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" ' - < > m. m . ,,..., 3ll)e Jttcsscngcr. ABBEVILLE, S. C. A Western exchange (ells its readers bow "to mind their P's," in the followjng paragraph: "Persons who patronize papers should pay promptly, for the pecuniary prospects of the press have a peculiar power in pushing forward public prosperity. If the printer is paid promptly, and his pocketbook kept plethoric by prompt paying patrons, he puts his pen to his paper in peace; his para graphs are more pointed; he paints his pictures of passing events in more pleasing colors, and the perusal of his paper is a pleasure to the people. Paste this piece of proverbial philosophy in some place where all persons can perceive it.'" A great effort has at last been made t? olve the enigma which for ages has re mained a mystery to man. It is the grea Sphinx, of Egypt, which is about to ro veal ita secrets and why it was erected. A company of explorers,under the direction of Maspero, have been excavating for some time back around the ba?e ol this colossus. These excavations have disclosed a temple which is said to be the oldest in the world. It has no resemblance to any of the other Egyptian temples. For a few months the marvelous Sphinx of Ghizeh will remain, perhaps for the first time since the days of Moses, free from the earth in which it was buried, and we shall perhnp3 dincover the reason of its existence. n n/v tit 41%<-? IT?*54 #?/1 4-V* ??? m uviv uiu iu iuu uuauu uiuica luu tjrthree counties whose agricultural products amount in value to over $4,000,000. Of the thirty-three the State of New York furnishes fourteen, Pennsylvania seven, Illinois six, California and Massachusetts two ench and Michigan and Connecticut one each. Of these rich counties, Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, leads all the rest, her agricultural products, according to tho census of 1880, amounting to $9,320,202. It is important to know what is raised in the rich counties. Lancaster raises vast amounts of tobacco? twice as much as any other county in the United States. The county also raises 'fast quantities of corn, oats, wheat, and about 40,000 cows make enormous quantities of milk, butter, and cheese. The Mosquito Reservation ol Nicaragua takes its name from the Mosquito Indians, to whom it belongs. It - stretches for nearly two hundred miles along the coast of Nicaragua, and ex tends back to the mountains. It is watered by numerous majestic rivers, and its front abounds in fine harbors. The ' ... chief .of^. the Mosquitoes is its hereditary President, and he governs with the assistance of a Vice-President, a Chief Justice, an Attoruey-Gcr.eral and a Council elected by the people. The indc- ( pendence of the country is guaranteed by Nicaragua, Great Britain and Austria. It the ouly country on carfti where there 1 are no ttuoa, 1^9$ taxation iq \ levied on cither real 6i' personal property, and the only vestige of the burden j which is escaped nowhere elso is a poll tax of upon every man who votes as a i citizen. ??? ??mm???? A lady in Xew York city lias spent twenty years in stringing together eight i thousand beautiful buttons, and no two alike. Some of them have been brought half around the easth to her by sea cap tains. Seme have come from old wars ^and famous battle fields; some from the ' ^^m)ricnt and some from the Occident; ^^^nome from gold mines and poorhouses, 0^^ from snug country houses and from shipwrecks: some are just from the button counter, nnd some aro dignified old buttons which have survived from a previous century, and now hold sinecure positions on Mrs. Harris's button string. The buttons are almost infinite in kind. The lady who has collected the 8,000 savs that she never goes out shopping without seeing buttons 4hat she had never seen before. A new button stares at lier from every shop window and meets her in every bazar. "When she began to collect them there were peopie who thought that there were not more than 9l>9 different kinds of buttous in the world, and it was on a wager of this kind that she began her labors. A permit was taken out In "Wasliington recently to remodel aud enlarge the house recently purchased by the Presi dent on the Woody Lane road. Th< plans as prepared by the architects pro vide for the addition to the present structure of a third story of a very ornamental and handsome design. The third story will be in the high pointed rocl pierced with dormer windows, the eavea extending over some fourteen feet, thui forming >.$i'.c roof of the porch in thd second^ tftory. Thero will be doublo porches twelve fcot wide extending on 41 ..lL 3 1 A. ~ t 11 1 I IIIU oUllLll JUIU WU3b UUll purt UI tuu VIV*I sides of tho house. Upon the stone walltf forming the present two stories of tho house will be built this high, overreaching roof, with the exterior covered with shingles paintod red. There will be a two-story back building erected for a] kitchen and servants1 quarters, and the' interior will be remodeled and fitted up in a style to correspond to the pretty' mdilern design of a cottage, which the exterior will then assume. dr. mmm sermon MEASURED BY YOUR OWN YARD STICKS. fPreiP.hod at Aehevllle, N. CX] Tint: "With what measure ye mete, it ebail be measured to you again." Matthew vii, 2. In the greatest sermon ever preached?a pormou about fifteen miuutes' long, according to the ordinary rate of