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I' r ; " . ' " ' '' 'r-'W' " - ' " ' j? * / : . ' ' ' ' ' . ^ w * ' . t - ' ' **' ' *- ? s. - * "C i ,> .'O ; - *' v'7 ' - . - " ' "-W - ^ ?iPf .. ? . > " " , c" The Abbeville Press and Banner, i BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1888. VOLUME XXXII. NO. 50. j I We have t in order to enable us has instructions to ws the lump or in the lot have not been named their money and the i quotations, but it will We deal IFOR THE LEAST IV insane and criminal p: goods of houses that 1 Upon our cc and still others who t] that wants the trade < We shall of that will level your he * * 1. _ n I^Hfc-incn an wuui , 24-inch, all wool Pure Lisle Threa Pure Linen Hem* Suits, all wool, $; We have thousan We invite an ear! SPOT CASH basis, T ITear the Smile of Gladness. BY MRS. ORRICY R. HEMMENWAY. Ye who with youth and beauty beam, Come wear the smile of gladness; From lip and eye let?unllght gleam Unmixed with care and sadness. The light and joy of that bright way Some saddened eyo may borrow, To dry the tear and drive away The gloomy cloud of sorrow. And you upon the noon of life, "With courage high, unbending, Bejiopeful, zealous in the strife. xne ngtu ana iruin aeieuamg. You're blest Indeed, who dally share The smiles of those you're shielding; Will you to discontent and care Like weaker ones be yielding ? No, while fond words all free from guile Are round your flre-side breathing, Then let the smile that answers smile, Your eyes and lips be wreathing. And you whose heads are bowed with age, Be cheerful, unreplnlng, And when you're treading life's last stage, Let lore your souls be fining. As radiant falls sun's setting glow, The hill-tops all adorning, So calmer smiles may grace your brow Than when in youth's bright morning. Let hatred, strife, and malice cease Witk envy and complaining, And let the smile of love and peace All o'er the earth be reigning. And though the tear must sometimes rise, To soften needful sorrow, With trustful hearts and hopeful eyes Look toward a brighter morrow. Cultured Girls. Sometimes it is thought that if a girl has been educated at a high school, she must be cultured, but some such girls are the most uncultured of persons. One need not be rich, or educated, or travel, in order to be cultured; but only sure that all sides of her being grow in harmony. Culture does not mean music or French, but womanhood. Very few can be rich, a small number educated; but culture ii [ ior an. Be determined to know something, even a little, of the best history, the best poetry, the best biography, the best of art, the facts in science, and the best thoughts of the best minds? ten minutes each day, five or six solid books a year, not mere stories. The best in style and sentiment is as cheap as the poorest. There is no excuse for reading trash, when the standard works on all subjects are as cheap as the poorest, no more than for walking in the mud when a clean side-walk is provided. Not extensive, but select reading gives culture. Gather a little standard library of your own; you will respect yourself and others will respect you for it. Keep a scrap book; fill it with tho best things. Nothiug reveals a girl's line of thought more than a scrap book. Read and think ; read a little and think ; read when at leisure, think when at work. A thoughtful, selfish, snappish, cross, fretful, overbearing and dictatorial girl may take the prize at school, may excel in music, may travel round the world, but the more she knows the Jess culture she has. The commonest country girl with good health, an open brain, and a warm, unselfish, patient, self-controlled disposition, is a huudred-fold more cultured than the boarding school girl who is fractious with her mother, cross with her sisters, or knows too much to associate with working girls. Disposition is , culture. Health is the soil, intelligence the branches, and disposition the leaves, buds and blossoms, the robe of living beauty, fragrance, and sweetness with which a young woman is to clothe her life; for without heart culture the finest mental culture is like a tree with nothing but cold, leafless Jimbs. \ NE V lie pleasure to announc to quote lower prices t itch every sales and e^ , every class of merchi or quoted in this mark )00r require double dut be our aim to name fi IN GOODS, AND NOT IONEY. Hence we ractice of wasting mor buy and sell on long til >unters will