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M BY IIUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1887. YQLUME^XXI. NO. 457 Christian Neighbor. BY REV. SIDE II. BROWNE, Of the Mouth Carolina Conference* Sand Dams. All that has been spoken or written by editors and others about the" York ville lynching," is like unto so many sand dams, one above or below another,to stop a muddy stream of swift running water. It [the water] breaks through oue, then the next and so on until they are, one after another, all swept away. "Water generally has its way as well as its level. The abutments of the sand dams with their builders standing aghast, are left standing?the water sweeping on the tenor of its rushing way with increased volume, velocitv and force, the nat ural result of flimsy hindrances?the sand dams afore-mentioned. It matters little or nothing whether these sand dams are called "law," "public opinion," the "power of the pulpit and the press," or something else, they appear to be too weak to stop the swelling tide of iniquity. The beginning of iniquity is as the letting out of water. Unless the course of the stream is changed at or near the source double the number of the sand dams that were will be insufficient to stop tbe war "crevasses" in the levee of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. What can be done? Dam the current above the crevasee with rockjetties?aud turn the flood wide upon the territories of corruption and then pour in ship loads of the salt of grace ?Christianity?in the sources or the tributaries and thus, if possible, purify the fountain that the stream may be pure. To do this a different class of civil rulers?to build the jetties?and a different class of teachers in morals and religion must come to the -front and there stand and work until the possible task shall be accomplished. Murder with or witbout a PretextAbout the Same. When one of the many concealedweapon murdeiers wants to kill some particular person, or, if not that, any one that may "cross his path," he seeksajt>refc2tf. If he cannot find one he will provoke one, and then shoot in "self-defence." The paragraph be1 low from the Camden (S. C.) Journal, contains more truth than might be sifted out of two or three days of some "Court" proceedings, which end a case of willful murder with a verdict r\f " "instifiable liomi tide," "manslaughter." Here is what the editor of the Journal says : One of the greatest mysteries in this world is the certainty with which the innocent (/) man always kills his would-be slayer?at least, it seems to appear so to a jury whenever a man is brought before them charged with murder. About ninety-nine out of every hundred slayers of men (unless the slayer is a negro) makes it appear that they were as innocent as doves so far as the intent to do evil went, but they had to kill the man, or be killed by him. In many cases the dead man has 110 weapon of any kind about him, aud was running like a turkey to escape, but theinnoccnt man, armed like a moving fortress, hunts him up auu runs him down and kills him, but proves (?) to the jury that he had to Kill thefellow or the fellow would have slain him. Thereupon the jury acquit him and give him an opportunity to go and slay some other would-be (?) murderer. The mysterious in such cases may be somewhat explained bv the fact that the Courts, including witnesses, are taken from among the current generation that live and move more orless in an abiding atmosphere of lying, stealing, cowardice, perjury, bribery and murder?the muddy wake of the late war. Arc they Really Needed ! In a city or town where one, two, three, four or five houses of worship arc already built what need is there to I erect a separate building for a Young's Men's Christian Association? "Why not use one or more of the existing houses of worship for their meetings? Surely this could be done without conflict with the stated hours of public worship. What seems more appropriate than for a "Christian Association" to meet in the house of prayer for all people? The increase of "societies," which are in some way or another connected with tliechurch, tends to divert minds from the iuterests of the church proper. As far as at all practicable let men, women and children meet aud worship together. In family worship let all the family come together, if at all practicable; so too, at meal times, let the children eat with the grown people. There is an education to the older and the younger in such meetings that is lost by too much classification. One objection to sermons or services for a special class isthat others leave themselves out and, if present, ?./> nnoni.Kn/K] moilllv fn Ulp limV tllO iUC W1IULI1IVU Iimiiuj vw WW ..W.? ?..V sermon suits those for whose special benefit it is preached. A Sad Affair. On Sunday, April 17, a number of men, most of them railroad officers, started in a tug boat from Savannah, Ga., on a trip to Tybee beach. While going merrily down the river, J. J. Abrams, a lawyer, in appareut sport, pointed a ritte at Frank M. Fonda, Superintendent of the Georgia Central