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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1887. VOLUME XXXI. NO. 51.
Christian Neighbor.
BY KKV. SHU II. BROWXE,
or the Smith Carolina Conference*
OH" Tri|>?Abbeville. Anderson, Helton.
It is sometimes hard to get away from
home and after getting tangled up with
visited kin and friends it is not so very
easy to start on return trip. One is both
glad and sorry after a visit?glad to meet,
and sorrv to nart. The jov and sadness
of some visits is like the wise man said
of prosperity and adversity, one set over
against the other so that a man "finds
nothing after him" a balance.
Tuesday, May 24, I?rather "we" for
it's the editor going this time?started up
stream on dry land and on iron road,
(C. & (J. 11. R.) yet on a comfortable
seat, even a double seat, noticing
that others were enjoying the same
blessing. Under the then existing circumstances
this was not selfish, was it?
It would have been selfish in a crowded
car. We just now remember being in a
car many years ago crowded with preachers
going to Conference. It hail so happened
that a number of the preachers
had well tilled a certain seat and also the
space in front of it with their baggage.
By packing and piling high up brother V
made room enough to squeeze himself
in. It was a tight tit. Brother X, several
seats ahead, looking round and seeing
but one head in that seat, charged V
in the hearing of all aboard with being
selfish. V replied that he would exchange
place with X, but not judgment.
Learning the situation more fully X de
<*lined the offered exchange and made no
apology for his hasty speech. He was
and is, we doubt not, a good Christian
man. He only judged before the time.
Never saw crops cleaner, nor do I remember
ever to have known the seasons
more as the farmers would have them,
though they are rather puzzled to find '
words to suit the old chorus:
"Times as hard I did never see,
Its always 'haw' and never 'gee.' "
At Newberry Rev. McSwain Attaway
came aboard. Along the way I got better
acquainted with the little boy I knew
years ago. At Xinetv-Six Rev. W. S.
Wightman joined us and left us at '
Hodges where we took the "branch" to '<
Abbeville.
The two claims on and for tlie editor
were so arranged that I met both?first
with Editor Hugh Wilson to the Pres.*
and Banner office where almost every- <
thing necessary to a first-class printing
office is to be l'onnd, new and in order, i
utilized by a corps of clever printers who ;
do much work and make little fuss. Un- i
der the same roof'is a tastefully furnished
and neatly kept ''Bachelor's Hall." This .
room is also the editorial sanctum where
he culls out and hammers forth irom his
own level head the filling of his excellent
and mammoth weekly. The Boss i
and his employees made our coming in
and going out among them altogether i
pleasant. This with the kindness of the i
other claim shown us at the Station par- s
sonage?Brother and Sister Jackson? i
made our stay refreshing and seemingly
yerv short. <
Want of time made our calls at the of- <
fice of the Medium and at the office of i
Messenger necessarily short. Three pa- i
pel's in the venerable, wealthy and pro- i
gressive town of Abbeville. When I
first knew the place more than fifty
years ago, I think it had but one paper,
the Abbeville Whig, and if I remember
correctly its size was somewhat less than
the Neighbor. i
A visit to the families of our old friends
J. F. C. DuPre and Major Zeigler, and
specially to that venerable mother in Is- i
rael, Mrs. Dendy, revived memories
pleasant and sad. The call to see the i
young lady in her own otlice whose deft
fingers have no little to do in setting up
the "thousands" of ems that go into our
paper every week, afforded us pleasure, i
instruction and also confirmation of our
notions of girls learning to print.
Of our lecture on Peace in the Methodist
church Wednesday night (25th)
we have nothing to say, only we had an i
intelligent audience and in size beyond
what we had expected. <
The foregoing was written on the running
train. Doubt your ability to make
it out, Possibly it might help you to decipher
some things in the writing if you
were to take the train and read and guess
as you run. i
Thursday pulled away from attentive
kind friends in Abbeville and went to
Anderson, arriving in time to brush, al>lute,
and at 8.:>0 p. m., go to the "Church
1 ~
JU Lilt? > rtiiov auu givu ? icnptxiainc i
audience a plain talk on Peace?pastor
W. S. Wightman and others of the clergy
present. Some of the hearers looked
as though some "strange things had come
to their ears."
Saturday walked around and about
finding here and there one we knew forty
years ago, standing like a stalk the reapers
had failed to cut down. Felt something
like a stranger, though in my na- '
tive county. A call at the otlices of the J
Anderson Journal and the Anderson In-1
tellinenrrr made lis feel that we were not
a foreigner, though in our boyhood days!
there was no paper published in Anderson.
The Pendleton Messenger, F. \V. (
Symmes, Editor, was the only paper pub-1
lished, we think, in what is now the ter-1
ritory of Anderson, Pickens and Oconee |
counties.
Friday evening walked ten furlongs
west from the town and lodged with
nephew Evins Browne?was glad to
make a better acquaintance with his family
and Ids joint lady occupants of a ca-1
pacious and comfortable dwelling.
