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' *" I The Abbeville Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1895. ESTABLISHED ? ^ I ca: I r ' ' liUUU wvw%w I r. i;. sri Ki) > rEja^ - Is the Place to Get Anything in the Lii dm 11 chin pp;v ; ?_=====_?_ fe Orders by Mail attended to ai m _ ~~ National Bank of Abl Abbeville, S. Ca-nital, Surplus, 0?HLcer? z J. ALLEN SMITH, President. W. C. McGOWAIS BENJ. 8. BARNWELL, Cashier. Hirectorai z WM. H. PARKER, Abbeville, S. C., J. C. KLUCill, Ab L. W. WHITE, Abbeville, 8. C., W. JOEJL SMITH, BENJ. 8. BARNWELL, Abbeville, S.C., W. C. McGOWAl J. ALLEN SMITH, Abbeville, S. C. DOES a General Banking business, provides the greatest security am Depositors. Is ready at any and all times to make loanR based upo as our county affords. ALWAYS IN THE I THIS TIME WITH FRESH tW i * BEST DRUGS! LOWEST ] Prescriptions a, Specialty, HARRISON <fe Gi LOOK F( n i vy J* Sttioes, Ladies and G-ent's Toilet Slipper Ladies and G-ent's Lamb's Wool DON'T FORGET THE PLACE. . '? ' " : t ti vk- / : 11^ f?t^ tsB^mr\ fi\ /^soty /^jv ewrfc. cersix ew^srv w.m m\. THANKING A GENEROUS PUE A LIBERAL PATRONAGE, AW ITING FUTURE FAVORS, WE THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE InDILL & 1 LL AND SEE US AT THE OLD STAND. VVV^VVVVVVVVVWWWVWV Love nioNMomlDK too Late. ? ? . , There is a great host of weary A L/01710161? ' men and women toiling on through r | life toward the grave who most sorely STOCK OP THE C? need just now the cheering words and ae of . MetroilMM of about their coffins; but why should it - , - uot be scattered in the hard paths ? OF 1MB il ...l t it.:. ama 1 ft | uil WiilUJLl men i?cb iuuaj aic , flll treading? The kind words are lying .TOTTTV TTTf^A [1 I ji? in men's hearts unexpressed, trembJ j| I A1 ling on their tongues unvoiced, which always on hand will be spoken by and by when these weary ones are sleeping ; but m ^ why should they not be spoken 1.1TTT | J rl | Qr now when they are needed so much, W" w Y mm m wfi b OllCG. an(* when their accents would give " such cheer and hope ? The flowers prices in one gallc are growing to strew on their graves; I single can $1.28. All but why not cut them now to brighten Po?t^, i898,Ktf 6 qna __ dreary lives and dark paths? Many a J ' nATTl 11a man ?oes ^rouSb life plain, IICvlxlUi Padding, living obscurely, yet living a , , ? ' true Christian life, doing many a T iniNMMMM Yl O quiet kindness to his neighbors, uUll ml and friends, and seldom hearing a IIIIBCIIIH $75,000 word of commendation of praise. The -j e<9r\r\o vases filled with the incense of affec- ?dealers l J-tion are kept sealed. The flowers are not cut from the stems. One day ... |., j . . you will stand by his coffin, and there All l/iTI/ifi At I, [, Vice-President. enough kind things are said to xill HiliuU U1 V have brightened every hour of his ife, if only they had been said at fresh meats, sausac tlie rignt lime, mere are enougn cheese and fish. bevilic, S. C., flowere piled opon his casket to have Abbeyille, S. C., kept his chamber filled with fragrance \ MM i V, Abbeville, S.c. all through his years, if only they I ? r\ 111 111 rill I had been sent day by day. How this 1 convenience for it* heavy heart would have thanked God, rlA? n such safe coiiatera if, in the midst of his toils, burdens ,7 m.c-0 aud struggles, he could have heard a few of the words of affection and Tl X approval that are now wasted on JE X t)bll X ears that hear them not! How much j! \ \ I happier he would have been in his J weary days if he had known how JllWJiyS Oil many generous friends he had?- But, poor man ! he had to die before the Give us a call when in nee t /"vrp apprehension could express itself. our],ne- We guarantee sail Then the geutie words spoken over his } cold form he could not hear. The S^miSis I !love bl033?m<,cl ,ut too la'e. Particular a ftiPiTr ?! . .. j... ariven to our I 1U nature me nine mai preueuea ?=?--! death is tbe most beautiful. The leav; es take on their brightest hues just jll A |1 IJ I before they drop. Why can not that il l /I |< |A PRICES! jl? "rue of our lives? iUlillJX We should make the morning goodbye, as we part at the hreakfast-table, A-rha-arf-mjvni. kindly enough for final farewells. . -n/TTl ! MaU.y g0 ?? -V?6 mornJue wh0 nev- Remember the place, N< Llvlrj Ier na n,g Btre t* It never falls what don't why Harrison & Brace's restaurant keeps ; j Games Ruby Llnimen! try a bottle only 25c. cigars and cigarettes. }R THE BIC ? THAT IS THE PI >. 