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? y??MfcidfciBiinfTrfTir""rii u -"1 '|'*1 I II ?1?n?m?a??a?a??mm?M?? ?????????^ >?i??igg?? The Abbeville Press and Banner.^ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 47. jj Ev ?ry o We f r#p#s The greatest as possible. Re in the Latest Styles, 1: from $8 to $30. complete line of Alpac Undoubtedly 'tl The most beautif We "V? Ni We always Even the smallest Pui pleasure in showing et Loriwer's ^'Institutes of the Law of Nations.'' Tho Pmf(?;?nr next nroceeds to coil sider what he calls the economical .solution of this problem. It has been thought by Mr. Seebohm and others that Free Trade and the ever-increasing independence of States will one day put a stop to war altogether. Pu>fessor Lorinier, however, does not share in this hope. He points out that, however close the relationship between States may one day become, and however interdependent they may one day be, this closer relationship and increased interdependence will not prevent them from going to war so long as positive law and jural organization are absent. The close relationship and interdependence even of a husband and wife, or a father and son, or a mother and daughter, is not a sufficient guarantee in itself against an .outbreak of folly, passion, or lawlessness between them. Even these close relationship* require positive law and jural organization to control thorn. As Siates ate no better and no worse than individuals, however close their interests may one day become through the influence of Free Trade and extended commercial rights and obligations, yet positive law and jural organ izauous win sim ue re<|iiiivu uvimt mv ultin.ate problem is solved. An international legislature, judicature, and executive must be established to lcgis- \ late, administer, and execute in inter-1 national affairs, notwithstanding closer relationships and more reciprocaland co-extensive commercial obligations may arise between Slates from i the spread of Free Trade. Some, J again, have thought that the progress ol civilization brought about by rclig-l ious and secular education will at length put a stop to war. Some carry this argument so far that they consider diplomacy and arbitration some day will render all further organization for legislative, judicial, or executive purposes superfluous. No doubt the progress of civilization does tend to narrow the sphere of positive legislation, just as when the nubile health increases there will be less need of medicine. But these are the ( fleets, not the causes, of legislation. They are the ends, not the means. A legislature, a iiwli/totiiro niwl mi ovnfllJ i ve lliaV alld JUU.VUV^V, V. ? do produce civilization, and education, but education and civilization never did produce them. We must not, then, rely altogether upon civilization and education to put a stop to war, and solve our nroblem, because they are the effects of legislation, jurisdiction, and execution, and not its causes. The way, then, to lessen the probability of war is to increase the potency and efficacy of our international jural organization, and. supply it with the three absent factors of legislation, jurisdiction, and execution. The "balance of power." voluntary arbitration, the economical solution, have all failed to solve the Professor's ultimate problem, and it only therefore remains to establish an international jural organization analogous to the municipal juial organization which we have in civil life, with its three factors of a legislature, a judicature, and an executive. It was the want of this which caused the Amphictyonic Council and the wise men of Greece at Thermopyhe to fail in their efforts after peace, ft was the absence of this which caused the failure of the Aehieau League and the Lyciau Confederacy. The League of Depa O M 3S3 A. e i# ttfifer - I the ('I Pll ; care has been taken i smember that we are p< rut unexcelled as the b A large line of Prim ias, Serges, Flannels an ie Largest Stool LEISS ill line of Gent's Furnis -ill Soil -5 0 one can fail to apprec have on hand an cliase is always apprec revy one through our st 11 I? ??a?M??BB?a l'WWMI | ; the Hanse Towns, and later on that of i the Helvetic Union proved failures j from the same cause. Henry IV.'s I scheme, Abbe St. Pierre's efforts, Ilousseau's, Kant's, and Bentham's 1 noble endeavors to solve this problem, par cxcclkncc, of international law all proved failures also from the same cause. They failed chielly because they aimed at tlie tinality of nations and the equality of States, and bci cause, in aiming at this, they violated I /-,( xiihiiu u'lnVili ?irr? un LIJV-- lano U1 JUUU1V, n U.v.