Railroad, pulled the trigger and shot Mr. Fonda in the head. Fonda dropped dead. Abrums "did not know the gun was loaded." The verdict of the jury of inquest was that theshootiug was "accidenial." Will this lamentable tragedy deter others from trips of pleasure on the Lord's day? from the criminally foolish act of sportively pointing a gun or pistol, loaded or not loaded, at a living human being? Some one has written that any person who points a gun, loaded or not loaded, at another, should be knocked down and after that see whether or not the gun were loaded. We suppose the writer thought itbetter to knock a fool down than for a person with sense to run the risk of being ' accidentally" killed. What is Lacking 1 We have law-makers, and laws, and judges and juries, lawyers and * ?-i witnesses, snernis anu turunda, mat justices, to say nothing of olTlces created for "family" pets?quite as many as the "Radicals" had in their day of glory, and yet under "Democratic" rule, crime of every sort, except that of paying debts and swearing the truth "in Court," and speaking and acting the truth out of Court, is on the increase, and every man who is I not in a "fat place," in Church or State, knows and will say this is so? ' if he would tell the truth. If the former days were worse than these did he mean the days before the flood ? j The writer of Ecclesiastes, (doubtless Solomon,) may not have dreamed that there would ever exist, "under the sun," just such a state of thingslying, profanity, Sabbath breaking, stealing, (including men who will not pay their debts as well as the $50,000 and $100,000 educated thieves) mur der, perjury, "bail," &c., as exist in the United-States section of "Chris- 1 tendom," including South Carolina. ?> Walking Some?Riding Some. Joining on to John Drafts at Leesville depot, April 23, that is to say, John holding one end of my valise and I the other, we kept "the step" 011 up i to his father-in-law's (Mr. J. C. Bo- 1 die's) where I stopped over for the night with the venerable couple and the attentive young folks. Sabbath morning I joined the same John?in a buggy this time?and 011 through the sand we wended our way to Concord. Horses that travel this i road often must be glad when it rains, the sand being then wet the track for J the wheels stand open after some other vehicle has gone before and opcued .1.-4 1. liooi'** lilt; IJ ilUlV. A V/ \A\J lliio iC UUUUl C*0 14VU< J j ou the horse as to pull through the sand when it is dry. The first team , and driver after a rain may not be thanked by them that follows. So it i may be with some preachers now-adays who enter into the labors of the i old pioneers who, with hatchet or "hawk-bill" knife, on horse back, opened the way for their sons to followon in their buggies complaining of such heavy work as to need rest five or six i days out of the seven, and in some cases become "worn out" in eight or ten years. [Whata loss when buggies and railroads superceded the "saddle bags"?say what we please.] < What good there was in the meeting at Concord, I leave for others to say. It was agreed that Children's Day (May 15) should beat Leesville, and the 8. S." celebration at a later day at Concord?both schools and congregations uniting 011 each occasion. Second Quarterly meeting next Friday? 1 all requested to turn out and hear the new Presiding Elder, Dr. Jones. 'i lie Sunday scoooi aujourneu emerging their minds to learn the difference i between "Sabbath days journey" and the journey of a "labor day." ? I Home with Bro. Reedy Cranch, drawn by that chicken eater, "Shad." 1 Reedy thinks there's 110 horse like "Shad." Reedy and I walked up ' to Brother W. W. Smith's where I met with four other families 1 of my charge. Sister Sallie (W, W.'s) wife, is improving out of much fatigue, and from watching and waiting on cases of whooping cough. I stuck to Reedy and Shad all the way, round and about, even back to Leesville?the quiet and inoffensive John J. Slialey along with us on our way back. It was this same John that cut a bunch of "Grandfathers Gray-beard" for me to bring j home, and would have Reedy to drive me to his John's house for tea. Nobody inLeesville will feel disparaged if I say there is not a bettercitizen among them than John Shealey, the honest blacksmith. There are a few others, near about a match for John but none others ahead of him. S. II. B. The Evening News announced that a $50,(KH) lottery prize had been drawn by an Augusta man. If the report had been true?which it wasn't?it would only have shown that ten thousand fools had contributed live dollars each to makeup the prize. But it is sad to believe that the ten thousand fools are easier to be found than the one lucky man.? Weekly Monitor. As it is stated that (Jen. Beauregard is to be at the unveiling of the Calhoun monument, he might be able to give some light on lotteries and the luck of fools. It is hard to conceive of a greater blunder than would be the establishment of an "Agricultural College" in South Carolina. We agree with the editor of the Weekly (S. C.) Monitor when he says : We hope every farmer