davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1896-07-01
STOCK
consisting chiefly of:

Carriage and Harness Mountings,
Poles, Wheels, Springs, Paints,
Paint oil, Varnish, Saddlecloths,
Brides, Bits, Riding and Driving
reins, Buckles, Riding and Driving
whips.
Nails, Spikes, Hinges, Hooks and
Staples, Locks and latches in large
assortment and variety.
Harness and shoe leather, shoe
makers tools and materials.
Round and fat bar-iron, tin sheets,
buckets, Heating-irons, lronpots and
Comforts, Barbwire.
Also
Collars, Cuffs, Hats, Helmets,
Shoes, Soaps, Looking glasses, Elan
mel, Walking-sticks, Clocks, Table
and other lamps, Lanterns, Chin
neys and Globes, Violin and Guitar
strings, Ropes, Indi5o-blue, Whiting,
Glass and EarthenWare, Oatmeal,
Preserves, Cherry and Madeira
Wine etc, etc.
Christisnsted's Yendoe Office, St. Croix,
the 25th June 1896.
FRISCu,
actg.
Fee $500
say Two Dollars.
, 1896-07-01
LUG Ton

77HE Vendue Director makes
known that at the request of
Christiansted's Dealing Court in
administration Of the Estate of
the late Mr.. NIELS EMANUEL
FRORUP. merchant, will be offered
for sale in the STORE-R00MS on
the property No. So Kings Street
in Christiansted on
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-25
What is Dirt?

Old DR.. Cooper, of South Carolina,
used to Say to his students: "What is
dirt? Don't be afraid of little dirt,
young gentleman. What is dirt
Why, nothing at all offensive, when
viewed. Rub little alkali
on that dirty grease-spOt on your coat,
and it undergoes a chemical change
and becomes soap; now rub it with a
little water, and it disappears it is
neither grease, soap, water, nor dirt.
That is not very odorous pile of dirt
you observe there well, scatter q
little gypsum over it, and it is no long
er dirty. Everything you call dirt is
worthy your notice as students Of
chemistry. Analyze it-analyze it 1t
will all separate into very clear ele-
ments. Dirt makes corn, and corn
makes bread meat, and that makes q
very sweet young lady that I saw
one of you kissing last night. So, after
all, you were kissing dirt-particularly
If she whitened her skin with chalk or
Fuller's earth. There Is no telling,
young gentlemen, what is dirt.
Though I may say that rubbing such
stuff upon the beautiful skin of q
young lady is dirty practice. Pearl
powder, think, is made of bismuth-
nothing but dirt"
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In Quietness.

