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The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
Whereas, 1t Being the New Year,

Rssolred, That 1 will pay as I 60; on
the railroad.
That I will honestly and closely scan
my ncighbor's faults and help him te
correct them.
That will not spend so much money
on clothes, for my wife.
That l will quit smoking in place.
where it is positively forbidden.
That I will not write any reminis
cences of the war.
That ] will make shorter prayers anG
longer subscriptions.
That / will not say. 81 beg your par.
don, ITO my neighbours wife, and ''Huh"
to my own.
That l will not play lawn tennis for
at least three months.
That I will not bite off more thnn J
can chew.
That I will o worry and fret about
what would become of the other eight
or nine billions of people in tho wor'"
if I should die.
That Twill not slop over.
That will study my lessor sand keep
my face clean.
That if I fail in any of these resolu.
tions. it will be somebody elst 3 fault.
That can get along well enough with
everybody but myself.
That l will be most wretchedly sorry
for a thousand things by next December.
That they shan't be the same things ]
was sorry for last December.
That l have money to bet they will be.
-Burdette.
A BURGLAR in Weld, Maine, was de.
tected by a SNOWFALL from the heel OF
his boot, which corresponded precisely
with a similar SNOWFALL found in the
store after the robbery.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
THE MARY LEE

A sailors yarn you'd like to have me spin
Sit down, shipmate. Here off Nantucket
coast
I was the captain OF the Abel Gwynn
That stormy year the Mary Lee was lost.
Her captains name was William Henry Court,
A gallant and q careful skipper, too;
I saw the ship weigh anchor and clear port,
And bear away along the h.aving blue.
Far ont at sea she stood, the Mary Lee,
A wlaler rugged aud from this harbor bound
With all sails spread for the cold northern sea;
A good ship-aye, and timbers stanch and
sound.
But that was more than twenty years ago,
And old Nantucket town will never see,
Across the distant pillows rising slow,
The topmast of the good ship Mary Lee.
Aye, aye! that little woman waiting there ?
The shippers wife-how fast she's gettin
gray,
Brown as al autumn oak leaf was her hair
The morning that the Mary sailed away.
She comes here ev'ry morning with that glass
(She's not i'll her right mind, twixt you and
mc).
And while the ships come in the poor old lass
Stands watching for the honny Mary Lee.
ERNEST McGArrEy.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
Turkeys Losses by War

The Nocoe Trmy0 gives the follow.
ing summary of the territorial losses OF
Turkey during the last two centuries
Since the capture of Constantinople in
1853 they had gradually seized the
whole of the Balkan Peninsula except.
ing Montenegro, the Pcloponnesus, the
the Sea of Azov. In I'LL the Ottoman
empire possessed more territory in
Europe than any other power except
Russia, her possessions extending west.
ward to the Adriatic and the Danube,
and eastward to the Dnicster, the
Dnicper, the Don and Kuban. Thus
Bessaribia the Crimea, and other Mon.
golian regions were under the dominion
of the Turks, whose possessions or the
Continent of Europe covered an area OF
1854 square miles. But from this
period the dccadence of Turkey com.
menccd, and, with the exception Of hcl
temporary success against Austria in
1879, she vent on losing territory to
such an extent that upon the eve of the
war with Russia she had only 9.45c
square miles of territory. of which 9, 94s
miles were governed by Princes, who
merely owed her suZerainty. The
Berlin treaty deprived her of 4,55S
miles, so that from 100 to 1873 the
Ottoman empire lost in Europe 10, 66o
square miles, out of which 5000 were
conquered by Russia. who has annexed
4, S16 square miles After the war oil
1S77-S Russia annexed 46S square mile,
in Asia Minor and 167 in Europe,
while Austria annexed 1,O73 Bosnia and
the Herzegovina), and England ia
(Cyprus).
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
-omestlc Training for Girls.

