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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Temperance News and Notes.

A temperance temple has just been ded-
icated by the w. c. T.. U. at Fremont, Neb.
Hot milk as substitute for beer is recon-
mended by the New York Medical Record.
A native newspaper of India makes this
pertinent remark: "Our liquor traffic begins
by hanging a sign over the door, and ends
by hanging man on gibbet."
Apropos of Continental sobriety. the Glas
1otv teforner states the claim that IN each
Street in Paris out of fifty shops, thirty are
probably devoted to the sale OF wine and
alcohol.
Francis Murphy. the temperance reformer,
persuaded $500 Indanians to sign the pledge
the day before Christmas, Mr.. Murphy
claims that so per cent of his reformed men
stick to their pledges.
At Crescent Beach, Mass, a Loyal Temper
ance Legion of forty brave boys and girls
has lust been organized. and none too socn,
in view Of the fact that there is one saloon
20 every thirty inhabitants in this little sea-
side village.
DR.. Mary McCrllis. a graduate Of the medi
cal department of Boston University. after
ward a successful practitioner al Chilllcothe,
Ohio has been chosen Superintendent Of the
National Temperance Hospital. DR.. Bessie
Cushman, Superintendent OF the Department
of Health OF the National w. {. I. L. has
been appointed resident physician.
The IVoman's journal of Ottawa, Canada,
tells a goodstory of white ribbon success. AT
Ihorold, Ontario, the proprietor of build
ing centrally located and put up for tav-
ern, tried four years to obtain license. but
failed because OF w. c. 7. U. petitions
against it. The intended bar-room has now
Lecome the headquarters Of the w. c. T. U.
Ferdinand Schumacher, OF Akron, O.. is
known as the Oatmeal King in the milling
world. It is told of him that he is a Prohibi.
zionist of such fixed opinions that when one OF
his mills was destroyed he distributed 70, COO
bushels of scorched grain among the farmers
for chicken feed rather than sell it to dig.
tillars to ha made into whisky.
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Raw Recruits In the German Army.

The new crop of recruits has been
mustered into service in the Prusslan
Army, and the awkward fellows are hav-
ing their first experience with the Ger
man Army machine on a salary of five
cents a day. One pities the poor men.
Their legs will not stretch nor their arms
bend at the right time or in the desired
direction. Many of them, with hands
pinioned to their sides, are started across
the parade ground, compelled to take
strides of such length and stand upon
one foot so long that they fall from sheer
exhaustion. Frightened by the stento-
rian tones of the commander and the
laughter which echoes beyond the gates
over such mishaps, they soon become
like dumb animals and repeat their mis-
takes from the stupidity of fear. But
this condition IS not lasting. After few
month; the stopped, crooked fellows
have become straight as arrows. and the
shutting gait is changed to swinging
military tread. Soon after their arrival
the troops are introduced to the sights OF
the city. Placed in charge of Sergeant
they are led from place to place aud
listen to lectures upon the sights within:
A few days ago squad of this kind
stopped in trout of the National Gallery.
That" said the Sergeant, sis the Ma.
tional Gallery. inside of which are more
pictures than all the nickels which you
you will receive during your three years
service. advise you to visit 1t at the
first opportunity. And that" pointing
to Statue in front of the beautiful
building, "is the monument of His Maj
esty, Frederick William w., whom you
should all endeavor to emulate. 'But,"
asked q voice from the ranks, ''why is
the King on horseback without his
helmet2' "Stupid one.' answered the
Sergeant, who dare never to be at a loss
for an answer if he desires to retain the
respect of bis troops, His Majesty was
probably rushing to battle upon MS
charger, and in the hurry forgot his
head gear but grasped his sword" The
recruit was satisfied and the luad moved
on.-New York Tribune.
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Grade Mixing of Wheat.