Quietness of soul! This one of those
spiritual truths that in its fullness can
only be spiritually discerned, and can
only be ours as we live il.
For in the matter of religious truth
there is a difference, "the tree Of
knowledge is not necessarily the tree
of life." Life! Living goes deeper
than knowledge. Let us remember
this as we ponder the mystery of ST.
lence. Of stiffness before God, for only
the living soul can hear the echoes
of the Voice that fills "faith's ear with
still delight" Let US remember, too,
mind may be still, though active,
and that the quietness which is part of
"the confidence" we have in Him. tn e
Christ, is only found in the close abid-
ing in His own parable of the vine and
the branch.
You must not lose heart because you
do not come to know this nearness
all at once, for love involves constant
growth and conformity to His will {;
hence the longer we follow that will
the more the soul, by Gods grace,
expands.
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1t will be to your interest to see Aug. w.
Smith before buyir 6 boys and children cloth.
ing. You will save money.
You will always get goods at the very low
est market price by trading with Aug. w
Smith.
Aug. w. Smith is headquarters for flour,
corn, bacon, sugar, coffee, molasses, tobacco
and every thing In the grocery line. You can
buy anything in the grocery line from him as
cheap as any concern In the State and In fact
q great deal cheaper than most OF his would.
be competitors. When you are buying big
bill OF groceries don't fail TO see him and get
his prices.
Just think Of 1t one merchant in the town
OF Abbeville with 500 barrels OF flour now in
store and ware house. This includes about
$50 barrels OF the popular brand, Aug. w.
Smiths Dew Drop.
Aug. w. Smith has sc calicos.
The very latest fashions In spring hats to-
gether with q large variety OF dress styles,
notions. &c, will be on exhibition lst, End
and 3rd OF April. at Haddon's.
Have you seen those beautiful Jet aud ban.
gle trimmings in gilt, silver and changeable
styles now on sale at Haddon's?
To be In the swim every lady must have a
pair Of Haddon's patent leather needle point
ed OK Xford ties. Also the same in tan and 9TH
er beautiful styles. The largest stock in town
TO select from at Haddon's.
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Somehow, if you have patience i'm
sort of cheer along with it; and, before
you know what is going to happen,
your whole experience is irradiated
as with suLshine. think the patient
life is the Successful one after all
Why should you be unwilling to
grant liberty Of opinion to your breth-
rem, when you insist upon it 80 stren-
uously for yourself?
If you knew the struggles through
which your brother is passing, you
would stop criticising him and throw
your arm around him:
People say they shell peas when
they unshell them, husk corn when
they unhusk it, dust furniture when
they undust it, skin a calf when they
unskin it, scale fishes when they
unscale them, weed their gardens
when they unweed them.
Don't assume that the man who
talks war the loudest would be the
first man to enlist. The chances are
first-trate that he would hire substi-
stute.
The greatest homage we can pay to
truth is to use it.
No man is so insignificant as to be
sure his exa mple can do no hurt.
1t takes some people long time to
find out that it never pays to worry.
What do we live for if it is not to
make life less difficult to each other.
1t never does any good to talk
religion with snap like that of a steel
trap.
Many a man who is waiting for a
chance has been standing on the
wrong corner.
Endeavor 80 to live that when you
come to die even the undertaken will
be sorry.
Many men owe the grandeur of their
lives to their tremendous difficulties.
The best way for man to get out of
lowly position is to be conspicuously
effective in it.
The easiest money to spend and the
hardest to save, is that which we have
not yet earned.
He, indeed, is wise man who meas
ures his Affections with the yardstick
of his blessings.
The love of pleasure betrays US into
pain and many man, through love
of fame, becomes Infamous.
If you allow your happiness to de-
pend on the favor of men, you will
very soon be miserable man.
Contenment is good thing until
it reaches the point where it sits in the
shade and lets the weeds grow.
For a crowd is not company, and
faces are but a gallery of pictures, and
talk but tinkling cymbal, where
there is no love.
Contempt for money is constantly
found to be only fine name for being
too indolent TO earn it or too eXtrava-
CANT too keep it.
1t is one of the beautiful compensa-
tions of life that no man can sincerely
try to help another without helping
himself.
There are 2OO,00O,0OO acres of forest
lands in the republic of Venezuela.
Rosewood, stainWood, and mahogany
and white and black ebony are found.
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r. NJ. HADDoN & Co.'S grand spring open
Ing on lst, End and 3rti of April will be more
extensive than ever this season, and the Ia
dies are cordially invited to examine their
stock.
Now Is your time to get rid OF your poor
cattle-if you want to sell. Bring them to
Abbeville, where q reasonably fair price will
be paid for odds and ends OF lean kline.
MRS. MORSE. after an absence of several
months visiting her children In Admission,
Ala, and Brunsw lex Ga, has returned home.
HAVE you lost q pocket knife? We have
an extra one at the Press and Banner Office.
Maybe 1t Is yours.
WE have had more ice In March than in
any month this Winter but 1t seems that the
cold weather is nearly over.
WE have 1t from good authority that Capt.
r. II. Armstrong will be q candidate for the
office OF Comfy Supervisor.
REV. F. Y. PRESSLY will preach in A. R.
Presbyterian church next Sabbath morning
and night.
MISS FANNIE MORROW will have charge OF
the central telephone office.
DON'T forget Haddon's spring opening next
Wednesday, April 1st.
Mr.. BEAcHAM now runs the Miller Hotel
under new name-the Abbeville Inn.
THE farmers are we'll up with the farm
work.
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"HOnOr Bright.o

