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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Go In to Win.

In New York city alone are constant
ly 4 10000 persons out of employment.
In other cities the proportion is the
same according to population. All
these unfortunate individuals profess
their anxiety to work, to toll for al.
most any price, that they may keep
soul and body together. The sole rea.
son why they do not work, they would
have it believed, is because the world
Is against them and will not suffer
them to earl an honest living.
Try them. Give them employment.
It will be found that not one sewing
woman in five can run q decent seam.
Not a girl in ten of those who profess
to do Homework can kindle q fire pro.
perly. Of the men, not n carpenter
in four can be trusted to perform sim
pie task in woodwork. Not one iron
worker in four can do exactly what
he processes to do. In large printing
offices it is with great difficulty that
satisfactory proof readers are secured.
Among stenographers and tipewriters
undoubtedly not n in twenty knows
the proper construction of the English
language, or enough of current events
and literature to make q toleroble bus.
mess letter writer. Probably a third OF
them are shaky in their spelling.
This is why three-fourths Of the un-
employed in America are out of work.
They are out of work because they
have not gone in with all their might
to prepare themselves in the best way
for what they have chosen. They did
not go in to win. IT one who has @
task to do puts his soul into it, and re-
solves that he will do it as well as il
can be done, no matter how simple il
is, that person will not be long out OF
employment. The world has its soul
vexed out of it because of slovenly
work. Life is a burden to those who
hire employees, because of things hall
done.
All depends on the spirit with which
one starts in life. The winner selects
his culture occupation carefully, He is
bound down TO no particular rut of sue.
cess. He only knows that whatever
task he hos selected he is going to &C.
complish it as well as it is possible to dc
it, and that in the long run he is going
to win. He may be forced to change
his occupation. But he still knows
that in him is good, and faithful work;
that there is a field for it some where,
and it is his place to find that field.
The winner is he who never does SLOW.
emily work and never lets himself run
down.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

A true friend is q real pleasure. He
who has one friend OH whose love and
fidelity he can rest unquestioningly,
is rich above the average of his fell
lows. Do you say that you have never
known such wealth as that, and that
you are questioning whether you can
ever hope to? Then see to it that at
least one person whom you know is
thus favored in friendship. Whether
you have a friend or not; you can be
one that is your privilege and your
duty, in the plan of God.
Positive and unsolicited testimony
from every section confirms every
claim madefor wonderful the efficacy
of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price 2:
cents.
a law in Basic, Switzerland, for
bids the occupation of a new house
until four months after its completion
Good.
There are different sorts of human
nature. Some are given to disco nten
and longing, others to securing AM
enjoying. And let me tell you TIT
disconnected, longing style is unpleas
ant to live wlth.-FeliH Holt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
A Boys Manner.

"His name is worth u hundred
thousand dollars to himm That is
what one of the chief men of the ma
ton lately said about a boy. "Il
wouldn't be worth 20 much to one
who meant to be a farmer, or who had
10 opportunities, but to u young col
lege student with ambitions it is worth
at least q hundred thousand"
The boy was q distant relati We OF
the man, and had been brought up by
careful parents in d far-off city. A.
mong other things he had been taught
to be friendly and to think of other
persons before himself. The boy was
on a visit in the town where the man
lived. They met on the street, and
the younger, recognizing the elder,
promptly went to his side and spoke
to him in his cordial, happy, yet re-
spectful, way. OF course the man was
pleased, and knew hat anybody would
have teen pleased. The sentence
bove was the outcome of it. a little
later the boy came into the room just
as the man was struggling into bis
overcoau. The boy hurried to him,
pulled it up at the collar, and drew
down the wrinkled coat teneath. He
would have done it for any man, the
haughtiest or the poorest.
Do not misunderstood, boys. You
may be truly unselish and yet not
have this boys prize. You may wish
to do things for others and yet feel
that you do not know how. The on
ly way to learn is to try; to hesitate
for no feeling of b%ashfulness or awk.
wardness, but to put into direct and
instantaneous practice whatever
kind, helpful thoughts occur to you.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
White Hairs.

