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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
Don't Treat.

It is said that the Anti Treating Societies
formed in New York year or two ago have
already produced much practical good for
temperance Why cannot these organizations
be extended quite generally throughout the
country?
The drinking habit is quite generally &C
quired through our viciously absurd methods
OF treating" If it were not condition OF
our social code to make drinking part OF
the convivial amenities of life, most men
would never think Of drinking strong whisky
and old rum, any more than they woula
think of drinking kerosene or cod liver OIL:
To ask young man to take a drink OF
whisky, whose stomach had not been de-
moralized to the whisky standard, is aboug
equivalent to asking him to take social
glass of benzine. Any mans stomach Will
strange visitors. Mithridates trained him
self to eat poison, and there are plenty OF
men in the country to-day who publicly
dine, in the dime museums, on dinner OF
window glass and lamp chimnsys. But IN
order to do this they must educate ther
stomachs: and this is precisely what the ha-
bitual whisky drinker does
Now, no one will eat or drink nauseous
foods or liquids unless it is the fashion to do
so; unless there is some imperious social code
which they imagine must not be broken
The habit of eating IS just such an inexora-
BILE code. Take away this social cement
from our drinking customs, and the younger
generation. at least that part Of it that is not
poisoned by hereditary faint, will not con-
tract drinking habits at all.
1t would be we'll for our generation il
these nti-Treating Societies should multi
ply. If it is not practicable to form large
each man form himself into society Of one.
-Y0nEee RI11e
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
The Oldest Bride Dead.

A Lexington, KY, special to the
Philadelphia Press says: "Mrs. j. e.
Chinn died in this city last Wednesday,
of pneumonia, at the age of one hun
dred and two years. Not only was she
remarkable for her age, but also for the
fact that she was married at a time of
life which but few people attain. Her
marriage took place just thirteen years
to day before her death. Her hus-
band, DR.. Chinn, was only seven years
youn ger, their ages being eighty-nine
and eighty-two years respectively at the
time of their nuptials. DR.. Chinn had
once been Mayor of this city, and both
came of old families. Their health was
excellent, and both appeared younger
by many years than their actual age.
Mrs. Chinn preserved her mental facul-
ties to remarkable degree. She was
fine conversationalist, and had an almost
unimpaired memory. She was devoted
member Of tho Christian Church, or
Campbellites, as the denomination is
more generally termed. Her large for
tune was literally handled. The funeral
took place from the church in which she
was married. DR.. Chinn survives his
aged wife and is still in good health"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
The Princess Of Wales.

The Princess of Wales preserves her
good looks in q most astonishing way,
considering her age. She is forty-four
years old, but in the shaded light of an
opera box or when arrayed in full court
dress "a toilet which she wears with in
finite grace) she does not look a day
over thirty. 1t seems impossible that
the lovely lady can be the mother of two
tall sons, to say nothing of the two plain
girls, her eldest daughters, with whom
She is seen in public. Her eldest son,
Prince Albert Victor, looks good deal
like her, but it is resemblance of carl.
cature. His countenance reproduces
that of his mother, with an added ele-
ment of heaviness and stupidity. Only
one of the three sisters is pretty and that
is the youngest, the Princess Maud. The
real beauty of the family is the second
son, Prince George, who is fresh-com-
plexioned, blonde bearded young fellow,
q typical English youth, full of gayety
and sprightliness, but taking more after
his fathers family than after his beauti-
full mother. The English nation has al
ways idoized the Princess of Wales on
account of her fair face and winning
Manners Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
of the blue limsstope.-Harpers 4aga-
Girls Who Sell Their Hair.