Nothing is more significant Of the So
cial condition of a people than the train
ing of its girls in domestic life. In Ger
many the daughter of the nobleman, Of
the prince, and of the small shop-kecpcr
learns alike to cook, to sweep, and to
keep house. After the training in books
is over, Fraulcin Lena and her Royal
Highncss Princess Sophie both begin
this home education.
There are establishments where they
are taken by the year, rs in a boarding
school. In one month they wash dishes
and polish glass and silver; in another
they cook meats; in another bake; in
the next clay down. meat for winter
use, or preserve fruit, make jcllies and
pickles, sweep and dust. Plain sewing,
darning, and the care of linen arc also
taught, and taught thoroughly.
The German ''bctrothcd" Is thus al
most always a thorough housekceper,
and spends the time. before marriage in
laying in enormous stores of provisions
and napcry for her future home.
In France a girl begins at twelve
years of age to take part in the house
hold interests. Being her mothers con
slant companion, she learns the system
OF Close, TlBlu winch prevails
in all French families. If there be but
two sticks of wood burning on the
hearth, they are pulled apart when the
family leave the room, even for a half
hour, and the brands arc saved.
The nourishing soup, the exquisite
entrees, and the dainty dessert, arc made
out of fragments, which in many an
American kitchen would be thrown
away. The French girl thus inhalcs
economy and skill with the air she
breathes, and the habits she acquires
lasts her through life.
English girls of the educated classes
seldom equal the German and French III
| culinary arts, but they are early taught
to share in the care of the poor around
them. They teach in the village school,
or they have industrial classes; they
have some hobby, such rs drawing,
riding, or animals, to occupy their spare
time with pleasure or profit.
Hence the English girl, though not
usually as clever or as we'll read as her
American sister, has that certain poisc
and aphmb which belong to women who
have %engrossing occupations outside of
society, beaux and flirting.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
H 41RAED ESTATE.
An Institution Of which Philadelphians
Feel Pr0nd.
Iron the Philadelphia Times.1

The annual statement of the Girard
trust, which is published in accordance
with Girard's will, is always interesting,
and never more so than this year, when
the income of SO many estates has been
reduced. The capital of the rcsiduary
fund is given at $40, 549, 917, which is
about $500, 600 more than the figures
given last year, showing that the estate
itself has not suffered dimunition, and
the gross receipts, 5000, 229, are but
$40. 600 less than in 1854. This in itself
is evidence of the careful management
of the trust.
The gross receipts are about eight and
onc-fourth per cent. of the capital. OF
this total S217,G7 was expended in the
maintenance of the estate, more than
one half of which was paid in taxes.
The Girard estate contributed thus, but
u few dollars less than $40, 600 to the
general expenses of Philadelphia, be-
sides its direct contribution in work
performed, which must otherwise be
done by the municipality. After de-
Quoting taxes and the cost of improve
mcnts, repairs, and maintenance there
remained a net income of about three
quarters of a million, or between 6 and
Z per cent. upon the entire capital. Out
of this $780, 19 was devoted to the sup
port of Girard College and some two
hundred Thousand rcinvcstcd.
There are now I, l21 boys in the col
lc2c, or nearly the same number as a
year ago, the capacity Of the present
buildings having been reached. 1t is
questionable whether the number can
wisely be extended very much further.
The Trustees have been doing what is
better than this--thty have been cx-
tending the educational facilities Of the
college SO as 10 provide Il wider and
more practical training for the boys,
especially in manual industry. The
average expenditure for each pupil last
year was $312 Sc, which includes not
only board and lodging as we'll as in
%strnction, but clothing and all other
necessary expenses, upon a simple but
generous scale. There is probably no
institution of its kind in the world with
a more satisfactory record in every way
than that of Girard College. 1t is one
of the institutions OF which Philadcl-
phlans can reasonably feel proud.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
THE TREACHEROUS FROG.
A S"urce OF Annoyance md Danger "a.
HnilrOnd Men,

