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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
How to Keep Cool.

A Mississippi housekeeper of our
acquaintance kept her house, very
spacious one, cool and pleasant during
the long summer days by the follow
ing method: Until nine or ten o'clock
in the morning doors and windows
stood wide open at that time they
were closed, and kept closed until four
or five in the afternoon, when they
were again opened wide. and allowed
to remain so during the night.
Her kitchen was at a little distance
from the house, SO neither heat nor
odors from the range entered the
house. In this latitude the kitchen is
almost always part of the house, but
if the main part of the cooking is done
in the early morning, much annoy
ancc from artificial heat may he saved
Those who have nice clothes-yard
for bleaching may use solar heat for
cleansing their clothes instead of boil
ing hot snds. Wash the clothes in
warm water, soap them, and lay them
in the sun, keeping them damp with O
watering-pot. When the last install
ment of clothes is washed through the
first water, the first installment will
be ready to suds, rinse, and blue.
If nursing mothers, when engaged
in work that is heating to the blood,
will drink plentifully of cool water,
not ice-water, their infants will not
suffer on account of the mothers labor
and overheating, fact well worth
knowing.
Cold meats, colt vegetables, cold des-
serts. for dinner, are now in order. A
cup of hot tea or coffee can be made, if
desired, and food already cooked be
warmed over. A gas or oil stove
makes it possible to minimize the quan-
tity of heat required for culinary and
laundry purposes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
Character Revealed by the Eye.

A detective, who had been very sue
cessful in discovering and arresting
criminals under every guise, said, late
ly. II have but one rule to guide me.
I obtain a picture of the man and ex-
amiue his eye. Then I search for that
eye. Every other feature of his face,
together with his height, his dress, he
can alter. But his eye he cannot
change. That tells the story"
A gentleman who has long made a
study of amateur photography asserts
that its chief interest to him lies in the
unconscious revelation of character in
a photographed face. "If man have
any noble or mean trait latent in his
nature, unknown to the world, it
comes out in his photograph"
Hawthorne declared that dominant
family traits and likenesses were al
ways revealed in these sun-drawn pic
lures. even though they might not be
visible on the real faces of the sitters.
These assertions, if correct, only il
lustrate truth which is as old as man.
kind: that, as years go by, the charac
ter of man writes itself indelibly up.
on his face.
Not only the action, whether mean
or noble, but the secret thoughts which
are never put into deeds--the sensual
imagination, the cruel purpose, the lof-
ty hope, the kind feeling, all these re-
cord themselves upon the features, or
at some unexpected moment peep out
at the world from behind the eye.
The sin which we welcomed as q
pleasant guest in youth may be hateful
to us in middle age, but we can never
again make it a stranger to US. Some
look or mark in our faces betrays to a
keen observer that we were once famil
lar with it.
Among the superstitious legends Of
the Scotch there are many stories of
an unclean, wicked little fairy, who OBJ
tains entrance to house, and lives
thereafter in the cellars and coal-bins
taking mischievous part in the fami-
ly life. His prosecutions became So in
tolerable to one household, we are told
that they hired new dwelling, and at
great loss "f1itted" from their old
house, going secretly by night, to es-
cape their tormentor. But when the
cart with their moveables entered the
gate Of the new home, the shrill, hate
fnl voice of the wicked fairy was heard
from among them, crying, "Here we
are!'
The legend hints at terrible truth.
How many men have rushed from one
occupation to another, from home to
home, from country to country, to es-
cape some vice or habit which had
grown loathsome to them! Alas, they
could not travel away from them
se.ves. 1t is in youth that we must
shut the door if we would keep that
inner chamber undefiled.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
"But you do not love him."

