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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03
The Spoon Fad.

Seldom has fad taken so surely and
spread so quickly as that for souvenir
spoons. Its bids fair to pervade tho
length ard breadth of the land. 1t is,
perhaps, hardly necessary to explain that
these spoons take their names from their
design and decoration, the Liberty
spoon," for instance, having fac-simile
of the old Liberty bell etched in its bowl
and appropriate emblems on the handle,
while the handle of the " Whittier, - ter
inmates in a faithful reproduction of the
features of the venerable poet. There
are souvenir spoons galore, representing
celebrated Americans, among them the
Longfellow, Lincoln and Grant spoons !;
and old towns of historic interest have
each one or more memorial spoons. For
tunately these spoons combine usefulness
with beauty. They are made in variety
of shapes and sizes to serve as tea,
coffee and desert spoons, and there
are specially formed spoons for oranges,
and spoons with fancy bowls for almonds,
bon-bon and the like. A family may,
therefore, make fine collection of these
souvenirs, with no more improvidence
than would be felt in securing an assort-
ment after the old monotonous fashion.
These commemorative spoons furnish a
new fund for conversation at teas and
dinners and greatly please the little folk
with their object lessons in history.
Among New York souvenirs are the Lib
erty and Knickerbocker; Washington has
her George Washington and White
House spoons, while New England is to
the front with the Moll Pitcher, and the
Witch spoons, the Plym outh Rock, Paul
Revere, Dexter and a score of others.
-Men York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03
RELIGIOUS READING.

lwould not rest TIL I am weary,
would not cease till sinks the sun;
Until the work that God brings near me
Has all been done.
Each work neglected Is bereavement,
A Loss TO some one great or small;
Each noble triumph Of achievement
II good for al.
Whatever unforeseen conditions
Around our paths ir life prevail,
II we are faithful to our mlssions
We cannot fail.
The soul that never sights duty,
However irksome, strange or hard,
We see at last the undimmed beauty
OF his reward.
Oh, glorious thought! to feel in Heaven
That none by our neglect were harmed;
That every task which God has given
Was well performed.
Oh, let US then, with firm decision,
Do every tusk, bear every load:
And leave ct last, with due submission,
, Our work with God.
-[Christian ut Work.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03
They Live at High Pressure,

1t is said by scientists that fishes and
mollusks living at a depth of more than
three miles under water have to bear a
pressure of several tons, the weight
being that of the superintendent brine,
which exerts its power from all sides.
The reason they are able to bear this tre-
mendous weight is because they have
exceedingly loose tissues, which allows
the water to flow through every inter-
stice, thus equallzing the weight. When
the pressure is removed they die almost
inssantly.-St. Louis Rpublic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

A WHALE sixtr-eight feet long, and
dead from the thrusts Of sword-tish,
foated ashore on the South Carolina
coast the other day, and the two PARTIES
Of negroes who discovered it fought for
tour hours as to which should take
possession. Then some white men
came along and gobblel the prize,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

ANNA DICKINSON is in such poor
health that she will never be heard
in public again Her friends say she
ought to have been married at the age
of twenty; but, like many anothe,
woman, she wanted to be "independ'
ent," and has never taken any real
comfort in her life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

No MATTER what other astronomers
declare, those of Switzerland persist
that the sun is only $4,000, 900 miles
from the earth. They set that figure
forty years ago, and stick to it in their
school books and biographies. Fifteen
million miles isn't worth quarrelina
about, however.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

THEY had just completed a new
single-span bridge over a river in lows
when tramp came along and offered
to break it down for dollar. He was
laughed at for his words, but he stood
In the center and began to Jump up
and down, and pretty soon the bridge
vibrated so they gave him IS to quit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

uERMANTs mercnanu marle com.
prehends 1854 vessels, with regis
tered tonnage of 1,320,37l. Six years
ago the figures were respectively 4,257
and 1924, 2SS. The number of sailing
ships has fallen during this time from
1907 to 2,779, and the number Of
steamships has increased from $50 to
S15.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

A MODE Of making pepsin from the
common pineapple, so strong that the
essence of one pineapple will digest
ten pounds of beef, has been discovered
by o Detroit physician.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-06-03

AMONG the assets OF a travelling
salesman who died in Cincinnati the
other day were no less than seventeen
different sorts of liver invigorators.
He had taken only about half bottle
of each one. His death was caused by
. liver trouble.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-08

ID EADING by the hour 70 invalid or aged
Il ladies can furnish most excellent ref
erences Call or address Mrs. W. T.. MAIL
HENS O3l Park-aye.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
ct GET TERRA.

