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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
The Privilege Of Improving.

A candid examination of our habits of
life would likely reveal the fact that many
of our neglects of performance, and. the
mediocritv of much that we have done,
are without valid excuse, and that. more
than we thought, we have been unfaithful
and improbable servants. The privilege
of doing better still remains and is a
Observer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
Twins a Family Trait.

Mrs. John Bean, of Mtchellyille, n. r.,
aged sixty-five, has given birth to. twins.
Her daughter, who lives in the neighbor;ng
township, presented her husband with
twins the same evening. Before congratu.
tions were over Mrs. Beans granddaugh'
ter sent word that she had just become the
mother of two healthy children.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
Progress of Cremation.

The number of cremations in the sew
,ral countries during the year 1902, accord
ng to crematory statistics, was as follows:
The United States, 3l5S; Germany: s56:
england. 452; Italy. 322; France, 4so5 (of
which eos were paid for, the others being
rratis): Switzerland. 2l7; Sweden, 66, and
Denmark, "A; total, 1920. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
Something in q Name.

There Is good deal in name after
all. Don't give your haby one that lie
will afterward be ashamed to write
under the disguise Of an initial.-New
York News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
Wants Dentists For Navy.

The Surgeon General of the United
States Navy, in his annual report, asks
for Congressional authority to appoint IN
der contract regularly graduated dentists;
and to assign them to duty at the naval
stations at home and abroad
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
Carnerie Turns Prophet.

In a speech at Limerick, Ireland. An.
drew Carnegie said he looked for the day
when the United States and Canada would
have a population of 250 900, 900, and with
the British Isles would form one nation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
The Hearts Influence.

If there is JOY in your heart, let it shine
in your face This is one of the lesser
ministries of love-the cheering power OF
happiness. Every bright face makes a
brighter world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
Effect Of Fault-Findfnc.

It is singular the effect that criticising
the faults of others has upon ones self.
1t makes him so self-righteous that he i'm
agines that he himself has no imperfec'
tions!-Wellspring.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
The Eest Investment.

The best investment any man can
make is 4 judic:ous compliment here
and there.-New York Press,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18
Teething at Ninety.

The Rev. G.. w. Goodrich, Of Alpha,
Iowa, is cutting his third set of teeth. he
is ninety years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18

| panion.
"Mr. Degraw," remarked Miss AS
pinwall, refraining for various reasons
from raising her eyes to the gaze which
might have proved q warning to her
had she met it, "allow me to present
! to you a gentleman of your own name,
if not Of your artistic calling. Our
friend is the painter Of whose works
you must often have heard" she ex-
piained, turning to the gentleman at
her side. 1T was on account of his
presence that I manifested such sur
prise upon your introduction"
You are very pardonable," replied
the stranger, politely. II have heard
Of Mr.. Degraw many times, and am
truly glad to meet him."
The artist frowned. What was there
in this person that commanded respect
even from one who had every reason
TO believe him to be q villain. Was it
his manner? 1t was perfect; but
that the artist had been led to expect.
Or was it his eye, which, if ardent,
had clearness that was uncommon,
and face which, if prejudice had not
stood between him and it's possessor.
would have made him his undoubtcd
almirer. The mystery of the thing
chafed him. Not calculating his
words. he replied, with scarcely yelled
sarcasm:
"And I have heard Of this gentle
man many times" Then, seeing that
the other did not vince, he added, less
pointedly: eat least so I am led to
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-11-18

the invention or geElus. the lnfentloll
would have been greater than the greatest
heroes" :, =,
With you to-day I come to consider the
question. What are some Of the evidences
that the Bool. we call the Bible has been
given bv inspiration of God? say some,
for we have no time, even il we had the
ability, to enumerate them all; That these
sacred writers themselves believe that
theirs were the oracles OF God is without
question. Hear David sing: ''The spirit
OF the Lord spake by me and HIS word
was in nv tongue;" and Isaiah, Hear, oh
heavens. and give ear, oh earth, for the
Loru has spoken, the mouth of the Lord
hath spokcn;" and Ezekiel, The Word
OF the Lord came expressly, to Ezekiel.
tne priest and the hand of the Lord was
r>> ! him." anu Peter. after the death Of
Judas, 'NIen and brethren, the Scripture
must needs have been fulfilled, which the
Hoiy Ghost oy the mouth of David srake
Lefore concerning Judas" and Paul wouiu
speak. mot in the words which mans
wisdom teachsth, but W hich th, Ho
Ghost teacheth." And how our Lord
throws the broad shield of His infallible
truthfulness" over the whole O.d Testa-
meat canon, testifving both to the aecu..
racy and the inviolabiiity OF the Word OF
God. The Old Testament was then, as
and the sacred writings. Holding up the
scroll that contained these, the Master
OF the ages with :rmness of conviction
md raptIre of soul, could exclaim: "1t
is written" Search the Scriptures, the
Scriptures cannot be broken. With the
spirit of these our consecrated predeces-
sors, in Christian faith, let us rejoice to-
day as we study the divinity and inspira-
ton Of the Word of God. Among the sub
stantial truths of Bible inspiration is the
pure and lofty character of the teaching
that stamp and glorify and perpetuate the
pages of this more than human book
teachings respecting God and man, hoi.
ness and sin, death and eternity. How the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Grade CrossinuS,

