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^a^CTM^^SHMSW^SHBm fP^THE COUNTY RECROD. Published Every Thursday ?AT? KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA LOUIS J. BRI8TOW, Kdltor an<! Proprietor. ? A little mental arithmetic, based on naval figures seut from Washington, serves to show that the three rear-admirals senior to Dewey will all be retired bv the ace limit before the opening of next year, so that by January 1 the hero of Manila will be the ranking officer of the service. That is one thing the Spaniards have done to him, to offset several things he did to them. V v * "? According to a report to the State Department by Consul-Gencral Gowey, at Yokohama, in regard to foreign residents of Japan, it appears that Japan has been gradually getting rid of the assistance of foreigners. Throughout recent years the British have numerically predominated. Of 5G7 foreigners, for instance, who were in the employ of Japanese, both government and private, 227 were British, 203 Americana, 44 French, 40 Germans, 7 Dutch, 5 Swiss, 2 KusBians and 2 Italians. Russia ranks among the nations of least natural aptitude for the modern mode of fighting, says the Chicago Times-Herald. This is a fact that-is overlooked in the discussion of the great world war. now supposed to be imminent. "Whether we contemplate the outbreak as a promiscuous struggle among nations, or as the final contest for supremacy-between the two races, the Anglo-Saxon and the Slav, the enormous power of Russia must be taken with this limitation. It may be true that the Slav is to dominate the world. But if so it will be through first an alliance with part of the great machine-lighting nations against the others, and afterward divisions among these allies themselves. A report issued by the British Foreign Office says: "So far as Great Uritain it cnnpornoil tlio mr\c+ /Tic. - ?? ? ?' turbing feature of the Japanese trade of last year was the immense strides made by American competition. The value of United States imports rose * $5,128,195, or fifty-seven per cent., ' while those from Great Britain were * only $1,662,440, or five per cent, higher than in 1896. In the latter year we held thirty-six per cent, of the import trade into Japan; last year the proportion had fallen to twentynine per cent. Germany is not making headway. In 1890 the value of United 3tates goods entering Japan was only $6,874,531; last year it had risen to $27,030,537. In the same space of time British imports grew from $26,019,102 to $65,402,266. Thus the American race of increase has been, roughly, fourfold, while ours has been only two and a lialf fold." Under the heading "Justice for the Navy" the Army and Navy Journal makes comparisious of pay of officers in the naval and military" "service, showing that the latter are the better paid. The pay of naval officers varies somewhat, according to the nature of the service. The table as given by the Army and Navy Journal is as follows: i "Rear-Admiral ?4,C0D to*SG.0C0 Commodore 3,0CD to 5.000 Captain 2.SO0 to 4.500 & -Commander 2.800 to 3,500 Lieutenant-Commander 2,000 to 2.SOO Lieatenant 1,200 to 2,400 Ensign 1,000 to 1,400 _The pay of the corfesponding officers of the army is: Major-Ceneial t7,"00 Brigadier-General 5,500 Colonel 4,500 Lieutenant-Colonel 4.000 Major 8,500 Captain 2,l05 fceeond-Lieutenaijt 1,500 A comparison of these figures shows that the highest pay in the naval service is less than the regular pay to officers of corresponding rank in the i:a : n-i,? t v..,? LLLLilltti j ct'i ?lUc. x llv ?jl! iuj auu i.1 a > j . Journal, without reflecting on the . army, points out that almost everything that has been actually accomplished thus far in the war has been done by the navy. It thinks such good service should be recognized by Congress by having the pay of naval officers made equal to that of the army officers. This is a demand that will strike the public as just. The American Navy has always given a good ac count of itself. Its recent achievements should briug substantial reward in the form of increased salaries, so that the pay of naval officers shall equal that of officers in tlio military service. _____________ "When there is a story "on" a man, how he wishes he could censor tiie news, as the government does at Key iWest! . * > i 'FIELDS OF ADYEMTUE. : THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARINC DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A Prairie Episode Which IlluatrateR the Diflcrence Between Meeting: a Wild 1 Animal With a Itepeat'nji Kiile and an Old Flint Lock. : Iu the "liighfalutin" language of an older time, William J. Snelling, a journalist and explorer of the early part of the century, once related an nrli?Anf n vo ATI flto rtVOIVlOQ 1 >1. aut V VU