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The Abbeville Press and Banner, i BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 6Z WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1887. VOLUME XXXII. NO. 14. Christian Neighbor. BY REV. SIDI II. BROWNE, Of the South Carolina Conference* The war was inevitable. It was bravely fought and ended. The blue was magnanimous, the gray was honorable in the settlement. That each bolieved itself to be right no intelligent man doubts. That either wishes to set aside or to challenge any of the great results of the struggle " " 1^-1 > ?/Tn rn/'y'x Wccklu. With what complacency! Counting! over the corruptions, murders and attendant and following evils of that unnecessary, cvitablc war. Hew smoothly and nicely the Weekly gilds its untemperod mortar, wiping one side of its mouth magnanimously for the Xorth and then the other side honorably for the South, and, with an air of innocenee, declare, we "have done 110 wickedness." If the war was "inevitable" thero was no wickedness in it, for there can be neither wrong nor right in any thing which is unavoidable?inevitable. The "inevitable" in that war was the same as in any other porsonal or national murdor, pillage and destruction. What a capacious ware-house this "inevitable" heresy affords to thieves, murderers, liars and all such, in which to store away their abominable crimes. Unf timro woe n onrtain inevitable in the beginning of that war. It was the same in principle as the inevitable in the case of Hymeneus and Alexander (1 Tim. i: 20) who persistently refusing to receive the Christian teaching of Paul inevitably fell under the tuition of Satan, that they might learn under the rough and bloody curriculum of the father of lies what they might have learned under Paul. "Fools, because of their transgressions and because of their iniquities, are afflicted." Psa. cvii: 17. Rev. Alonzo Webster, D.D., Presiding Elder of the Charleston Dis trict of the South Carolina comerence 01 the Methodist Episcopal Church, (North,) died August 1, 1887, at Brpttleboro, Vermont, whither he had gone on a visit a few weeks before. Dr. Webster had recently married a second time. His wife was with him in his last illness and at his death. Our acquaintance (of twenty years) and occasional interviews with Dr. Webster left no doubt on our tnind that he was doing what he felt to be a duty to the people committed to his oversight. He and we have had not a few stiff discussions about "North and South," ar.d "white and colored," and peace and war, but our disputes never ended in any bad feeling. While to us and others his views on some subjects appeared ultra, we became satisfied that his "nllraism" was in part the natural result of the teaching he had received before coming South, and in part by what ho regarded ultraism in the Southern whites. Ultra begets ultra, whether it begins first with A. or with B. Dr. Weoster's views on some phases of the "Race question" were, of later years, much modified if not materially changed. Dr. Webster was a strong man physically and mentally?a great worker. His work is finished and lie ha? been called from labor to rest. Rev. John Hemmenway, has recently been near to death, but is now able to say in last Messenger of Peace, of which he is Associate Editor: "I have recently been, as I thought, near to death. I did not then expect to write any moro for the Messenger in behalf of the precious cause of Peace. But, through the mercy ot uoa, 1 nm now in a comfortable state of health, and my life may be continued a few months and even years longer.'* Maj' the Lord prolong the useful life of John Ilemmenway many years that he may continue to speak, write, pray and live in behalf of Peace on earth and good will toward men. We know of no living man who is more thoroughly sound and zealous in Christian advocacy ot peace and in bis Christian opposition to war? the world's greatest curse. Life, health and peace from Ood the Father and our Lord Jesus Chri9t to our beloved friend and brother. How Is It, Indeed, In discussing theSbehan case the Newberry Herald and News says: "By the way, how is it that onr esteemed contemporary, the News and Courier, heretofore so anxious for the blood of some one, has had nothing to say of this shooting affair." Others besides the Herald and News have noticed the absence of the sanguinary editorials so common on like occasions, and many are at a loss to account for it. The only theory we have heard advanced is that Sheahan is a Catholic, and that it makes a difference with the News and Courier as to what kind of an ox does tlic poring, ism can 11 oe possible that our leading daily discriminates in such matters between catholics and protestants? Its silence in this case is certainly significant. Usually it is far ahead of the people in condemning crime, but here the people held an indignation meeting, giving expression to their sentiments respecting the killing anil the trial, and yet no word on the subject from the News and Courier. A strange silence, truly.?Edgefield Monitor. The Marion District Conference, Held at Bennettsville, S. C., July 2831, was well represented. Bishop Duncan was .severe at times, but did his work well. "Hides for sale," was suggested by a visitor. The next session to be beld at Conway. Delegates to the S. C. Conference as