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lowed my red hooded head upon her
shoulder. I'm glad l didn't put up
my hair
Som /, virgie,' said 1, as 1
nestled against the soft cushion.
Your hair is the loveliest I ever saw,
Virgie, and mine is short and stiff
like bristles. l hate it.
But you're real good, George
Washington, and as 500 as ever we
get home, I'm going to give you a
real boughten DOLL she said, to have
for your very own birthday, and to
keep always"
Grandmother Gibbons did not need
to tell the children that she had kept
the "boughten DOLL" they had all
seen it.
well, children, the next thing, it
seemed the stars all faded, and the
darkness deepened around US. I don't
know how long we waited, while l
lay with my head pressed against
your great-aunt Virginia's shoulder,
but 1 heard her calling to me, 'Gecr-
gle Washington, this will Eever do.
You must not go to sleep; We must
get up and walk around
81 don't want to walk around,
| Virgie,' I said. 1 want to go home,
that's what l want
Wen walk toward home said
| Virgie, taking hold of my hand, M
| starting up. We're not in the path,
but we can't be far from it, and we
must keep walking, for you must not
go to sleep. Here's the black walnut
tree
"Virgie gave a sudden spring for
| ward, and fell. She told your great
grandmother Howe, after it was all
over, that it seemed as if she fell
miles and miles. Then it came over
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Cherry Tarts.-Make a paste OF
one pint of pitted cherries, one cup
full of sugar and half a cupful or
water. Fill tart shells nearly full
with this mixture, and serve with
cream.
Cherry Toast.-Cook one pint OF
seeded cherries with a cupful or
sugar until the fruit is tender. Have
buttered slices of toast ready; pour
this mixture over them, and, when
cold, serve with whipped cream.
Nut Suuares.-Beat we'll n egg
with one cupful of brown sugar and
a pinch of salt and soda. Add n
cupful of good nut meats chopped
fine. Drop small portions of this on
buttefe:l tins and bake about ten
minutes.
Rice and Apple Pudding.-A cup
full of rice, six apples, a little chopped
lemon peel, two cloves, sugar. Boil
the rice for ten minutes; strain 1t
through a hair sieve until quite dry.
FuC Il ClOlu lllO d puuoih6 81
lay the rice around it like a crust.
Cut the apples into quarters n lay
them in the middle Of the rice with
a little chopped lemon peel, cloves
and some sugar Cover the fruit
with rice, tie up tight and boil for
an hour. Serve with melted butter,
sweetened and poured over it.
Veal and Rice Pie.-Boil a tea
cupful of rice in boiling water ten
minutes, strain it quite dry, peel a
Spanish onion, chop fine with q bunch
of parsley, a little lemon thyme, pep
per and salt. Cut four rashers OF
rather fat bacon, line a pie dish with
the bacon, then the rice and onion;
cut Up two pounds of the breast oil
veal in small pieces, lay those on the
seasoned rice. Three parts fill the
dish with quite boiling water, cover
with a nicely mashed potato crust,
and bake in 4 moderately hot oven
one hour and half.
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BILE, watching mother unjoint the
boiled chickens for the chicken pie,
when the clock struck s. She lighted
a tallow candle and gave it to Virgie.
1t was our bedtime. Oh said I, as
I dumped down in the feather bed,
isn't it beautiful, Virgie, to have
birthdays and Thanksgiving all to-
gether? And isn't mother kind? I'm
just as happy!'
$50 am T. said Virgie, giving me
a hug. I know something
what is it, Virgie?' l asked in a
whisper.
"Then she told me that she was
going to get up before anybody else
in the house and steal out softly, and
go to the north pasture and get some
red berries to hang over George
Washington's portrait in the front
room, to please mother, and because
it would be appropriate to my birth
day.
Let's said 1. 1T will be splen-
did, and then I told her, what was
true, that she was always thinking of
something to please somebody, and
then we said our prayers and cuddled
down to sleep.
"It didn't seem but a minute after
that when 1 sat up and rubbed my
eyes. Virgie was already tying her
leathern shoestrings. George Wash
ington Howe, get up this minute; it's
as light as a cork she said. I'm not
going to put up my hair, it will take
too much time, and it will keep me
warm and she let fall a cloud of
gold over her shoulders" Grand
mother Gibbons voice always trem-
bled a little here. you've seen the
portrait of your great-aunt Virginia,
children. It's true what l told you.
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You UNFINISHED her hair" from
the children in chorus. .,
Yes, those beautiful, strong locks
of hair, all kinked and snarled and
held as in a wise, partly with my
teeth, partly with my fingers, loos-
ened every golden thread.
Now I said, 'Virgic. you are
free: Catch hold of this limb that /
swing down to you! Catch hold and
climb
"'Oh, George Washington she
cried. I can't! I'm dizzy! l shall
faint
81 could see that her strength was
failing, but l wouldn't give up that
l could save her; so I put all of my
self into my voice, and I may have
prayed, but I didn't know it, then.
No, you won't faint, Virgie,' /
called. You won't faint; you won't
fall! You can't; you've got the limb.
Now here's my hand; let's climb!
We can see every step now, Virgie.'
I'VE climbed slowly, step by step,
zigzagging, picking cur way up, and
gaining courage till at last we fell in
each others arms, on to the level at
the top, and that is the way I met
an emergency, the Thanksgiving and
birthday we never forgot. And that
is the way l saved your great-aunt
Virginia."-From Good Housekeep-
ing.
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n, r like a flash, we had come through
the wrong bars, and were over the
gorge! That dreadful gorge where
we were V allowed in broad day
light. Virgie fell till she stopped on
a ledge not larger than her two feet,
but her hair had been caught by an
out-reaching tree branch, and it held
her. True to her nature, her first
thought, even then, was for me.
"'Georgie Washington, are you up
theSe?' she called. Her voice sound
ed through the darkness far away.
Yes, Virgie, I am here!' l think
my teeth chartered. Where are
your
Stand still! Don't stir a step!
Don't go to sleep, we're over the
gorge. I'm caught by tie hair and
we must wait!'
mo one will ever know, children,
how long we waited. 1t seemed to
me as If all at once l grew to be a
m 1t seemed to me as if God
had given Virgie's life into my keep
ing. l kept calling down to her,
telling her tina: it would soon be
lighter, and that l felt sure that some
way, somehow, I could save her.
AT last it came, children, the first
streak of the morning! l stopped
over, and looked down that awful
abyss, but the sight only gave me
courage. 'Virgie,' I cried, and my
teeth didn't chatter this time, for
when God wants US to do anything,
children, no matter how difficult, He
will give us the will and the strength
to do it. 'Virgie, l a see you, you
are not half way down, but keep
still a lew minutes, and I can save
you"
How did you do it, grandma?"
always asked the children.
Il didn't know how I was going
to do it, at first, but l began, very
slowly, to make my way, not straight,
but in n zigzag fashion, slowly and
carefully down to the shelf over
which Virgie hung. There was a lit
tie platform of rock, on which l
stopped. 1t was growing lighter
everSminute, as I reached up to the
twisted tree branch. Then God let
me see how I was going to be able
to save my sister. You know how
I did it, children"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27

