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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

The grandest review ever seen in this
country was that at Washington at tho
close OF the OWL war. Over 100, 600 men
were In line
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
Gard Of Thanks.

We, the wife and family of the late Joseph
g. Britt desire TO thank the many friends for
the respect and many kindnesses shown TO
Us and 10 him through his last illness and
death. May the blessings OF an all.wise God
attend them and Us al, /, ls our sincere desire.
Mrs J. 8. Britt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

In 1880 tho value Of the cotton mM
product In this country was $192, oo0, 0e9
In 1890 II had increased TO SS6a. eoO, OOo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
ANNUAL MEETING
County Board Of Commissioners
The County Board of Commission
ers will meet on .... ..
Thursday, the Second day Of
January, l908y

to approve claims. The above men,
toned Board will hold its annual
meeting on Thursday, after the first
Monday of January, 1908. All parties
holding claims against Abbeville
County for the fiscal year 1907 must
present same to the Board for ap-
proval On or before the above date or
be barred.
G. N. NICKLES,
C.S. and Chairman G. B. Com.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY RA|E%.
Greatly Reduced Rates
via
Southern Railway.

Account Christmas Holidays the Southern
Railway announced Special Excursion Rates of
one and one-third frst-class' one way fare, plus
IS cents for the round trip to points south of
the Ohio and Potomac, and east of the Missis-
sippi river including Washington, D. c., and
Cincinnati
Tickets will be on sale December Goth to
18th, inclusive; December goth to 31st, 1907
and January 1st 1908, with limit good to leave
destination not later than midnight January
9th, 1908.
Apply to the nearest Agent of the South
ern Railway, or address
]. G. LUSK,
Division Passenger Agent,
Charleston, S. G.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

IF YOU want the best -four on
earth try ours. S. ]. Link.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

AKVCs
There will be Christmas Tree at Beulah
Baptist Church on the 25th instant. The pub.
lie is cordially invited.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
MOrse's Locals.

Wanted-Abbeville school bonds. Apply TO
the National Bank, Abbeville.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
Blankets and Comforts

We find that we have too many
dawn Comforts, so have out the
price down to about cost to dispose
of them. Blankets from 81 to $40.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
2nd day of January, 1908, at
10 O'clock a. H.,

to the highest and best bidders there
for. the entire stock of goods, consist
ing of Plumbers Material and Fix
lures, Paints, Tin Cutters, Base Ball
Goods, Razors, Watches, Clocks, BIZ
cycles, Timers, Tools, Machinery
Tools, Fixtures, one Olds Touring Car,
one Electric Ruuabout, one >Olds Run
about, belonging to the estate of w. G.
Waldrop, bankrupt.
Said property will be sold in lots.
Sale to continue from day to day un-
til all property has been disposed of.
Terms-Cash.
An inventory of said property may
be seen at the Office Of the undersigned
at Abbeville, South Carolna. =
G. N. BEASLEY,
Trustee In Rankruptcv.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
winter Goods.

Winter GOODS.
You should see the many bargains In win
Ter goods now offered by Tue h. Nj. Haddon
Company.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
Tuesday, Dec. 31st, 1907,

at half past seven o'clock.
The object Of the meeting Is TO elect three
Trustees OF the said School District to sue
coed those whose terms expire, and one Trus-
tee to take the place OF one member who re-
signed also to transact any other business
pertaining to said School District, which may
properly come before IL.
The Trustees whose terms expire are ]. AL
len Smith, @. O. Gambrell. and q. A. Visan-
aka. O. A. Milford resigned. 81.
By order OF Board OF Trustees. ...
F.E. HARRISON, Chairman.
FRANK B. GARY, Secretary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
SHOES.

Our stock Of Shoes, we think, are
are the best you can buy anywhere
Every pair guaranteed to be as re-
presented or your money back.
Prices $l.25 to $3.50 for ladies.
75c to $3.50 for children.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
CLOAKS! CLOAKS !

