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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
Having Company

1t never seemed to be any trouble
to Mrs. Bangs to haye company come
in UNEXPECTEDLY, and it wasn't, be-
cause she was always ready for COM
pany. She had supplies in the house
90 that she could get up nice lunch
in a very short time and without pre-
ious notice. She always kept potted
fish or meats, or their equivalents, in
her storeroom-sometimes prepared by
herself, sometimes bought at the gro
Gerry. She had canned fruits of vari-
Gus kinds, jellies, and presves. which,
in the absence of fresh fruits, were
very agre elble. There were tin boxes
of crackers and fancy cakes bought at
the grocery, and canned vegetables in
variety, and if her bread happened to
be stale or out she made biscuits. She
generally had cake Of some sort in the
hause of her own make, and always
kept tea anu coffee on hand, though
she diden't drink them herself. Cho-
colate, too was q staple in her pantry.
She was specially careful to have
a reserve Of napery, so as always
to have the table damask spotless.
With these supplies ready, to be drawn
upon at moments warning, her well
come of visitor wasnot internally
qualified by the query. "What shall /
get for dinner or supper" as the case
might be. And Mr.. Bangs felt at lib
erty to bring a friend home1with him
whenever he wished to do so, sure that
the presence of an unexpected guest
would not seriously add to his wife's
labors. He was thoughtful enough,
too, at such times, to supplement her
supplies with some little addition,
bringing it with him or having it sent
so as to be on hand in time.
Mrs. Bangs did not in the early days
of her marriage keep herself always
prepared for guests, but she says, if she
had her life to live over again, she
would begin dong as she now does, and
be in a perpetual condition to have
company.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

Do Keep Clean. 1T has been often
said that the scratch of finger nail
poisonous; there is, however, no reason
to suppose that the danger turks in
the finger nail itself, but rather in
what it conceals. According to the
British Medical Journal, the eXamina-
ton of the durt under seventy-eight
finger nails, made in the laboratories
of Vienna, revealed thirty six kinds OF
micrococci and eighteen of bacilli.
It is therefore the deposit of these
germs in the wound made by the nail
that works the mischief. Cleanliness
is always physical sanctitication, and,
very often, it is physical salvatlon'
Exchange.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
Finish Whnt You ReSiu.

My old grandmother had a way OF
making her children finish their work
If they began thing they must COM
plete it. If they undertook to build q
cob. house, they must not leave it until
it, was done, and nothing of work OF
play to which they set their hands
would she allow them to abandon in
complete. I sometimes wish I had
been trained in this way. How much
of life is wasted in unfinished work!
Maya man uses up his time in splen-
did beginnings. The labor devoted to
commence ten things and leave them
useless would finish five of them and
make them profitable and useful. Fin
ish your work. Life is brief, time is
short. Stop beginning forty things,
and 60 back and finish four.--Christian
Observer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
Unburnable Treasures:

The Rev. John Newton one day
called to visit family that had suffer
ed the loss of all they possessed by
fire. He found the pious mistress, and
saluted her with:
81 give you joy, madam"
Surprised, and ready to be offended,
she exclaimed:
"What Joy that all my property
is consumed !"
ooh, no." he answered, "but joy
that you have so mcuh property that
fire cannot touch"
This alluson to her real treasures
checked her grief and brought recon-
cilation. AS we read in Proverb XIV: {:
6, In the house of righteous is much
treasure: but in the revenues of the
wicked is trouble" I have never seen
a dying saint who was rich in heaven
ly treasures who had any regret
have never heard such one say he
had lived too much for God and heav-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

The wide adaptability of paper is re-.
narded as likely to lead to a solution of
the problem Of rendering dwellings
and business structures tireproof. 1t
is now found that paper can he made
perfectly, while remaining, amenaole
to the same treatment, in the matter OF
coloring, polish and handling, as most
woods. Such material offers all the
advantages of an ideal substance for
floors, and it can be used equally we'll
for the walls of buildings. BesIdeS,
this it can be utilized in the finish anu
furniture of hOuses.---New York Tele-
gram.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

A very sensible "household ply
sician"make these suggestions for
the benefit of women who are always
"tired": Never eat heartily when
"tired to DEATH" Drink cup of tea
and eas a cracker or two, or beat up an
egg in halfa pint Of milk, sweeten and
flavor to taste and drink t. This will
strengthen you, and will not make any
demands upon your weary stomach or
digestive organs. And another thing:
Do not rise early in the morning and
trot all over the house doing this and
seeing to that for hours before you eat
anything.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
The Peerless Climax,
BY MARY X. A. STONE.

