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n - ?X-ULL_?LJL. '' " "' rr7VHVWiWT-Tft V^ri^rv^BaasaNM^ mmmm^ma^i The Abbeville Press and Banner, j BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844 j|| '\P. B. S Is the Place to Get Ar Mil lit llll inn iiu mi is Orders by Mail att GEO. WHITE, Prop. DRY C We have added to our stock a Muslins, Nainsooks, Lawns, etc. striped ducks. Satines in all colors, batros and Worsteds. Some novelt A Lot of Counterpane Towels very Cheap. Table Linei Ladies' and Children's hose and Ue COME AND SEE US. i Harrison The L,eadini ?HAVE ON HAND LAR1 DALMATION IN)? The best Bed Bug I IV Prevents TIiY v Stic BEST DRUGS! ABBEV. Music I Hui & ( " ^ Dealei Musical Instruments, ! Kinds of Musics Sewing JN PIANOS, ORGANS and MACHINE Prioes Ijow an< Wlien in the City call at No. 1, K and see our Stock Respectfully, TTTT T iV Close * Cm ST7MLXAT When in need of the light price will he stock is complete, specialty. tin CM aJU if We keep a full li Metalie Caskets, C balming has stood th< recognized Undertake Yon McDill . - * PEED'S lything in the Line of en<li<l to at once. ?< W. D. BARKSDALE, M; *OODS. nice line of Percales, Chevi ? J _ some nice gooas in sunu , cheap. Serges, Cashimeres, ies in striped Sateens and Piq s to Close at 50 Ctt i, Napkins, A Splendid lin idervests. W. D. BARKSDALE. & Came, r Druggists, GrE QUANTITIES OF? ;ect powder, Ciller?Sure Death. mm. H<2?. I I w n /r _ 11 iviotn^. ky. LOWEST PRICES ILLE'S House ^ T Ia ?/k /"% ^/UUJLi LVLL Sheet Music and il Merchandise, Machines. S sold on the Intalmeut Ph 1 Terms Easy .osenberg's Block (Daly's Sti and get Prices. r\/^T TT^I A uunriii.i t Prte 75 TRAim. anything* in onr lii made to yon. 0 Picture framing1 ne of both Cloth ft Kir methods of ei e test. We are t rs for Abbeville, irs iVc., <V- Tolly. I The .Misapplied "Pauline Doctrine of The Swor?l.*' |KV .IOSIATI W. LEKDS, IN t'NIOX SIGNAL. In the first month of this year a lec:ture upon military topics was deliveries in San Francisco before the Ep| worth League of Centenary Church by a Methodist preacher named Edmunaon. Presumably, the lecturer dealt with the special subject that he did in !order that the Epworth Guard of the i League mi?ht be given a clear look at j the duties and responsibilities of their I militnrv nnuilirm ?irwi lupines nualirpii ~r> ? ? I by the preacher (who is also, I believe, chaplain of a warship) that they were certainly on the right track, run for-J ? ward in the way with gleeful hearts. "We are born fighters," said thi6 j guide?who I also very much fear is a | blind guide. "Look at the little babe. If it finds that it does not get < v? rymgi thing it wants it will have it. It will ? fight and bawl and make the night ! hideous. That is how it is born in us. i Preachers will atop to see a fight. Women like fighting. They get men Qtg into more fights than you can imagine. It is natural to have guns, and we as and an Americau nation must have guns, Al- well drilled soldiers and warships. j Americau Is a great country, but it lies, j won't be great much longer unless we ,, are more vigilant. She must have a I navy, aud have cruisers and soldiers." r This is language not readily misun8 01 derstood, aud means, in fine, that the I church is to be made the grand recrui! -....,1 A 1 : j uug gruuiiu lux tuese iiujjciaiivcjjr I needed ''well-drilled soldiers.'' We ' are a great country, and it would not I answer upon any account that we ?J {should play the part of humble and a ! little one. Women like fighting," says this preacher to the boys. What have t white-ribbons to respond to so loose and mischievous a general statement as that? Said Frances W. Leiter, T National superintendent of the department of physical culture, in her last anuual report: "The increasing popular demand among bovs for the introduction of military training in schools is to be deplored. Its tendency to disi place physical discipline, more comprehensive in character, is a detriment to the progress of this work, as well as an unfortunate influence in favor of war, when the children should be trained to believe that the interests of the nation can be better served by settling difficulties as far as possible through arbitration. 