follows ! X. Oihson. W. A. Brown. Rev. W. K. Breeden and C. A. Woods. Alternates : II. H. Newton and E. Norton. No revival in the church at Bennettsville during Conference. Why? B. The brother who kindly seut us the j foregoing brief, adds: "This i9 the best I can do, having been 21 days and nights I in a glorious revival in my Circuit, and still goes on." Celebrating at Fort Worth, (Aug. 6) the victory over prohibition a keg of powder exploded killing two boys and fatally injuring a third one, and terribly burning two others that may possibly survive. The prohibition cause in Texas Las been lost by a majority of 50,000 if not 100,000?so reports and countings indicate. In a private room in the Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., at 11 o'clock Sunday night, Aug. 7, Col. Bud Veal shot :uid killed E. M. Horn. Roth "prominent" citizens. What these men and Col. Sam Venable and several other men were doing in that room at that hour ' Reporter" says not. ??^ ? 'Richard Woolfolk, wife, six children find Mrs. West, an aunt of Mrs. Woolfolk, twelve miles from Macon, Ga., were found murdered Aug. G, the work of the j preceding night. Tom <?. Woolfolk, Ron of Richard Woolfolk by his first wife was suspected and has been lodged in ! jail. As was expected the two men of the company that lynched Culbreath have been tried and acquitted at Edgefield O. II. The discount which now-a-days is put on tile Hie oi murueruu men is icdeemed by the courts in the high price put on the life and liberty of murderers. The loss to the farmers by the recent Hoods of water is so far a loss in the productions of tlio country. All other interests aro more or less affected thereby. "The profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field." The Sandw of Sullivan'* Island?The Wind*?The Tides and the Cause Thereof. Sullivan's [sland, August 8, 1887. Dear Neighbor: Nothing was said in last week's letter of the sand that covers "The Island" to a considerable depth. During the hieh winds which prevailed for sev eral davs just past the"sand was shifted from place to place?hore and there were mounds on a level with the fence, and some doors were approachable only on descending a steep bank of soft white sand. The street cars wore frequently delayed by the track being covered, and if they passed on time down "The Island" toward the boat-landing it was no guaranty that they could return a half hour later and not find the road impassa Die uy reason or uw uuoujjiug sand. Eyes, ears, mouth were generously treated if one ventured to walk abroad, and housekeepers complained that in spite of well-covered pots, and great care in cooking, the food would be gritty even after all efforts to provent it. Wooden side-walks facilitate pedestrianism, otherwise one would of necessity be confined to the beach at low water in order to enjoy that exercise?which is made doubly pleasant here by reason of the fine ocean view and the delicious breezes. (We ex- . cept those days when the wind must have reached the velocity of a gale.) Lest some of your younger readers should not understand the philosophy of the sea breeze we would write a word of explanation. The land receives and loses its heat more rapidly than the ocean, hence during the day as the sun shines on both, the land atmosphere becomes lighter than that of the ocean, and, being so, rises, while the cooler air of the ocean rushes in to supply the vacuum. This is our sea breeze. At night a change occurs. The ocean, losing its heat less rapidly than the land, is warmer than the continents, and its atmosphere now rises, whilo that of the laud moves seaward to SUppiy lilt) UUUUJBIH.-J', buus bicaung n breeze from the land toward the ocean. This little island of ours, however, is foo small to demonstrate the truth of these statements. Now if you feel a wind blowing during the day and you know it does not come from the direction of the sea, do not dispute this philosophy, for there aro many causes which deflect the wind from this regular course?mountain ranges, the relation of the earth on its axis, and others. Possibly there are some among your ./MiHtful n?-c unonnnoinfArl wi M? f lm theory of the tides. A few words will, at any rate, open the subject to them. As said last week tho tide rises and ebbs twice every twenty-four hours, comiug in for six hours ar cl flowing out as long. We call the moor the satellite of the earth. In its revolution about us it exerts an attraction upon the earth across a a distance of 240,000 miles. Water being mobllo yields to this attraction, and rises toward the moon, following it, as it were. The land, a stubborn solid, resists this influence, except the small fraction that is felt throughout the whole sphere. Now as tho water rises in obodience to tho be nesi OI lllti moon U IllUVOS III ?it;ak illicit across the bosom of the ocean, following the controlling power. In mid-ocean these swells are scarcely perceptible, bnt when they meet the coasts of the continents they break upon the shore, olimbhiglier and higher upon the beaches for six hours. During the next few hours the moon's influence is exerted upon the continent adjacent, and the tide is left to ebb, or flow out. Our satellite is now upon the opposite side of the earth?twelve hours after our high tide? and while it there raises a tide by direct attraction we havo our second