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The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-10-07
How TO REDUCE FLESH.
Never Mix Food, but Partake Of One Dish

Never Mix Food, but Partake Of One Dish
A Paris letter tells of a very simple
way Of reducing flesh. Thanks to this
means, colonel who was threatened.
to be obliged to retire from the army.
as he was SO heavy that it'required two
men to lift him into the saddle, became
thin in d few weeks, and to such an ex.
tent that he had to take means to re.
cover, in measure, what he had lost.
1t was to his doctor. he .-was indebt
ed for becoming a general The mean.
consisted simply in never eating more
than one dish at each meal, no matter
what that dish may be, and a
person may consume as much
as the stomach can bear, and
satisfy the appetite without the,
least reserve. Nevertheless, nothing
but the one dish should be taken; no
condiments, or soups, or supplementary
desserts should be allowed. This sys-,
tenn was recommended to a lady who
was slightly obese, and who put it into
practice with the best results. The
lady observed that she, suffered no in
convenience whatever from this diet,
and the result obtained by the medical
officer may be we'll understood. as she
found by her own experience that the
partalSing of one dish, whether it be
meat, fish orvegetables, brought on q
sense of safety much sooner than it
she had partaken of variety of dishes
whence the effect Of relative abstinence
Chicago Herald. @a ;9 F2s iH &
SIS j, Arabian Coffee. -2s=
The Arabian, coffee-maker, having
prepared his fire of charcoal and placed
near it a huge pot containing water,
takes a few handfuls of green coffee
berries, carefully culls. out all imper-
feet berries and foreign substances, and
then places the best of the berries in an
iron ladle held over the fire. The ber-
ries are permitted to roast until they
begin to smoke, and are then, while
still uncharred, placed in a small NOR
tar and carefully brayed with pestle
closely fitting the cup Of the mortar.
The berries are not, however. reduced
to dust. While this process has been
going on, a small pot has been half
filled with tepid water from the large
pot and placed over the fire. When the
water in the small pot has begun to
boil, the broken coffee berries. are
thrown in and the boiling is permitted
to go on for short time, the decoction
being stirred witha spoon when it
shows signs of boiling over 'fhe coffee
is then served in small cups without
cream or sugar.-N. Y. Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-10-07
Good Authority for It.

Mr.. F. Humsleigh Blayke-I didn't
like what Thorley said about the
Blayke coat-of-arms; that it was too
elaborate to be very ancient
Miss S.-Don't mind him. That only
shows his ignorance. Why, the D'Agin-
courts have borne it for centuries
ifa -.-.--.-.-
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-10-07

AT Ledbury, England, where Mrs.
Browning spent much of her childhood,
a monument to her will be set up
probably in the form Of a clock tower
OF brick and stone. with bronze bust
and quotation from Aurora Leigh. F"
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-10-07
sPENELoPE's INGENUITY.
\ New Scheme for Getting Diamond

A New Scheme for Getting Diamond
,lir7 10 Ring. &s
Papa" said Penelope, turning from
;he piano, with pretty blush playing.
on her cheeks, do you think l am too
young to be e-e-engaged?" ast. r,
"Of course do" growled her father:
"now, who in the world has put the idea
Of marriage into your head? What's
his name?''''i .. se's',' 20 a'.' FRI
1. 80 he hasn't asked me yet, but-well,
you know, ...s5,., alA,i, 4. sai,,
Eyes, know all about it, and warn
him that he'll know more about it if he
comes fooling around you any more.
Now, what do you want to think about
such a thing as that for, Nellie?
Haven't you the best home in the
Iworld?"
20 yes, papa; but itwould be awful1y
nice to be engaged, | think"
q ''How nice?"
20 nice to have young man coming
to see you every evening" 'a
"Humph! I'd like to catch him COM
tuS w SCO JOu ONCiy OSSAiHS.
"And it would be nice to have pref
ty diamond ring #a1s fi4sl 4
Haven't you enough rings?"
~, '.Well. haven't solitaire"
N 'Pen," said her father, seriously, "if
buy you solitaire ring will you
promise faithfully to give up all
thoughts of this young man?,"
"Yes, papa" she answered a.
y VERY we'll. then; remember your
promise. You shall have the ring to-
morrow, although it's q sad piece Of
extravaganza" groaned the old gentle.
man, walking painfully out of the
room.
"Well," said Penlope to herself, as the
sound Of his retreating footsteps died
away, II may not be very smart, but l
think that's the easiest way, to get a
diamond ring I've heard of yet. must
tell the other girls. Tom Hall. in Life.
Dentistry in Japan. f"
You must know that Japanese
dentist never uses anything but his fin
gers when extracting a tooth. They
have no surgical instruments. This is
how they are able to work: A number
of holes are bored in a plank of wood
and pegs inserted in them. The plank
is laid on the floor, and the novice pulls
them out with the finger and thumb OF
his right hand. By this practice
strength and dexterity are acquired.
Then an oak log with oak pegs is tried
and the young man is kept on this for a
year. The third year is put in by op-
Grating on slab of marble which con.
tains numberless pegs of the hardest
wood. After this he is qualified to go
into business. A thoroughly competent
workman will grab a patient with his
left hand and yank out five or six teeth
with the right hand without even stop
ping to rest. 1t seems impossible, but
practice and long training will enable
anyone to accomplish it'-Chicago
: Herald, ,s,g .,4,. 81. v avs
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-10-07
A Chicago Wedding.