1 bis organization of women should bring its influence to bear against this innovation in our schools." The whole of the extended report of Manual) J. Joany, rvauonai superiuieuu eut of the department of pleace and f arbitration, gives evidence of au activi* ty along this line that will not allow white-ribbons, at least, to rest under the aspersion that "women like fighting while, again, the declaration of I the general officers of the National W. C. T. U. at the late Cleveland Convention upon Boys' Brigades and military drills in public schools and colleges, after reaffirming their belief in the wisdom of sucb a training of the young t "as will make them despise physical combat, and will lift them to a plane # where the weapons are arguments, parliamentary usage and law, all of these having above them the sword of the Spirit," coucludes by saying, "We call upon all good people to bear wit. | ness to the consistency of this course of 1 i action on our part, and to the earnest JL m oess with which we are trying to build | / into the character of boys and girls, youths and maidens, those pure princi-l pies and habits which mean soldier-! i ship in His army who is the Prince of j ?.11 Peace." dll An appropriate companion "fighting sermon" to that of Chaplain Edmunson, just considered, was one delivered I in Central Congregational Church, I Brooklyn, by A. J. F. Behrends, D. j D. It was entitled, "The Pauline DocI trine of the Sword," being called out | by the late trolley line troubles iu the city named. "There are prophets among us," "who preach the gospel of non-resistance, who go so far to tell me *" that I have no right to defend myself or my home, that I must love the criminal out of his brutality, and kiss his hand even when he smites mine and me. I have do patience with the 3r0) lugubrious piety of these advocates whose program would surrender the world to the devil aud his agents. The doctrine is diabolical. It is not the _P doctrine of the Bible. It has its visW. I inn of universal neace. when swords shall be beaten into plowshares and _ spears into pruning hooks. But that ? vision contemplates a period when swords and spears are no 'longer needed, because all men know and love the i Lord." 1 Now, will the Reverend Doctor tell ^ us how long it will probably take, un\ der the prevailing administration of JI "bayonets and gatliug guns," which J he so stoutly upholds, before those weapons, and the swords and spears shall be no longer needed, "because all men know and love the Lord." This teacher, it seems to me, is looking to far off. I would invite him to go back to the 10j secoud century of our era and read the 111* w?rds of Justin Martyr as to what did 111 happen with those who practised the Lord's doctrine in this regard for be says: "We who were filled with war and mutual slaughter and every wickedness, have each through tbe whole earth, chauged our warlike weapons?our swords into plowshares and our spears into instruments of tillage? and we cultivate piety, righteousness, philanthropy, taith and hope, which we have from the Father himself, through Him who was crucified." Dr. Behrends scouts such a doctrine ] as that he has np right to defend himi self or bis home, undoubtedly prefer ring the position of Dr. Buckley, who, in relating a personal experience of | threatened assault, said : ''The writer | hiipself carried a revolver, which in, ! case of necessity would have been I j u*ed with all possible accuracy of aim." ( But this "cowardice" which friend I IJehreuds repudiates and deems "dlaI bolic&l" and not "the the doctrine of iui the JJible," was it not sjunyn to be the i m 'consistent practice of the primitive! UJ- 1 Christians, as attested by a mulitude of | he! witnesses ? j/or instance, this of Tertul' Man, a century after Justin Martyr: ! l,fJo one gives tbe n^rae of sheep toj : those who fall in battle with arms in ihand, and while repdllipg force with] ! force; but only to those who are slain,, | yielding themselves up ill tljeit own j (place of duty with patience, rather! 1 I tban fighting iu self-defense. In short, as Zechariah says, 'They roll as sacred stones,' and not like soldiers fight. Stones are they,even foundation stones, upon which we are ourselves edified ?'built,' as St. Paul says, 'upon the I foundation of the apostles,' who, like consecrated stones, were rolled up and down exposed to the attack of all men "The Pauline doctrine of the sword," I like the alleged Pauline doctrine i against woman's preaching, has done, I do believe, great disservice to Christianity. It was said by Paul of the power of the magistrate, that "he beareth not the sword in vain," yet, though the power of Pharaoh and the power of Cyrus were made to perform the purposes of the Almighty, the Israelite bad no proper place in the warring camp of either the Egyptian or the Persian. The complete equipment and defence of the Christian remains to be the "sword of the spirit," ? ??