speech?a sermon on the Mount or Olives, the Preacher, sitting while He spoke, according to the ancient mode of oratory, the people were given to understand that the same yard stick that they employed upon others wo.ild be employed upon themselves. Measure others by a harsh rule, and you will bs measured by a harsh rule. Measure others by a charitable rule, and you will be measured by a charitable rule. Give no mercy to others, and no mercy will bo given to"you. "With what measure ye mete, it shall bo measured to you again." There is a great deal of unfairness in the criticism of human conduct. It wa > to smite that unfairness that Christ uttered the words of the text, and my sermon will be a re-echo of the Divine sentiment. In estimating tho ^ luiouvuaiiui vi uiiuma no uiubbuiKt) iuw consideration the pressure of circumstances. It is never right to do wrong, but there are degrees of culpability. When men misbehave or commit somo atrocious wickedness we are disposed indiscriminately to tumble them-all over the bank of condeuination. Suffer they ought and suffer they must; but in difference of degree. In the first place, in estimating the misdoing of others we must take iuto calculation the hereditary tendency. There is 6uch a thiug as good blood and there is such a thing as bad blood. There are families that have had a moral twist in th?m for a hundred years back. They have not been careful to Keep the family rbcord in that regard. There have been o-capades and maraudings and scouudrelisms and moral deficits all the way back, whether you call it kleptomania or I pyromania or dipsomania, or whether it be in a milder form and amount to no mania at all. The strong probability is, that the pres- j out criminal started life with nerve, m iscle ar.d bone contaminated. As some start life j with a natural tendency to nobility and generosity, and kindness and truthfulness, there I are others who start life with just the opposite tendency, and they are born liars, or born malcontents, or born outlaws, or born swindlers. There is in England a school that is called the Princess Mary SchooL All the children in that school are the children of convicts. The school is supported by high patronage. I had the pleasure of being present at one of their anniversaries in 1879, presided over by the Earl of Kintore. By a wise law in England. after parents have committed a certain number of crimes and thereby 6hown themselves incompetent rightly to bring up their children, the little ones are taken from under pernicious influences and put in reformatory schools, where all gracious and kindly influences shall be brought upon them. Of course the experiment is young and it has got to be demonstrated how large a parcenta^e of the children of convicts may be brought up to respectability and usefulness. But we all know that it is more difficult for ch Idren of bad parentage to do right than for children of good parentage. In this country we are taught by the Declaration of American Independence that all people are bora equal. There never was a greater misrepresentation put in ono sentence than in that senteuco which imnH??s that we are all born equal. You may as well say that flowers are bora equal, or tree? are burn equal, or aaiira'.s are born equal. Why does one noree cost $103 aud another horse cost $.rj0,0 )0? "Why does ono slieap cost ?10 and another sheep ?500* Difference in blood. We ore wise enough to recognize the difference of blood in hor5es, iu catt'.e, in sheep, but we aro not wise enough to make allowance for $hc difference in the human blood. Now I dmnand. by thj law of etoraal fairness, that you be more lenient in your criticism of tnose who were born wrong, in whose ancestral line there was a hangman's knot, or who came from a tree tho fruit of which for centimes has been gnarled and worm-eaten. Di? Harris, a reformer, gave some marvelous statistics in his story of what he called 4'Margaret, tho mother of criminals." Ninety years ago she lived iu a village in Upper New* York btate. She was u'jl oniy poor, out sho was vicious. She was not well provided for. There were no almshouses ili?re. The public, however, somewhat looked after her, but chiefly scoffed at ind derided her, pushed her further dowu in her crfmos. That was ninety years ago, iiiere have been 033 persons in that ancestral line. 209 of thorn criminals. In oua branch of that family thero were twonty, q! the*n have been in State PiLon, anil marly all of the Dthers have turned out badly. It is estimated that that family cost the County and State $100,0;;0, to say nothing of the propet ty they destroyed. Are you not willing, as sensible people, to acknowledge that it is a fearful disaster tobj born ia such an ancestral line? D003 it not make a great difference whether one descanrls from Margaret, j the mother of criminals, or frcm some | mother in Israel? Whether you are the son of Ahab or the sou of Joshua? It is a very different thine to swim with t.hrt purron'f I from what it is to swim against the current, as some of you have no doubt found in your summer recreation. If a ma 1 find himself in an ancestral current where there is good blood flowing smoothly i from generation to generation it is not a very prreat credit; to him if ' he turns out good and hon? st and pure and noble. Ho could hardly help it But sui>- | Kse be is born in an ancestral line--in a ; reditarv line?where