tide of the twenty-four hours by reason of the earth beingdrawn away, as it were, from our ocean, and our waters are left in a manner piled up, and roll in upon our beaches. For the sake of simplicity we said just now that twelve hours after our high * *'" ?? A nwln r?f LIUU 1/lItJ I1IUUII WiVJ UII IUC oiuo v* the earth, but, in reality, it is in advance of that position, for though the waters of the sea yield to the moon's attraction they do not so immediately, but only at an interval of a few hours after the moon has passed above them. Let the interested student seek an explanation of the fact that the tide comes in nearly fifty minutes later on every succeeding day. Yes, the moon rises later each night* by the same timo, but why ? If the shore of t6e continent be smooth and gradually shelving, the tide rises to the height of only a few feet, four or five ; if, however, the coast be rocky and precipitous the effort of the water to yield to the moon's attraction is met by sudden and sharp resistance, consequently it is forced to amazing heights, especially if the coast be deeply indented with narrow bays and inlets. This is notably the case in the Hay of Fundy, where the tide reaches sixty feet. Enough. Visitor. The fifteenth annual session of the Darlington county Sunday School Conference, M. E. Church South, was held in the Methodist church in Florence July 28, 29. The committee on the general state of the Sunday schools reported marked improvement in the growth of the schools in their systems. The report of this yoar is as follows: No. ol officers, 29; No. of teachers, 138 ; No. of scholars, 1,532; total >jo. 1,719. NO. of classes, in ; uomnouuon 10 scnooi fund, $288.50; to missionary fund, $45.12; total contribution, $333.62. Books in library, 846; No. joined the church, 198 ; No died, 8. Only one school suspends in winter. Ten schools made no reports. Average attendance, 1,052. Wesley Chapel was elected as the place for the next annual Sunday School Conference. The London Herald of Peace says that William Jones, the Acting and efficient Secretary of the London Peace Society, expects to visit America this Autumn, to endeavor to promote the cause of peace and international arbitration. COMMONS. The Two DIscorcrers. o They sny that Just about the time p Ttie brave Columbus crossed the sea, * And set the nations all agog 11 With his new-world discovery. p A dandy of Italian birth. a Moved by desire for social sway, S< Invented for bis ornament p The button of our later day. ttto hoiro conn TnuontInn'fi ?-v Ami read the wonder In her eye, ' When In her contribution-box The goddess saw a button lie! 8< Undying Is the worthy fame ri The sturdy navigator won. p And yot, without the dandy's wit u We surely had been still undone. f We owe to one our native land, g Its mountains, streams and valleys dear, ? Yet to the other one, as well, u We owe another hemisphere. M Ask of the patriot how much ^ 'Twas given that sailor bold to bless, tl Hut wouldst thou know the other's meed, y Go, nsk it of the button less r c| We praise theo both, we honor thee, r< Yet, nameless one, ere life was gone. Would that thou hadst the secret left, Some way of keeping buttons on! 11 si Value of a Doctor's Services. 9< a I was called at midnight to visit a rr gentleman who had just returned a' from a late dinner, where he had succeeded by hasty eating in lodging a large fish-bone in his throat. I provided myself with an emetic, a pair of oesophagus forceps, and other para- I pliernalia designed to give him relief, S and hurriedly repaired to his room. I found him pacing up and down the k floor with a look of intense distress C and anxiety, occasionally running his fingers down his throat and gagging, tl He told me, in tones of despair, that he thought it was all up with him, but begged me, if the least glimmer of E hope remained, to proceed at once in my efforts to relieve him. He extrav- o agantly declared in the generosity of I spirit begot by the vividness of his si fears, thai he would give a million ri dollars to have that fish-bone removed, b I assured him that such cases were fl freuuent. and ordinarily not attended with much danger, before proceeding It to carry out measures for relief. His fears underwent some diminution on 1 the strength of this, and he then declared that fifty thousand dollars tl would no more than repay the skill g and art required to extricate the un- b welcome intruder. I smiled and proceeded to introduce the forceps, but after several attempts failed to grasp the tl bone. His fears again induced bim to n mention a fabulous sum as the meed of si the service that would expel the ob- h ject of his terrors. I then gave him the emetic, its depressing effect caus- i ing his generosity to rise again, barometric-like, to a very high pressure, a In a little while the emetic disburdened him of the greater part of his dinner, and with it up came the fish-bone, b He gave a sigh and a look of relief, si and solemnly looking toward me said, h "Doctor, I wouldn't have that thing in my throat again for $5!" My fee tl eventually resolved itself into the "valuable experience" that the occa- ai sion afforded me.?Mcdical Record. a Boys and Trades. n u A short time since a correspondent *( of a Southern paper, who evidently f knew how to wield something besides U his pen, and this he uses