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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

The warfare is hot; we need Gods
armor always. .... ... .'. D. -.
The power that. robs industry Of
what it has won is thief.
Some people give much thought to
the poor. That is as far as they get.
Every dishonest person is suspi-
cious of all others.
To recognize the good is to encourage
its development.
Every cross, fretful word one speaks
leaves bitter dirt in the gun from
which it is fired.
Less. haste to correct, husband or
wife, will prolong your happiness and
add to your mental comfort.
Nobleness of character is nothing
else but steady love of good and steady
scorn of evil.
The devil never gets very far from
the man who IS trying to lead a reli-
gious life without giving.
The Lord never depends much on
the church member who can, but will
not pay his honest debts.
The devil is not much alarmed about
the preaching tn any church where he
can run the music.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
Scylla and Charybdfs.

Scylla and Charybdis were two mon.
sters dwellingon opposite sides Of the
present Strait of Messina, which sep.
arates Scicily from Italy. Scylla was
a terrible creature who lived in cave
on the Italian side. She had six
heads, each with three rows of teeth,
with which she tore in pieces her vic.
TINS. Even now there Is cave and
town called Scylla right at theextreme
point of the "toe Of the boot"
Charybdis was near the other bank
in Scicily. She was the daughter OF
Neptune and Coca. Dwelling under
a large rock, she three times day
drank down the waters of the sea, and
three times threw them up again, thus
forming a whirlpool, which is to this
day off the Sicilian coast New York
World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
Little Prigs.

Some children will be precocious,
lust as others are backward; it can
not be prevented; but that is 10 rea-
son for publishing their precocity to
the world at large. We are not dis
pleased that there should be child
among us taking notes; but it does
not please us that he should print them.
1t is there that we should draw the
line. Let the poor little mortal ink its
fingers rs much "a it likes but do not
let the printer he summoned to its aid.
Let it lisp in numbers, if The numbers
come; but do not publish the numbers
in bound volume. After all, the nur-
sery audiences is by no means to be de-
spised, and ought to content the liter
ary aspirant of nine years old. Evil
IDENTIFY, to judge from the organs of
wumanly opiriOn, the world Of wO-
mankind is inclined to think other
wise. Nearly every lady's paper
which processes to be written by Ia
dies for their own special delectation,
has a page or column devoted to baby.
journalists, where, under the heading
of 1.-THE ChildreH's Page" or 1.-The
Children's Salon." these small con-
tributors record their impressions of
the world around them. and revel in
print. Most of these contributions
take The form of letters to the editor.
Muriel writes to inform the world that
she is seven years old, and the baby is
only six months. She loves the baby
very much. She sends her. photo
graph, and hopes that it will be put in
the paper. Ethel is aged ten, with
darkish hair and blue eyes," A most
interesting child, we are sure: but
what is she doing in print? Another
Ethel is only nine, while Tommy ID
more youthful still. Clara and Lillian
each contribute a copy of verses-very
nice little verses too, and most credit
able, when the age of the author is
taken into account; but surely they
should have shared the fate Of other
school room exercises. The idea is, of
course, all old-fashioned one, but we
still cling to the belief that childish
vanity il more easily excited than sup
pressed, and that such vanity is not
good for the child. One of these pa
papers offers what it calls Literature
Prizes" to its young contributors.
The theme of last week was "How
would you spend a present Of five
pounds?" and we were shocked to fiEd
that prize was won by dreadful lit
tie prig who declared that she would
spend it in giving all the village chill
dren schoOl-feast. There was some
thing worse than vanity encouraged
there. Really the fond parents of these
infantile journalists are rather inju-
dicious. Everybody rushes into print
nowadays. The man or woman who has
never published anything is becom-
ing rather the exception than the rule;
but what will the next generation be,
when it meets with so much encour-
agement in its youth? Or what is
likely to be the fate of the poor little
woman who begins writing for the pa
pers when she is five-in emulation Of
other 6ve-year-olds -dedicates vol
ume of poems to her parents when
she is nine, and has written several
tragedies and three-volume novels be-
fore she has arrived at the stage of long
frocks ?-London Spectator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
Giving PhOtOgraphs.