will use whatever influence he may possess to pre vent the establishment of such an institusion in South Carolina?an institution that would serve to furnish downy places for a few individuals and draw mighty sums from the State Treasury, its third characteristic being its tendency to "keep the young men away from the farm." COMMONS. "Wlial the Dicky Birds Say." If a sweetheart I possessed Who was bent on being dressed In them 'ats what rises up to the dome, And she wanted for to go To the hopera or show, I'd toll her, "Take you 'at off or stay at 'oine." And oh, my eye! Ain't they high Jn the air, I declare: Ain't they built a funny way, Willi their pigeons and Mieir fowls And their roosters and their owls? At least so the dicky birdies say. ChorusHow do weconstruct a hat? Take a rut, take a cut, take a mat. Set 'cm up on a ladder fur away. If thereupon you tlncl You cun't see a house behind That's the fashion?so the dicky birds say. A Trip to Florida. "And is this really the 'Land of Flowers!' " we exclaimed, as, landing on the wharf at Kernandina, a misty landscape of waiting drays, lloating drift-wood, and tall masts met our eyes. Yes, this is really Florida; and soon, speeding along in the train en route for Jacksonville, we feel by the increasing heat that we are approaching somewhat nearer to the region of perpetual summer. In a few hours the city is reached; the pretty streets and sunny skies, and, above all, the white robes and straw hats, make a pleasing contrast to the fogs and clouds and dark raiment we have left behind us. But oh ! in the windows: alligators everywhere, living and dead, croaking and silent; shark's tooth jewelry in abundance; aud the most beautiful shell-ornaments, delicate, transparent almost, fairy-like in construction. But the alligators, the poor little alligators! what a horrible life they must lead, cooped up in small glass cases, with so little water to play fLhont in ? no wonder thev look sleenv and dull. After a while we leave the sight-seeing, and going down to some old wharves find crowds of pretty, green row-boats there, and soon are "bounding over the billow," that is, quietly rowing across the .St. John's, with the occasional variety of tumbling about in the billows made by some bigsteamer. Ob! it was delightful! beautiful scenery along the banks, here and there handsome plantations, and) again, old rotten landing-places extending way out into the river. But! the sun was hot and the return journey seemed very long, still, we would! not have missed that row for a good: ileal, even if our faces were dreadfully' sun-burned. In the afternoon we enjoyed a pleasant drive around the city; there are several handsome hotels, of quite an imposing appearance; and the streets: look busy and flourishing ; the pretty, J fresh-looking cottages that lined the: road to the country were very interestI .w ; n ilioir mnnv clviiiaa n iwl <?nlr?r? I Illjj 111 U.V.. ? -liere a gay Queen Anne in dark-red trimmed with light green and stray touches of yellow; there a stately brown stone, with lofty tower. Trees, too, bordered the side-walks and seemed very shady and inviting, and were a great relief from the broad glare of the sun-light. Towards evening the whole population appeared to have turned out, some in carriages, but many on foot, and by the bright electric light made quite a gay and festive scene. The next day avc crossed the river and entered the train bound for St. Augustine. We waited, and waited, and waited, and still we were in the depot; at length, more passengers arrived, and after a little more waiting we were really off. Truly these Florida trains seem to travel at their own sweet will and pleasure, and never to start till they feel like it. And now we are in St. Augustine, the oldest town on the sea-coast. Here are the famous city gates?tall, quaint and grey?with mtie windows or loopholes peeping out from the queer stone. What sights they must have seen, those old city gates! the stout Spaniard in breastplate and helmet, the native Indian coming to trade there, the long lines of slaves marching wearily into the city; and then, the later generations, with new fashions and customs. Further on, standing distinctly outlined against the beautiful blue background of sky and sea, is Fort Marion. Drowning a gentle slope, the green ijrass growing around it, and water rippling near, it looks indeed like an old head on ycung shoulders; the irregular walls, the tiny towers at each corner, the army tents tall and white within it, the Indians in their bright costumes gathered round it, form a picture not soon to be forgotten. On the grass, little Apache boys are playing with bows and arrows; some of the children with no clothing in particular and black hair flying wild; others, dressed like any civilized little American. On the top of the slope, close by the fort gates, are a group of women, radiant in bright red and green and yellow, with long strings of gay beads hanging from their hair? these are busy tramcKing witn some ladies ami gentlemen who look very summer-like in stnnv hats and white