the influences have I been bad and there has bean a coming down j over a moral doslivity, if the man surrender | to the influences he will go down under the overmastering gravitation unless some 1 sai>eruatural aid be afforded him. Now, ! such a person deserves not your excoriation, i but your pity. Do notsit with the lip curled | in s oin, an l with an assumed air of angelic i innocen e, looking down upon such moral j precipitation. You had better Ret down on your knees and first pray Almighty God for ! their rescue, and next thank the Lord tbrit you have not been thrown under the wheels of that Juggernaut. Tn Krltftin on/1 in flm TTnl*/^ in every generation, there are tens of thousands of persons who aro fully developed criminal* and incarcerated. lwiy, in every generation. Then, I suppose, there are tans of thousands of persons not found out in their criminality. In addition to these there are tens cf thousand < of person* who, not positively becoming criminals, nevertheless have a criminal tendency. Any one of all those thousands by the grace of God may becomo Christian, and resist the ancestral influence and open a new chapter of behavior; but the vast majority of them will not, and it becomes all men. professional, unprofessional, minister* of religion, judges of courts, philanthropists and Christian workers to recognize the fact that there are these Atlantic and Pacific surges of hereditary evil rolling on through the centuries. 1 say, of course, a man can resist this tendency, just as in the ancestral line mentioned in th3 first chapter of Matthew. You see in the same line in which there was a wicked Rchob am and a desperate Manasses, there afterward came a pious Joseph and a glorious Christ. But, my frionds, you must recognize the fact that these influences go on from generation to ganeration. I am glad to knnar hnwAvar t.hnt. * riuftr whi."h hnq nrn diu-ed nothing but miasma for a hundred miles, may, nfter awhile, turn tfee wheels of factories and help support industrious and virtuous populations: and th^re are family lines which were poisoned that are a benediction now. At the Last Day it will be found out; that there are men who have gone clear over into all forms of iniquity and plunged into utter abandonment, who, before they yielded to tbs first temptation, resisted mora evil thin manv a man who has been mora! and upright all his life. But supposing now that Ja tUs ace wfcaa there t J : ' ' * . . ' - - Ji'-; 'v v.'x-j,:. .. y<{! ire eo many good people thnt I come down 4 11 to this audience and select the very best | man in it. I do not mean the man who would style himself "the best, for probably he is a 1 hypocrite; but I mean the man who before Orod is really the best. I will take you out 1 from all your Christian surrounding". 1 will take you back to bovhood. I will put you In j % <leprave;l home. 1 will put you in a cradle of iniquity. Who is that bending i :>ver that cradle? An intoxicated mother. 1 Who is that swearing in the next 1 room! Your father. The neighbors romt jn to talk, and their jokes are unclean. There 1 Is not in "the house a Bible or amoral troatise, but only a few scraps of an old pictorial. ! fiLioi u, wuiw you are oui enough to get out 1 of the cradle, and you are struck across 1 the head for naughtiness, but never in any j Kindly manner reprimanded. A Pier a white ' fou are did enough to go abroad, and | f ou are seut out with a basket to steal, f you come home without any spoil, you are whipped until the blood comes. At ' fifteen years of age, you go out to fight your ! own battles in this world, which seems to : pare no more for you than the dog that I has died of a fit uniler the fence. You are 1 kicked and cuffed and buffeted. Some day, I rallying your courage, you resent some | wrong. A man says: "Who are youf I know I who you are. Your father had free lodgings 1 it Sing Sing. Your mother, she was up for ^ drunkenness at the Criminal Court. Get out c Df my way, you low-lived wretch ?" My brother, suppose that had been the history of f 7our advent, and the history of your early f mrroundings, would you have been the * Christian man you are to-day, seated in this r Christian assembly. I tell you nay. You ' would have been a vagabond, an outlaw, a ' murdorer on the scaffold atoning for your ' crime. All these considerations ought to J cQM.se us merciful in our dealings with th.? wandering and the lost. 5 Again, I have to remark thnt in our esti? mat.) of the misdoings of people who have 1 fallen from high respectability and useful iifiss we must take intn consideration the con- 8 junction of circumstances. In nine coses J; out of ten a man who goes astray does not t intend any positive wrong. He has trust 5 funds. He risks a part of these funds in in- ? vestment. He says; ''Now, if I should lose 5 that investment I have of my own property c five times as much, and if this investment j! thould go wrong I could easily make it up: I f; could five times make it np." With that ? wrong reasoning he goes on and makes the 1 investment, and it does not turn out quite so n well as he expectad, and he makes auother 1 Investment, and, strange to say, at the same 1 time all his other affairs get entangled, and = U1 his other resources fail, and his hands are c tied. Now he wants to extricate himself. He n goes a little further on in the wrong invest- 5 ment. He take? a plunge further ahead, J