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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-12-02
SWINE Is A

..HH
Tho drink habit Is often quickly and easily
formed. How insidiously it grows upon
men. Itsteals in upon men as slyly. as the
fox, and when it gets a man in its full power
how it losses him about like q strong lion:
We once read of a young rabbit that slipped
into a garden of cabbages. The garden was
luclosed with a wire fence. The young rab-
bithad a good and jolly time in that garden
as he Toasted daily on the luscious cabbage
He had heard of the danger OF traps and wire
fences, but he did notseem to see any imme-
date danger around him, 50 he concluded to
remain ali summer In that delightful place.
The more he ate Of the cabbages the larger
he grew. Henever dreamed that he might
grow too large to get out through the hole he
he came in at. But that was just precisely
the danger that was soon to overtake him.
BE fattened daily upon the delicious FOOD.
he soon became as large as a grown rao9it,
but the only hole Of escape didn't grow a bit
larger. One day he heard the foot fall or q
man coming into his garden, and he con-
Guided he would slip out and disappear In
the bushy swamp. So he ran to the hole ne
camein at, and 70! and behold, his body had
grown entirely too large to squeeze out
through it. Now what? All, he is 50 sur
rounded by the wire net as to fall an easy
prey to the owner Of the garden. he was
caught and killed.
The application to the dram drinker is
easy. Every dram he drinks is putting up
che wire fence of the confirmed habit OF
drunkenness. His appetite Is growing insen-
sibly. Like the rabbit. he has q jolly time
for awhile and sees no signs Of danger. After
a while something occurs which alarms him
about his safety. He resolves to get out OF
his wire fence Of dram drinking, but 10! he
finds that his liquor appetite has grown from
a babe to a giant holding him firmly in the
grasp. This simple rarable tells the story OF
thousauds who are. to-day passive slaves to
the wine cup. wine is a mocker' nj
ming deceiver.
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TEMPERANCE.
he Il THEM IN.

LIE SA1h6no s1h1M As
Alone in his bar-room counting his gold
A drink-dealer sat hard-hearted and bold,
His days work was done, still he fingered
late,
When q goblin came like q thing Of fate:
Dark demon Of bygone days was he, "a,
With a soul as black as the midnight sea.
And these were the words from his lips that
fell, sT.
II gather them in to a drunkard's hell, !" etc.
II gather them in, both men and boys,
While year after year my work destroys
Mems bodies and souls the world around,
Bright homes where joys and love abound.
Fair daughters and mothers, father and son,
Their idols ] shatter them one by one.
License to kill; It is known full well
! gather them in to a drunkard's hell. :
Husbands are dying with shrieks and
groanS,
While wives are praying with pleading
tones,
Dear children are begging bread out in the
cold,
Still as King Irule, and my sceptre hold.
MY victims are many, hell claims them ALL:
They come from novels, from palace and
hall,
By night and day my records toll.
Igather them in to a drunkards hell.
II gather them in where they find no peace,
While the pangs of the deathless soul In
crease
The goblin paused. when a mighty train
OF sin-wrecked ghouls all racked with pain,
With CHASTITY groans came forth and told,
While gnashing their teeth, how the dealer
bold
Led them on through drink their souls to
sell.
And gathered them in to q d~runkard's hell.
= B. N. Laurence, II. d., in Aduocate.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
The New South Wales Union now mum.
bers 14OO members.
The Ohio W. e. T. q. reports 600 unions
eighty five new ones this year.
The Indiana W. C. T. U. reports a gain of
forty-two unions over last year. mrs.
J%oshephine Nichols was elected President.
China now has a National W. C. T.. u,
with the necessary equipment Of general Of
fcers, fifteen vice-presidents, and nine super
~lntendsnts Of departments.
While in Cairo, Mrs. Leavitt addressed a
large meeting OF English soldiers. At the
close nearly every one not already a total
abstainer, signed the pledge. .
The annual meeting OF the Japan Imperial
Temperance Society has held its annual con-
ysntion In a Buddhist temple. The society
was organized by Mrs. Lsavitt and numbers
1890.
It is proposed by Miss Frances E. Willard
to found, by a subscription, a John B. Cough
professorship of total abstinence IN the new
American university to be established IL
Washington.
Mrs. Jennie Paxton. mayor OF kiowa,
Kan, has been waging such q merciless
war on the saloons in that town that the
business community formally asked her 70
resign. Kiowa is a cattle town OF the
frontier type.
One of the leading questions 10 be dis
cussed by the order Of "The Catholic
Knights' at their annual meeting, which
convenes In May at Philadelphia, will be
''Shall liquor form a link between tbs
church and the saloon" The issue has bee?
already raised by Bishop Ireland. Of Mime
sofa, who discountenances the use OF wines
at Catholic church gatherings.
The Lancet notes a very curious remedy
for druI6enness, accidentally discovered In
st. Petersburg. A laborer on a prolonged
spree, and stupidity drunk, stumbled into q
grocery, and, not knowing where he was or
What he was doing, drank a large quantity
of petroleum from an open casS. With diff
fculty he was dragged away, and when the
proprietor expected him to die he arose
perfectly sober, and walked of quite free
from ali his previous symptoms.
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MINERS KILLED.
Disastrous Explosion in the
Pennsylvania Coal Region.
A Lamp Ignites Fire Damp With
Fatal Effect.