^ ... w I changeable. Tliey did not succeed, I moreover, because, under the old disj pensation of diplomacy, the will of the ! nation represented was little thought of tit all. The nations formerly rarely 1 heard of international transactions until their faith had been plighted, and until it was almost next to impossible to get them out of the dilliculties into which their representatives hail drawn them. All this is now changed. Even the Kussian monarch does not lmw carry the national will in his [ pocket. In our own country in the present day every act of the executive ' is watched by a ubiquitous press. Inj ternational legislation, then, in our ! day, must be the immediate result of I the will of the nations represented. | We have now endeavored to give a short and brief epitome of Professor Lorimer's views 011 this all-important question. The space at our disposal! has necessarily rendered our sketch of| this great work very imperfect. Wei would therefore ask such of our read-J ers who have the time and leisure to procure the work itself. It will well! repay their most earnest thought and j study, both 011 account of its ardent sympathy with the cause of Peace, and also 011 account of its outspoken} and manly criticism of the mistakes j [which tlie Professor conceives that the 1 - IK. liAitA r.ilInn IIIl'IIUS Ul ]iraL'V imiv into. C. D. Any one who has the ability to ask a question that, to him, is worth asking, has tlie capacity to receive an answer that, to him, is worth receiving. A J thoughtful chihl, on inquiring about > . the location of Heaven, was told bv j his mother that he could not understand her even if she explained it. j She was probably right in so tVr as the] i child's ability to understand her wasj concerned; but she was wrong in not j .telling him that the fault was with I herself, and not with him. Had she known as much about answering him j as he knew about questioning her,! | there need have been no trouble about j his understanding her explanation, j There is no question that a child can , seriously and fairly ask, that cannot be I as seriously and fairly answered. To! j tell ii fluid, or 10 leaa u 10 iiuur, mail | il is "Loo littles" to kuow anything more. 011 any subject about which it already ; i knows enough to frame a question, is to deny its capacity for further growth.; Jt is to thrust the child's minu into a! dungeon instead of opening it to the! | liqht. It is to bind it in fetters instead , of giving it freedom of action. Ability to ask, presupposes capacity to receive. And no questions are better worth answering and worth better answers than a child's.?6'. *S'. Times. Nice table cloths and napkins should not be allowed to become much soiled, so that they will require vigorous rubbing with soap or in hot water. Salt fish of any kind is quickest and best freshed by soaking in sour milk. "s SPI rtmen" ND SE1 52^ y Our hm in selecting our stock s Dsitively HEADQUAI est fitting and best ma 3e Albert Suits, very si d Seersuckers. c of STRAW THAN T] ihing Goods, Shirts, Cu 7*"-b ?=* K-? L. W "' " - ~ - nate our elegant Stock Enormous Quantit; dated by us, and we sli ;ock. Out of the Current.?Said a Christian lady sadly : "I feel that my religious life is empty and joyless. I still read my Bible daily, and say my prayers morning and evening, but the peace and joy I possessed before changing my residence are gone." The kindly answer was: "What you need is to get into the current again?the current of the Christian life of to-day." Critical, caviling brother, this is | wiiai ans yuu. xuu are nut uuuauiuua-i I ly hard or unjust, but your attitude as) a mere spectator of what your breth-i reu are doing is not favorable to right views or charitable judgment. You | cannot appreciate the dilliculties they I meet, nor can you rejoice in the sue-! cesses in the achievement of which j you have taken no part. Claim your privilege as a Christian worker, keep step with the marching hosts of Israel, and soon a carping critic will be-1 come a happy and fruitful servant of! Christ. Get into the current. ? ??> ? A minister relates: "A friend ofj mine spoke to a lady about her soul. 'Are you a Christian?' he asked. 'Oh, yes; we are all Christians. We were born Christians in a Christian land,' was the reply. 'But you are a sinner,' my friend continued. 'Yes, we are all sinners, every one of us,' she said. Determined to corner her, he said, 'Do you believe in Christ?' t il .1.. r "Ul course l llO. >V Illll ll?J )uil uuun x am? Why do you ask such a foolish question?' We all believe in Christ,' replied the lady, becoming slightly annoyed at the questions put to her. How hard it was to make anything of a person like that. Careless and llippant, full of head knowledge, yet destitute of any particle of any saving belief. The Spirit of God at last pierced the polished surface of contented selfsulliciency and blind belief in safety, and showed tiie lady that she stood on the brink of a precipice, over which, if she had fallen, she would have met with eternal death. She came to Christ.