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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Christ in You.

Life is a period Of witnessing. BY
act, by omission, by speech, by
silence, whether you will or not, YOU
are forever testifying. Hour by hour
you are testifying, sometimes much
more loudly than by words, either
for or against your Master. .,
To be firm for Christ, when all
The tide of opinion, business, PLEASURE
runs the other way, you need a cour.
which will never come to yoQ
eA-ept upon your knees. If you only
have His Spirit, If His life flows into
you, If, believing on and clinging to
Him, you have inward pulses which
keep time with His heart, you will
stand in the evil day, you will WIN
souls, you will recommend the Cos
pei, you will live teaching and die
witnessing.-J. w. Alexander.
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Most certainly"
"You think Doris IS ill.,"

"MoSt certainly"
"You think Doris IS ill?"
Eyes"
Thank you, and goodbye"
His strong, warm hand closed ovel
hers for an instant, then he was gone
down the outrageous walk. JAG
uueline went back to Aunt Bradshaw
who had resumed her easy chair
with a great show Of fatigue.
You heard what MI. st. George
said about Doris?" began the girl.
Don't speak of it," cried Mrs
Bradshaw, irritably. THAT man ha:
utterly exhausted me! You know
| Doris is slight and fair, and she nat
| urally impresses a stranger as deli
cate; but such women always outlas
their plump and rudy sisters. st
George detests our sex, and I canno'
think he would trouble himself tt
listen to a girl coughing in church
or to observe whether she looked
strong or otherwise. and he answered
at random"
Jacqueline, unconvinced, stooe
nervously lingering the roses in hel
belt.
Il am sorry we met st. George
to-day" Mrs. Bradshaw went on
"He has disturbed you with his alb
surd talk, and without doubt, you, II
turn, started in his mind a train o:
disagreeable thoughts-for though
young man still, he has known some
hard experiences"
With quiet determination Jacque
line drew a step nearer to the cas-!
chair.
Forgive me, Aunt Bradshaw
she said. IT cannot wait till to-mor'
row. Let US settle my future now
Mrs. Bradshaw glanced up at the
face of her niece, and groaned in
voluntarily.
"Your mind is made up!"
eyes. I must go to Doris"
"Jac! JAG! Think of all you sac
rifce! If you leave me now, / wash
my hands of you forever. You ma!
work with the poorest for daily bread
Il shall not pity. you; you may
starve, and I will not help"
The girls sad eyes looked past the
speaker, out through the rose-hune
window, where, in the sunny dis
lance, the cliffs frowned, and the sea
glinted like sapphire.
still I cannot stay" she an
swered. Doris is calling me. We will
work or starve together. I have
thought of everything, Aunt Brad
shaw, and let the cost be what il
may, / must 60 to Doris!"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
~PaLcrcSyki'S Diet.

Prior to his appearance at a concart
Paderewski would not thank n for
a piece of the finest turkey or for the
most toothsome Christmas pudding
ever made. On a concert day he eats
nothing until it is concluded except
one soft-boiled egg. When it is over
he takes a hearty meal, which he en-
joys thoroughly, az his appetite Is
excellent, although he is so abstem-
Gus. During the concert he drinks a
soda lemonade made without sugar.
It need hardly be said that this Is
not intended as a stimulant. After
the concert he permits himself a draft
of some malt beverage.-Tit-Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
A Writing i'm the Heart.

AS men and women add year to
year of patient and loving service,
there writes itself in their hearts and
in their faces the language of a di-
vine and eternal life. To the seeing
eye, what beauty is there in the faces
that have been lined and wrinkled by
troubles bravely borne, by the sor-
rows of other lives shared and light
ened, by unconscious heroism and
sainthood!-George S. Merriam.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Temperance Notes.

1t will be remembered that a Vote
of the people of Iceland was taken in
September, by order of the lcelandlc
Parliament, on the question as to
whether the sale of liquor should be
prohibited in the island. BY a ma
iority vote of 1861 the people de-
clareG for total prohibition.
At a national convention Of the
labor unions of Norway, held some
time ago, a strong temperance plat
form was adopted, but a plank for
total prohibition was rejested. This,
however, is only q temporary set
back.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
CHAPTER II.