A dispatch from Nanticoke. PENN, says:
While changing the current OF air IN the
deep shaft, No. /, Of the Susquehanna Coal
Company, at 4:3O in the afternoon, a terrific
explosion Of gas took place, which tore out
timbers, brattices and props, Instantly kill
more. The alarm was sounded, and
.dreds at the scene. Ten stalwart
miners under the direction of a fire boss en-
tered the deadly shaft to find the sad state
of affairs described above. The names OF
the dead and injured are as follows: Killed.
John Arnot, fire boss, married and leaves
six children; Caleb Giething, married; Will
lam Jonathan, fire boss; Henry Jones, lire
boss, he was the City Clerk: Thomas Lloyd,
driver boy; William J. Williams. ST.:
Thomas Powell, Thomas Steven, boss Of the
shaft; David A. Smith, William J. Williams.
All the men have large families. Tho hrst
shaft is HOO feet deep. At the bottom Is a
gangway, and then another shaft runs down
two hundred feet further. It was In this
lower shaft that the explosion took
place. There were fourteen men in
the mine at the time. and not one
OF them will live to tell the cause OF the e1-
ploSion. The scene about the SHAFT Whlle 1ne
bodies were being taken out was heartrend.
ing. Wives were sobbing and wailln2, all
awaiting the recovery of the bodies. As one
body after another, at intervals Of twenty
minutes, was brought up and the name OF
the dead miner was announced the heart
broken widow would utter a scream and
fall in q swoon or wall and cry and
endeavor to throw themselves upon the
blackened bodies of their husbands. Little
children, too, were there with their mothers,
bewildered and dazed, yet conscious that
some terrible calamity had happened to their
fathers. Nanticoke has q population OF H.
600, and it is safe to say hat three-fourths
of the inhabitants were about the mine
building or standing in groups on the hilltops
overlooking the mine.
The dead and injured are nearly all active
in church and social affairs. The town is in
mourning.
The accident was caused by the explosion
of a safety lamp. the flames Of which ignited
the gas. The existence Of this element had
become known, and the safety lamp. which
is generally used successfully in the presence
Of gas, was being used by the men during
their operations.
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LATER NEWS.

A NEw suit against John Hcey, ex-Presi'
dent, wa begun by the Adams Express
Company for stocks worth 100000.
The Pennsylvania Senate adjourned sine
die at Harrisburg, after declaring that it had
no jurisdiction in the cases of the Auditor
General and the State Treasurer, accused Of
completely with Defaulter Bardsley, e1-Treas'
urer of Philadelphia. 1t confirmed the
Governors appointments and then ceased to
do business.
THE Connecticut Legislature met at Hart
ford and adjourned to January 9. Nothing
else was done.
UNITED STATES TREASURY detectives
have unearthed a system Of smuggling
opium into the Port Of New York. Large
firms in New York are said to be working in
with the keepers OF opium dens. Over 200
pounds of contraband opium have been
seized.
EUsToN KELLEY, coiored, aged twenty
four, having a wife and a ten months old
daughter, was hanged at Rogerville. Tenn,
for the murder Of Dan Carmichael at a
country dance last Christmas.
A HEAVY rain fell over the entire State of
Tennessee and ended the suffering for water.
There vii! probably be a replanting of crops.
The sudden change is worth many thousands
Of dollars to the State. o..
THE South Dakota Farmers Alliance held
its annual session at Huron, with the small
est attendance in its history.
THE most marvellous performance Of the
year Of phenomenal harness racing was the
performance of Senator Stanford's two-year-
old colt Arion over the kite-shaped track at
Stockton, Cal. He trotted q mile without a
single break or skip in 2:1ON, thus lowering
his W record by 3N seconds, and proving
him to be the most wonderful horse ever
bred.
THE National Council Of Administration OF
the G. A. R. met at Washington. There
were present General John Palmer, Com
mander.in-Chief Adjutant-General Fred
Physterer, Colonel Raymond, Colonel R. F.
Knapp, Colonel q. L. Luther. Colonel James
R. Miner, Colonel William M. DIN and
Colonel George ". Blodgett.
THE report of General Casey, in charge
of coast defences and river and harbor i'm
provements, was presented to the Secretary
of War.
FoNsEcA has compelled those newspapers
of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, which do not fully
support his dictatorship to suspend publica-
ton. The revolt in Rio Grande do Sui has
become so serious that the Dictator has sent
troops and war ships to that State.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY persons have
died of hunger IN the one parish of Kagors.
Russia.
THE Gillian Congress assembled. Tha
Junta has been requested to hold over until
Jorge Montt is installed as President of
Chill. In an address to Congress the Junta
announces that its mission has been &C
complished.
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BorH A SIN AND A DISEASE.