IUO Ui^ 1UO lr litvu Au teresting not only for the singularity of its incidents, but as an illustration of the difference between meeting a wild animal with a modern repeating rifle and with an old flint-lock. Snelling was engaged in his explorations in Minnesota in winter, and was out on the prairie with his flintlock rifle, lie espied a big bull buffalo in the distance, and was tilled with a desire to shoot it. He succeeded in creeping up on the auimal, j and gave it a shot. | He seemed to have wounded it, but ' not very seriously, for the bull immed! iat^iv ehnrced nnon him at a terrible j pace. Snelling ran at the top of his j speed, but he could see that the bull I was railing faster. His gun?useless now, of course?embarrassed him,and he threw it away. On came the buffalo. Snelling looked in vain for shelter; there was neither rock nor tree in sight. In another moment he was likely to be overtaken. Just then he came upon one of those little ponds which in winter, particularly after a rainy autumn, abound on the western prairies. It was frozen solidly, and the ice was snowless and smooth. Snelling had heard that a buffalo could 110 more run on ice than a pig can, and he felt now that his deliverance was at hand. He sprang upon the ice. The buffalo did not follow. The pond was ? # 1 -V T i - . J It- - oniy ft iew yarns iu (uameier, ami uie bull kept walking around it. The man could only keep as uear the centre as possible. He grew terribly cold, but still the bull walked around the pond, with horns down. Some drops of blood revealed the fact that the animal was wounded: but he continued to walk around the pond for four hours. Snelling wished that he had kept his gun. He was sure to freeze to death soon. Night was coming on. He wondered if the buffalo would go away when darkness fell. The animal did not wait so long, but just before the sun set, he gave a loud bellow, aud heavily marched away. Snelling waited until he felt sure that the buffalo had reached a sufficient distance. and then made for his gun. He got it, and followed the buffalo. Then he saw that the animal was reeling. His shot had, after all, taken effect. though the effect was long delayed. At last Snelling saw the animal fall. Meantime the weather had grown bitterly cold. He must build a fire or die, for he was twenty miles from camp. He now discovered that, in his rnn from the bufi'alo, he had lost the marten-skin in which he carried his flint, steel and tinder. But ho had sometimes made fire by picking the flint of his gun. He now essayed to do this with his knife. He I struck at the fliut, and with the first ! blow knocked it out of its place and | ten feet away in the snow. He searched i for it in vain. It was uow almost j dark. He heard the howl of wolves iu the distance, and felt sure that he should ' r v _ l r it "n..i C.'ban camplire, "have seen the hJeini110!" Afro-Indian scouts. In the early eighties, when 1 was a Lieutenant, my regiment was stationed at out Fort; Clark, and was assigned to command these same scouts. They were a motley crowd, half African, half Indian, and a glance over their muster roll would reveal snch euphonious names as Ben July. Pompev Perriniau, Jim Warrior, and Friday Bowlegs. Black as solid hunks of ebony, and as fond of whisky as a baby is of milk, they were, nevertheless, the finest trailers and scouts on earth. "Southwestern Texas at that time was a pretty wild stretch of country. Civilisation stopped at San Antone, and the duty of these Afro-Indians was to keep that border free from smugglers, marauding parties, and hostile Indians. The men Lad had a good many sharp brr.slies with the redskins, an 1 when they were warmed up with Honor they liked to tell of these affairs. The commander at Fort Clark was a little skeptical about these Indian stories, and one day ho said to me in a joking way: 'I don't believe there is an Indian in West Texas, and I'll give SoO to any man in your command who will bring in a dead redskin.' "There was one Mexican in command, Julian Longonio, and he was one of the best trailers the Southwest ever saw. Longonio heard the Col iuniiMi i, jueui iur iiitiu. diu suddenly a thought occurred to him: Why not wrap himself in the skin of the buffalo? j He fell upon the animal's carcass in an instant, and with a few strokes had the hide stripped on. It was thick and heavy?too heavy for him to lift entire. But dragging it away from the carcass, : which was sure to attract wolves, he I rolled himself in it, with the fur iu1 ward, and lay down on the prairie, coni fident, he says, that "neither Jack i Frost nor the wolves could got at him, . through an armor thicker and tougher I than the sevenfold shield of Ajax." I Ail night the wolves howled, but j they made no attack on the prostrate ; i; 1 v?j .... ; in tt . i? ;:ui iiivi iuu iuirii^u n | cold freeze him. Xe\t morning he j rose and, picking up his flmtless -run, i and leaving the buffalo's hide where he had slept, made his way home. The Making of a Good Indian. "You, gentlemen, who have served in southwestern Texas," related a i.