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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10

took time to set the leg. Oh, there
We're the meals, of course. l wish
sometimes when the loaves melt away
that mama fell; but father and the
children say my bread is good enough
for them. Pm glad I got the bread
made before breakfast. An hour at
least was given to that sad school trou,
BILE, to finding out the rights of it and
setting it all right. When the dinner
things were put away, and the chill
dren had gone happy back to school
and baby was asleep, l thought I'd get
the pants and aprons cut, but in came
Patsey's mother to tell her troubles
over. She talked and talked, till baby
was awake and school was out and it
was almost tea-time, but she said the
talk had eased her heart. God forgive
me if T grudged that comfort toa brok-
en-hearted mother-I, with so much
to be glad for.
"I meant at least to darn these socks
tonight, but I am tired. My eyes are
blind with sleep. Poor father, how he
snores, he has to work go hard all day.
I can't even read my chapter, but /
will say some verses as I get to bed.
The Lord is my Shepherd'-I'll say
my prayers here by the children's
beds. How soft the baby breathes,
Pm glad I didn't let him cry, for then
he sobs so in his sleep. Sleep all night
darling, father and mother are so tired
Dear little boys. they look like babies
when they are asleep, as sweet and in
nocent. How earnestly they said their
prayers. Those naughty fibs and
quarrels, now they are confessed and
all forgiven, will be the best school
lesson they have had this term. All,
little daughters, hug your dollies tight,
and dream of mothers joys without
their cares. God bless my children
and their father-and Patsey's mother
and me too." She sleeps.
Perhaps that day was lost because
the angels found it, as when pearl is
dropped among the copper offerings of
the Lord and set aside among more
precious things than even coins that
go for daily bread. Perhaps that pearl
will be the very centre of that humble
woman's crown.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
The Baby's Prayer.
BY ALICE NJ. EDDY.

She knelt with her sweet hands folded;
Her fair little head bowed low;
While dead vines tapped nj the WINDOW
And the air was thick with snow.
Without, earth dumb with winter;
Within, hearts dumb with care;
And up through the leaden silence
Rose softly the baby's prayer.
"BIess all whom love, dear father,
And help me be good, she SAID,
Then, stirred by sudden fancy,
She lifted the shining head.
Did she catch on the frozen maple
Some hint of the April green.
Or the breath of the woodland blossoms
The drifts of tho snow between?
"The beautiful trees" she whispered,
.'Where the orioles used to sing;
They are tired of the cold, white Wlnter,
Go help them to grow in spring.,
And tho flowers that loved TO gamer,
Lord, bring them again In May;
The dear little violets, sleeping,
Down deep in the ground today"
All, earth may be chill with snowflakes,
And hearts may be cold with care,
But wastes Of frozen silence
Are crossed by the baby's prayer;
And lips that were dumb with sorroW
In jubilant hope may sing;
For when earth ls wrapped In winter,
In the heart of the Lord tits spring.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
Card Players Before Battle.

"Thre were but few soldiers in the
war;" says veteran, "who were not
card players, and they nearly all liked
to own deck, but they had a dread OF
being killed with q deck on their per-
son. Whenever we heard the can
mons begin to boom and the guns OF
the picket men begin to clatter, we
knew that the battle was coming, and
you would see men by the hundreds
drawing their cards from their pockets
and throwing them along the road.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10

Walt not till foes in serried line
And FURNISHED armor flash and shine,
TO tempt thee to the fray;
Thine enemies are all around.
And every spot Is battle ground
Where thou canst watch and pray"
In little things Of common life
There lies the Christians noblest strife.
When he does conscience make
OF every thought and throb within,
And words and looks Of self and sin
Crushes for Jesus sake.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10

Foreigners have a beautiful custom
of saluting the dead. Whenever the
hearse comes they take off their hats
to that silent majesty who cannot re-
spond. The custom in Paris of having
the coffin lie in state at the door of the
inner court gives one an opportunity.
It has moved the heart of many a
passer-by. this respectful salution.
1t is the veriest spirit of reverential
pOlitcness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
How to Estimate the Developments
Progress Of Children.

