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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
A TaIuablc Flock.

There was 4 sudden change in the
wind, and the pastor Of the Mount
Zion Chapel saw that some of his
p]arishioncrs drew their wraps about
their shoulders. He paused in his
sermon.
"Bruddcr Wilding," he said, rails
ing his voice and waking the old sex.
ton from peaceful slumbers in the
rear pew, "Brudder Wilding, be kind
enough to close all de winders on the
cas- side oil dc church. De wind has
come round, an we cyan't afford tc
lose a single lamb from dis fold by
,arclessncss, wild an outstanding debt
on dis chapel, an two families moved
out 90 town."-Youth's Companion.
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Counting Our Mercies.

There is one kind of mental reck-
oning in which every Christian be-
lever should be prolcient-and 1t is,
in reckoning up the mercies which a
kind Providence continually sends.
Count your mercies, for as you do the
mercy will grow. AS sorrow brooded
over seems the worse so grace medi-
tated over appears the more lovely.
gracious and helpful. Gratitude has
sometimes been defined, as a lively
sense of favors to come. but 1t is GER
tain that the very effort to recall the
favors God has shown in the past
both honors Him and prepares the
mind and heart the more intelligent
ly and profitably to use such blessings
as may yet be in store.
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yards away from her, and filling the
air with gurgles of happy laughter.
She was a sensitive, delicate, femi-
nine thing, who could not have borne
to see the least little creature suffer;
and she knew that what she saw
there, that long, sinuous, oscillating
object, laundering on relentlessly
with rush and roar and grinding
weight of hardest metal making the
earth tremble, was a train, which in
another minute must mangle her tiny
human blossom before her eyes, un-
less there was a God in Heaven or
any power on earth to be summoned
by her shrieks, and moved to pity by
her frantic struggles. Leslie! Les
lie! Baby, baby! o God! o Cod
My child"
But neither God nor man heard
her; and the child, frightened by her
cries, sat up and looked at her, but
would not move, while the long train
came on at a terrific rate, rushing
toward him.
Shrek upon shrek, shrek upon
shrek, the wretched mother sent up
to Heaven; and the solid post to
which she was tied rocked again with
the fury of her struggles, but the cord
did not give an inch. 1t had cut
through the sleeves Of her summer
gown, and into the delicate flesh of
her arms, but she felt no physical
pain. The awful torment Of terror
was upon her, and all other forms OF
suffering are as nothing to it.
AS it approached, the train uttered
a shrek like a hideous mockery of
her own, which it drowned, so that
she could not hear herself. 1t seemed
as if it's speed increased as it neared
her, rushing along in a cloud Of dust.
1t was coming-it had comet
had passed-it had vanished. And
the poor tortured mother, a sorry,
disheveled figure, a CHASTITY c~aricature
Of herself as she had been only an
hour before, was still enough now.
Her head had sunk on her breast;
her eyes were shut. She was con-
scious, but she could not stand; and
it was the cruel cord, eating further
into her flesh as her weight sank upon
it, which for the moment supported
her.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
Sewing Orc Seam For Fifteen Years

Sewing orc Seam For Fifteen Years.
THE ease with which people a
become habituated to any kind OF
uninteresting work, no matter how
monotonous it is, may be seen every
day in any shoe factor" says a gen.
tleman connected with this St. Louis
industry.
I'm a shoe factory the division of
labor is carried to the utmost posi-
BILE extent. AS a rule, one operative
performs one operation and no more.
There is one woman in our employ
who for fifteen years has sewed the
seam which begins at the right of the
eyelets, runs to the top, then around
and down on the other side. The
machine works so rapidly that she
actually spends almost as much time
in picking up and laying down the
shoe and adjusting it to the machine
as is required to do the sewing, and
this work she keeps up day after day
during all the working hours. One
might suppose the monotony of the
task would wear on her health and
spirits, but it does not seem to do
anything of the kind. She is one Of
the most cheerful women in the fac
tory."-St. Louis Globe-pemocrat.
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Cleaning Paints.

