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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

Towering of Christ's affections. The sun
hath no warmth compared with the glow
of His heart. The waters have 40 refresh.
ment like the fountain that will slake tho
thirst Of thy soul. At the moment the
reindeer stands with his lips and nostril
thrust in the cool mountain torrent the
hunter may be coming through the thicket.
Without cracking a stick under his foot,
he comes close by the stag, aims his gun,
in its death agony and falls backward, its
antlers crashing on the rocks, but the pant
ing hart that drinks from the water brooks
Of Gods promise shall never be fatally
wounded and shall never die.
This world is poor portion for your soul,
oh business man! An eastern King had
craven on his tomb two fingers, represented
as sounding upon each other with snap, aud
under them the motto: Gall is not worth
that" Apicius Coelius hanged himself be-
cause his steward informed him that he had
only eighty thousand pounds sterling left:
All Of this worlds riches make but small
inheritance for soul. Robespierre attempted
to win the applause Of the world, but when
he was dying, a woman came rushing through
the crowd, crying to him: Murderer OF my
kindred, descend to hell, covered with the
curses Of every mother in France" Many
VINO nave e8pecCeu Vne plauaiIS VI InS ~
have died under its Anathema Maranatha.
Oh, find your peace in God: Make one
strong pull for heaven. No half way work
will do it. There sometimes comes time on
shipboard when everything must be sacri-
feed to save the passengers. The cargo Is
nothing; the rigging nothing. The captain
puts the trumpet to his lips and shouts, Cut
away the mastp Some of you have been
tossed and driven, and you have, in your ef-
forts to keep the world, wsll-nigh lost your
soul. Until you have decided this matter, let
everything else go. Overheard with all those
other anxieties and burdens! You will have
to drop the sails of your pride ami cut away
the mast With one earnest cry Tor help,
put your cause into the hand of Him who
helped Paul out of the breakers at Melita and
who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiest
tempest that ever blackenei ths sky or
shook the ocean can hear the fain intest inlplor-
alton for mercy.
shall go home to-day feeling that some of
you, who have considered your case as hope
less, will take heart again, and that, with
blood red earnestness, such as you have never
experienced before, you will start for the
good land Of the Gospel-at last to look back
saying: What great risk ran! Almost
lost, but saved! Just got through, and NO
more! Escaped by the skin of my teeth
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
FOREVER YOUNG.
1 world hastens on its way:

The wild world hastens on its way;
The gray haired century nears its close;
Its sorrow deepens day by day;
The summer blush forSakeS the rose.
But, darling, while your voice hear,
And while your dark brown eyes seq,
Sad months and sunless seasons drear
Are all the same, all glad to ME.
Despair can never reach me
While your soft hand hold;
While your eyes love ard teach me
shall never grow old.
They say that love forSakes the old,
That passion pales and fades away;
That even loves bright locks of gold
Must lose their Charm and change to gray.
But, darling, while your heart is mine,
And while feel that you are true,
For me the skies will ever shine
With summer light and tenderest blue.
Yet, let old age der.de me:
scorn his mocxing tongue;
Dear love, with you beside me,
am forever young.
-Be'graria.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
GtI'll ketch it."