but you do not love him."
"Oh yes I do! God knows I do
protested the unhappy woman.
"Oh no, you can't" went on Granny
Brown. II look in my glass. and ]
see you scold him continually. You
never kiss or caress him. You even
punish him if he brings flowers into
the house, or makes ever so little trou
BILE. But that is not ALL"
"Oh, what else ?" demanded the
scold, in great distress.
81 look in my glass and I do not SCI
your husband"
"Oh my God Is he to die, too o.
she cried.
II can not see him about your home
see all old man, leaning upon stick
He is quite feeble, and has long white
hair and beard, that is all I am permit
ted to tell YOU at present, daughter
The message is done"
The woman went home, thinking all
the way of what Granny Brown had
told her, and wishing, oh so earnestly
that she could live again the last few
years. She would be so kind to hel
husband and her little son. They
should never hear an impatient word
She astonished Freddy seizing him
and covering his face with kisses.
Knowing that he was to leave her, she
would scarcely let him 60 out of her
sight. If he went to play among the
flowers, she watched him anxiously
and if he strayed even little distance
away, she brought him back with
hugs and endearments.
To her husband also, her manner
was entirely changed. How could she
bear to part with the handsome man
who loved her so, and whom she real
ly loved, although she had permitted
household cares to overwhelm her af-
fections. But it was so no longer.
The scold had become again a loving
wife, and the marks of sorrow disap.
peared from her husbands face. He
was happy agaln-as happy as when
he led her, blushing bride, to their
forest home.
Year after year passed, and the wo.
man, fearing to lose her husband and
child, lavished upon them a wealth OF
affection. But they did not die.
Freddy grew up to lie fine young
man; and one day his mother did lose
him. He found fair girl who took
the first place in his heart, and away
he went to establish home of his own.
Sometime after that Mrs. White was
thinking of her earlier life, and her
thoughts turned to her husband. She
gazed fondly Oh him, and was startled
to see that he was resting his hands on
walking stick, and that his hair and
beard were white. Then she re1nem-
bered what the Wise Woman had said
and blessed her memory for the mes
sage.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

No BAD MISTAKE.-"A Sunday
School teacher once called on one of
his scholars to read the third verse of
the sixth chapter of Daniel, from
which the lesson was taken. The
verse reads, Then this Daniel
was preferred above the pres
idents and princes, because all ex.
cellent spirit was in him. And the
king sought to set him over the whole
realm The scholar, not being the
best reader in the school, gave a slight
ly revised version of the text as fol
lows: Then this Daniel was prefer
red before the presidents and princes
because an excellent spine was in
him." An excellent spine is the best
preserver of an excellent spirit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
Every Man Has His Price.

This saying is attributed to Robert
Walpole, the grand corrupter, as he
was called by his enemies. There is
reason TO believe, however, that wha
Walpole really said did not have sc
general an application, but that in re-
ferring to certain men he said, Gall
those men have their price," and not
"Every man has price," The saying
is SO recorded by Richardson, the
painter, who had ample means of be-
ing we'll informed. DR.. King records
q remark made during debate in par
lament by Walpole to Mr.. Leveson,
brother of the Jacobite Lord Cover.
"You sce," said Sir Robert, "with
what zeal and vehemence those gentle
men oppose; and yet know the price
of every man in this house except
three, and your brother is one of
them." Walpole's son, speaking of
his father, said "Sir Robert Wal
lope used to say that it was fortunate
so few men couldl be prime ministers,
as it was best that few should thor
oughly know the shocking wicked
ness of mankind. I never heard him
say that all men had their prices and
I believe no such expression ever
came from his mouth"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
The Law Of Love, and Whittier i
Leads.

