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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Eat All You Can, MotherI

An old man whose hair and beard were
cut in a chaste, rural design appeared In
one Of the table d'hote restaurants the
other day. He had his wife with him.
That was more than the old lady could
say Of her hearing. She was almost stone
deaf, which gave everybody a chance to
find out what splendid lungs her husband
had.
The meal was luncheon. The price
which the old man was asked after he
had ordered two meals was Is cents.
"Seventy-fve cents" he exclaimed.
"You don't mean apieceT
eyes, SIR"
"Gracious"
He thought it over a minute or two.
Then he looked at his wife as if consider
ing whether he should try to get the
dreaded news past the old lady's tym-
panum. Evidently he gave it up. But he
did what he could. When the first course
came on, he leaned over and shouted In
her ear:
"Eat all you can, mother! I'll tell you
why after awhile!'-New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Seeking a Customer,

Every man in business is looking
for some one to buy everything he
carries in stock. He is anxious to get
some one interested in every article.
When the goods have been put on the
shelves he is at once interested in get
ting them out of stock and into other
hands, and the sooner he gets the
goods into q customers hands the bet
ter is the movement as a business
venture. The profit may not be as
great as the merchant would make
were he to hold the goods for many
months, but be would then perhaps,
take chances on their selling at a pro-
fit at all. The best way therefore, to
get the customer is to be after him
early, and get him into the interesting
part of the conversation with reIer-
ence to values and stocks, and keep
the matter interesting until the Gus
toner appreciates the good to be OBJ
tanned now and the advantage of buy
ing now. Most merchants really un-
derstand these points and are anxious
to unload as fast as they can after
loading up. They want to fill their
stock with good things and then are
obAiOdo w SSo ohS SSSAo AhO0 OAC ioAuo
of the appreciative in the community.
A good article is the stock makes the
stock look better but a good article
sold to good customer widens the
audience of appreciative purchasers
and gives the store a speaking friend
who will say where she got the goods
and how good she thinks they are.
In planning for business therefore, a
necessity is to have the stock that will
please the customer and, having the
article, to get it's appreciative features
before the people as early as possible.
Tell as many good points of the ar
ticle as is possible, and keep the peo-
pie interested all through the season
to insure their buying. If talking of
1.-THE attractiveness of the goods will
not sell them, the quality ought to be
improved so that the people would be
more willing to come in and buy.
The quick sale helps to make a fair
profit and the man who has the stock
to offer and who Is able to tell about
it attractively aud temptingly will
get his profit without delay.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
COwpeas with Corn.

The main corn crop is usually "laid
by" early in July in nearly all the
border States. It would be very profit
able to the farmers if at the last plow-
ing of the corn cowpeas should be
sown in the middle of the rows imme-
diately in advance of the plows or
cultivators. In no way can the crop
OF cowpeas be made more profitable for
feeding purposes. When grown with
the corn at this period they have
ample time for maturing before the
advent of frost. Having the corn
stalks for support, the vines and peas
are protected from contact with the
earth and the peas are kept in sound
condition throughout the winter
months. After the corn is harvested
cattle and swine especially will find
rich gleanings throughout the winter
months, and will need but little other
food if the area of peas sown will
average one-fourth of an acre to the
head of stock. Sheep are also very
fond of the peas and pea vines, and
when the snow is on the ground will
even burrow through the snowdrifts
in search of them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Make Your Homes Beautiful.
[Southern Farm Magazine of Balti
more for JULY

[southern Farm Magazine of Balti.
more for July.]
No people on earth have greater nat.
ural facilities for identifying their
homes than the people of the South.
So many indigenous grasses, 90 many
native towering plants, so many
beautiful shade trees, such long
growing season, all combine to make
the task of embellishing the home
with natures rarest gifts comparative.
ly easy. And there is great profit in
such work. A home without flowers
or grass or shade or brooks is home
without inspiring attractions. It is
too often home without happiness
and without profit. The exhuberance
of spirits that finds its outflow in the
planting of shrubs and flowers and the
adornment of same reveals sense for
all that is beautiful in life and elevated
in morals. The employment of our
leisure hours show the bent of our in
clinations. Where there are no shade
trees, no parterres of flowers, No pleas
ure grounds with swings and comfort
able seats, no magazines or pewspa-
pers to relieve toll or make leisure
hours profitable. what can we expect
the boys on the farm to do? For
their pleasures they too often visit the
country store, indulge in coarse jokes
and chaffering nonsense, debase their
sense of duty and diminish every day
their mental horizon and lower their
moral plane.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Rothschild's Maxlms.

