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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-05

corresponding HsufstF1$ OF EGe preceding is
cal year the number ~ bushels exporte 4
sn she ten months of fss IS actually great
ev than thai OF the corresponding months
az isss. being fer the tea months ef 1879
l5S5sT $50 agasnst 1880 So In tse ten
months 81 ISe. The expectations Of corn
have sallcu or about aseseea bushels.
sa0xinw that foreign countries still draw
ugoa SIS tar corn Only in proportion TO the
scarcity al ether hTeadssars in their own
markets though the fact that In the face
81 she ample supply ef sreadstuss afgsaa /,
ear sases Of corn IN the past ten months
have amounted 20 "a 9ss1 go bushels show
ika; ihis csass ~ 3WT productions has
galrsl - refInaneas fe0fhcsd abroad ard
especially IN Europe which took II $50 40
es sAe lsi. fs9,lta bushels exported daraax
thar time.
In imports there has been an Increase
af sSssas.a or about "a rSr cent over
las. year, ~ snis Increase ssa fsss 90 IN IN
sugar az which the isse fasp,rfs were as.-
0esyrsaasiy hgas by reason % TIE ever sz3g-
pig hreaxAt in prior 20 ths snastnsf., s.s
49, feISley la@ IL 1857 while Rsscsar xsa :
a. 80 - the tnesses. Is shows sts ssaxnsfs1
s4ret articles and ste Or aso ia iaxur4ss
avtscles manufactured for use in the re.
cn&nle arts showing a rsN{4CEsan ~ aasss,t
So ssspe as compared With tAe ten tsasa~sss
az the preceding year Articles in a crude
condition. fer Use IA ;he 1ngEeskfe fnasss-
tfssz sssns ar Increase ~ aAxsssi 81 ssss ~,
aas Is pretty esenlv Distributed arnas,s
rtlsasr tln. sAsFs and hsfsS. all 90 whirA
Sre articles required IS sAe busy nsara-
fses2Ters vhH aFtsr supplying tae eon-
sssasty Increasing sorn@ markets. have
As AirSA1y Indicated. Increased their az
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Real Friends,

"You'll catch it, when you mother
sees you,p said Joe to Charley. az the
latter picked himself up slowly from
the ground and ruefully eyed q jagged
hole in his new trousers and the mud
that was literally plastered over his
clothes. But Charley answered :
"Humph, you don't know my notb-
err"
"l'n bet she'll give you a i.s.
scolding," replied Joe.
my mother never scolds," said
Charlie "She'il say, Well I guess
you've had tumble: did you hurt
yourself, dearw
Joe looked in open-mouthed amaze
ment at his friend, and said, slowly,
"Do you mean that She II really think
about you first, before she talks about
the mud and the hole ?" To which
Charlie rather Indignantly replied {:
'tOf course, do. My mother knows
I wouldn't tear my clothes and roll in
the mud on purpose. You want to
remember that my mother and l are
more than just related to each other
we're real friends"
How many boys can say that? If
yours cannot, be sure there is q grave
mistake somew here. It is true that a
mother must guide, control, advise, or
command, as the occasion requires ;
but to degenerate into either a servant
or an officer Ia to abuse God-given op-
portunities.
A problem worthy of the careful,
prayerful study of every mother is,
How can be "real friends'' with my
boy?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
The Love OF Truth.

The importance of truth and of the
knowledge of truth to all men was un.
known In any practical way to heath
enism, and may be considered as due
essentially to Christianity. Chris
tlanity requires not merely truthful.
ness, but love of truth. The divine
Son of man represented His mission to
be very principally to bear witness to
the truth and that question which
the highest civilization of antiquity
did not care to have answered. He
has made through His Spirit perpet-
ual aspiration of His disciples. Chris
tianity, in fact, has added many new
cardinal virtues to the old pagan ones,
and among them is this, neither the
last nor the least of all, the desire of
moral progress. To seek truth and as
il ia found to live by it and to impart
ii to others, to cherish true personal
con victions concerning human and
divine relationships, and to diffuse
them, in every way to testify to the
truth which we live by-this is a new
birth of Christianity.
Christianity, it is true, does not d.
rectly denounce some social evils, and
it does not directly define some social
rights nor does it furnish new instru-
ments, nor found new institutions for
realizing it's aims but, notwlthstand-
ing, it ever has been, and ever will be,
indirectly the most powerful adversary
of such evils, and advocate OF such
rights.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Singular Lives.

