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^ ? ?a??^??=^t??=^ ???? MinnoM^fc.^ m jiii- ' "* tMr" ' Mi'niw?? ??a??n^?^????p??m WLSON. ABBEVILLE, S C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3l7 1887. VOLUME XXXII. NO. 1(T f - Christian Neighbor. BY REV. SIDI SI. BROWNE, Of the .South Carolina Conference. The People we ' Believe In." It may be they are not specially agree able or talented or popular, it may bo w< even avoiil them, their very presence be ing a silent reproof of our own doubtfn customs and habits, yet we "believe in' them. "Believe in" what ? Tn their sin cerity and consistency. These two things make up a character which we implicitly trust. One who keeps his heart open tc new convictions of duty, who is ready tc amend his life though such amendmeni should condemn his past actions?this man must command our approval W< must "believe in" him. And he who ii addition to receiving new convictions o duty conforms his life thereto command.' our fullest faith. By their works ye shal know them is a truth we prove every day and we are forced, sometimes against oui will, to trust a man wc have, perhaps, t prejudice against, because by his consistent life he compels it. Too few men live up to their faith?they too often indulge in some doubtful act or custom, or make a questionable trade as it is to their own pecuniary advantage, or wilfully do what they know to be evil, not because thej' lack an enlightened conscience but because they have not the courage or thf self-denial to practice what they know tc be right or best. Men too often stop short of the best; they may do this or that but is it the best they can do? I can indulge in this pleasure or I can leavo that duty untouched and be a pretty good fellow, says one?quite as good as A or B, why may I not enjoy cither, rather than out off this pleasure or practice that soli denial?one can do well enough without drawing painfully near to self the line between ought and ought not. Yet it is with the heart a9 with a tree or other vegetable growth, ouly when we do tho best for its development will it reach its highest privilege. Each tree after its own kind requires a special pruning and digging about its roots so each one must give his own heart its peculiar lessons in selfdenial and activity, else one fails of doings the best for himself. Pocket Murder. CENTRAL SHOTS OK TIIK ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. The capacious hip pocket should be reduced by statute. Sudden epidemics of murder are liable to occur in any locality in the Union where public son'imenfc* permits men to go about with loaded hip-pockets. When the grand juries and the court? do their sworn duty the hip-pocket will be a thing of the past in Georgia. The germ of murder lurks in every community when there is one man in it who makes a walking arsenal of himself. " " (n oosnmo thnf Hj<* man who ear lies concealed weapons is already a murderer at heart. This clip from an exchange is not made because there is anything new or meritorious in it. It is no more than the pistol powder pop from behind the breastworks of the war system. What do the hippocket gentlemen care for "central shots" at their pockets while thej' have reason to believe that the "courts" will set three times as much value on their lives as they, the hip-poeketers may set on the lives of any men they take a notion tc kill. And more: If it is sound policy t<i "prepare for war in time of peace," why may not a man prepare for self-defense in time of quiet? "But who knows bow nafi/vn minrhK inX7Qrlp nnri overrun our country if we were not prepared to defend ourselves?" Awd who knows how soon some man, a brother hip-poeketer, may assault him along the way or in the crowd and take his life, il he do not go prepared to defend himself? Has a "nation" any more authority to "take the sword" than a modern Peter? Are not the teachings of Christ intended for nations as tiulyas for individuals? People will not bo judged by nations in the day of his power, but one by one. "Everyone of us shall give an accountol himself to God." Catechetical instruction is greatly demanded in our church. We are glad to lonrn thnfcour Hishons have arranired for a series of catechisms to be published especially for our children and youth. Bishop Galloway is to eet up one for infants; Dr. J. H. Carlisle is to get up one tor the youth of the church; Bishop Cranberry is to pet up a Doctrinal Catechism, and Bishop McTyeire one on the Discipline and Government of our church. \V< shall wait with interest for the publication of these catechisms, and hope they will be used In all our Sunday sohools and families. The above or something like it has beei: a "to-be" for years and quadrenniuins, May the wheels ol time speed the cominp of the day when the "to-be" will giy< place to the is. Rev. J. O. A. Connor, a worthy loca preacher in the Methodist church, South died at his home in Orangeburg county August 15, 1887. lie with Rev. P. F Kistler, ourself and others, was admitted on trial in the South Carolina Conferenc< at Faj'etteville, X. C., December, 1845 Bro. Connor traveled a few years anc located. Since his location it has no been our privilege to meet with Brothei Connor but a low times. The communi ty in which ho lived after his location anc by which he was held in high esteem fo; his Christian integrity, greatly deplor* the death of the good man. Help Called For. We are in receipt of a worthy, earnes and strong appeal frotn L. F. Beaty, pas tor of Spring Street church, Charleston ' * *1.