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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-09-08

"No, am not pledged. I have &C.
quiesced In mistaken course while I
did not know my own feelings. That is
all. I have never breathed syllable to
her which could suggest that I loved her
or that wished her to be my wife.
You must see her and explain matterA
"WhyP" /
because Miss Crawshay will not
hear word from me while other peo-
pie couple my name with Beryl's. She
is acting as an honorable girl Of course,
in this"
Eyes, acting" returned Lady Wal
cote dryly. "She would be no Crawshay
If she could not do that. She knows her
power over you. She has infatuated yop,
Jaffray." /
Mother, have never in my life con-
soiously allowed an unkind thought to
find lodging in my mind" said Sir
Jaffray very earnestly. Don't say
what will leave sting behind 1t. I
can't hear things against the woman I
am going to marry. Try to reconcile
yourself to this. Try to see that you are
prejudiced, that you have no cause to
dislike Lola except that she has come
between you and plan which You
have cherished. That is now impossi.
BILE. 1t would be the foulest treaohery
and cowardice for me to marry Beryl
feeling as do toward Lola, and you
know how bitterly she herself would
resent it. Can't you do this for me2
You have done 60 much. Help me now
to the happiness Of a lifetime"
He stood looking down at her and
then stopped and kissed her.
She sat silent for q minute and then
asked:
where IL Miss Crawshay7" s.,
with NE vilIyers at Mossoombs.
;"I will go and Soc her first and then
tall You my decision" And with that
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
OLD SOLDIERS.
4 Very Important Notice to Pension.
ers-OnIy II short Time in Which
10 AnDIy for Pensions

In reply TO the many inquire in reference to
the pension law. | would state that
Section 95l OF the Revised Statutes was so
amended by the recent Legislature as to read
as follows:
That on some convenient day prior to
April, 1897, and prior 10 August of each sue
ceeuing year, the surviving soldiers and
sailors who were in the service of the Con-
federate States or OF this state In the late war
between the states. residing in the several
to@nsuips OF the counties of this state, shall
meet al such place in their several
townships as may be most convenient, and
AFTER organizing and electinga chairman and
secretary, shall elect by majority vote three
of their members or reputable citizens who
are not applicants Tor pensions TO constitute
and be known as the Township Examining
Boards Shall elect one OF their members
chairman. 1t shall be The duty OF the chair
man of the several township boards to meet
at their respective county seats within ten
days thereafter and organize by elecllng from
among their number chairman and secre-
tary, and when so organized shall elect by a
majority vote four OF their members and u
regular prac Icing physician who shall con-
stItute and be known AS the county examining
board of pensions. The said county examining
board shall meet on Salesday in April, 1877,
and on salesday in August of each succ eeding
year"
AS only two weeks remain in which to con-
form TO the requests OF the above acts and
place Abbeville County In position TO reap the
benefits OF the law, II is necessary that prompt
action be taken in the matter. In order
therefore to carry out the provisions of the
above law, and expedite the organization OF
The Pension Boards. ! take 1t upon myself TO
request all EX.Confederate soldiers in the
seVe, al townships 10 meet at the places desig-
mated below at II O'Clock \. NJ. Saturday -
March. and nod elections In con nformity with
the above provisions for creating the Town
ship Examining Board OF Pe nsions, To wit: :
|. Ninety six Township al Ninety Six.
Greenwood Township at Greenwood.
;. fokeSbury Township 81 Hodges.
l. Donalds Township at D0naldSvlle
= Due West Township at Due West
Long Cane Township at Gilgal Church.
:. Smithvilie Township at NeIdery.
s. White Hall Township at Bradley
s. Indian Hi Township p at Troy.
| IL. Cedar Spring Township at Clutworthy's
Cross Road.
! II. Abbeville Township ut Abbeville.
II. Diamond Hill Township at Antervllle
| post Office.
l3 Lowndesville Township at Lowndes.
| vile.
H. Magnolia Township at Calhoun Falls
! II. Calhoun Mills Township at Mt. Carmel
| Ii. Bordeaux Township ut Mccormick
The Cha rman OF the respective Township
| Boards are requested 10 meet at AbbeSiIle, on
| Thursday lst of April tn complete the organ
! iZation Of the Pension Board.
J r. Blake Jr.
! March &C. lS9I.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
Dreams of Glory Vanished.

