The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-14


education had been. They all seemed to be
happy together in those good times. And
so it will be in heaven. Our Father will
gather Hi: children around Him, and the
neighbors will come In and the past will be
rehsarsed. And some one will tell of vic
tory and we will all celebrate it. And some
one will say: Here is my old father that
put away with heartbreakl Just look at
him! He is as young as any Of us|
And some one will say: Here is my darl-
ing child that buried in Greenwood, and
ali the after years of my life were shadowed
with desoation. Just look at her She
Doesn't sesm as il she had been sick min
uter' Great sociality. Great neighborhoot
kindness GO in and dine. What though
John Milton sit down on one side and John
Howard sit down on the other side? No em-
barrassment. What though Charlotte
Elizabeth sit down Oh one side and Hannah
More sit down on the other side? No en-
barrassnent. A monarch yourself. why be
embarrassed among monarchs' A songster
yourself. why be embarrassed among glori-
fed songsters. Go in ana dine.
All the shocks Of corn coming in in their
season. Oh, yes, in their season. Not one
of you having died too soon, or having died
too late, or having die1 at haphazard.
Plantei at just the right time. Plowed at
lust the right time. Cut down at just the
right time. Husked at just the right time.
Garnersd at just the right time. Coming
in in your season. Oh, wish that the two
billion bushels of corn now in the fields or
on their way to the seaboard might be
trps OF the grand yield of honor and glory
and immortality whan all the shocks come
in.
lido not know how you are constituted,
but am so constituted that there Is nothing
that so awakens "reminiscences in me as the
odors of q cornf1eld when cross 1t at this
time OF year after tho corn has been cut and
it stands in shocks And so have thought
it might be practically useful for us to-day
to cross the cornfieid, and I have thought
perhaps there might be some "reminiscences
reused in our soul that might be salutarJ
and might be saving. In Sweden q prima
donna, while her house in the city was pc
ing repaired, took house In the country
for temporary residence. and she brought
out her great array Of jewels to show
friend who wished to see them.
One night after displaying thess jewels
and leaving them on the table, and all her
friends had gone, and the servants had gone
-one summer night-shs sat thinking and
looking into q mirror just in front OF her
chair, when she saw in that mirror the face
of q robber looking in at the window be-
hind her and gazing at those jewels. She
was in great fright, but sat still, and
hardly knowing why she did so she began
to sing an old nursery song, her fears max.
ing the pathos of the song more telling.
Suddenly she noticed, while looking at tho
mirror. that the robbers face had gone
from the window, and it did not come back.
A few days after the prima donna received
q letter from the robber, saying. II heard
that the Jewels were to be out that night,
and came to take them at whatever hazard,
but when heard you sing that nursery
song with which my mother so often sang
me to sleep could not stand it, and lied,
and I have resolved upon new and honest
life"
oh. nv friends, there are jewels in peril
richer than those which lay upon that table
that night, They are the jewels of the i'm
mortal soul. Would God that some song
rolling up out Of the deserted nursery OF
your childhood, or some song rolling up out
Of the corn fields ths song Of the huskers
twenty or forty years ago, might turn all
our feet out of the paths OF sin into the paths
of Righteousness. Would God that those
memories waited in on odor or song might
start US this moment with swift feet toward
that blessed place where 30 many or our
loved ones have already precede us ''as
hook Of corn cometh in in his season."
Swallowing Abilities Of Snakes.
The jaws of the chicken snake are
hung on hinges that can be taken apart
or displaced for the time being as the
case may be, and an entire Texas cotton
tail rabbit can be persuaded to enter
head and all with little effort, and the
body being made of an Iudia-rubber.like
material and very stretchable, the kicking
little animal SOON finds Judgement in
the stomach. His snskeship then care.
fully resets his jaws 50 that his mouth
assumes its normal size and blissfully re-
poses for the succeeding six hours.
The powerful gastric juice does the bal
ance, and no Texan can testify that he
ever heard of chicken snake suffering
from indigestion or chronic dyspepsia.
The capture and digestion Of chickens,
song birds, turkey eggs, and rats con-
stitute simple psstime to the snake, and
does not call for six-hour lay-oft in
feeding time.
The rattler's jaws can also unhinge
when he has to tuck away an exception.
III mOLSol VI loou nhe SAoWu aoooAs'
and, like his harmless competitor in the
consumption of food, his body can ex-
pand to four times the regular size. An
old.time cowboy Texas, who has spent
lifetime in roaming over the fertile
praries and along the creek bottoms OF
Calhoun County, which are covered with
brush and timber, Informed the reporter
that he had seen monster rattler con-
ceal jack rabbit with two vigorous
gulps. When killed the deadly reptile
was found to have eighteen rattles, and
the jack rabbit was found to be kicking
for dear life.
Tie chicken snake has important ad.
vantages over the rattler. He can move
sbout over the country faster and is more
cunning, and in times when food is
scarce he is always better fed and more
satisfied with life.