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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
A Living Religion.

TIE dead praise not the Led f.
Psalms, cxv., II. "a
How mahy of us consider ourselves
religious, although ours may he but q
stagnant kind Of religion, stirred once
week at public worship? A transient
wave OF emotonalism arouses US from
our apathy, and then our religion loses
life and movement again for another
week, to prove at last as useless as, q.
noxious swamp lit mot "by' stars but
by firefiies, and within whose bounds
nothing sweet or inspiring can endure
Such dead souls and characters cannSt
praise the Lord. .,
Some Of us, however, make our re-
ligion a living factor, which finds non
its sole satisfaction in formal woFshfps
but demands the translation Of that re-:
Iigion into life as well, 80 that in 0Hr
daily work we may show 1ts influence
as a motive force for good. Can y
not be said of such people that THEM
life is a religion and their religion To-
nfe-not merely q prayer, a ceremony.
a bending of a knee, folding OF the
hands, but a radiant, useful, consistent
life, a blessing to God and man? They
truly praise the Lord.
For that, after all, Is the test OF Onr
religion. Does II impel us to right
thought and action and help us TO
realize the highest. ideals Of manbood
and womanhood? Does it make our
character firm and genuine andt mold
into harmonious growth the hidden
powers of our inmost soul? All else
is largely sentimentalism, upon which
no edifice can be securely built.
Religion must not be limited to our
relations to the Almighty, but 1t COZ
Germs as yitaliy our relations to our
ncighbor. Does it enter our home ana
make it more helpful and loving? Does
it enter the shop, the Office, the Mill, the
market, and promote justice and mercy
between debtor and creditor, employer
and empIoye, the humblest wage Garner
and the lordliest proprietor? Does "
aid in banisbing trickery, dishonesty.
graft? Does it help in enforcing right
eousness as q vital element In socletyE
If men and women would regard re-
.igion as q living force extending oVef
the whole range Of individual actlVitE
in every relation there would be moth
ing visionary in such readjustment OF
conditions as would make the atnl0s-
phere of business as fragrant as the at
nosphere of worship. Did not the
monk who wrote that Ito work was 10
pray" suggest the ideal side OF oun
daily calling?
There is something inspiring in O liv-
ing religion that appeals for breadth
and symmetry, not narrowness and one
sided growth; which makes the churcn
doors swing outward and sees through
the synagogue window wider stletch
of sky; which views all life as its altar
and every field Of human effort the
seed ground for highest endeayor. HoM
the world would sweep exultingly 1nO
the newer day with such religion e8-
emplified and earth be made the heaven
of heavens, as justice, mercy ana
peace abide forever with men!
Make your religion, then. living
one. Be satisfied with no other. Let
your religion have the genuine stamp
Translate your creed into your lie
.Abram S. Isaacs. Ph. D., Paterson, NJ
j., in tile Sunday Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
Temperance Notes.

Drunkenness is preventabIe By true
socializing of the individual life.
The saloonkeeper is a social Vulture.
He preys on the social carcass.
Where the dying and the dead are,
the dram shop is built.
The drunkard is man with neither
regret nor hope.
OF the 137 counties Of the State OF
Georgia, l02, nearly three-fourths, are
now under prohibition Of the beverage
sale Of intoxicating liquors. Only thlr-
ty-hve counties are wet" in any de-
gree.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
What power Has Dehumanixed Manf

It is surprising how many people 'Aye
right along. for years without giving
any evidence that they have religious
wants which crave to be satlsneu.
They show no particular antagonism
or Infriendllncss to the cause Of Chris
tianity; but at the SAME time they take
no step whatever to identify them
selves with any institution OF religion
in such way as to imply definitely that
they had an inner living care for 1t.
The religious side Of their lives seemS
to be impassively negative.
The fact, for fact it certainly is, as
most surprising when we consider the
issues, personal to each one, at stake;
What has b: ,ught about this resulf9
What diabolical influence debumann2eS
immortal man to such an extent as to
make him Indifferent to the higher, the
spiritual side of his nature, and sans.
fed with the material and temporal?
Reformed Church Messenger,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
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HIS HANDS,