garments. And now, driving by the side of the broad sea-wall, we see 011 the island opposite (Anastasia Island) the queer colored light-house, looking at that distance like a rather large stick of chocolate candy, or a barber's pole. Down this narrow street, about as wide as an ordinary side-walk, we catch glimpses of the high walls that the Spaniards deemed necessary to seclude their dwellings from public view. Here, it is said, is the oldest house in St. Augustine; but, being painted over in modern colors, it has lost all the charm of age, and only the remains of a large palmetto that leans forward into the street like a crane, at tracts the notice of the passer-by. And now we have readied some handsome modern houses, shaded and comfortable looking; and there, there is a beautiful little model of a Moorish palace: the strange designing and ornamentation, the queer characters over the door, the delicate tracery of the arcades within, the fairy-like appearance of the whole, made us wonder if we are not in old Uenada or some quaint Moorish town. And see! through that wild wilderness, rises a tall, stately house, browned with age ?does a fairy princess dwell within it, a sleeping beauty waiting for some courageous knight to thread the mazes of the wood, and break the long enchantment? many a romance, perchance a dread tragedy even, may hang about that aged dwelling. Jiut here is a place of stern reality, of aw fill facta; it is the old slave-market of the .Spaniards, a long, low, open-sided building. And near it, in contrast to it, is the cathedral, strange and old, with memories of past grandeur clinging around it. Inside hangs an interesting picture, that of the first mass ever celebrated on Florida soil; dark and dim is the background, and the upturned faces of the soldiers, and the dark-robed monks around, have a weird, mystic aspect; while the priest! in long white gown, standing with up- j raised hands by the altar, but adds to the mystery and grandeur. There are other pictures here; one of the Virgin and Child, with a Latin inscription around it; and also some statues, one of which is St. Augustine himself. The languid, apathetic look of the ancient buildings is in great contrast to the bright, wide-awake appearance of the modern residences. This is indeed a quaint old city, where the old and the new are so mingled together, and yet live with each other so peaceably and tranquilly. M. Henry Ward Beeclier. Joseph Cook, in his Boston Lecture, February 7, said : "tylr. Beecher is a man of genius. We have all loved him. Most of us love him yet. Would iu uruu inert: were uu uiuuu ui uu : Ho has been the champion of reform, and has, iudeed, been far from a misleader of the nation, until of late. One almost thinks he would have lived longer if he had died earlier." Now that the great preacher has passed away from earth, I hear many similar expressions of admiration and regret. And it may be both proper and profitable to inquire whence the cloud arose that obscured the brightness of that conspicuous life. I will not write now about the social scandals. There is a clue to the understanding of therii in the temperament and the habits of the man. But I prefer to consider Mr. Boecher as a theologian, and to ask why, with his acknowledged ability and early training, he uttered so many crudities and absurdities in regard to the Bible and its teachings? This, it seems to me, is the explanation: God raises men up for different departments of work.in his vineyard. He endows each for his special duty. To Henry Ward Beecher he gave a brilliant imagination and great dramatic power. He was a born preacher. His mission was to teach the doctrines of grace as his father taught them, and impress them upon the consciences and hearts of men. He was not a logician. He was not a student. He had no ability or patience to investigate the history of doctrines, to compare Scripture with Scripture, and the views and arguments of the great tniflKers or tne unristian centuries, he was interested in men, and not. in books?in the present, and not in the past. He lived out of doers. He read the face of nature and the face3 of his fellow-men. He could describe and illustrate, but he could not reason. Now, if he had been contented to do his own work, and not imagine that because he could do it well he could do anything and everything equally well, he would have lived and toiled and died as the greatest gospel preacher of the age; .and all Christendom would have mourned his death. But when Mr. Beecher had reached the summit of fame as a preacher, he was tempted to think that he might be a theologian too; so he turned his hand to revising doctrines and tinkering creeds. And he made a miserable mess or it. Yet over air his lirogical crudities and quiddities he threw such a glamor of genius that many accepted them and flattered him, and thus? he was encouraged to go on and proclaim his nebulous notions as the external verities on which men are to rest the hopes of their souls. The climax of ; Mr. Beecher's blundering in regard to his mission, was in attempting to