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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
BITTER WAR ON lNTEMPERANcE
SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE
GREATLY CHEERED.
why Smith Sold Out His Saloon.

why f0luith oOlu OuG I1LS OdiOoN"
II hear that Smith has just sold
out his saloon" said one of a couple
of middle-aged men who sat slipping
their beer and eating a bit of cheese
in an American saloon.
eyes" responded the other, rather
slowly.
What is the reason? T thought
he was just coming money there"
The other nibbled a cracker abb
stractediy for a moment. and then
said: Smith. you know, lives on
Mt. Washington, where he has an ex-
cellent wife, q nice home, and three
as pretty children as ever played out
doors. Smith is a pretty respectable
sort of citiZen-never drinks OF gam
bles, and thinks the world of his
family. When he went home n
afternoon. and found his wife out
shopping, he went through the house
into the back yard, and there under
an apple tree were his three boys
playing. They had a bench and some
bottles and tumblers, and were play
ing keep saloon He noticed that
they were drinking something out OF
a pail, and that they acted tipsy. The
youngest, who was behind the bar.
had a towel tied around his waist, and
was setting the drinks up pretty
freely.
Smith walked over and looked in
the pail. 1t was beer, and two of the
boys were so drunk that they stag
gered. A neighbor's boy, two years
older, lay asleep behind the tree.
"'Boys, you must not drink that
he said, as he lifted the six-year-oh
from behind the bench.
yves playin' s'loon, pap; an I
was sellin' it just like YOU said the
little fellow.
Smith poured out the beer, carried
the drunken boy home, and then took
his own boys in. and put them to bed.
When his wife came back she found
him crying like a child.
"He came down town that night
and sold out his business, and says he
will not sell or drink another drop of
liquor. His wife told mine about it,
and she broke down crying while she
told it,"
This Is a true story. but the name
was not Smith.-Christian Scotsman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17

counter. too. It was a wise New York
man, therefore. who devised a can
by which the lid of the dinner pail
cannot be lost. In this device the
handle of the pail is bent into a deep
and narrow V at the top Of the arch.
In this V there hangs a long triangu-
lar piece of wire attached to the lid.
which is hinged at one side. The
whole top of the pail may thus be
opened freely to permit Of the filling
or emptying Of the receptacle. but it
will always be at hand when wanted.
It is no uncommon thing for a work.
ingman to lose the lid to his pal, and
as this means the expense Of a new
dinner carrier, it is no joke.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
1t Didn't Pay.

A we'll known novelist who was for
years a moderate drinker writes his
experiences in McClure's. He found
in the end that it didn't pay.
eft should be borne in mind" he
says, that T am not dealing with
confirmed drunkenness, drinking that
has become an organic necessity. In
ebriety is a disease as much as tuber-
culosis, and must be so considered
and treated. T am dealing with the
custom of drinking as it is practiced
by the great majority of men who
drink at ALL And for that very rea-
son I think that testimony like mine
should be suggestive and valuable. I
have absolutely no prejudice against
the custom, and yet, though I never
abused it, socially speaking, and am
still a w%orshiper of Dionysius (from
ATARI, I do not hesitate to declare
that moderate drinking does not pay.
81 have tried it. I know. No n
can tell me anything about its joys
and satisfactions. I have also tried
total abstinence. AS a consequence.
I feel better, sleep better, work bet
ter, enjoy life better and have In
creased my usefulness a. a citizen"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
TIE FOOD QUESTION AGAIN.
nust People Abandon the Nitrogen
Theory. Just Acquired.

