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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
Wasted Years.

What remarkable promise that is Of the
Lord to his repentant people: II will restore
to you the years that the locust hath eaten,
the canlser worm. the caterpiller, and the
palmer worm" Tho past years Of unfruit-
fulness may be restored.
Christian, it may be that with you the sun
is going down. You have but one life to
live. Count up the years Of your Christian
life that the locust of worldliness and the
canker worm Of the care of the world: and
the caterpillar OF sinful pleasure. and the
palmer worm Of secret sin have devoured
and made unfruitful! How dreary the re-
cordl Can they be restored to youa There's
the promise. Claim it. Fly to Christ.
Henceforth know nothing among men but
him cruc fed.
Die unto the world. Live unto righteous
ness Pray for the restoration Of these de-
voured years. 1t may be that even you may
reap harvest that will gladden. your heart
through all eternity. There is no TINA Tor
anything .-[Cnaplaiu G. c. MCabe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
I,O ms q Wood Worker.

Carpentry was the trade of the Amer;
lean borigines-Ind:ans and mound
builders. Mr.. H. F. Mcleod, OF the
Smithsonian Institution, states that the
tent-poles of the Sioux Indians even no"
show pretty specimens of work; and the
Mooui Indians, since long before the
landing of Columbus, have known how
to nortise timber to make ladders, and
to swing doors on hinges from the top.
The chisel they push rather than ham.
mer, and they work the board up and
down on fixed saw; but the results are
creditable. The Aztecs made good
glass which they used for their best cut.
ting blades, swords, dsggers, spears,
saws, chiscls and axes. They sharpened
these by cleaving of the dull edges
WaaAia1ton S.ar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
Automatic Oil Life Float.

The new life float, which is supplied
with reservoir of oil in order to sup.
port bodies in the water, is based on the
recent cases of successful experience with
oil in overcoming the power of waves,
aud thus saving property and life from
destruction. The reservoir in this case
is provided with an outlet, by means OF
which the oil may escape automatically,
no matter on which side the float, or
buoy, may be turned when thrown into
the water, or to which it may be i'm
PEELED by the waves when in the water.
Thus, by means of the escaping oil, the
surrounding water is expected to be:
come sufficiently calm to enable the float
to be discovered at greater distance
than it otherwise could be, and calm
spot secured around the float for the
preservation of life. Chicago Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
Greece Is Still Pastoral.

There are only seven cities in Greece
that can boast of more than 10000 in
habitauts. Athens leads the list at S4,-
SOB; Patras comes next with 5,494
then follow Piraus with 2l,005, Her
moupolis with 81, 945, Corfu with 49,.
517, Zante with 16, 2S0, and Larissa with
13, 1863. Argos, Pyrgos, Argostoli, Gala;
mata, Chalcis, Spetsai, Hydra, and
Nlesolounghi follow in order ranging
from 1851 inhabitants to 1921. These
fifteen cities together contain only about
$50, 900 people, or about one-ninth OF
the whole population of Greece. Count.
ing in every town that approaches the
dignity OF city in the kingdom, we
should find that full seven-eights of the
people of the land must be classed as
rural.-Ncao York Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
Mexican System OF Peonage.

New Mexico is in the process of ono
of the greatest, but most earnest and I'M
portant revolutions she has ever known.
The transition from Mexican to United
States rule in 1S4S was effected without
the firing OF shot or the loss of drop
of blood, and so quietly that many knew
nothing of it until it was all over. The
abolition of peonage and the emancipa-
tion of the poems by the act of Congress
in 1861, though measure OF vast i'm
portance to the Territory, was more
nominal than actual; and the generation
that has since elapsed has not even yet
fully wiped out the old-time system
which was as genuine slavery as was
that of the Southern negroes. To-day
for the first time there is a cheering
probability that these last links OF bond
age will soon be broken, in fact as they
long have been in the fiction of the law.
For at last an organized effort is grow
ing in New Mexico to clean out the old
and arrogant Mexican bosses.
The old system of peonage was in out
line this: One of the rich old families
which were scattered at considerable dis
tances apart throughout the Territory
was the arbiter of power for its locality.
1t dictated the politics and the personali-
ties of its poor neighbors, even to the
point of life or death. The complaisant
Spanish law put the whip in their hands,
md they were not coy in the use of 1t.
The great amo-"boss," as we would
say-was always ready and frequently
called upon to lend some poor devil of
q paisano $40 or $50 or so. Having
made the loan, the amo took care that
the borrower should come to labor for
him in payment of the debt. When the
debtor had worked out the $40 or $50
at So. so per month-the standard wages
then for such labor-he found that he
had, like the frog in the we'll, fallen back
two feet for every foot he had jumped.
He owed the amo by this time $500 or
s3OO-and that meant that he was in for
a lifetime of peonage. If he refused to
pay or work out the debt, the amo could
clap him into Jail and keep him there
Ind make the children work until the
debt should be satisfed-which meant
Tor life. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
The DANGER of CfGer.

