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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19^^1888. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 19j?|j Koek of Ages. Itock of Ages, cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee, Not the labor of my hacds Ciin tulllll thy law's demand; Vile, I to the fountain fly, Wash mc, Savior, or I die. Could my tears forever flow. Could my zca! no languor know. All for sin could not atone. Thou must save and thou alone; In my hand no price I bring, Only to thy cross I cling. While I draw this parting breath, When my eyelids close In death, When I rise to worlds unknown. And behold Thee on Thy t hrone, Kock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide mysolf in Thee. WRITTEN BY AHEJ.AIDE PROCTOB. t hni/1 him LTRAt who. for love's sake. Can give with generous,earnest will; Yet he who takes for love's sweet sake I think I hold more eenerous still. I bow before the noble mln<l That freoly some great wrong forgives; Yet nobler Is the one forgiven Who bears that burden still and lives. It may be bard to gain and still To keep a lowly, steadfast heart; Yet he who losee has to till A harder and a truer part. Glorious It is to wear the crown , Of a deserved and pure success; I He who knows how to fail has won A crown whose lustre Is not leas. I Great may he be who can command And rule with juit and tender sway; Yet is diviner wisdom taught Better by him who can obey. Blessed are they who die for God. And earn the martyr's crown of light; Yet he who lives for God may be A greater conqueror in his sight. , ?? Popery and the Republic. BY EDWIN H. KEVIN, I>. D. The Marquis de Lafayette, the true and tried friend of our nation, once gave expression to a sentiment which deserves to be heeded by the American people. It is as follows : "American liberty can be destroyed only by the Popish clergy." The Papal Church declares that the ter ritory we occupy, having l>een discovered by one of its members, belongs to it and its lord, the Pope. It declares that Protestants have invaded its territory, but that ii has never relinquished its claims, and will yet try to make them good. Many Protestants think that they ought to regard Papists as belonging to one of the many fraternal Christian sects. But in this stretch of their liberality they do not seem to recognize the feet that the Papists refuse to acknowledge Protestauts, as in any sense Christians. They are unwilling to be put on a level with them. They have no part or lot with them. They regard them as sons of Belial and children of perdition without God or .r hope. It is a matter of absolute certainty, resting upon indubitable evidence, that on every Thursday of Passion Week annually, according to the Bull "Inaena Dominiour Protestant President and all our Protestant magistrates, Governors, and every Protestant member of our city corporations are publicly, formally and solemnly pxnnmmuniaited. mrs^d and sent to! perdition in every JRoruish chapel in the United States. But all this terrible curse is pronounced in Latin, and hence is not understood by the great mass of the hearers. It ought to be understood thoroughly by every American citizen who has been taught to read that the so called Church represented by Cardinal Gibbous abhors and nauseates every form of government that favors the liberties of the people. It has an unconquerable horror of a republic. With it the liberty of the press is insupportable licentiousness. Hence no Itomish priest can be a republican at heart. The moral atmosphere of Rome?worse than its own malaria?breathes death to all liberty civil and religious The priests and bishops and cardinals are the vassals of that foreign, haughty and turbulent despot, the Pope, whose court has kept all Europe in confusion, and has immlvofl oil ifo notimmliHoc in rflni np HIT VI f VU * v o uitvivitMiiviv? ? w and desolation for upwards of twelve hundred years. A volume from the pen of Count Joseph De Maistre, and entitled "The Pope," and purchased by myself in a Papal book store, contains many sentiments which may startle somewhat the so-called liberal Protestants who are occasionally inclined to regard the the subjects of the Pope with a systematic and fraternal feeliug. He says: "The rebels (that is, the reformers) of the sixteenth century attributed sovereignty to the Church?meaning the people. The eighteenth century did only transfer these maxims to politics. The system and the theory are the same, even to their remotest consequence/' "The government, of the Church (the Papal) must be monarchical, and if monarchical, as it certainly aud in vincibly Is, what authority shall receive an appeal from its decision ?" "Without the sovereign Pontiff there is no real Christianity. Christianity is wholly based upon the sovereign