IT was eight and your great-aunt
Virginia ten when we had the
Thanksgiving and birthday in one,
which we never forgot. Our mother
was a Southern woman. She gave to
her first child the name of her be-
loved State. If Virginia had been a
boy his name would have been
George Washington. When l was
born two years later to a day I was
named George Washington. Your
great-grandfather died three months
before I was born. Our birthday
came the 10th of November, so near
to Thanksgiving that mother always
celebrated the two days in one.
This that I am going to tell hap
pened long before the Civil War; for
the first time in our lives the Thanks
giving Day for Massachusetts was
appointed on the goth day of NoVem-
Der. We all went early to the meet
ing-house the Sunday before, for we
knew we were going to hear the
Thanksgiving proclamation. All the
children in the Westinghouse kept
wide awake that morning, and Virgie
and 1 nudged each other when the
minister opened the proclamation
with a rattle and spread it on the
desk.
I'VE knew what was coming. We
could repeat the conclusion word for
word. Given at the Council chamber
In poctoo +hic dav 4 D 4 III His EX-
cellency the Governor, George N.
Briggs, and by the advice and consent
Of the Council That sounded great,
and when the minister repeated slow
ly, God save the Commonwealth OF
Massachusetts, it was grand! felt
as if I filed the Westinghouse, be-
cause If George washington had not
been the father of his country
where would Massachusetts be?
1.-THE night before the great day
we were standing at the kitchen ia
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Iifc's True

