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The new era., 1909-07-08
Etiquette of Letters.

When wfjting a letter 1t is not con-
sidered etiquette to begin the first
sentence with IL" sh0uld the topic
require the personal pronoun tae para
graph must be so constructed that the
"W comes in later than the first line.
The new era., 1909-07-08
Uncle Eben on the Tariff.

"tars dis much dat does under
stan bout de tariff" said Uncle Eben,
AN dat is dat it ain gwinter do much
fob de agricultura!ist dat puts de plow
to sleep in de fence corner an nurses
a rusty hoe
The new era., 1909-07-08
Friends and Enemies.

Whatever the number of a mans
friend j, there will be times in his life
VIXEN he has one too few; but If he
rs only one enemy, he is lucky in
decd II he has not one too many
Bulwer-Lytton.
The new era., 1909-07-08
contrIbutory Negligence.

Women by thousands are sacrificed
in marriage" cries fe- ale reformer.
Then all we have to say fs that wom-
en- are foolish and Deserve their fate.
II they can't jcdge by the horrors
around them and persist in getting
married, whose iault is it?-Philadel-
The new era., 1909-07-08
The Cheerful Grahber.

Are you an optimist?" Il an
more than that" answered Mr.. Dust
in Stax. Il am not only hoping for
the best I'm making reach for II"
The new era., 1909-07-08
EailN 1haunht.

A mans ideas are often quite inde-
pendent of his line OF conduct; a wom-
ans generally are a reflex OF ttsB,-
A. Stoddard Walker
The new era., 1909-07-08

New York's Consumption of Tea.
tea merchant said there are sold
in New York $4,000 pounds of tea
every month in the year
The new era., 1909-07-08

Spanish Proverb.
You spoil good dish with IN
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Value Of honesty.
Rock Hill Herald.

. Few appreciate the value of good old
time honesty. Absolutely uprightnes
makes for character and character
makes for men, and men, and real
men must make the world what al
all wise Creator planned for it. There
is not enough Of lay preaching just
here. Rather we are prone to boast
of the man who by questionable pract-
ices gets along.
But honesty is a personal asset like
brains and muscle and tact. 1t makes
a man more effective, more potent,
more courageous. He can, like the
westerner, look every man in the face
tell him-well, whatever he wants to
tell him. His credit is good even if he,
by reason of slight income, is slow pay
and when his opportunity comes, his
hackers are many.
Life is not what a man has, but
what he is. Henry Clay had the Idea
when he said, he had rather be right
than President, and Joshua when he
lined up his one household and said
they were going to serve God, nc mat
ter what the rest of Israel did The
honest man is a prince and a ruler,
who will not be put to shame.
Incidents that are about US all the
time induce these thoughts on person.
al integrity, and suggest this diserta-
ton for the editorial page. If it sug.
gests value of integrity of the highest
order to some young man and thus
sets him in safe ways, much good will
have been done.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
A Country Without Young Men.

What would a country be without young
men? Northern Spain, near the Basque
Provinces Is such a country. The land is
poor and only a bare existence can be
wrenched from the impoverished soil. No
young caballero sings to the accompaniment
Of his gintar under the windows of the long
ing senoritas. The girls must dance the Jorta
by themselves for tine young men are not.
In this country all the young men take 10
the sea for q livelihood. 1t Is the only open
ing they have and they make the best OF 1t.
Thousands from these provinces sail the high
seas. They leave when boys and return
when they are gray old men. Many hun
dreds have made their pile and returned to
his quaint country to spend their declining
years. Many are old men and have not yet
saued q competency and are still at the helm
OF their ships.
Nov and then q young man returns on o
visit. then It Is that festivity runs riot and
of the day, and ffrt with a vim born of despa.
raHon.
What a pity! All these black eyed venuses
and not an Adonis within a quarter circle.
Juliets by the score and not q Romeo to be
had. They can only gaze out 10 hea where
these young scions have sailed away. like the
Old Spanish Hidalgo used TO gaze for the re-
turn Of the mighty Armada.
And still they eagerly glance-nay study
the columns Of the papers for news Of an in
coming boy, and still they wrap the bewitch-
ing mantillas about their shapely heads, and
try on all the arts OF conquest. in which they
are past grand masters, to catch some young
hero of the main.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
(From the Norfolk Virginian-Pllo

