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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
TEMPERANCE.
HOPPING AND STOPPING.

HOPPING AND STOPPING.
Gid you ever see a bird
Hop, hop, hop,
Nc'er content in any place
Long to stop?
have seen them i'll the street,
In the cold and in the heat
Hop, hop, hop.
Picking up crumb or two,
Fly ing off when they were through
Quick as pop.
have seen both boys and men,
Here and there;
Never stopping very long
Anywhere.
Picking up job or two,
Leaving of, or getting through;
Moving off to some fresh place,
Boys and men. restless race,
Hop, hop, hop,
Into this, and out of that,
Roaming like homeless cat,
Here and there.
Banner readers, this won'tdo!
You should read the paper through:
And beware
Of the evil which the drink
Brings to those who do not think.
Read the pictures and the type,
Shun the drink, the dice, the pipe.
And if habits now you nurse
Which can only prove curse,
Stop, stop. stop.
eFouth's Temperance Banner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BARON HIRscH is worth 500, 100000.
GREEcEs King speaks twelve languages.
The Czarina devotes much of her time to
charity.
THIS is Representative Mills nineteenth
year in Congress.
The Princess of Wales is on visit to her
father, the King Of Denmark.
EI-PREsIDENT HILL, OF Harvard, died
few days ago at Waltham, Mass.
MISS BRADDoS, the novelist has one great
hobby-<the collection Of old china.
No matter how late it is Gladstone always
reads an hour before he goes to bed.
KHED1vE TEwF1K, of Egypt, has trick Of
twisting his left leg under him when sitting.
CAPTAIN DAVID HurcHINsoN,o OF Day, Vt,
celebrated his ninety-shird birthday recently
by shooting deer.
GOVERNOR AND SENAToR-ELEcr HILL, OF
New York, has engaged rooms at the Ar.
ington Hotel, in Washington.
MIR. BALFoUR. the new Tory leader In the
British House of Commons, is highly &C
complished pianist and violinist.
Ex-EMPERoR DON PEDRO, late Of Brazil,
is in the hands Of his friends and is ready to
resume business at the old stand whenever
his country calls him.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY is educating three
African boys about twelve years old, whom
he rescued from slavery by paying three
cents piece for them.
Ex-PREs1DEST ALcASTARA, of Venezuela,
has asked permission TO send his son to the
United States Military Academy at West
Point to learn the art Of war.
IT is stated that Edison owns between 400
and 50Opatents. When experimenting he
wears long, loose frock Of checked ging-
ham, reaching from his chin to his feet.
The Hon. Samuel Chapman, who died in
Nova Scotia on a recent week at the re-
markable age Of 10l years, was the Oldest
Mason in the word, having received his de-
gree in 1913.
The Bank Of England has John Sherman's
portrait among those Of the great financiers
of the world which hang in the directors
room. The only other American represented
there is Alexander Hamilton.
The town Of Pleinfeld, n j :, has, by off,
ciel vote, resolved to call the hill on which
Charles Dudley Warner was born "Warner
Hill, )" in honor Of Mr.. Warner and in recog-
milton OF his generosity to his native town.
EDGAR ALLEN Poe, formerly conspicuous
as football player at Princeton College
and now a law student in Baltimore, Is an
earnest worker In the Young Mems Chris
tian Association. he declares that many
Princeton football players have become
ministers.
DR. ScorT, Mrs: Harrison's father, who
now lives at the White House, has a large
correspondence, though eighty-two years OF
age. Many Of his letters come from his old
college students and another large share are
written by people who want his assistance in
securing offices from the administration.
PATRICK EGAN, United States Minister to
Chill, Is a small man physically. He Is
wholly self-educated, having begun life as
messenger boy in q -four mill in an Irish
country town. He rose to be managing di"
rector Of his company in Dublin, and after.
ward became an extensive dealer in corn be.
fore he Joined the councils Of the Land
League He dresses quietly and neatly, and
his manner is gentle, almost feminine. De
does not smoke or drink.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
A UNIQUE Spot Is Lopez Island.