Miss Blanche, who knows how to liar- 1
ness a horse and hold the reins, gave her I
uncle a safe buggy ride into town Satur- j
day morning in time to visit two old time
acquaintances?ladies?before leaving for
Belton.
The Methodists, here as in Abbeville,
. havo a fine meeting house on the way to;
completion. Pastors Wightman, Ander-J
son?and Jackson, Abbeville?have tlieir j
bauds full, and are working carefully!
that nothing spill over. I
The number of one-horse wagons in
Abbeville, Anderson and Helton, and the
number of good looking horses, mostly
"bay," were signs of thrift?yet these
one-horse well-to-do citizens talked
"poor," and some of them tried to louk
poor?-just like some people who are really
poor and honest, and some others we
have met in other parts of the worldrich
but honest. Rich or poor, honesty
ami truth are the main qualities that
make a man to be "the noblest work of
God."
At Belton we fell to the custody of Bro.
A. C. Latimer, Pastor W. A. Betts also
there to enhanco the pleasures of a stay
with this kind household. Bro. Betts
with the aid of Rev. Mr. Munday (Baptist)
had a well attended protracted meeting)
going on in the Methodist church,
Bro. Munday doing the preaching. Results
not fully knowu.
In closing the exercises of the thriving
school Sunday morning, we gave all pres- :
ent a talk. At tlio close of the prosperous
Baptist school in the afternoon wo made
a talk on Peace to a well filled house of
verv attentive hearers. The churches in
Bclton (Baptist and Methodist) are growing
in fraternity.
With pastor Betts we dined Sunday !
with Bro. L. D. Harris. Were glad to
make the acquaintance of this estimable <
citizen and christian family. 1
After exercises and lecture at tho Bap- ]
tist school Sunday afternoon, friend Lati- '
mer wheeled us a good mile into the '
country where wo truly enjoyed the coveted
pleasureof abiding in peace with the j
entertaining family of our nephew, Wad- i
dy T. Browne. Strange it seeuied that <
wo should not before this trip have '
known the lovely young ladies and manly 1
boys that fondly called us "uncle."
Mondav with the working pastor, Dr ,
Betts, and Waddy we walked back to
town and called on a few families before j
the train came to carry us home.
Besides those named we met during the
trip other preachers here and there: Revs.
A. T. Dunlap, C. V. Barnes?a glimpse
only, as he turned the corner on his way
we reckoned to his circuit?Dr. Lander, W.
Ilutto, R. C. Oliver, H. J. Morgan, J.
L. Stokes, and probably some others. 1
Then wo had the pleasure of meeting also ^
Rev. Mr. Rico and one or two others of
the Baptist church. Here we call a halt
and in peace take a dry land route home, j
S. II. B.
Varying Hopes.
From infancy to the end of iife we
change in all things?our bodies, our ?
minds, our hearts. Our loves and ambi- s
tionschauee: our appreciation of things 1
about lis changes; the world itself pre- {
sents a new aspect with eacli successive ^
period of life, infancy, youth, manhood, (
ago. The babe soon discards its rubber
ring and rattle for a painted cart, aud c
that in turn for the more boyish sport of i
foot-ball, the latter giving place to canes, t
cravats, collars, and other toilet accesso- j
ries, these being succeeded by niaturer
ambitions, oftimes too worthless to claim (
i man's time. The infant whoso, "sunny c
skies are mother's eyes'' too soon tinds
the glance of boyish approval a thing to (
bo coveted and prized above that of the 3
[>ne whose world has heretofore been his
own. To the ambition to please in the (
eves of school friends succeeds a knowl- t
edge of the great world beyond, the men
that make it?the knowlcdgo that one f
l>An/wA/1 milliAnc nnnfliAr rlf?
spised by tlio same ten thousands, and 1
tbe ambition seizes the youth to be
known aud honored of this "world." In f
most instances the approval of parents s
and the real friends of home becomes a i
thing of no worth ; a mother's unstinted J
love createsher a prejudiced admirer; the
father's cooler judgment still leaves room
for favorable impressions, and sisterly
and brotherly pride are readily roused
by very small achievnients. In the first t
flush of success these things appear mere t
nothings to the "rising young man"? 1
or woman, perhaps. }
The human proneness to despise the 1
the thing always within reach?a some- ?
thing we are sure of ever commanding? j.
makes it 01 nine vaiue. me very ircedom
and certainty of a mother's love is,
to mean, puerile natures, a reason for
discounting it. The sterner reason of a
father appears mercilessly unjust in its
very justice, which is, perhaps, one
truth the youth grasps amid his many
wrong judgments, for we can l?e unjustly
just. But years pass by?the friends
nf l'ortuno aro scattered or indifferent
or hard to please. Then the unwavering
love of a mother comes to seem a thing
to be appreciated ; the sure justice of a
father appears very kindness; brotherly
and sisterly partiality dearer than the
last applause of the world which no long?
-- ?.i s
er cares ior us. uur Horizon i iiuukcu.
