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. 7 The Abbeville Press and Banned. I BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1888. VOLUME XXXHI. SO. 1L*jH NE THE Have opened a fi New York City which Our Terms Ni Gilder's Health Corsel Corsets, 60 Cents, woi 33 Cents, 42 Cents, 6! Gents Socks, 5, Cents, dozen, regular price, 2 pair; Balbrigan U Cents, 10 Cents. Dress G-oods.??1 O 1 _0 WUi L-LL X & ucato , Cents; * Beautiful Bustles, 8 Cents, 10 C Clothing.---All Hardware.?TJ 5 Cents, 10 Cents, 15 ters, 10 Cents ; RuL Tacks, 3 Papers for 5 Come to see us ii T1 WALLER BLO Choice of Work. BY LYDIA H. TILTON. "Do the duty that lies nearest thee." Do the nearest duty; Leave the rest with God, All nnclWlllloc Uf the paths untrod. Just where greatest need is, Just where blessings wait. He knows, and knows also, When would be too late. Do the nearest duty; Nearest to thy soul. Though from thy feet farther Than the farthest pole. Count no work too trifliug; Fear not shifting sands; Trust, though finished patterns Still are in God's hands. Do the nearest duty, Mindful that to-day Might put all to-morrows "Out of plumb" for aye! Let thine eye be single For the duty given, For the humblest heart-strokes Must be felt in heaven. Do the nearest duty Promptly; le?t to-day, ?. Dark with sudden shadows, Shall have passed away. Lest some hearts you might help. Burdened with their cares, Fall; and you by waiting Slay them unawares. Do the nearest duty; Not in trembling fear,? Oall not from the billows As if none could hear ;? Love is watching, waiting, Offering needed aid ; He who wills arui fails not Says, "Be not afraid." Do the nearest duty; Grateful that your hand May do work that angels Never couia nave planned. So shall love eternal Into life be wrought, And a blessing spring from E'en your humblest thought. Need of Cleanliness. Private cleanliness is a matter of public interest. Wherever dirt and tilth are suffered to accumulate, there the enemies of human health are gathered together, and plague and pestilence hold carnival. Nor does it matter whether the dirt consists of au exposure to decaying matter 011 the surface of the ground, or of an unwholesome or undrained pool, or whether it is distributed in uuwashed parcels over the surface or in the pores of the human body. In the latter case it is rather more dangerous, since a thoroughly clean person may escape all injury from contagion, whereas a system not fortified by cleanliness is doubly liable to the attacks of disease. The majority of mankind, both in city and country are imperfectly washed. The consequences are found in a predisposition to disease. The unwashed skin is incapable of discharg ing Us natural and healthy amotions, and the stoppage or interrupted action of the deep pores in the skin, which throw so vast an amount of the waste ?IT the system develops and fosters every morbid tendency. This danger to health may not be palpable at first, but with each growing neglect of the means of cleanliness it becomes greater, uutil it is no longer possible to ward off the attacks of disease. The human family is large, but we have never heard that the supply of water is deficient for their wants. Indeed, nature seems to have taken special pains to distribute the health-giving fluid widely. Not satisfied with piercing every part of the earth's crust with innumerable rivers and smaller streams of fresh water, with a lavish hand over every continent and island she has poured forth her superflex in oceans, ready salted to keep them sweet, until the quantity of water on the surface of the planet largely exceeds that of the land. But the boun W Y( 3XT E3 "VC" RST CLASS LINE OF l will from time to time st Spot Cash Befoi ;, 85 Cents, worth $1.0 rth 80 Cents; Mario 3 Cents ; Ladies r 8 Cents, 10 Cents, 15 15 Cents; Good Pin ndervests, 25 Cents, w< ?Tennis Stripes, 10 Ce Dress Robes, 53 Ce Lawns, 3 3-4 Cents, 5 Jents, 15 Cents. Wool Suits, $5.25, $8, airty-two styles in Poc] Cents; Tea Spoons, es, 8 Cents ; Monkey Cents; G-oods Locks yon want to see some ip hm .XV/ XI V I I CK, GREENWOOD, tiful mother goes still farther and pours down on our grateful heads profuse showers, as if to teach us those laws of health which we