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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
Why Girls 10 Wrong.

Child Culture thinks that girls like
bad boys the best, and that they will
forsake father and mother, disregard
the advice of their truest friends, and
bring desolation to the hearts Of all
rather than renounce a dissolute fel-
low, are facts too potent to require
proof. What isthe cause of this? In
well-to-do families the girls are spared
every effort and deprived of every op-
portunity to exercise their will power,
and consequently grow up wholly un-
prepared to exercise judgment, decis-
ion and action. The sentimental, po-
etic, delirious period arrives. The
emotional nature, under the stimulus
of awakening faculties now become
supreme, and the girl is wholly under
its control. There should be no differ
ence in a girls and boys life until
they are ten years of age. She ought
to be the equal of her brother in out-of-
door sports. Until they are fifteen
years of age they ought to have the
same training in school. AS much
ought to be expected from her rs from
him. After that time their education
should differ, according to their differ
ent spheres of action. A true affec-
ton is an anchor to character, and if a
girls life were securely anchored at
home she would not be so easily driv-
en- out to sea. The father, rather than
the mother. is or can be favorite with
the daughter. If father wishes to
fortify his daughter against folly let
him retain her love and confidence.
Not simply respect and esteem, but
love. And to do this he must feel the
love of the child until that love ripens
into the genuine affection of q woman.
Many fathers deceive themselves.
They think their daughters do love
them. They will think this when
they cannot remember ever to have
had a confidential interchange of
thoughts, aspirations and secrets, such
as we have only with those we dearly
love and fully trust. They cannot re-
member when they had q caress or
anything but formal kiss; and yet
they think their daughters love them.
Apply these tests 1--WE confide in
those we love. Does your daughter
reveal her heart to you? We like to
be with those we love. Does your
daughter long for your companion
ship? Does she really enjoy being
with you? Will she forsake the socie-
ty of others to be with you? If your
daughter has loved you and confided
in you from infancy and found in you
that true friend that she ought to find,
do you think she will forget all this
and 60 contrary to your wishes? She
will not fall in love, but will enter into
love deliberately, and her father who
has her confidence, can counteract the
leading if he sees fit. When a young
man comes to steal her heart he will
find the old gentleman at home. II
he wants that heart he must ask for it
and satisfy all parties concerned of his
ability to treasure it. If he be q sneak
thief he will soon be gone. If he be Il
true knight he will enter upon the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
A German professor spent twent,

A German professor spent twenty
years in studying the habit and char.
acter ofa certain snail, and learned
this interesting fact concerningit: On
the Pacific Coast where it is found ID
greatabundanee, it is preyed upon by
a certain fish which abounds IN the
Pacific Ocean. AS an aid in escaping
from its formidable enemy it has been
provided with an eye on the back Of
its head. The same snailis found on
the Atlantic coat, exactly like its far
western brother in every particular ex-
cept that it has no posterior eye. And
the reason for this is that there Is no
corresponding fish to prey upon 1t in
the Atlantic Ocean.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

That all eleven-year old boy should
die of narcotic poisoning from excessive
cigarette smoking should not be mat
ter of surprise if he is allowed to'smoke
at all. The tobacco habit is particular
ly injurious to young and growing
boys. Nature rebels against Its use,
but men, conquering natural 'distaste
for the weed, habituate themselves
to its use, sometimes without any OBJ
vious i'll effects to themselves. Young
however, are not well quail
fed to resist the baneful influences Of
and especially when. it is used
in the form of cigarettes, which, in the
cheaper kinds at least, are more strong
ly charged with nicotine than cigars
or fresh smoking tabacco.-Phitdda
LedQcr.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
Conversation in Public Places.

