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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-03

Here is ighthouse-keeper On the coast.
The sailor in the darkness cannot see the
keeper. unless indeed the shadow of the
keeper obscures for O moment the light.
What the sailor sees Is the light, and he
thanks. not the keeper. but the power that
put the light on that dangerous rock. So
the lightkeeper tends his light in the dark,
and a very lonely and obscure life it is. No
one mounts the rock to praise him. The
vessels pass in the night, with never word
of cheer But the life of the keeper gets its
dignity. not because he shines, but because
his light guides other lives; and many
weary captain greets that twinkling light
across the sea. and seeing its good work
gives thanks to his Father which is in
heaven.-Dr. Peabody.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-03
A Craze for Sugar Boots.

a Craze TOT SuEHr DBctBs
The craze for raising sugar bests has
struck New York State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-03

Since all things are Gods servants, all
things must necessarily be His messengers,
and therefore every event and dispensation
of life hes its message for us, let the aspect
of the messenger" be what it may. Many
Of our choicest gifts from our dearest friends
come to US by the hands of very rough-look-
ing messengers and are wrapped up in
coarse brown packages. Do we, because OF
this. '.despise and misuse the messen-
gers and refuse to receive and open the pack
ages? My neighbor who treats me unkIndly,
or my friend who wrongs me. or my enemy
who magligns me, have each one as really a
message from God for me as the clergyman
who breaches to me. or the Christian
friend who gives me tract. And as ]
would not "despise or misuse" the one,
neither must I the other. We little know
of the rich blessings we lose because We
thus despise and misuse the Servants who
bring them. Perhaps the gift of patience,
for which you have prayed long and appar-
emily in vain. is held in the hand of that
very disagreeable inmate your household,
whose presence has seemed to you such an
unkind infliction. Or it may be that the
victory over the world. for which your soul
has fervently hungered. was shut up in that
very disappointment or loss against which
yot have retelled with such bitterness that
it has brought your soul into grievous dark
ness instead.-Hannah Whitall Smith.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-03
THE APPRENTICESHIP OF PREACHING.


Fullness of knowledge saves minister
from the temptation of resorting to bizarre
methods to attract a congregation. No mat
ter how clever man may be, he cannot
long hide from himself or from others the
fact of his intellectual superRciality and
limitation: and ! believe that many
preacher who resorts to eccentric and SEN
sational stratagems does SO from the con-
sciousness Of the meagreness and frallty OF
his theological and philosophical resources.
No truly great actor becomes Blondin walk
ing tight rope to draw a crowd; no truly
great singer blacks his face and joins the
minstrels to secure popularity no great art
ist renounces' academical law to astonish the
world by daubing nightmares. Men OF
much inferior order condescend to theatr1-
Gals gifted men have no need. And 1t is
the same with respect to the Christian pull
Dit. Henry Ward Beecher did not resort to
flags and dulcimers Bishop Simpson sue
eeeded without dressing himself in Oriental
costume Joseph Parker gets on without a
magic lantern; r. w. Dale used no stage
property, posture or passion, and Maclaren
discovers no anxiety to straddle the latest
sensation. But the preacher who is con-
scious OF deficiency in the deeper qualifica-
tions Of his vocation seeks to awaken and
maintain public interest by eecentricities
and extravagances in the subjects
he chooses or in the manner in
which he treats them. Our congre-
cations desire above all things clear, deep,
Scripturai truth, and any ministry OF real
teaching power is sure OF perennial popu-
larity. The interest of the multitude in
Christian doctrine is not speculative and
arbitrary; it is personal. practical, passion
ate. The people recognize in Our doctrine
the things by which they live. and he who
can state evangelical truth with lucidity and
feeling will find his ministry influential
when the mere rhetorcan and sensation
alist have passed away.-W. L. Watkinson,
D. D. (London) in Methodist Review.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-03

