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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

THE ORIoLE IS CPolCF.- Dr.. Alb
bolt, in the charming book, Upland
and Meadow" tell this interesting
story about all orioles nest &; ~ plac-
ed series of short l'!eces Of woollen
yarn, fastened together at one end,
near the tree containing partly con-
structel nest of a Baltimore or;ole.
These yalns we've red, yellow, purple,
green and grey. An equal number OF
strands of each color were thus offered
to the orioles as building materials.
| purposely placed the red and yellow
strands on the outside Of the tassell-
shaped mass, so that these would be
first taken if the color was not objec-
tionable. 70 my great surprise the
rray strands only We're taken, until
ile nest was nearly finished. when n
few of the purple and blue yarns were
used. Not red, yellow or green
strand was disturbed. Here we have
al instance of the exercise of choice on
the mart of Il bird which 10 full OF IN:
tere5t. The Woolen threads being oth'
erwise identical. 1t vas the color only
Which influenced the birds they re-
ali2ed that the red or yellow w0ula
render the nest conspicuous, though
well protected by the branch on whlcA
it was placed"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
Various Thoughts.
BY JOHN HEMMENWAY.

Peace is the continual necessity of
nations.
Amy peace for nations is greatly
more gl1 1rious than any war.
Blessed are all persons who are meek
ly trying to be the best Christians in
the world.
Mans power to communicate his
ideas with the pen is one of the most
useful and wonderful faculties Of his
nature; but alas! how often it is
shamefully abused, so that the pen be-
comes mighty instrument of sin.
Blessed is the man who is peaceful
always and warful never. U do not
find the word aOanJul in the dictionary,
but it ought to be there for every
man and every nation that make ol
approve of war are aOartul, and dis
grace to human nature, and if profess
edly Christian, a great disgrace to the
blessed Christian religion, as taught
and practiced by Christ, the holy
Founder Of the Christian religion.)
1t is far nobler for people as q ma.
ton to suffer in virtuous bondage than
to rejoice in vicious liberty.
Infinitely better is the everlasting 81
lence of Quaker meeting than the
vocal devotions Of religion, mixed
with war spirit, in sermons and pray
ers, though it he performed with the
highest order of human learning and
eloquence. and abounding in the most
fervent zeal.
He who does not highly prize anC
enjoy religion in secret, and ever more
than in public, has reason to fear tha
he is not q Christian.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

If You WANT no BE LOVED
Don't find fault.
Don't contradict people even il
you're sure you are right.
Don't be inquisitive about the affairs
OF even your most intimate friend.
Don't underrate anything because
you don't possess it.
Don't believe that everybody else in
the world is happier than you.
Don't conclude that you have never
had any opportunities in life.
Don't believe the evil you hear.
Don't repeat gossip, even if it does
interest crowd.
Don't 20 untidy OH the plea that ev'
erybody knows you.
Don't be rude to your interiors in so
cial position.
Don't over or undertakes.
Don't express q positive opinion un'
less you perfectly understand what
you are talking about.
Don't get in the habit of vulgarizing
life by making light Of the sentiment
OF it.
Don't jeer at anybod's religious belief
Don't try to be anything else but s
gentlewoman-and that means u wo'
man who has considerat. on for the
whole world and whose life is govern
ed by the Golden Rule. ''Do unto 9TH
ers ~ you would be done by"
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
UndercurrentS.
BY MARGARET ]. PRESTON.

Upon q lofty glaciers penk,
Amid the ayalanche'S thunuers,
A scientist who came 10 seek
Some hint OF natures hidden wonders,
Poured through It's rift Il rubbed stream
or water, whose descent might show him
If It could pierce the mass, anu gieam
Down in the valley far below him.
He watched and waited long, until
The somber autumn grass grew dniler'-
When, 10, the proof! He found riil
That tinged the snow with rosy Color
think Of one whose life, so fair,
Than other lives was fairer, brighter;
Who breathed All atmosphere more rare;
Whose garmenture WAS purer, Whlter'
Who. from his unmatched vantage height,
Poured through the riffs Of keen endenVof
Currents Of influence all too bright
And living to be lost forever.
We may not trace the hidden force
or such soul, to whom Ills given
Through many an unsnspected course
To send the roseate hues Of heaven;
Enough that his far-reaching powers,
Touched with his country's song and sto
Are caught from this low life Of ours
Up 10 the nouutain-calms Of glory!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

