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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
How Can We Love Our Enemie
RY THE REV. WILBUR F. cRAETs.

In my early Christian life this qu's-
ton greatly troubled me, as I doubt
not it does many conscientious young
Christians to-day. Some think of it
as part of "higher life" which only
q few Christians are ever expected to
attain. Others think it impracticable
something that no one but Christ
ever did or ever will do. How can one
love his enemies as he loves his friends
and his God?
The difficulty is at least diminished
by distinguishing three different kinds
of Christian love: first, the love of es
TEEN, that looks up--the love which
we feel toward God; second, the love
of synapdthy, that looks straight out
the love with which we love congenial
fellow Christians; third, the love of
compassion, that looks doDn in tender
pity, rather than contempt or hatred
on all we think to be in the wrong, in
Guiding not only the corrupt but all we
dislike or count as enemies.
This last is the most distinctive
"Christian love"-"the love of God
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Spirit" making us love the unlovely,
making us love others as God loved u.s.;
because every human being is q son of
God, however wayward; ; because each
human being is brother or sister of
Christ. for whom he died; because
every human being is also an immortal
being; because every one who wrongs
himself still more, and so is to be pit
led and saved rather than despised or
hated.
There is little credit in the love of
esteem, in loving the altogether lovely
or in the love of synarathy-"If ye
love them that love you, what reward
have yeW
The only form of love that proves US
Christians, with new hearts that love
like God, is the love of compassion,
that loves according to ueeds, not ac-
cording to merits.
It is this love that Paul pictures in
that wonderful thirteenth chapter of
First Corinthians-the love that "suf-
fers long and is goodnatured," that is
greater than faith or hope. He who
lacks it may have begun to be Chris
tian in the will, but he is not a Chris
tian at heart. 1t was this love that
opened heaven to Stephen. 1t opens
to no other key. "He thatloveth not,
knoweth not God, for God is love."-
Christian Inteutgencer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

Col. T. w. Higginson, who occupies
the front rank among literary men,
writes in Rarper's Bazar, ~ felt like
taking down the swords from above
my fireplace and hiding them away
forever, when first called upon to ex-
plain to. my little girl what they
meant and for what they STOOD" Bet
ter take them down and beat them into
plow-shares or some smaller implement
Of husbandry. Those swords stand
for patriotism and self-saeriice for the
nations sake. But to reach these OBJ
jects, so dear to good men, they must
cut and stab and hack and wound and
kill. We would rather put above the
fireplace the hoe with which a father
titled the ground. There is no neces-
sity that loving fathers or loving moth
ers should open to the tender minds of
little girls and boys such horrors, ex-
cept they would horrify them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Reminders.

If the iron wedge will not draw,
build fire of chips and heat it.
There is one part of the farm that is
not benefited by drainage, the man
ure heap.
Politeness pays in cow stable. A
gentle man gets more milk than a
harsh man.
Straw and corn fodder are best work
ed into manure by putting them
through good animals.
The best preventive of trouble at
lambing time is daily exercise for the
ewes during winter.
Separate the weaker animals they
need extra feed, whereas with the
stronger they get scant feed.
Profit in farming comes from the
maximum crops, the products of Win
ter thought and summer work.
Harness hung in stable is damaged
as much by the gases and dampness
there as it is worn by use.
If you do not wish c.oddy and life
less ground in the spring, keep the cat
tie off the field when the soil is soft.
A fire burns better in a lot than in
a cold furnace; it is equally true that
an animal well winter is half summer
ed.
If open, outdoor feed troughs are
turned over at night they will not be
filled with snow and ice in the morn
ing.
If you place the axe near the stove
for fifteen minutes it will cut better
and not be so apt to break along the
edge.
The flavor of the fuel used for smok-
ing meat is somewhat impaired to. the
meat, hence the fuel should be select.
cd carefully.
You have no right to feed a dog so
long as you have not the money to
provide your family with good papers
and books.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