American girls have so much free.
dom in social matters that they some
times overstep the bounds of real deli.
cacy through simple thoughtlessness.
We refer to the practice of giving ones
photograph indiscriminatelv to young
Inen who are merely acquaintances'
We always feel a twinge of pain on
entering the room of college youth
and finding about his mirror, or ar.
ranged on the dressing table, dozen
or more "counterfeit presentments'
of refined girldish faces. 1t indicates
that although these girls may come
from; cultivated homes, there Is an
absence of fine perception of the fitness
of things. To scatter ones photo
graphs as If they were'so many visit.
ing cards, is not a nice thing to do.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
A Wise SelHshnesss q.

A mother does spend herself toe
freely for her children when she gives
up her own rights to them, efaces her
self so that they do not recognize bel
superior claims, makes it difficult fol
them to "honor" her, as the Fifth
Commandment demands that they
shall do, writes Elizabeth Robinson
Scovil in her helpful department iu
the September Ladies Home Journal.
1t is a wise selfisbness that makes
the mother insist upon keeping hel
proper place in the family as the crown
and center of home, tenderly loving
her children, serving them in all legit-
innate ways, but seeing that they take
their fair share of the burdens of life,
instead of weekly bearing them her
self.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

AN UNEXPECTED REQUEsT.-A gen.
Grafton since, the Rev. DIR. G., was pas
tor of the largest Congregational
church in the city of New York. He
was especially strong, even to bitter
ness, in his opposition to intemper-
ance, making it ;his proud boast that
liquor had never touched his lips. One
evening he was invited out to supper
to meet a few friends. Just as the
company was beginning to arrive, the
lady of the house made the alarming
discovery that the principal dish on
the supper table was brandy peaches.
1t was tco late to alter it, however,
and her heart sank when the peaches
were served. DR.. c., took peach and
swallowed it at mouthful, washing
it down with aspoonful of the brandy.
No remark followed, so she timidly
asked:
"Dr. c., will you take another
peach ?"
"Well, I think not" said the doc
tor "but," he added, refiectively, "pIl
take another saurerful of the juice, il
| you please"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

How many of our readers, who are
parents, ever sit down and have a
talk with their sons and daughters
about matters of int. rest to them, con
cerning themselves, their past mis-
takes, present opportunities and future
prospects? How few parents really
know anything about the life purposes
of their children? TO say nothing of
the sad neglect of so many to exercise
their influence in forming the charac-
ter of their offspring and preparing
them for the duties and responsibili-
ties Of life. These are things that are
as they should not be. Let us change
the order and see if we can't shape
the future sf our boys and teach them
to shape it for themselves. That say
ing, circumstances make men," is a
lie. ANY boy or girl can forge pros
porous way through the most adverse
circumstances. for nothing Is so plas-
tic as circumstances, if taken at the
right time. They are as the pntter's
clay. They are the ready servants,
not the masters of men.-Oklahoma
Ch. Ad.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
Horses run TO death.-Madness OF
Military men.
(American Advocate of Peace.)

If the tongue of Balaam's ass could
be given to the German and Austrian
horses, we may be sure that they
would rebuke the madness of men and
the system which causes the running
of the poor dumb animals to death to
determine how high rate of speed
can be reached in delivering military
dispatches. Horses were made to be
the servants of man aud give many
evidences of real pleasure in serving
him whether in running or drawing or
other methods of service, when they
are taken care of and not pushed be-
yond certain limits they may even be
used till their lives are sacrificed, in
certain exceptional cases. In the service
of man. But it is doubtful whether a
horse could be found, with even an
ordinary degree OF "horse sense, +"
which would not protest with all bis
animal soul against being run to death,
or 50 nearly to death as to continue in
nervous sweat for days afterward,
simply that the 'tart of killing men,
may be brought to as high state OF
perfection as possible. This test of
speed is only the last phase of the
relentleSsness with which the modern
military system of Europe lays every
thing under contribution to accomplish
it's ends. Men women, children,
horses, property, morals, health,-al
are cast mercilessly on the altar of the
god of war. The conscience of civil
lied countries, which has found SO
much to cry out against in the need
less cruelties done to animals by
vivisection in the interests of science
will certainly not be- silent there. o.
will it? 1t is not long since We hearo
a gentleman say that he was converted
to peace principles by the sight of pic
lures of horses shot down and left tt
suffer and die on Observation-Disclosures
that did not know, as men did, int
what they were going. Will the pic
lures of these German and Austrian
horses dropping dead as they run, o.
suffering eXcruciating pain after th'
race is over, open the eyes of any to
the intrinsic cruelties of a system Sc
long held sacred? We are sorry tt
have to say that we do not know ho1
to answer the question.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
The Millionaire as the Popular Ideal

