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N" ' 1 . jpp | ' | - p ;: ^ : , BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1971889. vV^OLLM-FXXXIV. NO. 6.|? Duty. Itv ANNA TEMPLE. I held a llowcr in my hand; Twas niglil, I could not see; And judging from the perfume, thought The llower must ugly be. Hut when the morning came, and light With its transforming power, I did forget all else, except The beauty of the llower. God placed a duty in my hand, Before my eyes could see Its rightful form, that duls seemed A bitter thing to me. Tiie Sun of Glory rose and shone; Then duty I forgot. And thought with what a privilege The Lord has blessed ray lot. The Flood at Jolintown. It may not be generally known, but it is true, that the great llood at Johnstown, in Pennsylvania, is the most disastrous, so far as loss of life is concerned, that has occurred in either Europe or America for nearly three centuries. There have been floods aud floods since the deluge. It has been no uncommon thimr to look for reports of overflows in the Valley of the Kile, with great loss of life. * Nor do floods in India cause any great surprise, for the frequency with which the Ganges and other rivers of India break their bounds is well known. The same is true of the rivers of China, and was once true of those of Spaiu. In the olden times the breaking of dikes in Holland carried desolation into many thousand families. But since James I sat on the throne of England there has been no such horror known as that caused by the floods in Southwestern Pennsylvania, with the exception of one in Africa aud one in China, although even in our own country the Mississippi and many smaller streams have played very serious pranks with the people who happened to live near their banks. Probably the most disastrous European flood on record within the last five hundred years was caused by the failure of the dike in Holland in 1580. A general inundation followed and 400,000 persons are said to have been drowned. The greatest following this was the floods in Catalonia in lf>17, when 50,000 persons lost their lives. By such records as can be got at it would seem that the Johnstown tragedy is second only to that in Catalonia, 272 years ago. Thfpp hn.vt?. however, been some big floods during tbe present century, both in this and in other countries, that were damaging enough in their way. It was but shortly after the opening of the century, in December, 1802, that the River Lifley broke its bounds and did a yast amount of damage in the city of Dublin. It was even earlier in the same year that Lorea, a city in Spain, was destroyed by the bursting of a reservoir, which inundated twenty leagues and drowned more than 1,000 persons. In 1811 tbe Danube overflowed at a point near Pesth, and swept away twenty-four villages and their inhabitants, and these floods were followed by others almost as disastrous in the summer of 1813, when whole villages in Austriu-Hnnp^ry and Poland were swept away. In "September of 1813 the Danube rose and swept away a corps of Turkish troops, 2,000 strong, who were encamped on an island in the river, near Winder. During the same year 6,010 men and women were drowned in Silesia, and 4,000 in Poland. From here the record is easily followed. In 1S16, in January, there were several floods at Strabane, Ireland, caused by the melting of the snow on the mountains. In the same year the river Vistula overflowed and destroyed 10,000 head of cattle and 4,000 houses, besides numerous lives. During 1S1!> there was a flood in the feu Counties in England, when 5,000 acres of land were inundated. In 1830 there were great floods in "VVeiu, and in 1833 came the great overflows in China, when 1,0(>0 persons were drowned in Canton alone. In 1840 Lyons, Marseilles and other towns in France were partly sul>inerged by a break in the banks of the river Rhone. And so the list goes. Here is something like the chronological order in which various Hoods occurred : 1846. Overflow of the river Loire in the West and Southwest of France. Damage, $2<?,000,01(0. The Loire rose 20 feet in one night. 1849. May?New Orleans Hooded by the inundation of the Mississippi. 1852. Floods at Holmfirth in February. Overflow of the Rhine and Rhone in September. City of Hamburg flooded by the Elbe. 1S56. Floods in the South of France. 18(52. Forty thousand acres in Holland submerged. Inundations in France. 1804. Rradtield reservoir, England, burst, March 11; 250 persons drowned. 1866. Septenibee?Great inundations in the South of France. November?(Srcat fluids in Lancashire, Yorkshire and .Derbyshire, England. Millswere carried away, mines were flooded, railroads were torn up and many lives were lost. 180!). January?Cork, Dublin ami other Irish cities were flooded and lunch suflering was caused. 1870. Rome was inundated and many lives were lost. The King was obliged to relieve the suflcrers with money. 1872. rti October there were great floods in Northern Italy and thousand of persons at Mantau, Ferrara and other towns were left homeless. 1874. The banks of the Thames Hiver were swept and many lives were 3ost. May 10, the reservoir near Northampton, Mass., burst much in the same manner as did that above - ' ">: ,..?U JOIUIKIOWII. iHlll jvni i > .