The passenge: list of the great
liner which bore %Jacqueline Hatton
to America also bore the name OF
George st. George; but the voyage
was half over before %Jacqueline dis
covered this fact. She was a bad
sailor, and for the first few days ILL.,
ness confined her to her stateroom,
and rendered her invisible to her
companions in travel. One morning,
however, she ventured on deck, and
found a comfortable nook, where,
wrapped in rugs and shawls, she re-
clined in her steamer chair, and
gratefully expanded her lungs to the
vigorous winds of the Atlantic.
"How do you do, Miss Hatton?"
said a voice, and the man whom she
had met in Cornwall approached her
from the rail, and lifted his travel
ing cap.
"Is Mrs. Bradshaw aboard?"
"No,": answered Ja~cqueline.
"You are not travelling alone?"
with an information Of surprise.
"Certainly--I am going home to
my sister,"
IT fear you have been ill-you
look rather done up. Would you
like to walk about a little?-I am
quite at your service"
Thank you,"" answered Jacque-
line, somewhat u~ngraciously. II do
not care to novel am very COM
Portable as I am"
He stalked away toward The wheel
house. She saw him often during
the remainder of the voyage, but no
further words passed between them.
They greeted each other only with a
formal bow.
1t was a raw day, full of chill and
gloom, when Jacqueline, through a
veil of easterly rain, beheld once
more the gilded dome on Beacon
Hill, and the spires of her native
city. The great liner swept up to
her pier, where carriages were wait
ing, and eager people crowded for
ward to welcome friends and kin
dred.
T. Jacqueline caught the sudden fiut-
ter of a handkerchief, the gang-plank
fell, and directly Doris. with some
callow youth stumbling in her wake,
was on the deck-in Jacquelin's
arms, and everything else on land
and sea was for tho ono forgotten.
Doris, small and fragile, with hair
of buttercup yellow, and pathetic
violet eyes-the elder Of the twain,
but seemingly the younger-held her
tall sister closely, and sobbed-"Oh,
JAG, I ara wild with JOY to have you
in my arms again, yet my heart aches
to think of all you have lost in leav-
ing Aunt Bradshaw! Mr.. Wingate
could not come to meet you-some
client detained him; so he sent his
clerk to look after your luggage
oh. I quite forgot! Mr.. Craven
turning hastily to the callow youth,
let me present you to my sister,"
Mr.. Craven, reddening to the tips
of his ears, stammered something un'
intellible. Jacqueline, with her mind
full of other matters, delivered uI
her keys, and the young man de-
parted to discharge the duties as
| signed him. The sisters we're left
together.
"Oh, .Jac. YOU W me-" gasped
Doris. How tall you have grown
how stately! l know I shall always
be like wax in your hands"
J~acqueline scrutinized the speaker
anxiously. Yes, there were little
hollows in Doris's cheeks, and heI
beautiful eyes had dark rings under
them.
But you are not the Doris hoped
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
No Intoxicants on Trains.

A bill has passed the Iowa Legis'
lature prohibiting drinking intoxi"
cants on trains. This ends the sale
of liquor in dining cars for con-
sumption while on trains. Members
of train crews are given power to
eject offenders and call upon local
officers to arrest them, but may not
make arrests.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
The Reward.

Last fall Ashtabula County, Ohio,
voted dry, and now new %shipyards to
cost one million dollars are to be
established at Ashtabula. This in
dustry will employ several thousand
men, and there will not be a GORDON
of saloons about the plant to tempt
the wages from the pockets Of the
emplOyeS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
A Prohibition Board,

New Jersey has q new law provid-
ing for. what is known as a board OF
protectors for inebriates. The board
at Newfeld is composed Of three
Prohibitionists. They will black list
habitual drunkards in the township
and will also prevent the sale OF
liquor to residents Of dry" towns
who are in the habit of coming to
Newfeld for liquor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
What We Cannot Lose.

