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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
RELIGIOUS READING.
COULD WE KNOW!

Could We but glance the future er.
Its hidden depths unveil,
Look On the blessings safe in store,
Whose mercies never fail.
Could We but see the happiness
Each new year seeks to give,
Our daily lives to cheer and bless
How gladly would we live!
Could we behold the grief and care,
The painful weary strife,
Allotted as our r!ebtfill share
IN each new year oflife.
Could we anticipate the thorns
That in our pathway lie,
Before another day could dawn
How gladly would we die!
Yet innocent of each we grope
With blind persistence on,
Up eld by patient faith and hope
Each daily strife is won.
A futures burdens unconcealed,
Our inmost hearts benumb,
While SORROWS one by one revealed
Are couque; cd as they come.
-Lraua ". Sheldor
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
The Phenomena of Echoes.

Every one is familiar with the pheno-
mcna of echoes. In cave in the Pan
theon, the guide, by striking the flap of
his coat, makes noise equal to a twelve
pound cannon's report. The singularity
is noticed, in Il lesser degree, in the Mann
moth Cave, in Kentucky. In the cave of
Smellin, near Viborg, i'll Finland, a cat
or dog thrown in will make a screaming
echo, lasting some minutes. Pliny tells
of Il cave in Dalmatia where stone tossed
in would raise perfect storm. Fingai's
Cave, on the Isle of Staffa, has an ab
normally developed echo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
A FLAG FOR CHRIST.

4 few years ago, converted Sikh lay dy-
ing at Amritsar, in the Punjaub, India.
Before be pas ed triumphantly into glory,
he expr ssed his desire to put up flag for
Christ, and left some money for the purpose.
Today flag waves in the gentle breezes
above the houses of that city, bearing SIM
ply the words, For Christ" in bold letters
on a scarlet ground. That bright flag
seemed to us monument of the grace and
mercy of God, who could transform an idol
ator into saint; and also q glad prophecy
of the future when all nations shall own
the sovereignty of our coming King.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08

The Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment have made their final appropriations
for the city expenses of New York for 1890.
Among the items are: Police Departments
s4,616515; for Charities and Correction 81
l09, ,03O for Asylums, etc., 81, l80, 96s: for
City Court and Judiciary salaries, 81, ,392
240: Health Department. 1891, 500; Coroner's
Office, $4,000. These six items aggregate
80, 740 252. What per cent. Of this vast
amount is due solely and wholly to the liquor
traffic in this rum-cursed city?-NeU York
Pioneer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
REPROyING SIN.

How We neglect this duty There is a
plain command upon the subject, Thou
shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbor, and
not suffer sin upon him." Uev. xix: 17.)
How ii would diminish profanity, for in
stance, if every time man should swear on
the streets, on the cars, or in depots, he
should be sure to call up some witness for
Jesus. The Judgment hall where the Son
of God stood amid His foes was good
and my God!' There are men living today
who would do it, who would glory in dor
it. The effect of simply speaking the name
of Je us with reverence and love on such oc-
sasions is wonderful.
Every reader is familiar with the name Of
John H. Vincent. Once he reproved
swearer so powerfully, and yet so tenderly,
that he not only subdued him, but melted
him to tears. IT was in railway station.
The room was full of passengers waiting for
belated train. A man, probably slightly
intoxicated. was shocking everybody with
his profanity. Suddenly Dr. Vincent began
to sing:
Jesus, Lover of my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom ay.'
The song ceased. Perfect silence reigned.
The swearer wa reproved. After q time he
came to DR.. Vincent. and said:
Gould | see you moment outslde:'
They went out together.
How came you," said he, Ito sing that
by, IN just now?'
The doctor replied:
II heard you swearing, and l thought I
would let you know there was somebody
there who loved the name of Jesus"
"That's very strange. said the man.
my sister when she was dy hg sung that
very hymn, and she made me promise t;
: F,Ns
me?''
Down IN the snow they knelt tog:.her,
and the doctor prayed for the penitent man,
and asked that he might have grace and
strength to keep his VOW.
The train came. They were separated to
meet no more, IN all probability, till they
meet in eternity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
BREAKING BRUISED REEDS.

