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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Irreverence In the House Of God.

We have more than once uttered Of
protest against this, as it appears to- be
growing evil. There is no lack of ar
gument to sustain our position, and we
do not doubt the concurring sentiment
of our best people. But it may inter
est all classes to know how the matter
is regarded from a foreign point Of
view.
The last number of tide Homiletic
Review contains testimony worth con-
sidering. In the european Depart
ment," conducted by Prof. ]. H. w.
Stuckenburg, D. D., we find the follow
ing.
"Coming from Germany to America
positively painful impression was
made by the lack of reverance during
divine service. This is not universe,
nevertheless quite common. The be-
havior of the congregation, the bearing
of the preacher, the sermon, and the
announcements, too often put divine
service on the level of an entertain
ment. Sometimes the entertaining
feature is not only apparent, but actu-
ally announced as special aim. AS
a consequence, the levity found in GER
tain congregations ought not to be a
surprise, however shocking it may be
to those who have come to worship God
and to receive instruction from his
word. Religious solemnity need not
be confounded with long faces and re-
pulsive gloom we may insist on the
need of Christian cheerfulness and the
right of Christian humor, while at the
same time we are repelled by levity
and frivolity in the house of God.
When a minister descends to the SEN
sational, the vulgar, and the laughable.
as the chief means for attracting an
audience, we naturally wonder why
he is in the pulpit. With such preach
ing, astonishment ceases that the con-
gregation lacks solemnity, is ready for
laugh, and can enter and leave the
house of God without thought of of,
fering silent prayer to fit the heart for
worship and to deepen the convictions
of the services.n
This is bad enough: but the worst
of it is that it is true, considering that
due allowance is made for exception.
The evil is "not universal" "yet quite
common" Ifit so shocks mere hu-
man heart, how must it appear to the
minds of angels who we doubt not are
dressent in our religious assemblies !!
Above all, how must it appear in the
eyes of the thrice Holy God?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Without Humbug.

Mr.. Alvan Clark, who has recently
died, built up his extensive and sue
cessful business in very pure and
simple way. Humbug and quackery
are not necessary.
A well informed writer in the Eue-
ming Post has this to say about Mr..
Clark's aversion to advertising himself
or his work: "He never sought an Or
der. He could never be induced to
place specimens of his handicraft on
exhibition even the Centennial at
Philadelphia had nothing to show
from his hands. Astronomers the
world over applied in vain for a price
list of the productions of Alvan Clark
& Son. The firm would not print any
thing of the kind. No where was any
thing arranged for display. Visitors
to his work shop, whatever their rank,
position, or objects, were received with
the same unstudied courtesy, and
found everybody, from the head of the
firm down, in his working garb. No
pretension to secret art were ever
made. When, in travelling abroad
members of the firm found their for
eign colleagues afraid to show how
they worked, the only impression con-
veyed was that human nature had it's
weaknesses. Never before was an art
or manufacture built upon SO admira-
BILE q moral basis"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Fruit Skins Indigestible.

That the rind, or "skin," of all fruit
is more or less indigestible is a fact that
should not be forgotten. We say all
fruit, and the statement must be un-
derstood to include the pellicle of ker-
nels and nuts of all kinds. The edible
part of fruit is peculiarly delicate, and
liable to rapid decomposition if expos
ed to the atmosphere; it is, therefore,
a wise provision of nature to place a
strong and impervious coating over it,
as protection against accident, and to
preyent insect enemies from destroy
ing the seed within. The skin OF
plums is wonderfully strong compared
with its thickness, and resists the ac-
ton of water and many solvents in
remarkable manner. Ifnot thorough
lv masticated before taken into the
stomach, this skin is rarely, if ever,
dissolved by the gastric juice. In
some cases, pieces of it adhere to the
coats of the stomach as wet paper
elings to bodies, causing more or less
disturbance or Inconvenience. Raisins
and dried currants are particularly
troublesome in this way, and, if moi
chopped up before cooking, should be
thoroughly chewed before swallowing
If dried currant passes into the stom
ach whole, it is never digested at all.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

The great mistake men make is
this they strive to increase their
earnings, but they do not strive to in
crease their earning capacities. They
complain of the selfishnesss of their
employers, when if they were wise
they would see that in that selishness
lies their greatest opportunity. The
selfish employer is salways on the look
out for the man who will serve him
best and bring the most money into
his treasury. He lies awake at night
wondering where he can secure such a
man. He is willing to reward capacl-
ty and fidelity literally, not because
he is generous, but because it is his in
terest to secure better service and bet
returns. Many of our young men
have been quick to understand the sit
uation, and they have risen in the
world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Where He Learned 1t.

