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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-05

Partisan w. G. IT. u. Convention
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5-The national
convention Of the non partisan w. &. T..
e. will be held in Washington, Pa, Nov.
13 to 16. inclusive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-05

England, Russia and France Can't Be In
different to Chinese War.

different to Chinese War.
LONDON, Oct. 5.-The st. James Ga
zette says that the Interests Of England.
France and Russia are closely involved
in the posi- Bile breaking up of the Chi
nese empire and that is believed that
Russia has signihed that she cannot any
longer regard the progress of events in
the far east with indifference.
The Manchester Guardian is informed
that Russia and Great Britain have def
nitely decided that the settlement of the
war must be an international and not a
Japanese affair Germany and France
cision while the policy of the United
States is still regarded as uncertain. Rus
sia. according to the Manchester Guar
dian has already warned Japan that the
future of Corea concerns the Russian
government.
Japan, in her present mood, Will pay
no heed to any representations made by
the powers unless they shall be accom-
panied by tangible evidence of the inten-
ton to back them up. 1t was to author
ize this, according to the Guardian, that
the ministerial council was summoned.
1t further says that after showing of
force, Japan would be told that Eng land
desired that an armlstice be established
and on behalf Of Europe would lmmedi-
ately call an international conference
The Globe IN an article referring to
Yesterdays ministerial council ridicuies
the idea that it was summoned merely
for the purpose of sending war ships to
protect the lives and property Of British
residents in China, and expresses the
opinion that the Manchester Guardians
article of today gives the real reason for
the meeting of the ministers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-05
Will BLoCKADE THE PORTS

Chinese Merchants Cancel Freight Com
tracts Account Of such a Report
SHANGHAI, Oct. 5.-The Chinese mer-
chants are canceIling freight contracts
to Chez Foo and Tien-T Tsin, owing to a
report the Japanese intend to blockade
these ports.
Several Japanese warships are
Datrolling the coast near Wei
Wei-Ha the Chinese port
the Shang Tun promontOry. They
approach the coast at night and steam
away at day break. It is said the object
of these movements is to prevent Chinese
warships from leaving Wei Vel Hal or
Port Arthur on the opposite side Of the
Yellow Sea. It is stated here that the
Japanese do not intend to interfere with
the export Of coal to China
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

The oldest timber "corner in the
world is one that the Buddtists OF
Japan are trying to form for the pur-
pose of preventing the Christians from
getting any more material TO build
churches.
At auctions In japan the bidding Is
silent and secret. Each person writes
his bid on a slip of paper, and the slips
are quietly dropped into a box. The
box is then opened, and the highest
bidder named.
The growth of the orange industry
In Florida has increased from 6OO,OOO
boxes in 1885 to 100000 for the sea-
son Just closed, and the present crop
will be fully 100000 boxes.
The cost of the worlds wars since
the Crimean war has been Sl3, 265 ,OOO,-
ono, or enough to give $40 gold piece
to every man, woman and child on
the globe.
italian ships are worked cheaper
than those of any other nation. The
monthly expense Of an Italian snip
with crew of twenty men Is about
$475; of all American ship, 81, 600.
Russian women and japanese men
are pronounced, by those competent to
judge, the best of the worlds workers
with the needle.
President Cleveland has appointed
ex-Mayor Samuel A. Townes, OF
GreenVille, Collector of Internal Rev
enue for South Carolina.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
THE sEIGE OF sOLEURE.
Showing how to Convert Grown-np
Enemies into Friends.

The following narrative, taken from
the History of Switzerland In the
fourteenth century, beautifully illus.
trates the power Of kindness In over.
coming evil, among those OF mature
age, even when in the midst OF pre-
parations for war.
"During the various disputes which
accompanied each successive election
OF all Emperor, the town of Soleure
having taken sides with Louis Of
Bavaria, was besieged by Duke Leo
pold. At this time there was great
overflow of the river Aar. It carried
away the machines, bridges, and other
works prepared by Leopold for the
seige, and q great number Of his men
were in imminent danger Of perishing
in the flood. At this moment the In.
habitants of Soleure, laying aside all
hostile considerations, put of In their
boats, and rescued their enemies from
a watery grave. Leopold was touched
with this exhibition of kindness, and
wished to he as generous as they were.
He entered the town In friendly
way, presented the inhabitants with
banner, and the beseigers and the be.
sled were at peace with each other"
Thus were enemies converted into
friends by the law of kindness. Let
Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Amer
leans, "go and do likewise"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

