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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1880. VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 1. 11
TIio Bravest, liattlc.
The bravest buttle tint over .vis fought!
Shall I tell you where and when ?
On the maps of the world vou will find it not;
'Twas fought by the mothers of men.
Nay, not with cannon or b.Utlo shot,
With sword or nobler pen :
Nay, not with eloquent word or thought.
From mouths of wonderfel men.
But deep in a walled-up woman's heart?
Of woman that would not yield.
But bravely, silently, bore her part?
Lo! there is that battle-field!
No marshaling troop, no bivouac song;
No banner to gleam and waVv*! .
But O! these battles thai last so long?
From babyhood to the grave !
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What of Maine?
As Maine is quoted by both parties,
and made to do service in the interest
of prohibition and anti-prohibition, we !
introduce an unimpeachable witness.
Hear him.
The venerable Dr. Cyrus Hamlin,
whose name is the synonym of all thai
is noble and wise, has recently exEre.-sed
in the New York Observer
is knowledge of theoperations of constitutional
prohibition in Maine. He
is an expert witness, and should be
given entire credence. But he best
speaks his own strong and discriminating
words:
"I am a Maine man ; and I know
the State, north and south, east and
west, and the 'experience of Maine' is
before me and before the world.
There is not a distillery nor an open,
undisguised dram-shop in the State of
Maine. What is there in this that
should frighten Boston believers in total
abstinence? The farms in Maine
are generally free from mortgages, the
houses are painted, shade trees are cultivated,
the roads are good, the people
are temperate, industrious aud happy.
What is the matter with Maine? Oh
there is drunkenness and rum-selling
there still, and worse than ever. A
big lie is made out of a very small
" A -c ' ?'rUnro ia runi-sel-1
amounr oi uum. iu^iv
ling as there is thieving in the cities.
But it is driven into secret places. It
is carried on by the vilest and basest of
men and fallen woman. The grip of
the law is noc tight enough yet to stop
it entirely, but the Slate is saved.
Nineteeu-twentieths are delivered
from the curse. The curse creeps and
wriggles and hisses in places foul and
festering with all moral filthiness.
But it should be remembered by all
the advocates of the Maine law that it
does not undertake to interdict drunkenness
at home. You may be as
drunk as you please at home, and, if
you can keep from killing wife and
children, and from other outrages, the
Maine law does not concern itself
about you. It proposes to stop the
manufacture and sale of intoxicants in
the State of Maine. That work it has
done gloriously, though not to the satisfaction
of certain conservative temperance
men. They must be a curious
set. They are probably in harmony
with him who was, in favor of the
law, but against its execution."
?
Rolitrion nt Home.
It is laughable to see one hunting
high and low for his spectacles, which
has only been shoved over his forehead.
But it is not laughable to see
x? tilPV O.'lll
Christians nuiumg u?
opportunities to honor God, while
overlooking such opportunities as they
carry with them wherever they go.
A slovenly carpenter was once heard
at a weekly prayer-meeting to pray I
with great fervency for the spread of
Christ's cause?a cause which he disgraced
and hindered in his sphere every
time he stood at his work-bench.
"When he had finished his prayer, a
hearty "Amen" came from a servant
who put her mistress out of temper a
hundred times a day by her carelessness.
A clerk who'was there, who
although he taugh a class in the mission
school on Sunday was always late
at his employer's store on week days,
whispered "Amen," too, and meant it,
so far as he knew himself. A lad3
hearer, as she listened, resolved to
join the church missionary society, and
' Mnouacnnil.
then went liome ami umnu
hie fault with her cook. And others
also felt warned to do something for
Christ who never seemed to have
thought that relijrion-like charity, begins
at home. The mechanic who is
{>o\verful in class-meeting and weak at
lis trade is no credit to the cause he |
professes. The servant who drops I
tears feelingly at religious services, and
drops dishes unfeelingly in the kitchen. I
has her tenderness altogether too much
on one side. And it is a pocr kind of
religion which seeks opportunities to
set others straight, but overlook its
own crookedness.
. .
Accuracy.
Accuracy enters into action as well
as thought, and into speech. In action
we are apt to call it thoroughness, because
doing work accurately and
nicely in every point, with nothing
unfinished or untidy, necessarily involves
thoroughness, however small
or large the work may be.
If we allow ourselves to be inaccurate
in the minor details of actions?
i. ,.r < l. r<.' >! It n 11 ir in or
if we leave eim? u.
from our sewing, or turn the corners
different ways in hemming a square
kerchief: spread the . cover on the
table hastily without minding whether
the corner hang even or not; go to a
closet or drawer for pieces and thrust
the bundles in with the expression, "1
will come and put them to rights by
and by?are we not haunted by a feeling
of sliiftlessness, of wishing to go
back and begin over again?a feeling
so much out of proportion to the actual
carelessness that we are forced to confess
that inaccuracy is not a trilling
fault. The same conscience pricks us
when, after telling a story in what
we think an entertaining way for the
edification of a friend, our small child
says: "But, mamma, she diden't say
that; she said so-and-so," and forthwith
proceeds to take the point ofl' our
tale by presenting it without the
oHnmmwit with which we had en
deavored to make it attractive. The
child can be silenced l?y being told not
to interrupt mamma when she is
speakiug, but conscience does not so
easily excuse us, and we feel again
that there is something wrong.
