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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
Not For Sale.

A young minister, on s:ing to q new
church last spring, was informed by the
official brethren that his salary would be
$1,000, and that as every summer whole
sale liquor dealer visited the town with
his family and paid regularly $50 for .
pew in the church. it would be policy, for
the minister to touch the liquor question
gently, to avoid giving offence. The reply
Of the young man was: I
Take $50 off my salary, for want to
get shot at that pew"
Soon after he fired his first "shot," but
tbs recoi OF the gun was not so bad as
had been anticipated, for the liquor dealer,
pleased with the young mans courage,
doubled his subscription, making it $780,
instead of $50. Whether he did this to re.
lieve his conscience or to quiet the minis
Ter we cannot say, but we are strongly Of
;he opinion that the safest thing. a preach
,r of the gospel can do is to tell the TRUTH
and if there is any man who needs plain
preaching at the present day it is the
man who deals in Intoxicating drink and;
then hires seat and comes to- church to;
near what the minister has to say about
it. A man who fails to tell the truth in
the ears of such hearer will find in the
lay of judgment that he has something
more serious to face than the wrath OF
rumseller or the loss of his subscription.
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FElsNDS,

We who have lived 50 many days and
So many mcvcntful days 10 live,
The pity OF it. that we dare not give,
Out of them all. just one. when and YOU
Night mcc; as comrades meet with Clasp
OF hand
And much 10 tell and to remember, and
Much to be glad and sorry for-we two.
Shall we choose summer for our day to
lawn
"A day OF sun and little winds that feet
Through woodland ways like touch of
dryad's feet?
Shall we go wandering the paths we knew,
.Aimlcs; as trlant children, with the gay
Glad talk that suits stolen holiday,
IdlcSt OF happy vagabonds-wc two?
Or shall our day come when the winter
Slips at the pane and blurs the land from
sight
And all the hearth is glorious with light
That dances on old prints and tankards
blue, -.
And all the books we cherish over.well
Shall lie beside us while we sit and tell Z
Old rhymes, old tales, and plan and dream
we two? .'-a
We who must live so many empty days,
Let us have one that we can claim our
A dav that shall be made for us alone.
Nay, friend, it is our very friendships due,
Our right divine to feel anew the free
Exquisite JOY of cameraderie
That binds the very hearts OF sus-we two.
-Theodosia Garrison, in Harper's Bazar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Learned r Lesson-How a Young Business
Man Was Brought to Realize It Wat
Time to Stop nrinking-Whst Little
Wholesome Advice VIII Do.
fI think" said a successful business
man, that most young men get into the
drinking habit before they know it, or,
rather, realize how far they have gone. In
some instances they are born in it, but,
thank heaven, that kind are in the minor
lty. l. know how it was in my case. Up
to the time was twenty-five I had
trained with fast lot of young fellows,
and we all drank more than was good for
us. l had fine place in a firm, the same
one, by the way, of which am now at
the head, and the head of the house was
a man of Just the kind of horse sense all
men ought to be who have the business
OF training young men in their keeping. I
did not neglect my business, and had been
receiving promotions right along, and
when my friends suggested that was
drinking too much, and that it would
tnally get me down, l laughed at them,
and took my drinks just the same. l sim
cerely thought they didn't know what
they were talking about, and l did not
think the liquor was hurting me or that
couldn't let it alone when [ wanted to.
My Older brother talked to me on several
occasions, and laughed at him, and
called his attention to the fact that had
been promoted three times in the last two
years, and if the liquor was doing for me
what he. said it would that could not have
happened: 1 believed it thoroughly, too,
and felt that would drop it quick enough
If it were injuring me.
HOne day the head of the house called
me into his Office and told me he was
afraid | was getting too fond of liquor. /
laughed at him, too, in a very respectful
manner, however, and told him they were
all mistaken, and that I really felt no bad
thought ought to, and a lot more of the
same old argument used by every young
man who is beginning. ,
Tits all right, my boy said Mr..
b., but tell you how much harm it Is
doing you, aud what think of it. 1t is
doing you 80 much harm that if hear of
your getting under the influence again or
of visiting the saloons as you have been
doing ! shall ask for your Immediate res
ignation. ! can see more than you can,
and still I may be mistaken, and you may
be all right. However, ~ shall give the
house the benefit Of the doubt, add get
man 70 take your place who does not
isThen for the first time 1 realized that
ssns sld Sdasd pssss ed iss 1sd1t ,ssstSs S
laughed of,, and though Nj. B. might be-
mistaken, as Z thought the othersswere, it
nsf Is araSsy sny ysss sss0f could so
do if I wanted to-quit. Isdidn't have
any serious treubls sin quitting, either, for
I was young and the habit wasn't formed.
All needed was a. realizing sense, and I
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SPAIN TO COUNT TIME, | TO 24.
No More A. NJ. and p. M.-ChanGe Or.
dered by Royal Decree.