A unique spot is Lopez Island In the
San Juan Archipelago of Puget Sound.
The inhabitants for the most part are
old frontiersmen who have been con- (
tinually moving west until they could
20 no further, and, strange to say, they
are satisfied with their environment.
But when we come to describe Lopez
Island, it is not strange. The climate Is
akin to perfection for those who cannot
bear extremes of heat and cold. In the
autumn there is hint of frost in the
air, but the winter is never rigorous,
and, owing to the warmth of the cir
cumambient waters, Snow is unknown.
Summer heats are tempered by breezes
blowing over the wide Pacific. Little
bays in which the white sand runs up to
groves of fir indent the coast line, and
every islander has his bit of water front
and his boat for fishing and pleasure
voyaging. Game is 80 abundant that
the larder need never be empty, and deer
would bs as thick as rabbits if the lilies
report was not heard daily. In fact,
the inhabitants when they put venison
on the table apologize to visitors. Quail
sound their notes in every clearing.
Ducks, waterfowl, and wild pigeons are
also plentiful. Seven kinds of tooth
some fish swim round the sea-girt island,
and clans are accessible to the LATEST
of men. And this suggests the state
mint that Lopez islanders just tickle
their ground enough to supply them
selves with food and little money for
raiment. Sheep pasture everywhere,
their owners never qusrrelling about
metes and bounds. The island contains
twenty-nine sections of land. To brain.
weary New Yorker perhaps its crowning
glory would be that no steamer puts in
with tourist or pleasure-seeSer, and that
three-fourths of the people of Port To1n.
send and Anacortes, the nearest towns,
are ignorant of the existence of Lopez
Island. As type of settler there is the
old lady who lying, it seemed, at the
point of death, de6autly said: ~ don't
want no doctors nor preachers botherln.
round here; an don't you send for EN-.
She got weil.-NeO York P5st.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
THE LABOR WORLD.
NEW YORK varnishers get s. day.
THERE are 2TO, 900 Knights of Labor.

NEW 4Ohk VdIuLouclS Seu % q ooys
THERE are 2TO, 600 Knights Of Labor.
NEW YORK has 800 union stage hands.
UNCLE SAM has ,s6O, 900 women workerA
FRENCH miners will run q cooperative
mine.
THE Brooklyn N. ~ Labor Lyceum has
$4,000.
NEW YORK CITY has Hebrew Tinsmiths'
Union.
LONDON England bakers run co-opera-
tive shop.
WORK is plentiful with the architectural
iron workers.
KRUpP. the Essen Germany guumaker,
employs 10000 people.
FRANCE will have q demand for eight
hours on May1.
P1rrsBURG (Penn.) traction hands have a
beneficial association.
PLAsrERERs' UNION No. 1, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, has $l4, 900 in its treasury.
The months Of November and December
are the busiest time for shoemakers.
THE Midland district of the British Miners
Fatal Accident Relief Society has 1855
members.
NINE hours day or ffty-four hours a
week is now the working time in most Eng
nsh factories.
-FOUR dollars day and board for running
thrashing machines is the current rate In
North Dakota
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemeu
has donated $500 toward erecting labor
temple in Indianapolis, Ind.
THIRTY per cent. of all the women Of the
United States are working for living, an
increase Of nine per cent. over 1881.
The newly-adopted emblem Of the Brother
hood OF Railway Carmen is car-whesl over
which wrench and a hammer are crossed
THERE are hundreds of thousands Of
American workmen, women and children
who work from twelve to sixteen hours per
dav.
THE organized canmakers Of Maryland will
ask the Legislature OF that State to prohibit
oysters being shipped in quantities larger
than gallon, and the coopers' unions oppose
the movement because they believe 1t would
injure their trade.
FROM the report Of factory inspector at
Mannheim, Germany, it appears that some
OF the bosses Of that city ara in the habit or
making men work t"enty-four and thirty.
six hours without giving them q chance TO
rest excepting brief intervals for swallowing
some food.
A STRONG movement against the employ
ment Of Chinese labor has been organ
lied in Fresno Tulare and Kern Counties
California. In half a dozen towns the
Chinese have been driven out and In several
places their houses were burned. These
counties are full of idle white men who can
get no work since the harvest is oyer.
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RELIGIOUS READING,
EETwEEN THE GATES.