How, then, shall we set this wrong
right? We find it comparatively easy
to say to ourselves : "<>, I have a general
idea of the matter, and when I
have time I will think it out." It is
not so easy to take a concrete portion
of the general idea and think* it out
carefully; and yet by so doing the
smaller*thought becomes completely
our own, ready for use in any emergency,
while the general notion is so
large and so very general that we actually
never find time to think it out.
and'thus it does not become our own
at all.
How much better is the love that is
ready to die than the zeal that is ready
to kill.
Bemoaning- The Past.
It is not unusual to meet people who
are always bemoaning the past. There
are many such who spend more energy
in thinking what they ought to have
done and chiding themselves for not
having done it, than in thinking what
thev ought to do and planning how to
doit.
Life is really too short for this sort of
j tiling; there is too much to be achieved
111 the present and in the future to justify
continuous dwelling 011 unimproved
opportunities in the past. It is always
in order and in time to turn over
a new leaf to begin again, to make
stepping-stones of the sins and errors
and mistakes of the past, remembering
them only so mucii ana so iou? jus w
learn how to avoid and overcome them
in the future.
"O, if I could live my life over
again," says one, "how differently I
would act." But you can't live it over
again. The only thing you can do is
to live to-day as well a9 you can, to
straighten your lines of action and see
that they all point upward, away from
the wrong, toward the right. Time
spent in mere idle regret is worse than
wasted.
Even Job, that man "divulged
through heaven to all the angels," refers
to the "sins of his youth," and
begs that they be remembered not
against him.
The atmosphere of regret is delibitating,
enervating, asphyxiating. It
should be avoided by us as we avoid
malarial atmospheres and those saturated
with infection. A great purpose
will lift one out of. regrets, and failing
a great purpose many smaller ones will
accomplish the same end. In such a
world as this there is always enough
affirmative, positive good to be done to
occupy all one's time and thought, all
one's capacity of doing and willing.
He Resigned at once.
A village newspaper, giving an account
of a lecture by a noted lecturer,
said briefly and indefinitely that it was
"a wonderful flow of language"?which
seems to have been the idea of the hearers
of a certain colored minister, mentioned
by an exchange, whose gifts
were ratlier superficial.
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The length of the woras ue uunw
ai his hearers was limited only by the
amount of oxygen he could take into
his lungs at one effort. This was all
very well for a time, hut the Church
did not seem to prosper, and by and by
a change was decided upon and a committee
of one was appointed to ask for
the wordy minister's resignation.
When the errand had been, stated,
the preacher indignantly asked what
the congregation expected for nothing.
,
4Waal, now, doan yo, see, we duzzent
expect"?
"Isn's my character away up yati
above procrastination ?"
"No trouble'bout dat;but sail, yer
isn't fur enuf eddicated to"?
"Kaint I talk confidently enough ter
suit de most rapashus?"
"Dat's it, chile; dat's it; hold right
on where y'ar now. Yo'kin talk and
yo' kin taik, but yo' doan't pint out;
vo' can argyfy an' yo' kin argyfy, but
yo' doan't show wharein."
The resignation was handed in directly.?
Youths Companion.
Occupation Gone.
We could scarcely imagine a condi-J
tion in which Paul would be more
thoroughly out of place than as the
pastor of a modern church, with all
its appliances for cooking, feasting,
social* and ethical culture, with its
clubs, its lyceums, its provision for the
flesh and sense. The spiritual succession
of such a pastor as Paul could not
readily blend with the spiritual shallows
of our kitchen-parlor pastorates.
The intense earnestness, the zeal that
was considered beside itself, the gravity,
the serious prayerfulness of his
ministry, could hardly chime in with
our fun-loving, entertainment-seeking
piety. Our provisions for the flesh
would be too gross for the spirituality
I of the man who had been etherealv/.I
ed by the visions of the third heavens.
I The man who had to keep his body
under by the most abject slavery and
who had to beat it black and blue by
the most self-dedying disciplinary
processes would scarcely consider himself
safe in our churches where there
are so many things to pamper the body.
Paul, the preacher, who spent
ail his force in exhorting the young
people to be sober would hardly look
with complacency on all our devices to
make character flippant.
Religion ami dumikxk.
