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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1887. VOLUME XXXII. NO 17. |jj Christian Neighbor. BY REV. NIDI If. BROWXE, Of the South Carolina Conference. Our I.ife Rattle. The Optimist and the Pessimist will each argue on behalf of his own opinion j Ui 11113 WUIIU UI VUi-% mm an vx? ward pood or ill. Oiling defalcations, divorces, murders, et\, the latter delightedly determines that he is right, and calls on you to be governed by his array cf i facts ; his lighter hearted friend points to benevolent and philanthropic enterprises, both individual and public, and to the increased activity of workers among the masses, and hopefully sees progress toward better things. Should the Pessimist be right?if the j io rrAinrv foolnr on/1 factor fn rr?nml I ruin?what is gained l>v nhvays thinking of it? Shall we all net upon the dark belief, and cease to work for the betterment , of those worse oft* than ourselves? , Nothing is like the energy of hope?that i bred of despair is short lived. In an army who do you imagine are the best I j fighters? Arc they those who watch a retreating regiment, it being routed from | the field. Are they those who, seeing j this, and believing the battlo lost, flee from the tight, leaving none to oppose the enemy? But this comparison however good is not correct, for the analogy does net hold. There may be a time in these horrible battles, in these evil contests between the brute force of one brother and another, when to recognize defeat becomes a necessity, when to retreat is truest gain. But here the end is finite, the battlo must come to an end at some time however distant. In the war waged between the Father of Lights and the ?r#?! -r ?i.? ?V>,. , rnuuta Ul Uillmivsn uivtwiHOTi 10 ? I time but for eternity. True the fighting ends with what we call time, but the results stretch far beyond, determining the destiny of the millions of the human | race. If then we can at best do only our small part, figlit only our small fight s against the powers of evil, why weaken , our courage by looking after the losing < regiments, the routed forces breaking ( rank here and there? As the battle must | continue till the end of time, whether t we help or whether we withhold ourl, band from the strife, why should we notjj fight even in weakness and fear, and ( against all odds? Why believe we are ( losing when there can be 110 retreat, ( when by no act of ours can wo terminate j the battle? If we who array ourselves on 1 the side of right, of God, should seethe ( world, as we think, fretting worse, whose { fault is it? Only yours, and yours and ( mino. Then we must know that by our , doing good work, each in his own place, j the world need not get worse but better. , "The CieorffiJi Barbarism." Sach is the heading stuck to the Glenn ( bill as it appears copied by the Friends? ' Review (Philadelphia) from the Indcpon- ' dent, published somewhere else North. That bill which is now before the Georgia Legislature, prohibits the mixing ana educating of whites ami colored in the same school. As nothing is said l?y either of these journals as to which of the races will be made to suffer the "barbarism" provided for in the bill, it might enable those sympathisers with one race or the other (which ever it is) to have a better knowledge of said "barbarism" if they or their ! children and others of the same faith and 1 order would come down into Georgia and sit in school between the Southern whites and colored, and thus arrest and absorb the barbarism that might otherwise pass from the one class to the other. Further more, such a course of study would qua!- j j ify these friends to speak on the ground < and frotn experience rather than per the- 1 ory at:d from a foreign stand point. Slimier** Wrecked Rank. ' i August 20, Charles E. Bartlett, Cashier I of the Sumter Hank, disappeared leaving J the bank in a wrecked condition. Great j confusion has followed. The bondsmen j1 of Bartlott, the officers of the bank, de-jJ positor's and all concerned are trying to ;' seo what is gone and what is left. The j! following from the Daily Register is the ! latest wo have seen : Sumtku, Ausr. 2".?The bank examiner ' furnishes the following statement of the I condition of the wrecked bank : Assets, i I notes due the bank, ?45,700; cash in safe. j| $1,S00 : to be returned from sale of bonds j, in Washington, $2,000; refunded by Cashier Bartlett, 82,700 ; cash in checks, $150 ; I' factory stoc.<, $.100; total assets. $T?2.Nf>0. ( T)ue to depositors, a little over $<>2,000.! Other liabilities as yet unknown. The receiver will be here on Monday. Colonel Wallace left for Charleston to- i night, and will make arrangements to j lainjr ?H n u?u?rv.uwn i/u^iiiw ai. \/u\,v , i Bartlctt's bondsmen protest against the j appointment of the receiver. As before indicated, Bartlett's defalcation will be over ?