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BamS * WHBct ' ' FThe Abbeville Press and Banner. J / ' BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1896. ESTABLISHED 1844 Jj A Most C And Ei I have the choicest, tt yourself. The ladies \ by looking at the elegan of DRESS GOODS con SILKS, CREP( I have the greatest b Iei o V?o-rrrain -rir?"t- -frmri rl ot lO Cb k/Ul gutiu U\/ KJ 1U UXAU \J| I SILK which. I offer at t] cheapest line of WASH ?ssPrints, Special attention is c ive line. INDIA LIN* My stock of EMBRO In HOISERY and GK at 25 cents. I have th - ^ Ready-W You can buy a nice s EVERYBODY: Call a: see me. All can be sati Thanking my friends serve them always to the Phone 48. THE CITY OF COLLEGES. Ld?i Wil ?. I Repu Rlc Shooting: Scrape? Base Ball?Picnics ry 01 Beg ?Other Xewtt. ^ec A. ( Due West. S. C.. April 27, 1896. befor We hearof several persons wlsbiog toloeate Mui In Dne West this Fall for the purpose of edu- Alii eating their children. One or more parties have been looking at the Alewlne place. On last Saturday the picnic season began here. About 25 or 30 of our young people went out in wagons two miles from town, and they report a gay time. The neighborhood from Branyan's to Fair's bridge on Little River is now a model farming section. Waste lands have been terraced and *iN brought into a high slate of cultivation. Bottom lands have been reclaimed and the uplands nicely prepared and planted. On this road lives some of the mopt successful plan- r. if ters in Abbeville Couuty. Mr. Moses Ashley so ,hj who is an octogenarian, with one or more brothers, have lived at the old homestead for lo many years. Mr. P. N. Bell is the only other r n old citizen now living on this road, all the ?mjti rest having passed the way of the earth. This 'sis.er section In thlnltlv Nettled unrt Hip hinds mnde . very prolific. Cllnkscales' mill has been the jn . tt) means of building many new and haudsome tende residences. follov Tbe phonograph man was playing in town vjK|t last week. The H. M. Young has been elected Intendant of j1Hb0| Due West. I J^ev The frleuds of Mr. C. I). Haddon hope for j*s his speedy recovery. I prom The lecture last Tuesday night by Dr. Cllf-. ln ,ju ton, of Abbeville, was a treat and highly en-! Joyed by all who had tbe pleasure of aUend-; MlB8 lug. i ..to le Mr. J. H. Wrenn has commenced prepara- (,our tions for bis brick yard, and will commence i some the remodelling of tbe Eupbemain hall as 1 llie soon as the brick are made. j a,,e Mr. G. N. Nickels has secured a part of the Hqi,o0 contract for furnlshlug poles for the telephone j Wj.hf line from Honea Path to Abbeville, and is a|DhH plnclng them aa fast as they can be hauled. much The Due West Democratic club will rueet in for McGee's ball next Saturday for tbe purposeof inom electing officers and attending to other busi- orR|S ness of importance. letter ram jm, tlier < Rev. R. M. Stevenson will lecture In tbe A. famn R. P. church next Thursday. ftrmi MIrs Lllllau McDavId will soon return from and c Mexico, having fulflled her obligation!) as a e(juw missionary. ieve Miss Zulu Brock, who has been teaching tbe lo jra Warrenton High school, Is recreating lor a scii0c week a home. The Junior exhibition comes oil' on Friday night. The petrified man failed to put in appearance according to appointment. Dr. McCain returned from Columbia Saturday. One night last week an unknown person ,, 0 called Hence Archtr to ihe door, fired five [,,e P shots at him, and escaped. No serious results. "eJu Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Wldeman were visiting ot tbe old homestead last week. The Doctor ?na was looking after his gold mines. w? liulte a number of noted persons visited our y & WW u WCCtt. UC1UIC JHBl, U UHl OI WliUUi WC seui T.X but suppose they were lost. kve President Tood, of the Female College, will t*1'8 y give the girls a picnic at an early date. Atu The Clemson band will make the music for c?ws; the Junior exhibition next Friday night. Our C. O. Pratt now has his Ice cream parlor lu every full blast. Is In Visitors last week: J. G. Loner, Cross Hill: aI1^ >' M. B. McGee, Greenville; Master Sloan Mc- M""Gee, Greenwood ; Mrs. Ida McCllntock, Ora; nt?vk( J. H. McDlll, Abbeville. The Ersklne and ClemBon will cross bats here y 1 next Saturday. ,.u,e.? v.?? .Uniin ?.i p-.i. i?.. Hride VJICCUWVAIU UOO uuonrugcu ?ilO&IUC IU piuj at Greenwood on tbe 15th. exnib Mr. T. V. Miller kmt a fine male jersey last jortnjweek in this wise: The animal climbed up '"BP an embankment and put his head through a B've i forked tree, about that time tne ground gave uext: way and the animal was his own executor. COMMENCEMENT 184-5. 