Faith is not state of inaction, security
and contentednesa it is constant reach
ing forth towart higher and fuller life.
The least exercise Of it is productive OF
wonderful results God has set such value
upon the least grain Of faith. and given it
such q power. that it can overcome noun
famous difficulties and effect extraordinary
transformations. But God means that the
seed should become tree. Plant seed IN
a tiower-pot that is full OF soil, motionless,
changeless, inert, that would remain as IT IS
forever, and at once the presence OF the
seed in the soil creates vortex OF motion
and change. The seed, as it terminates and
grows. draws the particles of the soil into
its own composition and structure, imparts
to them higher nature organizes the sand
and makes it living material, attracts the
dew and the sunshine, and brings all the
powers Of nature to its help that 1t may
grow. And so plant seed OF faith IN Chrlst
In dead human heart, and what change
and commotion it causes 1t raises up the
nature into newness of life: it lays all the
powers Of heaven and earth under contrl-
button for its help and sustenanoe. But as
it grows it accomplishes greater wonders
in the tree-stage than in the seed-stage;;
The produce Of the minute grain OF mustard
seed is the greatest Of herbs, occupying
large space, and doing great work. Look
what tree does in the economy OF nature
How it forms the source of rivers and
streams, how it regulates the seasons, and
alters the climate OF the locality And
more astonishing Still is the effect OF faith
when it reaches the tree-stage and becomes
a resting-pla for weary creatures on us
boughs, and gives refreshment to multitues
by it's shade and fruit.-Hugh MACMILLAN,
D. D., in the Culver.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-03

Suppose you say to yourself: This
is an ordinary. shabby life OF mine to
look at-no great thing to do or be OF
hope for or grow to. Ihave just got to con.
tent myself with drudseries that must be
every day the same. and never advance me
beyond themselves. But l mean to put
great cheer into all l do. mean every.
thing shall show integrity, shall speak Of
honesty. shall prove my truth; nothing
that touch that will not adorn by some
grace of soul" What will be the result?
Where will be the paltriness, the worthless.
ness, of your life REV. ]. +. W. Ware.
Unto the life 50 poor. and hard and plain,
That for while they must take up again,
NV presence passes. Where their feet toll
slow.
Mine. shiuing-swift with love, still foremost
60.
-Adeline D. T. Whitney.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
FOOL KILLER ROBBED OF A JOB.
Another Candidate for Fame Jumps
From the Brooklyn Bridge and
Doesn't Come I'm,

New York, July 4.-Another candidate for
fame met death to-day in jumping from the
Brooklyn bridge. He was Captain w. C.
Keeble, who had a reputation for jumping
from bridges and masts of vessels. The
bridge police received tip OF the COM
ing event on Saturday evening. Captain
Ward at once ordered three patrOlmen sta
toned at either end Of the bridge while
an officer in citizens clothes was sent to
watch at the house where it was learned
that keeble lived. The officer remained
there until 3 o'clock this morning. when he
returned to the bridge office. Two hours
later Keeble, with three companions. left
the house in a coach and drove TO the Cath
crime street ferry, where they crossed over
to Brooklyn and from there went to the
bridge entrance. paid their fare and pro-
ceeded slowly TO the center of the span on
the north roadway, when the coach stopped
Grady, who was some distance away, saw
keeble climb to the top of the rail- and
running toward him. shouted to him to
stop. Before he could reach him the man
had leaped. feet foremost. His body made
two complete revolutions before IL reached
the water. lao feet below, when it struck
the water with splash. disappearing, and
was not seen afterward. The police ar
rested the driver of the coach. Antonio
Montreal Dunbar Mcdonald. Michael Kerr
and Walter Weed, the three others; also
Lawrence Spreck and George Schureth
who had been stationed as lookouts to
watch for the police.
sergeant in Coxey's army and up TO four
weeks ago a waiter in a restaurant. He
was an Englishman by birth, % years old
and unmarried.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
PROF. STEVENSON SEVERE.
sion and Its Selections Of
Text Books