In that great day no honor done ia
Christ on earth shall be found to have
been forgotten. Not a single kind
word or deed, not a cup Of cold waterf
or a box of ointment shall be omitted
from the record. Do we know what
it is to work for Christ? If we dol
let us take courage and work on.
What greater encouragement con we;
desire than we see here?
We may be laughed at and rid.
culed by the world. Our motives
may be misunderstood. Our conduct
may be misrepresented. Our sacrf,f
fees for Christ's sake may be callef
"waste"-waste Of time, waste OF
money, waste of strength. Let none
Of these things move us. The eye Oh
Him who sat in Simon's house i1
Bethany is upon US. He notes all We
do and Is we'll pleased. Let us be
"steadfast, unmovable, always aboundss
ing in the work Of the Lord, forast
much as we know that Jul labor 10
not in vain in the Lord. - Bisho2
Ryle.
Character Controls Life.
Our lives are the strongest part OF,
us-or else the weakest. A mar
knows the least Of the influence OF;
his own life. Life is not mere length
of time, but the web Of character We
unconsciously weave. Our thoughts
imaginations, purposes, motives
love, will, are the under threads; our,
words, tone of voice, looks, acts, hab,
its, are the upper threads; and tbs
passing moment is the shuttle swift
ly, ceaselessly, relentless, weaving
those threads into a web; and thai
web is life. It is woven not only by
our wishing or willing, but ire
sistibly, unavoidably woven by what
we are, moment by moment, hour
after hour What is your life weav-
ing out? Is it attractive because ot
the power in 1t of His presence?-S
D. Gordon, in Quiet Talks on Power:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
The Logic Of 1t.

The liquor men are too few to
legalize the liquor trafic-the tenn
perance men, too good. When the
churches pass resolutions that the
LIQUOR traffic can never be legalized
without sin" they are just beating
the air. Nobody legalizes the liquor
traffic. For the first time in all his
tory a thing is done and nobody does
q
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Banker O Suicide.

Former President Herman F. jain,
of the First National Bank of Iron
wood, Mich, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
The bank failed in June, and the
president and other officers were to
have been tried on criminal charges.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
At 20 sspells Down" Thirty.

At Big Stone Gap, Va, John w.
Fox, seventy-nine years old, father OF
John Fox, Jr., novelist, retired thirty
contestants in a spelling bee" at the
Summer Normal School exercises.
Those retired included members Of
the faculty, students and citizens, a.
well as his son, who sa- down OF
hiccough, spelling the word in SIM
plifed form. The novelist and MI
wife. formerly FRITZ Scheff, are lead
ing the simple life in the Fox bunga'
low. guests of his parents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Names Double Eggs.

A Norway. Me-, boy has a hen that
lays many double yolked eggs, but
within a few days the hen went her
previous record one better by drop
ping an egg within an egg. The outer
shell and egg were perfect and inside
was a smaller egg, also perfect. :,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
EAA&G1z
RrehkfHSH
- lIGnble
TO A CHILD.

NY little one! 1t In 80 hard to see
Thee toll through pain and ~disappolnt-
ment oft
Up life's steep hill!
Fain would I smooth thy pathway clear
and free
From all that binders; see thee mount
aloft,
Not knowing Ill.
But I must stand aside and see thee
choose,
With shut lips, lest Life's prize of dis
cipline T
Be lost to thee.
Doth God so yearn and long His power
to use ~
For US? Then sacrifice did but begin
With Calvary.
A. W s..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Man is Frail.

The truly virtuous do not easily
credit evil that is told them of their
neighbors; for, If others may do
amiss, then may these also speak
amiss. Man Is frail, and prone to
evil, and therefore may soon fall IN
words.-Jeremy Taylor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Serum Reduces Mortality.

DR.. Salambini, the discovery Of
whose serum and vaccine for the
treatment of cholera has recently
been announced at Paris, calls atten-
ton to the decreasing mortality in
Russia, where the serum was injected
in a large number of critical cases.
He believes it certain, therefore, that
if the serum were used in the early
stages of the disease the results
would be more successful. The serum
has been prepared as a result OF much
work with formulas suggested by pro-
fessors of the Pasteur Institute
Trading Stamps Outlawcd.
The Georgia Legislature has out
laWed the use of trading stamps. 49,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Honor to Whom Honor.