(From the Norfolk Virginian-Pllot. J
The good old county of Mecklenburg.
North Carolina, may be unduly given
to claiming credit for things Of doubt
full past Occurrence. That point we
leave to be decided between the IL DIS
of the Charleston News and Courier
snd the Charlotte Observer. But there
can be no question of Mecklenburg's
title to Praise for the progressive public
spirit which has made its system of
roads compare with the ordinary
country highways of the South as the
surface ola billiard table to that of a
swamp corduroy. 1t is a great feather
in the cap of Mecklenburg that, during
the past ten days, nearly every news.
paper in the United States should
have published the report of the auto
SEQ uts that the best roads between
Washington and Atlanta were found
in the ancient shire of which Charlotte
is the commercial centre. This IL
something about which the Observer
may brag without fear of decentralization
We wish it were a Virginia community
that had earned such distinction
through intelligent realization by its
people how their best interest might
he most directly served.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Production Of Corn.

Other counties are offering premiums fol
the best corn yield on one acre ofland. There
is q prize offered by the State also for the best
yield on one acre Of land.
We should have something like this fol
this county. The corn crop in Abbevlllt
County today Is better than 1t has been In
years, yet the question OF corn culture has
not been agitated as 1t should in the county
There is no estimating the increase ield o
corn brought about by the agitation OF the
"Williamson plan". Even though there wert
NO virtue in 1t still the talk alone would have
causedpeople to consider and to plant NOR,
corn, and on better ground,
The trouble with most men in the makinl
OF corn lies in the fact that they make corn 6
side cline. They side track 1t for cotton
When the cotton Is worked out land in gooc
condition, then they work out the corn, bur
II either suffers 1t must be the corn
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Nut Grass Pierces Concrete.

DR.. Neufter has his walk scraped every
down. Mr.. WiIliamSherard who passes that
way three times a day was p~hilosophizing ov.
er,the situation and wondering II II were not
better and cheaper to build q concrete walk.
Thus ..%soliloquising over the situation he
was passing dow street when he happened
to glance over the beautiful concrete walk
leading to the residence Of d.. L. T.. Hill.
He was suddenly thunder struck. for out OF
the concrete appeared the beautiful green
ofthe ever present nut grass! his philoso-
phizing came to an abrupt stop.
Nut grass, that abominable thing which
men hate, nut grass, acme OF Voc and es
sence Of desperation. Nut grass, the devils
herb. Nut grass. what an innocent
name for such a fendish plant! It grows
like tabled bean stalks; 1t spreads like Ash
attic cholera, aud seeds like nothing on earth
Nut grass, men may come and men may 60
but you 60 on forever. How indefatigabIe;
how patti. nj! truth crushed to earth will
rise again and 30 will you, oh, you noble
nut grass, you cumber the earth in your
loving leaves as II you were welcome. On!
you green hyposri:e! How you fondle and
nestle under the cabbage and n beans.
What q nobleheart You nave for the fight
The sluggard need not go to the ant, Robert
Brucea, faint of heart, need not gaze on the
storied spider. Let them 60 to the nut grass
for inspiration. For "stick. ability" a glue
factory is as slick as gloss compared with
you: for energy, a ten thousand Killawatt
dynamo is a crippled zephyr; for grit, you
are It, you. areit! Oh You innocent. green
ga%d-about town, sometimes GU smile a lit
tie tired smile as II you would give up the
fight, when the hoe cut off your head;
Sometimes Fyou turn white in the gills.
but your perse serance knows no b~ounds-yol
are a plodder. you are!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Judge Prince Urges Compulsory
Education.
Thinks it the Only Remedy for
Present Illiteracy Among White
Children of South Carolina.
Special to The State,

