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The Abbeville Press and B'aiinenl! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 37. |Sj I What They Eat In England. ij In the English restaurants and at B English tables, generally, one is par ticularly struck with the absence of > any great variety of vegetables, says a B London letter to the Boston Herald. V There are plenty of meats, fowls, I game, fish, and all the rest of the sol ids, but of vegetables there is a pover ty. Potatoes, French beans, French V peas, cauliflower, cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, and a thing they call vegeta ble marrow, about fill out the list. H The peas are those little, flavorless things we get in tins in America, the cucumbers are long, thin affairs, some times growing to a yard in length, and W lettuce is about the sweetest and best I thing of its kind in the whole world. I Then there is that vegetable marrow! I Yes, it is there. And there it ought to | stay. It tastes about like what an I over-ripe cucumber should taste, bavI ing been previously boiled, so that it I might be servedhot. It is insipid, and 8 wfttprv. and soft, and it "squashes" in the mouth. American peas, beans, cucumbers, radishes and potatoes are much better and larger and more richly flavored than are the same articles over here. It is all iu the climate, I suppose. Beans, peas, and these things come mainly fr6m France. [ Even the bulk of the strawberries and at least three quarters of the asparagus consumed in England are grown In the hotter countries. Com is unknown. Ask for thatsucculent vegetable and the waiter will stare at jou in helpless amazement. Insist on having it, and he will probably bring you some wheat on a plate. Wheat is called corn in England, and eorn is maize. That, perhaps, is why the waiter looks amaized when you ask for corn. The potatoes over here are generally little things that look like English walnuts. The Irish potato, as seen in Ireland, is a miserable dwarf, and its English cousin is little or no better. Sweet potatoes they have none. Turnips, parsnips, squash, carrots, and the like seldom reach the table. I believe they grow in England, but they don't seem to be in much demand. Tomatoes grow in hot-houses, and are costlv. They are not particularly liked, either. Peaches, too, are either grown on vines inside the roofs of hothouses or are trained up a south wall. An ordinary American peach tree would have no show in the world in such an atmosphere as this. Peaches are, of course, very great luxuries. They cost at least a shilling apiece if they are of any size, and they are eaten after an elaborate degree of preparation that makes them seem doubly valuable. Melons are non est, unI less they be especially imported from France, and even those do not bear any comparison to our own full flavored, juicy cantelopes. The watermelon is entirely unknown. But there are such delicacies as green walnuts and almonds and green tigs within reach of easy importation, and they make up for a good deal in the way of shortage elsewhere. I Snappy People. There is such a thing as a snappy railroad conductor. When he an nounces the name 01 a depot ue ones off the first letter and the last syllable. It is at your peril you ask him the name of the next station. While you are deciding in which of your eight pocket9 you put your ticket, he gapes upon you devouringly, as much as to cay, "I have you now ! You expected to get a ride without paying for it eh?" If you venture to tell him that the car is very cold, he will freeze you still worse with a wondering stare. If you ask why-there is no water on the train, he will throw over you the wet blanket of a curt reply, and that is water enough. He is snappy to the old lady who is too long getting off, and the old gentleman who is too long getting on ; snappy about where you put your feet, snappy about where you set your yalise. Before many miles all the passengers feel the contagion from having been bitten by such a snappy disposition, and so they get snappy too. Frait Skins Indigestible. That the rind, or "skin," of all fruit is more or less indigestible is a fact that should not be forgotten. We say all fruit, and the statement must be understood to include the pellicle of kernels and nuts of all kinds. The edible part of fruit is peculiarly delicate, and liable to rapid decomposition if exposed to the atmosphere; it is, therefore, a wise provision of nature to place a strong and impervious coating over it, as a protection against accident, and to prevent insect enemies from destroying the seed within. The skin of j??i ? plums IS wouuenuuy suuug wmpmcu with its thickness, and resists the action of water and many solvents in a remarkable manner. If not thoroughly masticated before taken into the stomach, this skin is rarely, if ever, dissolved by the gastric juice. In some cases, pieces of it adhere to the