BY MARY X. A. STONE.
!.Oh royal children: take your heritage
OF love with all its high awards;
"Ail things are yours, Paul, Cephas, life OF
death,
And yealc Christ's and Christ Is Gods
A golden ladder. all whose upward rounds
In sequence new are firmly tr0d
BY Faiths exulta fnUtsteps she mounts
Up to the loving Father, God.
All: then. what matters that our lot be crook
ed?
What that We sometimes walk rough shod?
We know The eEd, - II will NOT cheat our iallh,-
Lies mystery is wrapped In God.
And all its happenings. or sad or bright
Until we lie beneath the clods.
Are swallowed up in this one climax grand;
"For ye are Christ's, and Christ Is Gnd's-
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90 y

Dignifcd stranger ION railway
train mo, am not travelling for
my health. was delegate to the
Pam American congress"
Enterprising drummer "That so
I'm in the hardware line myself."-
New York Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

"a man." says sorely tried father,
"never fully realizes the wealth of in
formation he does not possess till his
first child begins te ask questions.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

A full line Of watches, diamonds, gold jew
,lry, &C., at Visanska's, Greenwood, s. Z.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

Many of our dissapointmellts are in
lines where we ought not to have had
expectations. An old proberb sug-
gests that is folly "to seek in sheep
five feet when there are but four"
Parents are disappointed in not find
in their children characteristics which
belong only to persons of mature
years employers wonder that their
servants lack qualities that could not
fairly be looked for in servants; and
friends sometimes worry over the alb
sence of WAYS in their friends that
would really he inconsistent with the
very traits Oh character which they
most admire in those friends. Before
we consent to be disappointed over
any state Of things, let us consider
whether we ever had any right to eN-
pect that state of things S. 5. Times:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

DICHARD CAN'T. is now prepared TO 90
H, ali work In his department In the best
manner and at reasonable charges. Monthly
customers shaving, hair cutting and sham
pooinc 81 per month. Rasors honed and put
In the best condition for % cents each.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
DENTAL NOTICE.
DR.. S. G. Thomson, :

OFFICE UPSTAIRS ON MCILWAiN
Corner.
Abbeyile. S. C, March q, 1891. If
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

Fogg II see it stated that Mrs.
Humphry Ward is not coming to
America
Brown: "Mrs. Humphry Ward ?
don't think ever heard of her. Who
is she?"
"Why, she is the author Of Robert
Elsmere. Surely you have heard ol
Robert Elsmere
mo, never Heard of it. What is it
a history or record of travels, or only 6
book of verses ~
And Fogg clasped the hand oi
Brown with effusive energy, and witE
tears in his eyes declared that Brown
was the luckiest and hnppiest man il
America Boston Transcript.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04
SEED POTATOES!

TARLY Rose and Rurbnnks. Sl.25 rer
T. bushel at A M HILL SONS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

Stuffed fsteak.-Take cutting
of round steak, pound it well, season
with salt and pepper, then spread over
it nice dressing crumbs, season with
thyme, parsley, sage, and pepper, roll
up, and tie closely, but in kettle with
a quart of boiling water, and boil slow
ly an hour; then put it in the drip
ping pan with the water in which it
was boiled and bake till it is nice
brown, basting it frequently. Make
gravy of the drippings. An inferior
piece of meat cooked in this way may
be made very savory and palatable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

Here is what a purely secular paper,
the New York Journal of Education,
or ,,e about flopcinr.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-04

Rice and Cheese.---Boil half a pint
of rice; drain and shake dry, put in a
baking pan in alternate layers OF rice;
grated cheese, and bits of butter; add
salt and pepper to taste. Have the
last layer of rice. Mix a beaten egg
with tea-cup of milk and pour over
the whole, sprinkle with crumbs, dot
with butter and brown in the oven.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17
Facts that Speak.

Some months ago o. M. Tinkham of
Pomfret went to Great Britain as
special commissioner on the subject of
the condition of working people in that
country. He has recently been giving
in the New York Independent few
facts and experiences which bear on
the Mckinley law. 1t is interesting
to observe just what British manufac-
turers and workmen think of the effects
of this law on their own business. In
introducing his discussion of the SUBJ
ject Mr.. Tinkham says:
Among the manufacturing interests the
Mckinley tariff is subject of the greatest
interest. l am constantly asked: How
long will the Mckinley tariff continue ?"
Is the Mckinley tariff likely to be re-
pealed or modifed?" To all of which
reply that 1 do not think it will be ma
terially modified or repealed, Its effect is
severely felt here In Nottingham, among
the lace manufacturers, it is felt perhaps in
a less degree, but here one manufacturer
products, and our market is lost with you,
we shall have to refuse your products here"
In view of the fact of the high price and in
sufficient quantity of food in England, and
that the great bulk OF our exports are of
that very kind, which is sold here at less
price than the English product, such con-
| tingency as cutting off source of cheap
food supply does not seem alarmingly i'm
| minent.
Mr.. Tinkham speaks of visiting Shelf
field and talking with the celebrated
cutlery makers, Joseph Rogers g.
Sons. Inquiring whether the Mckinley
law affected their trade, he was an
swered by the manager, who said: 1t
has practically ruined our American
trade. Where we sold before an hun
bred pounds worth, we now do not
sell five; our ordinary goods are en-
tirely stopped, and all we sell now is OF
the finest and highest-priced cutlery
and silverware." This was what the
manager said. An old workman who
was accosted outside the mill said, in
answer to question as to the effect O.
the tariff in Sheffield: ooh, it do hurt W
proper" Another of the group o
workmen who had gathered around
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17

