The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, September 26, 1894, Image 4
The Press and Banner.
BY HUGH WILSON.
Twelve [Pages.
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1894.
ALL'S WELL
TDJT EMTIO WUTT
ill ill mwu 11 juuui
Vo Nominations
EXCITING TIMES.
But Peace Assured.
At 4:10 this Morning the Convention
Adjourned.
The Butler Convention met In Columbia tonight,
with a large number of delegates pres
eat from the different counties.
While Bome of the delegates are nndecided
as to what action they should take,?and
seem anxious to nave light on the subject of
nominations,?there are others who are very
pronounced In their views.
Of oourse It would be impossible to say positively
whether those who favor nominations
or thoae who oppose saoh action are in tbe
majority.
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Closed Doors-Nothing Definite from
the Inside.
At ten o'olook the caucus, composed of the
Execntive Committee and the chairmen ol
the different county delegations, were Btlll in
session, with closed doors. Everybody, in
clnding the repot ten, are excluded.
The Prospeet at Ten O'clock.
: The prospect now is that the caucus will not
adjourn before twelve o'clock, immediately
after which adjournment the convention will
assemble.
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IN FAVOR OF NOMINATIONS.
Reports to Res nits ? But Nobody
Knows Anything Abont It.
On the outside, where the waiting multitude
are anxious to bear everything possible, it is
reported that the majority of the delegates
are in lavor of nominations.
Johnson Hajcood Won't Have It.
It is further reported that Johnson Hagood
will be nominated for Governor, aDd that
Clarence Nettles or fame in his opposition to
the dispensary law, will receive the nomination
for Attorney General.
THE CAUCUS STILL IN SESSION.
Delegates Declare that Nominations
Will be Made.
At midnight the Batler canons was still in
session.
Several delegates have emphatically declared
that nominations, will3 positively be
made.
STILL IN THE RING.
Tbe Democratic Executive Committee
Wide Awake.
In oonsequence of the assembling ol tbe
Butler Convention, and in order to counteraotany
inlmicahmove it may make, the State
Democratic Executive Committee met tonight
to take such action as it deemed necessary.
After a session, more or less prolonged,
It was determined to take a recess nntll tomorrow,
when, if the Butler Convention
makes nominations the Committee will issue
their address declaring tbe Butler nominees
to be Independents.
Tbe Committee will also issue a call to tbe
Democrats of the State to stand fast to their
principles, and to put down the Independent
ticket in every part of the State.
Ab a farther evidence of their determination
to stand to the nominees now In the
Held, the State Executive Committee will at
once appoint a Campaign Committee to look
after and guard the Interests and solidity o'
the party, so that the victory which was re
cently won in the primaries, and In the Convention,
may not be wreated from the lucky
winners.
THE END IS NEAK.
The Cmcu Is Nearly Worn Oat.
At two o'clock a. m. a resolution not to
nominate was defeated by a vote of 9 to 118,
and several delegates withdrew.
One hoar later, a motion to rescind the action
in reference to nominations was Jellied,
76 to 63.
At 3.45 the caucus seems to be muddled.
The committee on platform are considering
tbelr report.
?n*rfiTnr n i m r ? ?m
dJjlM&lDijIj ill U&di,
No Nominations.
Colombia, 8. a, Sept. 2tt, 1894-4.65 a. m.
Up to nearly fonr o'clock nominations
were considered a dead sure tblng. But at
4.10 the icaucus adjourned. Tbe convention
assembled and simply passed resolutions
urging Democrats to organize, maintain Its
principles, and fight tbe constitutional con
ventlon.
THE STORM KING.
Tbe Winds and the Waves.
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 25.18M.
Latest veatber bulletin here reports cyclone
moving northeast ofl Floridlan coast. Department
predicts winds In city to-nlgbt of
from forty to sixty miles in velocity accompanied
by heavy rains.
Energy of storm not sufficient to be dangerous
on land. It will probably be central out
at sea. No serious apprehensions felt in
Charleston. At present (9 p. m.) a moderate (
gale blowing out of tbe south coa6t.
Miss Mamie ?. Burn, wbo has for sometime
been visiting her neice Mrs. W. T. McDonald,
left yesterday lor her home in i
Georgetown, having been telegraphed for on <
account of slowness.
Mrs. L. H. Russell, Miss Nettie and Mr. <
Lewis Russell were over to the Gate City yes- '
t>x day. i
WHAT IT MEANS.
I Mr. J. W. Barnwell (onutriieN the
Voter'* Oatb an<l Obligation.
News and Courier.
A Reporter for The News and Courier called
ou Mr. J. W. Barnwell yesterday wltb a request
for an Interview upon the subject of the
proposed nomination of a State ticket by the
Convention which is to meet on Tuesday
night, and the course to be pursued by the
citizens of Charleston In the present crisis.
Mr. Barnwell said that he bad already expressed
himself as to his own position and
that of other candidates who had participated
In the late primaries, but he had not until
lately examined Into the question as to how
far the voters who took part lu the primary
were nound by their action.
