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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-24
Bill Arp.

| Two hundred million dollars year
| for pensions. That much as a reward
for whipping us and they make us pay
Il third of it and don't give a dollar
back nor say thank you. Since the
war the South has paid over three
hundred millions of that pension mon
ey and her part will be siXty-siN mill
ions year from now on without end.
When will this thing stop: Is it. u
! fact that Northern pensioners never
! die? One year ago there were 4S9
, thousand and now there are 523 thous-
and. They 'get more thicker, more
denser" rs Cobe says. There are over
400 thousand invalid soldiers who have
survived the last war. They must be
a sickly set or our boys hurt them
mighty bad. thought that in twen-
ty-!ive years most of them would
either die or get well, but they are the
outlivingest soldiers | heard of. The
strongest thing about it is that While
the number of the men increase SO
does the number of widows. How IS
that. Nobody dies, and yet there are
llG thousand widows on the rolls.
Eight thousand more widows than
there were year ago. Must be grass
widows reckon. Nine million dol
lars were paid out in Illinois last year,
and it will be doubled under the late
big steal. No wonder the North is
rich. No wonder they have millions
living idle in the banks. No wonder
they are coming dawn here to invest
it, and no wonder our people are poor
and hard run. That two hundred
millions will be annually distributed
among forty millions of people, and
that is five dollars Il piece to every
man, woman and child. A town of
ten thousand people will get fifty
thousand dollars Il year. Our little
village of Gainesville has $500 peo-
pie, and would get seventeen thousand
dollars ifjustice was done. Just think
of it. Contemplate the beautiful pic
ture. We would get that much for
nothing. 1t would just come pouring
in every year like meal out of a hop
per. We would all get rich and build
fine school houses and churches and
pay the preachers good salaries, and
build new courthouse and pave the
side walks and our young folks would
have something to marry on.
But all this is delusive dream.
We have not got anybody hardly to
pension. Our veterans either die or
get well, and there were only a little
over Il half million, all told, from be-
ginning to end of the war. Our
Northern brethren had nearly three
millions--about five soldiers to every
one of ours. 1t is astonishing how
bad we did hurt them for they have
now got about as many invalids on
their rolls as we had soldiers. Every
rebel must have made one yankee
sick, besides what he killed in battle.
If was a yankee / would never brag
any more. I'd be ashamed. Two
hundred millions year, oh, my coun-
trYi
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The Honest Boy.