Teachers greatly need more accurate
knowledge of the mental and moral
facultiesof the average child at different
ages. To what extent are these vari-
GUS faculties developed, what peculiar
itiee and what deficiencies characterize
different ages? For instance, more
thorough but still incomplete study OF
the faculty of attention, or capacity to
concentrate the mind, has proved that
teachers have habitually expected
from children more than the brain of
the average child is capable of; that
no ordinary child of seven years of
age should be expected to concentrate
the mind continuously on one subject
more than fifteen minutes, and if un-
der eighteen years not more than thir-
ty minutes. Should memory ever be
duly studied, it will, no doubt, be
proven that too great a burden is usu-
ally imposed on this faculty also. 1t is
also believed that, while attention and
memory are imposed upon, the train
ing of the senses or of observation, of
the judgment, and of the imagination
is habitually and greatly neglected.
Growth furnishes much the best evil
dence of healthy progress. Weight is
the most trustworthy factor, next is
height, and next is chest-girth.
Since the first year is by far the most
critical period of life, and since weight
gives the most reliable evidence wheth-
or q baby is thriving or not, sanitari-
ans now teach that parents should,
throughout the first year, weigh their
babies and record the result every aOeek,
as Is now habitually done in the best
hospitals and asylums for infants.
During the first three days of life
there is always loss of weight which
should be fully regained by the sew
epth day, by which date baby ought
to weigh fully as much as at birth.
During the next three weeks there
should be gain of at least from two to
four ounces every week. The greatest
gain of weight throughout life is dur
ing the first five months, the maxi
mum being usually attained during the
second month, that is, when baby is
said to be one month go to go days.
old. The increase during this maxi
mum month should be from four to
seven ounces weekly, and during the
three succeeding months five ounces
weekly. During the remaining seven
months of the first year the gain
should be at least two to four ounces
weekly. The gain is less than indicat-
ed at times when the infant may suf-
fer, whether from teething or other
cause.
Finally the growth of the head con-
tanning the brain, on which mans su-
periority depends, deserves reference.
While from birth to full growth the
body elongates three to four times, the
head only doubles it's length. The
greatest growth is during the first two
years, and by the seventh year its
growth is so nearly completed that DR..
Hammond asserts that the hat which
fits a boy seven years old will fit him
when a man. Quetelet's table on the
subject does not fully confirm this as
sertion.
From an article by DR.. S. E..
Gtaille in the New Orleans Medical
and Surgical Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10

Old Mrs. Bently lin an art gallery y
"The programme says that's the We
nus of Milo"
Old Mr.. Bently: II reckon she must
have been killed in railroad accident,
Mirandy."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10

Did you ever feel the joy Of a0inning
q soul for Christi If so, you will need
no better argument for attempting to
spread the knowledge of his name to
every creature. 1 tell you there is no
ioy out of heaven which eXcels 1.-THE
grasp of the hand of one who says:
"By your means 1 was turned from
darkness to light"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18th, 1888.