Justice-So you wish to be married?
Awaiting Couple-Yes, sir.
Justice-Slip-knot or true lover :
knot?-Judge.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-10-07

Most of the things longed for by
men have no existence. Globe,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
How to Keep Your Temper.

Ruskin in q letter to young girls
says: "Receive the thing that is pro-
voking or disagreeable to you, as com
ing directly from Christ's hand, and
the more it is like to provoke you,
thank Him tor it the more, as a young
soldier would his General for trusting
him with a hard place to hold on the
ram part. And remember that it does
not in the least matter what happens
you-wEether a clumsy school-fel-
low tears your dress or a shrewd one
laughs at you, u the teacher doesn't
understand you. The II thing
that does matter is that none of these
things should veX you.
Say to yourself each morning,
after your prayers, Whose for
saketh not all that he hath cannot be
my disLiple.' This is exactly and
completely true, meaning that yon
are togive all you have to Christ to
take care of it for for you. Then, if
He doesn't take care of it, of course
you know it wasn't worth anything.
And if He takes anything from you,
you know you are better without it.
You will not indeed, have to give up
houses and lands, or boats or nets {;
but you may, perhaps, break your
tea-cup or lose your favorite
thimble, and might be veXed about it,
but for this second Saint Georges pre-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Christian Statesman

RoMANISM AND PUBLIC MORALS
We have often criticised the Roman
church to the cause of good morals,
especially in the matter of the gam
bling devices which they employ at
their church fairs. But we have new
err seen quite sc disgraceful an account
as that contained in a recent issue of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette ~
On Sabbath september 81, the Roman
Catholics opened e church at Deer
Park, a suburb of that city. A great
crowd was expected, and provided for.
The brewers donated thirty-one kegs
of beer, which was sold on the ground
for the benefit of the church. Wheels
of fortune and other gamgling i'm
plements were in full operation and
twenty-five per cent of their receipts
wen to the church. AS between the
Kingdom of Christ and of Satan it is
not difficult to decide on which side
that church was that day ranged
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Recognize High Aspiration.

Deep down in the hearts of chill
dren of men there are nobler and tru-
CT standards of living than their out
persons wait for their fellows to rccog-
niZe their higher and better aspira-
tons. He whose higher motives and
deeper longings are unknown may
have his best acts misinterpreted; but
he whose best spirit is appreciated is
more likely to have his acts interpre-
ted by the spirit. A school-teacher,
on seeing Il young scholar misbehave,
said to linn !; Ppm sorry you did this,
because / had formed a very good
opinion of you" The boy went home
and confessed to his mother hat If he
had known what Il good opinion his
teacher had held of him, he would not
have done wrong. Had this teacher
said, "I've had my eye on you for
some time, and now I've caught YOU"
the boy would simply have been con-
tirmed in his suspicion that no II en-
poets a boy to do any thing but the
wrong thing. 1t ought to be a simple
matter to show Il child or a man that
our first impulse toward him is that of
trust, rather than distrust. And
when one has gone wrong, he will be
better helped by our showing that we
appreciate the fact that he has gone
wrong in spite of the good we believed
him capable of. rather than in accor-
dance with our suspicious of him.
Sunday-schOol Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Youthful Barbarism.
By George r. Stetson, in "Sprinfetd
PennbEc0nU Of Sent. ord.