Wc have come again to the simplicity of
childish love, to the purity of first ambitions?in
these we grow again to be j
true to self?our best self?and hero we I
find once more the happiness of youth. '
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The Public Debt. 1
The last call of the Secretary of the ?
Treasury for the $18,000,000 threo per
cent, bonds outstanding for the first time t
in nearly a quarter of a century reduces s
the interest-bearing debt of the'Union be- >
low a billion dollars. Omitting reference t
to tho Pacific Railroad bonds, our interest- ^
bearing debt is now ?!?S7,'.M?7,500. Twen- .
ty-one years ago it was ?2,381,530,294. At
that time tho interest amounted to $150,000,000
a year. Now it amounts to $40,- 1
000,000. Then the debt was $78 per head 1
of population ; now it is but a littlo over 1
$20 each. Then the annual interest was i
$4.29 per capita ; now it is 08 cents. Now i
...? nouiio. .11 iOHI IIIUI mill 1
IIIK I'VI vJ i 1 I \J1A V-WV*"^ ? 1
and 4 per cent, on the remaining $7:57,- t
000,000. Then we were paying 7 .'MO per (
cent, on *830,000,000 and 0* per cent, on ?
$1,484,000,000. In 18:S0, we imported ,
goods the amount of ?62,000,000; in 1SS0,
$067,000,000.
"Public debt"?a debt saddled on mil- J
lions of innocent people by the folly of (
war. By the time this debt is paid
oil" a new crop of "patriots" may he eager
to have the confiding people with them- j
selves "braj-ed in the mortar"?judging J
from the signs of the military times.
Pushed.?Jefferson Davis has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address to the
literary societies to Randolph Macon College,
Va., at the approaching commence- |
meut. |j
C O M M ONS.
A Clergyman and Hie Peddler.
KATES.
A elergyman, who longed to trace
Amid his flock a work of firaec.
And mourned because lie knew not why
Your fleece kept wet while his was dry
NVhile thinking what lie could do more,
Heard someone rapping at the door,
And opening it there met his view
A dear old brother whom lie knew.
Who had got down by worldly blows
Vt'mm it-onlfh tr* ru'riilliner nnct-nff Hnt.lif*S.
"Come in, my brother," said 1 lie pastor,
"Perhaps my troubles you enn master,
For since the summer yon withdrew,
My converts have been very few.'*
"I can," the peddler said, "unroll
Something perchance to ease your soul,
And to cut short all fulsome speeches,
Brins: me a pair of your old breeches."
Fhe clothes were brought; the peddler gazed
And said, "Xo longer be amazed,
Hie gloss upon the cloth Is such,
I think, perhaps, you sit too much
Building castles bright and gay,
Which Satan loves to blow away.
And here, behold! as I am born,
Fhe nap from neither knee is worn.
He who would great revivals see,
Must wear his pants out on the knee,
For such t he lever prayer supplies,
When pastors kneel, their churches rise."
Two Scenes in a Horse-Car.
There is an old Spanish proverb
which says, "Make two friends for
2very enemy you make. Then, what
is stolen from von in hate will be made
2;ood to you in affection." Another
saying, common to every nation, is,
'He who always demands his exact
rights on every occasion will never get
uiything more." Hiding iu a horsejar
lately, the writer saw an impressive
application of these sayiugs.
The car was crowded, and several
persons were standing up. As the car
rounded a curve, one man lurched
:>ver to one side, and knocked his
neighbor's hat over his eyes. The
nan thus accidentally struck turned
round angrily and asked who hit him.
"I did. What're you going to do
ibout it?" answered the other.
"I'd show you what I'd do about it
f I had you out of this car."
"You would, eh?"
"Yes, I would!"
"Why don't you do it here?"
"I will, if you don't shut up."
"xou winr*
"Yes."
"Perhaps you own this car?"
"Perhaps I do. I don't take up
nore than my share of it, though."
"Well, I intend to have all the room
[ need. I don't mean to give up my
personal rights to any man."
"Nobody asked you to. But you
leedn't push me out of my place."
"Who's pushing you out of your
)lace?"
"You are."
"You lie!"
At this point the conductor interfer d
and threatened to put the disputmts
off the car. After a few more
lard words the man who had been the
>ccasion of the dispute got out.
"Each man has made his enemy,"
bought more than one person in the
:ar.
In a few minutes another passenger
same in, and, as it was cold near the
loor he wedged his way slowly up to
he front. In doing so he stepped on
lie foot of the man who had already
iad his hat jammed over his face.
"Look out! What are you doing
here? Can't you step somewhere
dse?"
"I beg your pardon! Very awkward
>f me, I'm sure. Hope it didn't hurt
,'ou much."
"Well?no?not very much."
"They don't make these cars big
tnough for men with big feet, like
nine and yours, eh?"
"That's so. Ought to put on platorm
cars for us."
"Ha! ha! ha! Good! Glad you take
t so good-naturedly."
"I must get out here."
The second man got out two blocks
urther on, but to us who remained it
eemed as though he had breathed
nto the chilly air, his own warm,
leartv spirit. That man made more
ban one person happier that night.
To Sayc His Mother.
