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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-18
Sound from a Rainbow.

One of the most wonderful discover
les in science that have been made
within the last year or two is the fact
that u beam Of light produces sound.
A beam of sunlight is thrown through
a lens on Il glass vessel that contains
lamp black, colOred silk or worsted, or
other substances. A disk having slits
or openings cut in it is made to revolve
swiftly in this beam of light, so as to
cut it up, thus making alternate flash
es of light and shadow. On putting
the ear to the glass vessel strange
sounds are heard SO long as the fash
ing beam is falling on the vessel.
Recently more wonderful discovery
has been made. The beam of sunlight
is made to pass through prism, SO us
to produce what is called the solar
spectrum, or rainbow. The disk is
turned and the colored light of the
rainbow is made to break through it.
Now, place the ear to the vessel con-
tanning the silk, wool or other materi.
al. AS the colored lights of the spec
trum fall upon it sounds will be given
by different parts of the spectrum, and
there will be silence in other parts.
For instance, if the vessel contains red
worsted and the green light flashes
upon it, loud sounds will be given.
Only feeble will be heard when the red
and blue parts of the rainbow fall upon
the vessel, and other colors make no
sound at all. Green silk gives sound
best in red light. Every kind Of ma
terial gives more or less sound in differ
ent cOlors, and utters no sound in 9th
ers. The discovery is strange one,
and it is thought more wonderful
things will come from it.
(Uristiun mt lPIyk
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Declaration of independence.

1t is both natural and common be-
lief that the adoption of the Declara-
tion was followed Immediately by the
signing of it.
Such was not the case. 1t was adop-
ted July 4th, l776, and was published
with the signatures of the president
and secretary of the meeting.
July 10 Of the same year, it was re-
solved that it should be signed by all
the members of Congress. For this
purpose it was ordered that copy of
the document should be engrossed on
parchment. This having been done, it
was signed on August End, by fifty
four of the tifty-six persons whose
names are now appended to it. Mat
thew Thornton, of New Hampshire,
took his seat the following November,
and obtained permission to sign it;
and in 1871 the tifty-siXth and last sig
ner, Thomas McKean of Delaware
afterward Governor of Pennsylvania,
from 1893 to lS0S-put his name to it.
Few people know that the original
Declaration of Independence is kept in
the library of the State Department al
Washington. 1t Is cherry case un-
open all day long, and strong rays of
light are eating up its ink day 10y day.
1t is written on parchment. The text
of it is in q hand as fine as copper
plate, and the ink of this part can still
lie plainly read. The signatures, how
ever, are written in different ink, and
they are very fast disappearing under
the action of the light. The bold sig
nature of John Hancock is faded al
most entirely out. Only q J, 0, h, and
an H, remain. Two lines of names
are entirely removed from the paper;
not vestige of ink remains to show
that names were ever there. Ben
Frank.in's name is gone. Roger Sher-
mans name IS fast fading. l could
not find the name of Thomas Jetier-
son, and Elbridge Gerry has lost its
last syllable. Charles Carroll and
John Adams have been secured off by
the light, and only eleven names out
of fifty-six can be read without a Mi
croscope. Just below this copy lies the
original of it i'm Jefferson, haudwrit-
ing. 1t is on foolscap paper, yellow
with age, and worn through where the
manuscript has been folded. The
writing is fine and close, and the whole
occupied but two pages. The ink is
good, and it remains as fresh as when
it left the quill of Jefferson over one
hundred and twelve years ago. 1t is
full of erasures and interlineations,
some of which are in Franklin's hand
writing, and the others in the strong
script or John Adams.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-18
Ladies' Who Have Seen Better Days.