The terrible disaster in Newark, N. J., in which trolley carload of school children were ground to death by railroad train recalls public attention to the deadly grade crossing. The death of the lamented Dr. Davis on grade crossing in this city aecentuates the local situation, and suggests that steps be taken for the elimination of every grade crossing in at least the business district of this city.
 The Age-Herald has no words of condemnation for the railroads. They do whatever the city permits them to do, just as an individual would do, or a business firm. At the Twenty-fourth street crossing there are numerous tracks, and many trains and much street traffic, and the single watch man cannot protect all-cannot ade. quately warn and protect anyone. Other cities insist upon the placing of gates with watchmen on either side, but all such devices are untrustworthy at such crossings as those of Eigh teenth, Twentieth or Twenty streets. These are the three streets nearest the Union station that still have grade crossings.
 
 There is but one full and adequate remedy at either, and that consists in doing away with the grade crossing, and the placing of viaduct or tun- nel on each of the three streets. This cannot be done at once, but plans should be formed for the beginning, execution and completion of the task, for soon or late the grade crossing must go from the business district of this city All grade crossing will in the long run be abolished, but this is looking long ways ahead, and all we need do at present Is to do away with grade crossings in the very heart of the city over which thousands pass and repass daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
SLAVERY TO THINGS.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 Mrs. Newell Dwight Hillis does not come before the public as a preacher often, but a little ten-line talk of hers be- fore a woman's club on Saturday shows her fitness for occasional incursions of the profession to which her husband be- longs. The women were talking about simplicity of living, about the possibility of an escape for the modern woman from the complications of social life, which be- come so much of a burden, even outside the ranks of that society whose devotees recruit the sanitariums, winter resort ho- tels. and resf css'ses The example of the New England y-aen of an earlier gen. eratlon, who did their own housework and yet had leisure for reading and for social refinements, was quoted with approval, and there was a demand for the organiz- ation of an anti-extravagant society. Then Mrs. Hillis told the story of woman who achieved simplicity of living while other women talked about it. Ac- eording to Mrs. Hills, this woman re- dueed her servants from four to one, rid ded her house of encumbering tri1es, de- cined to change her furniture with the changes of fashion, and then, in a simple but artistic home, entertained her friends simply, giving them herself instead of the achievements of a chef
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
FOUND A WONDERFUL MINE.
ProsPector Thought He'd Discovered Wonderful Quartz, But 1t Wasn't.

From the Washington Evening Star
 While the. great Salt Lake of Utah is on record as one of the seven wonders of the world, the North Pole mine at Alta is in many respects the most remarkable mine in the world. Although it is not working at this time it contains inex- hsustible quantities of material that V ould bring $20 per tor in Salt Lake" said MT. Tucker c. Cheney of Salt Lake City.
 "The man who discovered the North Pole drove a tunnel of 200 feet and struck a new formation. It was apparently Q very clear crystal quartz. The tunnel eff few samples and dropped them in lis lunch basket and came into Salt Lake. He showed his specimens around None of the boys had been anything like the stuff, so he hied himself to the assayer's office, and perfected a deal with the as- saver to put his samples through the mill.
 When he went to look into his satchel for his samples they had strangely dis- appeared There was nothing on the in- side of the grip but dampness and plenty of it. When he went back to his mine he made some further experiments and found that he had struck a mine of pure ice. He had driven his drill into an old glacier. There appear to be thousands of tens of ice in the strlke, and have often wondered why a company has not been formed to market it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
This is the fish-diet season.
GENERAL eoRDoNs ILLNESS.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 The intelligence conveyed by our dis patches of this morning from Jackson, Miss, that Gen. John B. Gordon of Georgia Is seriously ill in that city will awaken widespread and profound sym pathy. Though 1t was known that the commander-in-ch of the United Con federate Veterans had been in ill-health for some time, few of his friends sup posed that his strength would so sud denly fail. It is earnestly hoped that his physical breakdown will not be perma- nent To the people of New Orleans the news that comes from Jackson Is ex- tremely saddening. Every one here had hoped that the greatest living citizen sol dier of the confederacy would be present at the confederate reunion in May. That hope, still cherished as it is, explains the reason why the people of Louisiana es- pecially pray that General Gordon will be speedily restored to health and strength.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Wafer SunnIIes and Typhoid.