>n> ? swept I?v (he Hood, and 114 poisons lost their lives. July -1, a waterspout hursfed at Kui\ka, Nevada, and many jives were lost. July 20,2:50 persons were drowned in i'itlshurg and Allejtiljany l?y the rising of the rivers in West or 11 1 'en nsy 1 van ia. 1S7">. I?y the rising of the river ("Jaronne in France, a portion of Toulouse was destroyed in June, and 1,000 lives were lost. From July until November of the same year England and Wales guttered from heavy Hoods. During the same jteriod some 20,000 y?-.'rsons were left homeless in India l?y tii* same causes. 1876. March?Severe Hoods in France and Holland. December? Floods in England. JS77. New Year's Day the water /overflowed the piers at Dover, Folkestone and Hastings, England, causing much damage. 1878. April?London suffered from inundations for several days. 187:1. A flood in Szegendin, Hungary, swept away the entire town. Over one hundred persons were drowned, .and more than six thousand dwellings were destroyed. June?The Rivers " ' " ' ':n iW Po ami Mincio overflowed, causing much damage in the North of Italy. October 1 fj-1 <"?Floods ir Alicante and other Spanish provinces destroyed 1,000 lives and swept away several thousands of houses. December? Hungary was again visited by floods. 1S-S0. The midland Counties of England suffered severely from overflows. 1SS2. In January I here were heavy floods all through the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, and there was much loss of life and property. And so the record goes. It might be extended were it necessary, but it will be seen that of all the disasters that have taken place since the Catalonian floods of 1017 there have been none so terrible as that which has just cast a pall over Western Pennsylvania and has moved the whole nation to mourn with the stricken people. The memories of these former floods will certainly be recalled now. Many of us who have not read "Put Yourself in His Place" for many years will reI member Charles Keade's vivid descripI tion of Iiausome's mad ride, as de | scribed in chapter 4iJ or unit great novel1. The Hood in the Mill lliver Valley ! on May 16, 1874, has been commemorated in a somewhat similar manner. L>nt the Northampton tragedy was a small one when compared with that which has just struck the country. He will bea'master mind who can fitr ly describe the latter disaster, either in prose or verse, with the scenes attending it. The Johnstown Calamity. TIIE CAUSE?TIIE AGENCY OF GOD AND MEN. Probably nothing of the kind has ever so affected all classes of the people of this country as the Johnstown Hood and the consequent destruction of lives and property and the distress of survivors, has done. Nor is it probable that any event has ever so touched and opened the hearts and hands of the people as the reports from Johnstown have done. As with one mind and heart the people far and near have sent and are sending substantial relief which can be measured only by the wants of the Johnstown members of the human brotherhood. The people are proving themselves neighbors to them who were and yet are involved in the calamity. The heroic and liberal aid thus afforded will go into the history which may toll of the destructive flood which was the result of the conjoint operation of the hands of God and the hands of men. What agency had God in that calamity? ' Uod decreed that the physical worici should be controlled by certain laws: that earth and water should each have so much weight and force in themselves, and resist or overcome the one the other according to those laws, both elements being affected by the laws of cohesion and gravitation. The additional fall of water from the clouds added to the weight and force of the water in the reservoir and thus caused the fatal break. The water from the clouds came also according to law. Thus far had God agency in the calamity. The building of the houses of Johnstown and their occupancy was the will and work of men. Had they so chosen they could have buildcd and lived elsewhere. The building of the reservoir dam was by men, the permission to build was by men, the payment for the wcrk was by men. Whether or i not integrity governed from first to last in building the dam, whether or not the inspection of the dam was by competent and reliable men, it was al! the will and work of men. The repeated warnings in view of ' the suspected weakness of the dam were given by some men, but were not heeded by other men. i The dam. the product of the will i and work of moral agents, was too weak to withstand the law-governed body of water. Hence the break, the ; flood, the destruction. Prudence *>r the part of men might have prevented the calamity or would have prevented j the building of the dam; but as things stood at the fatal hour, God could not I have prevented the calamity without ; working a miracle. In the light of the foregouig tha* ca- ! lamity may be called a "judgment" of ' God, and it may with equal propriety be accepted as an illustration of the Scripture: "The prudent man foiv>- ; seeth the evil and liideth himself; but ? the simple pass on and are punished." Vet this calamity does not (Luke xiii : 4) show that the people of Johmiown were "sinners above" those who dwell in other seciions of the country. Unselfish Heroism of the Sninoaiis. In all the sad history of the recent terrible naval disaster in the waters of Samoa there shines, through the darkness of storm and shipwreck, and death, a redeeming ray of light abovj that deplorable tragedy of the sea; anp this is t<? be found in the heroic condu ,? of the Samoans. Those people, alleged to lie rude barbarians by some of the most civilized nations on (he globe, proved, in the most dangerous and trying hours of that awful calamity, thai they were inspired by sentiments of humanity, courage and magnanimity seldom manifested by men or races claiming superiority over them in the nobler trails of heart or mind. When the doomed ships of the American and (icrman eoninunders, beaten ?l??