Special to The State.
Asheville, N. c., July 1S.-Judge
Geo. E Prince. who has been under
going treatment here for the past three
months, following a stroke of paraly-
sis, Ia rapidly improvingan yesterday
said he hoped to be able to preside over
the next term of court in the Sixth
circuit, which will begin during the
first week of September. He has
engaged apartments, and will be here
with his family through the summer
Judge prince spoke with regret of
his illness preventing his taking the
stump in the educational campaign
now on in South Carolina as he had
planned to do. He believes this move
for more universal education the great
est In this, direction the State has ever
known and thinks 1t will result in
great good. He has recently been
converted to compulsory education, he
said, though he was opposed to it
until only q short while ago, and be.
lieves it must be ~resortee to if the negro
is not to surpass the poor white child
in education. He expressed himself
as being unqualifiediy opposed to State
aid for school and believing that every
county should take care of its own
educational system, though he admit
ted this to he an unpopular view of
situation in South Carolina now. He
gave as his reasons the,fact that some
counties, especially those in the lower
part of the State appropriation these
would all have to be given a prorata
amount, though it might, if the
officials saw fit, be used for the educa-
ton Of the few white children.
Judge Prince said he is tired of
"loafing' and is anxious to get back
to the bench and will 60 in September
if his physicians will let him He il
under the care of DR.. Robert S Car
roll, q of the leading nerve specialists
in the South, who says that when he
goes back he will be in as good shape
as ever. He is now able to be about
and feels almost as vigorous as before
his illness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

Many People to Gather TO hear
Speeches from Prominent Edu-
Gators.

Sharon is to be the Mecca for teachers and
those interested in the cause OF Education, on
July the
The speakers who will entertain are: Prof
A. q. Rembert, Of Woford College; Congress-
man Joe Johnson, formerly OF Abbeville
County o OF Laurens; Senator VIM. Gray.
don, Prof. B. NJ. Cheatham; and Miss Mayme
Cromer. OF Newberry. President OF the Ru.
raj school Improvement Association.
Sharon has always taken the lead In Edu.
cational work in the County Schools. She
was the first TO vote q special tax for school
support. Ten years ago her school ran three
months with only a few pupils in attendance,
now It 10 a graded school.
The good people Of that vicinity know and
appreciate the value of Education, and are
doing all they can to improve their facilities
for education from time to time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
HIGHLAND MoccAsIH ON HENS NEST
Mrs. SaIIie Brown has an Experience
Trying to "Shoo" Snake off.

Mrs. Sallie Brown, OF Indian Hill Township
went out INTO her yard not long since to look
after her hens. On a nest she saw what she
took to be a strange looking hen-Mrs. Brown
does not see we'll. without her glasses-apd
attempted to "shoo'' the hen on. The suppoR.
ed hen did not like the "shooing" process and
began to peck at Mrs. Brown. She went into
the house and called her daughter out to run
the strange. hen of the nest and when the
daughter arrived on the scene instead OF a
hen on the neRt she found an immense high
land moccasin coiled and ready for business
The wonder Is the snake did not strike Mrs
Brown when abe was trying to make 1t get
out of the nest.
The snake was on the lookout for a young
chick for dinner, but was despatched before
he had made his meal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Brothers Meet after 43 Years.

Mr.. Thadders W. B%ouchillon. OF Montgom,
cry Miss, and Mr.. Ben Bouchiilon and daugh
ter. OF jacksonville Fla, are visiting theil
sister, Mrs. Susan ]. Britt OF Sandover.
These W gentlemen left Abbeville Coun-
ty in 1866 and had not seen each other for A
years.
Both were in the war, Mr.. Thadden Bou
chillon lost arm in the battle of Fredericks-
burg.
Mr.. Thaddeus Bouchillon arrived on the
same day on which Tony B%ouchillon recei
we'd his fatal II juries on the Savannah Val.
ley Railroad.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
The Press and Banner.
Wednesday, July 81, 1909.
The Coming Institute.