Ithaca is a small New York city of about 15,OOO population, including 27OO students attending Cornell uni versity. Its water supply comes from Six-Mile and Buttermilk creeks, two very small streams, and the water is uniltered. A camp of laborers build ing dam was placed on one of these creeks, and pigpens and barnyards drain into both of them.
 This water has at length created a typhoid fever epidemic, and sixteen citizens lie dead and fourteen students of Cornell university are also dead thirty in all thus far and seyenty-eight more students are in various stages of the disease, and also an indefinite num- Der of citizens. The disease as an epidemic is full upon the town and its splendid university. Nearly all of the student body have left Ithaca, and the university year is broken up, or at least broken into.
 The truth is, all streams now con- tain more or less typhoid fever germs, and neither filtration of the best sort nor heat can eliminate every one of the minute organisms The boiling of water filtered by the best known pro cess minimizes tho danger, but the better dependence is upon health and vigor well maintained in the individual by the practice of well-known hygienic exercise, who drinks a great deal of water, who sleeps at night, and eats moderately in daylight hours, can safe ly defy typhoid germs, because his system will shed them as a duck does water No matter what precautions we take-and their importance should not be underrated-the chief depend ence must be upon the ability of the system to cast off disease germs. Some one has said that the average man takes in enough every day to kill a regiment, but if he be in vigorous con dition he can turn them off as fast as they are taken in. At present in this town we should boil the water, be- cause in that way we can minimize the number of germs, thus lessening the dangers to which the weak and en- ervated are exposed, but beyond that it is the duty and the interest of every one to keep himself in good con dition to shed any stray disease germs that may come along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01

considered, before it is accepted. This treaty may involve us in a great war. Its neutrality clause and it's clause providing for control of the canal by this country are open to two construe- tions, and Senator Morgan very prop erly insists that all the sections of the treaty should be rendered clear and explicit.
 Let Us hope our veteran senator will have strength to fight out his battle to the end He desires an isthmian canal. He prefers one on the Nica- raguan route, but he will accept one at Panama if our rights over it are rem dered certain and satisfactory. The pending treaty is a grave piece of busf- ness, and, senators should not object to an extra session for the purpose of weighing it well and carefully. In the meanwhile Senator Morgan need not be a bit disturbed by the fusillade of paragraphs and blasts that the admin istration organs are firing at him. They are wholly harmless, and our veteran senator will not be turned by them from what he considers his duty in a matter that he has fought for nearly thirty years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
TO RAISE FROGS BY THE MILLION.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
 John Buerger, the well known member of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce. has leased his 1OOo-acre farm at Lomira, Wis, to b. R. Neuehfeldt of Oshkosh, who will convert it into the greatest frog preserve in the northwest. Mir. Neuen- feldt will only use five picturesque lakes upon the farm for his frog-raisng project while the members of the Chamber of Commerce, who have in past years enjoy ed the hospitality of Mir. Buerger, will not be deprived of the opportunity of spending their Sundays there this sum- mer. But the ponds, which were former ly the finest trout ponds in the state, will be cleaned out and devoted to the raising of frogs of all kinds and descrip- ton, from the small varieties used to en- tce the gamey bass. to the larger spe- cies. whose hind legs are used by thou sands in the spring and summer months in all the large hotels in the west, and by people who recognize frogs legs as a choice table delicacy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
Back From Cincinnati.