Not only do we not specially decry
American milliOnares, but we think
their quality of mammoths the most
redeeming feature in the worship paid
them. Money in those huge aggre-
gates has in iI such potentialities, is so
entirely beyond what any man can
spend upon self indulgence, that we
can understand that the desire for 1t
is often another form of the vague de.
sire for power which stirs the hearts
not only of the ambitious but of the
philan.hropic. 1t is not the millionare.
but the millionaire as the popular ideal,
who arouses our approximations. Men
desire money in Europe, and some
times, when they have anything to
get, worship millionares; but they do
not make of them ideals. Not
even in France are the millionares
raised into ideals while in Germany
they. are loathed; in Italy, where men
quit business on 200 a year, they are
dfsrcgarded; in Austria they are moth
ing, being crushed by the reverence
for birth; aud In England they are
what shall say? defended, with apol-
ogies for the defense, as people who
are useful in their way. That the ad-
mlratiop for wealth-mere wealth.
grows here In all European countries,
we do not deny because all other forms
of irresponsible power are dying, and
men long for power less fettered than
the power derived from popular vote;
but we are far, as yet, from what The
Nation declares to be the American
position. Let US hope that it exag-
gerates, though so many symptoms
seem to confirm lis words; but if it
does, then, the republic, which should
be ahead of all, is rushing faster than
the monarchies along a path which
leads only to the degradation of. the
race. Better any deity than Belial, if
a man is to advance, even if it be 80
absurd an one as is embodied in the
English conception of aristocracy.
That does, at least, impose some obli-
ons.-The Spectator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
Hope.
(Rev. DR.. Armitage)

Did it ever occur to you what 9
world of thought is wrapped up III
that little word ''hope"? lis very pro-
nunciation makes every bosom bound
and burn. 1t is music to the ear ot
the young, health to the sick, and life
rejuvenated TO the old. Poetry makes
hope a formation, grief makes it 8
solace, and desolation makes it the
brightest flower that adorns earthly
creation, while even disappointment
and delusion whisper darkness out OF
the sky of to-day into sunshine of to.
morrow. Sobbing sorrow may crush
and cripple the soul, but hope gives it
new elasticity. Nay, it may be humi-
liation. in the dusl, but hope will raise
it up again. Hope is mans birthright,
which. after all his Establishments,
delusions. and mockeries, never max.
eth hi u ashamed to hope on, hope
ever. Airy fancies may allure him,
and smiling faces beguile him into
treachery, but hope fits eternal around
the human head and breast, and hangs
the rainbow on the blackest cloud in
all the chaste sparklings of an angel
from immortal life. Thunderbolts may
leap from the fair bow in the clouds.
and hope may vanish as fair scorner
from that bright spot, but the fascinat-
ing form soon appears elsewhere in
fairer robes than ever, and with q
wreath of flowers to crown the child
of endless disappointments. Now
when you connect the word "hope"
with salvation" then what wonder
full word it becomes! AT once it comes
to measure mans most delightful
Christian attainment. Indeed, 80
is it associated with prac-
tical godliness, that religion itself is
called "good hope through grace"
More than this, our God is called the
God of hope, and his finished work is
known as 1.-THE hope set before us in
the gospel" while those who accept
him are said "to rejoice in the hope Of
the glory of God"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
l, 1898. ESTABLISHED 1914