Next Tuesday Is the day appointed for
the Farmers Institute here.
There is to be a regular program for the
day but the managers OF the Institute come
prepared TO discuss any question that may
arise. DR.. C.. l.. Goodrich, Of the U. s.
Department OF Agriculture, will discuss
Fertility OF the Soil; Prof. j. N. Harper Of
the L. S. Experiment Station will talk about
the use Of commercial fertilizer In the eul-
ture OF cotton, corn aud small grain; Prof.
d. n. Barrow, Director OF Agricultural Dep.
OF Clemson, will speak on seed selection and
improvement of crops; State ~Vetinarian, DR..
NJ. Il. Powers, will speak on the subject o!
tick eradication; DR.. Barnett will take for a
theme the econom ical raising and feeding OF
live stock; Insects and their treatment, will
be discussed by Prof. II. F.. Conrad, Ento-
mologlsl: and Prof. W.. S. Morrison will talk
on importance of Education.
In addition to these themes there will be
a question box open TO the public. Any one
desiring any Information whatsoever rel
alive to farm lie may here PROFOUND ques.
tions and hear them discussed by experts.
These men have made a life study OF
special lines and are consequently we'll in.
formed on the topics 10 be discussed.
The Institute Is open TO all. The wives OF
planters will find that a day put in at the
Institute will prove valuable TO them and
they are cordially invited to come. Many
things of interest to them will be discussed
suoh as butter making, poultry raising, etc.
No man can attend a meeting of this kline
without being benefited thereby. One is
TO obtain Information that will not only
the possessor money in the cultivation OF
crops.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
The Newest Cotton Disease.

The latest thing in cotton disease crops out
this time in Abbevii e county, heretofore the
new diseases ca me from far away but now II
is at home.
A worm is doing the work this time. A
specimen of plant affected was brought tc
this office. On examination a small worm
was found 10 nave entered the root OF the
plant, boring its way up The stalk until the
plant died.
Where the stalk came from many other
stalks were also affected, dotted about over
the field were seen stalks whitening from the
same cause.
THIS makes a new disease each week fol
cotton for the last month or 80. There will,
be another next week.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
HOES COTTON WITH A MATT0CK.
In Desperate Fight With zen Green
Woman Used Unusual Tool.

1t is reported that some armers have dis
carded the old time hoe and are now using
mattocks to 'msttock" cotton and corn. The
hoe 10 too light for the purpose. One colorec
woman was seen cutting out the grass with
this unusual tool and hanging 1t on poles In
the field. The grass was something like five
feet from tip 10 tip.
The fight against the grass is fercer than II
has been In many years. In many places the
crop will be curtailed by being thrown GU,
entirely. The weather has been such that Il
was impossible to work 1t. and the grass hal
made such Roadway that now the cotton can
not be cleaned without entirely destroying
the plant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Long Funerals.
Greenville News.

The Abbeville Press and Banner In Its
account OF the funeral OF the Rev. ]. Lowrie
Wilson, makes use OF the following unusual
and ~atingipg criticism OF those tho held the
%obseQuies:
We say, this is a remarkable piece OF
writing, but 1t deals With a practice that is
all too common 10 the clergy and ope about
which we have often given serious reflection.
Our contemporary has no doubt burt some
feelings and wounded pride, but II bit the
nail on the head just the same. What &C,
cured at The funeral Of DR.. Wilson, as descIit.
ed by the Press and Banner is by no means an
ex EXCEPTIONAL case. Many funeral services are
too long and one of the main causes OF this is
just what our Abbeville contemp orary points
out, preachers too frequently fail TO assume
that "the Lord knows a little about u.s."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
South Carolina Military Academy
ScboIarshiD Examination

Scholarship Examination.
One vacant benz fciary scholarship In the
South Carolina Military Academy exists IN
Abbeville County,
Applicsnts must be between the ages OF l6
and 20 years OF age, physically qnailneo los
military service, Of good m oraI character, and
unabler 10 bear their e1 penses at college. The
subjects for the competitive examination are
United States History. English mar
descriptive Geography, Arithmetic and Al
zebra through quadratic equations.
Applications filled out by pare ts or guar
dams must be forwarded tn the Citadel not
iater than July 18th. For blanks or further
Information, address
COL. o. j. EOND, -,
Superintendent Citadel,
Charleston, :. c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
The State Of South Carolina,