Eyes, mother, I will, honor bright
Did you ever know me to oreah my
promise ?"
mo, my son, never dld; anu
Mrs. Dunning stroKed ihe DroWn
curls lovingly ss she lookea uown lnto
the honest eyes that never II, an Harry
Dunning's fifteen years had ialied 10
! look straightforwardly back into hers;
"Well, mother, you never VIII. ,,, LII
be home by ten, sure. NOW, I'm on T.,
and Harry sprang down the steps and
was AWAY like an arrow.
His chum, Alden Mayhew, had invi.
ted him to candy-pull and general
Good tlme.". and Alden's invitations
we're always accepted by his boy and
girl friends. for father and mother
Mayhew and grown-up sister Nell had
to perfection the "knack" of making
a "good time" for young folks.
No wonder that Harry couldn't be-
lIeve his own eyes when, in the height
of the fun, he looked up and saw the
hands of the clock pointing to quarter
of ten d! No one else looked as though
even thinking of going home. But
Harry's "honor-bright' promise rang
in his ears. Nobody guessed the strug.
gle that was going on in the boys heart
as he mechanically performed his part
in the merry game.
"Why can't stay until the rest go
Don't T work hard enough? And I
haven't had an evening out for weeks ~
1t was all true. Very few and far
between had been his good times''
since his father died, two years before,
when little Day was baby, and left
him to be the support and comfort of
his mother.
ut isn't late," he thought irritahly.
Mothers only nervous" Then his
cheek Redeemed, and he Strengthened
up quickly. Who had a better right
to be nervous? he thought fiercely as
though fighting an invisible foe. His
sweet, invalid mother And he knew
little Day was not well. She had been
pale and fretful all day. And he had
promised! Abruptly he excused him
self, bade hasty good-nights, and sred
away across the fields, putting on his
REFER as he ran. His mother met him
at the door.
"Day is worse" she whispered hus-
kily. IT'S Group. Run for the doctor
|-quickw
And Harry ran-ran as he had never
dreamed he could. even when be be-
longed to the "Nine," and its honor
depended on his speed and surefooted'
ness. And the old doctor electrified by
the boy's hreathless energy, harnessed
old Jim, with Harry's help, in an in.
credibly brief time, and drove of
the hill at a pace that brought night
capped heads from darkened Windo We,
and caused many conjecture as to
who was sick down in the "Holler."
The keen-eyed man looked very
serious as he bent over Day; but he
was a skilled physician, and before
long the little girl was breathing easily
again.
but let me tell you," he said, i'm:
pressively, "ten minutes later it would
not have been Of much use to call me
or any one else."
Harry listened silently; but wher
they were once more alone, he drew
his mother down by side on the
shabby little sofa, and told her of the
resisted temptation.
"And, o mother" he concluded
"I'm so glad kept my promise, hon
or bright' I feel as though I'd just
escaped being a murderer"
II have perfect confidence in my
brave, true laddie," said the happy
mother, stroking the bonnie heac
bowed on her shoulder.
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p. d, Speeds Locals.

A full line of Munyon's homeopathic rem E.
dies just received by p. B. Speed.
Try cutania for ring worm, letter, pimples,
eczema. &c. No cure, no pay. For sale by P.
B. Speed.
Just received a fresh lot OF Harris lithIa
ginger ale. The finest domestic ale On earth.
Only l0c O. bottle at Speeds.
Try that never falling laxative tromo qui.
nine for coughs, colds, &C. For sale at P. b.
Speeds.
The finest lot OF stationery ever brought to
Abbeville open for your inspection at Speeds
drug store. Call and zee II before buying.
Special attention is given to all prescrip-
tions and family receipts left In our care and
sent 10 your address free OF charge. P.B.Speed.
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BOARD Or ASSESSORS,
10 CANVASS THE RETURNS OF
PERSONAL PROPERTY OF
ABBEVILLE COUNTY.

The returns of the various Townships will
SCISSORS by or before March 10th. 1t is the duty
OF the Board to scrutinize each return care
fully, and TO See that each Item Of property
listed thereon, is assesses at ITS TRUE MAR.
KET VALUE. There is no. rule TO return
property at 663s per cent. OF It's actual value.
When parties are suspected of having credits
above their Indebtedness. or any other char
acter Of property that does n OF appear on their
sworn return, it Is the duty of the Board to
enter such property, or report the matter to
the Auditor.
In every instance where there Is material
change in the return of an individual, BE
SURE TO NOTIFY the party, so that he can
appeal to the County Board.
The County Board of Equalization will hold
Its annual meeting in the Auditors office,
WEDNESDAY,, MARCH 18th. The Town
ship Boards are expected to closely examine
on or before that date.
When new buildings have been erected
since last return. the Township BoarG OF AS,
SCISSORS will value same.
Where parties have transferred town prop.
erty and still retain portion: or where trans
fers have been made 10 several different par
ties, the Township Board will prorate the
value of each item In order that the proper
division can be made on the Auditors books.
The Township Board OF Supervisors, as now
organized, are required by law. TO act as
Township Board Of Assessors; and the chair
man elected at their first m eetlng Will serve
as a member Of the County Board of Equall-
Zation.
W. W. BRADLEY,
Auditor, A. C.
Jan. o, 1896. If
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w. Joel Smith & Sons Locals.