He was pretty little fellow, but 1t
was his manners, not his looks, that
attracted everybody-clerks in the
stores, people in the horse-cars, men,
women, and children. A boy four
years old who, if anybody said to him,
"How do you do?" answered, II am
we'll, thanks" and if he had a request
to make, be it of friend or stranger, be-
gan it with "Please." And the beauty
of it was that the "thanks" and
"please" were 80 much a matter OF
course to the child that he never knew
that he was doing anything at all no.
ticeable.
"How cunning it u.s." said a snowy
woman to his mother as they sat at
dinner at the public table Of a hotel
one day, ito hear that child thank the
walters and say please when he
wants anything. T never saw any
thing so sweet. My children have to
be constantly told If L want them TO
thank people. How we'll you must
have taught him, that he never for
gets"
"He has always been accustomed to
it." said the mother. "We have al
ways said please to him when we
wished him to do anything, and have
thanked him. He knows no other
way"
The snowy woman looked as if she
did not need any further explanation
of the way in which habits are form
ed.
Probably you do not.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
For Mother.

Always punish your children for
willfully disobeying you, but never
punish when you are angry.
On no account allow them to do at
one time what you have forbidden, un'
der the same circumstances, at anoth-
er.
Never promise them anything un'
less you are sure that you can give
them what you promise.
A mother who feared her son might
inherit taste for liquor from drink
ing ancestry gave him occasionally
wine in which small doses of tartar
emetic had been mingled. He acquir'
ed such an aversion for the taste of Ii
auors of all sorts that he could not be
induced to touch them. She put in
Just enough to nauseate him.
Don't reprove children before COM
pany-it hardens them and lessons
their self-respect.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
A Simple Way to Detect Counterfeit
Bills.

"How do you detect spurious bank
notes ?" asked the Evening News as
he leaned one hand on the counter at
the window of we'll known Broad
street bank teller and with the other
hand stuffed plethoric purse deep
down into his p; cket.
"To discover spurious national bank
notes." answered the polite teller, "just
divide the last two figures of the num-
ber of the bill by four and if one letter
remains the letter of the genuine will
be A; if two remain it will be B; If
three G, and if there should be no re-
mainder the letter will be D. For ex-
ample, this note I hold in my hand is
registered 2461; divide the sixty-one
by four and you have one remaining.
According to the rule the letter on the
note as you will observe is A. In
every case the rule fails, you can bet
your weeks wages that the bill is
counterfeit -"-Augusta EUening News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
The Wrong Excuse.

Two workingmen were talking about
a comrade who had lately "got into
trouble" as the saying is.
"He oughtn't to say he was led into
t." said one; "he lent himself to it,"
The remark struck me as a thought
full one.
When a man, open-eyed, goes into
dangerous places, associates with ques-
tionable characters, surely he lends
himself to evil-he is not led into it.
Yet people often say regretfully,
"Ah, poor fellow, he was led into it"
when a man has committed sin un-
der the influence Of drink. HE
wouldn't have done it," they add, "if
he'd been in his right senses"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Not A Laughing Matter.

A woman stood at the front gate
watching her neighbor's dog coming
down the street with kettle tied to his
tail. It amused her vastly.
Presently the owner of the dog sour
ried by in hot pursuit, whereupon the
woman at the gate laughing a gleeful,
and unneighborly laugh.
Then little boy rounded the corner
with bright, innocent look on his
face, as who should say, "I-am-on-an-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 80 don't
detain-lne."
He stopped and said to the woman at
the gate.
"What are you laughing at?"
She replied with hilarity, "I'm
laughin' at old Bullrag's dog with a
kettle tied to his tail"
Its awful funny. amt it?" the lit
tie boy said as he hurried on. 1.-The
kittle is yourn."
Then the woman at the gate suddenly
stopped laughing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Why He Weighs the Milk.

"The milk from every cow is weigh
ed as soon as it is milked and the weight
put upon record. I do this for two
reasons. It tells ME at the end Of the
year which are my best cows, and if q
COW is ailing it shows first in the flow
of milk, and by watching carefully
this record 1 have, as it were, my hand
on their pulse all the time. On one
occasion was feeding cow very high.
I gradually increased her feed five
pounds day. She fell off ten pounds
in mill I Immediately reduced the
feed and in few days she regained
what she had lost. I had reached the
maximum quantity of feed that the
cow could digest, as was indicated by
weighing the milk.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

PENNY CHRISTIANs.-A good man
in this city was telling us few days
ago about his deceased wife. He said
once, after he had given his children a
cent a piece to carry to the Sunday
school for their weekly offerings, his
wife called the children aside and gave
each a dime in exchange for the penny.
Then she very tenderly explained and
apologized to her husband, saying, eff
our children are to be trained to give
the smallest possible sum to the cause
of religion, when they grow up they
will be epenny Christians, if Christians
at all.n The doctor said that the re-
mark of his sainted wife did him good,
and from that day to this his children
have never failed to take with them to
the Sunday-school larger currency
than pennies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Putting Things to Rights.

