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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28
THE FURNISHINGS OF THE CHURCH.
Woman's Work Ornaments and Max es
Comfortable this House Of WOr.

Comfortable this House Of WOr.
ship.
The furniture OF the church was peculiarly
the gift of the ladies of the congregation.
They set their ingenious heads together and
devised all manner Of means for making this
milk and eggs, and hot house flowers were all
resorted to, and they have the qualification o.
seeing the result Of their hard labor and self
denial. They allowed the gentlemen to assist
in very neat pattern, and covers the entire
flooring of the church. pulpit and organ loft
The pews, like all the interior woodwork,
are simply Of hard wood finish, the pine OF
our native forest, which admits OF such high
polish that it appears like bands of satin
against O velvet wall.
The cushions are OF green damask that
match the soft tinted water:Solored walls.
which are delightful rest to the eye coming
from the garish light without. The chande-
lier too, was the "Free-will offering" of the
"Willing Workers" and "Sewing Society" and
cost $50. 1t is one OF those beautiful things
surrounded by three rows OF crystal prisms
several inches in length and surmounted by
brightly polished metal reflectors. When
lighted the effect is resplendent and looks as II
it might suddenly have been let down from
the celestial regions.
The windows cost 5000 and are of gothic ar:
chitecture. filled with light colored stained
glass, fashioned after the manner of blocks:
Their gothic points are filled in by pretty and
appropriate designs, such as the scales in
which we are "We Weighed and found wanting
the "Anchor of Safety." the "Sword and the
Helmet" the "Harp and the Dove" In halo
Of glory, emblematic Of the descension of the
Holy Ghost.
The pulpit cushion of garnet velvet is sur
mounted by scarf Of garnet plush on which
Is painted In graceful figures the Cross, the
Crown, and Easter Lilies, the whole bearing
upmistakable evidences Of the art and the
cultivated taste which created them. AS the
| violet Is not less beautiful than the lilly oi
the valley, so the creation Of this beautiful
scarf required not less of skill, nor less OF art,
nor less OF cultivated taste than did the con-
ception and erection OF this magnificent tenn
pie, OF which we are all SO proud. The maker
Of this most beautiful and artistic scarf, again
| like the violet, was too modest to come for
rests upon it. Still like the violet, but full OF
| love for her Saviour, she asked another to lay
her Offering on the altar.
The Cross Is In oil, the Crown Is In lustre,
and the lilies are In Kensington. being the
handiwork of Miss Benie Zeigler, OF the Meth
odist church, which was presented by Miss
Meta Lythgoe.
"The cups OF fragrant light
| Golden and milky white,
From folded darkness spring
| TO hail their King
AS pure as mountain SHOWS
| or cleaning white,
| And sweet as fragrant rose
Formed to delight
So pure, so sweet, my longing soul would DC
A lilly fair, Oh, dearest Lord for thee"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28

Rev. D. Men. Turner D. D., installed April
%, 1865. Resigned December, 1859.
Septem ber 2, 1870. Resigned october 81, 1884.
Rev. J. Lowrie Wilson, D. D., Installed Feb
ruary %, 1885,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28
SOLDIERS OF THE coNFEDERAcY, AMI
SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS.
Not More True to the Lost Cause than
they are Devoted to the Service Of
the Prince Of Peace.

It was q remarkable coincidence that the
three distinguished Doctors Of Divinity who
sat on the rostrum during the dedicatory SER
last Sabbath, were all Confederate soldiers,
each of whom bears on his body still the
marks OF duty well-done In the terrible strug-
gle Of twenty-five years ago. DR.. Thompson
was several times wounded in battle, while
Drs. Grler and Wilson each lost leg. The
Southern army had no drawer soldiers than
these three eminent men Of God. They serv-
ed their country most faithfully as long as
the war lasted. c'resistingeven unto blood')
and when peace came, they enlisted under
another banner, went forth in the name of
another King, and as soldiers of the Cross,
their lives OF patient endurance, noble self
sacrifice and thorough conservation bear wit
ness that their triumphs over Satan and sin
have been far greater and grander than any
they ever achieved amid the clash Of arms.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28
SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS.
THE RECRUITING FIELD OF THE CHURCH
Officers and Members of the Prcsby.
terrain Sunday School.

