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The Abbeville Press and Banner. 1 ?j? BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844 i _ . m a m 'X Jj Watch tli We are as any con< "showing" a every line to MM Vra;*y%gBBB "We are i Desirable Place for Sale. "\^7'Eoirerour,homeplace at Cokesbury f< sale or exchange. Premises in tine r pair. 93 acres of flrstclass land. Land we adapted to fruit and all crops, l'urc cold w, terand perfectly healthy location. Wyatt Aiken, Abbeville, S. C. J. S. Aiken, Cokesbury, S. C. Sept. 3d. *95. If. The State of South Carolina COUNTY OK ABBEVILLE. HROBATE COURT, In ibe Matter of tbe Estate of A. J. CUnl scales, Deceased. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. A LL persons indebted to the said eMal must settle without delay, and thof holding claims against the estate must pn sent them properly attested tr?. MRS. SARAH C. CLINKSCALKS, J AS. F. CLINKSCALES, JOHN T. CLINKSCALES, Executors. Aug. 26, 1895, -It Notice of Application fo Charter *of Troy County. "\rOTlCE is hereby given that applicatio -L* will be made at the next sitting of th Legislature for establishing a new countv t be kdowd as TROY COUNTY, with the coin ty seat located In the town of TROY, out < part# of Abbeville and Edgefield counties,? follows: Corner ator near White Hill in Al bevllle county, line to run vin Cednr Springi Wilson X Roads, Hopewell church. Lie L? howe estate to Savannah river, thence dow Savannah river to near I'lum Branch in Kdi$< Held county, from l'lum Branch to Libert Hill, from Liberty Hill to Klrkseys In Kdn< field county and back to White Hall in Abbi vilie county. G. C. BRADLEY, Secretary. Auk. 27,1S95, If " mm ie Estate of A. J, McKee, Dec'd. AS EXECUTORY of the estate of the Int A. J. McKKE. deceased, we will sell ?i Abbeville Court House on Saleday in OCTl BKR7tb, lSUo, the following real estate: 460 Acres, more or less, known as the McKee "Horn Place," lying In Long Cane township, foil miles South-East from Due West, and bouinl ed by lands of S. P. Pressly, estate of B. 1: Eaken, E. Hagan, and others. This tract wi be divided iu three or more tracts, plats t which will be exhibited on day ol sale. Also, the "Sharp Place" in same township, lying o Long Caue creek, containing nor* a 4ov iiures, more or less, bounded by lauds of W. ft Sharp, H. Hagan, Mrs. L. C. Winn and otlien About 30 aores of first class bottom lands ar on thU tract. The 280 acres will be divldei Into two or more tracts, plats of which will b exhibited on day of sale. Both places are well Improved and In a 1i1k state ol cultivation, with good water and a necessary outhouses, barns, &c., <tc. TERMS OF SALE.?One-third casu am the balance in two equal installments, wit eight per cent, interest from day of sale, s cured by boud of purchaser with rnortgag of premises. Purchaser to pay for papers. <i. A. NICKLES, G. VV. McKKE, Executors. Sept. 2,18D5,4t Freeh lot cottolene in to-day. All sizes. Al beville Supply Co. Everything for the baby?nipples, rattle rintfs. ac. Harrison Game. Sterling silver novelties are being made i handsome designs, tbe paper cutters, boo marks, hair curlers, side combs and otber vi rlous articles Just received at K. O. Bernau' tbe Jeweller, are of the latest designs and Hi f(rices so low that the people will hardly b leve they are Bterllng silver. THE PLAC nd we propos k Smm al IN/ WV V WA, in a position 3ern in the < nd we will cc 0 parties buy mam . .n the Cot 1 STEEL ROOFS^C S and SIDINC. u. (SaKcmlorpli's Patent.) Lightning, Fire and Storm Proof Send for I Tin- New York catalogue Iron lloulin:; ami Cori-tiunfine: Co. -- of prices. | First <fc Wash'a St., Jersey City. ft. J IV YON ARE lis GOING JrwESTI e- And want LOW RATIOS to St. Louis, Mem phis. New Orient)*, (Jlnclnnattl, Louisville Chicago, or points In Arkansas, Texas, Mis sonrl, Kansas. Colorado, Oregon, Washington California, or any point West, it will pa'i you to write to or skk mk. Excursion ant Snepisil Rates from time In time. Choice o Routes. No trouble to answer questions Kates and map* furnished free. Addresi Kurd 1J. Bush, l)ist. Pass. Agent, Ij. & N. It r It., "IC 1-2 Wall .Street, Atlanta, GU?. MUTUAL i ii nun! ! $ 360,000. y YintlTE TO Olt CALL on tlie unilersigned e- ?? or to the Director of your Township u- for any information you may desire about our plan of Insurance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM OH IIGHTM, and do so cheaper thau any Insurance Company