We have just gotten in 100 Cloaks,
all the very latest styles and colors
Prices $500 to $500. This lot OF
Cloaks were closed out at sacri-
flee so that we are in position to
save you about 25 per cent. on
them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

Cotton Flannel loo yard.
Un bleached Homespun Sc yard.
Bleached Homespun &c yard.
Androscoggin 123c yard.
SO inch Sea Island 8 1-3c yard.
Teazle dawn Outing loo yard.
q inch Outing &c yard.
36 inch Cambria 10c yard.
SO inch Cannon Cloth IL l-2c I'D.
Bed Ticking Sc yard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
N. BEASLEY,
Trustee In Bankruptcy.
Election Of Trustees.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT A
meeting of the qualified electors Of the
School District Of the Town Of Abbeville is
called TO meet 10 the hall used as q Court
House on -. =. = - -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

If you want a bargain in hat
or pair Of shoes see S. ]. Link
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
TRUSTEES
BankruptS:a'le

|I1NDERAND BY VIRTUE OF
u an order of the United States
District Court Of the United States for
the District of South Carolina, the un-
dersigned will cell at public outcry in
the City of Abbeville, South Carolina,
lat the storevhouse lately occupied by
the firm of Harrison & Waldrop, on the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18
SILKS.

lSAAASe
SO inch black Taffeta $l.00.
36 inch brown, blue, garnet, gray,
Tafets, $1.00 yard.
We are agents for the "Money
Back" Silks. We have this brand
only in black. Your money back if
not satisfactory as to wear.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

GLOVES.
16 button, best quality Kid In
black, brown, white at $3.50.
IL button in black and white $500
Best quality short kid gloves $l.Oo
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-12-18

C.S and Chairman G. B. Com.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12
The Tailor Bird.
panslon

Sewing seems SO ingenious an art
that it must be reserved for the hu-
man species alone. Yet the tailor
bird, the Orthotomus iongicauda,
and other species possess the ele-
ments of it. They place their nests
in large leaf, which they prepare
to this end. With their beaks they
pierce two rows of holes along the
two edges of the leaf They then
pass a stout thread from one side to
the other alternately. With this
leaf, at first flat, they form a horn
in which they weave their nest with
cotton or hair. These labors Of
weaving and sewing are preceded BY
the spinning of the thread. The
bird makes it itself by twisting Il
its beak spiders webs, bits OF cot
ton and the little ends of wool.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12
Snakes.

The popular idea that all snakes
hiss is incorrect when anacondas are
In question, if we may believe a
close observer of the serpent family.
The sound they make is more like
a growl than hiss and has been
well described by a traveller as q
SLOW, roaring noise" Their powers
of deglutition are sufficiently Won
derful to make exaggeration unnec-
essary, credible witnesses testifylng
to the fact that one has been known
to swallow a horse, while bullOcks
are not infrequently attacked also.
Few nonscientifc readers, by the
way, are aware that not only do the
jaw hinges of the boa tribe become
dislocated IL the act of swallowing
large animal, subsequently resum-
ing their proper position by means
of the elastic connecting tendons
but that the skull bones separate
centrally, so the whole constitutes
sort of quadrangular oriice witt
apparently indefinite powers OF e1
pansion.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12
CURIOSITY.
Ia lis Proper Sphere IT Is a Noble ard
ssrvicsahie Quality.