write a Life or Christ. I think that no man has done, or can do, this successfully. Even Neander is unsatisfactory to me, and much more so are Farrar, Hanna, and all r.he rest of then?. Ihey are at best but running commentaries upon the gospel story. But for such a commentary the highest scholarship and the profoundest study are needed. Beecher had not the scholarship, and all his habits unfitted him for the study. He was going to write his Life of Christ cwrcntc calcimo, as he wrote "Star Papers" or popular lecturers, drawing largely upon his imagination, making a Christ as he seemed to Beecher, and not the Christ as revealed in the gospels. In the beginning of this rash enterprise he was arrested by the Tilton scandal. He resumed it with ;>rreat enthusiasm a few weeks ago, and was arrested by death. It was not; the will of Providence that the brilliant but erratic preacher jshould complete his fancy picture of our uieiseu JLora : Now, the lesson from all this is, that young preachers should be modest, however gifted with, pulpit power. They should not think that because they can draw and interest crowds of hearers, they are wiser than all the great and good men who have gone before them?that they are prophets, by whom the Lord will reveal new truth. It is very important for us all to remember that we haye "gifts differing." Each should cultivate his own special gift, and do his own allotted work. There a"re no universal geniuses. Because Mr. Beecher was an expert, as he was, in the cultivation of roses, was no evidence that he could construct an ocean steamer without studying naval architecture. Cheerfulness. Blessing be to the cheerful personman, woman, or child, old or young, I illiterate or educated, handsome or homely. Over and above every social trait stands cheerfulness. What the sun is to nature, what God is to the stricken heart which knows how to lean on him, are cheerful persons in the house, or by the wayside. They go unobtrusively, unconsciously about their silent mission, brightening up society around them with the happiness beaming from their faces. We love to sit beside them; we love the sparkle of their eyes, the tone of their voice. Little children find them out, O! so quick, amid the densest crowd, and, passiug by the knitted . 1 ;l 1 i:? Ol'OW anu COIIIJJIKBSUU iiu, fciiue IICUI, and laying a confiding little hand on their knee, lift their clear, young eyes to those loving faces. If thou riseth from a low estate to a great one, it but like stepping from a boat or barge into a ship, thy dangers continue, for thou art still upon the sea. HOUSE AND FA R\l. Seventeen Health Hints. 1. Be regular in your habits. 2. If possible, go to bed at the same hour every night. Iiise in the morning soon after you are awake. 4. A sponge bath of cold or tepid water should be followed by friction with towel or hand. 5. Eat plain food. 6. Begin your morning meal with fruit. [If you haye it. Ed. C. N.] 7. Don't go to work immediately after eating. 8. Be moderate in the use of liquors at all seasons. 9. It is safer to Alter and boil drinking water. 10. Exercise in the open air whenever the weather permits. 11. In malarious districts do your walking in the middle of the day. iz. j\eep tue ieet uoimunuuiw mm well protected. 13. Wear woolen clothing the year round. 14. See that your sleeping rooms and liviug rooms are well ventilated, and that sewer gas does not enter them. 15. Brush your teeth at least twice a day, night and morning. 16. Don't worry. It interferes with the healthful action of the stomach. 17. You must have interesting occupation in vigorous old age. Continue to keep the brain active. Kest means rust*?Herald of Health. Neatness in Dress at Home. The importance of neat and tasteful house-dressing cannot be over estimated. The matron who appears before the members of her family in a shabby, soiled wrapper, and makes the excuse?if, indeed, she takes the trouble to make one at all?that "it is so much more comfortable," has little idea of the possible consequences of such a course. Could she but realize that her dress is an evil example to her daughters, and one productive of consequences that will reach far beyond her own plan of life; that her husband and sons cannot fail to draw comparisons between her dress and that of the ladies they meet in other homes, and t-hpsio cnmnariiinn<i nnnnnfc fail t.n flp crease their respect for her, she might be induced to give more attention to her personal appearance. Not even the burden of care and constant employment can furnish a sufficient excuse for careless personal habits, for few things are more important to the well-being of a family. There is an old saying to the effect that an untidy mother has disobedient children ; and while neither parents nor children may roalize the why or wherefore of it, yet there is always a lack of respect and indifference to the authority of a mother who takes no pride in her personal appearance. And it is not the mother alone upon whose shoulders rests the burden of responsibility for home neatness and order in dress; the father has his