We have had a German baron among
is, Baron von Carlstine, who has writen
a book about New York and its inlabitants.
One of his auecdotes is
*ery good and interesting: On Washngton's
birthday he was standing in a
srowd on the corner of Fifth avenue
md Fourteenth street, waiting for the
rrand procession to arrive. The first
I rums were heard in the distance,
vhen a young man, in his shirt-sleeves
md hatless, passed though the assem>led
multitude and addressed the poicemau
who kept the people back.
"Officer," he exclaimed, "my mothir
is sick in a house near Sixth avelue;
she has suddenly been taken
nuch worse, and the doctor says that
f the procession passes our nousu me
loise will kill her."
"O. K., young fellow," said the poicemau,
and left him to run up the
ivenue, where he stood some twenty
eet before the procession and scream;d,
"Halt!" holding up a light rattan
:ane with both hands.
The word was passed along the line,
m adjutant galloped forward, bent
>ver his horse's neck, and exchanged
i few words with the policeman.
Suddenly the command. "Forward!
narch!" was heard, and the immense
jody of men proceeded to the corner of
fourteenth street, without any music,
ixcept the lightest possible tapping of
irums. Then came "Right wheel!"
md nearly lifty thousand men, whom
inmense crowds were waiting to see
lie cheer, wheeled up Fourteenth
itreet to Broadway, and down Broadvay
they inarched without music unil
they were beyond the distance at
vhich'they might disturb the sick wonan.
No one asked why an army of well
lrilled, admirably-equipped men,
nany of them battie-scarred veterans,
urnedoutof their path at the simple
request of a single policeman, armed
,vith hut a little rattan cane. It would
lave been but a trifling matter for
.hem to take Gotham ; but no, the gen;ral
in command, when he received
he young man's thanks, reminded
lim that his very natural request was
tddressed to gentlemen and soldiers.
A.nd a gentleman, be he a soldier or
not, reveres the sacred name of mothir.
A little boy once called out to his father,
who had mounted his liorse for a
journey: "Good-bye, papa, I love you
i.irfv Tulles loner." A little sister.
juickly added: "Good-bye, papa, you
will never ride to the end of my love.''
All the saints who have gone to
heaven went there living upon the
promises. Every step of Abraham's
life he walked with a promise in it.
rresligre.
We use the word according to the
second definition of Webster. Is i(
an advantage or disadvantage? Has it
more good than evil? These are questions
undecided and doubtful.
The multitude judge men by the decision
of the critics. When a boy, we
read an old book called "The Prompter,"
one of whose sayings we remember:
"When a man gets his name up
lin rvin\r lin uluxl till nnnn Hi if. linw
?li(l ho get his name up? "Why is it
that so many famous men were unknown
to fame for a long time and
were then brought forth to earthly
glory? Who gave Shakespeare a
start? Not the world at large, but the
critics. True, he deserved it; but suppose
they had remained silent? It is
supposable. There is much modest
merit in the world, and it will never
be known. No exciting circumstances
bring it to the front. How true the
lilies of Gray:
"Full many a Rem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfatbomed caves of ocean bear,
Full many a flower Is born to blush unseen.
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
From this condition there is no appeal,
and for it there is no remedy. If
Spurgeon said it, or wrote it, all the
papers in England and America publish
it. The utterance has weight, benmioA
hn orkis-1 if T f Cnm Ti\nAu rroirn o
v;au??u nc oaiii iu. JLI KJUUJ u viivo ^UTV ?
rough hit, it was a good one, and it
sounded and resounded the length of
a continent. If a Bishop wrote a few
lines many knees were bent in a worship.
If a leading paper wrote a paragraph
of only ordinary wisdom, all
other papers repeated it. Is not this
prestige carried to an extreme? Is
there no way to judge men and things
on their merit alone?
On the other hand, we have a class
of men who cannot bear the fathers or
the men of fame. They judge by the
Bible, and they are the only true interpreters.
Being of only ordinary
mental caliber, the critics refuse to
give them a first place. For this they
are always chafed and sore. The more
they think on the subject the more
they feel that injustice is done them,
and their whole soul is blue. If an
editor thrusts their contributions into
the waste basket, they are ready for assassination.
If the audience prefers
another preacher to such a one, he has
no words sufficient to express his contempt
for such ignorance.
O, for the medium between prestige
and worth. The Christian charity
and ability that perceives and appreci
illCS UIC UULttftlULiai UUlllilluuucsn vi
great men, and the occasional value of
merit that has never blown its trumpet,
would be the long desired perfection
of the race.?Central Methodist.
The Man Who Laughs.
The man whose "Ha! ha!" reaches
from one end of the street to the other
may be the same fellow who scolded
lus wife and spanked the baby before
he got his breakfast, but his laughter
is only the crackling of thorn? under
the pot.
The man who spreads his laughter
through his life?before a late breakfast,
when he misses the train, when
his wife goes visiting and he has cold
supper; the man who can laugh when
he finds a button off his shirt, when
the furnace lire goes out in the night,
and both of the twins comedown with
I the measles at the same time?he's tiie
[fellow that's needed.
