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Sermon on a Mule. Three and a half miles southwest of Leesville?about four miles in the night with several gates to openlives a right clever man, rather under medium size, gji.erally if not universally known as "Jake Rawl." He is a man of business, cuts lumber and deals fairly with his employees and customers. When any one deals otherwise with him he >1 kes no fuss but quietly stops business in that direction. Bro. "Jake" seems to be generally in a good humor. He doesn't | The Abbeville Press and Banneivl | 3Y HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1887. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 39.*|fl ffl BL llll IIII ! ! I H (lristian Neighbor. BBK T BET. SKIM II. BROWSE, Othe Ron tli Carolina Conference. HagiS COLUMBIA, S. C. HH _ PBBp Kill tin Fleas in and Around the Hone, but Don't Interrupt tiie HhkK Ho bed Under the Door Steps. HQI uTb Pistol Law.?'The following HH is Uieipistol law as passed by both Hou&fof the Texa? Legislature, and / whic.^s to take effect ninety days ~hAdDoira MB iruiif -o j'tvaoMjjv . "ji,any person in this State shall carbon or about his person, saddle, ora his saddle-bags, any pistol, dirk, HHF da'gwr, shing-sliot, sword-cane, spear, HDgg tackles made of any metal or hard v;y fcbstahce, bowie-knife, or any oilier . Jiadofaknife manufactured or sold ? sar purposes of offense and defense, he ihall be punished by a fine of not less MS han twenty-five nor more than two gBHf Jundred dollars, and shall be confined In Jn the county jail not less than twenty nor more than fifty days.?Ex|HV change. Hh that mayJiP-^-y.f.lisl'.ed HS ^ this law will depend upo*i its fearjSras aQd impartial enforcement, Such Enforcement will do sometkiwg toward HH^^^Ifhe banishment of deadly weapons HHNKU only from the "Lone Star" State also from any other section where applied. Yet law, however HffiKE^Ed, if not enforced becomes a "dead jeSjoffSB^nr." Unfaithful officers of the 1 ?m??a^oao on A inPAm law, misc wnuraKa, ??u >? juries will kill dead any law. ^^^^^^^Hrected with this law two quesmiay be considered. 1That class against whom the directed may claim the right to ^^^^^^^^Brepared to "defeud" themselves, as the (civil) "powerr the right to keep standing arfurnished with the most approv^^^^^^^Hleadly weapons which the invene n can place hands. <>l>ey ^Ihe obligation "the higher powers," cannot be stronger than is the obligation on | "the higher powers" to obey the I highest powers?theauthority of Him ' who has all power in heaven and in , earth"?authority which binds rulers j as well as subjects. Second? Is it consistent for the civil ] powers to force men to the slaughter j of their fellows in war for cause supposed to be satisfactory to these rulers s tneiuseives wuo auemmu u?u|j otherwise punish a man who for suffi- ' clent cause in his own judgment takes | the life of a fellow man. In the former case a man is required to risk his 1 own life in doing what he can to kill J others that have done him no wrong, < and in the latter case he perchance for- j feit3 his own life if he kills another 1 man for cause satisfactory to himself. ( Not for wrath, but for conscience sake, every man should obey "the powers that be" so far as the require- J ments of said powers do not conflict with loyalty to Jesus, concerning whom in the presence of Moses and Elijah?the representatives of the law and the prophets?a voice o-jt of the cloud on the -mount of I transfiguration, said: Hear ye ( Him. Let all men who would be "found of the Judge in peace" at his 1 coming. "See that they refuse not 1 him that speaketli. For if theyescap- 1 ed not who refused him [Moses] that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven." Heb 1 xxii: 25. Eutthisorany similar law against killing by retail while there is a higher law?war?which overrides all other laws, civil and divine, binding men to kill by the wholesale when ordered so to do, is like a householder commanding his servants to kill all the fleas in and around the house but not to disturb the hog-bed and the old sow and pigs under the door-steps. Fires. March 16, a fire broke out in Black ville, S. C., destroying half the business portion and some dwellings, about thirty houses in all. Another account reports two-thirds of the town burned ?loss $185,000. The fire originated in the rear of a general merchandise store, about one o'clock in the day. The freight warehouse of the South Carolina Lailway was burned, leaving nothing but the debris of more than a hundred tons of fertilizers. About one o'clock, A. M., March 18, a day aud a half after the Blackville burning, a damaging fire occurred at Rock Hill. The hotel, post office and bank, with a number of stores were burned. It is thought the sad work is that of an incendiary. Loss estimated at $125,000. At half-past three o'clock on the morning of the March 18, fire broke out in the new Richmond Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. The fire appeared uuder the