Mothers should ponder well state
ment made few days ago by lady
in Boston, who has charge of a free
employment agency. Generally
speaking, she has little difficulty in
getting places for girls in search OF hon
est and useful work, for she has more
applications from employers than she
can fill. If a young woman knows
how to do somethiug-to sew, TO draw,
to cook, to knit, to embroider, to keep
books, to cut out garments, to attend
in a store, to teach, to sing, to nurse, to
sew books, to make paper boXes-she
can generally, in the course OF a lew
days, get her employment, at wages
upon which she can live pretty well,
and perhaps save little.
But there is class of young ladies'
for whom she can do nothing. Good
girls they are, who have seen what
they call "better days" They mean
idle days. They mean the days OF
youth, which were meant as DAYS IN
which to learn how to do fair snare
of the worlds work. They mean
wasted days. Such girls come to her.
and say:
II have never been obliged to do
anything for myself, and can give the
best references as to character and re-
spec,ability; could be companion to
Il lady, keep house where there are
servants, or read to an invalid"
The superintendent has so many
such appl cations that she makes a
somewhat impatient reply: mo ra-
tional, self-possesscd lady has time 10
waste upon a companion"
that only one thing is generally in de-
mand, namely: useful labor done with
skill and care. Parents with daugh-
ters approaching maturity should care
fully consider this fact. Let the girls
learn to do something that may be de-
pended on to give them subsistence
when their parents can furnish it no
more.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-18
Tie Pleasures Of Editing.

Editing q paper, says a provincial
editor, is pleasant thing. If it con-
tain too much political matter, people
won't have it; if it contain too little,
they won't have it. If the type is too
large, it doesn't contain enough read
ing matter; if the type Is too small,
they can't read it. Ii telegrapl'lc re-
ports are published, some folks say
they are nothing but hashes up; If
they are omitted, they say there is a
want of enterprise. live put in few
Jokes, folks say we are nothing but a
rattle head if we omit jokes, they say
we are all old fossil. If we publish
original matter, they condemn us for
not giving them selections if we
publish selections, folks say we are
lazy for not giving them what they
have not read in some other paper.
If we give q maA complimentary
notices we are censured for being par
tial; if we do not, all hands say We
are a great boor. If we insert all arti-
Gle which pleases the ladies, men be-
come jealous; if we do not cater to
their wishes, the paper is Lot tit to be
in their houses. if we attend church,
they say it is only for effect; if we DO
not, they denounce us US deceitful and
esperately wicked. If we speak well
of any act, folks say we dare not do
otherwise; if we censure, they call us
a traitor. If we remain in our office
and attend to business, folks say we
are too proud to mingle with our fel-
lows; ii we 20 about bit, they say
we had better stay at home and get
on with our work. If we do not pay
all bills promptly, folks say we are not
to be trusted if we do pay promptly,
they say we stole the money.
"1he Inland Printer.
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QuauUS
Troubles are in Gods catalogue Of
mercies.
Nobody can come between us and
God but ourselves.
Look for something TO love, and you
will see less to hate.
1t is the part Of the great and good
to do great and noble deeds, though he
risks every thing.
The heart is like the tree that gives
balm for the wounds of man only when
the iron has pierced it.
An unamible Christian is disgrace
to the Christian religion; but alas! !
such Christians abound in the world.
We can never be at peace till we have
performed the highest duty of all-till
we have arisen and gone to our Father.
Human happiness does not result
from bodily excellence nor from riches,
but is founded upon uprightness of con-
duct.
Some remedies are worse than the
disease, and some comforters distress
us more than the atflictions they la
ment.
Nothing short of hearkening and
obeying will do; but this will do all
for thee, and more than thou canst ask
or think.
1t is vain thing to think we can
take any delight in being with Christ
hereafter, if we care not how little we
are in his company here.
Nothing sets Il person so much out Of
the devils reach us humility, and moth
ing puts him so well within reach of
Heavens grace and graccs.
When benignity and genlleness
reign within we are in least danger
from without; every occurrence is be-
held in the most favorable light.
Love labor. If thou shouldst not
want it tor food, thou mayst for physic.
1T is wholesome to the body and good
for the mind. 1t prevents the fruit of
idlenesS.
We may truly conceive of God,
though we cannot fully conceive of
Him. We have right appreciations of
Him, though not all exact comprehen'
sion of Him.
Of all the passions, jealousy is that
which eXacts the hardest service, and
pays the bitte!est wages. It's service is
to watch tn, success Of our enemy; Its
wages to De sure of 1t.
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"If the musical and other merely
ritual arrangements of Church" "
says the CHurchma'a, "are devoutly
meant to please God they will do GOOD
in spite of many deficiencies; but IL
their first and chief purpose is to please
men, their ultimate effect viii! add TO
the already too strong belief that pub
lie worship is all enjoyment rather
than duty, and that unless the wor-
shipper is pleased and entertained II Is
not a duty.n
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"At one time q woman could hardly
walk through the streets of San Fran
cisco without having every one pause
to gaze Oh her, and child was so rare
that once in a theatre in the same city
where u woman had taken her infant,
when it began to cry, just as the or.
chestra began to play, man in the pit
cried out, Stop those tiddles and lei
the baby cry. L haven't heard such q
sound for ten years. The audience
applauded this sentiment, the orchestra
stopped and the baby continued lts
performance amid unbounded enthusi'
asm.n
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Daniel Webster in one of his speech