\llv \V*>c* Pniuf rVttfoin orminJ ?i oncl's remcrk and his beadlike eyes snapped as he turned away. For my- j self I thought 110 more of it until it , was forcibly recalled to my mind some ' time later. The next day we left Fort ' Clark for a scouting trip. At Newton, where the Los Moras empties into the Rio Grande, Longonio rode up and j asked permission to cross the river, j Fancying that he wanted to visit some | i friends, and knowing that there was ; no immediate need of his services, I 1 I readily crave mv consent. The crreaser i swam his pony across the river and j disappeared in the chaparral. The next I saw of him was two days later, ' when I rode into Fort Clark for my 1 mail. In the afternoon Longonio rode down the officers' line and stopped in front of the Adjutant's office. Several officers were standing around and gazed in open-mouthed astonishment at sight of the Mexican with a dead j Indian behind him. He refused to i answer any of their queries and asked j for 'El Colonel.' Hearing the com- ; motion the Colonel came out, and j before he could say anything Julian [ cut the rope that bound the Indian to j his saddle, threw the corpse on the j porch at the Colonel's feet, and in j that soft, drawling voice so peculiar ' to the Mexicans, said: " 'Cin cueuta pesos, Senor el Col- j onel. "Well, the Colonel was so thunderstruck at tirst that he was speechless, but recovering himself presently, he gave Longouio such a talking to as I never heard before or since. The Mexican sat like a sphinx on his horse, pretending not to understand Euglisk,. and when the Colonel was through, he simply pointed to the dead Indian and agaiu said: " 'Cin cuenta pesos, Senor el uoionei. "He got his 'cin cnenta pesos' final-1 ly, but the Colonel intimated that if lie ever caught him around there again he'd have him shot. Longonio pocketed the money and rode away with a broad grin on his face to regain the scouts. It seems he had lassoed the Indian first, and started to bring him in alive, but after dragging him a mile over the cactus plain, poor Lo's spirit fled and another bad Indian was made a good one by way of the Paradise valley route."?New York Suu. A llattie Incident. There is some quality in the inhab| itants of the British Islands which . 11 Af aa 1 t? Ian .la fit am 4- a lia/iAma uun \JiAij iC/(iao buuiu IU ucn'iuu j^uuu j soldiers, but makes it a point of honor for those of them who are officers to render brave personal services to the men under their command. It is seldom that one hears of any such incident among European Continental armies as the following which is related in connection with a recent fight in the Khyber Pass, in Afghanistan; the Continental officer feels himself under obligation to carry wounded soldiers on his back. Colonel Plowden's command formed a part of General Hamilton's rearguard, and had to cross a bit of exposed ground swept by the tribesmen's tire. Here three men were struck by bullets; two of them could walk, but the third was disabled. Xo snrrreon was I ? o present, and Colonel Plowden himself dressed the man's wounds. After this the men had to retire across the exposed ground, and Corporal Bell was killed. Colonel Plowden, Lieutenant Owen and Lieuten; ant Fieldeu carried the dead man up a hill; and by and by the command had to cross another exposed spot. Somebody was sure to be hit now; it happened to he private Butler, and the ball struck him in the leg, so that ' he could not walk. Captain Parr | dressed his wound and Lieutenant Carter took the wounded man 011 his pback and carried him. I But alas! midway of the exposed i ground poor Butler, as ho lay on the Lieutenant's back, was struck again, and the force of the ball knocked the Pfi-tt-ilv-Ptilpv. mi'mr nl)ic(>r ilnn'n Tfr> ' sot ;ii> anil ouce more shouldered his ! burden, when Lieutenant Bidden | earae to his aid, and together these officers carried Butler to a place of i safety. Then it was found that he ; was dead as the result of the second I shot. Meantime Colonel Plowden and I Lieutenant Owca were carrying Corporal Bell's body across the dangerous j ground, and both of them were ; wounded in doing so. They strugj gled on in spite of their wounds, aud ! reached cover with their sad burden. Kiieb 111 rodents hvmrr the. soldier i near to his officer, and make him : readier even than he might otherwise i be to lav down his life for his ^ountry ! and his commanders. Jlodost Hero's Work. ! A number of