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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30
A New Years Homi1Y.

New Years Day is in some way rec
ognized by every people having a fg-
NAL calendar, yet the hours of the
last day of the old year generally
pass with little variation from Or
binary routine. Nevertheless, 1t Is
the completed book whose story I'M
presses the reader for good or bad,
not the cover or the frontispiece OF
the new one. Nearly all the words OF
our language applying to a course not
absolutely marked out describe the
path that Is left behind and not that
which is before. There is no counter
part to the ships wake" for the
course which the PROV is about to
break, nor Of the track of the cy-
Clone" nor of the spoor of the tiger,
nor of 1.-The trail" of numberless ami
mails. 1t may be noted incidentally
that laws or ordinances require auto
mobiles to carry a number, in large
figures, hanging from the back. No
body who sees an automobile coming
cares what its number is. Only when
it happens to leave some record be-
hind in its track is the knowledge OF
it's number important. 1t Is doubtless
because the future is swarming with
possibilities, whereas the past consti-
tutes a record which cannot be
changed, that most Of our festivities
centre about the anticipation Of the
new year rather than in a RETROSPECT
tive affection for the old. In the eld-'
er days of the world prophecy held a
place of, prominence among all peo-
pies, but of history in the scientific
sense there was one This has been
reversed by the severely practical
modern world. History is at a pre-
MUM, prophecy at a discount. Yet
the almost disregarded last day of De-
cember stands for the completed rec
ord, as New Years does for the pro-
phscy of what is to come.
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TORTURED FOR SIX MONTHS
BY Terrible Itching Eczema-Baby's'
Suffering was Terrible - Soon
Entirely Cured by Cuticura.

Eczema appeared on my sons face. We
went to a doctor who treated him for three
months. Then he was so bad that his face
and head were nothing but one sore and
his ears looked as if they were going to fall
off, SO we tried another doctor for four
months, the baby never getting any better.
His hand and legs had big sores on them
and the poor little fellow suffered SO ter
rii;;y that be could not sleep. After ne
had suffered six months we tried a set of
the Cuticura Remedies and the first treat
meht let him sleep and rest well; in one
week the sores were gone and in two
months he had a clear face. Now he is
two years and has never had eczema again.
Mrs. Louis Beck, R. +. D. 3, San Antonio,
Tex, Apr. Is, 1907" ~.
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3 HN1TGAZZ ~ TUX s
NzDOM m
sIANEM YEARS EVE REVERlE-\S
C UprTreA 81 REV w. EEK
IprrTeA 81 REV. W. n. ~EEkS,. -
A,A CITY tOsPITAL, NEW EoR

good, every lofty ideal were drawn
with perfect accuracy. Failures and
successes, defeats and victories passed
in rapid review. Never were there
such noble, ambitions, such possibili-
ties and such fatal aimlessness
crowded into so small a compass. The
sight alarmed me and I cried, us 1t
too late?"
Suddenly the Scene Changed.
The judgment was set amid a blaze
of majesty and power and glory, be-
yond my most fertile imagination.
Every human being stood before 1t,
waiting to render an account of the
life now closed. Notably,
The Poor Led the Way.
A boy from one of the great mer-
camille houses preceded several 9TH
ers whom he had Influenced for good.
Then came a man with a score Of his
fellow workmen, whom he had res
cued, by his holy living, from lives of
ungodliness. He was followed by q
woman, distressingly poor while on
earth, but filled with the Holy Spirit.
She with her children, whom she had
brought up in the fear of the Lord,
together assembled the massive steps
which led them through the portals
of glory into-who can describe "the
things which eye hath not seen nor
ear heard?"
For a Thousand Years
the endless procession continued to
advance until the last man and wom-
an had rendered an accounting OF the
life entrusted to them. I was greatly
distressed at the sight of n whom
I had known; he brought his work, a
marvel of human goodness, but it was
Rejected, Because It Was Christless.
The scene closed. Alarmed, 1
awoke from my reverie. Instantly I
fell on my knees, consecrated my life
to, Him who bought me with His
blood, allowed Him to fill me with His
Holy Spirit. Now, after several
years, 1 write to say, this is what /
did with my life.
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POpulOuS China.