A Young officer of rank and wealth
entered with all the zest of youth into
a military campaign. He determined
to distinguish himself, and acquire
glory. He gained his opportunity. He
led a dashing charge. He and his mer
rushed to the conflict, amid the boom
of cannon, the Kissing of shells, the
rattle of musketry, and the clash o.
steel. But the assulting party were
overwhelmed by numbers. They were
compelled to retreat, and were shoI
down in the process. The young officer
fell dangerously wounded: All bis
dreams Of glory vanished. His though
was now to save his bare life. He
cried aloud to his soldiers as they feu
past him, my fortune, my whole
estate, $4,000 year, to any man who
will carry me off the field !' But each
valued his own life above the preferred
wealth. They hurried past him and
be was soon corpse. In his ambi
ton he was like many who are still
living. All their thoughts are upon
the concerns of the things of EterpltH
to q possible hour when the things OF
Time suddenly lose all value, and the
fool-hardy soul is ushered into the
presence of a sighted God.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
Dead War.EagIes.

The clouds of war nearly all van
ished from our skies. With all the sad
experience of other nations before it,
every government must learn, amid
tears and agony that war is rGin-in-
dividuaI, domestic, social, financial,
moral--an that defeat is often only a
little worse than victory. The time
will come when arbitration will take
the place of gunpowder and keen steel.
So long ago as the time of William
Penn the efficacy of arbitration was
demonstrated. He proposed to come
to America, and without any weapons
treat with the worst savages. Charles
III. scoffed at him and said, "What
Venture yourself among the savages
of North America! Why, man
What security have you that you will
not be in their war Kettle within two
hours after getting foot on their
shores?" "The best security in the
WORLD" said William Penn. II doubt
that, friend William" said King.
81 have no idea of any security against
these cannibals but a regiment of good
soldiers with their muskets and bayo.
nets; and I tell for you and your
family, to whom am underobligation,
1 will not send single soldier with
you" ~ want none of your soldiers u
said Penn. II depend on something
better" "On what?" asked the King
William Penn answered, ION the
Indians themselves, on their moral
sense, and on the promised protection
of Cod" 1t is fact in American
history that for seventy years the red
men kept the treaty, and it was moi
broken until the white men broke it
Now, if the treaty made between Viii.
liam Penn and American savages could
last seventy years certainly intelligent
nations ought to be able to keep the
the peace. In most wars the question
at issue is as undecided after as before
the blood shed. In our war with Great
Britain in 1872 The question involved
was the impressment Of American sea-
men, Two years and a-half of wal
ragged, our Government expended
three hundred million dollars and LOST
thou sands Of lives, and the question
still remained about the impressmenl
of American sailors. Some say wars
arenecessary to clear Off the surplus
population of the earth, and had il
not been for the hundreds of millions
slain in battle, the earth would have
been too crowded with inhabitants
but my opinion is that people die fast
enough. With the cholera and yellow
fevers and peneumonias and consump.
tons and typhoids, and the cyclones
and the shipwrecks and the earth
quakes, the population need not be
accelerated. The best thing you can
do with man is to save him, and the
worst thing you can do with man is
to kill him.-Dr. Talmage, in Chris
tian Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
Talk Short! a..