Upon the higher level curiosity
is a noble and serviceable quality,
without which no great thing can
be done in science or literature 1t
was intellectual curiosity which sus-
tanned a man ike Darwin in his
long and patient labors. He vas de-.
termined to find out the how of the
universe, and he had all the instinct
of curious person for the gather
ing and arrangement of details. BE
was forever observing and tracing
and detecting and overlooking.
Remains biographer tells us that
to the last he was still questioning
the universe, still asking what was
the meaning of things. and how they
| came to pass. Without curiosity the
| scholar would lose half his interest
and the thinker would fall by the
way. It is this instinct which makes
a man wish to get at the bottom of
things. If it be the affairs of his
neighbor, it Is base; # it be the af-
fairs of the world, it Is great. When
curiosity dies within a man achieve
ment is hopeless and hope itself IS
dead.
Curiosity may be valuable asset
IN the equipment of a professional
man. Without it the parish clergy
man never viii have an intimate
knowledge of the affairs of his peo-
| ple. for he never Will take the trou-
| bic to learn them. What he is told
| he almost certainly viii forget,
while a touch of curiosity will store
up every piece of information and
watch every passing incident and
catch hold Of every suggestion II
conversation.
By and by the. history of every
one, old and young, will be in the
mans possession. Of course, if he
, be an ignoble man, then his nowl
edge Will be intolerable; if he be Z
sympathetic man, it will be most val
liable.
: In the same way a physician or
lawyer will be greatly helped by
legitimate and regulated curioslt..
about his fellow creatures. And l
, must be said that if curiosity Of on.
, kind makes a man detestable curl
t osity of another kind makes HIN
most popular.-Ian Maclaren (ReV
John Watson).
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12
Where Rain Never Falls.

Peru has hundreds of square
miles along its coast of rainless
country. In this tract rain is never
known to fall from one century's
end to another. Yet the region il
not entirely barren of vegetation.
Some parts of it indeed are COM
paratively fertile. This is due to
the extraordinary fogs known as
"garuas." They prevail every night
from May to October after a sum
mer that is sultry and extend up to
a level of 1900 feet above the sea
Above 1900 feet rain falls.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12

Full line soaps and perfumery at
Putegnat's. IL Off
Furnished room to rent. Cheney
Bldg, North Levee St. 12-11-3t
The strong southwest wind last
night was almost as cool as nor
ther.
Furnished room to rent. APP
ply to NJ. w. Cara, Levee St.
11-19-1m.
A few neat signs for Furnished |
Rooms, good size, for sale at HER
FALD Office. tt.
The Woodmen of the World hold
their annual election of officers to-
night, and a full attendance is
wanted.
For sALE-Second hand gasoline
engine, 4 horsepower. Norman
E. Kendall.
The Pastores, or Shepherds,
play is being rehearsed by a local
company of Mexican performers
for Christmas.
Fine piano for sale. In good
condition, at reasonable price.
Call at Office of BENZ. KOwalski.
11-26-1m
See new ad of the Texas Oil Co.
! in today's HERALD, Louis Kowal-
ski being the Brownsville agent for
the same.
) Died, in this city, Wednesday
morning, Nicolasa Hernandez,
aged go years. The funeral took
> place the same afternoon.
Just received at Putegnat's a full
, line high grade stationery, manicure
! and shaving sets, toilets articles,
e etc. 12-6-tf'
I'll A new line of Watch Chains,
IFobs, Cuff Links, Stick Pins,
Beauty Pins, etc., just received at
Miss Smiths. 12-12-6t-
Il The passenger train on the St
H., B. & M. reached the station
lalmost on time last night, being
= only a few minutes late.
For sale at a bargain-Houst
II and lot on the bluff overlooking
. the bay at Point Isabel. For par
, ticulars, inquire of T. A. Kinder
- 11-30-3wl
: Novelties in French Jewelry in
y Guiding Brooches. Buckles, Neck
laces, Hat Pins, etc. suitable TO
=, gifts at Miss Smiths, opposit
l Miller Hotel. 11-20-1m
Less than three weeks now re
main in which to pay your take
and escape the ten per cent penal
ty. After Dec. 81, the collectio
will cost ten per cent additional
N Don't put it off.
We furnish HELP professions
and unprofessional, laborers, me
chanics, cooks, nurses, chamber
maids, quick and satisfactory sci
vices assured. Brownsville En-
U. ployment Agency, Market Squal
North. Phone 1876. 12-10-t
= THE HERALD is requested
state that all school children an
:. teachers who intend to contribu
= to the Washington Fark fund wi
" be expected to bring their col
! tribution to the public school {
~ Friday.
re- Fer SALE AT BARGAIN: TV
ar hundred acres fine land adjoinir
he Fort Ringgold and Rio Gran'
re- City in Starr Co., Texas. For fu
Their information apply at Clay
Bakery, Brownsville, Texas, P.
Box ITO. 11-2O-t
. Today is the feast day of S
Guadalupe, the patron saint
Mexico, and is being duly celebr
! ted by the patriotic and religio
people of Mexico. The usual ma
in honor of St. Guadalupe was c,
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12