When Peter of Cortona was engaged
on a picture for the royal palace OF
Petit, Ferdinand II. particularly ad-
mired the representation of the weep
ing child. "Had your majesty" SAID
the painter, "a mind to see how easy
it is to make this very child laugh ?"
The artist merely depressed the corners
of the eyebrows, when the little urch-
in seemed in danger of bursting his
sides with laughter, who a moment
before seemed breaking his heart with
weeping. Lives worth living belong
to the soul artists whose untiring con-
secrated hands are always welding
their brushes in changing tears into
smiles, and sorrow into joy, brighten
ing dark pictures, and retouching dim
and faded ones-in His name.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

It is recorded of a Chinese Emperor
that, upon being apprized of his en-
emies having raised an insurrection
in one of the distant provinces, he said
to his officers, "Come, follow me, and
we will quickly destroy them."
He marched forward, and the rebels
submitted Apon his approach. All
now thought he would take the most
signal revenge. but were surprised to
see the captives treated with mildness
and humanity. "Ow said the first
minister, "is this the manner in which
you fulfil your promise? Your word
was given that your enemies should be
destroyed"
II promised to destroy my enemies.
L have fulfilled my word ; for, see,
they are enemies no longer. l have
made friends of them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
This Life is What we Make it.

Let's oftener talk of noble deeds,
And rarer of the bad ones,
And sing about the happy days,
And not about the sad ones.
We were not made to fret and sigh,
And when grief sleeps, to wake 1t;
Bright happiness Is standing by
This life is what we make 1t.
Let's find the sunny side of men,
Or be believers in It;
A light there Is in every soul
That takes the pains 10 win it.
o, there's the slumberlng good In all,
And we perchance may wake It,;
Our hands contain the magic wand
This life Is what we make 1t.
Then here's to those whose loving hearts
Shed light and Joy about them!
Thanks be to them for countless gems
We ne'er had known without them.
o. this should be happy world
To all who may partake 1t;
The faults our own II IL Is not
This life Is what we make 1t.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

The injury done to breathing appa-
ratus and the whole system thereby.
i'm working ami living in. dry furnace
heated or steam-overifeated rooms
without ample ventilation, esa I've
partly and quite comfortably repaired
by eacn individual at night, in con-
triving to have the lungs supplied dur
ing sleep with ample quantities of
cold, crisp air. A warm room to dress
in and undress in is a good thing, but
d cool room TO sleep in is better. When
you cannot have both, do not sacrifice
the one chance you have in sheep for
securing good nourislling fresh air.
There is no danger if there is no draft.
and that can readily be provided
against.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

Reading is generally a harmless oc-
cupation, but reading in Itself is of no
special benefit TO man. The persons
who are the greatest readers are not
likely to be the closest thinkers, nor
yot to be the best informed persons.
If one reads for purpose, with de-
sire for knowledge in specified line
for an hour a day, he will, as rule
gain more from his reading than the
person who reads miscellaneously in
the latest magazines and the newest
books, and iu literature generally, five
times as much as that. If you read
see to it beforehand that you know
why you read, in ordtr that you may
know afterward what gain You have
from YOUR eeading.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

In cases of alcoholic poisoning-the
comatoss condition of intoxication-
the promptest recovery of conscious
ness will follow the subcutaneous i'll
lection of a mixture of one part of am
monia with two to six parts of water.
Police surgeons who deal with cases of
Inconsistencies will find this con-
venient method of determining wheth-
er a given case is due to whisky, COM
preston of the brain, or nervous dis
order.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
What Others Say.

ADoNIRAM JUDsoN ON WAR. The
one hundreth anniversary of Judson,s
Birth will be 1898, This is what he
wrote to DR.. Noah Worcester.
hail the establishment of peace
societies as one of the asnos ostsauspicious
signs of the present epentfniz Z era Of
the world. Since war, hass been uni
versarlIy advocated and applmtled by
nearly all classes ofinen, .itaappearsto
me, thatit notopsiobats s.aHy to-
remain silent on this great question.
Thus remaining, they ,anast be con-
sidered, belonging. to thezwar party.
have for Is0me sfime determined to
make whatever efforts were necessary
to comply with ythe dictates of con-
science, and wash myahands OF the
,bloodfthat is.shed. in, war. T nbeg the
privilege Of being q nmember OF the
Massachusetts, Peace Society. ) The en-
rolling Of ones name among he;mem-
bers of peace society, Is eeHsiier as
virtually saying j regret the tcfifSe and
blood with which hthesnaisefabl race Of
man has been,deluged from age to age.s
/ repent of whatever expressions or
acts in my pastlife may have cherish
ed the war-spirit in myself or others.
1 repent that I have go long delayed; to
enter any protest against the pfacfic
of war by some overt 7aet-a measure
which appears to be, in the present
state of things, the iAdispeHsall1e, duty
of every Christian. and / resolve that
hereafter will endeavor.to &hfHee The
sentiments of peace as1far as,lies In my
power" - -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
'(Ecchdn0e.)