The rules of the party under whose direction
these primaries were held contain this
requirement:
"The managers at each box at the primary
election shall require every voter In a Democratic
primary election to pledge himself to
abide the result of the primary and to support
the nomluess of the partv." * ? * *
I do not see how any voter who took part in
the orimary under these rules can hold that
he absolved himself from his pledge to abide
the result of the primary by scratching the
names of the delegates to the Convention, for
the words of the pledge read that he shall
iblde "the result of tue primary," without
qualification, aud support the "nominees of
the party" without qualification, and give no
option to the voter to select one nominee and
reject another, or to abide by a part of the result
of the primary aud to resist any other
part of such result.
It must be remembered that ten days before
the election every candidate for office in the
State had in writing signified his candidacy,
and, therefore, each voter knew, or could
irnmvn. exactly who the nominees were,
and 11 he did not desire to be bouDd to support
them, all that was necessary tor him to
do was not to take part in it.
A party, is a purely voluntary association
and by simply abstaining from .participating
in the party elections a voter absolves himself
from any obligation to support its nominees.
Indeed there is an implied.under6tandlng
in all party organizations in the abseuce
of a pledge that the candidates, in order to
claim the support 01 the voter, shall be
proper candidates, and that the party platform
shall be.in accordance with the party
principles, but there is no such understanding
when the voter takes a specific pledge aod
knows the party platform and kuows who
the candidates are before be votes.
So far as the adoption of the Ocala platform
is concerned that was as much a part of the
party platform at the time of the primary as
It is today, and if the voter objeoted to it he
had only to refrain from voting and that absolved
him from the duty of supporting the
candidates nominated lu the primary upon
that platform.
As to those who took no part in the primary
they are entirely unbound and may do
what they please. The days have gone by
when any one is to be Irigbtened by talk of
Independentlsm, and the whole matter, so far
as the voter who took no part in the primary
is concerned, is a question of policy.
On the question 01 policy It seems to me
that It would be a fatal course on the part of
the opponents of the present Administration
to make nominations for State offices now.
For four years the Administration has been
sustained In large degree by appeals to passion
and prejudice, by promises of great reform
and especially great reduction of taxation.
Time is needed to allow the sober judg
ment of the more conservative people ui the
State to have Its effect, and for the followers
of the leaders who made these promises and
who have reaped all of the profits of the
agitation to find out that they have been
deceived.
It seems to me under this view that it was
well that the clubs which it was suggested
last winter should be formed In support of the
National Democratic party were not formed,
?. ma t hat it is well that no con
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test was made for State officers by the opposition
during the late campaign. I think every
one will observe that there has been a divergence
between the leaders of the Administration
party and loosening of tleB among the
rank and file. This is acknowledged by members
of that party themselves.
All the good effect of this abstention up to
the present time would be lost, and the danger
would be the consoldation of the Administration
ranks. Of course If it is desired by
ihosewho are unpledged merely to make a
protest against the nominations made by the
party in power, they have a perfect right to
do so; but does the occasion demand such a
protest at the expense of what has been
gained by the passive policy up to the present
time?
So far as my knowledge ol politics extends
it would be almost impossible to make a successful
contest in the short time between now
and election day even, if all of those opposed
to the Administration were free and uutrammelled,
but bound as they are, and with the
whole election machinery in the hands of the
other slde,succcs8 is impossible in my oplnon.
I shall not go into the question whose fault
it was that a surrender of the immense powers
ol this election machinery into the bands
that now hold tbem was ever made, but the
problem of how to overcome a party which is
In possession of them will never be solved
while the opposition Is In the condition In
which it now is. In my opinion it can only
be effected by so great a change in the sentiment
of the white people of the State us to
make the possessors of the machinery afraid
to use it or by a consolidated party which Is
prepared to maintain Its rights by force. It is
self evident that no such party can be orgau'*oH
r",t ? ?"'inn in six weeks and In the
present condition of affairs.
I have reason to think that a very large
umber of the people of Charleston take
similar views with my own, and although
this is the only county in the State where
there is practically no Administration party,
so few are its members, yet an opposision
ticket conld not now, in my opinon, expect a
large support here.
Evidence or ProsperifyThe
advertising columns of the Press and
Banner attest the prosperity of the town and
the thrift of the people.
In no section of the State are there greater
proof of general prosperity than in Abbeville.
Our stores are being filled with the largest
stocks of the choicest goods, and the people
everywhere are beginning to realize that Abbeville
is a first-class market. This fact accounts
for the returning trade from every section.
Abbeville is regaining all that she lost in
former years, and in addition, her customers
come from more remote quarters.
The LownUeMvllle High School.
I By an oversight the advertisement of the
Lowndesville High School failed to appear at
the proper time. The ability and efficiency
of the principal and the assistant, together
with the desirable location In a fine community,
make it one of the most excellent schools
in all this county.
The Press and Banner would urge the school
upon the attention of all parents and guardians
who have children to educate.
Still UrowinfTThere
is still a growing and continuous demand
for Btore rooms.