to a good purpose, made some observations, P from which the Jeweler'? Journal ^ miiAfoo no fntlnnro Vj WVl/CD (to tUi iW??o, "I believe," says the writer, "ill E schools where boys can learn trades. e Peter the Great left his throne and went to learn how to build a ship, and he learned from stem to stern, from a hull to mast, and that was the begin- I~ ning of his greatness. I knew a n young man who was poor and smart, ii A friend sent him to one of these n schools up North, where he staid two b years and came back as a mining en- b gineer and a bridge builder. Last g year he planned and built a cotton fac- u tory, and is getting a large salary, p How many college boys are there in 1? Georgia who can tell what kind of na- p tive timber will bear the heaviest bur- b den, or why you take white oak for " one part of a wagon and ash for anoth- y er, and what timber will last longer tl underwater and what out of water? a How many know sandstone from k limestone, or iron from manganese? v How many know how to cut rafter or c brace without a pattern ? How many n know which turns the faster?the top tl of a wheel or the bottom?as the wag- ri on moves along the ground ? How si many know how steel is made, and ri how a snake can climb a tree? a "How many know that a horse gets o up before and a cow behind, aud the c cow eats grass from herand the horse h to him? How many know that a sur- p veyor's mark on a tree never gets any m higher from the ground, or what tree ti bears fruit without bloom ? t< "There is a power of comfort in t knowledge but a boy is not going to d get it unless he wants it bad, and that m is the trouble with most college boys, t; they do not want it. They are too tl bnsy, and haven't got time. There is c more hope of a dull boy who wants t< knowledge than of a genius, for a ge- " nius generally knows it all without a study. These close observers are the h world's benefactors." 11 Married Jt oiks houiu ue nappier. ;j If expenses were proportioned to re- * ceipts. t] If home troubles were never told to a neighbor. n If they would try and be as agreea- S( ble as in courtship days. v If each would try to be a support a and comfort to the other. If each were as kind to the other as rI when they were lovers. v If each remembered that the other v was a human being?and not an angel, e If men were as thoughtful for their ? wives as they were for their sweethearts. If both parties remembered that tl they married for worse as well as for ij better. a If there were fewer silks and velvet v street costumes, and more plain, tidy o home dresses. tl If there were fewer 'please darlings' jj in public, and more common manners v in private. t c The sin we committed long ago is t not only laid up against us," but is t working out its natural effects in giv- s inguspain. We are therefore suffer- 1 ers from it, which, in one sense, is to I be regretted, but from another point t of view we are gainers, for the sting a j keeps us in memory and urges us to t repentance. I It is all very fine to give what is not thine. I War on Christian Principles. Hno nf Mm nnn rl i t inlic r\f tlio trpntv f Mexico with the United States, it * said, is that any future war which lay break out between the two counries shall be conducted on Christian rinciples. Now, we all know this is n age of progress, and that in all :>rts of matters, but war on Christian rinciples is certainly the latest, and t it is carried out, we think it will rove the greatest of them all. Just imagine it; we think we can 3e two armies drawn out in battle ar?y. A fair field is before them; the ositions are taken, the great guns are nlimbered. General Scott (the Fnited States general) is just about to lve the order to fire, when an aid-deamp comes up and respectfully relinds him that the war is to be conucted on Christian principles, and iat it will not do to fire. "Very true, ery true," savs the commander-intiief; "but wnat are they. I have jad Vauban, and Scheiter, and Turjne, and Coehorn. I have read the ves of the old conquerors, and I have :udied the campaigns of the greatest )ldiers, but I never happened to come cross these principles m any work on lilitary art. Do you know anything bout it, colonel?'' "No," says the colonel. "Noryou, major?" "Nor I, either." "I really don't know how to begin ; suppose it would not do to shoot, uppose we send for the chaplain." The chaplain arrives?"Do you now anything about this fighting on hristian principles?" "Oh, yes; it is the easiest thing in tie world." "Where are the books?" "Here:" the chaplain takes out the ible. "Really," says the General, "we ught to have thought of this before, t is a bad time to commence the iudy of tactics when the enemy is ight before us; but I suppose we are ound by the treaty. What is the rstTthing, Mr. Chaplain?" "Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt >ve thy neighbor as thyself." "But these are not my neighbors, 'hey are Mexicans." "The same book tells us a little fur!ier on, that the opportunity to do ood to a man makes him our neignor." "Will you go on, Mr. Chaplain ?" "Love your enemies. Do good to iiem that hate you. Pray for them nat deapitefully use you. If a man mite thee on the right cheek, turn to im the other also." "But while we are praying for the lexicans they will be firing into us." "No : they are bound by the treaty Iso. It works