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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Rich Mems HandicBps.

"It does seem unjust, doesn't it,"
said rich young man to a poor young
man, "that merely through the acci-
dent of birth j should have everything
for which you will have to work.
And the poor man admitted that it
was, but he spared the others vanity
by failing to explain on which side
the injustice lay. For, as a matter of
fact, in a world where the only posi-
BILE road to content and happiness is
the road of labor, what short of terri
BILE physical or mental task could be so
great an injustice as to be condemned
from the outset to exclusion from all
the great joys of life?
There il q notion that a leisure or
"semi-leisure" class-whatever that
mote refinement and higher civiliza-
ton. The fact upon the surface Of
history past and present is that leisure
produces coarseness and mental deteri-
Grafton in the overwhelming majority
of those who have it, whereas all civili-
zation is the product of toll pursued
under compulsion.
There are two extremely gratifying
tendencies noticeable in American
Society today. One is the flight of a
certain kind of rich Americans from
America to England and other Euro
pean countries where the ancient and
foolish delusions about the degrade
ton of labor persists. The other is the
increasing doubt of rich parents as to
the wisdom of bringing up their child
rem to "expectations" and of leaving
them fortunes which cut them off
from every avenue of achievement.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
EUCHRE PARTY.
Miss Willie Seal and Miss Jones En-.
tertain.

Miss Willie Seal and her guest, Miss Agnel
Jones of Duluth, Ga, entertained at euchrt
Tuesday evening. The guests occupied The
parlor and porch, the latter being lit up with
japanese lanterns and screened in from
the street. Six handed progressive euchrt
was ,ndulged in, which afforded much pleas
ure and Amusement. The awardings were
we'll won, Miss Lucy Henry winning flrs
ladies' prize,'a box Of Huyler's. Mr.. Latrobe
Coward of Charleston first gentleman's g prize
a handsome card case, and Miss FAME Starke
q bottle of catch up, (catsup.)
Delightful refreshments were served during
the evening, consisting Of sweet meats and
Ices.
Those present were: Misses Edith McFall
or Charleston, Marion McCrary OF Clinton,
Louise Bailey OF Columbia, Lucy Henry, Fan
ME Starke Maud McClung, Blanche Gary
Bessie Miller; Fannie Harris, Nell Wilson
Grace Hemphill; Messrs. Fred Cragln OF
Portsmouth. Latrohe Coward OF Charleston
Sum Hill. Ernest Visanski, Paul Anderson
Ray ford Power, Earle Jones. David Hill, A.
Mel. Henry, Joel $. Morse, Wilbur Blake, w.
3: Martin. Luther Higgason, George Clark,
William Hemphill, Robert Hemphill, George
Cannon, John g. Edwards. Harry Harris
Mr.. and Mrs. H. X. Cleavenan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

ESDEcIDED-Harold, who IL the little son
OF minister, was talking with his mother
regarding his future career. and after some
little re Election he said: "Well, mamma, I'm
going to be either minister or Christian
when grow up."-Lippincotts Magazine.
\ UNIVERSAL PANACEA.-In an Irish town
the lads OF a school acquired the habit OF
smok Ing, and resorted to the most ingenious
method TO conceal 1t from the master. In
this they were successful until one evening,
the master caught them pulling most vigor-
ously.
How now >" shouted he 10 one of the cul-
prits. "How dare you be smoking:"
"Sir," said the boy. 81 am subject TO head
ACHES, and pipe takes Off the pain"
"Apu You? And you? And you?' In
quired the pedagog, questioning every boy
In his turn,
One had Il "ragipg tooth; another "colic" !;
the third cough; In short they all had
something for which the weed was an un-
failing remedy.
Now, SIR" bellOwad the master to the last
boy pray, what disorder do you smoke
fore"
| Alas All excuses were exhausted; but the
, interrogated urchin, putting down his pipe
and looking up into his masters face, said IN
whining, hypocritical tone:
| IL smoke for corns, sir!'-London Tit-i5its.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
CONTRIBUTED LOCALS.
Picked Up Here and There on
Rounds About the City.
Abbeyille, S. c., July %, 1908