Mr. J. Allen Smith has put up a new store
room on Washington street, and every house
n town is occupied.
Messrs. P. Rosenberg & Co. are pressing the
work on their magnificent block of stores,
and In every quarter men are building up
the town.
Abbeville is perhaps the best mule and
horse market in the western section of the
State.
The Revised NtiUuten.
I now have on band Vols. 1 and '2 of Revised
Statutes ot South Carolina. Trial Justices
will please call at Clerk's office and receipt
for copy of same. W. R. Bullock,
Clerk Court.
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Mrs. Taggart lia6 a large clock of milinery.
All the latest shapes and new ^st shades.
Mre. Taggart has dress supplies, consisting
o/lining, crinoline and rateen linings, canvass
facings, whalebones and coverings, hooks
and eyes, all the best quality.
All the French fashion plates and latest
styles will be found at Mrs. Taggart'*.
See Mrs. Taggart's walking hats and sailors,
also the prices.
Mrs. Taggart has a large stock of fancy
feathers, bat pins and ribbons, All the latest
styles.
Dresses cut to fit and made to order by Mre.
Taggart.
You can get a fancy hair pin at Mre. Taggart's
so cheap you can't miss what you paid
for It.
Tse Catholic hot supper was well attended
last Friday night, and the financial result was
quite satisfactory.
If you need any knives and forks or spoons
call on R. C. Bernau, the jeweler. He hasjust
received 25 dozen knives in silver plate, especially
made for him, with i;is name, which
he guarantees to be as good or better than any
tor tUe same price.
JR. C. Beruau is sole agent for the 25 year
guaranteed goods, which aie better than any
of Soger's make aud do poj, cost any more.
The star that leads Uieoi all. The Domestic
Sewing Machine can be bouiiht cheap for
zashoron <easy Payments of It. i\ liernun,
the Jeweler.
The Light That is Felt.
A tender child of summers three,
Seeking her little bed at night.
Paused on the dark stairs timidly.
"O, mother, take my hand," said she.
"And then the dark will all be light."
We older children grope our way
From dark behind to dark before;
And only when our hands we lay,
Dear Lord, in Thine, the night Is day,
And there is darkoess nevermore.
Reach downward to the sunless days,
Wherein our guides are blind as we,
And faith is small and hope delays;
Take Thou the hands of prayer we raise,
And let us feel rhe light of Thee.
John G. Whittier.
The Kent Thing to Do.
And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works.?Hebrews, x.,
24.
The mau who thinks only of himself
and is forgetful of his obligations
to others doesn't comt for much either
in this world or the t^xt.
A purely selfish man, who wants
everything and gives nothing, lives in
cultm*Ku nf rvnrnrotr\r\r onH urill rinf
tuu ciuuuiuo v? " *??
have far to go when he dies.
To recognize your rights and ignore
your duties is to pursue a policy which
angels deplore and devils rejoice at.
God can use a man to the best advantage
when the soul which is proue
to selfishness evicts its tenant and
makes room for tbe occupancy of
heavenly visitants.
Tlie man who seeks for this' world's
goods exclusively, whose chief possesion
is a bank account, will find himself
out of place in heaveu, a straDgei
in a strange land.
Money is a good thing to work for,
but it isn't tbe only thiug, nor the best
thing.
It is not well to despise money, but
you should remetnber that while it
will purchase much that is desirable it
will buy neither character nor happiness.
Unless you generously share it
with those who are unfortunate it wili
make you narrow and mean.
The most pitiful spectacle that eye
ever looked upon is the man who has
more than he knows what to do with,
but refuses to give his surplus to keep
. the wolf away from the door across
the street.
The noblest men are those who give,
not those who keep, and thi re is mort
satisfaction in seeing a poor man's
children eat the bread which you have
furnished than in sitting at your own
fn kin nrVtott nlnnf it o K/\i i i"w I o if timi 5 nr.
lauic wiicii picui/j auuuuvin, it juu 15nore
the poor man's cliildreu and let
them go hungry.
True religiou is a very simple matter.
You can get along without a
creed, but you cannot get along without
doing good to your fellow creatures
who need your help.
The world is full of sorrows and
struggles. Tears fall like showers and
sighs till the air as when the wind
sweeps through a forest of piues.
Those who suffer are part of the family
to which you belong. You have nc
right to be indifferent. To be neglectful
is a crime. If you can lend a helping
hand, but refuse to do it on the
ground that you wish to use both hands
for yourself, you lose an opportunity
which Providence has presented, and
you will have difficulty in explaining
your conduct when the hour of reckon
ing comes.
Doing good to others is the best way
to get a blessing for yourself.
You will find the strongest proofs
that the religion you believe in is from
God if you will cease studying the
theology which is in books and devote
an equal time to God's poor in your
neighborhood.
When a man gives cheer to another's
heart the angels mysteriously putcheei
into his own.
It is right and proper to pray, "Give
us this day our daily bread," but God
asks a price for His answer, and that
price is that you share of the bread He
gives to you.