He never tells his neighbor to have :
faith; somehow he puts faith into
him. He delivers 110 homilies; the
sight of his beaming face, the sound
of his happy voice, and the sight of
his blessed daily life carry conviction :
that words have no power to give.
The blues flee before him as the fog !
flees before the west wind; he comes
into his homelike a flood of sunshine
over a meadow of blooming buttercups,
and his wife and children blossom
in his presence like June roses.
His home i? redolent with sympathy
and love. The neighborhood's better
for his life, and somebody will learn
of him thai; laughter is better than
tears.
Macanlay's Prophecy. 1
In 18-57, Lord Macaulay, writing of \
the American Itepublic, used these
words: "The day will come, when, in
the State of New York, a multitude of I
people, not one of whom has had more
than half a breakfast, or expects to 1
have more than half a dinner, will
choose a Legislature. Is it possible to
doubt what sort of a Legislature will
be chosen ? On one side is a statesman
preaching patience, respect for vested '
rights, strict observance of public '
faith; on the other is a demagogue, 1
canting about the tyranny of capital- 1
ists ami usurers, and asking why any- 1
body should be permitted to drink '
champagne ami to ride in carriages, 1
while thousands of honest folks are in j
want of necessaries. Which of the '
two candidates is likely to be preferred
by the workingman who hears his 1
children crying for bread V I seriously 1
apprehend that you will, in some such
seasons of adversity as [have describ- <
ed, do things which will prevent pros- 1
perity from returning. Either some
CUesar or Napoleon will seize the reins
of government with a strong hand, or i
your Republic will be as fearfully 1
plundered and laid waste by barba- <
rians in the twentieth century as the 1
Roman Empire was in the fifth--with 1
this difference, that Huns and Van- ]
dais will have been engendered with- '
in your own country and by your own i
institutions." <
I
Who Sees tlie Blood ? ]
<
That delightful passage in Exodus I
came flashing up to my mind just now,
where the Israelite sprinkled blood on <
the jmiei aim me nvu ?mc jjusm. |
Then he shut the door. Ho was in- ,
side; he did not see the blood any ]
more. The blood was outside upon j ]
the posts, and lie could not see it him- h
self; but he was safe. Vet, because it|i
is written, "When I see th? blood Ii
will pass over 3'ou." It is God's sight'
of his dear son that is the everlasting!
safeguard of all who are in Christ. |,
Though it is most precious and sweet;,
to me to look at that blood once shod ,
for many for the remission of sins,:',
and I do look at it: yet if ever therei
.<1 dark nicht to mo in
which I Ciinnot see it, still God will 1
see it, and T am safe. I am saved, be- 1
cause it is written, not "when you see '
it," but "when I sec the blood I will '
pass over you." It is the perfection of '
the sacrifice, not your perfection of,
sight, which is your safeguard. ]
If a man is faithful to truth, truth ;
will he faithful to him. He need have <
no fears. His success is a question of
time.
HOUSE AND FARM.
Thrift .ind Economy.
Economy is not parsimony, although
it is often falsely so called, and by
many considered disreputable. It is a ,
most commendable virtue, and should ,
he most sedulously cultivated. Jt is
not always a gift, ami is {is often acouired
as inherited. It is the result of
care, thought, industry aud unceasing '
watchfulness, and is, indeed, one of (
our liighest duties. It. is not only a ,
"gathering up of fragments, that noth- (
ing be lost." but it is also a seeing that |
there are few fragments to he taken |
care of? the opposite of wastefulness ,
and extravagance; and it is only the |
mentally weak who aftict to despise |
and ridicule so excellent a quality. |
A thrifty, economical person can ,
make one dollar go twice as far as a <
heedless; unthoughtful person will. |
nna/1 irt\ in linn/1 t
with careless waste and shiftlessness,
though it usually does, If ever thrift
and good management are needed, it
is where money is scarce. Never "put
your best foot forward" at the expense
of self-respect. It may take a great
deal, of courage to say, "I cannot afford
it," but it is nobler far than to
hide behind subterfuges, or so to unwarrantable
expense to cover lip undesirable
poverty, whose most gallinsr
sting is in the fancied necessity of
"keeping up appearances"?of sailing
under false colors, and aping the expenditures
of more affluent neighbors.
Many, whose good sense in other matters
is indisputable, wear out body and
brain in the insane struggle to keep up
a style in household expenses and
dress which is utterly beyond their
means, and which biinds nobody to
the true state of affairs; or, if it did '
indeed blind a few, it is so transparent
to others as to result only disastrously
to themselves.
Let Your Light so Shine.
An earnest, godly minister relates
the followintr incident, and gives us ^
the lesson that it teaches:
During a voyage to India I sat one
dark evening in my cabin, feeling
thoroughly unwell, as the sea was rising
fast and I was a poor sailor. Suddenly
the cry of "man over board!"
made me spring to my feet.
1 heard a trampling overhead, but
resolved not to go on deck, lest I
should interfere with the crew in their
efforts to save the poor man.
