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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17,1889. VOLUME XXXIII. NO. 49. ijj
A Quiet Mind.
".MY I'T-r.UK I filVli I NTO Yol\"
I liavim treasure which I prize,
Us like I cannot lind;
It's fur beyond what earth can give,
'Tis ttiis?A quiet mi lid.
Hut 'tis not that I am stupefied,
Or senseless, dull, or blind;
"J'is (iodV own |teiii'C wlt'iln my heart.
Which forms my quiet mind.
I found this treasure at the Cross,
And there, to every kind
' Of weary heavy-laden souls,
('hristyives a quiet mind.
'['he love of (tod within my heart
My heart to llim doth bind :
This is the peace of heaven and earth,
This is my <|Uicl mind.
I've many a cross to take up now.
And many lefr In hitnl;
Hut present troubles move me not.
Nor shake my quiet mind.
And what may tie to-morrow's cross
I never seek to Ilnd,
My Saviour says, "Leave that to Me,
And keep a quiet miml."
Ami well I know tin* Lord hath said.
To make my heart resigned.
That mercy still shall foilow those
Who have this quiet mind.
I'm waiting mow to suck mv l,or<l,
Who's boon to i??o <f> kind:
I w:ui( to thank him t'uc<" to face,
For this my (juii't miml.
Extracts from Jonathan and his Con*
tiliciit.
i:y max o'icklti.
Hut lot us take our scats at the table
d'hote of tlir best hotel in any second
rate town that you please in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, or souk* other
State in the I'nion.
No printed menu. A young woman,
with an elaborate < ill'ure of curls,
rolls and hangs, hut no cap, approaches,
darts'a look <?f contempt :il
you and, turning her back upon von.!
gabbles oil' in one breath :
"(.'routaupoturhot shrimpsauce roast
beefturkey cranberry sauce potatoes toniatoesapplctarlminccpievauilhicri'ain.
Do not attempt to stop lu*r: >!ie iwound
up, and when she is started is
bound to go to the end. You must not
hope that she will repeat the menu a
second time either. If you did not
hear, so much the worse for you. Unfortunately
the consequences are
grave ; it is not one dish that you tni.-s
?it is the whole dinner. You are obliged
to order all your repast at once.
nua xne wnoie is urougm you, uwm
soup to chcesc, al one time.
I was so ill inspired one day as to order
some soup to begin with. The
waitress refused downright to bring
me anything more.
"That is all you ordered," she said
to me. ''You do not suppose I can
myke twenty journeys to the kitchen
for you."
I rose and sought the hotel keeper.
: I made the humblest apologies, pleaded
that I was a foreigner who had only
been in America a fortuight, and
was not yet accustomed to the habits
of the Americans. 1 promised solemnly
never to transgress again in
this way. Mine host went to tinyoung
person who was at the head ol |
the buttalion of harpies in the dining
room, and interceded for me with her.
1 had the happiness of being forgiven,
and was allowed to appease my hunger.
From that day forward, as soon as
one of these witching damsels began
her incantation, I cried out:
"Hold! Enough! Bring it all in.''
Then 1 would eat the least distastc
ful of the messes and leave the rest. 1
can assure you the Hotel uui uoi mawe
much profit out of me.
This is how the dinner is served :
Tie "duchess" begins by Hinging a
spoon and knife and fork down on the
table in front of you. It is for you to
set them straight, and 1 would advise
you to do so without any murmuring.
When you have taken your soup, the'
said "duchess" brings you a plate,
around which she places a dozen little
oval dishes in a symmetrical fashion
that one can but admire.
The first little dish contains fish and
a teaspoonful of sauce of some kind.
It is needless to inquire the name of
this sauce. All the tisli sauces are the
sanitf ; only the name varies. The sec-j
ond apparently contains a little him]
of raw beef; the third a slice of mast
turkey; the fourth mashed potatoes,
the fifth a stewed tomato, the sixth
cranberry sauce, the seventh chicken
salad, the eigth some rice pudding,
and the last contains (horribilc dictu !.'{
a slice of apple tart, with a large help-,
ing of cheese in the middle of it.
These two things are eaten together,
jind are conseolientlV served on the:
same disli.
You begin at the left. The first pro-1
seats lio obstacles hut its bones anil is!
soon disposed of. You turn your attention
to the next dish tin tiie right j
and attack the beef. It is impregua-t
hie, you can make no impression up:>n j
it. You pass. The turkey is not obdurate
and you fall to on that, making
little raids on the potatoes, tomatoes
and cranberry sauce between each
mouthful. Thanks to the many climates
of America (the thermometer
varies in winter from 73 above zero in j
south to 4-> below in the north), you
have turkey and cranberry sauce all ]
the winter, strawberries six months of
the year and tomatoes all the year
round.
Oh, the turkey and cranberry sauce! j
I ate enough of that dish to satisfy mej
for the rest of my days. No more turkey
and cranberry sauce for mo,
though I should live to be a hundred !
Of course all the meats, placed
around your plate, soon bejjin to cool,
and you have 110 choice but to holt
your food, diving with knife and fork
iDto the little dishes right and left as
dexterously as you can.