Bishop Cleveland Coke, OF Buffalo,
has written another open letter to
MGR. Satolli, in which he attacks with
great vigor the society of Jesus and de-
clares ii to be conspiracy. The Bis
hop refers to Satollr recent visit to
Buffalo in which he consorted with
the worst political element In the city.
AIluding to the visit as connected
with the school question, the Bishop
saws: Gin Maryland and In this State,
the farce of liberalism having played
out, you dropped your mask and open.
Iy made war on our public schools. and
and grasped at the sacred fund on
which they depend to be employed In
Jesuit schools, under an alien priest
hood, for the propagation of Sheehan-
lied ideas of our constitutional rights
and safeguards. ,, -.
II close this letter." Gays the Bis
hop, "by quoting the words Of Wash
ington himself, as showing what he
would think of you. Thus he has
taught me and all his countryn en-:
Against the insidious wiles of foreign
influence, conjure you to believe me,
fellow-citizens, the jealousy of free
people ought to I've constantly awake,
since history and experience prove
that foreign is one of the most harm
fnl foes of republican government"
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aenuine sympathy.

It is of the greatest moment that we
exhibit tenderness In dealing with
those who are In distress. Let 1t be
admitted that the grief is In conse-
uuence of errors that might have been
avoided. Who made US the authoriz.
ed agents of swift punishment? How
unreasonable to think that burdens
can be lifted from, the sorrowing In
this way, 1t is often the case that
self.reproach Is sufficiently natural to
a soul plunged in grief, without add
ing anything in word or look.
When Job was obliged to listen to
such suggestions that fell from the lips
of his false friends like poisoned ar.
rows, bis reply was manly revolt
out OF his deepest natnre-a revolt
against that cold, censorious method
with which sufferers are even now
sometimes met in their helplessness !:
II have heard many such things :mts.
cradle comforters are We all. Shall
vain words have an end?. =. l also
could speak as ye do: II your soul
were In my SOULS stead, I could heap
up words against you"
Like our great "Burden-bearer," we
must, in q true sense, take upon our
own hearts the sorrow that we would
relieve. Here Is no room for the con-
ven,ional or the mere professional.
Jesus entered the deepe-t depths OF
every sorrow; our experience, unlike
His. must Of necessity be partial. But
then, if our sympathies are truly gem
nine, and If our hearts are open 70.
ward all forms Of suffering, we Will De
able to bear for others-if not In the
divinely perfect way, yet In our own
human measure. :.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Soap ON Troubled Seas.

Soapsuds may supersede oil as the
agency In calming troubled waters of
the sea and saving vessels from harm.
Experiments have been made recently
and the reports of the cooperating
observer to the hydropraphic office
uniformly commend the value fthe
new discovery. The German steam,
ship Scandal from Hamburg for Phila-
phia made the experiment with the
greatest success in one Of the widest
storms that ever swept the North At
lantic ocean. While the sea was rum
ming highest sosrsuds was left to
gradually drift over the vessels bow.
The sea ceased TO break over her decks,
and the vessel lay comparatively easy.
Third Officer Wendt had charge OF
the experiment and bis report speaks
glowingly of the success attending it.
The use Of suds is not intended TO en-
tirely displace oil, but being cheaper,
heavier on the water, and the soap
occupying less space on the ship, 1t Is
likely before long to be generally
adopted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
The First Wrong Button.

Dear me! said little Janet, "T but
toned just one button wrong, and that
makes all the rest 20 wrong" and
she tugged and fretted, as if the poor
buttons were at fault for her trouble.
patience, patience, my DEAR" said
mamma. "The next time look out
for the first wrong button, then you'll
keep all the rest right. And" Added
mamma, "look out for the first wrong
deed Of any kind anotherand another
is sure to follow"
Jannet remembered how one day,
not long ago, she struck baby Alice,
That was the first wrong deed. Then
she denied having done it. That was
another. Then she was unhappy and
GROSS all day because she had told
a lie. What long list of buttons fas-
tened wrong, just because the first one
was wrong.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
The United States Navy.