White hairs have been called "fow-
ers of the cemetery" but is it not bet
Ter to think of them as a ''streak of
The dawn of the eternal dayW And
will not this thought tend to make us
more patient and considerate towards
those aged servants among whom our
lot is cast? Often their waiting time
is dreary. Old friends and compan-
ions have passed away, and these sur,
vivors are among the loneliest of the
lonely. Their ways and their habits
of thought, cannot be exactly those OF
younger folk. 1t will help lis to
brighten the close of their pilgrimage
if we accustom ourselves to look upon
them as having already seen 1.-THE
dawn of the eternal day."-IHe Quiv'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
from the Christian Neighbor.
Strafning.

Not straining milk, not straining
the eyes looking at something, not
straining the back lifting at a log,
not straining the mind to understand
an absurdlty nor straining at a guat
and swallowing a camel, but sraining
at several other things among which
may be mentioned,
[. Preachers straining the theme
of their discourse beyond it's relative
Importance in the system Of doctrine
and duties,
2. Straining voices in preaching,
songs and prayer ahead of the leadings
of the Spirit.
8. Strained reports about preachers,
sermons, meetings and results
"Powerful Sermon" congregation
spell bound, "-strains more or less
on this wise.
4. Strained obituaries and funeral
sermons, so much so that some OF
the dead "(if they know such things)'
might be in doubt as to whether they
or some body else were being written
or talked about.
There may be, doubtless there is,
Truth in what is done and said but
it is so often strained-stretched in
width and length that it becomes
thin-two thin. "Be not rash with
thy mouth, and let not thine heart
be hasty to utter any thing before
God for God is in heaven, and thou
upon earth /: therefore let thy words
he few" Eco. W.. "Let me not,
pray you, accept any mans person
neither let me give ~fattering titles
unto man. For I know not to give
fattering titles; in 80 doing my
Maker would soon take me away"
Job. xxi: %. =
There are many other strains
Straining to acquire riches strain
ing for office; straining after fashion
straining to outshine competitors
straining, straining. The world
in general is on a strain-a
political strain, a"'commercial strain.
a military strain, a strain of enter
prise, a strain of inventions and Of
numberless organizations. The
American world is on a very great
strain. So will the world be going
when the end comes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
WHY SHOULD NOT MEN SEW?
A Branch OF ImpOrtat knowledge I'm
familiar t O Them.

Mans inability to sew has been class
ed among his great weakness and if
the matter be attentively considered,
this proposition will be found hardly
so absurd as it at first slight appears.
Sydney Smith, who wished that
he could sew, gave as his ease for
coming to the conclsion that all men
should sew, that women are much
more cheerful generally than men.
This, he said, is because they can
work and vary more their employ
ments. Scott also thaught that men
should sew. "IIadies are, I Think"
wrote the Wizard of the North in
il letter to Lady Douglas Stewart,
Every fortunate in having a resource
in work at a time when the mind
rejects intellectual amusement. Men
have no resource but striding up and
down the room, like a bird that beats
itself to pieces against the bars OF
it's cage too mechanical to worry
the mind by distracting it from the
points on which its musings turn,
yet gradually assisting it in regaining
st, adiness and composure."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
The Cancels Humps.

Structurally, of course, the humps are
nothing but mere Jumps Of fat, collect
ed under q convenient fold of the skin
and unprovided for in the framework
of the Skeleton. When the animal is
well fed, they are full and plump,
standing on his back firm and upright;
but on q long journey they are grad
uaHy absorbed to keep up the fires
that work the heart and legs, and, in
the caravan camels which arrive at the
coast, the skin hangs over, an emty
bag, upon the creatures flank bear
ing witness to the scarcity of external
food duringthe purse of his long forced
march from the interior. A starved,
small camel in this state of health far
more closely resembles a Peruvian lla-
ma than any one who has only seen
fine, well-kept beasts in European
menageries or geological gardens could
readily imagine.
But water is even scantier in the
desert than food; and against want OF
water, therefore the camel has had to
provide himself. functionally at least,
if not structurally, quite as much as
against want of heritage. His stomach
has accordingly acquired the power of
acting as an internal reservoir, and he
can take in as much water at the BahrS
or Wadys, where he rests for a while
on his toilsOme march, as will supply
his needs for four or five days togeth-
err. There are some differences in this
respect,t owever, between the two chief
varieties of the camel. The African
kind is most abstemious, and best a.
dapted to sandy deserts; the Bactrain
a product of a more varied and better
watered country, is larger and stronger
but less patient ofhunger and thirst,
while at the same time it a manage
to subsist and to make its way into
somewhat rocker and more rugged
country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
A Very Modest Girl.

