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w.. ' ' ' ... - . ;v'' " 'VCi' * ' ' .1 ' ' - ;. - "v v;'. f ' $?: . . The Abbeville Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1887. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 49. | Christian Neighbor. BY REV. SHU II. BROWNE, Of the Koutli Carolina Conference* Flattery. Why should not editors?editors of religious journals in particular?oftener make extracts from the Bible? Such reading would, at the least, be appropriate and instructive as much that is found in religions journals, and as news, nottiing would be more strange and new to many newspaper readers than extracts from the Book of books. And not a few learned editors might occasionally stumble on passages of scripture which would be new even to them, and profitable as will. Compliments.?It would make mighty interesting reading if the editorial compliments sometimes published in religious papers could bo printed in parallel colums with the private opinions expressed b3f the editors on the same subject. If those who peruse complimentary allu 1 SllJIlJS Ullll IIUUUV tlllllCW IMIIUO"! Will mendation. could know just what the editor believed in his own heart, or what he expressed with his lips among his intimate friends, it would be a sudden revelation to some of the "able speakers," "eloquent pastors," successful ministers" and "beloved brethren" whose names appear before the public in connection with complimentary tributes. It has doubtless been noticed by careful readers that in reporting matters of public interest, the "eloquent," "able," successful," "beloved," and "highly esteemed" brethren are not necessarily those possessed of the greatest ability, or the most extended usefulness, but "they are those who can be relied upon to stand by the persons who compliment them on all occasions; vote as they say, and be ready to follow their leaders, without much regard to which way they go or where they stop.?The Christian. To the above extract we append the following passages from the Bible: lie that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. Psa. xv:2. Deliver my soul, 0 Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. Psa. cxx:2. Lie not against the truth. James iii:14. They flatter with their tongues. Psa. vi:9. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their month, and they lied unto him with their tongues. Psa. Ixxviii:30. A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his fcot, Proy. xxix: 5. Let me not, I pray yon, accept any man's person; neither let me give flattering titles unto man. Fori know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my Maker would soon take me away. Proverbs xxxii:21, 22. Sfoffor*. Only ill-trained youths, the ignorant, and the wilful unbeliever will scoff at Christianity, especially in the presence of those who profess to accept it as the guide of their lives. The ill-trained youth is ordinarily filled with egotism, scoffing very often for the reason that to walk in the "old paths," would arguo him too like to other men?he will not claim sufficient interest at the hands of anxious friends unless he affects the unbelief he is too shallow to more than half comprehend. Doubts that restrain one from assuming obligations to live honestly, conscientiously, and, if need be, self-denyingly, are doubts born of an evil heart rather than of an unbelieving head. Of the man who is truly ignorant of the high claims of Christianity, who has never known anything better than a perfunctory profession of it by those about him?for this man to be a scoffer is something we can but expect. He sins against the smallest degree of light, knows little or nothing at all of real Christianity, and we can scarcely feel wonder that he scoffs at obviously pretentious professions. The wilfully unbelieving inan, he who refuses to see the beauty of lives which are governed by the high principles of Christianity, who defiantly closes his ears to every appeal to his better nature; this man cannot fail to be a scoffer at the truths ho ignores yet fears. That dread cloud, the end of life, gives warning of a certainly coming storm, yet, fearing and hating the thought, the man madly refuses to attend, and scoffs when he should pray. Too often when some bad act is report? -* ~linrvwl thof ia All ? til! UiCSC 3UUitem ^?mi nay, auu biinv i? vu< Christian friend X. I thought I knew him." This remark made in tho hearing of those who aro Christians is an insult to their profession, an insult deserving of sharp and immediate rebuke?a request that the speaker shall repeat the words only in the hearing of those who have as little respect for religion as he himself. These scoffers, the young, the ignorant, and the wilful unbeliever, need sharp treatment'-a Sam Jones to prepare the way for the great Healer. Rev. (?. Pierce Watson, Winnsboro charge, was present in worship at Concord last Sabbath. He is taking a few days of needed and deserved rest, having been continuously at work every day since the Annual Conference. He has consented to preacn, wiuio resun};, ai v uncord next Sabbath?5th?in the morning, and at Leesyille at night. At tlie recent municipal cloctlon in the town of Leesville, S. C., D. N. liodio was re-elected Intendant, and J. S. Derrick, John J. Kliealoy, T. M. Derrick and J. A. Sease were re-elected Wardens?all of them having served tlio year preceding the election. The meeting of the Holiness Association at Newberry, S. C., is now running A 1 ,_1% *1 ,a lon/in/1 Willi Tlll]f*ll in UlIWUL'U Hit .icvvuu " ?V? ...... ... terest. A secular papor, writing of the theatre, says: "The theatre has been tho great demoralizer of our young [women ; nearly all tho pieces turn upon some rottenness, deceit, or intrigue^ The French pieces are all of that class, and uiost of the English pieces are based on the French. These girls sit there by young men feasting on unhealthy details, amours, and exchanges of love, and they go to rich, late suppers. The final results are best seen in our divorce courts." > _ i.'aat&Fzrvrg<r WMtC Private and Public "Wrongs. BY MARY KLI/.AISKTH IJLAKK, OK BOSTON What won hi we think of private dUIieul ties settled upon the same principal ? Oik man thinks another lias wronged him ii violating the terms of an agreement, ii marking the boundaries of his domain, ii maligning him before his fellows, in cheating him of his just dues, in interfering in any way with his rights of property or person. Does he resort to fisticuffs or revolvers ? Does he institute a siege ol his neighbor's premisos, or attempt the abduction of his neighbor's person, or rijiht himself in turn by the larceny of his neighbor's purse? No, for the sentiment of the world denies that any such measure is proper or adequate for the balancing of right or wrong. So far from having in any way assisted efforts of justice or vindicated his cause, the second man, no matter how just his complaint, or how arbitrary the injury under which he suffered*, would have laid himself liable to punishment and loss of personal liberty, in the interest of society and the State. Ho\t then can the State ignore for herself the argument which she so wisely and losiically applies to the separated interest of her sons ? Can she allow that specious reasoning which makes the greater evil less vicious than the smaller; and which grades the judgement upon guilt in inverse proportion to its magnitude ? That would be giving point to the sneer which dubs the impoverished stealer of a dollar a thief, while the wealthy thief of thousands is only a respectable defaulter. That would be ordaining the gallows as the penalty for one life taken in a street brawl, and showering honor and glory as reward for battlefields gory with heaps of slain, and pallid with dying lips crying to heaven in agony. Alas! and alas ! Is llOb MllSJUSb tlUlb WW tUO uuui^? we must continue to do if we close our eyes to this lurid and hideous cloud which still hides from us the sun of righteousness and the gospel of the Prince of Peace ? The D ork of an Editor. A large part of the labor of tho editorial office is to collect and prepare news, and to select from manuscript contributions and the literature of the day what it is supposed will be interestmg and profitable to the readers. It is not the duty of the editor to express an opinion one every topic demanding public attention; but to keep his readers well-informed in regard current questions, and to encourage them to form impartial judgments. Least of all is it the dutvofa responsible journal to keep silence on those questions which his readers may not see in the same light that he does. Indeed it is the first duty of journalism of the higher kind to keep itsplf frnm narti sail shin of everv kind. Therefore, it is frequently called upon to express opinions contrary to those entertained by a large number of the majority of the readers. The points of differences are commonly on a few questions only, and generally on those which are apt to be decided by impulse and feeling. A few readers pass hasty judgment upon the editor and condemn, and sometimes express their indignation freely, without considering that they are as apt to be mistaken as the editor who makes no profession of infallibility. The question should be rather. Is he honest in forming his opinions; is lie under the influence of personal or selfish considerations? It is probable that he has a moro independent position, and has 110 other ambition than to render the highest possible service to 1- 1 .1 1 A Dying: Nownirf. A few days before Dr. McFerrin died, he called his son-in-law, the presiding elder of Murfreesboro district, to his bedside to receive a last message to the Tennessee Conference. He said: "Tell them to hold fast to onr articles of belief, justification by faith, the witness of the Spirit and holiness of heart and life. Tell them I forgive all who may have injured me at any time, and I ask forgiveness if at any time I have wounded a brother. Evil may have followed where evil was not intonded; if so, I ask forgiveness. I lovo the Tennessee Conference. I die in poace with them and all men, and in the laith of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the love of God and in expectation of eternal life. Again; tell the brethren I love every one of them." To his son who has charge of a circuit twenty miles away, and had been summoned to see him die, he said : "My son, I feel better, and you had better return and fill your appointment to-morrow. If, while you are away, John, I should slipj off, you know where to find me." The Supreme Court. TllTUlU U'll* A* CCC'O* The plan of making up the Supreme Court of the State and increasing it suggested by the Anderson Intelligencer and published in this paper meets our approval, and is the same in effect as the idea I we had in mind some time ago and suggested in this paper a few issues back. We do not agree exactly with the Intelligencer, but the general idea