/J f /\ tmitn niilK t Uft nrArlil'o auu uc is uui lu nam mm iuu nvi iu a warring weapons, seeing that h'.s Captain baa said, "My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight." Having referred to Paul in connection with woman's preaching, I only add that while his opposition to her out-of-place bablingor speaking is evident, lie would not have prescribed, as he does, how she should appear when engaged in the solemn service of prophesying if he held the doctrine that she had not the qualification and was not open to the divine call thereto. I feel unwilling to dismiss this discourse of Pastor JBehrends without referring to a quotation which he gives with approval from a work of tbe Dukeof Argyle. "We may confidently affirm, then, that all theories, whether of religion or ethics, which disparage the military instinct or which fail to grasp the universal fact that every existing civilization rests ultimately on a military organization, are theories which have no practical application to tbe condition of humanity as it now exists, or as it ever has existed, so far as it historically known f.n im." Well, if the civilization which was of this proprietary province of Pennsylvania two hundred years ago may be dissociated from the "existing civilization" of the British kingdom U9 a whole, I should say that it is a historic fact of practical application that during the space of nearly seventy years after the foundation of the province by William Penn, that is to say, during the time that bis equable Christian maxims and laws of government prevailed in the council and assembly? the commonwealth neither rested upon nor was backed by any military organization ; no soldier with his gun, nor battery of cannon, nor troop of sabered cavalry was known, no severer exponent of the sword of fctate and of him who bore it was seen that the non-uniformed constable with his staff. That doctrine of the sword which was of Constantine, Clovis and Charlemagne, Paul the Apostle never knew, for in leaving off the "old man," Saul, wbeu be "breathed out threateniDge and slaughter," became transformed thence into "new man in Christ Jesus," breathing the word of peace to his breathren, "Be not evercome of evil but overcome evil with good." This is the revived evangel which the professing church needs to learn anew, and what if it be proclaimed by them who in times past have been call ed no preachers, but who now may say, "The Lord gave the word, the womeu who published it were a great host." What such as these are striving to do is to lay thoseevil spirits still uh mortified by the state, the liquor devil, the tobacco fiend, the unclean spirit of impurity, the gambling and lottery demons, the giants of brutality and animalism, that hidden shape which shuns the light of heaven, the oath bound secret lodge. These, the enimees of our peace, are the allies of the world, and they it is that make war, for the apostle James, making inquisition of this very matter, nays : "From whence come wars and Hghtings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" Philadelphia, Pa. The Love of Clirittl. For there are times when to know that some one we love is not perfect is really more helpful than to feel they are perfect. It was different with Christ. His perfection seems to help us, and you ever think how near Him the sinful could go. I shocked a very good woman not very long ago, who, in speaking of a womau said, "She is very goou, nut so naru." i saiu impulsively, ''I would rather be siuful and tender than to be hard and good" ; and I added, for I saw her look of sury prise, "I have the New Testament on my side, for the Master said: 'The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.'" Oh, how I wish I could get you who only sign your name "A Wicked One." "A Siuful Woman," "A Wretched Woman," "A Hopeless Girl"?oh, if I could only get you to see that Jesus Christ would never have come but for you aud such as you. Do you think He only came to this earth for good people? Not at all. Don't you remember the old lines: "One was out on the hills awav Far off from the gates of gold"? And that one means your sinful self and my siuful self, for we are one. I never meet people, no matter how siuful, that I do not feel that if I had had their environment I should have been uo ueiter man mey. it is very easy m say "these poor lost creatures," but if they feel that they are lost, aud we do uot, they have a Christ and we have none!?Mrs Bottome, in Ladies' Home Journal. + The home is the unit of the social compact. When the hope life of the people is under strong religious influences the State is safe. At this point alone can we inaugurate pprmanpnt aud abiding reforms. By the sinking of a French 9hip o(F| the coast of Sp^in, May 27, over JOG persons were drovypeil. rI]toe \yinthrop Normal and Indus-; triaFCollege, IJock Hill, S. C-, is to bp opened Oct. U. 4 hf^lf tputh js usually a whole; lie. ! GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT, A reai June Term of Court for Ab- |or: I he f beville County, eng 1 J ofte To Ilia Honor James Aldrich, Pre- a dj aiding Judge: Thl The Grand Jury for Abbeville C'ounty at this the June term of Court, would respectfully make the following flna presentment: He all 1st. Relieving that the custom of knc occasionally subjecting our County of- one fices to a more thorough and searching J33*11 investigation than is practicable in the short time at the disposal of the Grand the Jury at the various sessions of the moi Court has a wholesome effect upon the ga.i' conduct of our County officials, a com- P mittee of our