1t is great temptation for farmers boys
to have cider to which thsy can have con.
tinual access in the cellar. Many drunkard
began his slavery to strong drink by going
to the cder-barrel in the cellar of the old
farmhouse. A cider-drunkard is said to be
the crossest kind Of a drunkard. Perhaps
you farmers can take glass Of cider now
and then, and stop there; but you may have
who will take more than they ought to. The
strong must put no barriers in the way of
the weak. If you put cider in your cellars
keep it for vinegar, and you will always
have pure article on hand to put up your
pickles with, and use for your pork and
beans.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
The Country's Liquor Supply.

Apart from the 70. OOO, ,OOO gallons of whisky
this country consumed nearly 25,OoO, w M car
rels of beer during the past year; Ihis IS
two barrels for every adult male, when,
added to the five gallons of whisky, makes
tolerably fair supply and quite an a6unoane
at home or imported from abroad added. 1t
is safe to remark, however, that there is more
intoxlcation in five gallons of whisky than IN
two barrels of beer, and that the whisky has
not yet been displaced as the national beVef-
age. .-Brooklun Citiz.n.
1T Is estimated that the Boston stockholders
of two great Western railroads have lost
So. GOV, 900 by tho shrinkage III the value OF
their securities in the last fifteen montha
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Wonderful Words.

Wonderful words our Father has given,
Sent to show plainly the pathway TO heaven;
Wonderful Bible, so simple that even
A child can understand.
Wonderful words, so simple and plain,
Yet, as we read them again and again,
How they grow deeper! and who can retain
Fully, their meaning so grandi
Wonderful book and more wonderful love
Gently descending on wings of dove,
From the bright glory and beauty above,
Down to this sin-darkened land.
Wonderful Wonderful! How can it bea
Wonderful home that is waiting for me,
Wonderful glory, our glad eyes shall see,
When we are at his right hnnd.
-lAnna E. Ryder.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
The Death of Clear Thought.

"Some of the old poets thought the drink
ng-cup was cup Of poetry and eloquence,
but that deluson has died under the accumu-
lating witnesses of all times Each glass Of
spirituous drink is the death of clear and
beautiful thought. The tongue thickeps,
the words lose their sharp outline, the eye
its fash under even the best OF wines When
God made man He declared q partnership
between temperance and inspiration and
made cup OF water the emblem of all clear
thought. 1t is singular incident that while
Anacreon and Horace drank wine heavily
they made Helicon send forth only streams
of pure water for their nine muses. to
drink. There were many Of these
fountains: HelicoD, Pindus, Parnassus, which
could lend inspiration to the god or the
mortal who should taste their crystal drops
These tabled springs were located by men
who knew that the wine cup was an eclipse
OF the intellect, a stup not to be endured by
a god. What a wonderful logic was that
which planned Pierian Springs for all high
born beings. and which gave Anacreon a
flagon of wine. What wisdom still is that
by which our scholars send the nine muses. to
a spring Of pure water for securing new
aftiatus, and then seek their own inspiration
in barrel of whisky. What is. so good for
the muses. ought to be good for man. All
Intoxicating drinks take away that Soul
which relaIes man to the Creator. Wine is
the paralysis of thought. "-Prof Dauid
StUihy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16

Eighty-hve per cent OF the whole number
of churches in the State Of New York, now
use unfefmented wine, an advance OF fifteen
DER cent over Last year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16

At Auckland, New Zealand, the Board OF
Education recently passed resolution re-
ouiring a half hours temperance lesson to be
taught each weel; in all the pubic schools OF
the district. This law comes into force next
April
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-18
General Beale Withdraws.

