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1 The Abbeville Press and Banner ! | BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 43. .-jf I Extracts from Jonathan and Ills Coutlnent. BY MAX O'RELL. The population of America is sixty millions?mostly colonels. If the earth is small, America is large, and the Americans are immense ! From east to west, America stretches over a breadth of more than 3,000 miles. Here it is well to put some readers on their guard, in case an American should one day put to them one of his favorite question : "Where is the center of America?" I myself imagined that, starting from New 1 York and pushing westward, one < would reach the extremity of America i on arriving at San Francisco. Not so, and here Jonathan has you. He < knows you are going to answer wrong- ! ly, and if you want to please him, you > *v,a1 f V?A Aoti/vk f in 11 f _ i IJLliU9t iCb juuiavrn uc vau^ut. au uuxo aiv tie trap, because it will give him such I satisfaction to put you right. At San 1 Francisco, it appears you are not quite 1 half way, and the center of America is I really in the Pacific ocean. Jonathan j more than doubled the width of his 1 contiuent in 1867, when for the sum of i $7,000,000 he purchased Alaska of the J Russians. ( ******* i The Englishman, on his side, has no i antipathy whatever to the Americans, i For that matter the Englishman has t no antipathy for any one. He de- t spises, but he "does not hate, a fact t which is irritating to the last degree to c the objects of his attention. When a i man feels that he has some worth, he 1 likes to be loved or hated; to be treat- s ed with indifference is galling. John i Bull looks on the American as a par- i venu, and smiles with incredulity t when you say that American society is I not only brilliant and witty, but quite c as polished as the best European socie- { ty. i It is this haughty disdain which ex- c asperates Americans. t Jonathan has forgotten that the En- I glish were once his oppressors ; he for- t gives them for the war of 1812; with- s out forgetting it, he forgives them for a having, during the civil war, sided g with the slaveowners; but he cannot r forgive au Englishman for coming to a his dinner table in a tweed suit. 1 ******* f I was chatting one day with an t American about the famous Col. Rob- 1: ert Ingersoll. c "He is your greatest orator, I am v told," I said. t "Yes," he replied, "Ingersoll can t fill theiMetropolitan opera house any I day, and have Ave thousand dollars in t the house." d Certainly that is a curious way to p speak of a great orator, a great writer a and a great thinker. ? The American may be eccentric, or what you will, but he is never monotonous. ****** * a The Slaughter of Birds. ^ Unless prompt measures are taken ^ to put a stop to the useless slaughter of n the little birds, simply for the purpose * of ornamenting the bonnets and hats of the ladies, the luxury will be a dear ? one. Nearly $1,000,000,000 is lost ^ every year from the depredations of ' insects, and without the aid and assistance of the birds we will be powerless to protect ourselves. Nor can the D matter be postponed. The birds are 8 being reduced in numbers, and the insects are increasing. Every season's ' delay renders the extermination of the 0 insects more difficult, as the birds will ? require several years to regaiu their numbers, while the insects will be more strongly entrenched. It seems 0 but a very insignificant matter to kill 1 a bird, and the enormity of the destruction is not comprehended, because 8 they are slaughtered here and there, but over 40,000 are annually kill- c ed in the neighborhood of Cape Cod. J The statement is made that dealers in New York handle 100,000 bird skins a year, and it is time the cruel business * be stopped. If "gentle woman" herself will allow her finer feelings to 1 prompt her, the murderous practice ? will cease. It is cruel, injurious, and entirely at variance with refined taste. Leaving the little birds to take their ? chaiices with owls, hawks, and other enemies, is subjecting them to risks enough, but when the trap, snare and shot-gun is used against them, they t will be fortunate if they avoid exter- a initiation. t A (jierman critic thus distinguishes t between ridicule, wit, irony and hu- t inor: "Ridicule is the wit of a stupid a or vulgar person; wit the ridicule of a e superior intellect or a man of the r world ; irony the wit of a thinker, and l humor the irony of a poet. Ridicule t is like a blow with the fist, wit like the I prick of a needle, irony like the sting r of a thorn, and humor the plaster I which heals all these wounds." A Successful Man.?If I were j asked to