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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

The fact that the Bible, the best of
all textbooks, finds no place in the
majority of our colleges, begins to
attract attention but there is no reason
why it should excite wonder. A boy
full of the Bible is bullet proof and the
devils knows it. A youthful mind
crammed with pagan poetry makes
the chances fora licentious life easy
and the devil knows it. Pagan phil
osophy unopposed by revealed truth
prepares the way for materialism, and
the devil knows it. Science separated
from revelation is one-sided and tends
to skepticism and the devil knows it.
Boys that don't study the Bible when
they are boys will hardly study it at
all, and the devil knows it. The devil
knows what he is about.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

In CHINA the men wear skirts and
and the women trousers.
The men wear their hair long and
the women wear it short.
The men carry on dressmaking and
the women carry burdens.
The Chinese begin dinner with des'
sert and end with soup and fish.
The Chinese launch their vessels
sideways and mount their horses from
the off side.
Books are read backward, and what
we call footnotes are inserted at the
top of the page.
The Chinese surname comes first
instead of last.
The Chinese shake their own hands
instead of the hands of those they
would greet. :.
The spoken language of China is
not written and the written language
is not spoken.
The Chinese dress in white at funer.
ais and in mourning at weddings
while old women always serve as
bridemaids.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

A correspondent says; II wish to
tell those who may suffer from that
terrible aftliction, felon, of a painless
remedy that will effect a perfect cure
in twenty-four hours, as have had
occasion to prove within two of the
last three days. A lady came to me
who had been suffering over two weeks
with felon on the end of her middle
finger. I saturated bit of grated wild
turnip, the size of bean, with spirits
of turpentine and applied it to the
affected part. 1t relieved the pain al
once. In twelve hours there was 9
hole to the bone. and the felon was
destroyed. I removed the turnip and
applied healing salve, and the finger
is WE'LL
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

HOLD ON BOYS Hold on to virtue
it is above all price to you, in all times
and places.
Hold on to your good character, for
it is and ever will be, your best
wealth.
Hold on to your hand when you are
about to strike, steal, or do an i'm
proper act.
Hold on to truth, for it will serve
well, and do you good throughout
eternity.
Hold on to your tongue when you
are just ready to swear, lie, or speak
harshly or use an improper word.
Hold on to your temper when you
are angry, excited, or imposed upon,
or others angry about you.
Hold on to your heart when evil per-
sons seek your company and invite
you to join their games, mirth and
revelry.
Hold on to your good name at all
times, for it is much more valuable to
you than gold, high place or fashion
able attire.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25
Not Mine, But Thine.

Thy way, nor mine, o Lord,
However dark II be;
o lead me by Thine own right hand.
Choose out the path for me.
Smooth let 1t be or rough,
II will be still the best;
Winding or straight, 1t matters not.
II leads me to Thy rest.
dare not choose my lot,
/ would not If I might;
But choose Thou for me, my God,
SO shall walk Alright.
The kingdom that seek
Is Thine; so let the way
That leads to 1t, o Lord, be Thine,
Else must surely stray.
Take Thou my cup, and 1t
With Joy or sorrow fill;
AS ever best TO Thee may seem,
Choose Thou my good and Ill.
Choose Thou for me my friends.
NV sickness or my health;
Choose Thou my joys and cares for me,
My poverty or wealth.
Not mine, not mine the choice.
In things or great or small;
Re Thou INV Guide, my Guard, my Strength,
NV Wisdom, and my All.
Light in Life's Shadows
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

DICHARD CAN'T, Is now prepared to do
IL, all work In his department in the best
manner and At reasonable charges. Monthly
customers shaving, hair cutting and sham.
pooling VI per month. Rasors honed and put
In the best condition for % cents eaeh.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

The mayor of Detroit is to be credit
ed with a valuable and practical
scheme for helping the poorer classes
to help themselves. Early in the
past spring he invited the owners
Of vacant lots within the city limits
to give him permission to assign these
open spaces to people out of employ
ment who would cultivate them for
the season, and thus exc out at least
q partial livelihood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

Shakespeare gives as signs that
Benedick was in love, that he brushed
his hat in the morning, went to the
barber's, and was melancholy. When
our young men are melancholy it is
not because they are IN love, but be-
cause they are in debt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

The strongest animals in the world
are those that live on vegetable diet.
The lion is ferocious rather than
strong. The bull, horse, reindeer, ele-
phant and antelope, all conspicut US
for strength, choose vegetable diet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25
Winthrop State Normal College
COLUMBIA, 8. C..