The frogs on railroad tracks arc the.
dread OF many railroad men, and they
try to keep their feet clear Of them. A
travelling man sal | the other day:
lit is the easiest thing in the world
to slip your foot in some of the frogs.
They arc shaped sometimes like the.
letter V, and when you slip your foot in
the open part it Is fast. There seems to
be no way Of getting out OF it except to
pull the foot out OF the boot. \ man
has no time for thrt always. rcmem-
Der once, very distinctly getting my
foot in a frog. l had on a pair of rub
Der boots, and | got my foot fast just as:
easy rs anything could be. l thought I
could pull it out without any trouble,
and as a train was backing down on
that part Of the track | proceeded pretty
quickly to try. My foot did not come
out. ~ little aStonishcd, l pulled again,
but it did not come. 1t did not seem
to be squeezed very tight, and l was
annoyed. The train was coming nearer
and. as the engineer was backing his
engine down. there was no way to stop
it. l gave IL terrible wrench on my foot
but it did not come. The train was so,
close l knew that it would run on me-
Luckily, the train was coming down on
the rail outside Of my foot. leaned
over and twisted my legs over away
from the car rs it am When the
wheels passed over 1 knew something
was crushed, though it did not pain me.
much then. The whole train went over.
After they had got by, as the boot was
pretty well torn, I managed to pull it
out of the frog and was helped to the
station. 1t crushed my foot pretty
badly. but not so much that amputation
was necessary, and I saved my foot and
leg"
!'Why didn't you pull your foot out
of your boot" asked the reporter.
"Well, 1 tried that" said the man,
but I couldn't get it out. The frog
had pressed over the sole. No doubt I
could nave cut the boot off if 1 had
done it right away, but I thought until
it was too late that 1 could pull the boot
out"
Another man had a similar expert
cnce. 1t broke his leg. He jumped off
a car and jumped in a frog. Before he
could pull his foot out the wheels ran
over the outer edge of the rail in a
similar way.
Those who are caught are not always
so lucky. Once in a while a mar is
caught and the wheels Of a car run
directly over the frog, and then the man
is injured. Railroad men are quite
unanimous in believing that frogs on a
railroad are very trcachcrous.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09

THE DoGs.--A great deal is being
said about hydrophobia that would be
better unsaid. and the dog will BIZ
charged with the killing much %oftencr
than he should be. The work of old
rusty nails, whose wounds have healed
months ago, and the many other pro-
ducers of letouns will all be laid at the
kennel door of innocent cold dog Tray"
In all the United States, with its
50, 600. 900 of people, there have not
been in the entire year owe Is deaths
from hydrophobia by the agency of
5000, 900 dogs.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
THE JUDGE AND THE THIEF.

A Thief having been tried and found
guilty of a certain charge. cried out that
Great Injustice had been done him. He
saw among the Jurors a man whose
Reputation for Honesty had more than
once been Questioned.
That may be true" calmly replied
the Judge, ''andI will Sentence you only
on the Opinion of the other Eleven. I'll
give you Four Years at hard labor"
MORAL:
there is no use in Kicking a Boy for
calling you names when all Men are
convinced that you are a Rascal.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
American Fables.
THE PEASANT AND THE SERPENT.

THE PEASANT N THE SERPENT.
One day upon his Return from Market
a Peasant found a Dangerous Serpent
playing with his children. Without
stopping to make Inquiries he seized a
club and dealt the Reptile a Mortal
blow.
wasn't your Action an Arbitrary
Abuse of Power2" queried the Toad. II
don't think you can Prove that the Ser
pent had struck one of your Children"
GAS to that" replied the Peasant,
''the time to kill Poisonous Reptiles is
before you are Bitten"
MORAL:
A Wolf doesn't make his Appearance
among Lambs with the Intention of
leading them to Sunday School.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
MORAL.

EXPERIMENTS on an extensive scale
have been made in Germany to ascertain
the relative strength of iron and steel
Orders. The soft-steel girdcrs proved
to be 90 per cent. and hard -steel Orders
GO per cent. stronger than the iron grid
ers; and it is remarked that it seemed
pretty we'll established that the strength
of steel Orders is about the same for
the two flanges if made alike in Sec
tions.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09

You come from one of George Eliot's
poems rs from Turkish bath Of latest
science and refinement, appreciative of
benefit, hut so battered, beaten, and
disjointed as to need repose before you
can be conscious of refreshment.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
DYING IN THE SIBERIAN MINES.
The Court Physician of the Late Gar.
vino wa. Convicted rs n Nihiiist.