We haven't q single last years straw hat In
our store, but have hundreds of new ones and
can please anybody.
We have something unusually good and
pretty In cents prints.
A nice line or summer worsteds just re-
ceived.
We are Offering pretty line of summer
dress goods az was ever shown In Abbeville,
and the prices are as low as the lowest.
Call and see us. We take pleasure 10 show
ing goods, and If you are not pleased both in
quality and price, we don I ask you TO buy.
We have full supply of Palmetto and i'm.
proved Brooks cotton planters.
We carry the largest stock of flour, corn
hay, bran, &C., " be found, and are prepared
" give you inside prices.
w. Joel Smith & Sons.
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There are dull times on the farm
when the boy has to turn the grind
stone.
How much sooner it gets too dark
to saw than it does to play lawn tennis.
When a man does anything especial
ly mean, he usually lays the blame
upon human nature.
No man can grind down another
without first placing his own soul
under the milestone.
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CrONS'A Locals.

Way Side Inn grated pine apple.
Thurbers sliced pineapple.
Henry's prepared pineapple.
Henry's celery sauce.
Surry pickles. East India pickles.
Salmon 10c per can.
Soda In bulk, lbs. for 25c.
Magnolia hams.
Fancy patent -four in "a and 4S lbs. sacks.
Dried apples at Sc per pound.
The biggest 10c plug of tobacco In town.
A fresh lot Of candles.
A splendid cake Of laundry soap for &c.
Starch, 5 pounds for 25c.
Pork and beans for l0c. w. F. CROSS.
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BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
Interesting Program Made Ont.

Interesting Program Made Ont.
A union meeting OF the Baptist churches In
the upper section Of the Aobeville Associa-
tion will be held with the Abbeville Baptist
church the fifth Sunday and Saturday before
In this month.
PROGRAM.
Saturday at 10 a. m.-Devotional exercises.
Organization.
After which the following queries will be
discussed: ..... - ra. ~ :,
Are we as Jealous as we should be in teach
ing our distinctive doctrines? :,
is the Sunday School a work OF the church.
and what attitude should church members
sustain towards 1t?
What Is scriptural church discipline and
what are the benefits arising from II?
Sunday at 10 q. m.-Sunday School mass
meeting.
At1l a. m.-Bro. B. M. Cheatham will be or
dained to the full work Of the gospel minis
try.
DR.. Manly, OF Furman University, and 9TH
ers. will be present TO take part In the SER
vices.
A cordial invitation is extended to all.
w. E. johnson,
for committee.
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Estate Of Vim. A. Moore, Died.
Notice Of Settlement and Appli-
cation for Final Discharge,

TNAKE NOTICE that on the 18th day Of
l. April, 1896, will render a final account
OF my actings and doings as Executor of the
Estate of William A. Moore, deceased, In the
office OF Judge of Probate for Abbeville Coun-
ty at 10 o'clock Il. m., and On line same day
will apply for u final discharge from my trust
aS such.
All persons having demands against said
estate will present them for payment on or
before that day. proven and authenticated or
be forever barred. w. j. MOORE,
March l3, 1896, IF Executor.
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Report of the Examining Committee
Office of The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York

February II, 1896
At meeting of the Board of Trustees of this
Company, held on the 18th day of December last,
the undersigned were appointed Committee to
examine the annual statement for the year ending
December 81, 1895, and to verify the same by
comparison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have carefully performed the
duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that
the statement is in all particulars correct and that
the assets specified therein are in possession Of the
Company.
In making this certificate the Committee bear
testimony to the high character of the investments
of the Company and express their approval Of the
system, order, and accuracy with which the &C
counts and vouchers have been kept, and the
business in general transacted.
(sposip) H. c. Won Posr ROBERT oLrPHAhT
CnAs. r. HENDERSON WV. p. Dixon
JAMES c, HOLDEN ]. H. HsRalcK
COMMITTEE
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Wednesday, March 25, 1896.
The Cotton Mill.