Terror that stalketh in the night
Freighting the souls Of men with trl9hts
Mocking mans puny walls with might; 4
Pitiless, heartless, aimless rush -
Out of the luIling, dreamless hush,
Flaming with fear in the dawnings bluehY
Hovel and palace, hut and hall, 'st'z
Pillar and portal, gate and wall.
Flung in mad wreck, one and all! ~
Aye, then we sigh of the Christening roo :,
That has made the land as shattered
clod- .
We murmur: at came from the. hand 81
eoo. s
Listen From homeland and overseas
a wonderful song is upon the breeze
The chant of the swelling sympathies. Z
Listen, and look; from the chest, and bin,
Come the gold and stores that were held
within. -.
And the folk of the world are to-day akins
All, gentle mercy encompasseth
The peoples who harken with quick-cau9ht
breath
The saddening tale of the city's death Z
Look! For these, in the alien lands, . ).
In the hidden hills, on the spray-sweps
sands
These hands Of help-they are Gods Own
Hands!
Wilbur B. Nesbit, in Harper's Weekly. !,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
SaiutinG The Flag.

Pupils in the English national
schools are being taught the Amer
ican custom of saluting the flag.
But they do SO dn national anniver-
saries only April 90, St. Georges
day, the pupils of one of the schools
sang patriotic songs, while fifty OF
their fellow-students accompanied
on the violin
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
AIeRaon to 81 eed.

Since the great earthquake and fire
disaster at San Francisco the Mayor Of
that city has closed the saloons to pre-
vent a reign of disorder and crime. The
closure has had the desired result, and
very little riotiig and law violation has
been known. That city and all other
cities ought to heed the lesson, and for
the sake of peace and good order shut
up the places where crimes are planned
and criminals are prepared for .'their
work, not only on certain occasions,
but all the time. --~.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
sobriety Sentiment in Mississippi.

The most viyile temperance senti-
ment now prevails throughout Missis-
sippi. Not only is there vigorous war
being made upon the c. o. D. business
"a war to the very hilt-but many of
the circuit judges are much more Sc
we're than usual on the ordinary crimes
of the day. Judge Cochran, Of the
Meridian District deserves special
mention for his courageous arrai5n-
ment of lawlessness generally.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
snnnressine the Guilty Traffic.

a little more than half of the entire
area of the United States is now free
tyom legalized saloons and 33,O00,00O
of our people live under the prohibit
ory laws. There is everywhere wild
ening and deepening conviction that
this guilty traffic ought to die.-New
Voice.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
Drinks and Drin kers.

You often hsar moderate drinker
say of a man who tries to drink it all:
IF l were like that man, wouldn't
touch a drop" Ever occur to him that
perhaps the drunkard used to make the
same talk ?-Atchison Globe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
Rabbies in Massachusetts.

Since January l there have been
in Massachusetts more than fifty un-
doubted cases Of rabies In dogs, De-
sides three cases in cattle and one
horse All records of previous cpl
denies of this dreaded disease are
already broken.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
Ha2ing to Be Stopped.

The outrages perpetrated upon
freshman in the University Of WIS
consin have brought the faculty 10
a determination to eliminate hazlDS
entirely from the university.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
IYsDi1nensiOue.

What is the breadth Of the love OF
Christ? 1t is broad as mankind, it is
narrow as myself.-Maclaren.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18
Hungarian Army Budget.