The trying times through which
Tennessee is passing have brought to
the surface not only criminals, muir.
derers, mobs, grafters, bribers, liquor
advocates and the like, but flashes
of the noble and true as well. Three
cases are worthy Of record.
/. One of the members Of the lower
house of the Legislature has a son
in the State prison. He was given
to understand that a pardon for the
son could be had if the father would
vote against prohibition. They
talked it over, and the son said. en-
ploying' the homely dialect Of the
mountains: Pap, you go and do
your duty. Vote right and drive out
the saloons, so that other boys viii
not be tempted and ruined as I was.
+ will bear my burden and serve out
my time" AS may we'll be believed.
Pap" voted right"
2. One of the State senators left
the sessions Of the Legislature to
visit his father, who vas sick. When
he had spent a day with him, the
sick man said: "Now you have done
all you can lot me. 1 eau only last d
few days longer. Go back to your
place and help win the fight against
whisky" The son returned to Nash.
Vile, and in the very midst Of the
hottest part of that fight the father
died. In due course he was buried.
the son holding grimly to his place
in the Senate, not leaving even to at
tend the funeral.
8. Another State Senator, though
seriously i'll, had himself carried to
the Senate chamber, and, though un-
able to sit up all the. time, firmly cast
his vote throughout a long and eycit-
ing session for those measures which
he thought morality and the public
conscience demanded.-Christian Ad.
yocate, Nashville, Tenn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
The Law of Moses.

The law of Moses was, in every
part, tinged with mercy; it stood for
liberty and it had for it's ultimate
goal freedom from ignorance ana
despotism.-Rey. C. Ross Baker.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
Allurements.

Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom,
5eath are the allurements that act on
the heart of man.-Rev. Charles F.
Aked.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
No More Liuuor Advertisements.

The Nebraska State Journal is the
latest big daily to announce that IT
will accept no more iiquor advertise
ments.'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-13
No "Near Beer" For Mississippi.

The Supreme Court of Mississippi,
where State Prohibition went into
effect January / last, has lately
handed down a decision to the effect
that no beverage can be sold within
the borders of the State containing
any percentage of alcohol whatever.
This decision will help to shut out
something which has been the means
of rendering farcial the enforcement
of Prohibition in parts Of certain
other States.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-12-02
LACK OF WATER
BLOCKS INDUSTRY
Another Co|iery Closes al
MahanOy City.

Mahanoy City, Pa, Dec. EVERY
twenty-four hours is increasing the
seriousness of the drought in this re-
gion, adding to the perplexities of the
coal companies, industries and other
consumers of water. The New Boston
colliery, owned by Jones, Delano G.
Co., employing 600 men and boys, shut
down as a result of the drought.
In this city and Girardville the sup
ply is limited to few hours daily to
the homes, while little, if any, is sent
to the collieries.
So far the Reading has used tank
trains which ply between Lakeside and
Girardville, supplying the dozen or
more collieries with more than 200
tanks as a cost exceeding $3.50 day.
In the Ashland and Shamokin dis
tricts Gordon reservoir and the Sus-
quehanna river are being utilized to
keep the collieries in operation.
Park Place, Morea and several other
individual operations are being work
ed only every other day on account of
the lack of water At Lakeside, the
source of the Readings supply, the
water is fast diminishing, and it is
only question of short time until
even this is exhausted.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-12-02
MAY LAY BARE
SUGAR FRAUDS
Accused Refinery Superinten-
dent May Confess.

New York, Dec. flames F. Bender.
nagel declines to be. made the goat"
by the American Sugar Refining COM
pany, and if the word of hiss counsel
is correctly interpreted he'smay tes-
tify for the government before his
trial, together with five former en-
ployes of the company, all charged
with defrauding the government by
underweighing sugar, is concluded IN
the United States circuit court.
This development is one of the
many legal phases involving the cor
poration now under federal fire, and
came when a witness testified that
15-sometimes a little more-was
what employees of the American Sugar
Refining company were paid to be
crooked. And the man who had in
some instances paid this alleged cor
ruption money, according to the testi-
mony, was Bendernagel one time SUI
perintendent of the company's plant
in Williamsburg.
The evidence which brought this
turn in the case was given by Andrew
j. Mallen, who up to 1907 was en-
ployed in the cashiers Office of the
Havemeyer & Elder refinery n Will
liamsburg. Bendernagel, he said, was
in charge Of the office. 4
did you ever see Bendernagel pay
cash to men in the uniform of the
customs house who came to his Of
fice?" asked Winifred T. Danison, of
counsel for the government.
EYES," was the answer.
"What form was this money in?"
at was in bank notes taken from
the safe in the Office. I never saw
vouchers for it nor heard of any," NAL
len replied.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-12-02