Topeka, Kas.. July 4.-(SpecialJ Profess
sOr w. c. Stevenson, of the Emporia Nor
nal school, whose work on bookkeeping
was adopted by the state textbook commis-
sion. severely criticises the work OF the
commission. Before leaving for Milwaukee
this afternoon to attend the National Edu-
catiOnal- Association meeting he declared to
The Journal correspondent. in the presence
of State Senator George Campbell OF La
bette. that the books adopted were the
poorest used by any state in the Union
why they are worse even than the books
in Indiana which were selected by SINH
lar commission" said he. The books are
not standard, and II is nv opinion that the
people of Kansas will not put up with
tneTn They will do as the people Of In
diana are doing-ignore the law. The legts-
lature. can't make all the people commit a
OF Kansas want good books, and they will
have them. regardless of the actions OF any
textbook commission
You do not condemn your work on book
keeping along with the rest OF the DOCKS
adoptsd2" was asked.
Yes sir. / know Of twenty-five text
books on bookkeeping that are better than
my book. as the commission has decided to
have II published. ,., ,.,--,
No business college or authority on writing
would ever think Of using such a system
The people of Kansas will not permit such
a radical system TO be forced on them and
vertical writing Will have to go.
Professor Stevenson paid his respects to
the text book commissioners. He said:
These dinky-brained fellows have come
down here 10 Topeka. locked themselves up
in a room and after forming mutual ad
Judgment upon what books should be used
TO educate the children OF Kansas. They
were no more competent TO do that work
than a newspaper man Is TO select a sys-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
lEEDY IS FOR PEACE.
Trying to Patch Up n Truce With
Chairman BreIdenthaI-Has Had
Little Success

Topeka. Has,. July 4.-(SpeciaL) Govern
or Leedy has become alarmed over the out
look for a second nomination, and Is now
extending the olive branch to those whom
he has snubbed. Among others with whom
he wants TO make peace Is John W. Brei-
denthaI, chairman of the POpuiist state
committee, but his treatment OF Breiden-
thai has been so shabby That ne Will find
it impossible to enlist BreidenthaI's serv-
ices under his banner. BreidenthaI was
called in for advice for the first time
few days ago, when It came to the election
of a state house engineer. When the gov
ernor sent for him he was almost para
lyZed. But he went over. and when asked
whom he thought would be the DrOuer
man to elect. said: Well, inasmuch as
you have seen fit to make all the important
appointments without consulting the state
committee. I. as chairman, do not feel like
making any recommendation whatever for
such an important place as state house en-
gineer. Just name any old person I
guess il can't make matters any worse"
This statement did not tend to make the
governor feel any easier and since then he
has been sending emissaries t Breidenthal
trying TO patch up the troubles SO far
they have had no success. Breidenthal is
quoted as saying that the fight i'm the Pop
ulist party is between the honest element
and the boOdlers. The governor has seen
fit to protect what Breidenthal claims are
the boodlers. and the chairman SAYS he
proposes to array himself on the other side
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05

the following agreement was made: Three
were to ride ahead and enter the bank q
soon as Clell Miller and myself had crossed
the bridge leading into the square. provided
TOO great crowd was not on the street.
One-fOuTth of a mile behind the first three
were Clell Miller and myself, who were to
take our position directly in front of the
hank in order TO call the three in the bank
out in case the alarm was given. Another
quarter OF a mile behind us were the re-
naming three. including Jim Younger,
who were 10 take up their station near the
bridge. In case no alarm was given when
the three men in the bank came out, the
men at the bridge were to mount their
horses and We We're all to retreat on the
Janesville road. but, II the alarm was CIV
en-, l was to signal those at the bridge and
they were to give the rebel yell and fire
their pistols in the air to scare the people
on the street.
II was understood that I was to remain
in front OF the bank during our stay I'm
town. so that in case the citizens began TO
get together and arm themselves. i was TO
call the men out of the bank and we were
TO Immediately retreat, for there was at
no time any intention of making a fight
of it,
The first part of our plan was carried out.
up to going into the bank. but It was at
this point that the first mistake was made
for as said above, If too many people
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
HUNTING FOR A TREASURE BOX.
Find $1,000 which He Thinks
Is Hidden.