\v11 by the resistless winds and tinfl'eted about l?y the waves, were dashed upon 11ur shores of their hay, the natives forgot who were their friends and who (heir enemies in their gallant endeavors to reach and rescue the survivors, who were heing tossed about in that boiling sea. They forgot everything except that death was striving to conquer a host of struggling human beings and licit they I were their fellowmen, deseiving of every bra ye and devoted ellort they could make to save them from their | impending fate. These native barbarians, to their everlasting fame, lie it said, rushed into the raging sea and endeavored to drag to safety the drowning men at the greatest peril to their own lives. In fact, two of them lost .their own lives in this fearfully dangerous duty they had taken upon themselves/ of s'aving the shipwrecked sailors. Therefore it would be well, as Admiral Kiniberly suggests, our Coveniinent should make some official recognition of the heroic, self-sacrilieing spirit of the Kamoans. They arc worthy of it, and of the honor of all civilized nations that know how to appreciate the highest form of human courage.?jYctt' Orleans Times-Democrat. Fold your clothes as you take them from the liue, they wili iron easier. Con fldcncr. Not long ago there came (o our knowledge an instance of a young life blighted for want of that confidence which should exist between mothers and daughters. Could this girl at whose character the poisoned arrow of suspicion hail been unjustly aimed have found a confidant in her mother, the rankling wound she received might have been medicated and healed. As it was. she brooded in si lence over the sorrow sue couin not intrude on another, and under the pressure of her mental sufferings broke down both in mind and body and became an invalid for years. One plain, frank, kind talk with her mother might have saved her untold agony of mind and suffering of body. There are children so open-hearted and out-spoken and care free that there is little danger that "concealment, like a worm in the bud, will feed" upon their vitals. And there are reticent children, brooding children, sensitive children, of whose in- ( terior life it is almost impossible to get a glimpse. What loving, tender, constant, wholesome sympathy such children need, but how often they are left to themselves to become morbid, un- ; healthy, cankered, and spoiled. If some gentle but firm hand?a mother's J hand?would insist on opening the closed doors of their hearts, on letting . the warmth of sympathy and the sunshine of free communion into the hid- 1 deu recesses of their souls, the dark- ] ness of their thoughts would vanish, , perplexing questions would be solved, , the specters of doubt and discourage- j ment that haunt them would be laid. . That girl who finds a confidant in , her mother is safe. That boy whose ] heart is an open book to his mother is , safe. The wise and skillful mother , will learn how to possess herself in < such a way of the heart of her child | that the secret recesses of that heart ( will be opened to her. And it is in- , finitely lhore important to the child ] that his best friend should have a < pass-key to every innermost apart- i ment of his spiritual nature than that ( the body should he nurtured ever so j carefully. . Children should be encouraged to j express themselves freely to their par- { cuts; to tell their dreams even, both 3 waking and sleeping; to talk about \ their religious views and thoughts; to ask God aloud for what they need with } as little hesitation and shamefacedness j as they ask their parents for bread or | clothes or toys. Young hearts that , thus lie open to the sunshine of sym- ( pathy and of appreciation will not be corroded by fettering cares or griefs, , and will readily recover from those | wounds and bruises which none suject , to mortal ills can escape. * ' * 11 1 American Girls. ( My Dear Sister: I know that i young ladies are always interested to I know how other young ladies look and < act, so I must tell you about these American girls. I see them every- s where, on the cars, in the shops, in the 11 temples, at concerts, etc., and they s were almost always chattering and is laughing, except during divine service, ( and they are not always quiet then, j What they find to talk about I can't j imagine, and, as I do not know the i language very well, I have some diffi- j cultv in understanding what they say. j As I sat behind a flock of girls in the i cars yesterday, I heard them say a i trreat manv times over somethiner that! j i * % !_. LIT li.1 sounneci line "jsiruit?s[Mt.