Finally you come to the apple tart
011 the extreme right. You carefully
lift the cheese and, placing it aside,
prepare to eat your sweets without this
strange seasoning. I'nhappily the
pastry has become impregnated with
an odor of roqucfort, and again you
pass. A vanilla cream terminates
your repast.
Having disposed of this, you ask
i-miriuitr wliv in :i free countrv. you
I J J 1 . . ?
luay not have your various courses
served one after tlie other, why you
must bolt your food and bring oil indigestion,
and above all why the manager
of Ihe hotel, in bis own interest as
a man of business, does not before all
else study the comfort of bis customers.
The answer is not difficult to
find. It is the well being of the
"duchess," and not that of the travelers,
that he devotes his attention lo
studying. The traveler is obliged to
come to his house, and he can treat
him anyhow. His "helps" will only
consent to stay with him, on condition
he gives them heavy wages and light
duties.
Religious freedom often means freedom
from religion.
Tin? Saurliiication of the 3Io??e--lts
Salvation*
liV I'UKSIDKXT W. A. CAXDLKH, 1>. I>.
The* report of Hon. Carroll D. j
Wright to Congress on the statistics of
marriage and divorce in the United
States is a sadly instructive document.
It appears that during the last twenty
years there have been granted in
the' United States oiiS,71(; divorces.
During the lirst year of this period
there were granted ; during the
last year an appalling increase.
The report discloses facts which reveal
the causes of this growing evil
very clearly.
1. It appears that in hut five States
and the District of Columbia can the
numher of marriages be obtained with
anything like completeness. Marriage
is evidently too liirhtly regarded
by all classes of our people.
Sixty-five per cent, of the whole
milliner <u divorces ^nunui ?*- *irranlcd
to women, and of these cruelly,
desertion and intemperance were
tiie alleged causes of fully ninety per
cent. It would lie interestinj; and instructive
to know to what extent the
factor of intemperance enters into
those cases for which desertion and
cruelty are the alleged causes. The
saloon is the chief enemy of the home,
and the home is the support and defense
of the State. And herein is
found another illustration of the truth
that the State must destroy the saloon
<?r be destroyed by it.
It does not appear on the face of
ihesc wretched returns how much vicious
publications have contributed to
I>riiifi- to pass the horrible results; l>u(
that they have done much, few intelligent
persons familiar with the social
conditions of our country will deny.
The daily press reports domestic infelicities
with crime-ill feeling familiar-'
ity and sporiivencss. Proceedings in;
suits for divorce are published with a
diabolical jocoscness that seems utterly
intiiHerein to the domestic iraged ie.recorded.
All such prints are most vicious
in character and vitiating in influence.
They deserve and should rcIln,
iviniviliotinn .,1| <rnf>d OPO
pie. 1 .
The radical correction of all this evil
is a higher appreciation of the sanctity
of the home and the marriage relation
on which true homes rest.
When our people fully appreciate the
sanctity of their homes they will be
adequately impressed with the iniquity
of the saloon. If our country is to
!>e a country of happy homes it can
not be a land of open bar rooms.
Again no man who rightly conceives
the sanctity of his home, or his own
responsibility as its head will allow a
reprous newspaper lo enter his house,
nor will he read such a sheet.
We repeat it, the sacrcdness of the
hotne needs to bej|emphasized. This
will arrest the growing evil of divorce.
Hereby the pestilential sources 01 divorces
will be dried up. The sanctification
of the home will prevent the
desecration which works the disgrace
and destruction of the family.
The Outcasts of Loudon.
In these days when we hear so much
of the poverty, crime, and wretchedness
of outcast London, it is refreshing
to have the obverse of the medal occasionally
held uj) before our eyes.
The lie v. George XV. McCree,. a wellknown
pastor and philanthropist of
Southwark, sends to the Daily News a
very encouraging account of the progress
that is being made in removing
the cause of "the bitter cry" that still
1:00s up from theabodes of poverty and
misery. Mr. McCree is covinced that
the poor of London are far less poor,
less ignorant, less wretched, and less
vicious than they were twenty-five
years ago. In the matter of sports the
people are less cruel brutal and depraved
than they were. They are cleaner
in their hahUs, and consequently more
healthy. There is less disease and a
wider aequantance with sanitary laws.
Not only can nearly all the poor read,
inif (lmv iln i-pmiI nnrl with much that
is evil there is far more that is healthful
in their literary tastes. The consequence
is that they are far more quick
ami intelligent, ami aspire more than
they did to further social improvement.
There.is every reason to hope
that this philanthropy of the day is
turning the electric lights of sanitary
science a ml Christian sympathy upon
the darkest corners ami slums of the
great city, and revealing depths of
misery whose existence was unknown
and unsuspected. Uut the light does
!iot create the misery, though it may
help to disperse it. The knowledge that
the evil is being gradually overcome
will not discourage philanthropic
efl'orl.hut rather stimulate it l>y adding
the impetus of quickened hope. And
if the progress has been encouraging in
the past, it should bo much more rapid,
in the future, for never before wer so
many powerful agencies at work for
the regeneration of the "lapsed masses."
o # m '
Two Towns?A Conthast.?Vineland,
New Jersey, has a population of
ten thousand: '.here is a clause in every
deed forbidding the sale of liquor.