coats of the stomach as wet paper clings to bodies, causing more or less disturbance or inconvenience. Raisins ^,nd dried currants are particularly troublesome in this way, and, if not chopped up before cooking, should be thoroughly chewed before swallowing. If a dried currant passes into the stomach whole, it is never digested at all. Irreverence In the House of God. We have more than once uttered or protest against this, as it appears to' be a growing evil. There is no lack of argument to sustain our position, and we do not doubt the concurring sentiment of our best people. But it may interest all classes to know how the matter is regarded from a foreign point of view. The last number of tde Homiletic Review contains testimony worth considering. In the "European Department," conducted by Prof. J. H. W. Stuckenburg, D. D., we find the following. "Coming from Germany to America a positively painful impression was made by the lack of reverance during divine service. This is not universa,! nevertheless quite common. The behavior of the congregation, the bearing of the preacher, the sermon, and the announcements, too often put divine service on the level of an entertain ment. sometimes me enienaimug feature is not only apparent, but actually announced as a special aim. As a consequence, the levity found in certain congregations ought not to be a surprise, however shocking it may ^be to those who have come to worship God < and to receive instruction from his word. Religious solemnity need not be confounded with long faces and re- i pulsive gloom ; we may insist on the i need of Christian cheerfuluess and the I l ight of Christian humor, while at the same time we are repelled by levity i and frivolity in the house of God. 1 When a minister descends to the sen- < sational, the vulgar, and the laughable, j as the chief means for attracting an ] audieuce, we naturally wonder why I he is in the pulpit. With such pi^ach- 1 ing, astonishment ceases that the con- < gregation lacks solemnity, is ready for a laugh, and can enter and leave the i house of God without a thought of of? fering a silent prayer to fit the heart for i worship and to deepen the convictions < of the services." I This is bad enough: but the worst i of it is that it is true, considering that < due allowance is made for exception. I The evil is "not universal," "yet quite I common." If it so shocks mere hu- i ' ?i- t i. fi. . man ne&rc, now must n appear iu tue ' minds of angels who we doubt not are ] dressent in our religious assemblies! I Above all, how must it appear in the I eyes of the thrice Holy God ? i t Where He Learned It. 1 He was a pretty little fellow, but it was his manners, not his looks, that 1 attracted everybody?clerks in the 1 stores, people in the horse-cars, men, t women, and children. A boy four t years old who, if anybody said to him, \ "How do you do?" answered, "I am 1 well, thanks," and if he had a request i to make, be it of friend or stranger, be- I gan it with "Please." And the beauty c of it was that the "thanks" and ? "please" were so much a matter of ^ course to the child that he never knew 1 that he was doing anything at all no- t ticeable. i "How cunning it is," said a showy } woman to his mother as they sat at t dinner at the public table of a hotel t one day, "to hear that child thank the c waiters and say 'please' when he c wants anything. I never saw anything so sweet. My children have to be constantly told if I want them to thank people. How well you must have taught him, that he never forgets." 1 "He has always been accustomed to < it," said the mother. "We have al- I ways said 'please' to him when we wished him to do anything, and have i thanked him. He knows no other i way." i The showy woman looked as if she did not need any further explanation 1 of the way in which habits are form- 1 ed. < Probably you do not. < fnr Hfnfhnr. I Always punish your children for willfully disobeying you, but never ] punish when you are angry. Oa no account allow them to do at oue time what you have forbidden, un- , der the same circumstances, at another. Never promise them anything un- , less you are sure that you can give them what you promise. | A mother who feared her son might inherit a taste for liquor from a drink- , ing ancestry gave him occasionally ( wine in which small doses of tartar ( emetic had been mingled. He acquir- ( ed such an aversion for the taste of liquors of all sorts that he could not be induced to touch them. She put in , just enough to nauseate him. Don't reprove children before com- | pany?it hardens them and lessens fhnir aolf-rpsnpp.fc. Grape-Kot Kemedies.?At a meeting of the American Horticultural Association it was stated that Mr. Cramer, of Ohio, had sown oats between the rows of grapes, and had thus prevented the rot. This has been tested for several years. The oats were plowed under when full-grown. Mr. Miller, of the same State, had