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Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-08-23

Over 90 people were forced to leave their
homes yesterday to call for free trial pack
age of Lanes Family Medicine. II your blood
is bad, your liver and kidneys out of order, if
you are constipated and have headache and an
unsightly complexion, don't fail to call on any
druggist to-day for free sample of this grand
remedy. The ladies praise it. Everyone likes
1t. Large-size package 50 cents.
The Michigan wool crop this year is estima-
ted at II ,360, 600 pounds.
penny wise and pound foolish'' are those
who think it economy to use cheap soda and
rosin soaps, instead of the good old Dobbins g
Electric Soap; for sale by all grocers since 1864
Try it once. Be sure, buy genuine.
CALIFORNIA sent 3,5oo,ooO pounds of honey
to Europe last year.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-08-23

THE limbs of many Miffiin County PennO
trees are dying from locust stings.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-08-23

$500 offered for an incurable case of Catarrh
in the Head, by the proprietors of DIR. Sage's
Rap1pdu
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-08-23

The Michigan wool crop this year is estima-
ted at II, $3.50, 600 pounds.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1889-08-23

CALIFORNIA sent 3.5oO,OoO pounds of honey
to Europe last year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Some Wise Thoughts Of the Greeks

Some Wise Thoughts Of the Greeks.
No one is free who is not master of
himself.
If you wish to be good, first believe
you are bad.
What is not right to do, do not even
imagine yourself as doing,
You will err least in your judgments
if you err not in your life.
Choose the best life, habit will make
it sweet.
When friends are present, do to
them good deeds; when they are alb
sent, speak of them good words.
Time freeth fools, but reason frees
the wise from grief.
Wise he who fretteth not for what
he lacks, but who rejoiceth in the
things he has.
If anyone tells you that person is
speaking i'll of you, make no defense
with reference to what was said but
reply, "You see, he did not know my
other bad qualities, or he would not
have mentioned only these"
May I add another thought, sugges-
ted by the one above?
Become not angry with thy friend
when he chideth thee wrongfully, but
remember that he hath often praised
thee beyond thy desert.
We may combine the two thus:
Balance the falsehoods of an enemy
by the truths he might have said; and
the undue censure Of a friend by the
undue praise he often giveth thee.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20

How HE LOST HIS SITUATION
The editor of the Waynesburg pa
Republican asked his nephew, "How
came you, James, to lose your place."
"Well, I'll tell you," was the reply.
"I had an easy berth got my seventy
five dollars month had an assistant
didn't have to get down till eight in
the morning; left at five; had q chance
to take life easy, but gradually began to
take it too casy-didn't get down until
nine in the morning instead of eight
waited to smoke two cigars instead OF
one; grew careless of my money, used
four dollars where I had been using
two.
"First, I knew my salary was cut
down little, and then q little more
but / I couldn't take the hint, but
fretted about my poor situation, and
one morning I walked up after nights
spree, and 10 T didn't have any situa-
ton at all. But I'll tell you what did
have, uncle, l had my experience"
That youth is working at forty-five
dollars month now, instead of seven.
ty-f1ve, but he already has six hundred
dollars i'm the bank. Would that
more of our youths might be profited
by his experience.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
A Story for Wives.

A wife once retired for the night,
worn-out and petulant because OF her
MANY cares and her husbands absence
when she thought he might have been
at her side. After time he came
home, sat down at his desk, and work
ed long and hard at his accounts,
while she lay looking out at him, and
feeling angry shat he seemed wholly
unmindful of her. When he had laid
away slate and books she saw him un-
lock a drawer, and take from it a pic
ture, which he fingered lovingly over,
tenderly kissed, and then replaced.
Her woman's curiosity was reused,
and she determined to know more OF
the matter. So, while he was getting
ready for bed, she feigned sleep. He
soon slept soundly, and then she crept
from her place, like q thieT in the
night, took the keys, unlocked the
desk and drawer, and found that her
husband had been kissing a picture OF
herself, which was taken when they
were first married. Then she was cha
grined and mortified because she had
not been more loving wife, and went
back to bed with new resolutions
formed. In the morning she put on a
wrapper that was clean and very be-
coming, collar and bow, and careful
ly brushed her hair. When her hus-
band came in to breakfast, he looked
at her, caught her in his arms, and
kissed her. Then he asked the chill
dren if the little mother didn't look
pretty. She was wise enough not to
forget the lesson.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Various THOUGHTS,