There IS more poetry and romance
woven into the history of an auburn
wig, more tender sentiment twisted into
the traditions OF blond toupee, than
the bald.headed man who wears them
ever dreams of. The soft locks that
shelter his poll from the draught that
chills and the migratory fly that fain
would choose his shiny pate for the scene
of its revels and wanderings once waved
above the bright eyes of some fair Ger
man peasant maiden or saucy. sparkling
Norman lassie who bartered them for q
trinket of gold or silver for her Sabbath
day adorning. Just why these peasant
women possess such abundant tresses
has never yet been satisfactorily ex-
planned, but the foreign women, parti.
cularly the French and German who toll
in the fields, shielded from the sun only
by the small close cap which covers their
hair but does not shade their faces, in
yariably have beautiful fine soft hair,
and it is from them that all the best hair
in the market IS obtained, in the follow
ing manner: Most of the women
have too much hair to be covered
entirely by the close cap without
being so tightly braided or twisted as
to be uncomfortable. accordingly the
itinerant hair buyer fills his pockets and
pack with bright ribbons, fine caps,
beads, and trinkets, and wanders
through the fields where the women
work. When the noon-tide lunch has
been eaten be spreads his tempting wares
beneath some sheltering tree, and the
shy, bright-eyed laisies steal up timidly
and pick out the brooch or long earrings
or pretty ribbons for their Sunday cap
for which they long. then snatch off the
little caps from their hair, unbraid and
shake out all its shining beauty for the
peddler's inspection, and when bargain
is made they sit down on the ground
while he carefully snips out here and
there tress SO cunningly thatit is never
missed. Usually girl sells about half her
hair, but if it be very heavy two-thirds
of it is sometimes cut out, leaving the
remainder long and smooth, to be
braided up with no trouble and wound
about her head. Pure white hair is most
expensive because extremely rare. A
woman old enough to have white hair
has usually very little left, and that is
short, yellow at the ends, and split and
broken. After this the yellow blond
hair is most difficult to find, auburn
hair, and what hairdressers designate as
drab shades.-Meao York Sun.
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Over Which We Must Pass.

evil you ask my pardons' said a master
to his servant with whom he had disputed.
The answer was a surly negative. Then I
will ask yours" said his master, knowing
that some one must always be the first to
give in, and meeting his servant more than
halfway with forgiveness and peace. What
heart could withstand such step towards
reconciliation? Truly has it been said of for
giveness that this is bridge over which we
all need to pass Let us not break it down.
A glimmer Of light and comfort came to
Martin Luther when the old monk by his bed
side read aloud the solemn words, II believe
in the forgiveness Of sins" Which of us
could stand before the God of all, did He no,
blot out our failures, and dismiss our tres
passes? If we are feeling, concerning any
fellow-creature, II have sustained wrong
I cannot forget or pardon" let us take the
first right step by naming the name we dis.
like, at the Mercy-seat. In the time of
Washington Christian man journeyed to
the general to beseech the life Of a neighbor,
sentenced to death. He was told his 'un-
fortunate friend" must perish. 'sHe is my
worst enemy" said the intercessor. "And
have YOU" asked Washington, walked sixty
miles for your enemy's sake? grant; you
his pardon" What a revenge was this
FThe Culver.
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A Red.Hot Dollar the CIew.

William G.. Hards, of Chicago, has
been arrested by Captain Porter, Of the
United States Secret Service, charged
with counterfeiting, and placed under
$4,000 bonds to appear before the United
States Commissioner. The circumstances
leading to the discovery Of the counter
feiting are as follows:
One afternoon. street-car conductor
was standing IN front of No. S67 North
Clark street, when silver dollar fell at
his feet. He picked it up, and had it in
his hand long enough to discover that it
was very hot, as if Just taken off the ire.
At that moment man came hurriedly
out of the house at the above number and
snatched the piece of money from him.
The mans manner was so excited that
the conductors suspicious were aroused,
and he reported the incident to the
police. Since that time the house above
mentioned has been constantly u1Gcr the
surveillance of detectives.
At last United States Inspector Porter
determined to examine the place, when
it was found that the building is occu-
pied by William G.. Hards & Bro, con-
LrdCIOrS duo pluolSACAos 4NotAA4AS SeS-
picious was discovered until the upper
story was reached, when William g.
Hards was seen through small window
busilv at work in his shirt sleeves.
The officers were readily admitted,
when it was found that the room con-
tanned a most valuable and complete
counterfeiter's plant, including electric
batter;es for silvering coin, heavy iron
presses for stamping. crucibles, elaborate
milling and smoothing machines, and
large quantities of metals used in filling,
an outfit declared by the detectives to
be the most complete they had ever seen.
Hards had been counterfeiting silver
dollars, and the work turned out was so
nearly perfect in appearance; weight and
ring, that the Inspector himself could
not detect the difference between the
counterfeit and genuine coin. Seventy
counterfeit dollars were found in the
room.-New York Star.
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The Elder Sister.