"" Vhat can I do?" I asked myself,
and instantly unhooked my lamp. I
held it near the top of my cabin, and
close to my bull's eye window, that its
light might shine on the sea and as
near the ship as possible. In half a
minute's time I heard the joyful cry,
"It'sall right, he's safe;" upon which
I put my lamp in its place.
The next day, however, I was told
that my little lamp was the sole means y
of saving the man's life; it was only
by timely light which shone upon him
that the knotting rope could be thrown
so as to reach him,
Christian workers, never despond or
think there is nothing for you to do,
even in dark and weary days. "Looking
unto Jesus," lift up your light; let ?
it "so shine" "that men may see," and t
in the bright resurrection morning j
what joy to hear the "Well done!" v
mid to know that you have, unawares, y
saved some soul from death!" b
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Chopping Cornstalks. <1
The saving in handling of manure c
ami of the liquid part of the measure o
itself will alone pay for cutting up J
stalks of corn before feeding. It is u
not true that cattle can be made to eat fl
the coarser part of the stalks except a
by being starved to it, and this is more Ii
expensive than better feeding. But li
the uneaten butts make excellent bed- v
ding, absorbing and holding the li- tl
quid excrement better than will straw, b
To be done economically, however, n
the cutting up of cornstalks should be a
done with horse-power or steam. As
most farmers have idle horses at this
season, a horse-power with conveniences
for cutting stalks of straw, a
grinding coarse grain and sawing c;
wood is a very handy thing to have on a,
the premises. By putting the power n
under shelter much of this work may 1<
bo done in stormy weather when out- n
Df-doorjobs are impracticable. p
?t. .? . ... s<
Utilize the Heu Manure. p
Compost the lien manure; use one
barrel of it. with a horse load of loam,
l layer of earth and a layer of manure;
let it lie ten days, then mix it n
thoroughly, allowing it to lie some r<
time longer before using. This compo- n
iition makes the cheapest fertilizer in tl
the world. For strawberries it is un- ft
equalled; it has 110 equal for produc- tl
ing large berries and large crops. it
The droppings from a lien are worth ir
fully one-third of the cost of keeping ai
the fowl. bi
The food of a fowl being largely ai
*i.? .i?Ann!niTi! fni-m flip inrwsf, n.1
uic uiu|j|nu^ ? . onceutrated
of all manures. tr
?o? n'
The evils arising from jesting upon '?
Scripture. are greater than appear at P
first. It leads, in general, to irrever- B
:>nce for Scripture. When we have h
heard a comic or vulgar tale connected ai
ivith a text of Scripture, such is the vv
power of association, that we never tl
liear the text afterward without think- w
ing of the jeer. The effect of this is 11
obvious. He who is much engaged in tl
:his kind of false wit, will come at 0(
length to have a large portion of Holy h
Scripture spotted over by his unholy C(
fancy. P1
The following is recommended as a w,
jure for neuralgic headache: Squeeze 0
!he juice of a lemon into a small cup ?f
if strong coffee. This will usually af- ,
ford immediate relief in neuralgic ?
Iieadache. Tea ordinarily increases
neuralgic pain, and ought not to be c*
used by persons a flee ted with it.
rnu? t|,? ;tc P1
Ilie IHIIWi II.VPUI^IIUUM '? Ij
;1 river. If anything is good and admirable
in proportion as it answers
the end of its being, then the horse fr
tliat bonds into its traces before a city j1(
>treet-car is better than its blasphem- g,
ing driver. tj
Keep cnt-flowers fresh for several or
.lays by fillintr a vase with clean sand fe
to which is added a liberal supply of fii
powdered charcoal. Imbed the stems st
sf the bouquet in this, and water occasionally.
A,
The farmer who never reads the pa- U
pers, sneers at book farming and im- hi
provements, always has a leaky roof, ei
poor stock, broken down fences and di
complains of bad seasons.
We stand in our sunshine oftener bl
than others do. rc
lVhat Others Say*
[<W. Levis Advocate.]
Long years ago we heard of a back
woods boy who for the first time it
his life saw a wagon. With staring
eyes and gaping mouth he followed it,
or rather ran by the side, for a consid
erable distance, and at last broke oul
in a boisterous laugh. Being asked
why he did it, replied: "Why don't
yersee? the big uns (wheels) are allers
trien to run over the little uns an1
can't." Just so, and that is the sort
af game now being played in this
country. The big ones are trying to
run over the little ones. Look at these
liuge monopolies in almost every line
:>f business; the railroad magnates,
the land monopolists, the cattlekings,
the mammoth merchants, and manufacturers;
that whatever the intention
may be, the tendency is to run all
nil all dealers out of the market and
lessen the number of employees,
rhen women and children are being
trained to the use of machinery and
;mployed at rates much leas than those
paid to men, and so hard are these
worked, that some States have found
t necessary to enact laws prohibiting
?mployers working these factory
mnds longer than ten hours in the
iay. The employment of these throw
nen out of employment, while the
lealth of women is impaired; their
physical constitutions broken down ;
he children puny, weak and sickly,
md grow up with the seeds of early
leath deeply implanted within them,
md all because their labor can be had
it one-third or one-half that usually
mid to men. This is unfair, unjust
md every way wrong. If women and
hildren do as much work as men, let
hem have the same pay as men. The
ust and proper way i9 to pay accordng
to the value of the work and not
iccording to the condition or necessi;ies
of the worker. Pay the same
irice for the same work whether done
)y man, woman or child.