for he wants to save his wife and children, 1 he wants to save his lome, he wants to save n his membership in the church. He takes one B more plunge and all is lo3t. Some morning ? at 10 o'clock the bank door is not opened, and there is a card on the door signed Dy an ofH- P cer of the bank, indicating that there is ? trouble, the name of the defaulter or the de- * frauder heals the newspaper column, and f. hundreds of men say: "(jtood for him:" hundreds of other men say: '-I'm glad he's found out at last;" hundreds of other man a say: "Just as I told you;" hundreds of other K mens*y: "We couldn't possibly have been J1 tempted to do that?no conjunction of circumstan 63 could ever have overthrown me;" " and there is a superabundance of indigna- a tiou but no pity. The heavens full of light- f' ning, but not one drop of dew. If God b treated us as society treats that man vrv r would all have been in hell long ago 1 Wnit ii for the alleviating circumstances. Perhaps n ho may have been the dupe of others. Ba- a fore you lot all the hounds out from their a kennel to inaul and toar that man, lind b out if ho has not been brought up in a p commercial establishment whore there was e n wronj system of ethics taught; si find out whether that man has not n an extravagant wife, who is not satisfied s< with his honest earnings, and in the tempta- h tion to p'eosO her he has gone into that ruin n into which enough men have fallen, aud by h the sama temptation, to tnako a procession of r< many miles. Perhaps some sudden sickness h may have touched h s brain, and his judg- g ment may be unbalnn-ed. He is wrong?he is awfully wrong,and h > must be condemned, d but there may be mitigating circumstances. t< Perhaps under the same temptation you s< might have fallen. The reason some men do si not steal $230,000 is because they do not get tl a chance! Have righteous indignation you li must about that man's conduct, but n temper it with mercy. But you siy: "I am a bo sorry that the innocent should suffer." n Ye3, I am too?sorry for tho widows and or- h fhans who lost their all by that defalcation, n am soi*ry, also, for thy business men, tha I honest business men, who have had their ? affairs all crippled by that defalcation. I h ntn enrmr fnr fhn vnnornhln lmnlr Ppftcirlonf. fn 11 whom the credit of that bAnk was a mntter si of pride. Yesl I sorry, also, for that man a WuO brought ad the distress?sorry ttlt; he t sacrificed body, mind, to.il, repufatioTi, fi Heaven, and went into the blackness of dark- fi ness forever. c You defiantly sav: "I couli not bo tempted d in that way." Perhaps yo:i may bo tested n after awhile. God has a vor3 good memory, v and he sometimes seems to say: "This man i< feels so strong in his innat .* power and t^ood- I ness ha shall be tested; hs is so full of bitter tl inventive against that uafortnn Ue.it shall l>e b shown now whether he his the power to v stand." Fifteen years go by. The wheel of r fortune turns several times, and you are in a crisis that you never conl 1 have anticipated. li Now.all the powers of darkness come around, i and they chuckle, an 1 thov chatter, and thoy e say: "Aha! hero is the oil fellow who was s SO proud Ui 111M auu rw HKJ fc bragged ho couldn't bo overthrown by c temptation, and was so uproarious in his demonstrations of indignatiou at the defalcation fifteen years ago. Let us see. God lets the man go. Go;l, who had kept that man , under His protecting care, lots the man go and try for himself tli? majesty of his integrity. God letting the man g >, the powers of darkness pounce upon him. I soa yon some day in your office in great o * -itament. Ono of two things you can do. Be honest, and be pauperized, and have your childr en brought home from school, your family dothroned in social influence. The other thing is, you can st?p a j little aside from that whi h is ri $ht, you can 1 ouly just go half an inch o.it of the propor path, ,, ; you can only take a little ri-k. and then you have all your finance* fair and lirjht. You ; bavo a large property. You can leave a for I tune for your chddren and e:idow a college , and buila a public library in your native i town. You halt and wait, and halt and wait i , until your lips get white. You decide to | ! risk it. Only a few strokes of the pen now. ! But oh. how vour hand trembles, how j , dreadfully it trembles! The die is cast. , | By the strangest and most awful j j conjunction of circumstances any ens . ' could have imagined, you are prostrated Bankruptcy, commercial annihilation, exEosure, crime. Good men mourn'and devils old carnival, and you see your own name at the hoad of the newspaper column in a whole congress of exclamation points; and while you are reading the anathema in the reportorial and editorial paragraph, it occurs to you how much this story is like that of the 1 j defalcation fifteen years* ago. and a clap of i : thunder shakes tho window-sill, saying: "With ( | what m -autre ye mete, it shall be measured , to vou a^ain!" You look in another direction. There it 1 , nothing like an obullibion of temper to put a i < i man to disadvantage. You, a msn with | < ! calm pulses and a Hue digestion and perfect j j health, can not understand how anybody j should be capsized in temper by an inflnitesi! mal annoyance. You say: "I couldn't b? ' unbalanced in that way." Perhaps you smile j | at a provocation that makes another man < I