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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
AN OLD LANDMARK GONE.
A Roman Candle Destroys the Old
Lawson Homestead.

Last Saturday morning about sunrise the
wood room adjoining the homestead OF Ml.
w. d. Wilson was discovered 10 be on nre.
AS is usual with our people on such occasions,
many OF our citizens were soon on the ground
doing everything possible to save property.
The furniture and everything else was care.
fully removed, and except the destruction OF
the house and injury TO the trees, ouI ilttle
damage was done.
The place was settled by Hiram w. Lawson
in the forties. The modest and unpretent1ons
cottage was surrounded by choicest ornamen-
tai trees and the most beautiful blooming
plants For exquisite taste and rare beauty
of environment no settlement IN Soutn caro-.
lima could have surpassed It.. Notable among
the trees was a magnificent specimen OF pc
can tree which grew from nut which Mr..
Lawson planted more than fifty years ago. IL
is perhaps the oldest tree OF the kind In Ao'
beville county, and annually produces ousn-
els of the choicest soft shell nuts.
The house was legacy from Mrs. Wilson's
mother who died several years ago, and for
Mrs. Wilson the old place had associations
which were more priced than me worm Oh
the place in dollars and cents. She was born
in that house, and there she spent all her
days, taking an interest all the time In beau.
tifying the place with the choicest product OF
nature. x
ter other fires there are number OF persons
who say that If we had had fire company
the house could have been saved. VI this
"if'' we have nothing to say.
eff" there had been no WOOD pile tnere
would have been no fire.
"If" the roman candle had not been shot In
TO the wood pile there would have been no
blaze.
"If' a man had been present q little later
with big foot, he might have stamped out
the fire.
"If" q man little later had thrown dip
per full OF water on the insipient blaze there
would have been no destruction.
"IL" still later, some one had thrown a
bucket full OF water on the destroying ele-
ment, our people would not have been arous'
ed from their morning maps.
"IL" after the fire had gained little head,
way, q fire company had happened around
there, the blaze might have been extlnguish-
ed.
IF" the fire company had happened along
there about the right time to save the build
ing, Mr.. Wilson would not now get new
house.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
CharlestOn's Wall.

The Charleston newspapers are beginning
to realize that the city is not as prosperous as
might be desired. Their remarks on the bus
iness prosperity Of the city is a healthy sign.
coming as 1t does from a city which has pos
sibly entertained the thought that the State
and the fullness thereof belonged to the ia
nous old city by the sea augurs we'll.
When Charleston begins 10 look out for her
business prosperity instead Of expending her
energy in efforts to nullify the laws OF the
State, better times will come to that old city.
The country people naturally love Charles
ton, and are proud OF the city, but when the
newspapers and people of the city fight the
laws of the State, express contempt for the
government, and act in adisrespectful way to-
ward the rural districts, to say nothing of
their out-ofdate business methods, 1t is not
surprising II pouting and trying to trample
under foot the laws OF the State should bring
their legitimate result.
1t Is said that long ago, the Inhabitants of a
famous old city took care to have all the roads
lead TO 1t. But 1t seems that Charleston in
the past thought business and trade would go
to that city as naturally as water runs down.
hill.
have forgotten their duty in fighting the best
law of the State, and are beginning to look af-
ter the practical methods which build up a
town.
One thing which we have noticed Is prop
~osition to build up a college In Charleston,
and the suggestion, we believe. has been
made that the kindly offices of the country
press might be enlisted. Speaking for this
newspaper, we do not feel inclined to leEd
our aid for the scheme because OF the fac: that
no matter how much "blowing" we might do
for it. we would expect a representative or
employee Of the News and Courier to be
there to make arrangements to get his COM
mission out of the advertisement This may
be very wicked, but we are judging the pro-
posed college by the success with which the
News and Courier's man has been able to Sc.
cure for himself and his newspaper large
per cent. Of the appropriations for advertis.
ing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
Year 18e6-97

The above apportionment OF the School
Fund TO the different School Districts ip Alb
beville county is based on the enrolment o.
pupils in the public schools Of the county
during the last school year.
The different boards Of school trustees
must not overdraw on the amounts designat
ed for their school districts.
The amounts apportioned to each district
from the amount brought forward from last
wear will be paid out by the Treasurer In
January or February next.
The mill tax Tor 1896 97' and the poll tax
will not be due uu... November, 1897. Clerks
of the different .oards uf trustees will be re-
ouired 10 distinguish between warrants
drawn on the m VII tax and the poll tax as L
am required by law 10 report them separately
in the annual settlement.
The clerks of the different boards OF trus.
tees will be required 10 make and send to this
office on or before LIST of July, 1897, an itemiz-
ed statement OF their expenditures during
the present school year. 1t will therefore be
necessary that their books be accurately
kept.
No warrant of any board of trustees will be
endo,s sed In this Office unless the amount Of
warrant Is plainly written In words and not
put in figures, and both duplicate and orlgi.
nal must be signed by at least two OF the
trustees OF the district from which It comes
W. T. MILFORD,
Co. Supt. Of Education.
Dec..1. 1896.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
Returning Prosperity.

