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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1888. VOLUME XXXIH. "^072071^
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Trifles.
Only a cluster of daisies,
And dear little daisies were they;
They won a smile for the giver?
A sunbeam to brighten the day.
Only a smile at the crossing;;
But It beamed from the smiler's face,
And shone on my shadowy pathway,
And lout to the day a grace.
That marks It a day worth recalling
Jta reverie's dream-country sweet.
Wnen raiicy witu run^ litu^rj
In the soul's solitary retreat.
Only a hand-clasp at parting?
A moment with palin to palm pressed?
A moment's celestial communing
Ere the spirit relinquished her quest.
Ah me! That beautiful fraction
Of time hurried into the past,
Fleet-winged, but its sweet benediction
Will linger with me till the laxt.
Only a bird-song at twilight?
A love-lay half-lost in h plaint;
But its measures wero hauntlngly lovely,
Though its meloduu rippled so faint.
That I scarce knew when the song ended
And when the silence begun,
Or whether I heard it 01 .reamed It,
The song and iny dreaming were one.
For the song had awakened an Idyl,
A bit of romance sweeter still
Than ever was wrought In a story
Or wreathed by a poet's sweet skill.
'TIs the trivial things are our masters?
The little sweet things thnt beguile
The days of their tedium, the trifles,
A song, or a daisy, or smile.
Men who cover themselves with glory
on the field of human slaughter
will find themselves thiuly clad iu the
judgment day.
It is not the man who thiDks well,
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ieeis well, UllU UUAn wru, uui Hie Uiun
who does?does the will of our Father
ill heaven, upon whom the Divine
blessing is prououuced. Let us not
forget this.
There can be no good without a
strong will. A weak will means inconstancy
; it means it even in good
attempted and relinquished, which is
always a terrible thing, because it betrays
some one who relied upon it.
True greatness shows itself in ignoring
or quickly forgetting personal injuries
when meaner natures would be
kept in unrest by them. The less of a
man one is the more he makes of an
injury or insult. The more of a man
he is, the less he is disturbed by what
others say or do against him without
cause.
Amiability is despised by some rtig?J
^.tnanone o uiu-iL-llflca llllf f ll 1? js !
gtu uatuica uo ? * vtwvuvw, mmv ?,
a mistake. A granite pillar loses none j
of its massive strength by being polished;
on the contrary its polish is an
evidence of the hardness of its texture
and a guarantee of its strength. You
can not polish chalk or putty.
Every human soul has a germ of
some flowers within, and they would I
open if they could only find sunshine
and free air to expand in. I always
told you that not having enough of,
sunshine was what ailed the world.!
Make people happy, aud there will uotj
be half the quarreling or a tenth parti
of the wickedness there is.
I venerate old age; and I love not;
the man who can look without emo-J
tiou upon tnesunseioi me, wneu mei
dusk of evening begins to gather over,
the watery eye, and the shadows ofj
twilight grow broader and deeper upon
the understanding.
"To be silent, to suffer, to pray,
when there is no room for outward action,
is nn acceptable offer in g to God,
A disappointment, a contradiction, an
iujury received and endured for God's
sake, is of as much value as along
prayer; and tirue is not lost which is
spent in the practice of meekness ami
patience." j
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The Happiest Boy.
Who is tho hanniost bov vou know ?
Who has "the best time?*' I mean.
The one who lust winter hail the biggest
toboggan; or who now lias the
most marbles, or wear the best clothes?
Let's see.
Once there was a king who hud a
little boy whom he loved.
He gave him beautiful rooms to
live in, and pictures and toys and
books. He gave him a pony to ride,
ami a row-boat on a lake, and servants.
He provided teachers who were to
give him knowledge that would make
qim good and great.
But for all this the young prince was
not happy. He wore a frown wherever
he went and was always wishing
for something he did not have,
At length, one day, a magician
came to court. He saw the boy and
said to tin; king ;
"I can make your son happy. But
$011 must pay me my own price for
telling the secret."
"Well.''said the king, "what you
a<k I will give."
So the magician took the boy into a
private room. He wrote something
with a wbite substauce on a peice of
paper. Next he gave the boy a candle,
and told him to light it and hold it
under the paper, and then see what he
could read. Then he went away and
asked no price at all.