<>5,000. Depositors will get most of their money l>3' January next. Dr. Ilaj'srooil"* Pet* in Texas ?ive liiin the Dodge. an?l give Prohibition the Slip. The Michigan Advocate says: The negroes of Texas are being round- j ly denounced for their failure to vote for j the amendment. Wo believe the colored | man is being made a scape-goat of in this j matter to a considerable oxtont. Our , view is strengthened by the statement of Rev. Dr. Hay good, in a letter to the Wesley an Advocate, just before the battle. He says: "If this election is lost to the good cause, it will not be the fault of the negroes." n.,,1 fulfil VUXitvumi^ uun |?iHUM ?W nient tlic Testis A dvocUTc remarks : I)r. llaygood's judgment, on most questions, unusually good, nodded in this instance. The negroes went against us largely. Dr. Haygood can take comfort, however. A Texas darkey, like Texas weather, is "mighty unreliable." If the Doctor would get a "slate" black on both sides and use a yellow pencil his calculations might not, as the disappoint- I eel school hoy would say. "miss the 'an- [ flwer' so fur." Tho big heading to this short article is all of a piece. It is said that the Piedmont Exposition obe held in Atlanta in October, will be he largest exhibiiion of Southern industries ever held in the South. One .11Ikn?.tinny 11 its. That postal did not reach my man or ho diil not roach it, hcnoo I didn't go, Friday night, August '2C>, into tho country I. 1 Ivnf iiiM^n/1 itifn fhn ihtyi'iju v uiilv'hi, udb i.ui ikm jv..v "Derrick House" for the night. Defore going to my room went round and staid a little while with John Shealey. Slept in deep water?didn't know anything of the two earthquake shocks?not troubled with mosquitoes nor any thing akin to thorn. The few sick in town I found and learned, Saturday morning, were better. Took a seat with James Fulmer, Esq., and went with him to dinner, three and a half miles?not the dinner but the distance. Visited some of his near neigh nors in mo UllCIIHMiu, men anci ????.kindly escorted by him over, tip and clown a number of bills to Alonzo Miller's. On top of the first hill we halted at Levi Rikard's, Esq., who had just landed home. A littlo chat with that venerable citizen and we jogged and jolted on. Ksijuire F. let mo out at Drayton Rikard's find turned homeward. Talked a while with friends in the porch, then a walk of i hundred yards and I was at Alonzo's. My stay with him was estimated by Inm and his good wife at its full worth, if not more. These hard working people like to have their preacher to visit them. riicir pastor regrets that lie does not see them oftener at their homes. Sunday morning the buggy and the l?ig wagon were well tilled with men, women and children from the little town. Some stopped on the way and others took :heir places. The mules did nice pulling up the hills while ever so many of us told he driver how to drive. The passengers seemed not to care about the rough roads, the hills, or any thing of the sort. I ihought of the troublo and distance to travel some peoplo had to get to church, Hid that I ought to pray much for such md preach to tliem the best I knew how. Pastor and Hock ought to know and care for each other. Day fair, congregation ditto. No one slept or talked during worship. Home ivith Stun liouknight in that everlasting 'brake" that carries all that can get in or >n. "Sammie," as Ills wire cans ner icavier half, was not afraid of any thing creaking except the "lines" when going lown hill?mules so hard to hold back going downhill. Pity tliere wasn't more >f that mule streak in some folks about going to meeting. After dinner a crowd >f the younger folks wheeled whizzing o the west and Sam mie and I were drawn >y gentle and reluctant "Sid" toward the >pposite point of the compass, touching it John Spann's and Totn Warren's and anting anchor at Fulmer's. Friend Samnio tacked about for homo. Two more instoral calls and wondered if I had not, since Friday night, made nearly as many ills fAiffhteon) as Rev. 0. II. Pritchard would have done. Guess the folks of my iharge made the fodder and cotton fairly ly Monday morning, and wero willing or their pastor to go about other business. S. II. B. V Singular Custom?I>ra<l Indiana* Debt*. "The debts of dead Indians are paid by heir relatives," said an ex-merchant on Main street the other day. "When Anlerson and Barn hart, * he continued, 'killed the Indian several years airo, he nvcd me $"45. Sinco that time $330 of his amount has been paid me by his rel 1' A 1. ? /lop Hives. JM'UlllClyV UIVII lin: wmoi nving me about ?5(1. Already his rela:ives have approached me on the subject ind made arrangements to pay the unnnnt. Tt is a law with them to pay :he dehts of their dead relatives and they lever break it. I am sure of getting my money if an Indian dies owing me, but ivhen a white man dies leaving no propjrty, no matter how rich his relatives, T lever expeet to get a cent. There is a; jreat deal of good about a dead Indian J myhow," said the ex-merchant, as he I losod his interesting conversation and talked away.?Kant Oref/miimi. Thus relatives express respect for their lead. And it may bo presumed that a; Jving Indian would, if worthy of respect, jo cautious in contracting debts. This ivny of paying a dead man's delits would be among the last customs of the "savage" which the "pale faces" would ulopt. However unfortunate an honest poor man may be when he dies, and however just the debts he may leave, and liowover rich his relatives may be, no me pays what the dead man owed. This custom would not work well with the white people even in Christendom. For loo many men will go in debt as far as they can, and caro nothing about pay while they live and care as little as tn ivlint hncniripe nf Hifiir flftbts after thev [ire dead. Richmond, Vam August 22.?Movements are being made to have the largest gathering ever