The Hungarian budget provides an
outlay of 81. 100000 for the army.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-07-18

you escaped-none at all?
None" said the captain.
Captain MCLAUGHLIN, tell me"-she
caught his hand-"oh! tell me, once for
all, how lie died"
Not now, not now. Ask me, if you
like, tomorrow"
Did he suffer? Was he murdered
while he tried to escape with you?"
He was not murdered, but lie suf.
fered-wcll, lie suffered about as much
rs ! did. We had bad time of it,
Miss Willoughby. He helped me to
bear it,"
ASK him no more questions, dear
said her cousin. ITO morrow, as many
as you please. There is another friend
who wants to see you"
Then there appeared-nonc other
than Dittmer Book.
At the sight of Katie he burst into
unfeigned weeping ard sobbing, and
fell on his knees.
"Ach. Himmel,'' he cried. 1T was
my fault. ] ought never TO have left
Won alone. ! was DUNN Kopf. ]
lost my way in the fog. And IT was
midnight when ] got back to the Park,
and you were gone--you were gone,
Katchen, car you forgive me? Al!
your sufferings were my fault-mlne.
But they are ali over now that
He stopped and ckoked.
She gave him her hand, which lie
! kissed, and got up still penitent.
You did your best, Dittmer. DO not
reproach yourself. Can l ever forget
that you were the only friend we mad
in the world-Lily and 1-before we all
lost each other Where is Lily?'
| Dittmer stammered. 1-I-l-do not
know" he said. II seek her still"
we must find her. Dttmer. Do not
let us lose sight Of each other again
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19

Parson Williams, of the Wing, breaches
us a sermon or reads us lesson from the
text, "Love thy neighbor as myself y
The cause of this pacific dose of soothing
syrup was our reply to an article which
appeared in the Wing, signed Sixth Dis
trict," wherein the JOURNAL. was taken to
task for calling attention to the neglect
of the county roads aud road mending
machinery.
The parson says we got into most
"unbecoming rage" and used "ferce
adjectives." Nay, nay, Bro. Williams
We may have used some fierce adjectives
from your point of view, but as for the
rage" you are away off, Whom the
Gods destroy they first make mad" We
were and are in perfect good humor with
everything and neutrality-suspicious.
and others, which includes Sixth
District"
1t was your correspondent who wanted
to fight, not the scribes within this
sanctum. We stand ready at any
time to amicably discuss the road ques.
ton with any fair minded citizen of
average intelligence, but whez such a
bumptious advocate of do nothing forces
himself upon our notice. the emphasis on
the last syllable of discuss may cause the
first syllable to be somewhat obscured.
If the Wing will keep bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's soothing syrup on tap for its
correspondents who desire to discuss the
road problem the JOURNAL will promise
to be as suave as politician at beauty
show in its replies to anything it deems
pertinent to itself or the question under
discussion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19

riors are fighting out the revolution with
their tongues. They are holding meet
ings and having banquets, and have
begun to criticize the United States Gov
eminent and management. In short they
are already fomenting, without knowing
it perhaps, rebellion.
~
The advertisement calling for bids for
flushing the work of construction on the
Panama Canal are being published in all
parts of the country and requests have
been made by Ministers and Ambassadors
to this country for the advertisement and
copies of the form of contract, which
they are sending to their respective
countries. 1t is believed that bids will
come from Germany and England and
France and it would not be matter for
surprise if the French might yet do the
work which they failed to do under De
Lesseps. If the contract should go to a
foreign company of contractors though,
there will be no change in the require
ment that the materials used in the con-
struction be purchased in the United
States. By law the commission is re-
CURED to buy everything in the United
States unless in the judgment of the
President the prices asked are unrea
sonable. This contingency has not yet
been met but on the contrary the trusts
have been SO thoroughly frightened by
the report of the possible foreign pur-
chase of materials that they have lowered
prices until the Caual Commission is
buying materials at less than they are
being sold 10 some of the big railway and
contracting companies. The fact that
there is to be foreign competition in the
construction work of the Caual will tend
to lower the bids of Americans for the
work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19

Our Washington correspondent this
week writes from close viewpoint of the
Cuban revolution and gives character
sketch of the Cubans and their Estates
men" A personal acquaintance with
these people, gained by residence on
the Island, gives the correspondent a
knowledge of affairsst there, not possessed
by most of the newspaper writer's, who in
addition are influenced by political bias,
and his letter places different phase on
the affair from most of the accounts. A
perusal of the letter should prove inter-
esting to our readers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19
Estate OF Senator German.