EXPECT LITTLE.-The least we ex-
pect from this world the better for us.
The less we expect from our fellow.
men, whether of spiritual help or OF
inspiring example, the smaller will be
our disappointment. He that leans on
his own strength leans on a broken
reed. We are always going to be
something stronger, purer. and holler.
Somewhere in the future there always
hangs in the air a golden ideal of a
higher life that we are going to reach
but as we move on, the dream of bet.
ter things moves on before us also. 1t
is like the child's running over behind
the hill to catch the rainbow. When
we get on the hilltop, t.le rainbow is
as far off as ever. Thas does our day
dreams of O higher Christian life keep
floating away from US; and we are
left to realize what frail, unreliable
creatures we are when we rest our ex'
pectations of growth and victory over
evil in ourselves. my soul, wait thou
only upon God My expectation is
only from hna."-Dr. 4. l.. Ctyler.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

NJ. de Calinaux is not satisfied. Ht
has sent his servant to do All errand
which the faithful but stupid domestic
has made mess of.
"You have no common sense" cries
M. de Calinaux in fury.
"But, sir''-
"Silence! I ought to have remem'
bered that you are nothing but all idi
ct. The next time have occasion t.
send an imbecile to do an errand,
shall not want you; | will 90 myself
a Kansas City girl, utterly unable
to walk step OH account Of acute
rheumatism. was found standing erect
on the table the other day, cured
Christian science? Not bit OF it
Mouse.
A farmer said: zone thing l DOM
like about city folks-they be either 50
stuck up that yer can't reach 'em Will
q hay-stack pole, or SO friendly thai
they forget to pay their board"
No man ever believed that a crying
baby belonged as much to him as to its
mother.
OATMEAL MUSK FOR CHILDBES
OK INvAIIDs.-Take one cup granu'
lated oatmeal, half teaspoonful o.
salt and one scant quart of boiling Wa
ter. Put the meal and salt in the
double boiler, pour on the boiling wa
ter and cook two or three hours.
Remove the cover just before serving
and stir with O fork to let the steam es
cape. If the water in the lower boiler
be strongly salted the meal will cook
more quickly. Serve with sugar OF OF
salt and cream. Baked sour apples
apple sauce and apple jellv are delici'
Gus eaten with the oatmeal. They
should he served with the mush, and
the cream and sugar poured over the
whole. They give the acid flavor,
which SO many crave in the morning
Coarse oatmeal is not suitable for any
form of waterbrash, acidity or bowel
Irritation. 1t often causes eruption on
the skin in warm weather.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
Only q Mask.
BY EupoRA 8. LUMsTEAD.

Tommy ran In all out OF breath.
And I played I was scared almost TO death,
For he wore mask so strange and queer,
With a mouth that grinned from ear To ear.
He rolled up bis eyes. and his tongue ran out;
He doubled his fists aud stamped about
Like queer little goblin bent on II fght;
But at last he seemed 10 pity my fright,
So he snatched II off. saying. "Auntie, see|
I'm the same little boy used to be-"
Then by and by, when the play went wrong
He came with face so sad and long,
And he shrugged his shoulders, and hung
about
With IN angry frown and snlky pout..
For. of course, knew IL was just Il mask
So kissed the cheeks and lips and chin,
And kissed the place where the sc"wls be-
gin;
They vanished away, and suid: "Why, see,
He's the same little boy he used To be-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
MCocoa.nut DaYn is celebrated in