main stairway, followed the stairs and inside of five minutes reached the top floor. There were 125 persons in ithe building, including employees; the latest report is six killed and five injured. The loss is not known, but reaches many hundred thousand. Twenty four persons were killed and probably a hundred and fifty injured, March 14, by the breaking in of a bridge on the Dedham Branch of the Boston and Providence railroad. "Defective material?unfaithful work by builder of bridge." Forty-nine negroes left Union, ?S. C., March 1, for Arkansas. v-y.' v cleverly get to one place before you see him in another. He is all about and knows what he is about. Well, 1 went home with Bro. Jake last Friday night from Leesville. We had a dark drive?an hour late?Master David along in the hind part of the buggy didn't have time to go to sleep and fall out?opening gate after gate kept him awake. I found Sister Ilawl and the team (four) of children just as active aud clever as the old gentleman himself. I waked Saturday morning about sun up froiv^jrefreshing sleep. i-ra.v CiT, nnrl among the fpjeratives?men, oxen ana mules?as tL$y performed their severparts in hau?Ugan(j cutting logs into lumber. Ol 0f jiie teumS5 Was made lin nf a. VOL ? in. ? 1 ? ~r i " r. UA UACU wiiii u siugie mule hitclifj jn front. What struck me was ,'.hJ| muie leads the way along the roauMnd roaijs an(| no road, through tm woods withoutany "line." He kuo\vpjig business so well that he needs on* a WOrd now and then from his drivtl?u freedman. A model m, : felt jut then that if I only had na(Ua congregation of certain church rfople right then and there I could hajest00fj on one 0f those pine stumps ltd preached them au appropriate $ 1^^?tjiat mule for a "text." Reckon s^nje Gf my hearers might not have lik<u wbat was in me to say about a ^u]e showing- church folks how toj^oYQ about. ?Jome church meiiy^jfcant be kept in a wide road double line"?they are; not wi 11m?~to*^vorU'ncTfe" tmr"iri the lead and they won't work there? for tliey will turn round and* butt the ax or saddle horse in the head. Returning to towu in the afternoon we had Eddie for a hind rider and 5ate opener. He did it as well as his larger brother, but then he had daylight, even as well as I had iri making lullt u dozen cans on Jjeesviiie ciuzeus before uight. The "turn out" at school and worship was rather slim Sabbath morning, but a fine congregation at night ?Brother Edwards, the Baptist minister of the town, present and following my talk with prayer. I had visited only a few families Sabbath afternoon?the last was Bro. John Shealey's, where I baptised their Jelicate infant Vergic Amelia. Of such is the kingdom of God in heaven aud on earth, and that too whether the Lord leaves them with their parents below or takes them to himself an high. S. H. B. P. S. Tuesday morning, 7.45, a letter to go and bury the child received? an hour and three quarters too late. S. H. B. A Ureftt Evil. The untold evils of nam speecn: To the old who are quite used to it by practice and hearing evil speaking is the atmosphere in which they live, it is the "breath of their nostrils." The tongue of insinuation or open accusation of one Christian ? brother against another is a thing of evil in this day. It is no fancy sketch to picture a number of men, "brethren" they be, professing equal zeal, disinterestedness, consecration to a holy cause, leaving the spot where these professions have been made, and one ;or more uttering a tirade upon the hypocritical declarations of those absent. "Just try him, and you'd see whether his talk is worth anything." "Give up that moneyed position and take one that must end in poverty! He would tight first." "He is making money in that enterprise; he will never give it up." Such utterances as these, accusations they are, are too often beard from the lips of pood (?) men. Do the speakers realize that others, hearing them, rate their professions of devotion to God's cause at just the value which they (the accusers) have estimated those of their fellow-workers? It is true that those who have no confidence in the selfsacrifice of others are the ones others are bound to suspect of supreme selfishness and self-seeking, Few things give the young a greater contempt for a man than to find him constantly engaged in traducing others, discrediting their motives, disbelieving their professions?themselves alone are devoted, they alone live up to their professions. tfcC. Alaekaday ! Without date, place, publisher or author's name, a gray covered pamphlet has found its way to our table with "What kind of armor shall we use?" printed in large letters on the cover. A glance through the 10 pages leaves the inference that some fellow who was not killed in the late war, wants to know what kind of metal should be used in making armour for war vessels. Our answer is ? the best for land and sea?"The whole armour of God." This armour men are commanded to take unto themselves. This refused then comes war, even as certain as he who would