1 h Order of the day: iProcession. a," P< Prayer. Clian lordial Inv ABBEV: [amine the Comp Le cheapest and most com* vill find it to their interei t BLACK CREPONS foi sisting in part of )NS, HENRIE1 argain in BLACK SILK rerv dav. The eoods a V V w tie very low price of 80 FABRICS you can find i Percales, Ging] ailed to those beautiful fi: INS, FRENCH ORGAN IDERY and LACES is a LOVES I have some goo< e most complete and desi Lnd Now We C< tade Clot uit of clothes cheaper tha nd see for yourself. In i isfied. and a generous public i 3 best of mv ability, I am V 1/ / bert A. Grier?America, Past, Present fj future. liam M. McKlwell?Perpetuity of Our bllchard G. Chestnut?Literature?The Glo- Steps Lo< Nationality?Valedictory. th ;rees conferred. :ess. The Call j. Garlincton, Esq.?Annervsary Oration have applli e the Societies. he two ml ?lc. thousand s en & Kerr. Printers. Abbeville. C. II. The comj est water p , , electric po> jacentcouc nuu Jiguu BRADLEY ITEMS. 1%'ZS^l # Abbeville ^ pany orga iltor.H nntl Other Items?l*retly nab harnet power for School Teacher. tries at gr coal. Bradley. S. C., April 22, 1896. The tract s Balil thata "bad penny will come back," acres, most Is scribbler is here again. I would like runsthrouj ve you some local news, but there seems dams and a deatb la that line. amount of light tell you, but will not. that Mr. i's son's daughter's husband's father and paid a delightful visit to the hospitable i of the Kev. Brown's father's third cous- Tb so that the large Jones family paid an ex- mav d visit to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, and the ., - ? ving week the Johnsons returned the tIie nresic stitutioni writer attended service recently at Re- tance T :h (Methodist) church, where the pastor, .J , Mr. Justus expounded the word of trutn. WOUltl De a close student and a young man of fine the benefi lse, and we predict for him a high place ; imnossi a church some day. . ca^aaI In tha cnmc nlitoo (i U F1 IS til II 0 Cason (formerly of your town) a chance a home is ach the young idea how to shoot" and to wnwn in the fresh instruction Into the mind. , times I fear that our people are sending tue euuca young Ideas" to school at too early an it gives ( I have frequently seen the little tots at j:fe r?>1 not more than 5 or 6 years old and * . mt having learnAl a single letter ol the j aQ aged ibet. This humdrum exercise takes up recollecti( l of the teacher's time and Is a hard task a it , le child, while it might be done at spare j , ents by the parent, or an older brother presei ter. 1 know a llttleglrl who learned her but the i s from the bible as she stood by her fa- j wprf> fln ,i, Dr sat on his knee, while waiting for the! . y to collect for morning worship. I your y believe there Is economy to both parent family fil hi Id In having It get the rudiments of an ; inafrnr>tni itlon at the home fireside. Again, I be- j 111311 the age of eight to be quite early enough | ipose upon a child the restrictions of the j il room. L. 1 ? Physici ease and Alxnry nnd All the New*. blocks fr< Algary, S. C., April 27,1?IC. ,?inhH,ori le light showers of rain fell here during | uipuiuen last week. A good soaking rain would i cause. Il order. I J^juiAViII?T it of our farmers have finished planting iS fi orue of them have a good stand of cot-' tJie uu I of the ei eat and oats are looking well. Oats were I alone are 11 led out as bad as was thought. | * rythlng bids fair to a good crop of fruit j01 IU"gi I ear. i walls, rip< I still some parties are turning out their often are and "think" it is right. i new postofflce Is In operation now;' ? I. one should patronize this oJHce who walls of ( reach of It. It will speak well of you clisinfeeta our community. and Mrs. S. M. Cooper visited relatives orn, Laurens county, recently. Jones school will clot-e next Friday, The tvi ftrst. There will be a picnic on that day. 0i??? rators of the day are the Rev. Dr. Mc- " siave lu and Rev. R. N. Pratt.. There will be an If iltlon that night. I'rof. (Julbertson in- 11 YOU > i us that he has prepared a very interest- as you a rugnttu ior me occbhioii. we nope 10 worth rei in account of the proceedings lu our from Jones'. Johnnie Jaines. I willing. When "" wonder, \ isolute sincerity i9 a matter of in- j?yi that jnsable importance in Christian ness, will aoter. pation. I itation ILLE C< T?7 u. lete and Ma )lete stock of goods st to investigate tl ' skirts and those ] nm A ? nun L IAD, OEjSX DUCHESS ever o re richly worth $ cents a yard, anywhere. hams, Dimi gured and striped DIES, LINEN Li ttractive and beau i bargains. Ask rable assortment o )iyi c to a Ij ihing, ,11 ever before. 