^ If people ill their benevolent inipulses could realize that their gifts were to be made to Christ, whom they I dearly love, their alms would assume an entirely dill'erent aspect from -ordinary charities. Generally there are| only two persons concerned in benevo-' lent deeds?the benefactor and the J beneficiary; and the considerations! are purely human. The latter is an j unthrifty family, a beggar, an unde-{: serving tramp, an unpretentious audi needy Church, a poorly paid minister of the gospel, and hence along with | the benevolent impulse there is a feel- ( iug of reproach, or self-complacent! merit 111 tno comparison, uiau oiuj half opens the hand, and throws in aj grudge with the gift. Hut let these!. Christian benefactors understand the!i words, Doing to tlie least of these, yej] do it to me. Tlien they confront , Christ; then the consideration would j, he, How much shall I give to Christ? He was rich, and became poor for me. [ cannot stint my gifts. ? <??? Let not the man with only one tal- ' ent try to use five. Aaron was an ex- 1 cellent orator, but he was not an or- j ganizer. One day, when Moses was 1 cone, he undertook to mauage the ' government. In a little while he had j all Israel worshipping an image of a 1 calf. The gifts of God satisfy the heart. i i^NG t Fille E3 FOR m Stock #1 wvw litlh t? o as TO PLACE TI ITESS FOR CLOT! de goods that can1 be 1 tylish. An i HATS Ever I HEIR AC ffs, Collars, Neckwear, Sest Shoes of Dry Goods. v of Groceries, H Lall always endeavor t< RUS A Smart Boy. I'm glad I have a good-sized slate, With lots of room to calculate. Bring on your sums! I'm ready now: My slate is clean; and I know how. Hut don't you ask me to subtract, I like to have my slate well packed; And only two long rows, you know, Make such a miserable show; And, please, don't bring me sums to add; Well, multinlying's just as bad; And, say ! I'd rather not divideBring me something I haven't tried! ? In Time of Need. Yes, you may do without your Bibles in the heyday of prosperity; when the suu shines, and the birds sing, ana not a ureatn rurnes tne surface of your summer sea. You may then, possibly, afford to rest satisfied with barren theoretic views, or the chill of sceptic creed?to regard the Sacred Oracles as the effete record of a by-gone economy?antiquated sophistries?some writings of Palestine peasants and fishermen, which the superstition of an after age has palmed upon a too credulous world. But wait till the sky is clouded, and the wind moans, and the hurricane of trial is let loose; and where are you without these discredited pages then i Iso poetry, no philosophy can hush the sorrows and satisfy the yearnings of the crushed and broken spirit, as that Book of books has done. When no other panacea is of any avail, it has put courage into fainting hearts, and peace into troubled hearts, and hope into despairing hearts. Greece and Kome! Socrates, Cicero and Plato! You have, we allow, served us heirs to many golden maxims?beautiful fantasies, which read pleasingly in the sunshine, lulled by the ripples of the brook and the music of the grove?life all ecstacy and rapture. Jint for the soul which, in its hour of bitter desolation, craves for realities, commend me to the Psalms of David and the promises of Isaiah?above all, to the living, loving balm-words of Him who said, "Come unto me, all ye '1...' ?--? > 1 0.1/1 T I null Jiiuui" uuu are Heavy uiucu, auu a. i will give you rest." Every other world oracle is a Delphic one. It is either dumb, or its utterances are perplexing, dubious, misleading. But "Thy "testimonies are very sure." "The Word of the Lord is tried." "This is my comfort in mine affliction, for thy Word hath quickened me!" "Read, read the Bible," said William Wilberforce on his death-bed. "Through all my perplexities and distresses I never read any other book, and I never feel the want of any other."? J. 11. Macduff, D. D. It is easier to follow the world's counsel than to adhere to our own convictions of right. But if we do right we shall never have cause to regret it; whereas, if we fail to do right, we shall never be without a cause of regret for our failure. And God will approve our right doing, even though all che world should deem us foolish or over-particular. A life spent in brushing clothes,^and wasuiug crocKery, ami sweq'my uwio ?a life which the proud of the earth would have treated as the dust under their feet; a life spent at the clerk's desk ; a life spent in the narrow shop ; i life spent in the laborer's hut, may yet be a life so ennobled by God's loving mercy that for the sake of it a king might gladly yield his crown. He who faces the sun of truth leaves ill shadows behind them. able GO' d Wit] YOURS If fieg aed i rices. IE BEST GOODS C IING-. Our Plain bought. We have Dig mmense lot of extra Pa Irought to Abb TUAL VA , Hosiery