Daniel Webster in one of his speech
es said there were three things he
wished to impress on the minds OF
pupils. First, you cannot learn with
out your own efforts. All the teach
ers in the world can never make a
scholar of you if you do not apply
yourself with all your might. In the
Second place, lie of good character and
good behavior-a boy of strict truth,
and honor and conscience, in all things
Have but one rule, and let that be al.
ways to act right and fear nothing but
wrOng-doing.
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II have no appetite; I am strong
and healthy, but can't eat," writes q
young man to the editor, asking ad.
vice. "What shall l dO?" "Go and
saw q two-dollar load Of slab-wood.
You will then he able to eat. You are
probably lazy. That's what ails YOU
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At feasts, three centuries ago, every
guest brought his knife, and q whet-
stone was placed behind the door, up
on which he sharpened his knife us he
entered
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Unusual (?) Conduct.
BY THE REV. PHILIP B. STRONG.

know alittle fellow,
You'd deem almost perfection,
Until some chance occurrence
Should lead to his detection.
HGll do any one a favor,
/Run ON an errand tieetly;
80 willing and obliging,
He wins your love completely.
But let bis busy father
Desire some slight assistance,
He'll answer with impaticnce,
Or even with resistance.
Full often have / known him
With frowns do for his mother
What he, q moment later.
With smiles did for another.
The little girls. his playmates.
Consider him Just splendid;
Alas! by his own sister
He could not be commended.
How like you such behavior,
Bright boys and merry misses?
And, tell me, did you ever
See conduct strange as this is?
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John Ruskin expressed suggestive
thought when he said: ut is not easy
to estimate the demorulizing effects Oh
the youth of the country of the cigar,
in enabling them to pass their time
happily in idlcness."
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Mr.. Dudley-An Italian nobleman
offers to sell his title for, S2OO,O0O.
Miss Commousense-Dear me. l
had 10 idea it took all that money to
buy an organ and monkey.
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Nos. g. 4 and so and 81 daily except Sunday. Main
Line trains Nos. 81 and IS daily between Columbia
and Alston. Daily except Sunday between ASTON
and Greenve. ,s
D. CARDWELL, Div. Pass. Agt., Columbia, 8. G.
JAS, L, TAYLOR. Gen. Pass Agt.
SOL HAAS, Traffic Manager.
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If can put one touch of rosy sun
set into the life of any man or woman
I shall feel that have worked with
CIod
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Nov. Q, 1889, II

LII persons indebted TO RUSSELL &
n BURNS will save costs by calling on
NJ. P. DEBRUHL, ESQ. and settling
RUSSELL & BURNS.
Nov. 0, 1889, If
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In managing others, patience is the
quality most needed.
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DR.. F. E. Harrison
Fair Warning.

nFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SER
~ vices to the public. Office over the
Racket Store, McIlwain Corner. Jan. 80, 'S9.
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Barber Shop.

u ICHARD CAN'T. Is now prepared to do
IL all work In his department In the best
manner and NJ reasonable charges. Monthly
customers shaving, hair cutting and sham
pooling 81 per month. Rasors honed and put
u the best condition for Is cents each.
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FINE HORSES.