Oll IDA SlsUU. .s..'rs.. ~ -
Male citizens between twenty-one and
fifty years of age are liable to Poll tax. !,
Tax payers in Ninety-Six and Cokes-
bury townships are notified that the tax
to pay the interest on the Bonds in aid of
the Atlantic, Greenville and Western
Railway, amounting to mills in Ninety
Six and 81 mills in Cokesbury township
will be collected at the same time as the,
State and County taxes, and will be sub
ject to the same penalties in case Of nom
payment. za{Sf
/ In order to further the collection Of tho
taxes 7 have arranged the following
schedule Of appointments (subjeot to-,
changes in Railroad schedules) AND re-;
quest the tax payers to take due notice
thereof, as the Office at the Court House
will necessarily be closed on those days.:
Verdery, Tuesday, November 6th.
Bradley, Wednesday, November 7th.j
Troy, Thursday, November 9Th.
Mccormick, Friday, November 9th.
The next week from Monday, NoYem-
Der 18th, until Saturday 18th will be de-.
voted to the stations On the Savannah
Valley Railroad, further notice OF which
will be given as soon as the winter sched-
ules on said Railroad are arranged. ~ a
Ninety-Six, Monday, November 18th
after arrival of down train and until mp
train next day. Sss
Greenwood, Tuesday afternoon, No-
vember 10th and Wednesday morning
November 21st. ~.
Coronaca, Wednesday afternoon, Mo-
vember 21st. ~
Hodges, Thursday, November 22nd un- J
til o'clock p. m. sSs
Donalds, Friday, November 23rd. D,
Due West, Saturday, November 24th.
The remainder of the time I will sbe In \
the Office at the Court House. f4
All information as to taxes will be-
cheerfully given by mail or otherwise.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
The Plan they Tried.

Two such woe-begone, draggled lit
tie figures! They came back to the
house, one behind the other, as slowly
as if they were going to their great
grandmother's funeral, and indeed
they looked like chief mourners.
The nurse had caught them playing
in the brook, an amusement strictly
forbidden at this time of the year, and
a whipping was inevitable.
The whippings didn't come very Of
ten in this family, but for direct DISC
bedience they were as sure as fate.
LEFTY" said the older Of the two
little sisters, "I'll tell you what let's
do"
They had on dry clothes, and had
been seated on two stools, one on each
side of the sitting-room fireplace, while
mamma went to get the switch.
"Well, what let's do?" asked Lefty
in a depressed tone.
"Why, the first lick mamma gives,
let's holler like we were bein' killed."
whispered Sue, "then she won't whip
much.n
This naughty plan seemed to work
we'll. Both little girls yelled so loud
that mamma was scared.
"My switch must be too keen," she
said, and left of.
"It didn't hardly hurt me bit,"
said one little girl gleefully when
mamma was out of hearing.
"Me NEITHER" said the other.
Just then they heard rustic of
newspaper in the library, and, peep
ing through the half-opened door, they
saw papa. After that the children
went about like culprits with rope
round their necks, expecting another
whipping. But mamma was trying a
new plan.
Mamma, please take this splinter
out of my hand" said Lefty; "it
hurts me-"
"Oh, no." said mamma, quietly.
"You are hollering before you are
hurt" and the poor little finger fes-
tered and got sore.
"Please give me a drink of water"
said Sue; "I'm so thirsty"
II reckon not" said mamma. "You
always holler before you are hurt, you
know" and Sue had to 60 to the
kitchen for water.
Every petition was treated in the
same way, until they could stand it no
longer.
"We most haven't got any mamma"
snif1ed Sue.
Then they took courage, and made
a clean breast of their misery:
ITS it 'cause papa told you what we
did bout bein' whipped ?" asked Let
ty.
EYES," said mamma gravely, "that's
the reason I treat you as if you never
told the truth"
mamma" they both cried, wed
rather be whipped"
"But this is Gods plan with his big
answered mamma. Ana
MAS and Sapphira were punished
quick and sharp like whipping, but
mostly God leaves liars to get their
by degrees. And it al
ways comes; as soon as people find out
that you have told a lie, they quit be-
lieving anything you say; and I've
just been showing you how uncom-
that is"
"But mamma" cried Lefty, "if we
say we are sorry, and won't do so no
more, won't you believe us then?"
eyes," said mamma, with her
smile. "That's Gods way,
too; as soon as anybody is sorry, and
wants to do better, he says he is slow
to anger, and plenteous in mercy"
I never knew Lefty or Sue to act an
other lie.
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Unreturning.