and Underwe 3 for the w m 11 f armers especially s ardware, and Tok d make it your interest enbe: "Besetting Sins." [Extract from a recent sermon, by Rev. Geo. H. Means, Nicholasville, Kentucky.] Very few persons, if any, are given to all kinds of sins. Each sinner has some particular way of sinning?a sin that besets him. What is yours ? T? n? anifUO flnmo 13 iv au uaiuiLiviu^ o^invi one you secretly hate. Is it an avaricious spirit? A harrowing lust for gold. Is it a licentious spirit? A corrupt ng lust of the flesb. Is it a worldly spirit? A love of the world and its pleasures. Is it an ambitious spirit? An inordinate love of fame. Is it a vain spirit? An undue love of admiration and applause. Is it a discontented spirit? Dissatisfied with your lot in life. Is it a deceitful spirit? Lips that speak flattering lies. Is it a proud spirit? A love of vain and empty show. Is it an envious spirit? That builds on the ruins of another. Is it a contentious spirit? Striving for simple victory, regardless of truth. Is it an indiffereut spirit? Prayerless and neglectful of your soul. Is it a faithless spirit? Untrue to the moral and sacrea relations of life. Is it a man-fearing spirit ? Dread of the world's opinions. Is it a dishonest spirit ? Dealing un fairly with men. Is it ail uncharitable spirit? Making no allowance for others. Is it an irreverent spirit? Treating sacred-things with contempt. Is it an unsubmissive spirit? Murmuring at the wise dispensations of providence. Is it a presumptive spirit? Sinning against light and knowledge. Is it a doubting spirit? A spirit of skepticism or unbelief. Is it an egotistical spirit? That which undervalues virtues in others, and exalts those that belong to your| self. Whatever it may be, it is your "besetting sin," and the text says "lay it aside," lay it aside and "run," get away from your old haunts, old associates, old companionships; run with "patience," patience with yourself, your persecutors, your God. And "look unto Jesus" for deliverance and courage, and comfort. I must testify from experience that a temper of peace, thanKtuiness, iove and afFection is much more the proper frame for prayer than that of terror and discomposure; and that under the dread of mischief impending a man is no more lit for a comforting performance of the duty of praying to God than he is for repentance on a sickbed, for these discomposures affect the mind as the others do the body, and the discomposure of the mind must necessarily be as great a disability as that of the body, and much greater' prayer to God being properly an act of the mind, not of the body. To prevent the smell of paint put a handful of hay in a bucket of water and let it stand in the room over night. ( Professor Ramsey thinks that color- < blindness is a defect of the brain instead of the eye. Silverware can be kept bright for I months by being placed in an air-tight case with a gooa-sized piece of camphor. 1 ODS. h. Barg JEL.VES filMJUi, 1 ^sbtcea k )N THE MARKET l and Fancy Cassimere igonel Suits in all Style mts at Great Bargains. eville, at Twen .IjUB. ar, in all styles and gra Least Mc should not forget that icco at Rock Bottoi to deal with us. RG & All Xlglit in Prayer. The writer does not refer to the wellknown case of our divine Redeemer as recorded by one of the evangelists, but to that of an humble follower of his. A precious revival had burst, as it were, upon one of our churches, to the surprise of most of the members of it. They were not expecting it, or prepared for it. If they had been praying for it in a cold, formal way, they hard ly expected their prayers to be answered. But now the Lord was manifestly amoner them, reviviusr His people and convening the impenitent. * How I should they acconnt for it? True, He has graciously said, "Ask, and it shall be given you but they have not been asking in a way tbat authorized them to expect such a blessing. But some one has been praying, if no more, was the reply. And so it was. It was ascertained that one humble woman had spent a whole night in prayer for the very revival that God was then giving them. How precious her reward! And have we none amoncr us at this day to feel enough for the impenitent, enough for the glory of God, to spend all night in prayer? One night? We have preaching, and that which is good, and perhaps enough in general of it, but what the Church now seems to need especially is praying on the part ol' the members. " May they become so burdened with the worth of souls perishing in sin that they cannot rest, by night or by , day, but as they cast their burdens upon the Lord, then the windows of heaven will be opened, and blessings abundant will be showered down upon us .?Presbyterian Journal. ( What to Read when the Day is Over. < It is wise at night to read but for a < few minutes, some book which will I compose*" the