1t should loan at seven per cent there would
be profit on its circulation of about 1926"
In concluding his speech he said To me
1t seems perfectly clear that If this country
is to have any kind of paper money issued
by banks, the national bank system is un.
doubleday preferable to that of banks of
issue under state authority. In the national
bank system we have one restraining
power, which has shown that in nearly
thirty years of their existence not a single
dollar has been lost to the public. Under
state authority we would have forty-hVe
different systems of banks of issue, reviving
partially at least, the old system, entailing
more or less loss upon the people-a circula-
ton largely confined to the state of issue.
The money-shavers would again have occu-
patton and large losses would certainly fall
upon the people. If more bank issues are
needed or desired, it can easily and safely
be had. AT present there is no profit in the
circulation of bank. If our 5000, 600 900 of
four per cent bonds were extended fifty
years at two per cent, relieving the banks
from taxation beyond the cost to the gov
eminent of issuing the notes and maintain
ing the bureau OF the controller of the
currency, and permitting them to issue
notes up to the par of the bonds, the banks,
in my opinion, would freely take these
bonds and issue notes upon them, and thus
furnish currency to any amount required by
the business interests of the country and at
the same time reduce the rate of interest
one.half TO the extent of the bonds taken
for such purposes. 1 am not advising that
this be done, but to express my opinion as
to preference for the issue of bank notes
by the national banks, as against the pro.
posed rehabilitation of the old state bank
system. The history of the currency of this
country plainly indicates the necessity of
having at all times circulating medium
that is without question or doubt upon a
perfectly substantial basis-that any dollar
of our circulation should be the equal OF
every other dollar. / do not know that we
can have too much good money, but 1 dc
know we can have too much poor money
Let it be the study of our people to secure
for themselves sound money, and as much
of it as their business needs may require"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17
To Check Potato Blight.
BURLINGTON. VI. Anpr

BURLINGTON, W., August ~, 1892.
Editor Wdtchmdni The true blight or
rust has appeared on the potato leaves, and
the weather Is favorable for the rapid and
destructive spread of the disease. Unless
preventive measures are taken at once
there will be much loss from the rot. Those
who intend to use the Bordeaux mixture
should not delay an hour longer than is
necessary. Since sending you my former
letter, one week ago, a large number oil let
ters of inquiry have been received which
emphasize the need of further information
by the farmer as to the so.called " new dis
ease y of the potatoes This disease has
attacked early potatoes very generally
throughout the state. 1t is an entirely diff
ferent and distinct disease from the true
blight, and 1t is very important that all po-
tato growers learn to distinguish the two
maladies A circular which it is hoped will
aid them in so doing has been sent to the
postmasters throughout the state for free
distribution.
The most important practical differences
between the diseases noted in this circular
are as follows: % The spores of the fungus
which causes the true blight or trust " pass
from the blighting vines to the tubeTs, oaus-
ing the rot. No rotting of the tubers is
caused by the new disease, (2) The true
blight or crust" attacks later potatoes
worst. The new disease is confined
to early potatoes. (0 The true blight or
rust can be checked by spraying with
the Bordeaux mixture. The new disease is
not so easily checked by spraying.
The following points will aid in distin-
gushing the two diseases: NeW disease
Practically everything in the way of dis
eased potato leaves up to this date, August
u, has been the "new disease" This is
everywhere on early potatoes, so far as we
can learn. The diseased plants appear
sickly and of yellowish cast instead of a
dark healthy green. Soon the leaves turn
yellow and die. The death begins on un-
injured leaves about the tip and edges, and
the leaves die rather slowly, so that they
become crisp and curl at the tip and edges
as the disease progresses. The trouble is
worst on leaves that have been partially
eaten by potato bugs or other insects.
Wherever the leaf is injured the disease at
tacks it and spreads from these spots. Thus
leaf may show score or more of black
spots varying in size from pin-head to a
marble. In some pieces of early potatoes
every leaf is dead or dying. Bligkt-Very
few potato growers will mistake the true
blight or rus" when they see it. This
disease is commencing to show on later po-
tatoes. The large bluish-blac spots appear
on the leaves at any place. The disease
killed in a day or two. There is not time
for it to dry and curl, but it hangs limp and
rotting from the stem. The surest evidence
| of the blight as distinguished from the new
disease is the presence of the mildew which
| causes the blight 1t can easily be seen on
| the under side of the rapidly blighting
leaves as delicate white mildew which
| looks like frost-work upon or about the
edges of the black spots,
L. r. JONES, Botdnist.
State Agricultural Experiment Station.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17
The Alabama Election.