|Since the election there is a great demand
for the return Of prosperity. There is just one
legitimate way to become prosperous, and
that way is, 10 work for 1t.
We have considerable acquaintance with
the people Of South Carolina, and we do not
now recollect Of any mans complaint to the
effect that he had not been properly rewarded
for honest effort.
We believe that 1t is the people who do not
work much. and spend more than they make,
that are doing the grumbling. If men direct
their energies properly, and then spend less
than they make they will have less reason
and less inclination to grumble about hard
times.
Good times or good luck, generally comes
to the man who is industrious end economical.
II men are idle, or If they misdirect their en-
ergies while spending more than they make,
they will have pretext for complaint.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09

Many who think it weak an unman'
ly in others to become excited over re-
ligion and eternal interests, are now
going wild themselves with excitement
over politics and trlfies, and think that
noble and patriotic, and count those
stupid or unappreciative and unpatrl'
otic who do not follow their exam.
pie.
There are crises in our lives when
we suddenly grow conscious of the
real greatness of our nature through
the disclosure within US of capacities
that nothing but the Infinite and the
Eternal can satisfy. Then the soul
recognizes itselfin God, and immortal
ity passes from faith into an eXpe
rience.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
and thus my estimate is made at five

and thus my estimate is made at hye
cents per, pound, would be doubled.
A few years ago, before the pecan
was generally known outside of local
tiles in which it grows wild, and before
a market for it had been established,
it was 80 little regarded that pecan
grove had but little greater value than
the same area in hickory or other
hardwood timber. The demand for
the nut has increased, however, every
year, as it has become known and pric-
es have steadily advanced. 1t is quite
reasonable to believe that as it be-
comes more widely known, and as the
quality is improved by cultivation, it
will have as wide sale and bring as
high prices as the English walnut. l
believe it is very generally the case
that here the soft-shell pecan is
known it is preferred to the walnut
and to most other nuts. 1t is an unde-
niabIe lact that as the supply has in
creased the demand has grown and
prices have advanced. There would
seem to be, therefore, no reason to fear
that there will ever be an overproduc-
ton of the nut. The likelihood Of
this is further lessened by the fact be-
cause of the long period Of waiting for
results not great many persons will
undertake the business. In this rest
less and rapid age, when men can. not
wait for the slow fruition of their toll,
but must see investments grow, like
Jonahs gourd, into a fortune in a
night, comparatively few will plant a
crop from which adequate harvest
can be expected only after many years.
and yet even to man past middle age
there is in the planting of a pecan
orchard the promise of certain in
come through his declining years,
while for the next and succeeding gem
erations he could provide no more
sure and permanent legacy"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09

To tell a young man that if there is
ANYTHING in him worthy of recognition
the world is sure to find it out. is to
set before him a false standard. In
the first place it directs him to the pub
lie eve rather than to the all-seeing
eye. In the second place it makes
popularity the measure of greatness.
AS a matter of fact, popularity meas
ures nothing. The world is slow to
appreciate its best things-a large part
of its best things. A light book wins
its way in O day a book born not to
die lies forgotten a hundred years in
its swaddling clothes. The greater a
man is the longer it takes the world to
get his measure. We are figuring on
Paul yet, while thousand lesser men
since his day have had their measure,
received their honors and worn them
out and gone into oblivion. God has
not promised to reward greatness with
popularity we can hardly afford to
make the promise on our RESPONSE
bility.
BE sure that every one of you has
his place and vocation on this earth,
and that it rests with himself to find 1T.
DO not believe those who lightly say,
"Nothing succeeds like success" Ef-
fort-honest, manful, humble effort
succeeds by its reflected action, espec-
tally in youth, better than success,
which, indeed too easily and too early
gained, not seldom serves, like winning
and throw of the dice, to blind and
stupefy. Get knowledge, all you can,
Be thorough in all you do, and relnem-
Der that though ignorance often may
be innocent, pretension is always de-
spicable. But you, like men. he
strong and exercise your strength.
Work onward and upwark, and may
the blessing of the Most High soothe
your cares, clear your vision and crown
YOUR labors with rewards
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09