Keep all dead or faulty limbs out Of
the fruit trees.
A stable can be made close and yet
have good, pure air If good ventila-
tion is provided.
To attempt any improvement by
using degenerate sires II. usually found
to be short-sighted folly. =
If unpalatabe food is to be eaten, It
must be at the opening rather than at
the. closing of the feeding period.
Corn should be. considered the food
for the end Of life..rather than the be-
ginning.
There is no humanity In feeding
iced slop to pigs and there Is certainly
little or no profit,
In feeding growing pigs, If you can
succeed In getting the bone an mus
Gle you can soon lay on the fat.
Remember that fall pigs wintered
over and kept until the next fall to be
fattened are rarely profitable animals.
The winter Is the farmers best sea-
son for headwOrk, although brains
should be used every month in the
year.
For the best pork we must have the
healtbiest system, hence the plan Of
feeding that is most productive Of good
health makes the best pork. r
On many farms, q work can be done
during the winter In hauling out
straw, fodder, and brush and filling
up gullies that may have washed out.
More grains, and less labor is what
| is needed to make the farm pay, and
during the winter is the best season
to plan and prepare for this. el
The daily use of fruit helps materi-
ally to make the people independent
of the doctor, but the cheapest and
best fruit is that grown on the farm.
In nearly all cases, the largest profit
is realized from feeding stock from the
best breeding blood that can be se-
cured.
During the winter is one Of the
best times to organize and carry q
farmers club, and much practical
benefit will result. y
There is one advantage in the rais-
II ing of good horses and that is they ares
one product that you can put your own
prices upon. .s.s
There Is no advantage in making
the manure heap nursery for weeds,
or to increase the quantity at the ex-
pense of quality. .,
Good stock well cared for Is the basis
of successful farming as in this way
all of tho products Of the farm can be-
marketed to better advantage.
One of the things that make the
farmer Independent is his ability to
supply himself not only with many of
the necessaries, but some Of the lux
uries.
No farm no matter how rich, will
grow crops long, without q liberal
supply Of manure, and this can only
be had in sufficient quantities by
saving it from every source.
The saving Of feed by good stable
is not only because 1t takes less of It,
but also because it can be fed with less
waste in feeding.
1t is not the best management that
requires that the hogs should be fed
before daylight in the morning, or on
steep hillsides where blowing or culti-
waiting can be done to an advantage.
The horse has a good hearing and
therefore Is readily reached by soft
words which please him much better
than loud ones. Soft words don't
scare er excite him, to say nothing of
the fact that no horse with brains likes
10 be talked to as If he were a prize
fighter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
ALESSON ON NEATNEsS.
Out OF Twenty Girls in n Cooking
Glass One Looked Careless.

Stepping one day into room where
a class in cooking had assembled, |
stood for awhile 10 hear the bright,
capable teacher instruct twenty young
girls in the mysteries of breadmaking.
She was giving them little lecture
on homemade bread, after which the
materials were to be divided among
them, and each girl was to mix,
knead and set portion of dough to
rise.
The twenty girls looked very neat
and pretty, wearing clean white aprons
and little white caps. One could i'm
agine them few years later, each pre-
siding in her own we'll ordered house.
hold.
But presently I noticed something
which 1would not wish to mention eX'
cept with the hope that it may be q
hint to some thoughtless girls.
One of the number, pretty girl Oi
eighteen, stood listening with her fin
gers pressed against her chin Pres
emily in an abstracted way she tapped
her parted lips.
glanced around the circle. All the
other nineteen girls stood with their
arms hanging easily at their sides OF
lightly crossed and remained in about
the same position, never carrying their
hands to their features. But this one
girl sometimes played with the but.
tons of her dress, sometimes fingered
her cheek, sometimes put up her hand
| to see if her hair was all right and
once even thoughtfully rubbed her
nose.
When the talk was over the girls all
began to make bread. They had wash.
ed their hands before gathering around
the table, and it was not supposed nee
essary to do so again.
Now nineteen Of those girls, one fell
instinctively, would be neat about
cooking.
But the twentieth-I would not be
too fastidious' but l would really rather
not eat a slice of her loaf. Years ago
when 1 was girl myself, 1 heard a
lady say:
1 never like to see any one hand.
ling the face"
After that often I noticed what diff
ference it makes. Aud it made differ
ence this time. This ore girl may
have been as sweet tempered anc
as capable as any of the others
but they looked well bred she
looked i'll bred. They looked carefu
and neat; she looked careless and lit
tie unneat.
Solomon speaks of "little foxes tha
spoil the vines" and this habit, whel
one considers the question of gooc
manners. is really " little fox.
Youths Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