If you are suffering from a affliction
what will you do ? How shall you
seek relief? By asking God to lighten
your burden? No; by doing what you
can to lighten the burden of some
equally troubled soul. If you bring a
smile to the trembliug lips of another,
you will soon discover that a smile is
alighting on your own lips like a butterfly
on a flower.
Would you increase your faith?
Would you dissipate your doubts?
Would you convince yourself that life
is very well worth living, even when
the shadows throw their gloom on
your path? Then visit those who are
wearily plodding along, hopeless and
friendless.
You will find yourself stronger by
forgetting yourself and saying a kindly
word to some poor creature who
would think he was in heavenly surroundings
if he lived under your ioof
tiuu enjoyeu your auvauiages.
When you are in the presence of the
Lord, who was Himself poor and oppressed,
and so lonely that He knelt in
Gethsemane to ask for help, you will
be poorly off if you have nothing better
to say than that you accepted all
the creeds of the Church and kept
yourself unspotted from the world.
But you will be well off if you can assure
Him that you kept some one else
unspotted from the world at great
pains and sacrifice.
Love God, love your neighbor, obey
the command, "Feed my lambs," and
you will get a warm welcome at the
end of the journey after death.
It is not what you believe, but what
you do, that will entitle you to a residence
in the New Jerusalem.
You may be worth a million, but if
you have done nothing to make the
world better yo will die a beggar.
You may be counted among the poor,
but if you havp been a brother to your
fellow men a group of angels will
gather abaut your bed and usher you
with songs into the presence of Him
who said, "The first shall be last, and
the last first."
No one ever yet loved God acceptably
who did not loved His children.
There is no room in the House not
built with hands for a soul that has
not made some sacrifice for others.
If you love your kind and manifest
that love by generous deeds it will be
but a step from your grave to heaven.
?New York Herald.
Files That Npoll the Ointment,
rtuiKineas.
Stinginess.
Procrastination.
Half-hearted ness.
Lack of perseverance.
Pre-eminence seeking.
Lack of consideration.
Neglect of little duties.
Doing things by halves.
One-sided view of things.
Jealousy of others' success.
Shirking one's responsibility.
Lack of sympathy for other's trials, j
Lack of attention to personal habits.!
Failure to improve one's spare mo-1
ments.
Failure to keep one's promises to the;
full.
Making self a chief topic of conver-;
sation.
Failure to meet the engagement at
the exact time.
Failure to carry the Christlike spirit j
into every ^ct of the life.?Exchange.
Needle* for all kinds of tuachlues at K. C-,
pernau, the jeweler.
Nobly Done.
About ten years ago a gentleman
living in New York took his family
to the mountains of North Carolina
to spend the summer. The Northern
i visitors at the hotel where he and his
I family stayed were in the habit of inspecting
the mountaineers in their
cabins with amused curiosity, as they
might have looked at wild beasts in a
menagerie.
The women of the mountains could
not read, write nor sew ; they knew
how to cook nothing but the coarsest
food. Many of them had never been
inside of a church. A prayer-meeting
held once or twice a year in the
hills was the only religious service
which they had ever knowu.
The city visitors were iuterested in
them lor a day or two ; talked of them
with pity, or with contempt, and wondered
how such ignorance could exist
anywhere in the United States. Then
they turned to the scenery, or their
hutiug aud fishing, and thought noth
?. -c *Ua mith urhnm
ing more ui uic pcupic nnu n mvuj
they had so little in common.
But tbe daughter of the New York
merchant, a girl of seventeen, went
often to their cabins, and made friends
with them. She found them anxions
to be "like the women from town."
She wished to help them, but felt inincapable
of doing so.
That winter, at home, she went into
the kitchen of her father's house and
, learned to make bread and to cook
meats. Bhe learned also, from her
| dressmaker, how to cut out, fit and
. make a simple gown.
Her father the next spring built a
cottage in the mountains, so that the
! family could remain all summer. She
invited several of the mountain girls
of her own age to font a sewing and
! cooking club. They met twice each
' week at the cottage, when she taught
; them what she herself had learned.
The club increased ; many middleaged
women joined it, eager to "learn
town ways."
, Not only were they taught to sew
' and cook, but unconsciously they
learned from their young teacher
| many comely and healthful habits
} hitherto unkuown to tbem. Tbe men
of their families highly approved tbe
work which brought comfort into
( their cabins.
, The next summer the city girl's
classes were larger. She opened a
" * * * * A. 1 kill-.
[ school in the caoins among me jjiiib,
_ and taught the women to read and
write, as well as to sew and work.
' Her family and even some of her
pupils regarded her work as a girldish
frolic, but came to a different conk
elusion as she persisted in it year after
| year, and its good results became
apparentI
The ambition to be clean, to wear
i decent gowns, to bake good Dread,
I and to be able to read spread from
cabin to cabin. When she taught a
class in the farther rauges, where even
( the intinerant preacher never came
to hold a "pra-ar," she read from the
' Bible, or sang a hymn with her pupils,
[ doing it as simply and naturally as
J she taught them to make bread.