Inc Ipulation Of the Chinese en-
pre- lsargely a matter of estimate.
mere as never been such census of
tne ehire as that which is taken
every scade in this country. But the
estime of the Almanach de Gotha
Ior DO may be taken as fairly re-
haoi According to that estimate,
the %2pulation of the empire is, in
rour numbers, about 100000, 900.
II I9robably safe to say that if the
num- beings on earth were stood up
IN ne every fourth one would be a
Chaman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30
Hating the Autos.

With a view to preventing the driv-
ing OF automobiles at high speed
across the tracks at grade crossings,
the Long Island Railroad Company
have arranged with the Long Island
Automobile Club to have hummocks
formed in the road on each side of
certain grade crossings where reck-
less driving has been most common.
There are altogether 429 grade cross
ings on the Long Island system, and
the number of fatalities has grown to
an alarming notwithstanding Amer
lean.
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BATS AS PETS.
"a College Professor has Had Several
and Likes Them.

A bat in q woman's bedroom can
cause more excitement than can one
lone burglar or even dozen mice.
All Of which Is sheer foolishness,
acocrding'to a wrtter-a male writer,
1t is unnecessary to say-fn the Tech,
meal World. II she would but give
the bat a chance ne could prove to
her entire fsatisfactiorSthat he is an
Intelligent and amiable creature and
not unworthy Of a permanent place
In the household.
Yes, the detested. bat makesla most
agreeable household pet. He is a
most a~fectionate creature and will
attach himself to a person as does a
kindly and Intelligent dog. A college
professor says:
when I was a student at the uni
vers1ty I had two bats, which came
and went freely of their own accord.
In the evening they were won't to rush
through the window.into the neigh
boring garden, hunt insects, and
when their hunger vas appeased they
would return to my room.
- "They slept on a bookshelf, where
they suspended themselves from a
dictionary. At 1.-THE present time 1
possess a bat that shows q touching
Attachment to my person and follows
me about through the rooms Of my
house If I call It,"
7, This advocate of bats as pets fur
ther states that when he talks pleas
iantIy to It his present favorite raises
and lowers its ears, much after the
manner Of a horse, blinks its eyes
in a contented fashion, Hicks Its noz-
zle with its tongue, and in general
dtsports itself in a manner that indt-
Gates 1t is pleased and acontented.
When harshly spoken to 1t lays back
its ears, shrinks away andstries toes
cape by climbing up the curtain.
When I sit by lamplfght in the
morning working at my desk Lean
hardly get rid of 1t, he writes. sit
comes and goes, rambling about the
desk or climbing up ,my@legs or else
1t sits on the curtain and endeayors
by violent shakings Of the head and
shrin twitterings to excite my atten-
ton and to obtain worms-its usual
food-thereby. It's appetite Is indeed
something uncanny. Thirty fat
worms are readily taken at one
meal"
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The Reason.

because the saloon is a criminal
institution. evil and only evil, the
producer Of i'll health, immortality.
impurity, insanity, poverty, crime,
degradation and woe, increasing
taxes, breaking up homes, corrupt
ing government, filling jails, aims
houses warehouses, penitentiaries
and insane. asylums, and directly and
Indirectly carrying 100000 Of II
people annually to premature death.
1t is the business of government to
destroy the saloon" Such was the
declaration of the committee on
temperance appointed by the Indiana
Baptists to report to their recent
convention. on the progress Of pro-
hibition and local option, and the
attitude of religious bodies and the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30
After o. the Grip.

DR.. Clouon, of Edinburgh, said it
seemed asst no disease of whose
effects thef was any correct record
mad such preaching evil effects as
his one, ad among its sequelae he
enumerau a depressing influence on
the VIVA nervous energy, meian-
cholla, turasthenic conditions, pre-
mature entity, various forms of
paraiysf neuralgic affections and a
generaiicapacity for work.-Dundee
AdvertiT.
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New Years Resolutions.