number, of which the fin Foreman was made Chairman, was ap- E pointed, at the January term of this ~~vi Court, for the purpose of making such examination. This committee has dis- no charged the duty enjoined upon it in a out, most thorough and complete manBer and we are pleased to be able to report, as the result of said investigation, that the several offices were found to be in A a satisfactory condition, indeed we ^UJ might say, in excellent condition. |ncj 2nd. We have nothing special to afte aau ah rporards the Jail. Court House cra^ and other public institutions?the offleers whose duty it is to look after " ( these, so far aa we have been able to frie discover are doing their duty. We are 'Yo of opinion, however, that the practice of letting out the maintenance of the raw paupers of our county to the lowest end bidder is ill advised and should be in < abandoned, and instead thereof the j?? County Supervisor should purchase j the supplies, &c., necessary to their poti support, in monthly instalments; em- my play an Overseer or Steward who should be held responsible for the g]ee same, issuing it out in daily rations to drir the several paupers. As there are al- fror ways among the inmates of the Poor P?* House those who are more or leas able e|aj to do some work, the same should be utilized, and with that view, we would recommend that the County Super- tjaD visor, in conjunction with the Couuty wb< Board of Commissioners, take into it h consideration the advisability of running, at least, a one-horse farm hereaf- 0f j ter on the Poor House lands. less We see no reason why, with such an like arrangement, an abundant supply of all kinds of vegetables might not be ^ raised and the actual expense to the and county or maimaimog lis paupers, oe reduced even below what it now costs, with results far more satisfactory. gro 3rd. Since the last term of this of Court the County Supervisor has put ?ro into practical operation the law providing for the establishment of a "chain-gang" for work on the public QOt roads, aud, while we regard the law a Woi good one, and while this force has done some good work on the public highways, we are of opinion that a mistake I* has been made in not confining their " I operations to such work as could not I well be done by the ordinary road i hands. We would therefore recom- A mend that hereafter this force be employed, exclusively, in building up and repairing such sections of the public roads as it is not practicable for the ordinnrv road hands to do as the same should be done. In this connection we I of would say that as a general thing the several road overseers have not done -ii their duty in that they have not had their respective roads worked as the^ should have been. We hereby call the Wt attention of the County Supervisor to H| this fact. Qa 4th. Complaint has been made to us by persons in different sections of the county, that the law in reference to the qq removal of rafts, logs, <fcc., from the water-courses has not been complied W< with. We trust that the County Supervisor will see that the law in this particular 19 carried out. 5th. The law requires that theseveral Trial Justices shall, at least ten days before each term of Court, file with the Clerk of the Court an exact transcript of their respective dockets? the same to be submitted to the Grand th< Jury for their inspection. Very few of the Trial Justices have complied fully with this law, and a (Jr number of them have made no effort to do so. We would here state that if -q, the same dereliction is apparent at the -DA' next term of this Court, we will pre- yq, sent, by name, such recreant officials rpj. and recommend mat tuey De uean ~ , with as the law provides. til] Respectfully submitted, tttI W. A. LANIER, Foreman. go, The State of South Carolina, 001 COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. PROBATE COyRT. In the matter of the Estate of John 0. Brooks, Deceased. . Notice to Debtors and Creditors. ALL persons Indebted to said Estate must, T1Q' settle without delay, and those holding clilims against the Estate must present them rvrw properly attested to A.K.WATSON, iMay 29,18B5,4t? ?xecutor. JpQ,' Sterling: silver belt buckles with flne Bilk gros-graiu ribbon, your name or initial haudsome-ly engraved on same for SJ.7&. Why buy | plated goods that wont last or look cheap' When you can get a belt at these figures in 1 sterling. H. C. Beruau, the Jeweler, has them. faint that old buggy yourself and save monev. I have the Paint and Varnish ready tnUed for use Speed. The Broken Tow. _ , parishioner, who was a dear friend, B i his pastor a page from life's his- 1 i? to this fact: When a small boy K *ave his heart to Christ. He was I aged in a brickyard to carry clay, 1 n on his l?ead, for twenty-five cents iy. Then he vowed that one-tenth his income he would give to God. is be conscientiously did, and prosity followed until bis income was Yj