COLUMBIA, 8. G..
nPEN to white girls over II Session begins
~ September 26. Graduates secure good
positions. Each county gives Two scholar
shIps-one worth $50 a session and one OF
free tuition. First scholarships now vacant
in counties Of Abbeville. Aiken, Anderson,
RarnweIl, Beaufort. Charleston, Clarendon,
Chester, Chesterfield. Florence, Greenvllle,
Georgetown. Hampton. Horny, Kershaw, Lam
caster, Lsurens, Lexington. Sewberry, Oco-
nee, Orangeburg. Pickens, Richland, Sumter.
Spartanburg, York.
Competitive examination July IL al Court
House Of each county. Address
d. B. JOHNSON. President,
June 13, 1894. Columbia, =. Z.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-25

The devil always feels contented
when he can secure the chief magis.
trates of nations and States to do his
biddings in high places.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
DEMOCRATIC GLORY.

The Democratic press is almost hilar-
ious In Its comments upon the march of
Coxey's army. The great wits and half
wits of the party are taxing their brains
and crowding their resources in the daily
effort to reel off little cheap setiie,
which, it is expected, will annihilate the
half organized mob now earoute for
Washington. 1t comes with exceed
ingly poor grace from Democratic or
gans to indulge IN such Nero fiddlIng
over the work of their own hands. Be-
hind the sophistry and satire and clev-
erly conceived arguments there is the
stubborn fact that under this Demo
cratic administration there is more of
the spirit of anarchy, more hungry, idle
people than was ever dreamed of under
Republican rule. In addition to this. il
must De admitted that our financial de-
preston dates from the very day of
Cleveland's election, aud back of it all.
and really the cause of it all, is the total
want of confidence in either the ability
or integrity of tho party in power to
protect our industries or currency.
ill-advised and impractical as il this
Coxey movement, it is one OF the direct
results of the change to Democratic rule.
If it only stops at these manoeuvers We
will be fortunate beyond present indica
tons
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
EVERYBODY, EVERYWHERE,

Ada Negri, the new Socialist poet OF
Italy, Is peasant girl, and Is only %
years of age.
Senator VOORHEES, states that only IS, 600
Americans have more than 81 600 a year
income. 1t is no violation of confidence TO
remark that the great working majority
have considerably less.
John Evans, appointed governor of Colo
RADIO by Lincoln in 1862, and known ali
over the country as n leading Methodist.
has written Archbishop Ireland letter of
thanks for his address 10 the Loyal
Legion.
Professor Edward J. Phelps. ex-minister
to England, has practically recovered from
his recent illness and now rides and walks
daily. He has abspdoned his proposed
southern trip and will partly resume his
classes at Yale.
Governor Waite OF Colorado declares
positively that he will not allow Corbett
aud jackson 10 fight in his domain. The
governor does hot propose to let any Que
battle as long as the courts prevent him
from engaging In that amusement.
John Ingram of West Chester. Pa, has
come into possession of an English spit
with clockwork attachment for turning a
fowl while roasting before the fire. This
relic had lain for over Il century in the
loft OF al ola mill IN Upper Oxford town
ship.
Mrs. Huntington Csffyn, the author of
yellow Aster," is the wife of an Austral-
ian physician. Her father refused to give
her an education. but she got IL somehow,
and at the age OF l6 years she was trans
!atiBg German poems and following the
hounds.
Lord Wolseley is quoted as saying that
to an American belongs the honor of
having written the most perfect descrip-
tion OF battle in the English language
This American is Captain Charles King
aud the episode described Is the cavalry
fight OF Gettysburg in Between the
Lines"
joseph Surns. young butcher OF Com
mouwealth, Wis, met with singular
death a few DAYS sga He fell and grabbed
= 2S1 pound meat-cnIter 10 save himself.
His clutch set the wheels in motion. and
he mest-cuiter chspeed his head of as
neatly as Il II had beeu built for a suiilo-
tine.
A book now under way. edited By Pro
fessor Sbaier Of Harvard, Is TO be called
The United States Of America" II will
deal with the agricultural, mineral and
commercial resources aad the literary aud
artistic achievements sc The country az the
present time. Each chapter will De writ
ten y 4 specialist Charles Dudley War
ner has prepared ,hst psrtaining TO hters-
Iure. and eue wbe hiss SEN IL declares sie
has taken = somewhat pe>simisSlc sse~ cf
his snbisSt
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
STANDS BY CALDWELL.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
In your issue OF the nth inst, you
state Judge Caldwell and Judge Jen-
kins cannot both be right in their deci-
sions" Sin what do they differ?
As understand tine cases are differ
ent. know of no one that ever held
contrary to the doctrine laid down by
Judge Caldwell that ''employes have
the right to quit work if they do not
wish to work for the wages offered" and
this is all that Judge Caldwell decided
''only this and nothing more"
Judge Jenkins decides that organized
labor has not the right to interfere with
other employees, nor have they the right
to do OR threaten 10 do a wrong to their
employers. have never heard this doc
trine denied.
Both expended the law as it is gener-
ally understood, and the principles emu
merated by both are not necessarily an
tagonistic 10 each other. z. 5.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
COAST DEFENSE OF KANSAS.