"Cocoa-nut Day" is celebrated In
most parts of India during the full
moon In August. On that day num-
bers Of nuts are thrown into the sea as
All Offering to The Hindu gods.
Raron niebig. the great German
chemist, says tEut las much flour as
can lie OH the point of table-knife
contains IA much nutritive constitu-
ents as eight quarts of the best and
most nutritious beer that is made"
Ex-President Cleveland has united
with the Central Presbyterian Church,
New York City, of which Rev. VIII
ton Merle Smith is pastor. MIS-. Cleve-
land has long been member OF the
Presbyterian Church.
There is man over seventy years OF
age living at cheap clearinghouse on
tile New Do~ery, New, York. He
was formerly worth over $lOo,W0, and
his family and connections are very
wealthy, but they have dis"wned him
entirely. On the first day of each
month the proprietor of the lodging
house receives s. in an envelope, with
the brief direction: 'This is to pay
for Mr.. IS lodging for one month" "
The old fellow is not allowed to touch
one cent of it, as it is on assured fact
proved by experience that if the So
were placed in his hands it would 20
ut once for rum. He has sad history.
A number of druggists in South Da'
kota have signed all agreement to keep
no LIQUORS after May /. They have
done this because they do not like the
provisions of the prohibition bill, espe.
cially those requiring petitions signed
by twenty women necessary to secure
permits, the $1,000 bond clause, and
the general "humiliating features OF
the measure" as they please to term
them.
Certain parties have recently pre-
dicted the simultaneous inundatiOn
and destruction of San Francisco, Oak.
land, CAL, Chicago and New York by
an earthquake, April IA, and believers
in Oakland are becoming more and
more excited. They are selling real
estate at half its value, and disposing
of other property for song to second
hand dealers. They will move to the
surrounding hills out Of harms way.
There will be an organized hegira un'
der leaders, and daily prayer-meetings
will be held until the night of the 18th.
On the Goth of March a magnificent
piece of property assessed at $40, ,0OC
was sold for So, 500, and all the furni-
ture in a nine-room house went FOL
$95. One devotee gave away several
cords of wood, saying he would not
need it.-NushUille Advocate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
Redeemipg the Time.

Confining ourselves to the higher as
poets of life, the intellectual and relig-
ious, is it not true that the danger OF the
day is o sad lack of concentration
Distractions do so multiply around us,
new lines of study to be followed, new
books to be read, new orators 10 DC
heard, new claims of religion or phil
anthropy to be answered, new theo-
ries of theologians to be puzzled over,
new doors of opportunity to be enter
ed, that we are all too prone, without
pausing to consider how far we have
| fulfilled our duty towards that which
we already have in hand, to try to
take up one thing more, when, our
arms being already full, we can only
do 80 by dropping something that
should not be let go, The consequence
is rushing from duty to duty, q con-
slant changing of mental attitude that
is fatal to the Concentration upon few
things which is the absolute prerequi'
site to thoroughly good work in any
sphere. The brilliant author of Nat
ural Law in the Spiritual World' mas
put the whole matter into one preg'
nant sentence when he says: ITO coll
centrate upon a few great correspon-
dences,-to oppose TO the death the per-
petual petty larceny of our life by tri-
fIe,, these are the conditions for the
highest and happiest life. 1t is only
limitation which can secure the Him
liable" .,
The same thought was in the mind
of Frederick w. Robertson, than
whom surely no man spent his hours
TO better purpose, when, in a Letter to
a friend, he wrote: "Broken and in
terrupted as life is, it demands all the
more earnest effort 10 prevent II all
falling into fragments. l Know the
restlessness ard misery of time occu.
pied in a desultory way,-the hurried
scramble into which it converts exls'
tence, and the loneliness and aimless-
ness which it leaves behind, anu which
tempt one to get rid of them by the
same improbable seeking Of distrac-
tion again."
And was it not Matthew Arnold who
sang in tones Of fathomlesS regret:
This Is the curse OF life! that not
A nobler. culnier train
OF wiser thoughts and feelings blot
Our passions from our lralhi
But each day brings lis petty dust
our sooii-chUked souls to fill,
And we forget because we must,
And not because we WILL
Surely it is not too much to expect
of those who claim to bc followers OF
Him whose noblcst disciple announced
as his motto, "This one thing do"
that they should so order their lives as
to be at least measurably free from re-
proach of desultoriness and fragmen-
tary fulfilment Of duty, that they
should set inspiring examples OF op-
posing 10 the death the perpetual pet
ty larceny of our life by trifies. let'
is it SO ?-J. ", Orteg, IN s. y, 1t"es'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
Women and Housekeeping.