In c.. of his excellent ''Talks to Young
Womea," Rev. Smith Baker OF Lowell,
speaks as follows concerning the influence OF
sisters.
Make the most of your sisterly opportuni.
ties while you can; for the years speed away,
and the days hasten when life with its bur-
dens will come-father and mother will go to
their home, and you will go, one here, an
other there. Distance, work and care
viii separate you. Middle life will come; the
beginners of old age will come; and then the
old sisterly and brotherly love will kindle in
your hearts, and you will wish for the days
of childhood. you will think with sorrow
upon all the unsisterly words said aud deeds
done, and with joy upon all the kindly attcn'
tions paid, and your heart will be hungry to
meet each other; you will almost cry to be
little children again.
As you see the shadows coming Of the eter'
nal world, you will want to put your hand in
your brothers hand and in your sisters hand,
and com" together to the eternal home as
you used /, come around your fathers table
in tho 'sr-gone days of childhood. God
grant, wen the end comes and you cross
1.-THE river" and stand before the Judgment
and the recording angel reads your name,
that then Christ the Elder Brother, may say,
''admit her, clothe her in white put a crown
upon her brow and stars in the crown, fol
she is my sister,"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
A Georgia Delicacy.

What to eat is, after all, the CHIEF
problem of life. Next to religion, says
the New York Herald, the soul of man
depends on a well.cooked dinner. A
good digestion is more to be priled than
a bucket full of diamonds, and the
foundation of human happiness consist:
of mutton chops and fried potatoes.
The best dish in the world2 Well,
that depends on your tastes, your "loca
habitation" and your purse. Here is
what F. L. Stanton says in the Tribune
ot-Rome, Georgia:
Talk O. turkey, breast so white;
Goose baked down an sarved up rite;
Smokehouse ham an likes O. that:
Streak O. lean an streak o. fat;
Juicy backbone, steak on toas';
Mutton chops-which sum likes mos
Sakes they amt 'simmon blossom
To good ole Georgy 'possum!
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
A Queer Little woman's Club.

There is queer little womans club in
Boston which devotes itself to the ois-
cussion of any odd and unusual topic
which suggests itself to the minds of any
of the members. Such outre questions
as "Are We Smarter Than Our European
sisters2" How Should Woman Edu-
cate Herself in Order to Become Truly
Cultured2" "Who Is the Ideal American
Woman2" and the like, are treated with
breezy originality and with great deal
of very good sense. They are now con-
sidering whether Flowers or Jewels
Are the Better Ornaments for the Hairf"
and some of the arguments offered are
highly diverting. The weight of opin'
ion seems to be in favor Of the flowers,
both for afternoon and evening dress.-
CHICAGO Neus.
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CURIOUS FACTS.
,phalt pavement kills trees