define the meaning of a sue- g cessful man, I should say a man who t has made a happy home for his wife j and children. No matter what he has s not done in the way of achieving \ wealth or honors, if he has done that c he is a grand success. If he has not \ done that, and it is his own fault, c though he be the highest in the land, t he is a most pitiable failure. t Will Sunday be Destroyed ? The Times-Star, of this city, had an article recently under the title, "The Xo-Sunday Era." The title is ominous, and the facts which suggested it are not encouraging. A large drygoods store "over tbe Rhine" was open all day the Sunday before. Certain jewelry stores were open at the same time. There were hints that other business houses would follow this pernicious example, because business rivalry would compel them to do it, and thus the Times-Star saw in the opening of this over-the-Rhine store "the beginning of the end, unless a successful effort is made to check the growing disposition to ignore the laws in regard to an observance of Sunday." If these were the only facts bearing upon the jase, they would hardly justify the sweeping inferences of the TimesStar] but these are so minute, and ' - i* *1 4. iU?. Dnere are so iew ox tueiu, iuau iucj ux;ract almost no attention at all in the < yast array of forces which are waging i ft-ar against the Lord's day. The bat:le in which the Times-Star now so jallautly draws the sword has been aging for a long time. The begin- 1 ling of the end was not over the Rhine three weeks ago. If the end I :omes?which God forbid?the begin- j ling of it was centuries ago. We wish , ve could think that the enemies of j Sunday are making no progress in heir assaults on the holy day, and hat there is no cause for alarm except | he few facts which Cincinnati has re- | sently furnished ; but no such comfort | s possible, for the enemies of the < lord's day swarm on all sides, and are j is furious and persistent as they are , lumerous. The appeal of the Times- j 5e 1-1/-<f fho r;hriatinn npnnlp of , JWW AO UVV vvr vwv " \ he country so much as to the laboring | >eople, whose Sunday rights are iD , langer from the greed of their em- j >loyers. Little by little the demand , or seven days of labor in the week in" , reases. The railroad idea is likely to , >ecome domiuant, and men who will , lot work on Sunday must give place ? 0 others whose consciences are less s ensitive. It is not simply Suuday as ( 1 religious institution that is in dan- j ;er, but Sunday as one of the sacred y ights of the laborer. He has right to ( , day of rest, and it is a sin against ( lim to compel him to drag his weary t eet through seven days of weekly t oil. This point does not command [ arge attention now, but the time will j ome when some men who are now raging war against Sunday will curse he fatal dav when thev did it, and i hus forged chains for their own limbs, s jabering people have an interest in t he Lord's day which millions of them " lo not now appreciate; but as time \ asses they will see the case as it is, c nd the day will have new defenders. I Sunday is not doomed to destruction, c , \ Happy Children. ? "I know now," said a lady not long e go, "that my mother loved me ten- c ,erly ; but during all my childhood I ^ oubted it. If I were really dear to * ler, I queried, why did she never tell 8 aeso? Why did she never caress me * nd assure me of her love? She * hought her actions spoke loudly 8 nough without words, and so they c id, but I could not comprehend the J inguage they spoke. I could not un- ; erstand them as I can now, and how longed to hear her call me loving 8 lames and to have her lap me in the * weet embrace of a mother's love." Many a little heart aches as did this ady's for the spontaneous utterances f maternal affection. These can aake it happier than gifts of beads, or [oils, or fine clothes, or costly toys. Is house-plants cannot flourish with>ut sunshine, so children cannot hriveand be happy without love. Children who grow up in this contaut atmosphere of love are rarely aischievous, never vicious. The nightiest of all agencies to lead the roung in paths of virtue is in the tands of parents, and to command his agency they need but give ei>ression to the natural overflow of g heir hearts. Children to be happy , leed encouragement and praise. Let is give to these darlings of our hearts he sunniest, warmest spot in the lousebold, and we shall see them grow ip in symmetry to be fair women and >rave men. Put it in Writing.?Verbal conracts occasion more trouble, dispute ind litigation than any other business ransactions. The wise merchant, aught by experience, will endeavor to lave a writing executed by