Pity toward the bad is always du-
ty.
Gospel truths can never become COM
monpIace to the Christian.
We cannot truly reform the wicked
by harsh, cruel spirit and conduct to
them.
1t is o good indication when we are
disgusted and impatient with sin in
ourselves.
No person of good sense, in good
health, is precise in regard to the quail
ity of daily food.
Many persons are learned in art, in
science, in literature, who are very ig-
norant in self-knowledge.
Christian communion should be
sought and priced, not mainly for en-
joyment, but for improvement.
We should be extremely covetous
and in great haste to be ''rich in good
works." That is being rich indeed.
Without true selt-knowledge, all
other kinds Of knowledge will be Of
but little use to US, and that little use
but little while.
"Glory to God in the highest, on
earth peace, good will toward men,"
is the glory Of 1.-The glorious gospel OF
the blessed God"
Many persons, and even some who
profess to be Christians, appear to be
more deeply interested in Shakespeare
than in Solomon.
A Christian may spend too much
time in retirement with God but the
great danger is in directly the opposite
Of this practice.
Many persons of eminent talents
and piety often sadly injure a good
cause by the injudicious manner in
which they present some of its most
important principles.
Ii we are truly meek and reasonable
we shall as cheerfully and fully accord
superiority of mental as of physical
strength to another when such strength
is evident to us.
Though we can learn enough from
the works of creation and tile Holy
Scriptures, concerning the nature and
character of God, to excite our pro-
foundest reverence, admiration, won
der, and love, yet as to the full under
standing and comprehension of His
nature and power, our knowledge is
less than the light of spark to the
splendor Of the light of the sun, and
this question to man, in time and in
eternity, will always be pertinent and
weighty: "Who by searching can find
out God?"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20

Every one who would make progress
in the moral life must cultivate and re-
fine his moral perceptions, just as he
who would make progress in the intel
lectual life must cultivate and refine
his mental perceptions. If, as Her.
chel said, precision is the soul of SCI
ence, precision is in a like sense the
soul of morals. It is quite common to
ridicule moral "hair-splitting;" and
yet there is in every moral question
the situation at which it is necessary
to split the hair. The line in ethics,
as in mathematics, has length, but not
thickness. Bacon saw that the ad-
vancement of physical science depend
ed largely upon our power to render
minute phenomena perceptible to the
senses by instruments of measure
ment. The moral eye, the moral ear,
the moral touch, are our God-given in
struments. It'll our business to sharp
en- their edges, to polish their hearings,
to adjust their relations. It is our bus
mess to weigh consequences with
them, to measure results by them, to
ascertain the bearings of the soul-life
through them. A point in mathemat-
les has no dimensions, but merely DO
sition. Every transaction in life has a
moral point in it. The inevitable obli-
CATION upon every one connected with
that transaction is to give that point
it's true position. And through or
around every transaction, every
thought indeed, one must, once for all,
draw the indelible and eternal line.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
A Cheat Exposed.