Pontiff, and without the sovereign Pontiff the whole edific of Christianity is undermiuded. "The will of man goes for nothing in the establishment of the government." "The sovereign Pontiff in absolving subjects from their oath of fidelity would do nothing contrary to divine right." "Would to God the faithful were all as well persuaded as the infidels of the truth of this great maxim, 'that the Church and the Pope are all one.' " "The (reposition of the foolish asser lion 1 Man is born free' is the truth." "All civilization commences with the priesthood by religious ceremonies, by miracles even whether true or fitlse" "Monarchy is the best and most durable of governments and the most natural to man." In accordance with the sentiments given above, all ol" which are reliable extracts from a volume endorsed by the Romish Church, the highest official of that Church in AmericaCardinal Gibbons?upon assuming his office swore unalterable fidelity to the following as part of his creed : "I do give my allegiance, potilical as well as religious, to the Bishop of Rome. Heretics, schismatics and rebels to our Lord, the Pope, I will to my utmost oppose and persecute." I Yet in the fuce of this oath and the 1 declaration of principles which we < have quoted above, Cardinal Gibbons, > in his letter accepting the invitation . to officiate at the Constitutional Cen- I tennial, says, "The Constitution of the ' I United States is worthy of being writ- i teu in letters of gold." With the oath of allegiance to the ) Pope resting on his conscience, how i can this cardinal with any sincereity or consistency eulogize the Constitu- < tion of a Republic which was begot- 1 ten by Protestant prayers, and which i is now sustained and carried forward I by Protestant piety and Protestant 1 brains ? 1 We are very strongly tempted to be- 1 lieve, in this case, that what was con- i demned in the Epistle of James many 1 centuries ago has been illustrated in < these modern times by the Baltimore s Cardinal, "Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing."? < The Presbyterian. ] \ A Happy Child. ] Bishop Ryle, of England, says the "j happiest child he ever saw was a little } girl eight years old, who was quite blind. , She had never seen the sun nor } moon nor stars, grass nor flowers, ] trees nor birds, nor any of those pleas- j ant things which have gladdened your ( eyes all your life. More trying still, ( she had never seen her own mother and father, yet she was the happiest j child of all the thousands the Bishop | naa seen. She was journeying on the railroad ( this day I speak of, No one was with ( her she knew, not a friend or a rela- j tive to take care of her ; yet though totally blind, she was quite happy and ^ content. ( "Tell me," she said to some one near j by, "how many people there are in ? this car. I am quite blind and can see j nothing." And she was told. ? "Are you not afraid to travel alone?" , asked a gentleman. j "No," she replied, "lam not fright- ^ ened. I have travelled before, and I j trust in God, and people are always very good to me." "But tell me," said the bishop, "why you are so hapy." "I love Jesus and He loves me; I sought Jesus and I found Him," was 1 f Vt/i roriltr ? The bishop then began to talk to her about the Bible, and found she knew a great deal about it. "And how did you learn so much of the Bible ?" he asked. "My teacher used to read it to me and I remembered all I could," she said. "And what part of the Bible do you like best?" asked the bishop. "I like the story of Christ's life in the gospel," she said ; "but what I like best of all is the last three chapters of Revelation." Having a Bible with him the bishop read to her as the train dashed along, Rev. 20th, 21st, and 22d chapters. + The American of philadelphia says: ?"The honesty and straightforwardness of the Anglo-Saxon race seem to -3 . r U U r, 4-n. mil t uep&lb UUUi 11/ wLieu xt uegma ia/ tur tivate the acquaintance of horses and dogs. Close familiarity and almost social relations with these lower forms of life, and an exaggerated estimate of their qualities, help to brutalize man, possibly by distracting attention from those qualities which are the crown of his manhood. On both sides of the Atlantic 'the turf is the home of blackguardism to a disgraceful degree ; but under the relaxation of general morals which England has witnessed during the last qnarter of a century, depths have been rea3hed which are not known in America, j The rascalities which led to the aboliand outlawry of the prize ring, much j more than any idea of its intrinsic brutality, have reappeared on the racej course. The most eminent jockies on the turf have been detected in holdiug i hank horses which their owners did not mean to win; and when one of < them turns upon his critics with a li| bel suit, the