is a good one and we hope to see action taken in the way suggested by the proper authorities. We think the Court of Errors suggested, and consisting of all the circuit Judges a good plan, only we think it should meet oflener than once in two vears; say once in every year. We think it should meet this often for the benefit of litigants, so that their cases would not be always in court. A number of gentlemen?about 500? living in Washington City recently conspired to evade the Sunday law. Immediately after "the first dry Sunday" they organized a club, and selected as their place of meeting the dining-room of an establishment in which liquors are sold, a caterer being selected from among tho employes of the house. The matter was brought to tho attention of tho Police Court and the evidence showed that li3uors had been furnished freely on Sunavs to members of the club. "The judge took tho view that it was an attempt to evaue uie law, aim imposed a ime 01 on the caterer. The opinion of the judge) is good, hut liis sentence is feeble. lie is miphtv in word, but weak in deed. He should have fined the members of the club as conspirators against the law, and t'ie caterer should have been punished more severely. The conspiracy of intelligent men to break the laws of the country is the worst form of crime, in that it evinces deliberation and deep design. Henry Ward Bcecher's family phvsi rian, who writes a line article 011 his patient's "personality" for the North A merican Review, says that lieecher's memory in some respects was phenomenally deficient. Phrases, sentences, isolated terms, dates, items, wore absolutely forgotten as soon as heard. The only thing of this sort that he could recall was the list of Latin prepositions that govern the ablative case. Not a couplet of any hymn though sung in his car and by his tongue for a lifetime, not a passage of scripture, not a scrap from the most celebrated authors, could he quote with even a probability of accuracy. Doubtless this was at least one of the reasons for his most wonderful versatility of expression. One may read his sermons and prayers, and though his ideas may be and are repeated, n?n oluiovc ^Inthnfl nfrP.yh nnf cot. UlUtY flic (11 ??J" V...V..VW ? 1 ..w ./wv phrases, no quotations aro to be found. Lady Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde and wife of Sir William Wilde, who is known all over Ireland as "Speranza," tho natne over which she wrote revolutionarj' poems during the Young Ireland rebellion in 1848, is in absolute want in London. For six years she has not received a penny of rent, owing to the land war, yet she would not censent to a single eviction on her estate. COMMONS. ' The Lesson of the Trees. 1 BY SUSAN COOJ.IDGK. i 1 praised the pine-tree on the hill Because so valiantlyit crows, And keeps its green, and does not quail Before the augr.v winter gale, P Before the smlthig of the snows. . The pine-tree bowed its stately head,? It knew its worth, and was content; But from the larch-tree and the oak ' iMethonjiht complaining voices spoke, Heproaeliful eyes 011 me were bent. "We too arc crave.-' iney seemeu 10 suy; "It is not cowardice or fear Which makes us drop our sheltering veils, i And bear our branches to the Kales, When the dread winter draws atiear. "We but obey the Inner law i Which every tree, and every flower, And every humblest herb obeys;? The law which standeth sure always. And is the world's prevailing power. "The pine-tree yields obedience meet In holding fast his vesture so, As we by yielding up our green, To be renewed with brighter sheen Than ever his tough needles know. "Each hears the voice and the command. And each, in his own several way, Renders the rightful homage due.? The homage of obedience: you, Who preach to us, do you obey ?" So I, who praised the strong green pine, Now praised the bare trees of the wood; For each in turn, as I in mine, Is led and taught by law Divine, And in obedience flnds best good. Be Polite to Your Children. Tim nthpr v wa nverhenrd a pen tlemnn telling his grown sou how on the preceding Sabbath he had found the hymn in the book and handed it to his daughter. He remarked: "She flushed as she took it, and was immensely set up. I do not think I ever found the place for her before." She always had been to him a little girl, but her evident pleasure and pride in his attention opened his eyes. Romp and tumble with your children as you will, treat them as babies, or the girls as tom-boys, but please remember that "there is a time for all things," and when you are with the child before strangers, a formal introduction of "Miss Mablc," with all due regard to the little lady's dignity, will make a warmer place in her heart than most people can imagine. Papa and mamma are to her the wisest and thje best beings on the earth. There is also a little woman growing in the child's J win ,.f .??! !? oil tlio wnmnn'u ilurnitv and sensitiveness, and when mamma and papa treat her in public with respect and consideration, be sure she will repay you in her graceful acceptance of the honor. In the street, or the restaurant, coming home from church, or at the social gathering, wherever you take the child, polite attentions shown, in the same way that they are shown to older persons, tend to make the child love and respect both father and mother, and while they satisfy the natural craving for such things,' they prevent precocious seeking after them from those outside of the family. If the father is