The growth of the post-office busi-
ness of the country has been amazing.
At the close of the Revolutionary War
there were only rs post offices in the
United States. At the close of the
war Of 1872 there were 5000. At'the
beginning of the Civil War there were
2S. 5SS, and five years after its close, in
1870, there were 2S,492, or about loo
fewer, the only step backward during
the history of the Post-office Depart
ment. BY 1880 the upward rise had
started again in full force, and the
number of post-offices In the country
reached $4,000. There are now 5000
post-offices in the United States, and
the number is being constantly in
creased.
The Bible is now printed in 3Sl
languages, tifty-two versions having
been added in the last five years.
Forty-two Of these versions are credited
to English and Scotch societies, and
five to American societies. Twenty
three of the languages and dialects be-
long to the African Bantu family, ana
four belong to each of the Malayan ,
Chinese, aud Malanesian, three are in
Indian languages, two each belong to
the negro, Turk, Druidian, and Hami-
tic groups, and one each to the Thibeto,
Burman, Aryan, and Micronesian fam
lilies.
How many blunders we should es-
cape, If We were not so m uch lncllned
to think of ourselves M ore highly than
we ought to think.
If the Christian who is treading a
pathway of suffering will only look
about him, he will see the footprints
of the Master who has gone before him
in the same road.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
accepted n Position"

We see this stereotyped phrase nearly ev-
cry day In some of our exchanges, and we
would protest. To put 1t in such words seems
an implied apology on the part OF John Jones
for going TO work or that he is doing some
thing OF which he is ashamed.
If an idle fellow has concluded to 60 to
work, let him say that he has secured q job,
and not assume great and mighty airs by try
ing to show that he has been seduced from
the idle paths of gentility and limited means
to take \ place with vulgar workers among
the common herd. -
Such fellows as accept positions need not
apologize for the act, and they need not try
to make, 1t appear that they are Con ferring
honor on anybody by working for them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1896.
Alabama Proposes TO Incorporate
Our Dispensary Law I'm Their
Statute Books.

- Statute Books.
From the Charleston Post we copy the iol-
lowing:
Montgomery, Ala, Dec. lit looks as
though the liquor dispensary bill, Wnlcn
seeks TO establish in Alamba liquor systena
ma, will eventually pass; A strong sentiment
in favor of the bill prohibiting the sale or CIV
p ing away OF cigarettes Is also developing. A
lobby OF moralists is begin ming to gather an q
hard fight will be made In favor OF potn
measures"
The Press and Banner copgratulates the
temperance people of Alabama on their effort
adopt a sensible and practicable plan OF reduc'
ing drunkenness and promoting temperance.
This editor speaks from the standpoint OF
life long prob ibitionist.
The result of the dispensary law In this
Estate ba>bsen most wholesome. At the time
ef the adoption of the law there were In
South Carolina one thousand barrooms. One
thousand business places were occupied IN
the traffic, and 1t was estimated that five
thousand men were employed in dealing out
swhiskey to all corners who had money, credit
: or colaterals to pledge for drinks. The bars
were kept open for larger part Of each
twenty-four hours Of the week day, and their
& back doors were notalways closed on Sunday.
When the dispensary law went into effect
the system of treating was abolished. One
hundred dispensaries took the place Of one
thousand bars. The dispensaries were open
ed at specified hours, we believe from eight
o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in
the afternoon.
Since then drunkenness has greatly dimin-
ished, treating Is unknown, and the restric.
tions which are placed around the sale of II.
Quor has reduced the traffic to small figures
when compared with the old plan. By the
dspensary plan the buyer is protected against
swindle in the quality or strength Of the IL
quor. 1t Is just what 1t purports to be, and
the State holds out no inducement to any
body to buy. p.
Except few irreconciable politicians and
those whose business Is hurt by the reduction
of the traffic the great mass of the people OF
South Carolina are in favor of the law. II
anybody doubts the correctness of this state
ment let the Legislature of Alabama appoint
"a committee TO come to this state to enquire
into the beneficial effects of our dispensary
law.
Except few politicians who hate the poI!t.
cal faction that adopted the law, and those
who believe that they have legal right to
obtain license. we think our Alabama friends
will find few who object to the law, and none
who will not admit its benefcent influence
upon the morality and sobriety of the people
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09

He that is habituated to deceptions
and artificialties in trifles, will try in
vain to be true in matters ofimportance;
for truth is a thing of habit rather than
of will. You cannot in any given
case. by any sudden and single efforts,
will to be true, if the habit of your life
has been insincere.
If your heart is wrong, your life will
be wrong.
Friends got without desert are apt to
be lost without cause.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
TRADE AT HOME.