- -i u lor DOip W resiure niu vuuitu uuuuiuj from the great damage by the earthquake The appeal is endorsed by the other citj pastors and by the Presiding Elder, anc any contribution from friends willing tr help the needy and tho struggling wil be thankfully received and judiciously applied. Send something. The committee appointed to select i place for the next General Conference o the M. E. church, South, have chosei St. Louis, Mo. Time Lout .Unite I'p. The "30 minutes late" in tho arrival " and departure of the train at and from the city, August 2ft, was neat ly redeemed as tve rolled up at Leesville. tientleJe ter MltCIWlI tOOK CJiargB U1 Hie uiuciam and soon we both were with our families - ?t his house and home. Some times I think it would r.ot be the easiest thing for me to do to demonstrate where m3T 1 liome is, specially for about a month past; not so hard either, for as in the present instance I have not failed for the s time to find open door homes and inviting ' and warm-hearted friends within. 1 After renewing the acquaintance of the 1 permanent and transient members 01 ine I household, tea and talk and worship, it ' was even past the time for a model assem' blv to adjourn. 1 Sabbath the venerables drove up to 1 Sunday School, and there was Superin tendent Daniel and other faithful as aforeI time. Sent back the carriage once, twice, . to bring others in time for worship. My r talk at 11 seemed to interest nearly all 1 present, and might not have hurt some who were absent. With Bro. John Drafts I dined at Bro. ! ! Bodie's, Sen., then called to see somo ' that were not able to go to church. Bro. , 1 George Fulmer will, I think, be out in a few days. He has never been to say sick before, and seems not so well to understand that a sick man doesn't feel just like ' a well one. Rev. Mr. Edward's son I ' found quite low but not so low that God nannot and may not raise him up. Learned at Bro. West's that the young Levite i (of the family of Watson) and mother were doing well. The rain on the afternoon interfered with the Baptist school and also with the , 1 Methodist. 5:30 i). m. hour for preach- i ' hip. Yet I talked about as I should if I < bad had more than a dozen and a half. ' One of my small congregation, a hus' band?wife not present?applied for mem- , bership. After tea and prayer at my "home" I Mr. Mitchell gave me another rido to I T .aenilla on/1 fllOrO l?ft Hip. < IJUCO?IHV ?IIV* .?.? ... W. If I have omitted to mention with pro- ' priety ought of other persons or things, " my excuse is that I can hardly give ac- ' ' count of myself. A w hole column of the < Neighbor is open, free of cost, to any who may chose to fill it. Selah. S. H. B. TIio occasional visits of our enteemed friend, H. Judge Moore, are always agree- < able and none the less instructive, though ' 1 his calls be generally short. Many years 1 | of his life have been employed in jourI nalism. He is now onjoying the quiet of i his own home in Columbia. Do not re- ; member any one who is more instinctively observant of the proprieties of a print- i , ingofTice than our veteran friend?Judge ! Moore. J I Tho announcement that Rev. J. C. Bis- J sell has recovered from his recent affliction is quite gratifj-ing to his many friends. He was our fellow-guest and A- _* a-. 1 _ 1. :? i room-mate ai mu iai? swsiuu m vumvi- , once in Orangeburg, and a most apreea- ( ble fellow we found him to be. Together ' he and we enjoyed the warm hearted hospitality of Brother and Sister Thompson, j and were thankful and feel so yet. ? ^ < The firm of II. S. Ives ?fc Co., New York, is reported as failing for $10,47'.),| 721; with assets ?23,780,300. Judging , from other failures as to what creditors receive, probably to divide assets by 10 or 20 might indicate what Ives it Co.'s credi- i I f/M-o moo or (it nrnviried thev wait for it. < I IV4 0 f j I How long they may have to wait is a 1 j question in the tangled future. J Rev. A. J. Wilson and wife, from their i \ home in Chesterfield county, passed j through this city last week en rovtc to j Gaffney City, to pay a long deferred visit ! to Rev. J. B. Wilson, pastor of Gaffnev j City charge. The call of our old Pee Dee I friend at the Neighbor office was refresh- , 1 ing. The Keowee Courier has come grandly* ' out of the ashes. Its reappearance indicates the taste and sternnesss of Keith, | Smith & Co. Manifest enterprise is on " the face ef tihs valued exchange. Lightning, heat and earthquakes are , uniting their forces to alarm and destroy , men and other animals, and things generally'. Between the first two there is an AVttttAnc nAnnnoliAit oa fl*of thn rnla iv , til sit the hotter the summer or the climate the more thunder and lightninjr. Earthquakes aro less comprehensible, though , some scientists, we observe, try to connect them with heat. Among the many terrible storms of the season reported from 1 all parts of the country, that in New Britain, Conn., on the night of August 1, r appears to have been the most appalling, j Hundreds of trees were stripped of bark, seven houses and three barns were struck, and a herd of cattle, of which thirty toll dead at one stroke. Years ago, when 1 some of the Eastern people spoke of the earthquakes