not cease to blaspheme Paul fell, per consequence under the tuition of the Devil. The papers with an exception or two seem to be agreed that President Cleveland is blamable for not examining the River and Harbor bill and acting on it before Congress adjourned. It is a good sign to our State papers speak out though it be in criticism ol a Democrat President. COMMONS. A Nervous Man's Wail. The other day I called on a gentleman for whom I have the highest regard, and who has on several occasions proved to me that he is one of nature's noblemen ; a man who never by any means lets his left hand know what his right hand is doing, and whose right hand is continually doing good, and yet before I left him I could have taken both his right and left hands and cheerfully chopped them off, and this is why: During the entire interview his good right hand kept cracking the joints of the fingers of his equally good left hand and vice versa. Now, if there is one thing more than another that puts my nerves on edge and makes my blood run cold it is to have a man sit alongside of me and crack his fingers, and consequently during that whole interview I was in continual struggle between my desire to listen to my good friend's talk and my other desire to strangle him. Yet he, good, easy soul, knew nothing of this, and went on chatting and crack- i jig utterly unconscious of the sup- , pressed volcano LliailUriWi*4w?J"'c'J' | j moment to burst and overwhelmMtflTT AN AGGRAVATING HABIT. { Now, I don't believe I am any more ' nervous than the rest of my kind, and yet, after I left my friend, I thought of 1 so many petty aunoyances like this i that disturb my peace that I fairly 1 wonder that I have lived as long as I have without having murdered some- 1 body. For instance, I know a man whose life must be in danger all the time because of an aggravating habit he has of biting his nails. Whenever he talks tome and begins to chew his fingers I have to turn my head away, because while I look at him I feel as though it is my uails he is biting and a sensation goes through me as though * every bite he took pulls out my nerves 1 with it. Then there is another dear fi friend of minfc who often drops into < my office foY<clmt, aud who invaria- f bly sits d^wn at E53rstieskjl'id begins to j beat the "devil's tattoo" on it7"^~sUfcR'i it for awhile until I unconsciously join i him in the fiendish music, and then { away we go with our dreary rub-a-dub ( until everybody in the room rises in revolt and demands an instant cessation of the awful noise. c How many men there are who can- J not talk with you without having hold ( of you. They generally prefer a but- j ton on your coat, or if there i9 none f handy then the lapel will do. They j will pull and haul at you until your . only hope lies in the honesty of your ] tailor, and you almost wish that he , had put in some bad stitches, so that j something will give way and you cau j make your escape from the bore. Not ( long ago somebody gave me a little sil- f ver pencil, which I in my pride hung J on my watch chain. And then my ( trouble began. Two out of every three . persons I met grabbed that pencil and \ played with it, pulling it out and shut- . ting it and demanding to know what , it was for and how I got it, etc. In ( irno onflrolv WOril L UUUUl m w tv n o ib n uu vu%?< .. ? | out and perfectly useless. I have since j been thinking seriously of getting ( some sort of a pocket electric battery, j and whenever any of my friends begin to dally with the watch charm J turn on the current and let him have , it just to show him that his fingers are , where they should not be. Some peo- ( pie, I suppose, would think X was . wrong in doing this, but let them , mount a pencil like I did and I'll guar- , an tee that they will cheerfully adopt . the electric battery cure. ; TWIRLING HIS THUMBS. Among the other things that make < my life miserable I hold chief the man who sits opposite me in the street cars and continually twirls his thumbs. I cannot help watching him; and I remember one day how I astonished one gentleman who had been twirling | awav for half an hour by leaning , across the car and asking him as a personal favor to reverse the motion, as I | could not stand the way they were turning any longer. He looked at me as though I was a little bit crazy, and put his hands in his pockets. Have you ever sat in a room where silence was only broken by the scratch of a bad pen in somebody's hands? Nice, is it not? I knew a newspaper man whose little boy who is the proud possessor of a blackboard and takes a great deal of pleasure in writing on it with chalk. Now, that journalist loves his son, and yet he says that whenever that boy, that chalk and that blackboard come into contact the sound produced is simply maddening, and he has either to put an end to it at once or incontinently flee the room in order to save his mind from utter destruction. Everybody has experienced the fiendish ?