used sulphate of irou as a disinfectant when grapes were rotting, and, to his surprise, further rotting was prevented. He used one to three pounds around each vine early in June or July. Others in his vicinity had tried the same successfully. Knocking. Sometimes the knocking of the divine hand is as soft as that of a little ( child. It is especially so when a loved 1 form lies cold and silent awaiting the i last sad rites of earth; when every thing 1 is quiet, and a solemn hush resets up- 1 on the house-hold, In wakeful mid- 1 night hours, when grieflies bo heavily * upon your heart that even tired nature cannot sleep, then is heard a strange 1 knocking, knocking, knocking. It is ( the blessed Jesus at the door of your ? heart whith a message of comfort. Let 1 him in and he will lift your burden, c wipe away your tears, and speak words of promise, hope, and cheer. 9 Sometimes, during a period of re- * ligous interest, the knocking is puick I and threatening, as if the divine caller ' would take no refusal, or as if he were about to leave and never return. 1 Then the message is so important, the r time so critical, the opportunity so P favorable and yet so limited, that the * Holy Spirit knocks as if he would al- F most compel the sinner to open the v door and receive God's blessing. c Sometimes the knock of Providence P is hard aud loud, like that of a strong 1 man beating upon the door in the dead r of night. The sound ring through the c hall and every room of the house, for 8 his errand calls for immediate admis3ion. A laborer leaves home in the t! morning, the picture of health, and b before night is brought back a crushed ' and mangled corpse. The whole to neighborhood is shocked, and while c we lie still, wondering at the mystery c of Providence that takes away husband v ana ratner so suuuemy ?uu ow uu^ikpared, we hear, in the dead of night, the divine hand loudly knocking; and 0 svhile the sounds echo through every a jhamber of the soul, we hear the Sa- ^ viour's warning words, "Be ye also ^ ready." 0 "Oh" says some one "my heart is Q aot fit to receive this Divine Guest, v jvery thing is an disorder. Let me ^ Srst sweep out the dust and filth of sin tl tvhich has been accumulating in its ri jhambers since early youth. Let me b Irst cleanse my house and set things v io rights, then I will open the door u ind bid the Saviour welcome." As n tvell might a sick, helpless housedeeper talk thus when a kind neighoot raps at the door. The frien d come S to help in her time of need. The visit c s made especially to sweep, and dust, ? md put the room in order. Let Christ e n, and he will make your hear fit for ^ lis reception. 31 Another says, "My heart is so cold, n [am so indifferent about religion. tVhen I can love Jesus, then I will idmithim." You are wrong. Open he door, and Christ's coming in will varm your heart. Love begets love, d 'We love him because he first loved c< is." When he draws near and you si >ehold his comeliness, when you be- ai tome acquainted and know all his joodness and mercy, then your heart n vill fill with love. C But some one says, "I have nothing oj o offer this heavenly visitor." It is d lot necessary. He comes to sup with p rou, but he furnishes the feast. He e: >rings bread for the soul and wine for P he spirits. With him comes good fr iheer, joy, happiness, and whatever is w lesirable. He himself is all and in all. li [Presbyterian Observer. & * ? ? ? tl Not A Laughing Matter. tl tc A woman stood at the front gate p< ivatching her neighbor's dog coming tl lown the street with a kettle tied to his fc ail. It amused her vastly. fi Presently the owner of the dog scur- p led by in hot pursuit, whereupon the 11 ivoman at the gate laughing a gleeful, n ind unneighborly laugh. ei Then a little boy rounded the corner tl with a bright, innocent look on his v :ace, as who should say, "I-am-on-an- w ;rrand-for-my-dear-mamma-so- don't- oi ietain-me." b He stopped and said to the woman at the gate. A "What are you laughing at?" She replied with hilarity, "I'm laughin' at old Bullrag's dog with a kettle tied to his tail." 11 "It's awful funny, ain't it?" the lit- ^ tie boy said as he hurried on. "The ^ kittle is youru." Then the woman at the gate suddenly ^ Btopped laughing. d Ppvnv Christians.?A eood man n in this city was telling us a few days d ago about his deceased wife. He said to once, after he had given his children a r( Dent a piece to carry to the Sunday- b school for their weekly offerings, his tl wife called the childreu aside and gave 11 gach a dime in exchange for the penny. Then she very tenderly explained and r< apologized to her husband, saying, "If h our children are to be trained to give -A the smallest possible sum to the cause n of religion, when they grow up they e" will be penny Christians, if Christians V at all." The doctor paid that the re- C( mark of his sainted wife did him good, and from that day to this