are more and more in dead earnest in
this matter. It is manifest to all that
the saloon is a deadly enemy to society
and the home. It has lately become
apparent that the saloon-keeper is an
Ishmaelite whose hand is against every
man who would in the least curb his
power. He fights high license in Ne
braska and low license in other States as
bitterly as he has prohibition in Iowa.
He declares the metes and bounds of his
kingdom shall not be prescribed. His
business must thrive though bodies and
souls are destroyed and though his path
is strewn with wrecked hopes and broken
hearts. He has ruled with an iron hand
in the past, but the scourge of eternal
justice will soon cut short his ignoble
career. Spirit Lake Beacon.
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The Summer Programme.
The time is at hand

The time is at hand
When all in the land
Reflect on summer vacation;
When snow won't abide,
They hunt up guide
For seaside resort information.
Clorinda has now,
To circle her brow,
A charmingly clever new bonnet;
Quite stylish and neat,
And dashingly sweet
With feathers and birds upon it. .
She'll stroll on the sand,
And hear tho brass band,
Through August, July and September; E
And firt win she then,
With q score Of young men,
Not one Of whose names she'll remember
s...-....r.... Nd-BitS
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The Outlook Was Good.

Miss Joy-"Madame, Mr.. Foster has
come to take me out for drive; may I
20, madame?"
Madame-"You know, Miss Joy, the
the rules of Vassar do not allow it, un-
loss you are engaged-are you engaged
to Mr.. Foster?"
Miss Joy (doubtfully)-"N- no,
but if you will let me go I shall be by
the time we get back. life.
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A correspondent of the New York
World, writing of his efforts on recent
Sunday evening to obtain liquor in Port
land, Me-, says: '1n still another place
our liquor was brought on sealed up in
egg shells, the meat having been blown
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The Baptist Total Abstinence associa-
ton, of England, numbers in its ranks
1,171 ministers, s,esS church officers
and 212 students, making total
5,0e1, having an increase of 355 over las
wear
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
No More Rum For Mel