Look for a moment at conversation
as we overhear it on the street, the
horse and steam cars. Here we find
ourselves involuntarily deciding who
are those best acquainted with the
laws of polite society and good breed
ing. Setting aside the cause of deaf
ness, we are often annoyed 1T the per-
sistency with which people in near
proximity to ourselves endeavor, in
conversation with their friends, to en-
Tighten all the others as to their private
affairs, business, poverty or wealth,
friends, servants, and what not. This
is due partly to home education in the
matter of conversation, and partly TO
the largely increasing numbers of
those who have acquired wealth sud-
denly and have had no advantages of
early education and culture, and who
forget that fine feathers do not always
make fine birds.-Ellen. Bliss Hooker
in Good Housekcepe1s.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

young tree bends to the gale, an old
one snaps and falls before the blast.
A single hard lift; an hour of heating
work !; an evening Of exposure to rain
and damp; severe chill; an excess
Of food; the unusual indulgence of any
appetite or passion; a sudden fit of an
ger: an improper dose of medicine
any of these. or other similar things,
may cut off a valuable life in an hour,
and leave the fair hope of usefulness
and enjoyment only "a shapeless wreck.
Hastings Birthday Book.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
"Let's Play"

o the blessed and wise little children,
What sensible things they say!
When they can't have the things they wis
for,
They take others and cry: "Let's play!'
"Let's play" that the chairs are big coaches.
And the sofa O railroad cor,
And that we are all taking Journeys,
And travelling ever so far.
"Let's play" that this broken old china
Is a dinner set rare and fine,
And our tin cups filled with water
Are goblets Of milk and wine!
Lets play" every one Of our dollies
Is alive and can 60 to walk,
And can keep up long conversations
With US, II we want to talk.
'Let's play" that we live In palace,
And that we are the queens and kings.
"Let's play" we are birds in q tree-top,
And can fly about on wings.
"Lers play" that we are school-keepers,
And grown people come to our school;
And then punish them all most soundly
II they break but single rule.
o the blessed and wise little children,
What sensible things they say!
And we might be happy as they are,
If we would he happy their way.
What odds twixt not having and having,
When we have lived cut our day!
Let us borrow the childrens watchword-
The magical watchword-"Let's play"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
Asserting and Packing Fruits.

A st. Louis paper we'll says that it
would pay fruit and vegetable growers
occasionally to visit our great city mar
kets, and note the extra price which
consumers are willing to pay for
choice selections, carefully gathered,
assorted, and packed. Careless hand
ling and slovenly management are re-
sponsible for majority of the unsatis-
factory returns from city consign-
ments of fruits and vegetables. If
that he true of city markets in the
West, it is equally or more so of those
on the Atlantic sea-bOard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
Debtors and Creditors.

The common feeling respecting debt
ors and creditors is often erroneous,
and, as is common with fallacies, it af-
fects with double force the young and
Debtors are, represent
ed in the ordinary language of a large
portion of society as set of amiable
Unfortunate, and most interesting per-
sons. Creditors, OH other hand, are
represented as eXecrable wretches, with
a hardness of heart that would disgrace
the eXecutiOner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

It is true that enthusiasm wastes.
But do you refuse to eat because it
wastes food? When you were after
your business ten thousand did you
stop because it would waste you to be
too intense? The fact is this, that en-
thusiasm is shut down by men in this
world to the lower functions of life.
There is nothing that wastes q man
like laziness. There isn'ta man who
OWNS real estate who does not know
that house will go to ruin quicker if
untenanted than if used as boarding.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

WAxED FLooRs.-Mix turpentfne
and beeswax in the proportion of one
gallon of turpentime to one pound Of
wax shaved thin. Let the wax and
turpentine stand over night before u.s.
ing; then rub OIL the floors with q
coarse WOODEN cloth several times.
Vigorous rubbing. improves the looks
of the floors.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

The hardest place on earth for the
Christian to live is at home. There
we are off our guard, and tho evil
within us comes to the surface. When
we are out from home, we are restrain:
ed by the public eye and we, are more
guarded but at home, with poor wife
and children, the devil gets the best of
US and we say to them things which
we would blush to have our neighbors1
hear
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

The great temptation to which we
are more or less exposed is that OF los
ing sight of God in the ordinary &C.
tions of the day. 1t Is hard to feel
that every action OF every day is capa-
ble Of being so done as to advance or
hinder our growth in grace.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