seen here at tlie cornerstone layiiur of the Robert E. Lee monument, which takes place in October. Gen. Beauregard will bo asked by Governor Lre to be chief marshal on the occasion. Jefferson Davis, us well as all officers and men who served on the Confederate side during the lato war will be invited.?Ex. Does Governor Lee propose to honor the naino of Gen. Robert 1C. Lee by thus hoisting Gen. Beauregard out of the mire and disgrace of a lottery? Will the ad mirers or tuo om ucnorai sunn ami seu his memory thus treated ? Or does Gov. Lee regard military honors and Hie prestige of a lottery so nearly compatible as that they may be united in a cornerstone? Out on Hail. Jones, the Edgefield murderer of the three Presslcy's is out on bail, 810,000. The tale of his killing the father and two sons is too fresh to he retold, lie was convicted and sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. Recently however, bond was granted, pending a now (rial. Oreat indignation at the action of the court is felt in the section whero the murder was coimiuueu, ami cimsiuenible talk of lynching has boon indulged in. Max Weil is the richest Jew in New York, bis figure I>eing estimated at 88,000,000. Following him are forty other millionaires of the same race. The Hebrow capital in the Cotton Kxchange is over ?0.000,000, and of city real estate they hold at least 8100,000. An estimate of the annual transactions of the whole snle trade of New YorK none uy iiebrews, puts the figures at S2fi2,00ft,(i0n. COM MONS The "Amen Corner.w I tell you. Heclcy, I believe that's why we keep retreatIn'; The world and Katnn have combined to give the Church a boat in'; They nay they've found a better way; "religion has 110 tiioiirner: And st? they've smashed the mourner's bench, ....,1 ! ///?.? Il.n .1 v ninn nnrnw.'1 Hut. wife, there's one thing comforts mo, the Church will bo a standln'; When Satan nn?l his scoffing crew have made a final lumllu'. The Church Is built on solid rock, and proof against the scorner; We'll lind the Now Jerusalem much like the "Amen corner." [ Pcnuixular HMhmli.it, Bad Smelling Feet. (J HO. L. CUKTISS, M. r>. It is a misfortune to any oerson, man or woman, to be afflicted with bad smelling feet. They are annoyed themselves with the consciousness that they are anuoying others. It is often a difficult matter to correct this miserable affaction. Many remedies have been suggested and used, some with partial success, but many of them without any good results however. There are several causes for bad-smelling feet. One is the want of ordinary cleanliness. In such a case a plentiful use of soaj) and warm water will remove the difficulty at once. A person is almost criminal who goes ten. hours with bud-smelling feet from this cause. Another cause is the thickening of portions of the skin, especially on the joints, heel and bottom of the foot, which by remaining long in the place seems to go through a semi-decay. It is no wonder that it should give ofT a bad odor under such circumstances. In such a case, the feet should be soaked well in warm water, and with a sharp knife cut away the dead and fhi/?bonin<r elrin_ This mn.v need to! be repeated every few weeks as the thick skin accumulates. At present there is no remedy known to prevent this accumulation of dead skin. In some cases there is a general disease of the skin of the feet, especially contiguous to the sweat pores. There is a large and unnatural perspiration, which remaining on the stockings and coming in contact with the leather of the shoes, hy fermentation which is always a decay of material, produces the bad odor. In such cases the feet need to be well washed with soap and warm water and wiped dry with a hard crash towel. Then they should be washed with Boracic Acid, of about ten grains to the pint of water. Then they should be allowed to dry or nearly so on the feet, and wipe with a dry towel. This it may be necessary to do f?r tiipop nr four davs in succession. but at the very outset there ought to he a marked correction of the odor of the feet. If after some days there is discovered a recurrence of the unpleasant odor, the use of wash needs to be repeated. The Right Spending of Money. A Christian's hourly conviction about all his spending should be that lie is a steward tor uou, uoui ms regards himself and liis neighbor. Among the rough tests of the genuineness of our religion, none is so sure as our habit of giving away. Hut this is one of those matters in which the truest wisdom is to be at once methodical and free. A conscientious man should, as a matter of! course, set aside a certain part of his income as belonging to God, and sacredly to be dedicated to him. The nriucinle. however, once recognized,: the special application of it. must vary i according to the individual case. Are there many children or few ? Is i the annual income professional and fluctuating, or permanent and certain ?, Here are, at least, two among: other conditions which will materially affectjhe power, and so the duty of giving. Such proportion, inflexibly set aside for the Master's use, need not necessarily he all that is given. Any sudden accession of fortune or j great bit of worldly success should be recognized by a special thankofFering ?gratefully, for it is be who gives usj power to get wealth; promptly, for. the sooner it is done the more likely it [ is to be done. A gift