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Every Good Means Sacrifice.

Cost fs the law of spiritual life. Salvation.
costs. Genuine repentance and faith taxthe
energies OF the soul. The Christian life costs
persistent, patient and brave effort In resist-
Ing temptations and bearing the cross.
Christian character costs. The fruits OF the
spirit, love, Joy, peace, long suffering. gem
tfeness, meekness, temperance, are hard 10
grow. These are the highest attain;
ments of life, and the higher we GO
along any line Of action, the more dim
cult 1t becomes. 1t is more difficult to
paint picture than to paint brick WALL
Nature produces coal in abundance, but II
taxes all her skill to produce. diamond
These graces Of the spirit are the diamonds
OF the soul, and they are hard to produce!
They can only be slowly crystallized; come
of them, like the pearl which Is produced
by the suffering OF the she'll. fish; can be-
wrought out only through af1tction. But
when they are acquired, they are the finest
jewels of human character. and shah shine
as the stars forever.
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to that given them by the United
Cfofao

to that given them by the United
States.
A priest and two members of the
so-called Philippine Congress, who
hid themselves in the woods during
the fighting which preceded the cap
ture of Malolos, returned there and
declared that 1000 of the Filipino SOL
diers were anxious to give up fight
ing, and would do 80, but for their
officers. who keep them under arms.
The whole country between Malolos
and Caloocan is now full of friendlies,
mostly women, children and old peo-
pie, who are returningto their homes,
carrying white flags. The Americans
are trying to gain the confidence of
the inhabitants by proving to them
that if they will return and attend to
their ordinary work peacefully no harm
will befall them. Two hundred and
fifty civilians have come back to their
homes in Malolos. Two hundred
women and children, with sprink-
ling of unarmed men, supposed to be
warriors, came to the outskirts of Ma
lolos on the sea side of the city and
afterward sneaked away, carrying all
the goods they could.
The mainstay of Aguinaldo's army
are natives unused to the arts of mod
ern warfare and schooled only in the
crude methods of the savage. Their
chief arm is the bow; their sole ambi-
ton revenge. They fight from fear,
not through courage. They serve the
ambitions of their chiefs. To them
the majority-love of country is con-
tracted to love, through dread, of ruler
despots.
To them the Red Cross-emblematic
of humanity and civilization in war
means only the suggestion for a new
decoration for their half-naked bodies.
They would shoot without further
thought the wearer of it simply to get
that decoration.
These native have been described
in dispatches: their guerilla style of
fighting; their cruelty to foreigners
who fall into their hands; their heredi-
tary notion of revenge.
The more intelligent natives, brought
up in and about Manila are the only
ones who are intrusted with the mod
ern gun. The Tagalos and other
tribesmen would be as aptto kill them
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would have to meet up hill and down
dale and in the market-place? She
could then marry that runaway Eng
lishman. + dare say she would be
glad. But am not going to pain and
shame Jamie to please her. Poor
Jamiew
Poor Jamie, indeed! Alexander,
you have O bad tongue. But take
care! The bad tongue eventually
says some words that pay for all the
Others"
She lifted her ball of wool, threw
her knitting passionately into her
work basket, and left the room. 1t
was to Katherine's room she went.
The girl was sitting in her night
dress, reading a song Mowbray had
written to her. and her sweet, bright
face, all smiles and dimples, made the
tears spring to her mothers eyes.
She told Katherine what her guardian
had said, and added:
''Now, my dear, I will have no
more scruples. Tomorrow send in
vitations to the Hislops and the Her
lots, the Hetherbys and all the young
people you know. Tell them it is for
an informal dance on next Monday
night, and then tell Richard he must
make his arrangements to suit"
Mamma, darling, how are you 60.
ing to bear the storm that we shall
outAy? The laird and the minister
and the people you know-gentle and
simpler" ,
81 shall tell myself my little girl is
happy; that Charlie Janfarie's little
girl is happy. As for the laird, he
will bluff and bluster in public, and
90 down on his knees to me when we
are alone. I snap my fingers at him!
And rs for the minister, the laird IS
sure to call him names, and rouse the
man in the minister so far that he is
pretty certain to say: 'Wintoun and
Jessy, and you and and Mowbray-
one and all of US did right Do not
give yourself a care about me, Kath-
crime, my darling daughter. I shall
want something to break the blow
when you are gone from me, and 1
shall have the fight with your guard
ian ut hand. At any rate it will be
pleasant to remind him that he has no
longer any occasion to pity his poor
nephew.'S
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A Mexican Want.