If everybody on this earth
Made resolutions New Years, Day T.
AnG kept them fast, a share of mirth
From life would straight be swept away,
The fool would cease the pranks which
make
The wise man jeer with cynic. chaff.
The wise man with some sad mistake
Would never move the fool to laugh.
So let us strive as best we may
And, if perfection be not won,
Well let the failure go its way
al To swell the scoffer's store of fun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30
Decorators 10. Women.

There are few decorations for: wom-
en- in Europe, The most ancient order
cemtngrfrom the Austrian throne. IT
Ii the decoration Of the stareand Cru
7oiix. and Is given t wufneA cf high
rank. Another Ia the IuiseH found
ledain me- SsaHtifHE Queen
1of Ffu' Vn4nsuited.
Tits e. Edlasses 0f
WON ... S5gfeat self
ssacri
3"
STATE, EoLxpos
FRANK p isoSfhs that be j
senior partnefs ME9aGHEseY&
Co, doing business mn the City Toledo,
County and State Gforesaid and that Said
firm sill payth sum MoNE HUHpRKnDoLt
EiAPstfoT each and every ease ofsCAyARRH
that cannot bsenred By = e-psesofH Halls
ukE. BRANK J.CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6fh day of December, a. D.,
1885. A.. "; GLEASON
(sEAL.) ~ NJ Notary Public.
HALLS Catarrh Cure ist aken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials.
free. F. j. CHENEY& Co., Toledo, D.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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when TaIleyrand Scored.

When Nine. de Stael published her
celebrated novel, "%Delphine," she was
supposed to have painted herself In
the person Of the heroine, and M. Tai.
le!rand in that of an elderly lady,
WHO is one of the principal characters
"Ihey tell me-" said he, the first time
he met her, that we r both Of us
in your novel, in the disguise OF
women"
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Psychology in Clothes.

DR.. Thomas Claye Shaw, of Lon
don, speaking on the subject Of the
special psychology of women, says
that there is a psychology in clothes.
1t is useless to say that they dress as
they do to please other women or
please men. They dress simply be-
cause they have to in their own way
and to their own satisfaction. The
psychology of dress is that it appears
to make you be what you profess to
be.
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&%HV<@%8
. 10


- -
year ago you prnised, if your life
was spared to w. that you would
c~onsecrate It to bod" The second
asked, Has Godto whom you made
the promise. deaf with you as you
have dealt with aim?" The third
said, Remove II But the fourth
asked that 1t miht be spared for a
while longer" cried in agony,
Spare me, good Bird"
Two Girls, stilln Their Teens,
passed through t room in which I
sat. Full OF aninllif and youthful
gaiety they chatd and joked and
laughed; they We in a whirl of
pleasure. Sudday one of them
cried, 80! o, M" Agnes" said
her companion, "1at troubles your"
but Ellen could og repeat, 20, my"
At length she sal, 81 promised to
spend one hour VIII God; I must go
to my inststly. Good night,
Agnes. I'll see yo Tomorrow" The
explanation of Ems conduct was,
her mother~had q speaking to her
about the beauty a life of holiness,
and she had prorsed her mother to
spend an hour in rayer and reading
the ninety-first Hlm before she re-
tired. The ehattii had almost driv-
en- it out Of her MI.
Then appearedspon the scene a
youth of twenty ammers, of noble
mien; his! eye gliAned with noble
ness; his demeanowas pleasing; he
was a picture of guinness; his car
riage was that of az
Webster on dy OF Lincoln.
AS he stood 1.-The midst of the
room he a~ddressedn Invisible being:
What shall B with my life?"
Standing on its reshold, viewing
the wrecks of wasd lives as they
fioated by out intohe ocean of eter-
nifty, he repeated le question with
great solemnity: That shall 1 do
with mylife?"
Three Faces InsttFly Appeared.
First that of an then that of a
lion, last an eagle. ne OK made an
swer: Eat, drink be merry" but
the young man iaddered at the
thought of making }sod Of his appe-
tite. Live. a n anims life? Nay! I
was created for Aething nobler
than a glutton; I h8 q soul to save.
The lion proposed tmake a god of
genius. She offers Sedestal of eter-
nal fame; your mar shal1 be asso-
ciated with SCENTS, philosophers
and philanthropists.
In Her.Native Digty Sat the Eagle.
She looked at thman, then at the
heaven above. Tuning to the man
she said, "The eah Is thy lodging
place; the heaye.overhead is thy
home; the earth choicest treasure
cannot fill theeFThou art more than
animal, more TN intellect, thou art
qualified for i,ompanionship with
deity. Prepals" In a moment of
time there pas,d before me
Aanomma,
upon which as displayed all the
scenes of mylife from my earliest
recollection. Curious and strange
tracings w%erthere.l Every struggle
with ~conseie,e, eye,y striving to be
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30