"The place of comet" says writ
er on domestic topics, "may be accur
ately calculated after certain perturb
ing influences have acted upon it, bu
the locality of a boot.jack, when tha
humble article is wanted, is seldom ex
actly computed by the masculine
BRAIN"
The same remark could too often be
Applied with equal truth to coats, hats
dressing-gowns, slippers, gloves, and
articles innumerable in daily use. II
would be quite as difficult for the or.
dinary housewife to complete an
eclipse as to reckon up the time she
spends from one years end to another
in hunting up articles that are out ol
place and in putting in place things
"lying round" =
Now, though time spent in making
home neat, orderly, and inviting can
not be considered as wasted, yet, if the
principle of division of labor in put
ting things to rights were carefully
practiced, there is no telling how much
valuable time might be saved. 1t is
comparatively an easy thing to have a
place for every thing, but to keep every
thing in its place, ''ay, there's the
rub" Before we know it hats and
caps cover the sewing-machine in
stead of the hat-rack, overcoats lie on
the backs of chairs, books are laid on
the organ, overshoes ornament the
hearth rug, and the mantle-pieee-
what small articles may we not hope
to find there e?-pens, inkstand, small
change, vials of medicine, collars and
crsvats, cuf-buttons, letters, bills and
what not, rest there in rich profusion
and "most admired disorder"
One of the benefits that the mother
of sons can confer on her own sex and
all the world beside is to form in them
the habit of putting things in place.
This can be done in many instances
only by following them round and re-
quiring them, when they are through
with book, to put it on the shelf
where it belongs ; when they take off
their overcoats, to hang them on the
rack when skates are unstrapped or
boots taken off, that they be put some
where else than on the hearth-rug or
under foot: when slippers are re-
moved, that they at once be placed in
their appropriate case.
The law of habit thus imposed will
gradually extend its domain till it in
cludes every thing the boy handles or
calls his own, and exercises an influ-
ence on all he is and does. A house
where such men and boys find them
selves at home will not take so very
much time every day to put to rights.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
Morality in Little Things.

A railway conductor, passing
through his train, recently remarked,
"If all were like that gentleman yon-
der, I would have far less trouble in
my work. Every day, almost every
hour, some one tries to ride on my
train without paying for it." The
gentleman to whom he referred was
uncertain Us to the value of an excur-
sion ticket, thinking the time for using
it under the regulations of the corpor-
alton had possibly gone by. He,
therefore, submitted the ticket to the
conductor, calling his special attention
to it, and expressing desire to fulfill
the exact conditions under which he
had purchased it. He not only wish
ed to relieve faithful employee of
possible embarrassment in his report to
the company, but also to be strictly
honest, doing everything openly.
This incident points a moral. 1t is
wrong to allege that corporations de-
fraud, and, therefore, they may be in
nocently defrauded. The moral sense
of an individual ought not to be stulti
fled by any known wrong, however
triding it may seem, or however sue
cessfully concealed from view. We
are not sure but that here is just cause
for close determination by many a
one, who fancies himself occupying Sc
cure moral standing. Christian NOR
ais have to do with fundamental truth J
with the smallest, as well as the great
est volitions. And the way to reach
integrity of character is not SO much
to regard the conspicuous acts of fidel-
ity to the right, as to be sure that we
are really true in reference to those in
Vulnerable matters which make up our
daily life. It is we'll to cultivate ten
der conscience in everything; we'll for
the individual himself; we'll for his in
fuence over others. In the end of life,
it shall be we'll with him. Peace will
adjust the pillow in life's latest hour
of that man who acted in all things
with a conscientious regard to even
handed justice toward others, and with
a strict sense of duty to his God.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

1t is found that living creatures
brought up from sea depths of four
miles or more, suffer greatly from the
changed conditions. of pressure and
temperature. At those vast depths the
pressure is tremendous, and the tenn
perature is comparatively low. On be-
ing brought to the surface, the deep
sea creatures are sometimes torn in
pieces by the powerful expansion Of
their organisms occasioned by decrease
in pressure, and sometimes they abb
solutely melt away before the eyes of
the beholder.n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

