davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28

tions in regard to my trip, which were
interpreted to me, and after had re.
piled, he bowed gracefully and retired.
The audience was over, aad wis then
introduced to a number of the brothers
of the King and Governors Of provinces.
Next day copy of the Kings speech,
with the translation, was seat me.
Mr.. Child says that dressed in his
plain suit of black he looked like crow
among flock of tropical birds. King
Chulalougkorn understands English, but
doesn't speak the language, or at least
not on State occasions. According to
Mr.. Child, he is "a wise, humane,
prudent and brainy monarch" One of
the Kings brothers is graduate of
Cambridge, and several of his children
were educated in England.
Siam is larger than Texas and has
about 10000, 600 inhabitants. The ex-
ports are principally rice, cattle, sugar
and paper. The country is out Of debt,
but the people are nevertheless heavily
taxed. The taxes are collected, not BY
Government officials, but by contractors,
the collection of the taxes in the differ
ent districts being let to the highest
bidders. Among the principal imports
are American -four and canned goods.
In the city of Bangkok are twensy-four
paddy or rice mills run by steam and
some OF them furnished with electric
lights. The first Improvements of this
kind were by an American. The city is
walled in with wall twelve feet high.
Buddhism is the State religion, but all
religions are tolerated and the Christian
missionaries are doing good work in the
kingdom. The natives are, as rule, in
dolent, and spend much of their time in
cock fighting and gambling. The women
do most of the work, and if treated we'll
make good wives. Polygamy is not
practiced much among the common
people. Theatres are numerous, but the
performances are very tame. Women
are the performers, as rule, and pos
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
A SUCCESSOR TO COUGH.

During the recent session of the Consre-
gationaI Union in England, Mr.. j. G..
Woolley addressed the temperance meeting
in what was reported as a very impressive
speech, giving a sketch Of his life. The
British Weekly. speaking Of him, says: HE
is not at all Ike the celebrated orator, John
B. Cough, to whom he is compared. The
point Of similarity betwesn them lies not in
voice, nor figure, nor style OF address, butin
the common experience OF the evil against
which they devoted their lives. Mr.. WoolleY
Is like Cough, at any rate, in this-that he
knows the grip Of the spirit demon on bis
own throat, and so can speak with voice
full Of tears and soul aching with tae pas
sion OF, an unspeakable memory. Tie,e are
the men who can lay hold Of the undecided,
and convert the drunken. It was hard to
Withstand an appeal backed by suca an ex.
nerience as was sketched before our eyes In
$50 terse sentences, every letter OF which
seemed tipped with fire." Seeing that Mr..
Cough has been called away, it is we'll that
Mr.. Woolley has been raised up TO carry on
the same work. Indeed, Mr.. Woolley is
doinga far more positively temperance work
than Mr.. Cough engaged in during the last
few years Of bis Iife.-New York Observer
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
TEMPERANCE.
WHICH SHALL IT BE ?

WHICH SHALL IT BE?
A tidy little home for Betsy and me,
With just enough room for one two or
three?
Or a tumble-down hut with broken gate,
And sad-eyed woman toiling early and
Which shall it be
For mine and mes
hvecent glass Of beer for me,
Or fve-cent loaf for all OF US threes
Beer or baby--wine or wife.
Which do hold more precious than lifes
Which shall it be
For mine and me?
Potatoes and salt with crust OF bread
For the best little woman the Lord evsr
made,
While the rum-selle-'s wife feeds on turkey
and wine, >.
Bought with my money-if so incline,
This shall it be
For mine and met
Tatters and rags for my little one,
NY fair, comely baby, my own darling son;
While the rumseller's children go warm and
we'll clad
On my earnings, wrested from my bonnie
This shall it be
For mine and mel
Well, man, do you think me whole-syed
Blindly to serve as. the rumseller's tools
Ali How can l hesitate which to choose,
When it's all to gain-or to lose;
For mine and me,
For mine and mel
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28