swear. You pride yourself on your imper- i | turbability. You say with your manner, | though you have too much good taste to say ' with your words: "I have a great deal mora . sense than that man has; I have a great deal | more equipoise of temper than that man has: I I never could make such ft puerile exhibition j of myself as that man has made." My brother, you do not realize that that man was born witft a keen nervous organization; that for forty years he has been undei a depleting process; that sickness and troubk have been helping undo what was Jefl of original health fulness; that nruch of hii time it has been with him like filing saws, that his serves have come to to merely* V'v 'AV/V ;'b*. ? ^ tangle of disorder"?, and that he is the mo? pitiable obju?t on earth, wno, though he i very sick, does not loolc sick, mid nobod; lympathizes. lA*t me sae. Did you no ?ay that you could not bo tempted t< iu ebullition of tomporl Since Septombe you como home from your summer wateriug place, and you have inside, away back ii your liver or spleen, what wi? call iu our dai malaria, but what thsi ol 1 folks called chill and fever. You take quinine until your oar fire first buz/iug beehive* and theu roarinj Niagaras. You take roots ami herbs,you tak everything. You get well. Hut the next da; you feel uncomfortablo, and you yawn, au< you stretch, and you shiver, an 1 vou con sumo, and vou sufTor. Voxe I moro than vol an toll, you can not sloop, you ran not cat you can not bear to see anything that look uappy, you go out to kick t.ho rat, that i asleep in the sun. Your children's mirtl was once music to you; now it is deafening You say: "Boys, stop that racket!" Yoi turn back from Juno to March. In the famih mil in the neighborhood your popul irity i i.r> per cent. olF. The world says: "What i ;ho matter with that disagreeable man What a woe-befrotiH countenance! ( tan* war tho sight of him." You have {jot you; my at last?got your pny. Yon fc>el just a ;he man felt--t,liat man for who'it you line 10 mercy, and my text comes in with mar relous appositeness: "With what measure y< liete, it shall bo measured t" you again." In tho study of society I linVo come to tliii inclusion?that the m?4 of tho people wan o be good, but they do not exactly know tow to make it out. They make enough gnoc esolutions to lift them into angelhood. Tin rast majority of people who fall are the vie ims of circumstan -os: they are captured bj imhuKcade. If their temptation shouk :ome out in a regiment and light them in t air field they would go out in tho strength tnd tho triumph of l)avid ngainst (Jonah 3ut they do not see the giants and tiny <1< lot seo tho regiment. Suppose tetnptat:on hould come ur> to a mnn and say: "Here if ileohol: take tnreo tablespoonfulsof it a day, intil you get dependent upon it; thin aftoi hat take half a glass three times a day, until rou get dependent upon that amount: th-?n :o on increasing the amount until yo i art aturated from morning until night and from light until morning." Do you supoose anj nan would become a drunkard in that way Db. no! Tempt ition comes and savs- "Take heso bitters, take this nervine, tako this aic o digestion, take this night-cap." The vasl najority of men ami women who are dctroyed by opium and by rum first takq thorr s medicines. In making up your dish ol riticism in regard to- them, take from th? astor the cruet of sweet oil ami not the cr.iel if cayenne pepper. Re easy on thorn. D< 'oil know how that physician, that lawyer hat journalist becamo'the victim of dissipa' ion? Why, the physician was kept uf light by night on professional duty. Lift ,nd death hovered in tho balance. His nerv us system was exhausted. Thare came e imoof epidemic, and whole families were irostrated, and his nervous strength wa;one. He was all worn out in tha service ol ho public. Now he must brano himself up Sow he stimulates. Thslifeof thi> mother, he life of this child, the life of this father, he life of this whole family must b.? saved, iid the lives of all these families must be aved.and he stimulates, and ho does it again nd again. You may criticise his judgment, ut remember the pro 'ess. It was nor a selsh process by which ho went dovrj. It w.ts magnificent gmerosit/ through which h? ell. That attorney at the bar for wee!:s has een standing in a poorly ventilated courtoom, listening to tho testimony and contestng in the dry technicalities of tho law, and iow the time has c >:no for h'm to wind in, utl ha must plcrul for t!u life o* his client, n I his nerv mis system is all i;or.e. If e fail^ in that spcorh l.hen his client erishes. If he can havo elotiuencc nough in th it hour his client is save 1. Ha t * i. ?? ? it ??T uiuiuiuia;?, iiu iii.ou ivru 1? U|/. ill- rv.i > r* , i lust keep up.'' Having a lar^o pra?ii:*e you ?o how ho is inthralled. You may criticise is judgment, but remamber tho pr joesa. Do ot ba hard. That journalist hi; had oxausting midnight work. Ho hi? had fca epurt speeches* and ora'.ions tbi". lceap im up "till a very late hour. He bos >no with much exnov.iro worlciag up mw case of crims in company with a ete.