, Naturally the girl became a pet
among these lonely mountaineers.
f They taught her, iu turn, to fish, to
; shoot, and to ride their shaggy pouies.
As time passed they built one or two
, 8choolbouses at her suggestion, and
then a church.
What was the result ? Religion and
| civilization have now spread through
, two counties of that state. But the
' people, as a whole, were probably
; never conscious that they owed their
lirat push forward to the hand of their
young Northern visitor.
. She died a yearago. Her name will
never be enrolled among the mission,
aries of any church, yet she was one
of God's messeugers.
Neither age, nor ordination, nor
ceremony of any kind is necessary to
1 set us apart for this work. We can
begiu to-day in the simplest, homeliest
way which otters itself to bring
the brother who is more needy or igI
nnront than niirselvpn un to a hisrher
plane of life.
When People Vole i*? They Prny?
The flag of the United States will
cease to fly over drunkard factories.
The slums of our large cities will
cease to sway the destinies of the Republic.
The brothel, the gambling den, and
the dive will seek a more congenial
clime.
The alliance between a corrupt money
power and a corrupt liquor power
will be forever broken.
Wage-earners will be able to carry
their wages home on Saturday night.
School children will no longer come
to the afternoon session too boozy from
the beer they get at lunch to learn anything.
The.c will be a call for one million i
employes who are to-day out of work
and don't know where to find it.
Ten of thousands of mothers whose
hearts are breaking and wives whose .
homes are hell in miniature will learn
again how to smile.
The increased demand for coal and ;
carpets, tor Hour and oeei, ror snoesami
clothing, for book9 and pictures. wiJl (
make business boom as all tariff's on '
earth never could make it boom.
Thousands and tens of thou9aud9 of 1
new homeB will be built, and the car- i
penter, the mason, the plasterer will I
forget how to loaf. I
Two and one-half million drunkards i
now on American soil will have a
chance to sober up and stay sober.?N. .
Y. Voice. I
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Sit and ''Set."
How many persons are troubled and
nervous as to the right use of these
little verbs. Perhaps the following
examples of their use may be helpful. '
A man, or womau either, can set a
hen, although they cannot sit her; j
neither can they set on her, although j
the hen might sit on them by the hour :
if they would allow it.
A man cannotset on the washbench, j
but he could set the basin on it, and ;
neither the ba9in nor the grammarians 1
would object.
He could sit on the dog's tail if the
dog were willing, or he might set his
foot on it. But ifhe should set on the
aforesaid tail, or sit his foot there, the c
grammariaus, aw well as the dog, r
would howl, metaphorically at least. ]
And yet the man might set the tail s
aside and then sit down, aud be assail-j
ed neither by the dog nor by the gram-j \
mariaqs, . r
11
An advertisement calling for thirty
laborers to do railroad grading in the g
city of Chicago brought 5,000 starving I t
men to the appointed place, who de-1
manded work or bread. After much j t
difficulty the mob was finally dispersed j c
t'y the police. Most of them were It
foreigners who could not apeak Eug.!
lish. Some of them receutly came! g
from Europe, aud said that they had |
been told across the water by steam, j
ship agents that huudreds of working- i u
ment were quitting work in Chicago!
because their employers would not pay "
them five dollars a day and that they j n
could get their places and make that!
much money every day. If they had lc
not been deceived by the agents, they |
say, they would uot have come. jj]
I '
GRAINS.
Do noble deed*, not dream them all
day long.
"The way of the Lord is strength to
the upright."
Love to God is sure to bring pence of
conscience.
God never had an enemy who wa9
not the bitter foe of man.
It is foolishness to try to reason
about what we cannot know.
The Bible offers no premium on laziness
or improvidence.
T f nronf V> 11 m Qllltv
.
What he tiained.
Fairs given to raiae money for chari- >
table objects have long been recognised
as among the quickest means
known for emptying pocket-books and
loading unwary purchasers with all
sorts of things for which they have
no use; and the prices demanded for
the articles are said to be usually quite
out of proportion fo their value. A
recent German paper gives an account
of a man who strayed into a "Charity
Bazaar," and had a trying experience.
He ha<1 made several quite unsaus-1
factory purchases, not knowing howj
to refuse the demands of the pretty
saleswomen, and at iast, to urove that |
he could make one sensible investment,
he bought a small matchbex
pnd carried it ofT in triumph and
haste.
Examining it after he had left the
booth, he discovered that there was no
place on which to light the matches.
"So, with the air of one determined
not to be cheated, he marched back
to the young lady of whom he bought
the box.
"There is a mistake here," he said.
You sold me this pocket match-box,
and thore is no place on it to scratch
the matches."
"My dear sir," said the young lady,
you are quite right; I made a mistake.
That is intended for a jewel box, and
costs fifty cents more, if you please."
"And what did you do?" asked a
friend, to whom he related his tale of
woe.
"If you've ever been to a fair," replied
the other in an aggrieved tone,
you know very well what I did. I
paid the fifty cents of course !"
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Farm and Garden Note#.