are too stolid to learn for ourselves. We are forced to realize that pure water with ils cleansing, refreshing nature accepts 110 substitute?many of the ailments of frail mortals now so often aggravated and prolonged in the vain endeavor to find relief in some Ill YJjlt'l JUUC3 U1IU |JGluap9 wo drug, would have a better cure in water alone?and, in almost every case of i sickness thejudicious use of the bath would add very much to the power of 1 other remedies, but in sickness, or in 1 health, every one should have ample 1 means of bathing, and as good practicable baths at low figures are now advertised in many leading journals, there is no excuse. I Every Family Should Have its Bath. In Health, Invaluable?In Sickness, Indispensable. 1 Men irlio set Side Tracked. Perhaps the most numerous class of men wtio get side tracked are those who start in life in an occupation for which they have no natural aptitude. There are thousands of farmer boys who never should remain on the farm ?the loud protestations of the agricul- : tural press to the contrary notwithstanding. There are, doubtless, men 1 who make a life business of stirring the soil when they ought to be stirring the senate; and on the contrary, perhaps, there are men who are trying to stir the senate who ought to be stirring the soil. Good business men are frequently spoiled to make poor preach ers; and tnere are many large ana heavy lawyers who would make ideal : blacksmiths, and there are some slender and unsuccessful blacksmiths with the keen logical brain and the shrewd masterful mind of the lawyer. Such men are side tracked for life; unless i some great event crosses their track, such as crossed that of Grant j the teamster, or Cromwell the country squire. But no doubt there are many Grants who always drive teams, many ' Cromwells who never leave the farm. There are many men who start out in life, like hunters, on the wrong trail. They never bring down their game because their game has gone in another i I direction. They are like fishermen i who boh for cod in a trout brook, or I start a-whaling on an inland pond. There are some men who are side tracked for life at their very birth. They are born into a mesh of circumstances from which there is no extrication. Of course it is easy enough to say that a man, like water, will always find his level; but its hard for water to rise plumb with its fountain head when confined in an underground gipe. It would have been difficult for Shakespeare to assert his claim to immortality if he had been born in Patagonia, and we would never have heard of Plato if he had first seen light in Scythia. To say nothing of the hereditary influence that mold the unborn mau, the environment of the young human's infancy usually shares and ; directs his destiny, so irrevocably that ? only men of the strongest will and the I toughest mental and physical fiber can : ever counteract the impetus that is : given them in childhood. < Reverence is one of the signs of. strength; irreverence one of the sure indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at high things, i The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be foresworn in the day of trial. )RK YORK goods in Waller : > furnish us with such ! *E DELIVERY.--We D 5; G-ipsy Woven ( n Corsets, 75 Cents, w tegular Made Hose, 18 Cents, 20 Cents ; 0 ls, 2 papers for 5 Cents ortli 65 Cents ; G-r ints, worth 15 Cents; ints; Linen Lawns, Cents, 6 1-2 Cents, 8 C $10, $10.75, worth 50 ket Knives, at 50 per c 5 Cents per Set; Te Wrenches, 22 Cents, 1 , 5 Cents. ) Eye-Openers. r York s. c. He Was Only a Dog. He was a brindle cur, and had nothing about him to excite admiration. ; But as lie stood shivering under the | "L" station at Ffty-ninth street and 1 Third avenue, his loneliness and en- 1 tire misery drew a sympathetic glance 1 now and then from a passer-by. He 1 did not appear to be a city dog; he ap- 1 peared too shy and ignorant of city I ways for that, and he looked anxiously < iu the face of each new comer as if i seeking a friend. But none came, s He tried to get on a surface car, but the i conductor yelled and a passenger kick- s ed at him, so he sneaked into the lee ] of one of the iron posts and shivered 1 more miserably than