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The Abbeville Press and Banner. | BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1901. ESTABLISHED 1844 J r\r\ee a oao\j daui ADAM'S DIARY. The Ooinlnic of "That Sew Creature With tbe Lonir Hair.** IncldeutN of the Tree and Snake Satisfactorily Explained. Extract* from Adnm'? Diary, Translated from the Original MS. Bj Mark Twain. From Harper's Magazine aud North American Review of April. Monday.?'This new creature with the ]ong hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would slay with tbe other animals. . . . Cloudy to-day; wind in the east; think we shall' have rain. . . . We? Where did 1 get tnat wora ? . . . I remember now?the new creature uses it. Tuesday?Been examaning the great waterfall. It is the finest thing on the estate. I think. The new creature calls it Niagara Falls?why I am sure I do not know. Says it looks like Niagara Falls. That is not a reason; it is mere waywardness and Imbecility. I get no chance to name any thing myself. The uew creature names everything that comes along before I can get in a protest. And always that same pretext is offered? it looks like the thing. There is the dodo, for instance. Kays the moment one looks at it one sees at a glance that it "looks like a dodo". It will have to keep that name, no doubt. It wearies me to fret about it, and it does no good, any way. Dodo ! It looks no more like a dodo than I do. couldn't have his shelter in peace. Wmvpcniv?"Riiilfc nrip a sheltering against the rain, but could not have it to myself in peace. The new creature intruded. When I tried to put it out it shed water out of the holes it looks with, and wiped it away with the back of its paws, and made a noise such as other animals make when they are in distress. I wish it would not talk: it is always talking. That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; but I do uot mean it so. I have never heard the human voice before, aud any new and strange sound intruding itself here upon the hush of these dreaming solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note. Friday?The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of all I can do. I bad a very good name for the estate, and it was very musical and sweet? GARDEN OF EDEN. Privately, I continue to call it that, but not any longer publicly. The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. Says it looks like ? r?/\f 1 A/vlr 1 i L'n o n i?_ ? pai& auu UWO IJUV iwa itao M-UJ thing but a park. Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new named?NIAGARA FALLS PARK. This is sufficiently high handed, it seems to me. And already there is a sign up. KEEP OFF THE GRASS. My life not as happy as it u-ed to be. Saturday?The new creature eats too much fruit. We are going to run short, most likely. "We" again? that is its word; mine, too, now, from bearing it so much. Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself. The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers, andstumps right in with its muddy feet. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here. Sunday?Pulled through. This day is getting to be more and more trying It was selected and set apart last November as a day of rest. I already had six of them per week, before. This morning found the new creature trying to clod apples out of that forbidden tree. Monday?The new creature says its name is Eve. That is all right. 1 have no objections. Says it is to call it by when I want it to come. ? said it was superfluous, then. The word evidently raised me in its respect; and indeed it is a large good word, and will bear repetition. It says it is a She. Tuesday.?She has littered the whole estate with execrable names and offen Bive signs: This way to the whirlpool. This way to Goat Island * Cave of the Winds this Way. She says this park would make a tidy summer resort if.there was any custom for it. Summer resort?anoth er liiveuuoii 01 tiers ?jusi wortiB, without any meaning. Wbat is a summer resort ? But it is best not to ask ber, she has such a rage for explaining. Friday?She has taken to beseeching me to stop going over the Falls. Wbat harm does it do? Says il makes ber shudder. I wonder why, I have always done it?always like the plunge and the excitement aud the coolness. I supposed it wa9 what the Falls were for. They have no othei use that I can see, and they must have been made for something. Saturday.?I escaped last Tuesday night, and travelled two days, aud built me another shelter, Id a secluded place, and obliterated my tracks af well as I could, but she hunted me out by meaus of a bea*t wbicb she bat tamed tamed and calls a wolf, and and came making that pitiful noise again, and nhedding that water out oi the places she looks with. i was obliged to return with her, but will pres eutly emigrate again, again,when oc casion offers. She engages herseli ID many ioouan tuiu^a. umuug uiuera tryiDg to study out wby the animals culled II0D8 aud tigers live on grasi and flower*, when, as she says, th< ?ort of teeth they wear would indicat* that they were intended to eat eact other. This is foolish, because to d< that would be to kill each other, am that