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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17

In consequence Of the armistice volun-
tsrily granted blythe japanese Government,
all aggressive operations will be abandoned
during the whole term Of the peace confer
ence.
=. The declaration Of an armistice Is believed
to be entirely the result of the attack on Ii
Hung Chang.
A special despatch, from ShimonoseH says
the three weeks armistlce agreed to between
Japan and China applies only to the locah-
ties Of Moukden, the Gulf Of Pechill and the
Shantung Peninsula.
Adespatch from Bong Kong says the Japan
ESQ bombarded the city of Tai-Wau-Foo, the
capital Of Formosa.
The State Department at Washington heard
trom its own representative concerning the
armistice Just proclaimed by the Emperor Of
Japan. A brief cablegram received from
Minister Dunn at Toxic confirms without
giving particulars the advices received by
Minister Kurino and transmitted to the State
Department.
The srmistice now being an established
fact, the chief interest hinges for the time be-
ing on the condition of Ii Hung Chang, the
Chinese pea,e commissioner, who was
wounded by japanese fanatic in
Shimonoseki. At the Japanese Lega-
ton 1t is assumed that the peace negotia-
tlons cannot be resumed until Ii Hung Chang
has recovered or his condition becomes such
as to make It necessary for China to appoint
q new envoy. As far as can be learned,
nothing has been received at either the
japanese or Chinese legations or the State
Department concerning his condition.
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PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
Over s1,soO,ooo Added During the Months
OF March. -

Over 81, SOC, 900 Added During the Montf5
OF March.
The monthly United States Treasury state
ment of the public debt shows that on Marchf
80, 1895, the public debt, less cash in the|
Treasury, amounted to ssOS, $50, ,040. AMI
increase for the month of S1s, ,317 ,105.
The amount Of the new per cent.
bonds issued during the month wast
$28, ,8O7, 800. Following Is arecapftulation OF
the debt: Interest bearing debt. S719, 1851 ,96oT
increase during the month, $2S, ,S0S, 100; debit
on which interest has ceased since maturity;t
81, 40. .250; decrease during the month, S9O5o;t
debt bearing no interest, sSS1, ,7S7, 1858; del
crease during the month, S762, ,270; total
debt, s1,664, 4,591 TAO, Of which $57, ,s44i
442 are certificates and Treasury notes.
Offset by an equal amount of cash int
the Treasury. The Treasury cash Is classa-t
fed as follows: Gold, s149,4s6, 1876; silver,
$510, ,259,87 paper. $13l, ,267 ,047. General!
account, discussing officers balance, etc.,
s16, ,924 le6; total, $797 237, $50, against which
there are demand liabilities amounting to
$609, $40, 1928, leaving cash balance OF $751;
s17, ,261, Of whicn 800, GAS, ,307 Is gold reserve.
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TOTAL ABsrArNRRs ONLY.

Very few persons take O deep, constant
and self-sacriflcing interest in temperance
reform except total abstainers. We do not
wish to underestimate the kindly sympathy
of moderate drinkers. who sincerely desire
to abate the ravages Of intemperance. But
they are amateurs. Their sympathy is very
unsettled. They are willing neither to give
nor receive hard blows in this great strug-
gle between heaven and hell. The whole
burden of the temperance movement has
always been borne by men and women who
were willing to make what, after all, is a
paltry sacrifice of this particular form of
self-indulgence. 1t has always been incom-
prehensble to us that any man should hesi
tate for one moment to do this small thing
for the sake OF his church and his country
Sacred Heart Review
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HOW TO PAY RENT.

A blacksmith was one day complaining to
his iron merchant that such was the scarcity
or beer was used In his family in the course
Of week. or even for one day. The black
smith told him, whereupon the merchant
took out pencil and paper and made calcu-
lation, and showed the blacksmith that the
cost of drink amounted to considerably more
in the year than his house rent.
The calculation so astonished the black
smith that he determined from that day
neither to buy nor to drink Intoxicating
liquors OF any kind. In the course of the
year following he not only paid his rent and
the iron merchant too, but had enough to
spare for new suit of clothes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
THE TRUE GROUND OF INTEREST.