Science of certain kind says We must lay
down a law Of the survival OF the flttest, and
if the reeds are broken throw them away.
Jesus says, throw nothing away. Let us
work for the say ng of every life, and see
that we work so carefully, with 80 critical a
love and patience that we lose nothing at
last but the son of perdition, the son of
waste, the child that must go home to the
devil. Let US have no rough-and-ready
treatment, however, of human life; but let
us examine and separate and do what we
can, for We are bound to save the last atom
then, if we cannot save It, We must own
that we have lost Father have lost none
but the son of perditon. He did not want
to lose any, He did not come to destroy
mems lives, but to save them. If men will
not be saved, even the Son Of God cannot
save them. TO force q man into heaven is
not to fill him with peace and joy; it is to
violate the harmony which he cannot ap-
preciate. "A bruised reed say
some. An instrument called q reed was
meant, and there was ! rift in it
which spoiled the music: Jesus Christ
said: We must repair this; something
must be done with this reed. 1t was meant
ft,- music, and we must look at it with that
end IN view. He does not take it, saying,
There is rift in the lutte, and the music is
impossible; rend it, and throw it away. He
always looks to see if man cannot be
made something of. He would heal lis.
every one. Say to Him. . Bruised Reed. if
l may but touch the hem of Thy garment,
even my life reed shall be healed. and will
take up Gods music again, and be cad in
Gods house. Or "br:l!std rteI T@v
mean that wild beasts. IL -'sh'.s though
the water or :~om the n'"l; rave
crushed the lsrow..g n.@n:a :" 'haS 'hey are
bent; they no 1u,. SAND ;:n (, a::,rtly: but
Jesus Christ ctrcs 20 heal irem: -tni ;te
smoking ha:: si.a. He not quc"ah. He ill
rather take j; -: n",I sha kr + ?. "1e Gnlv
can shake r.r "iag = little nc "a: % bear
upon it, and ST: I i;,t'a moe -; - s-"adl-
ally: see hoM ;ha srGYt' ;'::::cE' :iow it
leaps up into ! Liza . e." g Now
watch Him W " .l2 :s".i""j .;s NJ KING
and see hn~; :;., will. w rGr:-l> was
only smoke ho,.s.:c..! :! i.aic. j:;ght as 4
fire. useful a< :, ...,rr. :;:id how Ii is handed
on to The MD n, :: ic: mcn--ha'ph l"Hh'r
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
ROCK (F AGES-AN INCIDENT.

On board the ill-fated steamer Scawan-
haka was one of the Fisk University singers.
Before leaving the burning steamer, and
committing himself to the merciess waves,
he carefully fastened upon himself and wife
life-preservers. Some one cruelty dragged
away that of the wife, leaving her without
hope, except as she could cling to her hus-
band. This she did. placing her hands firmly
on his shoulders and resting there until, her
strength becoming exhausted, she said, II
can hold on no longer" TRY a
little longer" was the response
of the weary and agonized husband "let us
sing Rock OF AgeS.'' And as the sweet
strains tloated over those troubled waters,
reaching the ears of the sinking ard dying,
little did they know, those sweet singers Of
Israel, whom they comforted. But 10! as
they sung, one after another of those ex-
hausted ones were seen raising their heads
above the overwhelming waves, joining
with q last effort in this sweet, dying, plead
ing prayer:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
TEMPERANCE.
THE TWO DAKOTAs.

All hail to the fair twin sisters r.
Which have entered the Union grand {
With the glorious motto regnant, X
"God, Home, and Native tanf"
So rugged, and so beauteous,
So young and yet SO free;
If the morning is so glorious,
What will the noontide be?
God bless the two young sisters,
Ard the quartette* grand and brave;
Nay they lead the way victorious
And our own loved country save
From the slavish rule of Bacchus,
From the chains its servants wear
Let the Stars and the Stripes float DER us,
A nation free and fair.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
A MISS A DEPUTY COLLECTOR.