Clean cotton ragswanted at THE
HERALD office.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12

Your printing will be done right
at THE HERALD.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-12
HY. B. VERHELLE
CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

should begin with a touching up
of the paint about the house where
it is beginning to look shabby.
Then the Christmas trimming will
show to much better advantage
You can do lot of fixing up,
with little trouble and small cost,
if YOU use our ready mixed paints
They're all ready to use. Any
body can use them.
FRONTIER LUMBER COMPANY
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05

According to the Kobe Herald, George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln rank
even Admiral Togo as popular heroes
in Japan. The Herald says that DR..
Yamakawa, formerly president of To-
kyo university, offered to present pic
ture of famous man or woman to the
lriye primary school, Hiogo, and asked
that vote of the children be taken to
choose the subject of the portrait. The
343 boys and girls of the school were
asked to write down the name of their
favorite great man or woman. Wash
ington and Lincoln came out at the
head Of the list, with sixty-nine and
fifty-three votes respectively, while To-
go came third with only twenty-eight,
and Ninomiya Sontoku, a famous an
cient Japanese philanthropist, came
next. The fifth man chosen was an
other American, Benjamin Franklin,
who received twenty-one votes. Then
followed after him, with one exception,
Florence Nightingale, four other JAP
!anese, then Admiral Nelson, then six
Japanese, then Bismarck with five
votes. two more Japanese and Napo-
leon with four votes. Among the scat
tering were President Roosevelt, Cali
lei. Columbus, Socrates and, strange to
relate, Peter the Great and Admiral
MakarOff of Russia.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05
The New French MARRIAGE Law.


"The youth of France" says Paris
paper, applaud the French lawmak-
ers because Of the bill which was re-
Gently passed wiping out venerable
clause in the Code Napoleon" The
new law provides that "a marriage
contract may be entered into between
a man and a woman, each being twen-
ty-one years DID," without the consent
OF the parents OF either. "This," says
the French writer, 'Is long step to-
ward the equality Of man with woman.
The woman, according to the old law,
was fully competent to make mar
riage agreement at twenty one, but the
man, although of age in all other re-
spects at that time of his life, was
compelled to wait four years IL Mt
twenty-one his parents refused to con-
sent to his marriage. Children love
their parents just as much as they ever
did," says the writer, "but the abroga-
tion of the law shows that the day OF
blind submissiveness is over and that
the word subject applied in the fam
lily or the state has bad and a musty
tasteo
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05
The Decline of Mirth

The explanation that laughter Is dis.
appearing ON account OF the sadness
Oh the modern view OF life is discard
ed by Signor Il. Franceschini. an Ital-
ian psychologist. He concludes thai
mirth, like poetry, depends upon the
imagination and that the development
or the reasoning powers has tended TO
Danish the distortion that makes things
seem funny. The more the imagina-
ton is brought under the control OF
logic the less do we laugh. Education
Is now scientific and practical, and to
more than smile Is becoming a char
acteristic OF a simpler and more nat
ural culture. where Imagination still
holds sway and people have not for.
gotten how to laugh.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05

Sing song o. six o'clock,
Printer 'o' rye,
Four and -. Inches
Dropped into pi.
When the pi was noted
The Masters Printer s~ore
Till the very devil
And the sstramp,' 'Sshdcoat thedoor.
With apologiesto Mother Goose.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05
SOME TEMPERANCE NOTES.