For what is your life?-James, 4:
IA.
Life, it is said, is not a blind al
ley" but a thoroughfare; death, a
bend in the road that stretches
through the undiscovered country.
Belief in God and in the future life
makes man patient in suffering, calm
under calumny, philanthropic, self
sacrificing, patriotic and heroic.
The chief discoveries and invent
ors first saw by faith the invisible
world. Socrates, Calico, Copernicus,
Newton, Farraday, Watt, Fulton,
Morse and Edison-the nearer they
approached the Creator in their vast
researches the more they believed
the future to be a life for unfulflled
ambitions, for the adjustment OF in
equalities, for the continuance of de-
velopment, Of studies and discoveries
Sad for the reunion of souls. ..
The tendency Of those who decry
he future as so problematical as to
BE impractical is to sink down into
materialism and animalism, desiring
only food, fire, clothing and housing,
reducing life to getting a living"
whereas life here is only the husk;
life beyond, the corn, the husk being
valuable till the corn Is garnered.
Life should mean the possibility OF
unending bliss, or it is not worth
living. The gates Of God must open,
or all is a failure. Life must mean
character, stereotyped in time for US
and JOY forever more.
If character dies it Is the catas-
trophe Of the universe, the failure OF
creation, the fall of the Godhead and
the enforcement Of chaos. Then
the physical becomes -grander than
the spiritual. The sequoias OF the
Yosemite and the rocks from which
they grow become nobler than man,
the masterpiece Of God.
Robert I%ngersoll said he did not
believe in living here on skim milk
that he might have cream in heaven,
but Paul exclaimed, II have suffered
the loss of all things that I might win
Christ and the crown" Jesus Him
self endured the cross for the Joy
that was set before Him and now
awaits u coming to His many man
stoned home, where we may have
life more abundantly."
This world cannot satisfy the long
ings Of the soul any more than 8
Gag can satisfy a bird with wings.
Life Is truly called a voyage, q Jour
ney, a dressing room, a vestibule,
and therefore must have a destina-
ton, a home, a palace in the capital
city of all worlds.-Rev. Edwin
whittier Caswell, Beekman Hill M
E. Church, New York, in Sunday Her.
aid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF TIE
BATTLE AGAINST RUM.

Scbriety the Road to Riches, Says
DR.. Peters-Clergyman Declares
That New York City's Daily
Liquor Bill is 100000.
How to enrich the people? Make
them SOBER"
This was the conclusion of the
Rev. DR.. Madison C. Peters, in his
sermon, Where the Money Goes"
given in the Majestic Theatre.
DR.. Peters presented some remark
able statistics to account for the dis
sipation of wealth in New York City.
''The city's daily drink BILL" he said,
"alone Is estimated at more than
100000 This is more than one
half the amount required to run the
entire Government Of the United
States. The annual drink bill of the
city is more than half the national
debt. It is two-thirds as much as
the total receipts of the Federal Gov
eminent, outside Of customs. It 10
nearly one-half the total capitaliza-
ton of the national banks of the
country"
DR.. Peters says. that New York
spends enough yearly Tor liquor 10
pay more than twice over the salaries
of all the teachers in the public
schools of the country, and twenty
times the income Of all the mission
airy. societies of the world. In con-
cIusion he said:
Jacob Riis in his Battle With
Sums has pointed out districts in
New York where there is a saloon to
every 191 of the population; that is,
thirty families of poorly paid men
find money to support a saloon, which
requires an ordinary outlay OF, say,
SIS a day, or thirty-seVen cents for
each family; thirty-seven cents a day,
if saved, at four per cent, would IN
twenty years build a good home IN a
nearby suburb.
IF the money thrown away by New
Workers in the last ten years had
been put into homes every renter in
the city might be living in his "
house in a nearby suburb.
Neither open minis nor open mills
will do so much to abolish poverty,
stamp out crime, insure general pros
perity and guarantee our people their
inalienable rights in the pursuit OF
happiness as the closed saloons.
"The catechism Of social economy
is brief, true and easily learned. How
to enrich the people? Make them
sober New York American.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
A Mothers Lost Opportunity.