In Mexico there is not sufficient an
nual rainfall to keep cisterns filled
with drinking water, and almost the
only source Of fresh water is secured n;
by hand pumps and windmills. They
are necessary at every Mexican home,
at all mining camps and on the cattle
ranges. at the camps and on the
ranges windmills are used and they
are invariably of United States manu-
facture. There is growing demand
for windmills and hand pumps of the
latest and most approved pattern. A
windmill or pump is as essential to a
home in Northern Mexico as cooking
stove. In consideration of the fact
that pumps are such an important fac
tor in the economy of domestic estab-
lishments, the Mexican Government
admits them free of duty.
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A Life Lived Rapidly.

His death (John the Baptist) was no. pre-
mature; it was the closing of u full and rip
ened Lille. His life had been rapidly burn
inc lamp which has given all the greater
light in a dark place. can illustrate by the
burning Of candles in compressed air in sub
merged caissons. When the railroad bridge
was being built across the Mississippi river
at st. Louis mar told ME he went down in
one of these caissons eight hundred feet
below the surface OF the water. The bad
air was driven by compressed air in the cais-
son. This dark place was lighted With
burning candles. These candles burned very
rapidly and gave a corresponding light.
They could not be blown out by human
breath. So it was with the life Of this man.
It burned fast under the pressure of great
loye.-Pev. Geo. Candre.
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Our Area in Coal Production.

Both the area and the quantity OF
coal production has increased in the
United StsLes. In 1870 coal was mined
in only twenty States, while in 1897 it
was mined in thirty-two; in 1870
Pennsylvania was the only State pro-
ducing anthracite. Now we get it
from Rhode Island, Virginia, Colorado
sud Ncw Mexico also. The most rapid
increase has been ia the South. In
1870 Alabama mined but II, 900 tons
of coal; in 1897 $685. tons. Ken
lucky jumped from 1000 tons to
3,216,OOO tons; Tennessee from lS3,-
600 tons to 100000 tons, and Vir-
ginia from $4,000 to 1866 600 tons
Chicago Record.
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Most of the Americans in the Phil
ippines are becoming convinced that
the backbone of the .insurgent opposl-
ton is broken. There are numerous
.rumors pointing to an early collapse
Of the insurrection. One of these is
that General Pho del Pillar, the best
fighter among the Filipino officers,
will desert Aguinaldo and give his
support to the Americans.
The Spaniards, reasoning from
their experience with the natives, re-
fuse to believe that the rebellion is
anywhere near put down. They de-
clare that the Filipinos will not take
their defeat at Malolos, with the loss
of the city and the removal OF their
so-called government, seriously to
heart. On the contrary, the Span
iards predict that the insurgents will
hover near the American lines, both
ering them as much as possible, and,
when attacked in force, dissolve, only
to reappear at other points. This
sort of tactics, the Spaniards say, will
be followed until the wet season
compels the Americans to be housed
in barracks, and then the Filipinos
will return and reoccupy such towns
as the United States troops do not gar
rison. With the next dry season a
repetition of the present operations
will begin. Time alone will show
how much there is in this theory:
but, rs against it, it must be borne in
mind that the Spaniards in all their
domination of the Philippines never
gave the Inhabitants q demonstration
of power comparable in effectiveness
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The Laboratory Of Christ.