in existence. ltemeniber we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the safest uud cheapest plan of Insurance known.. J. E. BLAKE, Jr., Agent, Abbeville, S. C. J. FULLER LYON, Pres. a Abbeville, S. C. boardITirectors. e ir CJ. M. Anderson Ninety-Six Township. I- .1. M. Major Greenwood ' I. P. W. Sulllvau Cokcsbnry " II \V. li. Acker Donnalds " >f M. B. Clltikscaies Hue West " T. L. Haddon Long Cane " J. W. Scott Kmllhville " K. W. Watson White Hall " u Dr. J. 1). Neel Indian Hill " Capt. John Lyon Cedar Spring " C.U. Itlchie Abbevillw l?r. J. A. Anderson.Diamond Hill " . II. A. Tennent Lowndesviilo " ' A. O. Grant Magnolia " J. T. Horlon Calhoun ^ T. J.Brltt ~ Bordeaux " o Abbeville, K. C.. Feb. 18, lS!tr>. h Mr. J. It. Blake, Jr., Treas. F. M. F. A. A. C. II Dear Sir?Please accept our thanks lor check of (55(10 to cover recent lossof our dwellings by il tire. For cheapness and safety we cheerlully h commend the Farmers Mutual Fire Associate lion of Abbeville County to all who desire Iu:e surauce on their property. EDWARD KOCIl E, E. W. ASIILEV. ; : 4 lieup Kitll'S. J* Summer excursion rales are now on sule over the l'ort Royal & Western Carolina Ralls way, good until October .'list, to Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Glenn Springs, Harn ris Lithia, Asheville, and Western North Cark olina resorts. Tickets to Spartanburg and a. Asheville bear with them the privilege ol y stopping oil at Harris UlhiaorGleun Springs, |(; going or returning. ? For sciiedules, rates, etc., address, W. J. j Craig, General Paewu'/er Agent, Auguctu, Ga ;E TO GET B TKmSr = "WE IL STOC e to sell them I the Seasoi to give you a country. >nvinee you oi ing goods in mm si liBlillMl " " i v* XuXU&jr ;ton Mark PRAISE YOOR WIFE. ? A Few Words to KHnctlnioiiioiiH SinnerN Who arc Menu Enough to Urowel at their Wives, or Who nieiit Kick ? Cow. Praise your wife man ; for pity's , sake give her a little encouragement; it won't hurt her. She made your - home comfortable, your heart bright and shining, food agreeable?for pity's sake tell her you thank her, if nothing - more. She don't expect it; it will make her eyes open wider than they t have these ten years, but it will do her good, and you too. There are many women to-day thirsting for words of . praise, the language of encourages ment. Through summer's heat, " through winter's toil, they have r drudged uncomplainingly, and so aci customed have their fathers, brothers f and husbands become to their monot* onous labors that they look for aud upon them as they do the daily rising of the sun, and its daily going down. Home every day may be made beautiful by an appreciation of its holiness. You know, if you can take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it, that somebody's fingers have ached in the toil of making it fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lustrous. Tlie I'nrlN That do Not <>r?iv Old. In his work oil the senile heart Dr. Balfour tells us that there are two ! parts of the human organism which, , if wisely used, largely escape senile . failure. These two are the brain and the heart. Persons who think have often wondered why brain workers, great statesmen and others, should continue to work with almost unimpaired activity and energy up to a period when most of the organs and iuuctionsof the body are in a condition 1 of advanced senile decay. There is a physiologic reason for this, and Dr. Balfour tells us what it is. The normal brain, he affirms, remains vigorous to the last, and that because its nutrition is especially provided for. About middle life, or a little later, thegeneral arteries of the body begin to lose their elasticity and to slowly but surely dilate. They become, therefore, much less efficient carriers of the nutrient blood to the capillary areas. But this is not the case with the internal carotids which supply the capillary areas of the brain. On the contrary, those large vessels contiuue to retain their pristine elasticity, so that the blood pressure remains normally higher than with in the capillary area of any other organ of the body. Thecerebral blood paths being thus kept open, the brain tissue is kept better nourished than the other tissues of the bodv. . Who is there among those who have reached or passed middle age that will not be rejoiced to lind such admirable physiological warrant for the belief that the brain may continue to work, and even to improve, almost to the very last. According to a recent lecture of Professor Shuster, of London, the saf- , i est course for a human being in a , thunderstorm is to get thoroughly wet. Franklin remarked that he could kill a rat when dry by means of an elec : l,... i.,... uiuuisuiiui^t:, uui uevi'i wucji it wet. | : Michigan lias passed a law iulHcliug r heavy penalty upon railroad com pa nies for the employment of persons addicted to the use of intoxicants. ARGAINS IN ? 