By George r. Stetson, in "~Sprinfeld
Republican," of Sept. ODD.
"If amap of Europe was placed be-
fore US, shaded in proportion to the
returns of known vice and crime, the
darkest shadow would seem to rest ex-
actly where the boast of intellectual
light is greatest, in SaXony; the very
shrine of modern culture, the fortress
of free thought" says DR.. Hayman in
the Forthightly Review. "This GAL
den of the muses. radiates moral pesti-
lence at a rate that ancient Rome and
Corinth at their worst could hardly
surpass." "For proficiency IN the col
lective depravity evinced by divorce,
illegitimacy, suicide, general crime,
murderous assaults, child rape and
child criminality, it may challenge
any spot of equal area and population
in the whole world, civilized or saw
age"
In France, two per cent. of the
whole population are highly educated,
but nearly five per cent. of criminals.
Of the German people, ten per cent.
can read, of the German criminals
twenty-five per cent. K 4 4 In Mas
Sachusetts, with her high rate Of liter
acy, and a system of education which
is her pride and boast, we have the
humiliating fact that in the year 1886
the number committed to the county
prisons was the largest ever known,
eighty-three per cent. of all the COM
mitments being for offences against
public order and decency. This great
increase in crime is not to be charged
to the foreign element in Our popula-
ton, as some would have us think. x
4 X Let US remember that this de-
cadence of public virtue is contempar-
aneeus with a great increase in our
public schools, in the number of our
churches, colleges and charitable in
stitutions. Let us bear in mind the
warning words of Hodge:
"Those therefore who seek to exalt
men by mere cultivation of the intel
lect are striving to make Satans of
them"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Archdeacon Farrar in the Fortnight
IN writes on "Social Problems and
Remedies" AS to remedies he doubts
Q) trust in the general laws of pro-
gress." ~ Still less possible is to
trust to the instincts of philanthropy.
Blessed is he that considereh the
poor is. the last thing usually done. (3)
National education has done nothing
"like so much as we had once antici-
pated." (4) II see no remedy, except
in social legislation, in the spread of
religious influences, and above all, in
the universal awakenmeut of the
sense of responsibility. Let the legis-
lature lay a stern hand on the owners
of rotting tenements let it enforce
the laws against betting and bad
houses let it do something for youths
between fifteen and twenty, the age
during which every criminal career is
beginning let it render q service in
comparably greater than any other
which is in it's power, by graphing
re~solutely, and at once with the drink
question:"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
The LIGHTS We're Wrong.

a vessel was caught in a storm on
Lake Erie, and they were trying to
make for the harbor of Cleveland. At
the entrance of that port they had
what are called the upper lights and
lower lights. Away back on the Bluffs
were the upper lights brightly enough;
but when they came near the harbor
they could not see the lights showing
the entrance to it. The pilot said he
though they had better get back on the
lake again. The captain said be was
sure they would go down if they went
back, and he urged the pilot to do what
he'could to gain the harbor. The pilot
said there was very little hope of max
ing for the harbor, as he had nothing
to guide him as to how he should steer
the ship. They tried all they could to
get her into the harbor. She rode on
the top of the waves, and then in the
trough Of the sea, and at last they
found themselves stranded on the
beach, when the vessel was dashed to
pieces. Some Il had neglected the
lower lights and they had gone out.
Let us take warning. God keeps
the upper lights burning as brightly as
ever, but he has left us down here to
keep the lights burning. We r to
represent him down here, Christ re-
present us up yonder. l sometime
think if we had as poor a representa-
tive in the courts above as God has
down here on earth, we would have a
pretty door chance Of heaven. Let us
have our loins girt and our lights
brightly burning, so that others may
see the way and not walk in darkness.
Moody.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Mems furnishings !