*iium ?uu i another girl would answer: "He's stoodelieiousforany thing." What do i vou suppose they were talking about? t I couclued, from what I could under- ( stand, that it was some man. Per- j haps it was the new president who has i just been inaugurated. Many of these t skirls are pretty, but they are too pale ( and thin, and they do dress in such a \ ridiculous way, or, at least, it looks so 5 to me ! Some of them have a flowergarden or a whole menagerie 011 their 1 ( hats, and many of them have a a great, j 1 hump on their backs. I have heard!; this called a bustle, but. T do not under- t it at all, for they also tell me that a i bustle means a great stir and hurried t iictivily. I do not think that hishump t makes them more active, and I am t sure it doesn't make the more graceful. 1 The Americans laugh at us of China ] because the feet of the upper caste ( ladies are pinched in babyhood; but 1 at the same time, thev pinch the waists ] of their girls and women ; and the j more like an hour-glass they can make (heir shapes, the better they like it. For mv part, T think that waist-pinch- 1 ingis far worse than feet-pinching and ' T do not think that they can throw * atones at our ladies any longer. T } have heard these young ladies called I "girls of the period." I do not under- 1 stand this, either, for a period means i a full stop, and T am sure they never i come to a full stop.' Til short, my dear 1 sister, there are still manv thingsabout ; this strange country and this strange ; language which I do not understand. I Hut more another time. Your brother.?I Wait Sam Liino, in fJoIden 1 Rule. ao ? To Itook ItnrrOHOi'N. A writer in the New York CMmrrvrr chronicles a number of injunctions to , "book-borrowers" which are found in (in* volume* of some private libraries. lie savs: A 1 :irt.""* nnmher of irrown-iip child- , ivii have adopted (lie so|io<>l-1>oy ens' loin. ImiI in asrraver mood. The two verses more commonly used are ; "If I hull nrl borrowed by !i I'rielid Kitrht wi'lciimt' slinll lio Ih> To road. to sliialv, not lo lend, I'd) In return lo mo.'' Ami (his, "N'ot tli'ii imparted knowledge dotli liitiiinish lo!intiii?r'?s store; Ilut liook". I lind, if often It'llr, 1 N*tiirn to me no more." Tn n volume formerly 1 H*lnn&rinjr <<i :i well known resident of "New York City, I found 11ic? following : "Any on<> may liormw. 1ml a gentleman ' relume." The Itooks in Hie library of David W. Javnc contain on (lie cover the following scriptural <|Uolntions: "lio thou rather to thoin that soli and hny for yutirsol ve>." The following rather severe lines were used l?y :t gentleman living in Massachusetts. "Storn power of justice, lilt thy wand In spitoof merry's look : strike him who with presumptuous hand I'mioins this valued hook." One Aaron I'utnam, who lived in Medfnrd, Mtiss., alioiil one hundred years ago, used these lines. "The wicked borrow, hut do not rctun again seo that thou nrl. not one ol' the number." William J. Snelling, one of the earliest editors of the Boston Jlcrald, had these instructions priiied in his volumes : "Do not turn down I he lo.ivcs to murk the place, hilt put in a slip of paper. "Do not give Ihu UuoU to children (or a pluytbiug. War-Time. THE OLD MAN'S STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD. When I was just such a boy as Peter here, 1 lost my lather and mother in one day ; so did man^others, for that was in the time of the Thirty-years' War, when no man was sure of his home. Manj', many were the orphans in those days, and many the beautiful ladies who lost all thoy had in the world and became beggars. But as I was going to say, we lived in the city, not outside the walls, as you do here; there was a large army of soldiers :ill around it who wanted to get in. For a long time the soldiers who were in the eitv kent them out: but at last they got in and every one was in terror. I was at school, and our master was reading prayers to us, when all at once we heard a shout: "The town is taken !" Up we rose and ou r master told us to go quickly to our h jmes, saying that he did not think we should ever see him or each other aga:n. I ran very fast along the widest 9treet, where I saw many soldiers with their swords drawn, and by them a great number lying on the ground dead; this made me. run faster still, and I turned into the' way which led to my home. As I got to my father's door I heard a voice, saying: "Your mother has gone to the great church ; [jo quickly to her." I could not tell who spoke to me, but as I turned away from the door, that I mtght run to ray mother, I met two strange looking soldiers who had just killed a poor man, and were wet with his blood. Then I was afraid ?nd hid myself in a doorway, when a kind old man came up to me and said : 'Child, why comest thou here? Save thyself before the soldiers seize thee." 5o he pulled me all trembling into his house, and was going to put me in a 3Upboard, when the soldiers came in ind held a sword to his throat, and told him to give them all his riches. 