THE women of Fl. Scott, Kas., have
placed a full city ticket in the field, and
are carrying on vigorous campaign.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS uncle Remus),
now sixty years of age, is a pedestrian.
and is said to have walked thirty-six miles
in one day recently.
Miss YvErT GUILBERT is the present
rage in Paris. She is slim, has green eyes
and auburn hair. She cannot sing, and
does not try to, but chants.
THE Ives sale in New York realized q
grand total of Sl5l, $3.50. The peach
blow vase, resemb ing the $4,000 one OF
the Morgan sale. brought but $4,000.
CLARK STONE HARRISON, who died re-
Gently in Chicago. at the age of eighty.
was cousin OF President Harrison, but
did not 60 around Boosting about it.
NINE DURAND, Henri Grevillel. who has
seen more of this country than most
French women, says the American women
make too many acquaintance and too few
friends.
JUDGE CHURCHILL of the Dorchester
(Me.) district court, has declared that
cigars may be sold on Sunday by apothe-
carries when they are intended to be
used as drug"
Miss CARRIE GRING of Brazil, Ind. has,
been called to prominent position in the
Highland Park (Chicago) schools. Miss
Grino has been for eleven years one Of the
most valued teachers in Brazil.
FRANKLIN MOORE SINGER, son of the
sewing machine man, has just married Mile
Blanche Vanderbilt Morcelain of Paris
Great is the sewing machine. Its golden
stitch binds young hearts together.
MEssRs MORRILL,, Edmunds, Sherman
Allison, Stewart, Jones New, Mitchell
and Ransom are the only members of the
senate still in service who were in the
chamber when Mr.. ingalls, first went
there.
LORD GRIMTHoRPE, England's noble
clock-maker. has just completed clock
for the postoffice of Sydney, New South
Wales. which is said to be the largest
timepiece that has ever been sent from
England.
The people will think even less of the
public documents with which they are
afflicted by congressman when they learn
that 1t cost them $1,000 day during last
year TO run the government printing
office.-Ne1o York World.
PRoF. KocH's lymph has received an
other set back. It was administered to q
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25

chimpanzee in Paris. but the missing link
didn't connect, and in forty-eight hours
the gentleman from the jung,es was as
dead as the Fifty-first congress.
ELIJAH KELLOGG, the man who wrote
''Spartacus to the Giadiators" and ''Regu-
lus TO the Carthagenians, once so familiar
to every schoolboy, is living in Harpswell,
Me. He is a clergyman, eIghty-one years
old, and even now breaches occasionally.
CHEvALIER GEORGE D. EPINoIs, who took
part in the great battle of Waterloo,
formed part of the guard OF honor which
welcomed Leopold 1, sixteen years later,
is now, at the aye OF ninety-seven, burgo-
master in the village of Epinois les
Rinche.
THE Countess Lily Newenhaupt former
ly Miss Wilson of New York, is one OF the
most feted bellies in Stockholm this sea-
son. At a ball given by the minister OF
foreign airs she had the honor, that is
TO say, Prince Eugene had the honor of
dancing with her.
THOMAS KENNEDY, the American crook
who has just competed two-year's term
in German prison, has buncoed Josie
Mansfield, of Stokes-Fisk fame. Miss
Mansfield has been living for the last ten
years in Paris with her mother She was
called upon a week or so ago by Kennedy,
who borrowed" a ring worth 5000 francs
and failed to return il.
An uncommonly well-developed speci-
men OF the genus tramp addressed the
veteran stock operator, Addison Cam
mack, in Newest. the other day with a
hearty "Say, uncle. will yer give me a
quarter" The cynical millionaire looked
curiously at the forlorn combination of
rags and impudence, says the New York
Times. and replied sarcastically: "Why,
of course; come to my office when you
have leisure and ! will give you my note
the mendicant, as an anxious look stole
over his face. ''Well, say, who can yer git
to indorse ?" Cammack actually grinned
as he passed over a silver quarter.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
Failure of the ParneII Mission.