Defiance o., July 4.-w. P. Sanford one
of the best known farmers in this section,
and A. Allen Noe. leader of the Populist
party of Defiance county, are engaged in a
project at presnt that is attracting consid-
erable attention.
Sandford, who Is past 50. is wealthy and
an ardent spiritualist Noe poses as
spiritualistic medium and both men have
been engaged for year past In holding a
series of services at various portions of the
country.
At these meetings the spirit Of a long-ago
deceased pioneer never failed to appear and
tell of a treasure-SS.OO 900 in gold-which ne
buried on Sandford's farm years ago. Both
men relied implicitly upon the spirits story.
as st has been repeated exactly alike at
more than a dozen meetings.
Now the men have engaged the assistance
OF several men, and with a deep plow and
four horses are at work turning over the
ground I'm a twenty-acre field in the south
east corner Of the farm where the spirit
locates the buried treasure.
Sanford declares he will turn over every
foot OF ground on his farm of l60 acres 70
find the pot Of gold which is but one foot
under ground.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
TAMMANY's CELEBRATION.
Patriots Not 10 Have Their Thirst
Quenched and the Speeches
VIII BE Edited,

New York, July 4-Tammany's Independ-
ence day blowout will be a pink tea" by
the side OF former jubilees in the wigwam.
Patriots will be gladly welcomed at the
speechmaking and greeted with open arms
at the reading of the Declaration of Inde-
rendence, but they will not be fed and their
thirst will go unquenched.
1ammanys guests will have a little din
ner In the Hoffman. house and afterwards
will be taken for a sail down the bay by
the district leaders. and that is all the ex
pense that Tammany proposes TO be put
to this year -.
There are several reasons for this. one
Of them. voiced by a leader who opposed
continuance of the annual scramble BAN
quet, was the tendency IL had to place. as
he put tt, steerage and first and second cab
in passengers ostensibly on the same foot
ing as the members of tine organization.
The pink tea idea does not Of course
entirely end with the disposition of wines
and viands. The oratorical layout has re-
ceiVed much greater dilution than Is usual.
Speakers there are from every section Of
the country, but they have been carefully
chosen with a view not to bring TO the
front in marked degree the difference
in the Democratic party of to-day in re-
gard TO questions of currency.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
IN FAVOR OF PARDON.
ST. PAUL PIONEER-PREss FLoPs ON
TIE YOUNGER CASE.
STORY OF NORTHFIELD RAID.
COLE YOUNGER WRITES A STATE
MENT FOR WARDEN wOLFER.
Why NOrthheId Was Selected for
Raid - Attempt and Failure
Younger Boys, Cole Claims,
Did Their Rest TO Pre- .,
vent Murder \
STORY OF NoRTHFlELD RAID.

St. Paul. Mimi, Jaly 4.-The Pioneer
Press has at last Been convinced that the
Younger brothers should be pardoned. All
these long years the Press has insisted
that the Missouri bandits who invaded
Minnesota should be compelled to remain
in prison. The full explanation for this
change of front is not offered and whether
or not the board Of pardons on the 18th
inst. will obe. the Press remains to be
made history.
1t is suggested by some that the Press
has discovered that the Younger brothers
do not pay their way and. hence, 1t would
be better to send them back to Missouri.
The Youngers, of course, promise TO be
good II let out. In feet they were always
"at church when all murders and rob-
berries were committed IN their day-ex-
cepting at Mortified. when there was no
cisputing their presence. They were great
church boys and greatly imposed upon
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
MARRIED A NEGRO HoRsEMAN.
StrOnEhurst, HI. Who EIopes
With a ColOred Youth.

Galesburg. Ill, July 4.-Recently there
wero married In this city John Crawford.
of Galesburg. and Miss Miranda Foote. of
Stronghurst. Little attention was paid the
matter at the time Crawford is a young
colored man and II now turns out that the
bride is young white woman belonging 10
a well known and respected family OF
Stronghurst and that the match was an
elopement. Crawford for several months
has been employed at the driving park al
StrOnghurst training trotters, and among
tfese were rwO belonging TO Mrs. Margaret
FoOte. the mother OF Miranda. In passing
the Foote farm frequently Crawford formed
the girls acquaintance. and as his likes
corresponded In many ways with her own
she became Infatuated with him. =
The elopement was well planned. she leav-
ing her home and meeting her dusky lover
at an appointed place. to which her clothes
had already been covertly conveyed. They
took the first train for Galesburg and were
so quietly married that no suspicion was
aroused. They returned at once to Strong
hurst, where they are now stopping. The
girls relatives are overwhelmed with cha
grin and modification over her course.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
INDEPENDENCE DAY IN LONDON.
the Robert Browning Social
Settlement

