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THE FOURTH IN EUROPE
Celebrations Of the Glorious Day In London
and Elsewhere.

oeAeorations OF the Glortoua Day IN LonooH
and Elsewhere.
In London the American Society gave q
Fourth of July banquet In the Great Hail Of
the Criterion Theatre, Ambassador Bayard
presiding. A statue OF Liberty behind the
Chairman was draped with the American
colors. Two hundred and twenty-one persons
attended. After toast to the Queen had
been proposed by Ambassador Bayard, Sir
Richard Webster proposed q toast to the
was drunk standing, with three cheers for
the President. Ambassador Bavard then pro-
posed toast to 1.-THE Day We Celebrate" "
Ambassador Bayard referred..to 1776. thank
Ing God for July 4. OF that year. Enthusi.
sstic cheers followed, flags were waved,
and the band played "Hail Co.
lumbia' and other American songs.
Mr.. Greer, OF New York., proposed q
toast to ''The Community Of English Speak
ing People" James Bryce. NJ. P, replying,
referred to the heroes common to both peo-
pie. The Rev. NJ. D. Hoge then proposed
toast to 1.-THE American Society," which
was greeted with loud cheers. Eight
hundred persons attended the re-
Bayard gave at his residence. IN Eaton
Square, in honor of the Fourth Of July. Mr..
and Mrs. Bayard received the guests at the
top OF the staircase, and the Ambassador and
all the members Of his staff wore the National
colors at their buttonholes.
The Fourth of July celebrations were
more general In Germany this year than
heretofore. In addition to the official cele-
brattons by Ambassador Uhl and Consul
General DeKay, there was grand festival
at the Geological Garden. Fifty Ameri-
cans had dinner, with an accompani-
ment OF fireworks. flags and music. The
Uncle Sam Club gave commers and Mrs
Willard held a reception. Mrs. Uhl's
luncheon to the Consular ladies WAS elabor-
ate. The reception which followed was in
the nature OF a house-warmin2. 1t was at
tended by the whole American colony.
Many houses In Berlin displayed American
flags in honor OF the day.
In Paris the United States Consulate and
the houses OF the Americans hoisted the
United States flag. Ambassador Eustis be-
ing away. reception was held BY Consul
Morss. The leading Americans, many Eng.
lish people and Italians and the American
Consuls were at the American Chamber ot
Commerce banquet. NJ. Lebon, Minister fol
the Colonies. proposed an alliance between
France and America In the cause OF liberty
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-22
THE MAIN WORK OF LIFE.

The main work OF our life may be variously
phrased, ,,but one way OF expressing 1t would
be as follows: To take the natural elements
of our character, and by bringing them into
close, permanent contact with Jesus, get
them SO purified and mellowed so ennobled
and suhlimated. that the grossness and droSs
chall depart, while the excellence remains.
Toe great thing is to put ourselves where we
can have brought to bear upon US the tre-
mendous educative influence which comes
from the warm, close, personal friendship of
is nothing more precious or powerful.
When we stand Continually where we
watch the nobility of his impulses,
feel the great sweep Of his wide-reaching af-
fections, everything s mall or base within us
is rebuked. and we put on, without fully
knowing it, similar habits ofsoul. 1t was
precisely in this Way that the Apostle John
became 50 Wonderfully transformed, SO
radically changed. He was n the 9egla-
ming son of thunder, vehement and No-
consume his enemies, bent on securing the
first place as the right hand of power. But
after his prolonged intercourse with Jesus,
his zeal became chastened, his ambition
turned into worthler channels. He grew in
to likeness with Him whom he loved so
truly. and became the disciple whom
Jesus especially loved. 1t seems clear that
he was the most receptive of all the Twelve
the one in whom the love OF Christ had
freest course. and hence there was less diff
Guilty in affecting the transformation. He
remained to some extent John, not James or
Peter or Paul. The lines OF his being were
not obliterated or blotted out, but they were
wonderfully touched up and toned down
and added to, until very different picture
was formed upon them-a picture of rarest
beauty and marvellous completeness. What
occurred in the case Of the son Of Zebedee
may occur in the case Of any other son un-
der the wide heavens. We may get into,
and stay in, the very presence of the Son Of
Man, and so become altogether like Him
each one like Him, yet each one somewhat
different. 1t is glorious work that may
we'll absorb and thrill US.
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A Song Of Summer.