The shoemaker's son had thrust his
body far through the window as he
spoke.
"Joe aint 'fraid O. nary thing livin'!"
asserted his father, admiringly. "Jest
onlock this ere door S soon s you git
in, so s you can run ifyou wanter,' he
advised.
"Lasser it," added another, pushing
the rope in after him.
But Joe, inside, refused the rope, and,
following his fathers advice, flung open
the door, into which the crowd outside
pushed its way, while he boldly advanc-
ed toward the object lying at the other
end of the hall.
go Joe, be keerful Don't you tech
it |" warned Mrs. Peak, aa he suddenly
stopped over and bravcly grasped it.
''Landy massey, if he haint got it-by
the-tail!" she ended in q hysterical
screech.
ssHere's your 'scapcd boa, Mis- Peak!"
he shouted, as, with dcxterous twirl,
he wrapped the long black folds about
himself, and stepped back into the full
view of all present.
ooh, my SUI alive! If 'taint my
grandmother's old fur boal"
Mrs. Peak, halfway down the stair
case as she caught sight of it, turned
sharply with the exclamation on her lips,
and fled as a loud burst of laughter
broke from the rescuing party.
can it escaped from the upstairs
bannlsters, where she hung it Yesterday
fer an airin'. Much. .ph1eeoed W you all
fer yer help in capterin' the critter," was
all that Mr.. Peak said as he flung the
fur boa back in the corner and grimly
closed the front door on the laughing
crowd.
"Jest to think what reedic'lous mess
you've got us into!' he exclaimed, re-
proachfully, as he lay down again. To
think of my goin' down the water-spout
and wakin' the hull neighborhood up,
jest fer your grandmother's old neck
fxin's2"
"But, 'Zek'l," Mrs. Peak returned,
with more humility than usual, sit
might "a ben 'tother one. You know
I've heen lookin' fer it ever sencc thet
circus!"
"That's jest it!" he returned, sharply.
"You was sot to go, an softer to come
home, an sottist a-lookin' fer boa, an
you see what's come of it."
"Wcll, I found one, too, didu't II"
she retorted. "But, 'Zek'l Peak" she
continued, decidedly, sitting up and care
fully relying her nightcap strings, ''Im
sotter'n ever jest now bout another thing:
You couldn't hire me to wear thet thing
agin. 1t gives me the magrums jest
thinkin' of it. 'Taint no use talkin'.
Twas jest special providence 'twa'n't
the circus one"
The real boa was found by the manage
ment the day that its disappearance was
advertised snugly coiled up in an over
looked box outside the tent. 1t was not
missed, therefore, from the combinations
attractions; but none of these in any
form ever again proved sufficient to over
come Mrs. Peaks objections to menag-
erie. -Youth's Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
A Korean Wall.

The Koreans have a peculiar way of
building wall by erecting two parallel
partitions, between which they pour
plaster OF mud and then remove the par
titions, when the material solidities.
When I was in Seoul an examination of
students occurred, and the subject then
chosen was text from one of the classic
authors to the effect that as the boards
serve to give shape to the mortar so hon
est and upright statesmen mold the fabric
of the nation. The students were all re-
quired, was told, to write poem in
blank verse upon this subject Wash
ingt0n Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
Crowned Queen After Death.

The is no more. remarkable page in all
history, says the st. Louis Republic, than
the one which tells of the crowning Of
Inez de Castro's feshless skull as Queen
of Portugal. She had been married clan
destinely to young Don Pedro, and was
murdered three years later by assassins
instigated by her father-in-law. When
the young Don heard Of her death he was
beside himself with grief and rage. Two
of the assassins fell into his hands and
suffered rrible torture, which only
ended by their hearts being torn out
while they were yet alive. When Pedro
came to the throne few years later he
had the bones of Inez taken from the
grave, placed upon magnificent throne
robed in royal purple, and actually
crowned Queen of Portugal. The court
was summoned and compelled to do her
homage, Just as if she were a real living
Queen. One heshless hand held the scep-
tire and the other the orb ofroyalty. On
the second night of this weird ceremony
the Rcshless Queen was borne before q
grand funeral cortege extending several
miles, each person holding a torch.
Lying in her rich robes, her crown upon
her grinning skull, in chariot drawn by
twenty coal-black mules, Queen lnez,
the only Queen who never knew her royal
station, was driven to the royal abbey
of Alcobaca, where the bones were in
tered with as much pomp as though she
had died but yesterday. The monument
erected to the Queen, who was never a
Queen during life, is still to be seen in
the abbey, standing near the one erected
to her loyal husband, "Pedro the Just.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
RELIGIOUS READING.
A KINGS DAUGHTER.

A KINGS DAUGHTER.
I do not now possess
The grandeur or the dress,
The Jewels rich ard rare,
The crown that shall wear,
Yet I am o Kings daughter
I am not now at home,
I have no lordly dome,
I have no palace great,
I have no vast estate,
Yet I am Kings daughter.
My Fathers kingdom lies
In realms beyond the skies,
And while l tarry here
He doth for me prepare
For I am Kings daughter.
Ny Elder Brothers love
My Fathers heart did move
To cover with His dress
Ny whole unrighteousness,
So I an Kings daughter.
I had gone far astray;
In guilt and ruin lay,
In utter misery.
In foul depravity,
Even me, the Kings daughter.
Ny Elder Brother saw
His Fathers broken law,
And aid His robes aside
And for my sake He died;
Thus am I the Kings daughter.
I'll reach my home some day,
And there I'll praise AWAY
The love, the grace. tine power,
That gave me oil my dover.
Even me, the Kings daughter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

A MAN at Titis, Russia, paid an as
sassin SIS to kill M enemy, and $50
more when the assassin brought al ear
in proof of his crime. The assassin
,.,nt to the enemy and obtained 500
for revealing the plot and produced a
bogus ear. The man who paid to have
his enemy assassinated is now suing
the "swindler" to recover the money he
paid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
"BRIGHrEN OUR rNTELLECTs."