-tive. Ho sit* down at midnight 3 write out his note; from a memorandum crawled on a pad under unfavoraMecircumtancos. His st 'en^th ir, gane. Fidelity to lie public intelligence. fidelity to his own velihood, demands that ho keep un. He v.ist keep up. lie stimulates. Again and ga n ho does thxt, and be goes down. You lay criticise his judgment iu tho matter, bul avo mercy. Remember the process. Dc ot bo bard. My friends, this text will come to fulfilllent in some cases in th's world. Th< uutsman in Farmstean was shot by some nkuown person. Twenty years after the an of the huntsman was in the same forest, nd he a ccidentally shot a man, and the man i living said: "God is just I shot roui ith?r just here tweutv years ago." A bishop aid to Louis XI. of France: ""Make an iror age for all those who do rot thin': a? w< o?an iron cag.-? in which fcho cnptivo cat either lie down nor stand straight up." II ?as fashioned?tho awful instrument of pun ihment. After awhile the Bishop oTende! ,ouis XI., and for fourteen years he was it bat same cage, and could neither lie dowr ior stand up. It is a poor rule that will nol fork l>oth ways. "With what measure y< nete, it shall ho measured to you again." "Oh, my friends, let us be resolved tose^lc asj and pray more! That which in the Bibl< s usee? as the symbol of all gracious influ mces is the dove, not the porcupine. Wo ma] o unskillfully manage the life-boat that w< hall run down those whom we want to res ue. Tho first preparation for Christian use ulness is warm-hearted common sense, prac ical sympathy for those whom we want U avo. What headway will we make in thi fudgment if in this world we have been har< m those who have gone astray' What head ray will you and I make in the last Grea rodgment, when we must havomercy or per ah? The Bible says; "They shall havejudg neut without mercy that showeth no mercy. l 800 tna serines 01 neavou looiting up inu he face of such a man, saying: 4'What Toil plead for mercy, you, who iu all you ifo naver hiul uny mercy on your fellows Don t you remembor how hard you w^re ii four opinions of those who were astray f Don' foil remember when you ought to have giv.-: i helping han.l y.?j employed a hard beel Mercy! You must misspeak yoursel ivheu yo.i plead for mercy hert Mercy for others but no mer^y for yon Look," savs the scribes of heaven, "look a ;hat ins:'iintion over the Throne of Ju lg nent, the Throne of God's Judgment.Se it ooming out letter by letter, word by word sentenceoy sohtence, until your startled vis ion reads it and your remorseful spirit ap Sropriates it: "With what measure ye met* ; shall be measured to you again. Deparl ye cursed 1" t ? Bird-Killing Sparrows. So much has bec:n snld of late for anc igaii 8t fhe English sparrow that the fol owing note may not be uninteresting is evidence: t^uitc recently upon tin apitol grounds (Washington) I ob served a sparrow in U13 act of slowl; d'-ling a brown humming bird. AVhei liscovered, it had seized the struggling victim in its t::lons, and was picking i ? -t~ ~i?. *1.- 1,A WI,Ann?. Vigorously IIUUUI vuv I1U IU. ?? Iitubic disturbed it caught the reck of its flat tering prey in its bill, and after Hying few feet alighted, and renewed its blood; work. At lirst I supposed the victim t' be a sphinx moth, but, although ever attempt to release the captive was futile the identity of tho humming bird wa unmistakable. Soon tho first sparrow was joined by another, and then th Rcene of murdor was carried into a cops beyond the reach of my observation. To those who attribute the destructio of American birds entirely to tho d< mond for wings for ladies' hats, as we as to those who deny thr quarrelsom habits of the sparrow, this piece of ii formation may be of value.?Scimc*. t HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. 8 ^ Good Coffee Easy to Make, a Miss Corson, in a lecture, says: r is one of the simplest thiols in : world to make neup of good coffee, ii * this can easily be accomplished by tip i s a little common sense. If you put l> I g ing water 011 coffee, and do not let it Iko Z you have all the good qualities pieserved 9 One reason dyspeptics cannot drink (o , fee is because it is boiled. The style ?<: '< . coffee is just a matter of fancy. I have j i I made as good codec ic an old tomato ran J I as I-have ever supped from the finest i 8 French coffee urn. We should take les- , ? sons in this mutter from the Turks and j . Arabians, who grind their coffee to a line j l J powder. When the coffee is ground as I 7 tine as possible, put it in a little bag of * unbleached muslin, which should b"j tied i I tightly enough to prevent the escape of ! (; the grounds. If you use a cupful of un- ; r ground coffee you can make a (piart of i a very strong, black coffee. In making * cottec many people sacrifice flavor for ~ strength, bitterness t omes from boiling. When boiling water is placed on the bug of ground coffee it should stand at least t three minutes before serving. RcmeinT b?r, the longer it stands the stronger it 3 becomes." r llecipcs and Hints. [ A delicate llakois mnde by this recips. j One cuplul of sugar mixed with two J ! tablcspoonfuls of butter; add one cupful > of flour with one tcaspoonful of baking \ powder, half a cupful of corn starch, half a cupful of milk and the whites of three eg<rs, flavoring with vanilla. Bako I in a good oven. [ Pretty receptaclcs for growing plants j for the sick room are baskets with a > place for a small flower-pot at each of the ? four-rounded corners, thus leavinrr annpn [ for n pot in the centre. A strip of white J cloth with pinked edges and embroidered with a delicate vine design in floss silk forms a drapery which is attached