and sootbemind|; which < will bring us face to face;with the true I facts of life, death and eternity; i which will make us remember that ' man doth not live by bread alone; 1 which will give us, before we sleep, a few thoughts worthy of a Christian I man with an immortal soul in him. J And, thank God ! no one need go far i to find such books. I do not mean 1 merely religious books, excelleu-; as < they are iu these days; I mean any 1 books which help to make us better and wiser and sober, and more charit- i able persons; any books which will teach us to despise what is vulgar and < mean, foul and cruel, and to love what ? is noble and high-minded, pure and i just. In our own English language we may read by hundreds of books t 1 ' ' ' " " H '-1 1 - I? ~ 1 I t wmcn ten us 01 an virtue anu 01 an i praise. The stories of good and brave t men and women ; of gallant and hero- i ic actions; of deeds which we our- e selves should be proud of doing; of c persons whom we feel to be better, c wiser, nobler, than we are ourselves, a Stockings.?If a lining of firm cloth t is sewed inside the heels of stockings s when they are new, or when they begin to show signs of wear, they will last much longer than if this is omit- d ted. Rather better than lining them > with cloth is running them up and i down with double yarn of darning a cotton. Stockings defended in this r way require little attention each week x when they come from the laundry, e Show this to your wife. T 1 No reason without language. No v language without reason. r 'm . : m esort | Sains. | Mis nt 4h# m "II it t?? . . 'il for as little money Suits are not only 3s, ranging in price Also, a ty Per Cent. 1 ides. /Jlj 5ney. ? ii Prices. |I We shall take ; S| : Co. | Decision. A teacher in one of the large colleges for women in the Eastern States lately told a little incident which maybe of use to some of our girl-friends. At recreation hour on one Sunday evening, a large number of_girls had as semujea in me panor. They began to talk and laugh, quietly at first; then j the conversation ran into gossip, and the laughter grew more boisterous and -^S frivolous. "I felt," said the teacher, "that the effect of the calm of the day, and of its soleuSn services, was being wholly destroyed. It was not the way in whioh girls who professed to serve Christ should spend his day, if they hoped tocome closer to him; but there was no actual infraction of school laws, and I had not the courage to interfere. "At last, a very young girl, a member of the lowest class, came in. She glanced around, with a startled, pained look ; then, after a moment's hesitation, she walked to the piano, and began to touch the keys softly. As the ' music stole through the air, the noise was hushed. " 'Why not have a little singing?' she said to those nearest her, and struck uie mat cuius or -j^ean, j\inaiy Jjignc.' "In a few moments every voice nad joined in the hymn so dear to us all. The girls are fond of sacred music. One hymn after another was sung with fervent feeling, uutil at last they separated for the night. Not one of them guessed how firmly and gently they had been led by a child into the ; right path." The story recalls a similar anecdote of a member of the New York Exchange, who was present at a conference between half-a-dozen men who controlled the market. A certain action was proposed which would prove sf enormous advantage to themselves, but which would result in bankruptcy nid misery to a great many people who were not informed of this plan of the leading speculators. The gentleman who had just joined :he conference looked about him and saw in every face an inuer consciousness of wrong-doing. Then he said, ivithasmile, "It would be advisable, */' jf course, if it were right. But it is nif liAnocf " -V ' '.*5 *W "VHVWH Not a single man bad the courage to nsist upon carrying out the project. The time will come to every reader >f these lines when, by a firm word jently spoken, he can lead his fellows nto the path of right. If it should seem impossible for him o speak to them, if the.heart fails and he voice chokes, let him remember hat the words he would utter are already spoken in the conscience of very one present. In all probability ach one is waiting, hopeful to hear the :all to do right, but without the courige to speak it. He will only give voice to their beter natures if he utters the word in eason.? Youth's Companion. ?? ,l u 11 It is well to keep in mind that! no * ~Jf lay leaves us just wnere it louna us. Ve are with each departing day older n time and nearer to the grave. Sojne ddition for good or ill is made to the ecord of life. We are made better or vorse. Habit becomes a little strongr. Our opportunities in life lessen. ?he need of dispatch in the work of ife increases. AVe have less time to vaste. The danger of delay augwewtz.-Independent. ' Jjs