1 all lines my stock br their liberal ps i IALHOUN FALLS, >kiiiic to the Development ol? e Grent Water Power. ioun Falls Water Power Company sd for a charter, the capital stock to / illlon dollars, divided Into twenty I bares of one hundred dollars each. I sany proposes todevelope the greatower In all this country, by which . ver win De uistrioutea over tne aa* itry for operating mills, machinery plants. The development of that sr would prove a source of profit to ay, and a blessing to the country, vould be delighted to see that comnized and the water of the Savanised. . We could then get electric our cotton mill, and other lnduseatly reduced cost of steam from of land contains sixteen thousand ly In Abbnville county. The river m ;h the land, and It is said that with 1 canals we could get an Indefinite power. e Fireside as n School. have occurred to many that le is really an educational in-aseminary of infinite impor- C| here are many parents who e^ giaa 10 give meir cnnaren ^ :t of college training, but find ct ible, owning to straitened cir- fli es. Yet every child who has jjj a graduate of the hearth. So with the woof of childhood is ,tiou the fireside bestows, that 3olor to the whole texture of tt is no uncommon thing to see tii man holding fresh in his & in the event of his childhood. Cl ivide space between that and p< tit hour is a forgotten waste; ^ impressions of his childhood ti: eep they have become lasting, fo seminary of learning?the ^ reside?are you making your D( *s' task an easy one ? b< | ^ [ J u use Lnrkit in llnNemcntH. ^ aus aver mai mere are oisdeath in storing wooden r>m old pavements in cellars en Several cases of typhoid and cl a have been traced to this : is well to remember a single cabbage or a bushel of turnips semeut has poisoned the air ntire houce. Damp cellars sources of disease. Millions erow in a night upon damp in, and pass ofF in ihe air and the direct source of fatal I i. Fire that will dry the he house is the very best of nts. ? e *ant, it has been said, is but rned inside out. vould not be forgotten as soon ^ re dead, either write things V: itdiug or do things worth at 1U T< we get to heaven, we will vith thelirst taste of heaveulv we ever bad a moment's sadi all thin blessedness in antici is Hereb"1 3UNTY T w gnificent STO > I have ever carried, lis matter. If they lovely SILKS for wais % GES, BATIS1 ffered. Splendid quali 1.50 per yard. And It is cheap at on? dol] ities, fluslins, lawns 40 inches wide LWNS, ENGLISH N. Ltifdl. My line of TC for those Ladies Fast f OOTTONADES and Ml department E TT flats a: ?here is no end to my is complete. I only itronage for the last t Respect ] I IS Pill 1 )n the Right Track. ! COHEN! < j i HE LEADER OF LOW PEICES WILL DO IT. We don't expect any man to buy here who in do better any where else, but he'll have a ultless hunt. We put our whole heart Into othes?buying and Helling. We employ rery talent, profit by experience, strive for rery perfection, and have got the art down i a nicety. While some are shouting how leap they've got, we want to tell you how ne we've got. Anybody can sell cheap othes?there's no knack about that. We've it suits as low as $5, but at $7.50. $10, 813 to $15 ad $20, Is where expertness counts, cleveress Is taxed, where competition Is declared it of the race, where its "nedk and neck" 1th the best of custom tailoring. And Just link of what a saving it Is. A little more lan is asked for the cheap truck, but a great sal less than the tailors demand?about ball. rbat worth have words when everybody alms the largest stock ? What weight nave jbllshed prices unless you can prove the ilues? You've got a standing invitation to ok us over and see if we are not showing iree times the variety of suits that is to be und anywhere else. You are assured satfaction in every purchase, not the "as good i-kind," but a guarantee that there can be j ' -> better made. There's no chance of our not " ilug able to suit you. Such an immense c ne must hold everybod's size and every- j i )dy's style. Some of the "back-clothiers" j Ivertise clothing In any shape as the fash-1* nable sort, but their Idea is like theirclothes 11 ancient. The styles thiB season are of the I , oderate sort in length, both cutaways and , ,cks. This way for the correct style at low- 1 it prices that can be made for the best t othes. ( COHEN, ! e The Clothier and Furnisher, { Ml! CEMENT I \ I0AL AND HULLS! 