It is possible to put into one's coming
and going, into one's doing, a glow
of reverence for God, and to make it
evident iu every transaction that one
is trying to be obedient to the divine
will. Men may be strictly honest,
true in speech and all that, and yet be
wordly. How often one hears the remark
that business is business. Very
true. But business may be more than
business; it may be a means of grace;
it may be, and.ought to be, a school in
which the soul crows in gratitude, in
patience, in faith, in love, and in all
the qualities through which a soul
comes into fitness to fellowship, now
and evermore, with the Lord Jesus
Christ. It is a pitiable sight to see a
mau hard and cold in his business life,
as though this were a great section of
his existence in which there is no possibility
of cultivating religious principle
and having the grace of God. It
is a refreshing sight to see a man living
in the world and doing with his
niigth what his hand finds to do, and
yet doing all in tnis spirit 01 ioyauy 10
the Master.
"What sort of books and papers arc
mothers putting into the hands of
their little ones, and teachers into the
hands of their pupils? Dare we take
the responsibility of allowing these
young minds to drink in some glowing
account of war and the bravery of
its'heroes and use no counteracting influence?
We are molding, but what is
the form we are shaping?
A colonel once said : "I felt like
taking down the swords from above
my fireplace, and hiding them away
forever, when iirst called upon to explain
to my little girl what they meant
and for what they were used." How
many of us are keeping emblems of
war in our houses, without any explanation
to our children of their
dreadful use? Letting them draw
, their own conclusion that they must
be something nice and for some good
purpose, or father and mother would
not care to keep them. The child is
constantly seeing, constantly think;
ing, constantly drawing conclusions.
Are we directing it or forgetting it?
Love without tenderness is unlovely.
Lot us Have Pence,
These are the words of (Jen. Graut, I
written soon after he was nominated I
for President of the United States in I
1S(>S. They are very good and beautiful [
words, and well worthy to be sincerely
adopted by every man and woman in !
every state, city and town, and by every |
church and at every liresiile in our vast;
country from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
But how much wiser and better
| it would have been for Gen. Grant
and all the American people, North
and South, to have said, years before
>
me war, m uruve (juuuaiu u;?; ?i>n
unyielding perseverance, "Let up have
])eace," than to say it after the dreadful
war was past and all of its awful
agonies and willful wrongs beyond the
power of prevention. Well, let us all
say now, and teach our children to
teach their children to say from generation
to generation till the end of
time, ' ' Let us 7tavepcace."
The Centennial.
There could be no such thing as a
Centennial until Adam and Rve were
a hundred years old. From that time
centennials of many things may have
commenced whether or not they were
celebrated. We have no account of
even a celebration of tbe first centenuial,
that of Creation. Adam lived to
see nine centennials and thirty years
into the tenth. The fall of himself
and wife, so soon after they were created,
may have so associated the two
things together in their minds that
they could not think of their Eden
home without thinking also of their
fall and expulsion. So they may have
passed their first and succeeding centennials
duriug life as quietly and
with as little thought of what they did
one hundred years ago, two hundred,
three hundred, and so on?as possible.
As centuries have come and gone
centennials have increased, and the
celebration of centennial events of
1 linvn miilfi.
more ur icss imjiuiutuvi/ ^ ??
plied.
Tuesday April 30, 1SS9, was celebrated
in New York City a* the centennial
of the inauguration of George
Washington as President of the United
States. The celebration is represented
as unparallelled in magnitude,
magnificence and multitude. It is
supposed by some that a million of
persons were present on the occasion.
Although the celebration was the
greatest mixture of the people that has
ever taken place at one time, yet it is
doubtful whether there has been an increase
of cement between the various
sections of this wide and widening nation.
The competition in display and
the consequent disappointments, jealousies
and envyings on the occasion
may have been more than has yet appeared
on the surface.
The prominent and most imposing
feature in the celebration was the military.
Nothing can be great with some
people without military demonstrations
of some sort?if it be no more
than to rattle trappings, beat a drum
and shoot a cannon. But this was the
way the powers and managers that be
dpnided to have it. George Washing
ton in his farewell address, September
17. 1796, said, "Overgrown military establishments
are under any form of
government inauspicious to liberty,
and a^e particularly hostile to- republican
liberty."
If that Centennial Ball and attendant
debauch bad been left out of tbe
programme, and every thing of a military
feature and flavor had been superseded
by plain dresses for men and
women with a white flag for each State
inscribed, On earth pr.acc, good will toward
men, with the name of one of
the States under each inscription,
would it not have endeared the people
of the different States more to one another,
and consequently strengthened
the union feeling in all hearts.
According as the territory of the
United States is enlarged and the population
with immigration is increased,
there must be a corresponding increase
of unifying cement or the government
will sooner or later drop to pieces.
This should never be lost sight of
when it is remembered that Immigration.
Romanism, Free Education, Taxation,
Popular elections, and the Negro
are problems that must be solved
by the Republic before another Centennial
comes round.
The Heroes of Apia.