house of lords sis not justified in Civ
ing it's consent to this bill until it has
been submitted to the judgment of the
country" the peers fling down the
gauntlet.to the nation.
Parliament probably will be pro-
rogued by the king, and the voters of
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
will ballot on the budget early in the
new year.
A Memorable Day.
1t was a day in the history of the
house of lords long to be remembered.
The session was given over to the
concluding arguments on the budget
and the debate was the most interest
ing that has been heard in the upper
chamber in many years.
The interest of the members and
other auditors was intense throughout,
the galleries were more crowded than
on any preceding day since the debate
began, and the peers, whose presence,
in view Of probable division, was
urgently requested by party whips,
gathered in force.
Now the country looks eagerly for
the consequences, which may limit
themselves to the result of general
election few weeks hance, or as most
ministerialists angrily assert, will
gather force until the upper house is
swept out of existence in the near frl-
ture. The present government has de-
liberately forced the present issue.
The budget which is now dead, con-
tanned legislation which the house of
lords had rejected with unquestioned
right in previous bills. To have ap-
proved these measures when incorpo-
rated with the finance bill would be in
effect for the house of lords to resign
all legislative functions. This clear
question, unfortunately, cannot go be-
fore the country at the pending cleo
ton. 1t is only one of the issues to
be decided. Both sides display equal
confidence at the opening of the fray.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-12-02
Value Of Crops so Large Figures
Pass Comprehension.
REPORT ON AGRICULTURE
Secretary Wilson Says High Prices
Helped, But Bumper Crops Also
Played Important Part - Result of
Investigation Into Price of Meat.

Washington, Dec. Most prosper
GUS Of all years is the place to which
1909 is entitled in agriculture, says
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in his
thirteenth annual report. The value of
farm products is so incomprehensively
large that it has become merely a row
of figures. For this year it is $3.50,
100000, gain of $869,000,000 over
1908.
The value of the products has near
Iy doubled in ten years. 1t has paid
off mortgages; 1T has established
banks; it has made better homes; il
has helped to make the farmer citi-
zen of the world, and it has provided
him with means for improving his soil
and making 1t more productive.
Corn, cotton, wheat, hay and oats
Head in reaching this stupendous re
suit The November farm value of
these staples was: Corn, $1,720,000,-
600; cotton, $3.50, 100000; wheat, $725,.
100000; hay, $665, 100000, and oats,
S400.000,000. Trailing along came po-
tatoes, S212 100000; tobacco, 100000.
900, and sugar, $95,000,000.
High prices helped to bring this i'm
2mense sum to the farmers, but a
bumper crop also played an important
part, as the production of all cereals
combined is 4,711,000,O00 bushels, an
amount considerably greater than that
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-12-02
BATTLE in NICARAGUA
Government Troops Defeated In Five
Hour Fight With Rebels.


Hour Fight With Rebels.
Bluefields, Nicaragua, Dec. /, by
wireless to Colon.-After Ave hours
fighting the revolutionary forces COM
manded by General Matuty defeated
1000 Zelsyantroops at a point called
Las Salinas. Several standards and a
quantity of arms and ammunition fell
into the hands of General Matuty.
The Zelayaists lost eighty killed and
many wounded. The losses of the revo-
lutionary forces, who fought behind
boulders and availed themselves OF
every protection, was twenty killed.
The steamer Stranger arrived from
New York with arms and ammunition.
Recruits have arrived from many
places, and their accession has ma
terially strengthened the revolution.
The impression prevails among the
revolutionary authorities that the trou-
BILE cannot last much longer, although
Zelaya claims differently.
Reliable information has been re-
ceived to the effect that Zelaya has
less than 5000 troops with whom to
attack and regain the Atlantic coast.