i Oil-painted walls must be Washed
with soap and water, using a soft
flannel cloth, and taking care to
wiring it we'll before using. Use cold
water to finish, and dry well with
linen buster.
Vanished woods should be rubbed
with a chamois leather wrung out Of
cold water, then polished with soft
duster.
To polish a vanished floor rub
well with equal quantities Of bees
way and ~turpentine. Another method
is to take equal parts of olive oil and
spirits of turpentine, wet a soft cloth
with these, rub the wood hard, then
rub with a dry cloth. This IS also
good for black walnut furniture and
sewing machines.
Where paint 10 stained with smoke
m ashes or potash lime may be
used. A soft linen cloth should be
used for wiping dry.-American Gull
tivator.
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Advice About Silk.

A silk buyer in a department store
has this advice to give in regard to
the making up of silk:
Large pins or needles make per-
manent holes in silk fabrics, and, If
extra large, break the threads; then
the silk tears easily. Putnew needles
in the sewing machine before work.
ing on new silks. With old needles,
only slightly blunted, the.silk is GER
tain to pucker and draw.
BE careful in gleating or rufding
that the iron used is not too hot. An
~overheated iron will crack any SILK.
Always wear good shields, and avoid,
if possible, much trailing OF silk
gowns, as the fabric trays quickly"
New Haven Register.
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HUNTING WILD HORSES.
A Favorite Sport in New South Wales
How the Animals Are Broken.

How the Animals Are Broken.
Whether "brumby" is a survival
Of the aboriginal name for a wild
horse or a corruption Of "unbrand-
ed" appears to be a question which
philologists have left undecided, but
brumby hunting is still a favorite
sport in New South Wales.
Districts like the Clarence and Ste
phens and Manning River watershed
are still the home of numerous
droves of brumbies, and hunting
them is declared to be a very eXhila-
rating pastime. The first step taken
Is to stake out a corral and make
all secure except a narrow entrance,
which can subsequently be gated. On
either side of the entrance and pro-
jecting from it funnelwise a "booby
fence" Is prepared.
To the simple minded brumby it
presumably looks like a %stockade,
and pieces Of fluttering cotton make
it look impregnable. When this is
ready the young bloods, well mount
ed, gallop out and round up the wild
horses, driving them with shouts
and much loud swapping of stock
whips toward the mouth of the fun
mel.
In a group of brumbies there IS
always a leader, and when once the
hunters, have got the leader heading
for the corral they are pretty certain
of the rest of the drove. The fut-
tering cotton rags of the sham fence
are sufficient to determine the brum-
bies from breaking through the film
sy barriers, and in less time than it
takes to tell the wild horses are safe
ly corralled and the big gate shut on
them.
Then they are left for four and
twenty hours without food and water
to reflect on the situation. and after
that they can be broken in without
much dificulty.--London Standard.
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CandIcpower of Modern Lighthouses

A comparison has recently been
made of the power of the lights in
French lighthouses at various periods
in the past thirty-five years. In 1874,
when only oil lights were used, the
highest power was e:ual to $4,000
candles. In 1882, when the electra
light was introduced, the power rose
to 4 maximum of $4,000 candles.
Since then frequent improvements
have been made in the electric lights
until. at present, the most powerful
lighthouses project an illumination
nearly equal to 100000 candles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
The Dog in War.

Another field of usefulness has
been found for the dog in war. He
is already employed as a scout. He
is now to serve in the ambulance
corps. Two French army surgeons
have taken up the question with ear
n~estncss, pointing out the limitations
of human agency in collecting the
wounded, of whom, after every en-
sagement, large numbers go to swell
the dismal list of the missing" 1t
is c%ontended that dogs of keen scent
could with proper training render
valuable aid.-New York Tribune.
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Frightened by q Latin Name.

How to warn off trespassers with
out spring guns has been discovered
by a canny peasant in the south OF
France. His woods were invaded ny
nut pickers. He asked a botanical
friend the Latin name for the hazel
nut, and put up the following notice.:
"Caution-All persons entering this
wood do SO at their own risk. The
Corylus Avellana abounds here, as
we'll as other equally venomous
snakes" Not a trespasser has ven
turcd into the wood since.-New
York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
Rr;tons Want TO Race Again.