the party o be charged in every case of importance arising in his business. This is specially necessary of guarantees. A nan enters your office whom you mow to be perfectly responsible. He ells you to sell Brown a thousand dolars' worth of goods. Brown is all ight; he will answer for that, etc. tfake him sign a memorandum. A aiinlamak fvm'na vaii o lorirn nr/lar X\. uuau;ui Cl gt?to J vu c* viuvi or future and installment deliveries. ( lake him sign it in writing. You en- 1 ;age a salesman for a year, or for a < uonth, or for a trial trip. Have it all 1 >ut down in writing and signed. You < ave taking your chances before a jury, ? vho nine times out of ten prove un- ' :ertain and too sympathetic with that 1 jarty whom they consider is the "un- 1 ler dog." It is only a little trouble at 1 he time, but it usually saves a heap of 1 rouble in the future. 6 i-ii-';.-..-v. A Preacher Eating His Horse. There was no church in Van Buren. A Methodist itinerant was sent there. One house was open to him?the tavern?and to that he went and put up. He interviewed mine host. "What is the chance for a Methodist preacher here ?" The reply was that it was the same as for any other man, if he had money. "But if I have no money?'' The chances were bad enough. "What do you charge for board ?" said the circuit-rider. The rates were given. "Look at my horse," said he; "what do you think he is worth?" The animal, doubtless, was good middling, for our preachers are not novices about horses, and no men have better use for them. That preliminary settled, the preacher proceeded in a very straightforward style with the host. "Sir, turn my horse into your stable, and when you think I have eat up the value of him, let me know, and I will either change my quarters or provide other means of paying my bill." He went to work?laid siege to the place in the name of the Lord?and before the horse was eat up the town capitulated. The people presented him his horse, all charges paid, and his own bill besidefitted out "the parson" in a, new suit of clothes, and from that day Christianity has had a firm footing in Van JBuren. The Bell of Justice.?In one of the old cities of Italy, the king caused i bell to be hung in a tower in one of the public squares, and called it the "bell of justice," and commanded that my one who had been wronged should 50 and ring the bell, and so call the magistrate of the city, and ask and receive justice. When, in the course of time, the lower end of the bell rope rotted away; a wild vine was tied to it to lengthen it; and one day an old 1"* f Kof linrl Kaon oV\o ri_ hill ami viug uvioc ujmb ijuu uccu avunJoned by its owner and turned out to lie, wandered into the tower, and, in Tying to eat the vine, rang the bell, rhe magistrate of the city, coming to *ee who had rung the bell, found this )ld and starving horse; and he caused :he owner of the horse, in whose service he had toiled and been worn out, ;o be summoned before him, and de;reed that, as this poor horse had rung he bell of justice, he should have jusice, and that during the remainder of lis life his owner should provide for lim proper food and drink and stable. A Training School for Sextons.?Our sextons ought to have a leminary. They occupy a very imporant place in the church. In New Kork their names are on tne taDiets, whether the pastor's is or not. They :an freeze out an audience, roast it out, )low it out with draughts, or poison it >ut. Some close up the windows and seep the Sunday atmosphere as careully as if it was sanctified and pure lir satanic. Besides, they like to iconomize on dust brushes and musiles. We have been in churches vhich smelled like a cemetery, and >eople wondered why they had headtches, ?r grew so drowsy, while the >reacher wondered that he was able to jet through such a mephitic and poioned atmosphere. Magnify the office >f the doorkeeper. David wanted the >osition, though he was king. Teach lim how to do his part so that God's louse shall be the purest, the cheeriest ind the most healthful place in the vorld. ???? Bad Temper.?According to the 3oston Journal of Health: "The ef- i ect upon the bodily health, of the niud harassed by bitterness and anjer, is to propagate derangements and nfirmities. The appetite lessens, digestion is impaired, and then follow >ther functional disorders. The ner- , rous system suffers from continual nental irritability and hysteria headiche and other painful affections often >we their origin to this prejudicial in- ; luence. As has been said, 'An irritate and fractious temper, whether due o an active temperament or other 1 sauses, becomes, necessarily, the in- ( itrument of its own punishment. \nd it furthermore poisons