Corn is a standard food for hogs
though wheat is also excellent when
soaked or ground and mashed. Boiled
potatoes and barley meal are considered
to make the finest-llavored
bacon.
The few fowls that every farmer
keeps, and on which he spends but
little, pay best of all his farm live
stock.
Beef blood is said to be an excellent
food for poultry, as it 5s rloh in nitrogen,
approaching the white of the i
eee in composition.
A good crop of hay may be made
more profitable thau an equally good
crop of grain oine times out of ten if
it is judiciously fed to stock upon
the farm.
An acre of good ensilage corn should
produce fifteen tons. This would feed
five cows, forty pouuds each, for 150
days. From this you can caleulate
how many acres you should plant.
Try the acre and the five cows as least,
and another year you will put in
more.
The handiest and most effective way
to apply paris green to potatoes in in
the form of a <iry mixture with fiour.
It sticks better thau any other substance;
a very small quantity is sufflcleut,
aud with a small sifter it may be
applied rapidly and with little waste.
It does not involve such hard work
aud is really cheaper fo-.' that reason.
Carrying water costs more than the
fiour.
The royal institute for fruit and vine
culture at Geisenheim, Germany has
experimented successfully in the use
of copperas as a stimulant for plants
that lack green color in their leaves.
The copperas should be dissolved in
water and applied near the roots in
early spring.
Carrots aud cabbages are two item
that should have a larger place in
our list of feeding stuffs. The first
are excellent for colts, horses, milch
cows, aud all young stock. The second
are valuable for pretty nearly
all kinds of stock, and there has not
yet any been found that will not eat
them greedily.
Here is a farmer's way to get rid of
rats. He says he has tried it when
they were bad aud got rid of them all.
Take one-half pint of sifted meal and
put into it a thimbleful of calomel,
such as is used in families. Mix well
aud place in small tins or some shallow
vessel in or near the place where
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the rata infest; an to oe usea ory, ?uu
in a short time rats will be very scarce
on the premises.
To make fur soft when it has become
wet and hard, rub the pelt between
the hands.
A lighted sulphur match held at a
safe distance under a stain will produce
sufficient sulphurous acid for its
removal.
In making caramels be sure to boil
the mixture until a little of it will
snap when dropped into cold water.
If this rule is carefully observed, the
caramels will not grain.
The staining principle of common I
indelible ink is nitrate of silver. It
may be removed by first soaking in a
solution of common salt, which provinces
chloride of silver, and then
washing with ammonia, which dissolves
the chloride.
It is said by authorities that salt
water will set the color of cotton materials.
Place three gills of salt in
four quarts of water, heat the latter,
put in the fabrics, aud let them remain ,
until the water is cold.
Lay the scorched phirt bosom where
it will receive the direct rays of the J
"in. This treatment will remeve the |
marks of scorching from any fabric,
unless the defacement is too serious. |
Potato Omelet.?Take a pint of cold
Hashed potatoes and heat over the ,
tire with two tablespounfuls of sweet ,
jreara, beating with a fork until
unootband light. Add four beaten j
?ggs. pepper, salt, and a little nutmeg, ,
aid press through a sieve ; beat one
;ablespoonful of butter in a saucepan, ^
md cook half of this mixture like an s
>melet. It is delightful with bacon or
aam cut in thin rashers and fried ^
;risp.
Changed (lie Subject.
""One of the most difficult things to t
lo gracefully is to change the cur- ?
ent of an unpleasant conversation.
3ut the small boy can do it if circum- c
tances make it necessary. t
"Thomas, will y<>u please tell me
vhy you pulled up the onions from
uy Danvers onion-bed ? How many
imes have I told you to keep away r
rom the garden ?"
Thomas grew red in the face, and his Jgrandfather
went on to depict the evil }'
ate of bad little boys. *'
Meantime Thomas had pulled himself c
ogether, and, as the harangue was cou- i'
luded, he said with a smile, referring "
o an event of the previous week:
"Pity our old rooster died, wasn't it1
randpa?" 111
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You will find pollle aud attentive salesmen : Pl
t the Racket Store. As much atlentloQ
liown a one cent purchase as if you were
laklnp a ten dollar purohase. We live up toj si
lie old adage: "Takecereof the pennies and .1
lie dollars will take care of themselves." 11
The Racket Store Is the place to buy goods j ?
heap.
Ladies nndervests, winter goods, at Racket!
lore for 15 cents. They are going very rapid1.
Como and set what jou waiJt. II
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II JUU YT C*U U l/* * IVUI II duiUMUivji
study a good woman.
"Keep thy tongue from evil and thj
lips from speaking guile."
The man who can not be caught witl
whiskey may be ruined by money.
Would you win success in life'
Always do your very best; God ant
time will do the rest.
The foo! sedom thinks what h?
says, and the wise man rarely sayi
what be thinks.
If the church is not separated fron
the world, what need is there for t
church.
If you want to help the devil t(
make backsliders, get up church enter
tain me uts.
Patience and helpfulness enables us
to be a blessing and comfort one to the
other.
It's funny that a heated discussion
generally produces a coldness between
friends.