boys were playing 011 die bridge which spans the river at foms River, X. J., when Martin ; Schwartz, eight years old, was dared I to cross the structure outside the guard ail. Roy like, he took up the chal' lenge, atid was accomplishing the feat , when another hoy thumped his hands, i He let go of the guard rail and fell i into the stream. The water at this : point is about twenty feet deep, and the boy came up for the last time just I as Mr. Bush, of Elmira, was crossing the bridge to take the train for Xew York. Mr. Bush sprang over the rail, 1 <rvo \1\rwl I wl Qwom witli liim shore, loft lain in tiio hand0, of the excited crowd that had begun to gather, and with his clothes dripping wet ran 1 for his train, which he caught as it moved out of the station. IJurs.nr-i'roof Safes. Tiie host imrglar-prool sales are made of alternate layers of hard ami sol't mci;;!. which are welded together. This combination will not yield to either drill or sledge hammer. The mining laws of the republic of "Mexico insure tho prospector lull protection and enjoyment of anything valuable lie may liml. I GOOD EOADS NOTES, ? ^?^'^?10jQ'$S0jQ($fG{^?NG'0$0:<$f?!O{G??/l?r?i\5{^ Had Koads and Feuds. Hayden Brock, a young mountaineer, who lives in Laurel County, Kentucky, and bus been a student at the State College in Lexington for three years, was asked recently what, in his opinion, caused mountain feuds. He hesitated before answering, but he dually said: "Bad roads. You see, our roads are so bad that a four-boree team can haul only 2500 pounds of goods from London to Manchester. This can be done only during the summer and fall months. In the winter and spring it is impossible to haul empty wagons over this road, and the mail has to be carried on pack mules. We are therefore shut oil'from the world during at least live months in the year, aud when we do have communication, it is so slow and costly that many of our people have never seen a railroad train, ?ii tu: 1 t. on UUU KUUW IlUlUHl^UUUUlUlllCfl. llicac l>atl roads prevent our children from going to school during the winter months and the result is that we have a great deal of illiteracy. The mails are few and necessarily slow, so that we are entirely out of touch with the world and all that is going on in it. Freights are also very high. It costs thirty-five cents a hundred pounds to haul freight from London to Manchester, and to Hyden, the county seat of Letcher County, it costs seventy-five cents a hundred. "Owing to the poor roads, very little work can be done in the winter, and the enforced idleness breeds ignorance and crime. Many of our peo pic ojjcuu tuv.li uicuij vt liiivx virtj o auvi nights in making and drinking moonsliino whiskey, and this often results in shootings and killings, and often starts feuds. If we had better roads wo would have more and better schools, there would be fewer illiterates, and our people would have something else to think about besides shooting and killing. We have many bright young people in the mountains, but fliey have no opportunities and the bad roads keep them at home, so they usually drift into feuds aud often become outlaws. Bad roads are the bane of the mountains and they cause *11 the feuds." The Rev. J. ,T. Dieke. a Methodist minister, who baa been working among the mountain people, of Kentucky, for fifteen or twenty years, and who has studied their character closely, thinks the only hope of the people in the mountain part of the State lies in more education and better roads. It has been suggested to use the convicts in building highways through the mountains, instead of allowing them to remain in the penitentiaries engaged in pursuits which keep thonsauds of workmen who are not criminals from having employment. Putting the convicts to work on the roads of the mountains would present a curious spectacle. As there seem to be so many different opinions as to the causes of the feuds in Kentucky, it is to be inferred that they are the result of various causes, which the persons interviewed have clearly pointed out. A concerted effort will be made at the next session of tlie Kentucky Legislature to have vends built through the mountains by the convicts. It is believed that good roads and good schools will relegate the "fortylive" to the rear.?New York Sun. The Movement In Canada. Good-road making and the wide agitation therefor in the United States have attained suftieient importance to serve as a stimulus, or at least as a good example, across the northern boundary. The road inspector of the province of Ontario dwells in his report on the progress of the reform lien* ill nil emieuvui" 10 uiuune niiercm there. That interest is lacking is evident from the detailed reports from existing conditions. Summarizing these, the