Pastor-Dr ]. T.. Wilson.
Superintendent-L. w. Perrin.
Vice Superintendent-L.W W. White.
Secretary and Treasurer. Allen Smith.
Librarian-Thos. p. Thomson.
Chorister-L. w. Perrin.
Organist-Miss H. Clarke Cothran.
CLASS. NO. l.
Teacher, A B. Wardlaw.
Study-InternationalL Lessons and Shorter
Catechism.
James William Thomson, son OF Thomas
Thomson.
Amos Buckley Morse, son OF Rev. A. A
Morse.
James Mason Giles.
John Marion Kirby.
William Henry Burns.
William Henry Morse, son Of Rev. A. A
Morse.
Robert Marshall Hnddon, son of Zechariah
Haddon.
John Groves Cartledge.
Bonnie CarstenS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28

Teacher, J. William Thomson.
Study-International Lessons and Shorter
Catechism.
Miss Mary McHardy White, daughter Of l..
w. White.
Mis- Isabel Stonebreaker Haddon, daughter
of r. M. Haddon.
Andrew Bowie Wardlaw, son of A. B. Ward
law.
William Coulter Cothran. son of j. s. Goth
ran.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28
CLASS NO. 5.

Teacher, Miss H. Clarke Cothran:
Study-International Lessons and Shorter
Catechism.
Miss Annie Donald Henry, daughter OF
Francis Henry.
Miss Florence Bebecca Henry, daughter of
Francis Henry.
Miss Mary Yarbrough McClung, daughter of
e. A. McClung.
Miss Jessie Hill daughter of R. E. Hill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-28
REV. J. LoWRIE WILSON, D. D.
Something of the Pastor Who Minis
ters to the Presby terians of Able

willie.
The Rev. ]. Lowrie Wilson, d. d., Pastor, s
the Abbeville Presbyterian Church, was born
In India, where his father, the late James
missionary-tbe early years OF his life were
spent there and when lad he was brought by
his parents to this country. At the breaking
out OF the civil war he enlisted as soldier In
the army Of tho Confederate States, in Ten
nessee, and although mere youth, he was
promoted to the rank of q commissioner offi-
Ger, and served with fidelity and distinction
ment Of Richmond and Petersburg by the
Federal forces-there he lost leg and was
otherwise severely wounded. Recovering
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
;Don'e Kiss Transients.

"A traveller who returned from two
weeks vacation among the Maine wa
Fterfn&-places,s says the Philadelphia
Times, relates an amusing incident
that occurred at a New England hotel
where lie Glanced to. stop for day
while ioufneying to Bar Harbor. The
hotel was a small one, and the princi-
pal person in charge of the office was
the daughter of the proprietor. a
huxoIn lass of probably 20 summers.
When the morning of departure came
this fair Diana presented The hotel bill
to the traveller. and 1t SO happened that
neither of them could change a note
that was rendered in payment. In a
gallant way the traveller. who had
something of the Don Juan in his ma
ture, although he did not live on Wal
INIT street, sailingly offered to kiss the
young lady aud let the change go.
shs drew herself up haqghtiiy. ."Pd
Hike you to4kRow, sir, that il this hotel
we don't kiss transients,' she replied
in freezing tones. Such privileges is
only given to permanent boardcrs.
Win you take q prospectus for next
seasOn2"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
1t Hurt, But Was Good