Washington, April 27.?Secretary
Tracy to-day sent a long letter to Rear
(Admiral Kimberly, commanding the
United States naval forces on the Pacific
station at Apia, Samoa. After
reviewing at length the ofiicial reports
and newspaper accounts of the disaster,
and commending and praising the
conduct of the United States officers,
Secretary Tracy says: "In reply to
your request and that of C'apt. Farquiiar
for a court of inquiry, the department
has to say that it deems such a
court unnecessary. It is satisfied that
the officers in command of the ships
at Apia did their duty with courage,
fidelity and sound judgment, and that
they were zealously and loyally seconded
by their subordinates ; that the
hurricane which caused the destruction
of the vessels and the loss of so
many lives was one of those visitations
of Providence, in the presence of
uriiinh human efforts are of little avail;
that the measures actually taken by
yourself and the officers under you
were all that wisdom and prudence
could dictate, and that it was due to
these measures that so large a proportion
of the crews was saved, that the
one step which might have averted
the catastrophe, namely to have put to
sea before the storm had developed,
could only have been justified, in view
of the grave responsibilities resting
upon you at Samoa, by the certainty
of overwhelming danger to your fleet,
which could not then be foreseen;
that you rightly decided to remain at
your post, and that the department,
even in the face of the terrible disaster
which is involved, approves absolutely
your decision, which basset an example
to the navy that should never be
forgotten. To convene a court of inquiry
under these circumstances
would seem to imply a doubt on the
part of the department where no
doubt exists, and instead of ordering
tin itivncHtrnfinn it tenders to you and
through you to the officers :iml men of
your command, ifs sympathy for the
ex]insure and hardships you have encountered,
and its profound thanks for
the fidelity with which you have performed
your duties in a crisis of appalling
danger."
Divorces in the United Stales.
Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, of
the United Slates Labor Bureau, by
direction of Congress, has had a thorough
report prepared for each year
from 18(57 to 18S6 of all divorces granted
in the United States; giving the causes
miivW/iv
assigned and a comparison with similar
divorce statistics in Europe. In
the liyht of this report we may also be
called a people of broken promises.
The result is appalling if the figures
a lib rd an accurate comparison. The
aggregate of absolute divorces, in 1880,
in all Europe, with the exception of
Spain, was l!j,oO(t. In the United
States, in the same year, there were
2"?,.5.'5") divorces. The increase in this
land of broken promises appears more
forcibly in a comparison of the number
of divorces to the number of married
couples. In 1870 there occurred one
divorce to every 064 couples; in 1880
there was one to every 470 couples.
The same fact appears in a comparison
by decades. Erom 1877 to 1887 there
were 200,594 divorces, as against 122,121
during the preceding ten years?an
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iHUJUttSU <J1 ViJ - J.HJ1 UCllUf W1, ivy envn
what our laws and courts have drifted
to in a period of twenty years, there
were U0X7 divorces in an estimated population
of 86,000,000 in 1807, while in
18S0 there were 2o,58o in an estimated
population of 66,000,000.?M. Trueworthy,
I). D., in Christian Worker.
George Washington was inaugurated
first president of the United States in
New York during the session of the
Methodist conference in that place,
and liishop Ashbury suggested the
propriety of a congratulatory address
to the new president. The suggestion
was warmly approved, and the two
bishops, Francis Ashbury and Thomas
Coke, were appointed to prepare and
present the address. The address contained
the following:
"We have received the most grateful
satisfaction from the humble and
entire dependence on the great Governor
of the universe which you have
repcatly expressed, acknowledging
Him the source of every blessing and
particularly of the most excellent constitution
of these States, which is at
present tlie admiration of the world,
and may in future become the great
exemplar for imitation, and hence we
enjoy a holy expectation that you will
always prove a faithful and impartial
patron of genuine vital religion, the
grand end of our creation and present
probationary existence. And we
promise you our .fervent prayers to
the throne of grace, that God Almighty
may endue you witjh all the
graces of His Holy Spirit, tiiat he may
enable you to (111 your important nation
to' his glory, the good ol 11 is
church, the happiness and prosperity
of the United States, and the welfare
of mankind."
Methodist Union in Japan.?
Bishop Fowler, of the M. E. Church,
and Bishop Wilson, of the M. E.
Church, South, were in Japan at the
same time. A meeting was held in
which these (wo Bishops were present
and steps were taken to form u Japanese
Methodist Church. Bishop Fowler
says: "It was unanimously
agreed to appoint a committee of three
?one from the Methodist Episcopal
Church, one from the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and one from
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three to appoint, two natives from anywhere
; these five to constitute a Committee
on Discipline. They were directed
to form a Constitution, which
should protcct the doctrines, the General
Rules and the Episcopacy, and
then adapt the system around these
factors to the needs of Japan. The result
of their work is to be submitted
to the various missions, and then by
them to the Boards at home and the
General Conferences of the interested
Churches."