11 A.VE BO' K ( if (TLOSE I and yoo is good goods, All we ask ii f the above fa QUANTITIES et and ar Eilecntfid to Admire Warriors. "If, however, '.he love of war be innate, it is unquestionably stimulated and increased by our education. From the cradle to the grave bnt one lesson is taught, and that lesson is absolute contradiction of the Sermon on the Mount. Among the first toys given to a child are mimic soldiers and cannon. .When the boy commences his reading of history he Jearns little of the peaceful achievements of past races, but the sole story that history has to tell him is one of wars and battles wuich are held up to him not merely as the chief occupation, but the highest glory of man. His first introduction to the pImq3'i*q ia in f!np?ftr'<a Pnmmpnfjiripn where he learns how a warlike and powerful people made war upon a peaceful and semicivilized natiou, without any provocation other than the lust for territory or spoil In doing so destroyed a million into slaveery. Soon he becomes enamourned of the subject, Hector's courage and Acbiles' wrath become objects of entrancing interests; in all its tale of blood but one expression of pity, when Andromache parts with Hector' and seeing her child frightened at the nodding plumes of his father's helmet 'smiles through her tears.' 1 When the boy grows to adolescence J he cannot but perceive that woman admires nothing so much as shoulder 1 straps or a pair of epaulets, and that ( men go to battle, not arfayed in the f black mourning, nor amid the sad s strains of a death march, but in gay costumes and to melodies they are 1 joyous and festal in their character." 1 Flavor of EggM. | I The flavor of eggs depends a great' * de?l of :he kind of food the hens areh furnished with. A hen that must And | her own living will not produce as,t good eggs as one that is well fed on I wholesome food, and if once this fact < could be widely disseminated there | would he a demand for line flavored) eggs that would command a price for j* such, making it prolitable to take it more dains this matter. i i Not long ago we were in a restaurant i in a big city, and ordered eggs as a; I part of the meal we were taking. Two i 1 eggs were brought to us, and the first t one was a good one, while the other < was not fit to eat. It had a very un- 1 pleasant taste, though it gave evidence f of being quite fresh, for they were poached, and an egg that is not perfec- d ly fresh does not poach well. 1 The flavor of eggs differs as much as s the llavor of meats, and everyone who has paid any attention to the matter v knows this to be true. There is no object in trying to produce fine Havored 8 eggs for the market now on account ol r the generally accepted notion that an egg is an egg, but the man who has (] special customers will find that he can u hold them and add to the number by u selling them eggs that are not flavored a by f(-od unlit for use. He who feeds his iiens good, wholesome food will 1 get more eggs than he who does not, c which is an additional incentive to s make an improvement in this direction. P a Service had commenced, and the tl minister paced wildly up and down, tl struggling with a tight cravat. To I cover his embarrassment he finally v gasped, "Brethren, let us sing three u stanzas of hymn number 80;" which ei was, unfortunately, "P.Iest be the tie n that binds." li EVERY LINE ^%%%%%%%%%%%%^%^%^% ^?. UGHT A = IF ft PRICES are to will see son as good values s to come in ai icts. We offer 5. We are n Ld want to | Grandpa's Story. tunec pictui "Well, well!" exclaimed Grandpa "I g Epharaim.as two boys came running rowfu down the path to meet him, "what long you got now ?" and si "Something we want you to tell us Quak< all about, 'cause we tnougut you didn't ahe, li like war, and Grandma laughed and by th( told us to come and ask you," cried not w< Guy, boldly catching Grandpa's hand firm, i and drawing him to his favorite wick- "joi er chair on the wide veranda. boys ! It was a beautiful August afternoon, have and the viues that moved