be thrown, irow out these sacrifice of the people must go t er such unanswerable i ?ad on the subject of g Dress G-oods, Spring Si Dress Goods, short len{ rl rXlrkTTQCj ft flon+Q 1 O I u jl\s v v/ a v * stitched Handkerchiefs 8.50, $10.50, $10.75, \ ids of bargains which v ly and repeated visit a and ask our friends to Respectfully sut W T The cultured young woman is spiritual. Loving what God loves, hating what God hates, reading his thoughts over after him, in nature, in his Word, and in her own soul, coming into sympathy with him, this makes of art a living life, and lifts the passions, the affections and the will into a region of pureness and joy. Such is the final fruit of the tree for which all the rest are given. This is the highest culture, u'ithnnf no wami ?n ohm linvo her greatest beauty, or power or joy. How to Live Happily. Thomas Jefferson wrote tlie following excellent advice. There is a great deal of human nature and good sense in it: "Harmony in the married state is the first thing to be arrived at. Nothing can preserve the affections uninterrupted but a firm resolution never to differ iu will, and a determination in each other to consider the love of the other of more value than any object whatever on which the wish had been fixed. How light, in fact, is the sacrifice of any other wish when weighed against the affections o.f one with whom we are to pass our whole life. And no opposition in a single instance will hardly in itself produce alienation, yet every one has his pouch into which all these little oppositions are put, and while that is filling, the alienation is insensibly going on, and when filled it is complete. It would puzzle either to say why, because no nnn ili'ffiti'anno r\P Anitu'An line marked enough to produce a serious effect by itself. But lie or she finds his or her affections wearied out by a constant stream of little checks and obstacles, Other sources of discontent, very common indeed, are the little cross purposes of husband and wife in common conversation; a disposition in either to criticise and question whatever the other says; a desire always to demonstrate and make him feel himself in the wrong, especially in sympathy. Nothing is so goading on the part of either. Much better, therefore, if our companion views a thing in a light different from what we do, to leave him in quiet possession of his view. \Vhat is the use of rectifying him if the thing be unimportant; and if important, let it pass for , the present and wait for a softer moment and more conciliatory occasion of revising the subject together. It is wonderful how many persons are rendered unhappy by inattention to these rules of prudence. , ? A Moonless Month. Tlta mAnfl. IVUonnH.t IMP. ii-no In i lit UiWUUJ V/l i tl'lUiUJ, 1UUU, (in IU one respect the most remarkable in the j world's history. It had no full moon! January had two full moons, and so had March, but February had none. Do you realize what a rare thing in na- ( ture that was? It had not occurred since the time of Washington, nor since the discovery of America, nor since the beginning of the Christian . era, nor since the creation of the \ world. And it will not occur again, according to the computation of as- ] tron?mers, for?how long do you ; think??two and a half million of ] years! Was not that truly a wonder- ] r.,i o 1U1 UlUUlIl i4 To pursue joy is to l?se it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the ' patli of duty, without thinking of joy, i and then, like sleep, it cotnes most < surely unsought, and we "being in the 1 way," the angel of God, bright-haired I joy is sure to meet us. 1 7 D )e a new departure?the ;han others who buy on rery failure; to look af andise that we can get :et, or any other. B ;y of every dollar and e gures that will compel trash, and believe * 5 throw out among the Ley for the paltry consi me. What is the us day after day, new ar in thfi vain hone to ( )eyond this advance lin arguments as no house enuine bargains. R tyles, 15 Cents. *ths, 5 Cents, 6 Cents, 3ents, 15 Cents. , 10 Cents, Worth 25 C O Hi vorth $12.50, $15, $18 rrrv V> '4- A /N "It VC liiXVCIA t L11J.1C UVJ rid inspection. Our save us the refusal by emitted to the cash trac >AYN3 p Sage and Singer. Within an old town by the sea A wise man and a singer dwelt; The wise man spoke laboriously, And taught with pain the truth he felt; The singer scattered everywhere His careless music to the air. The