Housework, in moderation, is healthy
and pleasant. 1t is the want of just
such all Unconditional vent for their
restless energy that produces many
victims Of nervous prostratiOn. 1t Is
also wholly compatible, if brought I'LL
der any proper system with good i'll
telleclual work. Moreover, the. crea
ting and guiding of a home is The best
gift the world has to offer. When one
thinks of the flood of bad art and sec
ond-rate literature of the present day
is it not melancholy to reflect upon the
wasted energy that might have gone
into beautiful and helpful lives? The
education is costly, indeed, whose plict
is the w0man's JOY in the superinten.
dence of her home. If she with all
the incentives of love and pride, dc.
spises the daily cares that make the
comfort Of the household, how can she
expect them to be rigidIy met by hir'
ed housekecper, whose only Interest Is
money-getting: :,
"No man can serve two masters ~
and therefore, it seems to me self-evi-
dent that any woman who accepts the
gift of Il home thereby pledges herself
to devote TO it her | est service. The
neglect of her first duty and highest
privilege cannot lead to any true work
in other directions
Pass IOned to eXalt
The artists instinct In me at The cost
or putting down the wOmanS, forgot
No perfect artist is developed here
From any imperfect woman.
sang true poet and noble woman.
There are women whose God'given
talents require to tread lonely path.
There are many others to whom the
supreme treasure of a home is denied.
But the best work of artist or poet or
physician will ever spring from the
hidden, passionate womanliness that
appreciates to the full the greatness of
the sacrifice or loss.
Christian Register.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

Children should be trained up to qt
tend the preaching service in the pub
lie congregation as veil as the Bible
study service In the Sunday-school
Attending church and Joining In the
singing and listening respectfully to
the sermon easily becomes a habit
with most children who are properly
trained.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
His Mothers Pies.

I've toIled and tried and worried,
I've gone the cook books through,
Till my brain IL tired and f1urried,
And my hands and patience too.
I've had the hest instruction
From the ablest cooks In town,
And my pies are crisp and dainty
And delicately brown.
But apple. mince or pumpk In,
or any form or shade,
Are nothing to my husband
Like the pies his mother made.
So I'll give the struggle over,
And throw my pride away,
But rs sure as I'm u mother
I'll be avenged some day.
My bonnie lads are growing,
And they'll not be afraid
To tell their future spouses
What pies their mother made.
Good housekeeping.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

Faith shines most brightly in believ'
ing things that seem incredible hope
shines in expecting things that seem
improbable-patience, in bearing
crosses that appear intolerable.
TO accept Christ is to live his life to
make his Spirit the model by which
we shape our lives; to emulate the
love that he manifested t" strive for
his humility to seek to attain his self
forgetfulness to endeayor to reach to-
ward the purity of his life. 1t is the
reproduction of his life in US.
Sometimes the very "stars in their
courses'' seem to fight against Us as
they fought against Sisera. The skies
are clouded, the storm howls about us,
the atmosphere is oppressive, and our
"environment" suppresses, ehokes us.
Even then all We are required to 40 is
our best and leave results with high
er power.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

An exchange defines an optimist as
q woman who has new winter cloak
and bonnet, and n pessimist as a wo-
man who has neither.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