A gentleman from the country plac-
ed his son with u dry-goOds merchant
street. At length lady came
to the store to purchase silk dress,
and the young man waited upon her.
The price demanded was agreed to,
and he proceeded tn fold the goods.
He discovered before lie had finished a
flaw in the silk, and pointing it out to
the lady, said, MADAM | deem it my
duty TO tell you there is Il fracture in
the silk"
OF course she did not take it.
The merchant overheard the remark
and immediately wrote to the father of
the young man to come and take him
home ; for" said he, "he will never
make merchant"
The father, who had ever reposed
confidence in his son, was much griev-
ed and hasteneh to the city to be i'll
formed of his deficiencies. "Why will
he not make a merchant ?" asked he.
Because he has no TACT" was the
answer. "Only Il day or two ago. he
told a lady, voluntarily, who was buy
ing silk of him, that the goods were
damaged, and lost the bargain. Pur-
chasers must look out for themselves.
If they cannot discover flaws, it would
be fooishness of me to tell them OF
their existence"
"And is that all the fault" asked
the parent.
eyes" answered the merchant, "he
is very well in other respects"
"Then I love my son better than
ever, and thank yon for telling me
of the matter | would not have him
another day in your store for the
world n'-Lcdgcr.
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We have observed this constantly in
others, and some day, it may be, 9th
ers are meant to see it in us. AS
mans life draws toward its sunset
chill mist often falls on what we call
our happiness, through failing health,
and vanishing duties, and friends de-
parting, and the dull, opaque years
with no pleasure in them. Then is
the time to show that we can trust
and endure, and hope and praise /;
that we love God, not only for what
he has, but what he is; that we feel
him to be kind not only when he
gives, but when he takes away. If
the final discipline of the closing years
in the school-time for paradise, it may
also be working of the works of God
in us, by the lessons it teaches to 9th
ers who possibly could learn them in
no other way. They who stand by
and wait on us should be helped to
discover, as no books or sermons could
teach them, that the life hid with
Christ in God, even when all active
service is a thing of the past, has its
lessons of quiet heroism and it's reve-
lation of the unchanging pity. There
may be much uselessness in the fussy
hurryings of restless, if well-mean-
ing, philanthrophy nothing so con-
tinually or irresistibly glorifies God
and manifests his presence as the
quiet, and even joyful. suffering of his
helpless enthusiastically Magazine.
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LEARN TO FoRGIvE.-Learn to for
give. Do not carry an unforgiving
spirit with you through all your life.
1t will hurt you more than any one
else. 1t will destroy the happiness Of
many around you, yet its chief feed
ing ground will be found in your own
heart. You hate your neighbor. Yon-
der is his dwelling, one hundred and
fifty yards away. You pass by q
wood-fire, you pluck half-consumed
brand from it, flaming and cleaning,
and thrust it under your neighbours
dwelling to burn it. Who gets the
worst of it? You find your garments
on fire and your own flesh burned be-
fore you can harm your neighbor. So
is he who carries on unforgivlng spirit
in his bosom. 1t stings his own soul
like an adder shut up there. I know
of some who are calling themselves
Christians, who are miserable because
of their own revengefulness. Forgive
your enemies, and get down on your
knees and pray for them, and saliva
ton will come into your soul like
flood. "Father, forgive them" Sweet
prayer and blessed example!
Central Methodist.
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People who agree in their intellectuA
al, moral aud physical tastes, and who
easily keep step together, have little
need of making any effort to be agree
able to each other; but those of differ
ing intellectual and physical organi-
cations, of differing tastes and capa.
bilities, often have to work very hard
and be very self-denying to live in ev-
en- tolerable comfort with each other.
There must be great deal of give and
take, bountiful allowance of live
and let live, or there will be little joy
of companionship and great deal
of discomfort.
1t is hard for a tall man to walk
with short man as it is for a short
man to walk with a tall man. The
long, swinging step of the tall man Is
impossible to the short man, and the
short step of the short man is intolera-
bly, tiresome to the tall man. The two
Will he most comfortable when each
takes his own gait and keeps it, and
they are far enough apart not to all
noy each other. 1t Is safe to take it
for granted always that if [ find it
hard to live with my neighbor he
finds it az hard to live with ME. If
we both learn to make concessions, to
avoid causes of friction, to look from
each others viewpoints, to each put
himself in the others place, and to
love our neighbor as ourselves, roots of
bitterness will have no chance to
grow.
In most families there are to he
found young, middle-aged, and elder
ly people, and there is always oppor-
tunity to avoid saying unpleasant
things, to avoid doing what must give
otfense, to avoid being disagreeable.
In addition to the constant opportuni-
ty of exercising the negative quality
of inoffensiveness there is no end of
chances to say pleasant words, to per-
form acts Of kindness, to exercise
charity and toleration, while at the
same time the utmost self-respect is
preserved and no natural right is re-
linquished. BY so much as love is
stronger than hate, sunshine than
darkness, heat than cold, by so much
is the agreeable person stronger than
the disagreeable one. One sinner de-
stroyeth much good, but ten righteous
men would have saved Sodom, Go
morrah, Admah, and Zeboim.
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Have YOU ever seen or perhar