disclosures made by the I witnesses as to the rascalities perpetuated by racing men who were supposed to have some character to lose are pronounced astounding. It is said , that another such exposure would lead to the outlawry of horse-racing, by concentrating public indignation , upon the practice and all its concomitants. We should not be surprised to see a movement toward that on both j sides of the Atlantic. Certainly the i race-course is a source of general demoralization, from which society derives ! no advantages which would compensate the injury it does." France and Arbitration. The Herald of Peacc and International Arbitration (47, New Broad St., E. C.,) remarks : "We can surely point with satisfaction to the fact that within the present century more than sixty instances can bo produced, when international differences have been settled without an appeal to the sword. Not less significant is the fact that in so many legislatures of the world, motions have been carried affirming the principle of Arbitration as the right one for nations to observe. And we notice that our friend, M. Fred Passy, of Paris, is using indefatigable efforts to have a similar dismnarvntfinn nf flio oqtyio nHllPinlp by the Chamber of Deputies of his own country. Very striking is the account he gives in his powerful speech at the last annual meeting of the French Peace Society, of the gradual growth of opinion on this subject in the |great assemply of which he is a member. 'In that very Chamber of Deputies,' he says, 'where not long ago my colleague, M. Gaillard, and myself, were hooted for the language we used, though it was the language Df reason and true patriotism, I bore last year to the tribune fifty signatures in support of our demand for mediation, and this year, indeed at this very time, here is a document proposed by the different Peaee Societies asking the Minister for Foreign Affairs to negotiate a Treaty of Arbitration with the United States to which we obtain jd, without the slightest difficulty, the jignatures of 112 Deputies.' "This proposition, according to the justorn of the French legislature, was referred to a Committee of Parliamentary Initiative to be considered and reported upon. That committee has iust presented its report, which is quite favorable to our friend's project. These ire their words : " 'A few months ago, on the other side of the United States, Mr. Allison, i gentleman well-known and much aonored in the New World, proposed :o the American Senate to pass a vote >f credit of $80,000 to defray the cost )f negotiating a permanent Treaty of Arbitration between the United States, England, and France. It is in order X) respond to this overture of the great American republic that our honorable ;olleague, M. Fred Passy, and many >fliprw nf nnr nolleatruee. have nlaced ' "** " ?? - "O" ' before the Chamber, under date of A.pril 24th last, a Proposition of Law, lending to the conclusion of a treaty >f that nature between the French republic and the republic of the United States. After having heard our coleague making his explanations, and ifter having maturely deliberated, pour Committee of Parliamentary Iniiative have the honor, gentlemen,. to propose to you to take into considera,ion this Project of Law.' " ? ? What Women Can Do. Twenty years ago, two maiden adies, daughters of an English cler .. mam Iftft A??rvhono nnnr 111 Cl II f >TU1 O JUlll UJl jjunuo |?vwa. )ne was forty, the other a little older. They were ladies, with the training >f ladies of their time,?which, after ill, was not so unlike ours. They :ould/play the piano and paint on )lush ; but they were too old and too >ldfashioned to teach. They could jerhaps have found shelter in a home "or decayed gentlewomen, or been a mrden on their friends. But they did lomething better. "With the very litle money they had, they left their vilage home and settled themselves in lie outskirts of London. It was but i few hundred dollars, but it sufficed or their project was a success. They let up a laundry. They had women or the rough work; but the clear torching and fine ironing went hrough their own delieate hands hrough the first years. They kept he accounts, collected bills, in brief, urnished the brains needed for a busness enterprise. At the end of ten rears they had a neat home, a large >usiness and a certainty of provision or old age. Another woman, after years of caching, found herself utterly broken lown as to nerves, with the prospect of , nvalidism and dependence the rest of ler life. She had saved a little money , ind as soon as her health rallied a litile, she began to study medicine. She isked her last penny on it, her friends , ?ncouragiug her by the assurance that f she failed in her "fool's venture" ihe might go to the poor house for all heir help. But she came of a race )f doctors, and