Most criminals are 3roung. It is seldom
that a grave crime, provided it be
the first, is committed after the age of
30. A careful statistician has proved
that of the entire male population of
England and Wales the largest proportion
of criminals is found to be between
the apes of 20 and 25. Five
times as many crimes are committed
in the five years between these limits
as in the ten years between the ages of
50 and 60. Dividing the whole popuntion
into proups of those from 10,
years to 15, from 15 to 20, from 20 to 25,
from 25 to 30, from 30 to 40, from 40 to
50, and from 50 to GO, it is found that
from the age of 20 thetendency to crime
decreases at each successive term 33
percent, in the case of women, and 25
per cent. 111 tne case 01 xut-u.
Marshall Booth, in reviewing his
forces at Chicago, said that within
twelve years 1,000,000 men and w men
have been rescucd from the slums and
transformed into self-supporting, sober,
Christian citizens by its work.
He is prepared to establish at once 'n
London ten more Rescue Homes, for
300 girls (which will enable the Army,
by the help of God, to rescue at least
another thousand a year), and also to
establish ten food and shelter depots,
six for women and children only, and
four for men, with a capacity for 1,000
beds per night for women, and 500 for
men and 200,000 meals per week, ov at
the rate of 547,500 beds and 10,400,000
meals per annum. He appeals for
$75,000 to meet the expense of fitting
up and furnishing the suid twenty
buildings.
Our (irowui ana Mrengm.
Our Hook Editor, Dr. \Y. P. Harri-j
son, has carefully compiled the statistics
of'our Church, together with the
comparative increase during the past
ecclesiastical year, and gives the figures
in last week's Nashville Advocate.
Number of traveling preachers, 4,084?increase,
lo4; local preachers, 6,;>()!)?increase,
117 ; white members, 1,123,40s?increase,
32,753; colored members,
044?decrease, 105 ; Indian members,
4,5158? decrease, 2SS; total preachers
and members, 1,140,05)3?net increase,
32,537; infant baptisms, 31,152
?decrease, 1,581 ; adult baptisms, 53,303--decrease,
5,150; collected for
Church Extension, $51,341.50?increase,
?4,278.08; for Conference Claimants.
$116,713.03?increase, $14,501.47;
for Foreign Missions, $225,852.16?in
crease, $(>.207; for Domestic Missions,
*104,473.31 ? increase, ?12,046.75; total
for Foreign and Domestic Missions,
8330,325.47?total increase, $18,253.56.
Stores for Oklahoma.
In the freight yards at Kansas City,
Missouri, were al?out thirty trains
loaded with stores for the Oklahoma
country. There were houses in sections,
ready to be bolted together and
entered for habitation sixty minutes
after their delivery. There were completed
stocks of every conceivable sort
of merchandise, and with each car
load of slock was packed away the
building required to harbor it. In this
manner drug stores, dry goods stores,
boot and shoe stores, saloons and groceries
have been provided. The opening
of this Territory on the 22d iustant
will be one of the most interesting
'facts in the history of this country.
It will be the founding of a State almost
in a day.
Snubbings.?I had an opportunity
to worship with my brethren. By the
way, when I see our preachers breaking
their necks over Dr. from New
Yoi k, or Dr.? from Brooklyn, I am
somewhat amused at the nonchalant
way in which the said Doctors will
pass them by when they come to the
metropolis. "One of your Bishops.
Merfomething. preached for us," said
a John-Streeter. "A youug man from
Nashville, named Tag, or Tag Something,
was here not long ago." Alas
for fame? The "Exoduster" wanted
"McFerrin's Life," but they did not
have it, and probably did not know
the old man was dead.
The true life of a soldier is not eeen
in the display of military parade, but
in the rags, the blood, and the misery
of the battle. The swordgleaming in
the sunlight presents a more pleasing
picture than when dripping with the
blood of man. The bayonets arrang
ed in symmetrical form and burnished
to look beautiful are made to pierce
the image of God, and are only seen
in their true light when in that operation.
May God hasten the day when
it will no longer be possible tor men
to be perverted into fiends.
Gems for Christ's Crown.?Men
go far from home, to Brazil or South
Africa, and toil in the mud and mire of
the mines to dig up diamond stones,
which, when cut and polished, they
bring back, and sell to kings and
princes for merely an earthly reward.
Would you not, then, go far away, and
assist to gather these geuis which
when washed in the blood of Christ
and cut and polished by the Holy
Spirit, shall adorn the crown of Him
who is King of kings, and flash back
the glory of the living God ?
Who shall reiwn ??Matthew
Arnold says, "America holds the future."
An American statesman, pointing
westward, exclaimed, "Yonder is
the East!" If America holds the future
(and who doubts it), we say the
West holds America. And who shall
hold the West?Christ or Pope Pecci?