A CHANGE FOR WoRsEIN IN EVAN
aELICAL CHRIsTENDoM. The extreme
attention now paid to mere personal,
sensual comfort in places Of worship.
How easy are the hours, how SOFT the,
seats, how warm the air The music
must be-witheut a mistake The SER
mon, whatever it's subject, must be
short. IF tits beautiful, - no inquiry
is made as to whether it is useful. The
old idea of meeting together to wor-
ship God Is giving place to the new
idea of hearing man. And this must
be change for the worse.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Parting With Christ For Money.

A young man engaged in .sconfng,
in bar-room, offered to sell his inter-
est in Christ for five dollars. Astrang-
er quietly took out five-doflar bull,
with pen and paper, and asked the
young man to write: ~, -, do
hereby renounce, both now and for
ever, all claim I may have in Jesus
Christ, for the sum of - His hand
trembled and stopped. Ashy pale, he
said, "Nol I may need him by-and
by. .u-Ec,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

The example of the Jews affords no
justification of the wars of Christians.
We are under another and better dis
pensation, even that of Christ, the
Prince of Peace, whose object was to
promote peace on earth; and the prac-
tice of the Jews will no more justify
war than it would polygamy, sacrifices
or circumcision. Christ is our master ;
Christ is our example.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

Some people are morose and dull and
disagreeable among strangers who are
always bright and cheerful and oblig-
ing at home. Hold on, though! That
doesn't sound exactly right. We can't
sgy what the matter is, but there is
something wrong about the statement
somewhere.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Naughty Little Why.
BY Z. T. KARkIN.

Whatever the request she made,
If mamma but deny,
The ready question always came,
81 wish you'd tell me why"
If she were suffering from q cold,
And to 60 out would cry
In snow or rain, and was refused,
Twas still, II don't see why"
If just recovering from disease
She'd still her questions ply;
Cant eat this?" "Oh, no, my dear!'
Mamma, don't see why"
She'd ask for things she must not eat
Nor wear, and still would cry,
When kind mamma her child refused,
"I'm sure don't see why"
We hope that when she's older grown,
Age will her need supply
With wisdom's spectacles, so she
No more will cry, "Why?" why"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Duty.
BY ANNA TEMPLE.

I held flower in my hand;
Twas night, could not see;
And judging from the perfume, thought
The flower must ugly be.
But when the morning came, and light
With Its Transforming power,
did forget oil else, except
The beauty Of the flower.
God placed duty in my hand,
Before mine eyes could see
It's rIghtful form, that duty seemed
A bitter thing to me.
The Sun OF Glory rose and shone:
Then duty forgot,
And thought with what privilege
The Lord has blessed my lot.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Praise tho Boy.

1t often costs me quite struggle to
do this simple duty; and when one
does his simple duty, in spite of his
temptation to do differently, he de-
serves credit for his doing. One has
no need to live long in this world be-
fore finding out this truth. A bright
little boy about two and half years
old, recently showed that he appre-
hended it He was on the eve of do
ing something that was very tempting
to him.
"No, my son, you mustn't do that, I"
said his father.
The little fellow looked as if he
would like to do it in spite of his ia
ther's prohibition but he triumphed
over his inclination, and answered res
olutely, "All right, papa; I won't do
it,"
There was no issue there, and the fa-
ther turned to something else. The
boy waited a minute, and then said, in
a tone of surprised inquiry, Papa,
why don't you tell me, THAT'S a good
boy y"
The father took the hint and said an
encouraging word. Perhaps some 9TH
er father may need the same hint, and
may profit by the suggestion. 1t is
not we'll to keep all kind words until
our friends are dead, and then put
them on the gravestones.
If an apple tree has sound trunk
and roots, it is a pity, says the Ameri-
can CdHtiUator, to destroy it under
r,ost circumstances IT. takaS MANY
years to get young tree into bearing,
and when it does bear it will not fur
nish nearly so much fruit as one fully
grown. BY grating with the North
ern Spy and literally manuring, an
old apple tree may be made much
more certainly productive thau young
trees of this variety, which are usual
ly shy and tardy bearers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