she did not fail. Despite age and delicate health, she built lp a large practice and made for herielf a competence. Mental strength md discipline counted for much here, [t is not, like the other, an example jvery one might follow. The Ordinary Girl. "Just an ordinary girl!" said an acquaintance. "There are hundreds like her." This of a youthful specimen of the sex who met us on the way. She was simply clothed, merely a plain, dull plaid of some kind of woolen stuff which fitted her rather square, and robust form so loosely that arms, lungs, heart and lower extremities had room for movement as she walked briskly along. She had no "Jersey" with its kid-glove exposures of anatomical deflciences, and no overskirt beaded and puckered and tied-back in the latest style. Her hat was a low-crowned one, with a flower or two just relieving its monoton of color; and her hair smoothly combed and tied up in a simple knot, offered no sharp contrast to attract special attention to the homely features of her broad face. We did not see anything akin to the flash of genius from "glorious eyes" as she modestly glanced at us in passing, perhaps wondering what there could be in her that would draw the look of a stranger. She had no "style" to attract notice, just a traightforward, easy gait; there was no twitchihg or swaying of skirts, no nervous simper or spasmodic jerk of hands or feet, no looking this way and that, nor any ogling of passers-by. She was evidently but an average girl, with no special ambitions, no "lofty aim" in ine ; simpiy cnsposeu to pursue the course of action that belonged to the day or the hour. Our companion's remark had in it a shade or disdain, and after completing our short review of its object we turned to him and said : "Bless her! What would the world do without the ordinary girl?" He stopped on his heel a moment, looked Bharply in our face, as if doubtful of our sincerity, and with a glance of enthusiasm, exclaimed : "You are right it is the ordinary girl, loyal to home, faithful to duty, unpretending, willing to do and to suffer, cheerful in the midst of the commonest service, that makes life tolerable. Blessings on her!" The Dandy'8 Turkey. Fine gold has no need of gilding. Real worth has no need of sham and show. As the cheapest fabrics have the largest figures and the most glaring colors, so low grade men make the most "spread" and pretense. High priced fabrics are in quiet colors. Men of real worth have no occasion to "show off." The eminent jurist, John Marshal], was one of the most unpretentious of men. While others depened upou servants and lackeys he waited upon himself, and cared little for fuss and feathers, but was accustomed to go to market himself, and carry home his purchases. Frequently he was seen returning from market at sunrise with poultry in one hand and vegetables in the othep. One morning a young man who had come to market was swearing fluently because he could find no one to carry home a turkey which he had purchased. "Marshall stepped up, and asking him where he lived, said : "That is my way, and I will take it for you." When they came to the house, the young man inquired : "Whnf hnvo T irryf- In njiv vnn for " Mv*v " ? Ow ~ I *? J ? your trouble?" "Oh, nothing, nothing at all, sir!" replied the Chief Justice; "you are welcome; it was on my way, and no trouble.,' "Who is that old gentleman?" inquired the young man of .some one who had been walking just behind them. "That man, sir, is John Marshall Chief Justice of the United States," was the answer. "What! did the Chief Justice of the United States bring home my turkey! why, what in the world did he mean?" "He meant, sir," replied the gentleman, "to give you a quiet but severe reproof for your profanity, and to teach you to attend to your own business." Many n young man might be profited by the lesson which the Chief Justice of the United States so very kindly gave to the conceited upstart in the market-place.?The Common People. Danger. While I was walking in the garden one bright morning, a breeze came through and set all the flowers and leaves a-fluttering. Now.that is the way flowers talk, so I picked up my ears and listened. Presently an eldertree said : "Flowers, shake ofF your caterpillars." "Why?" said a dozen all together, 1tl?A nrvvk'kn nV*ll/-lr??n TV V"l f\ IU1 tUCJ >YC1C iiac auilic l>UUU?vu ti MW always say "Why?" when they are to do anything. Bad children those. The elder said r "If you don't they'll gobble you up." So the flowers set themselves a shaking till the caterpillars were shaken off. In one of the middle beds there was a beautiful rose, who shook off all but one, and she said to herself: "Oh, that's a beauty ! I'll keep that one." The elder overhead her, and called : "One caterpillar is enough to spoil you." "But," said the rose, "look