* ~v. If no rv?rvc-f ovorvhn^lv (innrPM 5IIUI CI | UUV ao mvow \Z ? V* J VW. J anyway there is always a chance of getting even with somebody, even if its only the wife of your bosom. There are some persons in this world who, but for a bad habit they have of filling their sentences with "dy' see?" or asking the utterly idiotic question, "Is that so?" might be worthy citizens of the community. I don't know many things more aggravating than to have a man say "Dy' see?" with every other word he utters or reply to everything I tell him with an utterly fatuous "Is that so?" I once heard a mother, who had been criticised for her personal vanity by a somewhat gossipy neighbor, say that she made it a duty and a pleasure to keep well dressed, for she was likely at any hour to be called upon to entertain friends whose good opinion was of such consequence that she could not afford to run the risk of having them find her in any but neat and presentable attire. The friends were her husband and children, aud she /./vmnontniorl fnr Hpp parp in W US IUJIJ vwuipvu^wwv. this direction by their approval and appreciation. To be "well dressed'" was not, to her mind, an admission of extravagance. Good taste and good planning often stand in place of dollars and cents, and the lady in question was able to dress well on half the cost of her neighbor's wardrobe. God takes notice not only of the prayers of his afflicted people, which . are the language of grace, but even of their groans, which are the language of nature. Broken Chords. The possibilities of the human heart, tinder grace, are marvelous; but the dormant powers, or broken chords, that have fallen under the withering blast of the tempter, that have been silent all our life, are beyond a resurrection so far as human restoratives are concerned. Satan has broken the chord3 that once vibrated and made melody in man's primeval state. His comprehensions has been blunted, his sensibilities have been blighted, his "understanding has been darkened." It has been the hope of the wisest and hAaf r?f men r\f oil airoa fr> nnifp flip chords of feeling that have been broken by the tempter. Human cataplasms of all kinds have been applied to right the wrongs of the human heart. The fact is, those broken chords of thine will never vibrate until touched with the magic toueh of a Saviour's hand. As the broken clock goes back to the maker for repairs, so the heart must go back to its Creatofthat its wrongs may be righted. Ah, how the heart leaps for joy when God has touched it into harmony with the divine mind! Then, and then only, come the times of refreshing from his presence. How the new born soul rises in ecstasy tmif IiTll! }'Qa been 7nade pure, sinner, thou"art^t P?s- ( sibilities are crushed by the ympteTTr Like the prodigal son, you mim "come ;o yourself" if you would rise in the . mnirp nf vnnr risen "Lord. 'Down In the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie burled that graco can restore; Touched by the loving heart, wakened by kindness, Chords that wero broken will vibrate once more." Farewell, Mother. Rev. Dr. J. B. McFerrin, in a letter o the Nashville Christian Advocate, fives a beautiful farewell to the resting )lace of his mother: According to my purpose, we turned isideat Forrest City for Vaudale, in >oss county, where many of my riends and kindred reside. Vandale s a new/town, situated on the "Noble >rancli/of the Iron Mountain and St. LouiSi -Kailroud/' It is located in the beautiful valley lying between the celebrated Crowley's Ridge and the La\nguille river. ATnrt*? \7or?rlolo rooiilna m\7 H!l1v livlnff ncai r auuMiv a vijiuvu "*"j ? * ' 0 lister with her large family of children ind grandchildren, and other near kinIred. Within a few miles rest the bodes of my beloved mother, one brother, md one sister, with others who have alien asleep in Jesus. I visited their ; jraves, and sent up to God the earnest ( jreathings of a grateful heart for the jrace given them in life and in the dyng hour. They all died in the faith. ' My mother's grave is in a retired cem- I itery covered with forest trees and wild shrubbery. No costly monuments 1 idom the sequestered spot. Here and ;here an humble marble shaft or a plain head stone marks the bed of the sleeper; but the enchantment of the ground is in nature's wild woods, made , yocal by the singing of birds and the , 3ry of the whip-poor-will. As I rend ihe epitaph on her tombstone, the last , -,wn wnrnanf which were. "She was a \ Christian, she was a MethodistI turned away, and moving slowly along [said: Farewell,dear mother; this is my last visit to your sleeping home. I , am old; my race is nearly run; I soon will find a place among the sleepers. , Our resting places may be far distant from each other, but when we awake we will soon meet, and meet to be separated no more. Farewell, mother: your goodly example, your modest piety, your motherly care, your changeless love?how they endear your memory to your first-born. Mother Farewell! Morbid Conscientiousness. A man whose temperament is qan^uine, for example, will