Pickle-loving folks of all sexes and
sizes will appreciate this from the old
Colony Memorial: at happened a few
days ago on one of our side streets,
not two minutes walk from the Mem
oridl office, and the leading actress was
small girl, who had her eyes shut
tightly in order to get her mouth open
further, while big tear drops oozed
from between the closed lids and
trickled slowly past her crimson nose
and down her infiamed face. She was
crying audibly, and could have been
heard for four blocks, In her hand
was a whacking great picked cucum-
Der. of the fashion so much affected by
school girls. Her distress was so audi
BILE and evident that a kind-hearted
gentleman passing up the hill stopped
and asked her what she was crying
for. She half closed her mouth and
half opening her swimming eyes as
she answered: 'O-o-o-ohI (sob) this
pickle (sobs) stings my tongue Then
raising her hand she poked the end of
the pickle into her mouth, bit off an
other big chunk, chewed it, and was
getting out fresh supply of howls
when the sympathetic man moved
away. Her fondness for pickles was
greater than the pain,n
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
London Police Courts.

Very early in his career, In ,''0liver
Twist" Charles Dicken drew aterrihle
life-like picture of the dirt, the squaler,
the fetid atmosphere. and the ruffianly
surroundings of the police office, then
the scandal of Hatton garden. and. not
long before his death, the great novel
ist made incidental mention of a
''villianous police court as place yet
actually existing. 1t did exist, says
the London Daily Telegraph. During
the five-and-thirty years over which the
literary activity of Dickens extended,
the old police court in Bow street.-The
chief one, it must be remembered, in
the metropolis-had undergone little,
if any, stuctural reform. 1t was to
most intents and purposes as ''yillain-
ous' as it had been in the days of Sir.
John Fielding and Sir Richard Birnie,
although, dirty, noisome, and uncom-
Portable as it continued to be, it was
considered a vast improvement on the
police tribunals of the the past. In the
days when Harry Fielding was .
stipepdiary magistrate he sorrowfully
confessed that his stipend was made
up of 1.-the dirtiest money in the world. ="
The ordinary London police court was
at the conclusion of the case, while his
worship the justice and the clerk were
RECALLING themselves with bowl of
punch in the parlor, the defendant.
who was able to find bail, his attorney,
and the parish constable, were getting
tipsy in the tap-room. As for the
prisoners unprovided with bail, they
were comfortably handcutfed and flung
into the cellar or the coal hole until
such time as it suited the conYepience
of the constable to drag them off to
Jail. A new, spacious, and handsome
pile of buildings has arisen in lieu OF
the "yillainOns police court" on the
other side of The way in Bow street,
and in the outskirts of the metropolis
more than one cemmodious police
Office has been erected. Many of the
remaining ones, however, need re-
forming altogether by the stringent
process of being pulled down and built
up again in something like consonance
with modern ideas of the dignity OF
justice and the claims of those who
so luckless as to be brought up before
a magistrate, OF to attend police
court in any capacity. to be considered
and treated as human beings.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
+ Uses of Mineral Waters.

