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Amen

cannot say,
Beneath the pressure of life's cares to-day
Ijoy In these;
But can say
That had rather walk this rugged way,
If Him 1t please.
Icannot feel
That all is we'll when dark ming clouds concea
The shining sun;
But then know
God gives and loves; and say, since it is so,
sv4, Thy will be done.
Icannot speak
In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek
Show am sad;
But can speak
or grace TO suffer with submission meek,
Until made glad.
do not see
Why God should cen permit some things
When He is love;
But can See
Though often dimly. through the mystery,
His hand above!
lido not know
Where falls the seed that have tried to SOW
with greatest care:
But will know
The meaning of each waiting hour below
Sometime, somewhere!
lido not look
Upon the present, nor in Natures book,
To read my fate;
But do look
For promised blessings in Gods holy book,
And can wait.
may not try
Tokeep the hot tears back, but hush that
at migt have BEEN
... And ! try TO still -,
Each rising murmur, and to Gods sweet will
Respond 'Amen"
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Great men are not great all over,
wisely says The Lutheran. There
never was pine-board that did not
have at least one little knurl. You find
it, and you easily press hole into any
that preachers, statesmen, Christians,
and civilized people generally, when
affronted, would be so along their in
tellectual level. But big men often
bring their heads down to their feet,
and In livid rage inspect an ant that
crosses their path, while the more
ordinary pass the triae and have heads
up to enjoy the beauty of sky and
mountain. We must learn in this
life to be stronger than onr circum.
stances. If people pick at you, and
say all manner of evil against you,
Just pass it off by saying--birds always
peck at the prettiest cherry. Man
must be himself, and no trouble or per-
secution dare master him.
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Col. T. w. Higgerson, who occupies
the front rank among literary men,
writes in Harper's Bazaar, II felt like
taking down the swords from above my
fireplace aud hiding them away for
ever, when first called upon to explain
to my little girl what they meant and
for whatthey STOOD" Better take them
dow nand beat them into plow-shares or
some smaller implement of husbandry.
Those swords stand for patriotism aud
self-sacrifice for the nations sake. But
to reach these objects, so dear to good
men, they must cut and stab and hack
and wound and kill. We would rath-
er put above the fireplace the hoe
with which a father titled the ground.
There is no necessity that loving
fathers or loving mothers should open
to the tender minds of little girls and
boys such horrors, except they would
horrify them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04
An Important Step.