He who does evil that good ma}
come, pays a toll to the devil to lei
him into heaven.
Don't worry about the opinions o
others but live so that you can respec
yourself.
The nation has no better friend that
the Mother who teaches her child t<
pray.
People like to travel in cheerfu
company. If you are on your way U
heaven, show it by your manner.
"Tt is only when to-morrow's burdec
is added to the burden of to day thai
the weight is more than a man car
bear.
Express your sympathy for, and in
terest in, the work of God by con
tributing as he has given you abilitj
in promoting it.
Get people to believe that it is indeec
more blessed to give than to receiv<
and the church entertainment wil
die a sudden death.
If a man knows anything abou
religion, he will want to know more
He who knows most on the subject ii
surest to be a seeker after addec
knowledge.
When one man measures another h<
uses the best man he knows for i
standard, but when he measures him
self ne taites tne worst.
When a tnau doubts the existenc<
of the deyil, it is pretty good evident*
that he has never done auy fighting
in the Lord's service.
Three lessons we never learn to<
well: That a stitch in time onc<
dropped is never picked up ; that f
lost opportunity is never found ; tha
a borrowed trouble is never re
turned.
We cannot understand how God'i
Spirit works, hut we can see the effec
of that working. If we put ourselves
iu the way of the Spirit's iufluence
the result will be felt and seen in oui
character and lives.
Ought we not to be ashamed of our
selves that we have so poorly improv
ed our advantages in the study of God'i
truth ? If we know so little, who is U
blame for it ?
He who has experienced the love o:
God in Christ can testify of its powei
better than he can reason about it.
And personal testimony is worth more
to others than argument.
There is no cowardice in seeking
communion with Jesus by night.
Coming to him in darkness and in
solitude, we can get strength to witness
for and to serve him in the daytime
and before others.
Salvation as a fact is a very simple
thing. It is life through a loving look.
But salvation as a philosophy is
above our comprehension, unless we
are technical theologians; and in that
case we can satisfy ourselves with our
theorizing whether we cau anybody
else or not.
"I have made a thousand dollars in
the lastthree months," said a prosperous
liquor dealer to a group of ineD
standing near his saloon. "You have
made more than that," remarked a
listener, "What is that?" was the
quick response. "You have made my
two sons drun kards. You have made
their mother a br arted woman.
01), you have made much more than
I can reckon, but you'll get the full
account some day!"
Nome KettMOMN for Daily Exerclae.
1. Any man who does not take
time for exercise will probably have to
make time to be ill.
2. Body and mind are both gifts;
ind for the proper use of them our
Maker will hold us responsible.
3. Exercise gradually increases the
physical powers, and gives morei
itremrth to resist sickness.
4. Exercise will do for your body
what intellectual training will do for
four mind?educate and strengthen it.
5. Plato called a man lame because
He exercised the mind while the body
,vas allowed to suffer.
6. A sound body lies at the founda,ion
of all that goes to make life a
iucces9. Exercise will help to give it.
7. Exercise will help a young man
o leau acnasie 11 re.
8. Varied, light, and brisk exercises,
lext to sleep, will rest the tired brain
>etter than anything else.
9. Metal will rust if not used, and
he body will become diseased if not
xercised.
10. A man "too busy" to take care
>f his health is like a workman too
)usy to sharpen his tools,
Not One.?Willian was very fond of
aisins, but in his childish vocabulary
hey were known as reasons. Ou
Sunday, as he sat demurely in church,
ie was suddenly interesttd and deighted
lo hear the minister fay in the
ourse of his sermon: "1 will give
ou my reasons later." From that
aoment the little fellow had somehiug
to look forward to,
At the close of the sermon the oonributlon-box
was passed, and he felt
ure that the promised treat was forth- <
nming, and it was a badly disappointil
boy who said after the service :
"Mr. S?said he would give us <
Dine reasons, but when they passed
ho plate there wasn't a reason
nit!5' ,
No man need apologize for bt'iug in !
Lie right.
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What Work C?n I Do For Je*n* ?
I cau attend my own church regularly
I can systematically give of my own
means to support the ordinances.
I can entourage and influence
others to give for me support of the
, church.
lean use my influence to promote
the peace of the church, and to guard
its good name.
j I cau help my minister?by coming to
I the front in prayer meetings ; by introducing
strangers to him ; by praying
for him ; by speaking well of
him.
I can give myself, and encourage
others to give liberally for the sup1
port of the benevolent schemes of the
church.
r I can help in the Sunday-school.
I cau visit the stranger, bringhim
to church with me, and introduce him
to others and to the minister.
I can visit and comfort the sick and
> help the poor. (Matthew xxv : 34-40.)
I 1 can read the literature of my own
church and thus become familiar with
its work, and be able to correct the
! false impressions which others may
1 have of it.
I can lend books, magazines or pannpu
r\ f rritra utimif fennL t\ir vtrVtlskli
I ^cin, VI giTt ?TT a j UOV/U", uj nuivu
i others man nilently be effected by the
truth.