"
Between the gates of birth and death
An old and sanity pilgrim passed,
With look Of one who witnesseth
The long sought goal at last.
20 thou whose reverent feet have found
The Masters footprints in thy way,
And walked thereon as holy ground,
A boon Of thee I pray.
"My lack would borrow thy excess,
Ny feeble faith the strength Of thine
I need thy souls white saintliness
To hide the stains Of mine.
"The grace and favor else denied
May well be granted for thy SAKE"
So, tempted, doubted, sorely tried,
A younger pilgrim spake.
"Thy prayer, my son, transcends my git;
No power is mine" the sage replied,
1.-THE burden of o soul to lift,
Or stain of sin to hide.
"Howe'er the outward life may seem,
For pardoning grace we all must pray
No man his brother can redeem
Or souls ransom pay.
"Not always age is growth Of good;
Its years bave losses with their gain;
Against some evil youth withstood
Its hands may strive in vain.
with deeper voice than any speech
Ofmortal lips from man to man,
What earth's unwisdom cannot teach
The Spirit only can.
"Make thou that holy Guide thine own,
And, following where it leads the way,
The known shall lapse in the unknown
As twilight into day.
1.-THE best of earth shall still remain,
And Heavens eternal years shall prove
That life and death. and Joy and pain
Are ministers Of Love-
John G. Whittier in The Independent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Lies run. Truth walks.

Lies run. Truth walks.
Wrong doing begins with wrong think.
ing.
Real good never shrinks from any kind
of test.
Evil is most dangerous when it looks
most like good.
Wisdom is knowledge haraessed uI
and put to plowlng.
The man who has one talent and ls
improving it will soon have ten.
We can help one another to live,
but no man can help another to die.
OF all counterfeits there is none more
conscmptible than counterfeit humility.
No man can harm his brother until he
has first killed all love for him in him.
self.
When YOU find a chronic fault-indei
you generally find person who loafs too
much.
There is never any difficulty in finding
people to play the first fiddle, but oh,
how hard it is to get the rest OF the Or
chestra.
It comes so much easier to forgive
those who have caused us suffering, when
we learn that we too have made Others
to suffer.
There IS difference between sitting
before the are and thinking about doing
good. and gong out into the cold and
doing it.
The laborers who were sent into the
vineyard at the eleventh hour had prob
ably been at work somewhere else up to
that time.
Writing poetry about how to reach
the masses is an altogether different
matter from going at it with both hands
and trying to save the people as they
come.-Indianapol9 Ind. Rams Horn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
Remarkable Water System.

No city in the world is supplied more
abundantly with water than Fee, one OF
the capitals of Morocco and the usual
place of residence of the Sultan. This
capital, with population of about 1Oo,-
600 people, gets its water supply in Z
remarkable manner. The town lies in q
river valley. The Wady Ell Fee rises
among the hills few miles southwest of
the city. By the time the stream
reaches the outskirts of the town it Is
wide and deep. Its natural course lies
through the heart of the city, but the in
habitants have diverted all the water
from the large channel into number OF
canals. Then from these canals the
water is conducted by hundreds Of little
channels to every garden and house OF
the town. The river bed itself through
out the length of the city as it winds
through the valley is perfectly dry.
When Doctor LEM was there few
wears ago he said he believed there was
no other city in the world with SO fine a
water supply as Fee. Unfortunately,
the natives do not know how to value
and properly utilize their great bless
Ing. Though a stream of pure water
runs through every house and garden,
the town is extremely dirty. Ludwig
Pietsch, who accompanied the Dutch
Embassy to Fez in 1873, said:
There is no city in the world, with
the exception of Rome and perhaps
Vienna, which has so splendid water
system. The brooks gurgle through
every garden N the town. The city has
other blessings, too, for its climate is
glorious, the soil of the country round
is very fruitful, and the landscape is Of
surprising beauty, but the people do not
know how to utilize their blessings.
Their streets are extremely dirty, their
houses are badly ventilated, and they
have made insalubrious town that could
be one of the healthiest in the world"
After the water has flowed through
the city In these many hundreds of little
channels, what is left of it is gathered
into the river again east of the town,
and then it flows north to join the Sebu
River, the largest in Morocco. 1t is the
only instance in the world where a
whole river is thus utilized to provide q
large city with water.-Nep York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05

A ST. LOUIS paper, through the
suggestions Of volunteer correspond.
ents, offered MIR. and Mrs. Cleveland
q list of names from which to choose
the name of their first born One
hundred and five names were sug'
gested, and not one hit upon Ruth.
Frances Folsom" had 321 adherents,
and Frances" 207. Rose Frances
was next with IT'S. After all, the
world asp't Aalp 9 @sa e~sss RaS own
baby
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
Vow THAT cold weather is coming