(New York Christian Advocate.)
All who speak or pray in public
,vould do well to look closely intq the
vords they use, and ascertain just how
nai:y pet phrases they have. Une
)a9tor was noticed never to use the
,vord prosperity without adding "perfection
and glory." The regular tracks
>f thoughts sometimes betray a speak>r.
Thus, one of our ministers, speakng
in the pulpit of the late Horace
jooke, called him Horace Greeley,
here being a well-worn track that
inited Horace and Greeley. And an?ther
spoke of the sufferings of our
jord in the Garden of Eden, the track
>etween Garden and Eden being betel*
worn than that between Garden
md Gethsemane. When a mind is in
uins it often runs in these well-beaten
racks. A very eloquent Presbyterian
livine happening to use the word Peer
in one of his sermons, paused and
aid, "Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater."
['his was the last time he was permited
to occupy the pulpit. Such things
each us to beware of pet phrases, and
n Innb out. Hint tho minrl ia not. sirlp.
racked by some well-worn switch.
(S. J. in Wesley an Christian Advocate.)
Kind Words Over Coffins.?
fonsense, don't believe in it. All
rue, doubtless, of Judge Jackson and
rlr. Beecher, but why not when they
/ere living, struggling, needing? O
es, then, many a time in doubt, those
eautiful utterances would have cheerd
and inspired them to toil on against
espair. How strange! How sad!
animadversion, abuse, fault-finding
haracterize our lives. Then eulogy
ver the dead extenuates these sins,
fever see anything good in editor, faclty,
presiding elder, pastor, stewards,
ock, husband, wife, child, till they
re dead. The good Lord pity us and
ielp whole droves of the above, who
ave never an encouraging word; always
a complaint, criticism, or someliing
to object to in another. Then
etter editors, teachers, merchants,
linisters, members, wives, etc. Yes,
better and happier world.
(Cumberland Presbyterian.)
une principal tuusc m luciuticukj
lid failure in many a congregation is
areless and irregular financial mangement.
Prayer and preaching cauot
be dispensed with, but prompt coljctionsand
prompt payments are also
ecessary. Systematic theology in the
ulpit will have new power if it is
;conded by systematic giving in the
ews.
Religion?Fast and Loose.
There is an opinion entertained by
iany who are not pessimists, that the
?ligion of many in the present day is
ot so deep, tenacious and abiding as
lat wnicn possessed me proiessurs 01
irmer generations. Whatever ground
lere may be for this view of the case,
is certain that there is a great laxity
1 the practice of church members,
ud a sad decrease often in the num- .
3r of those who unite with the church
ud continue faithful in their attendnce
on the sanctuary and in their
lanifestation of practical piety. How
lany young people, too. are often dil;ent
in the discharge of the duties as
upils in the Sabbath-school or in the
ible class, until they arrive at what
as been called "years of discretion,"
ud then their love for spiritual things
axes cold, their diligence relaxes and ,
ley are ultimately absorbed in the
orld. The restraints of religion do
ot seem as binding as they once wf-re,
le doctrines of the cross do not be>me
so imbedded in the intellect and
part, and the surges of worldliness ,
nisequently obliterate the serious ira- '
ressions. Here certainly is a great
nrk for all who would stem the tide
' fashion, frivolity and worldly mindIness?not
only to secure pupils for ,
ie Bible class and members for the
lurch, but to keep them garnered, |
oused carefully and skillfully in the
nirts of the Lord, until they become .
itablished in the faith, active in |
iety, and growing as the cedars in |
ebanon.
The love of the world takes away j
om men a desire after and relish for <
ravenly things. None of the bidden |
lests were kept away by any accupa- <
on in itself sinful, while yet all be- j
ime sinful because allowed to interre
with higher objects, because the
rst place, instead of a place merely j
ibordinate, is given to them. I
Thomas Jefl'erson was probably the I
rst cut-nan manuiaciurer in me i
nited States, his nail works being on I
is place at Monticello, and producing 1
ghty pounds of nails each working 1
iy. <
A new brass band in Cincinnati has
own all the plaster oft' its practice
iom. i
SCHOOLS'
The Cobbler.
i
BY C. M. WARD.
' Wandering up and down one day,
" I peeped In a window over the way.
; And putting his needle through and through,
; There sat a cobbler making a shoe.
k "Rat-a-t\p, tap,
Tick-a-tack, too,
This is the way I make a shoe."
Over lasts of wood, his bits of leather
; He stretches and fits, then sews together;
I He puts his "waxed ends" through and
through.