Christianity has to make progress
in this world against weakness, form
ality, and A6surdity in its votaries,
and who shall say which ofthese three
is practically the greatess of its impede
ments ?-ChristiQn Ider-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

BUTTER SCoTCII.-One cup of mo-
lasses, one cup of sugar, one-half q cup
of butter; mix together. Boil until it
hardens when dropped into cold wa
ter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11

conquest with a manly courage and
bearing that itself is evidence of his
worthiness.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29
DrLWORTH'S
CHILL PILLS

These Pills are specific and anti
dote for Chills, Fevers and all forms
of Malaria Disorders. We have not
known single case of chills Dumb
or shaking) that they have failed to
cure, when taken in strict accordance
to printed directions. In majority of
cases single box is sufficient to cure,
but in long continued cases when they
have returned again and again, more
is required. As a tonic to build up the
broken down constitution produced by
over exertion, fevers, &c, these pills
cannot be cxcelled; they promote the
appetite, relieve headache, backache,
and strengthens the system.
The low price of 25c per box brings
them within the reach of all. For
sale by NIL druggists and country
stores. aprSS
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29

Arrive Newark Centre Stati0n) from Phlla. &
Wilmington 500 IN and i.2l and Gas p m week
days.
Peninsula express leaves Newark 9.44 a m, ar
rives at Baltimore ILL IN.
Baltimore passenger leave Phila. daily l0.l0p
m; Chester II. IA p m; Wilmington i1.3s II m. ar.
rlying Newark 1900 night, Baltimore l.31 II IN,
philadelphia and Baltimore express, 202 p. M.
Wilmington, 244 p. m. Newark, 303 p. m, and
Baltimore, 40 p. m, on week days
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29
Compressed Facts.
There are $3.50 languages.

There are . 75O lanouapes
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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29

Talk is cheap because the supply
is so much larger than the demand.
Little girls who don't like to go to
school should live in China little
boys who don't like to go should
keep away from the Celestial En-
pire There the gills do not have
to go at all, and the boys begin
when they are six years old. School
bcgii 5 at daylight, and closes when
it is too dark to read. There are no
vacations
When IA Cincinnati husband was
asked in Court ifhe dragged his wife
out of bed by her hair, he said he
couldn't really remember, as that
was a very busy morning with him
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29
Log Cabin Success.
What az the Young men ?

What ails the young men?
Robert Carrots father left him a
fortune of twenty millions. He was
from childhood reared in luxury; he
received splendid education with
an especial training into a thorough
knowledge of railroad management
and was expected to succeed his
father as railroad king.
Within three years after the res
possibilities which his fathers death
threw upon him were assumed, he
is reported a broken down man,
with mind and health permanently
shattered.
George Law is another young
man left with millions of money,
who is reported among the wrecks.
His father, bred stone mason, was
of gigantic size and strength, with
commensurate brain power, so he
became great contractor then a
railroad king and left half dozen
millions for his son TO dissipate.
The young man is success as a
dissipator.
The founders of hcsh' of these
great estates were born in the most
humble-walks of life, grew strong,
mentally and physically, by simple
living and honest labor and devel-
oped into financial giants. Their
sons were reared in the lap of lux
ury and developed into intellectual
pigmies.
The great men of our country
have not, as q rule, come from the
elegant mansions of the cities, but
from the Log Cabins of the rural
districts. Simple ways of living,
freedom from dissipation and ener-
waiting pleasures, simple remedies
for disease, effective and which leave
no poison in the system, develop
brawny, brainy men, who compel
the world to recognize their strength
and power.
The wholesome, old-fashioned
Log Cabin remedies are the safest
and surest for family use. Our
grandmothers knew how to prepare
the teas and syrups of roots, herbs
and balsams which drives disease
out of the system by natural meth
DDS and leave no after ill-effects.
The most potent Of these old-time
remedies were, after long and search
ing investigation, secured by H. II.
Warner of safe cure fame, and are
now put out for the "healing of the
nations" in the Warmers Log Cabin
remedies.
Regulate the regulator with War
ner's Log Cabin sarsaparilla, and
with pure blood giving health, and
strength, mental and bodily vigor,
you may hope to cope successfully
with the most gigantic financial
problems OF the age, without wreck
ing health and manhood.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29
NORTH.