During six months no citizen required
any assistance from the overseor of the
poor. During one year there was one
indictment and that for disturbance
between two colored persons: there
were but three fires, and only one
house burned : the taxes are only one
percent., and there is no debt. The
police expenses are seventy-five dollars
a year.
A lit!letown in New England, of less
than ten thousand inhabitants, maintains
forty grog shops; a police judge,
city maivhalls, four night watchmen,
and six policemen for the protection
of the peace of the town. Four fire
companies of forty men costing three
thousand dollars a year, are called out,
on an average, every other week; it
costs two thousand and five hundred
dollars a year to support the poor, and
the township owes one hundred and
wenty thousands dollars.
mt&' ?
Auks ok Animals.?A sleep lives
ten years.
A cat lives fifteen years.
A lion lives twenty years.
A camel lives forty years.
A bear lives twenty years.
A dog lives fourteen years.
A squirrel lives eight years.
An ox lives twenty-live years.
A guinea pig lives seven years.
A horse lives twenty-five years.
A whale lives three hundred years.
A tortoise lives one hundred years.
An elephant lives four hundred
years.
It is said there are two words, and
two only, in our language, which contains
all the vowels in their regular order.
They are?"abstemiously" and
"facetiously."
"Wliiit is <rutli ?"? I'ilnJc.
The arithmetic that teaches the problem
of our present standing in the
political or civilized world seems to
have been learned by John, to whom
was revealed the things to come. He
saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having
seven heads and ten horns, and
upon each horn was a diadsm.
One of the prominent governments
for the past eighteen hundred years
has been (ireat Britian, whose capital
is on an island "out of the sea," upon
whose domain the sun does not cease
to shine, and whose lands extend to
every clime? great in wealth, great in
power, great in civilization; heads,
horns, and diadems; lords, kings, and
civil law. An occurrence of which is
fitting, and resembles the beast. Satan
is entitled to all this, for it is of
the world. And we find in these ex
hibits the origin of that law, that
power, that civilization, which is only
a beast compared with the Just Onehe
who rebukes many peoples, 'l'heir
Ifiu.' isc if iia! fni' cnfV?t\r%> Tli^ir civili
zation, is it not for gain, and their power
for aggression :>inl aggrandizement ?
The observing and discerning mind
will percieve that these lords and
kings, and feudal maxims, are but the
adverse of Christianity.
Again John informs us that he saw
another beast rise up out of the earth,
and having two horns like a lamb.
Tl ie iirst beast rose up out of the sea ;
but this other one out of the earlh.
And may we not suppose that its two
horns typified a union of power not
mi like tlu% Constitution and Congress
of America?
Its law-making, its civilization, like
that of Knglish?its eagle and their
lion - do not favor Christianity.
Their laws, (ho fundamental principle
of which is for safely in the aeciunillation
of wealth, stand opposed \
in their very derlaration to liio authorti...?
; i ..m., i 1.....
uj <>i nun ?iios:ini, ?>j\ Kinguuin is
not of thi.s world." He shall rebuke,
many peoples.
These are facts concerning which
"we have many tilings to say, aud
that which is difficult to explain, because
you have become dull of hearing."
You who "ought to be teachers,"
have need to learn the first rudiments
of the Christian religion. We
need to cry aloud with words that
burn that your perceptive faculties
may be awakened to discern between
ilie things that differ. That the jurisprudence
of the courts is adverse to
Christianity is abundantly evident, although
in some points they are in Harmony,
aud have for their object the
well-being of uiau. Yet the source
aud character of many, very many
constitutional and congressional acts
are directly or indirectly opposed to
that authority which is from Heaven.
is not a Uog a domestic animal?
made so by civilization, training, aud
withal very'sociable; but he is nevertheless
a dog.
Lords and kings, those iu authority,
the powers that be, are in open rebellion
against Him whose kiuudom, be
cause of its character ami object, is not
of this world. Under the rule of this
beast no oue can buy or sell without
the "mark," legal authority, dictates
cunningly devised for the safety and
power of wealth. To this end we
Have political strife, military bands,
fortresses, all marshaled for protection
and aggression in the same mauner as
of old, and in the name of the Constitution
and "the Continental Congress."
But we have the authority of Him
who spake not as man, and whose
words were accompanied by signs and
miracles, that lie who seeketh to save
his life other than by peaceable means
shall lose it; that is shall not attain to
the life to come, eternal life.
What, then, as Christians, can be
our duty in the work of progressive
civilization but to labor as a party separate
aid distinct; a peculiar party,
whose chief object is to convert by aggression
to faith "once delivered to the
on
Buiiua . f
The union, the- proposed fellowship,
the deceptive and hypocritical connections,
are a snare, a delusion to
captivate and lead astray, and to end
ill 1J kst K I'C'TI on .