'I will give you all I have," said he, 'if you will not kill me." So he opened a box full of money and beautiful jewels, rings, and chains; "these are dl I have, and you may take them." So they filled their pockets with them, ind as there were more vet, they took i little basket into which they put the rest. As soon as they had taken all, they shot the poor old man ; and I tried to bide behind some empty casks, but here I found a beautiful young lady, nrho begged me to go away ana leu no me where she was. Then I thought'I would try to find ny mother; so T ran to tbe Cathedral. >ut the doom were shut, and I could not open them. I heard the people praying inside, hut though I called irery loudly, no one answered. I nevjr knew whether my mother was ;here, but I think not; if she had jeen she would have tried, ot least, to )pen the door, for she loved me dearly. Well, when I left the church, the >arae two soldiers who had murdered ;he old man came up to me again and said : "Dog ! carry this basket for us (o I was forced to go with them wherjver they went. Then I saw sorrow ndeed ! For they took me into celars, where there wert*ladies, children ind servants, hidden for fear behind ill mauner of rubbish. They had no pity for any of them, but killed them ill, even the babies who lay on their Mothers' bosoms; and took away "roni every house all the gold, silver, uid jewels they could find. Just as we came up from one of liese cellars we saw that the front of lie house was 011 fire, and the two solliers whose basket I carried snatched t from me aud ran away; so I saw 110 noreof them. But I soon found that lie town was burning;' from bun Ireds of houses the origin names sum ip nt once, and the air was tilled with imoke. You cannot know the misery I felt lion. Voices were screaming around no, and I heard ptople imploring to be illowed to go away, who promised all hey had in the world to the soldiers f they would but let them go; but here were few spared, though I was aken by a soldier who pitied me to lie other side of the river, where a ciiid fisherman took me into his house. Long afterwards I used to ask of every me who came over from the city: 'Have you seen my father or my nother?" but I never heard of them igain ! War is a terrible thing. "But what was the war about?" "T don't rightly know," said the old nan. "I never could make out. There was a King of Sweden on one side and (lie Emperor on the other. I suppose the King's was the right side, Tor our town took that, but as I tell pou, I don't know ; I can only tell you ;hat it took my father and my mother md my home from me. I used to liave many servants to wait on me, md eat from silver dishes; now T am m old fisherman, but I am thankful lo those who eared for me." [These atrocities were committed in [.lie name of religion.] Tul-hif/ of Muyilcbury. What Not to Say. "Stopping," for staying. As, "He is topping with us," for "Ho is staying wilb u<<." "Right away." for immediately. "Come right away" should Ik.' "come nt. oner," <>r immediately. "Storms," for raiusorsnows. Storm is an atmospherical disturbance and lias reference to air and wind. Try and conic, do write, etc., for try lf? come, to do so, to write, etc. "I Khali try and eome to see you soon," should bo, "I shall try to come," etc. "Nice," lor pretty, good, en*, "mai is nipt', lie is :i nice l?o.y, isn't she nice?" etc. Something nice is deliraly, exact, as a nice point in a discussion. Just as soon, for just as lief. "I would just as soon d<> il as not," should he "I would just as lief do it," etc. Soon means in a short time, not rather. "Poshd," for informed. As, "He is not post'. <] on that matter; post him on thesuhject." Post means to put up a .sign or to drop a letter in the postoffice. "Guess," for suppose or think. "I guess I his is right," should lie "I think," cte. fiuess means "to hit at random," as "I can't guess how many cents you have." "Party," for person. Parly is :i slathering of people, not an individual. "Who is that, party?" when one is meant, should lie: "Who is that person or individual ?" "Drive," for to take riding. "He look his carriage and drove me to town." He drove the horse, hut not me. Ttshould he: "lie took me to town in his carriage." Funny, for odd, strange. As, "it seems very funny to me that he does not come," should be, "it seems very strange," etc. F.uuny is something amusing, full of fun. Depot, for station. "I will go to the Allentown depot," should be, "I will go to the Alleutown station." A depot is u terminal point. Station, a place along the route. The Way th? Money Hoes. To the Editor: Slit?Our National or War Debt was, at "tlie end of last financial year," ?738,779,170; the last year's in terest and other charged tnereon were ?26,615,879; and our naval and military expenditure ?31,918,139. Thus the fighting bill of "Christian" England for this one year amounted to no less a sum than ?58,534,018! Analysing this sum, I find that the Brtiish Christians are now, in the time of peace, spending for war purposes ?6,(581 10s. 3d. per hour, by night and by day, Sundays included, throughout the whole year! Divide this amount by our thirty-five millions of population, and it shows that our direct war contributions average ?1 13s. 5id. on every man, woman and child in the kingdom ; or ?8 8s. 3-kl. on every family of five persons, to" say nothing of the cost for pauperism, the loss by unproductive labor, and the distress and suffering caused thereby, which is not a little. Hence it appears that during the present centuryT upwards of ?4,720,000 000, or more than four-fifths of the whole expenditure, has gone for wars, war debt, and preparations for war. Thus, to every pound of expenditure, 16s. 0:]d. goes for war purposes, leaving 3s. ll.