Have you ever seen or perhaps
made one of a party who are going to
explore dark, deep cavern-Mam-
moth Cave of Kentucky, or the Cata-
combs of Rome They all stand out
in the sunlight, and the attendants,
who know the journey they are 60.
ing to make, pass round among them,
and put into the hands Of each q
lighted candle. How useless it seems
how pale and colorless the little
flame appears in the gorgeous flood of
sunlight! But the procession moves
along one after another enters the
dark cavern's mouth one after an
other loses the splendor of daylight !;
in the hands of one after another
the feeble candle-light comes out
bright in the darkness and by
and by they are walking in the dark,
holding fast to their candles as if they
were their very lite-totally depend
ent upon what seemed so useless
half All hour ago. That seems to me
a picture of the way in which Gods
promise of consolation, which we at
tach very little meaning to at first,
come out into beauty and value as we
pass on into our lives.
Phillips Brooks, u. d
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Appreciation Of Mother.

An old Virginia minister said late
ly: MEN of my profession see much
of the tragic side of life. | have seen
men die in battle, have seen children
die, but no death ever seemed so pa.
thetic to me as the death Of an aged
mother in my church. [ knew hel
first as a young girl, beautiful, gay,
full Of joy and hope. She married.
and had four children. Her husband
died, and left her penniless. She sew
ed, she made drawings, she taught,
she gave herself scarcely time to eat
or sleep. Every thought was for her
children, to educate them, to give
them the advantages their father
would have given them had he lived.
She succeeded. She sent her boys to
college and her girls to school. When
all came home they gave themselves
up to their own selfish pursuits.
"She fingered among them some
three years, and then was stricken
with mortal illness, brought Oh by
overwork. The children gathered
around her bedside. The oldest son
took her in his arms. He said, You
have been q good mother to us That
was not much to say, was it, 1t was
much to her, who had never heard
anything like it. a flush came over
her pallid face, and with husky voice
she whispered, My son. you never
said 50 before y -
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Twelve Pages.

~. ne world is full of rascals who are
- ing "whip behind"
he Louisiana sugar crop will be u
bountiful one this season.
While the Uen in Germany are drill
B1ing, and being made int" soldiers,
''e women work.
'.ussia is deSpotic, but sensible in
50. ne things. Her saloon keepers are
20 longer allowed to sell liquor to
working mtn OH credit.
There are one hundred and forty
three garrisOned forts, arsenals and
military posts in the United States.
The census shows decrease in the
population OF Illinois during the last
decade. Certain papers not friendly
to the cause of prohibition tell us that
the attempt on the part OF the temper
ance people of that State to prohibit
the liuuor traffic has caused this de-
crease. We are afraid that the de-
crease is due to some other cause. III
prohibition has caused such an exodus
of saloon Keepers and saloon loaters
from Illinois that the population is
now less than it was ten years ago, IL
linois must he very pleasant place to
live in. As soon as the fact is known,
thousands of people who are looking
for q pleasant community to live IN
will go to thet "Buckeye State. ."-I'd-
cifc Methodis
"The week before Hon. w. J. Nor
then was nominated for governor"
relates the Atlanta, Ga, Journal, "he
was short one hand in his field. lie
took that hands place and dropped
peas like the rest. The day before the
convention he put on an apron ana
taught a woman how to churn. Then
he laid aside the apron, came to At
lanta, and in and able and patriotic
speech accepted the nomination for
governor"
It has been a pleaSanter summer,
so far as weather goes, than that OF 1889,
but losses of life from accidents have
been remarkably large. The number
reported in the ordinary course Of
news gathering as having perished IN
the last three months, according TO
The Chicago Tribune, comprehend ~
by fire, S2S by drowning, POP, by ex-
plosions, 81 by falling buildings, 81 in
mines, 800 by cyclones and storms,
1867 on railroads, and 237 by light
ming.
The secret of Africa's isolation from
the benefits and blessings of civiliza-
ton and light that has fallen ON the
rest of the world, is to be found in the
cataracts of her big rivers, and in
lesser degree to the inhOspitableness OF
the climate. The cataracts of the
Congo, the Niger, and the Zambezi,
however, and the cataracts and Sudd
of the Nile, have been and are the
real distractions. Were the Congo as
navigahle as the Mississippi, and the
Nile as free from distractions to yes
sells as the Danube or the Yang-tse-Ki-
ang, Uganda would now be sending us
silk-stutts and calico instead Uf ivory,
and globe-trotters would be picnicing
and wintering on the islands of the
Victoria Nyanza.-From african
River and Lake Systems" by Thomas
Stevens, in September Scridner.
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I say you might as well send man
out in the darkness to gather flowers
on yon sunny hillside as to ask poe
try of all age when faith and hope and
charity arc rudely thrust aside by the
hard, mailed hand of doubt. Yea,
the blind man may gather some few
flowers as the night goes by. but he
will gather weeds and thistles and
poisonous plants as well. We have
gathered some few sweet flowers of
song by the long, long road that
reaches back to humble Bethlehem,
but we have gathered weeds much
that is worse than weeds.
Joaquin Miller.
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Read and Think.