never feel so deeply as one who is melancholic, nor become persistent in duty with the same ease as a phlegmatic man. One's perception of truth also greatly modifies one's struggles after Godlikeness, since he who sees God to be yearning with infinite desire to win his affections will find it easier to trust and obey them implicitly than he to whom God appears an embodiment of an awful purity unmellowed by tender affection. There Is also wide and perplexing diversity in the consciences of men. In one the moral sense is acute and quick, in another dull and slow. Some men have intelligent, and others more or less unenlightened, consciences. The excessively acute conscience, if misled by false conceptions of duty, will become morbidly sensitive, especially in one whose temperament i3 melancholic. It will condemn him for doing things which God has not forbidden, and move him to do what God has not required; thereby becoming to him the occasion of positive torment?of much unnecessary suffering. There is probably in most cases of prolonged intense suffering from religious causes a measure of this morbidity. Such sufferers usually mistake the office of conscience. They put it in the place and give it the authority of God's Word, forgetting that it is intended to be, not the absolute teacher of duty, but only the approver of him who does what he understands to be God's will, and the accuser of him who refuses to act up to the height of his convictions. Would he who is tormented by a morbid conscience study his duty in the light of revealed truth, with a steadfast purpose to perform it without reservation, his conscience. recognizing its Divine authority. would adjust itself to the claims of the World. His mind would And repose in Christ. Reason! reason! as much as you like; but beware of thinking that it answers to everything, suffices for everything, satisfies everything. This mother loses her child; will reason comfort her? Does cool reason counsel the inspired, the heroic warrior, the truelove? Reason guides but a small part of man, and that the least interesting. The rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. An attempt to assassinate the Czar was made last week. Two hundred persons were arrested. Borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate. HOUSE AND FARM. Treatment of Burns. In a serious burn as soon as the fire is extinguished the clothes must be removed. If not already thoroughly wet the injured part should be drenched with water and the clothes cut away. Everything must be sacrificed to getting them on without pulling, as the slightest dragging brings the skin too. If patches of theclothingadhere and will not dropoff they must be allowed to remain. Dip cloths in a thick solution of common baking soda in water and lay them over the burnt surface, bandaging lightly to keep them in place. As soon as a dry spot appears on this dressing wet it with the soda and water by squeezing some on it. There will be no smarting while it is saturated and excludes the air. If a rubber sheet is not at hand, apiece of oilcloth, a gossamer cloak, or any waterproof article can bespread on the bed with a blanket over it, to receive the sufferer. If the feet are cold, heat should be applied to them and a little stimulant given if the pulse is weak. The bed covering should be warm and light. A doctor should be sent for as soon as possible. The gravity of a burn is in proportion to the surface involved. A deep burn is serious than a superficial 3ue twicTth^ffieKJiitojia ? good sign TT^Uihere is U DCVC1CUUIIJO, ouvifo K?*UW still vitality to suffer. Scalds canbe- ;reated in the same way. In slight jases painting the surface with thick mucilage will sometimes give relief, or pouring oil over it and then covering it with a coating of flour. Anything that effectually excludes the air will relieve the pain. Persons suffering From these accidents should have concentrated nourishing food and as much 3f it as they can take with ease. Nature has large repairs to make and must be provided with material to carry them on. The doctor will prescribe opiates as needed; it is not safe for an unprofessional person to meddle with them. A Usefal Shoe Box. What a vexation to a tidy housekeeper is a generous array of boots, shoes, rubbers and arctics on the closet, floor or against the bedroom wall, or possibly under the bed where careless Tom had thrown tbem. A shoe box, which is at the same time, a lounge, is a great convenience. Take a plain box, four feet long, ten inches deep and fourteen inches wide. Let the cover be on hinges; furnish the box with castors, paint the inside, cushon the top and cover all with pretty cretonne or upbolstering goods. There will be room inside for many pairs of foot wear. Increase of Cancers.?An editorial in Harper's Bazar thinks that cancers have become more frequent than any other diseases exept, it may be, consumption and contagious fevers, and it adds the following interesting statement. Various reasons have been given for its appearance and growth, such as the inheritance of a scrofulous diathesis, such as the probability of the sins of the fathers being visited on the heads of the children, such as life in wrong climates, upon alluvial soil, and in damp regions. One physician has declared his opinion that the eating of tomatoes accounts for the spread of the .iisease, although his opinion has not been widely indorsed, and many medical works pronounce the eating of cheese to be the active agent, the disease being very prevalent in cheese ? A! ^TI.a lnnf mnrH nf CSUUU COLLI LL1 UlJltlCS. 