Philips Brook has emphasized in
his lectures Oh preaching the lmp0r
tance of the man behind the sermon
/ should like to put in plea for the
man in the front of the sermon. He
demands in our day from the pulpit, a.
from all other departments of busy
modern life, condensed worth in small
packages. The Rams Horn writer
pithily says that many ministers in
preparing their sermons prepare no
place to stop. A small boy said to his
mother, Mamma, may be preacher
when l grow up?n The mother, de-
lighted at his evidence of piety in her
boy who had not heretofore been COL
spicuous for his attainments III this
direction, said : "Of course you may,
my darling; why do you want to be d
preacher" Oh, cause. mamma, it's
so much harder to sit still so long and
listen, than tits TO walk round and
holler.n
I have thought that ministers must
like their work more than men of other
occupations. because, while workmen
are everywhere clamoring for shorter
hours, the minister is determined 10 60
on, when everybody is anxious for
him to stop. He often destroys, in the
second twenty minutes the effect which
he has produced in the first twenty.
Like the Tower of Babel, his structure
is destroyed by the econfusion oftongue.
We cannot add a cubit to our stature,
but we can subtract cubit from our
remarks. A man who had been talk
ing long while at q religious service,
was about to gather renewed inspira-
ton from a quotation from Cicero.
"Cicero says" he began, "Cicero
land scme one helped him out
by saying, "How long, o Catiline, wilt
thou abuse our patience ?" The minis
ter who preached till only one was left,
and said that it was pity to stop
preaching as long as there was any
one anxious to hear the gospel, sue
ceeded far better in scattering his con-
gregation, than he did in scattering
the good seed of the kingdom. Too
much wind blows the soil away. What
earnest and noble words are there of
J. M. Buckley: 1.-THE whole art of
making a good speech is to have some
thing pertinent and moving to say; to
say something all the time, to say it
vivaciously and, if it is a religious
speech. to say it with religious feeling,
and to stop when every one wishes
you to go on"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
GREEN WOOD TOPICS.
Senators and SenatOrs-Law and Law.
yers-Lecture-Visi

Greenwood, $. c., March 43.
Hon. ID. II. Magill has announced himself
as 4 candidate Tor Senator. Mr.. w. j. Gaines
having Withdrawn, the race Is between Mr..
Magill and Hon. e. A. e. Waller. Both have
a number OF strong friends In the county and
the race will be an interesting one..
Mrs j. A. Hill, of Abbevilie, were in the city
for q few hours on Wednesday.
Senator Moses, OF Sumter, was at Riley's
Hotel on Thursday.
Southern from the meeting of the Board OF
Trustees OF Clemson College on Friday and
was in The city for short while.
The town council have ordered an election
on the question Of issuing bonds for the erec.
Lion Of the court house and Jail. The election
IL on April 18th.
Messrs. Ball. Slmpkins & Park. OF Laurens.
have opened q law office in Greenwood. Mr..
j. p. Park has charge OF the office at this
place.
Dr. J. II. Burckha has been absent from
town for several days on professional busi-
ness 4
one week from to-day the candidates will
see themselves as Others see them.
Gen. and Mrs. r. 4. 1iemphlll, Mrs. Neufier.
Mrs. Agnes Robinson, DIR. q. A. Neufier and
his little son came down Efrom Abbeville on
Monday evening to see "rhe Reformation"
DR.. Samuel a. Steel delivered one OF the
most interesting lectures ever heard In the
town OF Greenwood on Friday evening 10
Bailey & Barksdale's hall. He pitched his
discussion upon high plane and throughout
the two hours that.he spoke not one word was
uttered bordering on profanity or vulgarity.
lie drew living pictures OF Dixie" tduring
the war. At times the scenes became so liie-
like that the old soldiers could not restrain
themselves. Sublime In style, beautiful In
has few equals or the lecture platform. One
of the most beautiful SMILES we have ever
heard was his comparison OF Dixie to fair
maiden. No one can afford 70 miss DIR. Steel.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17

Dry water-soaked shoes carefully,
then rub them with kerosene oil, and
the leather will be soft and pliable
again.
To remove tar from cotton clothing,
rub the spots with lard and let it stand
several hours. Then wash with hot
soapsuds. One application is usually
all that is needed.
Ifyou are so unfortunate as to get q
white garment mildewed, soak the
place ia buttermilk aud lay it on the
grass in the sunshine to dry. If it is
not all removed at first repeat the pro-
cess until it becomes white again.
Common alum melted in an iron
spoon is a very strong cement for join
ing glass or china to metal. 1t is
especially useful for holding glass
LAMPS to their iron stands after they
become loose, or fastening door knobs
in place.
There is no use in having your pref
ty colored table-cloths, napkins and
other articles faded and dingy after the
first few washiDgs. Use tepid water
and enough good soap to get them clean
rinse we'll and iron while still damp. IL
YOU will follow these directions the
color will be bright and pretty as long
as they last.
Wicker chairs soon become soiled
and they can be cleaned for few times
with strong salt water using brush tc
scrub them. When they cannot be
cleaned in this way any longer they
can be stained to look nicely, or painted
white with enamel paint.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17