his children have never failed to take with them to cl the Sunday-school larger currency ii than pennies. to Bobby (looking out of the window) t< ?"What's the matter with that horse, m moinmtt?" Mother?"Thfi horse is d balky, Bobby ; be won't obey his dri- c< ver." Bobby?"Well, what's the man v patting him for?" Mother?"He is t< coaxing him." Bobby (with an injur- fi ed air)?"That ain't the way you treat tl me when I'm balky." tl Putting' Things to Rights. "The place of a comet," says a writjr on domestic topics, "may be accurately calculated after certain perturbng influences have acted upon it, but :he locality of a boot-jack, when that aumble article is wanted, is seldom exictly computed by the masculine jrain." The same remark could too often be tpplied with equal truth to coats, bats, Iressing-gowns, slippers, gloves, and trticles innumerable in daily use. It vould be quite as difficult for the orlinary housewife to complete an sclipse as to reckon up the time she pends from one year's end to another n hunting up articles that are out of )lace and in putting in place things 'lying round." Now, though time spent in making lome neat, orderly, and inviting can lut ue uuusiucicu ua wtioivu, jtsi/, 11 me (rinciple of division of labor in puting things to rights were carefully >racticed, there is no telling how much aluable time might be saved. It is omparatively an easy thing to have a >Iace for every thing, but to keep every bing in its place, "ay, there's the ub." Before we know it hats and aps cover the sewing-machine intead of the hat-rack, bvercoats lie on 1 be backs of chairs, books are laid on < be organ, overshoes ornament the 1 learth rug, and the mantle-pieee? 7hat small articles may we not hope < 0 find there??pens, inkstand, small i hange, vials of medicine, collars and 1 ravats, cuff-buttons, letters, bills and i rhat not, rest there in rich profusion 1 nd "most admired disorder." i One of the benefits that the mother < ( sons can confer on her own sex and < 11 the world beside is to form in them 1 tie habit of putting things in place. 1 'his can be done in many instances i nltr Kir ^ A i uij *Jj luiiwvviu^ iuuuj x uuuu auu ic~ * uiring them, when they are through < ?ith a book, to put it on the shelf ' rhere it belongs ; when they take off 1 heir overcoats, to hang them on the i ack ; when skates are unstrapped or oots taken off, that they be put somewhere else than on the hearth-rug or nder foot: when slippers are reloved, that they at once be placed in heir appropriate case. The law of habit thus imposed will ' radually extend its domain till it in- ' ludes every thing the boy handles or alls his own, and exercises an influ- 1 nee on all he is and does. A house ' rhere such men and boys find them- \ elves at home will not take so very 1 mch time every day to put to rights. | Without Humbug. Mr. Alvan Ciark, who has recently ied, built up his extensive and sucissful business in a very pure and ^ mpleway. Humbug and quackery re not necessary. A Tirol 1 Jnfnrmprl wrifpr in thp ~Faip ing Post has this to say about Mr. lark's aversion to advertising himself r his work : "He never sought an orer. He could never be induced to lace specimens of his handicraft on chibition; even the Centennial at hiladelphia had nothiDg to show om his hands. Astronomers the orld over applied in yain for a pricest of the productions of Alvan Clark , Bon. The firm would not print anyling of the kind. No where was anyling arranged for display. Visitors > his work shop, whatever their rank, osition, or objects, were received with le same unstudied courtesy, and >und everybody, from the head of the rm down, in his working carb. No retension to a secret art were ever lade. When, in travelling abroad lembers of the firm found their forgn colleagues afraid to show how ley worked, the only impression coneyed was that human nature had its reaknesses. Never before was an art r manufacture built upon so admirale a moral basis," Simple Way to Detect Coanterfeit Bill*. "How do you detect spurious bank otes ?" asked the Evening News as e leaned one hand 011 the counter at le window of a well known Broad treet bank teller and with the other and stuffed a plethoric purse deep own into his p; cket. "To discover spurious national bank otes," answered the polite teller, "just ivide the last two figures or me nuioier of the bill by four and if one letter ?mains the letter of the genuine will ^ e A; if two remain it will be B; if ^ iree C, and if there should be no reminder the letter will be D. For exmple, this note I hold in my hand is igistered 2461; divide the sixty-one ^ y four and you have one remaining. ^ .ccording to the rule the letter on the ote as you will observe is A. In very case the rule fails, you can bet our week's wages that the bill is Dunterfeit-"?Augusta Evening News. ^ fi Stockings.?If a lining of firm ~ loth is sewed inside the heels of stockigs when