In report to Thomas W. Cridler, Third
Assistant Secretary of State, Dwight 7.
Reeu, United States Consul at Madrid,
trl:s of tie issuance of a decree by the
Queen Regent providing that hourly time
in the kingdom of Spain shall be counted
from one to twenty-four. The decree pro-
telephone and steamship services in the
peninsula and the Baearic Islands, and in
all the ministerial offices, the courts and
all public works, time shall be regulated
to the time of the Greenwich Observatory,
commonly known as Western Europe
time. The computation of hours will be
made from midnight to the following
midnight in hours from one to twenty,
might" The hour of midnight will be
designated as "a. The interval between
midnight and l o'clock will be designated
as O.O5, O.lO, 020 and 80 on to O.59.
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The Name q Disgrace.

The kind of life so many so-called
members of the church have marked
out for themselves should be strictly
called not walking, but "sauntering."
The very origin Of this word conveys an
instructive lesson. In the ages when, a
pilgrimage to Palestine was held in such
esteem there sprang up a set Of idle i'm
posters, who wandered about every
where in the country and sought aims at
the hands Of the inhabitants under the
pretext that they were preparing to go a
Ia sainte terre-to the Holy Land. 1t
was soon discovered that they had never
lett their native shores; and such disgust
did their vain professions inspire that a
new word was coined to reprobate the
shameful practice. and they were called
"sauntcrers.' With equal truth may
the term he applied to all who profess to
be Christians without moving forward
encrrctically to the heavenly goal. T
Lilley.
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Drunken Crews.

"Terrible" is not too strong word to
apply to the Indictment which the cape
that leave Cape Town, for is it not
terrible" reflection that the scores of
steamships that leave Table Bay every
week, some with many hundreds of pas
sengers, are manned by crews of whom q
large percentage are at the beginning OF
the voyage wholly incapacitated by drink
from performing in seamanlike way the
duties which the perilous nature OF their
calling impose upon them? Yet such Is
the experience of most of the commanders
who trade to Table Bay. Indeed, in this
respect" says the Times, Cape Town
bears the worst reputation OF any port In
South Africa ~,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
Rel, Ra. Frirhten /. d the Others,

Swarms of rats have been making
their home about the Carpenter steel
works. The other day one Of the fore
men succeeded in capturing big one.
He tied little bell about its neck and
then gave the rat It's freedom. AS the
bell began to ring the other rats be-
came completely demorallzed and
rushed toward the river. Some were
drowned and Others swan down the
Schuylkill to places Of safety far
away. The workmen estimate that
fully 500 Of the rodents left the steel
works.-Philadelphia North American.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
A APraYer for Greatness.

Have patience with us, Q Father, in
our blind overeStimatp aad undrrcsti
mute Of life. Show us the littleneSs Of
that which men call great but which is
little before thee. Show Us the greatness
of that which. though despised Of men,
is of great moment in thine eyes. Keep
lis from much worry over trivial losses
and offnnScs and from the SElall-lppear-
ing sins which shut our hearts frnnl thee.
May we never doubt that thou ar build
ing up thy kingdom and training us for
good in common thoughts and labors.
trials and disappointmrntS. gifts and joys
of every day. Give us open eyes and
ready hearts for passing opportunities
and use all that we have for help,
through Jesus Christ rur Lord Amen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
Son Causes Fathers Suicide.