Unable to recover from the shock
following the failure of England's
far-famed long distance runners to
finish anywhere near the front in the
Marathon. the London News has Of
fered a $500 prize for a repetition OF
tbe race. with the me OF every
country eligible. The News is con-
fdent that the English runners could
do better il the race were re-Tun. 1t
to follow the same course
over which John j. Hayes, the Amer
lean. won the Marathon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
The Glowing Coal.

A pastor once visited a member of
his church whose pew was more often
vacant than occupied. He found him
seated in his home before a cheerful
fire. Without saying a word he took
the tongs and removed a live coal
from the fire and placed 1t alone
on the hearth, watched it turn from
the red glow of heat to a black,
charred mass. The member watched
the proceedings with interest, and
finally said, "Sir, you need not say
a single word, I will be there here
after."-H. V. Tanner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
Erightencd to Death.

A C%oroner's jury decided that Fred
c. Singleton, who died suddenly in
Newport, KY, came to his death from
natural causes and not as a suicide,
The man while under a physicians
care at his home was visited by two
officers in uniform to procure an at.
fidavit against the alleged slayers OF
his father. The sudden appearance
of the officers produced heart trouble
and in the mans enfeebled condition
caused his death. This was the ties.
timony of the physicians. Insurance
to the amount of $4,000 will be paid
the widow.
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Special Savory.

Cut into half-inch square pieces an
onion, a seedless green pepper, a
seeded tomato, a cored apple and, II
possible, a small piece of garlic. Melt
a large tablespoonful of butter in a
saucepan, add above ingredients,
sprinkle over two tablespoonfuls OF
-four. Lightly stir and add a pound
each of raw lean veal and pork cut
into one : inch squares, and half a
pound seeded eggplant cut into three
quarter-inch pieces. Season with a
teaspoonful of curry powder, a salt
spoonful of salt, a Tablespoonful
of pepper and cook for ten minutes.
Moisten with a pint Of water. Tie In
a bunch a sprig of parsley, a sprig of
thyme, a bay leaf and place in pan.
Cover pan, boil for five minutes and
set in oven for an hour, being careful
to mix once in a while. Remove, take
out boquet, arrange with boiled rice
and serve.-New York World.
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TELL ALL YOUR TROUBLES TO
JESUS.