A great writer, speaking of the effort to
convert the Jews. said that interest in such
mission cannot be strong enough to stand
the strain unless it is founded on the love OF
Of God. "It is not love for the sheep that
will sustain Peter in feeding them; it is the
fact that they are Christ's sheep. 1t is not
because they are loveable that his interest IN
them will continue, it Is because Christ is
loveable." And the application is made.
"Unless you believe that Israel is Gods M.
ton your effort to evangelize among Israel
will soon languish."
This rule applies to all work. Martineau
says that the ground of all charitable work
is not the needs of the people but the love OF
God, and although we cannot accept all OF
Martineau's teachings, in this he is surely
right. We must very often grow weary In
well doing when we see how little results
from our work. how unthankful and evil are
these for whom We a:e spending our strength
and using the very best that is In US, unless
we are doing this work directly and con-
sciously for love Of God. 1t will not suffice
to sus. ain US that in general way we recog-
nize the fact that our Saviour accepts all that
we do for others as done for him.
The sentiment must be turned the other
way around. Love for him must be 80 strong
in our lie arts that we cannot help doing good
to others, because our love must find way
of expression and this is the most natural
and satisfactory way. God loves these
wretched, needy, SHINING neighbors OF ours.
He loved them we'll enough to give his Son to
die for them how can We help wanting to do
something for them for his sake?
This is the secret of perseverance In good
works, and of efficiency in them. We may
not see our reward. No matter; we shall not
weary in well-doing for that. We have all
the time the inestimable reward Of working
together with God for those whom he loves
and we for his sake love also. Let US apply
this thought to our Christmas benevolences
and it will make all the year that follows
time of true Christian charity. American
Lcc~--cnger.
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EMPEROR OF CHINA.

It continues to be the general opinion
among Administration officials and diplo-
mats that the declaration OF an
armistice practically means an ending OF the
war. This is based not so much on the theory
that Japan will be likely to grant conces.
sions, which she would not have done had 1t
not been for the assault upon the Chinese
Envoy, as the belief that China Is now
sincere In her desire to bring an end to hos
tilities upon almost any terms. 1ttstbought
not unlikely that European powers vi take
advantage Of the present suspension OF nego-
tiations to shape matters in such way as to
practically force an agreement when the
negotiations are resumed.
According to the terms Of the armistlce the
movement Of troops and the transportation
of articles contraband Of war by sea Is for
bidden. New distribution Of troops NOT In
tended to augment the armies in the Held is
allowed.
Koyama Rokunosuh, the young Japanese
who attempted to assassinate Ii Hung
Chang, has been sentenced to penal servitude
for life.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THE BURDEN OF 1N-DwFLLISG SIN.

"Cnder the same burden New Testament
saint was groaning all his days. He had
hard conflict between tho flesh and the spirit,
and he has left the account OF it upon record.
Blessed be God for the seventh chapter OF the
Romans. Wethere read OF the inward cross,
with which nll the children of God are exer-
csed. In the very same Paul there was
delight in the law of God, after the inward
man while he found another law in his
members, rebelling against the law Of God
the flesh, in which dwtlleth no good thing,
mover ceased to assault the spirit with its
vile thoughts. legal workings, and rebel
llouS inclinations; when he had a will to
do good he could not do it so perfectly as
he desired-his best moments were never
free from the inroad OF in.dwell!ng stn;
therefore In the bitterness of his soul, he cried
out, % wretched man that I amp o, that
sigh came from the bottom of his heart. I
know what he felt; he groaned, being bur-
dened. Weary and tired with this continual
conflict he looked for deliveranee who shall
deliver me from the body Of this death?' He
saw, by faith, his Almigty Saviour, and in
Him expected everlasting victory. I thank
God, through Jesus Christ our Lord He
relied upon Christ in rhe battle, and through
Him waited for deliverance, knowing that
one day he should be made more than con-
queror.
''Well, then, o my soul! here is comfort.
If the corruption of nature be thy Cross, 80 1t
was to David. and 80 it was to Paul Thy
case is not singular. 1t is common to every
soldier who Is fighting under the banner Of
Christ. This cross IS unavoidable, because it
is in thy bosom. 1t is thine inmost self, thy
whole nature, which is corrupt, according to
the deceitful lusts. Thou hast NOT an atom
of thy body, nor the least motion nor stirring
of any faculty in thine (animnD soul. but sin
is in it; and therefore it is capable of being
plague to the new man. These two are
contrary as life and death, and they are al
ways in action: every moment the one hit
ting against the other; 80 that no believer
can do the things which he would 80 per-
fectly as the law requires. ."-Romaine.
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KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION.
Boilers Of Leather Factory in Woburn,
Mass, Burst With Fatal Results.