at his brown and crimson fur, and his beautiful black eyes, and scores of little feet. I want to keep him. Surely one won't hurt me." A few mornings after, I passed the rose again. There was not a whole leaf on her; her beauty was gone, she was all but killed, and had only life enought to weep over her folly, while the tears stood like dewdrops on her tattered leaves. One sina iudulgedhas ruined many bovtor girl.?Christian Weekly. Near Up to Jesus. It was a most beautiful reply, one fraught with richest meaning, which poor man, when sorely tried in God's furnace by poverty, bodily suffering, and great mental anxiety, gave to the question, "How can you endure such protracted sufferings??What sustains you under these terrible trials?" "I just near up to Jesus!" Near up to Jesus! Ah! that was the secret of all his strength, and patience, and his endurance ! Trials lose half their bitterness; earthly loss becomes heavenly gain; hrwUlv nmmish fcli? nunaaion for son^s of praise; while doubt, temptation, , and fear give place to faith, victory and perfect peace, when the Christian can say from his heart? "Blest is my lot, wbat'er befall, "What can disturb me, wfyo appall; While, as my strength, my rock, my all, Sayiour, I cling to Thee." The closer to Jesus the greater our safety, the fuller our joy ; the richer our experience. Resting near that great throbbing heart, we can defy the world, the flesh and the devil. Sin will have no dominion over us; and though for a season, it may be, we are in heaviness through manifold temptations, yet no weapon of the adversary can ever reach or harm us, if we but keep near to Christ, our one eternal rock of refuge. .. * j Nearer lip to Jesus means Christian progress. The nearer Christ, the nearer heaven. Every step toward Him is an upward step ; a fresh victory gained over self and sin. It means safety. The closer we are to Him the father away we are from Satan ; the nearer an almighty protecting arm. It means cleansing. At His wounded side we reach the very fountain Head of divine love; our souis Datne in its overflowing fullness. It means peace. "Thou wilt keep liim in perfect peace whose soul is stayed on Thee." We cannot stay our souls on Christ, unless we get close to Christ. And so, if we would make progress in holiness, be kept from evil/ be cleansed from sin, know the full sweetness of a calm, abiding peace, let us at all times, under all circumstances, keep "Near up to Jesus."? Christian Treasury. Tyranny of the Baby. . i -? ??j- 1 ? A great ana quice getierax uiihumm; i? to believe that an infant, if he be healthy, should be a perpetual sleeper. In vain attempts to influence this unreasonable result, the young mother worries herself to death in order1 to keep the house quiet. Papa comes home full of news from the city and is warned to "tread softly, baby's asleep." He brings a friend, and the friend "enjoys his visit" by feeling as depressed as though ho had been to see an invalid. No word must be spoken above a whisper; no joke must be told, as it might cause a laugh ; no song must be sung, as it might remove the graveyard solemnity?every and all things pleasant must be sacrificed at the shrine of the first baby. All this is totally wrong. In the first place, it is nonsense to expect a baby to sleep twenty-four hours in a day; and in the second place if a child is brought up so that perfect quietude is the prime condition under which it will sleep the life of the mother will be a sad one. Rather let the child get used to every day noises; let it become accustomed to conversation, to laughter, to singing, and then the first sound liuk in the grand chain of its character has been forged. It is but a natural step from a tyrannical baby to a spoiled child, and yet what young mother would voluntarily spoil her boy. Rocking or jouncing the iufant in its cradle or on the lap are common practices that should be avoided. They do the child no good, and cause great annoyance and unnecessary trouble to the parents. The moment there is a stir in the cradle a furious rocking is begun, and continued until the poor little innocent is again whirled into unnatural slumber land.?Emily Corden in American Magazine. The Old Doctor's story. "I have a little Btory to tell you, boys," the old doctor said to the young people the other evening. "One day ?a long, hot day it had been too?I met my father an the road into town. "T "'iuh ?nn /mull! falfo this nankmw A vriou jvu vv/u*\* K?4i?w to the village for me, Jim,'he said hesitating. "Now I was a boy of twelve, not fond of work, and just out of the hay field, where I had been at work since daybreak. I was tired, dusty, and hungry. It was two miles to town. I wanted to get my supper, and to wash and dress for singing-school. "My first impulse was to refuse, and to do it harshly, for