1 t r 1AFFNEY and Virginia Lime. Hoffman v * and Portland Cement, celebrated Jelllco ^ id Blac* smith Coal, best quality hard coal J id Cotton Seed Hull. All at ROCK BOT- C 3>1 prices. \ W. J. BRYSON, I Old Depot. J March 31, 1890, tf * V Extend 'O CALL tttt OK of GOOD To prove the corred will call at No. 1 W its in Persian and Dr tes, brill: tv and 27 inches wi< then I would call spe iar a yard. I have Lawns, Stri at 10 cents a yard. A.INSOOKS, D0TT1 )RCHON LACES is Black Hose branded . TWEEDS ever offe trim Full of nd Gen stock of MEN and ask for a call. Let ;hirty years, soliciting fully, L. W I.nvp In a Cnttncre. The world does not believe in love a cottage very much; that is, tl world assumes not to believe in it. B there are some things that stan< the wear and tear of time with tolei ble success, and love in a cottage mj be one of them, the world ostensibly the contrary notwithstanding. Fro the pedestal of a large experience tl world looks indulgently and pityii iown upon the aspirants of happine in this particular line, and scons mil ly and prophecies with grim cynicisi But love makes the world go rour lust the same, and there is no pla where love enjoys the manifestatk >f liia powers as he does in a cottag svith two young people who have ju ^one from the altar to housekeepin Love is in his element there, and 1 turns in and helps with the pow mightier than the combined force oi Jnnnn AVnAwtd U*A 1AITAO A K rtlrv f r ju&cli CA[;ci to. U.O i uvea iu ucip i * young people to select the pieces furniture which are to adorn tl jottago, and he suggests for the artist arrangement of them; be helps lay carpets and to put up stoves, and nang pictures and adjust tidies. A1 love is a sly boy when he joins for with two young people who have goi Yom tbe altar to housekeeping, t jan teach a masculine novice how mild a kitcheu tire in no time, aL ae can show clumsy fingers how i Iry dainty cbina cups and sauce 'resh from the dish-bowl. He cs nspire a man's heart with radial mthusiasm over a hundred foolis ittle gimcracks with which wom? enow how to adorn a home. He cs nake tbe roaring of a bright fire c he hearth, and the singing of a ne in tea-kettle to sound like a cho >f angel voices. And then he dispor limself gaily about, and writes c svery article, and emblazons in goldt etters on every wall the word "Home, ind he is happy. Bless the boy! Ho ie brings out theoeauties and secludi be blemishes ! He rnafces the vines o grow on tbe outside, and, at h ridding, they clamber all over tt vorld-spurned cottage. How he teacl >s patience and toleration, and how t irompts good action, and brings I >eiug no end of virtues and graces ! There is a trite saying about Love 1 he effect that when Want comes i it the door, he flies out at the wlndov ifou can scarce credit with ficklenei >ne possessed of so many virtues, an vhile the evidence would seem to ben ?ut this cynical old time-honore tatement, there are extenuatin iircuinstances. When Want came i >e led a companion by the hand, an l-_i. : 1 uai cumpuuiuii waa uumeu oeinai less. Love can keep Want at ba vhen Want comes singlehandec liove can make one pound do the wor if ten, and he can garnish dry crus vith a delectable sauce that mak< bod fit for a king, but when Selfisl less stalks in?oh, the change thi ranspires! This is the crisis tb nisauthropic old world watches fo ?he peeps in at the window whe LC/U MJ Hit! . XJPON ?E, '2 S he is Now Off tness of this statement yoi T? 1 1_ j_l J hi it> s jdjluuk xney cannox esden effects. I have a [ANTINES, SE< le for one dollar a yard. scial attention to a PEA undoubtedly the largest, ped Challies, & In WHITE GOODS I LD SWISSES, &c., &e. especially strong. "Our Leader." Price 2C red. Bargains for A ts' Furn BOYS HATS. In Str everybody who wants to * a continuance of the sa . WH3 troubles come, when the babies come. I j and when the tax-collector comes, and V u when she sees the fires blacken and || t go out she shakes her head till her capd frills flutter in a veritable "I-told youso" joy. When selfishness become establish- r / ed on the family altar, Love hops down. . Their joint reign is never a successful i\ |.e one. Selfishness is as old as Time itself; age has never