on the Pacific coast, a San ' Francisco paper retorted that sun and . lwrMnitwr ?atr/iLmc wni'o onmnarntivftlv nil known there. Since then Ihe earthquake has been added to our foes, while lightning and sun have smitten us sorely. One cause of congratulation remains: that with all the heat and humidity of this summer, the greatest for many years, the cholera has not appeared. Oiily those who remember previous epidemics can imagine the havoc which would have been wrought had it appeared this year.? -<V. Y. Advocate. The Rev. Daniel Curry, 1). IX, LL. 1>., who died in New York August 17, 1887, was one of the most prominent Methodist ministers of this country. He was a native of New York and was graduated from the Wesleyan University at Middle t town, Conn., in 1831t. In 1840 ho went to . Georgia to take charge of an academy at Macon. Two years later, while the Meth odist Church was still undivided, he en? tered the Georgia Conference. The great! . conflict over the slavery question was r then going on. Dr. Curry was ever a , fervent advocate of abolitiou, and whenj the Methodist Church, South, sprang into | > being he returned to the North and con-! 1 tinued his crusade against slavery in the J r company of Garrison, Whittier and Phil-' lips, lie has filled nearly all the inipor-' tant offices of his church, but most of his time and talent has been given to literary i work. He has been editor of the Chrisc tian Advocate, the Methodist, the Natioual Repository, and the Methodist 1 Magazine. He was also the author of several celebrated theologi?al works. | (J 0 M M 0 N S. jscamiiu moaners. Do you hear the scaudal mongers t Passing by, (] Breathing poison in a whisper, In a sigh? f Moving cautiously and slow, 1 Smiling sweetly as they go. , Never noisy?glidingsmoothly as a snake? 1 Slipping here and sliding tbere, V Through the meadows fresh and fair, v Leaving subtle slime and poison In their wake. 11 Saw you not the scandal monger As she sat, Beaming brightly 'nenth the roses i On tier hat ? t In her dninty gloves nnd dress Ange'-hke, nnd nothing else. Seemed she, casting smiles and pleasing C words about. V Once she shrugged and shook her head, * liaised her eyes and nottitngsatd, J When you spoke of friends, and yet It left a II doubt. Did you watch the scandal monger a At the bull? c Through the music, rhythm, beauty, Light and all. 11 Moving here and moving there, With a whisper light as air. c Casting shadows on a sister woman's fame? , Just a whispered word or glance, 11 As she floated through the dance, e And a doubt forever hangs upon a name. f You will find the scandal mongers C Ji.vcry wiiere; Sometimes men, but often women, , Young and fair. a Yet their tongues drip foulest slime, s And they spend their leisure timo ? Dastinc mud on those who climb by worlc and worth, 0 Shun them, shun them ns you go? C Shun them whether high or low, rhey arc the cursed serpents of the earth. \ Sew Orleans Picayunc. a 0 A Superstition. ^ "Almighty God has decided forever 11 all questions submitted to the terrible v Arbitrament of War." It seems to be " implied in this remark by a distin- * [?uished general, that there is some- * thing divine in the selection of war as 1 an "Arbiter" and that decisions forced on the battlefield are peculiarly those Df the Almighty. This is a hereditary s and not uncommon superstition. In c former ages difficult and perplexing v capes were submitted to the casting of d a lot (Prow xvi. 33) which was cer- o tainly a harmless and bloodless "Ar- ii biter." In the middle apes, duellists v were selected and trained to fighting s and kept in the anti-room of courts, t civil and ecclesiastical, and to the re- i suits of their combat were submitted v questions that puzzled the judges, c They seldom killed or severely wound- n I'd each other and the worst of that s kind of an "appeal" was its absurdity, t But the ancient superstition still r holds in the form above* quoted. Men a seem to think that the all-wise and in- j finitely good God has selected the 0 fighting, wounding and killing of 0 each other in war by several thousands) v us somehow the occasion of a solemn JI and final judgment by Him on the ] merits of the case for which each t: iirmy contends. s As if the infinite God, who has all g resources and all means at his com- e maud, should deliberately choose r Among them not numan reason, con- t science, common sense, judicial ability ^ sr any exercise of the supreme facul- t Lies of the soul, but should appoint a bloody hands moved by passion to n force conclusions! This the ultimate v and supreme Arbiter! t This makes war a divine institution, t rt honors it as a Supreme Court of Ap- ti peals. It demands for it the sanctions j, if religion. Its perpetuity should beis desired and prayed for. Its decisions p should he religiously submitted to. War is not only not an "Arbiter," it is far less a "missionary" of God than ( fires, cyclones, diseases and other in- n evitable calamities. These may come v by tlie operation of causes ior wnien : j man is not responsible. Goil may em-; s ploy them to work out his purposes,'] without seeming to countenance liu- t man guilt. 