Almost any steamer af1oat in the
merchant service can now go to Man
chester, England, the deepening Of
the ship canal to a Uniform depth of
twenty-eight feet having been COM
pleted after over thee years con-
tinuous work.
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Orderly and we'll behaved convicts
are nov being employed as agrieGl-
tural lahorers in Austria, owing to the
lack of farm hands. The prisoners
are much pleased with The work, and
their employment is an incentive to
others to behave we'll in prison.
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Traffic on the sault Canal.

+" Sault Ste. Marie canal traffic for
the season Of 1907 reached a grand
total Of 5~2,217,214 tons, which shows
a net increase Of twelve per cent, or
6,466,134 tons, as compared with
that of the season of 1906.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30

The Washington man who was
freed by O dead bear understands
the feelingn Of the man who took of
his shoes to slip up the stairs quietly
and then discovered that his wife
wasn't home from her suffrage club.
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There are no undertakers in Ja-
pan. When a per,on dies it is the
custom for his nearest relatives Is
put him into a coffin and bury him,
and the mourning does not begin un-
til after burial.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30

There are about 5000 New York
persons who have not been in the
city, on the average, two months in
a year in the las, decade. Europe,
the South, seashqe and mountains
have them for the other ten months.
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Hiccough.

A newspaper quotation claims that
relief from hiccough can be obtained,
by holding the arms straight above
the head, and keeping up inspiration
as long as possible so as to retain the
air in the lungs for a long time.
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No Sure Sign.

The will of a wealthy New York
man was found when read to contain
only thirty words. That is no sure
sign, however, that some of his dis
gruntled kin will not try to make IT
look like thirty cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30

SA, before the blazing
heath; the genial
II of an open fire
chaned me into a beau
tifu d~reamland. Mem
ory drew upon her
abyimal resources as 1
sat here, coaxed into an
abshction of exquisite
plealre. Voices! I
heaI voices, strange
svoicsi The speak to
ma.Tha fret said ga
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ungenerous Mirth.

The funniest sight the editor of
this paper ever saw was at Judd Fish's
hotel in Pendleton during the fair.
It was a fellow with only n tooth
trying to eat corn off the cob.-Dalles
Optimist. e: :
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FolEpo
Mossh Tilt hi
Stamps For the Religious.

Belgium has a Sunday postage
stamp, issued for those who do not
wish to have their mail delivered on
Sunday! All mail bearing the Sunday
stamp is held over by the carriers for
delivery Monday.
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Worst of Bargains,

To sell rum for a livelihood Is bad
enough, but for a whole community
to share the responsibility and guilt
of such a traffic seems a worse bar.
gain than that of Eve or Judas
Horace Greeley.
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Troubles of To-day.

In these days of scientific marvels
when a man sees a mysterious mon
stee in the air he has to guess wheth-
err it Is a flying machine or a woman's
hat.-New York Press.
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Woman,s Limitations.

Amy woman thinks she's capable$of
refor sing a man, but when 1t comes
to ming herself she employs a
dressmaker.-St Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
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Bound to Come.

I, 1t won't be long before well be
reading the obituary of the fool who
rocked the airship. - Detroit Free
Press.
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In the seventeenth century absence from.
church vas a punishable offense in Eng
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-30
Useless Worry.

It frequently happens that a wom-
an worries a great deal over the ques-
ton Of calling on another woman who
doesn't care in the least whether she
calls or not.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softenst the gums, reduces inflamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, 25c a bottle
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iADefnidon.