I can encourage every good work by
} u>y personal help as far as possible, and
always by my good words.
1 can assist in evangelistic work by
i speaking, singing, or visiting, or
? providing a conveyance, or in some
way, as I have talent or ihere is a call
for it.?Rev. A. Jackson, in Kendal 1,
ville Endeavorer.
The Editor's Manual.
' Mr. Charles A. Dana, the veteran edt
itor of the New York Sun, had occasion
recently to make an address to
f students anent his own favorite occut
pation?journalism. Of course it was
necessary, in speaking of literary style,
j to refer to the books which the journaj
listic aspirant should cultivate. The
following is an excerpt from Mr.
Dana's advice on this subject:
1 "As to what books you should read
^ ?u. * 1.1^
' me ujuHi luumpeusauie, ust-iui aim cifective
is the Bible. I am considering
it not as a religious book, but as a
' manual of utility. No book is sug1
festive, none wbich recounts the
1 greatest events with solemnity, none
from which you can learn more direct.
ly that sublime simplicity which never
. exaggerates, none which you opeu
r with such confidence and lav down
with such reverence?no book like the
Bible."
[ This is a tiibute from an unexpected
* source, although the suggestion is not
1 new. Almost every master of style
would make the same recommendat
tion. It is entirely safe to say that if
. the Bible were adopted as the journa3
listic manual, we should have such a
1 decided improvement in the conductof
daily newspapers as would make them
, a blessing instead of the bane, they so
[ often are.?Northwestern Advocate.
Ktwly to Pardon.
Go read the parable of the prodigal
| son and learn now anxious God is to
} pardon the sinner. To every sinner
? we say:
"God is now waiting to pardon you,
> oh, unsaved one! His own precious
i words are, 'Come now, and let us reai
son together, saiib the Lord ; though
t your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as
- white as snow; though they be red
like crimson, they fchall be as wool."
Isa. 1: 18. As you are, and where you
3 are, you mav be freely and fully for'
given. However black and vile, and
you cannot be worse than 'lost,' and
' 'The Son of man is come to seek and
r to save that which was lost.' Luke 19;
10. Don't try to improve yourself ere
. you come to him. He waits to bless.
- He Jongs to save you rrora me norrore
j of eternal despair. He loves you. He
> always did so. The proof of his love
is shown in his 'unspeakable gift.'
f 'For God so loved the world, that be
; gave his only begotten Bon, that whor
soever believeth in him should not
perish, hut have everlasting life."
( Johns: 10."?
Limitation*.
A great English preacher illustrates
the littleness, the fragmentariness, and
the imperfectuess of human knowl
edge of God's works by the case of a
rty crawling upon one of the pillars of
St. Paul's Cathedral. What does the
fly know of the architect's magnificent
i design in that great building? It sees
. only the little space of stone on which
; it moves; and the carving and the ornamental
work appear to it like hills
and mountains cutting off its progress
and obscuring its view. So is the wisest
man in the midst of the vast universe
of God. He can see only for a little
space about him. He can perceive but
a little glimmer of the divine meaning
in the things he sees. He can have
but the dimmest, faintest conception of
the wonderful plan of God which takes
in all worlds, all human lives, and all
ages. We cannot exj?eet to know all
God's thoughts; we would have to be
equal to him in wisdom to do this. We
cannot expect to know God's design iu
ihe providences that touch human affairs
and effect our own lives. We
cannot trace the result of bis acts
through the ceuiuries to come to know
what the final outcome will be. We
jannot tell what beautiful trees, with
full, rich fruitage, will grow from the
rough, dark seeds which to-day the
Master plants in our life-garden. We
canuot tell what blessing will come in
the long future from the sorrow that
now lays its heavy hand upon us.?Epworth
Herald.
Picnics.?Almost any boy or girl
can tell you what a picuic Is like, but
I wonder how many know why it is
so called, or that the custom is said to
date only from 1802, not a hundred
years ago.
Then, as now, wheu such au entertainment
was being arranged for, it
was customary that those who intended
to be present should supply the
eatables and drinkables. Originally
the plan was to draw up a list of what
was necessary, which is au excellent
one to follow, for often, when there
has been no previous agreement, it is
discovered, wheu too late, that there is
too much of of one kiud of food and
not enough another.
The list was passed around, and
each person picked out the arlicle of
food or drink he or she was willing to
furnish, and the name of the article
was then nicked offtbe list. So it was
from these two words, picked ana
nicked that this form of out-of-door entertainment
first became known as a
"piek-and-niels," ana then as a picnic,
the old-fashioned name for the basket
parties of to-day.
"Papa," said a little boy, "ought the
teacher to whip me for what I did not
Jo?" '"Certainly not, iny boy," replied
the father "Well," replied the
little fellow, "he did today when I
Jidn't do my sum."?Tit-Bits.
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Kresh supply of oottolene just received at
the Abbeville Supply Co.
Cottolene, 31b, 51b, and 101b tin buckets;
201b wool buckets, 81b palls at the Abbeville
Supply Co.
Stoves and Uuware at the Supply C>),