0 But wars come of lusts that war in c men's souls. They are the offspring ^ .if tyrannous passions, which the Cre- 0 ltor has designed should he subordi- c nated to reason and conscience. In f, the evolution of the race in morals mou lias jiermmeu uuu ocu uocu iq us a sponge to wipe clean the board on j / which other and better things are toij written. But it is a filthy sponge andjjleaves its own mark. 11 In Christ is revealed another meth-u Dd and spirit. War is outgrown and.L we believe, in the counsels of Heaven, j r abolished. It ought to be abolished n by men. 4 Why call a tiling so vile and cruel, ? divine? Why crown the monster s with flowers? Why by conscription a HtxsMir mon nnHor th<l wllppls of llis'l juggernaut? Let him perish from the [ earth. ? Can't Stand Erery think'. a Two Arkansas men engaged in con- c versation : "Say, Unele Billy, you live in er pretty tough neighborhood, don't o yer?" d i<???li.. i u C<.. . .. "rri'iiy iwugu, ouuj , (ucuj uguu un <1 their slack." c "Do you ever get in fights?" t "No fights." I "Whut do yer do when er feller calls u yer a liar?" I "Wu'll I think that mebbe heknows a more about it than I do, and jest let t the thing rock along." i "Yes. and spozen he calls yer er p thief?" y "Wa'll, I jes think that mebbe he's V I 11 4l.A?? T 11 uuuer jiuairu man x aui. c( "Spozen lie calls you a coward ?" t "I wouldn't argy with him." r "Wa'll spozen he'd say that yer t couldn't tell ther age uv er Jioss by 1 lookin'in his mouth ?" t "What; me not know ther age uv er ( boss? W'y, Sain, ef er feller wuz ter i say that, he'd liavs me ter wliup, right 1 there. Don't talk ter me, Sam, don't l talk ter me, for it makes me mad ter f think about it."?Ex. 1 An exchange is surprised by an ac- ? count of a county newspaper losing M $200 by burglars. We would be aston- e ished above measure by hearing of a j religious paper losiug $20 in that way. t Perhaps burglars would be as consid- I: erate of us as they were of the man into whose house they broke one night, and who lay on his bed and a laughed. They glanced around once 1 or twice and continued their search, s The man could control himself no \ longer and burst into a fit of laughter, e One of the burglars came to him and c said : "What are you laughing jit, 1 sir?" The man almost choking with f laughter managed to say between the i outbursts: "You didn't?know?you I were in?a jueinoaisi preucnerk i house." "Poor fellow," paid the hur- ji glar, handing him five dollars, "lam ( sorry I came. Good-bye." Never give out while there in hope, f but hope not beyond reason. s Taking Tilings as They Are. BY ELLA A. DBINKWATICR. In taking things as tliey are, or in aking tilings as they are not, lies one f the chief differences between one >erson and another person. We canlot treat people as if they were what hey ought to be, or even as if they vere what they will be; but. if we I'ould deal justly and agreeably, we nu*i taKe people as mey tire. We cannot live in the world as if it vere an ideal world ; we must take lie hard facts, and make the best of hem. The reason why the teachers in a ertain school are continually clashing yitli their principal, is simply because hey are taking her as she should be,? iberal-minded, sweet-tempered, wotianly; now, if they would take her s she is,?narrow-minded, irritable, hildish,?and treat her accordingly, natters would run smoothly. The majority of people arise in the norning expecting children to be perfectly obedient and truthful, employrs to be courteous and just, servants o be respectful and trustworthy, and /\nmom'/wia i r\ Kr? ovmivtf n nil ongenial, and the instant that they iseover that any one is not as he hould be, the worry and vexation of he day begins. "But ilought to be so," r, ''He ought to do so," is one of the ommonest exclamations we hear,? isually given in excuse for some disppointment or dissatisfaction with ur environment. Looking facts steadily in the face lever makes them any worse, and ieed net make us unhopeful. Not /hat England or Germany ought to o, influenced jfrince Alexanders acions, but just the attitude in which he surrounding countries stood to Julgaria necessitated his abdication. 4 ^ ? ? Anybody can fall below his average tandard without an effort. No one :m rise above his average standard without an effort. This suggests the irection in which our endeavors ught to be constantly making. Une?ss we try to gain, we shall never adance. Unless we try to gain, we hall drop backward. It is just here hat so much depends on our ideals,? 11 our minds and in our models. If ve have the inspiration and the exitement of a noble inspiration, or of a loble example, we are likely to be triving to be better than our best. If here is nothing before us which we ecognize as beyond our own highest ttainment, we are in danger of fail ng 10 Keep up wnn our lurmcr iiiui n f progress. One of the bright stories f Margaret Gatty tells of a school-boy fho ha<l a high reputation as a mimic, t. sppnipd an thnucrli he could be iust ike any one *.vhom be pleased to firiiate. But a wiser friend asked him to how how the handsomest hoy in the chool looked, and how the best speakr declaimed. Then, as the young nimic found himself quite incompeent to this, lie realized that all of his lower of imitation lay in the direcion of lowering his own standard, nd of mimicking defects which had lot yet become his own, And it could be well if others also realized his truth as to their power of imitnion. It is so much easier to fall than o rise. Blessed is he whose inspiring ;IeaI, in his friendships and in his piritual