the happiiess of all within the circle of its inluence. To so many occasions of an- ! loyance, to so many petty vexations ire we all, even the most fortunate of | is, exposed, that the happiness of the laturally irritable man must be coninually encountering obstacles, and lis health consequently be ever liable o injury.' " { Without unremitting labor, success ' n life, whatever our occupation, isim- 1 lossible. A fortune is not made with- 1 mttoil, and money unearned comes 1 o few. The habitual loiterer never >rings anything to pass. The young nen whom you see lounging about vaiting for the weather to change beore they go to work break down be'ore they begin?get stuck before they i itart. Ability and willingness to la- ] )or are the two great conditions of sue- 1 :ess. It is useless to work an electri- ! sal machine in a vacuum, but the air I nuy be full of electricity, and still you i :au draw 110 spark until you turn the I nachine. The beautiful statue may jxist in the artist's brain, and it may i ilso be said in a certain sense to exist < n the marble block that stands before jim, but he must bring both his jrains and his hands to bear upon the narble, and work hard and long, to ( produce auy satisfactory practical result. ( Ruskiu's Idea of a Wife. Ruskin, in speaking of the wife, says: "A judicious wife is always nipping off from her husband's moral nature little twigs that are growing in the wrong direction. She keeps him in shape by pruning. If you say anything gilly, she will affectionately style you so. If you declare that you will do some absurd thing, she will find some way of preventing you from doing it. And by far the chief part of all common sense there is in the world belongs unquestionably to women. The wisest things a man commonly does are those which his wife counsels him to do. A wife is a grand wielder of the moral pruning knife. If Johnson's wife had lived there would have been no hoarding up of orange peel, no touching all the posts in walking aiuug tut; street, jju cauug auu ui iuning withjdisgusting veracity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been married he | never would have worn that memorable and ridiculous coat. Whenever you find a man whom you know little about oddly dressed, talking absurdly, or exhibiting eccentricity of manner, you may be sure that he is not a married man ; for the corners are rounded off, the little shoots pared away in married men. Wives have much more sense than their husbands. The wife's advice is like the ballast that keeps the ship steady." Keligious Profession.?We often say that we would be unwilling to exchange our hope in Christ for any*Kin(? (lio r>on nntisililv nff'pr. ft wiv nv.mM j -- - is not always that we measure the full meaning of this affirmation. It might be found that, were we called to a severe test of our allegiance, our avowal is not much better than Peter's, who so speedily denied his Lord. We may mean well at the time, but, like him, we fail to understand our own weakness, and how important is that faith which is not in word only. When, after having made such a bold profession, one goes forth into life to forget his Master and his Christian obligations for service, manifestly there is room to doubt his perfect sincerity. Better far that he had never spoken thus at all, than that he should misrepresent religion before others. It is in this way that genuine righteousness is often brought into disrepute. Through such inconsistencies many are led to reject Christianity altogether. A New Cheap Light in"London. t /in/ian ;o ovomIodH Aver a now and JUVUUUU IO WAVIVIOVM v ? V ^ ? cheap light. A tank is placed in the roof of a dwelling and filled with oil. Conrjction is made with the gas pipes, and the burner is capable of being turned on or off. The light is white, soft and agreeable, and as brilliant as that supplied by electricity. The cost is about one-third that of gas. An exhibition was recently given in the presence of the representatives of the press. The secret of the new process is a machine, which is wound up like clockwork and which separates the hydroqen from the oxygen of the atmosphere, and causes the latter to mix with oil and give forth the excellent light, which is the admiration of all beholders. Women find a sea of trouble in their housekeeping. Some one says they often put as much worry and anxiety into a loaf of bread, a pie, a cake, into the weekly washing and ironing as 3hould suffice for much weightier matters. Suppose these things go wrong to-day, the to-morrows are coining in which to try again, and the thing is not worth clouding your own spirit and those around you, injuring yourself ard them physically?for