1 jjc iaob rr ui\? wi science concerning it is that it is not hereditary, that one memberof a family has no need to dread it because another member has suffered from it, that the most that can be said on that head is that one family may be more constitutionally susceptible to it than another. But on the whole, the disease is individual, largely dependent upon nervous shock, and comes to women iu middle life more often than to other people. The natural inference from this? and it is the one that physiciaus would insist upon?is that women approaching middle life must be more carefully guarded from any sudden shock or severe strain upon the feelings than has been the habit with those about them. grains! Ever try to excel?not others, but yourself. He who rules must humor full as much as he commands. Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Do not conclude that the promise of God failed because your plan miscarried. "God loves the cheerful giver," but the trouble is so many of us are cheerful over so pesky little. Let us help the fallen still, though they never pay us, and let us lend, without exacting the usury of gratitude. The real horrors of war are played out to the utmost on the hospital pallet when the theatrical business is all over. If a man is faithful to truth, truth will be faithful to him. He need have no fears. His success is a question of time. Sin is to be overcome, not so much by maintaining a direct opposition to it as by cultivating opposition principles. Tribulation in this life cannot separate us from the love of God, but the time is coming when the love of God shall separate us from all tribulations. When we are most filled with heav1 l*r f l\nn At*A 11fA VifiCjf eiliy love, JW1U Vllijf lucu, me no UI.OV fitted to bear with human infirmity, to live above it and forget its burden. It belongs to the nature of the Bible that it was written for all men of every time, and for all the experiences of each single human heart. Don't be discouraged because you are misunderstood as to your actions and motives. It is a part of the price of living to be misjudged. Bishop Early. It became necessary for him, in go- ~ ing from one point to another on his large circuit, to pass through a region of country where he was personally unknown. At mid-day he called at a w house by the way side to get his dinuer and to have his horse fed. His manners were courtly, and his appear- ? ance genteel. He was cordially wel- P corned by the gentleman of the house. No name was given. The family proved to be cultivated and intelligent. ^ Besides the gentleman of the house, ^ he found his wife and grown daugh- w torn onrl o Wni'^lioi-n onhnnl foonhai. In ^ wuu u xwikuv/iu ovuvvi lit the family. The teacher was disen- P gaged at the dinner hour, and the passing stranger was thrown with the 01 whole family circle during the hour or two spent by him for rest and refresh- P! ment on his journey. The conversation turned from one topic to another ^ until at last someone in the circle re- 1,1 ferred to the stories told of a Metho- e? dist preacher by the name of Early, ei who was running the people wild with fanatical religious excitement in dif- *c ferentsections of the country, more or 01 less remote from the neighborhood in fc which we now find the itinerant. 18 First one and then another in the fam- ot ily circle gave vent to censure and violent criticism, amounting to positive ^ abuse, heaped upon the preacher. "He ought to be driven out of the country," said the mother. "He so frightens the people that even the women fall on ? ? fn tfie-ilGQr ana scream ana roll in tne "" dirt, so they 83^" added the daughter, Then the schoolmaster, called "Icha- wj bod Crane" by the bishop, in giving th the narrative, interposed the remark, th with a nasal twang, "If we had him in a higher latitude we would silence ' i him, or drive him out of the country," fa( and so they went on. The stranger said nothing, further than to ask if jt what they said was mere rumor, or did ^ they have it from eye witnesses? It jjf was only what they had heard, but 0f there could be no doubt of the facts, as ja stated by them. The stranger intimated that sometimes such rumors were ^ greatly exaggerated by being repeated ^ and spread beyond the range of eve fe witnesses. The gentleman of the jj, bouse said but little. Dinner being Ufl* over the stranger's horse was ordered. He asked for his bill; no charge was t0 made. Then