Now THAT cold weather is coming
on and the people can't get out, they
should organize Shut In" societies,
and meet and study something prac-
tical together. Such society, with
the two rules enforced-to have moth
ing to eat, and to go home early,
would make the winter only half as
long and dreary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
WOMEN SLAVE BECAUSE MEN DRINK

WOMEN SLAVE BECAUSE MEN DRINK.
G.. Blackjack says ''the female market is
overcrowded and wages thereby reduced,
largely through the drinking habit Of men.
Charles Booth said: Factory girls are fire.
quently daughters of drunKards." In
workshop in London where twelve women
were employed four of the number were
found to be wage earners because of drunken
husbands. A gentleman employing 700 wo-
men and girls in London said: II can state
for fact that large number of our female
employees have to seek work because OF the
intemperance of their male relations"
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at Cne udSn OIL our SuuS oul euo Sopoiooh q
thousand hills come down to give US meat.
For us the peach orchards bend down their
fruit and the vineyards their purple clusters.
TO feed and refresh our intellect, ten thou
sand wonders in nature and providence
wonders Of mind and body, wonders OF
earth and air, and deep analogies ard anti
theses, all colors and sounds, lyrics in the
air, idyls in the field, conhayrations in the
sunset, robes OF mist on the mountains and
the "Grand March" of God in the storm.
inr the soul still higher adaptation
fountain in which it may wash; ladder
by which it may climb; song of endless
triumph that it may sing; crown of un-
fading light that it may wear. Christ came
to save it-came with cross on His back
came with spikes in His feet: came when no
one else would come, to do work which no
one else would do. See how suited to mans
condition is what God has done for him.
Man is sinner; here is a pardon. BE has
lost Gods image; Christ retraces it. He is
helpless; Almighty grace is proffered. He is
lost wanderer; Jesus brings him home He
is blind, and at one touch of Him who cured
BartimeuS eternal glories stream into his
soul. Jesus Using Thy grace! Cure Of worst
disease! Hammer to smits OFT heaviest
chain! Light for thickest darkness. Grace
divine. Devils scoff at it and men reject it,
but heaven celebrates it!
wish YOU good cheer fo- the national
health. Pestilence; that in other years has
come to drive out its thousand heerses to
Greenwood and Laurel Hill, has not visited
our nation. 1t is glorious thing to be
we'll How strange that We should keep our
health when one breath from marsh or the
sting Of an insect or the slipping of a foot or
the falling Of a tree branch might fatally
assault our life, Regularly the lungs work,
and their motion seems to be spirit within
US painting after its immortality. Our sight
falls not, though the air is so full Of objects
which by one touch could break out the
souls window. What ship, after years
tossing on the sea, could come in with so
little damage as ourselves, though we arrive
after years voyage to-day.
wish you good cneer for the national har.
vest. Reaping machines never swathed
thicker rye and corn husker's peg never ripped
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-08-16
Scattered Pensioners.

Every civilized country on the globe
contains persons who served in the
civil war and now draw pensions from
the United States Government. OF
all foreign countries Canada has the
greatest number of our pensioners,
there being no less than 1,763 per-
sons resident in that country who
draw pensions for service in the civil
war. We have 2 pensioners in AL
giers, 3 IN the Argentine Republic,
25 in Australia, 81 in Austria-Hun-
gary, in the Azores, Is in Belgium,
4 in Bermuda, l has wandered to
Brazil, II have found refuge in Brit
ish Columbia, are in Bulgaria, in
Central America, 6 in Chill, s in
China, 3 are in Costa RIGA, 5 are in
Cuba, Denmark has more than her
share, there being "a of our old SOL
diers now resident there E; has stray
gled to Egypt, l to the FIJI Islands !;
France is well provided, having Sc of
our civil war veterans Guatemala
has l, l6 are at present engaged in
unfolding the republic at Hawaii, 8
are Drawing the yellow fever in Hon
duras, is on Greenland's icy noun
tains, 8 are pacing India's coral
strand, Italy has 25, 9 are living in
the dominion of the Mlkado, Corea
has l., Liberia has 2, 2 are living in
Malta, 2 in Nautilus, SO in Mexico,
10 IN the Netherlands, 4 in New Zea-
land, 8 in Nicaragua, Sc close by the
glaciers of Norway, 6 have found
homes in Peru, lives in Portugal,
are in the Republic of Columbia, l
has got to Roumania, 8 are living in
the land of the Gar, 2 in Siam, l in
the island where Napoleon breathed
his last, and one in the island where
he was born, in the Society Islands.
l in the South African Republic, Z
in Spain, "a in Sweden, II in Switz-
erland, 4 in the land of the Turk, l
in Uruguay, 9 in the West Indies,
this record forming a most remarka.
BILE testimony to the ability of the
Americans to scatter themselves al
over the face of the earth.-St Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-08-16
An Immense Fossil Skeleton.