Senator John Sherman of Ohio in
troduced into the United States Sen
ate, Thursday, June IA, a concurrent
resolution which he reported from the
committee on Foreign Relations OF
which he is chairman, providing THAT
the President be and is hereby reques-
ted to invite from time to time, as fit
occasions may arise, negotiations with
any government with which the Uni
ted States has or may have diplomatic
relations, to the end that any differ
ences or disputes arising between the
two governments which cannot be
adjusted by diplomatic agency may be
referred to arbitration and be peaceably
adjusted by such means"
This is the measure which was pro-
posed by Andrew Carnegie and others
at meeting of friends of arbitration
in Boston, during the visit of the Brit
ish Peace Deputation. 1t is in sub
stance what was contemplated by
many of the petitions sent to Congress
by the friends of arbitration through
the country. AS will be seen it opens
the door to all nations on the same
ground that it was proposed to make
an Anglo-American Treaty. Thus a
wider scope is given to the principle
which some thought had first better
be confined to the English-speaking
race.
Senator Sherman being q prominent
candidate for the presidency was I'M
mediately assailed by those afflicted
with Anglo Phobia for attempting to
nullify the retaliatory measures OF
Congress as to the fisheries, and by
Senator Riddleberger, claiming to
represent the Irish, as opening the
way to negotiation rather than war
with Engand on account of her alleged
Injustice. He of course threatens
Sherman with defeat at the polls:
Senator Hoar is reported to have said
greatly to his credit-"that it was
simply in the line of general arbitra-
ton for the settlement of international
disputes, and that it had no bearing
on the fisheries question, and that
surely the present dispute between the
United States and Canada on the nsn-
cries question was not in view When
the committee directed its chairman
to report the resolution. He said that
for years there have been thousands OF
petitions received annually from
churches, societies, and thousands OF
people throughout the country in ia
vor of arbitrating international disputes
which now result in war, and that
this was simply step in that direc-
tion.n The Resolution passed the
Senate. Advocate Of Peace
and arbitration.
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Rules for availing sins of the
tongue: 1. Reflect on the number
and enormity of these sins. More
than half the sins of the world are
of that class. 2. Avoid the company
of those who speak unkindly of other
people. 8. Cultivate the habit. of
speaking of things, not of persons.
4. Read James III once q week. s
Charge yourself at night to recall.the
uncharitable things you have. said dur
ing the day. 8. Appreciate the diff.
Guilty Of avoiding this sin, and ask God
to help you.
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"What, speaking in quite unofficial
language, is the not purport and up
shot of War? To my own knowledge,
for example, there dwell and toll, in
the British Village of Dumdrudge,
usually some five hundred souls.
From these, by certain Natural Enc
mics of the French, there are success
ively selected, during the French war,
saw thirty able-bodied men: Dunn
drudge, at her own expence, has suck
led and nursed them; she has, not
without difficulty and sorrow, fed them
up to manhood, and even trained
them to crafts, 80 that one can weave,
another build, another hammer, and
the weakest can stand under thirty
stone avirdupois. Nevertheless, amid
much weeping and swearing, they are
selectd; all dressed in red; and
shipped away, at the public charges,
some two thousand miles, or say only
to the south of Spain; and fed there
till wanted. And now to that same
spot in the South of Spain, are thirty
similar French artisans, from a French
Dumdrudge, in like manner wend-
ing; till at length, after infinite effort,
the two parties come into actual juxta-
position and Thirty stands fronting
Thirty, each with a gun in his hand
straitway the word Fire is given; and
they blow the souls out of one anoth.
er; and in place of sixty brisk, useful
craftsmen, the world has sixty dead car
casses, which it must bury, and anew
shed tears for. Had these men any
quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the
smallest! They lived far enough
apart; were the entirest strangers ;
nav, in 80 wide Univsrse, there was
even, unconsciously, by commerce,
some mutual helpfulness between
them. How then? Simpleton! their
Governors had fallen out; and, instead
of shooting one another, had the cum
ming to make the poor blockheads
shoot-Alas, so is it in Deutschland,
and hitherto in all lands; still as OF
old, "What devilry soever Kings do,
the Greeks must pay the piper!"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04

We are like Southern plants taken
up to a northern soil. They grow
there but they are always failing OF
their flowers. The poor-exiled shrub
dreams by the native longing OF a
splendid blossom which it has never
seen, but is dimly conscious that 1t
ought somehow to produce. 1t feels
the flower which it has now strength
to make in the half-chilled but still
genuine juice of its Southern nature;
That is the way in which the ideal
life, the life of full completions,
haunts us all. We feel the thing. we
ought to be beating beneath the thing
we are.-PhiHips Brooks.
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You Will Not be Sorry.

For hearing before judging.
For thinking befor speaking.
For holding an angry tongue.
For stopping the ear to a tattler.
For being kind to the distressed.
For being patient to all.
For doing good to all men.
For walking uprightly before God.
For lending to the Lord.
For laying up treasures in Heaven.
For asking pardon for wrongs.
For speaking evil of no man.
For being courteous to all.
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To the Rescue.

Along the shore when storm.clouds fly
The life-patrol farerS though the night,
Until across the blackened sky
He sees the signal rockets, flight;
Then clear rings out
His warning shout,
"Ho, mates the life boat for relief!
A ship has struck upon the reefW
Upon the storm-swept sea Of life
Thy brothers barque sinks meath the wave
And wilt thou leave him to the strife,
Nor even lift thy voice to save?
Nor let thy word
For help be heard,
Then with willing hand and heart
In that soul rescue bear part.
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1t is feared by some Democraticpoli-
ticians that an Anglo-American trea-
ty of Arbitration may not please a cer-5
tasn class of Irish voters whose poll
tical creed is solely "AngLophobid.n 1t,
is feared by some Republican politi-;
clans that an Anglo-American Treaty
of Arbitration would be construed as
I" "Anglondnia" by those intense native
Americans the chief article of whose;
creed is hatred of England on account.
of former wars. Hence the reluctance
of these politicians to favor measure,
which both, mildly at least. approve.
The United States House Of Repre-
sentatives has passed bill creating q
board of arbitration in the matter OF
strikes. ;,ss
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Two Ways Of Doing 1t.