If one processes to be follower oi
Christ, and then lives just As worldly
people do, the light in him is hidden.
No lesson needs to be spoken into
the ears of men to-day more earnes ly,
more vehemently than that the
disciples of Christ must come
out and be separate. "Ye are
not of the world" cries the
Master "I have chosen you out OF the
world" The tendency of the day is to
obliterate the lines of separation be-
tween the church and the world. II
there is no difference between the
world and the church, why shall we
continue to call men into the church
If Christians live just as the worlds
people do, why are they Christians
What is the light that shines in them,
or that shines out from them to give
light to others?
When Christ lighted US he did not
want us to keep our new life concealed
in the habits and customs and ways OF
the world. He wanted US to hold up
the burning torch of consistent,
holy. and worthy Christian confession,
30 that all men may see in us that
which was not there before. IF we
then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ
sitteth."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Work and Hope.

Yes, work and hope. The outlook
may be dark, the times may be threat
ening; but while God lives it cannot
but be we'll with the hopeful, believ-
ing, trustful well.door. True, times
and things might be better; they
might be worse, also. Despairing
never changes anything for the better,
but hopefu! working does. Look
upon the bright side. If you do not
see it, hunt for it. Bring a flower
when you come home from your toll
and hand it, with a smile, to your
wife, your mother, your sister, or your
daughter. 1t will cheer them, and
make them feel that life is worth liv.
ing; then in return they will smile
upon and cheer you. Fill your home
with loving smiles, kind words, help
full deeds, and then hope will we'll up
In your soul. There Is love all about
us, if we will but make ourselves
lovable there Is plenty of apprecia-
tion near by, if we will but do some
thing worthy of appreciation. The
world is not going to smash, and we
are not going to be cast out to die OF
starvation If we but do as well as we
may. Therefore, work and hope.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Dumas Adaptations.

Alexandra Dumas, who hated tho Eng
nsh, would have cursed In his breeziest
style had he known Of the number Of un-
authorized adaptations and anne1ations OF
his "Three Musketeers" which bristle on
our boards. Beerbohm Tree put on the biz
toric conglomeration in gorgeously pano-
ramic style at Her Majesty's. Sidney
Grundy, play adapter in ordinary, prepar.
ed that version for the stage, and his name
appeared in bigger type on the posters than
that Of Dumas. Dumas was lucky to be
mentioned at all. Most Of the play thinkers
here erase the name Of the original author
altogether and insert their own. As walk
along the Strand sometimes think
hear Grundy and Comyns Carr and Ham.
ilton and Rose, all the modish native
adapters Of the day, sing In chorus ths
good old couplets:
Bring me the works Of Y. sardou,
Bring me the works Of e. Augier,
Bring me the paste and scissors, too
lam the man to write play.
London Letter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Lessons on Kindness to Animals.

Never stick pins into butterflies and
other insects.
Never carry poultry with their heads
hanging down.
Never throw stones at those harm
less creatures, the frogs.
That nearly all snakes are harmless
and useful.
That earth worms are harmless and
useful, and that when you use them
in fishing they ought to be killed
instantly, before you start, by plung-
ing them in dish Of boiling water.
That it is very cruel to keep fish in
glass globes slowly dying.
That it is kind to feed birdsrin win
ter.
That bits should never be put in
horses mouths in cold weather with
out being first warmed.
That it is cruel tokeep twitching the
reins while driving. e
That when your horses is put in a
strange stable you should always be
sure that he is properly fed and water
ed and in cold weather that his blank
ct is properly put on.
That you should never ride after q
poor ooking horse when you can help
it. Always look at the horse and re-
fuse to ride after a poor-lookipg one,
or horse whose head Is tied up by a
tight check-rein.
That you should always talk kindly
to every dumb creature.
That you should always treat every
dumb creature as you would like to be
treated yourself If you were in. the
creatures place.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Good Advice to Girls.