their leaves glory gracefully in the light breeze shaded "W< "Grandpa's corner" most delightfully saw J< as he threw his hat aside and looked home, inquiringly at his two grandson0 I nurse< "You see, Grandpa, we were i p attic more 1 looking"around, and in a little trunk just u we found this picture, and Grandma him ft said twas you, and that's all she would Tear say," began Walter. the bo; A sly smile crept into Grandpa's ey- across' es as tney rested on the sweet old face "Do 'neath the silvery hair of the lady who make had just taken her place by the open results window, clicking shining knitting asiden ndeeles, whileshe listened to the con- Was a vereation. for th< The boys were spending their pura- mont r mer holidays at the "old homestead," speedil md rummaged from attic to cellar, meetin Ihe picture they had found was of a thy gr man of perhaps thirty years of age, stead o ilad in soldier blue, with sword and kept tl $un, and captain's straps upon his years shoulders. guise." "Yes, that's me," he began slowly, as <! pI ie looked at the picture, sadly ; "and I a soldi* was vountr and vigorous then, and full softlv. j ){'patriotism,' as They called it. Quak- ??a1i ?r born and bred, the flfe ancf drum nie to a nade my blood leap and pulses thrill, patting ind how I begged father to let John the chi ind me go to war. "Dor " 'Boys, do Just as conscience die- your f< ates, but your mother and I can't say iife-tak fes. You are Friends by birth, and alone \ night to have loved our peaceful creed raging -but follow conscience.' "We "John and I went to the village one John, ( Seventh Day evening, and on the "Am jreen was the the gallant boys gather- ter, soi l ug round a tonguey officer at a temporary recruiting station. I don't know jow it was done children, but when ie blazoned the needs of the slave and ^ j. ;he glories of war, John and I seemed to irawn right into line, and before we gcotc|! cDew it our names were staring at us 'i'iierev rom that long prospective death list. t "We rode home slow. Old Jack , Irove himself. We did't say much j ill, justashe went softly up the back f ,, 1 tairs to bed, John whispered : fl f " 'Ephraim, it will kill mother ... , vben she knows.' fRfhur'x ' I Hung myself upon the bed. The . . ;lory of war waning already, and its . ealities appearing. father > "The next thought Iliad was of a Lr:', -s-j. 11- ???.i? i:?+iA /"knoir/ii-QciQ J-lie i [UlfcJl, prcny, gciuic iutic v(,u?i\uivoo, fafchpr ip among Vermont bills, who very r ouch resembled your grandma there 1" , ,t the window." of > l Grandma glanced smilingly across ? Vf/i ler busy needles, while Guy drew fV ? ? lose to grandpa's chair and Walter j: ?. howed his wide-eyed interest by for- * etting to stroke "Old Felicity," the ,,-y ? et bouse cat, curled lazily in his * ,"u re r rom rms. , "We didn't speak of it First Day, n}|VJ Iiougb father said afterwards that u.tteHie(l liey knew it by our looks. Second )ay morning we went again to the ~ il!a?e and got our regimentals, and J Half t ?as made captain. My ardor return- would b d. and, like many another boy and press th< lan, I went direct to the traveling ar- useless? ?t, who way making bis peaceful for- solved 11 FOR THE OODi be consider* s very L and as gre cid see us a special in< eadquarters buy yon ut of our vanity, and had that e taken. jot home, told the folks, and sor- i 1 enough it was. I wrote along, ] letter to ray gentle Quakeress, ant this startling picture of her i jr lover in army blue, thinking ke others girls, might be stirred i i soldier trappings. But it did ark?she was gentle but she was i and I was discarded. j tin's company went first. Oh, t that last good by?could you t seen it, thee'd never see any in war! i ell. to hurrv the storv. we never s 3hn again till they brought him \ in a few weeks, wounded. I t J him faithfully, but mother was c 'aithful, for when John died she t matched the sunset till she met r ither on." t s were in grandma's eyes and ys were drawing blouse sleeves li their eyes. li n't cry, boys ; I didn't mean to w you feel so sad, but it's one of the u of the war. I quickly flung j t, ay honors (?), and when I did I y lost highly honored, after all, p s gentle Quakeress from Ver- a einstated me in favor. We were d y married in the old monthly g bouse?and here we are, Guy, d andpa a Quaker preacher in- ft if a warrior; and grandma has w lis old picture hidden all these j s< o contrast me in the different | o' ! ti efer