before. I Two little girls came along and stop- < ped a moment to speak to "poor dog- I gie." who attempted a little wag of the < tail in response. Then they patted i him and spoke kindly to him, and so i 1 xi :t A- , uueereu me pour wqu uiut nt; moucu i about them and wnined for joy. A heavy, lumbersome brewery wagon bore down on them. With the rattle overhead and the Babel of noise about them, the two little tots did not heed the rapidly nearing danger nor hear the shout that went out to them from the sidewalk. But the homeless dog did. Springing between the children and the advancing horses he barked, his shrill jtreble rising high above the clamor of the street. It was all done in a moment. The wagon rolled on; the children, spellbound with fear, stood still; the dog in a last desperate effort to repay the kindness shown him, hurled himself at the advancing horses. One child is brushed aside and the other clutched by a friendly hand as the horses swerve at the dog's attack. The brewery wagon went on its way, rocking and swaying, and two teardimmed little faces peered out from the sidewalk at a little heap 011 the 3tones of the street. Their defender liad given his life in grateful remembrance of their kindness. He was only a dog; lie knew no better. Headache. If I just note down some of tlio most ordinary cases of nervous headache, peoplo who suffer therefrom will know what to do and what to avoid : Over work indoors ; over-study; work ar study in doors carried on in" an unnatural or cramped position of body. Literary men and women ought to do most of their work at a standing desk, lying down now and then on a sofa, to ease brain and heart, and to permit ideas to flow. They should work out of doors in fine weather?with their feet resting on a board, not on the earth?and under canvasin wet weather. It is surprising the good this sim- s pie advice, if followed, can effect. ] Other causes are neglect of the ordina- t ry rules which conduce to health: ? want of fresh air in bed-rooms; want i sf abundant skin-exciting exercise, t neglect of the bath ; over-indulgence s in food, especially of a stimulating s character; weakness or debility of 1 body, however produced?this can be t remedied only uy proper nutriment; i nervousness, however induced; the t excitement inseparable from a fashionable life; exciting passion, anger and jealousy in particular. t t A cow in milk should never be driv- t en faster than a walk. Good cows > have large and well filled udders, * which cause pain to them if they are i hurried or driven on a run. i IN G DRY Block, and solicit an landslides in bargains ? uy for cash, and at the Dorset, 75 Cents, wort! orth $1; Sweetheai Cents, would be cheaj ?ur 20-cent Sock is full >; Ladies Linen Co." eat bargains in Handk Shambray, pink only , 12 1-2 Cents, worth ? Dents, 10 Cents, 15 Ce: ' per cent. more. lent, on the dollar; ible Spoons, 10 Cents ? n >-sj i TT _ j wortn ou uenxs; nai Dry NEW 1 Burdens on Young* Shoulders. "Now, boys, you must take upon yourselves the entire responsibility of jetting to school in season. I will see that your breakfast is ready on time; but I shall not find your books or your hats for you, or remind you that it is time to start. If you go through college, it will take you seven years? 1 three for preparation and four for the jollege course. I will provide cloth- i ing, books, all expenses, but you must jee to it that you are every day punctjal in your attendance. I cannot assume that burden in addition to all the rest." Thus spoke a mother to her two sons, who were just starting on , their preparatory studies for a college \ course. She had a double reason for thus throwing upon them the burden )f responsibility for purctual attendince upon their school studies. ?t was necessary that they, being fatherless, should early learn to spur themselves to duty, to hold themselves to account ' for their successes and failures; and she had already assumed all the burJens she could bear. From that hour *he never in a single instance reminded them that they were likely to be late. She did with great care go over 1 the monthly reports their teacher sent home, and show her gratification when their standing was high. She kept advised of their