Mothers, says an exchange, train
your boys to be neat in the house
They should be taught to look after
themselves, and to keep their hats and
coats in their proper places. Teach
them this habit, and you will save
many annoyances, and you will also
do q kindness to the boys by teaching
them neatness and self-respect.
Boys as we'll as girls should be
taught to help in the house. How oft.
en- we have been disgusted to see that
the girls are help with the household
work, while the boys are allowed to
play checkers, or sit at the fire toast
ing their toes.
A boy can help clear away after a
meal, sweep the floor, polish the stove,
or wash the dishes just as effectively
as girl. He, as rule, is stronger.
He will love his home more, and
when he becomes man, and has a
home of his own, he will respect his
wife all the more for having been
taught to respect his mother and sis
terS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17

The former times were not better
than these, but it is little remarkable
than the best type of piety is usually
found in those communities which
cling longest to primitive religious GUS
toms. In Lynchburg recently IN
well-ordered Presbyterian home AND
what Presbyterian home is not well
ordered ?-we stumbled upon the old
time custom of havil g the servants al
family worship. Finding family al
tar seldom awakens expectations, fol
the reason that so many family altars
are like last years bird nests; bu!
when the black cook and the boy-of-al
work came quietly into the sitting
room after breakfast at the call tc
prayers, we were led to look for piety
disappppinted Si pppfnietd iEynchburg is famed TO-
probably best known among angels fol
its superior type of Christianity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
NOTES FROM WARRENT0N
Compliment TO the Medium-Garden'
ing Farm Work Delayed - Per.
SOnalS.


Warrenton, s. c., March Ii. 1897.
At this writing we are having rain In
abundance.
Mr. John Wilson, of Grainrldge, visited rel
atives in our town saturday night and sun
day.
Most of onr farmers who held their cotton
have learned from sad experience that hold
ing cotton for ten cents does not pay In this
section.
Owing TO the rainy weather no work has
| been done in the farm yet. but we understand
preparations are being made.
Mr.. W. b. Wilson, who is one Of our pros
porous farmers, will show his neighbors now
to garden this year.
Mrs. 7. W. Wilson, who has been sick for
sometime. Is well again.
Mr.. $. h. Penney, who has been sick, is
some better, and ms doctors entertain hopes
| for his entire recover before long.
| Miss Ida Penney is now In charge or the
Watts school. substituting for her father.
Mrs G. Il. Thomas and her daughter, Miss
called to the sick bed Of her father, MIR. ID. H.
| Penney.
DR.. =. CarwiIe, of Due West, spent Saturday
night in town.
Miss Alma Brock, our charming teacher, is
on visit TO parents in Due West, accompan-
| led by Master Paul Wilson.
The ladies Of our town are making very eX-
| tensive preparations for the gardens. Look
out husbands! From indications the sun
will shine hot this summer and 1t Is under.
! stood that yon all are the ones to do this
work from what the ladies say, tut under
their supervision.
The Warrentou School will close about the
middle OF A pril, and we have heard nothing
concerning the closing exercises. What about
1T?
We notice that the Medium will begin se-
ries or essays to be published on 1.-THE books
used in the public schools" For sometime
we have been thinking Of the same subject
and are glad 10 know that 1t will be discussed
by so able n scholar as Gen. r. r. Hemphill.
His criticisms on Montgomery's histories GER
tainly won the appreciation of the majority
of our citizens. Now let him treat the other
authors in the same way, and we feel sure 1t
will the desired effect. Clio.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17