Three things never come again:
Snow may vanish from the plain,
Blossoms from the dewy sod,
Verdure from the broken clod,
Water from the rivers bed,
Forests from the mountains head,
Night may brighten into day,
Noon In midnight fade away,
Yet the snow shall come once more
When the winter tempests roar.
Blossoms each returning spring
In her laden arms shall bring,
Grass be green where ploughshares run,
Rivers flash In autumn's sun,
Time shall bid the forests grow,
Noon and midnight come and 60,
But though all thy soul complain
Three things shall not come again.
Never to the bow that bends
Comes the arrow that 1t sends;
Spent in space, Its airy flight
Vanishes like lost delight.
When with rapid aim 1t sprang
From the bowstrings shlvering twang,
Straight to brain or heart 1t fed,
Once for all Its course was sped.
No wild wall upon Its track
Brings the barb OF vengeance back.
Hold thy hand before it go;
Pause beside the bended bow;
Huftled once across the plain,
Nospent arrow comes again.
Never comes the chance that passed,
That one moment was Its last.
Though thy life upon 1t hung,
Though thy death beneath 1t swung,
II thy future all the way
Now in darkness goes astray,
When the instant born OF fate
Passes through the golden gate,
When the hour, but not the man,
Comes and goes from Natures plan,
Never more Its countenance
Beams upon thy slow advance.
Never more that time shall be
Burden-bearer unto thee.
Weep and search DER land and main.
Lost chance never comes again.
Never shall thy spoken word
Be again unsaid, unheard.
Well its work the utterance wrought
Woe or veal, whate'er 1t brought;
Once for all the rune Is read,
Once for all the judgment said.
Though 1t pierced, poisoned spear,
Through the soul thou holdest dear.
Though It culver fierce and deep,
Through some stainless spirits sleep,
Idle, vain, the flying sting
Tnss pssssnS Eve rsfe nss mgs' srng sIes
Utterance all Its barb reveal.
Give thy tears Of blood and fire;
Pray with paDgs or mad desire;
Offer life, and soul, and all,
That one sentence to recall.
Wrestle with It's fatal wrath,
Chase with flying feet its path.
Rue 1t all thy lingering days,
Hide 1t deep with love and praise;
Once for ali thy word is sped,
None invade It but the dead.
All thy travail will be vain
Spoken words come not again!
ROSE TERRY Cooke
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*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.
Main Line trains Nos. 81 and IS daily between Co.
lumbia and Alston. Daily except Sunday between
Aston and Greenville.
d. OARDWELL, Div. Pass. Agt-, Columbia, 8. g.
JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agt.
SOL. HAAS, Traffic Manager.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10

They don't tax oleomargarine in En-
gland, but when dealer is found SELL
ing it for butter he goes to prison with
|neatQess and dispatch.
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TAX NOTICE !!
: !.

LIN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ACT
to raise supplies for the fiscal year COM
menclng November 1st, 1887, notice is
hereby given that the Treasurer's Office
of Abbeville county will be open for the
collection Of taxes
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-10
J. w. PERRIN,
County Treasurer.

Sept. 26, 1883, 3m
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02
LOUISVILLE LACoNICs.
Budget of Newsy Briefs from Democrat
Representatives