A despatch from st. Petersburg con-
firms the report of the death of DR..
Wcymar in the Siberian lead mines.
His history is sad and peculiar. He had
ut one time the most lucrative practice
in Russia. He was the chief court ply
stefan under the late Car and the con-
tidential medical attendant of the Care
witch, now Alexander III. His favor
and influence at court were boundless,
but it is alleged that for years he led a
dual existence. While fawning upon
the court, basking in its favor, and get
ting is secrets, he was said to he the
most active partisan in all the great Nj
hilist crimes of recent years.
Ono day in 1880 all Russia was shock
ed Ivy the murder of Gen. Mcssendotf.
The crime was surrounded with the
deepest mystery. The only clue found
by the detectives, after months of
search, was that the carriage in which
the assassins made their escape was
owned by DR.. Wcymar. The Doctor
was arrested and confined in the prison
of st Peter and St Paul for many
months. He protested that he knew
nothin, of the plot TO murder Gen.
Mcsscndoff, and that his horses and car
riagc must have been stolen by the muir
dcrers.
While DR.. Weymar was in prison the.
Gar was murdered. When the Doctor
was tried it was shown that he had been
IN intimat, friend of Salonetf, who was
supposed to be the actual murderer of
the Car, and who was hanged for that.
crime. DIR. Wtymar was promptly IN
victed, his estate confiscated, and he
was eXiled to Trarsbaikalia, in eastern
Siberia. In October, 1884, a Nihilist
named Lapatin was arrested for the,
murder of Gen. Mcssendof. He was
convict III and hanged. His last words
were that Dr.. Wcymar was innocent.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09

The wealth of ovr language is shown
by the fact that ''hang it up and
.tchalk it down" mean precisely tho
same thing.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09

LEpRosY is declared by the Lansing
Qowa) !Mry~r.to exist to n considerable
extent among tho colony of Scandina-
vans from northern Norway, now
settled near the village of Spring Grove,
in Houston county, MINI. Doctors who
haze examined the subjects. who are in
three or four different families tbut are
related), are said to have pronounced
the malady undoubtedly leprosy.
The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-02-09
THE LAW VS.. MONEY.

4 confidence Man who had Roped an
old Hay-Seed out of 800 and been
Arrested for it called in a Lawyer and
ssked:
''1s there any Law by which 1 can be
Punished2"
"That is not to the Point" replied
the Lawyer; "what I want to know is
whether you have money enough to
beat the Law by which you can he Pun
ished"
MORAL
1t was Proved in Court that the old
Hay-seed begged him as a great Favor
to Accept the money rs a Christmas
Present.-Detron Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-06-10
RIGHT SIDE OF THE DOLLAR.

Ave nveu Sixty years In this frisky old world
az seen iots OF changin' an turnin''
An nity OF them by the sweat of NV brow
MY nread an my butter been earnin'
An We armed many things in the way of
never was any great scholar).
An mere one for you: Whatever Won do
'ouns nnah-ah young woman, I'm warnin'
Keep on the right side of the dollar.
that, may want this vi
Ifyou can't spare the money to buy If.
Don run into debt, or you'll quickly regret
mn Ina. you ever were tempted to try it,
AhouSm yoor clothes may be white ct the
seams. an you find
hougn edges on cuffs an on collar.
jest wS.it 10 get new till the same you can do
iouhg mah-an', young woman, I'm warnin
you, too "
AN keep on the right side of the dollar.
Oh the strfes an the troubles that would be
like weeds,
Cut down in their pestilent CROWN.
An tne blcssins, like beautiful flow RS. that
In their stead would be constantly sowiu'l
Oh, tne homes an the HUes that wouldn't bt
If all this plain precept would foller
Ihat lay down to you Whatever YOU do,
Young man-an', young woman, I'm warnin
you, too "
Keep on the right side of the dollar.
-Hdrper's Bdzdr.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-06-10
HUMOROUS