George F. Pearsons regards the sa-
loon as hideous abuse. He says in
the atlantic Monthly:
"While labor is throwing away that
enormous sum annually, with what
show of consistency can it lament its
condition? One years remission of
that destructive self-indulgence would
solve every labor problem eXtant. At
present the workingman can hardly
make both ends meet !; is it not because
he insists on creating capitalists out
of saloon.keepers? The saloon is the
most hideous abuse of the day, but
where could it be if the workingmen
withdrew their support from it? 1t
keeps them poor. 1t stiles progress.
1t brutalizes husbands and fathers,
it breaks women's hearts, puts rags on
the workman's back, disease in his
body, and shame and despair in his
heart. Yet when labor is most dis
turbed, when the demand for advanc-
ed wages is loudest, when strikes are
most frequent, when hunger and mis-
cry are most rife in the homes of the
poor, the saloon fiourishes still. There
may be no bread at home, but there is
always beer and whiskey at the bar,
and the men who consider themselves
the victims of circumstances or the
'thralls' of capital, squander their
earnings in these dens. Can there be
a serious labor question while this
state of things continues ? Can work
ingmen talk yravely of their wrongs
while it is plain to all the world that
if they only saved the capital they
earn they would be comfortable?" ?"
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JOhnnie's Complaint.

Our preacher says-an' course he's right
It's very wrong to tell 4 tib,
$50 mothers taught me ever since
She rocked me In my little crib,
That's why can't just understand
Why In his sermons he will run
Along like sixty when he's said,
But one word more ami l have DONE"
When first heard him say those words
They made me glad, for /, You see,
Was tired. for half.hour sermons seem
Enough for little folks like me;
But gracious! / was quite surprised
To find he'd only Just begun,
When pausing for breath, he said,
But one word more and have DONE
wonder what he'd think If
Should say, when at his home I'd sup,
"JuSt one plum more and have DONE"
Then eat his wife's preserves all up?
guess he'd ask Inc what / meant,
I'd have to say was In fun,
Just like he must be when he says,
But one word more and have done"
Vide Hhipple, in Richmond Dispatch.
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Domestic Uses for Ammonia.