Mineral waters, as to their sources,
are two classes, the imported and the
domestic. As to their nature, they are
artificial or natural. Not all of the
best waters will bear expectation, or
even long keeping in stock. Many OF
them throw down their mineral consti-
tuents and deeompose when exported
in wood; and even in glass not few
of them become inert by keeping. The
waters that are the most strongly
mineralized. especially those that. are
the most fully charged with carbonic
acid gas. bear expectation, the best
| Those of weaker constitution, like
some delicate individuals and some
delicate wines, do not stand a sea-voy-
| age. ''Old books TO read, old wood to
burn, old wine to drink, old friends to
talk to-" but no old mineral waters for
cure. Some physicians hold. indeed,
that all mineral waters begin to lose
their virtues as soon as they leave the
spring. This is an extreme view; it is
quite unproven of some of the best
waters. yet most of them are effective
in proportion to their freshness. The
best importing hOuses aim, very pro-
perly. to keep little stock ON hand, in
order that it may be fresh.
We have a full list of excellent
mineral waters to choose from, wheth-
er native or imported, whether natural
or manufactured, whether medicinal
waters or table waters. | will speak
first of these latter, not for their cura-
tive virtues. l cannot say too much
for good table water, meaning by
this a drinking water that is % but
slightly mineraliZed, that is (2) charged
more or less freely with carbonic acid
gas, and (3) that is absolutely pure.
hygienically speaking. Such waters
are the Apollinaris, the Clysmic, the
Giesshubel, the Poland Silica, the I'm
derwOod Spring Water, and many 9TH
ers. The Vichy, Seltzer, and Saratoga
waters, though more strongly medicin-
al, are used as table waters by many
The appetizing and digestive qualities
of all the waters just named are well
known, and their pleasant flavor and
sparkle; in many cases of impaired di-
gcstion l have found nothing more
useful than they, and l regard them
as useful in chronic diseases where
impaired nutrition is a main feature.
Pure soda-water (more properly
called carbonated water), whether ma
tural or manufactured, is a powerful
aid to digestion by stimulating the
stomach, and also, probably, by aid
ing to dissolve the mineral ingredients
of the food. 1t is very appetizing; it
corrects acidity in the stomach, checks
the disposition to nausea, and cools the
system in febrile complaints; it lessons
the desire for spirituous liquors, and
is indeed the ideal beverage for the
water-drinker, provided always that
pure water is used in its preparation.
The consumption of table waters in
this country increases probably about
ten per cent. per year; that of medi-
cinsl water has nearly doubled since
1880. Table waters prepared from
distilled waters, as they should be,
have the great advantage that they
cannot carry the germs of disease.
DR.. Titus Manson COGn, in Hdrper's
Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
Krupp's Famous Gun Works.

The steel-casting works of krupp
cover an are ofabout 200 acres ofland
in which IL ,211 men are employed IN
the production of steel, and also in the
manufacture of countless different
articles, such as-axles, wheels, ETC., for
locomotives and railroad carriages;
rails, switches and sleepers for rail-
ways, tramways, and mining railwaysi
springs-spiral and leaf-for locomo-
tives and carriages; parts of all kinds
of machinery used for any purpose;
bridge material and rolls; material for
large pumps as used in mines; all re-
quisite steel and iron material for the
building of ships of all sizes, for wal
and commercial purposes; cannons OF
every calibre-the production of them
having already exceeded 2O,OOO-and
last, gun-carriages, artillery wagons
and shots.
The gross production OF iron and
steel averages 260,O0O tons per anum
J. For accommodation Of traffic anC
shipping in the establishment are usec
Etwenty-eight locomotives with Sos
freight carriages. About torty-nvt
miles of narrow and broad gauge rail
road line is laid through the establish
ment. One chemical laboratory. ont
Photographic and photographic studio
one printing office and a book-bindin:
establishment, arc ut work for the sol'
use of the firm. Telegraph and tele
phone communication goes all oTe
the factory and an engine compan.,
| with sixty-eight fircmen and thirty
eight fire alarms is also there for tn
benefit of the establishment.
This is the gigantic workshop t.
which You can see regular stream q
human beings run in the morning
The entire establishment Is surrounde
by a high wall, or a fence. There ar
only certain gates where the workme
are allowed to enter,-GerHan Lsttel
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
The Three Rs.

The famous toast to ''the three Rs
'riting, and 'rithmetic7 is
usually accredited to Sir William Cur
tis. Bart. Lord Mayor of London in
1895, and for many years one of the
wardens of the Tower. He proposed
it at a dinner given by the Board of
Education in the days when DR.. Bell
and the Quaker Lancaster were plead
ing for increased educational advant-
ages for the poor. 1t was received
with great applause and drunk amid
much merriment. But, though recog-
nized as a Jest at the time, it was af-
terward taken up in earnest by Sir
Williams detractOrs, who have handed
his name down to posterity as a blum
1ering ignoramus. A writer in Notes
qRd Queries SAYS that an aged member
of the corporation, now deceased, as
sured him that Sir William Curtis. al
though man of limited education,
was very shrewd, and not SO Ignorant
as to suppose his presumed orthoS-
raphy was correct He chose the
phrase simply as a joke.-Notes and
Queries.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
A Woman's Trunk