Come and look at our new lines
Neckwear, Collars and Cuffs.
Gents Jewelry and any thing else
you want in gentlemen's. goods.
500 pairs mems and boys Pants just
in from a bankrupt sale.
Mems Pants 40c, Csc, soc, 81 and
$3.50 per pair, worth double.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

The Century for August contains a
marvellous and beautiful Dream-if we
may call itso-which we should like all
our readers to dream at once. 1t is
entitled THE White Crown" We
will not lessen the charm which awaits
those who will read this vision of q
mighty array of French and German
armies i'm the neal future-and of the
end. The history begins with these
o. ertrue words :-"Europe is a gar
rison. lis frontiers are all but a
succession of fortresses, whose
guards are bipedal dogs, trained
to fret at a strange face, or to bite the
unlimited guest. Its cities r scientific
entertainments, and its citizens are
unwilling recruits" The dreamersigns
himself Herbert Z. Ward, and we
congratulate him.-London Daily
Echo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
CHALMERS
CHALMERS
FURNITURE SIORH,
new GOODS! new STYLES!

Our goods are all new, as we run
off all pieces Of Furniture that is
on hand any length Of time.
Received this week Walnut Blu
reaus, Walnut Beds, Fine Oak
Beds and all the lower grades in
Maple and other hard woods.
New Walnut and Oak Chamber
Suits, one Par1or Suit in Plush
Crimson at the low price Of 1888.
Just in to-day fine Plush Chairs,
fine Rattan Rockers, the prettiest
Chairs ever seen in Abbeville,
Fine French ParIor Glass, best
quality Marble Top Tables, all
sizes. Oak Tables latest styles.
Extension Tables in Walnut and
Oak. One very handsome Extern
sion Table 10 feet long, will sell
alta bargain.
Combination Book Cases and Sec
retary's Book Cases in Walnut. A
very handsome Silver Case in old
oak. Received a lot Of Office
Chairs, rotary and spring.
Received this week 200 Cane,
Rattan and White Oak split, good
shape and styles.
We have a few Side Boards in
Oak and Walnut which we will
sell very low. They are first class
goods.
Spring Beds at prices from $3.50
to $40 each. Fine air and Wto.l
Mattresses, best goods ever seen
for the price. Also all grades Of
low price Mattresses.
The above goods will be sold
at the very lowest cash prices.
For same quality none will be.
found lower in price. At
CHALMERS Furniture Store.
Oct. 81, 1891. tt
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Select young onions and put them
into boiling water and stew them fif-
teen minutes; drain off the water and
pour a cup of cold milk over the on
ions. Let them stew in this until
tender; season to taste and thicken the
milk with a teaspoonful of butter roll
ed in one of flour, then cook five min
utes longer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Sometimes in Quiet ReVcIry.
By Thomas NIackellar.

BY Thomas Mackellar.
Sometimes in quiet rcvery,
When day is growing dim.
The heart Is singing silently
sweet. unwritten hymn.
The strains are not 10 measure wrought
BY cunning of the mind,
But seems like hymning angels brought
From heaven and left behind.
The misty hills of by.one grief,
Once dark TO look upon,
Stand out like blessingSin relief
Against the setting SUM-.
The rain may fall. the wind may blow;
The soul unhindered sings,
While like the bird neat sheltering borgt
She sits with folded Wings
A brief and pleasant resting space,
A glance at Beulah land,
Before she guides herself apace
For work hat waits the hand.
Then giving thanks to Him who poured
Refreshments in her cup,
She hears the calling of her Lord
And takes her labor up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Ex-President Hayes and DR.. J. l..
M. Curry arrived in Columbia, Nov. 4.
and spent next day in visiting the
colleges and schools of the city.
The New York Presbytery has dis.
missed the charge Of heresy against,
DR.. Briggs. Notice was given of all
appeal.
A fire in Darlington, Nov. 4, at 4
p. M, caused it is supposed, a loss OF
$50, 900 in buildings and damage to
goods.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

*Daily. +Daily except Sunday.
Trains Is and IS are daily between Charleston and
Cincinnati.
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
On trains Is and 10 Pullman Buffet Sleepers he
tween Charleston, g.. c., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Vla al
lantic Coast Line, Columbia. Asheville, Paint Rick,
Morris,own, Knoxville, Jcllico aud junction City,
without change.
j. A. DODSON, ". .IUKh.
SuperIntrndrnt. Asst Gcn'l PISS. Agt-,
Columbia. 4. c., Charlotte. n. @.
". IT. GREEN. JAS. L. TAYLOR,
Gpn'l MIR, Genl Pass. Agent.
Atlanta. Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
SOL HAAS, Traffic Manager.
Atlanta, Ga.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Take time to deliberate; but. when
the time for action arrives, stop think
ing and go in.
What a gracious God that he pro-
vides a way for his banished children
to return to him. What strange chill
dren, SO many of them have no de-
sire to return.
There is nothing that makes us so
acquainted with Christ himself as
sorrow, and hence there is nothing
so %efticacious in Graduating self. 1t
is his way of making us seek not our
own, but the things which are Jesus
Christ's.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