A dispatch from London says that it
has been discovered that several agents
Of the American navy department are
acting as spies in England. The particu-
lar object of tins scrutiny, it is declared,
is the new torpedo destroyer, the Havoc.
1t is supposed that in the construction
of this destroyer, there are some secrets
which the United States Of America
should and must know.
Right here, it is pertinent to say that
the best place on earth to study this
naval question is here IN Kansas. We
are not liable 10 be bombarded in any
direction at any time. We are perfectly
free from the fear that some night we
will be called upon to crawl out of bed
and turn the hose on three or four live
bombs sizzling in the front yard.
At present the largest body of water
in our vicinity is cistern and it is dry.
Our removed condition enables US to
look at this naval bugaboo without panic
and in perfectly rational way.
Every hduSdu uluot COLleos W - Sou-
viction that great deal of this naval ar
mament talk is poppy cock.
AS a matter of fact, the big guns,
which it has recently become the fash
ion to manufacture, are impractical.
On account of their immensely one shot
will disable them, and pending repairs,
an agile enemy could capture them cas-
lily. The long range rifle in use on ships
is to a certain extent useless because
atmospheric. conditions deceive the eye
and make certain aim almost an i'm
possibility. Moiern naval ornaments
were employed during the recent Braz-
ilian war, but they played no part what
ever In settling the strife.
In short it appears to the Kansan, who
is entirely surrounded by land and an
chored safely in the prairie that this per-
petual naval preparation for war is
largely a scare-crow. We, in Kansas,
are able to view the matter dispassion-
atelv and to give pointers to the coast
cities with as much sang froid as the
citizens of the coast cities give us in
formation on what is good for agricul-
ture
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12

Norwich. where Nine Sarah Grand lived
for some Years. is recognized as the scene
of ''The Heavenly Twins Some of the
Incidents mentioned in the book are re-
ported to be founded on fact-for example,
the tragedy of the lay clerk "A few
years ago." it is said by an English writer,
"a well known and popular tenor, after
hiding for day or two in the cleressory
OF Norwich Cathedral, committed suicide
by hanging himself there. Naturally a
profound sensation resulted. There was
talk OF the cathedral being reconstructed.
but in the end a solemn service OF humili-
alton and reconciliation was held TO be
sufficient.
When Moody came to Washington for
his recent evangelistic season there, the
Washingtonians got up a choir OF excep-
tiouai strength and quality, and in num-
Der loo strong. Moody's departure did
not mean the choir's disbandment. On
the contrary they kept it up. aud last
Sunday 4.OOO people paid to hear it sing.
One result OF the concert Is The promise OF
similar performance in about a mouth
for the benefit of Mr.. Moody's schools at
Mortified aud at Chicago. Director
Foster preached the subject in a neat
speech during an inter!ude and il was re-
ceived with much favor. He said he had
not mentioned the matter TO Mr.. Moody,
but it had been thought among certain
members OF the chorus that some appre-
probation of Mr.. Moody's labors in the
city should be shown him. IL WAS not
generally known that Nj Moody was a
poor man, but it was true that all the cou-
tribu'Ions he received he used for the sup
port OF his schools. By show of hands the
audience Endorsed the scheme.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12