deferred often: menns a gift diminished. That it is set apart for divine uses [ does not necessarily imply tlint itj should all be devoted to strictly religi- j ous purposes. There are many doors into the Temple of Charity, and various are the altars 011 which our offering may be laid. Only let us take care that our charitv be not so mechanical as to lose! all Its true vitality, so much a matter' of habit, that we forget, when we give, humbly to offer it to our God. It is [ the motive that makes the gift pre-i cious, in the grateful love that lays it at the Lord's feet, once pierced to savej us; in the wondering joy that thrills; through the heart that God should accept anything at our hands.? Thorold.' Why Heads Becomc Bald. The article of Mr. W. G. Gouinlock, I in the Popular Scicnce Monthly for; May, gives an intelligent and apparent- j ly logical explanation of the phenomenon of baldhearls: This writer attributes the loss of hair, to the wearing of hard, close-fitting, hats, the pressure of which against the; unyielding skull prevents the free j flow of blood throuirh the arteries and veins which feed the hiiir roots. A ! sluggish circulation is thus produced,' the bulbs and follicles of the hair do' not receive proper nourishment, and ; as a consequence it languishes and i dies. When it is remembered that the; hair, like all other portions of the! body, is dependent upon a free circula-, tion of the blood for its nutrition and I growth, it seems very reasonable that; the habitual pressure of a hard hat! would have the effect indicated. Between the hair and the hard bones of the head nothing intervenes but the | ski 11 with its interlacing of veins and cineries, s<? iiiul mr sn^uii'm (Htrasuic must serve to seriously restrict the flow and tlie reflow of the blood through these channels. If this is jjood reasoning, and it certainly seems such, there must he a speedy return to soft hats, or the hard hat. now so popular, must be provided with some kind of an interior contrivance that will not choke oil all the blood from the hair-roots. Tlie ventilated hat is good as far as it goes, hut it takes blood as well as air to keep the hair alive and growing. ? o "If we do what we can, God will not be wanting to do that for us which we can not." ~ Bcechcr and Ingersoll. In a large company, Col. Robert Ingersoll had been speaking eloquently against Christianity, when Mr. Beeeher remarked: "I witnessed a most deplorable spec lucie iu-uuy. "Whatwas it?" inquired Col. In- s go r soil. 1 "Why," said Mr. ]Jeecher, "as I was walking down town to-day, I saw a b poor lame man with crutches slowly and carefully picking his way through 11 a cesspool of mud, in the endeavor to e cross lhe street. He had just reached P the middle of the filth, when a big, n burly ruffian, himself all bespattered, I1 rushed up to him, jerked the crutches a' from under the unfortunate man, and ? left him sprawling and helpless in the ^ pool of liquid dirt, which almost engulfed him." "What a brute he was," said Inger- I1 soli. ~ tl "What a brute lie was," they all l1 echoed. s "Yes," said Mr. Beecher, rising 11 from his chair and brushing buck his P long, white hair, while his eyes glit- fc tered with their old-time fife as he bent (hem on Ingersoll, "yes, Col. In- h gersoil, and you are the man. The hn- a man soul is lume, but Christianity gives it crutches to enable it to pass the highway of life. It is your teach- v ings that knock these crutches from ? under it and leave it a helpless and h tudderless wreck in the slough of des pond, it robbing tJie numan souj oi its only support on this earth?relig- t ion?be your profession, why ply it to fi your heart's content. It requires an v architect to erect a building; an incen- a diary may reduce it to ashes." ji Mr. Beecher sat down, and silence fi brooded over the sccne. Col. Inger- c soil found that he had a master in his li own power of illustration, and said 11 nothing. The company took their a hats and parted. I Conversion. I Canon Body is eloquent, and, when v he chooses, evangelical to a degree, s Nothing could bo better as a statement of what true conversion is than the following, which we take from the re- L port of an address in a London church l; last week :? g What is conversion? It had three a stages--(a) conviction of sin; (&) peace u through faith in Christ; and [c] sur- s render of the will to Christ, In other j; words, it involved repentance, faith, f and obedience. It was not a turning, j as many thought, from miseiy to hap- \ piness, but from sin to righteousness, I jj r JS?1.t ,1: nn/| ! , II'UIII UINUMVMIVIIUU t" UUI'IIICIIViC, liliu from the devil to God. One much ex- < perienccd in dealing with human 0 souls, who had only recently died, said t that all conversions which did not involve deliberate turning from sin to righteousness, sooueror later came to nothing. Men were only half converted who only took Jesus as their f Saviour, and did not throne Him in c their hearts as Christ their King. It i must be a real conversion of character v issuine in conversion of life. All oth- , er conversion was a delusion. J -??? t Wholesome Humbling'. t To pray that we may become low in j our own eyes needs some grace; but to n pray that we may be content to be lowered in the eyes of those around us, needs a large amount of grace.jt Suppose you were to be informed that j one, who stood high for his religious! 