extremely careful in such matters, and transgresses in no way, when taking the daughter to church, be quite certain that no boys win pay ner attention umess iney me fully up to the father's standard of etiquette. If the father at church, social gathering, or place of business is obliged to leave the child for a while, and says, "Please excuse me, I will come in for you," etc., he may be perfectly certain that when later in life a young gentleman escorts her, she will demand quite as much politeness and consideration of him. If one wishes to study the effect of politeness to girls, they can easily try it when opportunity offers, by handing a plate of refreshments, or a glass of water, to some child of their acquaintance with the same little deferential bow, or the same form of words that would have been employed in serving the bell of the evening. If the child has not been treated too much like a baby, and made to feel that children do not belong in any way to "grown-up" people, there will be a very decided flush of pleasure, and the little one will beam on you and warm to your conversation in a charming way. Above all things do not snub your daughters in public. If, when yoti introduce them to some stranger or friend, the child ventures to say a word or two of the commonplace remarks usual at such times, do not express any disapprobation. When there is an opportunity to take the child out coasting, to ride to the village, to go down town in the street cars, or to go out on any of the errands where the girl may go with the father, change the ordinary form of invitation. Instead of telling the child to "Get ready," or saying, "You * ? i?T 1 ,11 can go, it you wisn," say, 1 wouiu ue pleased to have you walk down town with me." In fact, as nearly as may be, use the form of invitation which would be given to an intimate lady. I shall never forget the pleased, womanly satisfaction that I have seen come over a child's face when some thoughtful friend has given such an invitation. It reminds me of the look I have sometimes seen when I have lifted my hat to a little lady-<ui_the street. In many respects a father can make his daughters. He can certainly form their tastes, and decide in advance what kind of men they will prefer to associate with. If he neglects them, they may have wild ideas of what should be the external qualities of the men with whom they come in contact. Mothers may do even more for the sons than the fathers can for the daughters. Of a "mother's influence" I do not speak, but merely of her power in moulding the manners and social habits of the coming man. While the religious and moral influence of the father and mother are of paramount importance, the moulding of the external man can not be neglected by parents without injury to the child. Personal and domestic tidiness are receiving constant praises. It is said of the man whose dress is habitually seedy that he lacks some manly quality, and the house which is topsy-turvey is pointed to as proof that the lady who presides in it is inefficient. There is a spiritual tidiness that needs looking after, and alas! how many Christians fail to care for it. 'I don't see how you get so much news into your paper," said the village clergyman to the village editor "seeing that you have no local reporter." "Oh ! that's easily explained," replied the editor. ,lMy wife belongs to three sewing societies in the vil" lage, and she has a most excellent memory." Christ's (iiicsts. Hospitable households arc thought by their friends and neighbors to do all that could possibly be required ol thein in the way of entertaining. This may be very true, and they themselves may say, "Nobody can tell me anything on that point;" but perhaps I could give a suggestion. Run your eye over the list of people who have stayed under your roof, for more or fewer days, during the lust. yeur. Have they not been for your amusement, becaiise they were congenial companions? They, perhaps, were people accustomed to move about from place to place, and be feted. For them your house and entertainment was very pleasant, but was just like what they were entirely in the habit of seeing in their many wanderings. You enjoyed them, no doubt, and may have had your host-heart quickened by their expressed appreciation of you and your belongings, and also may have been flattered by the attention they created in your neighborhood. My guests may not shed luster on your name, but you will delight them immeasurably more than any of these fine guests. Now make another list of your poor, forlorn, disappointed, discouraged acquaintances. Choose among them one or two, and ask them to pay you a visit. Let me imagine one of them may be a teacher, who has taught squirming children all last winter, u.nd perhaps the winter before, with no break in the everv-day life, being able to say the Monday of one week what she should be doing at that hour the next Monday. She is too poor to pay * U/<r* W/-3 A 4" 4-U A I lue cut line unu uuaiu ui> mc oiiiipi^u place for a vacation of only a week or two. How her face would light up and glow when your letter dropped in her lap! This would be the first expression, and then there would flit a shadow across that beaming smile: "O she is accustomed to entertain grand, finely dressed people that poor me will not be good enough for her. But I'll try it." Now, my friend, do not disappoint her. but treat her kindly, very kindly, and trouble yourself to amuse her. You may have many ticklish