ASpu1lI pdfcueuL KILN LreeS.
There are 422, 400, 900 railroad ties. "
The Lapp mother lays her baby in q
snow cradle.
The Parsees are the only Orientals
who do not smoke.
An Indiana man recently ate sixty
two raw eggs on wager.
The Emperor of Germany during his
stay in Rome received 5000 begging
letters.
Mr.. Isaac Greenwood, Of New York,
Is the possessor of the last tooth OF
George Washington.
A Middletown IN. ~ curiosity is q
singing canary bird which has feathers
On its wings and tail ouly.
Publishers say that there has been O.
great growth of recent years in the mar
ket for Christian literature.
What is known as the tea habit has
made its appearance at Boston. Its VIC
Tins eat the dried tea leaves.
Upward of 100000 wreaths were
placed on graves in Vienna cemetery
recently when festival of the dead was
celebrated. ..
The Sultan of Turkey, never uses
plate, but takes his food usually with q
spoon or his fingers directly from the
little kettles in which it is cooked. ..i
A man in Clayton, ILL.,, has a cat that
takes to water like dog. She often
goes for a swim in the lake and will
fetch q stick that is thrown into the
water. 81
A young pastor in Maine distributes
every Sunday to his auditors printed
skeleton of his morning sermon. he
wants them to carry something home,
with him, he say. q
The man who made the first photo
graph ever produced in the United
States, Franz George Schreibner, is still
living in Philadelphia, hale and hearty,
at the age of eighty-six. .n.t
Samuel Crump. at Montclair, N. j.,
found his engineer asleep. As punish
ment he took his scissors and clipped of
half of the sleeper's mustache. The en-
gineer has sued Crump for damages. 2
There is probably nowhere better
and more frequent communication by
rail between two cities than between
New York and Newark, N. j., and yet
there is not well-kept common road
between them.
In the olden time, when an inferior
was addressing person of high rank, or
when person was soliciting favor, it
was always the custom to stroke the
beard downward, as token of inferior.
ity, Difference or entreaty. -. =.
'The Brotherhood on the Sea-" is the
name of q new Lutheran society of 200
Norwegian Sea Captains, who pledge
themselves to have regular services on
board, and to conduct everything on
board and on shore in the fear of God.
Students before being admitted to the
University of Mississippi are required to
appear before board of professors and
answer whether they have any firearms
about them or whether some person or
persons had any in keeping for them.
If 80 they must be delivered up before
the applicants are declared full students.
The inventor of the suspension bridge,
Samuel Brown, was boy who carefully
observed everything. When he became
a man, he was quick-witted, sharp
observer, and learned how to construcaa
suspension bridge from the web of
spider, which he found one morning
stretched across his path in the garden.
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The BLUEGRASS Girl.

The limestone and blue grass together
determine the agricultural pre-eminence
of the region, and account for the fine
breeding of the horses, the excellence of
the cattle, the stature of the men, and
the teauty of the women; but they have
social and moral influence also. 1t could
not we'll be otherwise, considering the
relation of the physical condition to dis
position and character. We should be
surprised if q rich agricultural region,
healthful at the same time, where there
is abundance of food, and wholesome
cooking is the rule, did not effect the
tone of social life. And I am almost
prepared to go further, and think that
blue grass is specific for physical
beauty and a certain graciousness Of life.
l have been told that there is natural
relation between Presbyterianism and
blue grass, and am pointed to the Shen-
andoah and to Kentucky as evidence of
it. Perhaps Presbyterians naturally
seek limestone country. But the re-
lation, if it exists, is too subtle and the
facts are too few to build theory on.
Still, have no doubt there is distinct
variety of women known as the blue
grass girl. A geologist told me that
once when he was footing 1t over the
State with O geologist from another
State, as they approached the bluegrass
region from the southwark they were
carefully examining the rock formation
and studying the surface indications,
which are usually marked on the border
line, to determine exactly where the
peculiar limestone formation began. In
dications, however, were wanting.
Suddenly my geologist looked up the
road and exclaimed: "We are in the
blue-gras region now."
"How do you know" asked the
other"
"Why, there is blue grass girl"
There was no mistaking the neat dress,
the style, the rounded contours, the
gracious parsonage. A few steps further
on the geologists found the outcroping
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Drinking q Farm.