the mind at 'sets the body?and for such a trifle. When a thing is beyond repair, waste no useless regrets over it and do no idle fretting. Strive for that serenity of spirit that will enable you to make the best of all things. That means contentment in its best sense. It is a strange thing, considering the demands of God, and the manner of life that most people follow, what crowds of them go to heaven when they die. Nearly everybody goes to heaven?so somebody tells us when people die. There may be some misKoL-q nhonf fliiu {i J\n\u mnnv \ rP]i#? priest, we are told, who announced the rteath of that reprobate, Louis XV, put it as follows : "Louis the beloved sleeps in the Lord." Carlyle's comment oil this was this: "If such a mass of laziness and lust sleeps in the Lord, who, think you, sleeps elsewhere." The Church would make a long advance if she could at once settle in her mind the conviction that she is not patronisingly assisting the forlorn band of missionary pensioners, that she is not aiding Secretaries or Boards, that she is not compassionating nations as such inferior races of men, but that she is doing the work to which she is called by her Itedeemer, and to which, in every syllable of her 1 creed, and every utterance of her vows, she is pledged. One ounce of arresting somebody for carrying concealed weapons before he kills somebody else is worth a pound of murder-trial. A New Use For Lemons.?1"If]you ever use lemons," remarked our housewife to a lady friend, and have a portion of one left over, be sure you do not threw it away. I am never with, out thern in the house, as I always use them for flavoring ; but of what use are the pieces?" "Just this. The next time you think you are done with a lemon just dip it in salt and rub your copper kettle or stewpun with it. You will be surprised to find what a brilliant surface you will obtain if you rub the article instantly with a dry, soft cloth. You can polish all brass work by the name means ; every stain disappears as if by magic. A mouldy lemon put into a di.rty sfcucepan half full of water boiled for half an hour cleanses the utensil amazingly and removes any odor, such as fish or onions. Try it and see if J am not right." The Way tiie Money Goes.? Towels are used for holders. Napkins are used as dish-wipers. Soap is left to soak in water. Clothes are whipped to pieces in the wind. Hams and cheese mould and get full of "skipl>ers." Tea, coffee and spices stand open and lose their strength. Coal is wasted. Vegtables are thrown away that would warm over nicely. Scrubbing brushes are left to warp in water. Bits of meat are thrown away that would make a good soup or hash. A pint, more or less, of dough is left sticking to the bread pan. The cork is .'left out of the molasses jug and flies take possession. The extravagant use of butter, sugar and eggs in cookery. Pails are allowed to sun dry and fall apart. Bread is wasted. Tea and coffee made too strong. Careless breakage of dishes. Fever and Ague.?There are some situations where fever and ague pre- ( vails every season, and this is the case in the vicinity of creeks and swamps. An acquaintance of ours, who has re- 1 sided for several years on one of these creeks, never has had a single case of fever and ague in his family, while all his neighbors have been more or less affected with it every season. He attributes his immunity from this troub- ( lesome disease to the use of a good fire i in his house every chilly and damp 1 night in summer and fall. When the Indians travel at night or early in the < morning in swampy regions, they cover their nose and mouth with some part of their garments to warm the air which they inhale, and this they say prevents chills and fevers. * Peach Custard.?Soak one-half 1 cupful of gelatine with a cup of sugar j and a dozen halves of peaches for one , hour, then pour on a cup of boiling I water and pass all through a strainer. 1 Be sure to stir it all over the fire un- \ til the gelatine is dissolved. Set it | aside to cool, and when ready to con- 1 geal have ready a cup of rich cream; j whip the ^ream uniil light, add a pinch of soda, and stir it into the gelatine quickly, one spoonful at a time. Turn into a mold wet with cold ' water, and set in a cool place to har- , den. j ? ? m < Wheat Bran for Cows.?Wheat bran is excellent to make cows give a ( mass of milk, but for the butter maker < it does not furnish the requisite material. The cream from bran-fed milk ' rises slowly and is hard to churn. , When the butter is made it will be pale 1 rather than the golden yellow from the 1 rri?am of cows fed on corn meal. Bran ' should be fed to young, growing stock ( rather than to