diminshed his s? vigor. If Love proves fickle, it is not altogether Love's fault. There are D~ extenuating circumstances. id ?? " ce One of Xntnre's Best Gifts. The apple, declares a hygenic s? journal, is of nature's best gifts to ? women. Aesthetically it clears and l~g beautifies the complexion by exciting er the action of the liver. Hygienically, ?a it aids digestion, prevents calculous v0 growths by helping the kidney - trnnrof 1 nno on/3 o a tf tViArAtinrVilir rlio. QJ Ol/V/ItHUUO, t*UU, UO IV IUVI VUgUlj UIO" 3e infects the mouth, is one of the best J. jc known preventives of throat diseases. J| t0 Apples are excellent brain food, ? for more than any other food do they 3 j contain phosphoric acid in an easily Cg digested state. ie The best time to eat apples]is just "J je before going to bed, for they are sure to t0 promote sound and healthful sleep, id ? * ? He that hath slight thoughts of sin Jjj never had great thoughts of God. y at Vivacity in youth is often mistaken hl ih for genius, and solidity for dullness. !D The greater your real strength and In power, the quieter it will be exercised. w Happy the man who can endure ;r with equanimity the highest and the ^ ts lowest fortune. I >n Have I done aught of value to my in fellowmen. ? Then have I done much ' | for myself. You can't live on amusement. It is ^ t j the froth on water?an inch deep, and oi jg then the mud! ?? ie Trouble and perplexity drive us to 0 a. prayer, and prayer driveth away trouie ble and perplexity. :o Most of the faults women owe to us, nrliilnt ttfi\ n ha tn f htni fVlT UUllOt rv L die 1UUCUICU tw vuvhu 0 the most of our better qualities. gt u Nothing in life is more remarkable M f' than the unnecessary anxiety which Kl we endure and generally occasion our- tt 01 selves. S( ir ,j Keep your conduct abreast of your 'o g conscience, and very soon your con- * ,j science will be illuminated by the ra- at ,j diance of God. ti? i- He who prays in his family does m y well. He who reads the Scriptures l. and prays does better. He who reads k the Scriptures and sings and prays ts does best of all. *8 Some people have about the same idea in joining the church that they _ it have in rushing to a cyclone pit when 'e they see a funnel shaped cloud, or r- scaling a feuce when they meet a mad to n dog- escape from danger. <>' v ' C i People ol | ering. | i have only to look for fail to be entertained most attractive stock ill 3ILIANS, &c. Think of it! This U DE SOIE BLACK the prettiest and the ' M C, : li Vl O TTCX Q TTQW O ++t?Q A+_ , uu yo a v 01 y uuui av u ' : #1 .if? ) cents a pair; cheap ' la ,'cl 7/ 'iMMh ft v,?; ' \ ' 1 ' mtk ' HI lcminrae l aw Hats we can suityi'I i buy goods come and' J9 me, and promising to 1 [TE. 1 , d . it .' :-c4 users Meeting! : rHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Stockholders of tbe Abbeville Cotton 1111s will be beld In the Court House on THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1896. W. H. PARKER, Treasurer. April 22.1S90, 2t Pi SALE! | _____ *s l/TY HOUSE AND LOT in the olty of AhVA bevllle, bounded by lands of A. W. ones, Lewis Parker, Trinity Church lot and thers. Further information given on appllition. Also, 'hree Hundred and Forty-One (341) Acres, lore or less. In the County of Abbeville, owndesvllle township, bounded North by ,nds of Jacob Martin, South by lands of G. 7. Speer, East by estate of Thomas Cunningam West, hv lnnrifi nf William ("look. E. Arthur Parker. Abbeville, S. C? April 22,1S96, tf Bicycle Ordinance. $E IT ORDAINED BY CITY COUNCIL ' Abbeville, S. C., and by authority of the irae, that from and after the FIRST DAY b' MAY, lS9ii, the riding of bicycles in the ty of Abbeville shall be subject to the folwing restrictions and regulations: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any >rsoii to ride a bicycle on any sidewalk from itues Taggart's corner lot on South Main reet to J. R. Rlake's corner lot on North ain street, or on any sidewalk on auy siae reet within one block of Main street within ie limits of James Taggart's corner lot ou >uth Main street and J. R. Blake's corner t on North Main street. Sec. 2. Any violation of this ordinance or ly provision thereof shall be punished by ie not exceeding five dollars or imprisonent not exceeding ten days. Done In City Council this 21st day of April In the year of our Lord 18%. R. M. HILL. Mavor. James Chalmers, Clerk. A.prll 21st, 18'J6,2t. A man who Hatters a woman hopes either tind her a fool or to make her ie.