The fossil remains of huge sea
animal are being exhibited in South
eastern Kansas. The dscoverer came
upon them accidentally while looking
for frewood in the Cherokee Strip.
The head, bill, some vertcbra, few
ribs and the propellers were in fair
state of preservation, but the re-
mainder of the skeleton crumbed as
soon as it was exposed to the air.
The bones were purchased by Henry
Patterson, Of Humboldt, of Kansas,
who at once sent description of
them to the director of the National
Museum at Washington. The let
ter was submitted to the Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, with
the request that qualified man
be sent to investigate the discovery.
The fossil is thus decribed by DR.. r.
l.. Patterson in letter to the Regis
tered Pharmacist, of Chicago:
"rhe eye sockets are four feet iu
the long diameter with space of
twenty inches between them making
skull diameter of eight feet and
eight inches. 1t has pointed bill or
beak twelve feet long and small
brain cavity comparatively. The yer.
tebra measure twelve inches each
way, and the distance from tip to tip
OF the traverse processes is forty in
ches, aud resemble those of a MAN.
NAL rather than fish. The ostrvodes
is thirty eight inches long; rib is
thirteen feet and eight inches long,
circumference thirty-three inches aud
two triangular-shaped bones, three
and half by twelve inches, the use
of which is conjectural, but supposed
to be propellers or fms"
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A Lying Moses.

Moses Wifi of Rose Bank, S. L.,
has curious and valuable Aldernev
cow. She is very large and has a
hollow on her back which will hold
over gallon of water, and the COW
always stands in the rain until the
hollow is filled. 1t is then absorbed
through the pores, and she gives that
much additional milk 4; but, oddly
enough, this curioss phenomenon does
not take place if ordinary water is
poured into the hollow spot. Mr.. Wifi
states that the process is even more
strange if there happens to be rain
bow during the shower, as in that
case the cream that rises ON the milk
takes on all the beautiful colors of
mother-of-pearl.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-08-16

The Treasury deficit is the only
thing connected with the Cleveland
Administration that is to go without a
vacation. York Press.
The reason for that seems to be
that there isn't Government yacht
big enough to carry it.-Worcester
Telegram.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-08-16
SELECTED PROVERBS.

Suspicion shall be stuck full of
eyes.
After victory strap the helmet
tighter.
A pretty woman is never quite with
out hope.
The mortal who expects bad luck
will get it.
Cast no dirt into the we'll that gives
you water.
All powerful souls have kindred
with each other.
Happy is the man who sees his
folly in his youth.
About the hardest thing to reform
is reformer.
Have but few friends, though much
acquaintance.
Many a corn may Turk behind a
polished shoe.
A woman's tact will buy more than
mans dollar.
One cannot sell the COW and have
the milk, too.
Charity ains at home, but should
not end there.
Little sticks kindle a fire, but great
ones put it out.
10 see once is better than to hear
a hundred times.
Get name to rise early and you
may lie all day.
Lead others, not by violence, but
by law and equity.
In temperance there is ever clean
illness and elegance.
Through green eyeglasses every
thing looks green.
A kind voice is TO the. heart what
light is to the eye.
Nothing makes us rich that does not
also make us grateful.
Ii sick man did not die, it's the
physician who cured him.
Not every woman is glad she is a
wife, albeit the world doesn't know it.
When woman is firm in her con-
victions it isn't wise to call her stub
| born.
The eye can lie more in minute
than the tongue can correct in a
week.
Some peoples fine clothes are nc
more than the pretty label on the
empty can.