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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-26
THE NEWS EPIToMlzED.
Washington Items.

Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury Theo-
dore Roosevelt will investigate charges
that have been made against various de-
partments in the New York Navy Yard.
The President nominated Brigadier-
General James W. Forsyth to be Major
General.
Senator Allen introduced resolution re-
during Broker Chapman, of New York to
appear before the bar and purge himself OF
contumacy as q preliminary to Executive
clemency Senator Hoar thought the reso-
luton would let the case go out OF the
Senate's Jurisdiction. He favored punish
ing Chapman and also probing the issue to
the bottom.
General Wesley Merritt has issued an or
der refusing to appoint court martial to
trv charges against Lieutenants O'Brien
and Bamford, preferred by Captain Romeyn.
In dismissing the charges against O'Brien
he says that the charges grew out OF
feeling Of personal spite, and that military
tribunals could not be made vehicles OF
private revenge.
The Senate confirmed the nomination Of
Cornelius Van Cott to be Postmaster OF
New York.
Members OF the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee inspected reports on Cuban AZ
fairs at the State Department, which are
said to strengthen the cause OF the In
surgents.
President Mckinley decided to accept no
invitations to take part In Memorial Day
exercises outside OF Washington.
The House refused to concur In Senate
amendment to the Sundry Civil bill appro-
priating S50,000 to improve Pearl Harbor,
in the Hawaiian Islands.
President Mckinley appointed Albion ".
Tourgee Consul at Bordeaux. Sidney b.
Everett, of Massachusetts, was named to
States at Batavia, Java. Henry P. Cheat
ham, Of North Carolina, was named to be
Recorder of Deeds, District OF Columbia.
The Secretary OF State and Mrs. Sherman
held q large reception in honor OF the
seventy-fourth birthday Of the former. Six
hundred invitations were sent out, and the
guests included the President and Mrs. Nc
Knley, Vice-President and Mrs. Hobart,
members of the Cabinet and the Diplomatic
Corps, with ladies and other friends.
President Gordon, of Leland Stanford
University, has been appointed ommission-
or to investigate the condition Of the Bering
Sea seal herd the present season.
The report that secret negotiations OF
great importance are being carried on be-
tween Spain and the United States in regard
TO Cuba is denied at the State Department.
". L. Scruggs, formerly United States
Minister to Venezuela and now senior coun-
gel of that republic, arrived with the ap-
proved boundary treaty with Great Britain.
The ratifcations will be exchanged in
Washington.
United States Senators signed a.petition
asking the President to pardon L. r. Chap
man, convicted Of refusing to answer ques-
lions befnrA the Senate sugar scandal COM
nittee.
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Greece Appeals to Europe.

Greece has made written application
TO the Powers through their representa-,
tives at Athens, with view of obtaining
mediation. All the representatives have
promised In their replies to use their best
offices, except the German Minister. Queen
Olga of Greece telegraphed to the Gar
soliciting Russia's Intervention in the war
Turkey will demand war indemnity oil
S30,0OO 900.
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Domestic.

Chang Yen Hoon, head OF the Chinese
Imperial Treasury and special Ambassador
to the Queens jubilee celebration, arrived
In New York on his way to England.
Edward H. Dodge, aged afty years, com
mitted suicide at Worcester, Mass. He went
to DR.. Rice's house, where he met DR.. Rice,
and presented pistol to the latter's head.
The doctor induced him to lie down In an
adjoining room. No sooner had the doctor
turned his back than Dodge fred bullet
into his head.
Gerald Peters, West Indian colored
leper, stole boat and escaped from North
Brother Island, New York City.
A late break In Louisiana levee will
cause some Of the richest sugar lands In
that State to be submerged.
The Grand Jury In New York City in
iicted Commander Booth-Tucker, OF the
Salvation Army, for maintaining public
nuisance-the Fourteenth street barracks.
The new Flower telescope and observa-
tory buildings Of the University OF Pennsyl.
yania were dedicated at Philadelphia In
the presence Of about fifteen hundred per-
sons.
C. C. Baldwin, Naval Officer Of the Port
Of New York, died in Newport, R. I. He
was born in Anne Arundel County, Mary
land, in 1884, and when the war broke out
entered the Confederate Army from Balti-
more.
Ten-year-old Mamie Cummings, who was
arrested at Mount Vernon, n. Y, April II
for stealing bicycle from Charles McKen-
zie, was sent to the Catholic Protectory at
WeStchester.
One Of the worst failures known in San
Francisco, CAL, for several years occurred
II t. rvh n
heavy trade in canned salmon, wheat and
fruit with Australia, failed for $500, 900.
The firm was established five years ago by
William Brown, son of Cashier Thomas
Brown, Of the Bank Of California.
Rumford Falls, Me-, will soon have the
biggest paper machine in the world. It
was made in Worcester, Mass, and will
produce paper $50 inches wide, beating the
worlds record by two inches.
Professor Shaffer, of the Rochester On.
" Theological Seminary, fell out OF 8
window and was killed.
Owen Bowie asked Charles Smith, farm
hand, for chew Of tobacco at Frederick,
Md, and upon being refused shot Smith
with an old army musket and made his es-
cape. Smith died. Both are colored, and
Bowie Is known as desperate character.
Frederick Jackson Cunningham, young
man OF good family and high social posi-
ton, Is in prison at Atlanta, Co., charged
with highway robbery and with assault
with intent to kill.
Fifteen students Of Grove City College,
one Of the best known schools In Western
Pennsylvania, have been expelled by the
college faculty 3or riotous conduct.
c. b. Damsel, general bookkeeper at the
National Bank Of Columbus, Ohio, is found
r; &c e,,yith fho
bank. He fled.
In anticipation OF the duty Of ten cents
per pound provided for in the Senate
amendment to the tariff bill the price Of
tea has been advanced in New York markets
from three to five cents pound.
The sealed verdict OF the jury in the case
Of F. A. Rockafellow the former banker,
who was charged with embezzlement, was
opened in court at Wilkesbarre, Penn. The
defendant was found guilty with recon-
mendation to mercy.
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Potato Patches In New Jersey.

! Ten acres Of land in Jersey City, n. ).
and seventeen acres In Hoboken have been
leased free Of rent to the Salvation Army,
for the purpose Of giving that organiza,t.i.on ION
an opportunity to IN Sp
Grated by Governor Pingree in Detroit.
Both pieces Of land are Of excellent quality,
and the Army officials expect that there
will be little difficulty in arranging for thelr
cultivation by people to whom the produce
will be boon.
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Cbri,t,s All Pervading Love.

The love OF Jesus Christ is to be seen in
that warm affection for him whic leads the
faithful to wish that his soul may become
almost part Of that Of Christ, and that the
living principle In the Lord may be repro
duced in himself not In the way OF an exter-
nal image but as an inward and divine In
spirstion. This love is omnipotent, uniting
the creature with the Creator. Man, in fact,
rises continually from humanity to some
thing divine when he is animated by this
love, which Is the sweetest OF affections,
penetrates the soul, and causes the faithful
to walk on earth, rapt as it were in the
spirit-Sayoparola.
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He Abolished Gror in the Navy.

In christening the last new torpedo boat
in honor Of Admiral Foote, Secretary Long
has given due recognition, not only to
brave naval officer, but to one who
abolished grog in the navy. The sailors
used to sing Of Admiral Foote as the man
"Who raised our pay ten cents day
And stopped our grog forever"
In 1S4S Admiral Foote conducted total
abstinence campaign at the Philadelphia
Naval Asylum, where he was stationed, and
persuaded number Of the inmates to give
up their rations Of grog. Then he increased
the scope Of his temperance operations, de-
voting his efforts to inducing the navy de-
partment to abolish the allowance OF
liquor to each enlisted man. In this he
was successful, and there has been no free
grog In the service since.
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FIRED ON THE AMERICAN FLAG.
Two Shots at the Rover by NicaraSuan
Gunboat.