thee latterly, Ephraim, as j ti jr of the cross," said grandma, | a; as she arose to get the tea. right, mother, so as thee prefers \ d< anyone else," laughed graudpa, | at : the sleepy cat, aud added to j ic Idren, gravely : st I't ever turn your hand to kill lii jllow man, my dear boys, for tt ing is murder, whether done tt yith helpless victim or on the al battlefield," tt shall remember you and Uncle si xrandpa," said Guy. sc 1 Great grandma," added Wally. w Stc-or Ntmight for Me. co hermau who drank to excess go sail from a small cove on the coast to the fishing grounds, ali ,'as no lighthouse to guide him, tli n a beacon light, and the chan- ex i intricate. When he had taken 8U too much, and the night had t was dangerous work entering ^ ittle son used to watch for his Sti coming, and as soon as he saw would run down to the point, aw 7 out: "Steer straight for me, < ind you'll get safe home !" an >oy died, and one evening the fa( was sitting by the lonely fire- stu lis conscience troubled him, ju, ad been thinking over the sins jn. ife. Suddenly he thought he le voice of his boy ring out in , ^ kness : "Steer straight for me, md you'll get safe home!" HP< [jing to his feet he cried out: jtes i right this time, my son !" jcai that moment he was a chang-1 j . His sobriety and pious life J fecj the genuineness of his conver- Ljs fou lie sorrows of men and women j An e advertised if they could re-| J speech they know would be; } nay, the speech they have re- Uidi otto utter. j call 39^ ' gg * '-M ' :- 2m S c=: 1 3d. 1 jw Prices. at a variety 1 nd give us a a lucements in for ir Cotton. Who Follows. Coming home in the darkness one ' ] nignt, a cdild clung to bis father's band in fear. "Listen, father," he said, "someone ' s following us." / "I hear nothing; no one is followng," answered the father. And then, partly to divert the child's Bind and partly because a solemn truth glimmered through the timid words, ;be father made a little parable of hem : "Somebody is always following you, * j\j ny boy, as Jong as you live some footiteps follow yours. You cannot alvays bear them, you cannot always see hem, but as the years go by the proession grows longer and longer, of hose who are drawn east or west, ight or wrong, to helpful or to despair, iy following you." Listen, lads and lasses ! Who fol[>ws you ? In the home are tender ittle feet, perhaps just beginning to /alk alone; whether you wish it or ot they turn with loving instinct after / be big brother or sister, admiring ' our doings, coveting your gifts, reeating your words, In what direction re you leading them?upward, or ownwarci? In the same home are servants, oubtless, fellow-beings who are less ivored than yourselves; secretly they atch your walk and conversation, ?cretly they try to produce in their wn lives what your education and aining and accomplishments make lem admire in you. Are you on guard gainst leading tbem astray ? And as your path leaves your own jor, this line of followers widens, too; .school, in society, in the workshop, i the market-place, still you lead, ill they follow. The noise and stir of te is so great that you may not hear le footsteps behind you ; you may link you are dreading the journey one, but it is not so ; not a day passes lat your action or your inertia, your lence or your speech, do not Influence mooue. Listen, then! Who follows? And here are you leading? The United States now holds the send place among the countries as a >ld producer, Australia coming first. There are 83 National cemeteries in I, containing 330,700 dead, and upon ese cemeteries the government naa pended up to the present time the m of $9,000,000. A. count taken shows that there are >w stored in the vaults of the United ates mint in Philadelphia, nearly 60, ),000 silver dollars. They are packed 'ay just as they were coined. The difference between a statesman d a mere politician consists in the !t that whereas states men undermd the art of deceiving without lythe politician lies without deceiv* r# Paper indestructible by tire has been rented by M. Meyer, of Paris. A jcimen of it was subjected to a severe t?158 hours in a potter's furuaceand ne out with its glaze almost perfect. During the U. S. Civil War theConerate cruisers captured or destroyed hty ships, forty-six brigs, eightyir 'barques, sixty-seven schooners, J eight other vessels flying the uericau llag. low is it that shoveling coal is conned hard work when football is led play'.1 -t ; m