Prince Georges county, Nd, republicans
yesterday nominated Chas. T. Coffin for state
senator in place Of Gen. E. F. Beale, to whom
registration was refused
In Withdrawing General Beale sent letter
to the convention. which he said: ''Believe me,
hope earnestly for the success Of our party in
Maryland, and especially in Prince Georges.
Let me ask, what has democracy done for your
Has it established system of manufactures
where farmers and laboring men may occupy
themselves during the winter months, as is
common In all the northern states? In word,
has 1t advanced you proportionately with other
parts OF the country? Have you not under the
rule OF the democracy seen wages decrease, and
land In the famous forests Of Prince Georges,
which was worth q hundred dollars an acre
thirty years ago, now difficult TO sell at twenty,
and the country becoming in parts a wilder
ness3 Ii this Is true. let me beg you to try Q
change BY carrying the county for the republi-
can party and principles. A word to colored
voters. Do not vote the republican ticket be-
cause OF any fancied debt OF gratitude you owe
that party, but because you believe that its
principles are those which protect. labor, favor
public schools and bring with them those en-
terprises and manufactures which give constant
employment to all who choose to labor.
wishing my successor all possible good for
tune and prosperity to the state Of Maryland
OF which am citizen, in spite of courts and
judges, I remain, &C."
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PROPOSALS.

pkofosns foR cEMENT, SAND AND LINK
4 fok NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON. DC.-octY-
Per n. lsss:-seAiea ProposAls indorpsd -Propo-as
TOT Cemens 30, 20 Be opened November .. lsse..
Ill De received st the Baresu Of Provisions and
S,o,hirgs NAVY Department, M.shinFton. ID. @, until
IMkLNt O'CLOCK NOON NOVEMBER EIGHTH,
iSss and publicly opened ImmediAtely thereAfter. 70
furnish and deliver 81 the Navy Yard Naxhinrton u
St W bsrrels Of Cement u nj
S.OOO Barrels OF Sand and loo Bs rrels OF Lime The
Artcles must conform % the Navy standard and a.s
the prescribed tnspsction- Blank props-als With
specincstons viii De furnished upon Application
the SommAndAnt of the Navy Yard or % the bureau.
he bids decided by lot The Department reserves the
rent 70 reyect any OF all bids deemed taoous
" sns SoyeSnmene JAMES FULTON. hynssster
oensrA. Us. navy. ccll-ls~4w
DRoPosALs FOR srEAM HEATiNG-APpARATUs
II FOk GUN AND GUN-CARRTA6f sHOPs NAVY
YARD, WASHINGTON. DC-october A. issa.-
Sealed PROPOSALS. endorsed froposAs for Heating Ap-
pArstus 20 be opened October "a $50" will L. re-
ceved II the Bureau OF Provisions and Clothing NAVY
Department. Washington, DC, UNTIL. fMflAf
O'CLOCK NOON. OCTOBER TM ENTl- Eight 4 MA.
and publicly opened immediately theresfter 10 fur.
nish and deliver. 1t the Navy Yard Nsshingtnn ID C.
all the necessary labor and material for hitting the
north and south gun shops and the guncarraee shop
IT the Washington Navy Yard with heating ap-
parztus 20 be placed and connected M ready for
in accordance with the specifications and bue-prnts
which viii be Furnished upon application % the Oom-
nandAnt Of the Navy Yard OF 20 The Bureau he bids
decided by lot The Department the rg 70
)ect all bids not deemed sdvzntAxeous TO the
Government JAMES FULTON. Psymaster Cenei al
US Navy. oeS- law<w
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The BOYS Whooped ,Em I'm.

Tue Pan-Columbians were received at Ann
Arbor, Mich, with a rousing ovation from the
student population- Along zach aide ~ the
roadway as tbov oIioh,.d g., A.. 49,.
- 0,A 'ne 0"is "a'
ine VI nearly rusty and splendld-faced
students. Away ahead stretched lane thus
formed, through which the carriages SLOWLY
nasaed easb class rooont;r,o .ho,.;,a -,
various cries With wa~;,n 49, bandss ~. r.s
canes The carr;aoas ha1,;nn " at,,So GU
every one with had bal s.,aaS w 1;na,
each side "a on ascnrt I'D ,hna ronsaa n 90
march to the nnivers;tv Tba soptberu Sa, W
oatas rssd With s,,;1oa "a Ame sou.uern aeie-
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FUTURE DAYS,

CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
CITY 81 5E o EsTATE IN The F6
Square s sS sub iS Ss: & and
square 354. sub lot and part Of sub lot 8.
81 S
% ~ 6a
public auction the highest and best bidder there
al al s1e .psced fo
lSwng lots Of Ground the an situated in the city Of
The plat q city they are
Poh 9eISskh p Hos.
s Ssss @
msd. S s to the partition d said
upon petition So,iey Young and ieeorded IN part
s' TO- docket No J. folio ys the records Of
lots win sold They " are a the northeast
o. 1Gsh nsd streets and
Attic Frame Dwelling.
and nineteen lgl in square numbered three hundred
and ninety t39O. according to the partition Of said
XoSns and r.
tie s q Ss ssG
east corner Of said 10th and streets and have .
On RiPxYS' N asSF FIRST. at HALFpAsr
1 FOUR O'CLOCK. Lot lsttered in William 4. Brad
isscTs n hEes
o. sae records OF the office Of the said Dis
Dwellings.
Immediately thereafter all that part Of Lot num-
6ered three CD in said square 1854 contained within
the following metes and bounds Beginning for the
same at point on IL street distant IL feet and
inches north from the southwest corner of the said
inches along 18th st, thence east 90 feet thence
to the place of beginning
This lot also fronts tn ct. and is improved by
Two Twos story Brick Dwellings.
The terms Of sale, IS prescribed by law, are, in
each case these: Onethird of the purchase money
day OF SALE onethird in year and third in
two years thereafter with interest per cent per
annum. the deferred payments to be secured to the
parties. according to their respective interests by
good ana suficient MORTGAGE upon the premises SO
sold which shall be subject to the approval Of the
cost. The trustee will resell at purchasers risk and
cost unless terms Of are complied with in fifteen
days from day Of sale.
R. ROSS PERRY Trustee
oC1S-d&de Eendall Building
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CO-education in Pennsylvania.
ON the Philadal Dhia presa

From the Philadelphia Press.
Co-education has just received the almost
unanimous approval Of the college faculty Of
the university of Pennsylvania. This impor-
tant action-the most advanced that has vet
been taken in the hberalizing of the institu-
tion-was the result of faculty meeting, when
this resolution was adopted with but two dis
senting votes: THAT students be admitted
without distinction of sex to all the courses of
the college faculty" The resolution will 20
before the trustees and. il they shall approve II,
all the classes from freshman to senior will be
open to students Of both sexes. Already there
are number Of young women anxious to enter
the university who are only waiting until the
resolution is passed finally by the trustees.
The universities of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Kansas and California all admit
women on an equal standing with men, and so
does the University of Mississippi. In the east
coeducation is in force at Wesleyan, the Col
lege of Vermont, Cornell university, Bucknell
Cat Lewiston) and Dickinson. In fact, at the
latter college quite a scene was created few
years ago when one Of the earliest women
graduates was Kissed while on the stage. Al
Swarthmore the practice has been In vogue for
number of years, and it is claimed by those
who are most familiar with it to have been
altogether successful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-18
Gen. Hartranft's Funeral.

HE funeral Of Gen. Hartranft takes place next
Monday afternoon at Norristown. The state of
Pennsylvania and citizens of all parts Of the
country will Join in the demonstration.
The generals death was . peaceful sinking
into sleep. At his bedside were his wife, his
two daughters, Misses Anna and Marion Hart
ranft and his two sons, Col Samuel g. Hart
ranft Of Sheridan, Lebanon county. and Linn
Hartranft, who has been his fathers assistant
for some time past. His wife, daughters and
sons are heart-broken at their great loss. Mrs.
Hartranft is utterly Frustrated. Many dis
patches of coincidence have been received from
all sections of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-18

At . meeting Of the negro democratic state
committee held in Nashville, Tenn, resolutions
were adopted favoringa division Of the colored
vote.
Hennepin avenue u. T. church, Minneapolis
has . fsctional hght caused by retiring it,
pastor, Rev. B. N. HcKaig, and calling DR.. o.
H. Tiffany Of New York. The members want
McKsig and the executive board Tiffany.
Henry Shorts. widower, aged sixty, eloped
from Chambersburg, Pa, Monday, with Mrs.
Joseph Roland, who left husband and three
children. Thsy were arrested in Grsencastla.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-18
Succession to Victoria's Throne.

hear that the duke has worried the queen
considerably about the question of the sue
cession to the throne in the event of Prince Al
bert Victor and Prince George dying without
issue, and the duke Of xe-Coburg-Go tha and
the Empress Frederick are understood to be
strongly Of opinion that, in order to prevent
any possibility Of disputes and troubles in the
future there ought to be formal understand
ing ON the subject tits undoubtedly desirable
that such questions should be properly and
publicly settled in good time, and, human life
being uncertain, the anticipated situation
might arrive any day. Lord Salisbury has
been much to blame for letting the matter
slide in order to avoid threatened disputes, a
. formal announcement ought certainly to
have been made to parliament before tho mar
riage took place.
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VNHOMAS BOWLING, Auctloneer.
SALE OF DESIRABLE THREE
STORY BRICK DWELLING. NO lilo THIR