daily progress, overlooking their studies in the evening, sympathizing with their enthusiasm, and helping in the solution of their duties; but all the responsibility of their progress she made them feel rested on ' themselves. By the striking of the jlock in their room they knew when it was time to get up, when it was time to go to bed, when the hour of 1 areakfest arrived. If they carelessly laid down their hats and coats out of nlnma ?tm riirl not interest herself in ' :he least to helpiu finding them. It kvas unnecessary even to remark : "If pou had hung them in place, you ivould easily put your hand on them for they had heard from earliest infanjy, "A place for every thing, aud ivery thing in its place"A time for ivery thing, and every thing in its ;ime." As the result of this course on the nother's part, the two boys, though valking two miles to school in all .veathers, were rarely if ever late ; and vhen they entered college, to which ,hey went daily by the train, they verc uniformly and easily on time. Punctuality had become a habit, and hey needed no outside prodding in ceeping their engagements. This lense of responsibility continually enarged until it embraced an increasingy wide area, and when they reached ull manhood they were entirely ac:ustomed to bearing its burdens^ man'uliy. During all (his time, of course, the ichool gave the law to the family life. Every arrangement was made for the 'asy performance of school duties. Such diversions as would suggest or lemand late hours at night were avoided. The evening meal was served at luch an hour as would give time for itudy when it was over; or an early lour for retiring was insisted on that m hour for study before breakfast night be secured without robbing tlie ime for sleep. ? ] To strive to forget enemies, or to < hrow out to tliern only friendly i houghts is as much an act of self-pro- i ection as it is to put up your hands to i vard off the physical blow. The per- ? listent thought of friendliness turns ' iside thought of ill-will, ami renders 1 t harmless. t REE GO O ID S inspection by the pub! is were never seen in t ) lowest bottom figures 1 $1; Favorite Cor .4. oa n b V^Ul ?>t? l?, OU V^CIilS, w d at 25 Cents , Le iy worth 30 Cents ; Liars, 7 Cents, 8 Cents, erchiefs, 2 Cents, 3 Ce: , 6 1-4 Cents, worth 1< 15 Cents; Colored ats ; Scrim, 7 Cen G-ood Shears, 5 Cent per Set; Knives anc o+c< 1 flon+o TTQ L/U11U i/>J^ >L K-J WJU VM 9 AAUV Goods I FORK OFFICE, 466 , * " I Farmer Nick's Scarecrow. Out In the corn-field grouped together, A flock of crows discussed the weather. Observing them, thrl/ty Farmer Nick Declared that tho crows were "gettln" too thick J" "I must have a scarecrow?that Is true; Now, would not that old umbrella do?" So Into the house the farmer went, And away to the field the umbrella sent. One rainy day tho farmer went out l'o view tho corn-fields lying about. He neared the umbrella; looked Inside; And what he saw mado him laugh till he cried! For in there, out of the rainy weather, A dozen crows were huddled together! So the farmer, laughing as farmers should, Said: "I fear my scarecrow did little good." Not Hidden. In the rapid advance of science, medical experts can now detect, by countless almost imperceptible signs in each part of a man's body, decay at the seat of his life. By a few marks in the finger-nails nnd teeth, specialists in diseases of the nose and throat can note the progress of catarrh. A peculiar incertitude of gait denotes the beginning of a disease in the brain, that will inevitably end in mad uess and deatn. The wife of a well known Western lawyer was troubled, a few years ago, with an unaccountable dimness of visfon, and came to an Eastern city to consult a famous oculist. He placed her in front of a strong light, and by the aid of a tiny mirror, turned its rays into her eye. He found certain characters on the gray tissue which told him that she was the victim of an unsuspected and incurable disease. She had but two months more to live. The color of the skin, the breathing, the shape of the fingers, the glance of the eye, all betray to the scientific ob- ( server the condition and probable duration of that mysterious power within us which we call life, aud which, once