would introduce what, as I under stand it, is called "death;" and death as I have been told, has not yet enter ed the Park. Which is a pity, 01 some accounts. Sunday?Pulled through. Monday.?I believe I see what th< week is for; it is to give time to res up from the weariness of Sunday. I seems a good idea. She has beet climbing that tree again. Clodded he out of it. She said nobody was look ing. Seems to consider that a suffi cient justification for chancing au( dangerous thing. Told her that. Thi word justification moved her admir ation?and envj' too, I thought. It is a good word. Thursday.?She told me she was made out of a rib taken from my liody. This is at least doubtful, if not more than that. I have not missed any rib. ' Saturday.?She fell in a pond yesterday, when she was lookiug at herself in it, which she is always doing. ' She nearly strangled, said it was most uncomfortable. This made her sorry I for the creatures which Jived in there, which she calls fish, for she continues ' to fasten names on to things that don't need them and don't come when they are called by them, which is a matter of no consequence to her, as she is such a numskull anyway; so she got a lot of them out and brought them iD last night and put them in my bed to keep warm, but I have noticed them now and then all day, and I don't see ibat they are any happier there than they were before, only happier. Sunday.?Pulled through. Tuesday.?She has taken up with a snake now. The other animals are glad, for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them; and I am glad, because the snake talks, and this enables me to get a rest. Friday.?She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. I told her there would be another result, too?it introduce death into the world. That was a mistake?it had been better to keep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea?she could save the sick buzzard and furnish fresh meat to the lions and tigers. I advised her to keep away from the tree. She said she wouldn't. I foresee trouble. Willem igraie. Wednesday.?I have had a variegated time. I escaped that night, aDd rode a horse all night as fast as he could go, hoping to get clear out of the Park and hide in some other country before the trouble should begin; but it was not to be. About an hour after sunup, as I was riding through a flowery plain where thousands of auimals were grazing, slumbering or playing with each other, accoidrng to their wont, all of a sudden they broke into a tempest of frightful noises, and in one moment tbe plain was in a frantic commotion and every beast was destroying its neighbor. I knew what it meant?Eve had eateu that fruit and death was come into the world. . . The tigers ate my horse, paying no attention when I ordered them to desist, and they would even me if I I had stayed?which I didn't, but went away in much haste. . . I found this place, outside the Park, and was fairly comfortable for a tew days, but she had found me out. Found me out, and has named the place Townada ?says it looks like that. In fact I was not sorry she came, for there are but meagre pickings here, and she Drought some of those apples. I was obliged to eat them. I was so huugry. It was agaiDst my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except - ? 11 *?i i wnen one is wen ieu. ouc uamc curtained in boughs and bunches of ( leaveB, and when I asked her what i she meant by such nonseuse and snatched them away and threw them I down, she tittered blushed. I had 1 never seen a person titter and blush 1 before, and to me it seemed unbecom- t ing and idiotic. She said I would i soon know how it was myself. This < was correct. Hungry as I was, I laid I down the apple half eaten?certainly the best one I ever saw, considering I the lateness of the season?and arrayed i myslf in the discarded bougbs aud f branches, and then spoke to her with I some severity and ordered her to go | and not make such a spectacle of her- j self. She did it, aud after this we j crept down to where the wild-beast > battle had been and collected some i skins, I made her patch together a couple of suits proper for public occas- ' ions. They are uncomfortable, it is < true, but stylish, and that is the main < point about clothes. I find she is I a good deal of a companion. I see I 1 should be lonesome and depressed t with out her, now that I have lost my property. Another thing, she says it I is ordered that we work for our living i hereafter. She will be useful. I will ' superintend. ... Next Year.? We have named it 1 Cain. She caught it while I was up ' country trapping on the North Shore of the Erie; caught it in the timber a 1 couple of miles from our dug out?or 1 it might have been four, she isn't cer- 1 tain which. It resembles us in some ways, and may be a relation. That is what she thinks, but that is an error, in my judgment. The difference in i in size warrants the conclusion that it 1 is a different and new kind of animal ' ?a fish perhaps, though when I put it in the water to see, it sank, and she ] plunged in and snatched it out before { ; there was an opportunity for the experiment to determine the matter, t I still think it is a