The Arabs have saying about the palm
tree. that 1t stands with its feet in salt water
and its head in the sun. They often cannot
drink OF the brackish water found In the
the tree and drink the sweet palm wine.
The palm tree, by the magic Of its In
ner life, can 50 change the elements
found in the unkindly soil around 1t
that they minister to its growth and
strength and fruit-bearing. So you and
/. in our earthly life, must often have our
feet in the mire and bitterness OF sin around
Us, and upon our heads will often beat the
fierce heat OF temptation. But in spite OF
these things We shall be able to grow and
grow strong. rejecting the evil and assim-
ilating the good, il within US there is the
laboratory OF a new life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.-Rev. j. B. Johnston.
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advantage that could make life easy
and pleasant. Ithas an area Of fifteen
miles-nearly 10000 acres.
Mona lies forty-two miles due east
of Porto Rico, in the middle of Mona
Passage, to which 1t gives its name,
and which is one of the highways of
travel in the West Indies, being the
widest break in the great coral reef
that joins the Antilles like a string of
beads. y.
Mona comes to the United States by
virtue of the second clause in the peace
treaty, which cedes "the island of
Porto Rico and other islands now, un-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-04-19
GODS MESSAGE TO NAM
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM The.
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS. @

Caster Dawn-The Great Resolve-Evefy
Good Means sacrifce-The Joy Of tho
Lord Laboratory OF Christ - A LIE
Lived Rapidly-Buds Always There
Not now, as once, by budding leaf
And flower unfolding bright and brief,
We mark our Easter days return,
While white the silvery tapers burn,
And chanting choirs In full accord
Salute the reigning, risen LORD !!
For going on, our life grows gray
In shadow Of the passed away,
The'things we had, and have not, seem
The fading vision Of dream,
Dear voices hushed, dear hands ungrasped,
Dear households broken, links unclasped
That late were binding kith and kin;
Such winds Of sorrow have swept In
That wide, waste spaces everywhere q
Leave empty silence, bleak and bare
Not now with starry lilies digit TX
We greet the Casters morning light.
Our lilies bloom beyond the tide,
Sweet fields are on the other side; fissI
Here meet We pain and fret and loss,
And heavy weight Of rough-hewn CROSSE IS
When Easter breaks, thank God, We say,
For strength still equal to our day,
For hopes that span the road before
And love that climbs to heavens door.
IT'S much, II but, serene and still,
We can accept the Fathers will, b,
And, comforted, uplift our psalm,
And feel, throughtears, the Easter balm Y
And now, By every lowly grace,
One tender thought our fond hearts crave,
That He whose outworn grave clothes lay:
Folded and fair on Easter Day, 80
May come 80 much our own to be,
That aye His blessed company
May light like sunshine In our gloom,
And make our Easter lilies bloom ~
In hearts that join with full accord q
The anthems to the Risen Lord.
Margaret E. Sangster, in Interior q
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der Spanish sovereignty in the West
Indies" It has been celebrated in
West Indian, history for hundreds Of
years, and just why it remained unin-
habited except by nomadic fisher folk
is hard to surmise. Nevertheless it
is true that here are nearly ten thou
sand acres of land without a private
owner, and which is or soon will be
open to any citizen Of the United
States to homestead or pre-empt. In
other words, here is an ocean para
disc that will grow every kind Of tropi-
cal crop-bananas, oranges, lines,
guavas and other fruits; that is the
nesting place Of thousands of turtles,
the green turtle of the Northern res
taurants, and the waters around which
teem with the finest variety of fish,
ready to be. given away to the first
comers
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Aguinaldo are recruited from the
numerous native secret organizations.
The principal of these is the Catapu.
nan Society, which is said to have
some connection with Free,pasonry.
This society has been ix existence for
several hundred ystrs, and no doubt
was connects~ith some OF the up
risings against Spanish rule in the
Philippines. In past years thousands
of the members of this society have
been subjected to imprisonment and
hundreds have paid the death penalty
for supposed connection with the So
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ACU|NALDO'S FIGHTING men.
The Filipino Method of Resisting the Americans is to
Mass Forces Instead Of Using the
Skirmish Formation.