Trains marked with run daily.
Leave Newark Centre Station for Wilmington
and Phla. T.4G a M; 2 10 and Cos p m week daya
Peninsula express leaves Baltimore $50 p IN
arrives Newark 8.5J p IN. runs through TO pOlnts
on Delaware Division.
Express train leaves Baltimore, 40; Newark,
COL n. m; North East, 53s a. m; Iron Hill, $50
a. m; Wilmington, 100 a. IN, and Philadelphia,
1920 a. M. week days.
j. r. Wood General Passenger Agent.
j. @. Shivler Agent at Newark.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29

AS glares the tiger on his foes,
Hemmed in by hunters, spears and
bows,
And ere he bounds upon the ring,
Selects the object of his spring
So disease, in myriad forms, fas-
tens its fangs upon the human race,
Ladies who suffer from distressing
ailments peculiar to their sex, should
use Dir. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton. 1t is Il positive cure for the
most complicated and obstinate
cases of leucorrhea, excessive How
ing, painful menstruation, unnatur-
al suppressions, prolapsus, or falling
of the womb, weak back, female
weakness anteversion, +, troversion,
bearing down sensation, chronic
congestion, inflammation and ulcer
alton of the womb, Inflammation,
pain and tenderness in ovaries, ac-
companied with "internal heat
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29

GTTMC EEVOLVERS. Send
~ ~ 4N0 stamp for price list to
JOHNSTON & SON, Pittsburgh, Pa
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29

TATE SPRINGS. Tenn, July 4, 1898.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
During the spring of 1871, while working
In the field at my home in Morgan county,
Ca, pulled off my shoes to give my feet
rest. Unfortunately, walked into a clump
of poison oak, and in few days my feet
were in a terrible condition, and l could not
put on a shoe because of the soreness and
swelling. was treated as poison oak cases
usually are, and everything was healed up.
About the same time the following spring,
1879, my feet became sore again. as at first,
and every succeeding spring for five years
brought back the same condition of the dis
ease, only each time it became more dis
tressing, because began to think it was
lifetime trouble. Finally, was induced to
try Swift's Specific / took six bottles, and
to-day am entirely we'll My improvement
was gradual from the first, and no evidence
of the disease remains. / shall take pleas
ure in testifying as to its curative proper
ties. 1t is the greatest blood purifier in ex-
istence. Yours truly, ]. L. MORGAN.
The foregoing certificate is taken at
random from thousands Of letters in possess
sion Of the Swift Specific Co., and presented
simply as a sample. 1t is voluntary
statement, giving facts and results Of the
case. Its accuracy and genuineness are
beyond question.
A valuable Treatise on Blood End Skin
Diseases mailed free. Address
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3 Atlanta, Ga.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29
Nivindale
HERD JERSEYS.

At head of herd Hugo st. Heller l5472.
Sire Rioter Lisgar 1920, Pure st. Lam
bert, 37l per cent Victor Hugo, 25 per
cent Stoke Pogis Sd, Dam Brielella % 7S,
S4s per cent st. Heller IS.
FOR SAlE.-Two Bulls 10 and IA
mos. old. viii be registered Seven
grade cows. One grade hciler. Full tab
ulated pedigrees and butter records of
600 cows sent on application.
S. z. NIV--N. Landenburp, Pa.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29
There's
Money
In 1t

Money is the Magnet that
draws the crowd of Contented
Customers to
PENNOCK 81 FOREMAN'S
STORE
When friend asks friend why
trade with Pennock q Fore
mans the answers comes
promptly
"There's Money 1t It."
The plain meaning of this
Language is, that Pennock q
Foreman sell good goods cheap.
er and more goods for the mon
ely than any other Merchant in
Wilmington,
You are not asked to take
the advertisers word, take the
testimony of customers or bet
ter yet test us with trade for
a Fall Suit and Over Coat.
Our stock is simply immense
covering three large spacious
floors.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29