tish, but she is still 1 , indifferent about what it is, and will I not let me have it to try. I do not un- 1 derstand this. The coming of the creature seems to have changed her whole nature and made her unreasonable | J about experiments. She thinks more . of it than she does of any other animal, but is not able to explaiu why. Wednesday.?It isn't a fish. I 1 cannot quite make out what it is. It , s makes curious devlish noises when } not satisfied and says "goo-goo" when ' it is. It is not one of uh, for it doesn't 1 I walfe; it is not a bird,)for it doesn't fly; ' i it is not a frog, for it doesn't hop: it is 1 f not a snake for it doesn't crawl; I feel sure it is not a fish, though I cannot 1 get a chance to fiod out whether it can i swim or not. It merely lies around, 1 f and mostly on its back, with its feet , up. I have not seen any other animal , i do that before. I said I believed it i was an enigma, but she only admired , i the word without understanding it. ( - In my judgement it is either an en? igma or some kind of a bug. Jf it dies > I will take it apart and seb what its 1 arrangements are. I never had a thing , - perplex me so. > Three Months Later. The par* plexety augments instead of diminishi ing. I sleep but little. It has ceased frnnrt linnr* r? n /I onH (rrtOCJ n K/mi + ?*viu oiuuiiu ?uu gwvo auwui on its four legs now. Yet it differs e from the otber four-legged animals t in that its froDt legs are unusually t short, consequently this causes the 1 main part of i?s person to stick un unr comfortably high in the air, ana this - is not attractive. It is built much as - we are, but its method of travelling I shows that it is not of our breed. The e short front legs and long hind ones - indicate that is of the kangaroo family, but is a maked variation of the species, since tiie true kangaroo bops, whereas this one never does. Still it is a curious and interesting variety, and has not been catalogued before. As I discovered it, I have felt justified in securing the credit of the discovery by attach- , ing mine to it, and hence have called , it Kangarooum Adamiensis. Threk Months Later.?The kan- ] garoo still continues to grow, which is , veij' ^iimigeauu j>t:ijjicjviug. x IICVCI ( knew one to be so long getting its growth. It has fur on its liead now; not i like kangaroo fur, but exactly like our , bair, except that it is much fioer and . jofter, and instead of being black is , red. I am like to lose my mind over ihe capricious and harraaiug develope- j aieuta of this unclassifable zoological rreak. If I could catch another one j ?but that is hopeless ; it is a new va*iety, and the only sample; this is : plain. ... Five Months Later.?It is not a : kangaroo. No, for it supports itself Dy holding to her finger, and thus goes . i few steps on its hind legs, and then ( falls down. It is probably some kind , )f a bear; and yet it has no tail?as yet : ?and no fur, except on its head. It jtill keepB on growing?that is a cur- , ious circumstance, for bears get their : growth earlier than this. Bears are iangerous?since our catastrophe? , mid I shall not be satisfied to have ' this one prowling about the place , much longer without a muzzle on. I have offered to get her a kangaroo if she would let this one go, but it did j qo good?she is determined to run us into all sorts of foolish risks, I think. , ^?? * ixi? u1 3Lit) was xiut line wis umuic one jubi i tier mind. A Fortnight Later.?I examined its mouth. There is no danger yet; it lias only one tooth. It has no tail yet. [t makes more noise now than it ever Jid before?and mainly at night. I tiave moved out. But I shall go over, mornings, to breakfast, and to see if it tias any more teeth. If it gets a mouthful of teeth it will time for it to ?o, tail or no tail, for a bear does not aeed a tail in order to be dangerous. Four Months Later.?I have been )ff hunting and fishing a month up in the region nhe calls Buffalo; [ don't know why, un less it is because there ire not any buffaloes there. Meantime :he bear has learned to paddle around ill by Itaelf on its hind legs, aud says 'poppa" and "mama." It is certainly i new species. This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of jourse, and may have no purpose or meauing; but even in that case it is jtill extraordinary and is a thing svhich no other bear can do. This imtation of speech, taken together with general absence of tail, sufficiently indicates that this is a new kind of a sear. The further study of it will be exceedingly interesting. Meantime [ will go off on a far expedition tmong the forests of the North and make an exhaustive search. There ;ertainly .must another one somewhere ind this one will be less dangerous vhen it has company of its own spe;ies. I will go straightway; but I will muzzle this one first. Three Months Later.?It has aeen a wery, weary hunt, yet I have , aad no success. In the meantime, without stirring from the home estate, | jhe has caught another!! I never saw { juch luck. I might have hunted these woods a hundred years, I never should have run across that thing. 