Grain men are much agitated over the
question of grade mixing in the Mime
apolis (Minr.) market. Under the State
grain regulations public elevators are
not permitted to mix the grades. There
are, however, seven private elevators
that do a mixing business. They are
large buyers of the low qualities of
wheat, and take enough of the higher
grades to bring the mass up to a certain
minimum standard that allows it to
pass into the grade it IS prepared for.
This business has drawn the mixers
and the State grain inspectors in:o a
controversy. All wheat arriving here
from the country that goes into certain
grade is not of equal quality. What
ever is in quality between the minimum,
for instance, of No. Northern and the
minimum of No. . Northern goes into
public elevators as No. , Northern,
making an average of the whole a me-
dunn between what is popularly termed
"high grade" and 'skin grade" Now,
as the mixing houses are used for the
money there is in mixing, it follows that
they will naturally raise their product
up only to ''sl1in grade" as it would
cost less than to put into it larger
amount of high-priced wheat to bring 1t
up to the medium that should come
from public elevator.
The State grain inspectors refuse to
inspect from a private house ''skin
grade" grain as of the grade to which it
belongs under the minimum rule. but
give to it the next grade below. That
necessarily makes, in some sense, a double
system of grading; that is, "skin grade"
from a country shipper will pass, but a
"skin grade" from city private eleva-
tor will not pass. On the other hand,
if the rule adopted by the inspectors, or
something like it, was not followed,
wheat from private houses, with the
same State inspection, would be of
lower quality than the same grade from
public elevators.-Ns,o Y0r& Times.
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The First Offer.

Not long since, as clergyman was visit
ing one OF his parIshioners, who was man
of business, the following conversation sub
stantially occurred: at Is true" said the
merchant, 81 am not satisfied with my
present condition; am not of settled
mind in religion as you express 1t. Still
am not utterly hopeless; may yet enter the
your allusion Is to the Saviours parable OF
the lettering laborers, who wrought one hour
at the end Of the day. But you overlooked
the fact that these men accepted the first
offer" "Is that soa' Certainly; they said
to the Lord of the vineyard, No man
hath hired u.s. They welcomed the
first offer Immediately" True, had
not thought of that before. But, then, the
thief on the cross, even while dying, war
saved" "Yes, but it is likely that even he
had never rejected the offer Of salvation, as
preached by Christ and his apostesa Like
Barabbas, he had been robber by profes-
sion. In the resorts to which he had been
accustomed, the gospel had never been
preached. Is there not some reason to be.
fieve that he, too, accepted the first Offer"
why, you seem desirous to quench my last
hope is an illusionl You have really no
promise Of acceptance at some future time
Now is the accepted timel Begin nowl"
SHOW shall beginf' "Just as the poor
leper did when he met Jesus by
the way and committed his body to the
Great Physician, in order to be healed. So
commit your soul to him as q present
Saviour. Then serve him from love. The
next, even the most common duty OF life
that you have to perform, do it as a service
to him. Will you accept the first offerf
Your eyes are open to the peril Beware OF
delay-beware" "You are right; may God
help me. I fear I have been living m .
kind of dreamy delusion on this subject
Times Of Refreshing. e..
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Deaths Mark Among Soldiers.

General De Trobriand in "Army Remi-
niscences, says:
A small number of men carry the un-
mistakable mark of the near approach
of death awaiting them. They are not
themselves conscious of it, and the num-
Der of those who read these mysterious
signs is very limited. Sometimes. in
camp, have tried to describe the mark
to o licers around me. I do not remem-
Der ever having convinced any one of
the truth of my theory.
One rainy day was conversing in my
tent with Captain Wilson, Assistant Ad-
jutant General of my brigade. We were
then marching on + fredericksburg. Lieu
tenant Colonel Giluly, commanding the
Fifth Michigan, entered. He came sim
ply on some detail of service, which was
arranged in tive minutes. When he had
gone out, Now" said to my incredu-
lous Captain, "here's chance to make a
trial of my theory-Colonel Giluly is
marked"
The Captain evidently thought moth
iuc of it. But in the first battle Colonel
Giluly was killed near fredericksburg
while bravely leading his regiment in a
charge.
Of all those on whom I have recog-
nized the MARYLAND they are mauy-one
only may have escaped death.
If you ask me in what consists this
mark | would find it difficult to reply.
This fatal seal is imprinted rather on the
general manner than on the features. 1t
appears sometimes in the looks, at the
bottom of which one divines the tren-
bling of the soul soon about to depart;
sometimes in smile, in VIII ch appear
the fIeeting shadows of a cloud which
does not belong to the earth; sometimes
in certain movements as if worn out; in
certain languid acts in which is betrayed
the systems of task which reaches its
end. Sometimes, on the contrary, tae
finger Of death is shown by feverish
energy without reason, forced laughter,
;erkv movements
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TEMPERANCE.
King Alcohol Must Go.