social questions to arrange, but always try to save her feelings. If you bring her to your house to be slighted she will find no rest. If this particular one on your list does not please you, try one of the others. A rich old maid friend, who is deaf and helpless, and very queer, who has a tender heart, but hidden under so many speeches that no one lias ever tried to nnu u. airing uer, and see if your merry house and kind ways cannot soften her. Then you may have a delicate little country cousin to whom a change would be of benefit. If anybody wants to try ray plan she will find her mind full of applicants for hospitality. Perhaps you may say, "My house is too lonely, and quief., and sad, to be of service to any one." This very quiet might be a paradise to some woman who has constantly the care of her many children on her mind. As she talked of the garments to be made and mended, of the hurt feelings and hurt bodies, of the ever present burden of responsibility, you, lonely and wearied, might have your eyes opened to see that, after all, your lot was not the very worst, thus finding that both were helped to go on very cheerfully with life's burdens and difficulties. This Christ-like giving of pleasure to those who cannot give in return will be most warmly smiled on by Him who saith: "Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me:" By your trying this scheme others might be led to see that they too could brighten hours in dark and lonely lives. Yours thus will be a doubie benefit. How Tom Gained and Passed Her. Miss C was born only two years earlier than her brother Tom. When Tom was 10 years old she gloried because she was 12; when Tom was known to be 14 she confessed to sweet 16; when Tom proudly boasted of IS she timidly acknowledged herself past 19; when Tom came home from college with a moustache and a vote and had a party in honor of his A A _ . ^5? ?A. 1.: ? A I- J .. .. nl*A onirl f A lini? I iweiiiy-nrsc uiruiimj sue ?.?# friends: "What u boyish fellow he is, who would think he was only a year younger than I ?" When Tom declared he was 25 and old enough to get married she said to a gentleman friend : "Do you know, I feel savagely jealous to think of Tom getting married. But then I suppose twins are always more attached to each other than brothers and sisters." And two years later at Tom's wedding she said with girlish vivacity to the wedding guests: "Dear old Tom, to see him married to-night and then how when he was only 5 years old they brought him in to see me his only sister. I wonder if he thinks of it to-night?" Harmony at Home. I. We may be quite sure that our will is likely to be crossed during the , day ; so let ys prepare for it. li.""Every person in the house has an j evil nature as well as ourselves, and ( therefore we must not expect too , much. 3. Look upon each member of the ( family as one for whom Christ died. 4. When inclined to give an angry ] answer, let us lift up the heart in pray- j er. 5. If from sickness, pain, or infirm- , ity, we feel irritable, let us keep a very J strict watch over ourselves. 0. Observe when others are suffering | and drop a word of kindness. 7. Watch for little opportunities of | pleasing, and put little annoyances , out of the way. 8. Take a cheerful view of everything, and encourage hope. !). Speak kindly to dependents and servants, and praise them when you | 10. In all little pleasures which may ! occur, put self last. 11. Try for the soft answer that ( turneth away wrath. The certainty with which sin will ' be visited with its punishment, and { the exercise of mercy are the two un- 1 derlying principles of God's dealings ' with man. The Bible does not in any of its accounts of the results of sinfulness, give the least ground forconclud- ] ing that the sinner, who is unrepent- ' ant, will in any way escape the just i punishment of his wrong doing. ' No man can be really influential < who cannot listen as well as talk. Experience teaches that all people have ! something in them worth attending to. ] HOUSEMAND FARM. Stale Itrcnd. A great (leal of bread is thrown away by those who can ill afford it, from lack of knowledge how to utilize it. On the farm, in most instances, of course, stale bread is not wholly lost, for if wet a little it makes good food for the poultry, or may be given to pigs, but this is not the best way to make use of it even by those who have poultry and pigs. There are many wuvk to ntilizA sfnlp ln-onrl ff mnlcr>? delicious griddle-cakes when soaked in cold water. Three small slices with water enough to cover them should be sufficient, when the milk and flourare added, to make two quarts of batter. Some prefer to put in one egg, while others like them fully as well without. When the bread is soaked soft, make it flue with a spoon, add the milk and sufficient flour to stiffen enough so that the cakes can be easier turned. If sour milk, is used add to the batter one even tablespoonful of soda. If you do not use sour milk use twice as much cream of tartar as soda. French toast, always a favorite dish with children , can be made of thin slices cut trom a stale loaf and moistened in milk and eggs?two eggs to a pint of milk?and then fried 011 a griddle with a mixture of butter and lard or butter nnr? lionf fir inn intra smii mftv hp fatpn " o-l ?