Skies Of deepest blue o'erneac,
Green grass springing from its bed;
Bursting buds and opening flowers '
Fill with perfume woodland bowers.
Drowsy murmurs fll the air.
Butterflies fit here and there;
List! the locust's high keyed droning
Minzles with tho doTe's soft moaning
.Ss5SasaSSssscSa ..=,
Whip-poOr will, with plaintiye cry,
Calls to black bat futtering by:
Crickets chirp. we pause and listen;
All around bright fire. flies glisten.
BRIGHT the sunshine, warm the breeze,
Birds are twittering In the trees;
Bumbie.bee is gaily humming. :.
"Don't you know that summers conn
Fain we'd linger by the way, -
But dim night fast follows day;
Twilight's mystic shades entold US,
Far-off; glittering stars behold US. -, i.
SIGHTS we see and sounds we hear
Charm alike the eye and ear
Birds and insects, flowers up-springtng,
'TIs fair summer ye are bringing.
1Eya Z. gssaes, IL ssnbeams'
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TEMPERANCE.
SALOON ADVERTISEMENT.


I will sell you, kind neighbors, If you will
but call,
A drink that will poison and ruin you all;
The goods Ishall deal in will take away LIE,
Deprive some of reason; fill the country
with strife;
Make widows and orphans, Of fathers make
tlends;
The loud wall of thousands my business at
tends
Twill see that the youths in ignorance are
kept;
Their morals corrupt. nor shall forget
OF natural affection the parent to rob.
I'll inspire insurrection and up the mob.
1 will uproot religion, the soul I'll destroy;
For none Of my votaries shall heaven enjoy.
Though spirits are priceless I'll send them to
hell:
Compel them forever in torment to dwell. I
Should any one ask me my reason to give,
My answer is, Money. and money I'll have.
BY trading in spirits I can it obtain,
And II 1 keep trading no one should COM
plain;
Legislators sustain me. my business support,
And then have license directly from Court.
Judges assure me my business is Just,
Though it ruins my neighbor and grinds him
to dust.
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It is understood, however, that few army
posts and naval vessels flew the new flag and
chat both the army and navy have stock Of
them on hand ready for distribution as soon
as acquisitions are made by army posts and
commanders Of vessels.
Under the regulations flags must be used
until worn out. so that the flags now In use
will have to be flown until condemned, when
new flags containing the additional star will
be supplied.
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The Labor World.

Chicago has 300 labor organizations.
Plasterers are deserting Buffalo, N. Y. :,
Boston Is credited with 81, ,OC0 unionlsts.
Buffalo hos Polish freight handlers
union.
Erie (Penn.) painters want nine hours
and So.
At Berlin 12,5GO cabinetmakers won ad-
yances.
st. Pau! (Iinn.) bricklayers get forty
cents on hour.
Female BARRIERS have been admitted 10 the
st. Louis union.
A second conference on the tin plate wage
scale was held at Pittsburg without result.
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Prominent People.

The Russian Czarina is the seventh woman
RI bs nppoInted to i colonelcy in tno Prus-
ian army.
EMPRESS Frederick, Dowaser of Germany,
drows s4U. 900 a wear from the British Treas
ury as an EngIisn Princess.
William Black, the novel writer. Is also l.
portrni. painter, an enthusiastic po'auS'
and an all-round sportsman.
Gladstone has written such vast numoer
of letters during his life thar his autographs
bring only twelve cents In the EnGlisn mar
kcts.
Colonel Charles klng, the military novel
lat. is a handsome, soldierly man of about
hfty. with gray hair and mustache, and the
bronzed complexion Of the frontiersman.
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A Barrel of Brock Trout.

One of the wickedest sights we have
seen in a long while, says the Lewis
ton (Me.) Journal. was witnessed this
week when a man went through the
streets OF this city offering for sale
barrel of brook trout. The man
claimed to have bought them in Can
ada, and to have brought them here
for sale. All of the trout were frozen
solidly into the barrel, and among
them were some not over four inches
long. These little fellows should have
been at home with their mammas tor
the next two years. Canada should
look to her fish laws.
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TRAGEDY IN A CEMETERY.
Irs. Johns Lay in Ambus for Nc cCalium,
and He Shot Her Dead.