To help his SON escape charge OF forg'
cry William pittman, OF Burnettsville,
Ind, signed the name of wealthy cattle
man to his sons note. The son was ar
rested, after all, and sent to the peniten-
tiary, and the fathers part in the affair
was disclosed. He promised to pay the
money. but he went into shed and
hanged himself. He left a note saying
that his son had caused all the trouble,
and that he could not bear to face the
consequences Of his completely.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
The vainest People.

A French explorer has discovered on
the west coast Of Africa what he re-
CARDS as the valnest people on earth.
They are the Pahomins, a warlike
tribe, whose main employment Is the
adornment Of their persons. chiefly by
means of tattooing. Great ingenuity
Is also exhibited in dressing their hair.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
The Tutors of Kings.

Phillips Brooks was the chosen one to
tell Helen Keller of God. With one
soul as his parish he did as faithful in,
tellectual and spiritual work as when he
preached to the crowds under the great
lantern of Trinity. His letters to that
bright soul shut up in manned physical
organism will be read when many Of his
great sermons are ont of print. From
village and country congregations have
come great statesmen, great generals,
great preachers, who told, as Patrick
Henry did of Samuel Davies, that the
mighticst intellectual and spiritual in
spiration of their lives came from the
man of God who fed both brain and
heart from the pulpit Of a small PARISH
Such preachers are the tutors Of kings
Nathan never spoke with more power
than when he turned David's thoughts
back to his focks, and to just such q
eve lamb as he had often borne in his
bosom when caring for those "few sheer
in the wilderness; for there he had first
learned of God. How much of the moral
safety of the nation is in the keeping OF
the faithful preacher whose parish is his
world! 1t was just such man as
Chaucer paints in imperishable lines
that moisten many an eye with their ten.
der memories, as he tells Of "his good
man Of religion" whom he calls the
poor Person Of town." Of whom it is
said
"Christ's lore, and his apostles twelve. 49,.
He taught; and first be followed it him
Bishop Eugene R. Hendrix, in "skilled
Labor for the Master"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
Thirty Planning Mills Consolidate.

Thirty planning mills, including practi-
,ally ali the sash, door and blind concerns
in chicago, will pass into "a combination,
concern will be known as the American
Sash and Door Company. William Nc.
Laren, the banker, will be president.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
What France Fears.

The statement of a French journalist
that unless the evil of dram drinking is
stamped out in another twenty years
France will be given over to delirium tre-
mems, and will be nothing but one great
lunatic asylum is exaggeration, no doubt,
but it shows the fears Of public opinion in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
AnArinana YIN at Paris.

The list of awards at the Paris Expo
'ition was made public. American exhlo'
tors have taken 1881 awards.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
s.ost OF 4; Circus rarade:

The Barnum. Bailey circus paid tht
street.ca- companies OF Hamburg soo0o tt
stop their cars during the circus parade. =.
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The world Better Than Ever.

There never was time when thes>
was more real hunger and thirst aftef
righteousness than there is now. There
never was time when there was more
desire to find God. the living God. and
to do his will, than there is now, This is
real religion, and the only religion we
need The earnest man who is face to
face with the worlds weakness and sin
is likely to be overwhelmed by its awful
magnitude and to mistake the fact t." :.
weakness and sin exist, for demonst. :.
ton that they exist to degree unheard
Of before. The illusions springing from
this error are apparent in every pulpit,
and they become very prominent in min
isterial estimates of the state Of the
world, the trend Of society. the outlook
for the church, etc. For these illusions
history is the only cure. The world is
no doubt bad enough, but it is better
than ever before. Irreligion is in eyi.
dence, but it is less rampant than in the
,past. We need more religion, but we
never before had so much effective re.
ligion as now. We must not let our dis
tress at the delay Of the perfect, or our
wearincss in the conflict with evil, hide
from US this patent fact.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-09-12
When God Strikes.

