The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-12-27

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IT is estimated that the number OF
unemployed in Chicago is nearly III
600. Their suffering has become 80
great that the Illinois Conference of
Charities has appointed committee of
100 citizens TO proceed at once In the
endeavor to raise charity fund Of ST.
600, 900.
There have been more remains OF
mastodons and other extinct man.
moths found in Ichtucknee river,
Florida, than in any other stream in
the world.
Criminals are usually of weak phys
ical organization. notes the Scientsfic
American. In 1855 sixty-seveu per
cent. of the men in French prisons and
sixty per cent. of the women were sent
to the hospital at some time during
their incarceration.
Florence, S. G., Dec. 1G.-Assign-
inents were made here today by the
Bank of the Carolinas, the Carolina
Real Estate and Investment Company
and John P. Coffin. Henry Buist, of
Charlesthn, is named as assignee. The
stringency of the money market and
consequent inability 10 realize ON as
sets are the reason for these failures.
Every nation on the globe has had
its "stone age'' at SOME period of its
history. Even as late as the time of
Moses and Aaron the rite of circuln-
rision was performed with a stone
knife.
Of the 6S,0O0 postmasters in this
country only 65 of them were charged
with criminal offenses during the past
year.
Prot. Tyndall, the noted scientist,
died last week in county of Surrey,
England.
France is the only European coun-
try which has today fewer able bodied
men than it had thirty years ago.
Typewriter letters have been FORM
ally ruled out in legal evidence.
Rain has fallen only twice in twenty
nine years at Eden, Arabia.
Truth and fidelity are the pillars of
the temple of the world.
Let not your peace rest in the utter;
ances of men, for whether they put q
good or bad construction on your con-
duct does not make you other than
you are.
Can there be any greater dotage In
the world than for one to guide and
direct his course by the sonnd OF a
bell, and not by his own judg-
ment?
The higher must come through the
loss and death of the lower always.
Manhood can only be gained by giving
up childhood. The blossom must die
before there can be fruit.
The truly great man Is he who does
not lose his child heart. He does not
think beforehand that his words shall
be sincere, nor that his actions shall
be resolute; lie simply always abides
in the right.
Be careful with with your prom
ises, especially to child. His whole
conceptlon of the sacredness and i'm
portance of veracity may be distorted
for life, his character ruined, and his
soul eventually lost by the breaking
of pledge made him In his early
years.
John Eliot, the famous missionary
to the Indians, left one brief sentence
at the close of his Indian Grammar
that furnishes the keynote to his
whole wonderful career and a watch
word for missionary endeavor to the
end of time: 'Prayer and pains
through Jesus Christ will do any
thing"
Men do not become saints while as
sleep Meditation, repentance. prayer,
hungering, and tEirsting after right
eousness, are some of the essentials in
which man must be exercised in
order to attain to this high stage of
moral existence To he thus eXer-
cised they must be wide awake. !