A man working in a large factory
was hit in the left eye by a hammer
which slipped from the hand Of a fel.
low workman. The man said his eye
was blinded by the blow. The doctors
could not see that the eye had been in
iured at all, but he brought suit against
the owner Of the factory for compensa-
ton for the loss of half his eye-sight.
When the day Of the trial came an
eminent oculist examined the mans
left eye, and said he believed it to be
as good as the right one. The man
still declared that he could not see any
thing with the left eye; but by SIM
pie device the oeulist convinced the
Court and the jury that the man was q
perjurer, and presenting false claim.
The oculist knew that the colors green
and red combined make black so he
prepared black card OH which few
words were written in green ink.
Then the man was ordered 10 put on a
pair of spectacles with two different
glasses, O red one for the right eye, and
a piece of ordinary glass for the left.
When he had put them OH, the black
card was handed to him and he was
told to read the writing on it. This he
did without hesitation, and the cheat
was at once exposed. The red glass
over his sound right eye made the
green writing look black like the rest
of the card, SO he could not have read
it with that eye alone; and the left
eve, which lie said was sightless, was
the one with which the reading had
been done.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Lessons In Etiquette.

The following lesson in street etl'
quette may contain a usful hint fol
more than one young man who may
never have looked at the matter Ill
the light in which it was forclbly
brought to the attention OF thought
less brother: >,
A young man whom we will call
John stood in the doorway OF one OF
the crowded streets of large city.
Another young man, with a young
woman leaning on his arm, passed
along the street.
Halo, Maryw called John, from
the doorway, loudly and tamlliarly,
to the young woman.
The young man with her stopped,
excused himself, and lett the young
woman at u milliner's shop near by.
Then he went back to the one called
John, who still stood in the doorway,
and asked him what he meant by his
impertlnence. :.
"What do you mean by impertl-
nencew angrily asked John. -.
You insulted the lady l was with" "
was the reply.
II didn't do anything but say,
"Hallo, Nary" And, anyway, don't
you know she's my sister ?"
"Yes, L know that, but you had no
right to attract attention 10 her on a
crowded street by hallooing at her.
DO you suppose the other fellows and
the crown knew that you were her
brother! What would they think o.
a girl thus accosted:"
''Never thought o. that" said the
brother, slowly. "Well Ill look out
next time.n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Importance of Sleep.

Prof. Haven, of the Michigan Uni.
versity, who publishes occasional pa
pers on the subject of health, in a re-
cent article has the following on sleep
1t is fraught with good common sense
The law of life most frequently vio-
lated by students is the demand tor
timely and sufficient sleep. The mind
uses up the machinery of the body
when awake, in proportion to the ra-
pidity and energy of it's working, and
the reservoir is filled up again in sleep.
Henry Kirk White shortened his life,
not with q dagger or opium, but with
an alarm clock. He did not retire to
rest when he should, and obeyed the
summons of his villainous clock when
he should have slept. He died in 1906,
aged twenty-one. Probably he might
have been alive to-day. but L can
sit up all night" says the youthful
student, "even after q hearty supper,
and feel no bad effects. l rally again
in tWenty-four hours" Of course you
do. He would be feeble younger
who could not endure dissipation for a
time. This is the advantage of youth
and a good constitution. If you must
expose yourself in this way for sufii-
GENTLY worthy motive, do it like a
man, and bear it. Over-punctilious
men, who live according to the time
piece and balances, are not the highest
type of men. But the everlasting fact
remains that nature will enforce her
laws. If you deprive yourself Of
timely and sufficient sleep, prepare to
pay the penalty when the day of reck-
oning comes. Come it will. The sto-
ries about Wesley, Lord Brougham,
Napoleon and others, who only slept
four or six hours in the twenty-four,
have done much harm. They are gen.
orally not really true, for these short
sleepers almost invariably take many
maps in the day time. If not, they are
exceedingly regular in their other hab-
its, and lose no time in wakefulness in
bed. 1t is wise to take regular sleep
enough to keep the nervous system
steady and strong.
Almost as injurious as late hours at
night is the practice Of rising too early
in the morning. The best alarm clock
is sunlight. The eyes should not be
wearied by artificial light in the morn
ing. If they must bear this exposure,
let it be just previous to the repose Of
night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20