used to take social glass
Of brandy, wine, or beer,
And thought it was the very thing
My intellect to clear:
But soon my wife and I began
To fight and disagree,
And in a sober mood L said,
mo more rum for mel"
saw how Fred and Jim and Jake,
And others had known,
Were by this cruel enemy
Completely overthrown;
And, lest I should be drawn to depths
OF sin and misery,
crushed the appetite and said,
"No more rum for me!'
/ knew that rum and other drinks,
That some considered prime,
Would craze man, compelling him
To do some heinous crime;
And as from jails and scaffold
Determined to keep free,
I spurned the proffered glass, and said,
"No more rum for me!n
The gilded palaces, arrayed
To catch the foolish fly,
For me no longer have q charm
l coldly pass them by;
And as the future of those souls e.
Who enter foresee,
I Ishudder at their fate, and say,
'No more rum for me-"
Lest should disappoint my friends
And tarnish my good name;
Lest I become insensible
To honor and to shame;
Lest I should fall as low as some
Degraded ones I see,
Emphatically declare,
"No more rum for mer'
IT'S thus kept my health and strength,
And walk in wisdom's ways,
Enjoying peace of mind, and well
Assured Of length Of days;
And those who would improve their time,
And wise and happy be,
Must break from bondage and e1claim,
"No more rum for mel"
Josephine Pollard, in National Adrocat.
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ACCORDING to DR.. E. Parmly Brown,
the Sandwich Islander formerly had
the soundest teeth of any people on
the globe, but their teeth have now be-
gun to decay rapidly, an effect, it ap-
ears, of eating large quantities of salt.
This substance and sugar DR.. Brown
regards as leading factors in the de-
struction of human teeth at the pres
ent time.
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A MATHEMAFICIAN who had q little
spare time recently weighed the earth,
and found it tipped the scales at exact
ly {, 1866, 900. 600, 100000 tons.
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newspaper, but say it that you may lay,
divided responsibility between those who
print and those who read.
Another great temptation to tho neWspa-
per profession comes in the allurements that
surround it. Every occupation, trade, pro-
fession has its esq ecial temptations IL Is SO
with the clerical profession, with the medical
profession, with the legal profession, WIN
the artistic profession, with every trade,
every profession, every business. The news
paper profession is no exception You know
there are great drafts on the nervous forces,
and the brain is taxed. The laundering po-
litical speech must be made to read well
for the sake of the party, and thu
editor and reporter must make it read well
though in the speech every sentence was
catastrophe to the English language. The
newspaper man must correctly report an in
audible speech, the speach of man who
thinks it is vulgar to speak loud, although the
audience the night before sat with hand be.
hind the ear in vain struggling to catch
single sentence. The journalist must be ex.
posed at the fire, he must write in the fetld
alleyway, he must go. into courtrooms
nine-tenths of which are. stencil
60 into heated assembleges and into audience
rooms all unventilated and where all the pre-.
variations are for asphyxia, aud added to all
there must be hasty masticat!on and lrregu-
lar habits. Under this awful strain Of the
ne nervous system, how many hundreds have
gone to strong drink for relief God only
knows. They must take something to keep
out the wet, and something to keep out the
chill, and something to start the mind in the
morning after the scant sleep Of the night.
That is what made Horace Greeley such
stout temperance man. He told me in my
own house, II have seen so many OF my
COM Comrades % and literary friends and news
PAPER associates go down under strong drink
preaching temperance all over the land And
let me say to all men in that profession, God
does not want you to do anything that you
cannot do without artificial stimulus. There
is no half way ground for you between tee
totalism and dissipation I have so many
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were pronounced to be the work of the devil
looks were printed on strips of bamboo,
and the Common Council Of the city of New
York solemnly voted the offer of forty
pounds to any printer who would come s.ad
live there, and the Speaker Of the House Of
Commons Indignantly denounced the print
ing press becaus, it had dared to notice their
live, when the printing press is welding such
a vast pow r for good or for evil The tee-
the harvest field and the telegraph says to
the printing press, "Ill rake while you
bind" and the telegraph puts its
iron teeth down at one erl
the harvest field and they are drawn
clear across and then the information is
gathered up in sheaves, and the printing
press puts one sheaf on the breakfast table
in the shape of morning news. and puts
another sheaf on the tea table in the shape OF
evening news, and that man who neither
takes nor reads a newspaper is a curiosity.
What a vast change from the time when
Cardinal Woolsey publicly det,a;ed that
either the printing press must go down or the
Church of Gcd must go down. To this time
when the pulpit and the printing press are in
combination, and while a minister of religion
may on the Sabbath preach only to
about 500 people, through the fol-
lowing week through the secu-
lar and religious press he may
preach to millions and millions and millions.
But let ne say to the men of that profession,
and those who are in any wise allied to it, l
would like TO know how many words of SYM
pathy you have received during the last
twelve months for your important work.
Not ten. How many sermons in the course
or your life have you heard of practical
helpfulness for the men and women engaged
in that particular profession? Not one. How
many words of denunciation and misappre-
hension and hypercriticism and abuse have
you heards Ten thousand. If you are d
typesetter and you get the type in
the wrong font, then the foreman blows
you up. If you are foreman
and cannot surmount the unsurmountable
and get the forms up at the right time, then
! you are denounced by the publisher. II you
are are publisher and you mismanage, then
! the owners cry out: 'Where are my divi
: dendsl' If you are an editor and in your
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-05
POWDERLY WILL DECLINE.
He Announces His Intention of Leaving the
X. of l..

PITTSBURG, Pa, September Am
evening paper says: 4 New York tele-
gram received in rIttSburg to-day Occa-
stoned no little talk among the Knights of
Labor here 1t is stated that Grand Master
Workman Powderly had notified the
Knights of Labor authorities that he will
not accept another term Of office, and that
his name is not to be used at Rich
mOnd, as he proposes 10 leave the Or
der. The telegram further stated that
Powderly's declaration was OccalSiOned by
his disgust over recent differences Ill
their Order, and the fact that his physical
condition demanded rest. 1t was stated
that ThOs Mcclure and Horace Of dis
trict 40, New York. who have been cOnsid-
cred in opposition to POwderly, have de-
clarcd neither of them would be Candl-
date for the position. Prominent Knights
here say they say they know HOthing of
Mr.. Powderly's intentions but are in
clined to doubt the truth Ofthe report.
PHILADELPHIA, September 4.-MeSHrs.
Barry and Bailey, the only members of the
General Executive Board of the Knights Of
Labor now in this city, upon being shown
copy of the PittSburg dispatch stating
that Grand Master Workman Powderly
contemplated leaving the Order on account
of internal troubles therein, said there has
never been 4 time when the feeling Of har-
mOny both between Mr.. POwdcrly and the
members of the Order at large and between
himself and members of the General Exccu-
tive Board was stronger or more secure
than it is at the present time.