Mrs Lem Johns was killed at Kuttawa,
Ky., by Marshal McCalluu. The tragedy
grew out of q feud. Eight months ago Nc
Calium arrested Mrs. Bergman, mother Of
Mrs. Johns, for resisting him In the dis
charge OF his duties, and she fell dead in
Jail from heart disease as a result Of excite
ment. McCallum was acquitted on trial for
contributing to her death.
Mrs. Johns hid herself In the cemetery,
that man wanted to see him. When he
came she rosc from behind gravestone
with a pistol levelled at him. McCallum
quickly drew his pistol and fired, killing the
woman instantly.
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Sickness In Spanish Army In Cuba.

There are 6S10 men in the military hos
pitals OF the island OF Cuba. OF this number
6s5 are down with yellow fever at Colon. 1l5
at SIatanzas, 81 at Santa Clara and so In
Havana, Surgeon-General Losada thinks
that not over IS, 900 soldiers will be sick dur
ING the summer. The mortality Is 1.o9 per
cent, and there has oeen decrease OF 81 per
cent, In the cases Of yellow fever.
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General p. M. b. Young Dead.

General Pierce Morgan Butler Young, En-
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary for the United States to Guatemala and
Honduras, died at the Presbyterian Hospital,
New York City. ola complication Of diseases.
His death was due mainly to heart disease.
with which he had been afflicted fer several
years, and was very sudden, rs IL was
thought at the hospital that he was improv-
ing. General Young was born in Spartan
burg, 8. c., In 1887.
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One Country!

After all, ,..-....
One country, brethren! We must rise or falI
With the supreme republic; we must be
The makers OF her immortality
Her freedom-fape;
Her glory. or her shame:
Liegemen to God and fathers Of the free!
a
After all \
Hsrk! from the heights the clear, strong
clarion-call Ges
And the command imperious: fSE,sc
Stand forth, .;.li
Sons Of the South and brothers Of the Northll
Stand forth. and be Nsf
As one on soil and sea- 80
Your country's honor more tsan empireS5
worth"
After all, .
Tis Freedom wears the lovellest coronal:
Her brow Is to the Morning: In the sod
She breathes the breath OF patriots; every
clod a
Answers her call
And rises like wall =
Against the foes Of Liberty and God! !
Frank L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitutions
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BICYCLES AND THE SALOON.

The liquor dealers also complain that the
bicycle hurts their business. Young men
who formerly loafed about the saloon now
are out on the road. Money formerly
spent for drink is now spent for the bicycle.
The good rider has found out that strength
and speed on wheel ure impossible for the
drinker Of intoxicants. Many young fellows
are ambitious to be fast riders. and hence
they quit the strong drink.-Rev. Charles B.
Mitchell
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FORTY-FIvE STARS NOW.

Our New Flag Thus Recognizes the Adj
mission OF Utah.
The forty-hfth star, representing the en-
trance into the Union Of the State OF Utah,
was added to the flag on the Fourth OF July,
but very few of the Nations standards which
aoated in the breeze displayed the new brill
Ia
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-22
A Flowing Well.

The largest artesian we'll IN New
Mexico was completed the other day
on the ranch of Captain F. d. Lea.
The stream shoots up column twelve
inches high, through a pipe three feet
high and five inches in diameter. Ac-
curste measurements have shown q
dow Of 220 gallons per .ainute.
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THROWN BY cATER?!LLARS.
New Source of Danger to Cyclists Discov
cred In Brooklyn.

Caterpillars are the latest known source Of
danger to cyclists. On Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn, between DeKalb and Willoughby,
numbers Of these pests were washed off the
trees by the rain upon the smooth asphalt
road. They were crushed beneath the
wheels OF bicycles and other vehicles, and
soon the road was rendered so slippery that
not q cyclist could pass it without being
thrown.
Many minor accidents occurred. and the
matter was investigated. The cause was
then discovered, sand was thrown down and
policemen stationed at the ends Of the block
warned cyclists of the danger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-22
l.ecord-Ereaking Speedy Justice.