The boy did as lie had been told,
and white letters on the paper turned
into a beautiful blue.
They formed these words :
"Do a kindness to some one every
day."
The prince made use of the secret,
and became the happiest boy in the
kingdom.?Our Sunday Afternoon.
Sonic Practical Points.
We all know how soon cheese dries
up and is unfit for the* table, but this
same wa-ite cheese can be made good as
new, and very nice looking, by grating
in tine 011 a horseradish grater.
Prepare only as much as is needed for
immediate use, and you will find it
good enough for anybody.
Sisters, do you use eggs for frosting?
[Don't do it. Try my plan. I take
j five tablespoonfuls of milk, one cup of
[granulated sugar, flavor nicely with
I lemon or vanilla, then boil five min-j
utes. i beat it bard until it is cooi|
enough to spread on my cake. The'
beauty of, this frosting is that is ready
to cut as soon as thoroughly cold. It
is very nice with cocoanut or grated
chocolate stirred in it. When eggs are
high it is quite a saving.
To Remove Warts.
The Medical Frew says that warts
may be removed by the use of magnesia
taken internally :
"Jt is fairly established that the
common w^rt, which is so unsightly
and ofter so prolific on the hands and
face, can he easily removed by small
doses of magnesia taken internally.
M. Col rat of Lyons has drawn attention
to this extraordinary fact. Several
children treated with three grains
of Epsom salts, morning and evening,
were promptly cured. M. Aubert cites
the case of a woman whose face was
disfigured by ttie.se excrescences, unu
who" whs cured in ji month by a
|diaehm and :t half of magnesia taken
daily. Another medical man reports
a ease in which very large warts disappeared
in a fortnight from the daily
administration of ten grains of the
tilt Its."
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War a Work of the Deyil.
Oh ! how can Christians go lo war find slaughter
one another.
The Holy Scrptures doth declare that we
.should do 110 murder.
Some tell us war is Just ana fit, but how shall
we believe them.
They say that God commanded it, for to subdue
the heathen.
:Tls time that argumeut was done, by this enlightened
nation,
For jew and Gentile now are one, and Christ
is our salvation.
We know that war was always right, when
God Ilitnseif commanded,
But now beneath the Gospel light, wo see it's
not intended.
We hear the Precious Savior say, that we
must bless the haters,
And let them do what e'er they may, we must
not be their traitors.
Love is the essence of the law, and wo must
love the scornors.
We dare not now the sword to draw, the SavrAfA?rnm
uo>
Put up thy sword into its sheath, was His
comraan to Peter,
For they that use the spear for death, shall
meet with a defeater.
A good example here for peace, was given by
the Savior.
When on a servant oi the Priest, he wrought
a noble favor.
When Peter servered off the ear, Christ healed
it by His power,
Altho', indeed, He was aware they'd take
Him in that hour;
And on the cross we hear H Im cry: Oh ! Father,
do forgive them,
They do not know that it i3 I, their wicked
hearts deceive them.
There's Stephen, was a righteous man, his
laltli was fully tried '
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peacefully he tiled.
He died beneath the pelting stones, his body
bruised and broken; *
Ho looked to heaven with holy eyes, and said
he saw it opened.
The apostles they were men of prayer; they
went about preaching,
They never, did approve of war, 'tis contrary i
to their teaching.
The Christians.of the former day, nnd likewise
of the present,
They know that war is a disgrace, its doings
arc not pleasant:
The roaring cannon's heard afar, whilst the
small ones are flashing:
Thejsmoke doth rise to cloud the air, while
shot and shell are crashing.
The noise of hoofs, thedin of war, with bloody
armor clashing;
See thousands weltering in gore, to gratify
their passions:
Now look upon the battlefield, and .see the
dead and dying.
O ! think ye how the wounded fool, and hear
the bitter crying;!
The wife hns lost a husband dear, her children
missed a father,
Go witness now the falling tear, produced by
wicked folly.
The aged father has lost a 6on, sec how his
lips do quiver;
On that old mother, grief has come, her child
has gone forever;
A SJBier s gnui ib vuiy 0110 junt u xuviug ,
brother,
And now her very soul doth hate, such awful I
sconces of murder.