To those whom it may concern we
have this declaration, tiiat "No [man
can serve two masters." (?. 1'. il.
Unests ol liiph Dcjfrcc.
How often is the pathetic cry wrung
from Christians, young and old,
"When 1 would do good, evil is present
with me"! Each one of you,
doubtless, has some evil-mindcdnc?sof
which you are sadly conscious, which
seems to spring on you at every turn
of life without your intention, without
your desire, and without your
seeming to have any power to prevent
it. With some ii is angry thoughts
roused by real or fancied wrongs, or
jealousy of those who not do give them,
they think, their full share of consid
tTlilllUIJ, til *. !!> y <Jl Cilllll D IIIWIV IWIIIInuto,
successful, and comfortable children,
or discontent with their own lot,
or disappointment at the failure of
their plans, or any one of a thousand
other phases of selfishness and sin
which show themselves even in CJod's
children against their will. Of
course, your lirst and strongest defence
against besettiug sin is prayer, but
prayer must always go hand in hand
with effort; and one wellproved way
of driving off evil thoughts and tempers
is by resolutely filling the mind
with good thoughts.
If you invite to your house and entertain
constantly noble, high-minded
people, you will be little troubled Willi
vulgar or profane visitors: and s<?, if
your mind has a fixed habit of entertaining
high thought, these evil dispositions
slink away ashamed. Hut
you must have the subjects of thought
ready to seize upon, or the crowding
out will be the other way. For instance,
when von feel unreasonable
. 1 IUf.lt*
anger overpowering .vou. sei
to making plans of work for helping
somebody; if envy takes hold of you,
begin to study up some special field of
foreign-mission work, have some noble
poems at hand to learn, a book of
pointed and practical suggestion*, like
one of Spuree-m's, to dip info, or even
a pure, elevating story-book to read at
such times of danger. Every victory
thus won over evil thoughts and feelings
will weaken their hold on you,
will send faintness into your enemy's
ranks and will leave the citadel of
your mind swept and garnished for
guests of higher degree.
Parents too seldom realize how early
they can turn the baby twig in this
way or that. Infantile rudeness is
thought "cunning." But before the
mother knows it the baby is a boy,
and his rude ways bring a pang to her
heart.
Tlic ol' Ncoulnrizntioii.
An article by Professor T. W.
Hunt', Ph. 1)., of Princeton, in fhe independent,
oil "Modern Theories of
Culm re," ends with the following paragraph
:
If we seek the explanation of this
vain attempt to educate mankind on
purely rationalistic lines, it is found in
those intellectual tendencies at work
among us, of whore potent presence
every man should be apprized. They
are all reducible to the one word, secularization,
as it ap|K-ars in our schools
and colleges and general mental life.
This tendency expresses itself, at
times, in the form of extreme looseness
of opinion as to the proximate and final
ends of education ; at times, in the
clamorous demand for wider freedom
from moral restraint ns the undoubted
right of the student of today; or in the
deference of all educational interests to
State control. Thi?, in geological
phrase, is the trend of present opinion ;
hence, not only muse clerical influence
in our hoards of trustees be eliminated,
but ail specific religious influence ami
culture be, as it should be, purely
mental, ft occurs to us to inquire,
whither this steady drift toward seculnrl'/nfiAn
if iunf. Invjf fr*
ltd II 1 I \ / c IVI^iOVUj M*J t*W *HUV WW
bring us. Tt is certainly unnecessary
to repeat tlio follies of Continental Elirope
in this regard and succeed in divorcing
culture from character. There
is a wisdom that defeats itself and
there are some interests that cannot he
furthered on purely political or human
principles. The world is already
weary of lh."> vain attempts of its" advanced
thinkers" to satisfy its deepest
needs by cold appeals to what is called
the dignity of man and the marvelous
results of human achievement. The
first slop lor such "advanced-thinkers"
to take is a step backward into tliej
untrodden realm of intellectual humil-<
ity and learn, at the outset, that in the j
Kingdom of (Jod, faith is superior to
knowledge, and spiritual agencies su-'
periortoall that are natural and human.
Nothing in modern educational
systems and institutions needs to be
more strongly emphasized than the
Baconian idea of the end of all
knowledge?"the glory of God and the
relief of man's estate." This is the
culture that, to use a phrase of Mr.
Arnold's, "makes for righteousness"
and this is the culture that ever tends
to individual and national good.
A Accessary Crime.
Contradictory as these words are
when rightly viewed, tiie very nearly
describe Hie animus ot' an essay in
the Jaiiury number of tlie A metec/tth
Century. It is by Lord CJhas.
Jjeresford, -Member of l'ai'liameut ami
L'aptian in the lioyal .Navy, on ibe
subject of "The British Eleet and Europe."