Miss Pearle Martin is spending while with
friends in olumbia, before her return she
will also visit relatives in Bisbopvllle.
Miss Sara Henry went to Greenwood last
week TO attend the dauce: while there she
will visit her aunt Mrs. Sproes.
Mrs. Jim Furgerson and children after g
pleasant stay with relatives in the country
came home last Saturday.
Miss Lois Crawford ana her father were In
town shopping last week.
Miss KlLtie Martin lett our cliy after "a few
day g stay with relatives.
The friends OF Mrs. Fannie Livingston are
glad TO know she Is getting well so last
Miss nellie Edwards entertained the Euchre
Club last Thursday night.
. Miss Barbee left last week for her home in
Chapel Hill, n. C.i Her voice in one OF our
church choirs will be greatly missed and We
hope she will soon be in our midst again, and
that she may come back 10 US well.
Mr.. Wa lace Bailey spent Il lew days view
Ing his old home once more last week, and
left Sunday 10 visit other lands.
Mr.. Paul Minis and his mother from Lou.
dale near Columbia are in the city the guests
Mr.. and Mrs. b. Z. Hughes from Columbia
sbent from Friday until Monday with Mrs.
Taggart and family; from here they went foi
q few days stay IN Nlnety Six.
Miss Septema Hollingsworth after All ex
tended visit to her friend, Miss Annie Brown
OF Due West, came home last week.
The fragrant air OF our city was frightened
by the sweet and melodious music Oi her
between the clerks and the shop loop. vi
course our clerks eeat by score OF twenty l.
five and we feel sure the band OF their owu
city gave them inspiration 10 play SO we'll.
DR.. and Mrs. Visanska, OF Atlanta, are here
on visit 10 their father and other relatives.
Mr.. Hal TaggarL aud Mr.. George White
have decided u spend while at Little Noun
tain for their health and pleasure and art
now enjoying the summer breezes and good
water OF the place.
Miss Maggie Hill, of Greenviile Is visiting
relatives IN the city. Miss Maggie use u
make her home in Abbeville but Is now stay
Ing with her aunt in Greenville.
Mrs. A. L. Derring, OF Mexico is expected In
the city today.
The friends of Mr.. Billy Wilson will be glad
to learn he is improving fast and will soon oe
able to come home.
Miss Amy Morris, of Columbia, is visiting
Miss Nell Edwards.
Miss Editn McFall, after pleasant visit to
Miss Grace Hem phil. returned 10 her home
In Charleston.
Mr.. Devers is visiting friends In the city,
Mr.. o. Latrobe Coward LETT yesterday for
Charleston.
Miss Daisy Wilson and her aunt, from
BAN bridge, Ga, are visiting MIR. John Harris
and friends.
Miss Lucy Henry left yesterday for a visit
to friends in Greenwood.
Mrs. Henry Moore has just moved in th.
house with Mrs. Hit.
Mr.. Mansfield Hollingsworth Jr. spent the
day with friends IN Due West last week.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Observations.
The Commoner.

The number of hypocrites in the
churches is vastly smaller than the
number of hypocrites outside Of the
churches.
The man who is always giving ad-
vice never has any time to follow it.
fla young man does not reach for
his mustache when a young woman
enters the room it is assign that he has
no mustache.
The man who is always rattling
small change in his pocket seldom has
any big bills to count in his inside
pocket.
A pocket full of money does not al
ways mean head full of sense.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Died Doing His Duty.
News e. Courier, July 2S.)

Mr.. J. A. Sullivan, one of the most capable
and trusted members Of the staff of the News
and Courier died In this office last night
without the slightest premonI tion ofhis un-
doing. He had finish ed his work OF the day
and WAS waiting for the last reports of the To-
cal staff to be handed in before he could seek
the repose which follows hard labor we'll per-
formed /; and while he waited the final sum-
mons came to him and almost in u moment
he passed in to eternal rest
There was never a more sudden ending of q
promising career. Mr.. Sullivan WAS about
81 years Of age, and he had been connected
with the News and Courier for just one year
He did not cherish malice against any one
and he would not use his position TO crafty
any personal feeling he might entertain
against those who sought TO do him injury.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Brain Leaks.