duties to look after as well, and should never fail to insist upon the younger members of the family presenting themselves with well-kept hands, clean faces, neatlybruabed hair, and orderly dress, at least at every meal wheVe the family asseznbles.?Brooklyn Magazine. Cut This Out aud Keep It. Franklin Dyer, a highly respectable and intelligent farmer of Galena, Kent county, Maryland, gives the following as a sure cure for the bite of a mad dog. As will be seen, he has tested it with the most gratifying results: Elecampane is a plant well known to most persons, and is to be found in many* of our gardens. Immediately after being bitten take one and a half ounces of the root of the plant?the green root is, perhaps, preferable, but the dried will auswer, and may be found in our drug stores, and was used by me?slice or bruise, put into a pint of fresh milk, boil down to a half pint, strain, and when cold, drink it, fastinn-of Ipnst, ?ix hours afterward. The! next morning repeat the dose, fasting, use two ounces of the root. On the third morning take another dose, prepared as the last, and this will be sufficient. tt is recommended that after each dose nothing be eaten for at least sis hours. I have a son who was bitten by a mad dog eighteen years ago. and four other children in the neighborhood were also bitten; they took the above dose, and are alive and well to this day. And I have known a number of others who were bitten and applied the same remedy. It is supposed that the root contains a principle, which being taken up by the blood in its circulation, counter/-VI. Monfrnlirroc Dip flpRrllv PftbfitS of the virus of hydrophobia. I feel so much confidence in tills simple remedy tbat 1 ntn willing you should give my name in connection with thisstatement. The water for tea should be fresh and soft; for hard water sets the herb, and fails to draw out the flavor. When hard water must be used, add five grains of carbonate of soda; if more be used the tea will be spoiled. Drain the kettle dry, and rinse before filling it. Silver and china pots are preferable to britannia metal or tin-ware. Before making the tea, rinse the pot in boiling water; drain dry; then make the tea while the pot is hot. The water should have just begun to boil, and the pot may be lilled-up at once, or only a small quantity, enough to wet tlie leaves, and this allowed to stand for two or three minutes before filling-up. Tea should not stand more than ton minutes before being used. As a general rule the quantity of tea used is one teaspoon ful for each person o.iri mm for tho not. The teapot should hold two more cups than the number of persons to be supplied from it. Never dip the teapot into the vessel in which the tea-things are washed. When the leaves are removed, the pot should be well rinsed with hot water, allowed to drain, and then carefully wiped inside with a perfectly clean dry cloth. The lid is kept off or open when the pot is not being used. - <?> Rice Croquettes.?Thoroughly wash half A pint of rice; boil it in a pint of milk 30 minutes; whip into the hot rice two ounces of butter, two ounces of sugar, salt, and the yelks of two eggs. If the batter is too stiff add a little more milk. When cold roll it into neat balls, corks, or cones, dip them in beaten egg, roll in fine bread or cracker crumbs, and fry as you would doughnuts. t Physical Self-Control. It is not possible to sit in an assemblage of people, and not be impressed with the lack of physical self-control manifested. No matter how eloqueut the speaker, how entrancing the music, for but few minutes at a time are they able to control perfect silence on the part of the audience; constantly are there useless and unnecessary movements, revealing the aimless, untraiued mind. For were the mind held, the body would be unrecognized and held by the grip of its power. It is the dual life that causes the constant movement, change of position, arrangement of clothincr. movement of hands and feet,?all showing that the mind has not sovereignty of the body because it has not been trained to that sovereignty, or the body to yielding to the higher power. Perhaps one?if not the one?annoyance to speakers and hearers is the endless coughing, hacking, clearing of the throat, that is one of the evidences of lack of control physically. The least selt-restraint on the part of each individual would reduce the volume of sound enormously. The constant gratifying of an impulse acquired, not innate, the result of nervousness that grows by what it is fed on, is an evidence of untrained intellect. The effect of gratifying this needless inpulse by fifty or sixty persons at the same time, in the same place, is out of all proportion to the individual effort. If a fraction of the effort made in gratifying the impulse were made in restraining it, great good would result to health and comfort. We have associated the idea of selfcontrol with the moral and mental nature, ignoring its immense influence in the development of the physical, onrl Ua ruflov o/tf?An rvn fha hinrlioi' ciuu t to uvmv/ii vu . t ti v uiguvi powers through