French Creek Branch Trains:
Leave Springfield II 10 IN, and 20 p m
week days. and 10 m c. Sundays.
Arrive St Peters II 40 m and so m
week days, and 70 m on Sundays
TN Saturday only Will leave Dupont station a
90 and 4 . p m, Newbridge at % and 10 p IN
for Wilmington and all Intermediate points.
on Sunday leave Heading at 800 p. m for W
mingtOn.
For connections at Wilmington, b. & o. june
tiOn, Chndd's Ford Junction, Lenape, Contesville
Waynesburg Junction, Blrdsboro, and Reading
see timetables all stations
+. b. HIBBARD, Genl. Pass. Agent
A. @. McCAUsLARD, Supt.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29

ORIGIN OF A WIDELY QUOTED SAY
ING.-One of the best stories told of
the late LARRY" Jerome is that when
travelling in Florida not very long
ago he stayed at hotel the propri-
tor Of which asked him, when he
vas about to depart, to sign his
name in a book not quite like an
ordinary hotel register, but one used
after the fashion of an old English
custom, for the purpose of obtaining
the names of distinguished guests.
When Mr.. Jerome was about to
place his signature with the others
he saw that the writer just above
him had inscribed the comment: II
came here for change and rest and
got it. Quick as thought the witty
club man penned beneath it: II
also came here for change and rest,
but the walters got the change and
the landlord got the rest.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-29


Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Vanderbilt are
engaged in experimenting the cree
ton of their new house in the Isle
dwight.
Mercy is so good II servant that
it will never allow its master to die
a beggar. The virtues that lie in
Warmers Log Cabin Plasters are as
beneticient and lasting as the quail
ties of mercy. Best and cheapest
poroused plaster in market.
A Greek judge is about to enter a
walking match in London against
time.
Don't disgust everybody by hawk
ing, blowing and splitting, but use
DIR. Sages Catarrh Remedy and be
cured.
A club has been established at
Montreuil, the members of which
intend to go about fighting for Bou-
LANCER.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-12-20

purely State affair, secular insti- tuition. It can never be anything else. Its sole business is to give the rudiments of education, that the boy may have brain as we'll as a
 pair of hands for the struggle of the future. If the church and the home supplement that training by the in- fusion of religious doctrine or mor- al ideas, why then you have a boy we'll equipped for citizenship. If either the church or the home fails in that duty, so much the worse for the boy and so much the worse for the State.
 But it is not the duty of the State to make Episcopaliaus or Catholics or Methodists. If it were to go into that business we should have a pretty rough time oft and nobody could tell where it would end.
 The State must keep out of the Church and the Church must keep out of the State. That idea lies at the foundation of things in this country,and it can never be changed until our institutions are destroy York Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-12-20
Our Public School System.

Every once in awhile sombodv gets up scare about our public school system. It is an intermit- tent disease which disappars for awhile and the patient thinks he has recovered. Then of a sudden he begins to shake again and has another siege of 1t.
 The bottom facts are these We are told that public morality is in decadence; that infdelity of one sort and another is on the rampage; that crimes are more numerous than ever before; that the marriage tie is more lightly re- garded, that the general conscience is less sensitive to evils which af- feet the welfare of society, and that therefore the school tax should be divided between Catholics and Protestants that each may take care of its own constituency.
 This we believe to be S mistake. There are certain forms of evil which are more prevalent now than in times past, and certain other forms which appear less frequently, But if you strike a fair average the world is better, higher toned, more generous, charitable and kindly. There is heavier bulk of virtue in it than ever. If it were not so it would be pretty miserable world 10 live in, and the sooner we emi- grated to some other planet the bet ter.
 We are also told that our chil- dren ought to be more carefully taught, that their religious educa- ton is neglected and that many wasted lives are the consequence.
 This is easily granted. No one will be likely to deny it. But where shall the child get hls moral educa- tion unless in the home and in the church? What are homes and churches for?
 The public school system is al