wise man and the singer both Lie now within the churchyard green; Summer and spring have plighted troth A hundred years they have not seen No trace of their vanished feet Are in the old, high-gabled street. And of the wise man's labored words, Not one is now remembered well, But still, as cleurly as spring birds, The singer's simple love songs swell, And in the old town seera a part Of every home and 4very heart. TVliat Phil Fennd. "It is very strange," said Mr. Rodman, "where they could have come frem, but the box was certainly addressed to me, by my full name. They must be intended for the children of course; perhaps I will get a 1 letter telling me who sent them." The box that Mr. Rodman spoke of ! contained two small white mice in a handsome cage; it had come by express, without any sign as to where it ; was from. but. as it was near Phil's birthday, the family naturally con- ' eluded that the mice were intended as ! a present for him. ' Mr. Rodman was a man of large ] means, and many other presents had ' been prepared for his only son, but nothing gave Phil half as much pleasure as the tiny little white creatures, timid, and yet tame, whose favorite resting-place was in his pocket. Li la too, the sister two years younger than himself, preferred them to all the pets and playthings they had ever had. Indeed, they soon became so much attached to the little creatures that they forgot the mysterious manner of their coming and ceased to wonder who had sent them. "I tell you, sir," said Phil one day several months after his birthday, "I think the cage is too small a bed-chamber for Hip and Rap; I'm going to take my tool-chest and fit them up a larger one-" The house was searched for a large, clean wooden box. "Why don't you take the one they came in ?" asked niommo Sn ro onnnrrli flioro WA9 tliA box tiie cage had been expressed in'? stowed away in the overcoat closet. 1 It was the very thing. 11 Phil carried it out to the paved back 1 yard and emptied out the clean pack- { ing stuff that had been put around it. | As he tumbled it out on the bricks 1 something white fluttered out in the ? breeze and wafted itself over the brick l: wall. v "I do believe that was a note," said E Phil; and he ran through the gate to " give it chase. It was evidently the 1 note which had been sent with the 0 mice, and which had got so covered up with the packing as to be overlooked entirely. " It was now stained and discolored; n the address was entirely gone, but v Phil, feeling sure that it was for him- " self, opened it at once. Alas; the ^ mice had not been intended for Phil at a ill. They were from a lady whose 12 name was unicnown to mu?pernaps y i friend of his father's; she said they g bad belonged to a little child now in fi heaven, who wished them sent to the e Ninth Street Asylum for the little or- v phans gathered there. Phil felt very much like crying. "I would not have minded giving them n up at first," he thought, "but now? o :m, I love them, and so does Lila, and c they know us?what can I do?" Then d the'tempter drew near and whispered, e 'You have money enough to buy them j m \ EP A 3 location of an Agenc; l long time and ask big fcer every house on the at less than its value, lig prices will not do in very penny. As oi you, in self-defense, to the masses will patr< masses these specialtie deration of a little crei le of wasting a dollar ^ rivals, at panic prices,: outlive the storm. e. can match?leaders ar ead a few quotations fi 24-inct 8 Cents. French Taffatt t 3ents. OTHIKTC Straw Hal ;e, but we have the goc stock will be replenish not asking to have go* le only, 5. Gr< J another pair; keep thes#." At first Phil was delighted with the idea, and stuffing the note in his pocket, went back to his work whistling. "Be sure you burn the note," said tbe tempter; "your father might not agree with your plan." Ah, then came the answer to those prayers which the good father and mother had daily offered for their boy : "Lead him not iuto temptation, but deliver him from evil." "If I can't tell my father," thought Phil, "there must be something wrong about it." He dropped his saw and sat on the edge of the box for a long time. "Deliver him from evil;" the white-winged prayer could not fail of an answer. Phil sprang up, and without, waiting to change his working suit, rushed down to his father's office, showed him the note, and asked him if he might keep Rip and Rap. Perhaps the father