There can be no doubt that the Un
tied States are determined to build up
powerful navy. There are now no
fewer than fifteen American ships Of
war in course of construction-natne-
ly the "Montgomery," cruiser, 1900
tons: the "Marblehead," cruiser, 1000
tons: the "Cincinnati," cruiser. 1888
tons; the "Raleigh," cruiser, 3,lss tons
the "Columbia," cruiser, 1850 tons:
the "Olympia," cruiser, $500 tons: the
"Nain," armouret cruiser, 6,64S tons;
the "Texas," line-of-battle ship, 8,64S
tons: the "Katahdin," ram, 2,1s3 tons:
the Massachusetts," line-ofbattle
ship, 10000 tons, the "Indlana," line
of.battle ship, 1920 tons: the "0re-
gon." line-of.battle ship; 10000 tons:
the iowa." line-of.battle ship. 1885
tons; the "Brooklyn." armoured crui-
ser 9, $50 tons; and the minneapolis, I"
cruiser, 1850 tons. The "Montgome-
ry," the "MarbIehead," the .'Cincin-
NATL" the Raleigh" the "Columbia," I"
the "Olympia," the "Maine," the
''Texas,r and the "Katahdin" will be
completed in the course Of 1894; but
the "Massachusetts," the "Indiana," F"
and the minneapolis" will not be
ready for sea before 1895, while the
"Oregon," the Iowa." and the
"BrookIy," will not follow before 1895.
The Monterey" the "New York, "
and the Detroit" which have been
recently placed in commission, are al
most ready for service. The "Puri-
TAM" the "Amphitrite," the "Terror," /"
and the "Monadnock." which have
been in hand since 1888, are approach
ing completion. Designs are being
prepared for three gunboats Of 1900
tons each, and plans are also in pre-
pared for four second-class torpedo
boats to be carried by the "Maine" and
the 'Texas. ."-Engineering
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Tell Your Mother.

wonder how many girls tell their
mother everything. Not those young
ladies' who going to and from school, ,
smile, bow, and exchange notes and
pictures with young men who make
fun of them and their pictures, speak
ing in way that would make their
cheeks burn with shame, if they
heard ii. All this, most credulous
young ladies, they will do although
they will gaze at your fresh young
face admiringly, and send or give sou
charming verses or boquets. No mat
ter what "other girls do," don't you
do it. Schoolgirl Irritation may end
disastrously, as many foolish young
girl could tell you. Your yearning for
some one to love, is great need of
every woman's heart. But there is a
time for everything. Don't let the
bloom and freshness Of your heart be
brushed off in silly filtration. Render
yourself truly intelligent And above
all, tell your mother everything.
Never be ashamed to tell her, who
should be your best friend and conf
dante, all you think and feel. 1t is
strange that many young girls will
tell every person before "mother,"
that she should know. 1t is sad that
indifferent persons should know more
about her fair young daughters than
she does herself.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
The Gentleman who Smoke es.

Was anything ever better said than
this by Jackson Javues, the noted art
critic "The supreme test of knight
in the days Of chivalry was his sell
denial and desire to succor the oppress-
ed. The severest test of the modern
gentleman is his unwillingness to
forego his pipe or cigar for the comfort
and health of another. Whatever the
benefit or harm the use of tobacco
NAV do the consumers body, its
Common COM tendency is to render the
mind indifferent to the we'll being of
his neighbors." TO this Miss Lander
adds that in crossing the Atlantic IN
one of our popular steamships she
suffered so terribly that she addressed
a line to to the management protest
ing: "I might change sides of the
deck, all the same, 1 was sure + to en-, en-,
counter the ubiquitous smoker. one
turn to ask some "gentleman" not TO
smoke in her nOstrils.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Running Away from God.
E:S@ Sunbeam.