they are new, or when they egin to show signs of wear, they will ist much longer than if this is omit- 1 id. Rather better than lining them i rith cloth is running them up and t own with double yarn or darning ] atton. Stockings defended in this t 'ay from hard wear require little at- 1 mtion each week when they coi_:" in i :om the laundry, and repay doubly 1 tie time and labor of strengthening i iiem before they begin to wear out. \ f " I Morality in Little Things. A railway conductor, passing through his train, recently remarked, < "If all were like that gentleman yonder, I would have far less trouble in ] my work. Every day, almost every ; hour, some one tries to ride on my < train without paying for it." The < gentleman to whom he referred was i uncertain as to the value of an excur- < sion ticket, thinking the time for using < it under the regulations of the corporation had possibly gone by. He, ] therelbre, submitted the ticket to the i conductor, calling his special attention | to it, and expressing u desire to fulfill 1 the pxnr.t, r.nnditiona under which he i had purchased it. He not only wish- < ed to relieve a faithful employee of i possible embarrassment in his report to the company, but also to be strictly honest, doing everything openly. This incident points a moral. It is wrong to allege that corporations de- * fraud, and, therefore, they may be in- t nocently defrauded. The moral sense of an individual ought not to be stulti fied by any known wrong, however trifling it may seem, or however sue- f cessfully concealed from view. We are not sure but that here is just cause c for close self-examination by many a t one, who fancies himself occupying se- fc cure moral standing. Christian morals have to do with fundamental truth J < with the smallest, as well as the great- \ est volitions. And the way to reach <j integrity of character is not so much \ to regard the conspicuous acts of fidel- t ity to the right, as to be sure that we ire really true in reference to those innumerable matters which make up our d daily life. It is well to cultivate a ten- o ier conscience in everything ; well for o the individual himself; well for his in- p Suence over others. In the end of life, e it shall be well with him. Peace will a aHinof tho nillnw in lifp'a latent hour a rf that man who acted in all things a with a conscientious regard to even- a banded justice toward others, and with c i strict sense of duty to his God. n m ?I a A Friend to All Honest People. a Everybody knows Col. Ingersoll's ^ reputation as a lawyer and a politician, n but every one cannot speak of .his per- c tonality truly. Take the word t) "friend," for instance. The broadness p of the term cannot be better shown p than by something he said to a man j, ane day last week. They were talk- gi ing of the prosaic matter of "new p jhirts," when the colonel declared he t] was not going to have another made for him until he could find a shirt-ma- & iter who was honest enough to give the t] woman who did the work the $1.50 jach that he was williug to allow. "I'm afraid you'll have to wait some ti :ime," said his companion. "Shirt- e Bakers' fortunes are not built that u way." t< "Then I'll wait," said the colonel. 'Henceforth I wear no shirt until I n aave seen the woman who makes it, e ind she has told me herself that she a *ot paid for her work." t< This, then, is what the word ei 'friend," as applied above, means. So man can say that Col. Ingersoll jver paid him less than his work was b worth, even in the most liberal sense e: )f the word, or that he has ever asked o; 'or a good turn and was refused. It is tl " fliof 4-Kici Kir* 11 1UI tu L113 XIIC/UUO liUAV WL1XO Ulg UVMX WVI 41 man is a friend, but to all honest men a ind women?Fannie B. Merrill in New York World. The great mistake men make is ^ ;his : they strive to increase their ;arnings, but they do not strive to iuirease their earning capacities. They jomplain of the selfishnesss of their jmployers, when if they were wise .hey would see that in that selfishness lies their greatest opportunity. The ielfish employer is always on the look>ut for the man who will serve him jest and bring the most money into lis treasury. He lies awake at night wondering where he can secure such a h man. , He is willing to reward capaci- tl y aud fidelity liberally, not because \\ ae is generous, but because it is his in- ss erest to secure better service and bet- cl returns. Many of our youug men v lavp hppn nuick to understand the sit- jg .mtiou, and they have risen in the si vorld. lc m li An Unfortunate Misunderstanding.?"My dear," said a gentlenan to his wife, "where did all those u )ooks on astronomy on the library ta- p )le come from ? They are not ours." ai "A pleasant little surprise for you," n esponded the lady. You know, you si iaid this morning that we ought to tl itudy astronomy, and so I went to a )ook store and bought everything I