is ever attempted by solitary native.
They go hunting in pairs. They fish
from their wsbbly 'dug-out canoes al
ways in company, and no native ever
thinks of venturing out alone at night.
In fact, characteristic of their COM
plex character is their lively desire
for companionship. This trait is
strongly brought out in their method
of fighting. They mass themselves
together like a lot of sheep, and, in
stead of spreading out in skirmish
lines, each man taking advantage OF
some natural obstacle for protection,
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police and spies. But the Philip pine
Social C'1b lived and to-day mum bers
in it's membership the leading Fill.
pinos of Manila. Just what position
these societies have taken in regard to
our occupation. is not known. Un.
doubtedly they can be great aid or
great menace to us.
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The Euds Are Always There.

How many earthly desires and worldly
feelings ure shaken from the soul by the
tempest Of great sorrow. even as the faded
leaves Of autumn. But when all the leaves
are stripped from the tree. and it stands bare
and desolate under the lashing OF winter
winds there still remain. carefully sealed up
on every branch and twig. buds of celestial
hue, which are to unfold in leaf and flower
il the summer OF Gods kingdon.-Harriet
Caecher Stowe.
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FREE-A FINE TROPICAL ISLAND.
Lies or the Coast OF Porto Rico and May
Be Had For the Asking.

Lies on the Coast Of Porto Rico and May
Be Had For the Asking.
Who wants fine tropical island in
the West Indies-a veritable "Pearl
of the Antilles?" Such an island now
belongs to Uncle Sam, but nobody
lives on it except lighthouse keeper,
and nobody seems to care anything
about it. 1t is lying down there in
the Southern seas waiting for some
enterprising homesteader to come
along and stake out his claim.
/ Mona has luxuriant vegetation, is
we'll watered and we'll drained. Every
variety of tropical fruits will grow
here, and it possesses every natural
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-04-19
AI,oxe Letter From Henry VIII,

Sir Benjamin Stone. President Of the Na..
tional Photographic Record Association OF
London, and y great traveller, has un'
earthed in the Vatican Library among the
documents relating to English history, an
autograph love letter from King Henry
vii. to Anne Boleyn. The eplstle, which
is written in French, is in the approved
style OF love-sick swain, and is signed
with drawing representing heart. -.
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iety. But to-day the Catapunan So

ciety. But to-day the Catapunan So
ciety is stronger than ever, and has
now O membership of over 600. .OOu
in these islands. Another prominent
society is the Philippine Social Club,
originally formed by DIR. Rial, who
was executed for supposed participa-
ton in insurgent uprisings. For q
long time the natives were not able to
maintain an organization in Ma aeila,
e'Ging to the vigilance Of the Spanish
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Swedish Steel. !

The high quality Of Swedish steel
was strikiugly illustrated ut recent
exhibition. A steel ribbon, cold
rolled, was twined like o silkcn band
about one of the ppvilions, the length
of this monster tape being 1854 feet,
its width eight inches, and its weight
ll4G pounds .---- -~--''--
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selves as the Americans with the Mau

SET IIIICs'
The reports of the tremendous
losses to the natives are not surpris-
ing to one acquainted with their mode
of warfare. Their method of attack
differs widely from the cautious and
stealthy approach of the American
Indian. The Filipin'os seem to gain
courage from companionship, and
uothiug in the least degree hazardous
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New York City's Funded Debt.
The net funded debt OF New York City on
January 81, 1899, was S247, ole, ,s2o.S6.
New-York tribune., 1899-12-10
BJADY'S CALENDAR
HE WANTS : YEAR or THIRTEEN TWENTY.
EIGHT DAY MONTHS.
Anne.