1 attainments, had expressed an unfa-!c vorable opinion of you, would not (his i be very displeasing to flesh and blood? js But I an) inclined to think that a true. \ Christian, though he would feel a little 1 nettled at the time, would be able to <; thank God for anything which keeps | down his pride, and sots him in his r proper place. And is not. the day soon !, coining when we shall be taken off the ' j false heights which we often stand up-j j on, and be brought to our true level? ^ when all the esteem of others shall vanish and pass away jikc smoKe ; uuu i we shall he just what God finds us to! be. neither more nor less? i | Christianity says, "Love your ene-i^ niies." Now what sort of love doesj that man bear toward bis enemy who, runs him through with a bayonet? 1 The distinguishing duties of Cliristi-jt unity must be sacrificed when war is;' carried on. The question is between the abandonment of these duties and(< tlie abandonment of war, for botli can i f not be retained. We willingly grant f that not all the precepts from thej Mount were designed to be literally \f obeyed in the intercourse of life. But! what then ? To show that their meaning is not literal, io not to show that they do not forbid war. We ask in our turn, What As the meaning of the precepts? What is the meaning of. "Ilesfst not evil?" Does it mean to 1 allow bombardment, devastation, jr slaughter? If it does not mean to al-, n low this, it does not mean to allow ji war. What, again, do the objectors ? say is the meaning of '"Do good to's them that hate you?" Does it mean;}; to "ruin their commerce," "sink their, I fleets," "plunder their cities," "shoot; I through their hearts?" If the precept ' does not allow this, it does not mean r to allow war .?Jonathan Dymond. 1 A more fatal error was perhaps nev- i er adopted by a rational being, than a ' * 11 ^ l tnat wmcn supposes:ui me ku"i ?? "i* war is to lie imputed to the party i which was first in offending; an error i which is resounded through every < land, as though it \v< re unqucstiona- .< ble truth. Hut where is the man of! 1 common sense so ignorant as not to j i know that the doctrine is false whenjt thus applied ? Jt is very common, inj> ontiru<> of jl eonlention. that the;( first offender is, on the whole, less: guilty than his antagonist. If the; principle were correct, a man might in innocently take the life of his neigh- ( bor, in revenge for one reproachful > word. Yet this monstrous doctrine t has been popular with the rulers of 1 I of Christian nations; and with by far 1 the greater portion of their subjects, j 8 Ou this principle, men have indulged jt i n>o wnrnt missions and nernetrated the! f worst crime which ever d if graced t lie j human character. -Noah Worcester. < j Avoid multiplicity of business of i the world; and in those that are una- i voidable, labor for an evenness andjs tranquility of spirit, that you may be j nrwl smooth in all toni-l? pests; for so we shall beUer tend re- i , litfion, when we are not torn in pieces t with the cares of the world, and seized t : ui?on with low affections, passions, ] I and interests.?Bishop Jeremy Taylor. < I To judge religion we must have it? ! not stare at it from the bottom of a i seemingly interminable ladder. " 1 HOUSE AND FARM. Advicc to Young Housekeepers. The young housekeeper should avoid he temptation to spend money too reely upon her house. It is a hard truggle sometimes not to buy this or hat trifle that would add to the b^auy and the comfort of the little home; ut while the refusal to acquire it ofiMi brings a sharp pang, its purchase nay result in regret of a more serious haracter. An excellent rule for people with limited means is, to buy noth oinmg ior which mey are unauie 10 ay cash. Anticipating money is a orry business. With judgment and conomy the housekeeper can generaly save a small sum from her weekly llowance. A quarter here, a half-dolir there, a dime perhaps in another lace, may seem almost too unimporant to lay aside, but I lie aggregate roves very useful occasionally. "Depiso not the day of small things," is a lotto which should be learned and ut into practice by every housekeepr. Such savings should be put away [>r any additions to her household bejngings that she may desire to make, nd not, thrown iuto the general fund, to one has a right to say what shall e done with such sums if not she k-lio has earned them by her economy s truly as does her husband his savugs by his labor.?Exchange. ? *? ??. Cokn Bread for Vigor.?Corn is he pioneer bread of this country. The [itbers of the younger generations tere, in cases, raised 011 corn bread nd pork meat. Even after years of nosperity brought more delicate food ;>r their wives and children, they lunc. in a measure, to that which mil been their strength and susteanee in their early days. There are great many people who like to have he old-fashioned corn bread anil some ried salt fork for their breakfast, and here are few perhaps who will read his who know how good it tastes, and /ho through this reminder will order uch a breakfast in the near future. Selling Good Horses.?Here is a lit of sensible advice from some level leaded writer : "A fanner who has a ood working team should be careful bout selling a price on them. He nay iind too late that it is easier to ell than to replace. There is no horse erfect in every respeet, and those nirly good are much more scarce than >eople are apt to suppose before they go lorse hunting. A good working team s an indispensable adjunct to good arming. If the team is to be sold Ihe >wner might in most cases be better iff to disnose of the farm at the same ime." " * A Nice Dish. Heef fritters are very nice for breakast, and when there is cohl roast beef >r steak to use up they are an agreea?le change from hash. Chop the meat 'ery fine; make a fritter batter of nilk, flour and one egg. Mix the neat with it. Put a large piece of (Utter into a sauce-pan, let it melt, and hen drop the latter into it from a large poon. Fry uutil brown, season with lepper, salt, a little chopped parsley ind a few drops of lemon juice. Small pictures should never be hung ? 