81 was speaking in a meeting which
q mother came up to me and asked
me to pray for her boy. agreed TO
do this, but she came the second day
and made the same request, and then
her minister told me he thought it
would be we'll If I knew the woman's
story, and the next day I heard 1t
from her lips.
"A year before, her boy, seventeen
years of age, came to her n said ne
had been attending some meetings IN
one of the city churches; that he had
about made up his mind to confess
Jesus Christ, and wished her to GO
with him that night to the services.
She told him that she would do SO.
but that she had a previous engage
ment. To my shame she said, q
ENGAGEMENT was at q euchre party,
and I kept the engagement. MY boy
did not 60 to the church, and, so far
as I know, he hasn't been to church
since. I have pleaded with him in
these days without avail.
Last night I wrote him a letter,
ia which I told him Of an event IN
his baby days, when father told him
he should sleep alone, and he cried
himself to sleep. When the morning
light was breaking I saw him with
his little tear-stained face up against
the bars Of the crib, and his little
hands reaching out to me, and I said
to him, my little boy" The picture
is now changed. 1t is your mothers
white face looking out to you, n
her hands stretching forth to you.
And she said, Although I pleaded
with him in the letter to come, ne
would not
Years later I inquired concerning
him and found he had still not
turned, but on the contrary. he had
given himself UP to a life of dissipa
ton and sin."-J. Wilbur Chapman.
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IeI0Us TRUTHS
81
From the Writings of Great
Preachers.
ENNOBLED.

In my deep grief most querulous I grew,
And vexed myself with futile questioning
Why he who. in his life would never
bring
Aught int mine, well guarded, which he
knew
Might chance to give me pain, and gladly
drew
From many a wound its most-envenomed
sting,
Should, in his death, straight to my
heart let wing
As deadly aimed IN arrow as e'er few.
And yet on saner thought 'twould seem,
for me
Who am so sorely wounded, he hath won
As recompense an honor truly great;
For am l not the mother now Of one
Who's early come into his high estate,
And wears the crown of immortality?
Alice Crossette Hall, in the Christ6G
,Repister.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
PresapeS q New Time.

DR.. Popert, the Hamburg judge
who is well known for his advocacy
of abstinence, has just been elected
member of the German Reichstag-
the first militant abstainer, as far as
has been reported, in that body. This
is a presage of the new time in Ger
many. The fact that in a very few
years a powerful body Of organized
sentiment has been growing up in
that land is encouraging. The Ger
man Good Templars now number over
10000, gathered in 1000 lodges, with
an additional 10000 members in
young peoples lodges.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27

In connection with the pneumatic
hammers, ordinary work is now done
at a price for labor equivalent to a
reduction Of from thirty-ive to sixty
per cent. from hand labor rates. The
engineers of Great Britain and the
Continent are now as fully alive to
the very important advantages to be
derived from the use Of pneumatic
tools as the American engineers, who
were the first to use such tools or IN
extensive scale. At present pneu-
matte tools are to be found in prac-
tically all engineering works, ship
yards and mines throughout tho
world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
Too Sad to Be Funny.

Three tired citizens-a lawyer, a
doctor and a newspaper man-sat in
a back room recently in the gray
light of the early dawn. On the table
were many empty bottles and a
couple OF packs Of cards. AS they sat
in silence, a rat scurried across the
hearth into the darkness beyond. The
three men shifted their feet and
looked at each other uneasily. After
a long pause, the lawyer spoke: Il
know what you fellows are thinking"
he said; you think l thought I saw
q rat, but l didn't"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
Providence Aids PRAYER.