inspector says: "Acentury ago the roads of Ontario such as existed, and they were very few, were mere trails. To-day, notwithstanding the amount of money and labor placed on them, the majority are a little better than trail?. This criticism may seem overdrawn to tho3e who drive over some of the host gravel roads during the summer season, but if the journey had to be made in the fall or spring, the rainy seasons, its fairness would become more apparent. From the middle of October until the end of December, and from the first of March to the middle of May, a period of iive months, by far the greatest part of the mileage of the province is mad, ruts and pitch-holes. This may vary somewhat at the more northerly and more southerly parts of the province, but it is the general rule of the average year. Of this period ot live months there ure at least tv\*o months of the year when the roads are practically impassable for loads. From the middle' of November until the middle of December, from the middle oi jMarcn unui me middle 01 .tprii me agricultural tracio of the country is practically cut off. For the remaining threo months of the live the roails are barely passable." The estimated loss to the province by the absence of good roads the inspector estimates at $(551,570,000, capitalized at three per cent.?New York Post. Will Help to Keduce Taxes. The wide-tire measure passed by the New Jersey legislature was due, says Assemblyman Crispin, its originator, to "its inestimable value to the taxpayers who were constantly being called upon for increased appropriations for road improvements, by both V?.? fnwiiors on<1 hicvclista wliich call would be unnecessary if the broad tire was adopted, as it would be of a two-fold service; first, in making the roads hard and smooth; second, in doing away with the complaint from > bicyclists that the heavily loaded farm wagons cut the road to pieces?besides lessening the annual appropriation for the roads about fifty per cent." ?L. A, W. Bulletin. Notes. It is suggested that the Government ] put wiito tires on the army wagons. Street pavements need to be some; thing more than hard and durable, i They should be smooth, noiseless and | easily cleaned and repaired. I Water should not be allowed to stand 1,1 uiuu^ iu? ruuuBjue. i_mciies biiouui bo kei>t clear and open in order to carry it off quickly, as it is liable otheri wise to tind its way under the road) bed. Steel tracks are claimed to make i the most perfect surface known; after ! it comes crushed stone, on which five times the power is required to haul a load; then gravel, requiring ten times the power; and, finally, common earth, retiring twenty times. The Sagacity of a Dog. A wonderful story is told of the sagacity of a dog in connection with the warlike incidents of Chickamauga Camp. This dog had been'adopted in a wealthy Columbus (Ohio) family. He became a great favorite with all the members of that family, especially with the youngest son. Meanwhile the war with Spain broke out and the eldest son, a member of one of the regiments, 0. N. G., went to the front and reached Chickamauga Camp. He had been away from home but a short time when the owner of the dog called and claimed his property. It was reluctantly given up, and the youngest boy especially was loth to part with his pet. For pet he was, although by nature fierce, for he was a black-eyed full-blooded bulldog. The other day this youngest scion left for Chickamauga Camp to visit his brother, provious to his departure to I Tampa and the seat of war. He was at breakfast one morning in one of tbe taverns about the camp, with an eager appetite, when he felt something tugging at his trousers. He thought it might be a cat or some other freacherous quadruped. He paid no attention to it for a while, but the tugging became more violent, ayd looking under the table, what did he see there but his old canine pet, the blackeyed bulldog, apparently tickled to ! death that his master had finally couI sented to recognize him. There was not much breakfast for 1 the boy after that. He gave the dog all he had left of his breakfast and ordered some extra meat for him besides. Meanwhile the owner of the dog came upon the scene, and learning the facts from the son of his old friend, consented to have the animal returned where, for so long a time, he had enjoyed a comfortable home.? Cincinnati Enquirer. IJcer Hunting With Eagles. The berkute or bearcoote, the golden I eagle, is trained and used by the ' natives of Tartary and the Kirghis I steppes for hunting foxes, wolves, : boars and deer. Mr. Harting quotes ! this description from Atkinson: "We ! had not gone far when several large I deer rushed past a jutting point of the ; rocks und bounded over the plain i about 800 yards from