Mother had told them not to touch
it that was the worst of 1t. The pref
ty Franklin stove had been taken
down aud carried out, and mother
quickly stuffed newspaper In the
round hole left by the stovenipe.
cts so very windy to-day" she
said to the men, "that am afraid to
take the screen down: but you needn't
come back Jane can take up the SCOT
when the wind falls"
AS mother left the room, she turned
and said to Jessie and Polly, standing
OH each side of the mantlepieee, "Do
not touch that newspaper"
She was 80 used tn their doing what
she told them that she didn't think of
it again but an ugly little spirit OF
disobedience crept into their hearts,
and they hardly waited for mother to
be up stairs before they pulled out the
paper, to peep into the dark hole and
see why mother was afraid 10 take
down the screen.
And in tugging at the paper, down
came the screen itself, and then what
a lot of mischief Mr.. Wind was up TO
He caught the piles of soft black SCOT
lying in the hearth, and sprinkled 1t
over every thing-the pretty crimson
and gray carpet, the damask chairs,
the books and brick-a-b brack, and over
the cleanly-dressed little girls them"
selves. Oh, what q mess!
Let's run away, Poll, "said Jessieo
So they caught up their caps from the
hall.sofa and away they trottedp
through the back yard aud the gardens
and out into the fields.
But by the time mother had discov-
cred the mischief, and was beginning
to look abot anxiously for the eulprits,
she spied them coming lagingly back
through the broken fence, and the gar.
den and the back yard. They looked
so forlorn that mother did not punish
them she thought they had punished
themselves.
"But why did you turn back 80 soon
If you wanted to run away ~ she
asked.
10, we 'membered It wasn't any
good to run,n said Jessie, cause we
couldn't run away from God, you
know. He's just most every where
"And when you are good children,
said mother, you'll love to think
that God is everywhere, and that you
can't get away from Him."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Three Bad BARGAINS.

Once a sabbath-school teacher re-
marked that he who buys the truth
makes good bargain. and inquired If
any scholar recollected an instance in
scripture of bad bargain. II do re-
piled boy! "Esau sold his birth.right
for a mess of pottage." A second said,
Judas made bad bargain when ne
sold his Lord for thirty pieces OF sil-
ver," A third hoy observed, "Our
Lord tells US that he makes bad bar.
gain who, to gain the whole, world
loses his own SOUL
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

Bishop Wordsworth, in his Shakes
peare aud the Bible" finds In the
poel's works more than $50 Biblical
Quotations, illusions. references and
"Hamlet" alone contains
abou 80, "Richard the Third" nearly
so, Henry the Fifth" and Orchard
the Second" about 40 each. Shakes
peare quotes from So of the Biblical
books, and not one of his 81 plays is
without scriptural reference. Cen
esis furnishes the poet 81 quotations or
the Psalms with SO, Pro-
verbs with 35, Isaiah with 2l, Mat
thew with 60, Luke with 80, and Ro-
mans with 20. Nineteenth Century.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
A Pure Home.

There is nothing on earth for which
one ought to be more thankful than
for having been brought up in the at
mosphere of pure home. Such q
home may be narrow and even hard.
It may be deficient in material com.
forts, and utterly lack the graceful
amenities that lend a charm to human
life; but it has in 1t the forces on
which great characters are nur,ured.
One of our best friends a man a.
sturdy as a forest oak-once said to
me, "G was the son Of poor parents,
and from my youth up was Injured to
self-denial and hardship; but do not
remember ever to have heard VOID
from the lips Of either my father OF
nv mother that was not as chaste as
the driven snow" Bettet such re.
collection as that than an inheritance
of millions of money. ey.-Central Pres
byterian.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Last Words.

Last words are of very little import
ance. It affords germ of hope If a
great sinner dies, earnestly praying
that God may have mercy upon him.
Loving words to friends are delightfulto
receive and to remember; but a good
man is none the worse because he Gays
no thing or perfers. as did George
Washington, to be allowed to die In
peace; and bad man is none the bet
ter because he can be induced by excit.
ing surroundings 10 utter religious
ejaculations.-New York Christian
Advocate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
She Solved the Tramp Question.

Elk Senator Castle, in the Illinois
Suffragist. vouches for the truth of the
following: A Kansas woman who has
been elected police justic of her city
has adopted a novel sulution for the
tramp problem. The first tramp who
was brought before her for judgment
was sentenced to two baths day for
ten days, and to hard labor ON the
stone pile, with the order that he be
fed If he worked and starved If he
shirked. The prisoner survived the
ordeal, but now the first question q
tramp asks on approaching a Kansas
town is whether the p)lice judge is q
man or O woman
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
How Love Grows.