Speaking of legs and arms suggests to
me one Of the most ineXcusahle pieces
of prudery possible to conceive, which
is the avoidance of the good, honest,
and clean old Anglo-SaXon word leg,
to describe that member of the body.
I take a malicious satisfaction in using
it whenever 1 am in the presene of the
ultra-nice people, who tell about some
one having broken his climb" leav-
ing less sensitive persons to guess as to
whether it was an arm or Il leg that
met with the mishap. When ! was a
good deal younger than / am now !
was making Il stay at a country house
and trying to catch any supplemented
fish there might be in the ncighbor.
hood. The farmer with whom l
boarded had o daughter who taught
school, and was certainly the most
painfully proper young person 1T was
ever my misfortune to meet. One eve
ningw we were playing cards when she
suddenly looked up from her hand and
said: II beg your pardon" "Foi
what?n I asked. 80, it must have
been the limb of the table," ! &.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

A frienS induced me to try Salvation
Oil for my rheumatic foot, | used 1t
and the rheumatism is entirely gone
gone. john H.. Anderson, Baltimore,
Md.
Superintendent Talbert of the Pen
itentiary has appointed Dr.. J. Eugene
Jarnigan to succeed Capt. w. Fl.
Sigh as Captain of the guard at the
institution the appointment to take
effect November |.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

In FAVOR OF DUCKs.-1t is printed
that Mr.. M. X. Boyer, a well-known
Pennsylvania poultry breeder, clai ms
that, aside from the meat and egg
ducks are valuable on the farm fol-
their manure. 1t is ofthe richest quail
ity, and ranks next to hog manure.
For gardening purposes l,c finds it eX,
cellent. His experience has been that
a duck will make a good w~heelbarrow
load of manure in a year. Every fam
er should keep a few ducks. The
Pekin, Rouen, Cayuga, and A~ylesbury
ducks are land fowls, and need no
bathing water. They are by far The
best fowls for y farm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

The truest joy we have in life is in
making others glad.
The South Carolina Conference o.
the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, is to meet in the town O
Darlington, December 2. Bishop
Cranberry is expected to preside.
Happy is he who speaks little, fol
words beget accidents, gloom, anC
interior trouble.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

There must be a time when the
vista of the future, with all its pos.
sibilities of glory and of shame, first
opens upon the vision of youth.
Then is he summoned to make his
choice between truth and treachcry
between honor and dishonor; be.
tween purity and profigacy; between
moral life and moral death.
The wisest thing to do with enc.
mics is to do without them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

A fire in Darlington, Nov. a., at
D. M, caused it is supposed, a loss OF
$50, 900 in buildings and damage tc
goods.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

The New York Presbytery has dis
missed the charge of heresy against
DR.. Briggs. Notice was given of ar
appeal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Ex-President Hayes and DR.. J. L.
NJ. Curry arrived in Columbia, Nov 4
and spent next day in visiting the
colleges and schools of the city.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

While you live right nothing goes
wrong. A soul at peace with God
cannot be grealy disturbed by the
world, for it has its pleasures in God
and it's blessings from God.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Two.GermanIbankers father and son
committed suicide because they hat
hopelessly involved their bank by
gambling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
HIGHWAY ROBBERY
4 Party Of Yellowstone Tourists
Held Up.
JOHN COMPTON COMMITS SUICIDE
Killed by Runaway Cart Was Turned
Loose by Two Young Nen-0ne Paid His
life for His Fun.