us. In an in1 stant the bearcoote was unhooded and ! his shackles removed, when ho sprang from his perch and soared into the | air. I watched him ascend a? he j wheeled round, and was under the' ! impression that he had not seen the ; : animals; but in this I was mistaken. | j He had now risen to a considerable i height and seemed to poise himself for i a minute. "After this he gave two or three ; Haps with his wings and swooped oil j in a straight line toward his prey. I could not perceive that his wings j moved, but he went at a fearful rate I of speed. I gave my horse ki3 head and a touch of the whip; in a few I minutes he carried me to the front, I and I was riding neck and neck with , uuo of the keepers. When we wero ! about 200 yards oft'tlxe bearcoote struck ! his prey. The bearcoote had struck I one talon into his neck, the other into j his back, aud with his beak was tearing into the aniuiai's liver."?Forest and Stream. tSnsine*8 Life in Manila. The average day of a foreigner en! gaged in business in Manila is some' thing as follows: A bath iu the early ! morning and then a light breakfast, j At seveu o'clock the men go to their 1 business ofiices and work until twelve, j when offices are closed and everybody : takes a two hours' rest, during which ! luncheon is served, and then a short j siesta taken. From two o'clock until I six or seven business is carried on as J in the morning; even the banks keep open until live o'clock. When business is over for the day, the employes put on fresh white clothes and help to swell the throucr of people who prom enadc the streets,-so that they are al! most impassable. At eight o'clock I everybody is at dinner, which is the j social function of the day. The staple i food is rice, which is eaten by rich } and poor alike. Chicken is always j served at dinner, and native fruits, j ; All the potatoes that the Europeans : get come from China, and all the ; wheat and Hour from California. The ' apples are brought from Hong Kong, ' and sell at from ten to fifteen cents apiece. The cost of living for a Eu ! ropeau is very high on account of the extremely heavy duties imposed by Spain.?San Francisco Argonaut. Provisioning a i!Ig Steamer. The quantity of food used in a J twenty days' trip per an ocean greyhound, Bombay to London, with about 550 passengers, consists of: Eggs, 32,000; meat, 23,000 pounds; vege1 tables, 8200 pounds; potatoes, nine j tons; ducks, 1200; game and poultry, | 1100 head; tish, 11,000 pounds; llour, ; -M barrels. * GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. "Unto Mi-"?The Sin of Magnifying TrllVea?<hrintian Soul the Lord'* Garden?The Ooora of Human I.ife?Overcoming tiie World?God'* Guidance. A weif upoll the cheerless, wintry street, l>rea?ting the driving suow, the scathing sleet, Hungered, with pale, wan face and shoelesa feet; I heard a whisper: "'Help her! Pity her!" I passed her by! A little lad. threading the city's ways. Guileless of heart, with pure and trustful gaze, Yet heedless of the countless snares that maze Concealed. "Oh, speak to hiin!" the whisper said. 1 passed him by! My neighbor lay upon a couch of pain; Through weary days and sleepless nights In vain She longed for gentle ministry, for strain Of soothing song, for breath of fragrant bloom. 1 passed her by! And yet, "Oh, had I wealth beyond compare, Or noble talents. Lord, or genius rare, Some glorious work how gladly would I dure. To prove my ardent love for Thee!" I cried. Mistaken 1! That night in dream my Saviour said to me, Thou lovest n:e? Aia.s! how can it be? Thrice ha?t thou paused Me by! Canst thou not see That, in the humblest iittlo one, myself Thou passest by?" Meta E. B. Thorn#. The Sin of Magnifying Trifles. The sin of magnifying trifling matters is very common. Most of us regard it as a weakness rather than a sin. Certainly i* is a weakness. But it also is a sin. It involves self-deception and often the deception of others. It is a violation of truth. It means the substitution as an object of thought and endeavor of somctuing of little consequence for something of real importance, as if their actual value were reversed. It causes distorted views of life, misdirected effort, unsatisfying results and mental and spiritual unhappiness. They who are guilty of it soon lose the confidence of others in some measure because it becomes evident tliat their judgment cannot be trusted, even if nothing worse is believed of them. More is involved thau the mere loss of the habit of accuracy. The habitual lack of just discrimination. the growth of a weakened and misleading sense of proportion?these affect the moral quality of life. Evils lose something, if not the whole, of their sinful duality and the good is not sure of being recognized and honored for