We are curious to see the result of
the experiment now being tried in Rich
mond, KY, by the liquor men. The
whole state of Kentucky seems to be
voting out liquor as fast as they can
call elections. One has been ordered
for Richmond, and the liquor men have
closed their saloons and will keep them
closed until after the election as an OBJ
Ject lesson. They are going on the
theory that the people who drink will
become so dry by election day they will
rally to the support of the saloons and
carry the election for the sale of liquor.
1t will surprise the liquor men very
much if their course has the opposite
effect desired. Some of the habitual
drinkers may learn it is not so difficult
as they had imagined to go without Ii
quor, and they may decide that it is
better, after all, to do without saloons.
-Staunton Dispatch.
1t is predicted that Kentucky will be
dry State within two years, says the
Danviile News. 1t is more than prob
ably that the next Legislature will pass
a bill allowing vote to be taken on
the whiskey question by the people of
the entire State for the purpose of
ascertaining weather liquor shall be
sold in Kentucky. A temperance wave
is sweeping over this Commonwealth,
and if a vote was taken on the entire
State it would go dry. 1t has generally
been supposed that the vote of the
large cities would reduce the vote of the
temperance people in the rural districts
to such an extent that temperance fo1
the entire State would never be attained.
This theory is a fallacy. Several
States in the Union have voted out
whiskey entirely, and recently Knox
vile, Tenn, with population of over
100000, went dry by majority of over
1000. Of the 119 counties in the State
100 are dry. 1t is hardly probably that
the nineteen wet counties can outvote
the 100 dry one."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05
Quaint English Easter Customs.

Many quaint Easter customs ara EtiIl
e1tant In England. In London busi-
ness Is usually suspended from Thurs
DAY preceding Easter Sanday until the
Monday following. iAIl.work is at a
standstill. and the people are at play.
For several hundred years ancient and
needy widows. selected by the vicar OF
a certain city parish. have picked new
sixpences from the gravestone of the
originator of this custom. At another
church bags of raisins, an orange and
a sixpence are given to fifty poor chill
dren. This practice has been going on
Ior an unknown term OF years. At
Westminster school the boys scramble
Tor pancakes in the great hau.--Les-
Yes Weekly.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05
Balk, at a oconsott,.,o,.


The latest story about Senator pettus
OK Alabama is of how he was overcome
with vertigo some time ago while
working on law case I'm his Alabama
ONCE. He recovered in few minutes.
and his clerk said be was going to send
for q doctor
"AH right" said the octogenarfan.
but don't get more than one" When
the doctor arrived, the senator said:
You are the only doctor here, are
youE You're sure there's only one Of
your "Oh. yes, senator" said the
physician, who thought the old gentle
man had some confidential communico-
tion TO make.
I'm mighty glad OF it," the senator
said, with a sigh of relief. "I'm sure
I'll get well If there is only one of you
Fellows here, but could never survive
consultation."-Indianapolis Star.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05

One ''today" is worth two "tomor.
rows
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05
DOING BUSINESS AGAIN

when my friends thought was about to
take leave of this world, on account of indiges-
tion,nervousnessa and general debility writes
A. A. Chisholm, Treadwell, N. Y, "and when
1t looked as If there was no hope left. was
persuaded to try Electric Bitters and rejoice
to say that they are curing me. / am now
doing business agaia as of old, and am still
gaining daily" Best tonic medicine on earth
4. G. Richardson, Kilmarnock; T. J. Hay
don & Son. Irvington; Ficklin & Bass, LitwaI
ton. Price zoe.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-04-05
NEWSPAPERS; oLDsHD NEW.

A Virginia publisher remarked ir
our presence the other day THAT the
wave of prosperity had not struck him
81 have more business, said he, ''but
prices of labor and materials have ad
vanced so much that profits are SLIM
The Petersburg Index-Appeai in dis
cussing the same subject says that will
the constant advance in the prices o.
labor and of every class of material that
enters into the making of newspaper
the one cent publications of the countr,
are facing very interesting and try
ing situation. -Times-Dispatch.