1 1.. U AA?r?t Anna fit a In ff orv_ JtM'JW lUlgC 11CUVJ wurn , IIJC laiai ap>ear best in narrow spaces between Holdings and other convenient nooks, ir, if of high merit, resting on cabilets or mantels. In all cases these liould be as near as possible in a line vitb the eye. A single subject vividy portrayed may even be mounted >ver the door. Hives of bees, an exchange wisely emarks, should not be placed in close >roximity to dwelling houses, stables, ino fences or public highways, as the tees are liable to be disturbed and to lecome annoying, and often dangerins to people and animals. The quickest way to limber up a nowing-machine, or sewing-machine, s to apply kerosene to the bearings, [lid run them at high speed, after vl)leh they may be wiped and oiled. Keeping food before the fowl continlally removes all inducements for hem to snatch. They should be so ed as to be compelled to work. Cover the floor with dry dirt or sawlust in order to absorb the dampness rom the feet, thus adding to the combrt of the poultry house. It is said to be a fact that the fat rom wild ducks make leather pliable .nd thoroughly water-proof. TT lie aim iiiuuK-it Keeping her house well, and makng the little world over which she ules luippy, faithful, beautiful, the vouianly woman has neither time nor nclination for the life of out-of-door jlarin>r publicity which many of the ntwhllinn uho h?ic t'A illlt'Cl. u uni miiuiiiuii ?>iv ....m foes to the fame and well-being of her lusband, and to the future success of ler sons. She feels that it is a far nore blessed thing to be the wife mid notherof heroes than "personage" on ler own account, and that tlic glory :ast by the man whose name she bears s brighter and more sufficing than my with which she is able to surround ler own name. She does not. want to nake speeches on platforms, to see her lame in the newspaper, to be a leader >f movements, to talk arrant nonsense - /. l.tnnfu . Knfr Imlnu lu>r >11 IIIIIK'Ull nuujcvtn , Will SUV ?v> |/.7 mshand in liis study, in his laboratory; and many a man has owed as niieh of his fame and success to his vife's quiet and silent aid as he lias >wed to his own native power. Tiik Irishman was Ahead.?At i certain debating society an English loetor recently argued that the Irish vere naturally a depraved and dishonest race, and in support of hispositton te adduced his own experience. Ke emarked that he had at Manchester >00 Irish patients 011 ma dooks, out 01 his number only thirty paid him his ees. An Irishman rose when tlie doctor iat down, am! said : ''sJor, there is ever an eflect without a cause; there h never a phenomenon which does lot admit of an explanation. How, ior, can we explain the extraordinary ihenomenon of which the doctor ipeaks? He finds ati explanation in he natural depravity of the Irish nnure. I, sor have another explanation o offer, and it is this : That the thirty latients who paid him were the only 'iiua Hint rpfiovtu'ed." ? - ? The best virtue is that which people inve when virtue is unprofitable. What Others Say. (Xcw York Advocate.) It is a bright suggestion of Archdea eon Farrar's to meet the questions o: infidelity with harder questions. Ti most of the points raised by skeptics I Christendom frankly responds "I df not know." Now let the tables b< turned. "Where did matter come from ? Can a dead thing create itself Where did motion come from? When life came from save the finger-tip o Omnipotence? Whence came the ex quisite order and design of Nature', Tf Alio frilil vnn flint millSnno nf nrln ters' types should fortuitously shapt themselves into the Diviue Comedy o Dante, or the plays of Shakes peare, would you not think him i madman? Whence came conscious ness? Who gave you free will! Whence came conscience?" Dr. Far rar truly says: "fie who denies th< existence of God in the face of sucl questions as these, talks simply stupendous nonsense." To concede thai we cannot comprehend infinity can never weaken the position of a Chris tian. Clearly apprehend it, and the ueuer 111 uoirs power anu nis providence logically follow. (Jonathan Edwards) "Through Nature up to Na Turk's God."