The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-22

Lie ftSV. NdtQau duODell, EQ1tOr OF
the Methodist ItSaaera,st, New Haven,
Conn.,, is organizing a Methodist ex-
cursion to Europe, Egypt and Pales-
tine. The party will sail from New
York, by the City of Rome, August 81,
for an extended tour of twelve weeks,
at q cost of $3.50 and upward, includ.
ing all expenses. Mr.. Hubbell is q
member of the New York East Confer
ence.
Henry D. Howren, q newspaper re-
porter of Charleston, who for years
mad been under the dominion of drink,
was recently converted. In q short
while after conversion he appeared in
an Opera House in Charleston as an
evangelist. He receives many invita-
tions to make addresses. He expects
to make tour of this State and North
Carolina in the near future. =.
The two lectures by Rev. J. J. Laf-
ferty, D. D., April %, 80, In this city
were quite different from each other,
yet both of them so a la Laferty that
no one else need attempt to be like
him. Some who heard both "The Old
and the New" and "Luck and Pluckn
thought the latter superior.
A terrific storm passed ovor Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio May
10. Farms were washed out, houses,
fences, and trees along the streams
swept away, and landslides on nearly
every railroad leading out of Pitts
burg. Two children were drowned
the only deaths reported.
There is good reason to believe that
the average American ofthis last quar-
ter Of the nineteenth century Is longer
lived than his ancestors of the last cen
tury. The most casual reader cannot
fail to have been struck with the fire.
quent notices in the daily press of men
and women who have lived well on
into the nineties, and promise well to
become centenarians. The best medi-
cal opinion of the day is that the aver
age duration of human life is not only
being made longer by reason Of the
improved diet and better sanitary con-
ditions of these latter days, but that 1t
is capable of being still further length
ened by still greater improvements In
our ways and means of living.
When the garden gets as much atten-
tion as the swine lot, and the fruit
trees as much feed and care as the cat
tie, there will be more health and
good humor on the farm, and just as
much money.
A grapevine over the out-building
will not injure the building, will In
crease the attractiveness Of the premi-
ses, and will furnish wholesome, agree
able food at slight cost.
Clean water, warm quarters, good
sound grain, plenty OF gravel, and
green food makes glossy plumage; red
combs, singing hens and plenty Of
eggs.
Glass is expensive for hot-beds, and
those who prefer something cheaper
may use cotton cloth, giving it two
coats of boiled linseed oil.
It is better to have COWS confined
in stanchions, or otherwise, for milk
ing, to avoid their moving about and
to prevent accidents.
COMFORT AND HEALTH.-Never
leave the mud on your horse over
night and you will add to their COM
fort and health.
When a man once gets in the habit
of measuring merit by martyrdoms he
discriminates less closely, and the best
abused man, for whatever cause, seems
nearest to sainthood.
The surest way to produce moral
blindness is to neglect moral convlc-
tion. One who pursues this couise
will soon admire his own errors, creait
his own lies, and take pleasure in his
own wickedness.
No one loves the man whom he fears.