And /Ion's cause doth languish now, her
Chapels arc forsaken.
The Priests unto the War Cods bow, deluded
and mistaken.
Say, Christians, do you think 'tis right to
Justify such horrors.
Pray for your enemies to-night, and slaughter
them to-morrow?N'o
such a creed was ever taught by Christ to
his believers,
And yet we see it oftener taught by those who
are deceivers,
And when we square the subject up, by Christ
the plum and level,
Wo soe this bloody, cruel work, is fathered by
the Devi I.
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Why Etft's Should be Turned.
An expert poultryman declares that
110 matter how eggs may lie kept or
preserve*I for future use, they must be
turned over at least three times a
week, and the often er the better. This
is not done to assist in preventing decomposition,
but to avoid having the
yelks adhere to the shell. The yelks
almost Jloat on the white, and do not
sink as is supposed. It will soon fasten
to the shell if too long in one position,
the result being that even when
the eggs are good and perfectly rfee
from any taint of decomposition the
yelk, in closely adhering t<r- the shell,
[gives the appearance of the egg being
^stale, thus reducing the price.
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Prohibition Saves tlic Boys.
The best argument I found in Maine
for prohibition was by an editor of a
paper in Portland, that was, for political
reasons, mildly opposed to it. I
had a conversation with him which
ran something like this :
"Where were you born?"
"In a village about'sixty miles from
Bangor."
"Do you remember the condition of
things in your village prior to prohibition?"
"Distinctly. There was a vast
amount of drunkenness, and consequent
disorder and poverty."
"What was the effect of prohibition?"
"It shut up all the rum shops, and
practically banished liquor from the
village. It became one of the most
quiet and prosperous places on the
globe."
"How long did you live in the vilI
lage after prohibition ?"
"Eleven years, or until I was twentyone
years of age."
"Then ?"
"Then I went to Bangor."
"Do you drink now?"
"I have never tasted a drop of'liquor
in my life."
"Why?"
"Up to the age of twenty-one 1
never saw it, and after that I did not
care to take 011 the habit."
That is all ther* is in it. If the
boys of the country are not exposed to
the infernalisrn, the men are very sure
not to be. This man and his schoolmates
were saved from rum by the
fact that they could not get it until
Ixt l.j K UMA.ir Uffnr
I uiey were oiu enuugu i\.uwr? ucn-v/..
Few men are drunkards who know
not the poison till after they are twentyone.
It is the youth that the whisky
and beer men want.?North Amen.
can Review.
Stop and Weigh.
One morning au enraged countryman
came into Mr. M.'s store with
very angry looks. 'He left a team in
the street, and had a good stick in his
haud.
"Mr. M.," said the angry countryman,
"I bought a paper of nutmegs
they in your store, and when I got home
here were more than half walnuts ; and
that's the young villain that I bought
'em of," pointing to John.
"John," said Mr. M., "did you sell
this man walnuts for nutmegs?"
"No, sir," was the ready reply.
"You lie, you young villain!" said
the countryman, still more enraged at
bis assurance.
"Now, look here," s:dd John, "if
you had taken the trouble to weigh j
your nut-megs, you would have found J
that I put in the walnuts gratis."
"Oh, you gave them to me, did
you?"
"Yes, sir, I threw in a handful for
the children to crack," .said John,
laughing at the same time.
"Well, now. if you ain't a young
.scamp," said the countryman, hi.s
features relaxing into a grin as he saw
through the matter.
Much hard talk and had blood would
ii? viivff] if jioonlc would ston to weiffh
things before they blame other?.
"Think twice before you ."i>eak
once," is an excellent motto.
He wlio shall introduce into public
aflairs the principles of primitive
Christianity will revolutionize the
world.
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Tnckkask jn Chimb.?The Florida
Christian Advocate, discussing the
subject, "The Body in Keligiou," has
this to say in regard to the increase of
crime in our country :
Jiutthc strangest fact of our times is
the reign of crime. Horrible deeds
are multiplying to an alarming ex
teiu; ana us gets worse ana worse.