cows. It is rich in ] phosphate, and makes an excellent 1 manure. J * i Almost the hardness of the diamond 1 is said to be given by German work- j n:en to steel engraving tools are made ( white hot, plunged repeatedly into scaling wax until cold, and then just touch with oil of turpentine. Hemp rope contracts if it is wet. A dry rope twenty-live feet Jong is shortened to twenty-four feet on being wet. 1 And it should not by forgotten that a j wet rope has only about one-third of , the strength of a dry one, while if i saturated with grease or soap it is ' weaker still. ] . " i Some forms of dyspepsia are caused ] by a deficiency of water in the system, tl-~ i-.l-s ~ r x 1!4H > as i/UU uniiKiiig m urn un,iu tvuici m | much more injurious than the drink- , iug of too much. < If you scatter souie grain among ^ straw or leaves and keep the hens at ( work scotching, they will lay better < and keep in better health. ^ I Roup should lie served at least once > or twice a week. ' m i Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. A good conscience expects to be treated with perfect confidence. Any feeling that takes a man away from Jiis home is a traitor to the house ' hold. Those who never change love their own ways better than the ways of truth. i Comparatively speaking, in man 1 goodness is everything and greatness a nothing. <*??? There is but little bad luck iu the world, but there is a great deal of bad f management. [d Reverence. The quality of reverence is an attribute of noble minds. It is the result of a perception of the great and worthy in another. If that other be a man, it enables us to render him the due meed of respect and honor. If the other be God, it brings us in lowly yet honorable adoration to His feet. The abili ty to perceive certain qualities in another is a sure mark of possessing those qualities yourself. This holds true as well of bad as of tood qualities. None is so apt to detect deceit as the deceitful person, none so ready ro acknowledge honor and truth as the honorable and truthful man. It is for this reason that truly great minds are .such a mystery to the great mass o! mankind. Incapable of his lofty thoughts and noble aspirations, the ordinary man sees in the truly great one an enigma which he can soive in no way but by attributing his success to luck or favoritism, and his course o! conduct to well stimulated goodness put on for selfish purposes. To the pure all things are pure; hence, an honest man is most easily made the victim or rraua anu snam. j nis ciew will also assist us in solving what ha* puzzled so many?namely, the fact that many great men have fallen so completely under the influence of the base and designing. lleverence is an elevating quality. Its possessor is unconsciously uplifted and ennobled by the perception and recognition of the greatness it admires and almost involuntarily imitates. Hence, to cultivate reverence is one sure means of becoming noble and lofty in mind and purpose. The feeling of reverence is honorable to its possessor. The measure of your respect for another is often the true measure of your own worthiness of it. Your readiness to believe in another's honor and purity proves the whiteness of your own soul. It is for this reason that the pure in heart, and they only, can see God. Our people are not reverent. Go into our churches and mark the free and easy way in which our people act. In some cases tbecoricreiration can scarce ly become properly subdued for devotion until half the service is over. In some churches whispered conversation, noisy entrances during prayer, men failing to remove their hats, and even professing Christians never kneeling in prayer. One cannot but wonder how such people are ever to be spiritually reached and profited. Professor Stuckenburg, in the HomH.eth Review, has this to say of our want 01 reverence: Parents should carefully inculcate reverence in their children. Allow no flippancy 011 sacred subjects. Preachsrs should set their people theexamplc of a sober and godly deportment in the house of God. And people who are habitually irreverent in the house of God need only read Ecclesiastes v., I, to see what their position is in the light of God. "Holy and reverend is His name." L. V. Y. The Value of Lying in Bed.? For those who cannot get a sufficient holiday the best substitute is an occasional dav in bed. Manv whose nerves are constantly strained in their :laily vocation have discovered this for themselves. A Spanish merchant in Barcelona told his medical man that be always went to bed for two or three lays whenever he could be spared from his business, and he laughed at those who spend their holidays on toiljome mountains. One of the hardest worked women in England, who has Tor many years conducted a large wholesale business, retains excellent nerves at an advanced age, owing, it is believed, to her habit of taking oue day a week in bed. How prone we are to count our individual interests the chief interests involved in any issue of the hour. 