{d. in the pound for all other purposes whatsoever. Even since the Crimean War some ?800,000,000, have been voted by the great taxing-machine of the nation for war purposes; yet we are told the usual tale, that we are in "a most defenceless state." To meet tills old panic cry, several more millions have been voted by the present Parliament, to which a large proportion of Memders greatly interested in this sort of expenditure have been sent, whereby the immence preparations for war are as costly and erusing as actual warfare a generation ago. This is the way the money goes, lias gone, and will continue to go, so long as ignorant electors return, as their representatives to tlie Mouse 01 Commons, these great devourers of taxation. "What is It., after all, the people get? But widows, tuves, wooden legs, and debt." Yours, very truly, W. E. Corner. 3 St. Tliomas Square, Hackney, N. Er ... ? TIio "Inebriate" Problem. Dr. Nornmn Kerr has a article in tlie Theological Monthly ^ published in London, in which, after stating the problem with all its terrible social and hereditary complications, he proceeds to show, in past ages and in our own day, it has been blunderingly treated, now by excessive and cruel harshness, and now bv weak leniency or indifference ; by quackeries, by hypnotism, by faith-healing, by spiritual handling alone, by total abstinence alone, by both in combination, and all to little purpose, or with results quite out of comparison with the widespread, deep-rooted, and ever-growing curse of the evil. He then shows why all the well-meant efforts have comparatively tailed. His contention isthatdiunkenuess is either a disease or the result of disease. As such he thinks it should be treated. Children should be taught the truth as to the effect of alcohol 011 the system* and in all attempts to reform the drunkard the fact of a physical basis of disease should be kept in mind. Then religion and temperance instead of failing will succeed. He says: "The great truth which we must master is that inebriety is a true disease, a veritable madness for intoxication, an ungovernable mania for the flllCP .Let lie 01 narcouu uun Litis great central truth is grasped, its recognition will come upon us like a revelation. Light will be thrown upon the dark places of our festering heap of poverty, crime, violence, and premature death. The unwisdom and unfairness of our present unrighteous legislation, in forceing upon tne community the fearful incubus of licensed public temptations to easy indulgence in a paralysing intelligence-poisoning amcsthetic, will be manifest. Rescue work will be more effective and encouraging. The prospect of cure will be infinitely brighter to the inebriate. Every effort at the improvement of the health, the morality, the prosperity, and the happiness of the people will be vastly strengthened. The Church of the living God, emancipated from all narcotic defilement, once again bearing aloft the unsullied banner of Him who cared no less for the body than for the spirit of man, will reap a harvest of human souls of which in her present environment she has no conception." Murder i.s Sacrilc^c. BY (?'L'OKCi 10 l>. BOAKDMAN. A nd now we are prepare! for the Sixth Commandment; Z/wu shalt do no murder. (Exou. xx, ].'?.) Murder is, in t lie in tensest sense of the word, sacrilege. It is not only a crime against man : it is also a crime against Hod, in whose image man is made. Think not that this expression ?"made in (Jod's image," ((Jen. i, i'(ij ? belongs only (o (lie good : it belongs also (o the bad. Wherever there is a I liciiiir. however wicked, there is an image of (Jod ; terribly defaced indeed, but not altogether etlaced, in spite of all its abrasion and corrosion, still bearing Clod's image and superscription. This is the very argument of the Apostle James when denouncing sins of tlie tongue: "Therewith curse we men, who are made after tlie likeness of (Jod." (James iii, !>.) Thai is to say, to curse men is to blaspheme (Jod; lor men are made in tiod's image. In like manner, to commit murder is to commit sacrilege: it is to shorten man's probation, abridge (Jod's day of grace, crush out all possibilities of repentance, forgive-1 ness, salvation, sainlliness. No wonder the Apostle declares: "If any man destroyeth the temple of (Jod, him shall (Jod destroy; for the temple of (Jod is holy, which temple ye are." (I Cor. iii, 17.) Murder is in some respects the darkest form of sacrilege. Moderate counsels are generally wisest and best. Gentleness will do what violence will not do. Most people love to he accosted mildly. CJood words cost nothing hut a little self-denial, and yet they purchase great tilings. John Hommcnnay. FROM THE DAY STAR. 1885. John Hemmenway was born in Freeport, Maine, December 30, 1814. He became a Christian, and united with the Congregational Church in Fairfield, Maine, in 1834. He became interested in the subject of Peace in 1830 by reading the writings of William Ladd, "The Great apostle of Peace and in 1840 became a convert to radical Peace principles, as held by the Society of Friends, and consequently he has been since that time decidedly opposed to war for any purpose. Mr. Hemmenway has written considerable in favor of peacoand in opposition to war, which has been published in the "Messenger o/ jPea.ce," "The Christian JVeiyhbor" and "'JJie Star" He tias written "^viemoir or nm. Ladd," and "The Daily (Remembrancer on Pace and War." "The Daily Remembrancer, excepting the Introduction, is a compilation. He has also written "Meditations on passages of Scripture relating to Christ, for ffvcry day of the year.'' This has not yet been published. It is proper to remark here that he has