Drunkenness is both sin and q disease.
It is a sin, to with, and after hay
ing passed through its first stages and fas-
tened itself securely upon its victim, it be-
comes both a sin and q disease. Alcohol IS
a distinct and certain poison, so declared by
many leading physicians and scientists.
When taken into the system regularly as q
beverage it in numberless cases results In
drunkenness. Drunkenness comes from
drinking, and the drunkard always COM
meuces as a moderate drinker. Drunkenness
is to be treated both as a sin and as a disease.
The grace Of God can save any drunkard
from his sin, even to the "uttermost," and
multitudes nave thus been saved. Medical
treatment has done much to a drunk
nrds. and every effort in that direction
should be joytully hailed by every true
friend OF temperance, and due credit given
for all good accomplished. At the same
time, all moral and social means possible
should be put forward for the salvation Of
the inebriate. -NationaL Temperance Ad-
rocate.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,.

The Queen Of Denmark is seventy-four.
PAUL DU CHAILLU, the African Travellers
D bachelor.
NINE. DE LEssEps is forty years younger
than her husband.
tae new Queen Of Wurtem-
berg, is Jwentv-seven.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA, Of Spain,
reads and speaks English.
QUEEN VICTORIA has appointed the Earl
of Dufferin Warden OF the Cirque Ports.
HENRY M. STANLEY, the explorer OF AT
RIGA, has lost all the popularity he had IN
England.
PosTMAsTEs-GENERAL WANAMAKER car.
ries the heaviest life insurance in America
sl,5op,OOc.
Ex-Governor DUNN1NG, of Indiana. lies
buried in an unmarked grave In Blooming
ton, Monroe County.
GAR1BALDfs sons a v made good SOL
diers, but have acquired an unenylable repu-
tation for shady transactions in business
matters.
The sensational Chicago grain %speculator:
B. P. Hutchinson, known as O!d Hutch"
has purchased a seat in the New York Pro-
duce Exchange.
DAVID EVANS, London's new Lord Mayor,
has just turned forty, one OF the Youngest
Mayors London has had, and has been noted
fer the brevity andsenss OF his speeches.
BANKER EUGENE KELLY. of New York
City, who is worth s., 1000, 900, earned his pas
sage to this country by drivlngs 1auuGng
car IN his native place, County Tyrone Ire
land.
QUEEN VICTORIA now rules a population
of 36TI, 0G0, 0O0-a greater number OF people
t--.-s. - on-lol,aI Tho cpuarni0nfv nf
any one other person In either ancient or
modern times.
THE Child-Quee that rules Holland, while
receiving a foreign minister recently, held
her favorite doll in her arms and at length
mischievously observed. II wonder that
YOU arc not afraid to come near me; all my
dolls nave had measles, you know"
The most eloquent pulpit orator in Cana.
da is Rev. DR.. George Douglas. He Is blind
and his hands fall helpless in front of him
from paralysis, so that he appears half dead.
But no one who hears that marvellous voice
can remain insensible to the charm OF his or
.atory.
The Crown Prince Of Japan, who Is at
present q pupil in the School for Mobiles in
Toxic. is said to be q bright and industrious
bow. He has just finished the fourth year
in the elementary department. 1t is said
that ne did not miss n day at school dur
ing the last year.
PROFESSOR EBEN NORTON HoRsFoRD, Of
Cambridge, Mass, says that for six years he
has abandoned ali other work and devoted
himself exclusively to trying to find out who
were the first discoveries OF this country.
De is now confident that the Mortimer
made their first landing on Cape Cod.
CHARLES DAVENPORT, of Boston, is the
man who built the first modern steam rail-
road car. He is a hale old man of seventy
nine. The first cars in America built with
an aisle running lengthwise and with doors
at the ends instead of at the sides were con-
structed by him in 1885 for the Eastern Rail
road Of Massachusetts,.
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WORLDS FAIR NOTES..