I wish could say to all young girls,
in city or country, beware of strangers.
Never speak, especially when travling
alone, 10 strangers, unless what they
say is said distinctly enough to be
heard by all persons sitting there.
The low voice of strangers speaking to
young women or girls to whom they
have not been introduced should be
regarded with suspicion.
Another thing. Have no secrets
from your parents. Danger, if not
actual harm, begins with secrecy. Be
as open as the day. Your father and
mother are certainly your best friends.
If you sometimes think they are not,
you are probably wrong, but even If
right while you are young it would be
much safer for you to have all your
acquaintance understood.
Sometimes strangers endeavor to en-
trap young girls by advertising that
they would like to begin correspond
ence. This Is the most common
means of leading girls astray. The
awful results of answering such adver-
tisements as they have been brought
to my knowledge by letter and per-
SOudl dCCOuulS, duu LuIOuSu IclOIlud.
tory and other institutions, would
arouse the American people to such
indignation against the newspapers
that admit such decoy letters, that the
wretches that edit them would be
driven from decent society. Never
write letter to stranger, nor one to
o friend that would disgrace you if it
reached other hands than those fol
which it is intended.
In almost every school there is some
girl bad enough to be in reformatory.
She may be bright and pleasant, but
says wicked things, and there are
many who are weak 30 that an inno-
cent girl may be greatly injured by
some schoolmate. The moment q
word il said that you would be asham-
ed to have your father or mother hear
renounce the society of the one who
says it. You would be afraid to go
into room with girl that had scar
let fever. 1t would be better to have
your body contract such a disease as
that than to have your soul poisoned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02


DR.. Hills famous headache power for sale
by MilfolJ & DuPre. Phone 1U.
Remember where to get DR.. Neu6er's Lung
Tonic. Milford & DuPre's. The druggist
Phone l07.
DR.. HiIl's headache powder for sale at
Milford & DuPre's. The druggist. Phone lO'.
Why allow your tin roofs to rust and leak
when one coat OF ALIENS Antitrust Rool
paint will stop the leaks and preserve the
root tor five years only 75o per gallon al
Speeds drug store.
Keinjane hams are the finest. Every one
guaranteed. Smoked shoulders SIsc. per 10.
have metal bath tubs various shapes and
prices.
Base balls, bats, mitts and masks, also
sweaters. The best you ever saw for SOC.
Novelties In belt buckles and belts, at Had
don's.
"Lolly Pop" and Ice cream sodas at Milford
& DuPres soda fountain.
DIR. Hil's headache powder for sale by
Milford & DuPre. Phone 107.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02

For tired and sweating feet, use Aliens
Foot Ease, sold at Speeds.
Buy your drugs from Speed and get a key to
the money box.
DR.. Hills headache powders for sale by
Speed.
For tired, swollen, sweating feet, nothing
equals Aliens foot ease. For sale by Speed.
Drink ginger ale malt at Milford & DuPre's
soda fountain.
"Lolly pop" and cherry phosphate special
ties at Milford 4 DuPre's soda fount.
Fresh shipment OF "Nunnallies" candy al
Milford & DuPres the Druggist. Phone l07.
We make prescriptions speciality. Phone
us and we will place II In your hands before
you can send to the Drug store. Milford &
DuPre the Druggist. Phone l08.
All the best cattle powders for sale by Speed
XIII all the flies in your house with insect
powder. For sale by Speed.
Harris Lithia water and ginger ale. For
sale oy Milford & DuPre. Phone l01.
There is no use To tell you anything abo al
Milford q DuPre's drug store, but 20 and see
Kodol. the great dyspepsia remedy. for sale
by Milford & DuPre, Phone l07.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02

The mercy of God is without end or
limit, but man may sin away his ca
pacity to profit by it.
Boosting and undue depreciation are
often used for the same purpose-to
direct attention to self.
However the world may look at the
matter, it is nevertheless true that IN
Gods sight goodness is the only true
greatness.
The man who starts out in life de-
termined to keep the ten command
ments will soon find out that thell
maker is God.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
PECULIAR ENGLISH SPELLING.
Most Difficult of All Systems to Ac-
quire Except the Chinese.