1 Next Day.?I have been comparing ( the new one with the old one, and it j is perfectly plain that they are the , same breed. I was going to stuff him | for my collection, but she is prejudiced ( igainst it for some reason or other; so ( [ have relinquished the idea, though , [ think it is a mistake. It would be j in irreparable loss to science if they should get away. ( Ten Years Later.?They are boys; j we found it out long ago. It was their joming in that small, immature shape i that puzzled us; we were not used to It. There are some girls now. Abel is a good boy, but if Cain had stayed a bear it would have improved him. After all these years I see that 1 was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than outside it without her. A.tfirstl thought she talked too much, but now I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life. Blessed be the chestnut that brought us near together and taught me to know the goodness of her heart and the sweetness of her spirit! i Sin wears a mask, back of the mask is the face of a monster with eyes of tire, the features of Satan himself. Many Christians are like the Leaning Tower of Pisa?as far gone from up tightness as it is possible to go without ! toppling over. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may ; be that you will not meet again in i life. i There is only one place where a man j may be nobly thoughtless-his death- J bed. No thinking should ever be left : to be done there. Foolish waste of life is pitiful to see; : and the bitterness it brings in the end to the discontented soul is beyond j words to express. We can only have the highest bap- ( piness having wide thoughts and much | feeling for the rest of the world as well , as ourselves. The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights repeated. No farmer harnesses a fawn to a a plow or puts an ox into a speeding wagon. Life's problem is to make a right inventory of the talents one carries. If we are to be glad in this or any world, we must make his ways our ways, and his will our will, "whose service is perfect liberty." ( The merryhearted feel at times that this world is pood enough for them; ;> _i.?i *i uuc wuou attuuess uveriaKeJi umui they sigh for a better land. Prayer is like a ship, which, wi it goes goes on a long voyage, does n*.- v come home laden so soon; but when ' it does come it has a richer freight. 1 Five minutes spent in the compan- : ionship of Christ every morning will change your whole day, will make every thought and feeling different, will enable you to do things for his sake that you would have doue for your own sake, or anyone's sake. PLUCK AND HONESTY. ^ ^ ^ a The Aitlonifihinsr nine In the World of Cbarlen HI. Schwab. There is a widespread belief, pays the New York Press, that the man who rises suddenly from obscurity to . promiueuce and great riches owes his a success more oiteu iuau iiul iu queotiouable practices aud unfair means. One man of whose rise in the world no * juch questions can be raised is KJhar- ? les M. Schwab, president of the new- " ly organized steel trust. Five years 8 igo Mr. Schwab was unknown to the world. Today the world is talking a ibout him with great interest, wonder- J ing. guessing, surmising. Who is he ? o Where did he come from ? What has e: be done that gives him such a hold on Andrew Carnegie and the power to 9 Jictate terms to a man like J. Pierpont u Morgan ? These are some of the ^ questions asked him. 0 Mr. Schwab is only 39 years old. 0 Twenty-three ago he was a grocer's ulerk at a salary of $250 a week. Last year, as president of the negle com- * pany, his salary was $50,^J0 and 3 per ? eent of the company's earnings. This ^ year, as president of the great steel trust, be will receive in the neighborhood of $100,000 for his services. His 3 per cent interest in the Carnegie v company has made a millionaire 40 P Limes over in five years. ? And he oweB all this not to any I man, not to questionable practices, I but to his own initiative?to his de- ei termination to success and to his faithful observance of certain rules which h be believed essential to success. Mr. n Schwab believes himself. He has tl "lifted himself by his boot straps u ?a fKa ir\v\ Af f Ko Vioart " n IILMLJ uunucic luo v4 vuv v What be has done he declarer that athere cau do. "There Dever were so d many opportunities for the right kind n 5f young men as there are today," he p jays. The secret of his success may 11 be found in thie advise, which he a offers to the ambitious; ' Make . yourself indispensable j, to your employer instead of continually looking at the clock." j, That is the simple recipe of the head e the greatest industrial organization u in the history of the world. That is u the simple magic by which Mr. Schwab has put Aladdin himself to ? blush. J Mr. Schwab was born in Williams- f burg, Blair county, Pa., on Feb. 18, 1862. The family moved to Loretto, " Cambridge county, Pa., when he was , 10 years old. As a boy he worked ? for neighboring farmers or drove a ' 3oach to and from Cresson, his father ? it one time having the contract to carry the mail between Loretto and * Oresson. 