King Alcohol Must 20.
Old Alcohol now reigns as King
With his satanic rod;
he claims from all an offering
In homage as god.
His sceptre is a blighting death,
OF ali mankind the foe,
All miseries are in his breath,
King Alcohol must 90.
In cities grand he holds his courts
Mark YOU, his grand saloons,
And taxes Of all kinds extorts
By his well-trained dragons:
At law, religion, he doth mock,
These he would overthrow:
What deeds internal round him tock!
King Alcohol must 60!
Fires may consume, and swelling nooa
Invade our smiling land;
Sword may destroy, and precious Dioou
OF sires and sons demand,
But greater curse upon our pain
This tyrant King doth strow,.,
Till rousing all in vengeful wrath,
King Alcohol must go!
This tyrant claims for sacrifice
Our sons Of tender years,
Nor heeds the swelling griefs which rise,
Parental groans and tears:
Could demon more afflict our race!
Or sink to deeper woe!
Or more humanity disgracef
King Alcohol must go!
Rise, fathers! tits your vengeful day!
Rise, sons, with courage bold!
Gird you with might, this tyrant slay,
Join ranks, ye young and old!
By all you hold in !ife mcst dear
Aim sure your fatal blow,
And hurl this monster from bis sphere.
King Alcohol must 60, go, go!
National Temperance Advocate.
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She Never Had O. Pair.

Among many interesting incidents con-
uected with the closing OF saloons in kittan-
ming, Penn, leading merchant tells the fol-
lowing: A woman came into his store very
timidiy. She was evidently unaccust;med
to trading.
What can I do for you:" inquired the
merchant.
Il want pair of shoes for little girl, "
she answered.
"What number"
'She is twelve years DID,"
"But what number does she wear"
81 do not know"
"But what number did YOU buy when you
bought the last pair for herr
She never had pair in her life: You
see, sir, her father used to drink when We
had saloons; but now that they are closed he
doesn't drink any more, and this morning lie
said to me, .Morher, l want you to so up
town to day and get Sissy a pair of shoes,
for she never had q pair i'll her life l
thought, sir, if l told you how Old she was,
YOU would know just what 81: e to give me-
Oh, it is pitiiul that the children OF this Re-
public must be robbed of shoes and bread that
q few idlers may be supported. The man
who gives his influence i'll favor cf the saloons
gives his sanction to this cru:l robbery
Iethodist Recorder.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
It May Not Be.

It may not be our lot to WELD !.
The sickle in the ripened field;
Nor ours to hear, on summer ewes,
The reaper's song among the sheaves.
Yet where our duty's task is wrought
In unison with Gods great thought,
The near and future blend in one,
And whatso'er Is willed Is done.
And ours the grateful service whence
Comes, day by day, the recompense:
The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed
The fountain, and the MONDAY shade.
And were this life the utmo st span,
The only end and aim of man,
Better the toll Of fields like these
Then waking dreams and slothful ease.
But life, though falling like our grain,
Like that, revives and springs again;
And early called, how blest are they
Who wait in heaven their harvest day!
-[By John G. Whittier.
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The Doctor RESPONSIBLE.

A prominent business man Of Kansas sSn City, y
MIR, +. c. Bennett, has brought suit Tor di-
vorce against his wife, leading society h;t %t.
man, alleging that she has become an naois, t.,
ual drunkard and has been expelled irom
Scott,s Sanitarium, the ST. James Hotel, ana
other nubIc places, for drunkenness, Mrs
Bennett % acknowledges the truth Of the
Charges, and says sue contracted the love ,ts for
LIQUOR by taking it at first as medicine pro
scrlbed by her physician. Era'
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Praise.