London, July L-The celebration of Inde-
pendence day took the form In the Robert
Browning social settlement of a meeting
in favor Of arbitration. William T. Stead,
He embarrassed Rev. DIR. bIilburn. chap
lain of the United States senate. who was
prese Mt, by appealing TO him to assure the
meeting that the United States senators
VINO voted for the treaty represented
ms jority OF the people and the bulk of the
Intelligence Of the United States.
1T Milburn made no reply TO this. but
IN the course of his own address he said
that the descendants of Englishmen IN the
United States were as loyal 10 many Eng
iish traditions as Englishmen themselves,
dc ependences
In the course of the evening. representa-
tives Of the Women's Press League of Chi
cagO presented portraits Of Washington
and lincoln to the settlement.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
No CIearfieId DI.trict s,rII.e.

Bellefonte. Pa, July 4-TheFe will be no
strike of the miners in the ClearfieId dis4
trict. The men employed there held a meet
ing and decided 10 take TO notice OF the
call TO 20 out but go TO work tomorrow
morning as usual Business has been 20
per cent better IN this region this summer
than IL has been at any time within the
past ten years. Two thousand men have
steady employment, against half that
number last year, and they are all con-
tented and happy. There IS. however some
little dissatisfaction In the western part Of
the district.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
school for NeKroes Dedicated.

Alexandria Va, July with appropriate
exercises the John Hay Industrial school
was dedicated here to-day The school Is
Intended for the benefit Of colored people
and will be opened in September. Letters
Of regret at not being able TO attend were
read from Senators Cullom. Chandler
President Mckinley and others.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
Angela 10 speak I'm New York

New York. July 4.-Ex-Governor Altgeld.
of Illinois, arrived from Chicago this aft
ernoon. He came to address "A meeting 10
be held under the auspices OF the Demo-
cratic League OF Kings county tomorrow
at Brooklyn. The ex-governor was ac-
companied by Mrs. Altgeld.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
Tin Plate Scale Accepted.

Cleveland. o., July 4-The strike At the
Britton Rolling Mill COmpanys mills has
been declared OF. the company having ac-
cepted the compromise tin plate WORKERS
scale adopted at Pittsburg.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
No Cure-No Par.

That is the way all druggists. sell Grove's s
Tasteless Chill Tonic for Chills and Ma
laria. II H. simply Iron and Quinine in a
tasteless form. Children love IT, Adults pre-
Ter it to bitter nauseating tonics. Price, SOC.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
Women Horsswhip n Non-union Man.

Cleveland. O., July 4-Two women have
whipped John McClary, non-union man,
who was going to work in the Crescent
tin plate mills. where a strike is in prog
ress. He fed from the place. after receiv-
ing a severe lashing. There was q general
pursuit by other women and boys.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
GEORGE W. CLICK IS 70.
Kansas Only Democratic Governor
Attains His Three Score Years
and Ten.

Atchison, Kas.. July 4-(SpeciaD Ex-
Governor George w. Click. who does not
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05

TEN OF writing. or coal miner 20 pass
Judgment upon the best work on philOso-
phy.'R .--.,a
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
Rememher

When your present coal contract expires
that THE PITTSBTRG COAL AND COKE
co. sell CHEROKEE COAL. Tel. 1886.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
Bob Younger shot.

At this moment Bob was shot. I saw him
Change HIS pistol from his right hand to
the left, and from the way his right arm
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05

In order to carry out the above plans
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
........Ls4O.s27.5 $40 2.7ss. 7O7. .4s2

Table showing the value of total importa-
tions March 70 July ]. 1886 and lss.:
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-05
4s,41ssI1

Table showInE importations Of suga
pounds, March TO July ]. 1885 and 1887: