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The Mohanmedan Easter.

Bairam is the name of the Moham.
medan Easter. 1t follows Ramedan,
which corresponds to Lent, and lasts
three days. During this time visits
are exchanged and presents made in
much tho same spirit as that which
characterizes our Christmas. At Con-
stantinople the streets are thronged
and bands of music parade day and
night. The decorations of the boats
in the Bosphorus are striking and
beautiful. The Sultan celebrates the
day by worshipping in the mosque, sf-
ter which he gives an informal recep-
ton to his friends in the palace of
Dolma-baktche. During this recep-
ton the Sultan occupies a throne Of
great splendor placed in the midst of
the vast and beautifully decorated au-
dience hail..
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One Commemorative Principle.

The heaviest part OF the burden OF life
lies In the feeling that there aretwo burdens
the good of others and the good Of ones
self. This Is what distracts life. A man
does not know which way to turn. Ought
he to give himself to self culture, or ought
he to give himself to self-sacriflce2 Shall
he study for his own sake, or shall
he work for others sake2 Shall he
labor, or shall he pray2 Which Is the
better, to be good or to do goodi
20 we argue with ourselves, as II
life were hopeless duallsm where at least
one-half OF duty must be left undone. But
the fact is that no such chasm in life exists.
One comprehensive principle Of power holds
up the burden ef the world. Some serve by
doing and some by being: some by bearing
others burdens, and some by bearing their
own; but it is all one life, holding the thinker
and the doer, the self-discipline and the
generous service. Let any man carry his
own burden. and he Is doing much more
than saving himself. He is perhaps making
the best possible contribution to the strength
OF the common life. Let any man be lavish
of his strength In serving others, and he Is
doing much more than helping others. He
is reinforcing his own strength to carry hi;
own burdens.-Francis Greenwood Peabody,
D.D. in Afternoons in the College Chapel
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Easter Day.

II you wake up Sunday morning when It's
quiet In the street,
And you hear the church bells Ginning
far away;
II their melody Is rich and more than usu-
ally sweet.
It's because they're ringing In the Easter
Day.
When you see the streets alive with women
radiant and fair
And hats OF every fashion, hue and ray,
Till you think q million butterflies are
wlngiog In the air,
Then you'll know for certain that it's
Easter Day.
II you notice during service, when the
Lenten prayers are read.
And every pretty woman kneels to pray,
That she's taking 10 the bonnet OF her
neighbor just ahead,
You'll excuse her, cause you know It's
Easter Day.
When you tuck. the blessed little 'uns In
bed so snug and tight,
And "Now lay me down to Sleep" they
say,
just tell 'em bout their Savior fore you
kiss 'em all good night,
And thank the Lord we've got an Easter
Day.
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Love Beeets Duty.

Love utters itself in Duty, and Duty
strengthens Love. II Duty grows weak. II
must climb to the fountain-head OF Love aud
drink. 1t Love grows doubtfula and hesitates,
1t must lean and steady itself on the strong
sta1 OF Duty. You see how 1t all points to
the beautiful completeness OF the wSrld, in
which there comes no love without Its duty
and no duty without It's love. - Il Is a
most inspiring thought. that never yet
did God put any high emotion in the soul OF
any OF His children that Gods world did
not instantly stand before that child with
duty in its hand saying 'This is the task
whie. q elongs to your new emotion. Do this
task aud the emotion shall BIZ really yours:
not merely the fleeing gleam OF passing
sunbeam on your bosom, but the settled
warmth Of perpetual sunshine In your
heart" How invariable that Is ! Never
does anew love descend from heaven that
a new duty does not spring out OF the
earth God fills your soul with pity
and the beggar instantly knocks at your
gate. God gives you courage, and the
haunted wretch fees under your strong arm
OF protection. God gives you light, and the
cloud OF some ignorance rolls up out OF the
night, demanding your daylight for its dis
persion.-Phillips Brooks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-29
Why Christ Came to Earth.

Christ came not to rsvolutionize, but to en-
noble and to sanctify. He came to reveal
that the Eternal was not the Future, but only
the Unseen; that Eternity was no ocean
whittier men were swept by the river OF
time, hut was around them now. and that
their lives were only real In 80 far as they
felt its reality and its presence. he
came to teach that God was no dim
abstraction, infinitely separated from
them in the far off blue, but that
He WAS the Father in whom they lived
and moved and had their being, and that the
service which He loved was not ritual and
sacrifice, not pompous scrupulosity and CEN
serious orthodoxy, but mercy and justice,
humility and love. He came, not to hush
the natural music OF mems lives, not to fill
1t with storm and agitation, but to retune
every silver chord in that "harp OF thou
sand strincs" and tn make II echo with the
harmonies of hcaven.-Canon Farrar.
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chair bursting with laughter. Tears
of delight were streaming down her
face in a torrent.
"Sit you down, Mrs. O'Brien," said
she, "and wait till I can get me
breath"
"And what's the matter with you,
at all, at all?" exclaimed Mrs.
O'Brien, envying the cause OF such q
joyful cyclone.
,, "'Tis all about -. me little boy,
Mickey, and his Easter egg," replied
Mrs. Finn, wiping her eyes. "a
weeny joke I played on him, dye
see? If you saw the face OF the little
lad whin-ah dear, I'm laughin' all
day about it. Mrs. O'Brien-to see
the egg, and me husband laughin' till
thought he'd have a fit, acushla,
and"-
"Will you stop goin' malvatherin'
and tell me what it's all about?" said
Mrs. O'Brien impatiently.
"Well, you must know this" re-
sumed Mrs. Finn, "that Mickey
wanted waE O thin eggs wild paint on
it like they have in the candy store
windys, and I had no money to buy
wan. But I told him Saturday night
to niver fear but he'd have nice big
egg on Easter mornin', all blue. like a
robins egg. You'll mind I'm after
sittin' the blue hin on thirteen eggs,
and the time was near up for the
chickens to come. Well, after the
little lad went to bed on Saturday
night I took wan of the eggs from un-
der the hin and put it in the oven to
keep it warm till the mornin'. There
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and getting your dress ready to day,
and Flake cross and half sick with a
cold, I simply haven't the courage to
20 to the milliner's with you"
The little girl looked up brightly.
She was barely thirteen, and the
thought of going all alone to Miss
Prim's for her new Easter tnery was
rather pleasant to her.
ooh, mamma, you don't need to go!
I'm sure you don't! I can pick out
Just what T want, aud if you don't like
it when it comes home we can change
it, YOU know. 1 might 60 down right
away and see what Miss Prim has.
Nav I, mammal" and the little girl
rose eagerly.
"Why yes, Nell, suppose so. You
can tell Miss Prim that you want to
see what she has and the prices, and
that you will be in tomorrow to take
one. Don't go over two dollars and a
half, Nellie. That is all I can afford
this time. That ought to buy really a
q very nice hat for little girl. Not
too much trimming, remember. 1
don't believe in so much show for
Easter as some folks make. Goodby,
dear; be home early"
Nellie had been hastily putting on
her things as her mother talked, and
was out the door almost before she
had finished. She tried to walk at
first, but her feet kept going faster and
faster, until she was fairly in run,
before she was half way to Miss Prim's s
little shop, that was quite in the cen.
tre of the village.
At Miss Prim's she was all upset.
There we're 80 many hats, and most OF
them so pretty and becoming, that she
could not choose. She had almost de-
oided upon dainty little LegnorD,
trimmed with violets and daisies, when
her eye caught a hat in another case
that made her forget all the others. It
was richer and more profusely
trimmed. When Miss Prim placed it
besides the others they looked cheap
and scsnty.
"Oh, Miss Prim, how much is it?"
she asked breathlessly.
'I have been asking four dollars for
it, but it is so near Easter now you
may have it cheaper. =. You may have
it for three anG half"
The girls face fell. It was dollar
more than she could pay.
'sI am afraid it is more than mamma
can afford this year." she said regret
fully.
All the way home she thought of
that beautiful hat. She walked rather
slowly now, thinking and thinking
very hard. She knew it would be USE
less to ask her mother to buy the more
expensive hat. Mrs. Thorne was kind.
almost indulgent with her children,
but she was firm in what she told
them. Nellie did not enter the house
as gayly as she had left it, and her
mother thought her tired.
"You have been finding it hard to
choose, Nell," she said, smiling. 'Tell
me about it"
eyes, mamma. there were so many,
I picked a Leghorn staw, trimmed with
violets and daisies. It is two and q
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-29
TO MOVE OUT OF DEBT.
A Kansas Town Will Shift Its Building
to Il New Site.

A new way OF paying old debts has been
discovered by Ness City, which Is the county
scat ut Ness County. Kansas. The place
was started as boom town, and the new
comers placed heavy mortgages On theiI
land. improvements, however, were not
included in the mortgages. The town debt
grew enormously, and the population coulc
not meet tho interest payments.
Ono mortgage holder ioreclosed, and the
debtor moved his house und belongings tc
another plot OF ground. This gave the
towuspeople an idea, and they have secured
= new town site three miles from tho present
one, ana arc preparing to move their houses
and buildings to tho new site, leaving their
lands in the old one to the mortgage hold
ers. i,
The new location has been plated and
surveyed. aud the buildings will be placed
relatively In the same position as they. are
now. complete change. however. IS to
be made in the city government. The
town will change its name, and will be, ID
fact, un entirely new town.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-29
The Bible In tbs Church.

With three things given to tho Christian
Church she need never be discouraged.
These are the Word of God written, the
Holy Spirits teaching and inspired men and
women making divine truth known to
others. The first work of the church
Is to know the Bible-so to know 1t
that it's truths enter into daily life, be-
come controlling and inspiring. No other
work can gain pre-ominence over this
without weakening Christians. Exercise
strengthens well-fed bodies, but 1t exhausts
those which have insufficient food. Public
services OF the church are often called exer-
cises. One reason why they are not more
numerously attended is because those who
support them are not we'll fed. And by this
we mean no disparagemept to pastors Such
uourished, would find them exhilarating.
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God Knew, the Shoals.

We are often Obliged to pull the oars OF
duty with our backs to the future; We can
not tell what the morrow shall bring forth;
it is our business to pull at the oars OF
prayer and labor, and to leave the rudder
in the divine Helmsman's hand. We
commit our way to Him. He knows
where the shoals and the sunken
rocks are, and where. the deep water
is also; let the Omniscient Pilot do
tho steering. The poor disciples had
rough night Of 1t while tire Master was
asleep in tho stern of the boat; He was
teaching them alesson, and when in their
extremity they called up the Helmsman, the
storm lulled, and their flshing-smack swan
safe into harbor.-Theodore l.. Cuyler, ID.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-29
Easter In OlIen Time.

Easter was at one time celebrated
by feasts and games held in the
churches. These OF first were decor
GUS and useful in bringing the con-
gregations together in rejoicing after
the seven duties imposed upon them
during Lent. The custom was aban-
doned because of the excesses, which
became scandal to the Church.
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It is striking fact that In all literature
the sentence best loved by children is
Christ's ''Suffer little children to come unto
me" the sentence best loved by the uged
'sLet not your hearts 10 troubled" the SEN
tence best loved by the men the one begin
ming. For God so loved the world. New
ell Dwight Hills.
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The Dead of Our War.

The following statement has been issued,
showing the total nun Der Of deaths report.
cd to the Adjutant- Generals office, Wash
ipgton, between May 1, 1893, and February
rs, 1899: Killed in action, 329; died OF
wounds. l25; died Of disease, 5,277; total.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-29
AVALANCHE REVEALS A MINE.
A Ten-Foot Copper Vein Discovered by
the Fall OF u Boulder in Utah,

An avalanche on tho Lasal Mountain,
near Park City, Utah, has uncovered u ten
foot copper vein a-sayinG twonry per cent
copper and containing an eight-inch streak
OF glance Cssnyi ~ seventy per cent. metal
lie copper. l.. G. Trrnowith, who has been
working some c!anrS on the mountain, has
been finding considerable float carrying
fifty per cent. co''irr, but he could not
.ocate the lead. A hugo boulder, curr;ed
into tho gulch bv the avalanche. broke. re-
vealing rich uou pr va!ues. The former
site Of the oul.er was marked by the cop
per vein which hal been uncovered by the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-29

After all, the kind of world one carries
about in ones self is the important thing {;
and the world outside takes all its grace,
color aud value from them.-J. II. Lowell.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-03-29

New England and Easter Sunday.
New England was the last section of
this country to recognize Easter as q
general holy day.
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AGE4HAGxK9SGxN8 S7S46Ea0G99dGk:
) MICKEY FINN'S
5 EASTER EGG. ;
The Surprise Which the Lads Mother
Unwittingly Provided.
. 8 T E R W a 8

a 8 T E R W q g
speeding away
and Mrs. O'Brien
had run in to
borrow a draw
ing of tea and to
ask for the loan
OF O sand-ir
She found Mrs.
~
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Subject: "Brilliant Bitterness''-AttiIat the
Hun Used as Horrible Example-Is
He a Type of the Wormwood Mem
toned In Revelation?
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walt very long before your house is stiller
than you want 1t. Alas that there are 30
many homes not known to the Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Children,
where children are whacked and cufred and
ear pulled. and senselessly called to order,
and answered sharply aud suppressed, un-
til 1t Is wonder that under such processes
they do not all turn out Mana Sahtos!
But will change this aud suppose you
are star OF worldly prosperity. Then you
have large opportunity. You can encour-
age that artist by buying his picture. You
cin improve the fields, the stables, the
highway, by Introducing higher style OF
Gun bless the world with pomological
achievement In the orchard. You can ad-
vance arboriculture and arrest the DEATH
full destruction Of the American forests
You can put piece OF sculpture into the
niche OF that public academy. You can
endow college. You can stocking lOO0
bare feet from the winter frost. You can
build church. You can put missionary
OF Christ on that foreign shore. fou can
nelp ransom world. A rich man with his
heart right-cau you tell me how much
GOOD a James Lenox or George Peabody
or Peter Cooper or q William Z. Dodge
did while living or is doing now that he fs
dead There Is not city, town or neigh
borhool that has not glorious specimens
OF copsecrated wenlth.
But suppose you grind the face OF the
poor. Suppose. when mans wages nre
due, YOU make him whit for them because
lie cannot help himself. Suppose that, be-
cause his family is sick and he has had ex-
ira expenses, he should politely ask YOU to
raise his wages for this year, and you
roughly tell him il he wants better place
to 20 and get it. Suppose, by your man.
ner act rs though he were nothing and
you were everything. Suppose you are
selfish and overbearing and arrogant.
Your first name ought to be Attila and
your last name Attila, because you are the
star Woruxaad and -xo1. .haYe imbittered
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13
KEEPING PRISONERS.
PreNeated Their CaptiVes from
HshninR Away.

at has been suggested that when
Santiago falls we shall have from TO-
900 to 10000 Spanish prisoners To look
after" said q well-known German citi-
zen to the New York Tribune. before
the surrender.
"Of course, the question OF what TO
do with them is sure to arise, and with
further campaigning necessary 1t will
probably develop into serious propo-
sition.
at recalls to my mind an incident Of
the German revolution Of lo4o. We
were short Of men and had d large
number OF prisoners to look after.
That did lot worry us as long as we
were not moving, but one day we mad
TO make forced march. The country
through which we were 10 pass was
hostile, and extreme watchfulness was
necessary. We had few enough men
as il was. and we knew that those
prisoners were ready to make a dead
run at the first opening.
Finally young officer made bril-
liant suggestion and it was promptly
carried out. We ripped the suspender
buttons from the prisoners trousers.
took away their belts and knew we had
them Their hands were busy after
that, and fast running was out of the
question. We made the march safely.
and ] do not believe that even Yankee
ingenuity could have invented a sim
pier solution"
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13
FAIR PLAY IN THE THEATER
uau Little Woman siIenced IA Vol
ubIe NeighbOr Wac Tried I"
Annoy Her.

II was only a by-play at the theater
the other evening, but il was enter
tanning to limited portion OF the au-
dience. says the Detroit Free Press.
Behind the little lady with dimin-
utiye hat that had its chief beauty IN
It's daintainess, sat member OF the
sex with Amazonian proportions ana
voluble tongue. In a brief intermis-
sion of chattering to those about her
she happened TO look down and espy
the pretty headgear which was clear
foot below her range Of vision with
the stage. But ii was tempting OPP
portunity.
"Wil you kindly remove your hat:
asked the one in the rear, as She
leaned forward and spoke in noisy
whisper.
Certainly" answered the one in
front. as she made rather d vicious
plunge for the anchoring pin. 81 will
kindly take of my hat. VIII YOU
kindly stop your talking and permit
us to hear this play?"
Fer full five minutes there was I'M
broken silence. But il was a greater
self-restraint than the large woman
could endure and her annoying whis-
perings again began. Suddenly the one
in front stuck the little hat upon the
very summit Of her head and pinned
II there. 1t seemed to have grown
taller and Of greater circumference
and looked just like defiant chal-
lenge worked into artistic millinery.
The large woman was TOO mad TO
talk and there was suppressed litter
Jag while those around beamed on the
little woman aud were sore tempted
10 give her hand by way OF applause.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13
HOTEL CLOCKS ALWAYS TRUE
Hat the Most of the Family MAnteI
Timepieces Are Conscienceless
PreVRricatSrs.

When | am travelling | never put the
slightest confidence IL q household
clock. write Robert J. B1T@tte, OF
"Tongueless Liars" in Ladies' Nome
Journal. A hotel clock can depend
upon. There are too many watches in
Il hotel-good watches. watches whose
absolute correstness means money to
the commercial men who regulate the
travelling life of this country. A lying
clock would be spotted in quarter Of
second, and the unhappy clerk
scourged with pitiless sarcasms there
for. In the course OF my wanderings
up and down this part Of the globe /
missed a few trains and lecture en-
gagements by depending upon clocks
in the homes Of my friends. Having
thus paid for my lesson-Sl5,0OO or
$4,000, | think-by my own computa-
tion Of the value Of my lectures (set
ahead little bit. you know, il may be
q trihe fast; | haven't time to look up
the exact fgures), | withdrew all my
trust from maptel clocks. especially
the highly ornsmented marble-and-
gilt variety with silver bells OF catbe-
ersl chimes.
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SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.

Nos. 80 and 81. Washington and Southwest
ern Limited. Solid Ac-fIhulcd Train he.
tween Now York and Atlanta. composed OF
Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars lmin-
imum Pullman rate -2V, no extra fare.
Fir,t-,.in.~ Ne>tibulcd Day Coach between
Washington aud Atlanta. Through sleep
iu. Cars between New York and New or
leans. New lort and Memphis. Sew York.
A>hcNIlr and Hot springs, Sew York and
IaInr a uuh Richmond Augusta. South
Dru Halfway Dining car between greensboro
ana MONTGOMERY.
Sos. 8j and B. United STATES Fast Mail.
Pullman sleeping cars between New York,
Atlanta. MONTGOMERY and New orleans,
Ntu ork nnd jacksonville, and Charlotte
and iusu-l.4.
No-. lIand ID Sleeping 'arb tween Green's
nnr0 nud ilaleiah. and hctwced Greensboro
nud Richmond.
rhroulh tickets on sale 700 principal sit-
iufl- foH ll points. For rate. ar Information
fuulV fuHut agent I The Company.
"a I.tREIN. j.. ~. CUP. ". \. TURK,
.cu'l ~npt. Traffic MGR. ren. Pass. Agt.,
1900 ra. Ave-. Washington, -. e..
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CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST
Every Man Who
WEARS SHOES SHOULD READ THIS.

! make speciality of the BAY STATE
SHOES. and they are rs good a. any made,
and will venture 10 say | VIII give you
THE BEST PAIR of Shoes or Boots for the
least money of any house In town. NV
motto is QUICK SALES AND SMALL
PROFITS
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13

Doyne has a full line of Furniture
for paror, chamber, dining-room and
nursery. Consult him before you buy
from others.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13

The lowest price goods are not al
ways the cheapest. Try US for flavor
ing Extracts and Spices.
II. &. Crute. Druggist.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13
Mitchell Wagons

O all sizes the very best wagon ON ihr
market We believe which. having bought boz
large quantities. we will sell To yo at as low
or lower prices than other WAGONS ON ihe
market.
Before buving. give Us call and see 10 wc
cannot suit you 100 both GOODS and PRO ~.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13

Don't marry bright girl-she might
90 out when you most needed her.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13
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