The inventory of the personal
estate of the late Senator Arthur
P. German submitted to the Or
phans' Court of Howard county by
the executor, his son, A. P. Cor.
man, shows total of 1851, 236, Of
WHICH $326,211 consists of stocks
and bonds. Including cash on de-
post in New York, Washington
and Baltimore, the grand total
reaches $612, 406 "a.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19
A MESSAGE
From The Sixth District Local OPP.
ton Committee To the Voters
OF Cecil County.


Within less than a month we are re-
quired by law to again meet the question
of the licensed public sale of alcoholic
liquors in our county, under our Local
Option Law. 1t is our duty to vote, for
this is the only way we can be heard as
citizens in republican government.
The question has been so often and so
prominently before you that there is not
an intelligent citizen who has grown to
manhood can plead ignorance as an
excuse for not voting at all at this time or
upon this issue.
Perhaps you may not have thought OF
it, but the privilege of voting is now only
shared by about one-ffth of our citizens,
and so it is fact that the one who refuses
to go to this election is by that act depriv-
ing four others of their just due to be
represented in the result.
If you honestly think that you will be
benefited, either in person or property,
by bringing into public sale, at few
COANCAlCut ploSOo " oltloSt
that which admittedly leads to drunken
ness, self-interest will of course induce
you to so vote. But while you are so
doing have you the manhood to consider
the interests of the four who are behind
you and your ballot? Will the comfort
and happiness of your wife, mother, sis
tiers or children be promoted by the
money to be thus expended?
1t will require majority of all votes
cast to legalize again the sale in our
county, and those who fail to vote, when
they have the opportunity to do SO, are
thus by a simple neglect, aiding an ad.
mitted evil.
1t is an attempt to correct the evils Of
an evil that furnish the main argument
for any license at all. If the constant use
of liquor as drink is necessary, the sale
of it should be free also, as the trade in
sugar or coffee. Those who vote for a
high license law also assist in establish
ing a monopoly of the trade in the hands
of favored few, who alone shall reap al
the benefits.
The signs of the times indicate a gen
eral uprising against the granting O
unjust monopolies that may rob the
many for the benefit of the few. Those
who apply for any license expect to make
reasonable profit on the business they
engage in and this has to he Maid bx
the customer. The more customers, the
greater the opportunity, and where the
public receives direct benefit no injus
tice is done. Free competition prevent:
undue charges in every other business.
We have only member of Congress tc
vote for and it can only affect us in ar
indirect way as to who that shall be, bn
this other matter does directly affect the
interests of every home in our county
and we cannot neglect it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19
A Badly Burned Girl

or boy. man or woman, is quickly
out of pain if Bucklen's Arnica
Salye is applied promptly. G. J.
Welch, of Tekonsha, Mich, says:
81 use it in my family for cuts,
sores and all skin injuries, and find
it perfect. Quickest Pile cure
known. Best healing salve made.
25c at Eli 7. Reynolds drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-10-19

The Geological Survey report shows
that Maryland's coal mines produced
last year S,IoS,539 tons, valued at
$5,S3I76o.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-10