'When does the next train start?" hurriedly asks the incoming passenger :>f the train-starter at a central railway station, where trains are running in every direction at almost all hours Df day and night. "Start for where?" joolly asks the train-starter, in quiet suggestion of the fact that trains go elsewhere from that station than to this passenger's destination. "Have I time to get a dish of ice-cream before tlris train starts?" is another passenger's question at the restaurant of that station. " Which train do you mean ?" responds the waiter, knowing tnat a different train is to start every five minutes for the next few hours. "A ticket, please!" is another passenger's rail at the ticket-office, window in the same station. There is a touch of sarcasm in the ticket clerk's responding question: "Ticket for where?1' And 50 it is that railroad officials get the idea that the average man or woman centres the public welfare in his or her welfare. Nor is it railroad officials only who have reason to get such an impression in their minds. For Parents.?Among moderns, English women, as a rule, possess in youth and keep till age the finest complexions. Their climate is kind to them. Its perpetual moisture seems to keep them in perpetual bloom, as it does their wonderful roses. But besides their climate, their customs favor Hipm. Enerlisli cirls are kent in the nursery or the school-room, free from the excitement of late hours, rich food, ulult society, fashionable dress or habits. till their constitutions are established and their physique developed. The simple food, daily bath, hours spent out-of-doors, on foot orou horseback, and uneventful life, giving them sound stomachs, hearty livers, and tranquil nerves, and the beautiful coin-nig is a matter of course. It cannot belaid too strongly rbaH :iei* health is the only safe renovator r.i ,he complexion. Cleanliness is the )iie universal cosmetic. And if the rumen of this generation have lost heir freshness through carelessness or gnorancc, or spite of climate, they ill), ut least, rear tneir uaugmers ior reserve that inheritance of beauty to .vliich most Americans are born. The orchard of the church will not ie more fruitful till the plants in the tur.sery are more eared for. If cause be good, the most violent at- i acks of its enemies will not injure it : o mueh as an injudicious defence of it >y its friends. Is'ono will have such a dreadful part ng with the Lord at the last day as hose who went half way with bim ,nd then left him. Never expect a sense of justice in a , nan whom you know to be dishones 11 any thing. Pity is a thing often avowed, seldom i fit; hatred is a thing often felt, sellom avowed. What Others Sny. "Our Preacher is ju9t the man we need. He will take in our town ; there is so much dash and style about film."., The preacher referred to was not St. - /: Paul, neicher was he John Wesley, but a man who is no?v preaching in the State of California, and who, we ti^ist, * $ docs not lack Qualities that are worth more than "aash and style." How many preachers are there who waste '; half their energies in trying to make ;" >j an impression? The man who cares greatly whether the world regards him as wise or eloquent or up with the ~-jJ times is in danger of selling his Lord .-j at even a lower price than did Judas. "How can ye believe who receive honor one of another, and seek not that honor that cometh from God only ?? a ; thirst for the praise of men is not consistent with the faith of Christ. "Men will praise thee -hen thou doe9t well .. ' for thyself." The selfish egotist is oft- , V en the object of the world's praise, ' while he who', Jike his Master, goes about doing good is, like his Master, 1 despised, in the last day he will probably appear the most honored who lias labored most for Christ and . Christ's Church. Pulpit Notices.?It is quite time % that some uuderstanding was come to.among pastors in regard to this subject." It is last becoming a very onerous arid ^ embarrassing service, if not an evil and a positive nuisance. The pnlpit in a multitude of our churches has 6e- . ;*'$? comeau "advertising medium" for all sorts of things. Pastors are burdened by their number and perplexed often by their character. Many of them are rnrust into the officiating minister's hands arter he has entered the desk. He has no chance to consult with any