We have duties which are perilous.
W, meet surprises Of evil. We feel
perplexities of conscience. We en-
counter disappointments which throw
US back from our hopes rudely. We
have an unknown experience opening
upon us every hour. Providence is
thus continually calling for the aids
of prayer.-A. Phelps. =.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
PRAYER Mikes One Holy.

Prayer, continually lived in, makes
the presence of a holy and loving God
the air which life breathes, and by
which it lives, so that, as it mingles
consciously with the work of the day
It becomes also a part of every dream.
To us, then, it will be no strange
thing to enter heaven, for we have
been living in the things of heaven
Stopford A. Brooke.
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Doing Away With White Lead.

Both the Italian and French Gov
eminent are encouraging the use of
antimony pigments, which have the
advantage over white lead Of being
inocuous, and v e Zinc paint Of be-
ing permanent and sun-proof. Anti
mony is also obtaining a wide appli-
cation in the manufacture Of bearing
metal and other alloys.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
Fossilized Fruit 10000 Years Old.

M. CASTOR Bonnie has presented to
the Academy of Sciences some fossil
flowers and fruits which have been
discovered in the neighborhood of
Lezanne, France, by M. Rene Viguier.
These wonderful vegetable relics are
calculated to be 10000 years old.
and they are so perfectly preserved
that the ingenious botanist was able
to classify them with absolute certi-
tude.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
w. G.. Il, us Latest Attempt.

An attempt is now being made by
the w. C.. T. u. to eliminate from the
mails books in which the nero, her
oine or any character presented as
worthy of admiration, is pictured as
an habitual user of liquors without
condemnation Of such habit"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27
Tribute to the Church.

Bar and Buffet says, editorially,
mine out of every ten reform move
ments which are directed against the
saloonists of this country originate
in the church, or among church
workers."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-11-27

A property owner in Kingston, a
London suburb, has posted a notice
that mo grandchildren or cats will
be allowed ON his premises.
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Twenty Thousand Convicts in France.
There are in France to-day 10000
convicted criminals-6000 in the
chief prisons, serving long sentences;
and "a the minor prisons and others
about 1900. !
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Monkeys are remarkably keen OF
sight, but deficient in sense Of smell
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TO withhold from God is to cheat
yourself. BE-. DE-.
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Rarominp Like God.
fJse of Pneumatic Hammers.

God coming to a means man be-
like God.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-28
A..FORGER is CAUGHT.

Sheriff Forsberg, county attorney
B rown and Stenographer Dady were
at Oslo--Saturday conducting the pre-
liminary examination before Justice
81 ilden Of a young man named Bar
ney Mager, charged with forgery.
In July last he did some work for
John E. Jackson, of Oslo, and was
given a check for $3.50 in payment.
Mager had in some way gotten hold
OF blank check and filled it in for
a similar amount, and forged Mr..
Jackson's signature to same. About
the first of January when Mr.. Jack
son settled with the bank he dis
covered the forgery, and since kept a
look out for the perpetrator of the
crime. He is young fellow whose
home Is near Warsaw, N. D. Al
though young he has GRIN inal re-
cord and last summer served a 40
days sentence II the Marshall County
jail for r1fling the pockets Of his
partner. Justice Hilden bound
Mager over TO the next grand jury
and fixed his bail at $1,000, which he
was unable TO secure, hence is now
Ianguishing II The County jail. - -:::.-s.e-ss:
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-03-28
UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS.

The Warren Alumni basket ball
team have, on account of the depart
ure of one of their players, disbanded
for the season, claiming the undis-
putedaa championship Of Northern
Minnesota. Bemidji's claim to the
championship disappears when a few
weeks ago they made the challenge
to the Warren team through the
papers and also by phone which chal-
lenge was readily accepted by the
Warren team. About two days be-
fore the game they phoned their re-
grets as three of their men were laid
out, but instead they played Grand
Rapids on the dates they had given
Warren. So by these refusals to play
the Alumni on the day they had set
for the championship games, they
lose all claim to the championship
title.