A little ammonia in tepid water will
soften and cleanse the skin.
Spirits of ammonia will often relieve
severe headache.
Door plates should he cleanscd by
rubbing with cloth wet in ammonia
and water.
If the color has been taken out OF
silks by fruit stains ammonia Will usu'
ally restore the color.
TO brighten carpets wet them with
warm water in which has been poured
few drops of ammonia.
One or two tablespoonfuls Of ammo
mia added to a pail of water will clean
windows better than soap.
A few drops in cupful of warm
water, applied carefully, will remove
spots from paintings and chromos.
Grease spots may be taken out with
weak ammonia in water; lay soft,
white paper over and iron with a hot
iron.
When acid of any kind gets on
clothing spirits of ammonia will kill
it. Apply chloroform to restore the
color.
Keep nickel, silver ornaments and
mounts bright by rubbing with wool
len cloth saturated with spirits of am
, mOnia. :.
Old brass may be cleaned to look
like new by pouring strong ammonia
on it and scrubbing with a scrub
brush rinse in clear water.
A tablespoonful of ammonia in a
gallon of warm water will often re-
store colors in carpets. 1t will also re-
move whitewash from them.
Yellow stains left by sewing ma
chine oil on white may be removed 10y
rubbing the spot with Il cloth wet with
ammonia before washing with soap.
Equal parts of ammonia and turpell-
tine will take paint out of clothing,
even if it he hard and dry. Saturate
. the spot as often aS necessary and
wash out in soap suds.
Put teaSpoonful of ammonia in Il
quart of water, wash your brushes and
combs i'm this, and all grease and Dirt
will disappear. Rinse, shake and dry
in the sun Or by the fire.
1t is said that a company Of "young
ladies' has been organized in Wyo'
ming to celebrate the date OF its
statehood, and that it has been mus
tered into the regular service of the
State. If the women are going into
the business Of politics "and sich" let
them fight too.
But we had hoped to enlist the
women i'm the cause of peace, and be.
lievc we shall. This is only "spurt"
of some foolish girls whose mothers
had better put them into better bust
ness than parading around in the
Irregular insig gnia" of their office.
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MOURNING COLoRS.-As death il
the exact opposite of life, it is natura
that the living who see one of theil
number pass away should express grie1
at his departure. From this feeling
comes the "outward trappings OF
woe," as Hamlet calls mourning
But it is somewhat strange that these
outward trappings should differ SC
largely. The following are the vari
GUS colors used for mourning in differ
ent countries, together with the rea
sons given for the selection:
Black-EXpresses deprivation ot
light. Worn throughout Europe aid
America.
Scarlet-Mourning color. Occasion.
ally worn by French kings.
Yellow-The sere and yellow leaf
Egypt and Burmah. In Brittany
widows caps among the peasants are
yellow.
Purple and Violet-To express royal
ty. Mourning for cardinals and kings
in France. Violet color mourning fol
Turkey.
Whlte-Emblem of "white-handed
hope" China.
Deep Blue-Bok hara mourning.
The significance of this selection is not
known.
Pale Brown-The withered leaves.
Persia.
Grayish Brown-Earth. Ethiopia
and Abyssinia.
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1t is stated by one of the biogra-
pliers of Archbishop Usher, that on
his being once wrecked upon very
desolate part of the coast, his impor-
tunity for relief met with much un-
kindness his character and station
being rudely questioned, even to the
expression of q doubt if he knew the
number of the commandments. "In-
deed / do" replied the Archbishop,
mildly: "there are eleven" "Elev-
enW answered the catechist. Tell me
the eleventh, and I will assist YOU"
"Obey the eleventh. said the Arch
bishop, land you certainly will assist
me-A new commandment 7 give uaa-
to you that ye love one another"
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We make our lives cold prose, when
we might make them poems. We
make our lives lyrics, when we might
make them epics-hrave, progressive,
triumphant. We build the house Of
character of lumber-and poor lumber
ut that-when we might build it of
brick we build it Of brick, when we
might build it of granite. We try to
create breeze of some moral or spirit
ual inspiration from our own lungs.
when We might feel the strong and
steady wind of heaven.
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BLACK STOCKINGS

BLACK SToCKINGs.-As it is so
fashionable for both children and
grown folks to wear black stockings, it
is well to know how to wash them so
they will not fade. Both cotton and
wooden should always be washed be-
fore they are worn. Lay them all
night to soak in cold water. Wash
them next day by themselves in two
waters, warm, but not hot, the soap
being previously rubbed into the wa
ter 50 as to form lather before the
stockings are put in, and mixing with
the first water tablespoonful of gall.
Then rinse them, first in lukewarm
water, until the dye ceases to come out
and the last water is colorless. Stretch
them and hang them out Immediately
in the air to dry as fast as possible.