PIONEERS OF THE PRESs.-The first
newspapers published in this country
were the following:
First newspaper-Coloniat Press,
Boston, 1880.
First political paper-JournaI, New
York, 1888.
First daily paper-Aduertiser, Phila'
delphia, 1774.
First religious paper-Rccorder,
Chillicothe, Ohio, 1914.
First agricultural paper-Americar7
Farmer, Baltimore, 1918.
First commercial paper-PaTces Cul-
rent, New Orleans, 1872.
First penny paper-Mornirag Post,
New York, 1888.
First independent paper-Herald,
New York, 1885.
First illustrated paper-Nea0s, Bos,
ton, 1858.
First religious daily Witness, New
York, 1870.
First illustrated religious paper
Weekly, New York. 1871.
First paper west of the Mississippi
Republican, St. Louis, 1905.
First illustrated daily in the world
Graphic, New York, 1873.
First Woman's Rights paper-Liy
Seneca, Falls, New York, 1917.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20

AS no child is too young to be train
ed in the Christian life, so no adult is
ever too old to be regarded as more
than child in Christ. If it is good
for vivacious child to learn to exer-
else self-restraint by keeping quiet
through church service, it is good for
grown persons to exercise their self
control If tempted to complain of that
child's evidencing its weariness. It
may be that the child is making more
heroic and laudable efforts to attain q
becoming stiffness in the presence Of q
wearisome service, than the querulous
adult is making in the presence of the
Wearied child, Of course, there Is
fitness and an unfitness of times and
places. But it is unfair to conclude
that because a particular person is
made fidgety by the child's presence
that the child should be kept from
church, just as it would be unfair to
conclude that if that grown person un-
duly, attracted the child's attention
that he should therefore absent him
self from the service. Both persons
are but children, after all and, with
certain limits, each has rights hat
the other is bound to respect. Each
one is, indeed, Gods training agency
for the other. Let the little child
learn to exercise becoming self-re-
straint in the presence of service spe-
cially devised for the adult; but let
the child of larger growth also learn to
exercise patience AMI self-restraint in
the presence of a wearied and justly
restless child. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
A Desirable Quality.

One of the most desirable things in
the Christian life is an agreeable tenn
per. That royal touch-stone, which
men call disposition, needs to be ever
in order to get the best benefits of re-
llgion. We are too apt to get off our
ease, and borrow trouble at a large
rate of interest, or fret and worry
about difficulties real or imaginary.
No doubt the beauty of the Christian
life is sadly marred by the disposition
to fret. There was one lesson that the
Apostle Paul had mastered that it
would be well for US to learn. He says:
II have learned in whateyerstate I am
Herewith to be content" This is, to
a great degree, the secret of his mighty
faith, and it is secret we shall do
we'll to learn. ~:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Household Hints.

Kitchen floors painted with boiled
| linseed oil are easily cleaned.
When broiling steak throw q little
salt on the Goals and the blaze from
dripping fat will not annoy
Black cotton gloves or stockings will
not crack if scalded in salt and water
before wearing them.
A little vinegar mixed with stove
polish will prevent the dust from fly
ing, and viii make the stove brighter.
Flour of sulphur has proved to be all
efficient preventive against the ravages
of carpet bugs or buffalo moths.
Carbolic acid may be used with salts
factory results during Summer months
to destroy ants, aud as disintectant.
A cloth saturated in kerosene and
dipped into whiting, for cleaning tin
ware, is much beLLer than anything
else used.
TO remove iron rust, apply lemon
juice, place in the sun, covered with
glass, till of a lemon color, then let it
stand in boiling water till cold.
When the nose threathens to bleed
excessively, it can sometimes be arres-
ted by putting the feet into hot water,
or by applying mustard plaster be-
tween the shoulders.
When watering potted plants in win
ter do not pour the water in the crown
of the plants, but simply moisten the
earth in the pots. Too much moisture
will do more injury than benefit.
TO raise the pile of plush or velvet
dampen on the wrong side with clean,
cold water, then hold tight across the
face of hot iron and rub up the crush
ed spot with a stiff, clean brush.
TO apply mustard plaster so as not
to blister the skin, mix the mustard
with the white OF an egg instead of
water. The plaster will draw thor
oughly without blistering the most del
icate skin.
Ringworms often come on the
healthy skin without "any apparent
cause or provocation," are very stub
born, and will yield to but few reme-
dies !! but boraX will efectually cure
them. Wash with a strong solution
three times a day, and dust over the
fine, dry powder.
We. have removed the very worst
ink stains from carpets of very delicate
colors by rubbing them with SKIM
milk, and when they are almost effac.
ed, washing them with cloth wrung
out in boiling water without soap.
Then cover the place with dry cloth,
and let it remain so for day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Fairs Perverted.