Tell all your troubles to Jesus,
His sympathy reaches so wide;.
He we'll understands without telling,
But blessed it is to contde..
He holdeth you close to His bosom,
And biddeth your sorrow to cease;
He whispers of Joy everlasting,
He whispers Of comforting peace.
Tell all your troubles to Jesus,
A wonderful Saviour is He;
He went to the depths of all sorrow,
And knoweth the strength of your plea.
Oh, surely twill help you to tell Him,
And lean on the arm of His might;
He promised His yoke should be easy,
His burden, He said, should be light.
Tell all your troubles to Jesus,
Our pitiful Saviour so strong,
A%bundantly able to help you,
- And willing to Danish the wrong.
Oh, deem not that you are forgotten,
Though weeping your sight may bedim,
But tell all your troubles to Jesus,
- For there is compassion with Him.
Mrs. Frank A. Brock, in the Christian
Herald.
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distance, anu Ln0u the nearer SllIupSo
of gorse and fern, the bottom Of his
mothers dress, the bright shining
rails beside him, till all the world was
blotted out by the grateful, impene-
trable blackness, the voice that called
him trembling away at the same time
into a more and more Unreasonable
past, from which at last it ceased to
come at all. The child slept. But,
alas for the mother!
Again and again she called him.
Her throat was parched and sore;
her voice came hoarser and hoarser;
articulation grew gradually impossi-
BILE, and at last sound failed, but the
child never moved.
His rosy face was turned to her,
still resting on his chubby arms. He
was slightly flushed with sleep. His
bright lips were parted, showing the
little white teeth between. His long
dark ~eyelashes fickered a little now
and then as a fly lighted on his fore
head or glossy, clustering curls.
A lovelier child it would be impos-
sible to imagine, such a child as only
comes to young and happy parents;
and the mother, in a WORKOUT inter-
val, when the desire as we'll as the
power to struggle and cry were both
exhausted, found herself perusing the
details Of his beauty as if it were all
new to her.
While so engaged she forgot her
own position and his for a little; but
the rush of recollection caught her
again inevitably, and then her frantic
struggles were %redoubled, until 1t
seemed that if ~deliverance were not
at hand death must come and re-
lease her. {
And it was strange that during all
this time she never once thought OF
her husband. 1t was evidently not a
busy time on the line. Only that one
train had passed as yet. She had
fancied a hundred times that another
was coming; but as none ever came,
by degrees the danger grew less
urgently present to her mind, and
when at last the unmistakable sound
smote upon her ears, coming in the
opposite direction this time, she
started into full consciousness again
for a dull torpor had been stealing
over her-as if the possibility were
new to her.
The train came in sight, but she de-
luded herself with the idea that this
one also must be on the other line.
She was so sure of it that she watched
it coming, and collected her strength
to make a desperate effort to attract
attention to her strange position.
She watched it until it was within a
few yards of the sleeping child, and
then she saw her mistake, and 1t was
the last thing she did sec.
For in the same instant, and before
she could utter a sound, her senses
left her. The train swept on as the
other had done, crowded with people,
many of whom must have seen her
standing apparently leaning at ease
against the post, and any one OF
whom would doubtless have flown to
her assistance could they have
guessed her need; but in the dust
raised by their rapid progress and the
rush and whirl Of it nothing was visi-
BILE long enough to attract particular
attention.
The engine-driver saw her as he
approached, and saw, also, a speck
which he supposed to be a summer
wrap of hers lying on the line, but
forgot the circumstances before he
was well out Of sight.
To be Continued.
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God Chooses Our Neichbors.

We are willing to love u neigh
hors if we can choose our %neighbors.
But that is just where God tests us.
He gives us neighbors whom we nat
urally would not choose, in order to
teach us to act upon the real neigh
Dor rule of helping the man next us,
whoever he is. Until we do this, Il
neighborliness is but a sham, not the
Christian kind. r. Miller.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
No Referendum For Elijah.

Elijah did not nave to wait for a
referendum before he began his work
Of reform.-Home Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23

Australia has the best hardwoods
for railroad %sleapers; over 500 toms
OF these have recently been Shipped
thence TO San Francisco.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23

A Turkish trade has been pub
lished ordering the purchase of fifty
Maxim Suis in Germany and counter
manding the contemplated order for
fifty French Hotchkiss guns.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23

Al effective method Of treating
leprosy, especially the nervous Vari'
ETY., has been found by Professor Dey
cke in a substance which he ha.
called nastin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23

Undoubtedly the Jungfrau Railway
is the most remarkable railway in the
world, even in its unfinished state.
It's protector, Herr Guyer-Zeller, &C.
cording to the Captain, was not an en-
gineer, but a financier. The story
goes that he was enjoying a stroll
down the mountain path which leads
from the Schilthorn to Murren, and
that in the course Of it, with the
Jungfrau steadily in the front, the
inspiration suddenly came to him to
scale the majestic peak with a rail-
way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23

AS a result of investigation by off,
Gals of the Signal Corps, airships
may be used to aid in the wireless
telegraph service Of the Government
They may also be called into use
against smugglers who may try to
carry on operations in flying ma
chimes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23

In the manufacture of alcohol from
peat a Danish company, with one eS-
perimental plant in Denmark and one
in France, has found the cost to be
about one-fourth of that made from
potatoes
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23

A noted Belgian bacterlologist, DR.,
Leon Bertrand, claims that he has
discovered a much more powerful SER
um as a cure for pneumonia than
that now in use. It is a bactericldal,
not an antitoXic agent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
Fit About King For Fashions.