TRUSTEES SALE OF DESIRABLE THREE
STORY BRICK DWELLING. NO. ITO THIR-
TENTH STREET NORTHWEST.
By virtue Of deed of trust dated the 9th of June A.
d. 1883 and recorded in lber No. 1914. folio 81 ct
Of the land records for the District of Column
ba and by direction Of the party secured thereby we
will sell 1t AUCTION IN front Of the premises, on
DAY OF OCTOBER. A. ID. 1889. at HALF PAST -FOUR
O'CLOCK. the following real estate, situate in the
city of Washington, District of Columbia, and
known as part OF original lot numbered
eighteen QS) In square numbered two hundred
ana forty seven t247 the contained within
the following metes and bounds, to wit: Beginning
for the same at the said lot and
running thence north on the line OF 18th street
twenty t20, set; thence west ninetysix $3.50 feet
feetto public ALLEYS thence south five t5) feet /;
thence east twenty,eight (.S) feet; thence south
twenty C20) feet to the south line Of said lot and
thence east one hundred Il 00) feet the beginning
the said nve go feet strip thirty 32) feet TO be
used as an alley: improved by Three-story Brick
Dwelling, No. ITO 18th street northwest
Terms Of sale: One-thi of the purchase money in
cash. BALANCE in one ID and two with interest
from day OF sale secured by deed Of trust upon the
deposit Of two hundred 5000 dollars Will be required
1t time OF sale II terms OF sale complied with
within ten days from the day sale the trustees re-
serve the TO resell at risk and cost of defauting
purchaser. AL conveyancing and recording ut pur-
chasers cost The undersigned trustees will pay out
OF the purchase money the four legscies CHARGED
against SAID property under the will OF Owen Leddy
EDWARD J. sTELLwAaEN,
1924 st. NV, -
.FENDALL e. ALEXANDER, Trustees.
oc18-dkds 49, La ave- Il
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Mr.. Burrows and the Bear.

BSonl INC New 10rk Sun
performing bear took the wind out Of the
POLITICAL sails of the Hon. Julius Cesar Bur-
rows at Hanover Court House, Va, the other
day In most effectual manner. Malone made
The opening speech and the owner of the bear
MADE no move to interrupt him, but when Mr.
Burrows climbed upon the stand IN. h..-
mounted into neighboring tree and began 10
turn nip-nsps from one limb to another. occa-
nonally varying the novelty Of his performance
with vigorous dance to the air of ..Way Down
In Ole Sirginny." Just when Burrows was
danced jig. He was so clever that The crowd
left the tariff orator and gathered around the
tree on which the bear was performing. The
greatness Of the occasion having been Knocked
into q cooked hat the Hon. Julius Cesar ned 70
his hotel, where he and William held Q council
OF war.
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FENDALL e. ALEXANDER, Trustees.
oc16-dkds 4S2 La ave-
THoMAs BOWLING, Auotoneer.
CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE LOT AND
FRAME HOUSE NO. 1887 TWENTY-FiRST

BY virtue Of : decree passed 10 Eou,tv r,.n.. NJ,
1917 docket 20. supreme Court Of the District Of
Columbia wherein H. G. Sherry ct al. are plsintiffs
public snction IN front Of the premises, on FRIDAY,
FOUR O'CLOCK PM, Lot Fifteen, In WolIsrd q ii =
subdivision Of lots in square nineyssven 900. wash
one hundred feet
year and IN two with interest on de-
terfed 70 Dc secured On premises sold al
s.le. All conveylncing at coat Of purchaser Terms
resale at purcha6er's xisk
JACKSON n. RALsToN, Trustee,
oc1b-d&ds 1855 e. nv
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MIR. Wanamaker's Washington Bible
Glass.
From the Philadelphia Star

1t is reported that during the coming winter
Postmaster General Wanamaker will relinquish
his trips from Washington to PhiIadelphia on
Saturdays, but will remain at the capital and
teach Bible class there. This will be great
loss to Bethany Sunday school Mr.. Wanna
maker has taken pew in the Church of the
Covenant in Washington, and last Sunday the
pastor, Rev. DR.. Hamlin, announced that a
member OF the cabinet had determined to start
Bible class, and that those who desired to Join
should register. 1t was at first thought that
President Harrison intended to teach, but it
has since been learned that Mr.. Wanamaker
will be the teacher.