Boilers Of Leather Factory in Woburn,
Mass, Burst With Fatal Results.
The residents of Woburn Highlands, Mass,
were startled by an explosion in Loring Il
Jones's leather factory. The menin the fac
tory were preparing for work when the
boilers in the engine room at the northeast
corner of the building exploded, tearing out
the end Of the building and burying in the
ruins at least dozen men. The chimney,
which was over eighty feet high, came down
with crash.
The force Of the explosion was such that
one of the boilers was thrown clear through
heavy partition into the main part OF the
building.
These men were killed: Austin Clements,
foreman; Patrick Lally Patrick McGonigle,
Frank Mcmahon. - Patterson.
The injured are Patrick Kelley, John
Kenney, John Tracey, Patrick O'Keefe and
Octavio Saunders (colored).
The ruins did not take fire. The big
timbers of the structure were piled on top OF
the unfortunate men. About fifty men wore
employed in the building. There were four
boilers in the building. two of which were
new
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
GODS FLOWER GARDEN.

have sometimes thought. when looking
on church full of children, there is nothing
more beautiful in the sight of God. A beau
tiful garden full of roses, lilies and lovely
flowers, is sweet and beautiful to the eye.
The hand OF man guards and watches over it
80 that no harm can enter. Sometimes
storm of wind or hail breaks the lilies,
destroys the roses and makes ruin where
before all was sweet and orderly. The
wicked and malicious man comes in to wreck
and ruin his neighbor's garden, and when he
sees this, everybody is touched to the heart:
Everything lovely and sweet, trampled
down and wrecked, makes one gr!eved; but
in the sight Of God, not the most beautiful
garden fashioned by, the hand Of man, not
even Paradise, the Garden of Eden in oil its
glory and beauty of flowers and fruit. was 80
bright and glorious, as are the souls of little
children in whom the Holy Ghost dwells.
Such a scene is sweeter and brighter in the
sight of God than any garden MN ever
formed. Cardinal Manning.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
TEMPERANCE.
THE RUMsELLER ROLLS IN GOLD.

THE hUmsELLER ROLLS IN GOLD.
Men starve as they toll in the black coal
mines,
Girls freeze az they stitch in the cold;
But in every land where the moonlight
shines,
The rumseller rolls in gold.
The laborer laboreth al! his youth a
For the poorhouse when he is old,
And many the farmers tolls and fears;
But the rumseller rolls in gold
Jack drinks his wages and staggers away
To his wife, the story is old,
You may read the police reports next day
While the rumseller rolls in gold.
In coffin Of pine lies the drunkard, dead,
Under the pauper mold,
And his orphans beg their daily bread
While the rumseller rolls in gold.
Mary Kyle Dallas, in Demorest.
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Mayor Strong, Of New York City. sent a
message to the Board Of Aldermen in regard
to the financial methods of the city govern
ment under Tammany Hall. He said that
the people were led to believe by the reports
from the Comptroller's office that the
debt of New York City was Sl0o,I
amount should be added S7,020, GIG, for
which amount bonds were prepared and noT
issued, and also s19, ,s7s, ,66O for improvements
which the city is pledged to undertake, thus
making the actual total debt not $l05,777s-
854, but S132. .678, 130. ....
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In San Francisco: A man fined $40 fol
sneezinS i'll a theatre and refusing to 60
out.
In Madison County, KY. Three juries
sixty witnesses, 5000 court costs, in q case
about a s5 calf.
Ohio Supreme Court: A decision which
adds eleven square miles and 20, 900 inhabit.
ants to Cincinnati.
Chippewa Fall, Wis.,. Suit for $4,000
damages by Alfred Thomas, who was hurt bv
stick with which fellow workman was
poking sawdust away from a saw.
In Appleton, Wis.,: Suit for S2500 damages
brought by a young man against the origina.
tor Of a story that he was engaged to a girl,
In consequence Of which his really truly giri
gave him the marble heart
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
BIBLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Recalling the Scriptures Declared to be IL
legal in Pennsylvania.
Judge Guuster in deciding the Waverly'
borough school ease at Scranton. Penn, de-
clares that the reading OF the Bible in public
schools Oi Pennsylvania is illegal. In his
ruling, Judge Gunster said: "The only ques-
tion for consideration is simply and purely
one of law, and on this there is n, room for
doubt. 1t is too plain for argument that de-
nominational religious exercises and instrue-
ton in sectarian doctrine have no place IN
our system Of common-school education.
They are not only not authorized by any
law, common or statutory, but are expressly
prohibited and forbidden by our constituttont
the fundamental law Of the COMMONWEALTH. j
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
FIGHT THE DRINK.