t'oLI - tA'b
The indians of the plains. who
ived almost entirely on flesh. we're
nos, who also live entirely on flesh,
are among the most peacable Of meu
rhe unfortunate Armenians. on the
other hand. are periodically mas
sacred by a race Of vegetarians.
The Hindus Of Bengal are the ira
1itional horrible example of the eff
;ects OF living on rice. But the Chin"
ase End Japanese, who also live on
rice-in sufficient quantity are
about the toughest and most endur-
ing of mankind.
During the race Of the allied
armies to Pckin the Japanese army
IN a diet Of rice and dried fish out
marched the Europeans by fifty per
cent. Even in India the Sikhs and
Rajputs, who eat but twice a day and
rarely touch meat. are among the
finest men physically and the best
soldiers on earth.
In the old days before the tele-
graph, says the Metropolitan, the
messenger service from Madras to
Bombay and Calcutta was made up
Of runners who did sixty miles for a
days work and kept it up 1000 and
400 miles on end-on a diet Of
boiled rice.
According to this writer the place
where the first scientific dieticians
went wrong is this: "The muscle
when it does work consumes it's own
substance. There is no question
about that. But it does not consume
all its constituents equally. The
early psychologists assumed that it
does, and that therefore the waste is
to be renewed only by foods such as
cheese, beans. peas. milk and es-
pecially meat. all of which. like the
muscle itself, contain nitrogen.
CAS- a matter of fact, a fact which
was proved the very first time the
matter was tested. by direct expert
ment and has never been questioned
since, the working muscle uses up its
non-nitrogenous constituents. and
needs therefore to be renewed by
non-nitrogenous Observation-Disclosures
fats, sugars, gums and the like.
"In fact, as we know now, the
muscle is essentially a million cylin-
dered explosion engine, built Of meat,
but working on bread and butter.
precisely as the simpler engines OF
automobiles and motor boats are
built of steel and work on gasoline.
What is true OF the muscle is true
also of nerves and glands and other
tissues of the body, except that they
do vastly less work than the muscles.
and need therefore vastly less food
of any sort.
Cali gas engines. then. whether
they happen to be built of steel or OF
protoplasm, use up their weight OF
fuel many times over before they
wear out their substance once. With
this discovery-that the muscle
works on a non-nitrogenous muscle
sugar. present in minute quantities,
rapidly consumed and rapidly re-
newed-departed forever the ancient
rigid divisions of foods into fuel
foods muscle formers tissue build
ers' and the rest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Tie Crooked Stick and the Straight
Stick.

The positive note is ever better
than the negative note. The con-
structive habit is far better than the
destructive. Progress is rarely made
by the process Of pulling down. Lit
tering the way with wrecks does not
clear the track. One cause is not
helped by d%epreciating another. The
scolding habit does not win friends,
supporters. influence. or enthusiasm.
1t oftener drives away, or %alienates or
discourages. Children reared in an
atmosphere of don't" seldom grow
up happy with ine, symmetrical char
acters.
The easiest way of showing and
proving the c~rookedness of a stick is
to lay a straight one alongside it. The
easiest way to push a bad habit out
of the life is to push a good n in to
displace it.-Presbyterian OF the
South.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
A Wretched State.

The envious man is in pain upon
all occasions which ought to give him
pleasure. The relish Of his life la
averted; and the objects which adj
minister the highest satisfaction to-
those who are exempt from this pas
sion give the quickest pangs to per-
sons who are subject to 1t. All the
PROJECTIONS Of their fellow creatures
are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and
wisdom are provocations Of their dis
pleasure. What a wretched and apos-
tate state is this-to be offended With
excellence and to hate a man because
we approve him! .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Balaanl's Hebrayist.

Congressman Mccall, of Massachu'
sets, tells a story of a Sunday-school
superintendent in Boston. who was
questioning the pupils concerning
Balaam's ass; and he asked them
what language was used, whether OF
not it was necessarily Hebrew, in
order that Balaam might understand
it; and a bright boy gave answer:
"Of course it was Hebrew; for the
ass must have been a Hebrayist."-
Washington Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Does 1t Prohibit?

a., Prohibition prohibited s79,059,-
743.60 worth! This is the official
statement of the United States Gov
eminent for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1909, the comparison being
with the previous year. The drop
in the production of whisky was A.
S2S,2S8 gallons. being more than
three per cent. of the previous years
production. The decrease in the
beer item was 2,444,1 1873 gallons, four
per cent. of the production.
Uncle Sam lost nearly eight million
in taxes, but the people are ahead by
nearly eighty million dollars that did
not 20 for beer and whisky.-Cen-
trail Christian Advocate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
This World = Heaven.