We should not always be thipting OF
yery dear earthly friend, you feel that you
must speak of his greatness or kindness Do
YOU not often say how much you care Tor
him1 Do you not remind him sometimes
how kind he was to you when you were In
trouble how. good he was when you were 1lla
In fact you praise him. Then learn, TOO,
praise the great Heavenly Friend; praise
Him for His goodness to you, for His love.
His holiness. In heaven think there will
be no PRAYER, no asking for anything. Whya
Because we shall have all we need. But there
will be glad songs Of praise, and selfish peo-
ple who think Of nothing but asking for
what they can get, would not care for tho Sc.
Learn here to love and praise, that you m ay
be able 10 take Fart in it there. The only
worship which reaches God in Heaven IS
that which cumes from our hearts; merely 10
say or sing words of praise and prayer Is no
use at all. There is an old legend which IL
lustrates this. =.
A number Of holy, God-fearing old men
agreed once that they would live TO-
gether in hut just outside large forest,
and would spend their time in doing acts OF
kindness to the sick and poor who lived
around them. Every morning they met to
gether to worship God. and as they had no
church to 60 to, they held their service un-
der the green trees Of the forest. But they
were quite old, they could not sing we'll, 50
how were they to manage the musical part
of their service? This difficulty they settled
by agreeing to read all Of it, except the Te
Deum. THAT glad Psalm Of praise we must
sing" they said to each other. And so
morning after morning they sang, 1--WE
praise Thee, o God;n and their voices were
SO cracked and harsh and out OF tune, that
the little birds even would fly away when
they heard the discordant sounds
One day a tall, fair youth came to the door
of their hut and said he wanted to join them.
Finding he had beautiful voice. they glad
ly agreed, for, thought they, she will help
us with his singing The next morning, as
the Te Deum began, the boys voice rang out
clear, and sweet and bell-like, and the old
men stopped singing to hear him. and the
little birds flew back 70 listen. But that
evening an angel flew down from Heaven
and said, For six months songs of praise
and gladness have reached the throne OF
God from this forest: today there was silence,
why is this!' And then the old men found
that the youth had been thinking only Of his
beautiful voice while he was singing, ana
they remembered that they, too, had 50
much admired his sweet notes that they had
forgotten all about God or the words OF
praise that were being sung. And that was
why no sound had reached the throne OF
God: for He only hears the praise that
comes from our hearts, From Heart and
Lives Given to Christ
po tbo,, lilo tba bird r,orched lpon some
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The New York Tribune, referring to the
Illegally licensed liquor shops of Alaska,
saws: The result of the immunity to these
eroc.shops is great spread OF immortality
among the natives who will sell their off,
spring or wives for whisky"
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The South is rich in resources, and
the capitalists are taking advantage of
the OPPORTUNITIES VIII ch she offers.
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The Bristo Gospel Temperance Union Of
Edinburgh, since its organization in 1857, has
influenced between four and five thousand
persons to sign the total abstinence pledge.
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Be thou like the bird perched upon some
fral thing, who, although ho feels the
branch bending beneath him, yet loudly
sings, knowing full Well that he has wings
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History Of q Noted Hymn.

Miss Havergal one day in the spring Of
1878 (about year before her call home),
while walking around her garden at Lean.
ington, said to her nurse 81 want to tell
you Of the gentle way by which the Lord
led one to himself whom I Ihave long known.
He had for years avoided all services. But
In the first year Of this leading he began TO
come to the church, sitting just inside the
lobby. The next year he sat just inside the
church. The third year be Degan seating
these who came, and took a comfortable
seat himself. A short time after this went
by invitation to stay with his family. AS
alighted from the carriage he met me at the
door and said, Miss Havergal, [ hope you
have come to be great bless
ing to u.s. On his saying that, I went
straight to my room and asked God to give
me every soul in that. house, and before I
left my prayer was answered. Ten In num-
ber they all became anxious about their
souls and found peace. The night this trans
pired was so overpowdered l could not
sleep. As I lay awake the lines Of the
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Take my life and let 1t be