The cool reception which Mr.. PARNELL's
envoys have received at New York; the
tone of the representative newspaper or
gans of Irish-American opinion, and the
utterances of the most prominent orators
at the recent ST. PATRICK's day celebra-
tons throughout the country, demonstrate
conclusively that, whatever may be the
situation in Ireland, Mr.. PARNELL has
'Tost his hold" in the United States. Fur
thermore, they demonstrate that the home
rule movement, for the moment, at least,
has been arrested in this country. The
Irish Americans have for years been the
mainstay of that movement. Year after
year they have poured out their money
for its support; they have furnished the
funds with which the agitation has been
carried on, the home rule members Of
parliament have been paid, and the OPP
pressed tenantry have been kept alive; they
have responded promptly and generously
70 every demand that has been made
upon them from Ireland. And now after
all their patriotic generosity and self-
sacrifice, and after the home rule move
ment had been brought, apparently, to
the very verge OF success, they find it
wrecked by the selfshness and the reck-
lessness of it's leaders; the Irish party di-
vided into hostile factions which are vast
ing, in mutual host.lities, the energies
they should direct against the common
enemy; the public prints Of Ireland flied
with scurrilous assaults upon the leaders
of the respective factions; these leaders
themselves assailing each other with OPP
probrious epithets and every form of
billingsgate; the whole country in fer
ment and a hubbub and turmoil, while
the enemies of Ireland, the world over,
are exultant 1t is a disgusting and most
disheartening spectacle; and it is not at
all strange that the Irish-Americans.
whose self-denying patriotism has been too
often illustrated to be called in question,
should turn a cold shoulder to Mir. PAR
xEIL's ENJOYS who come over to beg for
funds with which to carry on the I'M
sesmIy and disgrsceful struggle in which
their partisans are engaged.
The split in the nationalist party must
be healed; the factions must get to-
Tether;" the leaders must cease advertis-
ing each otksr to the world as thieves and
rasoals; Mr.. PAzxxlL must retire to pri-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
A Thousand s1iliions:.:

Two wears ago there was a surplus In
the national treasury-the product of ex-
cessive and unnecessary taxation
amounting to S100,OO0,OO0.
Ton REEDS business congress" then
came into existence and a carnival Of job
berry and extravaganza was instituted at
Washington. "GoD help the surplus"
was the motto or the treasury hooters,
who were in control at both ends
of the capitol and who had a
faithful ally in the white house.
And sure enough, they have made short
work of the surplus. 1t has gone-evap-
orated-vanished TOW REEDS business
congress" has voted away more than a
thousand millions OF the peoples money.
This is nearly two hundred millions more
than was appropriated by the Fiftieth
congress. In the last preceding eight
congresses the largest sum appropriated
was SSH, OH ,O75; the lowest 1894, 643, 272,
the average of the eight being
500, 113. 469. 1t will be seen that the
appropriations of Tom REEDS business
congress" exceed the average of recent
congresses by the enormous amount OF
three hundred millions of dollars. Such profit
gate expenditure of public money has
meyer before been witnessed in this coun-
dent the entire annual expense of carrying
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25

vate life before the Irish-Americans can
be expected to renew their active SYM
pathy with and generous giving to the home
rule movement Indeed, there is literally
no home rule movement today. But it can
be revived in short time if judgment and
patriotism will resume the sway over Irish
politics which selfishness and passion have
usurped. 1t will take long time, how
ever, to heal the wounds that have been
made and recover the ground that has
been lost. But whenever the Irish home
rulers bury their differences and come
together with an honest determination to
make atonement for their past errors
by united and patriotic efforts for sue
cess, they will not appeal to America in
vain for active sympathy and material
aid
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
"MEMEETo, QUA PULvIs Is"
100