A mans credit is never 80 bad he
cannot borrow trouble.
If money could buy happiness most
people would be miserable.
A man may evade responsibility,
but he cannot dodge the results.
Satan always gets busy when he sees
q church closed for summer.
Fine feathers do not make fine birds,
but they do make expensive hats.
The wise man profits by his mis-
takes; the fool merely mourns over
them.
Some rich men think that they can
right any kind of wrong by writing a
check.
1t is easy to talk about the blessings
of poverty when one has a comforta-
BILE bank account.
When a man lives by his wits it is
sign that he resides in a community
of suckers.
Why is it that men so love 10 tell
their friends how much they suffer
from the heat?
The happiest homes are those in
which company manners are used be-
tween its members.
Trust not the friendship of the man
or woman who will thoug htlessly
mutilate good book.
True wealth consists in enjoying
what you have, not in having more
than you can enjoy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
l.. ". Whites Locals.

White is certainly the place to buy cottor
goods. His stock OF them is immense, apC
they have all been brought at low prices.
You ought to buy your bleached and un-
bleaehed cotton goods now. Go to Whites
and you will find what you want and a
prices that will be sure to please you.
l.. w. White has the very article you neet
for cotton sacks. II is an ospaburgs yarc
wide and can be bought at cents yard.
l. w. White is receiving new goods every
day. Call on him and you will find exactly
wnat you want, and at very low prices.
l.. w. White has now on hands a gooC
stock OF corn, flour, meal, brand and gro
ceries of all kinds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

A true and faithful friend is treasurer rare
indeed
One upon whom you can depend in your
hour Of need :
When trouble overtakes you, when your
cross is hard to bear,
There Is cne who will befriend you ana sus-
tain you every where.
She will never desert you, nor cast you aside,
But Is always ready To lend hand TO help
you DER the tide;
She rejoces in your triumph sings praises TO
your name,
Weeps with you T.. sorrow, and shares with
you your shame.
For such noble friend We should thank the
God above,
And try every day to be worthy of her love :;
You may seek the world over-you'll never
find another.
That will prove so true friend as your own
dear mother.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Southern Railway s .hedule.

Trains for lodges leave Abbaville, S. C., No
ia daily $40 q. M; No. 1l2 daily 1850 a. m
No. ITO daily 1.55 p. m; No. ll6 daily.
Trains from Hodges arrive Abbeville, NO. III
daily 1920 a. M. No. ll3 daily 1906 p. IN.
No. III daily Top. IN.
Nos. ll6 and III (night trains) discop tinued
Close connection at Hodges with through
trains for Greenville, Columbia, Char eston
etc., connecting at Greenvile for A. & G. Di
vision points and the East, also Asheville, AT
lRnta, etc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
AT HOME"
Miss Helen White and Miss Mower
Entertain Friends.

Miss Helen White and Miss Myra Mower Ot
Newberry, entertained at The home OF the
formers parents, Capt. and Mrs. L. w. White.
The affair was turned into aconversation par
y in which every one present indulged, and
the evening was spent most pleasantly, the
boys being moved from one girl TO another so
that each one had q chance to talk with whom
they pleased. Both Miss White and Miss
Mower acquitted themselves elegantly, as
was demonstrated by their attention TO the
guests. Refreshments were served during the
evening.
About the midnight hour the guests began
TO depart, everyone delighted with the way in
which the evening was spent. There being
some forty guests present the evening was
not lacking In Joy and merriment.
Not having list OF those present, their
names do not appear
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
A NIGHT IN THE RED SEA,

The strong, hot breath of the land is ashing
The wild seahorses, they rear and race ...
The plunging bows Of our ship are dashing
Full in the fiery South winds face.
She rends the water it foams and follows,
And the silvery jet of the towering spray,
And the phospor sparks in the deep wave hollows,
Ligbten the line of midnight way.
The moon above with its full-orbed luster,
Lifting the veil of the slumberous land,
Cleans DER q desolate island cluster,
And the breakers white on the lonely sand
And a bare hill range in the distance frownng,
Dim wrapt in haze like shroded ghost
With its jagged peaks the horizon crownng,
Broods DER the stark Arabian coast.
See, the edge of the waters leaping,
The lamp, far-dsshing, of PERKINS, Strait
Gters and glows as the ship goes sweeping
Fast its course for the EXe's gate.
And onward still to the broadening ocean,
Out of the narrow and perilous seas, ......-
Till rock with large and lstless motion
In the moist soft air of the Indin breeze. .
And the Southern Cross, like standard flying
Hangs in the front Of the tropic night
But the Great Bear sinks, like hero dying, -''.
And the Pole Star lowers its signal light
And the round earth rushes toward the morning, 80.
And the waves grow paler, and wan the foam
NIFTY and dim, with glance of warning,
Vanish the stars of my Northern home.
Let the wide waste sea for space divide me,
Till the close-coled circles of time untold,
Till the rise westward to greet and guide me,
When the Exile ends and the years are told
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Mails Close.