For my part. I do not think We
have any right to think of a heaven
for others, much less of a heaven for
ourselves in the world to come. until
we are wholly determined to make
this world a heaven for our fellow
men, and are hoping, believing, low
ing. and working for that. and for it's
realization. not in a thousand or a
million years, but in a nearer and a
nearer future Stopford A. Brooke.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Where God Works.

God worketh in you" This i'm
plies the actual presence of God at,
the centre of our being. The very
simplicity of the words renders them
difficult of understanding; for no man
understands the COL pick and mar
velous mechanism OF his own person.
atty. God worketh in you-not out
side, but in in the place whore
thought is born and the throne of
the will is set up and the affections
have their seat; in the inward shrine
of the being God woTketh.-Camp-
tell Morgan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Mortuary BENEFITS.

TOO many Americans are something
like a fellow Tip knew. working hard
Il clerk for life for S12 4 week. and he
loathed his Job at that. This slow
fool had rights in a big estate. but he
never had the sense or energy to
make a start and get it. but his wife
got it after he died. and her second
husband did the spending and enjoy
ing Tip, in the New York Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17

inches; cut off the head and file to a
point. First take off nozzle of hose
put it through the hole and screw on
nozzle to secure it. This makes n
of the finest sprinklers, because n
can move it anywhere you want to
without shutting off the water.-Bos-
ton Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Labor Not Fooled.

The brewer says the saloon is a
friend of labor. The. liquor dealer
says the same. The saloonkeeper de-
clares it is true. But Gompers and
Mitchell and Lennon say the saloon Is
labor's enemy. Labor will not be
fooled. 1t has faith in its leaders
and knows the liquor interests care
only. for the dollars it passes over the
bar
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Bees Swarm on Fer Hat.

Nine. Rodier. wife of a land owner,
at Borne, France, was doing in her
garden when q swarm OF bees, attract
ed by her picture hat, surrounded her.,
With great presence of mind she vent
over to an empty hive and .hook her
hat into it. whereupon the bees took
possession. Nine. Rodier was NOT
stung. 81
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17

Tho gun carriage that has been
used ier carrying the collins Of both
Victoria and Edward VII. will now
be more than ever In object Of popu-
lar interest in the courtyard Of the
Tower Of London.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
A candle that will not shine in {

A candle that will not shine in one
room is very unlikely to shine in an
other. If you do not shine at home,
if your father and mother, your Sis
ter and brother, if the very cat and
dog in the house are not better and
happier for your being a Christian, it
is a question whether you really are
one.-J. Hudson Taylor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17

Grasshoppers have their organs of
hearing at the base Of the abdomen,
that is, at the same place where the
corresponding organ of the Noctuldae
has been discovered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Support For Lawn Sprinkler.

;, Take a piece of wood one and one
half feet long, three and one-half feet
wide. In top of wood bore a hole
size Of hose used and n and one
half inch from top.
Take a large wire nail or spike
about seven inches long. drive into
wood at bottom two and one-half
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17

The grace that is free and the faith
that chooses what faith offers sets
up the kingdom of God whenever and
wherever they meet.-Bishop o. P.
Fitzgerald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Can't Lose the Lid.

The Importance Of the dinner pail
is not appreciated by most people. To
hundreds of thousands, however, it is
q live topic. The dinner pail is the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
Turner Gallery Opened.

The new wing of the TAFT Gallery
containing many selections from tha
works bequeathed by Turner to the
British nation, was opened in LondoM1
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17
A New Umbrella.