My homeless friend with the chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in
that 10-cent glass of GIN let me give you
fact to wash down with it. You say you
have longed for years for the free, inde-
pendent life of the farmer, but have never
been able to get enough money together to
buy farm. But this is just where you are
mistaken. For several years you have been
drinking a good improved farm at the rate
Of 100 square feet gulp. If you doubt this
statement figure it out yourself. An acre OF
land contains 43, $50 square feet. Estimating
for convenience the and at s43.56 per acre.
you will see that it brings the land to just
one nill per square foot, one cent for ten
square feet. Now pour down the fiery dose
and imagine you are swallowing a strawberry
patch. Call in five of your friends and have
them help you gulp down that 500 foot garden.
Get on prolonged spree some day and see
how long it requires to swallow a pasture
large enough to feed cow. Put down ioN that
feet Of good, rich dirt, worth S4S. Sc per acre
Robert Burdette.
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How Stays Penetrate Dense Forests.

It has been the usual impression that
the horns Of the elk and OF deer, while
useful for purposes of defense, were in
the creatures way while threading dense
woods or underbrush. Sir james Hector
maintains that the chief use of the
antlers is not so much for fighting as for
facilitating the progress of the stag
through dense woods. He had had con-
siderable experience with the elk, and
found that by throwing up the head,
thereby placing the horns along the
back, the animals were enabled to go
forward with great rapidity and follow
the hiuds. MIR. Fortescue added that
in New Zealand he had observed that the
antlers assisted the stays in penetrating
dense forests, and Mr.. Higginson bore
out this statement from his experience
in India.
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TEMPERANCE.
Ten Thousand Sailors Sign tht
Total Abstinence Pledge.

was held in the old Church in this city
for the purpose of organizing Temperance
Society to work especially among the seamen.
Although forty.seven years have passed since
that night the same society still exists, with
more vigor and enthusiasm than of yore, and
continues its good work among seafaring
men.
During the year Just closed there have been
153 signers to the pledge Of total abstinence,
making more than 10000 since the society
was first organized
The work promises to be even more sue
cessful during the present year than it was
during the last.-Charleston IS. C) Neaos
and Courier
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Card Playing at Home.

Playing cards for 'spastime" or as an 'in.
nocent amusement" soon becomes passion,
and when once fixed man will forego home,
family, business and pleasure, and suffer the
loss Of his all for the exciting scenes of the
card table.
That accomplished writer, the late DR..
Holland Of Springfield, Mass, said: II have
all my days had card-playing community
open to my observation, and am yet unable
to believe that that which is the universal re-
sort of the starved in soul and intellect,
which has never in any way linked to itself
tender, elevating or beautiful associations
the tendency of which is to unduly absorb
the attention from more weighty matters
can recommend itself to the favor Of Christ's
disciples. The presence of culture and gen
ius may embellish, but can never dignity it: !"
II have this moment" said DR.. Holland,
ringing in my ears the dying injunction Of
my fathers early friend, Keep your. son
from cards. Over them have murdered
time and lost Heaven" Fathers and
mothers, keep your sons from cards in the
''home circle" What must a good angel
think of mother at the prayer-meeting ask
ing prayers for the conversion Of her son
whom she allowed to remain at. home play
ing cards for pastimer-[Christian Advo-
cate.
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After the First Five Years.

The first five years of a dissipated life =, is
comparatively easy, for it is all down mn;
but when the man wakes up and hnds ms
tongue wound with blasphem:es, anu his
eyes swimming in rheum, and the antennn
OF vice feeling along his nerves and the
spiderish poison eating through ms very llte,
u trarene iii refo for it is up h and the fortresses
along the road open on him their batteries.
We 90 into sin hop skp-and- jump; we come
out Of it creeping on all fours.-New York
Observer
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RELIGIOUS READING
I'll Think Of Thee.

Ilook to Thee in every need,
And never look in vain;
I feel thy strong and tender love,
And all is well again.
The thought Of Thee is mightier far
Than sin and pain and sorrow ara'
Discouraged in the work of life,
Disheartened by its load,
Shamed by its failures or its fears,
sink beside the road;
But let me only think Of Thee,
And then new heart springs up in me.