life, is way above his present iossibilities of attainment. No brother can win "glory" from be death of a brother. Cain won no glory" when be slew Abel; nor irould Abel have won "glory" bad he, n the exercise of strict self-defense, ucceeded in slaying the wicked Cain, 'be soul recoils in horror from the bought of praise or honor as the meed f any such melancholy, hateful sucess. And what is true of a contest iet\veen two brothers, is equally true f a contest between many. No army an win glory, by dealing death or deeat to an army of brothers. As all nen are brothers, so by irresistible onsequence all war must be fraticidal. Uid can glory come from fratricide? sTo! no! Tell mc not, then, of the lomage which the world yet offers to he military chieftain. Tell me not of he ''glory" of war. Tell me not of he "honor" or "fame" won on its nurderous field. All is vanity. It is , blood-red phantom, sure to fade and lieappear. Nobler aims, by nobler neans, shall fill the soul. A new tandard of excellence shall prevail; nd honor, divorced from all deed.'- of ilood, shall become the inseparable atendant of good works alone. Far tetter, then, shall it be, even in the udgment of this world, to have been i doorkeeper in the holise of Peace, han the proudest dweller in the tents if War.?Charles Sumner. As a member of the universal church if love and brotherhood, I can not but leclare my most vigorous opposition gainst war in all its forms. I have ome to a Christian country in order o study all the varied and numerous (bases of Christian thought, feeling, ? ....4. t sw* .liu action ; uui i uiiisi ouj, cuuuiuij, can not understand how Christians, s Christians, can fight so brutally as hey often do. As a Hindoo, I can lot understand ; and look upon it as a ;reat anomaly in Christendom, how, ear after year, the most deadly wea?on.?, and engines of torture and war ,re being invented, in order to carry he art of slaughtering our brother nan to perfection. These are barbari" - ' *--? *1.:...... les; in use uiu uruuu unn^ >vnaii lave cast u slur upon a Christian naion, and which, for the honor of a christian nation, ought to be removed nstantaneously. I really can not tell iow the followers of the Prince of Jeace can ever go to war. I can not, or one moment, believe that men can iveand die true Christians, without loingall in their power to check and rrest the growth and spirit of war. Phe demon of war requires to becrushd down immediately and in every >ossible way. O, for the day when he din of battle shall no longer be J ..?Il,? ?o..| 1, t iua.ru upun me tttuii. A church that is all doctrine, which ppeals only to the intellect, is like a mm an skeleton without fleth. It is tifF, cold and lifeless. And a church vhich appeals only, or largely, to the motions, to the feelings, is like a body f flesh without bones. There may be ife enough, but it lacks strength, brm, and endurance. Many churches iow are strongly tending that way. t is an unnatural, unhealthy growth. ATe need doctrine and feeling, bone - I a?j. Thiti ia II1U IICSI1, IU ?" a Hio Hod's plan. The fear of danger is often more difieult to encounter than the danger itelf. HOUSE AND FARM. The Uses of Lemons. t Lemons are one. of the most useful jj fruits in our domestic economy. g Lemonade is not only a luxury, but c exceedingly wholesome. It is a good j, temperance drink. ti The juice of a half a lemcn in a ^ nrlfiau / ? f u*nfni* uttnroi* will fro quently cure a sick headache. If the hands be stained, there is nothing that will remove the stain better than a lemou or a lemou and i, salt. After the juice has been sqtieez- ( ed from the lemon, the refuse cau be 0 used for the purpose. ti Lemon juice and sugar, mixed very 0 thick, is useful to relieve coughs and 0 sore throats. It must be very acid as f, well as sweet. . v Lemou juice is also a very good rem- v edy for rheumatism and the so-called billiousness of spring. In the latter hi ease the juice should betaken before j q breakfast, The pulp may also be eat- ^ eu, avoiding every particle of skin. Useful Hints on fnstrj. j! Butter and eggs for cake should al- v ways be beaten to a cream. t, In beating eggs beat the yolks until you can take up a spoonful; whip whites to stilf froth and stir them into cake with the flour the last thing before putting cake into tins. i; Flour should always be sifted just y before you wish to use it. a Baking powder should be thorough- a ly mixed with the flour dry. tl To boil a pudding in a bag, dip bag a (which should be made of thick cot- a 4.? i: \ :~ 1,^4- l>n.i WI%K ii(A tt t/llli UT llllUUJ 111 uwt WUICI illiu 1UU mc I inside with flour before putting in the w pudding; when done dip bag in cold f; water and the pudding will turn out x easily. Always put a plate on the hot- ti torn of the kettle to keep the pudding S1 from burning. j Salt for Manure Tiles. i* Salt is one of the best materials to tl put on manure heaps in winter, it will f, keep them from freezing during very ^ t.tAnfUAH nn/1 lirlinn 5f 1Q U'QI'mPr 1. uwm >yc?iiiui, anu nuvii iv <? ? Jv will keep the heap mois-t and prevent ? fi re-fa nging. Salt iu connection with ( carbonic acid gas is an excellent sol- j vent, and it is a good fertilizer for land containing a large amount of vegetable matter. Of cource where salt is applied on manure piles it should be;a where it will not be long exposed toj p rains, as its power