I was vexed that he should ask me after my long day's work. If I did refuse, he would go himself. He was a gentle, patient old man. But something stopped me; one of God's good angels, I think. " 'Of course, father, I'll take it,' I said, heartily, giving my scythe to one of the men. Ho gave me the package. " 'Thank you, Jim," he said, 'I was going myself, but somehow I don't feel very strong to-day.' "He walked with me to the road that turned off to the town, and as he left, put his hand on my arm, saying again, 'Thank you, my son. You've always been good boy to me, Jim.' "I hurried into1 town and back again. When I came near the house I saw a crowd of the farm hands at the door. One of them (same to me, the tears rolling down his face. " 'Your father." he said. 'He fell dead just as he reached the house. The last words be spoke were to you. "I'm an old man now, but I have thanked God over and over again in all the years tbathave passed since that hour, that those last words were, 'You've always been a good boy to me.' " No human being ever yet was sorry for love or kindness shown to others. But there is no pang of remorse so keen as the bitterness with which we remember neglect or coldness, which we have shown to loved ones that are dead. Do not begrudge loving deeds and kind words, especially to those who gather with you about the same hearth. In many families, a habit of nagging, crossness, or ill-natured gibing, gradually covers the real feeling of love that lies deep beneath. And after all, it is such a little way that we can go together ! The Art of Listening. We learn more by listening than by talking, as a cistern fills up by what runs into it, and not by what runs out of it. Yet few good listeners can be found. To be a good listener does not mean that we should never speak. A cistern that never gives out is not only useless, but its contents grow foul. To be a good listener it is necessary to keep the mind on what is being said, and not let it run all over the world. Some persons are continually saying what shows that they have not been listening at all. Never talk, except Jo ask a question or show approbation, when some oHe from whom you can learn any thing is willing to talk. If you can't see what is meant, after the speaker has paused, politely ask for further explanation. And when the conversation is over refer to any book or dictionary that you may have at hand for more light. Never correct persons older than .you are so that others can bear you. You may be wrong. You may hurt their feelings. You will not be approved by others. If you think that they have j mistaken ask them privately, if you know them well enough, andjthey will thank you. When they cease speaking, if you have any thing to say, proceed with it, and be sure not to carry it too far. The beauty of conversation is not to wear one thing out, but to have new subjects springing up all the time. I When the company breaks up ask yourself these questions: What did I hear that was new to me and who said it? What did I find that was wrong that I had thought was right, and what right that I had thought was wrong ? Listen in this way and you will learn to the last day of our lives. But those who understand the art of listening are not as numerous as those who can merely keep still. And those who can keep still are not nearly so many as those who cannot. Self-Sacriflce. The tower door of St. Leonard church, Bridgenorth, England, was left onen. and two vounir boys, wan dernig in, were tempted to mount up into the upper part and scramble from beam to beam. All at once a joist gave way. The beam on whicb they were standing became misplaced. The elder had just time to grasp it when falling, while the younger, slipping over his body, caught hold of his comrade's leg's. In this fearful position the poor lads hung, crying vainly for help, for no one was near. At leugth the boy clinging to the beam became exhausted. He could no longer support the double weight. He callen out to the lad below that they were both done for. "Could you save yourself if I were to loose you ?" replied the little lan. "I think 1 could," returned the older. "Then good-bye and God bless you !" cried the little fellow, loosing his hold. Another second and he was dashed to pieces on the stone floor below, his companion clambering to a place of safety. This is a true story. The record of it is preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Some tales of heoism excite one U> pour forth one's admiration, one's approbation, in many words.; but this one strikes us dumb, this little fellow * * "* c 11 --"1 nlnaoUr unwittingly nau ronowcu the steps of his most beloved Master. ! Listen to the words of our Lord: ' "This is iny commandment, that ye 1 love one ouother as I have loved you. I Greater love hath no man than this, j that a man lay down his life for his ' friends." i I When you have learned to listen you have already learned the rudiments of a good education. ] * What Others Saj. * ' Romish Sel\ooU. Joseph Cook, in the prelude to one - ^ of hia recent lectures, made the followiug points against the Romish parochial schools: 1. It is historically true and notorious that Romish priests when they had their way never yet gave in their <?58 parochial primary schools sufficient ^ instruction to At a population for the , responsibilities of free government 2. Roman Catholic parochial ^ schools are avowedly intended to ut- ; terly destroy the American public school system. . 