jone, can never be recalled. Boys or girls who read these lines no joubt fancy that while physicians may thus detect the secrets of their rvf f hn CJ/M11 O I'O uriMlifl UUUICSf IUUJO Ui IUQ OUU1 UIV nimou their own keeping. ] "I can make my words and motions ; express what character I choose," the \ young man boasts, vain of liis < strength ; "but my soul i9 known only j io myself and God." Yet long before | lie passes out of childhood, the condi- | ;ion of his soul before God is written < in his face aud in his every action. j "When I heard Serena give orders ( :o her servant," says the Sweedish j Lauke, "I knew that her soul was at | leace with her Maker." ( His laugh, the tone of his voice, his < 'urtive glance, betray tho false pre- t ;ender among men. Criminals have , heir misdoings written 011 their faces, j Jain was not the only branded man. For our secret sins God brings us to udgment before our fellows, long bebre death, while the humble Chrisian, who seeks his Master alone in lis closet, conies out among men with I10 blessing given liiui shining hrough his every act and word. ( It's a good rule, snys Mr. Cyrus t Field. to "put all you have to say on ,1 >uo sheet of paper." When he fram- t d the first letter to be sent to the Brit- a ,*h Government on the subject of the j \tlnntic Cable, lie covered a dozen r iheets. But, thinking it over, he said, t 'It's too long, no one will read it;" so r. 10 kept cutting it down till lie got it 1 ill on one sheet of paper. r X NWO( OOMPi lie. We have a Pur his ceuntry. Kead this list 01 set, 60 Cents, worth 8? ortli$1.10; Gents L tdies Hose at 5 Cents, ? Fancy Metal Dress Bu 10 Cents; G-ents C nts, 4 Cents, 5 Cents, 6 3 Cents; Lace Stripe Tinted Check Lawns, 1 ts, worth 10 Cents; s, 10 Cents, 15 Cents; 1 Forks, 55 Cents per S miners, 10 Cents; Curr Cnmnair i and 468 Broadway, Good Intentions. w O Fred Russell was exceedingly busy, a He had ouly lived in the city three years, and was already known as a "rising young man." The only trouble seemed to be, he told himself, that he had no time for anything except his daily business. He could not even write to his mother. For the last year, indeed, he had sent her only an occasional, hurried note. One night, having finished his work unusually early, he sat by the fire thinking about her, and it was "boms' in upon him," as she herself would have said, to write her a long letter. Tnn4 r? /\nr iU AWA /I ! . ! AAAtM f A krt A t\ tin. UU91 liuvv kiicic uiu suc:uj lw uc an uiioccupied hour for it, and he went to work with zeal. He described his ^ mode of life at great length, inquired, with careful interest, about all tbe tj home affairs, and even tried to tell her at the end that he really loved her dearly, though he had seemed to ueg- . Iect her of late. "There," said he, when he had fin- .] ished; "I don't believe I've been as , soft on anybody since I was a boy: , and here 1 register a vow that I'll P, write every week?as good letters, too .. as I know how to concoct!" ' J* When lie came home from work the . next night, he found a telegram awaiting him: "Mother i9 sick. Come at once." He hurried down to the quiet country village, and by the time he reached the desolate home, the message should have been changed to read, "Mother is dead." Just as those words were uttered by ? his sobbing sister, he chanced to glance 11 at the table, where Jay his letter?un- (s opened. r JSlie would never read it. rne aearij" eyes were not now to be brightened, | " nor the faithful heart cheered by see- s] ing, in those loving words, the record s' of his good intentions. It was too & late. b ^ , tl How to Set Strawberry Plants. All who have cultivated strawber- ^ ries must have noticed how inconve- CJ uient it is to have the runners extend- jr ing in all directions. Sometimes they tr rim from one row to another, where j() they are torn up by the cultivator, and ^ sometimes two plants send their run- a< aers toward each other, making some ^ r>arts of the row too thick and leaving f() the others vacant. All this may be fe ivoided by setting the plants in such a m position that they will run in a given Iirection. It was discovered years ago :hat the strawberry plant semis out unners in but one direction, and