I drove with my husband to our
nearest town, not long since, and
leaving me at the principal store IN
the place, he went to attend to some
business further on. After making
some purchases I sat down to await his
return. Most of the farmers within
six or eight miles deal at this store, and
to-day there were many coming and
going. My attention was attracted to
the dry-goods counter, where pleas
ant-faced little woman was looking at
some black dress goods. Her husband
was standing near. =.
''Now, SAM" said she, this stuff
Is 40 cents yard, and this" holding
up another piece, is go cents; it's much
better than the other piece, but l guess
the Accent goods will do me.
The man came and examined both
pieces in very interested way, and
said:
II think, Sallie, you'd better take
that at 60.cents; you don't often get a
new dress, and you ought to have a
good one" ,,,
The little woman was still more
pleasant looking as she told the clerk
to cut off the dress.
"Sallie," said the husband, Ppm
ble-cloths."
.sSam,n said she in an undertone,
they're beautiful, but can you afford
it?"
He smiled and had one wrapped up
for her. =.
AS they went out, said to myself,
"True enough-'a coed husband makes
good wifeLtwo such happy looking
people, and love and Kindness the
cause of it ~
NV meditations were cut short by
the entrance of another couple-a gruft
looking old fellow, and a pale, care
worn woman.
"Now, hurry up, Mary" said he
"I've no time to be foolin'."
Then Mary said she would like to
look at some cloth. She selected
piece that suited her, but when the
man heard the price he at once object
ed.
"Get something cheaper than that
said he.
"But," said the wife, timidly, "this
is for Toms Sunday pants"
II don't care" said he, II won't pay
so much"
So she was obliged to take an indif:
fsrent piece at a lower price. After
purchasing few groceries, the hus-
band said:
"Come on I suppose you've got all
you want?"
"Yes," said she, looking wistfully
around, "but I did want some apron
gingham."
"Never mind that now," was the
answer, "I'm in hurry" and out
they went.
All thought I, here is poor wo-
man made unhappy by a brute of a
man who never allows her the pleas
ure of going shopping with little
money Of her own. She works hard
without any reward, not even kind
words. All this must be the kind OF
farmers wives who become insane
Then wished I were good fairy who
might put money in her pocket to buy
all those things so dear to house
keepers heart.
The arrival of my husband aroused
me from my reveries, related my ex'
periences to him, he laughingly re-
marked:
y "Just like woman to see and heal
so much"
"And," said I, "I feel like beating
that horrid man, and I suppose that's
like a woman too."-Jaaet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04

Perhaps the love of fame may tor
ment thee. Consider how soon all
things will be buried in forgetfulness,
and what bottomless chaos exists
both sides of thee; how vain is the
applause OF mob of mankind, and
how utterly devoid of judgment they
are in short, within how narrow q
space this fame, of which thou art SO
greedy, is circumscribed. For the
whole earth is point, and how small
nook in it is thy dwelling, and how
few are there in it, and what kind OF
people are they who will praise thee
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04

It was said of Hannah Moore that
when she was told tale against an
other in her village her usual reply
was, "Come, we will go and ask If
that be true.' The effect was some
thing wonderful. The tale-bearer,
taken aback, would begin to say,
"Well, perhaps there might have been
a mistake" and to beg that no notice
be taken Of the matter. But no; the
good lady would go there and then,
taking the scanda1-monger with her,
to make inquiry and compare ac-
counts. If all tale-bearers could be
treated in this way how few tales
would be told.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04
Cheap Irrigation For Family
Garden.

Take emptied fruit-cans. place the
open end on q hot stove short time to
remove the top, punch about four small
holes in the edge of the bottom, set
them half their depth in the ground,
and plant your seeds around them.
Fill with water or liquid manure as
often as need be. Cucumbers and the
like will takea quart can full every
day it does not rain. No baking of
surface, no weed-seed, and speed in wa
tering are some of the advantages.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04
whom Life Has Disciplined.