Many reasons are given to account for
it, but the most influential has beeu
overlooked. It is the fact that millions
are cut oft' from Sabbath rest and
worship, and the fact that millions
more labor so continously that they
have very little time for sleep and
home-Jifo and religion, and these facts
cause evil forces to accumulate unrestrained,
except by toil, and at times
they will break forth into crime.
Feverish unrest takes possession; desperation
follows; the heart says;
"Life is a cruel bondage, society heartless,
employers merciless oppressors,
ami a man may as well die as -live
and the heaving tide overflows into
criminal excesses.
.Sunday labor must be stopped. T t is
undermining our'Christum civilization;
and, so long as it continues, an
immense number will be kept away
iroiii iiiigmiis lunueuws (uc|/uiing iui
that mental and moral state, out of
which come labor troubles, strikes,
and riots ; and worse things may be
expected under separation from religion.
The Keign of Terror and the
horrors of the French Commune in
Paris came from labor divorced by infidelity
from religion ; and now the
dominant materialism is driving society
on to similar results by separating
labor from loligiou. Down with Sun
day work !
But Sunday work is not all that
must stop. If man is to be man, and
religion is to have its legitimate effect
| upon hint, the demands of his nature
must he allowed. Not only restore
night, and home-life. Close every
store and shut up every shop at sundown,
so that man may have the day
for labor and the night for home comfort
nnd sleep.
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The Mosquito a Blessing to Man. I
A lecture was recently delivered at
Madoas, India, on that interesting and
familiar pest, the mosquito. The lecturer,
Mr. H. Sullivan Thomas, asserts
that it. is only the female mosquito
a most useful pest, seven-eighths
of its existence being devoted to the j
service of meu and only one-eighth to .
their annoyance. It exists in the larval
state twenty-days, and during that
i.m.wia ill KJlllifnrV work with
> ,
ardor and thoroughness. Wherever ,
there is dirty water, wherever there is
a filthy drain, there the mosquito j
larva' are to be found in hundreds,
voraciously devouring the eontaminut- '
ing matter.?w Timc-Dc?)ovrat.
| Salt l'i.sing Bread. )
' I/ate at night scald one pint of newj5
[milk; pour it over a small handful of
corn meal, stirring carefully that 110 {
j Jumps remain ; in the morning when 1
liglii make a sponge of very warm '
W.-li r. ft teaspoon of .--alt, and limir. '
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j Atkl the hujk unci inwu. uem wuu and
set by the lire to rise, which it J
will do very soon. Mix into loaves. '
let rise again and bake. This will 1
make three large loaves. An experienced
housekeeper says she knows this t
receipt to have been used over thirty I
|years without a failure. /.
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The Snow-Prayer.
A little girl went out to play oue
day in the snow, ami when she came
in she said.
"Mamma, I couldn't help praying
when I was out at play."
"What did you pray, my dear?"
asked mamma.
"I prayed the snow-prayer,.mamma,
that I learned once in Sunday-school:
'Wash me and I shall he Vhiter than
snow.' "
What a beautiful prayer! And here
is the promise that goes with it;
"Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be white as snow." And
what can wash them white?clean
from every stain of sin ? The Bible
answers: "They have washed their
robes, and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb."
A Fuuny Case of Absent-Mindcdness.
At the last session of the German
Reichstag there was a curious instance
of abseut-mindedness. Herr Wichman
was calling the roll of members,
when, upon reauing out ins <?wu
name, he naturally received no response.
He called the name the second
time iu a louder tone, and finally
roared it out like a healthy-lunged
bull. At this juncture his colleagues
brake out iuto such hearty laughter
that the truth dawned upon him aud
he joined in the general hilarity.
A Little Evangelist.
A little girl, frail but very bright and
spiritual, came to the altar. Her father,
a highly respectable lawyer, sat in
his pew. The child rose, weut to her
father, put her arias about his neck,
and whispered:
"Papa, I <*au't slay there without
you."
The father was deeply moved, and
permitted his little one to lead him
forward as a penitent seeker. The effect
on the audience was wonderful.
It was the turning-point in the work.
To Cure Felons.