Christianity or Leo XIII? This is the
issue, and the issue is at our door.
Not what the world says we may do,
but what we know we ought to do. is
the standard of duty for us in our daily
conduct. Yet the conflict of conflicts
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world says that we may do a great,
many tilings that we know we ou?ht
not to do. It is easier to follow the
world's counsel than to adhere to our
own convictions of right. But if we
do right, we shall never have cause to
regret it; whereas, if we fail to do right,
we shall never be without a cause of
regret for our failure. And God will
approve our right doing, even though
all the world should deem us foolish or
over-particular.
A good average of character is better
than a lower level of character; but a
good average of character is never
reached by a man who is satisfied with
a {rood average. Only the man who
persistently strives to oeat a hiph level
of conduct, will reach the plane of the
average well-doer. An average is
made by the balance between the slips
and the successes. The slips will
come of themselves. The successes
are a result of effort. He who aims no
higher than an average, will be sure
to fall below it.
Carry a pleasant, or at least a glacid
countenance around with you. 'mere
is nothing gained by going up and
down the streets with a sour, wrinkled,
clouded, vision. You appear to be
aggravating your own misery; possibly
you are making yourself miserable
without real cause. Here is a dead
loss of both reputation and character
as regards yourself. Then, in relation
to others, you are impairing your
chances and your ability to be helpful
and agreeable. Whoever thinks these
matters unworthy of consideration has
a very distorted view of life and duty
Reading is one of the greatest consolations
in life; it is the nurse of virtue
; the upholder in adversity; the
prop of independence; the support of
a just pride; the strengthener of elevated
opinions; it is the shield against the
tyranny of all the petty passions; it is
tiie repeller of the fool's scoff and the
knave's poison.
What is worth doing at all is worth
doing well. It is a little act to open or
shut a door, but read this paragraph
and you will see in that "little act" a
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very large indication ui uuniaviv..
"Boys and girls will always show to
strangers whether they are well bred
and polite or not by the manner in
which they open and shut the door.
If they open it with a rush or if they
neglect to shut it, or shut it carelessly
or with a slam, they are not well-behaved
or polite. You should always
open and shut a door gently and carefully."
"Manners," says Burke, "are of
more importance than laws. Upon
them, in a great measure, the laws depend.
The law touches us but here
and there, now and then. Manners
are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify,
exalt or debase, barbarize or refine
us, bv a constant, steady, uniform, insensible
operation, like that of the air
we breathe in. They give their whole
form and color to our lives. According:
to their quality, they aid morals, they
supply them, or they totally destroy
them."
No human word can express the
whole even of human love, or the burden
of human sorrow. What then?
Shall men be like the caged eagle that
beats out its brains on the bars of its
TT ?fho
cage? All, no: ne van m? mw w.~
closet and apeak to God ; if he cannot
express all his feelings there, there are
groan ings which cannot lie uttered
that God hears. God is felt after.
There are, within the range of every
one's life, processes of life which must
he solitary; passages of duty which
throw one absolutely upon his individual
moral forces; and admit of 110 aid
whatever from another. Alone we
must stand sometimes ; and if our letter
nature is not to shrink into weakness,
we must take with us the thought
which was the strength of Christ:
"Yet lam not alone, because the Father
is with me."
The Pharisees were heavy on the assessments
; they tithed mint, anise
and cummin. They stressed this to
the omitting of the weightier things of
the law. The race is not all dead. To
do the little things with punctuality
and care but keep them little and fill
our hands and hearts with doing the
great things is the part of wisdom.
There are those who live in thisivorld,
as though it was never to have an end ;
and for the next, as though it was never
to have a beginning.
Ought not the following calculations
to make us ashamed of ourselves?
With the money spent on drink in
Great Britain there could he maintained
600,000 missionaries at <?250 a
year, 500,000 school masters at ?100, ,
5,000 churches at ?2,000 5,000schools at
?800. It would give to the world 200,000,000
shilling Bibles, 500,000,000
tracts at lour shillings a hundred;
would give 100,000 widows ?20 a year,
and 200,000 poor i'arailies ?10 a year.
Which do we value most?our glasses
or our Bibles??Belfast V.'itnem.
Mr. Leitch closed his meeting Sun- (
day night after preaching twenty-two
days. At night the attendance was
generally large and it increased to the
close, the crowd Sunday night being
the largest he had. About seveniyfive
announced themselves as candidates
for church membership dur.'ng
the meeting. 40 were received into
the Methodist Church Sunday, eight
joined the Baptist and one the Presbyterian.?
Carolina Spartan May 1.
From time immemorial the practice
of massage has been known to tne Fijians,
from whom the Samoans first,
and then the Tongans, learned the art.
The process consists in rubbing and
kneading the part, the operation being
sometimes continued for hours. It,
stimulates the circulation and relieves
pain, and is commonly used in abdominal
disease. The native doctors have
great faith in massage, and it is always
practiced by them.?London Medical
Recorder.