?As I was walking ant looking upon thesky and clouds, then came into my mind so sweet a sense o the glorious majesty and grace of God that I knew not how to express. ] seemed to see th?m both in a sweei conjunction; majesty and meekness joined together; it was a sweet, anc gentle, and holy majesty; and also ? majestic sweetness; an awful sweet ness, a mgn, ana grear, ana noiy gentleness. God's excellency, liis wisdom, liif purity and love, seemed to appear in everything; in the sun and moon anrl stars, in the clouds and blue sky; ill the grass, flowers, trees*; in the watei and all Nature, which used greatly tc fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for continuance; ant in the day spent much time in view ing the clouds and sky. to behold th( sweet glory of God in these tilings; ii the meantime singing forth with a low voice my contemplations of the Crea tor and Redeemer. (By Rev. Theodore L. Ciiylcr, D. D.) Life-Pkeaching.?The witty ant 1 t i ri-i i i- _ ri :^ jovial ijoru j'cieiuurougu, uu??i visu ing at the house of Fenelon, said t< him at parting. "If I stay here mucl longer, I shall become a Christian ii spite of myself." It was not any ex hortation from the good Archbishop'i lips that so impressed him, as thi beauty of a cheerful and consisten life. Godly living is what this poor wicked world is dying for the want o to-day. Pulpits only give forth thei utterances for two or three hours on i single day in the week; they reach th I i m i fori nnmKoi' wlin nnmo withil their range. But Jesus Christ call every converted soul ii:toa ministry o the daily life, and bids them preach 01 seven days of every week. "Let you light shine;" "As ye go, preach;' "Herein is my Father glorified tliaty bear much fruit"?these are aixnng hi; high commissions to every Christian (Nashville Christian Advocate.) It is manifest that the Romisl Church can never be what it once was the imperial dictator to its communi cants; and its authorities will not tr to make it such Again. The chief bus ine.ssof the organization now seems t< be to take care of itself, and this it cai not succeed in doing. Tts fulmina tions have lost their power to burn and its bulls can no longer gore. T consent to take a place on a level witl other voluntary religious organiza tions is to die by suicide; and to re fuse to take such* a position is to perisl by neglect. The Papacy can not lonj survive in this age of the world with out great modifications of its preten sions, and these modifications amoun to a sort of death. There will b doubtless for a long time to come j Roman Church, but the old Roman - 2? 1 j 1- ?11 1HIII is utrail |;uai an ICOUIIVUIV.I. ? i ? Looking around this meeting (of tli< London Peace Society in 1835), nr eye caught a little boy. apparently about nine years of age. He appearei to have been brought hither by hi mother. Now, sir, the appearance o that child led my mind back to j meeting very different from this; ; meeting to which a father brought hi son, nine years of age, there to swear on thealtarof Jupiter, eternal enmit; to the Romans. I thought this moth or had brought, her little boy. not t the temple of Jupiter, but to the tem pie of God, to vow, not enmity, bu love, eternal love, to every son of man I would that every mother, and ever; fat her, having a son nine years of ag<= should do the same. If mothers tak up intelligently the principles of th Peace Society, and train their childrei up In these principles, then we shal gain a triumph indeed. A Godlkss Housk.?A little boy three years old, whose father was care less, prayerless, and irreligious, speti several months in tlTe dwelling of godly family, where he was taught ii l_ - ' ne rliotna fl'lltll tlie simple eiemciii-?/i .... The good seed fell in good and toil der soil, and the child learned to not the difference between a prayerles and a Christian dwelling. One day as some one was conversing with th little fellow, about the great an<\ goo: G'od, the child said : " 1 Vc haven't any God at viy papa' Zioiifte." Alas, how many such houses then are in the world?houses where ther Ii,n i\pji!?ib lift wnrsliiti. Ill I la uw jjhv 11 i"??i , , J God! And what houses are they fo children, aye, and for men ami wo men, too. How much better is th< pure atmosphere of Christian lov than the cold, selfish worldliness of i godless home. Aren't you a queer Christian ? Yoi tell me you scarcely ever read you ! Bible; have no private prayer at noon laud take but a moment or two t?>^ re j peat a form morning and nignr. iui ; make no effort to lead people lo Christ j You can talk freely about almost ey j cry thing else but cannot testify ii class-meetiiiR. You are busy trying to have a nice home and to get alonj ! in this world. 1 Had you not better study your Bibli and see whether Christians do as 3-01 !do? It is written, "Because thou ar lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, ] will spue thee out of my mouth." fi.? wiiv to tro through thi | X II v V?.v ^ - o i world and escape censure is to taki 'souie back road. You cannot trave I lie main road and do it. SCHOOLS. l|J Lost?A Boy. , BY EBEN E. REXKORD. * He went from the old home hearthstone, ' Only two years aeo, ; A laughing and rollicking /ellow > 'Twould have done you good to know; _ i -r.j ' Since then we have never seen hlrn, * And we say with a nameless pain, > "The boy wc knew and loved so, j- Wc never shall see again." One bearing the name we gave him, Jj&j > Came home to us to-day; ' But he can not keep us from missing Tlia Ind nlin uronf outqw > Tall as the man he calls father, r With a man's look In his face, 1 Is he who takes by the hearthstone The lost boy's name and place. 