If at any time before suppuration
commences, plenty of ice water is
used, it will never fail in procuring a
perfect cure. Hold the allected part
in cold water as long as it can be borne,
withdraw it for a rest aud repeat.
Keep up this process for half a day if
necessary. It will at last overcome
the infiamation, and that is all there
is of a felon in its first stages.
The street" of Canton are only tbree
[>r four feet wide, paved with stone,
l'lie inhabitants tbrow their garbage
into the street, the efleet of which may i
oe imagined. Above the streets are
jovered with matting or bamboo net- 1
ivork, reaching from one side the
ither. This excludes boih Jinht and j
dr. and tends to make the street odors|
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.'mi'iiaucuxiy sirunuyr. aiuvm-M
from un eminence the whole ci f.y|(
seems to 1m> roofed.
The man who locks his door against J
til strangers will never entertain uu I f
ingel unawares; tin* man who shuts '
lis mind and heart 1 iy entire ongross- 1
unit in daily toiJ, by unfaithfulness to J13
luty, l>y netiii-ei of principle, l.y any!
vind of u.,irighteou> aetion, will never P
to visited l>y divine visions of higher if
hings. ^ |i
The hest tiling to uiKe peopie oiu <u
heir own worries is to go to work and i
imi out imw other folks' worries are 1
felting on. i
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Training- the Colt.
The old-fashioned "breaking" is giving
place to the more reasonable and
more humane practice of training. .
This should begin when the animal is vjj?
very young. There should be no
shouting or jerking, but everything ggBB
should be quiet and kind, while firm .>s?
and steady.
The late criticisms upon postmaster
Pearson of the New York city Post .
Office in not sending out special delivery
letters on Sunday were met at the
Post Office by the statement that the :|||
law did not require Sunday deliveries.
The question as to their delivery on yjSa
that auy had been considered, but it ' '
was decided that Sunday deliveries '3?fl
would not be of convenience to so ?'
great a number as to make it necessary
to detain carries for that service.
About -500,special delivery letters are v ^J8
received each day and few of these are ,
left over on Saturday evening.
Philadelphia points with pride to ^
the fact that she has now 675 churches ";JI8
to New York's 432, Chicago's 371, and
Brooklyn's 300. These 676 churches d|j
represent 46 different denominations.
The Methodists lead with 107; then fol- v??j
low tlie protestaut Episcopalians with
102, the Presbyterians with 101, the "#8
Baptists with 85, and the Roman Catholics
with 54.
London has a population of ?,416,006,
and the sittings in the churches afford
accommodations for 1,903,509, which 'SjjH
perhaps is about half of the adult population.
Of these sittings the Establish- ,
"J /' 1 iM/?U ifikno AQ K AAnf anil ' . ?' .
t?U lylIUll'11 luxuisiicts "x?/.u |a;i vvuv auu :_vtw
the free churches 50.5 per cent.^JI
Rev. M. B. Hill, of Arkansas, another
new missionary for our work in rjg
China, has received orders to be ready
to start for his field of labor by the 10th
of September.
I were uota friend, if I should see
my friend out of the way, aud not advise
him : I were unworthy to have a
friend, if he should advise me (being
out of the way) and I be angry with
him. Rather Jet me have my friend's
anger, than deserve it.
We might as well make up our
minds tu it first as last, that for the
converting of meu to God there is no
substitute for downright hard work
with individual men and women. All
Christian history is with us on this '
point.
T.i?r mmi nrosume that he can see
prospectively into the ways of Providence.
His part is to contemplate ^
them in the past, and trust them in the . future;
but, so trusting, to act always
upon motives of human prudence,
directed by religious principle.
He lives long that lives well; and
time misspent is not lived, but lost.
The damage to the canal, streets,
ridges, warehouses, residences, stores
md merchandise in Augusta, Ga.,
:ansed by the high water is estimated
it $1,000,000.
The Mayou, an old volcano in the
Philipine islands, was in a state of vioent
eruption in July. At least 100
>ersoiis were destroyed by lava and
There has been an earthquake at
k'asti/.za, ureece, wmcn uumaguu c?>ry
building in the place and destroyed
Flood and cyclone in Mexico liave
lestroyed much property, cost the
ives of many, and interrupted ralload
travel.