both ways." "Then what is the use of our arms ?" "This is all provided for in the same ook. Beat your swords into ploughtiares, and your spears into pruning ooks." "Then I don't see as there is anyling for us to do here." "Nothing, unless you send over and 3k Santo Anna (the Mexican Gener Ij ir ne neeus anyinmg in wie way m ledicines, provisions or clothing; I ither think the treaty requires this of s. And I don't know but we ought ) send them a few schoolmasters, for understand they are a shockingly jnorant people." "But how do you ever know which arty conquers in this fighting on hristian principles?" "That is the great beauty of it. loth sides conquer, and there are nevr any killed and wounded." During the war between the French nd the English, in 174-3, one John [ay wood was seized with sudden illess and carried to the hospital. Dur->rr hici uinlrnouu Mil) hnttlf* ftf FVllltp *b " ? - --- - oy occurred. A young man was rought in wounded, and placed on a ed near to Haywood. Ho was in reat mental agony, loudly andcotitlnally bewailing his departure from his rinciples. Hay wood at last called to im: "Young man, what are your rinciples?" He said that he was rought up in the Society of Friends. But," repeated Haywood, "what cire our principles ?" He then explained Liat the principles of Friends were gainst wars and fightings, and not to ill but to love your enemies. Conictlon of the excellence of these priniples was sealed upon Haywood's lind. He recovered and returned to decamp: and on a day of great paade, to the utter astonishment of the aldiery, he stepped forward out of the ink, and laid* down his gun. The mazement was heightened when two thers, with whom there hud been no ollusion, also stepped forward and ?id down tlieir guns. They were laced under arrest. Sentence of death ras passed upon them by a court-mar-1 ial. Haywood was visited and urged > retract, with promises of pardon. J le told them he was ready to lay own his life; he was convinced that rar was inconsistent with Christian!y, and he could not retract. The ime of execution came. Their old omrades pointed their muskets, and >ok aim, waiting the command to fire I" while they, most tranquil of U the host, were strengthened from eaven, I ween, by "ministering spir:s sent forth to minister to them that liall he heirs of salvation." At this loment their pardon was proclaimed, 'heir case having been presented to [ing George IT, lie gave orders that tiey should he tested to the very last; hut." said he. "God forbid that any ian should be put to death for cohcience sake under my reign." Hayrood afterward narrated that he was lready in heavenly places, his soul lied with peace, ready to depart, 'hey returned to England, and here re lose sight of the other two. Hayrood joined the Quakers, became au minent minister, and died in a good Id age.? William J. AUintson. Home Courtesies.?"I am one of liose whose lot in life has been to go nto an unfriendly world at an early ge; and of nearly twenty families in fhich I made my home in the course f about nine years there were only hree that could be designated as liap y families; and the cause of trouble k-as not so much the lack of love as be lack of care to manifest it." The losing words of this sentence give he fruitful source of family alienaions, of heartaches innumerable, of ad faces and gloomy home circles. 'Not so much the lack of love as the aek of care to manijesi it.-- i\oi more ban three happy families in twenty! iUd the cause so easily remedied ! In he "small courtesies of life" what >ower resides! The time to bury a hatchet is before dood is found upon it. HO USE AN D FA RM Advantages of Whitewash. Whitewash has many uses, political and moral, (or immoral rather) as well as economic. But as a fire extinguisher it has not been hitherto generally recognized here. "Do you know/' said a scientific gentleman the other day, "that it is next to impossible to burn a whitewashed fence? And do tmn Irnnw that in l?ronnfl j"u "-"v" ) 'uhum, l'i"v .11 1 iuxw, protect frame and the interiors of other buildings from fire, the walls, beams, joists and the under side of floorings are thickly coated with lime wash before they are placed in position? It is so, and if this course, which has prevailed abroad almost from time immemorial, were adopted here, it would save many a house, many a village, from destruction. I do not mean to say that it will prevent the spread of a fire once under great headway; but from its uninflammable character it is a guard against the prime ignition that often leads to dire results.'' This little hint set the writer to making inquiry among competent authorities, and full confirmation of the doctor's words was the outcome. Care of Roses. The rose is a great feeder and it must have a plentiful supply of nutriment within easy reach in order to do its best. Take some turf from a pasture lot and cut it up into small pieces with a spade and mix it with an ecjual bulk of old cow manure. If to this is a/I/Ia/I a r* ?i ar\f knalron Kriiina o auucu a v^uauuuj ui kji uxvt 11 uuugo( u compost will be formed which the roots of the rose will revel in. The plant can be removed from the ground and then a bed prepared from three to five feet in diameter with the above mixture, and then the plant may be replanted. A trench about eighteen inches away from the bush can be