8 The boy did not neglcct school, how- u sver, but entered St. Francis' college, o He was graduated at 16 and became a t jlerk in a store at Braddock, Pa. He a *Af wi a wonlr onH Vila KnnrH T-Tp ^Ul t* " ? MUM uaw www. ? , ?? ? worked bard all day and slept in tbe b itore all night as watchman. He c cvas fascinated by the operations of ]j the Edgar Th0m90Q Steel works near n Dy and spent bis leisure moments s watching the men manipulating the g; the hot metal. d One day in the summer of 1881 Cap- n tain Jones, one of Andrew Caruegie's a superintendents, droged into tbe a jtore to buy something, perhaps a plug of tobacco or a red apple. o Behind the counter was a freeble e faced boy of 19, dreaming of becora- o ing a civil engineer. He mustered ii up courage enough to "tackle" the ii big man, explain his ambition and b isk for a job in the steel works. So r Barnest was his appeal that be forced the superintendent to give him a hear- r ing- ii Could he drive stakes? He could ^ drive anything, answered the young 8 man. u Would he work for $1 a day ? Yes, and glad to get the chance to learn. In this way Charles M. Schwab began his career with the Carnegie company. He worked with the engineer- ? ing corps, but there is do evidence that he drove stakes any better than ^ any other freckle faced boy. He kept t bis eyes and ears open, however, and novar Inat. an nnnnrfcunitv to lanrn the business. Wben there was nothing for him to do in his own line, he took up some others man's work, Just to * learn how it was done. Captain Jones was a "huBtler." 1 Schwab wanted to earn his superior's c good opinion and worked at a furious 1 gait. He thought and dreamed of v nothing but the steel works. 1 In six months the boy became the assistant of Jones. In seven years he r was Carneegie's chief engineer and \ had a "Mr." attached to his name, a He built the great Homestead steel v plant and was made its superintend- c ent. He made it the largest works in i the world for the production of several e kinds of steel, including armor plate ( made by the Carnegie company for f the United States navy was|turned out under his personal supervision. His armor plate won such a great reputation that the company received orders for European warships. Upon the death of Captain Jones, in _ 1889, Mr. Schwab was called back to Braddock to become general superintendent of the Edgar Thomson works. n Three Years later the Homestead t works were again placed under his A charge, and he continued to direct ^ both establishments, turning out products valued at millions every year. After he had risen to be general r< manager an English steel manufactur- r< jr offered him a position with a salary L of more than $50,000. Mr. Schwab c, refused the tempting offer, but instead Df taking advantage of the situation to ? jquees"? a better salary out of Mr. Car- u tiegie he said nothing about it to his Jbief. ? Some months later Mr. Carnegie t heard of the incident indirectly, and is he said to Schwab : fa "You musn't think of such a thing." li "I'm not thinking of it," answered el the general manager, "because I don't want it." u "What is it you want?" "To be a partner in your company." * Mr. Carnegie had his faithful aid w elected a member of the board of men|gers in 1896. A year later Mr. Schvab was chosen president of the Carnegie compauy with a salary of $50,000 a year, and he was given a 3 per cent interest. Of the $160,000,000 of stock of the " Carnegie company he is said to have s ftttrml 1 Q OOO n U n rnti flin *\n m s\ f uvrcu ouaics ui tuc pai voiuc v/i $18,929,000. beaides bonds of the face ? value of $18,929,000. rc And as a freckle face boy 20 years go he was earing only $1 a day drivag stakes ! The men who have become rich are ?ldom those started in buslDess with apital, but those who bad nothing to tart with but tbeir strong arms and ctive brains. There are great prayers which like he old Spanish galleons, cross the lain ocean and are longer out of sight, ut come home deeper laden with a oiaen ireigai. God and his laws work together, nd any nation will flnd, as did the ews, tbat obedience and freedom disbedience captivity, still travel togethr in his train. Trying to accomplish any apprecible results with a divided mind and nfocused energy, is like endeavoring 3 move an engine whose boiler is full f pinholes, each of which is letting ut steam. There is sin and trouble everywhere, whether one walk upon the Bowery r stroll upon Fifth Avenue it is the Eime. The Bible is true when it says ?e are "born unto trouble as the sparks [y upward." No one can imagioe, until he tries it rhat a realization of Christ's constant reseuce will do for him. He cannot e lonely. He will not be afraid. >oubts will no longer harass him. iife will become full of thrilling interat. Why do our lives bring us so much >ss happiness than they ought ? Is it ot because we neglect to gather up be little enjoyments, the small pleasre which every hour offers to our aceDtance ? Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, either have entered into the heart of lan, the things which God hath preared for them that love him. This i true of the Christians life on earth s well as of his inheritance in Heaven. The best way to seek help in devotjnsis just for the day. This gives eflteneas to our praying and our readag of the Bible. It is one of the many vidences of God's thoughtfulness for s that be gives us time in short measres, just a little at once. Some weeks ago I made the statement if one had money he bad happlless, and I entertained in my house m mediately following the sermon a aan of very large wealth who said: That statement is untrue, happiness oes not necessarily go with wealth." 'here are aching hearts all over this reat city of ours. Hojv does a man become learned ? Jot, surely, by devouring volumes at , gulp, but by submitting to the gradlal accumulation of little items and letails of knowledge, so enormous in he aggregatev day after day, and year fter year. Wnw does a man become rich ? Not >y huge windfalls, but by minute and areful accumulations of years. Milionaires have become such by econoaizing the loose money, the petty ums which most men deem not worth aving, the pennies and nickles and imes, of which too many men keep 10 reckoning, but which, piled up year ,fter year, make altogether the pyrmid of a fortune. Little things are merely the causes f great things. They are the beginling, the embryo, and it is the point f departure which, generally speak g, decides the whole future of an exstance. One little black speck may e the beginning of a gangrene, of a evolution. One petition in a very old morning irayer is in these words, "Cause me to ;now the way whereit I should walk." The path of a single day seems a very bort one, but short as it is, none of is canlflnd it. What are treasures of beauty to one yhose tastes are solely bestial ? Man's >ld nature could not enjoy Christ's ;ift of life here or of life hereafter. So ie give us new nature. The old inilination and appetites and impulses .re supplanted by new creatures hrnuorh ?nd through and thus capable if living tiie life. In our morning devotions we would >etter think of only the one day on vhichwe are Entering and seek wislorn, guidaoce utrength. and help, for t. Let to-morrow with its possible :ares, duties, and needs alone. It ie iot yours yet, and you have nothing whatever to do with it until you come ip to its edge. If we sincerely and truthfully com' nit our life to God in our closet before ve go forth, getting into close person.1 relations with him, then our daj vill be blessed and brightened, not because we prayed and read our Bible n the morning, but because in these xercises we really put our hand into Sod's hand and gave our life to him or keeping and for service. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 'lie official Route?On to Clilcka* manga and MempblN, For the Unveiling of South Carolina Monulent. Cblckamauga Park, May 27tb, and rnlted Confederate Veterans' Reunion, lemphlB,Tenn., May 28th, 29th and 30lb, 1901. Special Reduced Rates via Southern Railray for both these occasions. Rate for the Round trip: From Abbeville, 8. C., to Chattanooga and Bturn 8 8.25. Prom Abbeville. 8. C., to Mempbls and sturn 9 11.15. Round Trip tickets from Chattanooga to ytle Station (Cblckamauga) twenty five Bnts (25c.) Tickets to Chattanooga and return, account f Unveiling Ceremonies, on sale May 24tb, ?ih and 26th, good to return until May 30tb, 101. Tickets to Memphis and return, acconnt on federate Reunion, on sale May 25tb, 2Gtb od 27tb, good to return until Jane 4th, 1901. hese tickets may be extended until June itb, by deposit at Mempbls with the Joint eent, and payment of a fee of fifty cents Oc) at time of deposit. A stop-over of one ay will be permitted at ChattaDooga, TeDn? Itharon the going or return trip, to enable ae South Carolina Veterans to visit Cblcfcalauga Park to witness the Unveiling aud edlcation of the South Carolina Monument. These tickets will be sold by all principal gents of the Southern Railway. Confer ltb nearest Soutbern Railway Agent, or 'rite. R. W. Hunt, D. P. A., Charleston. S. C. W. E. MeUee, T. P. A., Aueusta, Ga. S. H. Hard wick, G. P. A., Wanhlngton, D. C. W. H. Tayloe, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. There Is nothing but the very beBt extract ?one.v will buy used in our syrups. Pare ult Juices and Irult. Give us a call. The peed Drug Co. Call at The Speed Drug Co, and get a nice aid limeade, In fact, all drinks made at a >untalu. NOTICE OF REGISTRATION- STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ] ABBEVILLE COUNTY. OFFICE OF SUPERVISORS OF REGIS TRATION, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. M Abbeville, 8. C., March 6,1S99. an Notice is hereby given that in accordance with an Act of the General Assembly, and in conformity with the on requirements or ine estate uousiuution, tbe books for the registration of all legally qualified voters, and for the ?t issuing of transfers, ect., will be open , at the office of Supervisors of Registra- b tion in the Court House, between the hour 9 o'clock a. m., and 3 o'clock p. m., on the first Monday of each ^ month, and kept open for three successive days In each month until bi thirty days before the next general ut election. en Tbe Board of Registration is the ^ judge of the qualifications of all applicants for registration every male ^ citizen of this State and of the United State, twenty-one years