the physical. The woman who cannot occupy a rockingchair without keeping it in constant motion is the woman who cannot meet the every-day annoyances with a selfpoised calmness. Trifles distress her; and she excuses herself for displays of irritation because of nervousness, when it was nothing but lack of self-control. The mantle of charity is much enlarged by this modern iringe we call nervousness. "I must do something; I cannot sit with idle hands," is not the expression of normal industry, but the expression of abnormal activity. It's the physical Martha instead of the mental Mary that has gaiued control. Martha would serve herself and the world better if she recognized the moments when to sit still meant the learning of a lesson that would reveal true SCI VILIg. Last Sunday night a boy of sixteen sat in an audience apparently listening to the addresses being delivered. He hung his hat on his umbrella, and, putting his finger in the loosely hanging silk, swayed the hat back and forth for nearly one half-hour. To do this he was forced to make a motion of the right arm from the shoulder. Think of the wasted strength! A pale, thin youth, who needed every bit ol strength and vitality in his body to make legitimate effort, to accomplish any purpose. The movement simply revealed the empty, unused mind. Restless, aimless wandering about, or purposeless movements, should be educated out of a child. All are the result of a purposeless mind. Physical restlessness can be overcome in an adult who will once acknowledge the tremendous waste of energy, vitality and force, in useless, purposeless movemenis. compel yourself to sit still in a comfortable position that pays every attention to conventionalities. Do not give to restlessness which is the result of mental inactivity, which results from the mental barrenness and irritability, the name of nervousness, and hug the delusion to the soul that nervousness is an evidence of a "highly strung nature"?to use a much abused term. Physical self-control is the result of education and good breeding, and its possession is as necessary to sound health as mental self-control to sound morals.?Christian Union. Facts.?That clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain and thus prevent its spreading over the fabric. mat ripe lomaioes win remove iiik and other stains from white cloth, also from the hands. I That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will aid the whitening process. That boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm or a little salt, or both, or a little gum arubic dissolved. That beeswax aud salt will make your rusty flat irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep ic for that purpose. When the irons are hot, rub them lirst with the wax rag, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. There are fewer competent men in the world than there are open places for competent men. A competent man is a man who can do any one thing a good deal better than its average doing. There are too many men who can do everything?in the sense that they can do one tiling as well as another; but there arc not enough men who can do one thing thoroughly well. He wiio would like to lill a good place, should prepare himself for rim work of that narticularplace. The place is already waiting lor" him; ami lie is wanted iu it even more than he wulltd it. To 1>akk Chicken.?Dismember the joints in the same manner as for stewing; lay the pieces in a shallow dish, and pour over the meat sweet ercam in proportion of one-hall' cup to each chicken; season to taste. JJaste occasionally wilh the liquor for met! by the cream and the juice of the meat, and as fast as the pieces get browned turn them. You can astound yourself by keeping a census of the liner, more promising boys in any town, ami watching their progress for twenty years. You will lind the waste enormous. It is the misery of mothers, the death of fathers, and the degradation of the hu - w. 1JJUI1 I act'. >> f na>c gunimucu in v/v?* customs the deliberate degradation of our human nature. Our Sabbath-schools, instead of being llower-pots for a few choice children, should gather up the perishing rabble outside. Too many of our Sabbath-schools pride themselves on begi It-edged. When you do not possess any money, never mind. This is philosophy. Hurry around and earn some. This is common sense. SCHOOLS. ;M Pretty is That Pretty Does. * The spider wears a plain brown dress, And she Is a steady spinner: To see her, quiet a? a mouse Going about her silvery house, You would never, never, never guess The way she gets her dinner. She looks as If no thought of ill In all her lite bad stirred her: But while she moves with careful tread, And while she spins her silken thread, She Is planning, planning, planning still, The way to do some murder! >( My child, who reads this simple lay with eyes down-dropt and tender, Remember the old proverb says ' That pretty is, which pretty does, * And that worth does not go nor stay For poverty nor splendor. , ::-y? cjaj 'Tls not the house, and not the dress x ^ That makes the saint