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quire Except the Chinese.
English spelling is the most unsystem-
attic and therefore the most difficult Of all
systems to acquire, except the Chinese.
The French has not complete alphabet
to represent all its sounds in a simple and
systematic manner, but the French use
the incomplete and defective Roman al
phabet much more consistently than we.
The object of writing is to convey thought.
An ideal system would allow of the con
veyance Of thought with the least expendi-
ture of energy on the part Of both writer
and reader.
The sounds Of the spoken language
should be represented by the simplest,
most complete and most logical system.
There are in English 40 distinct sounds;
40 distinct letters are needed to represent
them. With such a system the intermina-
BILE difficulty of learning to spell would
disappear, the time spent in printing and
writing unnecessary letters would be saved
and the learning Of the language by chill
dren and foreigners would be greatly ia
cilitated. There is no valid objection to
phonetic spelling except the difficulty Of
introducing it. The genealogical objec-
tion is unworthy Of serious consideration.
The etymology, for example, Of "soph-
ism" (Which, by the way, does not import
q wise saying) resides in the real word,
not in its spelling. Any one who knows
the history Of the word would associate
that history with 1t, however it might be
spelled. The Pathological association IA
vors phonetic spelling. 1t is, Of course,
impossible to make so radical q change at
once, but it does not follow that the bene-
fits of phonetic spelling, the metric system
or any other great improvement will come
to us in the surest and best way by simply
leaving the matter to chance. There Is q
tendency to shorten spelling, but the bene-
fits to be derived from Improvement are
80 great that definite action should be
taken to secure them early and to make
the changes in the way that will be most
beneficial. Changes for better and for
worse will continue to come by chance as
they have come in the past, but chance
change in 80 important a matter as the
language of the most enlightened and
most progressive people Of the world
obould NOT Ia ceticfantorv Self Gultura
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Tho Wife Knew Better.

"Charlotte, my dear, how Is 1t I find
you weepingp Have you had bad news
from your husband9"
"Oh, worse than thatl My Arthur
writes me from Carlsbad that he would
die with ardent longings for me were 1t
not that he could gaze affectionately at
my picture and cover 1t with thousand
kisses every day."
"That is really very nice of him. And,
pray, Is it that you are crying forf
would give anything to have such poetic
and tenderly loving husband as you hsyel'
"Ah, yes, my Arthur is very poeticall
But let me tell you that, just to try him,
I slipped my mothers photo into his trav-
cling bag instead Of my own before he
started. "-London Tit-Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
A Little Mischief.

When is sugar like pigs tooth
When it is in hogshead.
What is the board of education
The schoolmaster's shingle.
Why is life the greatest of all rid.
dies? Because we must all give it up
Why is tramp like white fan
mel? Because he shrinks from wash.
ing.
How do you know when night is
nigh? When the (tea) is taken away
Why is it absurd to call dentist
room the dental parlor? Because it i.
the drawing room.
Which is the easiest profession, G
DOCTORS or a clergyman's? A clergy
mans. He breaches; the doctor prac
tices.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
MAN A NONCLlMBER.
He Shows q Singular Repugnanoe to
Becoming "Arboreal."