to make fertilizers t soluble will then causc loss. But ifL tlin niotmrp la fn l?p at: nnf>f? (ImWII OM I ? the field thert ia little danger from v this, .is the fertility will be absorbed r by the soil. d ? j Sacking the grapes not only saves \i from mildew and rot, but from birds, v wasps, etc. The work may begin as p .soon as the young fruit is, say, one- \ twe'fth inch diameter. Manila paper t AMA lltlA/1 S\ f fl\n Vn 9 (117P TllP n ilic UOCU, VI kiiv Vi ? u??Vf A j, open sack is slipped np over the clus- ^ terand the mouth is closed by two di- q agonal folds, one on each side, fitting i closely around the stem of the cluster. c The fastening is done with a pin. The u fruit ripens well iuside the sacks, and v it will keep a long time on the vine after being ripe. Never place the perches in the henhouse one above another or one higher * than another. Fowls usually keep go- n ing up until they reach tne nignest r perch. Tf there should not be room i enough for all, the strong will crowd I the weak ones off. The perches c should not be more than three feet I' high. Heavy chickens often hurt * themselves by jumping from hicrh c pcrelies. Round, smooth poles, with r iegs to them, make good perches, and I are easily moved to clean. 1 In storing potatoes the first consid- ^ erarion is 10 Keep me III ui jjci icui darkness; the next is that the bins A should not be too deep, not over three feet, else it produces warmth and causes them to sprout. I It is certainly better, in trimming a|a tree, to thin out the smaller branches than to cut off the ends of all the f limbs. All bearing fruit trees require r the sun and good ventilation. j. Experience in a Glasgow hospital s has taught that, while boiled or fried fish is a dangerous diet for weak persons, steamed fish is harmless. A precious thing is all the more precious to us if it has been won by work 0 or economy. ^ Not Much, Just a Little. When a visitor to the carnsie jiidian School asked ft young Cheyenne Jt girl if she was a member of the church, ( she answered, "Not much, just a little." There are a good many people t! in all our churches who might truth- j: fully answer that question in the same s way. Such are the sort of church ^ members who go to church when a "they feel like it;" who give to lli3 t support or spread of the gospel not on -j principle, and not according to system p and a fixed proportion or ineuiucoim-, () but merely as they happen to be mov- c ed by some preacher's persuasive elo- j f|iience; who are zealous in the matter rj of fairs and festivals, hut shun the t drudgery of Sunday-school work, or seeking out strangers and bringing t them to church, or caring for the sick n and the poor, or gathering souls unto (] the kingdom, or systematically culti- t vating the divine life. These are the ^ people who go to church not to wor- j. shin (jod, but to hear a good sermon k from uian, nnd who, therefore, slay t away from (Jod's house when they s happen not to like the minister. Such p people are of little use in any church. () They (to it harm and it does them no s goon, for they will not take the good it offers them. Better not to be a church member at all than lo be one ^ "not much, just a little."?Exchange, y ?. ^ t( As life moves on, and our comrades e and our leaders drop on this side and 0 that, and we look back through the a mist of years on those whose friend- s ? - f-lnnn cof itw sillp 01" WUOStJ SWUICIJ 1UII? nunc o?.* .v, a, mark on our own souls, how thankful- n ly do we recall those whose spontane- (] ous and half-unconscious utterances |, once rebuked, it may he, or guided, or e encouraged, or inspired us; planted in r, our souls the germ of thought or the t seeds of action. Country Sunday-schools are now at o their fullest, and city Sunday-schools ii are at their thinnest. And there are b '1 -l-~ -- 1? .#ilv JaK nlnon t] CH.V Dllliuaj-snriwuia n HUM win V.IU.U .. their doors because (lie summer at- u tendance at them would be only three c or five times as large as the best at- n tendance of the average country Sun- t; day-school all the land over. Only 11 think of i(! v ~ Wli.it Others Say. {liuffiilo Christian Advocate.) A Contrast.?The contrast bewecn the Advocates and bishops of lie Methodist Episcopal Church, iouth, and some of the official Advoates and bishops of our own church 11 regard to the question of prohibi- 5 ion is striking and suggestive. Our ( rethren South are manly and out- < poken in their support of the only 1 emedy that can touch the great crime. J lome of our high officials North touch lie subject as gingerly as politicians I coking toward an office. Why should J here be any difference in the attitude I f these men toward an evil that lireatens the life of the nation ? Bish- 1 p Galloway, of the South, in writing 1 n tne subject, says: "I wish for the 1 riends of reform in Texas a grand 1 ietory. If other duties allowed, I fould gladly spend some time in the r itate antl make my voice heard in be ialf of the amendment. Let every t !hristian citizen stand in his lot and < altie for the right." ? We may add that in a private letter < > the editor received a few days ago, tishop McTyeire says : ( I am glad that the plan of Episcopal ? isitation leaves me at home in Sep- * miber, so that I can yote for prohiblion. (Philadelphia Peaccnuikcr.) Horses for War Purposes.?It ? computed that a war in Europ? i^oultl destroy twenty thousand horses month. War ministers are looking bout all over the world to see where liey can get horses enough for their rmies. England reckons her horses t two millions ; she has none to spare, tussia has twenty-three millions, but ill not allow a horse to be exported. Canada has a million horses, and the Inited States twelve millions. We untf r\/\f AiiA A mAninnn w ! 