A few days ago trim young, lady aiightedi
from a train at Jeffersonville, Ind. and
made her way into number OF saloons anu
liquor-stores. The proprietorS OF these places
onernd their eyes wide in astoniShment when
,h,, presented her card, which read as follows:
>. Miss Maud Cotton. Deputy Collector.
Seventh District" She then proceeded with
a most thorough and buSineSS-like investga-
tion of the places visited. This is the first
time on record that lady has been appointed
deputy collector of internal revenue, since
such position necessitates the regular per,
sonal visitation of all the tough dives aud
liquor shops in the district and the Inspection
of all Government licences. May Miss Maud
nerform her duties in q wey to strike terror
TO the heart Of every transgressing saloon
keeper and law-evading iquor'dealer.-Ne"
York Witness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
''Rock of Ages, cleft for me;
Let me hide myself in Thee"

With the song seemed to come strength;
another and yet another was encouraged to
renewed effort. Soon in the distance float
was seen approaching Singing still, they
tried, and soon with superhuman strength
laid hold of the life-boat, upon which they
were borne safely to the land. This is no
self, who said he believed "Rock Of Ages"
saved many another besides himself and
wife.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08

"Maine, Kansas, North Dakota and South
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08
HOW MUCH Is CAUSED BY RUM?

Mrs. Richmond, in National Advocate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-08

That WedulnR scene - Boii2 INV AIo
wedding ring has been lost, the tankards
have been broken, the house is down; but
Jesus invites us to grander wedding. You
know the Bible says that the church is the
Lambs wife. and the Lord will after awhile
come to fetch her home. There will be
cleaning of torches in the sky, aud the
trumpetS of God will ravish the air with
their music, and Jesus will stretch out His
hand. and tho church. robed in white
will put aside her veil, ana look
up into the face of her Lord the King,
and the bridegroom will say to the pride:
Thou hast been faithful through all these
Gcars. The mansion is ready! Come home:
Thou art fair, MY love = and then He
shall put upon her brow the crown OF domln,
ion and the table will be spread, and 1t VIII
reach across the skies, and the mighty
ones of heaven will come in, garlanded
with beauty and striking their Gym
balls: and the bridegroom and bride
will stand at the head Of the table, anu
the hanqucters. looking up. will wonder .91a anu
admire, and say: THAT is Jesus the bride
groom? But the scar on His brow is covered
with the coronet, and the stab in His side Is
covered with q robe" and ''that is the bride:
The wearincSS of her earthly woe lost Ill the
flush Of this wedding triumph"
Therc will be wine enough at that wdl-
ding: not coming up from the poisoned ratS
of earth, but the vineyards OF God Will press
their ripest clusters, and the cups and the
tankards will blush to the brim with the
heavenly vintage. and then all tho ban
oueters will drink standing Esther
having come up from the bacchana-
lian reveiry of Ahasuerus where
thousand Lords feasted, will be there. And
the Queen Of Shcba, from tho banquet ot
Solomon, will be there. AID the mother OF
Jesus, from the wedding in Cana will be
there And they ull will agree that the
earthly feasting was poor compared with
that Then, lifting their chalices in that holy
light, they shall cry to the Lord Of the feast:
Thou hast kept the good wine until now
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
Woman suffrage a success.

Wherever woman suffrage has been
tried, writes Francis Minor, in the Fo-
rum, it has proved success. The tes-
timony from English sources is abund-
ant, that since the complete enfranchise-
ment Of women in the Isle Of Man, the
condition Of public affairs there has
improved; and this fact is used as an ar
gument to show that parliamentary suf-
frage should be extended to women in
England also. In the Territory Of Wy
oming women have enjoyed full suffrage
since 1859, period of twenty-one years.
Governor Campbell, who was in office at
the time, in his message two years later
said that the women had conducted
themselves in every respect with as much
tact, sense and good judgment as men.
Two years after, he repeated that the
system Of impartial suffrage was an un-
qualified success. His successors, Gov
ernors Thayer, Hoyt, Hale and Warren,
have all borne witness to the same ef-
feet and M. c. Brown, U. S. Attorney
for the Territory, says that "woman suf-
frage in Wyoming has accomplished
much good, and has harmed no one. +"
Pages might be filled with similar testi-
mony, not only as to Wyoming, but as
to the other Territories where woman
suffrage has been tried. Mere theoreti-
cal views in opposition are but as
''small dust in the balance" compared
with these actual facts.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
HUMOROUS.