Trial brings man face to face with
GOd-God and he touch: and the finsy
veil of bright cloud that hung between
him and the sky is blown away; he feels
that he is standing outside the earth
with nothing between him and the Eter-
nal Infinite. Oh! there is something in
the sick bed, and the acking heart, and
the rcstlessness and the languor Of shat
tered health. and the sorrow of affections
withered. and the stream Of life pois-
oned Mt its fountain. and the cold, lonely
feeling of utter rawness Of heart, which
is felt when God strikes home in earn
est, that forces man to feel what is
real and what is not.-F. W., Robert
son.
Not in the full life. but in the emptied
one: not in the sunny path, but in the
shadowcd one, will you find that
rare plant growing most prolifcally
which Jesus called blessedness.-Rev. +
B. Meyer.
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General Chaffeo Praised

The President and Secretary ofs War
called congratulations to General Cfatfee.
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A WaHlau's Wisdom.

ANDOR was at his desk,
q which was near the open
\ wine dow. The window
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lied, and we are assembled to-day to hear
the will read. He says, My peace 1 give
unto YOU" Through His apostle He says,
"All things are yours" What, everything:
Yes, everything This world and the
next! In distinguished families there are
old pictures hanging on the wall. They
are called the "heirlooms" of the estate
They are very old, and have come down
from generation to generation. So lool;
upon all the beauties of the natural world
as the heirlooms of our royal family. Ihe
morning breaks from the east. The mlsts
travel up, hill above hill, mountain above
mountain, until Sky lost. The forests are
full of chirp, and buzz, and song, Trees
leaf and. birds wing futter with gladness
Honeymakers in the log, and beak against
the bark, and squirrels chatterlng on the
rail, and the call of the hawk out OF
clear sky make you feel glad.
The sun, which kindles confiagratlons
lmong the castles of cloud and sets nina
ret and dome aflame, stoops to paint the
Gly white, and the buttercup yellow, anc
the forgetmenot blue. What can resist
the sun? Light for the voyager over the
! deep! Light for the shepherd guarding
/; the fiocks afeld! Light for the poor who
! have no lamps to lurn! Light for thu
J downcast and the >lowly! Light for ach
ing eyes and burning brain and wasted
.aptive! Light for the smooth brow O
childhood and for the dim vision of uht
octogenarian! Light for queens corone
and for sewing girls needlei Let there b'
light! Whose morning is this? My morn
ing. Your morning. Our Father gave u
the picture and hung it on the sky in loop!
of fire. 1t is the heirloom of our, family
And so the night. 1t is the full moon
The mists from shore to shore gledm ik'
shattered mirrors, and the ocean unde,
! her glance comes up with great tides
painting upon the beach, mingling, as i
were. foam and fire. The .posc mai
blesses God for throwing such cheal
light through the broken wi window {. v.oSa pam
light from the other shore which bound
this great deep Of human pain anl Wec
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-27
PERSONAL MENTION.

Ed Rosenbaum of the firm of Rosen-
baum Bros has returned from business
trip TO New York.
Mrs. J. T. Jack Of San Diego is visiting
hkr sister, Mrs. A r. DeTge, 1l0o East
Second South street.
Mr.. AdOlDh Simon of the Paris. Mill
lfnerv company will leave today Tor a
four weeks business trip to New YORK
and the east.
Miss Mary Olive Gray entertains her
friends with q pupils recital Monday
evening May IS at the First COngrega-
tional church. assisted by good vocal
talent.
Secretary of State Hammond and Frank
Y. TAYLOR returned yesterday from a rev
davs' fishing trip to Silver creek, Idaho.
They tell of phenomenally large catches
OF rainbow trout of mammoth sizes
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Ivey, Miss Nellia
O'Connefl, Mrs. D. e. Sargent, Mrs. F. r:
THOMPSON, Mrs. Charles johnson ana
Messrs. z. ". LOder and n ellis We're
very pleasantly entertained by Mrs Helen
Thiessen on Tuesday evening.
Superintendent Sharp left Scofield yes
terdav, going east as far as Colorado
Springs to meet Mrs. Sharp, VINO 44s
been visiting in New York. It IS proDaDle
that Mr. Sharp viii come on to Salt Lake
with his wife for few days rest from
the strain he is undergoing at Sconeid-
DIT. c. J. Kistler, an eminent eye ana
ear sDecialist from Mauch Chunk, Pa
is in the city, visiting the family OF Pro
lessor G. c. Young, supervisor OF music
in the city schools, who was once a
teacher of DR. KistleT- The doctor Is
making quite an extended trip through
the country and is now en- route nome.
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Railroad Notes.