saw tracts of the struggle; perhaps he dimly guessed what the victory had cost; he put his arm over his tall boy's shoulder and si- ; lently thanked God. i "They were entrusted to us, Phil," > he said, "and wo must never tamper ! with a trust, even in what seems a fair i way. This is a happy day for me, my j son; God bless you!" So Rip and < Rap went to amuse the poor little peo- < pie who had no fathers and mothers to < say "God bless you !" i i The Advantages of Rest. I There is no better preveutive of ner- 1 vous exhaustion than regular, unhur- i ried, muscular exercise. If we could 1 moderate our hurry, lessen our worry, ( md increase our open-air exercise, a 1 large proportion of nervous diseases s would be abolished. For those who ? 2annot get a sufficient holiday the best s mbstitute is an occasional day in bed. s Vlany whose nerves are constantly I strained in their daily vocation have \ iiscovered this for themselves. A i Spanish merchant in Barcelona told \ lis medical man that he always went j o bed for two or three days whenever le could be spared from his business, ind he lauged at those who spent their E mliHava in tmlarmia mniintnins Onfi ? if the hardest worked women in Eng- g and, who has for many years conductid a large wholesale business iu Eng- t and, retains excellent nerves at an b advanced age, owing, it is believed, to a ler habit of takingjone day a week in led. If we cannot avoid frequent agi- f] ation, we ought, if possible, to give o he nervous system time to recover it- r elf between the shocks. Even an tl tour's seclusion after a good lunch vill deprive a hurried, anxious day of tl iiuch of its injury. The nerves can w ften be overcome by stratagem when ^ hey refuse to be controlled by strength t< f will. Perfect Butter.?Prof. L. B. Ar- h told, the famous dairy expert, says he u lever judged but one sample of butter a fbich came up to the standard of perfect." The cream for this butter b ras raised by intense refrigeration, ri nd kept thus till enough had accumu- n ited for a churning. It was then ri- ri nli ii "W'linn i? triltJU ttliu unuuiru. TI licit piw|;unt> ranulated the buttermilk was drawi) rom the butter, which was then roll- c] d and pressed into solid condition rc rith the least possible working. w ?? u Every true idea is the key to unlock ni ew treasures. It is to the soul as the a pening of a gate into a more magnifi- fa ent garden, or the unsealing of a eeper and clearer well, or the discovry of a new and richer mine of ri wealth. ni l R T I y in New York City foi prices in these days o verge of bankruptcy a: so that we can mark ir . these times when evi ir prices change with e* buy of us. . mize that HOUSE "V >s?these matchless goc lit. Who can tell tl vhen you may save it ? from houses that collapi From such sources as 1 id specialties that no ot ram the first shipment i l all wool Dress Goods, Satteens, short lengths i Silk Gloves, only 25 ( 3r : bs, at 50 per cent. redu< )ds which will open yor ed every few days. Dds " charged for a few 3enwo< rri.. T1111. ttj__ me unite luugi A little face to look at, A little face to kiss, / Is there anything, I wonder, That's half as sweet as this? 1" A little cheek to dimple ' When smiles begin to grow, A little mouth betraying a Which way the kisses go. A slender little ringlet, V A rosy little ear, r A little chin to quiver, K When falls the little tear. A little hand bo fragile All through the night to hold, U Two little feet so tender To tuck in from the cold. ^ Two eyes to watch the sunbeam U That wlth the shadow plays? ?, A darling little baby u To klBS and love always. e II Hot Water for Black Ejes. b a There is a world-wide superstition v that as soon as a man gets a black eye he must use cold applications for e hours, aud that the best cold applica- it tion possible is raw beef. I call it a I superstition because it is without rea- h 3on aud against reason. Everybody cj knows that what makes a discolors- it tion or tiie skin oy a oruise is tne con-: u ;c8tion of the part with the blood that J gi cannotget away again, so that it de- ei composes and changes its color, and tl sverybody ought to know that the es way to prevent such a result is to facil- w itate and stimulate the circulation in cl :he bruised part. le A cold application retards the circu- ec ation, ana the best thing to stimulate it t is hot applications. Twice in my tl: ife I was threatened with a black eye. gi