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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1901. ESTABLISHED 1844 J
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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
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" 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.
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