AN UNFORTUNATE MIsUNDER-
sTANDING.-"My DEAR" said a gentle
man to his wife, "where did all those
books on astronomy on the library ia
BILE come from? They are not OURS"
"a pleasant little surprise for you,"
responded the lady. You know, you
said this morning that we ought to
study astronomy, and so I went to a
book store and bought everything l
coule find OH the subject.
1t was some minutes before he
spoke.
"My DEAR" he then said slowly, his
voice husky with emotion II never
said we must study astronomy. Isaid
we must study economy"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

GRAPE-RoT REMEDIEs.-At meet
ing of the American Horticultural
Association it was stated that Mr.. Cra-
mer, of Ohio, had sown oats between
the rows of grapes, and had thus pre-
vented the rot. This has been tested
for several years. The oats were plow-
ed under when full-grown. Mr.. Mil
ler, Of the same State, had used sui
phate of iron as a disinfectant when
grapes were rotting, and, to his sur
prise, further rotting was prevented.
He used one to three pounds around
each vine early in June or July. 9th
ers in his vicinity had tried the same
successfully.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

An unhappy marriage is like ar
electric machine-it makes one dance
but you can't let 60.
Is the work difficult?
Jesus directs thee.
Is the path dangerous?
Jesus protects thee.
Fear not and falter not;
Let the word cheer thee
All through the coming year
He will be near thee.
F. Il. HdUergdl.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

SToCKINas.-If q lining of firm
cloth is sewed inside the heels of stock
ings when they are new, or when they
begin to show signs of wear, they will
last much longer than if this is omit
ted. Rather better than lining them
with cloth is running them up and
down with double yarn or darning
cotton. Stockings defended in this
way from hard wear require little at
tention each week when they co. c" in
from the laundry, and repay doubly
the time and labor of strengthening
them before they begin to wear out.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
A Friend to All Honest People.

Everybody knows Col. Ingersoll's
reputation as lawyer and politician,
but every one cannot speak of his per-
sonaIity truly. Take the word
"friend," for instance. The broadness
of the term cannot be better shown
than by something he said to a man
one day last week. They were talk
ing of the prosaic matter of "new
Shirts" when the colonel declared he
was not going to have another made
for him until he could find shirt-ma-
ker who was honest enough to give the
woman who did the work the $1.5O
each that he was willing to allow.
"I'm afraid you'll have to wait some
time," said his companion. "Shirt-
makers fortunes are not built that
way"
"Then I'll wait" said the colonel.
"Henceforth wear no shirt until l
have seen the woman who makes it.,
and she has told me herself that she
got paid for her work"
This, then, is what the word
''friend," as applied above, means.
No man can say that Col. Ingersoll
ever paid him less than his work was
worth, even in the most liberal sense
of the word, or that he has ever asked
for good turn and was refused. 1t is
not to his friends that this big hearted
man is friend, but to all honest men
and women-Fdnnie B. Merrill in
NeW York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

A Professor of Natural History wan
dered away from the Smithsonian the
other day and got into lawyers office
on F Street, where there is very POM
pous young clerk. The Professor ask
ed two or three questions on the point
at issue, and the clerk finally remark
ed very largely: II tell you it's true,
and it is true. What do you know
about law, anyway" Nothing,
nothing at all, replied the Professor,
meekly, "but I know a great deal
about natural history. and I think you
an ASST
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

Lady: :Here, my poor man, is a
ticket for dinner at the soup-kitch-
en- and you can eat as much there as
will suffice for tomorrow and day af-
ter"
Mendicant; "Thank'ee kindly,
mum but I'd rather like first to eat
enough for yesterday and the day
afore, if it would make no difference
to you to write that down on the tick
et.n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

CLEANING WINDows.-Choose an
hour when the sun is not shining on
the windows. First wash the wood
work with soap and a brush if neces-
sary. Then for the glass use soft
cloth dipped ia ammonia and water.
Wipe with an old cotton cloth and pol
ish with soft newspaper, chamois
skin, or an old silk handkerchief. Soap
leaves milky tint on the glass, and
linen cloths are apt to leave lint.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23

It takes ten minutes on some Sabbath
morning to annihilate Huxley, ten
more to knock Farrar's eternal hopen
to pieces, ten more to do away with
Ingersoll, and about five to close up on
the second coming. What is going
to become of the poor burdened soul
who has drifted into the service with
his bereavements and broken future
and penitent feelings?-Prcsident
Hurst.