Dn the first occasion [ applied raw si >eef and other cold applications and iu lucceeded in producing the blackest 111 >ye I ever saw. On the second occa- ca lion I got some hot water right away W ind bathed the eye for about half an ca lour iu it. The result was that there th vas not the slightest discoloration vis- ar bleat any time. These hints are well w vorth pasting in the hats of some peo>le in Chicago.?Chicago Journal. sti fri Silver should be washed with a cha- ^ nois skiu, saturated with silver soap, m ach time after use, thus avoiding a Tl eneral cleaning. sh Windows and mirrors can be made nii o shine without long polishing it after th eing washed in hot soap suds they eu re rubbed dry with a newspaper. be The white of an egg beaten to a stiff T1 rotb, whipped up with the juice of c? ne lemon and taken half hourly, will coi elieve the hoarseness and soreness of 'ea lie chest. th' It is said by some housekeepers that cej lie addition of a little vinegar to the Pe rater in which tough meat is boiled se ill have the effect of rendering it er? jnder. tin Dry salt applied every day and J rushed into the roots will make tiie lul air silky and cause it to grow. Do as ot continue but a year or two, as it is strong tonic bin A cement to be used to mend rubber oots and shoes is made by dissolving be jbbercut fine in benzine. This ce- l'ei lent, it is said, will firmly fasten 011 a ibber patch. ( ill Hogs kept in confinement will eat dir larcoal or ev-en bituminous coal with &lv sliah, and they are also fond of rotten cut ood, these substances seeming to furish a desired, if not necessary, condi- dir lent or appetizer. Charred corn once ow week is a welcome variation in the ire of swine. she ? vio A wise person will hear reproof and ceive instruction, but a fool will heed Ieither one. be r re. : the purchase and se f panics and hard t: ad rain, and with cs i plain figures on our en the wealthy can; very sale, it will be FHICH SELLS TI >ds and matchless p le waste of money ' ? sed, others that will j ;hese we buy our S( ;her can offer?stern Tom our resident buy 8 Cents, 10 Cents, 1; , only 8 Cents. 3ents. 3tion. ir eyes with wonder i Wq oTiqH win +!-?/ H V/ X UiX l/UC days." 3d, S. A Mother's Influence. A boy came in from school a fe\ lays ago and rushing into the sittinj oom,heldupto his mother's view i our bladed uock?t knife. "See, mother," he exclaimed, "wha . splendid bargain I made at recess to lay! I traded off twelve marble vith Willie Bradley for this nev rnife" "I hope you didn't cheat," said tb Qotheras the boy gave a chuckle o lelicrht over his new treasure. He made no reply. The words o lis mother evidently did not earn auch weight with them. After hi ad passed out of the room, the moth r smiled, and paid to her visitor That boy is the shrewdest fellow on i argain you ever saw. I have no fear s to his making his way in th< forld." That mother did not think of th< normity of this sort of shadow play ig. The boy is father of the man t was only a small beginning of a dis onest manhood. The facts of llu ise, which the mother should have nmediately inquired into, were these je boy who had driven this sharp barain, had taken advautage of a youngr schoolmate. He had depreciated le value of the knife, and had overitimated the value of the marbles ith which he had made the exlange. It was a clear case of fraudunt dealing, yet the matter was pass1 over as a trivial circumstance, and s evil influence left upon the mind of le young trader. It is the large ag egate of little things that make the im of character. A mother should culcatein the hearts of her children ie necessity of beiner honest, not be tuse it is the best policy, (for Bishop Hiately says that he who Is honest beuse it'is the best policy, is no better an a rogue,) but because it is right id Christ commands us to deal justly ith all. In the first place, a mother must be rictly honest and iust herself. The iar who prcachea honesty with a >len goose in his sleeve, did not make uch impression upon his audience, lere are some mothers who drive rewd bargains iu their household anagemcnt, take an advantage of osewhom they employ to do differt kinds of work, and try to get the tterof those with whom they deal. )ese examples are not lost upon the ildren. They are quick to notice inusistencies. Some mothers are cares about paying little debts, putting em off from one time to another, neisitating great inconvenience