Attend carefully to the details Of
business.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider we'll then decide positively
Dare to do right.
Fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely, manful-
ly.
Go not in the society of the vicious.
Hold integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation or
business.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your minds from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few acquaintance.
Never try to appear what you are
not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the veracity ofa friend.
Respect the council Of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than princi-
pie.
Touch not, taste not, handle not
intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure time for improve.
ment.
Venture not upon the threshold OF
wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Extend to every one kindly sal
utation.
Yield not to discouragements.
Zealously labor for the right and
success is certain-Epworth Orphan
age Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Tho Delivery System.

Every merchant tries to engage the
very best help his money will obtain
It's the general rule. He looks te
their moral, social, physical and men.
tai qualities. then balancing by gen
eral appearances, comes to conclusion
that sets his mind at ease. It's the
practical way to do; measure the
value in money by the possible value
in service. This is his standard.
AS a system, it should be extended
to every departments In which you en-
plOy help. How often it is the prac
tice to require a high standard ot
youi employees until it comes down tC
what you term "a necessary evil.'
The delivery department. Well, you
say, II can't afford to pay more than
three or five dollars week to a de-
livery man, and don't expect super.
excellence at that figure" You com,
promise on some boy (who should be
in school-all good boys are in school,,
You may find man who will work al
the price until he is offered soc. more
op the week, then he's off! You're
out, and the business lags until you
can break in some one.
Have you not made mistake
Let's zee.
In the spirit of modern publicity,
the delivery man is your walking-talk.
ing al. Can't get away from it. He's
seen by your patrons and those who
are not-every day-commented upon
asked questions you might wish him
able to answer intelligently. He can
sour customer on your store or leave
a business breeding impression.
Rather all important sort of fellow,
is he not
Use your standard on this man by all
means. There is good timber available
at fair prices. Make him feel your in
terest in him. Tell him a thing or
two now and then-.diplomatically
seasoned. Watch him assume the
confidential air, 80 essential to push.
He'll get down to business-make
friends-bring you in dollars. Try
it. It's live issue.-W. f. Repass.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

If we would reassure our restless
hearts that our future is in the hands
OF God, we have but to scan our past.
Can any man that is not altogether
blind look over the ay he has ira
versed without surprise and awe as he
sees it marked everywhere by mys-
terious footprints other than his own
even the footprints of the living
God? We thought we were going
away of our own and all the time we
have been on the Kings highway.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

Whenever Christ gave us a COM
mand he made'it clear by his example.
His life was one of ideal obedience.
Through his boybood and young man
hood he was subject to Mary and
Joseph and he was not afraid to tell
his followers to keep his words even as
he had kept his Fathers command
ments. From the least things to the
crowning sacrifice OF Calvary. the
voice of his heart was always mot as
I will, but as thou wilt"
Gods commandments are meant for
our Good. Every single one of them
is designed for our present and eternal
good. These com ommandments are then
one expression of Gods love for us,
and if we do not accept them as such
and obey them, we are practically re-
pudiating Gods loving care for us and
shutting the warmth of Gods love
out of our hearts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Got His Tins Direct.

One of the shrewdest serving men who
has come to light lately is waiter in the
employ of Whitaker Wright, London
millionaire and director of the London
and Globe Finance corporation. Mr..
Wright not long ago discovered that the
waiter was practically running d syndi-
cate on the strength of remarks relating
to the mining transactions the millionaire
let fall at home. From the day that Mr..
Wright discovered it that syndicate be-
gan to experience series of misfortunes,
and from that hour forth the face Of the
domestic, formerly so bright, became
more and more careworn. The ultimate
fate of the syndicate was what might
have been expected.-M. A. P.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
LOWNDESVILLE.
People Coming and Going Fruit
Crop Good-Small Grain Crops
Could be Better.