We are told that nearly everybody deplores
the evils Of the saloon, and for any one to
cred ga back number" great majority,
however, who deplore the evils of the saloon,
do not deplore the evil of the drink. But tho
evil Is in the drink and not in the saloon.
The drink dispensed" by the State, or by q
''club Of gentlemen" or by q company Of
"best citizens" is the same old ''devil in
solution" Fight the drlnk.-National Ad-
vocate.
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A trolley car on the mountain tracks ofthe
Lehigh Traction Company, at GAINESVILLE,
Penn, ran away down the incline, and three
persons were killed outright, two were
mortally injured, and several others were
seriously hurt. Mrs. John Early. OF Beaver
Meadow; her son Edward. Cged eight years,
and Mr.. Watkin T. Williams, Of Hazelton,
were killed. Mrs. Joseph Evans and Mrs.
John Wier, both of Coloraine, were mortally
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TELEPHONES AT A DOLLAR A YEAR.

The Supreme Court Decision Gives an Inn
petus to the Business.
The recent United States Supreme Court
decision that set free the telephone patents,
among other things, has given an impetus to
the telephone industry throughout the
country. In the West the competition is es
pecia!ly close.
One small town has opened an exchange
in opposition to the Bell Telephone Com
pany, and oilers its facilities to subscribers ct
the ridiculous rate of 81 year.
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THE REASON WIT.

Inhdels should never talk of our giving up
Christianity till thoy can propose something
superior. Lord Chesterfleld's answer, there
fore, was very just When at Brussels he
invited by Voltaire to sup with him and
Madame c.. The conversation happened
to turn upon the affairs of England. II
think, my lord, said Madam c., 'that the
Parliament of England consists Of five or six
hundred of the best informed and tho most
sensible men in tho kingdom" True,
madame they are generally supposed TO be
So" What, then, my lord, can be the rea-
son they tolerate so great an absurdlty as
the Christian religion?' II suppose, ma
dame" replied his lordsh:p, sit is because
they have not been able to establish any
thing better in its stead When they can.
do not doubt that In their wisdom they will
readily adopt it."
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Sunfowers Surplant Wheat.

Several of the farmers around Garfield and
Palouse, Wash., are going to plant from one
TO twenty acres each of sunfiowers this sea-
son. They say they can beat wheat raising
at present prices. twill produce about hfty
bushels Of seed to the acre, and tho stalks
can be used for fuel.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
JAPAN STAYS HER HAND.
An Armistice With China Proclaimed
During Peace Negotiations.
THE WAR PRACTICALLY OVER.

throughout tho Conferences at Shiinon-
oseLi All Movements OF War Will Be
; Suspended---The Wound Received by
Ii Hung Chang the Cause OF the Tenn
porary Ending Of Hostllitles.
A cable dispatch from Yokohoma says
that the japanese Government will suspend
all war movements as long as the peace ne
Sotiadons last. Admiral Ito has been re-
:alled from Formosa to Japan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
Saved From Suicide With 4 Hose.

Andrew Bidua, a prisoner in Bridgeport
Conn Jail, went insane aud escaped from
officers while being conveyed to an asylum.
He was found ut Norwalk and locked up.
He set his clothing on fire. No one dared
60 near him. and hose was used to save
his life.
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Eight Hundred Per Cent. In Five Years.
The Wassermann-sloss suit being tried at
San Francisco, CAL, for the return Of stock
in the sealslin syndicate has revealed the
fact that dividends amounting to $500, on
every $100 per stock of the Alaska CONNER
cial Company. has been paid in the last five
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
A MOCKER.