1 1 C i uoi nut uw^; Ivan iiuicc ?mii ur ~ icrificcd to the insensate nmbition of i European despots. During the war in j 'urkey twelve thousand horses were i ?ft dead and dying on the battlefield, t is said horses die slower and harder < lian any other animal. How dread- j jl to take the useful and obedient i iorse into battle to be maimed and t ;illed! Will God forgive? Should ot our Society for the Prevention of | Jruelty to Animals be members of the i 'eace Society ? (Methodist Recorder.) < It is astonishing to what an extent ssu ranee and brass are taken by most ' iersons for real worth ! An unpretenious man of genuine merit is often I iassed by unnoticed, while a conceit- < d, self-important man, of not half his l worth, will be recognized as his supe- 1 ior. Sensible men have often to enlure this lack of appreciation, but be- ' ug sensible men, they can do this, I mowing that ultimately their worth i will be rewarded, if not by the api ? e ?.. 1 a? Ui* i >IUU>tflJI 111C III II 1 II tuuc, UJ 11 I C I al of those whose judgment is worhy of esteem. The great thing is for 1 man to render himself worthy of an- i iroval whether lie receives it or not. j ?he consciousness of this will afford i liui more real pleasure than all the I ompliments that could be bestowed 1 ipon him, if he felt himself to be un- 1 rorthy of them. (Crafts) A Converted Imagination.?Con- i 'ersion begins in the will, but does lot end there. The best test of compete conversion is to recall our most uvoluntary actions. Being let go (in lours of leisure), you go to your own ompany. (Acts iv. 23.) A man is mown by the company he seeks involuntarily at such times. Still more lothe involuntary actions of the mind eveal the true condition'of the heart. V man is not fully converted until he las a converted imagination. It was n infill imagination that produced the ins that could only be washed out vitb the flood. (Gen. vi. 5; viii. 21.) (ITol.iton Method>.\t.) , There are too many men who want i o create a sensation and to be talked < ,bout. Natural, reasonable, approprite things do not make noise enough < or them. They are not so anxious "to i nakean axe, or hoe. or horse-shoe, or torse-shoe nail, as they are to make a izzle. The Baliy Argument. A pastor spoke to a gentleman in his ongregation about becoming a memier in full communion, when the folowing little dialogue took place : "I'll not plead the baby argument vith you, Doctor." "What is that ?" "Why, that there re a great many hypocrites in the , Jhurch." ' ' That gentleman did not wish to dela re himself on ihe Lord's side, but .. 1? t/i ti.vr (n inufifv 111 ril - ' It? \Vil3 I WW IliUlll J CW ^ J %..%r elf by the baby argument. It <> ? , >aby argument. The fuet that there re hypocrites in the Church proves ' hat there are many good people there, ^le existence of a forged bank bill : roves the existence of the bank ami ' f many genuine bills. A spurious : oin proves the existence of the genulie coin of which it is an imitation * ""here cannot be an imitation where 1 here it nothing to imitate. There is another way of getting at hose people who use the baby argu- ' uent for not being Christians. "You \ lon't like hypocrites?" "No." "Well, here are no hypocrites in heaven. : Vhy don't you try to go there? Hell s full of hypocrites, way no you ;eep on the hroad road that lends? here? If you don't like hypocrites, t range that you should shun the only dace where there are none, and rush n to the place where they will all i pend eternity." c Nothing is harder in life, nor no- I ler, than to do one's simple duty s rlieu tnej-e is a strong itMupuHiwu um ?. :> do it. A duty that would l>e very i asy at another time, is a very difficult t ne just then. Yet it way be said that man deserves no credit for doing his imple duty. That is true in one ense. but not in another. A ntati has o right to claim any credit for simple i uty-doingat any time; yet if he does i ..imr.ii. wlioii strnnirlv toinnt 13 aiuj|/iv~ uu(.j ? ???..? D-k (1 not to do it, lie shows the spirit of u < eal hero, or of a, real saint. Even hough he claims no credit for him- > elf, in such a case, we should fail in ^ ur simple duty it we did not accord t t to him. When did any man ever < ear himself worthily and with noble- i iesn, save by doing just thst which, s ruler the circumstances, a1! things I onsidered, was his simple duty ? Our oblt'iiess is really tested by our abiliy to perceive and to honor the noble- i ipss or anotners simple uuiy-uowg? 1 rhen it Is worthy of such recognition. 