June, %, 1908.
Mr.. Tom Swift. Jr. and his mother Mrs
Tom Swift Sr. of Elberton spent few days
the first OF last week with Mrs. L. Baker and
other relatives.
Mr.. Marion Latimer wasat Abbeville Mon
day and Tuesday OF last week on business.
Mr.. G. w. Speer OF Monterey was in town
Tuesday.
Rev. il. w. Barber left for Hodges wednes
day morning by the dirt road TO attend the
Cokesbury District Conference which has
since been In session at that place.
Mrs. E. ]. Barnes and Mrs. j. B. Moseley
LETT for Anderson Wednesday morning-the
other returned to her home here the mex,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Barnes went to Ander.
son Wednesday.
Mr.. Earl McCalla OF Elbert County came
over Wednesday and after staying for day
or two with relatives here, he and his cousin
DIR. Ernest Allen went up into Anderson
county to spend awhile with relatives
Rev. ]. E. Wallace who makes his home al
Iva spent the greater part last week In our
town meeting the membership OF his charge
here.
Mrs. Sarah Nance Of Due West is with the
for short stay.
Mr W. 4. Cunningham of Monterey was
here on business yesterday.
Miss Rose Hill Of Bells gave q party tC
quite q number OF her young friends Satur
day night. In addition to the social advan
tages given the gathering refreshments o.
BeV6[6i hluub were LQ6 Bu6blS
which materially Increased the pleasures o.
the occasion.
Miss Csllie Lou Graves Of Latimer came tc
this place yesterday morning and has since
been the guest Of Miss Lille Huckabee.
Mr.. II. G. Fennell Jr. is studying telegra.
ply under Mr.. r. w. Collier our efficient
depot agent and telegraph operator.
Mr.. Lewis Bell OF Calhoun Falls came ur
Saturday and will stay for day or two al
his old home.
Small fruits with us, have done, and are
still doing wonderfully well. First on this
line straw berries gave bountifu crop. Al
an instance, will say that Mr.. w. G.. Huck
aoee pulled his first ripe strawberry ovel
eight weeks ago and since then his vine,
have had upon them continuously ripe apC
green berries and they have been filled with
blooms all the time and up-to-date looks al
II the season for them is just beg inning
This Is, to say the least, very long time fol-
them 10 be bearing. Then the old field anC
wild goose pluma have been fine and nov
figs are doing their best.
AS 10 field crops. the wheat and oats hav,
been harvested and while they were bott
worth saving, yet they were by no mean
paying crops. Corn Is doing fairly well
Cotton is small much smaller generally thar
this time last year. While cotton bloom
were plentiful on the Goth OF June last year
yet there will be but few II any, blooms BY
The 4th Of July. Much OF the cotton is yet L
plow and chop out and cotton today with
even squares upon 1t is the exception ant
not the rule. Troupe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Brief But Pertinent.

Selling is easy if the prices are right.
A large saving makes wide circle
of attention possible.
A good business man knows what
to say in an advertisement.
Goods should give satisfaction if
they are to retain customers.
When business man. let's up on
advertising, his business will let up
OH him.
What appeal, to the customer is to
know that she will get the worth Of
her cash.
The easiest way to sell good things
is to have it known you have good
things 10 sell.
The way to save a dollar is what
should be advertised to the ordinary
customer.
Profits is the fruit that grows on the
tree of good Advertising; now is the
blossoming season.
Advertising is worth all it costs if
the merchant can get that much value
into the space he uses.
Many merchants waste money in
advertising ; some by doing too much
of it and some by not doing enough.
Don't try to expand the business 80
rapidly that it becomes necessary to
abandon the defense of that already
established.
Some people like to buy where goods
are fine and some where goods are
cheap. 1t pays to appeal to all and
make the publicity inviting to all.
1t takes an inducement to make
some people buy and the best way to
insure their buying is to make them
appreciate the greatness of your in.
ducement.
No article is so cheap that people
will want it just because of the low
price. 1t must have quality that
makes it worth the price if people
are expected to buy and appreciate
lit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
An average sheep yields 81 pounds Of
meat, 43 pounds Of fat and 1S pounds Of
hide and wool.

No cheating nor bargaining will ever
get single thing out of Natures estab-
1ishment at half-price. Do we want
to be strong ?-we must work. TO be
hungry ?-we must starve. TO be
happy ?-we must be kind. TO be
wise ?-we must look and think.
She soul, in its highest sense, is a
vast capacity for God. 1t is like a
curious chamber with elastic and con-
tractile walls, which can be expanded,
with God as it's guest, illimitably, but
which without God shrinks and shriv-
els until every vestige of the Divine
is gone--Henry Drummond.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

The envious by their envy confess
their inferiority {; the appreciative by
their appreciation display their equali-
ty the forgiving by their forgiveness
show forth their superiority.
Let us only be patient and let God
our Father teach his own lesson his
own way. Let US try to learn it
quickly; but do not let us fancy that
he will ring the school bell and send
US to play before our lesson is learned.
Kingsley.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
A Coin Collector.

Mrs. Goodart-You seem to have some
education. Perhaps you were once a
professional man?
Howard Hasher-Lady, I'm a numis-
matist by profession.
Mrs. Goodart-A numismatist?
Howard Hasher-Yes, lady. A collector
Of rare coins. Any old coin is rare to me.
Exchange.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
A TOUGH.
A living coal, and with its glow

A living coal, and with its glow
1t touched another coal. when, 10,
The dark form into radiance grew,
And light and cheer beamed forth anew.
A loving heart, and with its love.
It touched another heart, which strove
With adverse waves on troubled sea,
When oars were plying heavily,
And, 10, through rifted clouds Hope smiled,
And Love the weariness beguiled.
That living coal be mine to glow,
That living heart be mine to show,
While earth has sorrowing hearts that wait
The opening OF Redcmption's gate.
-Adyance
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

Even in ordinary life the unselfish
people are the happiest-those who
work to make others happy and who
forgot themselves. The dissatisfied
people are those who are seeking hap
plness for themselves.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
Suitable Books.