"Bunyau's. Pilgrims
Hot Water Tea. Foxes Book of Mar
Ash Cakes, tyrs."
Salt Fish. Dante's -Inferno."
The repast was not limited to what was
set down in the bill of fare-no more was
the conversation, but the hoe-cakes were
genuine and were eaten with as much
relish as if we had been party of Corn
crackers instead of Hoosiers.
As regards the Pilgrims Progress" we
all agree that the part we like best Is
where Christian gets rid of his burden, the
weary journey all past. the battles all
fought and the light of the celestial city
making glorious the summit OF the Defect
able mountains.
The next topic of conversation was
Foxes "Book OF Martyrs" How often
George Fox, the reformer, is confounded
with John Foxe, the author of the Book
of Martyrs" and who preceded him by
nearly a century. can be guessed by the
frequency with which his name is mis-
spelled. We all adore martyrs, genuine
ones, but expressed our thankfuiness
that we cannot be roasted for our opinions
nowadays. Dante's Inferno" with its
wonderful graphic descr ption of the tor.
ments inflicted upon those who transgresA
the laws, human and divine, came in for
a large part of the discussion. ! had
hoped, like Virgil, TO conduct them safely
through the lowest circle of purgatory
and land them in paradise, but just as we
reached the awful depth where the poet
says, 80! Dis" (otherwise the DEVIL land
10, the place where thou hast need to arm
thy heart with fear!" one of the invalids
was taken with nervous headache and
had to go home. II don't wonder. You see
she's orthodoxy This broke up our
party. Two other ladies had 10 be taken
home in buggy and l went sadly TO bed,
filled with salt fish and repentance, and
dreamed ali night of being in a place
where the atmosphere was unusually
close and water terribly scarce.
But it was not until the next morning
tina, my heart broke and l crawled into
the ashes. IL was when / received the
following hote:
SLOUGH OF DEsPoND, March II, 1891.
Mrs. GREAT-HEART-My dear daughter
Muoh-Afraid has suffered 8 relapse. After
leaving your house last evening she was taken
with Il nervous chill, and her temperature went
down to zero and stayed there all night. This
morning she sent Tor the coroner 10 make her
anti-mOrtem statement aud beg that he will not
have you indicted for murder in the first de-
gree. She says she knows you meant IL kindly,
AID are not to be blamed Tor results. Nv
daughter is an angel, il there ever was one. IL
was tine skull and cross-bones that did il.
Yours in distress, Mas. Nj. c. CHRISTIAN.
Skull and cross bones indeedi What of
the pickle and cheese? Well WE'LL An
other family off my visiting LIST. What
next, 1 wonder? Going South? No,
thank you-not for the world. Nothing
the matter with this climate. l couldn't
wish the atmosphere to be warmer than il
is at present. BESSIE II. WooLFoRD.
Madison, March Is.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25

LAST year the pension agents absorbed
two and a half millions OF the money that
was paid by the pension bureau to the
old soldiers or their families. This year.
it is said, they viii absorb three millions,
and next year they will levy tribute of
five millions upon the pensioners. These
barnacles ought to be suppressed. They
are Of no use to the pensioners. Every
man who has just claim can get it al
lowed without their Intervention. They
are responsible for most of the fraudulent
pensioners, who, according to careful esti-
mate, amount to about AZ per cent. OF the
entire roll. Congress ought to pass law
making it the duty of every postmaster TO
fill out, free of charge, the necessary
blanks for pension applicants and file
them with the government. This would
relieve the pensioners from a great
burden and save the public treasury IN
told millions of dollars during the next
few years.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
PARNELL BACKS DOWN.
He Will Not Resign-A Riot OF Factions In
Sligo

DUBLIN, March 20-Sligo was today the
scene OF conflict between the anti-Par-
nelites and Parnellites. The Parnellites
of the town had assembled and were hold
ing meeting, when they were attacked
by anti-Parnellites. who stoned them and
pelted them with mud and finally sue
ceeded in breaking UP the meeting. The
anti-Parnellites also stoned the police,
who, with batops drawn, came 10 the as
sistance of the Parnellites, and general
scrimmage ensued. After the Parneliites
had been compelled to retire. their oppo-
nents held meeting of their own. There
was no further disorder.
The Ffcemdns Journal attempts to ex-
cuse Mr.. Parnelfs practical back down in
neplecting to answer Mr.. Healv's accept
ance OF his challenge that they should
both resign their seats in parliament and
present themselves for reelection by say
ing tolay that Mr. Parnell does not intend
that anything shall withdraw attention
from the coming contest in North Sligo.
The. National Press, the McCarthyite ~
gan. on the other hand, saws that IL Is aot
surprised to find Mr. For barking out.
The Freenldn's Journal article is inter
preted to mean that Mr.. Parnell declines
TO resign.
The Euerinq Telegraph appears to con-
firm this hint 1t declares that it would
be an indignity for Mr.. Parnel to answer
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25