After discussing, through ten pages,
the present strength of the naval ouilit
ot lireat Britain, in view of possible
war with other European powers, he
concludes with this language:
"All that I have ever written or
spoken on this point has been in the
interest, and in the hope, of preserving
peace for our Empire; for 1 believe
that, if we became engaged in a
war in which we?were lighting for our
exisicnce, even if we were victorious,
the interests of the whole world, as represented
by civilization, justice, liberty,
humanity, and commerce, would
sutler. I cannot give my own opinion
about war In better words than those
of Brouylmin. in which he says: 'I
isbominate war us unchristian; 1 hold
it the greatest of liumuu crimes: I
deem it to include all others?violence,
blood, rapiue, fraud, everything which
can deform tlie character, alter the nature,
and debase the name of man.'
liut while holding an opinion about
was as strong as is thus expressed, I
can lind ho words strong enough to
convey what 1 believe would be the
judgment of the peoples of the whole
of our magnificent Empire, if we lost
our great heritage, as we undoubtedly
!should, were we caught unprepared
through want of a sufllcentnavy."
Thus we see that "the greatest of
human critics, including all others," is
contemplated, without hesitation, as
suitable and necessary lor a nation professing
to be Christian, whose monarch
is the head of an establishment
claiming to be, by Apostolic decent, a
church of Christ. Could anything be
much more of the nature of an apos(tasy
from the true principles of such a
jchurch? it may be yet long before
even the churches, and much more the
! nations of the world come to see how
true were those words spoken or written
l>y DanK-l We Its lor, nearly half a
century ago, in regard not only to personal
but to political action: "A'othi
uh/ which is wrovu can ever Oc expedient.
"
j Mom-: Mind, Mouh Madxkss.?It
I is in no way surprising that insanity
should seem to increase in races or
classes which are being intellectually
I stimulated by education. There is ali
ways- in every community a proportion
of brains which, being brought into
! action, will break down. This proportion
doubtless diminishes as the community
is elevated and in a very few
'generations the result of culture may
i?probably will?be to develop a better I
stock, looking upon the people as a j
j whole ; but at the outset of the educa- j
: tionary process, and in the generation
| first taught, the immediate result must
I lii> :> c(iiisi(li>r:ilil(( number of wreck
;inns. Tliis general principle is applicable
to all races, peoples, and classes,
iand it explains why the first effect of
trying to elevate the negroes has been
! to produce an apparent increase of In1
sanity among them.?Lancct.
I
! Virtue jn Onions and Heei\?
i What is the most strengthing food for
a convalescent? Well, you know the
l>eef-tea theory has been exploded.
The most life-giving and digestible
, food that can be given to one just recovering
from an illness is chopped
.beef. Just take a pound of the finest
round of raw beef, cut off all the fat,
slice two onions, and jiepper and salt,
i Then chop the onions and meat to
gCUld", llll'lllUg I IIL'III liver illiu wvci
until bnili are reduced almost to a
pulp. Then spread on slices of rye
bread and cat as sandwich. People
talk about celery being a nervine, nut
let mo tell you that there is nothing
which <|uiets the nerves without bad
results like onions. The use of them
induces sleep and much strength is obtained
from them. That is the ideal
food for convalescing or for any one
who is in a weak state of health.
I
j There are men formed with feelings
so blunt that Ihey can hardly be said
to be awake during the whole course
jof their lives.
Johnny's Complaint
Onr preacher says?an' courso he's rightIt's
very wrong to tell a fib,
(So mother's taught me ever since
She rocked me In my little crib),
That's why I can't just understand J
Why In his sermons he will run
Along like sixty when he's said,
"Hut one word more and I have done."
When first 1 heard him say those words
They made me glad, for f, you see,
Was tired, tor half-hour sermons seem
Enough for little folks like me ;
But gracious ! I was quite surprised
To find he'd only Just begun,
When pausing for a breath, he said,
"Hut one word more and 1 have done."
I wonder what he'd think if I
Should say, when ut hie home I'd sup,
'Just one plum more and I have done,''
Then eat his wife's preserves all up?
I guess he'd ask me what I meant,
I'd have to say I was in lun,
Just like he must be when be says,
"Buttine word more and I have done."
Typos oC OladiiCMN.
There are, indeed, types of gladuess
that cannot be reproduced after a first
heavy sorrow. We can never again
look upon the world with the same
eyes. There are void places iu our
earthly loves that muse remain void
while we stay here. lJut there is a
profounder love for those who stay
with us, a gentleness, tenderness,
sweetness of affection, unknown before.
Our love gains by loss, grows by
amputation. Above all, there is a
more vivid sense of heaveenly realities,
a consciousness of unbroken union
with those that seem divided from us,
an intimacy with higher fellowships
opened for us by those who have gone
from us, a more clinging sense of dependence
on the Infinite Love, and
hence a joy purer and loftier, though
its pristine buoyancy be forever lost.
Especially as life wanes, and the shadows
lengthen, may the treasures laid
up in heaven give us a familiar, homelike
feeling, as to the mansion where
thoy shall be ours again, and the verv
hopes whose failure cast a cloud over
earlier years may thus shed over our
declining days a genial light, that shall
grow brighter and brighter till it is
merged in the pure radiance of heaven.
Ten Good Tilings to Know.