- J ? with sugar or syrup, like griddlecakes. Pieces of bread which are not too hard can be made into a resemblance of turkey dressing. Cut the bread into dice, and if you have a quantity of gravy from which fat can be taken, left from any kind of roastthough a piecc of butter will do as well ?thoroughly grease the bottom of a spider, putin the bread, with some iittle chunks of butter and plenty of seasoning; then pour enough boiling water on to moisten it, cover tightly, and, in a moment, it will steam through and you can stir it, and either brown a little or have it most like dressing. It should be eaten with gravy over it, and is a good substitute for potatoes. Tlie little dry, hard pieces and crusts which always accumulate can be pi^. on a pie-tin in an oven that is hot enough to dry ahd make them a light brown, then roll them fine and ??'? -""ft" ^ nt.A Jn mnlrinw nrr\rt noffnc jJUb ??wetjr IV/ uoc in luanutg viv^uvvwu, frying fish, etc. Even these slightly browned crumbs make excellent griddle cakes with the addition of one egg and a handful of flour and milk to a batter. Stale bread may be utilized in making a custard pudding also. The fact is, that where economy is the rule bread will not be thrown away. rrescrving a Stair Carpet. A quaint lesson in economy was given by an English woman of wealth and position to an American friend. It related to the method of preserving a stair carpet. To maintain the elegant oarpet in its entirety as long as possible the owner said that she and the lord of the mansion had agreed to traverse certain routes on the stair carpet, the one to keep always to the right in goingupand down, and the other 1L- rttiNr iiniin tho Inft hnurl sidfwif the carpet. It was expected that company would keep exclusively to the centre of the stairway, and that as a result of the arrangement the stair carpet would grow old with equal rapidity in all its parts. How to Keep Brushes Clean. The best way in which to clean hairbrushes is with spirits of ammonia, as its effect is immediate. No rubbing is required, and cold water can be used just as successfully as warm. Take a teaspoonful of ammonia to a quart of water, dip the hair part of the brush without wetting the ivory, and in a moment the grease is removed; then rinse in cold water, shake well, and dry in the air, but not in the sun. Soda and soap soften the bristles and invariably turn the ivory yellow. A Practical Religion. We want a religion that softens the step and tunes the voice to melody, and checks the impatient exclamation and harsh rebuke; a religion that is polite, courteous to inferiors, and considerate to friends; a religion that goes into the familv and keeps the husband from being cross when the dinner is late, and keeps the wife from fretting when the husband tracks the newly washed floor with his muddy boots, and makes * lie husband mindful of the scraper and the door-mat; keeps the mother patient when the baby isi fretful, and amuses the children as well as instructs them; cares for the servant besides paying them promptly; projects the honey-moon into the harvest-moon, and makes the happy home like the Eastern fig-tree, bearing in its bosom at once the beauty of its tender blossoms, and the glory of the ripened fruit. "Hold Fast tiik Foior of Sound Wf.nna "?a verv worthv conscien tious Friend of New York Meeting and a Minister of the Society, formerly (lid not fee! easy in making use of the word "inclement," as applicable to the weather, or in hearing it so used, and he had his reasons therefor. Tt is derived from the Latin word Inplemens?lnclementis?the literal meaning of which is, ungentle, unkind, merciless, pitiless. Should this be applied to what cometh from the Lord's hand, who is full of tender love mil compassion ? "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand." There are those" now who liave the same scruples aud think the word not comely as so applied. Attention has been directed by seeing it used in account of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Negligence is one of the worst forms Df Christian deli?(]uency. Many persons who could not be persuaded to do i bad thing win negieci to no gooci ines that wait for them, and thus let :h<.' evil ones have their way. They are it ease in Zion. Nothing stirs them to systematic and sustained effort. Corns.?Soft corns can be cured by this corn-salve: Boil tobacco down to m extract, then mix with it a quantity of white pitch pine, and apply it to ;iie corn, renewing it once a week un ,11 tile uom uisufj pears. Oilcloths should never be washed in liot soap-suds; they should first be wiisibed clean with cold water, then rubbed dry with a cloth wet in milk. The same treatment applies to a stove ar slate hearth. To Clean Furniture?One pint linseed oil, one pint vinegar, one-half pint alcohol. What Others Say. [Baptist Weekly.] Levity on Leaving Church.? An earnest writer says: "I do not warn you against cheerfulness. It is pleasant to see the faces of God's peo. pie beaming with the secret refreshments of the spirit, or reflecting the glories which shine between the cherubim. But this sacred rejoicing is no more like levity than the clear diffused light of the morning is like the flash of shaken t.insel. Cheerfulness is the genial warmth of the Sun of Righteousness. levitv is the cracklintr of thorns under a pot. One i.s the voice of rejoicing which becometh the Tabernacles of the righteous; the other is the laughter of fools, fit only for the tents of wickedness. Cheerfulness can mingle with solemnity just as the clear heavens may be solemn with night, yet cheerful with stars." Thif distinction, so clearly and beautifully