The man who locks his door against
all strangers will never entertain an
angel unawares; the man who shuts
his mind and heart by entire, engr0sst
ment in daily toll, by unfaithfnlness to
duty, by neglect of principle, by any
kind of unrighteous action Will never
be visited by divine visions CT higher
things.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
fRoston qha,lscrfpt.l

Mayor Hewitt is getting himself
very much liked iii this country by
his unfiagging purpose to ,dfscouliten-
ance the existence Of associations
which foster an alien rather than an
American feeling. {
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

How shall we dare to behold that
holy face that brought salvation to us,
and we turned away and fell in love
with death, and kissed deformity and
sin?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
:lSuiao,eld .Rep,abxcaa.l /.

SIT is well to- persuade ';meH.to quit;
drinking intoxicating liquors, sbht q
man may be all the greater. seoundrei4
,-he may bea dtle more rabfdiy VI
cious- for having brain unafeeted
by the fumes of alcohol. What drink.
ing men need is Christianity what
gamblers and rloafers need.is Chris.
tianity what ilieentieus men need is
Christianity. 1t is the radical.
thoroughbred complete remedy for all
the real evils of society tnda q practi-
cal application ofaC Christianity to all
social, political, labor and otherpro.
blems, would inaugufate the reign Of
the kingdom of heaven upon earth.
1t would bring men at once into hea-
venly conditions, SO that i-at the hour
OF. death they would only be passing
into large and eerrangeof thesame
sort of spiritual life, and wohfd scarce
ly besurprised or, sastonished as they
touch the further shore" Sz
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02

MILLIONS OWE HIM GRATITUDE
Argand, poor Swiss, invented lamp
with wick fitted into hollow cylin-
der, up which current of air was per-
mitted to pass, thus giving supply of
oxygen to the interior as well as the
exterior of the circular flame. At first
Argand used the lamp without glass
chimney. One day he was busy in his
work room, and sitting before tie
burning lamp. His little brother was
amusing himself by placing bottom
less oil flask over different articles.
Suddenly he placed it upon the flame
of the lamp, which instantly shot up
the long neck of the flask with increas-
ed brilliancy. 1t did more, for it flash
ed into Argand's mind the idea of a
lamp chimney, by which his inven-
ton was perfect,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Woman in the Printing Office.

1t is a matter for surprise that so
many girls and women flock into stores
and shops where the service is irksome
and poorly recompensed, while the
printing office opens to them means
of livelihood so much more agreeable,
lucrative, and what is more important,
improving in its impress. The wo-
man whe has spent year clerking in
a dry goods store is probably no better
off mentally at the end of that time,
except in having her memory crowded
with the prices of goods and the
shades in which they come; while the
woman who has been year in a print
ing office, especially if she be working
on daily or weekly newspaper, has,
besides having earned better wages
than her clerking sister, lived all that
time in contact with ideas and with an
outlook into the world of events.
Aside from the avenues of mental pro-
gress which are thus open to her, she
has promise of financial advancement
as well. If she be neat, methodical,
and painstaking in her work, devoted
toit, and not regarding it as a mere
stepping stone to matrimony or a
standby until the fairy prince drops
in and carries her away, these facts
will soon be apparent, commenting
her to her employers, and their proper
tionate financial appreciation. Many
points mark woman's fitness for work
at the printers trade. She seldom
goes on sprees, is not given to decorat-
ing the premises with nicotine essence,
and is, as rule, deft-fingered and
Undetermined. The prophetic eye
can forecast the model printing Office
of the future, which is to be manned
(if the expression is admissible) by wo-
men printers, and to whom the model
employer will take pride in disbursing
wages in just proportion to their la
bors, and on par with those paid to
men.-Southern Trade Gazette.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-08
\ Submerged Forrest