cations are mostly trashy novels Of the
worst class, and as for newspapers, they
hare always been failure in Siam. A
good many have been started, but in al
most every instance the paper was COM
PEELED to suspend in a little while on ac-
count of something published about
some foreign Minister or some member Of
the Siamese court. There are now two
papers printed in English in Siam, but
they don't amount to much. One Is q
weekly and the other semi-weekly.
The head wife of King Chulalongkoru
is the Queen of Siam. Her dress Is the
regulation Siamese kind, q sort of bif-
urcated skirt. The wives and daughters
of the mobiles of Siam are refined and
handsome, Mr.. Child says, but there are
few handsome women in the lower
classes. The Queen is little woman,
as, in fact, most of the females of the
country are. Kissing is not indulged in.
even between near relatives or lovers.
Instead, however, they rub their faces
together as If they we're smelling.
One of the chapters Of the volume
describes the ceremony declaring the
Crown Prince heir to the throne. The
ceremony lasted four days, and fully
500,OU people turned out in holiday
attire on the final day. The young
Prince. ten years old, was carried on
golden chair to the throne, preceded BY
five little girls dressed as angels. The
boy was dressed in white silk and tho
tuft of hair on the top Of his bead was
encircled with corones Of diamonds set
in silver. His title is now Sondetch
Phra Boron Orotsaterat Chow Fs Maha
Chaeron Tit Aditossa Chulalongkon
Bodintara Tetwaraugoon Baromagndu-
arensoon Bottess Devawong Ookretapong
Warosutochat Tanzarsrk Weratreeboon
Serepepat Narwesoot, Grown Prince OF
Siam.
Mr.. Child thinks that Siam has great
future, es the country is progressing
very rapidly under the present King, and
the Crown Prince is being given liberal
education. . ...
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.

What was the charm of life to Paul.
will tell you. No; I'll let him tell you:
"For me to live Is Christ" II hve." No;
mot I, but Christ liveth in me-" II rejoice
In tribulations." Nothing like WEAKNESS
there. No grumbiing; no fQrlorn sighing
for an easier lot; no unmanly whimper. No;
every inch of whose armor is marked by
weapons OF an obdurate foe, whose harness
ia soiled with dust stains of hundred bat
tlefields. and whose form flashed in the fore
front of hundred magnificent victories.
Paul weary of living? Paul failure? Paul
ever wretched? Why! Id just as soon think
of lark wailing funeral diye at the gates
of heaven. Paul did not live in externals,
as am afraid too many Of us do. He lived
in Intervals, be counted it a joy when
he was perfectly exhausted. He never grew
weary Of living. For me to live is Christ"
-TDr. Theodore l.. Cuyler.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
UNCLE SANS PART.

Speaking of the exhibit to be made at the
Worlds Fair by the liquor trade Of America,
Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular SAYS
"The best matured goods only should be
exhibited; small souvenir bottles should be
given away, or sold at nominal price, and
literature should be distributed in several
foreign languages"
If the business Of misunderstanding is
good thing for the material aud moral pros.
peritY OF the country, then it is right that
the Worlds Fair should be made to extend
the business in this way. But there is one
thing we suggest ought to be done, and that
is that the name Of Uncle Sam U s.. usl bs
printed on all the labels used. az n narfner
in the business He gives more to It. and
takes more out Of it than anybody else. The
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
DRAKE's COLUMBUS DRINKING FOUNTAIN.


At q cost Of sl5, 900 J,hn B. Drake. pro.
prietor Of the Grand Pacific Hotel, and one
Of Chicago's leading citizens, Is Just com.
pleting in that city e,lblic drinking foun-
tain, which Is regarded as one Of the most
ornamental creations of its kind In the
world. The design is Gothic In style and
the material is a fine, warm-t1nted coral
granite from Italy. The structure occupies
space on the north side Of Washington
street, between the city and county build.
ings, and is thirty.two feet in height. Be-
low the platform is chamber which will
hold three tons OF ice. effectually cooling the
water, which flows through coils Of pipe be-
low and around the ice.
Mr.. Drake has long felt that public drink.
ing fountains in the populous parts Of great
cities would promote the cause Of temper.
ance in the best possible way. Let Mr..
brakes good example be followed by cld-
zens Of other cities and owns.-ScisntiHc
American.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
Rhodonite ia Somewhat Rare.

Rhodonite Is a somewhat rare stone or
the malachite variety, which comes
from the Ural Mountains. 1t is not
green, like malachlte, but a beautiful
notified rose color. Entire library sets
have been made up of this beautiful
stone, including iukstands, penholders,
paper weights and trays. A complete
set is valued at $500.-New York Tri-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
UNSAFE BUILDINGS.