Cdssi,ts, RicheIieu, Lancioto, David Garrick
and Rieizi-he had rarely been equaled,
and never surpassed, on the American
stage.
But Mr.. BARRErrs chief title to the CRATE
full re uembrance of his countrymen, and
the lovers of histrionic art the world over,
rests upon the great work he did, as
manager, writer and an adapter, TO ele-
vate the moral and artistic standards of
the stage. Throughout his entire career
he appealed, with persistence and single
ness of purpose, to the most refined and
cultivated tastes, and more, perhaps, than
any one else he created and stimulated
such tastes among American theater-
goers. He was a pioneer in the American
revivals of classic dramas with adequate
companies and with such regard to Access
series and appointments as to excite public
interest and divert popular attention from
mere ricious entertainments. Under Mr..
BARRErT's auspices the Shaksperean
drama has had It's best interpretations in
this country Edwin BOOTH has won his
greatest triumphs, and such notable pro-
auctions as Francesca da Rimini," 'Ri-
enzi' and "Ganelon" have been put upon
the stage in a manner beftting their
merits.
LAWRENCE BARRETT's name will always
be identified with the best traditions and
highest achievements of the American
theater. His sudden death when at the
very summit of his splendid career. and
when so many years of active usefulness
seemed before him, will be sincerely and
widely deplored.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
Lawrence barrett.

1t is scarcely too much to say that there
is no man or woman on the American
stage whom it could not better have
spared than LAWRENCE BARRETT. Mr..
BARRETT fell short of being genius, but
he was man of very extraordinary tai
ents, of immense industry, of great ambi-
ton, of remarkable powers o: application,
and Of unbounded love and enthusiasm for
his profession. Although he enjoyed few
opportunities in his early life. he had ac-
quired ripe and varied culture, and few
of his dramatic contemporaries on either
side of the Atlantic surpassed him in
literary accomplishments. He was an
actor of fine artistic instincts, quick intel
ligence and abundant intellectual re-
sources All of his characterizations were
marked by strength. vigor aud finish. and
in several Of his assumptions notably,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
AN AFTERNOON TEA.
Squaring an Entsrtainm emit to the Demands
of tn Season.
esident N
League.


"While the bubblng and loud-hising urn
Sends up steaming column, and he cup
That cheers, but not inebristes. waits on each;
So let US welcome peaceful evening il"
If there is anything my soul loves il is
an afternoon with few congenial spirits
and unlimited cups Of tea, even tho the
season be the penitential one Of Lent. So
when dear friend brought to see me her
daughter, who has but recently recovered
from a severe spell of sickness, and they,
in burst of confidence, confessed their
weakness for that mild species of enter
tainment known as an Afternoon tea"
forthwith determined to give one.
The young lady had not recovered her
former elasticity of spirits, and with nv
usual promptness to sacrifice myself for
the benefit of my friends, was anxious
to assist in her return to her wonted cheer.
fu 'ness. But TO give party in Lentl
There, you see, was the rubl had made
UP my mind;o keep Lent very strictly this
year, but started in badly by going to
a swell party on Ash Wednesday, carving
OIL the first prize and winding up the days
festivities with an all-round, free-for-all
set-to. Now, 1 was not born to rows, tho
| sometimes achieve rows and l frequeut-
ly have rows thrust upon me. So, with
an eye to breakers ahead" l planned to
crafty NV friends and at the same time
deprive our afternoon OF all aspect of a
festive nature.
To that end | invited some half dozen
ladies in various stages of convalesence to
meet at nv house on Tuesday afternoon
for tea and conversation.
The decorations were of cedar and hem
lock. and l wore long black fur trimmed
gown with heavy cord and tassels of tho
same sombre hue around my waist, and
the cross of the Guild of All Souls" hung
round my neck with a purple ribbon.
The mtnues, handsomely inscribed on
ragged-edged cards and tied with purple
ribbon, bore the device of a skull and
cross-bones above the Latin of Remember
that dust thou art.