Customer hesitatingly)-I suppose-er
you have some-er-suitable books for
q man-er-about to be married?
Bookseller-Certa sir. Here, John,
show this gentleman some Of our account
books-largest size-London Tit-Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

Connections at Greenwood for all points on Sea-
board Air Line. JH
For further Information relative to tickets, rates
etc, address
w. NJ. ARCHER, Ticket Agent Anderson, s. e.
GEO. T. BRYAN, G. a., Greenviile, SES:.5 1,,ss--
ERNEST WILLIAMS. Gen. Pass. Aat AnEnsta ~
T. M. EMERSON. Traffic Managef.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

Land cultivated by irrigation Is more
productive than land where rainfall mois'
ture alone is sufficient to mature the
crops.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

Wholesale and retail dealers In cigars, to
baccos, cigarettes, &c. Milfords Drug Store.
1t will pay You to inspect our stock of paint
before buying. Miltords Drug Store.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

We make prescription work specify. We
have two OF the finest Prescription M 10 DC
found III South Carolina. One on du' all ihe
time. Night call No. ~. Milford Drug
Store. Phone l07.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01

When your eyes are weak. 60 to Milford
and get O pair Of Hawks old reliable eye
glasses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-01
When You Need a Rake
HITCH TO A
New Champion Lock Lever.

You will thereby escape the annoyance and ezPens
which your old rake caused. We also sell the Char
pion Draw Cut Mowers and would be glad to send our
representative to see you, if you need or expect
buy either Mower Rake this season. Drop usa
card if you are in the market Call and examine ou
complete line Of Staple and Fancy Groceries, AMI
Farm Supplies Give us your order for hay presA
we sell the -Blount Hay Press in either hanl
horse or steam power Place your orders early
w. ID. BarkSda7e.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-04-09
LIKg MODERN R0TRN,
Parlsaans HAZE Changed The1f hetA~
0da Of DInIHg-ReztaunAnh
No Longer Popular.

The closing of the famous Maison
Doree at Paris recalls the fact that
while in London the fashion of din
ing at restaurants Is on the increase.
the tendency in the French capital il
toward the development of the at
fractions of public hotels and private
mansions. The miles of magnificent
new houses in the Passy quarter and
around the avenues branching away
from the Place de rEtoile, all possess
ing fine kitchens, are occupied by
wealthy people, whose chefs in every
case could, and probably do, serve up
dinners fully equal to anything ever
provided in a boulevard restaurant
at fancy prices. This is for the resi-
dent, but visitors to Paris now find
In the modern hotels all their most
luxurious tastes and inclinations
gratified, so that It is no longer neces-
sary, as heretofore, to leave ones ho-
tel and seek out restaurant. Enor-
nous prices may have been paid for
dinners in former times, but the
guests were limited in number, and
the restaurants also. To-day a vast
ly larger sum is spent in Paris on
good cooking, and better value given,
while the clever caterers have multi
piled in all directions.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-04-09
NAY COST IT DEAR.
Pennsylvania University Likely to
Lose a Big Donation.
Pref. sommervIlIe Indignant Because
MattInEs Were Removed from the
Entrance to che Buddkist
Temple In Museam.

There are, or rather were, two pieces
Of japanese mating in the free mu-
seums of the University of Pennsyl-
vania which are likely to cost that in
stitution some thousands Of dollars.
On account of these mats Prof. Som
merville, whose donations in past
years have enriched the university, has
altered his will and by q codicil cut
Pennsylvania out Of handsome be-
quest.
These pieces of mating used to hang
at the entrance of the Buddhist tenn
pie, which is a part Of the Maxwell
Sommerville collection in the west
wing of the museum. Prof. Sommer-
vile, who holds the chair of glypt-
ology and whose collection of precious
gems which he recently donated to the
university is among the rarest in the
world, is also a deep student of Bud.
dhism in Japan, and has built COM
plete temple in a room to the moth of
his collection Of gems.
Concerning the exactness of detail in
this temple the professor is justly
proud and extremely particular. Moth
ing in the department is touched with
out his permission, and he is especially
careful that the curatcrs of other Sec
tions Of the museum, such as the Amer
lean Indian and Malay archipelago col
lections, shall not meddle with the
sanctity of his Buddhist reproduction.
Possessing such ideas on the subject,
his indignation was great when he
returned recently after an absence of
some time from the university and
found that the mating had been re-
moved from the entrance. Just who
took the strips away the professor
has not told, but there is a suspicion
that another section of the museum
could tell if it wanted to.
The irate professor brooded over the
indignity for some time, and then de.
cided to change his will. He did this,
he stated to friend, because he did
not think his work had been appre-
ciated. AS Prof. Sommerville is very
rich man and as his work has been
conferred in the university, it is ru-
mored that the bequest which the
codicil wipes away was a very large
one, too large, university men say, to
be sacrificed for couple Of pieces OF
mating. -