3. The instruction given in them > | is always sectarian, generally mutfl- 'Vj ated, and sometimes thoroughly misleading. Examples were given fhm one or two Romish text books, Bis- y:-?l marck declares that the saddest sight ; he ever saw was that of the mutilated textbooks used in the French schoals. ^ Mr. Froude found their systematic . i mutilation both in Europe and Amer- ^ 4. Roman Catholic authorities v'j wholly deny to the civil government' ; 3 the rigbt to conduct the secular edu- ^ cation of the people. 5. The church denies to the parent ,j& the right of private judgment In the matter of education. Refusal to send children to the priest's school Is followed by a denial to the rites of the church. The Canada Presbyterian makes a .?wj point against the cry for young mlnisters from the age of the several can- , didates from President and Vice-Pro^, ident. Cleveland is fifty-one years of age, Thurman is seventy-four, Harri- ' son fifty-five and Morton Sixty-four. Thousands of Christian citizens will try to make these men rulers of sixty million of people, who would consider , , them, were they ministers of the goa- : ' pel, too old to take charge of a smalt *;fj? village congregation. When the. children of li^ht go into the pollinjgv booth, as children of this world, they always vote for experience. tiilvio Pellico. Family Intimacy'.?should never make brothers and sisters forget to be; Wt polite and sympathizing to each other. Those who contract thoogbtteas and rude habits toward membero Of :_M their own family will be rude and thoughtless toward all the world.'' But let the family intercourse be true, >4v$| tender, and affectionate, and the mannpra nf all uniformly gentle And COH-' &S? siderate, and the members of thefamily, thus trained, will carry into the . world and society the habits of their childhood. They .will require in their associates similar qualities. A elegy man visiting a woman lu a severe illness, asked : "Do you derive ^ much comfort from the instruction of '- v ^ the Bible?" "Ob, yes, indeed," wae the replied. "Whatparticular passage do you rely upon at present ?" ask the ' . . -J minister. "Grin and bear it," replied , v the sufferer. The cleygman departed "r'dp to look up a concordance. "How few persons there are who frown down the talebearer and the ' slanderer! But on the contrary eh- vj| courage their willing tongues by giv- , ing willing ears : j&very cumin urn by . /. is more or less afflicted with these stabbersof the reputations of others. Readers, turn a deaf ear to all mischievous gossip." Seize the moment of excited courtiosity on any subject to solve your / 'tfa doubts. ;Vi|K 4 bout Blackberries. The fact that the blackberry grows ' .;j in nearly all parts jo( this country and on all soils is sufficient proof that our climate and soil are adapted to it. Although it flourishes nearly everywhere ' without cultivation and care of any kind, it is well known tbat many who have attempted to raise it have failed. Patches have been planted and cultivated thoroughly for years and almost no fruit obtained. These same patches, after having been abandoned and allowed to come into grass and weeds, have produced abundantly with scarcely ever a failure. I have known peo- l pie to find superior wild varieties and '.-j remove them to the garden to improve them by cultivation. In nearly every case this has resulted in disappoint* ment. As the blackberry is among the most wholesome of fruits, is such a general favorite, and may be used in so many ways, a good supply is a real advantage to any family. Nearly all varieties bear well and are reasonably healthy, but with ordinary care, or what mauy call good care, they are apt to get weather killed occasionally. Close the ear to slander and evil speaking; the memory to thoughts that soil the life; the heart to influences that impair the sympathies, the mind to reasonings that degrade its judgment; the eye to sights that distort the landscape of life and impair its beauty, and the soul to impressions that destory its happiness for eternity. Soft-shelled eggs indicate that the iieus are too fat. Set them scratching, V -j . . V.-;