Don't get it into your head that you
are not appreciated, or that you are moi
loved as you deserve. 1t may be true,
it may be true. but the most hurtful
thing you can do is to brood over this
fact. Throw all such thoughts away
from you, engage in some useful, help
ful work, and force yourself to be
brave, bright and merry to everybody
around you, Then in time you will
cease to expect people to give you
the affection that is not in them tc
give.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
Dn1l Eyed Scientists.

Mrs. Hayman-Who are those gen.
tlemen running into our barn to get
out of th' rain?
Daughter-They are a party of scien.
tisis who are staying at the hotel
They've been out on some expedition
or other.
Mrs. Hayman-I don't see where
their eyes was last night. Anyone
might q known from tn new moon il
was going to rain. It was tipped UP
so it coldn't hold water if it tried.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

We can not conceive that wise
Creator should make man in his own
image and endow him with the high
est faculties, without ordaining him
for endless existence, ,-Schaf.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

He who would lose faith in God, and
In His willingness to answer prayer,
because of the adversities to which he
is subjected, has not learned the alpha
bet of faith.
Most people call fretting minor
fault-a foible and not q vice. But
there is no vice except it be drunken
ness, which can so utterly destroy
the peace and happiness Of q home.
II can no more dare fret" says Wes-
ley, "than dare curse and swear"
Mamma" said Charlie, II must
be good boy now grandma has gone
to heaven, should hate awfully to
make her feel ashamed before all the
|angelsl'
Is t, ,re any one there you would
hate to make ashamed? Perhaps our
friends n heaven do not know what
we do, but no one can say with Ger
tainty. They may be sorry every
time we do wrong, and pleased when
we do right, and then, however that
may be, we know surely that Jesus
is.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

Feeling in religion is q good thing,
and al. christians should he anxious to
feel right. But as Robert Hall says,
ave shall be judged not by what we
have felt, but by what we have done.'
Let us not forget that important fact.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

There is strength deep bedded in
our hearts, of which we reck but little
till the shafts Of heaven have pierced
its fragile dwelling. Must not earth
be rent before her gems are found?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

1t is easy to be merry while the heart
is light, but the true philosopher is he
who can make sunshine on a cloudy
day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

Put on specks colored with envy,
hatred, malice and kindred evils, and
nobody looks right.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01

Little self-denials, little honesties,
little passing words of sympathy,
little nameless acts of kindness,
little silent victories over favorite
emptations-these are the threads of
gold which, when woven together,
gleam so brightly in the pattern of
ife that God approves-F. w. Farrar
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Don't Have to be Watched.
The old man whom q traveller in
England overheard singing while at
his work of planting potatoes:


his work of planting potatoes:
"I rams 'em in,
Now thick, now thin;
For what care 1
If they live or die?"
would no doubt have taken more
pains if his employer had been there
looking on. Such careless work is
not honest and is expressly forbidden
in the Bible, where we are taught
that whatever we have been told to
do by anyone having rightful authority
over us we should do, mot with eye
service, as men pleasers," buS heartily
as to the Lord, and not unto men,"
Are you doing faithfully and honest
ly the work given you by parents,
teachers, or employers? If you are
Christians, and wish to please your
Savior, here is one way to do it.