Travel IN and out Of Boise last week
was upon the lines to staggeF the recOl-
1ections Of the Oldest inhabitant-
vice-President W. II. Bancroft of
the Short Line returned from San
Francisco and Portland yesterday.
c. P. Huntington and party left Car
son city yesterday, and in all proba-
bilitv VIII arrive il salt Lake this at
ternoon.
The work Of laying the steel for the
double track FROM Cheyenne to Buford
viii be started on June 10. Already
are seven 4niles of grading completed.
One hundred carloads of cattle were
unloaded at Cheyenne on Thursday at
the stockyards. The shipments viii
be sent on their journey as soon as
they have rested UP.
Delegates to the national Republican
convention from California have Sc
Iected their official route via the South
err Pacific. Union Pacific, Chicago &
Northwestern and the Pennsylvania.
The Clearwater Valley Railway. com
pany, a feeder TO the Oregon Railway
K Navigation, has filed plats in Boise
showing q survey line from Stuart to
Mount Idaho, up the south branch Of
the Clearwater.
Timothy 3. Blackstone, formely pres
iden6 of the Chicago & Alton railroad.
and one of the oldest and most prom
ineat railroad executive officers in Chi
cage, died suddenly at his residence in
Chicago yesterday.
It is stated that 20. 600 laborers have
been shipped out OF Omaha to points
in western Nebraska, Colorado, Wyo-
ming, Idaho and Utah this year to
work on the various roads that are
now indulging in Improvements.
The Illinois Central has issued a
novel advertisement in the form OF
Ioothpicks. Donald Rose is seriously
thinking Of hiring d boy to hand them
out TO the salt LalSers that daily be-
siege his office fer the souvenirs.
The Rock Island. commencing June
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-27
CATHOLICS GIVE FREELY.
Archbishop Kean Secures Funds for
University.

washington, May 26.-Archblshop
Keap Of the Catholic university mere
who was commissioned by the pope 10
visit the various sees of this country
end make personal appeals in its be-
half. has been quite successful up 10
date in the matter of raising the re-
cuired 81 OOO. 900 with which to endOw
chairs at the institution and facilitate
its work
He has just finished a tour through
H. sees of ST Louis. Kansas City, Chi
capo and Milwaukee, from which about
one-fifth of the sum needed has been
realized. At Chicago, he says, puDilc-
spirited Catholic who is a member OF
the university board of trustees gave
him $50 600 Internationally. This will
enable the directors of the INSTITUTION
to found d number of new scholarships
at the next session.
The archbishop expects to continue
his tour through other sections Of the
west, and gradually to cover all the
bisboprics which have not already been
visited
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-27
PRIEST DIES INSANE.
Name of Niagara Falls Suicide is
Father O'DonnelI.

New York, May 26-M. J. O'Donnell,
the man to whom the photograph left
by the Catholic priest who committed
suicide at the Whirlpool rapids last
night was addressed, is a keeper in the
employment Of the department of char
tiles. He said that he had received a
telegram from Buffalo stating the cir
eumstances, and while he could not say
whether it was his brother, Father
John J. O'Donnell, who was an inmate
of the Providence Retreat at Buffalo,
still the word he had received tended
to confirm that belief
At the Church OF the Sacred Heart
Father Rhodes, an assistant. said:
From what I have heard concerning
the unfortunate occurrence, there seems
little doubt that the suicide is Father
O'DonneH."
Father Rhodes further said that some
few years ago Father O'Donnelf grad
ually became insane from melancholy,
Father O'Donneil. he said. was induced
TO travel through the south and Europe
in the hope of regaining his health
but he received no benefit and was
committed to the asylum, from which
he had probably ESCAPED.