The Nebraska City Evangelist says there
Is quite an excitement about unsafe build.
ings In that city. It adds: "Many OF the
unsafe buildings can easily be avoided by
reading the signs on them, such as Saloon
Wine. Room, Beer Room Sample Room
''unsafe" buildings which are not avoided
in all our large cities.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28

Is TT any wonder that men are
driven insane when they foolishly
attempt to match a piece Of silk for
their wives and the dry goods man
tells them that there are seventeen
thousand styles of the fabric known
TO the tradeP
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
1.-THE PEARL OF ASIA"
Ex-MINIsTER CHILD ON SIAM
AND TIE SlAMESE. =
Hia Presentation to King Chuialon2-
korn-Customs or the People.
No kissing in Siam - Re
sources of the Country.

the Court Of Siam five years, and was
given every opportunity to gather
material for Just such a work on the
country as he has published. In chapter
describing his presentation to King
Chulalongkorn, ex-Miuister Child says:
Sat the hour named Is p. n.y. hand
some open carriage, drawn by four
Australian horses, with, outriders and
drivers dressed in livery, drove up to
the entrance of the Legation, and lead
ing official who spoke English fueutly,
informed me that he had been deputized
to convey DR.. Mcdonald, the Vice
Consul General, and myself to the
palace, whereupon we entered the car
riage. The outriders galloped in front,
the driver cracked his whip and away
we went at a rafting rate, scattering
pedestrians on all sides, dashed through
the gateway in the city walls, the
sentinels saluting US, and after. a drive
of about three miles, turned from the
main highway into the esplanade that
skirts the palace walls. As soon as our
carriage made its appearance, battery
stationed near the main entrance to the
palace grounds commenced firing a
salute of forty guns"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28

New Zealand exports produce every
wear to the value of SIS for each head Of
the population. The net increase in
such exports has been from S2s, SUI, 600
in 1881, to almost $50, 900, ,OOu in 1890
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28

WITH Patti few thousand dollars
Is more or less than "a mere song
Boston Courier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
How the Chinese Reckon Time.

The Chinese and Babylonian calen.
dars, in fact, are identical in structure,
although the underlying principle Of
both is much more clearly set forth in
Its Chinese than its Accsdian form. The
Chinese calendar is typical for all calen-
dars, and introduces US at once to the
rationale OF the most primitive method
of notating time and thought. In &C.
cordancs with the vivid Imagination Of q
period in human history when the crca-
tive far outstrips the critical instinct,
night and day were the first parents OF
time. The Chinese calendar builds upon
this simple antithesis to give the i'm
petus of life to the procession of days.
The sun and moon, as father and
mother Of time, stand at the threshold
OF the year, aud impose the law of their
duality upon the hour, day, month,
year and cycle. This idea is extended
throughout the entire Chinese time table,
which, by the way, with the exception
of the si1ty.year cycle, is singularly like
our own:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28
THE CHINESE TINE TABLE.

The year begins with the frst new
moon after the sun enters the water sign
of "Aquarius," and consists Of twelve
months of alternately thirty and twenty
nine days, with full moon falling in
the middle of each month. Formerly
the days OF the month were notated in
China as in Babylon by moon stars, fam
cied to be pods upon the sacred tree
Harper's Magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28