Abbeville, S. c.. May 2G, 1903.
The mails close at the post office al Abbe'
willie. S. C., as follows:
{. & g. K. R. >. A. l.. II. H.
80 q. m. North. l2W p. IN. SCUM.
10 10 q. m, South. 1880 p. m. North.
1910 a. m. Hodges. $50 p. M. Sonth.
l.9O o. m. North. 100 p. m. North.
l.30 p. m. Hodges. $50 p. m. South.
$50 p. M. North.
Night malls on Sunday close at p. m.
Antreville mail closes at / 80 p. M.
The Rural Carriers leave at about 1.l5 q. IN.
Robt. S. Link. Postmaster.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

Did you ever see pretty girl that did no.
like candy Why no Well, Speed can sup
ply you with the best.
4 you are looking for the very best" in
fresh candy then go to
Speeds Drug Store.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

The best evidence OF the merit OF me Clnco
Cigar in that everybody smokes it and every
retailer wants to sell IT.. We sell from three
to five thousand every month. Z. b. Speed
Ifyou are 81, S2 So. or SS hat man IL make
no difference your hat Is at Hall & Anderson
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

L. w. White sells the best yard-wide un..
bleached sheeting at cts yard TO be fonnd
anywhere.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

If you want tobacco by the box at whole
sa le prices 20 to r. B. Speed-Ihe tooacco
man.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

It makes a woman almost as mad to
find a long hair on her husbands
coat as it does him to find one in the
butter.
The queer things woman wears
don't puzzle man so much as why
she does it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29

You can always get fresh candy from 7.
Speed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Reflections Of n Bachelor.

Nobody ever saw girl buggy-riding
with a one-armed man.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
RURAL F. D. NEWS.
What the system Has Done and is
Still Doing.

Thinking perhaps sketch of "before' and
CATER the organization OF the Rural Free De
| livery system would be of interest 10 the
many readers OF the Press and Banner, as
well as the public In general, We take pleasure
In showing what this system has done, and is
still doing for the people, as compared with
the "old way" mail service.
BY way Of comparison we have only to look
back a few years at the mail received by pat.
rons now along these routes. Then we find
them taking in Que family, one, or perhaps
both of our county papers. published weekly
and received by them once Il week. and In
many instances once in every Two weeks.
Now we find their mail increased from one
10 five hundred per cent. as through this K. +.
D. system they too. with the city gentlemen
enjoy their daily mails, and that too al their
very doors. Seeing the advantages thus af-
forded they are subscribing for daily rlleek =
and semi-weekly Journals, home naah4ineH
literary periodicals. farm JonrnSts$5 sssHh q
church papers. thereby Keeping IN todfh with
the busy world. the daily market reppStsst the
State news and the world at !arge.yi.}sy
The organization Of this rural mall se9yice
has, and still is doing great work \toRatd
The higher civilization and educafion pfsthe
people in bringing before them every d& Ak
erature they perhaps never woHld hal phs
scribed for or read. ]
Who can say then this Is Bot one q
greatest gifts that could havsbeen 9d
upon people? 2.
We sincerely hope the patrons6 ng
this r. +. ID. service will MANIFEST ~
est appreciation of the system so twal IL
,,roya NOT only 81 blessing fONb emI{nd their
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-29
Amos B. Morse.