We witnessed fowl proceeding
from the window of our Office one day
this week. A hen walked by.-NesU-
man Independent.
"A lover, who evidently wished to
be economical in time, wrote: "Not
having seen you week, | am look
ing forward 2 seeing your dear face"
-"John, it is quite dim in this room.
What is the matterP" II don't know;
l lit the gas half an hour ago and it
should have made plenty of light by
this time, y Peck'S Sun.
Lady lin shoe store)-"I would
like to look at some cloth slippers for
myself" Clerk until recently in the
dry-goods line)-" Yes, madam; some
thing all wool and a yard wideP"-
Harper'S Bazar.
Fish dealer" Have nice fish,
ma amP" why, this is
Tuesday. That fish wouldn't keep un-
til Friday" Fish dealer--"I know
it, ma'am; that's why want to sell il
aow. It'd Bits.
After a terrible struggle party of
men on Western train succeeded in
disarming a lunatic, thereby saving
other lives. 1t was a close call, though.
Later advices show that the lunatic
was armed with an ACCORDION. Prairie
Farmer.
-"Ephlum, what makes so many cat
tails grow in dis heah pon'P" "Well,
would say! Doan you knowp Why,
dey grows up from kittens dat people
hez drowned in de pom, of cousse.
Pears like you wimmin folks doan
know muffin bout aglicultshah. Life.
True to the letter: Slowdrop-
"Got my cabinet photos ready?" Pho
tographer-" Next Wednesday week. "
"See here, this a swindle. Your adj
vertisement says: Cabinets finished
while you wait. "Well, you're
waiting, are you not9' "EhP oh, yes
Il see. Philadelphia Call.
An outside passenger by coach
had his hat blown over bridge and
carried away by the stream. "ls it not
very singular, said he to gentleman
who was seated beside him, ''that my
hat took that direction?" Not at all"
| repIeu tne laVIeTi II Is Hdturd tnht
beaver should take to the water. y
~ Y Telegram. a-..
The London Times prints the fol-
lowing story of "a certain Irish NJ. p"
who had been describing his travels in
the far West and the virgin forests"
there: What is avirgin forest?" asked
an auditor. ''Phwat is vairgin forest is
il We whant to knowp A vairgin forest,
soor, is one phwere the hand of man
has never set fut, bedadr'
AT home and abroad: Hos
tess Ito Bobby, who is dining out
with his mother)-"Will you have
, another piece of pie, BobbyP" Bobby
"Yes'm." Hostess (smilingly) =
| ''And SO you are one of the fortunate
little boys whose mammas let them
have the second piece of rie?" Bob
, by-''Yes'm; she does when we re cut
visitin', but at home | never get but one
piece. ."-HdrDer's Bdzdr;
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-06-10
PRACTICAL POETRY.
Advice to Agriculturists From Longfel-
lows Song of Hiawatha.

Advice to Agriculturists From Longfel-
lows Song of Hiawatha.
1t is seldom that poets have any cor
rect ideas of real practical life. They
are too ETHEREAL and sentimental. There
are, however, worthy exceptions, such
as Whittier, Longfellow, Bryant, Gold
smith and others, whose divine afflatus"
was always guided by such realities as
are necessary for as practical world
as this. In the spring of the year, when
we all begin to think of the true process
by which the earth, the nurturing moth
er of us all, is to be aided and prepared
by man to bring forth her richest prod
ucts in the. greatest abundance, practical
agriculture is worthy of poet, philoso-
pher and statesman. Any farmer, who
has read Hiawatha, by Longfellow, can
but admire the true agricultural knowl-
edge which that poet had. The allegory
of the origin of corn, (which Hiawatha
is made to fast, and to pray, to the
''Master of Life" (the Supreme Being),
for some blessing to the Nation, in an
swer to which the master of Life
sent Mondamin. There is a conflict
between Hiawatha and Mondamin,
in which, after three days wrestle, the
former slays the latter, but before his
death he informs his slayer how he
wanted to be buried, and informed him
how he would be resurrected. and prov e
a great blessing to the nations. And
the beauty of the allegory is the exact
knowledge which Longfellow had of the
way in which corn should be planted
and cultivated to produce the most
abundant crop. Hiawatha was to plant
the body of Mondamin, which was to
sprout and produce a crop of corn and
thus be blessing for which Hiawatha
had earnestly prayed. This is the way,
in his expiring hour, Mondamin is made
by Longfellow to talk to Hiawatha:
"Make bed for me TO lie in,
| Where the rain may fall upon me,
Where the sun may come and warm me
| Law me in the soft earth, and make it
Soft and loose and light above.
| Let no hand disturb my slumber,
Let no weed nor worm molest me,
Let not kehgahgee, the raven,
| Come to haunt or molest me.
Only come Yourself to watch me,
TIL wake. and stand and quicken,
Till II leap into the sunshine"
This is Just as good guide now TO
the corn planter, as it was for the pro
duction of the first stalk of corn. AM
we commend it to our agriculture
friends. Moines Reg lister.