HELENA, Mont, Aug. ID Especial tele-
gram to TIE HERALD 1t has just come TO
light that a bold stage robbery was perpe-
trated last week near the Idaho boundary
OF the Yellowstone park. L. c. Kranthoff,
Of Kansas City, member of the firm Of
Harms, Holmes & Krantnoff and president
Of the Missouri State Bar association, in
company with his friend John W. Spears,
secretary and treasurer of the Kansas City
and Martin Distillery company, left Beaver
canon one morning for the park. at about
o'clock in the evening, Just as the stage
had crossed the divide, in Tyghee, il was
halted by two hlghwaymen, who demanded
that the passengers deliver up their valu-
ables, and be quick. MIR. Spears lost gold
WATCH, chain and charm, about $56 in
money and some minor articles. His com
panion Was relieved of gold watch and
chain, ard SlS5 III money. The searching
highwaymen kindly permitted the latter to
retain his knights Templar charm. The
highwaymen were disguised, and from the
nervousness displayed and their unusual
methods, it is thought they were amateurs.
but they got away with all the yaluables
their victims possessed. No trace Of them
has been found
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
All Quiet at CsllaO.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 19.-The steamer
Elder which left here last month with a
cargo of 400 tons of wheat for Peru ar
rived this morning, fgteen days from
Callao, Captain Lewis states everything
was quiet at the latter port, but there was
a great demand for wheat and produce
there the CHILEAN supply being cut off.
American -four was selling at the rate of
SIS barrel and potatoes brought a high
figure.
The captain brings a number of different
reports about the progress of the Chllian
troubles. One of the stories is to the eff
feet that part of Balmaceda's forces at
Tackled body of Insurgents in Ballema,
July 10, routing them. with loss of one
hundred killed and wounded. The war
has cut off southern Gillian supplies en-
tirely from Peru, and the arrival Of an
American steamship with wheat was hailed
with manifestations of delight. 1t is stated
the Peruvian army is being equipped in
spite of stipulations signed at the close of
the war with Chill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
The Brussels Socialist Con,ro,,

BRUSSELS, Aug. 19.-The British dele
gates to the Socialist Workman's oonorss.
To-day rejected the Bebbe amendment n.o
vlulng that all candidates for public ofica
must accept the full Socialist programus
Inc BRITISH declaring themselves labor and
not Socialist delegates. They adopted n
modified resolution to the effect that WORK
men should exert their political ripbts IN
secure any useful reform. The conorsss
AFTER a lengthy discussion, passed the
resolution virtually as modified by tbe
BRUSH delegates with a provision that
there shall be organized in every country a
permanent commission to INQUIRE into the
condition oflabor. One Cahan. of America
SAID: ut is useless to beg, crinRe and
lawn for needful legislation. We uus,
1orcloly exact reforms and abolish
the existing wage SYSTEM He wanted,
'ne congress to delare plainly for labor
war. After the resolution was adopted be.
opened the discussion on the attitude NJ
4aoOr toward the Jews and urged sympathy
toward the latter. This started a IenOtbr,
ueOate' the committee reporting against
antl-Semltlsm as device Of capitalists IN
So" uIscord among workingmen. wbils
Iuany speakers reminded the congress- that
Jewish bankers and fnanciers were also
great oppressors. Finally a resolution Jvas
passed condemning both anti Semitisn and
JeWlsn financial tyranny. This impossi-
oIIlIy Oh the reconciliation of conflicting
opinions and interests Is the key note Of
MnaG tne proceedings OF the congress are.
suits. 10
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
Canadian Contracts Ipyestjya tion