June "A, 1903.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-20

Tuscaloosa in July, and one at Bear Springs, Tenn, in Ma. These eleven stacks will add to the production of foundry and forge iron at the rate of 300 000 tons a year.
 Besides these eleven stacks eleven more stacks will be blown in during the next few months that will in crease the output of iron for steel making purposes at the rate of ten million tons a year.
 Six stacks are in course of construc- ton in this district, which is about our share of present adaluons. These six stacks will add about 35O,0O0 tons T year to the districts output, bringing the annual aggregate fully up to 2,000 900 tons. All told this district will then have forty-two coke and five charcoal stacks, not counting three that are dismantled and perhaps final ly out of service, and when these stacks are all in use the output of the district will not be apt in any year to fall below two million tons, much the greater part CT which will consist of foundry and forge iron.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-20
 A REAL "SPoTLESS TOWN"

From the New York Press.
 In these days when the annual spring house cleaning Is about to devastate the land people who have travelled in Hol- land will recall the Dutch town of Brock and wonder whether the strikes in the land which gave us the New York Knick- erbocker families will interfere with the municipal scrubbing which takes place in Brock about this time.
 If there ever was a municipality s. titled to be called "spotless Town" 1t is Brock. The place is painfully neat. In Brock godliness is next to cleanliness. The town has a population of 2700, and 1t Is only recently that horses have been allowed on the streets Even now the &C., coutrements which a horse Is obliged to wear in those spotless streets are such as render him most uncomfortable and sorry he came. Anyone throwing scraps of paper or waste of any sort in the streets is arrested and fined.
 But the most striking thing about the town is its spring house cleaning. Once a year every house in the town Is visited by a bard of municipal house cleaners, who scrub it and SCOUT 1t inside and out, without cost to the occupant. Just now, unless the strikes have interfered the whole town is in the process of being cleansed and smells abominably of yell low soap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-20
Southern Mills Can underselI.

The state board of conciliation and arbitration in Massachusetts is con- ducting an investigation oI the Lowell strike. At the outset the burden of proof was put on the manufacturers to show that they could not afford to pay as high wages as are paid in Fan River and .,ew Bedford and the manu- lecturers declined to submit any evi- dence. They admitted that higher wages are paid at Fall River and New Bedford, but they declined to attempt to show that they could not do as well by their own operatives.
 The operatives were represented by 8 lawyer, and he called to the stand William $. Southworth, agent of the Massachusetts" mills and secretary of the Lowell agents association. He said that his mills had built in Georgia new mills to take care of the export trade that had been lost to northern mills. He went on to say that mod ern mill in the south, even were it to pay the same wages as are paid in Massachusetts, running the same length of time weekly, could "undersell the Lowell mills" This declaration by an official of the Lowell mills takes out of the case the subject of wages. It has all along been said that low wages and childrens' labor give the southern mills all the advantages they possess, but MT. Southworth tes- tifies that this is not the case. This should silence, those who have been abusing southern mills on the score of the labor they employ and the wages they pay. It is vindication of the southern mills, and evidence of their impregnable position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-20
PEOPLE NEED MORE SLEEP.
slun1bers on New York L Trains a
 Study in Human Nature.

From the New York Mail and Express
 People in New York do not sleep enough" said the amateur observer. Just look around this car"
 It was Ninth avenue L train about the middle of the afternoon. In that particular car nearly every seat was occupied. Opposite the amateur observer an elderly gentleman with side whiskers was oblivious, his rubicund face in the ronose of aleep. Two seats to his left sat a prosperous looking man. evidently q merchant who was making slumberous .,,lace of a necessary trip from Thirty third street down town. Not far away a young man, we'll dressed and groomed. nodded. recovered and nodded again with occasional startled glances about tho car to see If his lapses had been noticed. Three other men were taking surrepti- tious maps. half-ashamed of their venial sin against good conduct.
 ..Fve noticed" the amateur observer went on, that about six out of ten per- sons whom I meet in street cars grow semi-torpid after they have sat for few minutes. particularly if the car is warm It Is easily accounted for. New Workers cannot get enough sleep. Their habits and their environments will not permit them to. It Is the most difficult thing in the world for them, with the best inten-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-20
Americans In Canada.

"In the last two years 60.O00 persons have gone from seven states, with $3O,- 00O 900 to take up farming in the Cana dian northwest said a statistican. Since 1890 over 145.OO0 American farmers 1t is estimated have migrated across the line and become subjects of Edward VII. In certain sections of Canada, In consequence of this recent Influx, Americans outnum- Der the native Canadians. American cap- ital is also crossing the line in large amounts to develop the almost untouched natural resources of Canada. These facts excite in some quarters hopes that polt- teal results-annexation sentiment-will be developed. A population chiefly of Amer ican capital will, after time. it is thought, clamor for union with the United States