ABBENILLE
Probate Court-Citatlon for Letters OF Admin.
istratiOn.
By j. F. Miller. Esq, Judge Of Probate.
Whereas, Lou Ware has made suit to me.
To grant her Letters OF Administrative Of the
Estate and effects OF Benjamin Robertson,
Igte If Ahbeville County, deceased.
These are therefore, 10 cite and admonish
ali and singular the kindred and creditors OF
he said Benjamin Robertson, deceased, that
hey be and appear before noe. In The Cont Of
Probate. 10 be held at AobevilIe G. H., on
Wednesday. the ?lst Of July. l9e9, after publ,
cation hereof, Mt ii o'clock in the forenoon, 10
snnw cnnse If any they have, why the said
ADMINISTRATION should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal OF me COURT.
this lst day OF July, In the year
of our L ord one thousand nine hun
dred and nine and In the 1880 year
OF American Independence.
Published on the 9TH day OF July,
1900 in the Press and Banner and on the Court
j. F. MILLER,
Judge OF Probate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

in 1t that we see In It. In that case we
should nave grown in charity az we'll as IN
intellectually and are supposed TO have more
charity as we'll as more sense than the other
man, and II we have that charity we will be
sure 10 use 1t, II we have 1t not we are no
better than our friend whom we are about to
Judge, condemn and hang.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

Mr.. W. E. McGee Travelling Passenger
Agent OF the Southern RAILROAD, was In the
city on business connected with his road
yesterday.
Mr.. MCGEE is a man Of pleasing address,
efficient and full Of energy. he says that he
wants Abbeville to get the best service from
the road as he recognizes that Abbeville has
been one Of its best friends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Mrs. ". P, Greene ILL.,

Mira. W. +. Greene was taken suddenly and
seriously Ill Sunday night OF acute indiges-
ton.
She was 80 serloutly Ill that physicians and
kindred were called during the night.
She Is improving and Is now considered
out of danger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

Josh Quarles had NO patent: right on his
grass killing campaign. Others all over the
county, where there have been excessive
rains have adopted the same plans. In some
places the public highway is spongy with
dead grass where the bands have transferred
1t from the fields.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

We defy the world on Ice cream. Our soda
fountain is open In full blast and our ice
cream is made OF pure cream and eggs. All
orders, whether large or email, gotten up on
short notice. Yours to please, G.. A. Milford
& Co.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

We have just gotten in our
third shipment this season of
Lightning and Blizzard Ice
Cream Freezers There is a
reason. The r. l.. Dargan Co.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
THE
SOUTH
CAROLINA
PRESBYTERIAN
COLLEGE
FOR
WOMEN.

A Christian Home Schoo'.
A High Standard College.
A. Tuition. Board. Room and Fees SIS.
B. All included In proposition Ia and
Tuition In Music, Art or Expressions S2O3
S. c. BYRD, President.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

Miss Carrie Fleming returnrd 10 her home
In Colombia after q pleasant visit to friends
and relatives.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

MIR. T.. Lorton Robertson bought OF Mr.. b
s. Robertson a farm near Hodges, last week.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21

List your property with US.
We can find a buyer for you.
II we do nor, it will cost you
nothing. Abbeville ms. and
Trust Co. J. s. Stark, Pres;
McDavid. Sec. Phone lib
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
Bridges to Let
On Wednesday, July 21st.

+ On Wednesday, July 21st.
at II O'Clock a. M, I will let the build
ing of a wooden bridge at MattoX's
Mill on Saluda River. Plans and spec
Iications made known on day of let.
ting. Plans can be seer at the office
of the Supervisor at Abbeville on and
after July 18th.
The right is reserved TO reject any
all bids. Successful bidder to file with
the Supervisor a certified check for 20
per cent. of the whole bid.
On wednesday, August 4th,
in the offie of the Supervisor bids will
be received for the buying of four
iron bridges.
The right is reserved 10 reject any
and all bids.
W. A. STEVENSON,
Supervisor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-07-21
A WORD TO the PARENTS Of ABBEVILLE COUNTY

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