ikk) ; and then tne trial 01 ois me ie, in which he went down in a inoial disaster. Here his faith balked. said : "After disaster had swept away I learned what I had not >wn before?that it is easier to give -tenth of $72 than of $10,000. A i a is truer to God when he works for m/ nty-five cents a day, and has less ipationa and more strength to meet m, whose income is six dollars a A ith than if it is $833.33." He re- Z ned wealth, but it was in strict com- f nice with the vow of his youth, ^ ich his disaster enabled him to ful- . until his death. * i [ere is an instance of negative proof i iz : that "there is that withholdeth \ re than is meet, and it tendeth to r erty." The positive proof would # doubt fill volumes were it written .4 Rev. A. J. Gordon, in Review of .sinna. mmm ?< For Drinking Men. man prominent in the affairs of ikirk, says the Buffalo Courier, . :erday related the following dent: "One day, two months 1 r I had signed the pledge, I had a zing for a drink of whiskey so " >ng that I could see nothing else drinks about me, and felt as if I ? at have at least one drink. I told a _ nd of my state of mind. He said g u need not drink. I can tell you of j ibstitute that will stop your discom- | . Get a bowl of ice water and a i 1 potato, peel it and cut down one S of it to a size convenient to take I ;he mouth. Dip the potato in the water and suck it every time you ik you must have the whiskey.' ook the bowl of ice-water and the XJ\ ito and placed them at the head of bed, and would dip the potato in 8P( er and place it between my lips py few minutes until I went to p. I awoke free from my desire to at lk whiskey, and have been free of n it ever since. That one treatlteradicated my craving for whis for all the time that has since >sed." TTT17 nil tlio nnKloof tViinora Phria. i life is only a bard service to those tw 3 serve grudgingly. Take hold of II[ esitatingly, and, like a nettle, it ns all prickles and stings, all re- j ints and sacrifices. But take hold 1-f t with the grasp of- resolute, fearpurpose, and it will answer back ! the strengthening and cheering id of a friend. Face it manfully, it is full of blessing. Stand for it nly, and it makes the way clear the heart strong. Take up its ises with a brave and ready cheer- mo jess, and its very crosses change into tro rown?tbe crown of duties which w easier with the doing; tbe crown wii happy, onward, everlasting life.? ,nl oke Herford. a , is impossible acceptably to pray, ? iy kingdom come," when we do t hing to bring it in; but leave the *ai Id to rot in sin. * au< lie Rush is Crowds of ladies, ever JLi. W. WE e great bargains he aJ , kinds of Last Saturday it w uld be served, but the )rk was the sale of mi )rth of NEW, PRET pring and Sui His stock is being 3ek, and as goods moi 3 time coming in to ta s had an unprecedem epons, Lawns, Muslii d all kinds of Wash G ack Goods was neve lues for the money Lose who have alread ls Spring, we are su len they want more G To those who have 3ds from us this seaso: rdial invitation to co >ck, felling assured if 3 ikvor to look, we them. Don't negle w offered to get bar? Dds. Grateful for libe st and anxious always Respectfully L W. 1 ?J*'*- - JnrivalleD 1 ?0?I1T?0? iEIETT, STYLE, M QUALITY and PEIOE. %%%%%% OU WILL BE CHARMED WITH THE ^ lNY RICH NOVELTIES IN %%%%% MILLINERY, i DRESS STUFF, 5 M SILKS, * S M LACES, i M JET TRIMMINGS, \ &-C.) # . DFFERED DURING THE MONTH OFMAY Saddons. i tee! ^ILL BE LET TO THE LOWEST RE- .'>< 3N8IBLE BIDDER ON THURSDAY, 27th Inst,, *' & 10 O'CLOCK A. M.( THE REPAIRING BRIDGE AT YOUNGS MILL. JNO. LYON, S. A C. ne 4th, 1895, 3t. ) YOU WANT FINE CHICKS ? M ' SO, I HAVE THE WYANDOTTS. S. S. HAMBERGER. BROWN LEGHORNS, .-M II* UJ/1.1 UAUEiQ, - J?. BLACK LACE HAMBERQER, B. B. ROCKS. GAME BANTAMS. bese cbloka and the best layers on earth. ay are worth Ave times tbe worth of com- ? chickens. I have soven different bredes m the very best strains. I will sell yoa " sat $1.50 lor 13 eggs. Call at my pool try tg m and see my stock of chickens and yoa ? I be pleased. Fresh eggs for sale every day . y. the year. Respectfully, W. E. Bell. larch 20,1896, if be next time you are in town call at Ry- ^ :.i -d's and get a fine pair of spectacles cheap. ? [. D. Reese will fix your watch and olook .Cj 1 engrave your name in your ring. , ========^^ . M Jf A I 111 /\ I sun ud i j 7 day visit the store EI'JLMIjI to secure [ways has to offer in J as with difficulty all > result of that day's any hundred dollars TY and stx-liba rimer Goods. J ; replenished every re out, others are all ike their places. He ted sale of Percales, is, Ducks, Dimities, -oods. His trade in ir better, and better were never given, y bought at White's re will come again oods. not yet bought any q, we extend drmost me ' and inspect our they will only do us i '.ii are certain to sen jet the opportunity ?ains in all lines of iral patronage in the i to please, I am VHITE. i %. 1 'S