1. That milk which is turned or
changed may be sweetened and rendered
fit for use again by stirring in a
little soda.
2. That salt will curdle new milk ;
hence, in preparing milk porridge,
gravies, etc., the salt should not be
added until the dish is prepared.
3. That fresh meat, after beginning
to sour, will sweeten if placed out of
doors in the cool of night.
4. That clear boiling water will remove
tea stains and many fruit stains.
Pour the water through the stain, and
thus prevent its spreading over the
fabric.
5. That ripe tomatoes will remove
ink and other stains from white cloth ;
also from the hands.
fi. That a tablespoonful of turpenHua
hru'loil wifh whitfi Hnthps will aid
in the whitening process.
7. That boiled starch is much improved
by the addition of a little
sperm salt, or gum arabic dissolved.
8. That beeswax and salt will make
rusty flat-irons as clean and smooth as
glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and
keep it for that purpose. When the
irons are hot, rub them first with the
wax-rag, then scour with a paper or
cloth sprinkled with salt.
9. That blue ointment and kerosene
mixed in equal proportions and applied
to the bedsteads is an unfailing
bedbug remedy, as a coat of whitewash
is for the walls of a log house.
]0. That kerosene will soften hoots
and shoes that have been hardened by
water, and render them as pliable as
new.
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I.ost that Is Gain.
Lost time may be time gained.
Profitableness may be secured from
the results of wasted hours. Timethrifty
workers, who find themselves
to have been on a fool's errand, are
very apt to grieve over the waste, as
they consider it, of so many precious
hours. The scholar who follows out
a difficult clew to the end only to find
it. unproductive; the business man
who throws all his thought and
strength into a new venture, and finds
it unremuneraUve; the pastor who
has painfully elal?orated a line of
thought which he in the end discovers
to be specious or unprofitable; the visitor
who journeys far and, after thorough
search, fails to come across the
person he is anxious to see,?is likely j
to lose Heart, ami is incuneu to eniuei
himself for such a profitless waste ofj
time. Yet, if the disappointed seeker I
will look out for th& gains to himself
of his fool's errand, he will find that
that experience which cannot he made
to pay its erst is a rare one. If he
would he wise, he will take into account
all these incidental insights by
the way, which in the future, by germinating
new ideas, and by suggestions
that arise from them, mav more than
counterbalance the direct loss of the
present. His activity, though profitless
as to immediate results, may have!
proved a good drill in methods." Practice
and skill in the use of method are
often of more consequence to us than
success itself. Moreover, lie will have
in mi 11 a mat n uis errauu ueuumen it j
painfully impressed warning to him, it'
may save him many similar experiences
in the future, and thus bring
real, actual gain to him. Disappoint-!
mentor failure is, in various ways, one I
of our most useful soul educators, j
Penitence, patience, resignation, humility,
and many others things, come]
not except through much tribulation.
So, iu reckoning up the profit and loss |
of a so-called fool's errand, let us not I
fail to remember that the yams of;
wisely improved failure may beamoiigj
our most profitable possessions.
God Willing.?The Egyptians have
a legend about the ostrich, as follows :|
Tts race had once hcen beautiful, its'
wings broad and strong. Then, one,
evening the largest forest bird said to j
it, "Brother, shall we lly to-morrow,
fiml willinir to 1 be* river and drink?" i
And the ostrich answered, "Yes ij
will." At dawn they flew away, first i
up towards the sun, higher and higher,
the ostrich far before the others. It
flew on in iis pride up towards the
light; it relied on ils own strength, not
upon the giver of that strength: it did
not say, "God willing." Then the
avenging angel drew aside the veil
from the streaming flames, and in that
moment the bird's wings were burnt,!
and he sank in wretchedness to the
earth. Neither he nor his species werej
afterwards able to raise themselves up
in the air. They fly timidly?hurry
along in a narrow space: they are a
warning in all our thoughts and all
our enterprises to say, "Uod willing#"
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Seeds that Will Grow.
Twenty-five years ago, when I was
a very little girl, father sent me into
the cornfield one morning to drop
pumpkin seeds.
"A seed in every other bill in every
other row," was the injunction called
after me as I crossed the chip-yard,
seed-box and dipper in hand, on my
way to the cornfield.
At first, my task seemed nothing but
play. The corn had already been
planted ; and the fiat hoc-mark on the
top of each hill plainly marked where
T was to crowd the pumpkin seeds into
the mellow earth. Row after row I
followed up and'down the field, skipping
one, planting one; but still the
hox of seeds did not become empty.
"Drop the field as far as (he seeds
will go," was another command I had
received; and many a longing look
di<l 1 cast at the cool farm-house in the
distance and then at the contents of
that box, as the forenoon wore away,
and the sun prow hot.
Ten time9 had I replenished my little
tiu dipper from the seed-box, a
wooden box in which window glass
had been packed, narrow and deep, so
deep it did not seem to have any bottom,
so [ shook up the pumpkin seeds
again and again, to see if they were
not almost gone.