A French inventor, with a tender
heart for bicyclists, chauffeurs, fish,
ermen and wandering artists, has on.
trived a form of umbrella for protec.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17

The heaviest hammer i'll the world
weighs fifty tons and is found at the
TERM works, Italy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-08-17

The reason we know that u faith
in Christ is not in vain, is because
Christ has risen.-S. e. Ebersole.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-25
FOR SALE.

One of the best mountain farms
In the county, consisting of $50
acres cleared, balance in fine tim
Der, such as chestnut, oak, hick-
DRY, popular, and without question
the most and finest locust timber
growth in the county. There are
enough cross ties, telephone poles
and locust on the place to pay for
it, without mentioning the saw
timber and chestnut woad. Seven
ty-fve acres ara lie pasture. THIS
pla. is five al S from the rail
road station, three and ono half
from a cott)n mill, one mile to Il
school, two and one half to two
churches. A new railroad sur
survey has been run within sight
of the place, making it convenient
for timber shipping, as it will be
down grade to two public roads.
There is no poor land on the place,
all being the very richest black
soil. Gingsing is now growing on
part of the land.
There are nearly IA acres of this
land nearly level, making from
35 to 40 bushels of corn to the
acre; 150 bushels Of potatoes to
the acre. There are 200 bearing
peach and apple trees 100 or more
one-year-old nursery fruit, from
earliest to latest varieties. A
good three-room house with porch.
Good new barn, for ten head of
stock, corn crib, smoke house,
blacksmith shop and spring house,
hen house.
There are fine springs all over
the place and everything is well
fixed for a poor ma nto make liv-
ing. The owner is going West,
and in order to make a quick sale
will take $1,000 TO rthe place. See
or write me quick. Address Hen.
Jacksonville n, c., Route 3, box A
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-25
PLEASED
The Daily Herald, French Broad
Hustler and The Kentucky
Home Come for Warm Praise.
Editor Hustler /:

Editor Hustler:
! had a telegram that caused me
to leave Hendersonville in a hurry
the other day and did not come
back to pay you for the notice sale
of the Mcdowell lands. ] left it
nevertheless in Judge PAGES office
and you will please apply there
for same.
/ also am due the Weekly Hust-
Ter for year s subscription 81 90
from July 1910 o rabout that time
till 1911. / send it herewith. I
have never yet missed a copy Of
the weekly; Hustler and do not
want to do so, while both it and I
continue to wag. / have9a an idea
though it may. outlive me, and am
willing for, tito do so, if it contin-
ues do so well as it now does and
has from its birth till now. No
discouragement to, Miss Daily
either. / want it to grow, and
flourish too. / stopped at the
Kentucky Home and was delight
ed with the manner is which the
house was run, though it was
chock full from top to bottom and
I had the top room, the only one
that was vacant, when get there.
Shipman, that Kentucky Home Ia
BILE groans three times a day, and
before fellow like myself leaves
it he feels like grooming too, not
groaning in spirit, but grooming
from top to bottom because he is
so full. I should have said eight
or ten tables. That lady is a most
'eHAuos19pueH o. uo!4!ppe InJesn
and I like to stop there, because
j. p. and l used to own and live on
the whole block. The house is
most admirable kept-it is veri-
table Battery Park and is just as
well kept; and it would be hard to
find more delighted house full of
guests than those who sojourned
at the Kentucky Home in 1910.
Yours very Sincerely,
Thos. J. Hickman.
Asheville, Aug. II.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-25
THE CONTEST !!
Nominations to the Herald Hust-
Ter Midsummer Voting Contest
Pouring in Rapidly Value of
Prizes Much Approximation
nations Received This Morning