The life of our gracious Redeemer
was one unbroken career of benevo-
lence. In the exercise of His high
prerogative He overruled the powers
of nature for the good of man. He
gave feet to the lame, sight to the
blind, speech to the dumb, and hear
ing to the deaf. He robbed the sepul-
cure of its prey, and worked a mira
Gle to feed the multitude. It is true
we cannot follow His example to the
letter, but we are called upon to act in
the same spirit.
How then have we fulfilled this OBJ
legation Have we not ransacked the
laboratory of nature for new means of
destruction, and prostrated the noblest
of the physical sciences to purpose of
carnage? Have we not but too often
made use of deadly machinery for
working our will upon the weak and
powerless, thus bringing onr holy re-
liSlOn into contempt?
War is Satan's masterpiece-so art
fully has he covered its deformities, so
cleverly has he drowned the shrieks of
its victims in the roll of drums and
the bray of trumpets, that men have
almost ceased to recognize its hideous-
ness. Under the influence of this
strange delusion they have learned to
call evil good and good evil, until the
destroyer of his species has become the
man whom kings and people delight
to honor. Show us, if you can, some
method ofreconciling such fearful con-
Atraries. Show us how you can love
your enemy and stab him to the heart
how you can feed him while you burn
his crops; or give him drink while you
destroy his aqueducts. Prove to us
that vengeance is Synonymous with
mercy that by fire aud sword you can
"overcome evil with good:" and we
then admit that war can be carried on
without infringing the spirit of the
Gospel. Our Saviour pronounces His
blessing on the mcrciful, and the peace
max rs. He forbids the resistance of
evil. He says-"If thine enemy hum
ger feed him; if he thirst give him
drink" He warns us that if we for.
give not men their trespasses, neither
will our Heavenly Father forgive us;
and that if we hear his sayings and do
them not, we are but building our
houses upon the sand. He winds up the
whole in one comprehensive injunc-
tion-"All things whatsoeverye We would
that men should do to you do We even
so to them"
1t is hard lesson for the world to
overcome evil with good; but let us,
as Christians, follow our Devine Mas
ter put away the sword lest we per-
ish by it, and trust in God for protec-
ton while acting in obedience to His
commandments.
"When mans ways please the
Lord, He maketh even his enemies to
be at peace with him."
(By the late Henry Richardson
Tc,rcdstle-on-T Time 1859.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

Much of the so-called ivory now in
use is simply potato. A good sound
potato, washed in diluted sulphuric
acid, then boiled in the same solution,
and then slowly dried, is all ready to
be converted into buttons and innu-
merable other things that ivory was
used for once upon q time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

One landlord, Colonel Church, owns
and collects rents for $50 farms in the
State of New York, some of them con-
tanning over 500 acres each, while his
tenants, after paying the rents, can
hardly live. How does this compare
with Ireland?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

Religion in it's purity is not so much
a pursuit as q temper; or rather it is a
temper, leading to the pursuit of all
that is high and holy. Its foundation
is faith its action, works; its temper
holiness; its aim obedience to God in
improvement of self, and benevolence
10 men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

There must be brain-service, hand
service, foot-service. purse-service, as
well as lip-service, if we would see the
answer to our prayers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
The Cheer Of the Trenton.

Our anchors drag and our cables surge
At every shock OF the hurting sea,
While the mist OF the breakers wells the verge
or the reef of coral under our lee.
From the east by north TO the north-north.
west
The wild typhoon vecrs sweep on sweep.
And from moment to moment the cross
waves crest
Buries our waist in its sIdelong leap.
Under the blows Of our plunging screw
The whitening break ers foam and churn,
But for all that Steam and skill can do,
We are drifting slowly astern, astern.
On our starboard quarter close aboard
We see the sLaunch Calliope loom,
While the black flood, from the smoke-stack
poured,
Covers the sea like pail of doom.
Her topm1asts struck and her yards braced
She is headed out for the open main,
While her shrouds, like the strings Of gi-
Scream to the touch Of the hurricane.
We from our flagship Trentons decks
Are watching her battle In hope and dread
AS she threads the throng of tossing wrecks,
Now beaten backward, now forging ahead.
She with the red cross ensign aloft,
And we, our starry banner below,
Lie beam TO beam, as the frigateS oft
Ranged in sea fights long ago.
We watch the weight Of the tempest fall
On her flooded decks and her reeing bow,
And our hearts are beating one and all,
For we both go down should she foul us
now.
Through the darkest night there's gleam to
break,
Fathom by fathom she forges past,
TIL we know by the swirl of her eddying
wake
That her seaward struggle is Won at last.
The Admiral tosses his sea cap high,
as from station to station Is passed the
word
And over the uproar Of the wave and sky
The thunder roll Of our cheer is heard.
And back from the Briton's traffail came
The gallant grateful, and proud reply,
That stirred our hearts like y pulse OF flame,
The seaman's and brothers last goodbye.
oh, blood Is thicker than water, and long
VIII England's memory hold it dear,
And the tale be told in the 70 castle song
or the flagship Trenton's parting cheer.
Waiter Mitchell, in the Ne,U York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