Once week the lady teachers Of Knox
vile College meet with the girls in praying
circles. Some of their unc0nvcrted school.
mates are taken by the girls as objects Of
prayer. 1t is very seldom that any one Is
absent from her circle on Tuesday even-
ing.
Thou who with thine own arm OF strength
didst deliver frtm q cruel bodily enslaye-
ment, these, the creatures Of thy land, de-
liver, we pray thee: their souls from the
bondage of the evil one, and brighten their
intellects with knowledge Of thyselff,
which alone can make them wise unto sal.
Yation.-[Selected.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

It has been discovered that the nickel
in-thc-slot machine was an old Egyptian
device for dispensing the purifying water
in the temples. The apparatus was de-
scribed by Hero, Of Alexander, who
lived 200 years B. c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

A woMAN's strange gait may not az
Ways be caused by her gaiter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

So MANY poets send their verses to
Oliver Wendell Holmes that he has
come to the conclusion that everybody
in the United States writes poetry.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

StreeI, W.lCeT STREET, IedIl SlTttt, DIOdI
street, StatA street and Third street. On earth
they were called brokers, or stock jobbers, OF
retailers. or importers; but in heaven, Chrin
tian heroes. No fagots were heapel about
their feet: no inquisition demanded from
their recantation. no soldier aimed pike at
their heart; but they had mental fortunes,
compared with which all physical consuming
is as the breath of spring morning.
I find in the community a large class Of
men who have been so cheated so lied
about so outrageously wronged, that they
have lost their faith In everything. In
world where everything seems so topsy
turvy they do not see how there can be
any God. They are confounded and fren-
zied and misanthropic. Elaborate argu-
ments to prove to them the truth of Chris
tiani.T, or the truth Of anything else, touch
them nowhere. Hear me, all such men.
preach to you no rounded periods, no orna-
mental discourse; but put my hand on
your shoulder, and invite you into the
peace of the Gospel Here is a rock on which
you may stand firm, though the waves
dash against it harder than the Atlantic
pitching its surf clear above Eddystone
Lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all
these troubles Of the world. As long as the
world stuck to God, God stuck to the world
but the earth seced ID from his government,
AMI hence all these outrages and all these
woes God is good. For many hundreds of
years He had been coaxing the world to come
back to Him, but the more He has coaxcd the
more violent have men been in their resist
ance, and they have stepped lack and stepped
back until they have dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the b!ood-
hounds after you, and who have thought
that God had forgotten you. Try Him.
and see if He will not help. Try Him, and
see if He will not pardon. Try Him, and
see if He will not save. The flowers OF
spring have no bloom so sweet as the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

has rejected the Christian religion. lt says:
II am old enough to know that the joys
and pleasures Of life are evanescent, and to
realize the fact that it must be comfortable
in old age to believe in something relative
to the future. ami to have a faith in some
system that proposes to save. l am free TO
confess that I would be happier # l could
exercise the simple and beautiful faith that
is possessed by many whom l know. am
not willingly out OF the church or ous OF
the faith. My state of uncertainty is one OF
unrest. Sometimes l doubt my imm ortallty,
and look upon the death bed as the closing
scene, after which there is nothing. What
shall do that have not done" An! skep-
ticism is dark and doleful land. Let me
say that this Bible is either true or false: II
it be false, we are is we'll OIL as youi IL IL oe
true, then which OF us is safer.
Let me also ask whether your trouble Las
not been that you confounded Christianity
with the inconsistent character OF some
WHO profess it, You are lawyer. In your
profession there are mean and dishonest
men Is that anything against the law? You
are doctor. There are unSkllled and con-
temptib,e men i'll your profession. Is that
anything against medicine? You are mer-
chant. There are thieves and defrauders
in your business. Is that anything against
merchandise? Behold, then, the unfairness
of charging upon Christianity the wickedness
of its disciples. We admit some Of the
charges against those who profess religion
Some IF the most gigantic swindles of the
present day have been carried on by men,
bers of the church. There are men stand
ing in the front rank in the churches who
would not be trusted for five dollars with
out good collateral security. They leave
their business dishonesties in the vestibule
of tho church as they 60 in and sit at the
Communion. Having concluded the sacra-
@ent, noittiIirgI they get up, wipe the wine from
the lips, 60 out, and take up their
sins where they left of. To serve the devil
is their regular work; to serve God, sort
Of play spell. With Sunday sponge they
expect to wipe off from their business slate
ali the past weeks inconsistencies. You
have no more right to take such q mans life
as a specimen of religion than you have to
take the twisted irons and split timburs that
lie on the beach at Coney Island as speci-
men of an American ship. Its time that we
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21