LOT OF SPLENDID BROOD MARES
X have Just been received at our stable,
which We offer To the public at reasonable
prices. Call and see them.
A. NJ. HILL & SONS.
Oct. 9th, 1889.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-18
Will Meet on Sale Days,

Until FURTHER NOTICE, the Board OF
" County Commissioners will meet OH
Sale Days. J. w. LITES,
April 10, 1889 Chairman.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-05
DARWIN AND LUBBOCK.
Pleasant Stories Told by Two Old Work
men OF KeAtOn.

Pleasant Stories Told by Two Old Work.
men OF KeitOn.
81 was fossil hunting the other day.
writes a correspondent of the Pail Mall
Gazette, 'in a chalk pit near Keston,
when thunderstorm forced me to
take shelter in shed, when l had an
interesting conversation with two old
workmen. DO you find many fossils
here?' / asked. Yes, sometimes we git
one or two, then we may be find lot
more of the same sort near it. Gen
tlemen comes along about every two
days and picks 'em over found some
sharks teeth once. Mr.. -, at Brom-
ley, said they was mammon's G.
teeth, but took 'em to Sir John Lub-
book and Mr.. Darwin, and they both
said they were sharks as soon as they
saw 'em. May be you've heard OF Mr.
Darwin? Yes, | have heard OF him.
Did the people round here often take
things to him? Sometimes, when
they wanted to know what any thing
was. He could always tell EN-. Mas
ter Frank will now If you go to him;
he's very clever I once took a effet
[eft1 TO Sir john chimed in his COM
vade. 4 killed it up yonder by the
barn. Bob saw it first, but he was
frightened He'd been boozing for a
week, and would a been scared at any
thing. 1t was about that length about
"a foot1, and Mr.. - telled me to TEX
it straight down to Sir John, it he'd such
eyes. went into Sir Johns room-he
was at home-but he couldn't tell me
what it was. ''Wait here a bit" he
said, ''and I'll look at my books. So
he went out for about q quarter OF an
hour. His room was full of all sorts oI
things-lizards, toads, vipers and near
ly every thing. When he came back
he told me what it was and gave me
half a sovereign. That's the male.
he said; you'll find the female near
the same spot"' Which Sir John was
thatP That was old Sir John. / took
pair OF live effets once down to young
Sir John. Sir John as is; the one as
knows a lot about ants.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-05
The Secret of Happiness.

The true secret OF happiness les in
contriving to be continually pleased,
rather than highly pleased, and this is
best effected by providing constant en-
ployment for our time. Business and
those preparations of pleasure which
partake of the nature OF business, as re-
quiring long contrivance and applica-
ton, are more productive of enjoyment
than pleasure itself Nor is it the least
distinguishing mark of difference be-
tween the civilized and the savage, that
the one spend their days in idleness
and gaping, unless while fighting with
man or beast whereas, the others have
multitude OF employments to busy
themselves upon. N. Y. Ledger.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-05
WIT AND WISDOM.