11 A \l V DO BUSINESS, AND IT IS THE I Shippers, OUR CARISTMj s in all styles. J A beautiful line of Ladies' for Slippers. $ A fine line of Gent's Paten "LOOK FOR THE BIG WHITE HORSE AND C. P. Hi JLIC FOR rD SOLIC- |f| EXTEND g SEASON. ^ LYON. % v^uuvmmui . j? I. The DIsate or the Earring. Pin and rUll The disuse of the earring is not J!iSI3 yet quite universal among the risiug )LEBRATk,'D generation, but the ornament in , question has disappeared wholly from Notl MiYPfl Vmk ttie ears fashionable and better lYllAuu I ullilu bred young women and girls. C It is, we think, not too much to say rriAfi ? that in New York, at least, Jewelry iu A u t the ear of one of this class would cause y S & CO. her to be regarded much with the same jt, the feeling that she would arouse if her Count at the cheeks showed unmistakable signs day w m I of artificial crimson. What is true of * I PIaua the girls of more careful training taiew nl.tlT H and unboubted social position is I " w" more or lees true of the girls of '"Sea the great middle class. Some of >N cans by the these, however?and it is to be regret- _ ? tie d,uoount 10 ted?still affect the jeweled ear?a pants, bararic custom little better, except for conventional sanction, than that == kindred bit of barbarism, the jeweled ft I uoae. We are glad to be able to say, rfllTltl though, that for the most part the I III I IBM wearing of jewelry in the ear is relegated to the tenement bouse districts. What we have said apples |wholly to :n? young women and girls?not to the women of middle and advanced age. il L, Reforms usually begin with youth, / fl nflf TIPand tb*8 *8 a ref?rai that entitles the | II vUUllUkJj present generation to the respect and honor of all intelligent minds. ?e. hog head This reformation has been going on but a very little while?a few years _ at most, but its progress has been ^llll I |C so rapid that we venture the predic- L JUUUO tion that the incoming century will not find fifty per cent of the American I nintirm women with their ears mutilated ^ ' for .the purpose of a barbaric ^ ^ ornamentation, and perhaps not KWOCI H twenty pef ceflt actualiy wearing it.? J.L U&tvl Munsey. Mu linurl To make life as successful as you can lldliilU.. y0U ehould not go away bv yourself d Of anything in and fiay that you will live a"good life, isfaction. and then do nothing else. To cherish sel is not the way to do service. You must lose self. Make yourself bo strongly a part of the world that you Intention influence all the other parts, and the more strongly cement them together. V<p,r? in finmo nfliui* llftt fiartm If ftflH TIT A 1 jlanu iu duujc wwiiwi ??ivi pwfvi ?v (? JTXA1' show it that there is a divine image Tim hidden in it. Develop that image, and ~p L| I in so doing you beautify your own life. I w | The sources of weakness are not in -* our religion, but in ourselves. The ^hei man affirm purpose and opinion is everywhere respected, Definiteness in teaching and in Christian life is a >. 2 Washington necessity of the day. a lot of Job hats and remnants awfully I? a rail line of fine cheap in the nhow-wlndows of Smith & -* ' Sons; Look at them. * WHITI IjACE WHEREJ H/kATTk wiy u ( 'LACE TO G-ET BARGAINS ! XXarne; *.S GOODS.^^ White Kid Slippers. ? .A fine li Lt Leather Pumps. * Trunks VOTT WTT/L FTND yvLMONr J4 :_ xi_* j l j. i.i_ ^ -CUWUg UOblfOl U1BUUUUUS 111 UlUB U0p<U'Wieill<j UOUHO^UOMWy idnoed the price on W l^M COFFINS AND CASKETS. # McIHll ?8c Lyon 2 rM t6 of Nancy C.D0IliDiCl,D6C4. P ??offlce *' the mails cloae at the Abbeville * :j|S _i 11.10 a. m. 12.15 p. m. 1.10jp. m. , . .. 2.30p.m. 4J25p. m. B.itTp.m. ce of Settlement and Appli- ^Roberts. Link, f.m. v,^|g ation for Final Discharge. W.Joel Smith A Bona are offering specla :E NOTICE that on the 4th day of Jan- bargains in childrens soils, extra pants, arv. 1896. I Will render ft final aocoant Of mem n??r nnati anil Alnlhlns ?>nmlW " *" "*BB stings and doings as Administrator of are anxioos to sell as their prices show. state of Nancy C. Domlnlck, deceased, office of J udffe of Probate for Abbeville ? ? Vv.qSffl IliapSylK&aTai^ieftSirSy CAQENDOBWa PATENT SECTIONAL ; -M jersons having demands against said e?- 3J1(I ill present tbem for payment on or be- O ^ lat day, proven and authenticated or be ^ //Jo ll/n If LSi *+* c+ ft ' '**'j r barred. S. M. UOMINICK, &1QG YV Oil t*lIllSIl* - ^ Administrator. for Churches and Residences. Catalogue, pricesand : v' estimates. on application to th^Sole Manufacturers, ; ^vrtl on W.Joel Smith & Sons for 25c knee *"?,* I:JK!L' i fnr hnva 4 tn is vpnra Also makers or Lightning, Fire and btorm-Prooi y . ? for boys 4 told years. steel ttoofln? and Sldfn*. Oet circulars. . ' ;*% ABBEVILLE'S lusic House. Jill & Cochran, ^ Dealers in ^ ' > sical Instruments, Sheet Music and all J Kinds of Musical Merchandise, Sewing Machines. fOS, ORGANS and MACHINES sold on the Intalment Plan ii rices Low and. Terms Easy. . . - Ml . 1 "T-? 1 ? HI y /T\ 1 C Mi k V'.ifil i in tne Uity call at jno. i, nosenDerg'8 jdiock mjuys store; m and see our Stock and get Prioes. Respeotfully, . [ILL& COCHRAN S HORSE ! & CO. 1 IN || ssj - JEStc. ffl ? - ~.c t> T 13 .lie ui .Duggy uny xvuuca. ? at Cost. > & co.^