The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

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saved by oil in late hurricane off the
Bahamas.
Porous glass for window ranes has
been produced i'm Paris. The pores
are too fine to admit Il draft, but they
assist i'm ventilation.
The man who spends most of his
days in giving advice to his friends
| has no nee., at all to lie awake nights
wondering why he isn't popular.
"Let every Christian father and
neither understand that when their
child is three years old they have done
more than half they will ever do for his
character"
Robert Burdctte says cts the cas-
lest thing in the world to invent a
new religion; any fool can do that.
1t is thousand times easier to invent
new religion than to live up to the
old one"
A Norwegian engineer locates leaks
in ship while in dry dock by filling
the vessel with smoke. The leaks are
soon shown by an escape of smoke, the
process requiring only thirty or forty
minutes.
The Salvation Army has been warn
ed by White Caps to leave Chicago.
a letter addressed "Slavation Supes"
and signed Captain Terror" has no
titled them that they will fare badly if
they do not go at once.
A dispatch from Raleigh, n. c.,
March lG, says the negro exodus from
that State is about to take the form of
a colonization of the negroes in Ar
kansas. They purpose taking the
unoccupied lands and follow agricul-
| ture.
At the McKendree lecture-room,
Nashville, there was recently spell
ing bee. Drs. Fitzgerald, of the Ad-
voeutc, and Price, Of the Female Col
lege, were left as contestants Of the
match, neither being able to outdo the
other.-HoiStoa MethodiSt.
IAN Open Letter" is the heading of
a statement (CiTcular) made "to the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
concerning the present work, needs
and prospects of the Japan Mission,"
signed 10y J. G. G. Newton, n. w. Ut
ley and o. A. Dukes, Kobe, Feb. Sth
1889. The address is too long for this
paper.
In Switzerland seventy per cent of
the young men are said to be unified,
by the use of alcohol and tobacco, for
the military service required by the
Government, and upon examination
have been rejected on account of this
impairment of their physical condi-
ton.
About two years ago middle-aged
mau committed suicide by jumping
into the East River from Il Brook yn
ferry boat, leaving rs q legacy to his
wife and children, and to the world
generally, letter containing the
charge-"Let all men take warning
and keep away from horse-racing and
pool-r0oms."
The Australian system of voting
went into effect in Massachusetts with
the opening of the year, and the au-
thorities Of that State have requests
from all over the country for copies of
the law. Interest in the reform ballot
throughout the United States was new
er SO great as it is now, and measures
to place it in operation will be before
many Legislatures this winter.-,S.
Louis GLoJc-Dcmocrat.
1t is impossible to control and oper-
ate mixed schools, even up North,
where they preach it. In all Ohio
county, recently, tie matter was test
ed. The farmers formerly had many
colorcd tenants. Since the passage of
Il law requiring mixed schools, the far
mers notify the latter that they have
made other arrangement us to their
lands, and the latter must seek other
quarters, and in that way the colored
element i eliminated from the schools.
1t is diiliculto or the next thing to i'm
possibility to control the matter by
legislation. 1t would be better to
adopt the uniform rule of having sep
arate schools and be done with it
.HutcsriNc Christian AtlrOcatc.
a happy illustration of the working
of our national institutions, has been
the mutual courtesy between the retir-
| ing and the incoming Presidents at the
time of the Inauguration just consum-
mated at Washington. All party ami
mostly appears to have passed away,
ut least for the time, and the two late
contestants for the headship of Il great
nation exchanged places with entire
amity. Although without political
power, it is evident that the women of
the two households, outgoing and in
coming, contributed much to this right
order of things at the White House
and the Capitol. Will the influence of
women he lessencd, for such good ends,
| if they ever become possessed of Il
share in the choice of men and meas
ures, us partakers of the suffrage?-
Friends RcriceO.
Considerable excitement prevails in
Quebec over the sharp antagonism
which has been awakened between the
Catholics and Protestants of that PROV
ince. 1t is believed by intelligent OBJ
servers of the situation that the rela-
tions between these two classes will
not bear much further strain. In On
tario and Quebec the Roman Catholic
is practically the State Church, and
other citizens have become reslive un-
der the usurpation. The Legislature
of Quebec recently enacted a bill
known as the Jesuits' Estates bill,
making provision for the payment of
$500, 900 TO the Jesuits to reimburse
them for property contiscated by the
British Government in 1913. The To-
ronto AuH recently published an oath
which it alleges is taken by the Jesuits
binding them to renounce allegiance
to any Protestant king, prince. or
state, and acknowledge the Pope alone
as spiritual and temporal sovereign.
For this the Jesuits have brought suit