joule find 011 the subject. li It was some minutes before he cl ipoke. tl "My dear," he then said slowly, his st roice husky with emotion' "I never * -j laid we must siuuy usuuuumj. iauu ve must study economy." It takes ten miuutes on some Sabbath norning to annihilate Huxley, ten nore to knock Jb'arrar's "eternal hope" .0 pieces, ten more to do away with [ngersoll, and about live to close upon a* lie second coming. What is going ll< ;o become of the poor burdened soul c' *ho has drifted into the service with lis bereavements and broken future md penitent feelings??President bi Hurst. I te Why He Weighs the Milk. "The milk from every cow is weighed as soon as it is milked and the weight put upon record. I do this for two reasons. It tells me at the end of the year which are my best cows, and if a low is ailing it shows first in the flow 3f milk, and by watching carefully this record I have, as it were, my hand 3n their pulse all the time. On one occasion I was feeding a cow very high. I gradually increased her feed five pounds a day. She fell off ten pounds in milk. T immediatelv reduced the feed and in a few days she regained what she had lost. I had reached the Maximum quantity of feed that the jow could digest, as was indicated by weighing the milk. < I The Wrong Excosc. Two workingmen were talking about i comrade who had lately "got into ' rouble," as the saying is. "He oughtn't to say he was led into ' t," said one; "he lent himself to it." 1 The remark struck me as a thoughtul one. ( When a man, open-eyed, goes into , langerous places, associates with ques- ( ionable characters, surely he lends ( limself to evil?he is not led into it. ( Yet people often say regretfully, j 'Ah, poor fellow, he was led into it," ( phen a man has committed a sin un- j ler the influence of drink. "He j youldu't have done it," they add, "if , le'd been in his right senses." 1 5 A Professor of Natural History wan- j lered away from the Smithsonian the ^ ther day and got into a lawyer's office n F Street, where there 19 a very poinious young clerk. The Professor askd two or three questions on the point i t issue, and the clerk finally remark- 1 d very largely: "I tell you it's true, ] nd it is true. What do you know < boot law, anyway?" "Nothing, 1 . ** 4 ?ll 4 UA DllAfAaa/\M I luuiiiig at any lejijuuu me x luicoovi, ? aeekly, "but I know a great deal < bout natural history, and I think you s n ass." > It is found that living creatures J rought up from sea depths of four t ailes or more, suffer greatly from the s hanged conditions of pressure and \ smperature. At those vast depths the ) reasure is tremendous, and the tern- e ierature is comparatively low. On be- i Qg brought to the surface, the deepea creatures are sometimes torn in ieces by the powerful expansion of c heir organisms occasioned by decrease a pressure, and "sometimes they ab- t olutely melt away before the eyes of c lie beholder." ^ Lady: "Here, my poor man, is a a icket for a dinner at the soup-kitch- E n ; and you can eat as much there as ' rill suffice for to-morrow and day af- 1 sr." ^ Mendicant; "Thank'ee kindly, jum ; but I'd rather like first to eat ^ nough for yesterday and the day | fore, if it would make no difference r > you to write that dowu on the tick- ^ t " . u The great bulk of mankind resem- 0 les the swine, which in harvest gath. t r and fatten on acorns beneath the v ak, but show to the tree which bore c aem no other thanks than rubbing off ;s bark, and tearing up the sod round it. An unhappy marriage is like an s lectric machine?it makes one dance, s ut you can't let go. v Is the work difficult? D Jesus directs thee. s' Is the path dangerous? Jesus protects thee. n. a. -1 "li. . ^ ear not unu inner noi; Let the word cheer thee J" All through the coming yearHe will be near thee. r ?F. li. Haver(jal. Cleaning Windows.?Choose an our when the sun is not shining on s ie windows. First wash the wood- -j rork with soap and a brush if ueces- ^ try. Then for the glass use a soft .1 loth dipped in ammonia and water. a Vipe with an old cotton cloth andpolill with soft newspaper, a chamois dn, or an old silk handkerchief. Soap saves a milky tint on the glass, and ti nen cloths are apt to leave lint. 1 Staking young trees, to keep them pright, is often practiced, but it is a referable to heap up a mound of earth round the trunks at the base. A lound a foot high, and as sharp and e nooth as may be, will not only stiffen e' ie trees, but keen off mice. n Put five drops of chloroform on a ttle cotton or wool Jin the bowl of a ^ ay pipe, then blow the vapor through le stem into the aching ear and inant relief will be afforded. "There's many an empty cradle, tl There's many a vacant bed, < There's many a lonely bosom. Whose joy and light are fled; l*j For thick in every graveyard The little hillocks lio; And every hillock represents An angel In the sky." , Nature is bound to keep up the aver- ^ je ; when she makes a man who can jcumulate a fortune, she usually prouces a family of spendthrifts to scjuau- tl ir it. m "We find self-made men very often, at self-unmade ones a good deal of- p (uer. o What Others Say. Richmond Advocate. Society may be ever so lenient toward the sin of misrepresentation re- -,i suiting from zealous devotion to a denomination or party, but we have ' $ our fixed opinion that the very general ' , prevalence of the evil in our day is an offense against Heaven, which exposes us 10 tne jjivine uispieasure. we iear it is especially heinous in the sight of a holy God to be so zealous in a reli- _ , M gious cause as to violate honesty or 3andor in its behalf. The Jesuits are not < by aoy means the ouly parties that make the end justify the means. .-4 Even Christian journals of wide clrculation in the Church are frequently ^ guilty of an unfairness which is r|| equivalent, in a moral sense, to down- M right falsification, or, in homelier lao- * guage, lying for the glory of God! > The perpetrator may not be conscious ^ of suub a purpose, but the effect is de- r-fj moralizing, notwithstanding. "Evil . communications corrupt good man* ^ ners." f;.|, We do not wage war against fine ^ 'v ihurches but the church which builds none but fine churches will not be the .-J jhurch of Christ in the future. Fine / ':M jhurches may satisfy taste, gratify Inlulgence, please vanity, minister to pride, but that they have any salutary " "4 iffect as a saving agency, that they ':X nany way enhauce spirituality or jive energy and force to the gospel, we deny. Our church houses should )e suited to the simple purposes of a spiritual worship; beyond this, into % ;he regions of taste, elegnce, cost, jospel demands do not go. Christian Inquirer. The test of our personal religion Is n our secret life. Hypocrite may naintain an external semblance of jiety. So far as churchgoing is con- ; J erned, and other concomitants of &' eligious profession, they may mask ;heir real character; but the veil of "Mj leception is usually thrown off in lecret. We may judge for ourselves V vhether we know what it is to hold . :ommunion with the Father in secret. /j: ft is possible that, under a false and ormal profession, to satisfy the con- -v cience, there may be a habit of pri- o rate prayer; but there can be no real * 'ellowship with God or delight in the | ixercise u uless the "root of the matter" ^ s in the heart. A worlding who heard an infidel . .' ?< ration in JNew York was asked what ;. le thought of it.- "It's a spicy thing o laugh at for an hour but not & very < .^J| heering doctrine to have around r"' f| vhere there is a funeral in the house." Phere is truth in this. Men may laugh ,nd applaud when one blatant infidel aakes his vile flings at God and re- ; ) igion, but it will be different when hey come face to face with death.? Ihristian World. "When I note the weakness of or- ' '//M linary Christians on subjects such as ^ce, and other parts of Christ's uoral teaching, I almost become disteartened with the lack of moral stamaa among evangelical professors," aid one lately, who for years has not inly known reconciliation with God hrough the atonement>f Christ, hut ~ vho walks in obedience to the comoands of Christ.? Friends1 Review. Nashville Christian Advocate, Now that the Christmas festivities re over, it will be well for Sundaycliool people and others to ask themelves how far the Lord Jesus Christ i'as ignored or dishonored by the manler in which they celebrated the sacred eason. Nashville Christian A dvocate. Anarchism never plants itself in a Christian Church. Its birth-place and lome is the bar-room. Close the baroom3, and the ugly impocation would reeze to death in this countrv before lie dogwoods bloom again. "I want five cents' worth of starch," aid a little girl to a grocer's clerk. .'he clerk asked: "What do you want ive cents' worth of starch for?" '' S 'Why, for five cents, of course," she nswered. And the clerk concluded o attend to his own business. ? . i The famous cedars of Lebanon are aken care of by the authorities. 'here are 397 of them, 22 more than in S10 and 373 more than in 1573, when boy were counted by the German botnist, RamvolfF. A petrified Indian has been exhumd in Arizona. The savage is supposd to have been petrified withastonishlent on discovering an honest Indian geut. If you do not wish for His kingdom on't pray for it. But if you do, you lust do more than pray; you must rork for it. A leading apiarist of Canada thinks :iat granulated sugar should be used >r feeding bees, as it is safer than to isk feeding cheap sugar. When the horse shies at some object r stumbles do not whip him. Help im to stand, and show him the folly f his fear. Scissors should never be used to cut te nails; that should be done only ith a sharp penknife. In making a mustard plaster for a atient with a delicate skin, use white f tin ogg instead of water.