or sinner, To see the spider sit and spin Shut with her web of sliver In, ( You would never, never, never guess The way she gets her dinner! Why He Chose Ralph. "That Ralph Risley was always a W- 'S';.; lucky dog!" said Walter, savagely. "There's no reason in the world why I shouldn't have got that place, as well as he?I can't understand it." The two boys had applied for a desirable situation, and Ralph had been the favored one. As the gentleman who engaged him was a friend of mine, I had enough curiosity to go to .. ry him and say: "Will you tell me why you chose Ralph Risley instead of Walter Garrett for that vacant situation ?" "Certainly," said he at once. "I T ~ 1 1J I 1 1-J 1 cuiiiess i suuuiu uave ueeu puzzieu iu choose between tbem but for one thing. for they are both fine fellows, of good family, good scholarship, and good habits; but I spent an evening at Mr. Garrett's not long since, and soon after I came in Mrs. Garrett said : 44 'Walter, we shall need more coal for the grate soon?you'd better get it now.' 44 ' Yes'm,' said Walter; but went on reading, and never stirred. "In about half an hour the last of the coal was used. 44 'Walter,' said his father, why don't you fill thd scuttle, as your mother told you ? s ' i'A-fl 44 'I will, in a minute?just want to finish this page,' he returned, hurried"Our conversation continued, Wal- _? v ter's reading continued, and the fire burned low. " 'Walter,' said his mother, sharply, ' -. ptjj 'get some coal, this minute.' "With an angry frown, he slowly. rose, reading all this time, laid his book on the table, still open, and loitered by it until another sharp 'Walter!' from his father at length started Dim. ?? "A week later Mrs. Risley and Ralph were at our home for a call. He had just become wonderfully interested iu the bean-bag game with my girls, when his mother arose and said, 'Come, ray son, I am sorry to hurry you, but I don't like to leave the children any louger, Kate is so careless.' "Instantly Ralph's bean-bag was dropped, and with an 'All right, mother, if the girls will excuse me,' he stood cheerfully ready at her side. We merchants know that 'straws show which way the wind blows,' and learn to be quick at observing. Nothing annoys us like a laggard, and nothing makes business relations so pleasant and satisfactory as courteous treatment on one side, and prompt, cheerful obedience on the other. I knew Ralph would suit me, and I haven't been disappointed."? Fannie E. Newberry. The Troth. Tlie boy who sees bis father adulterate bis goods, and arrange his best fruit upon the top of the box, is taught object lessons he doesn't forget. The following incidents were recentlytold: "Come," said a certain mother to .* her little boy; "take this; take this; it is something good." The child was evidently suspicious ; but after many earnest assurances on the part of his mother, he took the medicine. It was extremely bitter; and. rejecting it at once, he raised his .% young voice in angry reproaches against his mother for telling him . sucn a ne. "No, my dear," said she; "I have .,c3 told you no lie. The medicine is good; it is good to cure you. Tbat is what I meant." "Good to cure me!" caied he, with a look of perfect contempt. "You cheated me. You know you did." Yes, he was right; and by that act she lost the confidence of her little 3 boy. A little girl, bearing her mother say to tbe clerk, after sbe bad taken samples (for her crazy quilt) from several pieces of goods, that she would call in tbe afternoon and make some purchases, said: "Mamma, you said that at all the other stores." Actual lessons like these do farmore to fix moral character than all the perfunctory preaching and advising possible from September to July. A child cannot be more certainly corrupted Hinn hv hearimr erood advice and see ing a bad exemplification of it. Preaching is easy; it's the practicing that tells. wj ? m ? In a sermon in Pittsburg, Pa., Eev. Mr. Moody said: "A Sunday-school teacher tried to illustrate the free grace of salvation by offering his watch to the members of his class. They each one refused it until he came to the smallest boy. He took it and put it in his pocket. 'Thank you, my boy,' he said ; 'You have shown that you have faith in me. Keep it and take care of ? it.' The other boys were surprised, and, too late, weresorry they bad not taken the freely offered gift. They Knlinva flini ?Mint W!1U tllA troll j hie."' John Wesley was an eminent instance of total abstinence from strong drink promoting health and oomfort, and better enabling people to go through labor and toil without than with it. There never was a man that throughout a long life worked harder with body and mind than he did. No beer nor wine-drinking preacher in i Kngland ever preached so many ser mons or travelled so many miles as : this water-drinking man of God did. When you have many tasks to accomplish don't try to attack them all at once. Do one at a time, quietly and as well as you can, and with a little patience you will get through them a"- ^ ? The more we fear God, *ne less shall i we fear man. - " i