11 vi SCHOOLS. # The Four Thieves. BY DELIA W. LYMAN. The school-rooru at Emory Hall wa9 to still you could have heard a pin lrop. Thirty girls sat motionless, 'Olistprnfttinn nnrl Imrrnr uirflton heir faces. They had just heard Miss Emory say: "The missing gold locket has at last jeen found, and the thief discovered, [n justice to the rest, her name cannot >e withheld. It is?" And here every girl felt her heart eap to her throat, in the dreadful lauseono of their own circle should )e forever branded with the name of hief. "Her name," continued Miss Emo y, "is?Mary Martiu !" For the rest of their lives, those jirls could never efface tlie impre??Ioii . ; >i tnai scene, anu trie norror created 11 their minds by the discovery that >ne of their own number was a thief. None felt it more than three of the >Idcr girls, who were called ' the trio" )ecause they were constantly together; none were so indignant and shock;d as they, and none expressed more lorror at the awfulness of such a ;rime as stealing. One fine Saturday morning, the vhole school was delayed a half-hour, :i starting on an excursion, by thetarliness of Beth Brown, the youngest of , i he trio. ' Beth is always late," said one of lie girls, while they were waiting. 'I never mean to make an appointnent with her again. The other day ve were outdriving, and she stopped o make a call, promising she would i nily stay ten minutes, aud instead of * haf, she made me wait nearly'threequarters of an hour; and I missed my nusic lesson with Herr Siegel, which s so expensive I can't afford to lose 'gj t? "Yes," said another, "she made our 31?ss Day Committee waste nearly an lour yes'erday by her tardiness, and " n examination time too; it was just >; diking so much from our stand." Emily Maynard was the second of he trio who so loudly denounced Mary Martin. ' Hun flotr of VAAAOO oliA AMA <1 vuv viaj av irvcao nuu woo IMIC KJl tt ^ ?rouoof girls lolling and talking under a fine elm in the garden. "What a splendid Greek scholar ^3 Meta Winslow is!" said one. "Yes," suid Emily; "but do you know, girls, I was up in her room the jther day, and I'm sure I saw, under a pile of books on her table, a "pony" to Homer!" The bell rang just then, and they went in. Kate Penfield, one of the - . ^ *irls who heard Emily's remark about ihe pony, told it to her room-mate, Belle Upton, who, that evening, wrote the following in her letter home : "i am sorry 10 say mai i iniuK we had better give up the idea of engaging Meta Winslow as the children's governess next year, for though she is poor, and needs the situation, I know you will not want the children to be iu the care of one whose reputation for honesty has been questioned. I have learned to-day that she uses a pony in getting out her Greek." And so through Emily's careless speech poor Meta lost the situation which she so much needed; for the so-called "pony" which Icy on her ta ble wa? but a collection of essays by Matthew Arnold on "Translations of Homer." Charlotte Stone was the third of the three girls who expressed such horror tit Mary Martin's crime. When Commencement Day at Emory Hall at last arrived, among the J essay-readers none was prettier than T Charlotte. As she stood on the ivytrimmed platform in her dainty and becoming white dress, and read one of '* the best essays of the morning, aduniration wus plainly written on the faces of the large audience before her, and, U ns she concluded, the loudest applause of the day greeted her gratified ears. At the reception in the evening, Charlotte was the centre of attraction, and many were the compliments i r which she received on her essay. "It was one of the most original produc- - . tions I ever heard from onesn young," r: remarked a venerable professor. Char- j lotte looked prettier than ever as she smilingly thanked him, and turned to receive similar praise from the next comer. Who would have suspected that on the highest shelf in the large Emory Flail Library, in Case A, lay a book, the third from the left, which contain- . I'd an article beginning at page 201, vFmm which everv idea in Charlotte Stone's original (?) essay had been carefully culled, and, with Hlight variations in the wording, bodily transplanted? And yet she herself would hardly liave been shocked at this barefaced Jescriplion of her production; for from her childhood she had little by little acquired a habit of appropriately as her own, both in conversation md writing, the thoughts of others, that by degrees her moral sense that my deceit was involved in it, was almost entirely gone. Hut neither she nor Beth nor Emily would ever have dreamed of stealing a ;old locket, nor did they at all consider that time, reputation, and original :houghts are often more valuable than i dozen lockets, and least of all would hey have understood the strange and dunt title of this story. lie Was a Gentleman. ^ i j? * i? Some amusing stones are 101a 01 uie nit and wisdom of London schoolchildren. A class of a Board school A'cre being examined orally in Scripure. The liistory of Moses had for >ome time been a special study, and >ne of the examiners asked, "What vould you say of the general characer of MosesV" ??s "He was meek," said one boy. "Brave," said another. 11 T >1 ..,1.1^,1 ? ll.i.J I .LiCUl lltu, UUUCU U II1IIU UU(V "Please sir," piped forth a pale-faced leatly-dressed lad. "he was a gentlenau." ''A gentleman?" at-ked the examiu- 4 >r. "How do you make that out ?" The boy promptly replied, in the lame thiu, uervous voice, "Please, sir, tvhen the daughters of Jethro went to lie well to draw water, the shepherds jame and drove them away; and Moses helped the daughters of Jethro, uul said to the shepherds, 'Ladies list, please, gentlemen.' " God protects those who think of nothing but performing their duty, without perplexing themselves aoom :he consequences of it. I