cut all around, cutting of! the side roots underneath, below the surrounding pile of earth. When this has been done fill the compost material and give it a good watering. Numerous new fibrous roots will form and be ready in the spring to supply the plaut with sap. Keep a fruit-jar that ha9 a cover, full of dissolved gum tragacanth, or gum arabic. Have a brush with a ring in the cutoff handle, so that it may be hungup wben not in use. ir scraps of paper get loose on the wall, a moment's work will put them on again as good as new. When the house is papered always save the scraps or get an extra roll. It is but the work of a momeut to put on a fragment of paper that has been torn off, and it improves the appearance of the house wonder! fully. If the plastering is broken, or a place dug out by some careless expressman or mover of furniture, before the paper is put on wet a spoonful of plaster of Paris and fill the place. Let it dry and then put on the paper. It will look decidedly better, and will pay for the trouble it takes. Carpets.?Be sure and take up your carpets this spring, and this fall, and - 1 11 J il. every Spring uuu mil, uuu urai< Liiciu. Carpets are generally considered unhealthy; which saying is correct, provided they are left on the floor from one year's end to the other without proper dusting and airing. One woman was heard to say that she had'nt had the brussels carpet on her parlor up for seven years, and it was just as bright and nice as 011 the dav it was put down. Perhaps it was; but from the musty atmosphere of that room, there might be typhoid fever lurking in every nook and corner. Beds.?Four times a year have the beds and mattresses beaten and shaken in the open air; once a year, if needed, have the latter remade.. If bedsteads or boards of a room contain unpleasant intruders, expel them at once by brushing every.crevice with strong brine and let it crystallize on, " *?wrtmnin niofanH r?f rumnvinff if UliU J3U 1C1IIM111 KIOIIVUU V* IVlilMilOg aw* Be careful in this process to brine the floors before taking tbe bed to pieces. How to Cure Warts.?Place the thumb upon the wart, and press it against the bone. Move the wart back and forth upon the bone until the roots become irritated and sore, when the wart will disappear. I have had quite a number upon my hands, and have got rid of all of them in the above manner. A i.^,1 1 ftllswl A 1UUKICU ui iiidiru Ii'inuu, iiiick while hot with sugar, and eaten still hot, just before retiring, will often break up a cold. A Darkey of Business. Mr. Archibald Forbes (ells an amusing story, rather at his own expense, of his gratification at the apparent desire of the "man and brother" for highest intellectual culture. On arriving at the station at West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he was to lec ture, a ciarKey caoman onereu ins services to convey him to the hotel. On arrival, Mr. Forbes asked the extent of pecuniary remuneration expected for the assistance. The darkey replied, "Well, sah, if you jus' gib me a ticket to the lectur', sail, I should be right glad." This unusual request from a cabman struck him as not only singular and laudable, but as quite complimentary to himself, so he said, "Certainly; and haven't you a missis?" "Oh yes, sah, J'se got a missis." "Well you shall have one for her;" and Mr. Forbes requested his agent to hand to the knowledge-seeker the requisite cards. On reaching the lecture room he cast a glance over the audience to discover his colored friend; but he had not arrived, nor did he put in an appearance. The next morning, 011 getting into the same cab to go to the station, Mr. Forbes said' "I didn't see you at the lecture last night!" "No sah; I were not dar," "But I gave u/^ii linkptH for vourself and wife?" "Yes, sail; T know dat, sail; but you see, > ah, I jes' sold them tickets for a dollar, sah, 'cause I don't know much 'bout lectures, and I thought I'd radder hab de cash, sah." Ocean travelers do not know the terrible ordeal the stokers undergo. The steamer Umbria has seventy-two furnaces, which require 350 tons of coal per day, at a cost of $20,000 per T'AUOfTP Ono hundred and four men *VJMbV. are employed at the furnaces. Oue stoker tends to tour furnaces, rushing from one to another, spendiug three minutes at each. Then he dashes to the air-pipe, takes a turn at cooling off, and waits for his call to go through the same operation. Four hours of scorch J ing and eight hours of sleep make up [the routine of life, gjSS' What Others Say. {Sam Jones.) The man who hears to the greatest profit what his pastor has to say is the man who has prepared himself to hear it. Repentance of a soul on its way to God is just like what the alphabet is to a human being when he is first learning it. Most anybody can do a thing they feel like doing, but it takes a true man to do a thing when he doesn't feel like doing it. I want to see the day when voluntary contributions will support the church, and when it will be a crime to hire a pew in it. "We always have got enough nice people to look after the nice penitent. I want always to look after the ruined and degraded. The power of the pulpit is in the pew. It is rough to put a preacher in ?.wi * K 1;: i an lucuuA auu liicij uumc iiilu ucuuuac he will not sweat. If you were to pardon a sinner and leave him alone, just as he is, he would be