What it is our duty to do we must
do, because it is right, not because any
one can demand 1t of us.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

I'VE are not critic Of poetry but it
seems to us there is good deal of the
real touch in this copied from the Ha.
,Uiian Gazette. 1t will be remembered
that in the hurricane at Samoa March
1889, the English vessel Calliope
fought her way foot by foot out of the
raging coral-reefed harbor of Apia, and
as she swung clear for the open sea the
men of the American flagship Tren-
ton, themselves going down to death,
gave their British brethren a cheer,
which say they, gave them fresh cour-
age for greater efforts for life.l
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-29
TIE coTrox sIiRK EFT

The New York Commercial Bulletin =,
in its Saturday review of the cotton mar
ket, says: An increase in the general
movement of supplies and full growing
demand from consumers, especially
abroad have been pitted against each
other all the week, and not unnaturally
the open outlet for cotton has carried the
most weight. For it was very reasonably
argued that if spinners have made a mis-
take in holding off so long, and are now
tacitly admitting their error by their ac
ton, there is good reason to expect that
they may run somewhat to the other ex-
treme, especially if calculations are based
upon a continuation of the fine trade in
yarns and fabrics, which at the present
rate would require all of the seven
million bales crop, to which there has
been tendency to raise some of the pre-
Yiously low estimates. Some of the
trade, too, assert that the swelling of the
movement is due solely to this suction of
consumptive demand and will simply ex-
haust the crop at an early date. There
has, however, been entertained among
some of the shrewd operators an idea that
the foreign accounts have been tuned up
to the highest pitch possible for simple
bullish purposes, with chance for Gull
mination before q great while, and some
Of the later advices through private
sources led to an impression that trading
was becoming a little tired abroad.
Indeed the statements were to the
effect that with early wants at least
well provided for, and the cost enhanced,
spinners were feeling more cautious and
would be very likely to withdraw should
our receipts continue free. To-day's
cables rather tended to confirm the idea
that the sharp edge had been taken off
the foreign market and the tone was III
consequence reflected here to some ex-
tent, though the narrowness of a Satur-
day market prevented any radical
move, and the market settled off
rather easily, the movement of
supplies, as shown on all revised
figures and indicated for the coming
week, adding to the tame feeling current.
Indeed, additional advices at hand reit-
crate the.c claim that cotton is still delayed
in many sections by bad roads, and if this
be so, the increase in the showing of late
becomes all the more significant A por-
ton of the demand to-day came from
foreign sources, but was believed to be
simply for the purpose of undoing
hedges. The loss was 304 points, cle sing
quietly at the lowest figures of the day.
Spots made fairish record for Saturday
and remained firm, with the previous
line of quotations retained.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-29

It is an unpretentious little red brick
building, situated in the most squaiid
quarter of Gold street. The exterior is
decidedly uninviting. The interior, how
eyer, furnishes an appearance of COM
fort, even luxury, that is absolutely
startling. The reporter informed Finch
that any statement that he wished to
furnish the Journal in seIf-defense would
be published.
''I'm not guilty. he replied nervous
ly. 81 don t know what to say--that is
don't know that We anything to say;
in fat know we nothing TO say. Good
day! - New York Morning Journal.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-29
ON CHANGE
Spot Cotton Was Unchanged. Futures
Were from 2 to 5 Points Lower.
Wheat Opened Strong, FIdetuated Widely and
Closed at Deellne-Coffee and Wool
Unchanged Yesterday.
Daily Review.
OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE,