The interest In the Herald and
Hustler Midsummer Popularity
Contest is growing hourly. The
number of candidates premises to
outnumbered last year s list owing
largely to the more attractive
prizes offered. One gentleman in
speaking of the prizes said, "For
my part | would rather have the
fourth prize, the business college
scholarship than any. In the long
run that is likely to prove the
most valuable to a young lady of
any in the list. But they are all
good prizes and worth while work
ing for hard. "
A list Of candidates has already
been received which will be pub
hshed Saturday with the nomina-
lions received tomorrow and Sat
urday morning
/ Do not be bashful gentlemen
about nominating your favorite
as you may choose the winner of
the first prize, andJbeayourself the
richer for. a handsome gold ring
without cost or effort to yourself
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-25
no the parent the cause Of tine

To the parent the cause of the
homeless child most strongly ap-
peals. Soon the representative
of the first Orphange established
in North Carolina and one of the
first in all the Southern States
will visit our community. They
come to give one of their delight
full concerts. Encourage your
children to be active in helping to
make the occasion a success and
a blessing.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-25
Housing Reforna Don't, 5

Lawrence WELLER in The, Survey
Don't let your city become a
city of tenements. Keep it a city
of homes.
Don t imagine there is no neces
sary for action because condi-
tons in your city are not as bad
as they are elsewhere.
Don't build model tenement
until you have secured a model
housing law
Don t attempt to legislate first
and investigate afterwards.
Don't permit any new houses
to be built that do not have venti-
lation and proper sanitation. E
Don't legislate merely for the
6lresent, la6.t,4sa.s.
Ii Don permit the growth Of ne
,slupas. Prevention is better tx
cure. S 4 ffses "A S
Don't tolerate the. ledger evil
Nip it in the bud. 81 ia
Ii Don't tolerate cellar dwellings.
Don't let the poor be denied a
liberal supply of water In their
hOmes.Aa afe19oofah has aais Il
/ Don't permit. houses unfit for
human habitation to be occu-
pied, t.aag IS
Don't repeat the talk about the
I,poor not wanting good housing
accommodations.
Don't permit prives to exist in
any city. Compel their removal.
Don't decrease your efforts when
you have passed a good law.
External givilance is not only the
price of liberty, but of all pro-
gress. a.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-08-25
No doubt Buffers booze anc
Doodle was what did the work,
Women in tuberculosis War.

What women have done in the
last four years in the campaign
against tuberculosis, is discussed
in an interesting report issued to-
day by the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis.
-Four years ago the only active
women workers in the anti-tuber-
:ulosis movement were a little
group Of about thirty women s
elu5s. Today 100000 women un-
deI' the Health Department Of the
General Federation of Women s
Clubs IN every state and territory
of the United States are banded
together against this disease, and
more than 1000 clubs are taking
a special interest in the crusade.
Not less than 100000 is raised
annually by them for tuberculosis
work, besides millions that are SCI
cured through their efforts in state
and municipal appropriations.
Mrs. Rufus P. Williams is the
chairman of the department that
directs this work.
In addition to the work Of the
General Federation of Women s
Clubs, The Public Health Educa-
ton Committee of the American
Medical Association, composed
largely of women physicians hSs
carried on an educational cas-
paign of lectures during the past
year in which thousands have beel
reached. The Mothers Congress,
the Young Women IS Christian As
ISOLATION, and many unattached
clubs bring the number of women
| united in the tuberculosis war to
we'll over a million united In The
tuberculosis war to we'll over a
million. There is not a state III
the union where some work has
not been done.
Through the activity of women
sanatriums and hospitals for. the
treatment Of tuberculosis have
been erected travelling libraries
have been circulated, posters, cir.
eulars and other kinds Of htera-
fture, have been distributed to the
number of millions of pieces
thousands of lectures have been
given, large sums of money have
been secured, hundreds of needy
1 cases have been helped5 trlbercu
Hosts work has been started IL
many communities where no move
tment had existed and millions Of
bwomen have learned the dangers
and methods of prevention of tn
/ berculosis. -.
! The work of the women extends
from the drawing room Of the ricl
| to the homes of the poor, and EN-
braces all classes, Including tn,
! factory girl and millionaire. Dur
! ing the coming year a special cam
! paign of lectures to women will b.
carried on in all parts Of the Uni
ted States,