The middle aged, who have lived Z
through their strongest emotions, but
are vet in the time when memory is
still half passionate and not merely
contemplative, should surely be q sort
of natural priesthood, whom life has
disciplined and consecrated to be the
refuge and rescue of early stumbles !.
and victims of self despair.
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The True Bread.
BY REV. J. P. KEsTAR n. d.

BY REV. ]. p. KEsTAR, N. d.
LAM the bread of life.
Jesus, the bread OF life y Z
Descended from above, 4
Come, hungry, starving souls and FEAST
On his eternal love.
Come unto him and live, sssS
No longer pine and die,
For he, the bread of life; will give, ss, a z
To all who win apply.
Perishing souls, draw near. ~;
Nor longer stay away, ~ ~ ss,SSt.5 80 ~
The pleading voice Jesus hear, q
Who calls you day by day. s 81
Thepoor, the low, may come, ~ 3,
And claim q portion too, * ss
or angels food sent down from heaven
The bread Of God, most true. y; d
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Gathering Nuts.

After gathering the nuts, in a week
or ten days after, pick them over, using
only the sound ones, and destroy ali
wormy ones by burning them, as the
destruction of the nuts will be the
means of destroying the insects that
might do damage another season.
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There is nothing like business fol-
enabling US to get through our weary
existence. The intellect cannot sus-
tain its sunshine fight long: the flag
ging wing drops to the earth. Pleas
ure pals, and idleness is 'many gath
cred miseries is one name.n But bus
iness gets over the hours without
counting them. 1t may be very try
ing at the end; still it has brought the
day to close sooner than anything
o1oo ..
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If when thou makest q bargain,
thou thinkest only of thyself and thy
gain, thou art a servant of mamon.
Seek goodness; but let greatness be
thrust upon you. An itching for
greatness will breed q moral cancer
that will eat out all goodness in the
soul.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04

Often after cooking a meal person
will feel tired and have no appetite ;
for this beat an egg until light, stir in
q little milk and sugar, and season
with nutmeg. Drink half an hour be-
fore eating.
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Eating Lemons.

A good deal has been said through
the papers about the healthfulness of
lemons. The latest advice is how to
use them so they will do the most good,
as follows Most people know the ben
eft of lemonade before breakfast,
but few people know that it is more
than doubled by taking another at
night also. The way to get the better
of bilious system without blue pills
or quinine is to take the juice OF one,
two or three lemons, as appetite Graves,
in as much water as makes it pleasant
to drink without sugar, before going to
bed, In the morning, on rising, at
least half an hour before breakfast,
take the juice of one lemon in a goblet
of water. This will clear the system of
humor and bile with efficiency, with
out any of the weakening effects of
calomel or congress water. People
should not irritate the stomach by eat
ing lemons clear the powerful acid Of
the juice, which is always corrosive,
invariably produces inflammation after
awhile, but properly diluted so that it
does not burn or draw the throat, it
does its medical work without harm,
and when the stomach is clear of food
has abundant opportunity to work
over the system thoroughly, says a
medical NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times.
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Old Clothes.


It is mystery to many people how
scourers of old clothes can make them
almost as good as new. Take for in
stance shiny old coat, vest, or pair OF
pants of broadcloth, cashmere, or dag
onal. The scourer makes q strong,
warm soapsuds and plunges the gar
ment into it, souses it up and down,
rubs the dirty places, if necessary puts
it through a second suds, then rinses
it through several waters and hangs it
to dry on the line. When nearly dry
he takes it in, rolls it up for an hour or
two, and then presses it. An old cot
ton cloth is laid on the outside Of the
coat and the iron passed over that un-
til all the wrinkles are out; but the
iron is removed before steam ceases to
rise from the goods, else they will be
shiny. Wrinkles that are obstinate
are removed by laying awet cloth over
them and passing the iron over that.
If any shiny places are seen they are
treated as the wrinkles are; the iron Is
lifted while the full cloud of steam
rises and brings the nap up with it.
Cloth should always have suds made
specially for it, as if washed in that
which has been used for white cotton
or woolen clothes, lint will be left in
the water and cling to the cloth. In
this manner we have known the same
coat and pantaloons to be renewed
time and again, and have all the look
and feel, of new garments. Good
broadcloth and its fellow cloths will
bear many washings and look better
every time because of them.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-21
HOT WEATHER LIARS.
A Match in Which Drummer Takes the
Prize.