written a new Memoir of William Ladd, about twice as large as the one in print; the manuscript is now in the hands of Rev. Rowland B. Howard, the Secretary of the American Peace Society. It is hoped the friends of Peace will soon publish this Memoir. Mr. Hemmen way married Miss Orricy R- Brown of Pittsfleld, Maine, in 1840. She was a very lovely Christian woman of eminent mental abilities. She was born in 1818, and was the mother of live children, one, a twindaughter died in early infancy and two sons and two daughters live to comfort tkeir father in his widower-' hood. Mrs. Hemmenway, in 1878, was removed from earth to heaven, where her husband soon expects to join her, in a dearer, happier and holier state of love than it is possible for wedded souls to enjoy living in tabernacles of mortality. He removed in 18S0 from Maine to Minneapolis, Minn, where he now resides with his oldest son. Zeal in a flood Thing:. The apostle Paul says, "It Is good to j be zealously affected always iu a good thing." Now, there are many good things in this sinful, suffering world in j which it is good to be zealously affected in. Let me name one blessed and I beautiful thing? Peace; and as God j is the "God of Peace," and our Savior the "Prince of Peaco," then surely I every Christian should be always a | Christian of Peace. Christian reader. are you a Christian of peace ? | If you are not, you are not a true Christian. Jf you are really a Christian of peace, yot will love the cause of Peace as soon as you look into it. If you will caudidJy read and pray over the subject, you will see more and more of its importance and sublime glory, and you will be zealously affected in laboring for its triumph among all classes of people and all the nations of the earth. If you wish, as you ought, to be zealously affected always in a good thing, you may be sure that you can not find a bette:- thing than "peace on earth, and good will toward men." J. H. A Bugbear Exploded. Vicar-General Preston has been induced by the press 10 set forth what he calls the laws of Catholic burial, and says something which only the publicity which the press gives in this country to all that affects public interest would ever have elicited from the authorities of that Church. We quote his words from The Sun: "Last of all, understand this, that the Catholic Church does not pretend to say that the souls of those whose bodies it is compelled to deny burial in consecrated Catholic ground will fail of eternal salvation. We simply refuse the bodies the last external rites of the Church. We don't claim that our refusing to bury the body makes the soul a lost one." That is just what Dr. M'Glynn says. But, nevertheless, the average Roman Catholic would be fearful, if his father and mother should be refused burial and the last rites of the Church, that there was no hope for nln.fiin? the charac-1 C11I1C1 . VII VVMtvu.r. 0 tersof many persons buried in Catholic cemeteries and churches in Europe, we l'eel authorized to add to the vicargeneral's statement that, while exclusion "in consecrated Catholic ground" does not make the soul a lost one, inclusion canuot make it a saved one. j Polly as a Reformer. Last summer there was *a parot on Third avenue that used to stay out of doors the greater part of the day. In the next house was a scolding woman. She used to scold every minute, either her husband, or the children or the eat, and soon the parot began to mimic her. Hetween the two, the neighbors nearly went distracted. Hut pretty soon the woman stopped. She could hear the parot mocking her Cries of "Stop your noise," "Shut up," "Mind me, sir!" "I'll strap you,,' made the air vocal, but as soon as Polly found out that she was having the fun all to herself she slopped, too. Now not a word of scolding ill the Thirl street house, and l'olly sings and whistles her old time ditties. She is looked upon as an apostle of peace by the neighbors. A man had fallen into a deep pit, and lay groaning in the miry bottom, utterly unable to move. Confucius ((he ancient Chinese philosopher) ' 1 into (lie nit. p:isseu i>_> iiini, ....n t said : "Poor I'd low ! r ani very sorry Ibr you. Why were you suHi a Tool as (o j^el in there. 1 j?*t nit* give you a pieee of advice: If you ever get out, he careful you don't get in again." And that was all lie could do for him. Next came a Jhiddhist priest, and lookihjjt down at him, said : "Poor fellow, I am pained to find you in such a condition. I think if you could scramble up two-thirds of the way, or even half, I mijrht reach down and help you out." But the man was utterly unahle to move. Last of all, Jesus Christ came hy, and hearing his ei ies went to the edge of the pit, and reached entirely down to the bottom, and lifted him up and set him on his feet, and said: "Goand sin no more."