Gratitude is seldom a source of love.
We are not so likely to love those v no
have done most for us, we are to love
those for whom we have done most.
Love grows by serving, not through
being served. There is sad side to
this truth, in the fact that those whom
we love most dearly, and for whom
we are doing most, cannot, in the
very nature of things, love us as we
love them. But there is always an in
spiration in this truth for it tells US
that we are to get our gain from low
ing, in simple loving. The only way
to love Alright is to give love freely,
hoping for nothing again. THUG, and
thus only, can we be sure of receiving
what we hope for.-Selected.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
A Needed Caution.

A child who is teething often drools,
thereby causing the clothing to be-
come damp. His chest being wet
causes him to take severe colds. TO
prevent tris, have several flannel
bibs that can be changed as soon as
they become wet. II these flannel
bibs do not seem sufficient, those
made of oiled silk may he used. alone
or under others.
4 great name is like all eternal
epitaph engraved by the admiration OF
MEN on the road Of time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Bralny Men Live Long.

Cassius M. Clay, s3 years oltis still
in excellent health.
Humboldt lived to be 80, Herschel
So, Mary Somerville 90. Chevreul, the
chemist, 1O2, Peter Cooper 92, Simon
Cameron 90.
Charles Macklin, the great actor,
lived to be a lO7, Macready 80. Roger
Kemble 80.
Neal Dow is SO, Kossuth 81, DIR.
Holmes 81.
Reformers are frequently long lived.
Lucy Stone died at rs, Mrs.. Stanton
is II, Mrs. Livermore u, Garrison
lived to be IS, Julia Ward Howe Is "a.
Wordsworth lived to. he 80, Won
Ranke, the historian, lOl, Guizot, So,
Bancroft, go.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

In maufact uring occupations the
average life of sospboilers the high
est, and that Of grind-stone makers
the lowest.
A discontented spirit ma kes the way
of life seem hard and long.
It is better to say, "This one thing
1 do,'' than to say, "These forty
thing l dabble in" Washington
star.
1t is curious fact that on immers-
ing one hand in cold water, cores
ponding reduction of temperature
ccurs in the other.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

Many old houses in Holland have q
special door which is never opened
save on two OCCASIONS. when there il
a marriage or death in the family.
The bride and groom enter by this
door; it is then nailed or barred up
until a death occurs, when it is opened
and the body Is removed by this
exit.
There were yet living on the 18th OF
June last fifteen widows of veterans
of the war of the Revolution. The re-
port of the pension department says
they were drawing their pensions at
that date, anyway. The war ended
Ill years ago"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

With the exception of Belgium1
whose debt has been incurred for in
ternal improvements, every European
national debt is in great part war
debt.
Mourning paper is going out of fash
ion. Instead, little triangle is print
ed in the corner of the envelope and
the nOte-paper.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24
Twelve Pages.
Lost and Found.


A lamb had left the fold,
And wandered far away.
In search of greener grass;
And flowers more sweet and gay.
But no true food 1t found;
The tlowors that seemed so falr
Were bitter to the taste;
Poison was present there.
The lamb still further strayed,
But searched ana searched In vain;
Stumbling along the ground,
Weary and weak with pain.
1t sank In miry bogs,
With thorns It's fleece was torn,
In fear Of wolves, 1t saon
Began to bleat and moan.
The shepherd heard Its voice
And sought the lamb astray,
He gladly rished bis life
TO drive the wolf away.
Within his loving arms
The wandering lamb he brought,
Rejoicing he had found
The treasure be had sought.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

-"My case is just here" said q cit.
izen to lawyer. '"The plaintiff VIII
swear that I hit him. | will swear
that I did not. Now, what can you
LAWYERS make out of that if we 60 to
triai?" ga hundred dollars easy"
was the reply.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

Rollo-Tell me. pa, is there any diff.
ference between common salt and
chloride of sodium?
Mr.. HollIday-Yes, Rollo, a great
difference. Salt is two cents pound
at the grocer's while chloride Of
sodium is fifty cents a teaspoonful a.
the druggists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-24

"A little five.year.old was listening
to the story of the pence taken from
the fish's mouth, and delightedly
shouted: II guess the pennies came
out OF Jonah's pocket book"