to the rsons whom they owe. What may >m only a small sum to the employis ortentimes the money for the loaf it keeps a poor family from going ngry. Be very careful about "little ngs" in your own character as well that of children. Teach them to il justly not only in money matters, t in everything that regards the wcle of their companions and they will just to their fellowmen in after ?rs. )ne of the principal causes of heaves horses is the feeding of dusty or ty hay. Ordinary clean hay can /ays be fed with sjifely if properly ; up, moistened and mixed with tund grain, but to feed the musty or ty sorts is very injurious. Clover, < iug to its liability to crumble, often s dirty, even after storage, and mid never be fed without being pre- j usly moistened.. j *???. i teep yourself innocent if you would ] happy. < V . '' -Til i ilection of our Stock Lines. Our Agent tsh in hand to buy bargains, prices that not afford to waste > impossible to give >! EE BEST G-OODS rices?to check 'the when you get your m down to-morrow, 7 . nods, and the house 7 ' ' "r ' ' M and stubborn facts er : 2 Cents. | . " r xSf - M and amazement. ) business upon the -''l ''-V3S CL v! " ; ^93 ' \ - :|f - . . Thackeray's lie* ofWomea. v All men who avoid female seefety g have dull perceptions, and are stupid, a and nave gross tastes and revoltagalnst what is pure. Your olub swaggerer*,t who are sucking the buts of billiard 1- cues all night, call female society ins sipid. Poetry is as uninspiring* t# a v yokel, beauty has no cbaraN^for a blind man, music does not please a e poor beast, who does not know one f tune from another; but as a true epicure is hardly ever tired of water, f sauce and brown bread and butter, -I >r protest I can sit for a whole night1 talkie inc to a well-rPdilatAd kindlir wnman - about her daughter Fanny or her boy ; Frank, and like the evening's enter1 tainment. One of tho greatest benefits i a man can derive from a woman's so; i eiety is that he is bound to 'be respectful to her. The babit is* of great good 3 to your morals, men, depend upon it. ' - Our education makes-us the most emi. nently selfish men in the world, and the greatest benefits that we have is to ? thinlc of somebody to whom we tire ! bound to be constantly attentive and : respectful. "Be a Good Man, Papa." I Leaving home this morning for the i ofiice, we kissed our little four-year old * good-bye, saying to him, "Be a good . hnv. to-rfAV." Hp AnniAwhtit aur us by replying, "I will j be ar good man, papa." Sure enough, we * ' thought. We need this exhortation ' more than he needs it. Andv who could give it more effectually than this guileless prattler? The words of the little preacher have been ringing in our ears all day, and, whether we wrote letters or editorials, pacified an irate correspondence whose effusion we could not publish, or, .pruneddown a too lengthy report, we seemed to hear the sweet child voice saying, '"Be a good man, papa." If the. exhortation had been given by Paul or Peter, would it have had more force than coming from this little apostle of .innocence? We think not, at least, to our heart. Oh, how many little ohildren, if not in words, yet by the helplessness of their lives and the truthfulness of their little hearts, are pleading most eloquently, "Papa, be a geod man!" Not long since England lost by death one of the greatest school masters that she has produced, Edward Thwing. He had the faculty of making men of an honorable and useful type out of boys who did not seem to promise much at first. His theory was that every uoy was gooa ior something, and the duty of the muter was to find out for what he is fit, and to develop him in that line,, and lie had wonderful success. One motto that he kept before "his boys" was: "I don't want you lads to win dazzling honors, but I want you to be dazzlingly honorable." Black lace when rusty and -limp may be thus restored: Mix with a gill of rain water a table-spoonful of borax and one of alcohol; squeeze the lace several times through this: theu rinse in a cup of hot water in which a black kid glove has been boiled ; pull the lace out carefully till nearly dry; then press two or three days between leaves of paper under a heavy weight. We may lose heaven by neutrality lis well asby hostility; by wanting oil us well as by drinking poison. . An unprofitable servant shall as much be punished as a prodigal sou. Undone Juty will undo our soula. V".3j ' 1