drawn, isjust, it holds true under all circumstances, but never needs to he more carefully recognized than at the close of public worship. People should not go from church services with dismally pious looks, speaking to one anothefin sepulchral tones. This always savors of hypocrisy and is abhorrent alike to God and man ; but we hold that levity in the aisles and jesting in the vestibule and mirthful conversation on the way home is neither decorous nor consistent. [Charles F. Deems, D. D.] Man Has Double Capacity.? The fact is, that man has in himself the double capacity of believing on proof, and of belieyiusr above proof. Faith and Reason climb the ladder hand in hand until the topmost standnoint of the visible is reached, and there Eeason pauses, but Faith goes on?goes on and goes up, not treading vacuity, but planting its footsteps on the rungs of a ladder invisible indeed, but just as existent and as strong as any thing which appears to sight. Reason cries out to Faith, "Come down : you are in the region of superstition !" It is true there is something which stands aboveour reason; there is something the existence of which can no more be made manifest to reason than the non-luminous rays of heat or the actinic solar rays can be made perceptible to the optic uerve. (8. S. IHmes.) There is a great deal of spurious modesty in the world which is simply cowardice. When a man shrinks frnm nf>r>pntintr n. wpll-mpritpd bnrmr. that is modesty; when be skirks the performance of a recognized duty, that is cowardice, though he may call it a modest distrust of his own powers. True modesty shrinks from the reward of work well done; false modesty shrinks from the work itself. This affords an excellent test of true and false modesty in ourselves and others. Is it the honor that we shrink from ? or is it the responsibility ? (Pacific Methodist.) It is proposed, on the invitation of the trustees of that celebrated meeting house to erect in City Road Chapel, London, a memorial window to Bishop Simpson. All America loved and honored Bishop Simpson, but it ought to have occurred to these trustees that he was the Bishop of only one Methodism. Asbury's name was indeed suggested, but it was rejected because he was an Englishman. Why could it not have been McKendree? (Cumberland Presbyterian) No man has reached that state of grace which he ought to reach as long as he feels uncomfortable while the contribution-box is passing. ]f you find vourself complaining because there are so many calls in the Church for money, you have reason to fear there is something wrong with your religion. If giving is a painful thing to you, you are not like Christ, for he said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." John Ruskin, Boston Ruskin Club: "Our chief folly and sin on this side of the Atlantic is spending all our na-, tional subsistence in war machinery, and the only general advice for either side of the Atlantic which I can bring within the compass of a letter is that everybody should mind his own business and leave the guardianship of wealth and life to God." We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when tlie sun went down, is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. He who is false to present, duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. O God! how beautiful the thought, How merciful the bless'd decree. That Grace ean e'er be found, when sought. And naught shut out the soul from Thee. The cell may cramp, the fetters gall. The flame may scorch, the rack may tear; But torture, stake, or prison-wall, Can beendured with faith and prayer. It is better to preach the truth without practicing it. than to preach evil in order to be consistent with one's evil doings. But the best way of all is to preach the truth, and to practice it also. None of us ought to be satisfied with any way short of the best. The man who doesn't get as mad and run as fast to get ins own cow our of liis neighbor's cornfield as lie does to get his neighbor'9 cow out of his own, hasn't got the answer to the golden rule. There is plenty of work to-day for all kinds of people, if they were not too proud to do it. It is difficult for some people to believe that anything is more honorable than idleness. A quiet life often makes itself felt in better ways than one that the world sees and applauds; and some of the noblest are never known till they end, 1 leaving a void in many hearts. What unthankfulness it is to forget our consolations, and to look only ] upon matters of grievance, to think so ' much upon two or three crosses as to ' forget a hundred blessings. No man, for any considerable peri- ( od, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without fin- y ally getting bewildered as to which j may bathe truer. "** * * tinf wifK a1/1 ? Jjet us Keep mc .?.w. j leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and \ truth. ] Christ of nil my hopes the ground, ' Christ ths spring of all my |oy: , Having known It "Christ to live," . 