what it is. It is hard enough to do right when we know clearly what the right is. But when we have allowed ourselves to look upon minor matters as vital, It becomes much more difficult to be sure of duty and to do it. This sin is peculiarly objectionable also because it is so undignified to magnify petty things iuto importance. There are sins which, without ceasing to condemn them, we nevertheless recognize as characteristic of great and noble natures. But this is not one of them. It Is mean and contemptible. It deteriorates character rapidly and mischievously, and its influence is wholly and lastingly evil, exI ceDtiog when it serves, as it sometimes | inuy. as a warning. It causes needless | worry, inexcusable peevishness and prev- v alent Ml-temper. and it goes far to hide one's really noblo qualities and to blind | others to the honorable and ChrlstfTke eft*forts which one makes. It is especially like | ly to be a temptation to those whose lives centre chiefly in some single sphere of ne[ tion. tlie home, the schoolroom, the offlce. I It is to be corrected by the sturdy refusal to be petty, by the cultivation of largo and noble views of life and truth, by effort to be exa? t in judgment and in speech, and by prayerful, loving imitation of Jesus Christ. Christian Soul the Cord's Garden. Th" christian soul is a garden of the Lord's planting, a bit of soul-couutry reclaimed by regenerative processes from the surrounding devastations of sin, and only maintained in freshness and fruitfulness by a method of spiritual irriga| tion. by tiie constant waterings of prayer, praise and meditation. We are not of those who believe that by some process of fanciful evolution human nature can of it.-eif. unaided, develop graces of character, but that such moral beauty comes of the working of the divine down into the : v.,0.(0 !1 Mftt nf ' i grace which will blo.-som Inter. The s| ices of superior virtu*' are never found in gardens , where thoro has been previously no moral | planting by a Divine Husbandman. . . . I Among these "chief spices" of a gracious | character may be mentioned the frankincense of a worshipful spirit; the spikenard of a j generous liberality, which expends itself in ; loving alacrity "upon the person and work of Him who is altogether lovely; l the myrrh and aloes of a tender sympa| thy. which is laid with soothing touch j upon perished hopes and broken hearts; ! the camphire or henna of a Christian cheerI iness, which brightens ail things with I Its ruddy hopefulness; the cinna| mou of an intelligent willingness, a sweet I reasonableness, which is pure, gentle and | easy to he entreated; the stimulating j saiTron of an alert enterprise, a spirit| ual resourcefulness, and the calamus of ; a delicate tact, careful eonsiderateness of I the peculiarities and feelings of oth| ers. There are latent in every believing | heart many fragruncies of faith, which ' ordinary occasions do not evolve and ex! hibit. The spice trees must be blown upon ! by the coaxing gales of mercy, or perhaps I the violent beatings of disciplinary visita tion. that tin* pi<|uaucies of piety inay be 8eus.eil.-N. Y. Observer. The Doors of Human I.ife. God ha* many doors into human life. Some nro grand portals, which seem not unworthy of the" visitor?days of puntecost, or of the burning bush, when the surround- , ing.s seem to bear witness to His presence. Hut He conies also by ail sorts of muchused. every-day and insignificant en| trances, to mingle the grace His presence brings with th" humdrum duties and work-a-day employments of His people. He can help a woman to nurse a sick child, or a laborer to plow a clay field, as certainly a? a martyr to I' ur the fire, or an apostle to preach the Word. He rejeots lovingly our measur-sof great and small,that Ho tiuiv iuf:i??. 11is. trrcaiuc-s into the petty I duties anil patience > <>f His people's lives. : lie owns the cup of eold water given for His | sak?> as amply as the surrender of an estate i tft His service. I.et us not, therefore, be Christians as to the few urea: things of our lives and atheists as to the many small things which till up a far creator space of them. God is in both.waiting for the glory we can give Him in them.?S. S. Times. Overcoming the World. Overcoming the world implies overcoming a state of worldly anxiety. Worldly men are almost incessantly in a fever of anxiety - " i -u 1).,4 lest tlieir worldly seiiemes snouiu i;m. uui. [ the man who gets above the world pets , above tliis state of ceaseless and corroding anxiety.?Charles G. Finney. God's Guidance. God stirs many men's spirits: some listen ami act: some list'-n and tarn away to their own scilish dreams. Oh. what a difference! It is the action or the inaction that shows the tnan.?Pilgrim Teacher. /