FORT WORTH. TEX. Jan. y. 1893,
The weather has been pleasant To-day
and trade has started out with vim that
would Indicate brisk business for the
week, if the weather does not change,
The supply of produce is not heavy but
is sufficient for the demand.
Cotton receipts are not heavy. Quota
tons unchanged.
The collection of internal revenue for
the first six months of the present fiscal
year were S63 ,3l2 800, an increase of
S86S 1857 as compared with the collections
for the corresponding period of the
previous fiscal year.
A trust has been formed TO control the
sale of all common or prison made
brushes in America An offer has been
made to take the entire production of
the workhouse and house of correction in
Columbus, Ohio, and pay S21 200 year
over the present cost of production. This
offer is said to have been made because
that Institution is meeting and under
selling the combination in the market.
The institutions controlled by the trust
are the Albany penitentiary, the Phila-
delphia house of refuge, the Eastern
Pennsylvania penitentiary, the house of
refuge of MorganZa, Pa, the boys in
dustrial school of Lancaster, Ohio, and
the st. Louis workhouse The trust also
controls large works employing free labor
in Elmira and New York.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-29
Live sToCK MARKETs.

CHICAGO. IT,, Jan. -Cattle-Receipts, To-
O0J; shipments, 5000; steers, s. 00d3 40; stock
ers and feeders, 81 40G3 80; COWS, bulls and
mixed. 81 4GG3 %; Texas cattle, 81 O0G2 50.
Hogs-Receipts, 16, COO; shipments, $500 ;higher;
mixed, 81 75a4 50; heavy, s. S5G5 %; light, 81 80
as %.
Sheep-Receipts. 5000; shipments. 1900; higher:
natives, So O0G5 10; western corn-fed, s. 50G
4 So; Texans, S. 00d4 50; lambs, 81 90a6 so.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Jan. 2s.-CattIe = Receipts,
1860: shipments, 100; market strong; choice,
heavy native steers, s. 70a4 %; fair TO good ma
tive steers, 81 00G3 50; butchers steers, 50 7J6
3 %; stockers and feeders, 81 70d2 50; rangers,
corn-fed, s. 00as 80; grass SIZED, 81 0Od2 20.
Hogs-Receipts, 17U0; shipments, 1000; higher;
choice heavy, s. 7004 80; packing, 81 55G4 50;
light grades, s. I5G4 90.
Sheep-Receipts, developments, none; fair to
choice, 50 OOa4 so.
Kansas Cry, No, Jan. Seattle Receipts,
2i9S shipments, 21s1; active, good TO choice corn
fed; 81 l0d4 40; common 70 medium, s. 00a q %;
stoekers and feeding steers, s. 00a3 80; cows,
Hogs-Receipts, 257s; shipments, SO; good to
choice, 81 65d4 20; common TO medium, 81 50a
Sheeu-Receipts, $50; shipments, as:
good to choice muttons, g 0064 y; common to
medium, 81 50Gs 80.
New YoRK. Jan extraordinarily, $500:
ir1ner: ordinary to prime steers, s. 5064 co.
few tops, 81 20; bulls and dry cows, 81 s1G2 s.,
with few choice bulls at 50 00d3 ..
Sheep-Reeeipts, l2OO; frmer; s40025 % for
sheep and s. 0Oes " for lambs.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-29
Dudley Must nide His Time.

New YORK, Jan. 2S.-The application
of Col William w. Dudley to vacate the
orders extending the time of the New
York Times and New York World to
answer his complaint in the action for
libel or 1T least TO limit the time was
denied by Judge Patterson in the SUI
preme court chambers to-day. In his
de cision the judge says the orders were
properly grained 1t would be ineon-
sistent to compel the defendants to
answer with orders outstanding to
enable them TO procure the facts
required from their answers. So long as
these orders remain unrevoked by the
court the defendants time cannot be
limited The plaintiff as a non resident
has no greater right than resident
plaintiff, who must submit TO orders of
the court The examinations do not seem
TO be asked in good faith, but are stated
upon oaths of reputable counsel to be
necessary.