one nor to consider the propriety of /.' reading them. Some of these notices ' $ have no business there, and yet he ^ fears he will be blamed if he refuses to announce them. It is no uncommon -y tuiuy lur a preacner 10 rise wnu a uozen and even twenty "notices" in his baud to give out. We have known ; ten minutes spent on them, and the congregation wearied aud often disgusted by the tedious routine, and in & measure unfitted for the saered sp iritu i: al services of the sanctuary to follow. > We fear that the venerable custom of committing Psahns to memory is (ailing into disuse among the Psalm- /.;$ singing churches. In the "good old .7 cimes" it was required of all the chil- 'J(Sj dren of four years oia and upward to commit verses and whole Psaims and recite them to parents aid Sabbath- /. Ai school teachers. It was agood custom. . The amount of precious Scripture truth laid up in store was a lifetime wl treasure. Sabbath afternoon was generally devoted to memorizing Psalms * aud the Shorter Catechism. Such a - '"J practice left a deep impression charae- / ter. Are modern methods an improve- \{ meut on the old? Will they make bet- ? ter men and women ? We trow not. The condition of Europe is summed :J| up in the phrase, "An'armed camp." This is the high-water mark of the civilization of the nineteenth century. \| Italians, Frenchmen, Germans, Aus trians?amiable, well-meaning, neigb- j borly beings, who live, believe, love, toil, kneel before the same altar, and ; yet all of them busy in the same fear- - j ful preparation for throat-cutting. An armed camp means war at1 any time to-morrow, next year, surely someday, for war alone will dissolve the campe. ;95a The parent who sends his son or daughter out into the world with a genuine love and appreciation of fine and noble literature has little cause to ' fear that vicious companionships will J have power to draw them downward. They will gravitate to liorarles and lecture-rooms, to churches and Sunday-schools, where they will be most likely to meet those of like tastes with themselves. "Any man that can learn to preach can learn to visit from house to house; and if he neglects to do so, will find his preaching is comparatively fruitless. Pastoral work in connection with preaching is the road to ministerial success. Let those concerned keep ::/ i j this in mind and act accordingly." Probably there is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute Klnswl iroucolc nf the hndv flint rlnps not. UIWUU V 10 W4 VUV VVMJ ? v.WWM ' ., . feel some wavelet from hearty laugh- vgj ter, shaking the central man. The sM blood moves more lively?probably its chemical, electric, or vital condition is ' ,: distinctly modified; it conveys a different impression to all the organe of the body as it visits them on that particular mystic journey when the man g is laughing, from what it does at other ; times. And so, we doubt not, a good ? laugh may lengthen a man's life, cou- $ veying a distinct stimulus to the vital forces. And the time may come when jphysicians, attending more closely _ j than at present, unfortunately, they are apt to do, to the innumerable subtle influences which the soul exerts upon its tenement of clay, shall pre- ?? scribe to a torpid patient "so many I peals of laughter, to be undergone at J uunh nnH iilioh n time." iust as thev l1! now do that far more objectionable l.| prescription, a pill, or an electric or galvanic shock; and shall study the A best and most effective method of pro- A ducing the required effect in each patient. Two Ways ok Putting it.? Shakers who wish to carry a' point generally select their comparisons to suit their arguments:- In the' legislature ?>f Ohio some years ago there was dis'm'.fi- wh-'fhor p. twain pro- v . .. : ... ... . ,.fc a v?rii mi'iit tiowii, !>: ::: n v( j ui< >i <!i?ot* up tla* river. "Who ever heard," said a down the river advocate, "of beginning anything at the top? Whoever heard of building a chimney from the top ilowuward ? Whoever saw a house begun at tne lopv Up jumped a Dutch member from iii up the river county. ,lMeester Brezident, do jentlemaus zay ?lat dees beezness ees all vom hoomboorg, pccatise vee vant9 to pe- ^ ijeen our railroad mit de top of de slitate, und lie make some scaly combarison about de liouze und de schimuey. I veil also ask de jentleman von question. Een hees bart ov de shtate ven dey pegins to build von veil, do dey pegins mit the bottom ov de veil, or do pey pegins mit de top ov de veil ? j Vill ae jentlemans bleese answer me j dat leetle von question ?" I Do not wait till you be holy ere yot cast your confidence on the Saviour, but cast confidence on him now, and you shall be made holy.