~
Gunboat.
The steamer Rover, sailing between New
Orleans, La, and the ports Of Spanish Hon
duras, was fred on twice by Nicaraguan
gunboat, the Lucy B., May 6, while four
miles from Port Cortez, and narrowly es-
capped being hit amidships: Inc IN t,me mover
The Rover was boarded by an ofiicer ana
SIX OF his followers. He turned os out TO De
Geheral J. P. Reyes, of the Niearaguaan ian
Government, and he demanded to see the
Rover's papers, which were given him: ne DE
then searched the vessel and apparently
found everything to his satisfaction. ,.oa
Captain Reed, OF the Rover, protesteo
earnestly to General Reyes against tie tie
firing upon the Rover when she carried the
American flag, and was told by the General !
that he ought to consider himself lucky that
he (Reyes) did not sink the Rover; thae
Captain Reed could protest as much as ne
liked; it made no difference to him, as the
American Consul, Alger, was at the head
of the revolution at Port Cortez.
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Cycling Notes.

Too much care cannot be taken OF good
bicycle.
There are 10000 bieyclists in Toronto,
Canada.
For bicycle paths in Fairmount Park
Philadelphia, 5000 has been approPH-
ated. g
All BICYCLES used in st. Louis are now sub
ject to tax of 81 Il year, payable IN ad'
vance.
A project is being considered In Philadet
phia to provide asphalt strips for the use O
bcyclers. Sc )
The Rio News, of Brazil. reports that Htht
sale Of bicycles has become noteworthy, ,
the business having been large even WheS
everything else was blocked. <S...y
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-26
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN
MANY WAYS.

The Saloon to Choose for a Boy-Heredity
in AIcoholism-The Fatal Law, Traced
Through Four Generations. Shows the
Baneful Results OF Drunkenness.
Not place on fashionable street,
All furnished and FURNISHED within,
Where the gay and the hail-fellows meet.
With glamour the gosling to win.
But rather q tumble-down den
Surrounded by marshes and bogs,
Where the jingle Of glasses by men
Shall blend with the croaking Of frogs.
The shanty I'd plaster all Ger
With pictures and posters to suit;
Hobgoblins I'd hang on the dopr,
And monsters Of human and brute.
Here murder shall bare her red arm
And flourish her pistol and blade;
There tremens and demons alarm
And publish the fruits of the trade
The sign Of this chosen saloon
Should say in sleek letters to fit
OF serpent-coils hung In festoon,
"I lead to the bottomless pit"
No; pardon my humor, my son;
alter the pitch Of my tune:
No drinking-place wanted, not one;
No high-up nor low-down saloon.
The highest is still very low
ALI, all are but links In chain.
You begin at the top and you go
Toboggan-like down steep plain;
Go downward from laughter and light,
With swiftness that stiles the breath.
With reel and plunge in your flight
To regions of darkness and death;
To regions Of shame and remorse
With serpent-crowned furies to dwell.
Where the wine and wassail of earth
Give place to the horrors of hell.
Then fee, my boy, flee the saloon;
Alike do the glamour and glare
And the serpent-coi!s hung in festoon,
Mark stages to death and despair.
Joel Swartz, in National Advocate.
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Debate on Cuba.

The Cuban resolution was again deoated
In the United States Senate. Senator For
oLar announced that the Administrations
Cnhan noIicy would be determined by the
report Of Commissioner Calhoun, who mas
been assigned to investigate thoroughly
Che condition Of affairs on the island. SEN
ator Lodge intimated that there is late IN.
formation in the State Department whlch
will furnish a basis for decisive action.
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Japanese Cruiser at Honolulu.

On May S the Japanese cruiser Naniwa
arrived at Honolulu, Hawaii, from Yoko-
hama with Japanese Commissioner Abb
yama, who is to Investigate the cases OF the
rejected immigrants. Commissioner Abi-
wanna states that his mission Is friendly. II
he finds the Hawaii Government has erred
a claim for damages will be made. He de-
MES that Japan seeks war, and says nego-
tiations will be conducted automatically
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-26
What Drunkenness Will Do.

Drunkenness will make you a pauper, an
invalid, lunatic. It will send you an
empty purse, an empty wardrobe and an
empty shelf It gives you taste for
swearing, obscenity and tmpurity. 1t In
clines you to choose begging for profes-
sion rather than independence. 1t quail
fles you to become an undutiful child, an
unnatural parent, a cruel husband, or 6
disgusting wife. These are but O little OF
what drunkenness does.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-26
Too Easy to Counterfeit.

It Is so easy to counterfeit the new silver
bills that the Government has issued an or
der to call in and cancel all the new 81, 81
and IS certificates. There are outstanding
notes worth ,s54; ;424 600: As they are esd re-, e.
the country they will be sent to Washing
ton for cancellation, when notes OF q new
desi3n will be used In their stead.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-26
PASTOR STARTS A CYCLE CLUB.

Aims to Promote Social Relations at Terre
Haute, Ind.
The Rev. DR.. Percival, who recently took
charge of the First Congregational Church,
Terre Haute, Ind, has organized wheel
ing club among the members of his congre-
cation for the purpose Of continuing
through the summer the social relations
established in the winter at the church en-
tertainments.
Dr. Percival has been elected President
Of the club, which starts with charter
membership of thirty, and which, he says,
will grow to 100 before the end OF the wheel
ing season
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Elected q New Speaker.

Speaker Charles Blandford, of the Ken
lucky House of Representatives, is in Wash
ington in. pursuit of Federal office. He
has been there 80 long, and has given no
sign of returning, that his fellow legislators
moved that a new Speaker be elected. The
motion was adopted, and NJ. T. Flippin. OF
Monroe County, was chosen to succeed MIR.
Blandford
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Wintry Weather In Great Britain.

Heavy snowstorms prevailed on May Il
over the English counties of Berkshire,
Lincolnshire and Herefordshire. In Scot.
land there have been heavy snow and hali
storms, and the weather has been as cold
as during the month Of November. There
was sharp frost in London and in the in
land counties.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-26
paace Apain In Honduras.

The State Department at Washington re-
seiyed a dispatch from Consul Little at
Tegucigalpa, the capital OF Honduras, say
ing that the revolution has come 10 an emu
Tbe last news at the department from Hon
dnras was that the revolutionlsts were IN
force at Puerto Cortez, and that the Gov
ernment had been obliged to declare that
port closed, and were moving on 1t with
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-26
GOLD CLAUSES WITHDRAWN.
Payments May be Made in the Every Da.
Currency of the Land.

Dunlap Smith, q well-known real estate
dealer Of Chicago, announced that his firm
had decided to strike the gold clause from
their form Of contract and to require moth
ing but that repayments shall be in the
everyday currency of the country.
During the last few days we have made
loans amounting to S25, 900 on these terms,
which seem to be popular with borrowers"
said he. "We made one loan on vacant
piece OF property over on the West Side,
carrying five per cent. interest on these
terms"
The change may be taken as an indication
OF growing confidence In the futura
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Before the Cross.

O, what a load Of struggle and distress
Falls of before the cross The feverish
care,
The wish that we were other than we are.
The sick regrets, the yearnings numberless,
The thought, This might have been,' 80
apt to press
On the reluctant soul: even past despair,
Past sin itself, ALL all is turned to fair,
Ave. to q scheme Of ordered happiness,
So soon as We love G rod, or, rather, know
That God loves us
&C. II. Townsend.
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Raiser's Gift to France.

Emperor William Of Germany has in
structed the German Ambassador TO
France Count Won Munster-Ledenburg, to
remit the sum Of $4,000 to the Committee
of the Charity Bazaar, whose work mas peen
somewhat crippled by the terrible nfe'
which resulted in great loss OF llfe.
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Food for London's Poor.

There is a movement on foot in Mel.
bourne, Victoria, to send 10000 sheep and
500 bullocks to England In connection with
the dinner which the Prince Of Wales is
promoting for the poor of the slums of Lon
don on the Queens Diamond Jubilee,
June o.
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Wild Deer a Pest.

Wild deer have multiplied immensely on
Long Island during the closed season. They
are not only eating the crops, but are de-
stroying plants and flowers.
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The Triple Alliance,

The pact Of the Powers constituting the
triple alliance has been renewed for Pc
Rod Of six years. The right to withdraw,
under the terms Of the original agreement,
expired on May 6, and Germany has sue
ceeded in persuading Italy not to exercise
the right of withdrawal.
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TRANSVAAL'S REPLY DEFIANT.
insists Upon It's Rights and Suggests Ar
bitration With England.