Under our present system of the electoral
college 21,000,000 people can out
vote 28,000,000. A comparison of the
proportion of population for eacli electoral
vote in the different States varies
from 13,000 in Montana to 142,000 iu
Pennsylvania. That is, in a choice
for presidents, 13,000 men in Montana
count just as much as 142,000 in Pennsylvania.?The
Voice.
It was recently decided in England,
in a legal contest for the possession of
a dead body, that the executors of a
dead man's will have the right to the
control of the corpse ; that, therefore,
"a man can not lawfully dispose of his
body by will, or any other instrument."
The judge added: "This is a
legal conclusion."
Over at Philadelphia they have found
the root of the tree under which William
Penn made bin famous treaty
with the Indians. This, we presume,
is an important discovery, but we believe
it would be a heap better for the
good name of America if some vestige
of the treaty or of even the spirit in
which it was made, could be found.
The great Eiffel tower at Paris has
been completed. It is the highest
structure ever reared by human hands,
so far as known, being 1,178 feet high,
or over twice as high as our great monument
at Washington. The electric
light at its summit will be visible forty
miles.
About nine-tenths of all the clay
pipes manufactured in the United
States are made in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
where three factories are located that
turn out 15,000 gross annually. The
clay comes from Woodbridge, N. J.,
on/i at the factory five dollars per
ton.
The Sunday morning inspection in
the army and the navy, ana the Sunday
evening dress parade, are to be
abolished, it is said, by a special order
from the president himself, as commander-in-chief
of both branches of
the military service.
A chain of "dry towns" from Dristol,
Tenne-see, to Roanoke City, Virginia,
a distance of one hundred and
fifty miles, has just been completed by
a prohibition triumph in Abingdon,
Virginia.
The article in the new Japanese Constitution
guaranteeing freedom of religion
reads thus : "Japanese subjects
shall, within limits not prejudicial to
peace and order, enjoy freedom of religious
belief."
The next house of Representatives
will consist of 330 members, a quorum
of which will be 166. At the outset
the Republicans will have 169, or three
more tnan a quorum.
When a writer says a certain thing
is "impossible to describe," and then
uses a half column in its description,
he doubtless means that nobody but
himself could describe it.
From November 1 to January 6 at
fin feet were added to the heighth
of Vesuvius, while the size of the base
of the cone of eruption was proportionately
increased.
Dr. Bradford K. Pierce, for sixteen
years the honored editor of Zioris
Herald, died at his home in Newton
Center, Mass., April 10th.
A despatch from Liverpool states
that 6000 emigrants embarked at that
port in one day, nearly all of them being
bound for America.
Rev. N. M. Woods, D. D., has left
this city to take charge of a cfiurch in
Memphis, Tenn.
The pious words of the weakest and
most obscure Christian, are infinitely
more precious than the choicest wisdom
or the most learned philosopher,
who is ignorant of "the excellency of
the knowledge of Jesus Christ."
We fail to see that we are working
out in our own lives the same problems
which the men and women of the Bible
worked out in theirs, that we are
fighting the same battles as they
fought, and with the same weapons.
In the intercourse of social life it is
by little acts of watchful kindness re"
ciirring daily and hourly, and opporttr
nities of doing kindness if sought, are
forever startiftg up. It is by words, by
tones, by gestures, by looks,' that attec
tut ion is won and preserved.
Christ as the light of the worhl is,
first, light to the intellect, a guide and
teacher, embracing every shade and
degree of truth in the pure white light
of His truth. He is, second, warmth
for the heart, full of sympathy and
love. And third, He is the source of
all spiritual life.
Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff life
is made of.
Life's evening will take its character
from the day which has preceded it;
and if we would close our career in religious
hope, we must prepare for it by
continuous religious habit.
The martyrs to vice far exceeds the
martyrs to virtue, both in endurance
and in number; so blinded are we by
our passions, that we suffer more to be
damned than to be saved.
Sorrow is not selfish ; but many persons
are in sorrow entirely selfish. It
makes them so important in their own
eyes that they seem to have a claim upon
all that people can do for them.
Virtue consists in self-conquests.
False Reports.
We read in Exodus, Chapter xxiii v:
v. 1, the following sentence: "Thou ' y~l
shalt not spread a false report."
My children, I cannot but again inar i
press upon you the importance of our
text: "Never spread a false report"
Man owes it to his own self-esteem and
character that he never utters a word g
or states a fact of the veracity of which 'i yj?
reality he does not possess ample proofs.
It is with evil reports, whicn have no /I vj
foundation, as it is with counterfeit
money. Every one dislikes counterfeit V.' s^?
^oney, and yet it cannot be helped ' ?
when now and then a false coin passes
into our hands against our will. And
similarly is it witn false reports. Every
one dislikes them and yet we can- -Jg|
not prevent them now and then, they
each our ears and pass iuto our credu- -J-W(
lows hearts.