The quantity of things which Q
woman with a gift for packing can
bring back in one trunk from a sum-
mer sojourn in the country is matter
for the marvel of the country people,
the terror of the baggage-handlers and
hsckmen, and the delighted admira-
ton of the reunited home circle.
There is one woman of the Listeners"
acquaintance whose packing talents
are something phenomenal, says the
Boston: Transcript Up at East Ephesus,
where she spends her summers, they
have become fully acquainted with her
gifts in this respect, and always send
around two extra hands with the coach
when she gets ready to take her depar-
ture. This year she succeeded in get
ting into one rather small trunk not
only all her clothing. except what she
wore, and that of two children, besides
toys, books, magazines, and custOnla-
ry infantile and material knick-knaeks
but "a long list of such articles as these:
A box of ginger cookies, such as are
made only in Vermont; ten pounds of
super-refined.m maple sugar, from Uncle
Zedekiah j Johnson's celebrated orchard; /;
ten, quarts of fresh blackberries in
boxes; package of Aunt
Cynthia's justly famous jelly rolls; q
bag of potatoes, and quantity of
priceless geological specimens gath
ered by the Youngest male member of
the family. christopher Jewsharpp
exclaimed the stagedriver, as he and his
two assistants struggled to get the
trunk mp to its perchi IF We en- load
little un like that, whatd ye do with q
Serrytogy?" Besides the trunk the
returning sojourner brought of course,
Il considerable amount of hand bag
gage which included, besides the
children. canary bird, two tailless
cats, and bunch of cat-tails-the lat
ter brought by way of compensation
for the missing tails of the cats, no
doubt.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-08
A Grea. Prehis.or,c Fersss.

The most magnificent and larges
fragment of polished silicifed wooe
ever brought from the petrified forest
of Arizona to the eastern seaboard was
placed on exhibition yesterday by 6
jewelry house in this city, says the New
York San.
1t is a perfect section from a gigan.
tic fossil tree trunk, three feet in
height and forty-one and thirty-four
inches in greatest length and breadth
across the. top. Although entirely OF
stone, weighing altogether, 4, 200 pounds,
the tree form is perfectly preserved.
The bark can be readily distinguished,
as also q knot hole showing where at
some prehistoric time the aged tree,
while still living lost one of its limbs.
In color the specimen is dark red or
brown on the unpolished portion. On
the table-like top. however. where the
trunk has been cut across transversely.
the skilled hand of the pOlisher has
been at work and the CLASSY surface
exhibits the most beautiful shades OF
red. earmine, and crimson, as well as
various tiuts OF yellow, orange. brown.
light green, purple, gray, white, and
black. In some places these colors
blend imperceptibly into each other.
while in others they are distinct mark
ings or biotches upon the general rich,
red background.
Another thing also very interesting Q
is the distinetness of the annual rings
OF the tree. Uuder the microscope also
the entire original texture of the wood
may be studied down to the minutest
cells. From this study it is thought that
the original tree was some species OF
the .Sequoia-the giant tree of Cali
fornia.
The exact locality from which the
specimen was taken is q point distant
about twenty four miles from Hol-
brook, Apache county, Arizona. Here
is an area of over one thousand acres
worn away by the action of the ele-
ments into innumerable gullies and
gulches, in every one of which are
the petri6ed remains of hundreds OF
trees of all ages and sizes, some lying
as if they had never been disturbed
since the day when they fell, others
looking as if q wood-chopper had been
at work and had cut them into con-
yenient blocks preparatory to carrying
them away,
From this wonderful stone forest the
big fossil tree section was taken. From
Holbrook it was shipped by rail to
Sioux Falls, Dakota, the only place in
the United States where the polishing
of such hard and large piece of rock
could be undertaken. Here the work
was done, the result being the largest
pieceo polished silicified wood known.
Although no definite price has been
fixed upon the specimen, it is believed
to be worth something over $1,000.