growed SO, and sister she thought it
was some kind of grass
We'll, when l seen that the shoots
was a CROWN to look like cornstalks
began to get scared, cause I knew they
couldn't be pulled out without tearing
up everything else in the box. and /
knew that if they were left there to
grow they would crowd everything out.
So every time ma n sister went to look
at 'em just lit out
well, few nights ago we had a
party. and ma was showing her her
berryum to everybody and was awful
proud of it and wanted everybody to
notice particularly the six splendid
big grasses that neither she nor sister
had planted, an tellin' 'em all as how
they must be some rare plants.
II was a-feelin' uneasy all the time,
tho tho't I'd die a-lafin. Bimeby ma
she comes along with old Mr.. Atkins.
who owns a big farm out in Jersey,
an she sez to him that they hadn't
planted them, neither sister nor she,
and that they must be something IN
common. Old Mr.. Atkins he gave one
look and then he commenced TO laff,
and he LATED and LATED till he like to
dido. He LATED till he choked. an the
tears run down his cheeks and he got
red in the face.
ma got red in the face. too, an /
could see she was mad as ennything.
'''Rare' SEE old Mr.. Atkins, as soon
as he could speak. 'Uncommonl You
just cum over to Jersey to my farm
next summer sez he, an I'll show you
acres of them rare grasses. Its corn,
SEE he, an then he nearly had fit.
Ma n sister were just crazy. and
p'r'aps / didn't catch it-oh no. But
the wurst of il was that it went all
over the neigh borhood how they had
been CROWN corn IN their herberryum.
and when ma learned OF that, why,
caught it again
But they had TO pull the corn up
and plant the herberryum over again,
that's one comfort" and the small boy
went and sat down in saasy bank and
whistled merrilD
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
BANDS VS.. MACHINERY.

Mr.. c. Wood Davis is given three
columns of space on the editorial page
of the New York Sun Tor discussion of
the now much moo;ed question, The
Relation of Machinery 10 Commercial
and Industrial Depression. Mr. Davis
does not contine himself TO declarations
and glittering generalities, but takes up
in thorough and exhaustive way the
steam and machine and their powers in
multiplying the unit product. An char
acter OF machines are RELOCATING the
laborer and driving him TO the rear.
Even the telephone is beating the mes
senger 10y. The telegraph, upon the
other hand, is machine and about the
only one which has called for additional
hands instead of decreasing their num-
Der. The article. or rather editorial. is
a thoroughly interesting aud instructive
one
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
YAM kEE INGENUITY.
From the New York Herald.