At West Liberty, ky., Fate Brooks was
found guilty Of the murder of Gus Nc
KinzIe and sentenced to be hanged. The
murder occurred the day before. 1t was the
result Of quarrel between drunken men.
McKinzle was the son Of tho County Judge.
Brooks would have been lynched but for the
promise of O speedy trial.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-22
WARREN'S STATUE UNVEILED.
It Occupies Site In Prospect Plaza
Brooklyn.

The unveiling and dedication OF the statue
of Major-G General Gouverneur Kemble Wsr-
ren, erected on the Prospect Park Plaza. in
Brooklyn, was the most noteworthy feature
of the celebration Of the Fourth In the city.
Mrs. B. L. Parker, who first started the
fund to erect the statue, was present on the
platform with twenty-five Of her associates,
but she did not make any statement.
The G. Z. Warren Post conducted the ser.
vices. A. Sidney Warren son OF General
Warren, uncovered the statue. Light Bat
terry Z, U. 8. A, In command. OF captain
John W. Dillenbeck, fired salute. The
statue was presented to the city Of Brooklyn
by Henry Foster, of the Warren Post. G. A.
r. It was accepted by Henry N. Palmer,
Deputy Commissioner Of Parks.
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THEY ARE KILLING MEN.

The liquor selling establishments of the
land are killing men for gain, as certainly
and steadily as II they were absolute retail
ers of the plague, or of pestilential disease.
strates. terribly, the destruction they are
making of their neighbors. For what Is muir
der2 According to Blackstone, eminent au-
thorlty 1t is ''the sacrifice Of human life from
mere sordid love OF gain, supreme selfish
ness, reckiessness, or any wicked state of
the heart" Think YOU, does not the drunk
ard makers occupation come within the
compass of the defnition2 Let the graves of
the victims and the sad faces of living sur
vivors answer.-National Temperance Advo-
cate
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Colorado Populists.

The Colorado State Convention OF the
Peoples party at Denver selected u deleSa-
ton to the St. Louis Convention that will
favor union of all silver forces " hile main
tanning the party organization and platform.
They will work to secure an endorsement OF
the Democratic party nominee in Chicago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-22
Alfaro Wins q Battle.

General Alfaro, Provisional President OF
Ecuador, defeated the rebel forces under
General Vega. The rout Of the Insurgents
Is reported to have been complete. The bat
tie took place in the mountains between
Ouimaz and Chimba.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-22
II IN BRONZE NEAR ESSEN.
Statue oc the Famous Chinese Ficeroy Un'
yelled In His Presence.

The nonors heaped on Ii Hung Chang, in
statne cf the famous Chinese Viceroy in his
presence in the park of Herr Krupp's villa,
near Essen. IA,
tho object of making him disgorge orders,
but he is disappointing his scheming enter
tainers, for instead of giving them the orders
they so earnestly, yet diplomatically, seek,
he is rewarding them with decorations.
All the heads of departments nave oeen IN.
cluded in his wholesale Distribution OF
decorations.
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Behind the Hill.


think know path
We two might 60 together;
It turns not up the strath,
Nor crosses by the heather.
It bends not to the north.
Where burns the beacon star;
II leads not sunward forth
Where the rose and swallow are.
No winds OF March discover
The early violet there's
The pewit and the plover
Stir not the darkling air.
For Ii lies behind the hill
Where MONDAY Is as night,
Where the loudest bird Is still
And the reddest rose Is white.
Not here for US, I know,
Again the golden weather;
But there, think we'll go
In the dreamless dusk together
Margaret Armour, in Black and White.
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MUSE NM
Which One?

Which One?
II love you. mother" said little Joe.
And he gave her hug and kiss or 80.
But the wood-box was empty
And baby cried.
While Joe ran of to have good ride.
IT love you, mother" said little Sue, =.
II love you so much-you know do"
And the empty wood-box she filled with;
wood,
And played with the baby till he was good;
And the mother thought-ah, surely you've
guessed
Which Of the children loved her the hest.
Florence A. Hayes
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Observing the Fourth.