said the departing guest: ^ "lam a preacher, and if there is no 0I objections I will pray with the family se before leaving the house." This was politely assented to, and they knelt in sj( pi-ay er. . ' 0i While tne prayer was going up cue or Divine power came down as on the ^ day of Pentecost. The schoolmaster took fright and fled in haste from the * room. When the prayer was conclu- e(; ded the wife and daughter remained tu kneeling, and both of them, in tears, to were praying for mercy. The stran- ... ger spoke to them tenderly and en- m couragingly, and instructed them in t the way of salvation. On leaving the _ door, the gentleman of the house went . with the stranger to the horse-rack, j: and on parting with him asked his name. "My name," said the stran- R. ger, "is John Early." "What! not the man of whom you have heard so jmuch said in my family?" "The same," replied the departing guest. "Then," said the gentleman, "you i must dismount and go back to the house, and let my wife and daughter ask your pardon." "For this there is :v no occasion," was the reply. "No offense was intended for me personally." ? The preacher left, but good seed had been deposited. At his next appoint- 2 ment, within striking distance of the 01 family, the preacher found them all ? present. All professed conversion, ? and a new church was soon planted in j - - * ? . * a ?D< the ueiglibornooa or me sceue uestuued, and the family in question became 111 the leading members. The case recit- J*' ed is but one of the many similar incidents that occurred in connection with as the preaching of John Early in the first years of his ministry. "Died Poor." g| It has come to be the case in these h days, that every one feels it to be high j, f)raise to say at the decease of a man ^ ong in public life: "He died poor." ^ We have all noticed what emphasis has been given to this fact in the vari- ^ ous notices of Gen. Logan's active life w and lamented death. Said one of our i, leading newspapers: "During his long jr public career, his personal integrity ti was never questioned. He never derived private profit trom theopportunities of public place." And to this eu- n logium every one, friend and foe, as- ^ sented. h Henry Wilson toward the close of a C( long term of public service, having for p vears held the position of Chairman of t| of the Committee on Military Affairs, y which "worked" by some men would a have made them millionaires, was too n poor to buy a little garden spot, which 0 lie desired, next his house in Natick, v Mass., and so his fellow townsmen <5 raised $1,200 and bought it for him. f( Henry Clay is reported to have re- u plied to the suggestion, that a certain 1 cause would injure his political pros- j, nects: "I had rather be right than }, President." Was he wise, or was he ?. foolish, in deciding thus? How many t] men in political life would respond to v such a sentiment with a hearty (j "Amen?" And yet, if our preachings be true, if our moralists be correct, if s, the Bible be the word of God, he was n was right. If our country is long to n last, this must be the conviction of the fo majority of our citizens. ti * tl A good workshop with the cheaper b and more simple tools, is always worth d more than it costs to the fanner who has sons. It should be provided with ~ otnvo Fr\f nnd stormy days, r tt DUJailOlVtb JUI vwa?. and be sufficiently lighted with win- tl dows. It may be furnished with fi work-bench, vice, shaving-horse aud u small foot-lathe. The tools may be t saws, planes, augers, drawing-knife c and hammer. Here tools may be re- t paired on stormy days, or old ones t mended, or oiled and painted, harness f oiled, boots blacked, uoxes made for r apples and potatoes, each holding a t bushel, and numberless other useful t operations performed. c Sir Matthew Hale said: "If I omit praying and reading God's Word in the morning, nothing goes well with i 1110 all day." j SCHOOLS. | "Society Girls." y^lg Arthur Marks and Jennie Wilson ^ 'ere fast friends. Arthur had just returned from col- j ;ge, where he had completed his surse. He was sitting in Jennie's arlor one cool night in autumn, when le following conversation ensued : ^ "Arthur," said Jennie, "I have been ? linking of some way in which I can ^ ring our friends together in a social ay to celebrate your return from odlfge. It is all the fashion now to hsiVo rnnrpssivp ?nr>hro narHao anil T ViaM* -~0" * v v"v"* v ??vo, MUM M. bout decided to give one in your hon-H^^J r next Friday evening!" To her surprise, an expression ofw^B| ain passed over her friend's face e replied, "You know I appreciaterH^Hj 3ur efforts to make ine enjoy myself, nt you have chosen the last thing irth that would accomplish such an "Why, Arthur," she exclaimed in a >ne of astonishmeut. "I cannot re ember the time when you refused a -M icial game of cards. A game of cards the same thing in one place as an- - her, and I do not see why this woitfd__ : worse simply because there would ! more of us." "No," he replied, "that is not it