LeU lUeIu HOW III CeeSseIeoS PftlSSs y
passed through my mind, and I put them
down in pencil. The next morning was
writing to Rev., the head Of the Irish
Society, and enclosed these penciled lines.
He had, strange to say, just been preparing
an address on conservation which he de.
livered to several hundred people. In the
middle Of his discourse he read these lines
aloud. After the service gentleman came
to him and asked if he might have them
printed. He did so; and thus within three
weeks after they had passed through my
England and Ireland. d."|Times Of Refresh
ing. ~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

steers, 81 O0G4 25; common to medium. So OO9
8 10; stockers and feeders, 81 60G3 90; cows,
1 SOAP 20; grass range steers. 81 75d3 o.
HOgs-Receipts 1000; shipments, 2lO0; coed to
choice light, 81 27laG4 50; heavy and, mixed,
s. sOG4 p.
sheep-Receipts, 200; shipments, none; good
to choice muttons, 81 7504 90; common to me-
dunn, 81 50a3 80
CHICAGO. ILL.,. Aug. S.-Cattle-Receipts,
r. 800; shipments. 5000; steady; beeVes, 81 250
50: stockers and feeders, 81 2563 30; cows
bulls and mixed, 81 60G3 90; Texas cattle
stronger 81 75a3 20; natives and half breeds,
s. 0Od3 80.
Hogs-Receipts, Is 900; shipments. 5000;
mixed, 81 25G4 80; heavy, 81 1904 IS; light. 81 IS
"A IS.
Sheep-Receipts, 5000; shipments, 1905; natives,
s. 5064 90; Western, g coat 10; Texans, s. 80
"A 10; lambs, 81 25G5 so.
sr. LOUIS, No.. Aug. s.-Cattle-Receipts,
1850; shipments, 1900; active and strong; choice
native steers, s. 2Od4 IS: fair to good native
2 so: rangers, corn-fed, 81 750S Is; grass-fed,
81 2063 30.
Hogs-Receipts, 300; shipments, 500: active;
heavy, 81 1904 50; packing, 81 2OG4 40; light
grades, 81 35G4 So.
Sheep-Receipts, 22OO; shipments. $500; strong
and active; fair to choice, g 50a4 80.
New YORK, Aug. S-Beeves-Reeeipts, 81 car
loads. No trading in beeVes; steady for dressed
beef at Ga &c per pound for natives, and ~ G5lkc
for Texas and Colorado stock To-day's Liver
pool cables advices quote American refrigerator
beef firmer and higher at SIC per pound.
Sheep-ReceiptS, $500; sheep hrmer at 81 O00
25:s lambs scaEce and &c per pound higher at
IS eesS6 %, wiE1f9 reported at $ 90
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

al 90. Jugs, glazed, loo per gal; crooks, glazed.
l0c per gal. Tndigio 10 per b biuing. 50c61 90
per doz. Coleman's mustard. 4 b, 81 p per doz
Maccaroni, imported, l0c per II; American. 06c
per 4 box. Buckets, two hoops, 81 s. per doz
2-j cases, So 10; Brilliant, 2-5 cases, g 10; do
12-l cases, So 50. Baking powders, bulk, 1!c; b
cans, g so, MaccRroni. small box, 65c. YerIni-
celia, small box. CSC. Catsup, in bulk, per gal.
S5c. Worcester sauce, in bulk, per gal, 81 70.
Mixed pickles, per X Dbl. Sc 5ofS7 co., New
dried eppieg, As:, &c; do New York sliced, 4l2c;
Rfce-New crop, prime, biz95s4c; choice, &c
71zc; head &c.
81 251 3 ner oS oiS hens s. O0a y Der coz
turkeys, 40a69c each.
W0OL-Light medium, 2OG21c; light fine, I6a
19c; heavy fine l46lTc
WHISKY-Rectifed, 81 100I 50, as per proof
sour mash, two years old, 81 60d1 20; three years
old, $50 az 20; fancy extra old whisky, 81 -
%.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-09

town company. The building viii lie
furnished with all the modern improve
ments, supplied with apparatus of all
kinds for the convenience of the pupils.
and the instructions will be after the
latest and most approved methods.
The school will receive pupils from
other counties and districts, ana they
have the most fattering prospects for in
ducing large attendance. It will lie
appreciated by our people, and win be
an lnducement for settlers 10 come TO our
town for hopes. a.