The direceors are working people, and they
have no money to waste. Up to the present
time they have carefully guarded the interests
of the stockholders. All Investments or con-
tracts have been prudently entered into, and
no member Of the board has any axe TO grind.
None OF them want any position either for
themselves or for their frienus. Competency
and the ability TO earn the money is the sole
moving power with them.
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Unclaimed Letters.

Letters remaining in Abbeville, S. c., post
office for week ending March q.
A-Miss Lizzie Anderson.
Flew Elmer.
J-Jiles Joel, Mrs. Agnes Jackson, 6. w.
Jackson.
- P-Geo. Putty. Miss Julia Presley.
S-Edna Smith.
w. G. Woodbridge. Robt s. Link, P. NJ.
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Notice to Teachers.

A LII teachers Public Schools In AbbevilIe
"A County are requested TO send to this Of
flee. at an early date, the number OF pupils
that have attended their schools ten or more
days during the present school session. This
Ia impor tant as the next apportion nment Will
be based on the enrolment Of pupils during
the present school term, and no pupil Is 10 be
enrolled aptil he or she has been In school
ten days. w. I: MILFORD,
School Commissioner.
March 23rd, 1896. st
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Gone to Spartanburg,

President Bailey, OF the Abheville Cotton
Mill Will meet the architect Mr.. Greene, in
Spartanburg today, when matters pertaining
10 the interests Of the factory will be discuss.
ea. The people are beginning TO recognize
the fact that the mill is to be reality, and
that Abbeville In this year will get the big
gest thing that ever came this way.
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Mail HOurS.

post office:
ll.10a m. 1915 p. m. l.le p. m.
2.30 p. m. ~, p. IN. 500 y. IN.
All matter that is to 60 off In the night
mails should deposited In the post office, and
not In the street box after 400 p. m.
Sunday hours-9.00 a. m. to 1000 a. m. $50
p. m. to 4.25 p. IN. Robt. S. Link, Z. NJ.
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The above apportion ment ofthe School Fund
to the different School Districts In Aobeville
County Is based on the attendance OF pupils
in the public schools of the County during the
last school year. The different boards OF
school trustees must not overdraw on the
amouns designated for their school districts.
w. T. MILFORD,
March 9, 1896, IT School Commissioner.
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A new line of belt buckets and belts just re-
celved at r. G. Bernau, the jeweler
An inch of rain falling upon an area
of one square mile is equivalent TO
nearly 17,500,000 gallons weighing
Jas, $50 900 pounds, or Ga, S44 tons.
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The progressive orchardist will
spend many of the days of winter
among his trees, instead of toasting his
shins at the fire indoors. Pruning to
be done, suckers to be cut away and
q dozen other things to keep one busy
if we will 60 into the orchard and look
them up. Thus our time in the spring
is free to use to better advantage.
Nearly all the disease of stock are
due to contact with other animals, the
food, or from the ground on which dis
eased animals have trodden. If plot
of ground has been contaminated the
cheapest method of treating it is to
plow it and apply wood ashes literally.
If ashes cannot be obtained air-slake
time should be used.
The statement will bear often repeat.
ing that warm stables save food, and
as lumber is cheaper than fodder and
hay, this warmth should be provided
wherever animals are kept. One 'ol
the most important among the various
purposes which feed serves in the ami
NAL economy is the maintenance oi
animal heat, and it is economy to pre-
serve it by outside means.
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Nice Stock Of Goods.

Mr.. F. Rubin has opened choice stock of
nice goods in the store next to the Court
House. 1t embraces great variety. and be
offers to sell any and all Of 1t at the most rea-
sonabe prices. Call on him and give the
stranger that Ia within our gates hearty
welcome to this progressive city.
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The Literary Club.

The Literary Club will meet next Friday
night AZ the home Of Mr.. Jones F. Miller. The
essay will be read by Mr.. George W. Lomax.
Subject-Arbitration.