The difference between a liar and
a humorist is that one distorts g
statement and the other states a dis
tortion. I'll f5Sf3 q
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Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
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England loses $1,000 persons every yea1
by emigration.
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Aanomnla,

upon which as displayed all the
scenes of mylife from my earliest
recollection. Curious and strange
tracings werthere.l Every struggle
with conseieie, eye.y striving to be
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Fellows In Misfortune.

Color moro goods brighter and faster collars than or
can dye any garment without ripping apart WE
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PUTNAM FADELESS

MT Color. MONITOR DRUG 90. QuIncy filila
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Whether you raise Chickens for fun or profit, you
get the BEST results. The way to do this is to profit
- =. VI oo1,H alive nssaI.t Hlr.4sGGY gEgf
Gainesville daily sun., 1908-08-27
THE SECOND CONTRIBUTION.

The Sun is pleased to acknowledge
the receipt OF $40 from sherir L. w.
Fennell (Honest washl as contribu-
tion 10 the Bryan and Kern campaign
fund, which Is the second conribu.
ticn thus far received by this paper
Although defeated in the late pri-
mary FOR reelection (which was not
sought for personality Sheriff Fen.
nell demonstrates his allegiance 70
the Democratic party by a liberal con.
tributlon to the campaign fund. Can
not some OF those more fortunate in
the primaries show at least as great
interest In the success Of the Demo.
cratic Ticket as Wash Fennellg We
hope so; and await the result.
Gainesville daily sun., 1908-08-27
WHATS THE REASON.

Editor Caldwell of The Jasper
News, who is farmer as well as
lawyer and preacher, has the follow
ing to say under the caption Of
"somethin' About 'Taters:"
"The old man OF The News thinks
that he knows somethin' about 'taters
and he will tell The News readers
what he thinks about ii. n
Here IL is:
During the dark nights in March
take potatoes, as many as necessary,
and cut into pieces as large as your
two thumbs. Sun them all day, or
longer II necessary, to make them
shriveI. Lay on your rows with
planting plow 4 feet inches. For
an acre OF ground put in this furrow
sack Of kainit, sacks of cotton
seed meal and 3 sacks OF White Cloud.
or other good fertilizer. Throw four
furrows on this, open with a small
planting pillow and drop two or three
pieces OF potato in the furrow, IS
or 20 Inches apart. Keep the weeds
and grass out till the vines cover the
beds and the first day Of July the 20.
tatoes win be as large as your FIST,
when the frost kills the vines the
potatoes grow more rapidly than at
any other period
dig your potatoes during the dark
nights In December.
There Is a reason for all this
Gainesville daily sun., 1908-08-27

General Gllchrist's mother Is living
In Columbia. she is young enough to
have recently made a tour OF Europe.
and stood the trip as wen as anyone
IN the party. During the period OF
the civil War and Ia antebeIiuni
times she was leader Of society and
vas then and Is still possessed ot the
charm of the most winning and a.
tracfive manners. she was an uni.
yersal favorite IN Quincy. where she
then resided. When General Cll
christ is inangurafsd Governor ns
Florida bis mother VIII 40 the honors
of the excessive mansion Il viii be
a proud time % heF Hfe -Ocaia Ban
ner
Gainesville daily sun., 1908-08-27
GOODS MUST MAKE COOP,


The Department of Agriculture has
iust seized. IN one OF the large Wash.
ington department stores. a numhtv
OF toilet remedies which have been
ordered condemned and conhseated on
the ground that they were wrongly
labeled Z, is charged that the articles
we're misbFanded in violation of the
pure food law. IN that the packages
and labels bear certain statements re.
sarding the druga which are false
and misleading
one remedy bearing ihe high.
sounding naise 90 "The niush OF
Youth. Is clalmed 10 restore the
complexion 70 chillnse purity but
shc Agricultural Department clairs
N eoesnt slte thp ola womsn who
hw u sweet sixteen" complexion.
and 20 has pus q under ihe ban me
Nise, an eRscelsl0r skin F0Oar d a..
clared mishgandea because Il doesRt
"ieed The fk,n@
The seinre. whkh is re arst uf
ils klna under the law. WIN attract
an uuusnal degree o, Interest through