1 We miss the laugh that made music Wherever the lost boy went; ? This man has h smile that Is winsome, And bis eyes a grave Intent. We know he is thinking and planning ? Ills way in the world of men; I And we can not help but love him. Though we long for our boy again. ~ i Yes, we're proud of this mauly fellow _ - y?! L Who comes to take his place, i With hints of the vanished boyhood In his earnest, thoughtful fuce; VjH j And yet comes back the longiog ;crj For the boy we sba'l always miss, . Whom we sent away from the hearthstone Forever, with a kiss. Johnny's Way. . ^>|a Papa asked Johnny to weed the I flower plot one morning, but at night -'3 ? he had forgotten it. Mamma asked "J i f him to please stay in the house with v , Mattie, Wed uesday afternoon, because ^ [ she had a cold and couldn't go out, r?. I and at night he said he didn't stay in < because he didn't feel like it, and I mamma didn't say lie must. 1 Then papa asked him another morn ing to weed the flower-bed, and at night when he asked why it had not been done, he replied, "'Cause you $ ; uiurrtsuy i must, ana i uiau't wane I Papa went into the house without - m i saying a word, and Johnny somehow felt uneasy. He followed papa around -?j ) and watched him closely. I Just after supper, papa remarked ' /f-3s 1 quietly: "I had a letter from your Uncle Fred ? this morning, Johnny, and your consi ins, Will ana Joe, have a birthday par' ty to-night. They have invited you." Johnny's eye9 surely would have '' made any oue laugh to Bee how widely a boy's eyes could open, then he fairly gasped in astonishment: 1 "Why?papa, why didn't you tell - me?" | > "Oh, I didn't feel like it," fretted 1 papa. i "But I'm invited to the Dartv." 3! - cried Jolmny, "and I must go." I s wouldn't miss one of those parties for b the world." I "Well," said papa, indifferently, , "yes, they invited yoo if I obose talet f you go, but they didu't say I mast, r and I don't want to." a Well it was a hard lesson; but-noth- -V^ e ing except a hard lesson was going to ) make any lasting impression on Johnsjny'smind, or helj^ liim to overcome t his faults. Uncle fiecrs House couia i have been reached by a ride in the r horse-cars, and nothing could be more ^ ' enjoyable than the birthday parties e the cousins, Will and Joe, were often a allowed to give. Johnny had attend. ed two or three, staying all night afterward, and always thought them the most delightful occasions imaginable. 1 In vain he eoaxed, and cried, and i, promised ; all he could get mammtfor S - papa to say was. that they didn't feel y like letting him go, or didn't want to. C i" Kind-hearted little Mattie tried to per- j2 c? stiade papa to forgive Johnny, "just * ? i this once," but papa laughed and said. - Johnny had been forgiven "just this - 3 . once" so many times, lie should feel it i> \va3 wicked to' forgive him again. Be- % r~J> i oiMm miimma didn't feel like dressiD&r - hiiu for a party. ~ '"'""^$1 But poor Johnny grew so thorough) ly disgusted with a miserable rufe . j which could only work two ways In - such a wretched, disappointing way - that he finally grew wise enough to t make up his mind to have nothing to * ^ e do with such rules. $ Tim T.naf Wnllr. "Oh, I (Jo wish you were not going, p Dick !" said Fred Harper for the twenf tieth time as they walktd home from v school tog. ther along the pleasant . J country road. "I don't see how I'm * going to have a bit of fun while you're >f gone." The two boys had been near neigh? bors ami intimate friends all their lives?had fished, sailed, ctudied, ;i worked, and played together; in V short, were inseparable. Now Dick -1^ - was going away to make a long visit: _Isj o at least, three months seemed long to ? them. This was the last walk they 2 t would they would be able to have, and . they were trying to make the most of >, "There is one thing you can do e while I'm away, Fred, and I wish you e would: take up Joe Pierson and gee ii ...l.nt I'mi nan rln with him." li "What for, I'd like to know?" 4,Not for your own sake, but for his. He's menu. I know. Perhaps he'd ^ get over it, though, if the boys would have more patience with him. The t rest all have their own friends, and n you will have a good chance after I 11 go." "Altogether too good ! "What am I - to do with Joe? He will cheat in any e games he plays, and he will shirk ail s the work he can. I don't want to be . bothered with him. It will be bad e enough to have you gone, without 1 having always around somebody I don't want." i. l "Vn.it TTi-n.i vnn nrfl not half so sel fish as you pretend to be; you'd 'both- ^ p or with him' gladly if you thought 0 you could do him any good. It really isn't strange that he's no better, when i* you think of the home lie's got." "Oh. I suppose not. Come to think p of it, I don't know as I'd be any better e myself if my mother was dead, and !i my father didn't care any more for uie than Joe's seems to think of him." "There! I knew you'd come around ' after awhile. How will you co to r work ?" ? "Let me see. Why, I can ask him - to sit next to me at school. He sits 1 alouc now, you know." "That will be a good beginning. I'm fill re if you try to make friends with ) him vnn'll sueneed at last, even if you T don't right away. To tell the truth, I suppose we ought to have done it long ago. Dr. Warren's sermon Sunday night set me thinking. "Vc have not 1 given Joe much brotherly love, that's ' certain." f "No, T'm afraid not; but we will do better after this. I am glad you spoke s of it."?Kate Calla, in Morning Star. 11 -ft... I l.i Kirr I mlSUtKroure ujieu uuugui/ ul a ^15 ' price and sold at a small one.