Only the education which puts the
child to work-that is, inspires the
child to dig for knowledge, because o
the worth of knowledge, to solve the
problems for himself-is worthy the
name of education. What a child does
it knows; what it achieves it under
stands; but what is crowded into it i.
only food undigested by the intellec
tual stomach, and is poisonous rather
than nutritious to the system.
Three cupfuls of apple sauce, wei
sweetened, two eggs, one cupful of fine
bread crumbs, two tablespoonfuls Of
butter. Heat the apple sauce, stir in
the eggs and all but two teaspoorfuls
Of the better. Butter pudding-dishi
sprinkle the bottom with half of the
crumbs, put in the apple sauce, strew
the remaining crumbs over the top and
put the two teaspoonfuls of butter
broken into little bits, here and there
on the top. But twenty minutes
covered, uncover and brown.
Old age brings us to know the value
of the blessings which we have enjoyed
and it brings us also to a very thankful
perception of those which yet remain
Is man advanced in life? The ease
of single day, the rest of Il single
night, are gifts which may be subjects
of gratitude to God.
Those who scott may we'll he thank
full that they live in the land where
the Gospel has tanned the beatliness
and ferocity of men who, but for Chris
tianity, might long ago have eaten theil
carcasses, like the South Sea islanders
or cut off their heads and tanned theil
hides, like the monsters of the French
revolution.
Rededcation and prayer are the in.
dispensable background to any Chris
tian work worth the doing. And with
out them Christian living fails of ac.
quiring that depth without which
Christian doing is sure to be superili.
cial and ineffective.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
GOLDEN GRAINS.

Precious Pebbles Picked Up in the
The greatest difficulties lie where we
are not looking for them.
God is very close TO the man who is
prayerfully trying to overcome himself.
There is such thing as having reli-
gion in the head and not in the heart.
God expects every Christian to try TO
make the world better than he found
it.
Improve your time, and you can de-
pend upon it that time will improve
you.
PRAYER is the outlet of the saints
sorrow, and the inlet Of their supports
and comforts.
Try all the ways to righteousness you
can think of, and you will find that no
way brings you to it except the way of
Jesus.
DO YOU want to know the man
against whom you have most reason TO
guard yourself? Your looking-glass
will give very faint likeness Of his
face.
Yon will find it less easy to uproot
faults than to choke them by training
virtues. DO not think Of your faults,
still less of others faults ; in every per-
sou who comes near you look for what
is good and strong; honor that rejoice
in it and as you can, try to initiate 1t
and your faults will drop off, like dead
leaves, when their time comes.
1t is said that John Wesley was once
walking with brother, who related tc
him his troubles, saying he did moi
know what he should do. They were
at that moment passing a stone fence
to meadow. over which cow was
looking. "Do you know" asked Yves.
ley, "why the COW looks over that
wall ?" No" replied the one in
trouble. II will tell you" said Wes'
lev because she cannot look through
it. Aud that is what you must ito with
your troubIes-loOk over them and
above them"
Accurate and careful detail, the
miuding of the common occasions anC
small things, combined with genera
scope and vigor, is the secret OF all the
efficiency and success is tn world. Il
is only thus that any disciple will be
come efficient in the service of his mas
ter. He cannot do up his works o
usefulness by the prodigious STIR anc
commotion of few extraordinary oc
casions. Laying down great plans, he
must accomplish them by great indus
try, by minute attention, by working
out his way as God shall assist him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-03-17
The War Spirit Against Christianity y

Indeed, it is a most melancholy con-
sideration that even the civilized, and
I may almost justly say the chris
tianiZed world from the beginning,
should have adopted and still continue
to adopt the military life as an object
Of eager desire, and DO not shrink back
form educating the rising generation
in the love of war and strife, and cease
not to instill into the youthful mind,
that it is highly honorable to shed a
brothers. blood. 1t is with pain that
we see at the present moment whole
communities, nay, even respectable
cities, who, ,disregarding theirchrstian
character, do not discountenance, but
highly applaud and reward with public
honors and emoluments those who are
foremost in and best calculate for
butcheriDg their fellow-heirs of i'm
mortality. Our own country, after all
our boasting and great experience, is
not free from this dreadful contagion.
Schools are forming throughout our
land to- rear up children in the knowl-
edge and love of arms. The wilder
ness for thousands of miles is explored
for the purpose of building forts and
places of military strength, at a most
intolerable expense, for carrying on a
spirit of avarice and speculation, influ-
ence and patronage. The present
mania for another Indian if not for
eign war, ought to be highly alarming
to the people of the Uuited States. /
have great confidence in Him who is
King of kings and Lord Of lords that
the time is drawing nigh (though much
distress must first Gomez, when all the
nations of the earth shall beat their
swords into plowshares and their spears
into pruning hooks and the earth shall
be covered with the knowledge of God
as the waters cover the seas.