of age, who is aj' not an idiot is not insane, is not a rj. pauper supported at the public ex- fr f)en8e, and is not confined in any pub- n, ic prison, and who has not been con- ^ victed of burglary, arson, obtaining VJ goods or money under false pretenses jt perjury, fcrgery, robbery, bribery, tu adultery wife beating, housebreaking, CT receiving stolen goods, breach of trust f0 with, fraudulent intent, fornication, ki Bodomy, incest, assault with intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny, or orimes against the election laws, and who shall have been a resident in this State two years (except ministers in nharirA nf nrc&nized churches and teaohers of publio schools, and these after pix months residence in the State,) a resident in the County for six months, and in polling precincy four months, and who can read any Sectiou in the Constitution of 1895, or p< can understand and explain any section of said Constitution when read to 01 him by the registration officer or offl- st cers shall be entitled to registration and w become an elector upon application for m such registration. If any person has gc been convicted of any of the crimes tl< above-mentioned, a pardon of the vc Governor removes the disqualification. In case any minor who will become twenty-one years of age after the closing of the Books of Kegistration and m before the election, ana is otherwise cc qualified to register, makes applica- se tion under oath showing he is quali- bc fled to register, the Boards shall regis- P< ter such applicant before the closing of P< the books. e| Any person whose qualifications as an elector will be completed after the te closing of the Begistration Books but m before the next election shall have the 01 rigbt to apply for and secure a regis- sl tration certificate at any time within sixty days immediately preceding 41 the closing of the Begistration Books, upon an application under oath to the facts entitling him to such registration. I* The registration of voters must be by polling precincts. There must be a Book of Begistration for each polling tl precinct, that is for eacn township, or fli parish, or city, or town of less than ej five thousand inhabitants, or ward of T cities of more than five thousand or inhabitants. Each elector must vote ci in the polling precinct in which he E resides. If there is more than one cc voting place in the polling precinct, at the elector may vote at any voting oi place designated on the registration certificate. The Boards must designate ai in the registration certificate the vot- bc ing place in the polling precinct at w which the elector is to vote. If there ?f is more than one voting place in the rc polling preolncts, tbe Boards shall te designate on tbe certificate the voting la place selected by the elector. ? S. 8. BOLES, O W. A. LANIEB. tl G. H. MOOBE. Board of Supervisors of Begistration ^ Ill ??1 tl " NAME ON EVERY PIECE." i lowK^ i ; Chocolates s FRESH TODAY w ei Somebody at home will he waiting ai tonight for a box. ^ The "Name on Every Piece" is m the guarantee* nc FOR SALE BY ln C. A. MILFORD, The Druggist. 'Pbone 107. cj This Candy won the medal at the World's #r Fair at Chicago over all competitors. It Is delivered to us fresh by express every week. m Try It once and you will always buy It. m A My soda fountain Is running In full blast ^ avorv dAv. All the latest drinks are being Ui served as well as our famous Ice cream. 80 Come to see uh, your trade is appreciated. , Phone 107. C. A. Milford, The Druggist. 8t L. W. White offers a large line of Gonts' Neck-wear and Under-wear. J, rli Cold soda water, cream with crushed Irults, t Ices, all the latest drinks of the season can be , bad at tbe Speed Drug Co. ta Don't fall to visit our fountain when you are 1b warm and want to cool off quick. We make ' it our business to keep people cool. The Speed -j. Drug Co. ?, Lowney's candy fresh every wepk at . Phone 107. Mllford's Drug Store. 8t; Yon can And camphor, lavander. or cedaride, preparations (or packing away blankets, nj flannels, So., at Speed Drug Co. p. When travelling always carry a Jar of mentholatum to relieve headache, sore throat, &c., for sale by Speed Drug Co. Mentholatum will do what Is claimed, we guarantee it, no family should be without ft, yo for sale by Speed Drug Co. jj, We work two graduates in pharmacy, hp Send us your prescriptions. Promptness and accuracy guaranteed. At Mllrord a Drug * . Store. Phone 107. MUford is np-to-date on school books to when In need of anything in that line ea tei andueehim. Phoue 107. r?l uvlo n Dnor i i Father*! View of the Entries Malt on the Family Ledger. Does a 2-year-old baby pay for itself up the time it reaches that interesting e? Sometimes I think not. I thought yesterday when my own baby slipped :o my study and "scrubbed" the carpet * ?J ?Jil. U.iiU Q D18 Desi wane urvsa wnu my uuitic ink. He was playing in the coal bod a minutes after a clean dress was put him, and later in the day he pasted 50 ots' worth of postage stamps on the rlor wall and poured a dollar's worth the choicest white rose perfumery out the window "to see it wain." Then he dug out the center of a nicely Jted loaf of cake and was found in the Iddle of the dining room table with the gar bowl between his legs and most of e contents in his stomach. He has already cost $100 in doctor's lis, and I feel that I am right in attrib- ' ing my few gray hairs to the misery I dured walking the floor with him at ght during the first year of his life. What has he ever done to pay me for at? .