piece of glass, God bound it up so success
fully that he became the great Christian
geographer and q commentator known
among all nations. SO every wound OF the
soul, however insignificant, God is willing
to bind up. As at the first cry of the child
the mother rushes to kiss the wound. 80
God, our Mother. takes the smallest wound
Of the heart and presses 1t to the lip. OF
divine sympathy. "As one whom his mother
comforteth, 80 will comfort you"
Iremark further that God has mothers
patience for the errinS. II one Goes wrong
first his associates in life cast him off If he
goes In the wrong way his business partner
casts him of, II he goes on his best friends
cast him off-his father casts him of. But
after all others have cast him of. whesa
does he 20! Who holds no grudge aud for
gives the last time as well as the hrsts Who
sits by the murderer's counsel all through
the long trinl! Who tarres the longest at
the windows OF culprit's cells Who, when
all others think Ill Of man, keeps on think
ing we'll Of himi It is his mother. God
bless her gray hairs If she be still alive and
bless her grave If she be gone! And bless
the rocking chair in which she used to sit.
and bless the cradle that she used to rock,
and bless the Bible she used to readi
So God, our Mother. has patience for all
the errine. After everybody else has cast a
u1an on foo, OUT mOIner, COtnoS W tne~Fes-
cue. God leaps to take charge Of bad case.
After all the other doctors have got through
the heavenly Physician comes in. Human
sympathy at such time does not amount to
much. Even the sympathy Of the church,
I am sorry to say, often does not amount to
much. have seen the most harsh aud bit.
ter treatment on the part Of those who pro.
fessed faith in Christ toward those who were
wavering and erring. They tried on the
wanderer sarcasm and billingsgate and carl
cature, and they tried little tattle. There
was one thing they did not try, and that was
forgiveness
A soldier in England was brought by
sergeant to the colonel. Nv hat" says the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-28

By 8 picture. a good 1atner. Large larn
with fat sneep and oxen. Fine houses with
exquisite wardrobe. Disconnected boy. Goes
away. Sharpers fleece him. Feeds hogs
Gets homesick Starts back. Sees an old
man running. 1t is father! The hand, torn
of he husks, gets ring. The foot in.
famed and bleeding, gets sandal. The
bar5 shoulder, showing through the tatters,
gets q robe. The stomach, gnawing itself
with hunger, gets full platter smoking
with meat. The father cannot eat for look
ing at the returned adventurer. Tears rum
ming down the face until they come to
smiIe-ths night dew melting into the morn
ing.
a bad boy repents an comes back promis-
ing to do better, God knows that Is enough
for one day, "And they began to be merry"
Picture-"Prodigal Son Returned From the
Wilderness So God. our Mother, teaches
us everything by pictures. The sinner IS a
lost sheep. Jesus is the bridegroom. The
useless man barren fig tres. The Gospel
is great supper. Satan, sower OF tares.
Truth, a mustard seed. That which we
could not have understood In the abstract
statement God, our Mother, presents to US
in this Bible album OF pictures, God en-
graved. Is not the divine maternity ever
thus teaching us?
remark again thst God has q mothers
favortism. A father sometimes showsa sort
of favortism. Here is a boy-strong, well, OF
high forehead and quick intellect. The
father saws, 81 will take that boy into my
firm yet" or, II will give him the very best
possible education" There are instances
where. for the culture of the one boy. all
the others have been robbed. A sad favor
itism, but that is not the mother's favorite.
will tell you her favorite.
There is child who at two years Of age
had fall. He has never got over It The
. scarlet fever mufied his hearing. He Is not
Khat he once was. That child has caused
mother more anxious nights than all the
children. If he coughs in the night
krings out Of a sound sleep and goes to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-27

"a Maiden of Mars" by General F.. M
Clarke of Texas. announced by Charles
H.. Sergel g. Co., Is given "a peculiar in-
terest by the coming near approach If the
planet Mars, in August next. AT That
time astronomers hope to make discover
les which will prove Mars to DE inhabited.
The Latin-American Republics Ser.es,
announced by the same publishers Will
comprise histories OF the South American
and Central American Republics. Each
volume will he written by a prominent
writer, will cover the period from pre' Col
umbian times to 1892. and will be p~rofuse y
illustrated. No complete histories of these
counties have ever been written ia Eng
lisb, aud thev are known to American
readers only through the medium of books
of travel. This series will therefore DE
welcome to every American who desires
nm acquaintance with our Lati u-American
neighocrs, and will be indis pensable to
every library. The first volume, ready
this month, will be "a History or Peru"
Clements r. Markham, who is the fore
most living authority on ruv his
tory .
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-27
TIE DOG NOT TO BLAME.
A Raid on Old Lumber Leads to a Police
Court Hearing.
III n..Ad "a haall-aanan a,anlaual H.