There is nice thing about having
wo babies in the house" said Sleepless
"What is that?" ''They each cry so loud
you can't hear the er."-Chatter.
Lady Customer (angrily)-I be.
lieve there is water in your milk, SIR"
Honest Milkman-"Yes, madam, there
is. l have on several occasions urged
The cows to be more careful, but they
insist that it is impossible to make milk
without water."-Puck.
-Visitor-"I notice that you confine
yourself to foretelling the future, and
10 not reveal the past" Clairvoyant-
"Yes, it is much easier. Somebody is
sure to know all about the past, and
they know as little about the future as
[ do. Lowell Mail.
Mr.. Slowpay-"i don't like to COM
plain about trifles, Mrs. Snapper, but
my hash appears to consist largely of
fragments of deal board" Mrs. Snapper
(the landlady)-"Well, what kind OF
board do you expect for five dollars
week? Polished mahogany|-Light
old Mr.. Bently-"Thats true say.
ing, Maria, that one-half Of the world
doesn't know how The other half lives"
Old Mrs. Bently-"Humphl Joshua, 1t
would be nearer the truth to say that
one-half of the world doesn't know how
the other three-quarters live. ."-Har.
per's Bazar
First Irishman-''It's all pinsion,
pinsion, nowadays, Moike. The paper
says there's thousand survivors OF the
Mexican war, with twelve thousand
widdies, aither drawin' pinsions this
blessed dayI' Second Irishman-"The
ovid Mormons! Twelve widdies to livery
one O. them! That's pfwhat becomes Nv
the surplushr'
-Bilkins-"My language to you has
always been poetic and flowery. When
/ first met you l called you daisy
After we we're married l called you my
pink" Mrs. Bilkins-"And now, when
you come home at three o'clock in the
morning and / have to come down to let
you in, you think I'm night blooming
cereus. ."-America.
--"Well, Mr.. Fickleby, were you a,
church yesterday morning.? mo,
staid at home and took nap" "Ah,
you should have been at church; grand
sermon we had" "Yes, but dreamed
/ was in church, and | guess it's all
right Between you and me I'd rather
stay home and GO to sleep and dream
I'm in church than to go TO church and
go to sleep and dream I'm at home."-
Buffalo Courier.
--He-"I love you, Maudr' She-"Al
right, Harry. And you may keep com
pauy with me this summer on few con
ditions." "Name them, sweet" "Yol
must not try to work the bacciIiin-ice
cream racket on me, nof cut all tn,
drowning accidents out of the papers Il
show me, nor tell any chestnuts abou
poisonous serpents at picnics- The.
won't work. Now, think we can ge
along very well. Lawrence American
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
MY MOTHERS DoUeHNUTs.

High up In the Rockies I've wandered about
And feasted quite often on hapjacks and trout
have dinei on the bison, the elk and the
deer;
But still have remembered whatever the
cheer
While tasting the fruitage OF lifes varied tree
The wonderful doughnuts that mother made
Tell not Of rich dainties. rare treats and all
that
But bring to the cook.stove kettle OF fat;
Now blend all the goodies--tho mixture roll
thin
They were prettily twisted when sho dropped
them in.
How graceful thought her, as she worked by
the fire,
While the cinnamon incense rose higher and
higherl
How deftly she turned them, Just touching each
one,
And quickly removed them, as she saw they
were donei
Call them cimneis, or crullers, or simballs, OF
cakes,
To me they are doughnuts. What mem'ry
that wakes
OF the time, in my boyhood-forget meier can
When, In the seething kettle, she fried me o
mani
Ohi mothers brown doughnuts. whose hearts
were 50 light,
Whose crispy, firm texture gave something to
bitei
hold to the fancy, wherever stray,
That trees never yielded such nuts as were
they;
And my mind paints picture that flls me
with Joy:
OF mother, kettle. brown doughnuts. boy
Oliver Howard, in Santa Claus.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29

he fell. The contest had now become
too close to use any time except
in fighting, and Marks pitched in
with his hunting-knife, whilo Grant
used his axe vigorously on the tough
and furious boar. In short time both
men were covered with blood, both from
flesh wounds the boar succeeded, in
spite Of their efforts, in inhicting upon
them, and from the streams from the
hog itself.
The fight finally took the contestants
close to where Grants loaded gun was
lying on the ground. Grant stepped
quickly aside to get the gun. The boar
sprang iercely after him. Grant got
the gun, however, and lodged ball in
tho boar, breaking his other shoulder
This sent the tenacious animal helpless
to the ground. Ho tore the earth with
his tusks, champed and frothed, and
threw himself about until he was forced
to become quiet from sheer exhaustion.
Marks then cut the boar's throat and
the most desperate fight with q wild
beast that ever occurred on the Ligo-
nier mountains was over. The boar
was not fat but 1t weighed nearly four
hundred pounds. Both Marks and Grant
were laid up for several days after the
| hunt
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
why Women Are Powerl.ss.