fEon the New 1Ofk hefaia
Even in Connecticut was the skill Of
the knickerbockers admired. A new
invention or improvement was said to
e'beat the Dutch" The Delft tiles on
the hearth, the crockery on the dresser,
the blue tiles lining the front of the
tireplaces in the best houses, show how
the Dutch had part in the evolution
of the New England house. Hundreds
of open ireplaces in New England were
decorated with these tiles after the
Dutch fashion, and contained not only
proverbs in porcelain" but abundant
Biblical illustration. From the evi.
dences of relics. nearly as much of the
imported fine furniture in the northern
colonies came from Holland as from
England. Not few Of the old teapots
and other table service, which followed
upon the introduction of those oriental
hot drinks which drove out the beer
and tankards, did indeed come over
from Holland, though not on the May.
flower, as so often anachronisticallY
alleged. When, too the open fireplace
gradually gave way to supposed i'm.
with Dutch name-the stove. Not
only in Plymouth, but elsewhere
numerous houses had what can
be occasionally seen throughout New
England to-day (nor by this do
we mean the later substitute of TIM
"a Dutch oven It was under this
spacious dome of brick and clay that
those famous articles of Yankee diet,
the pumpkin-pie, brown bread, baked
beans and fshballs, had their evolu.
ton. No saoker of tobacco in the
snow-white meerschaum rejoiced more
in his coloring Of the sea-foam clay
than did the rosy housewives of Massa-
chusetts bay in the rich hues of bean,
bread, and fish. The browning clubs
of early days met in the kitchen rather
than in the parlor or vepdome. The
doughnut may have been too cosmo-
politan an article to claim invention at
the hands of any one people; yet what
Yankee fried cake" or doughnut ever
equalled an olekoek? Was not crulier,
whose derivation confounds the die
tionary-makers, who call il "a kind
of" doughnut, first brought TO perfec-
ton by Capt Knoll pronounced and
sometimes spelled crulD. the whilom
commander and Dutch church elder at
Fort Orange? To this day the "eookey"
Ckoekje), noodles, hodgepodge. smear.
case, rulliehies, cold 0aw, and other
dishes that survive in New England
farm-houses, are, despite their changed
pronunciation and spelling, proofs that
the Yankees enriched their monoto-
nous menu OF early colonial days by
borrowing the more varied fare of their |
Dutch neighbors in the west and south. !
As for the popular American winter |
breakfast luxury, the buckwheat cake. |
1t was introduced from Central Asia By |
the Hollanders acciimeted cultivated, !
named "beeehmast" fbockweit), aad |
IN the form associated with heat, |
sweets, aroma. and good-eheer is q
Dutch inyep ton
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
SWORDS AND BAYoNETs.

rom the Troy Times
The szber used by the United States
cavalry is copied from the cimeter of
the Saracens. which was the most effec-
tive sword for cutting purposes ever
devised It Will be remembered how.
according to the story told in Sir Wal
ter SCOTS ''Talisman," with such
weapon the pagan saladin chopped
soft cushion in two at one blow. to the
amazement OF Richard Cour de Lion.
With a straight sword one can make a
hack or thrust. but to slice an adver-
sary one must saw with Il The cine
ter, being curved and wide and heavy
toward the end. slices by the
mere fact of striking. The kind
of bayonets chiefly Used by the
federal troops during the war OF
the rebellion vas the old triangu-
lar pattern Sword bayonets were
also employed on guns imported from
Europe. During the last ten years the
regulation bayoret has been Of the
'-rsmrod- type-a hideous instrument.
cylindrical and Of the thickness Of a
-1nrod. with a sharp screw point, like
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-12
GOOD OR BAD.

There is a disposition over the coun-
try to conjecture what result, if any,
the Pollard Brsckinridge trial will have
on public morals.
That public morals are tenderly sus-
ceptible to external conditions, there is
no doubt. The publicity that has been
given this trial, it is argued on one side,
will create a psrnicious license for people
to talk of it openly and freely, and to
gain that acquaintance with vice, which,
Pope says, will end in embracing it.
The fact that it is congressman, and
man who is of great name, who has
sinned, will make the breach in NOR
ality more easily entered by another
man, less renowned than Breckenridge.
But the effect will, perhaps, take an
other shoot. 1t is quite as likely that
the moral failirgs of a high official will
result in great lowering of public es-
TEEN for officials generally. The con-
gresham, the choice of a majority of a
people of a chosen locality, was once a
man to be honored and envied. He was
representative not only of the legisla.
tive desires and needs of his constituents,
but representative and type, as well.
of their conduct, condition, mental and
moral progress.
The long limited escapades of life in
Washington have dissipated the public
regard for the Office of congressman to a
degree. Where open proof of those in
are given by trial, such as
the present d-Breckinridge trial is,
this condition becomes more marked.
Congressman Breckinridge's trial has
not injured himself alone. 1t has hurt
the Office of congressman.