to the rim of the basket, the stitches being hidden by a quilling of ribbon. An appetizing way of using remnants of cold beef is to mince the beef very line and put a thick laj'er of it over macaroni or spaghetti that has been boiled for twenty minutes in salted water. Over the layer of beef pour canned or fresh stewed tomatoes that have been stewed ' with a bit of onion, a little parsley and some butter, then eovcr with bread or ! cracker crumbs, over which bits of butter are dropped, and biike in a quick oven 1 until a nice brown. This pudding is simple and delicate: Fetone quart of milk on the stove, and when it is very hot add three tablespoonfuls of corn starch, mixe I smooth with a little milk and the yolks of four eggs, adding a little sugar. Stir until thick and then pour it into a baking dish. When cold, pour over it a frosting made of the whites of the four eggs, allowing a tablcspoonful of sugar to each egg. Flavor with lemon juice and set it in the oven until it is a delicate brown. j A cake which maybe \>aked in l.syors i as we 1 as in a loaf is made by this recipe: B<a: two cups of sugar and half a cup of . b itter to a light cream; add the yolks of ? three eggs well beaten and one cup of milk. Stir in by degrees three cups of sifted flour, to which two heaping teaspo nfuls of baking powder have been added; then add the whiles of the eggs, which has been beaten into a stiff froth, and flavor to taste. Bake in three ' layer" cake tins or in a long pan. This fric.'isec of chicken with peas is well approved: Choo?e a dry-picked young fowl; cut it into joints, strip off the skin, rinse in warm water, dip in cold water, drain r.nd dredge with flour. Put the pieces in a warm sauccpan and cover with hot water. Add a bit of lemon peel, salt and pepper, and a sprig of parsley; sir. mer two hours and remove the chicken. Beat up the yolk of ' one egg with a gill of cream, add the warm Bauce and whip thoiioughly. Place the chicken on a dish, pour the sauce over it, put a bolder of hot peas, fresh or canned, around it and serve. A correspondent says that blac k crepo may bo renovated by this simpic process: Brush the crepe thoroughly, so that no ' particle of dust is left in it; sprinkle it j with alcohol and roll it in newspaper, laying the edge of the crepe even with I that of the paper, in order that the ' paper shall be between each roll of crepe. ' Let it remain rolled until quite dry. The 3 same correspondent uses the handles of . brooms for rolling ribbons. She has the - wood sawed iuto the required lengths, * sandpapers them and rolls tho ribbon g upon them. In this way ribbon not in ] constant use has not folds or creus69. looks better and lasts longer than when J folded. Try this Swiss roll: Two eggs and their weight respectively in butter, sugar 0 and flour. Cream the butter and sugar; ;J ndd one egg and half the flour and beat * well; then ndd the second egg and tho ^ remainder of the flour. Cover a dripping t pan with buttered paper, spread tho u mixture thickly on it. and bake in a tnod' enite oven until firm. Sprinkle a dish ' wi;h powderjd sugar and turn tha roll |* upon it. Spread some jam or preserve 1 evenly over the surface and roll the rake up quickly: sprinkle it with powdered 8 sugar and serve cold. For this sort of !' cake and for small cake9 nud cookies a 1 sheet of iron is very useful. It should ,, be made nearly the sizo of the oven and L have the hhort ends rolled over stout wire or else turnrd down so that it may be easily remo ed from the oven.?Sew York Commercial. 1 ? A Monster Lobster. ? Searching along tho Winthrop shore q B few days ago for whatever was t*> b< found contraband in the lobster trade, 7 Deputy Fish Commissioner P. R. Shat 1 tuck camo upon what might be termed t ? bkUnner in the possession of Belehc/ t Brothers, who had just brought in from r their t> aps something wonderful in crus taccnn life. It provod to be an examph * of the size a lobster can attain if left un 7 molested a long time. Unlike the avero age large lobster, it was symmetrical, sc y much so as to causo remark in that ro '? gard. It weighed 11| pounds; lengti * over all, 29 J inches; length of large claw ' 11 inches; small claw, 10| inches. Th? e question of the age of this sample o? o what lobsters might attain is an inter eating one. Commissioner Shattuck & who is making the lobster a study, sug -- gests that he may bo twenty-five yean K old,?Boston Transcript. io i* The young man full of promise fre ouentiv turns out bad pay.?IHcayune. Taming Two Humming-Birds. A young lady, an invalid, residing at Baa Kafael, one of the health-resorts of California, illustrated St. .lames's assertion that every kind of birds lias been tamed, by tai.iing two free, wild humning-birds. Her doctor ordered her to recline jnily, during the suminer.on lugsspread )u the garden lawn. While t iking his igrceable prescription one day, she no:'tced that two humming-birds were in>; ect'ng her from a sale distance. Their wise little heads, turned to ono side, showed their curiosity, and she, -.aKing auvam-age o: it, planned for a nore intiinxtc acquaintance. She plucked a fuchsia,attached it to a branch jverher l.e::d. and filled it with >.;weet?ned water. In a few minutes the two 'ittie birds thrust their slender billsSow n into tlie flower, and took long draughts. The next day she filled a fresh fuchsia with honey. The actions of