1 "Rat-a-tap, tap,
i Tick-a-tack, too,
This is the way I make a shoe."
Now with his hammer be glveth a tap,
To the shoe, so firmly fixed In his lap;
His hand it goes up, and his hand It goes
down.
But on Itls face there rests never a frown.
Tick-a-tack, loo,
This Is the way I make a shoe."
With his little sharp awl then he maketh a
hole
Right through the upper and right through
the sole;
He puts In one peg, or he puts In two,
Andchuckles and laughs as be hammers them
through!
"Rat-a-tap, tap,
Ttck-a-tack, too.
This is the way I make a shoe."
Now with his hammer, and now with the
stitch,
This Is the way the cobbler gets rich;
For the world be cares not the whisk of a
broom
But all he wants Is his elbow room.
"Rat-a-tap, tap,
Tick-a-tack, too,
This is the way I make a shoe/'
[lAUie vorporal.
The Fire Peaches.
This old 9tory translated from the
German is worth reading again and
again.
A countryman, on returning from
the city, took home with him live as
fine peaches as one could possible desire
to see. As his children had never
beheld the fruit before, they rejoiced:
over them exceedingly, calling them
the fine apples with rosy cheeks and
soft, plum-like skin. The father divided
them among his four children,
and retained one for their mother. In
the evening, ere the children retired
to their chamber, the father questioned
them by asking:
"How did you like the soft rosy apples?"
"Very much, indeed, dear father,
said the eldest boy. "It is a beautiful
fruit, so acid, and yet so nice and soft
to the taste; I have carefully preserved
the stone that I may cultivate a
tree."
"Right and bravely done," said the
lamer. -1 nat speass wen ror regaraing
the future with care, and is becoming
in a young husbandman."
"I have eaten mine and thrown the
stone away," said the youngest; "besides
which, mother gaye me half of
hers. Oh! it tasted so sweet and
melted in my mouth."
"Indeed," answered the father,
"thou hast not been prudent. However,
it was very natuaal and childlike,
and displays wisdom enough for
your years."
"I have picked up the stone," said
the second son, "which my brother
threw away, cracked it and eaten the
keruel; it was as sweet as a nut to my
taste; but my peach I have sold for so
much money that when I go to the
city I can buy twelve of them."
The parent shook his head reproachfully,
saying:
"Beware, my boy, of avarice; prudence
is all very well, but such conduct
as yours is unchildlike and unnofnrol
TIootTAn *?/! ^Viaa
uaiuiai. i?avcu ^uaiu tucc, ui j
child from the fate of a miser."
"And you, Edmund?" asked the
father, turning to his third son, who
frankly replied :
"I have given my peach to the son
of our neighbor, the sick George, who
has the fever. He would not take it,
so I left it on the bed, and have just
come away."
"Now," said the father, "who has
done the best with his peaGh?"
"Brother Edmund!" the three exclaimed
aloud.
Edmund was still silent, and the
raotner Kissea mm witn tne tears 01
joy in her eyes.
Brother and Sister.
Sometime, somewhere we came
across an article giving advice to
brothers concerning their sisters,
which so struck us that we cut it out,
and we give it entire, hoping that our
young folks will read it and heed it:
"Young men seldom realize how
happy they can make their sisters by
small acts of courtesy. How many
brothers offer to their sisters the little
attentions which they instinctively
give to other girls or women? Nay,
how many are there who do not feel
themselves justified in venting upon
uieir sisiuis lne irruaieu jeeimgs
which they have felt obliged to conceal
in their intercourse with the
world ? A brother who would not rob
bis si9ter of the very least of her
rights will yet inflict unon her the
grave and almost irreparable wrong of
rudeness?a wrong as irreparable as it
is dastardly. For rudeness hurtshurts
grievously and lastingly; and
what man is worthy of the name who
hurts a woman? Brothers do not realize
how far a want of courteous conduct
at home may go to wreck their
sisters' future lives. They wonder at
the unaccountable liking of girls for
men whom the brothers know to be
unworthy?men whose very attentions
they feel lo be almost an insult
to a woman's good sense. Do they not
see that it is the courtesy of these men
?their 'company manners,' if you
please?whicli makes them agreer.ble
to women ? Women so seldom have a
high standard of manhood! They so
seldom see the best of the meu theyknow
the best. How should they not
be deceived, and mistake that outside
veneer of courtesy which makes pleasint
the present hour for that inward
tnitli nf nhnrnnrer whiVh ahall hp ?
benediction to all their future lives?
Brothers, if you would have your sis:ers
love worthily, let them at least be
uncustomed to gentle manners, that
when they see them in strangers they
may not be so dazzled as to become incapable
of distinguishing a true man
from a sham."?Household.
"In the little world in which childfen
have their existence, whosoever
brings them up, there is nothing so
finely perceived and so finely felt as
injustice. It may be only small injus:ice
that the child is exposed to, but
:he child is small, and its rockingliorse
stands as many hands high, acjording
to scale, as a big-boned Irish
hunter."
We must not employ all our time in
ivhetting the scythe.