1 Let me know It "gain to die." J Now the best way to kill a fellow is with love, and then you don't have to i bury him, and his wife is not a widow, i SCHOOLS. Look to tlie End! "Well begun" mny bo "half done;" But beginning Is not ending; Great successes ne'er are won By only wishing and intending. "Start" is good, but "stay" is better, "Start" alone ne'er won a race; "Start and stick" is sure prize-getter, "Staying power" takes foremost place. Broad and deep lay the foundation, But be sure you count the cost; Or you'll rue, In deep vexation. Treasure spent and labor lost. Bold beqinner, mark Ills folly! Rash, or craven, coward wholly, ' He began, but could not finish! Polly Percy's Prize. . . j BY BERTHA H. BURNHAM. "If I were not trying to be a Christian," soliloquized little Miss Polly Percy. "I could try for that prize. On dear! I 'most wish I wasn't? N-no; I don't mean that, not exactly, butwell, it would be lovely if I could get that prize. I guess?yes, I think I will try for it. Any way, don't papa and mamma exnecf mo to hp thp vprv best scholar? If they were at home, they'd tell me to, I know, and of course I ought to obey. And that watch is the loveliest thing! I've wanted one for ages, and now?I declare I 'most wish that there wasn't any Kitty Lowe; for then I could try for that pr? Why! I didn't see you before, grandma." "You do not use your eyes to as good advantage as I do my ears," smiled Mrs. Percy. "But what is the trouble, my dear? Perhaps I can tell you what to do, as mother is not here to advise.. Well, Polly?" "It's a prize," began Polly, eagerly. "Mr. Roberts, one of the committee, has offered it, and be said?it's the very dearest little watch, grandma,? he said that if there were two best scholars the rest of the term, he would divide the money that the watcH Is worth between them, and if there was only one best scholar, he would give her either the money or the watch. I'd take the "watch, erandma.? wouldn't you?" "I see no reason why you should not try to win the watch, darling," said grandma; "that is, provided you are honest in your endeavors." "I didn't tell you the reason," ex plained Polly. "I?you see, Kitty and I are both best scholars; she is No. 1 one week, and I'm No. 1 the next. But she's dreadfully poor, grandma, and so I lend her my books, and we study together,?and?you see?if?we ?study together any more, we shall both have the prize,?and I don't want fifteen dollars, I want the watch,?and it will be selfish if I don't study witli her, and?" Grandma smiled sympathetically as Polly paused. "You know what you ought to do, Polly," she said ; "now tell me what you mill do." "I don't know." Polly confessed, shakinsr her head mournfnllv. "I don't want to be selfish, for it js horrid ; and besides, it doesn't please Jesus,?and I do want to please him. But 0 grandma! you know how much I want that watch! It's any quantity prettier than Caddy Hollandson'a eyer thought of being. Grandma, don't you suppose our Lord was ever selfish ?just the least bit, you know?when he was a little boy?" " 'Even Christ pleased not himself,' " quoted Mrs. Percy softly. "Well," sighed Polly, after a long silence,?"well, I rather guess, grandma, that I shall try to be willing for Kitty to win the prize. I know she will if I don't, because the other girls don't care about having good lessons ; and I wish you'd pray that I may be willing that she should have the whole prize, instead of only half." "That'smy brave girl!" said grandma, approvingly. Ever so many weeks after, Mr. Roberts handed scarlet-cheeked Kitty three bright gold eagles as the reward for her patient study. Then Miss Kidder, the teacher, said: "Polly Percy deserves honorable mention; had it not been for an unlucky spelling-lesson, in which she missed one word, she would be eutitled to half the < prize." And Kitty, her arms thrown about Polly's neck, whispered, "You are the loveliest girl! I know you missed 'elocution' on purpose that day, and I wish you hadn't.?only now I can buy lots of medicine for mamma, and shoes for Baby Bob." After all. Grandma's praise was * * T\nfllnr* t?nni*o ia fKo 7n nf ucot oyai in>^f j vuio 10 tuv pi j<jv */i the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.' " Two Little Girls. "Oh, dear, I so tired of doing things. "When I come down in the morning, mamma says: 'Have you brushed your teeth, dear?' And Aunt Annie says: 'Let me look at your nails, dear.' And Grandma says: 'I hope you haven't forgotten to learn your text.' "When I'm at school the teacher, is always telling me to do things. It is alway: 'Sit up straight,' 'Hold your pen so,' or something. And when I'm taking a music lesson professor keeps on saving: 'Ze wrist flexeeble? count, one, two, three?oui oui?zat is veil done.' I wish I didn't have to practice, and I wish I didn't have to t.t.wKr oiuu(y . "There's a little girl out in the street. She goes by almost every day wheeling that little old baby wagon. I guess the baby is her little sister. Dear me, T wish I was that little girl. I'd like to have nothing to do but wheel u baby wagon and go as slow as I like and have nobody to say, 'Hurry and sjet to your practicing, dear.' "I don't believe she has to dress for ilinner every day, andthat somebody looks to see if her hair is just right. And she don't have to be careful and keen her rulHes nice, for she hasn't got mv ruffles. She iust wears nil old iress, and T don't belieVe anybody ?ares if it gets dirty. And she don't lave to wear shoes and stockings. Dnce when I was at a pic-nic I had ny shoes and stockings ofF when we wanted to play in some water. And t's lovely to go barefooted. "Yes, indeed, I wish I could be that ittle girl. A little girl five years old, was told iy her teacher that the Mississippi River was the Father of Waters. 'How is tbat?" she queried, "if it is ;he Father of Waters it ought to be Mister-Sippi." The talent of success is nothing nore than doing what you can do well without a thought of fame.