| ATTORNEY GENERAL HADLEY.
 attorney general, who undertook to ''call him down" vigorously for his ap-
 parently contelnptuous attitude toward | the inguisitor. 1 A court order says that Mir. Rogers | must answer to the supreme court of | this state for his persistent refusal as | a witness to furnish the information
 sought. He must show cause why he | should not be required to answer the sioner Sauborn. r. Eugene kearney, elevator starter in the Standard Oil building. was not be-
 hind Mir. Rogers in his blunt refusal to
 answer vital questions under coaching by Lawyer Rowe, who figured as his counsel So persistent was his refusal that MT. Hadley openly expressed the
 belief that his attitude was the result of preconcerted arrangement among the oil trust people. ... | In the event that Mr. Rogers, should refuse to answer the questions after certification he would be liable to pros ecution for contempt of the supreme court.
 Mir. Rogers was the first witness. He will be followed by several of the mag mates of the Standard Oil company. in cluding W. c. Rockefeller. J. D. Arch bold, Wade Hampton and others. MT. Rogers was on hand early, and before he went on the stand he express ed himself rather forcefully regarding the treatment to which he had been subjected Iy Attorney General Hadley since the hearing began last Friday.
 Tt seems to me-" said he. that they have done everything possible to dis commode me and keep me away from my business.
 "Of course this is all politics. Hadley. l understand. wants 10 he governor of Missouri next term and if he didn't raise the dickens with me during this hearing they would kick him out of Kansas City on his return"
 Wade Hampton was called as wit ness. He said he is general auditor of accounts. He declined to answer a question as to what companies he is connected with He said his office is at a6 Broadway and that he audits oil &C., counts.
 Whose oil accountsf'
 ''I decline to answer
 Do you audit the accounts of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey or of the Standard Oil company of Tn. diaia?''
 "l decline to answer
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-10
sTokEs iNAUouRATEp.
New Jersey Legislature Hears Elee
 tiOn Frauds Condemned.

New Jefoey Le8loI0tuf3 AearS bA6c~
 tion Frauds Condemned.
 TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 10. Governor Edward c. Stokes in his message to the New Jersey legislature says, among other things:
 ''The corruption of the ballot has been the subject of frequent legisla- ton. The purity of the ballot is neces- sary to safe and honest government. Between the bribe giver and the bribe taker let there he no distinction. Each is morally culpable. To condemn one and justify the other is a remedy that compromises with crime. The difficulty with our laws against bribery is that by making both bribe taker and bribe giver punishable at the same time both are driven to take refuge under the right to refuse to testify on the ground of self discrimination. Under these con. ditions conviction is difficult.
 Public utility corporations should re. port under proper directions to some state official as to the cost of construct. ing and extending trolley lines. water, gas. electric light and telephone plants or pipe lines. as the case might be. Bonded indebtedness and nd~capitalization could then be made upon this basis, with proper margin for working capi. tai and for such contingencies as the expenses of banking and financing. Legislation to this end I earnestly rec ommend."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-10
COMING HONOR FOR COOKS.
Culinary AEt to Take . High P1aes
 Says University Professor.

Culinary AEt to Take . High F1aes
 Says University Professor.
 "The time is coming when the art of cookery will be honored," declared Pro. lessor Charles +. Henderson of the University of Chicago to the members of the Evanston Woman's club the oth- n day, says the Chicago Post. But that time will not come until some un- pleasant things have been done. There will be no good service as long as the immoral and inefficient have equal ac- cess tss such employment. It will not come until the employer takes some ac- count of the character of the employee and not until the intelligence bureau has been reformed.
 There is q larger sphere for the cook than for any typewriter operator or typesetter or factory employee, but until that profession is put upon rec ognized basis there will be few young women who care to enter it. The day of Sairy Camp has passed away, and the trained nurse has taken her place, and so the ignorant cook must give way to the trained employee in the kitchen.
 There only are two justifications for domestic employment. One of these is in order that not gadabouts, drones or takers, but honest. sincere workers may gain culture, and tho other is that the servant herself may better her so. cial condition through association with he. employers, who are better situated. As wrong as slavery was, it had in many instances this sool effect, that the negroes received instruction in methods of work and by imitation learned good English and manners. Domestic service indeed originated in slavery. and the traditions of slavery still are much alive in it and among the American people. In domestic en- ployment it is not alone the service that is sold. but the personality of the employed--the nerves, the brain, the feeling and the heart 1t is not purely a business transaction There can be no purely business transaction about it. Something else enters into the deal, and. while there may be a legal con- tract that is definite. there is differ ence between legal and economic free dom. "'rhe real test of culture is not how we treat each other, but how we treat those over whom we have power The real test Of woinanhood is in how well you have learned to discover the wom. an in your female servant, and unless you have learned to do this all your cooking lessons. your college courses aud your learned research counts for nothing"