Be, therefore, very particular in vj
wliut you may say aiiu uc even Uvi? V1. a
particular in .yhat you ever write
down. Think before your speak and
without measuring your words and lay v
ing them upon the scales, let them be ; liSa
always the frank expression of your . ?.?|j
sober and dear thoughts. And what- . ?
ever you write down, read it over
twice or three times before you send it :><M
away. Then, I am sure, you will rot
offend auy one, but doing what is right
and acting like a man of judgment and -A
feeling you will find friends and well- $|3
wishers everywhere.
What a Girl Should Learn.rTo
sew.
To cook.
To mend. B|
To be gentle.
To value time. ? >
To dress neatly.
To keep a secret. . 4^^'%'
To be self reliant.
To avoid idleness. , ; V
To mind the baby.
To darn stockings.
To respect old age. -i'^l
To make good bread.
To keep a house tidy.
To control her temper.
To be above gossiping. -/vwj
TV* molra o Vir?m?i hflnnV.
To take care of the siefe.
To humor a cross old man. -J
To marry a man for his worth.
To be light-hearted and fleet footed.
Weall of usfancy when we meet troubles
that they are greater troubles than
ever were met before. It is merely because
we know our own troubles better , \wj
thai; we ever can know those of others. ;
Why, if every atom is 10 make a cry
about his misery, the world will not
hold the clamour.
That early discipline which makes 'u'vjm
the prompt performance of duty a
habit in childhood is, indeed, the
quickest relief to parental anxieties,
and the firmest foundation of rite.]'
fortunes of one's children.
Those persons who love the blessed !
cause of Peace, as Christianity req uires,
in all sincerity will ever say, "If I for-v;*-^B
get thee, O Peace! let my right hand
forget her cunning:, and my tonguev^jra
cleave to the roof of my moutK."
The seeds of our punishment are ..\-jag
sown when we commit sin; the putt-:,
ishment itself is sure to come, sooner
or later, as the inevitable harvest of . g
our sowing.
The slow, lazy breeds of fowls are '. ?<
more likely to have scaly legs than the
quick-moving fowls. Hence more
care should be taken to prevent.
Active birds, if confined and not exeroding,
will pull feathers, but the
habit is easily acquired from any one ,;?l
of the flock by the other members thereof.
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To expect a young tree to produce
abundance of fruit, before the branches '-#J|
are come forth, and spread with
strength to bear it, is not reasonable. ,?
There is money in plum growing for <*|
the man who is more wide-awake and
industrious tban the curculio.
Men often preach from the bouse- I
tops, while the devil is crawhug in at ; fiWj
the basemeut below.
Most of the shadows that cross our V k
path through life are caused by standing
in our own light.
A capital anecdote is told of a little
fellow who, in turning over the leaves .
of a scrap book, came across the wellknown
picture of some chickens just - 7 ^
niif of thoir shell. Mv com nan ion e*
amined the picture carefully", and then, ?? ,38
with a grave, sagacious look at me.
slowly remarked: "They came out
cos they was afraid of being boiled." fjs
"This is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith.
As certainly as your Master's love is -V
in you, his work will be upon you.
He who can at all times, sacrifice ;"3j
pleasure to duty, approaches sublimity.
There is no use in trying to strike an ' ?jj
average on honesty. The article mua ; vjffl
be simon pure or it is spurious.
When Christ came into the world
peace was sung; and when he went -ifisaj
out of the world, peace was bequeath- -f-A
ed.
It seems hard to be blamed for our ,
best doing; but the bearing of such
blame as this is the real test of our
characters.
We shall never make progress in the
knowledge of Christianity if we do jj|
not prize it high above all other
L- nntvlprlce.
Every man is his own ancestor, and
every ruan is his own heir. He de- v&S
vises his own future, and be inherits
his own past. ^,|3|
Nothing sets so wide a mark between
a vulgar and a noble soul as respect for jand
reverential love of womankind.
Miss Anna Muse, of Atlanta, Ga., is !
home from .Shanghai, China, where
she is engaged in teaching. She is in
the employ of the Woman's Board of
Foreign Missions, Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. Miss Muse has
been absent nearly seven years.
Warsaw, N. C., was struck by a tornado
May 2, and many houses were ./$
blown down. Other houses had windows
broken by hail. The Presbyterian
Church was ruined. Though
mauy persons were injured none were -a
killed.
If the current word "trust" were
dropped out of use and trick used in
its place the common people would better
understand what is meant. "The
decoitfulness of sin" uses good words
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Queen Victoria will attain the age of
three score and ten on May 24. The
State banquet in honor of the event
will not be given until next day. She
has been enjoying unusually good
health lately.
Does it. pay to have one citizen in
the county jail because another sells
him liquor?
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