He Shows a Singular Repugnanoe to
Becoming "Arboreal."
Climbing runs in families, for steeple-
Jacks are often the sons Of fathers who
were in the business, but 1t Is somewhat
odd that man, though he learns to swim
80 well that armed only with knife he
can encounter shark in its native ele-
ment, and judged by the extent Of his
mining operations in comparison with the
size Of his body surpasses by thousand
times all animals that work underground,
has never become q good climber or shown
the slightest tendency to become "arbo-
real," as he has become aquatic and sub
terranean.
South sea babies that cannot walk
will roll into the sea and swim, collier
boys at II will take pick and lamp and de-
scend into the mine almost as naturally as
young moles, but we believe that In spite
Of the danger from wild beasts In forest
regions and the fact that in such places
there is ten times more life on the level Of
the tree tops than on the ground thsrs u
no single instance of . tribe which, proper
ly speaking has become "arboreal" and
learned to climb like monkeys. Though
not few make huts in trees they approach
these by ladders, and except in the huts
which they use as refuge and sleeping
place they spend their time on the ground
Even in forests where the upper levels
of the trees are so closely laced together
that comparatively slight adaptation
would enable the Indians to progress from
tree to tree, and where nearly the whole
Of the. fruit and the greater part Of ths
birds and animals used for food are found
only in this upper story" man is not
and always refuses to become, q climbing
animal" Natural repugnance 10 this
form of enterprise seems characteristic Of
savage men, and even Of animals which
run no risks whatever. African natives
who have only lived in one storied huts
show the greatest dislike to going up
stairs and have been known to creep up on
hands and knees, while large dogs when
required to ascend stairs for the first time
often refuse to do so except under strong
persuasion and with evident reluotanoe.-
London Spectator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02

Cheerfulness and sweetness of dis
position are often as great force IN
trying situations as sheer intellectual
ability. The power of restraining
ones temper under provocation, OF
looking on the bright side of things in
discouraging circumstances, and OF not
constituting difference Of opinion into
q personal matter, is one of those
choice attachments whose winsome-
ness men almost universally recognize.
Do not be too much discouraged be-
cause YOU cannot stumble upon that
sweet grace, content. 1t is not reach
ed by luck nor inherited as a legacy.
Paul intimates the way to possession
of it when he says II have learned in
whatsoever state am. Herewith to be
content" 1t is something to be &C
ouired by learning, but though the
learning is long process the result
iustifies the labor and the cost.
PRAYER should be just what one
feels Just what one thinks just what
one needs, and it should stop the mo-
ment it ceases to be the real expression
of the need, the thought and the feel
ling.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Bargains at HaddOn's.

New arrivals in white goods at Haddon's.
A new line OF embroideries, insertings and
ribbons.
See our linen and crashes for cool summer
dresses.
3S inch percales at S cents at Haddon's.
Go to Haddon's and get bargain in colored
lawns at ~ cents per yard.
A new piece of gloria silk for ladies' waists
so inches wide at Haddon's.
Ready made shirt waist at 25, IS and 50 cts.
Window shades at l0c. at Haddon's.
A full line OF window shades In all colors
at all prices.
White and coloIed dotted swiss for curtains,
An elegant line of fine lace curtains at all
prices at Haddon's.
New arrivals in millinery this week at
Haddon's.
Sailors leghorn and fats just received this
week.
A new supply OF chiffons, ribbons and laces
at Haddon's.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
Wednesday, Aug. 2, 1899.
Yellow Fever.

While this country was contemplating the
filth that made yellow lever possible In Cuba.
the dreaded disease suddenly and unexpect'
edly came to the "Soldiers Home" near
Norfolk, Va. We believe some four thousand
union soldiers are quartered there, and with
thirty cases OF yellow fever among them,
there must be at least feeling OF discomfort.
The veterans are those whom the government
has undertaken TO care for, and it would be a
pity for an epidemic to get among men who
are 80 we'll provided for, and who have no
cares on their minds as to worldly affairs.
When a man Ia freed from anxiety about the
affairs of this world, 1t is lamentable for him
to be scared to death by the presence OF yell
low fever. Nine have already died OF the
fever, and the remaining 1891 are scared
nearly to death.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02
The OIL Mill.

President j. Allen Smith has had exiensive
additions and improveme ents made to the Alb
beyIile OH Mil, and every preparation hat
been made for an increased business during
the coming season. The officers OF the mill
are: p,,
keeper. "
Carl Wosmanski, Night superintendent.
Harry Simmons. Day Superintendent
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-08-02

Lax thinking, as usual thing, ends
in lax conduct.
Keep good company and you shall
be of the number.
Do what good you can in the world,
and be careful to do it when you can.
A man may successfully deceive his
neighbors or himself; but he cannot
deceive God.
Poverty and hardships have lifted
many man to fame and q noble
career who would have accomplished
nothing had ease and affi uence been
his inheritance.