The agricultural society OF France has
decided to offer q number OF premiums Tor
the best French horses shown at the Fair.
OUARrrcH, the noted London book-dealer,
intends to send to the Exposition an auto
graph letter of Christopher Columbus, for
which he paid $4,000.
VIRGrNIA's building ct the Exposition will
be Of the old colonial type, measuring 33x7t
feet two stories high and surrounded by a
piazza Is feet wide. Its cost will be S20,O 600
THE Art Palace on the Lake Front Park,
which will be built by the Art. Institute. as
sisted to the extent Of $200,0 900 by the Ex
position Company, will cost about 500, 600
CALIFORNIA is the first State to respond
to Chief Buchanan's request that each State
contribute the trunks Of three of its mos
characteristic trees, to be used in construct
ing a rustic colonnade for the ForeStrS
building.
F1oR1pA's Exposition building will BE- {
full.sized reproduction of Fort Marion, which
was built at st. Augustine in 1920, and il
believed to be the oldest building in the
United States. It is Of stone, and covers
space of about $50 feet square.
MRS. POTTER PALMER is to drive the last
nail in the Woman's building. The lady mau'
aeersof Montana, at the suggestion Of Mrs.
J.E. Richards. are having the nail made Of
gold, silver and copper. It will be forwardec
to Chicago as soon as completed.
THE great imitation coast-line battleship.
which Is to constitute and contain the Gov.
ernmsnt's naval exhibit, Is in an advanced
state of construction. 1t will be all inclosed
Lefore winter weather sets ip, and all OF thu
interior work will be completed by spring.
The Carriage Builders National Associa'
ton, at its recent session in Cincinnati ap
pointed an influential committee to super
wise the collection and preparation OF q
creditab Q exhibit Of vehicles, and to Co
operate with Chief Smith, Of the Transpor,
tation Department.
THOMAS. A. EDIsoE, the famous electric
ian. mas applied for IS, 900 feet OF space, or
about one-seventh OF all that the Electric
building contains. Il have it from Mr.. Ed.
ison himself,n said Chief John P. Barrett
shat his display at the Fair Is to be tins
greatest achievement Of his life."
The nine lady managers resident in CD
cago, called together by Mrs. Potter PalmeE,
have decided to established q model sanltax3
kitchen in the Woman's building at the R1'
p~osition. An effort will be made by a -
cial entertainment or wise, TO raise Ine
$4,000 necessary for the purpose.
The number of intending exhibitors who
have applied for space at the Exposition
reached 1923 on October 81. This is q much
larger number than the Centennial had at q
correspondingiy early date. The number
does not include any foreign applications, all
of which are made to their respective ma
tional commissions.
ONE acre of ground within the Horticul
tural BUILDING has been reserved for an
orange grove from Florida and the same
amount for a grove from California. These
trees will be brought to Chicago next year
and planted, so they gill bear lru'e wn,le sae
1nte two interior courts OF toe building
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Washington.

The War Department is advised that
Second Lieutenant j. E. Dodge, Fourth
Infantry, is in Jail at Hannibal. No. charged
with grand larceny and burglary. LieuteE-
ant Dodge has been in the army since 1887
The President appointed Fsnton R. Nc
Creepy, of Michigan, to be Secretary of Lee
CATION at Santiago, Chill. He is tho son o.
United States Consul McCreery at Val
paraiso.
The Census Bureau gave out a bulletin
showing the increase in railroad business in
1889 over 1880 in Ohio. Indiana, Southern
~Pennsylvania, Michigan and that portion Of
the States Of Pennsylvania and New York
lying west Of a line drawn from P~ittsburg,
Penn, to Buffalo, N. Y, via Salamanca.
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD resumed
his duties at the Executive Mansion, Wash
;ngton, having recovered completely from
his late illness.
THE total amount Of four and a half per
cent. bonds redeemed to date is III, l95, S5Q,
leaving outstanding 81, 300, $50.
The Court of Claims at Washington in the
case Of the State Of Indiana against the
United States, to recover 500, 00u e1oennet
by the State for roads, decided adversely TO
the State of Indiana. Ohio n Illinois have
suits pending, each involving a similar
amount.
The Citizens Executive Commute, on the
National Encampment OF the Grand Army
Of the Republic to be held in Washington
next year, decided to recommend the sec
ond week Of October as the date for holding
the encamplnent.
In the argument before the Supreme Court
in Washington on the Sayward case, it was
brought out that an agreement had been
reached between the United States ana
British Governments, to submit the Behring
Sea dispute to arbitration; it is in the form
OF a treaty to be verified by the Senate.
iEE cotton returns Of TIE Department Of
Agriculture iorN November are not favorabl.
Tor high rate OF yield
The duties heretofore performed by the
wrecked United States steamer Despatch a.
/ dispatch vessel' will hereafter be allotted
10 tie United STATS teaner Dolphin, lately
returned from the China station and now
being repaired at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
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COMANCHE DEAD.
A Famous Horse That Uncle Sam
Had Long Kept in Idle Honor.