If : >u had seen what I have in the last jl ar as the results of this cursed game,. H >u would not insist upon it. I want H tell you something about it." H "I am afraid it is one of those long .9 inday-school stories," said Jennie ith a little pout. "Three-fourths of . ^ CLU ?IC SU OUttliUW (IliU UUICOOUUIIVlg . at they destroy the force of the mor- Hj they intend to paint. But go on, I H "No,'' answered Arthur with aaober " ce. "It is not long. Like most wo-??jH jries, it is unfortunately too short. ' does not seem natural for me to call j? a 'story,' it seems yet so terrible in i reality. You have heard me speak Virgil Williams as the most Drill- ;vi nt student at college? Well, my sto' relates to him. As you know, he as to finish his course this year. I /Ma ink he was one of the most popular ,^B Hows there, as well as the most Intel- , ;ent. Everybody expected him to '-\JS irry off the highest honors, of coarse. . -JM ut about six months ago we all began .-jjwH notice a change in him. He seem- 'ffia 1 to take no notice of either his books* bis classmates. He was often ab- . i, nt from his recitations, but excused - ' V<j| imself on the ground that he was |S ck. We took his word for it. asevery ;.f|i ie considered him a thoroughly hon- jg able fellow, and we wereaQ sorry for^ m. Finally one day I ventured to i >eak to him about it, and to offer him '* me words of consolation. As I talk- > 1 to him, I was frightened almost ai^^a? "1 ie wild, frenzied look which came ' y his eye. He arose, pale and tremb^aM^ g, and said, "Marks, I am a ruined k. ^ au. No one knows what is the mat- ;; S? r with me, but I will tell ^rou. Yo^^gS ^ imemoer two monmB ago x wem u> a irty at Miss A's. There we were ail'^^H resaed to have a game of cards. I - -3 ayed and enjoyed it, but I little . '3 tought then that this should be the t<|f luse of my ruin. After I went there began to play with tho boys forsmall ims of mouey, then for more, and fl- . :v\ y Ally I began to frequent the gambling ins of the city. I have gone deeper id deeper in debt. I have spent all iy father allowed me, and I know lere is no hope of ever paying what I iOj .ve. The passion for gambling rages. , ^ 1 my very blood, and I can never conjer it." I tried to reason with bim. jt he turned and walked away with despairing gesture. Two days later ^ telegram was sent to his father that y 7^1 irgil had shot himself. The poor ^ jy left a note saying that he could '0? ever be anything but a gambler and % ould rather die. With his last breath e cursed the girl who first led him 3 stray." "0 Arthur, don't for heaven's sake?" ied Jennie excitedly;/"I will never ^ luch another card while I live. And ~ ie impulsive girl arose and threw the ack into the blazing fire. "Come and sit down, Jennie," said er friend, gently; "I ought not to 1 ave told you tnls. But let me draw ie moral more calmly. You women, alf of you, do not stop to think of ie influence you are naving on meu. here is a time in the life of a man i hen the whole course of his after life inges upon a single action. And no ifluence of this earth can more easily irn him hellward or heavenward lan the hand of a woman. Perhaps iere is some one of your friends just ?ady to be influenced thus by you. nd it seeni9 to me that the tortures of ell itself could not be worse than the Dnsciousness of having led a soul into erdition; nor could there be any- , ling more blessed than to feel that ?rjj ou have been instrumental in saving ?j n immortal soul, which can be done j lore easily by keeping temptatian out . j f the path of others than by trying to ' in them back after they have fallen, top right here, and consider well be)re you act. Nearly every time I pick p a daily paper I notice that Misses ' 1 mu?i ??,l C!r\ o?irt IpftdpfS Ills illlll X lull, UIJU uuuIiu uv, .v. a society, were the prominent partic- f pants in a 'drive whist' party or a ^ 3rogres?ive euchre' party. They lit- " ie think that they may be starting a /aveof influence which will whirl a ozen souls into the maelstrom of deduction. I often wonder of what use onie of these 'society girls' are to humanity anyhow. I hope you will lever suffer yourself to be such a lock to the progress of morality and rue culture as I have known some of iiem to be. This is a long sermon, ut you can not blame me for being eeply in earnest."?Gospel Advocate. Judge Stewart, of Paltimore, In a ecent charge to the grand jury, had I.So ifs an,, a Knit f frnmhlillC Jit Churoh UIO IU f7?J ItUUUV ? airs: ''The vice will probably contine uutil the people are educated up to be point wlien raffles at fairs will be onsidered an evil to be frowned upon, hat chances in holiday presents Is a hiug to be avoided. The grosser orms of this vice are liable to punishDent, and when the business of gamilingis carried on in violation of law he duty to society requires that the >ffence should not be lightly passed >ver, but should be prosecuted." TLou art not the more holy for beng praised, nor the more worthless for >eing dispraised.