% Ah! I hear his little feet pattering ong out in the hall. I hear his little pple of laughter because he has escaped om his mother and has found his way ? a ViAnr Tlnf 9 IV ill/ DIUU/ at O 1U1 utuuvu *ru? I e door Is cloBed. The worthless little ' n :,3 igabond can't get in, and I won't open ' for him. No* I won't. I can't be disrbed when I'm writing. He can just y if he wants to. I won't be bothered r? "Rat, tat, tat," go his dimpled luckles on the door. I Bit is silence. "Eat, tat, tat" * I fflt perfectly still. . ' No reply. {'' $ 'Teeze, papa." Grim silence. "Baby tnm in?peeze, papa." '>;< He shall not come in. ^ "My papa." * - ' I write on. "Papa," says the little voice; "I lab my tpa. Peeze let baby in." I am not quite a brute, and I throw >en the door. In he comes with out- .. i'l retched little arms* with shining eyee, 1th laughing face. I catch him np into y arms, and his warm, soft, little arms > around my neck, the not very clean lite cheek is laid close to mine, the baby >ice says sweetly: "I lub my papa." Does he pay? Well, I guess he does! He has cost me any anxious days and nights. He has ist me time and money and care and If sacrifice. He may cost me pain and iirow. He has cost much. But he has lid for it all again and again in whistVmqp three little words into my irs, "I lub papa." Our children pay when their very first eble little cries fill our hearts with the other lore and the father love that ight never to fail among all earthly pas* ons. Do our children pay??J. H. D. in Deoit Free Press. THE SPEED OF BIRDS. Ia Not Ifeulr So Great as Hu Been Generally Assumed. If yon consult the usually accepted anlorities on the speed of birds in their ght, you are likely to be misled by an , :aggeration of from 100 to 300 per cent. his is because figures have been given 1 hearsay, appearance and very superfial observation. But recently American, '4 nglish and French observers have been unparing notes and are practically freed, after most careful calculation, l the speed of the best known birds. They started with the carrier pigeon id have made him a base of compari>n. He has heretofore been credited 1th 110 miles an hour, but it is now freed that be is entitled to 60. A quite >cent long distance, carefully conducted st of 592 miles, from the Shetland isnds to London, showed that the most >.$5 ipid pigeons made 37 miles an hour. n shorter distances none made more ian 50 miles. Because frigate birds have been geen ir from land and have been supposed >t to fly by night or to rest on the water ,, iey have been credited with a speed of om 150 to 200 miles an hour. If they d fly at that speed, they would have to rercome an atmospheric pressure of om 112 to 130 pounds to the square >ot of flying surface. There is no cerlinty that they fly more rapidly than a issenger pigeon or that they do not fly : night or do not sleep on the water. The swallow, that is indeed a rapid er, has been credited with 180 miles l hour, but he must be cut down to 60 iles, and the marten is five miles behind m, though authorities have placed him n miles ahead. The teal duck is brought down from 10 to 50 miles an hour. The mallard is re miles slower and flies the same as the tnvasback, while both of these are five iles an hour ahead of the wild goose and der duck. The pheasant makes 38 miles an hour, hich is three miles ahead of the prairie ilfken and quail, though the latter ap?drs to fly much faster on account of s temporary burst of speed that seldom cceeds 200 feet The crow flies 25 miles - v? n A UUUi< Small birds appear to fly more rapidly tan the large ones and have deceived any observers. The humming bird does )t fly as fast as many awkward appearg, very much larger, slow flopping xds.?Chicago Times-Herald. A Proud Fatter. "W A member of the New York Yacht ab was proudly boasting to an old lend he had not seen in 15 years of the erits of his children. "Henry, as you ay possibly have heard, is at Harvard. s yet he has done nothing for the fam7. Archbold is at the Leland Stanford liversity. I wanted to bring up my ns as far apart as possible, under hopessly different and varying circumances. Of course Archbold has not as ? done anything for the family. Harit is married to young , and, well, really can't say that she has done anying for the family. The youngest child Virginia, who is just becoming useful." "Indeed? And what does Miss Virniado?" "She has just reached the age and ature when she can wear her mother's i clothes. Captain, will you accompa- j ' me to our grillroom?"?New York' ress. <j tXTVIl | Mrs. Greene?That was a fine article] ur husband wrote about "The Smokel uisance." Mr. Greene says It is the! st thins that has appeared on the sub-l rt. Mrs. Gray?Yes? I suppose it ought be. My husband smoked no less than i cigars while writing it?Boatoi anscrlpt. J