King Edward met with all sorts
of ~annoyances in his visit to Marien-
bad from those who seek not only
to copy the King in the matter OF
clothes, but also in his walk, gestures
and mannerisms. Every morning,
when the King appeared on the pub
lie promenade. tailors from Paris,
Berlin, Vienna. Budapest and other
European capitals fitted about him,
making notes o. his attire and
sketching these suits which appear
unusually smart.
Meat Consumption increases.
The consumption of meat is on the
~incrnasn il Germany.
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An improved apparatus has been
made by DR.. Fritz Lang, Of Munich,
by which the inside of the stomach
can be clearly photographed.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-08-22

personnel Of the Dramatic Circle. Miss
Nelke recited two selections chosen
to create mirth and won her hearers
That Miss Nelke is an artist of the
first water was assured beyond all
doubt and her appearance In public on
Monday evening Is rare opportunity
extended to all. The following ladies'
have consented to be the patronesses:
Mrs. George Carter. Mrs. +. NJ. Swan.
zy, Mrs. Gait. Miss Bruce, Miss Annie
Parke. Miss Grace Robertson, Mrs. +.
A. Schaefer. Mrs. Walbridge. Mrs.
Goodale. Mrs. G. p. Wilder. Mrs. ID.
II. Hitchcock, Mrs. Humphris, Mrs.
Halves, Mrs. Graham.
4 4 4
Miss Miriam Nelke, who will give a
recital at the Art League Hall on next
Monday evening, is New York girl
who received her general education
and Evolutionary training In that city.
Her talents have received recognition
i'm the United States and she has hold
positions at the head Of the Depart.
nient of Expression In several leading
colleges. She has been successfully
"A director, secretary and vice president
of the National Speech Arts Associa-
ton. Miss Nelke has magnetic per-
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-08-22

who arrived Monday on the steamer
Siberia, expects to spend several
months in the Islands. visiting her
cousin. Mrs. NJ. l.. Grossman.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sherman, who
have been for many years prominent
in Honolulu society. are in Palo Alto,
where they will remain for several
months before sailing for Hawaii.
4
Mrs. Vincent Kitcat, who has been
spending most agreeable three
weeks on Kauai will return next week
and be the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alan Herbert
I Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Gay gave
/ large ball on the twenty-sixth. These
occasions are always notable ones as
the Gays always entertain in a prince
| ly style.
I Mr.. and Mrs. c. Hedemann and their
daughter Miss Hedemann. sail for
| New York In the Alameda, and they
expect to return in three month";
Mrs. Giffard and her daughter Mrs.
Arthur Wilder are having very
pleasant outing in California They
viii return In two months time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Damon Miss
Julie Damon and Mr.. Harold Giffarf
expect to spend two weeks at the Git
fard residence on Tantnlus
Mrs. Alan White End her two daugh
tefs and Mr. James Castle will 90 to
the Volcano on Sunday for two
! weeks trip.
Mrs. Sherman Boedefeld will spent
next week with her brother and sister
Judge and Mrs. Philip Weaver, in Ma.
,noa valley.
DR.. Golfer. who has been enjoying IN
outing at the beach, has returned 70
Z Dr., Hcrbert's.
There will be an entertainment at
, the Kilohana Art League on Monday
evening.
=. Count Y. Won DomtkOwlcz. of Ha-
r wall, is in Honolulu for few weeks.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-08-22

daughter Of Bishop and Mrs. William
Nichols, will not return to Santa Bar.
bara for the next school term, but
will spend the winter with her family
here. The Nichols will again be in
their own home this winter.-SCall
Miss Margaret Nichols bids fair to
be very pretty girl, and quite unlike
her sister. Mrs. Philip Lansdale, cares
for society, which she is so fitted to
adorn.
Within a few days San Franciscans
will say goodby to the charming wife
of Admiral Swinburne. who plans to
sail for Honolulu, where she will join
the admiral, who is in command of tho
equadron. Mrs. Swinburne has spent
most of her time since the fleets de.
parture at Del Monte, where she found
the life and climate delightful: but
she was recently the guest of the Guy
Ter Lees In town here and will pay a
few other vicits before leaving for
what may be several months.-Call.
4 4 4
Among the passengers In the Ma
.puka were Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Davies
and family, who will spend year in
England. Miss Mcclellan was also a