It is q great pity that horse-raclng
should he so largely practlced at the
various agricultural fairs. That men
should meet together after harvest to
compare their success as measured by
the variety and extent OF the crops
they have peen able to secure from the
bounty of nature, is not only harm
less, but directly beneficial. An intel
ligent comparison OF methods OF pro-
cedure is always wise, and tends d.
rectly to improvement, while competl-
ton is at the bottom OF any successful
and growing business. But the sub
tlety of Satan is exhibited at agricul-
tural shows, as well as everywhere
else among his children, by inducing
them to add that which is always de-
grading to that which is in ltseli
harmless. Not satisfied with the quiet
service he receives from all who are
not true Christians, by getting them to
make "trials OF speed" a principal at
traction at their gatherings, he sue
ceeds in foisting upon the community
an evil, recognized as such by the law,
and by universal experience. AS a
consequence. the autumn fairs instead
of being gatherings of neighbors to
compare results, have in large measure
degenerated into speculations to make
money, which draw together huge
crowds, among which are gamblers,
betting men and other dissolute char
acters, drawn thither by the racing,
making them almost entirely unfit for
the presence of respectable people. and
schools of vice most injurious to the
young. The evil is great and grow
ing one which should receive prompt
attention at the hands Of the proper
authorities.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20

CLEANING THE CoRNERs.-A friend
of mine once told me that when he
was boy his father sent him to clean
the windows. He got u cloth, and be-
gan rubbing away at the panes. By
and-by his father came to see how the
work was getting on. He found the
little fellow rubbing at the middle of a
pane, where it was already clean, and
never touching the corners, which
were full of dirt, and said:
"Never mind the middles of the
panes-they are always clean; clean
the corners ~
The boy never forgot what his father
said, and afterwards saw how well it
applied to his life and the lives of 9TH
ers, us we'll as to the window-panes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-20
Interruptions.

Liability to unforeseen interruption,
says the Sunday School Times, is a
most annoying liability to every one
who diligently pursues his vocation in
life. Interruptions are stops Of our
train not provided for by the time-ta.
BILE; they dissipate the accumulated
momentum of our progress, which
would be almost sufficient to carry us
on by itself. They not only throw US
behind time for q few minutes, but by
our loss of those few minutes we may
be prevented from making connec-
tions at the functions, and thus be cut
off entirely from the reaching of our
destination, while the danger of collis-
ions in our engagements, and the con.
sequent wreck in our projects, is, there
by, increased. And yet the unavoida-
bic Interruptions in our life's work are
providential, and, therefore, work to-
gether with all other things for our
highest good in Gods service. The
callers who throw us off the track, or
the severe sickness which brings us to
q stop, may have been sent to put us in
a better place than the track we were
on, or to reveal to us that we were go
ing wrong when we thought we were
going right. The interposition of in
ternal or external difficulties, of a re-
fractory intellect, or of inclement
weather, between ourselves and our
object, may be the very best thing for
us. We may need to be stimulated, or
we may need to be hindered. In fact,
life's continuity needs to be broken up
and interrupted for us. We are to be
not one-sided, but many-sided. We
ought not to desire to devote ourselves
so exclusively to the pursuit of any
one object as that thereby we shut all
others out. Hence it is that interrup-
tions, even though they be unpleasant
and annoying at the time, are often
blessings in diSpuiSe.