HE WANTS : YEAR or THIRTEEN TWENTY.
EIGHT DAY MONTHS.
Marion Gnd) correspondence Of The indianapolis
News.
c. II. Bundy. Editor Of The Morning News
has received copyrights covering a new calendar.
He would shift mankind from twelve 10 thir'
teen months Of tWenty-cight days each IN every
year and straighton out the present system, BY
which Wc are compelled 10 cut OF leap year
every hundred years and make other corrections
OF which the masses know comparatively Htue'
Though the opening of the new century Is vey
near at hand, he has hopes that he VIII nave u
universally adopted and put IN use during Us
first year. Already he has attracted the atteh,
ton of some Of the most prominent men u
Europe and America who advocate universal
SHIFT from the present system TO his calendar
Mr. Rundy says: "As 1900 comes in on MOE
day ami Monday is the first day Of the CONNER.
oial week, make it also the first day OF the lrS,
month. This new thirteenth month IS cahei
Century, becanse Of the time Of It's proposel
adoption-the end Of one and the beginning OF
new century. Every month or every year a,N ,
every century begins with Monday Ihat i wv
greatest of all advantages over all ca'ehdais =.
the past and present. II person wants
know what day July would come on he "o'1
start with Monday and find u Woud com a.
Thursday while at present calendar Has " "a
hunted for the information christmas W. n"~
come on Thursday every year Na'e'i'l'' -
on Sunday April Fool Day on Monday. NJ,
day is thus made the first and SUNDAY me ,'s ass
day of the week The permauency OF holluSii' .l
is thus established, and As luck VIII hstv AZ ~
none of the great days come ON SUNDAY M'nn,
rial Day is the only one that IS thrown ou, ,,, "''
/. would probably be placed on tne ->th ol 1'"s
the last day-which would be sunday, ana Jus, ;,
as we would arrange it, no doubt, if It was vas ''
to popular vote. This plan gives US 4 'l' are
36i days it is true. and \ day ana qu"i -. aytr2
left over. The present calendar taxes '.i.S az ne
day every four years to keep us Ip ",Jendl
solar procession For the sake OF 'hS So -,
division Of the week and month system r;b w.; 90
let those one and quarter DAYS each ino"s vyefs
until we have enough to make an eAuS .Sso",bs'
which we can tack onto any one OF the llo"S CON-.
This done and my calend,I Is very SHp IS
pletc and on a par with standard tlLle, tlg,, m,
practical in every way and abreast with U'
progressive age"
New-York tribune., 1899-12-10

place 10 a very large extent, unnoticed by IN.
general public, In the mechanical makeup y,
books The substitution Of wood pulp paper for
rag paper is a bar to successful grangerstlo
splitting. This up 10 date paper will not split
Ike the older and more substantial article Tn.
disadvantage, however, is counteracted not only
by the lower prices Of books, which make It DOS.
sble to buy two copies If the grangerte desire,
TO use two illustrations from opposite sides 0,
the same leaf bat also, partly At least By an.
other difference in the character Of modern paper
and the print on IL.
In a parchment manuscript, 10 take a very re.
mote example, If the leaf were split it nigh,
well happen that duplicate impression Of the
writing, though fainter than the original sur
face impression, would appear on the new sur
face The ink might have sunk deep enough
into the parchment for that. and in many books
printed on stout handmade paper the same re.
suit may and does sometimes appear. In any
case, no water will wash the printed characters
off a page Of, say, an original copy Of Addsons
Spectator" because there the print is, as It s
on most printed pages even yet, on the paper
itself. But the print on many pages of contem-
porary magazines IS not really on the paper at
all, but on the thick glaze which gives the pages
their rich, glossy appearance. Consequently the
sllilful inIayer can often wash the whole in
preston from page Of a modern book or maya
zinc leaving a perfectly clean blank. In this
way an illustration In the middle Of d page can
have the letterpress which surrounds it washed
away, 50 that it may be used as an interleayed
Illustration with a white margin.
In these ways and by careful rubbing Il backs