the birds jliowid that they pre'cried it to sweetem d w.iter. In a few days the birds became so tame and t-o impatient, that they scarcely wnited for her to leave the lowers befote thrusting their bills iu the honey. One day, while she held the flower she was l-lling with drops from a spoon, the birds caught the drops as they fell, and then, becoming impatient, darted their threadlike tongues into tho contents of the sp .on. The two birds were both m iles, i>nd therefore fought for posession o:- the lioncy-filled l!owe:\ Hut they ^ uaited to keep other humming-birda away; and when a wasp or a bu-e came near, it was chased away. When the beginning of the rainy season drove the young invalid into the house, she tried to coax them to the parlor window. At first, they acted as if they thought there was some mistake. They would hum about the window, where she stood with the flower and the spoonful of honey, or watch her from a licit-boring branch, but not a sip would they take. But at last, one bird, responding to her call, hovered above her f^ind, and took from it repeatedly dropi of honey. ? YuiitWa Companion. The Goat. The common, or domestic goat was uriginallv a native of the highlands of A;sia. Naturalists generally regard it as having descended from an animal found in the Caucasus Mountains and the liilL r?Aiinf rw / if Unroin *?* * ^ ^ ***** UWUUVJ j VI A v> ioiu, V auuu 111 liiu I UiaiUU language, the paseng. Its legs are longer than those of the common goat, and it? horns arc very much larger. It is not always easy to distinguish between the species and varieties of goats. The com mon goat has existed as a domestic aninial in Oriental countries from the very earliest times. From there it spread all over the world, manifesting a remarkable ndaptability to climate and circumstances. In this diversity of surroundings, a great diversity of breeds has appeared, such as the Angora goat, the Syrian goat, the Cashmere goat, the Guinea goat of Africa, and many others. No quadruped, except the dog, has jhown.such susceptibility of variation. These differences show most markedly in the quality and quantity of the hair,i xml in the relative abundance of the :wo coats, the'long. silky outer covering, md the softer woolly hair beneath it.! a oats arc found wild in mountainous :ountries only; they are very sure-footed1 jn narrow ledges cr rocl*s, and show trreat strength and ability in leaping, rhey also prefer as food the leaves and branches of shrubs and the herbs found an mountains to the . herbage of the riehest lowland pastures. Among the Greeks and Romans the goat was sacpifipod tn RnnMina Vniomioo nf ifa fnn_ dency to injure grapevines bv eating its young tendrils and leave*. The goat is not found wild in extreme Northern, countries, but when under domestication, thrives us well within a shed in the Northern districts of Scandinavia as iu the hottest parts of Asia j;nd Africa. All the species of the goat are natives of the Old World. The Kocky Mountain at, so-called, of North America, really belongs to the antelope samily.?InterOcean. An I"nwelcome Ornament. Nature oc: asionally indulges in curious freaks upon tin* human body, and in freaks which sometimes are a sad drawback to the personal appearance. What, f ir instance, can well be more distressing than for a comely matron of middle aga to discover that horns similar to a ram's horns are growing upon her head, and to hn nhlirrerl to allow them to crow until 3 - - t u they reach a size which prevents her hiding tin; deformity with uuy cap, hat or bonnet? The lady thus atBicted is a ! rcnehwoman. nnd h-.:r curious case has been reported to the Academy of .Medicine. ?he had reached her fortieth year when the lir.it horn made it< unwelcome appearance on her forehead. It was shortlj' followed by a second, which, however, fell oil of itself after attaining the length of twenty-four centimetres; but the lirst remained, to the great inconvenience of the poor woman, who was by it. prevented from re.-ting her head comfortibly on a pillow. I ltimatcly a surgical operation wa< undergone, and the objectionable ornament was removed. The j atient recovered her health and p:;ace of mind, but not for long. Six moirhs after the operation another horn began to grow prec isely on the same spot, tin; latest news given the Academy of Mcdiclnc concerning it being tnai "i nan reached the length of live centimetres, and bid fair to grow rapidly. The phenomenon, it seems, is a rare one. bat cases of the kind arc not unheard of.? London St an (bird. A Brief Sermon on An?cr. A brother got furiously mad with us some time ago. He stormod like a volcano and his wrath was at white heat, lie fell upon us and told with rigorous indignation how bad he thought we were.. We enjoyed it. We always respect an honostly mad man. His wrath is a token of hia sincerity. There was something; bo charming in hia realness and candon that we almost forgot that we were th? target at which his blowa were directed*] When he finished we simply explained! to him how it all happened. The stormolsiurl hY-nlcfi and tho t^eniftl sunlicrht wm ou his brow again. If we must get an-* gry let as do it hotly and courageously^ let us blaze like a furnace and go for the ob>ct of our anger at once. In this way we may 6nish up the business in a single day and the setting sun will not see tas wrath-cloud on our brow.?Baltimore . Baptist, -v m*