It is often better to 60 a good way
round than to take u short cut across
lots.
The more q man is preached to the
less he remembers of what is said to
Him.
The increase of Christian house.
hold tends to secure the safety, peace,
and prosperity of the community if
nothing else al
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

southbonnd trains, whether delayed or not, have
absolute right of track over Nortbbound Trains Of
the same class.
JNO. z. WINDER, /. ]. MYERS
General Manager. General superintendent.
T. ". Whisnnnt, Superintendent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-22
SENATOR TELLER.

Inasmuch as the election of a Democrat
was out of the question, THE HERALD is
gratitied by the news that TELLER will sue
coed himself as Senator from Colorado.
Senator TELLER is one of the members of
the upper house of Congress who are re-
garded as the representatives of broader
sections of the country than are confined
within toe boundaries of their respective
states. The west looks upon TELLER as its
friend and instinctively goes TO him as its
champion, and he is seldom found on the
wrong side of any question in which the
people OF the vast Rocky Noun tain region
are Immediately interested; nor is the Sem
ator so fanatic in his partisanship that he
will always keep within the party traces
when the right is on the outside. We
doubt that there is another Sena-
tor who stands In less awe of
the party lash, or who oftener
defies the whip. He has the courage of his
convictions and is not afraid to stand by
what he conceiyes to be the right We
may say this as one squarely approved to
him in politics, and sincerely regret an in
ability to say as much of many members on
TELLER's side of the Senate chamber. THE
HERALD's admiration for the Colorado SEN
ator may have been partly inspired by
TELLER's consideration for this TERRITORY.
On more than one occasion he has stood up
for the rights of oppressed Utah. and done
this in defiance Of his party which has ever
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-22
ONE EFFECT.

1t is splendid argument and telling
one which the Alabama legislature presents
against the passage of the force bill. Action
on the bill to make an appropriation for
display at the Worlds fair has been delayed
until it is learned what Congress will do
with the LODGE bill. If the latter shall
pass, then Alabama will not be represented
at the Columbus exhibition. The only
object the state could have in making an
exhibit would be to attract capital and i'm
migration, and the force bill once in opera
ton it would be courageous man who
would risk his money or his life in those
states which the Republican party is plan
ming to control with the bayonet. The
logic which the Alabama law makers en-
ploy is invincible, and is based on knowl-
edge of human nature. Disorder turbul-
ence and bloodshed are certain to follow
the attempt to enforce the infamous
law. Men will not submit to the
deprivation of their rights without vigor-
Gus protest, and that protest in this case
will assume such a determined form as
will make some of the afflicted
states anything but desirable places
of residence or for the investment
of capital. 1t would be a mockery
for Alabama to exhibit at the Worlds fair
her resources and invite people to the state,
at the same time telling them that they
would have no peace, that they would be
ruled by the bayonet, that their Represen-
tatives in Congress would be unfriendly
to the masses, and that elections would
mean just what the Republican bosses in
Washington said they must mean. Is it
likely that under such circumstances many
people would be attracted to Alabamal
Rather might we expect that the peace-lov-
ing members of the community would leave
the state and seek homes where rights of
individuals and of communities are re-
spected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-22

REPUBLICAN PAPERS are at present point
ing out that JACKSON was protectionist.
They quote these words from him:
With regard to a proper selection OF the
subjects of import [dutiesl with view to rev.
enue, 1t would seem to me that the spirit Of
equity, caution and compromise, on which the
constitution was formed, requires that the
great interests of agriculture, commerce and
manufactures should be equally favored.
For the various branches of industry to
be equally favored is simply free trade.
But it matters nothing that JACKSON de-
Tended duty of less than one third our
present rates, urging equal protection for
all. The question of 60 per cent. duty on
manufactures is before the nation to day.
This tax is no longer necessary for the
maintenance of the industries it is sup
posed to foster, and inficts heavy burdens
on the whole population. 1t should be
greatly reduced, and if JACKSON were
alive day he would be leading the move
ment for tariff reform