Don't Dry Up the Fountains thai
Bring Prosperity to Your Town.
Never send a dollar away from
home, says an exchange, when the
article that the dollar will purchase
can be obtained at home. Money is
our financial blood. Its circulation
keep the business body alive. Bleed
that body by sending the money away
from home and business soon will puI
on look of lethargy and inactivity
Always trade at home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09

In the field of war invention meets
invention. A new French invention
is smoke bomb, intended to be fired
into the ranks of the enemy who uses
smokeIess powder and obscure his
view.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09

Then in need of stationary don't fail to
! ON Harrison & Came.
10 elegant lines Of perfumes just received
arrison & Games.
Ajlets Of sicily extract is as delicate and as
int as the flower, for sale only by Harri-
3ame.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-09
The State Of South Carolina
ABBEvILLE COUNTY.
PROBATE COURT.

Citation for Letters of Administration.
BY E. HILL. ESQ, JUDGE OF PROBATE.
WHEREAS, f. NJ. LIpscomb has MADE
w suit 10 me, to grant him Letters OF Ao-
ministrntion of the Estate and elects OF
Robert Butler, late OF AobeVille county,
These Are Therefore, to cite and admonlsn
ali and singular The kindred and creditors OF
the said Robert Butler, deceased, that tney
be and appear before me, in the Court OF tTo,
9th day OF December; 1896: aiter ropon poO1'ca, a.
show cause If any they have, why the said
Admin istration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal OF the
Court this 28rd day Of Nov, IN the
LIS year Of our Lord one thousand eleht
hundred aud ninety-six and ID tne
12lst year of American independence.
Published on the 25th day Of Nov, lSg0. 10
the Press and Banner and on the Court HOUSE
door for the time required by law; ,,,,r
Judge OF Probate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-21
THE ELwooD OBJECT LESSON.

A dispatch from Elwood states that the
bottle workers in that city have agreed to
a. reduction of 20 per cent. in their wages,
and that it was made necessary by an in
creased importation of foreign made bot
ties under the present ad valorem tariff
law. The men accepted the situation be-
cause they saw that it could not be
changed. If the higher wages were de-
manded the works would have been COM
PEELED to shu down because the manu-
faeturers could not nave competed with the
goods made by the much cheaper labor in
Belgium and France. 1t is a loss not only
to the glass workers. but it extends to the
trade of the town, as the reduction makes
a difference OF $500 d week in the wage of
one factory, or over $50 a month. This
amount of money will not be spent in the
groceries for food or in the other stores
for clothing. 1t is, therefore, a loss to the
grocer, the farmer and all the other trades.
The Wilson bill had no noisier supporter
in Congress than William j. Bryan. He
was the ultra free-trader. lie was the one
man who said 10 a representative of glass
workers who went to see the ways and
means committee that laborers who sought
protection for their industries were public
beggars.I If he could have made a tariff
the bottle makers and all workers In fac
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-21
APPLE CULTURE IN INDIANA.

A market report shows that the number
Piles shipped abroad this season exceed up
to this date the total export of last season.
The entire number exported between July
q, 1895, and May 16, 1896, was about IT'S, 900
barrels, while up to Oct. 10, 1896, the num-
Der is about 7S3, 900 barrels. The apple crop
is very large this year all over the country,
and prices are consequently low, but low
prices are better than none at all, and a
great many Indiana growers are having no
sale for their fruit. Few, if any, apples are
sent from this State for export, and they
New York and Michigan apples are sold in
the indianapolis streets while the crop in
orchards not twenty-five miles away lies
rotting on the ground. The reasons for
this state of affairs are not hard to find.
Indiana farmers do not give the attention
to their orchards that Eastern and North
ern growers do. They plant the trees that
some enterprising agent sells them and
give them little more thought or attention.
There is no grating, or pruning, or cult
waiting, or spraying. Insects have their
own way with the trees, and when the
latter come into bearing the fruit, even if
of a good variety originally. is gnarly,
wormy and unequal in flavor to that from
a well-cared-for tree. When it is fairly
good it is apt to be spoiled in the handling.
Instead Of being picked from the trees and
packed carefully in barrels it is shaken to
the ground, tumbled into boxes or wagons,
and reaches the market bruised and bat
tered and unattractive in appearance, and
product of shrewder growers Oranges
nave a rind that withstands bruising far
better than the skin of an apple, but or
anges are picked from the trees one by one,
each then wrapped in tissue paper and laid
in it's box with careful hand. Choice ap-
pies are worthy Of equal care. To many
tastes the orange bears no comparison to
the apple as an article of food, and it GER
tainly lacks the infinite variety of the lat
ter as to flavor and beauty. But with all
this variety it is not always easy in this
market to buy good apples, and when
found they are. as before stated, almost
sure to have been grown outside Of In
diana. 1t is Ii lack which should be
remedied. The orchards should be i'm
proved and farmers should become as
skilled in horticulture as they are IN the
growing of corn and wheat.