back again like the hog, and wallow in his dirt. I never want to be in that party which wants to get as near the gates of hell as it can, and yet keep an entryway into heaven. They have been after me about my grammar long enough to straighten me out, but I always try to adapt my cfvlo fn mir nnn/>i*orro flnn WV4V vw "V w"5^6?"w"* I don't ask for your indorsement, or for any man's indorsement, for if you were to indorse me I might not be able to return the compliment. A preacher shall never have hut one lick at me when he points out anything that I am doing that is inconsistent with my Christian profession. David was a great sinner, Dut David was a magnificent repenter. He beat any man of his day sinning, but he also beat them all repenting. I have often wondered where the great store-house of God's music was, from which he supplied the bird*, and other musical agencies. There may be a lot ot eople who can beat me in living right, but there shall not be auy man who can beat me repenting of anytfling I do wrong. (Abbeville Medium.) A short time ago the Columbia Record and the Greenville News engaged a discussion as to whether the title of "Mr." should be used in newspaper articles. We cannot recall on what side the respective papers were arrayed. We have positive views on the subject. The name of a person of any distinction is enough without the prefix. Only a small fry should have "Mr." put in front of their names. This rule applies when the Christian name is used and it is in good style to use "Mr." onlv when the surname is given. The best newspapers in the country have left off these titles even in marriage notices and obituaries except where the bride or the deceased happens to be married, or a widow, and then "Mrs." is used. (Richmond Advocate.) "The Mormon missionaries 'compass heaven aud earth to make one proselyte,' and the Sisters of Charity encounter the hardships and perils of war. pestilence and famine to enforct the false claims of their Church upon the world. If the thousands of Christians who throng the public highways in summer were animated with an equal zeal for the cause of Christ, there is no limit to the probable effect upoi: the social body." (Religious Telescope.) A It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, 01 speaking a true word, or making.xi friend. Seeds thus sown by the wayside often bring forth an abundan! harvest. You might so sojourn among strangers that they should be better and happier, through time and eternity, for your words and your example. (Christian Standard.) The more closely we walk with God the more clearly will we understand the real condition of this present world. I can learn more about the course and destiny of the world by reading the pages of the Bible than by reading the newspapers. Men see and understand guilt a little when it starts upon them in a new and unexpected forru, while they are entirely blind to far greater enormities which they themselves have assisted to make common. The whole city of Boston was shocked by the disclosure of a scene of vice and cruelty. ]t was cock-fighting. Unrelenting wretches prepared their victims for the contest by sawing off their spurs and fastening deadlier oues of steel upon the bleeding trunks. Then having forced the innocent animals to a quarrel, they ' ' ' >? ?13?f sai around 10 enjoy iue spcuiauic. hm. when the same experiment is tried with men, the world looks on calmly. Military leaders bring men together by thousands, men who have no quarrel, and would gladly live in peace. They drive them up together, front to front, and having armed them with weapons of torture and death, which Nature never made, they succeed, by compulsion and malicious art, in getting the first blows struck and the first blood flowing. This they call getting the men engaged! There is no trouble after tliat. The work goes on; a work of unutterable horror! And what do mankind say to this? Why, a few Christian moralists remonstrate; but the great mass of men gather around the scene, as near as they can get to it by history and description, and admire the systematic arrangements of the battle, and watch the progress and the maneuvers of the hostile armies as they wouia cne changes of a game of chess. But when it comes to sawing oft' the spurs of a game cock and exasperating him against his fellow, Oh! that is shocking cruelty! that, they can not bear! A gentleman, conversing with a Brooklyn lady about the absurdity of female apparel and the frivolity of fashionable life, exclaimed : "Is there on earth a bigger fool than a mere woman of fashion ?" Her questioner considered himself shut up and put down like a disagreeable lx>ok when " i-J? . n\oo flio man me iauy uuswcu? ?vw9 ***%, who admires her." Let not a man trust his victory over nature too far; for nature will lie buried a long time, and revive upon the occasion of temptation. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation, SCHOOLS. |||| The Eldest. BY ELEANOR A. HUNTER. y jgSi When the minister came to see an, He pat In the easy-chair. And dear little Bess came shyly, And stood by his elbow there. His face it was solemn and wrinkled, Hlfl vaIao tror? ervovo on*l Ia?