Who rises from prayer better man,
bis prayer Is answered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09
THE ASS WAS RIGHT;

it doesn't matter who drives us if we
have no more panniers to carry. The
principal wars have always been near car,
ried out by the aristocracy, because
they're afraid the people should have
time to think, and that, like the clock
pendulum that goes swinging back
wards and forwards tick, tack, tick,
tack, there should be nothing but
work, work, work, for them. They
have secured all the land of the coun-
try, and they have secured many
things beside, and what they haven't
secured the Queen has. Everything
belongs to her 1t is The Queens A.
my,n "rhe Queens Navy" The
Queens Revenue" and "7he Peoples
Debt" We have nothing else that's
national to divide among us, and 50 II
will be until such time as working
men are of my opinion, that they
won't fight, and then there'll be an
end of war.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

in one nj orning. I have heard their
screams while they got five hundred
lashes each, till l turned sick and
didn't know where I'd been. | learnt
then to Eo peaceable, and ever since
have had q particular disposition to De
peaceable, and am determined that I'll
have nothing to do with fighting. I'll
pay nothing, if can help it, but L
can't help paying maybe: however,
I'll not do anything that / can help
doing to enable war to be carried on.
I say that it demoIalized the popula-
ton. The morality of the people OF
the last century. notwithstanding all
our education and all our stuff, was
better than it is now. The people were
moral, but we shall walk back to the
same pass again if we only keep the
peace. If war had continued (address-
ing the chairman) you, sir, would nev-
er have presided at railway dinners.
There would never have been O rail-
way. There would have been no joint
stock cotton mills. There was nothing
else TO be done but soldering. Even
boys thought of nothing else. When
I was a boy we used to play at soldiers.
and never at anything else; and VII
layers and people in towns, wherever
you went. were all seeking to be SOL
diers. / have no objection to the
French coming over, and if they can
find aught in our house that they
think worth their while, they're well
come to it. They'll not find deal in
poor peoples houses who stand i'll the
same position as me, and I stand in the
same position as the principal part OF
the working classes. What need we
cafe?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-09

1t is a nice thing enough to be an Of
ficer; you never hear tell of an officer
deserting the consequence is there's
no occasion to fog All officer, because
he doesn't desert. But | have seen
sights awful enough, I'll assure you.
In the beautiful little town of Doncas-
ter have seen fifteen men tayed alive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-21
THE SECRETARY OF STATE BUSY.
MANY PEOPLE ANXIOUS ABOUT FOLDING THE
' NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FILED.

Albany, Oct 90 Gpecial)-The Secretary OF sta'c
has had n busy day. Inquiries IA to no" 20 ioo TIC
,.I,o,s have poured I'm to him from all quarters
tn ALI he has maintained that the only correct way
Is that set forth by him in his instructions prh"
with the new election code, that the hrSt fod Sio"iu
ho the shortest way. The nominations OF candidates
have also consumed not a little OF his time. pom
Investigation he found that the signatures ata'heu
n The certificate OF nomination by rhe Socialists OF
Francis Geran OF Brooklyn, for Judge OF the court
Of Appeals were genuine, and thereupon hled inc
nomination. There was another Socialist nonhih"
ton which he did not put on record IL was 'hut VI
L. II. Ferguson, for Congress, III Erie comfy i"o
certificate failed TO state which district Mr. Ferguson
WAS TO run in, and for that and other imperlec'on'
il was rejected. Dennis Nerney. Of fonke~' VINO Is
anxious 10 run In the XIVth District appeared at'
I'm the afternoon with his certificate drty-ioohno
document All except 1870 of the names origIlail,
on the certificate had been erased, ana hunoe ~,
new ones added. But these were no, sun h
law and the secretary promised 10 give Mr, Sef6 6
an answer in the morning. Late III the DAY uo
certificate OF Alexander Tay lor lr as an lhoepcuei'
candidate for Congress In the XlVth District was re
ceived. 1t was drawn IN correct iorn anu h ~
snatres do;blc the required number were attacheu'
II was received without question and filed
The committee appointed at the kcpLDncan oo,
vonti0n to fill vacancies to-day nominated Angus ~
Shoemaker for Congress IN the NlNth Distrcl; M
Durnt nominated BY the convention, having decnhcd.
nonular. Two years ago he was elected school
Commissioner. receiving the largest vote ON the tcke.
Mr. Shoemaker has hard fight with all the chances
against him because Of the latenesS Oh the nohnauoh