The people of Torquay have long been
familiar with the fact that the remains of
submerged forest exist on the Tore Abb
bey beach. Geologists, who deal as freely
with time rs astronomers do with space,
aver that in prehistoric times Torbay was
the mouth of river which has since been
diverted and is now the Teign, with its
embouchure at Teignmouth. Be that as
1t may, the roots or trees, and even por-
tions of their trunks, are still to be found
in stu on that portion Of the beach nearest
the Torquay railway station. Many years
ago the antlers of deer were dug up from
the peat, and what has been deemed TO be
remarkable, upon part of the antlers was
a deep cut produced by metal imple-
ment. Many relics OF the kind have been
gathered since then; and few DAYS ago
another addition was made to the store.
The Torbay road separates the beach from
a piece of marshy ground below the rail-
way station. Before the construction Of
the road the remains of the forest and the
higher meadow and marsh were cotermin-
Gus. This meadow has lately been ac-
quired by the Torquay Recreation Com
pany, which is now putting the ground in
order Last week, while the workInen
were cutting trench for the purpose of
laying in culvert, they came upon some
large horns, skull and several bones that
are presumed to be those of deer. The
Secretary of the company has presented
these curious remains to the Torquay Nat
ural History Society, and in all probabil-
ity we shall soon have an account of them
from gentlemen who are qualified to form
IN opinion as to the nature of the animal
to which the bones belonged. Ii is stated
by correspondent who examined these
,ntlers that at least one bore the marks of
! cutting tool.-London Life.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-08
Red Tape in Russia,

From an illustrated article by George
Kennan entitled Exile by Administra-
tive Process" in the September Csatuyv,
we quote as follows: GLOW easy it is in
Russia to get high officials signature
to any sort of document may be illus
trated by an anecdote that have every
reason to believe is absolutely true. 4
'stola-nachalnik, or head of bureau, in
the provincial administration of Tobolsk.
while boasting one day about his power to
shape and direct governmental action.
maee a wager with another chinoynik that
he eeuld get the Governor of the province
the late Governor Lissogorski-to sign a
manuscript copy of the Lords PRAYER. He
wrote the prayer out in the form of "a, Of
ficial document on sheetof stamped paper.
numbered it, attached the proper seal to
it, and handed it to the Governor with a
pile Of other papers which required sigua-
ture. He won his wager. The Governor
duly signed the Lords Prayer, and il was
probably as harmless an official document
as ever came out of his office,
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-08
FALL FASHIONS.

Corded silks viii be in high favor this
| autumn.
The woman whe .dares now wears a skirt
of bright red silk with. q black lace blouse
waist by way of Offset
Silver rings are the caprice of the min
ute, and to be stylish must be of filagree.
studded with turquoise.
The feather boa is fashionable for this
season at Newport and other resorts. 1t
Is of lace, of feathers or of far.
Nery new bracelets and necklaces are
the thinnest possible hoops of gold or sill
yer in Elmbers from dkirty to fifty.
There is still a rage for plaids, and their
reign is likely to prove alongereo one than
was at first prophesied-eztendiRg at least
through the fall and winter season.
Skirts WHOLLY undraped and very full at
the back gov in favor. The Pointed
bodice and kelted waist are the two styles
of corsage popular with these skirts.
The fashioneof setting solitaire diamonds
Cor rings in a slightly followed field of
black onyx, SO prevalent twenty years ago,
is just now revived, and is the hight ,ef
style.
0sd-time silk betting is once more to the
fore, and has buckles of silver, cut steel or
mother-of-pearl, as do the belts of glove
kid in al eolers that are now imported to
wear with the universal blouse.
Bodies Of Henrietta cloth in iieAS
shades, close fitting, with short cutawar
fronts over vest Of plated silk or crepe.
may be worn witE any SOFT of skirt, and
are well-nigh as useful as the ever-faithful
blouse.
Watered silk is still in high fashion, and
is naach used for short rounded skirts un-
der dfaperies Of summer silks se sheer
wool fa6rics; and pale-tinted mo;ses are
very fashionably employed in the eo1-
Of Directoire redingotes and e,e.
CANT tea gowns
Silk and cotton grow more and more