Dr. J. II. Phillips has returned from Cincinnati. where he has been attending the annual nee ting Of the department or superiilterdents of the National Ednea- tional society. which continued through Tuesday, "Wednesday and Thursday.
 About fifteen superintendents rom Alabama were present to profit hy the contact with representatives from all sec tions of the country. The meeting is held every year during February, and is for the purpose of bringing to the attention of educators the best ideas on educational subjects by topic discussion and by care fully-prepared papers read before he de- partment
 Dr. Phillips happened to be stopping at the Gibson house when the disastrous fire broke out in the Pike opera house just across the street last Thursday night. He was at no time in danger as the hotel authorities awakened all guests and warned them to be ready to leave at moments nodce.
 The fire did more than a mllllen dollars of damage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Senator Morgan's Attitude.

K The small wits and especially the administration organs are peppering Senator Morgan because he sees faults in the Hay-Herrin treaty. Our senior senator stands braYely up to his con- victions, and he does, not propose to let the Colombian treaty be ratified until the senate has heard his objec- tions, and his reasons for presenting them.
 There is no need of haste in the rati- fication of the canal treaty. The French offer of canal rights has been accepted subject to the ratification of a treaty by the United States and Colombia, and thus all need of undue haste is obviated. The inconveniences of an extra session should not be considered in so important a piece of business, Involving as it does the expenditure of vast sum of money, and the crea- tion of great worlds work.
 Alabama at least supports Senator Morgan in his efforts to have the treaty duly amended. or at least duly
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
- . IT -s'--------- Hot Baths and Cold.

Gertrude U. Light in The Household.
 hot bath Is taken to mean one with a temperature exceeding that of the body, 9S4 degrees Fahrenheit. A teptd bath varies, from 80 to 90 degrees Faah- renheit, and cold bath is below 65 de- grees Fahrenheit. The warm bath, from 20 to 9S degrees Fahrenheit, and the hot bath, are sedative; because heat on the body surfaces dilates the arterioles, n- duces precipitation, and raises the tenn perature of the body as well as the pulse and respiration rates. After physical labor. when the muscles are sore owing to the accumulation in them of fatigue products, the sedative and restful effect of a hot bath taken at night is most grateful, and sleep will often be induced by this means in the habitually sleepless.
 The morning cold bath. on the con- trary, which for all but the physically strenuous is sponge bath, is stimulat- ing Cold contracts the cutaneus vessels, but after emerging, the subsequent glow is due to the flushing of the arterioles. Tub or surf bathing should be done be- fore eating or two hours after for the best physical results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
Four Score and Ten.

Why should the world wonder at the capacity, and strength and usefulness of our Alabama senators? A man who keeps at work, whose mind is fully em- ployed, who does not rest" or loaf, is not old at eighty years of age. It is the man who "retires" that grows old in the sixties and seventies. He goes to pieces speedily. But our Ala bama senators keep busily engaged as men do in England, especially men in public life, who live up to the nineties very often, working hard to the last illness of their lives. It is the idler, in other words, who dies, not the worker. Work is the charm that prolongs life that keeps men healthy in mind and body, and our senators are fine ex- amples of this well-known fact in life. They are busy men. They are fully occupied. They work early and late, and they are as ready to serve their constituents as the youngest man in the senate.
 It is work that lightens and blesses life, and it is not work that any one should shun, but the want of it. Men do not wear out as a rule, at least not below the seventies-they rust out All should seek work and retain it to the last, and never shun it, and if any one doubts this, let them ask our two senators who are virile, active and in- fluential at four. score.
 True, our Alabama soil and air may have something to do with this. It is not easy to die in Alabama, if one does not rest" It is contrary to na- ture and Alabama conditions, and if every Alabamian will go to work and keep at work early and late they may expect to live not merely to the allot- ted age of man, but to years approach ing at least to those of Leo XIII, who is and long has been great worker.
 -
 Silence and want of record are Judge Parker's strong points. He is the great Negative,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
WHAT I HAVE DONE!
 Ra4,airod shops-

While it is true that the shoemaker is not quite so explicit as some of the candidates said a man yesterday, who wears holes in his soles occasionally, T think his card just as strong. It may be that he has done other things besides repair shoes. but as he does not claim it, he is not open for criticism.
 "On Monday I am expecting my friend the shoemaker, to hang out another shinge bearing the legend What l have not done The ordinary observer would say at first thought this sign would not afford so much room for impressng upon the public the virtues of the shoe shop. But think a minute and you can readily observe how easy 1t would be for the shoeman to inform prospective customers that he had not repaired any shoes on credit Furthermore he coulc say he had not done bad work and that he had not worried himself about who would be elected.