A dispatch from Cape Town, South Al
rica, says that the reply of the Transvasl
Government to the strong note, said to
amount to an ultimatum, from the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, Joseph
Chamberlain, insisting upon observance OF
the London Convention, is defiant In tone.
It insists, the dispatch adds. upon the right
Of the Transvaal to demand arbitration OF
the questions in dispute, and also upon its
right to pass the Alien immigration law,
and asserts that, If the right is disputed,
arbitration is the best means of arriving at
a settlement OF the question.
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Rad Roads Horrible Example.

a. pocahontas is the only county seat in
Iowa that cannot be reached by rail, and
the roads are so bad that the spring term
of court has been abandoned, and no cases
will be heard until September.
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Found Gold In q Fish,

Jacob Buntz and his son, who lives at
Mead Creek, Conn.,, found a $3.50 gold
piece in a three and quarter pound bass
they had caught in a gill net. The coin Is
one Of the coinage Of 1873
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Russia and Austria Combine.

Russia and Austria have concluded an
agreement to maintain the status quo IN
the Leyant and to divide influence. in the
balkans, giving Russia free hand In the
eastern portion and Austria in the western
portion.
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H'peful outioo1 r for remp mperance.

STh, washington Post. while admitting
tnat Embarrassing, is ahu t tha ISL
VII WIZ nce outlook, holding Ssts NJ STATISTICS
ips!w petw decreased consumpSinnA y, distjIIeJ
Sshmuors OF all kinds, and 6ahitnaI
4llunkenness Is on the decline sT1ha Toto poSt ot
Kinks that the greatest agency IN g teIn ner. e.
'entimept c condemnatory Of druay public
Public opinion Is forcing men to Ssn4ens. Ha tem
perate. by shutting tho intemperateoeo ort .e "
public offices and responsible privat ste..
lions" While the real cure for inter- nsr- ns
ance Is the Gospel, and plenty OF It, q
fact that the Gospel works out many OIL: I'D
purposes through various subsidiary mesi ID ss
one Of these being an improved pupftIs.
opinion. w. s
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Alcohol in Cold Climates.

DR.. A. Flick, professor Of physiology IN
Wurtzburg, says: ''The use OF alcohol,
even when taken in moderate quantities.
has been proved to be particularly injuri:
Gus in case great physical endurance IS re-
ouired In cold climates. For decades con-
seuuently, it has been o fixed rule Of ex-
plorers in polar regions-a rule based on
experience-not to give their crew any
alcoholic drink whatever, Nansen, the
now famosN explorer of the northern re-
efons, W Lsseently travelled across Green
land on oSsoes noWs,ssoes ascribes the success OF
hisund rtaxangs gsessentially to the fact that
he ana OLSON n1i Sompa' }ions did not take drink
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TERRIBLE CRIME IN RUSSIA
Hermit Walls Up Alive Seventeen to Re-
ceive the Martyrs Crown.

ceive the Martyrs Crown.
A terrible crime, the result Of supersti-
.ion, has been committed at Tirespol, In
the government of Kherson, Russia, where
are a number Of hermitages inhabited by
sectarians. Recently seventeen Of the her
mits disappeared, and it was believed that
they had emigrated in fear Of the impend-
ing day OF judgment, but hermit named
Kowalind has confessed that he walled
them up alive in response to their earnest
entreaties that they might receive the
martyrs crown. The police examined the
spot and verified the confession.
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Getting Ready for War.

A commission Of British cavalry officers
and veterinary surgeons is in the Argentine
Republic buying horses for the British cav
airy service.
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Snain the Arbitrator,

Peru and Bolivia have submitted their
territorial dispute to the arbitration oi
Snnin.
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We know not, verify, that which is laid up
for us. There are such beautiful things
put by. In Gods house and in Gods time
there are such treasures.-Mrs. A. D. 7.
Whitney.
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Model Farmer for China.

CD. Brill, who recently graduated from
the agricultural department OF Cornell Coz,
lege, Ithaca, N. Y, will 70 to China ana
take charge Of model farm. HIS salary
viii be sS000 year.