As a rule the rich love 10 display
their wealth, except when the assessor
comes around Texas Siftings.
When a man is little short in
money affairs, he makes even by being
long in making payments. IN. D. Pic.
ayune.
Industry doth preserve and perfect
our nature, keeping it in good tune and
temper, improving and advancing it
toward its best state
He who tells a lie is not sensible
how great task he undertakes; for he
must be forced to invent twenty more
to maintain one. Pope.
The man who has never tried it
thinks that it is easy enough for any
one to make jokes; and so it is, but it
is hard for the joker to get other peo-
pie to indorse them. Somerville Jour
nal.
-Laziness grows on people; it begins
in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
The more business man has to do the
more he is able to accomplish, for he
learns to economic his time. 49, Sidney
Smith.
"A great many people worry and
fret and strain every tensioned nerve
fitty-one weeks in year to earn dol
lars. Then with battered, broken
down systems they devote a week to
repairs. In such contest the ceme-
terry will win every time.
Nothing is so tiresome as walking
through beautiful scene with a minute
philosopher, a botanist, or pebble
gatherer, who is eternally calling your
attention from the grand features OF
the natural picture to look at grapes
and lucky-stones. Sir Walter Scott
Guilt, though it may attain tenn
poral splendor. can never confer real
happiness. The evil consequences OF
crime long survive their commission,
and, like the ghosts of the murdered,
forever haunt the steps of the malefac-
IOF. luC pttblo Vi NANtuSf ttiOus II NOiJ
seldom those of worldly greatness, are
always those of pleasantness and peace.
Church Union.
The best of our g.ad days some
times come quickly following the most
sorrowful, just as mist and storm are
often succeeded by the clear shining
after the rain. No one may be sure
that tomorrow will be beautiful, but
he can hope so, and there is pleasure
in looking for streaks Of light in our
sunsets that we should not deny our.
selves. United Presbyterian.
1t is wonderful how men change 10
changed hearu Being ennobed our
selves we see noble things, and loving
find out love. Little touches of courage,
OF goodness Of love in men, which
formerly looking for perfection. we
passed by, now attract US like flowers
beside u dusty highway. We take
them as keys to the character and door
after door flies open 10 US. Christian
at Work.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-05
AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.
1t Was Very Touching, But Fully Thre'
Months Too Late.

Il Was Very Touching, But Fully Three
Months Too Late.
He had asked half dozen OF US on
the depot platform at Elmira
for money to help him pay
his fare to Binghamton, to be
present at the bedside of his dying wife.
but all had refused, satisfied that he
was a beat Then he spoke up and in
quired:
Gentlemen, is there man from St.
Louis in this crowd?n
Some one replied that a st. Louis
man was sitting on his trunk further
down, and the beat sought him out and
began:
Il hear you are from St Louis. So
am |. It's the grandest city in the
country. If ever get back there I'll
never leave it. Ever beenin Chicago"
"Yes."
"Then you'll agree with me that it's
nothing but an overgrown village.
Why, sir, we st. Louisians have to ask
the conductor If he will please stop the
train at Chicago whether it is tagged
or not"
"Yes."
''And the impudence OF Chicago in
claiming more population and businessl
Great heavens, but what brass! Our
next census will show Chicago out OF
sight"
Yes"
'Td rather live in ST. Louis on a
gcust than in Chicago on ten thousand
a year. Think of the river, the streets,
the corrupt officials, the loose morals
of society, the dishonesty of her busi-
ness men! am proud that hail from
st. Louis. am glad to meet fellow
citizen. As fellow ST. Louisian, ]
know you will be only too glad to grant
me favor. My situation is this: My
wife"
The other held up his hand to inter-
rupt him, and then quietly said:
Its no use. ! sold out every thing
had in ST. Louis and moved to Chi
cago three months ago! Try somebody
else.n-N. Y. Sun.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-05

Nails will be thrown into the street
despite of all we can say to the contra
ny. Have small vial of muriatic acid
on hand. and when horse has picked
up nail go for the vial first Of all, then
get pincers and pull out the nail; soon
as it is out pour in the acid before the
hoof contracts; then put cotton on top
and cover with tallow, melting it with
hot poker. The next morning open
and add more acid, closing as before.
Do this three times; then apply cotton
and tallow only daily for about a week;
the wound win then take care Of itself.
| have had more than a dozen nails,
from heavy spikes down to seven-pen-
nys, in my horses feet. and cured them
all this way. DO not pull out the nail
first and then go for the vial. as you
will not thus get the acid to the bottom
# the wound. know this to be relia-
Die and only ask fellow-farmers to try 1t
when the opportunity oilers Western
pIowman.