A Famous Horse That Uncle Sam
Had Long Kept in Idle Honor.
Word has been received Of the death OF
Comanche, the most celebrated horse in the
United States cavalry service, at Fort
Riley, Kan. He was forty-fve
years OF age and the only living thing
belonging to the United States ser.
vice which escaped the massacre at the bat
tie of Little Big Horn. where General Custer
aud his command were massacred. He was
one Of the original mount of the Seventh
Cavalry, which regiment was organized IN
1865, and had been in almost every battle
with the Indian service.
After the battle of Little Big Horn he was
found covered with wounds, riderless n
saddIeless, some distances from the scene OF
the massacre. He wa taken charge OF by
Captain ROWAN ana sent to Fort Riley
where for fourteen years he has not been
subject to bride, and has been IN
rnarge of tn. Seventh Cavalry.
His death was due to old age. His skln will
be stuffed and mounted and kept in che
museum OF the Kansas State University
until The Worlds Fair at Chicago, where 1t
will be taken for exhibition.
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FOR BRAVERY IN BATTLE,

G'olonc! Eice Receives the Congress
sionaI Medal of Honor.
Major Edward Rice, of the Nineteenth
Massachusetts, Volunteers, o Lieutenant
Colonel of infantry in the regular army and
aide-de-capp to General Miles, was formally
decorated at Chicago, ILL.,, with a Congress
sianai medal of honor. The medal is in recos-
milton of his exceptional valor in repslling
Pickett's charge at the Bloody Gap OF the
third day of the battle of Gettysburg, saving
the national capital from falling into the
hands Of General Lee. The presen tation
was made by General Miles in person and
was witnessed by the full staff and a num-
Der Of distinguished civilians.
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THE LIQUOR HABIT A VICE.

TIE Christian at Work, commenting upon
the question, is Drunkenness Curable" as
recently discussed in the North American
Review. says:
1.-THE liquor habit must be regarded, first
Of all, as a vice, and not a disease. and
treated accordingly. Some are led into the
drinking habit, no doubt, largely through
the influence of an inherited appetite, but,in
liquor habit just as they form any other bad
habit-;ust as they learn to swear, to gamble
and to steal, because their evil tendencies
lead them that way. In other words, most
men get drunk because they want to get
drunk. An attempt to cure intemperancs
in general by the use of medicines would be
very mnch like trying to cure profanity in
the same way" =.
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THE SUPREME COURT.
Business Done by the Highest Judi
cial Body In the Land.

cial Body In the Land.
A tabulated statement of the business Of
the Supreme Court at w a~shington shows
that the largest number Of Government cases
ever disposed of at one term. before the last,
was eighty-six, in 1881: at the last term
there were disposed of $50 Government gases.
The largest number Of Government cases de-
eide at any previous term was sixty-one; at
the last term there were decided VI Govern
ment cases ninety three. The largest number
decided at any previous term in favor Of the
Government was thirsY-tnree. in 1884; at the
last term there were decided IN favor OF the
Government sIxuy-rwo, being just two out
OF three o; all Government cases decided.
a higher ratio Of decision in
favo: OF the Government than in
anv previous year, and a much higher ratio
in favor of the Government than any pre-
vious year except 1854, in which there were
thirty-iye cases decided in favor Of the Gov
eminent, and seventeen against. The table
also shows that the highest total Of cases dis
posed of by the Supreme Court in any pre-
vious term was 410in 1884, while there were
DISPOSED OF at the last term 6l7 cases, and Of
this number about thirty per cent, almost
one-third, were Government cases.