Fermented wine is indeed O mocker It
promises lis strength and mocks US with
weakness; 1t promises us substance and
mocks us with shadows; it promises us heat
mocks US with premature death; it promises
US intelligence and wit and covers US with
visions Of happiness and plunges US into tho
depths Of despair. Norman Kerr, M. D.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
PIERCED BABY'S BRAIN,
Flying Piece Of a Sewing Machine Needle
Killed Her Where She Sat.

Mrs. James Vaughan was sewing on her
machine at Vinita. Indian Territory, when a
needle snapped and part Of it stuck in the
table. She put in a new needle and con-
tinued her work. About ten minutes later
she noticed that her two-year-old daughter
sat rather quietly on the floor and called to
her, but received no answer.
She picked the child up and found to her
horror that 1t was dead. A physician found
that tho cause OF death was small part Of
the needle, which had struck the eye and
penetrated the brain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
Bred Wolves for Bounty.

The bounty of $40 a piece on wolves, I'm
force for twenty years in Burea County, IIi-
nois, has been repealed. It has been learned
that many persons have been breeding the
animals for the sake Of the bounties, which
at times have exceeded S1100 year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-04-17
The Cotton King Dead.

William steenstrand, of Liverpool, Eng
land, the Cotton King, who exploited the
great corner in cotton of 1890, which caused
such a sensation and which resulted in his
losing $4,000. 900, is dead. a..
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The March Treasury Statement.

The official Treasury statement just issued
shows that in the month Of March the excess
Of expenditures over receipts was S246, 1892.
The receipts were $637,7 greater than in
March, 1894, and the expenditures 50, 42o,GoS'
less than in last March.
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A Woman Voter Dies at the Polls.

While Mrs. Thomas Jones was preparing
her ballot at polling-placs at Newcastle.
COL. she tainted and fell striking her head
heavily against the foor. She died IN :.
short time, having ruptured Il blood vessel.
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When Il man saws amen right it always
means that he Is willing to Lc put down foi
his slarc Of the expense.
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Queer Lawsuits.

Small evils hatan quick.-Ram's Horn.
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cease not to pray for the return Of that prod
igal. He may even now be standing on the
beach at Hong Kong or Madras. medtating q
return to his fathers house. Give him up2
Never give him up! Has God promised to
hear thy prayer only to mock thee? It Is not
too late.
In st. Pauls, London, there is Whisper
ing gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at
one side OF the gallery Is heard distinctly at
the opposite side, q great distance of. So
every word OF earnest prayer goes all around
the earth and makes heaven a whispering
gallery. Go into the ark-rot to sit down,
but to stand in the door and call until all the
family come in. Aged Noah, where is Japh-
eth? David, where is Absalom? Hannah,
where is Samuel?
On one Of the lake steamers there were a
father and two daughters journeyng. They
seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gen.
tlemen stepped up to the poor man to prof
fer some form Of relief and said, "You seem
to be very poor, SIR" Poor, sir" replied
the man. iii there's poorer man than me
a-troubin the world, God pity both OF us!'
Il will take one OF your children and adopt
it, if you say 50. think it would be great
relief to you" "a what?" said the poor
man. "A relief. Would it be relief to have
the hands chopped off from the body, or the
heart torn from the breast? A relief indeed
God be good to us! What do you mean,
sir?" However many children we have, we
have none to give up. Which of our families
can we afford to spare out Of heaven2 Will it
be the oldest? Will it be the youngest? Will
it be that one that was sick sometime ago?
Will it be the husband? Will it be the wife9
No, no! We must have them all in. Let us
take the children's hands and start now.
Leave not one behind. Come, father; come,
mother; come, son; come, daughter; come,
a., ,ko ay1l
are in Christ, the door, swings out to admit
us. And it Is not the hoarseness Of q stormy
blast that you hear. but the voice OF loving
and patient God that addresses you, saying,
"Come. thou and all thy house, into the
ark" And there may the Lord ehut Us In!