Court Hearing.
w. j. Budd. a bookkeeper employed by
Van Keuren q Son OF Grand street, was
arraigued before Polic4 Justice O'Don-
nell Saturday morning for kicking and
setting Il dog OF fourteen-year-old David
O'keefe, of No. 512 Grand street.. The in
cident occurred on Tuesday at.
The hoy was one of a crowd
OF men, women aud boys, making
away with some old lumber of a fence in
Grand street. TINT was being torn down
by Geatgactor Van Keulen. Bud ordered
, sse I p9oy ttSs9 3dd4FSop the plank he held in
baaTlISe boy saia the Inspector" said he
!eouta' haSef It, and sassed The bookkeeper
who gave the boy a SIDE Kick.
A dog that happened to be near
by jumped on the boy and
scratched his back. The boy said the
bookkeeper set the dog on him. A woman
testified that the. b~ookkeeper kickei So
high that he himself came ear Sumbling
into a cellar. ~
The bookkeeper said 1t had been diff
cult to keep the Grand street hoodiums
FROM the old lumber on the prem
ises. Justice O'Doanell said the case
WIS one he might under ordinary cir
cumstai cas dismiss. but the evidence was
such a. TO warrant him In holding Budd
for assault and battery.
A warrant for the killing of the dog
was asked for by the father OF the bow
5 e'terday, but Justice O'Donnell refused
to grant 1t. No one appears to know
whom the dog belongs to.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-27

ia ;hfon with the ladies. By the time
thev have reached the last room their
Majestfes change sides, the Empress Dass-
ing up aloug the rows of men, while the
Emperor strolls up the opposite side
Uraced by the fair sex. When they once
more reach the Throne room the Empress
generally takes her place either on the
dais or on u sofa. and sends her master of
the ceremonies to summon to her side the
vHriou Ambassadors ses, with whom she
converses In turn, aud who are permitted
to present once more TO her notice those
of their couutrywomen who are making
their debut at The Austrian court.
Between ten and eleven O'Clock a
superb buffet is opened for the guests in
the Pietro-Duro Hall. The Emperor, En-
press aud Imperial persouages have sup
per served for them in the Hall of Mil
r rs. which rese miles the Sale DIES
Glaces at Versailles. BY midnight
everything is over aud the palace Is
wrapped IN darkness.
would merely say In conclusion that
If American visitors desire TO obtain true
idea of court life in Europe they ought to
secure presentation either at the Aus
trinn, Russian. SPANS IN, or, indeed. any
Continental court. rather than at those
shabby g%enteel, dowdy and extremely
disappointing functions which go by the
name of Queen Victoria's drawing
rooms.-MdrquiSe de Fontenoy, in the
Philadelphia Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-27
PUBLIC LIBRARY CIRCULATION.

The circulation of books for home read
ing for the week ending June %, 1892. was
as follows:-Geperal works, /; PHILOSOPHY.
II; religion. "a; sociology, "a; %philoloEy. 8;
natural sciences, n; useful nrts, 61; fine
arts. 54; literature, 100; fiction. S.S4S;
Juvenile fiction, 1.700; history. 10l; bicg.
raphy, 88; travel, 1879; total. 6,3lo; Il,
through the delivery stations, 1892.
Number Of borrowers registered during
the week, SO. Total number Of registered
borrowers. II. 054. IL
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-27
R0BERT DAVIS FREE EXCURSION.

On Wednesday, August "a. ex-Justice
Robert Davis will give to the poor OF this
city another free excursion. The
unqualified success; of the excut
sion last year together Z WITH
the knowledge that he had given many
poor children at least one laws happiness.
prompted the little Justice to decide to
bear the expenses of a similar event once
more.
Priorato his departure for CHICAGO, be
directed Hugh A. Kelly. Charl's J..
Somers. james E. Connolly, Thomas K.
Whelan aud Daniel Tierney to
make all arrangements neces-
sary for the successful carrying
III of the excursion. Two large steamers
and The barges Spear Sands. Susque-
hanna and Columbus have bean eng tged
for the occasion. The b urges are the moss
popular excursion boats. bsinR lifted with
family apartments. The excursion will
go to RivervIew Grove. Plenty to eat
will be furnished the excursionists.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-27

take any part in the conspiracy at
which the True american hints.
Indeed, we have no doubt but this
matter will adjust itself at the right
time. Personal selfishness and petty
revenges will dwindle into insignifi-
canoe before the great justice of the
case. Besides, the people will be
heard from, and they will speak only
one name.