There is not the slightest doubt that
Kolb, the candidate of the peoples
party, carried the recent election in
Alabama. He himself claims to have
been elected by 10000 majority. But
the democrats had determined to count
their man Jones in at all hazards, and
they know how to do it. All that is
necessary in one of these Southern
states to carry an election is to have
the officers who do the counting. The
democrats have these in Alabama, and
Jones will be governor. 1t is admitted
by the democrats that their majority has
fallen from something like 10000 to
less than 10000, but it makes very
little practical difference what the fig
ures given are. 1t is we'll understood
that they in no sense represent the
actual vote.
Kolb had a majority of the white
vote of the state, and, by all analogies,
he should have been elected. 1t is a
little strange that the ticket supported
by the majority of the negroes should
have won. The influence of Mars
must have been peculiar and powerful
in that state. The real state of the
case undoubtedly is that serious bolt
from ring rule has occurred. The
members of the democratic party who
are disposed to have fair play and
measure of decency in state admins
tration have left the regular party for
the peoples party, and have carried
men enough with them to win an hon
est election. They have been counted
out, just as they themselves have
counted out republican candidates in
former years. They knew now how
it seems.
The election may be lost to Kolb and
his ticket, but great good will come
to the South through this lesson. The
parties of Alabama have divided on
some other issues than the color line,
and that alone is promising fact
Moreover, it is possible that there may
be a call even from that section for a
federal election law. The peoples
party is anxious to elect few con-
gressmen in the future, but they have
little prospect of doing it 80 long as the
election machinery is in the hands of
the democrats. The ultimate effect of
this contest will possibly be much
greater than the settlement of the i'm
mediate issues. When the South gets
on basis of honest elections and fair
counts it will be on the eve of new
epoch. Very much depends upon the
vigor and earnestness with which the
third party men push their demands for
justice in respect to the recent cleo
ton and the congressional fight in
November.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17
The Maple Sugar Bounty.

Editor Watchnan II have seen in several
newspapers articles in regard to the bounty
on sugar that are misleading, to say the
least and to prove my assertion Will give
my experience in the matter. made, the
past season, 1926 pounds of sugar and FIVE
gallons of syrup-about three-ffths of the
amount usually made. OF this quantity
1885 pounds drew 1912 bounty, the re-
mainder not being presented for the bounty
as it was the last made and had doubts
about its being good enough.
Now, as TO the expense OF getting that
S27.92, l will say that all the money paid
out by me was, l think six cents for postage.
had no lawyer to make out my papers,
but made them myself, and my neighbors
made theirs. The weighing and sampling
did not cost me an hour OF time, and, OF
course, no money. Another hour of time
spent in keeping the record OF the sugaring-
off was all the time spent in getting the
bounty. Looking the matter over carefully,
/ think the bounty was S27 benefit to me.
ALLEN MORSE.
Calais, VT, August Is, 1892.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-08-17

Mr.. Tinkham asked if the tariff did not
hurt the farmers in America. Still
another at once replied:
Nav; when the tariff stops out our cut
lery over there they puts oop cutlery shops
and the men come to wark. They gets good
wage and buys T. farmers stool at ome.
It's all right for they, but it's bloomin'
hard for we.
Commenting upon this remark, Mr..
Tinkham says: alt occurred to me
that the working of the tariff and the
value of thrifty, well-paid body of
consumers, and q home market for
products raised at home, were pretty
we'll understood here" AT Manches-
ter the commissioner made the ac-
quaintance of Mr.. John Wilkinson,
cotton broker who is thoroughly famil-
lar with business interests in England.
He said the tariff had ruined the trade
in Bradford, where fine dress goods are
made; in his own case it had entirely
cut off certain branches of his business.
In one line of goods in which he had
sold, and would have sold this year but
for the Mckinley law, twenty to thirty
thousand dollars worth of goods in the
American market, he had not sold
shilling's worth. Labor of all kinds
was greatly depressed, he said. The
president of the Bristol Board of Trade
is quoted as saying that the Mckinley
law had influenced the total volume of
British exports two and half per cent
Here is presented one of the effects
of the Mckinley lava marked falling
off of exports of certain goods from
Great Britain. The complement of
this effect is certain to be seen in the
greater quantity of goods of the same
kinds manufactured here in the United
States, for it is not to be supposed that
our people are denying themselves
such comforts as cutlery and dress
goods. No better illustration of the
way high tariff works could possibly
be adduced.