IN. lCS ID, an IL WOQucr VIC alnC III
it, too, an mebbe I shall be if you don't
hurry"
"'Taint stirred" said Mr.. Peak, as the
windows were reached and raised.
Throw somethin at it an see if it'll
move"
Thud! went a good-sized stick upon
the hall floor and upon the dreadful OBJ
jcct.
"Oh gracious!" screamed Mrs. Peak,
who had venturcd out into the upper
hall once more, to watch ano direct opera
tions below. "It's gethcred all up in a
heap, ready to jump. Shoo!"
Down went the fire shovel, which she
had seized for self defence, landing in
the midst of the disturbed coils, which
suddenly Strengthened out.
"Kill it, it's comm straight after
me-" she screamed, and darted back to
her chamber.
II don't sees you can do anything
but shoot it, after few moments spent
in parleying, during which the creature
, lay motionless.
'''zekl Peak, don't you fire neither.
don't want them hall walls all spat
tered up with that critters thrashin
round" exclaimed Mrs. Peak, peering
out from her retreat with a change of
mind as to the fate Of it. "'Taint NOV
in now, ketch it
"Ketch it! Who's agoin' to do it, I'd
like to know. Pears to me, Nancy, il
you're so fierce all Of sudden bout
ketchin' it, you might come down step
er two, ter shcw body how. I'm gittip'
tired a-foolin'," Mr.. Peak returned, i'm
patiently.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
AN UNWISE COMPARISON.


Mr.. WALDEN read partial list of the
former city officials tho other night, and
was Mortified TO find that all he had
enumerated were Mormons. Then he read
list of present officials, and-here is the
joke-thev were all non Mormons.
Had he read the names of city councillors
also, he would have found four non Nor
mons-RoBERTs, MCCORMICK, SowLEs, and
DooLY-who had been elected by Peoples
votes. He would have found in the pre-
sent council no Mormons, but he would
have found SIX of his party-PEMBRoKE,
HALL, Conn, NOBLE, ARMSTRONG, and
WoLsTENHoLM-by defiance of law occupy
ing seats, to which six Peoples men had
been duly elected and the rightfulness of
the election of the Peoples men affirmed
also by the district court Mr. WALDEN's
comparison is an unwise reminder of
Liberal frauds.
But had he continued his investig alton
one step further he would have found a
Liberal ticket solidly non-Mormon and a
Workingmen's ticket made up OF members
Of both parties. How bright fellow like
WALDEN could then, while denouncing
one-sided administrations, ask his hearers
to vote for the one-sided Liberal ticket in
stead of the cosmopolitan Workingmen's
ticket, passes comprehension, unless it be
that ne loves his party better than the
truth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03

IT is rather bad showing which Arizona
makesin the census returns, the enumera-
tors being able to find only 5i,C00 people,
exclusive of Indians, in the entire Terri
tory. This is what Tucson telegram says.
We had hoped for far better showing by
our southern neighbor, and had certainly
expected much better showing. Ten
years ago Arizona had population of
1910, and since then has been supposed to
De forging ahead in true western style; but
we find at the end of the decade au increase
OF only 40 per cent. 1t is apprehended that
the census developments will delay indefi-
nitely the admission of the territory as a
state, for even the Republicans could not
lind the courage to take into the Union a
state which did not have one-third the peo-
pie necessary to entitle it to single Repre-
sentative 10 Congress. Arizona will have
to do some better rusuleing in future than
she has done in the past if she would secure
statehood before the end of the century.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03

THE MOST laughable way of proving the
murderous character of the Mormons is
stated by the chief Liberal organ yester-
day.
THE HERALD had branded as infamous
the statement of that sheet that life and
property bere had been as secure las the
possessors had been able to make them -
And here is the proof the sheet has to offer
Why, then, has it been necessary for Gentle
merchants to keep private watchmen on their
establishments for years? Why is it that every
day, as some cellar is being excavated, the
skeleton of some dead man is found?
Nearly all merchants even now either
employ watchmen among anumber of them
or they have some one sleep i'll the store.
Even the tithing office does so. But "the
skeleton of some dead man" in every cellar I.
Ugh! what a horrible imagination the
Tribune scribe must bayel Can it be that
he has "snakes in his bootsn. We have
long suspected it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
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