Parades, picnics and cycling jaunts wore
features of the Fourth, which was more gen.
orally observed throughout the United States
than in recent years.
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The Sleeping of the Wind.

The great red moon was swinging
Allow in the purple east; +
The robins had ceased from singing,
The noise Of the day had ceased; i
The golden sunset islands
Had faded into the sky,
And warm from the sea OF silence
A wind OF sleep came by.
It came so balnly and resting
That the treetop breathed kiss,
And irowsy wood-bird, nesting
Chirped wee note Of bliss:
It stole over fragrant thickets
As soft as an owl could fly.
And whispered to tiny crlcket5
The words Of lullaby.
Then slowly the purple darkened,
The whispering trees were still.
And the hush Of the woodland hardened
To crying whip-poor will;
And the moon grew whittier, and by 1t
The shadows lay dark and deep;
But the fields were empty and quiet,
For the wind had fallen asleep:
Charles B. Going, in Ladies' Home Journal
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o God of truth, make me one with thee
in eternal love. Oft am ! weary. reading,
listening. but all wish and long for is in
thee. Thee silent be all teachers. speak thou
10 me alune.-Thornas kCmpiS.
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A WARNING TO YOUTH,

Charles Lamb, than whom England nevof
produced a more lovable, witty, brilliant
humorist, having been seduced and brought
to the verge OF an untimely grave By strong
drink, raised this note Of warning:
The waters have gone over me; yet out of
their depths, could l be heard, would cry
aloud to those who have set foot in the peril
Gus food. Could the youth to whom the
first flavor Of sin Is delicious look into my
degradation and see what fearful thing It
is to feel ones self going over a precipice,
yet with open eyes and passive will to look
calmly on his own destruction, yet feel 1t all
emanatIng from himself; could he but look
into my eye, feverish with last nights drink
ing. and feverish looking forward to to-
nights repetition of that folly: could he but
feel all godliness depart out OF him, yet not
forget the time when it was otherwise; could
be but feel this body of death, out Of which I
cry hourly for delirerance, yet with feebler
and feebler outcry; 1t were enough to make
him dash the sparkling cup to earth in all
the mantling pride Of its temptation"
The Religious Telescope, after quoting this
In an address to youth, says
"Why did not Mr.. Lamb quit and reform?
Because he could not. Ere he was aware he
had bound himself with the steel wires Of
habit and sold himself slave to an all-con-
suming. fiery appetite for strong drink. he
did not quit and reform, for the very reason
that you will not quit and reform ten years
hence II you form the habit Of drinking and
arouse the fiery appetite by tampering with
strong drink now.
"AnJ, young men and boys. why not heed
the admonition of the inspired Word2 You
do not want to be ruined by strong drink.
You do not wish to become that most loath-
some OF all things, drunkard. But to avoid
this terrible fate you must turn your face
like flint against the saloon and the wine
cup. 1t is the only safe way. We speak
from experience, and we know what We say"
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erected In Athens. Greece. The statue is the
gift of Mr.. Demetrlus stefanovlc schcylizzl
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" GENERAL SCOTT OF 1NTEMpERAScE.

General Scott was In command at Rock
Island when the cholera broke out there,
and, after various injunctions in his order as
20 sobriety and cleanliness, he added this
curious paragraph, which was recently
printed In the Magazine Of American His
.ory: :.>sI-sa=s2a-aEsassSsae,ySs "a, III
SH1n addition to the foregoing, the senior
surgeon present recommends the use Of
aannel underclothing and wooden stockings;
but the Commanding General, who has seen
much of disease, knows that 1t Is intemper-
ance which, In the present state of the
atmosphere, generates and spreads the
calamity, and that, when once spread, good
and temperate men are likely to take infec-
tion. he therefore peremptorily commands
that every soldier or ranger who shall be
found drunk or sensibly, Intoxicated after
the publication of this order be compelled,
as soon as his strength will permit, to dig a
grave at suitable burying place, large
enough for his own reception, as such grave
cannot fail soon to be wanted for the drunken
man himself or some drunken companion.
This order is given as we'll to serve for the
punishment of drunkenness as to spare good
and temperate men the labor Of digging
graves for their worthless companions"