FourteeR more rows, seven of them
to be planted, and the opposite limit of
the cornfield would be reached, and
every reason to believe that the seeds
would last till the whole lield was
planted.
"Father didn't expect me to drop so
many. I heard him tell mother lie
should plant half the field with pumpkins
and half with beans. I really
don't believe he wants me to drop
these last seven rows," T argued with
myself, "[am so warm and tired, I
believe I will go home." And, keeping
a sharp lookout on the porch door
that openeil toward the lield, and giving
a guilty glance arouud the prem
lses, 10 De sure tnai 110 one was naming,
I kicked a deep hole in the mellow
soil with ray bare feet, and poured
into it the remaining seeds in the box,
packing dirt over them firmly and
deep.
"If father questions me, I can tell
him I dropped them all; and those in
the hole will never show their heads
again above ground, I am positive,
they are buried so deeply," I thought,
as I retraced my steps toward the
kitchen threshold.
Father was sick witli a slow fever ;
and, calling me to his bedside as I
came in, he minutely questioned me
as to how the "seeds held out."
With guilty, downcast eyes, I told
him I had planted the entire field as
he directed, excepting the last seven
rows.
"And you dropped all the seed?" he
asked, his wan face looking up from
the white pillows.
a "Yes," I answered in a low tone,
nci men moved 10 uie wiuuuw.
"Because," he continued, "Neighbor
Burns wanted a few seeds lately, if
we had any to spare. I thought surely
there would be a pint or more left.
Tell John to plant beans in every hill
| of the rows that contain no pumpkin
seeds."
"If I had only known he intended
having beans planted in one row and
pumpkins in the next, I never would
have buried those seeds," I thought,
standing there conscience smitten.
Rut to me there then seemed no help
I for what I had done.
Each day for two w??eks I secretly
| vtsited that grave of pumpkin seeds iii
the centre of the cornfield, to be sure
there was no cracking of the earth to
let greeu germs through into the sonlight;
but I found no sign that there
was life beneath. Then I relaxed my
[ vigilance, and in a few weeks had forgotten,?not
my sin, but the possibility
of the seeds sprouting.
The last of July father was able to
creep over his fields Ij'ing near the
house, by the help of his cane. In
oneof his walks, I joined him ; and together
we passed through the cornfield,
the hills now waving with corn
<1 in liniirlii- nnd nnmnkin vines
just branching over Ac ground between
the rows. Our footsteps were
suddenly arrested by a perfect tangle
of vines, whose matted network covered
a large circular spot visible in the
corn.
"Why, why! how is this?" exclaimed
father, stooping to critically
examine the ground. "Here are vines
by the score, dwarfed because they
j were so thickly planted, but pumpkin
vines, surely."
My heart gave a great thump, as the
truth flashed across my mind. This
was the very spot where I had hidden
those seeds; and, owing to the depth
of soil that covered them, they had
germinated slowly, but had struggled
into the light at last to condemn me.
I dared not speak; and father remained
silent, poking his cane in the
ground among the vines until be had
unearthed a heap of swollen seeds,
some decaying, but more with coiling,
long, pale sprouts creeping from their
shells, and others with well-developed
cotyledonous leaves. At last, he looked
up, and, keenly scanning my crimson,
conscious face, said. "Daughter
Heleu, is this your work?"
There was such a ring of love and
grief in his toues I was conqu ered at
once ; and, throwing myself at his feet
I sobbed forth the whole story.
Father did not scold. He said my
own remorseful thoughts and loss of
self-respect were punishment enough ;
but, going home, he told me, in his impressive,
beautiful way, that bad habits
and bad motives in life may be hid.
like seeds under the ground, from the
eyes of the world for a time, but sooner
or later their rank growth will push
their way through any cloak of hypocrisy
that had been carefully drawn
over them.
When I see young people indulging
in intemperate habits of any kind, secretly
favoring the society of immoral,
unprincipled associates, though their
own conduct before the world may
seem irreproachable, I think of the
nest of bloated, sprouting pumpkin
seeds that would not remain out of
sight, and how, like them, the living
. / i - i n 1., I l^Kiio will
germs or unu uiuu^uisiiim .....
very soon crop above ground in the
fairest life?Seed Time and Harvest.
Glycerins kor Edged Tools.?
Carpenters and other tool users who
keep up with the times arc no\V using
a mixture of glycerine instead of oil
for sharpening their edged tools. Oil,
as is well known, thickens and smears
the stone. The glycerine may be mixed
with spirits in greater or less proportion,
according as the tools to he
sharpened are fine or coarse. For the
average blade two parls of glycerine to
one of spirits will suffice.
What Others Say.
Dr. Alexander Raleigh.
AGAINST gELK-PLEASINO.?CllliHtian
people ought to be constantly and
watchfully on their guard against this
thing. There is absolutely no one
whom it will not beset. The vivacious
will have it presented to them in forms
of excitement and amusement, the
modest and retiring in forms of sloth
and ease, the busy in forms of avarice
and ambition, and fame aud honor;
in fact, all the faults aud all the vices
are but different dresses which that
protean character, the old self, puts oil,
as it goes up aud down the world, - v
murmuring, "We ought to please ourselves.