Budget of Newsy Briefs from Democrat
Representative.
Etchberger & Doll sold twenty,eight
horses last week.
Mr. Zeigler, of Atwater, was in town
on business Tuesday. 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spidel, of Canton, called
on Mrs. Bergaman Lesh, Monday.
Louisville is being well represented
at Schaefer's Opera House this week.
John WearstIer is adding new ma
Ghlnery to his already extensive Tile
Frank Paquelet, our Democratic Cen
tral Committeeman, has purchased fine
driving horse.
Miss Jennie Ream, of Canton, visited
friends Monday Miss Ream thinks of
coming back to Louisville to live.
Mrs Swick, of Indianapolis, Ind. who
has been visiting here for some time.
returned to her home Monday evening.
The employees of Dilger's Brewery
took their ladies to Five Corners a few
nights ago. No doubt they had a good
time.
A sled load of our young folks went
to Mr.. Walkers, near Strausburg, last
Thursday night. They report grand
time.
Prof. M. Manley, of Gallon, will lee
ture in Keim's Hall, next Friday night.
Subject: "In School Room Seventy
Years Ago"
A sled load of young people went to
Miller's, near New Berlin, last Monday
night. They report good time. and
are highly pleased with the treatment
they received at the hands of the
Millers.
Friends and relatives, numbering
about forty, celebrated Mr.. Adam Lout,
zenhelzer's 8lst anniversary with him
last Monday. He is one of our oldest
and most respected citizens. 1t was
after his brother Lewis that Louisville
was originally named.
Levi Devices died of appoplexy
his home, four miles southeast of
Louisville yesterday. Mr.. Devices was
born in Wayne county on November II,
1924. When nine years of age he came
to Osnaburg township with his father,
where he has lived ever since. He was
very influential citizen and will be
greatly missed by his many friends. He
leaves wife and three sons Funeral
services at the house at 8 o'clock Thurs
day morning.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02
GONE ALREADY.

The Carroll Chronicle, of Friday,
gives the following account of the dis
posing of two of the indictments found
by the late busy, straight haired Grand
Jury of that county: -
The Coleman indictment was set for
yesterday, but Judge Raley kicked the
case out of court, which of course car
ries the Patterson case with it. The
Judge, although of Quaker origin, has
liberal views of Sunday dealing and so
expressed himself.
The following will show another
phase of the late Carroll Grand Jury,
made up of fifteen citizens of that
county:
IN. Barrick swore before the Grand
Jury that Sam Cameron had approach
ed him and offered him bride of $40
to get the printing of the court house
and Jail bonds. He refused the offer
and Sam again appeared and offered a
suit of clothes as he was then advertis-
ing for several clothing firms. John
Skeeles corroberated this testimony in
detail, saying that at that time he was
Sheriff and was giving Sam Cameron
all his official advertising, and he and
Cameron were fast friends-that Cam
eron told him how he had approached
Barrick with the $40 offer and that he
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-02-02
THE SCHOOL BOOK BILL.
The Farmers are Unanimously in Fave r
hi '' of IT, f.

A DEMOCRAT reporter met a we'll
known farmer from the southern part of
the county today. He was enthusiastic
in his praise of the MonnOt School
Book bill, and although a Republican
in politics, he was glad that the Demo
cratic Representative from Stark had
introduced the bill.
mo where more than in the country
districts is such measure demand e |.
The school book syndicate bats the
county directors and teachers by hold
ing out the inducement and low prices
for new books and offer to take the old
books in exchange for what seems to be
merely nominal sum. But after the
exchange is made, prices are at once ad-
vanced and the books received are fire.
quently of very poor quality and soon
fall to pieces in the hands of the schol-
ars. There is no competition in the
sale of the books for the publishers
have the United States divided into dis
tricts one district being set off as the
exclusive territory of one firm of pub
fishers and another district to another
firm. Under this arrangement the Gin
VI lluO Vic
State of Ohio and so far as the sale of
school supplies is concerned all compe-
tition is effeCtually cut off. If Mr.. Mon
not's bill does no more than break up
this unholy alliance it will have ac-
complished great deal of good and
its author will be entitled to a lasting
remembrance of much outraged pub
lie. The farmers are unanimous in
support of the bill. am Republican,
but l am glad that the DEMOCRAT is
giving to this bill the support that its
Importance deserves. The farming
communities are the greatest victims
of the school book combination. The
Monnot Bill seems to offer the only re-
lief. am glad to know that Mr.. Mon
not has taken hold of the subject, and
hope that his efforts will be crowned
with success. The bill is popular one
and should be passed"