OTTAWA, Ont, Aug. 19.-Before the cleo
lions committee this morning Sir Pete,
Langeyin, on oath, denied Contractor
ctaries statements made in evidence Fri
day. He gave a complete explanation q,
The circumstances connected with the
withdrawal Of the tenders of O'Hanley and
Staries for the Esquimault dock contracts.
which Staries says was done at the sugges
ton of Sir Hector Langevin. Sir Peter
asserted the tenders withdrawn were vol.
untary, as Staries and O'Hanley did no,
care TO take contracts on which they had tc
pay deposit of per cent. of the contract
price
Interesting developments continue ia
come outin the hearing of ths public &C
counts committees. Summerville asked
for certain vouchers to-day, saving that
they would show number of officials of
the public works department purchased
large orders from dry goods merchants for
their private use and charged them TO the
department. Superintendent Bronskill. of
the stationary branch, admitted receiving
various sums as commissions on goods pur.
chased for the government Superin-
tendent SENEGAL, of the printing denart-
ment bureau, also admitted RECEIVING
several thousand dollars in loans from
firms supplying type. His memory was
very defective as to dates and amounts
Thomas McGreevy has resigned from mar
lament.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
John Compton Commits Suicide.

CHEYENNE, Wye, Aug. 19.-ISpecial tel
egram to THE HERALD. John Compton,
Union Pacific agent at Carbon, started a
fire in the oil room of the station this morn
ing, passed back through door to the
office and standing beside the safe shot
off the top of his head with an army six
shooter. The building, a considerable
franc structure with a large quantity Of
freight, was destroyed and Compton's body
was badly burned before it could be taken
from the ruins. The man was 80 years old
and had been in the employ of the company
since 1850. lie had trouble with his wife
and secured q transfer from place. 200
miles from Carbon, month ago, to get
away from the woman snd her family. He
orooded over his troubles and had been
respondent during the last ten days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
China COMPLAINS to Germany

LONDON, Aug. 19.-The government of
China has sent telegram to the German
government complaining of the German
minister joining the protesting powers, on
the ground that no German WAS injured in
the recent riots and China is willing to
negotiate With Germany at once in regard
to indemnity to be paid Germans who suf
fered in the Chang Tung affair in 1890; and
further, that Germany is only slightly in
tsrested in the missions and therefore there
is no need for her to identify herself with
the other powers In missionary questions
The Times Berlin correspondent says he
has had an interview with Prof Esmerach,
the surgeon, who said he had heard directly
from Emperor William himself, that except
for the accident to his knee the Emperor
had enjoyed splendid health for the past
two months and was never better than now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
Cattle on the Cherokee Strip.

CALDWELL, Kan, Aug. 19.-As a result
OF President Harrison's recent order per
hitting the Cherokees to hold cattle in the
strip, provided they eau show that the cat
Tie belonged to them, J. B. Mayes, chief of
the Cherokee nation, with only fiveleading
men OF the tribe, arrived here last night
and held conference to-day with cattle
men now herding cattle on the strip. 1t
was arranged that all cattle now grazing
there shall be transferred to individual
Cherokees by bills of sale. When the time
Tor marketing comes the cattle will be
transferred back at sufficient advance to
meet grazing charges. BY this agreement
half million cattle on the strip will be
Kept there, andgas many brought in as the
Cherokees care to take.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-20
Arrested for Abducting His BrIds.

lSpeclalto THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch I
NEW YORK, Aug. 19-David n. Jaocord
OF Hillsdsle, N. j., wealthy Swiss Amer
lean ranchman who ran away in November
with Miss Clara May Rawson and was mar
rled to the girl by Paterson Justice. was
arrested to-day and required to give bonds
for abduction. Prof Albert L. Rawson in
father Of the girl. 1t was he who caused
the arrest. The youthful bride is the onIV
granddaughter of Laura Keene. the actress
who was behind the footlights durinD the
tune OF John Wilkes Booth. Jaccord
brought Swiss bride across the ocean onIv
to lose her on the Pacific slope. After the
death OF his wife he was called to Hills
dale. 1t was then he met the daughter
OF the actress. Jaccard told wonderful
tales OF his early Swiss home and OF his bio,
ranch in California. The bride had passed
her fourteenth birthday May is and her
father compelled her to return husband
less bride to his home on Hillsdale Heiohts
Soon afterwards he had to go away on busi-
ness. When he returned he found tbs
bride had left his home to live in Jaccard1s
cottage. Under the crimes act. il CON
yicted, Jaccard would be liable 10 q heavv
tine and long imprisonment.