Men tell us that we are responsible
for the home and the education of the
children; that the morals of society are
in our keeping. Suppose, says Rev.
Olympia Brown, when the war was rag
ing, our generals had taken some Of
those tall, stalwart men and bound their
hands behind them, and put them in the
front of battle, and told them to go in
and win. What would have happened?
Evidently the army would have been
cut to pieces, and they would have been
entirely routed. But that is what they
do with women. They put us in the
front Of the great battle that is waging
against intemperance, gambling, i'm
purity, and they take away the only
weapon which anybody could use in a
republic-and yet they hold us response
BILE for the morals Of the community.
Our first business is to free ourselves,
before we can help any cause. Then,
when we are free, we shall not go about
getting up strawberry festivals and
oyster suppers and crazy-quilt lotteries,
but we shall vote appropriations Al
present, women are poweriess with re.
gard to the great evils which they are
asked to overcome; and the first service
that we can render to humanity or tc
God. is to get ourselves into a position
of independence.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
THE HOLGREM TEST.
An Examination Which No One Afflicted
with Color Blindness Can Pass.

An Examination Which No One Afflicted
with Color Blindness Can Pass.
A large number of colored worsteds
are laid upon table. The set includes
variety of shades of red, magenta,
purple, green and violet, and few yell
low and blue samples, together with
grays, drabs and browns. A pale green
sample is placed on one side, and the
person TO be tested is requested lay be-
side it all those which to his eye resem-
BILE it in color. If the subject is color
blind, the result is most interesting and
instructive. The ease and certainty
with which he makes his selections are
very striking. His color sense is evi-
/ IDENTIFY as complete and unerring, ac-
cording to his standards, as that of an
observer with normal vision, but it leads
him to a totally different result. He
selects certain greens, but most of the
worsteds which would be taken by per-
son not color-blind are left untouched.
In their place he chooses grays and
drabs and browns and pieces of undyed
wool, and sometimes corn and straw
colors, with certain shades of magenta,
lake and reddish purple. With pale
magenta as guide, the selections are
no less surprising to one who witnesses
the test for the first time, but they are
also Indicative of & definite system. The
results taken in connection with those
obtained with a scarlet sample is pre-
sented, afford the data from which the
type of color-blindness may be definitely
determined.-Prof Edward l. Nichols
in Chautauquan-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-05-29
TWO FOOLISH WOMEN.
The Sharp wav In Which They Were Re
buked by Edwin booth,

The Sharp Wav In Which They Were Re-
buked by Edwin Booth.
The other morning Edwin Booth was
very much startled when waiter at the
Mount Vernon Hotel brought two cards
to his room bearing the names of two
ladies unknown to him. The waiter
said the ladies were pretty and were
waiting in the parlor. In a few minutes
Booth made his appearance in the par
lor, and, much to his surprise, he found
two young and very pretty society girls,
one of whom was debutante last sea-
son. They informed him that they had
attended every performance since his
arrival in Baltimore and become so
fascinated with him that they had
decided to call. They hoped he
would pardon them for doing so.
For few minutes Booth said nothing.
First he looked at their cards, which he
still held in his hand, and then at the
girls, who blushed and became very
much confused. At last the silence was
| broken.
"Young ladies'" said Booth, 81 hap.
pen to know the names on these cards
are assumed, and if l only knew your
real names l should most certainly in
form your parents what you have done
Now. take my advice, 60 home and
dom; ever rus to see an actor again, fol
the next interview might not to be Sc
pleasant as this"
The young ladies departed, and hav,
been very much alarmed ever since, les
their parents should find them ast =
Baltlmc-s American.