from me sble, and that is the side opposite ;he old runner that produced it. If ^ he side of the plant from which the b< nain runner was cut is toward the 111 Sorth, that plant will run to the 5011th. Salt for Grapes. st m In a report to the Western New i'ork Horticultural Society an expo- p1 ienced fruit grower, of Tompkins 10 bounty (Mr. P. B. Crandall) states hat salt spread around a grape-vine in jM 1 radius of three or four feet, sufficient 0l] 0 whiten the ground, has been a pre- th entive of mildew for the past two m fears. The same varieties adjoining, lot thus treated, were ruined by millaw, while those salted were saved. "" L'ho result of the experiment should ?,; >e noted by grape-growers whose vines ire exposed to mildew. sa )D. 1ST Y 1 chasing Agency in J Bargains: Dr. > Cents; Daisy linen Front Shirts, * Cents, 10 dents; .ttons, 5 Gents per 1| toffs, 12 Cents per Jj i Cents, 7 Cents, 8 d Lawns, 8 Cents, 4 Cents, worth 25 Latest styles in Good Scissors, let; Thermomey Combs, 4 Cents; "J! rT y> New York. A well signed memorial, protecting against . ^ar from Boston, England, Is preserved In - P^jSM ur office. In those Mexican war days Lowell ing In Yankee dialect: "Ez for war I'call It murder,? There you hev It plain an'flat; I dou't want to go no furder TLmn ray Testyraent fer that; God hes sed so plump and fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, *' ^ An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take In God. I'll return ye good for evil v Much ez wo frail mortals can, But I won't go help the Devil Makln' man the cus o' man; Cull me coward, call me trailer, ; XrS Jest as suits your mean idee*,? Hero I stand a tyrant-hater. An' the friend of God an* Peace." The Evil of Chewing GIotw. ? -'A When I smell cloves on a man's reath my first thought is. "Tlttt.man & i a fool." He thinks he ts concealing vj le smell of whiakey or some other ile smell, and he is ouly advertising ;. There is another reason alaosrhy v3J| e Ls a fool. The oil of cloves, which i expressed from them, by shewing [ aem, is an active solvent of tbeenam- V jga I of the teeth. Any one who thews loves will soon notice that it imakes ie teeth tender. That means that leir enamel is disappearing, Mid tlie ext step is a mouthful of fleeayed ;etb, wliich all the odors of <AraLy , ^ ie blest can never sweeten._ When ^ 'ill nonnl? loom fhflf AWPPlPfli ftlld irest smpll of ^1 is no snwilafcaJI? \ For Foot Bet in Sbeop. Those whose flocks aresnourged with jis dread disease are advised that the . '\ lost effective remedy is blue vilrioL uilphate of Copper.) It is of prirnaY importance that all seraps and jells of horn rendered useless should ecut away near to the healthy 41** ' .jj jes. The solution of blue vitriol -5 lould be as strong as it can be made, nd be applied in the form of a foot- "3 ath about two inches deep, in which * le sheep are made to stand ' fifteen or ,venty minutes. "'"Jg Boys, to forget may not be a crime, ut it often leads to results almost like *ime. If you have ever forgotten any nportant order, do not think it a iiilng thing because no tragedy fol>\vs your forgetfulness. Your fault is le same when the danger is averted i when it is not. You may be saved hen others suffer; but the fault of rgetfulness is not great only as It afets the one who forgets, but as it akes every thing depending on that le uncertain and insecure. One morning many yearsAgo, Wilim (Jullen Bryant after reaching his fiee and trying in vain to begin work, > remarked: "I caanot get along this orniug." "Why not?" was asked. "Oh," he replied, I have done wrong. 'hen I was on my way here a little - js >y tlj'ing a kite pasted me. Th? Y\ ft^rl n?v miKKAr) onroi naf I Hi? W1 llio Ullf tuiviut iuvuvu r /JW y face, I seized it and broke It. The >y lost his kite, but I did not stop to iy him for it. I did wroug. ' I ought . r'? have paid bim." If housekeepers would only be will- j Z to do just wbat they can do with- J it getting completely dragged out. &m ere would be fewer sick women ana fl ore happy homes. m Sleep eight hours out of the twenty- fl ur, eat three meala a day,..and walk ' M i the sunny side of the street. M Knowledge is dearly bought if we i~r fl orifice to it moral qualities. /*