From the Fort Valley Enterprise.
We remarked the other day that it was SO
hot we believed our keys were melted in our
pocket. This startled the crowd Ike Royal
said that was nothing; that it was so hot in At
lanta that the iron tacks in his shoes melted
out and the leather vas not burned.
Dominic Burns said the ground was so hot
that when his hoe hands set their hoes up for
dinner the handles caught on fire and burned
up before the hands could walk twenty steps to
put them out.
Uncle Wesley Houser said: sob. go on; it
amt hot now. Once l caught fish, threw
him pretty high and the sun fried ii ready for
eating before / could get il Off the hook"
John Everett said we didn't know what hot
weather was. Why said he, down in Flo
rida man doesn't need any bellows or coal
to start blacksmith shop. All he has to do
is to heap up pile of sand, stick his iron in
and so TO making plows.'
A drummer came up at this time and broke
up our class by saying: Talk about hot
weather, the folks in this country don't know
what hot weather is. Why, it is so hot over
here near Butler, Ga. that the sun melts the
sand every summer, aud runs 1t into large
pools of glass, and some New York capitalists
are now negotiating 10 bring down corps OF
class blowers to make demijohns and bottles
In which to ship whisky to Fort Valley We
looked around for Captain Jack Visscher, bu
not seeing him we gave it up, but told thu
drummer to look out next week for our mar
NiSSClyr.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-21
FARMS AND FARMERS
Short Talks With Men Who Guide
the PIOW.
Many Questions About the Farm, Answered
by DIR. w. l.. Jones, Formerly Of
tho Southern CuItivator.
Ensilage.

We are now so thoroughly convinced Of the
value Of the silo that we are anxious to get
every farmer IN the country TO try one. The
subject is presented now because the proper
materials for ensila9e are now, or soon will be,
available on the farm. In the absence OF
drilled corn the tops Of corn aboye the ear VIII
answer just as well. These combined with
peavines will make the very best OF ensil1ge,
Let those who are not prepared to go into the
matter largely, and those whose faith is rather
weak. try il on a small scale. Put up some
posts in the ground as if you were going 10
build small potato house, say 5XlG feet long,
and plank it up inside and out, and fill the
space between planks with dirt well ramIned
in. Let the posts be eight feet high above
ground and frame a roof overhead, leaving the
gables open. Everything is now ready to
receive the ensilage material. This IS some
times packed in whole, that is, uncut; bat II IL
regarded best to pass it through cutter and
cut it up into half-inch pieces. AS it is put i'll,
it Is well packed along the sides and corners.
The packing is done quite lelsurely, so that the
stuff heats sharply When the heat develops
to the point that a thermometer buried in 1t
marks 1902 more fodder is put in and packed
as before. And thus the work is continued
till the silo is filed A layer of cut straw is
then placed on top and mismatohed planks laid
on and weights put on the pianks. This COM
pletes the work. There is nothing very costly
or troublesome in what has been described.
Amy farmer can do it with the ordinary la
borers on his farm. He will be astonished to
find how much material can be packed away
IN sucn a sio, and equally surprised to see how
his stock will eat the stuff next winter. Mate
rails, which from their hard, woody nature
would have made very poor dry forage will
make very good erhiage and be readily eaten
By stock. Some have succeeded by simply dig
gng out place in solid clay, packing ensage
in It and making a temporary roof over it, Ike
one over potato hill Upon the whole, how
ever, the above-ground silo is preferred to that
under ground. A gentleman recently inform
ed us that his mules ate and throve on ensilage
quite as well as his cattle did. They had to be
educated to eat it by mixing small quantities
of ensiage with the favorite food of the animal
and gradually increasing the quantity OF en-
silage. w: Il. j.