< , He wore wonderful gold-bowed classes, And his hair was white as snow. He lifted the little maid gently, And perched her upon his knee, And said to her. "Are you the eldest Of all the family?" Rhe looked rather timid and awe-struck, ' And scarcely could speak at all; But she answered honestly, "No, *ir ; Papa U the oldest of all." ' What a child!" cried mamma and auntiM, While Bess sat still In affright; But knew she had said something fUnny, When the minister laughed outright. It Pays to do Right. ANNIE A. PRESTON. As Walter Perry went running across the frosty field near his home, V*?1 one late autumn morning, he came abruptly upon a dainty young girl, who wasstandinc lookinc ahont her n? if perplexed. As the lad approached she glanced up at him in such a shy, half-inqulr- ? , Agm ine way that he said, politely : "Good-morning, miss. You are a stranger here. Can I be of service in any way?" "O, thank you," she replied eagerly. "I think I must have lost my way. I came only last night to Grandpa Perry's and I was so anxious to see my cousins at Uncle William's that I hurried off alone this morning. Grandma told me where to go, and said I should find no trouble; but I bad no vtffl idea which way to turn." * . "I will show you, with pleasure," said the lad, "if you will allow me to walk on with you. Shall I take your ^ basket?" And as he took it from her arm he thought she looked like a big, walking doll, in her blae suit, grey fur, and cherry-colored stockings ana ribbons. "The basket is a little heavier than I expected it to be," she said, as she gave it up. "It is only fruit ana confection- ' !i|S ary for my cousins, Alice and Fred. Do you know them?" "Ob. ves." said the lad. "and I am sure they will not consider it necessa- . H ry for you to bring presents to make yourself welcome." The little girl laughed brightly. . "Are you really and truly a country boy ?" she asked. "Really and truly," laughed Walter, in response. "Why?" "I hardly know, only I never saw a country boy, and I supposed they were somewhat different." ; J? "In what way? I have seen a good many city girls, and after 'ymi get acquainted they are just as nice as country girls. Sometimes they are a little prim to begin with, until they learn , Vf C-? that country people are not savages." r'fB .IT j! i_ii * * i. J xt ni_^ "i aiuu-c expect 10 nua uiem iik? vm that; but I suppose?well, that they would not talk quite properly." "If they care to keep up, why ; should they fall one whit benind in , , that way ? They have the same books < and papers, and more time to study ' and read. But this is the house; 1 '"jlgB am quite familiar here." And open- -e?S ing the door he ushered his companion into a large, pleasant, south-east M H room, where the sun was shining, birds were singing, flowers were blooming, and a cat was purring upon B'3|l a cushion before a blazing, crackling, ga'aSj wood Are. TwJ'What a lovely room," said the Jit- M?1?? J tie girl; and Walter called: ' "Come, mamma, and kiss Cousin i Nettie, and please to introduce me properly, so that I may kiss her too." ;$f| 1 "Oh, you fweet child," exclaimed a B ' gentle, motherly woman, taking the ; little girl in her arms while, between ; laughing and crying, she managed to say: "Is it really my Cousin Walter? How funny! And I have been saying to myself all the way across the field : 'I do hope my Cousin Walter will be nice and gentlemanly like this boy.'" "It pays to do right and to be gentlemanly and polite," said Walter, as ' he went out to help his mother about , the dinner. ''I have thought a good many times that you were too particu Jar aoout us cmiuren ; uut i uiaim you for it now." And the big boy gave his mother an affectionate hug and kiss. Two TTays of Looklug at Things. , When it rain9 one man says: "This will make mud." Another: "This will lay the dust." Two children looking through colored glasses, one said: "The world ii blue." And the other said: "It ia bright." Two boys eating their dinner; one said: "I would rather have some other thing than this." The other said: "This is better than nothing." A servant thinks a man's house is principally kitchen. A guest, that it is principally parlor. "1 am sorry mar i live," says one . < man. 411 am sorry that I must die," says another.. "I am glad," says one, "that it is no worseam sorry," says another, "that tt%jio better." One ujjih counts everything that he has a gain. Another counts everything else than he receives a loss. One man spoils a good repast by thinking of a better repast of another. Another one enjoys a poor repast by nnntrnstinir it with none at all. Do Your Best. "When I was a little boy," said a gentleman one day to a friend with whom he was talking, "I paid a visit to my grandfather. He was an aged man, and wore a black velvet cap and knee breeches with large silver buckles at the knees. When I went to say good-bye to him, he put me between his knees, kissed me kindly, and then laying his hand on my head, he said, 'My dear boy, I have only one thing, to say to you. win you ur auu iemember it ?' I looked him in the face and said, "I will, grandpa." "Well," x said he, "it is this: whatever you have to do, always do the beat you can." This was my grandfather's legacy to me. It was worth more than thousands of gold and silver. I never forcot his words, and have always trieci to act upon them." The heart that trusts forever slogs, And feel6 as light as It had wings. Id a look, a word, a tone, how much of happiuess or disquietude may be communicated! v - ' * JA