We ought to please ourselves."
Beware ! brother, sister, young disciple,
old disciple ; Timothy, Paul the aged,
or even grandmother of Timothy?beware
! lest unwittingly ye fall into that * ~ l
soft and easy, and yet?if truth must
be spoken?nell-born habit of pleasing . "J
unlf I'lnaco tlin conQtltilifioa nf t.hft
Christian life, and then not you alone,
but angels and God himself will be
pleased." But as to pleasing that other
self?that second you?that meaner
creature than you sometimes find yourself
lusping into?all danger and all
soul-death lie that way. Let that man
be crucified. Put fresh nails into his
hands and feet. Pierce that cold, black
heart with the soldier's spear. The
dear Christ died in his love and purity
that that dark man of sin might die
forever.
Nashville Christian Advocate.
The New Orleans Timca-Democrat
alluding to the Mardi-Gras festivities,
says: "The carnival always interrupts.
more or less, the serious work
we have on hand. Our energies for .
! three or four days are concentrated on
i the .amusements and enjoyments of
this holiday season, and other interests
i suffer temporarily. It Iihh been so
thif year as formerly." Exactly. .
"Always interrupts" not only the
serious work, but we dare say operates
a total suspension of business. We do
not know what New Orleans would do,
but in Boston, if a minister of the gospel
at temps to read the Bible and instruct
a few souls gathered about him
on the commons, he would be arrested
and punished. There is, however, a
vast difference between Boston, Mass..
and New Orleans, La. Still, we are
surprised that a great commercial emporium,
competing with other cities
for trade, should suffer the carnival always
to interrupt its serious work for
three or four days in every year. This
is bad, to say nothing of the direct expenditure
of money in large sums,
which is worse than thrown away.
J. S. Bryan in Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
With some persons marriage is a
failure because they are failures as
husbands and wives. The fault is not
in the institution itself, but in them,
With some person.-, the Sabbath is a .
failure; the church is a failure; the
decalogue is a failure; Christianity is
a failure; civil government is a failure.
It is always well to know the character
of the opponents of existing social
customs and institutions. In law, the
r?lmrn^tor f\f o wifnnco af?W>+a hid fAdfi.
mony. There is a class who oppose
everything that restrains lust or license.
Christian Witness,
"The minister who makes free use in
the pulpit of such words as 'environment,'
'evolution,' 'subjective, and
'objective,' puzzles some of his hearers,
and they wonder what he is driving
at. One hearer in describing a sermon
said, 'The more he unfolded it the
more he covered it up.' Oh, for plain,
well-understood words in preaching
the Gospel!"
Western Christian Advocate.
That Methodist who, in the preseuce
of his family, made it a custom to criticise
all ministers and Christians, is
now wondering why his childreu refuse
to go to cnurch, or to have any
thing to do with it. Hut why should
they eare for it if it is such a thing as
he has represented ?
rsashville Christian Advocatc.
The pastor Who goes from house to
house during the week knows what to
say to the full house that greets him on
Sunday. The one who lounges away
his time at home lires blank eartridges
at nothing in particular.
A Lesson of Gratitude.
A gentleman once making Inquiries
in llussia about the method of catchin*;
bears in that country, he was told
that to entrap them, a pit was dug sev
eral leet deep, ana alter covering it
over with turf, leaves, etc., some food
was placed 011 the top. The bear, if
tempted by the bait, easily fell into the
snare.
"But," he added, "if four or five
happen to get in together, they will all
get out again."
"How is that?" asked the gentleman.
"They form a sort of ladder by stepping
011 each other's shoulders, and
thus make their escape."
'But how does the bottom one get
out?"
"Ah ! these bears, though not possessing
a mind and soul such as God
has given us, yet can feci gratitude;
and they won't forget the one who
had been the chief means of procuring
their liberty. Scampering oft', they
fi.tf.1i Mm lirnnr?li of ;i tree, which thev
let down to their poor brother enabling
him to speedily join them in the
freedom in which they rejoice."
Sensible bears, we would say, are
better than some people that we hear
about, who never help anybody but
themselves.
Not Woktii a Sacrifice.?"People
buy everything except books," said
the author of Queen Money." "They
draw the line at that extravagance.
Say a book costs $1, $1.50, $o?nobody
can atlord such an outlay. They will
wait six months to get'a soiled copy
from a library?will humiliate themselves
to the last degree to borrow it?
meanwhile, willjspend $10, $20, $30,
$4<>, $100 and $500 for greenhouse
plants, or cut flowers; they will pur
chase trumpery dishes for tables "and
walls? adoru their own persons with
dead birds, feathers, bits of tinsel,
glass ; they will eat, drink aud bo merry
; take pains to gratify to the fullest
every sordid and sensual inclination
they feel, but books!?books are out
of the question. Books, representing,
as they do, not the material out the indestructible
essence of human life and
art, are not worth making a sacrifice
for."? The Argonaut.
It is mind, soul and heart?not taste
or art?that make men great,
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