?From a sermon by a converted Chinaman. For drunkenness, drink cold water ; for health, rise early ; to be happy, be honest; to please all, mind your own business. Sewing: on Battons. ' When I get a bright idea, I always want to pass it along," said a lady, as she was watching a young girl sewing. "Do your buttons ever come off, Ida?" ''Ever!" They're always doing it. ; They are ironed off, washed off, and ' pulled off, until I despair. I seem to /-?j shed buttons at every step." "Make use of these two hinta when you are sewing them on, then, and see if they make any difference. When ,'rjv$ you begin, before you lay the button hi on the cloth, put the thread through. ' so that the knot will be on the right side. That leaves it under the button* ;; and prevents it from being worn or ironea away, ana inus ueginmng uie . ^ loosening process. i . Then, oefore you begin sewing, lay ,4^ a large pin across the button, so that " '/-SS all your threads will go over the pin. v; After you have finished filling the holes with thread, draw out the pin. and wind your thread round and round beneath the button. That makes a compact stem, to sustain the pulling and wear of the button-hole." "It is no exaggeration to say that ray buttons never come oflf, and I'm ; v^g sure yours won't if you use my method of sewing." -.'MiBl Rival Lines In Japan. We hear a great deal about rival telegraph lines, and the expedients to which different companies resort to :J3? cripple one another, such as catting '/in rates, etc.; but, according to a writer in Good Cheer, the spiders of J&Htt .v''< resent the competition of telegitfpli thread spinners in an original and eP fective manner. Spiders are one of the great obstacles to telegarphers in " r:'a Japan. Filling the trees along the line i .Via these insects spin their webs between ; the earth, the wires, the post, the insu- ',.HM lators and the trees. When these ; ,.- 3 webs become wet with dew they con- Ms stitute a good conductor, and the lilies are found to be in connection with the earth. The only method of obviating ' yithis inconvenience is by employing * 71 brooms of bamboo to brush away the webs. But, as the spiders are more ?%$?? active than the workmen employed in this work, the difficulty is not the less serious.?Swiss Cross. Strawberry Short-Cake.?With one quart of sifted flour mix thoroughly two tea-spoonfuls baking powder, ..' rub in a piece of butter the size of an <'3*3 1 ' ll.il U J a k' ?lllr egg, aua a nine sait, auu nceu uiu& w form a soft dougli. Divide the dough , ? into two pieces, and roll each piece oat and oover one with a thin layer of butter, place this in a pan with the other on lop of it. Bake fifteen or twenty minutes. Have ready two quarts of ; fine, fresh strawberries; split the cake, -1 ;V| which will be easy as the under layer was buttered, place half the strawber- : ries between, and cover thiokly with ) white sugar and cream; put the other - ( r$|3 half on top and cover in the same 1 way; serve as soon as done. The i'hl dough may be cut in four pieces and . baked in two pans instead of one, If desired. -V$ Bones fob Grape-Vines.?To cause grape-vines to grow most vigorously throw a few bones into the hole when planting out. Oyster-sheila are also good for the same purpose, and may be mixed with the bones to advantage. Therefore don't waste ariy ' '7^ bones or shells, but utilize them in the manner suggested if you plant any vines. In case you have grape-vines V*^ growing bury the bones near tnem, or reduce the bones to ashes and apply "jM the latter to the vines or the vegetable . 1 garden. It will pay good dividends1? better than ordinary bank or railroad No bad man is ever orougut w re[ pentace by angry words or by bitter, LJg I scornful reproaches. He fortifies himself against reproof, and hurls back 7 :^ terrible charges in tbe face of his accueer. Yet, guilty and hardened as he , [tW seems, lie has a heart in his bosom, and may be melted to tears by a gentle '/ J y| voice, whoso therefore, can restrain ? his disposition to blame and find fault, $ and can bring himself down tol a fallen brother, will soon find a way to ' > better feelings within. Pity and pa tience are the two keys which unlock the human heart. The "Listener," in the Boston Tran- ' -) scrit, gives the following as instances of "the power of words over the . ? youtuful intelligence "Stability is the taking care of a sta- ^ "Obelisk, one of the marks of punctuation." "An incendiary is when you go round preaching and singing h'ims." "Expostulation is to have the small p?x*" V^si "A critic is something to put your 4* feet on to." . "An impulse is what the doctor takes hold of to feel if you are sick." "A dipthong is a very contagious disease." "The boy was sick with information." Homk.?One is forever hearing of nirti and women who go away from ' 1.<rnr.ii tiniA* the DroDer Iiouu* lu netvu - , . place for 11 good time is right in the home. The ways of having them are as many as the sands of the sea,; bnt there Is one reliable method for starting a "lime," and that is to do something to please another member of the family rather than yourself. A little exhibition of unselfish affection, a favor extended, a reasonable indulgence irranted, may start a train of events which will brighten a whole day and make a whole evening merry. It involvi\s less trouble and far more fun lhan a picnic. JaM * * *" " 1 A moderate drinker became ve?y angry with a friend who argued that safety was only to be found in total abstinence. "What, sir," said he, >. "do you think I have lost control of myself?" "I do not know," was the reply; "but put it.to the test. For the next six months do not touch a drop." The proposition was accepted. He kept to his promise, at the close of a month he said to his friend, with M tears in his eyes: "I believe you have saved me frome a drunkard's grave. I never knew before that I was in any sense a slave to drink, but during the last month I have fought the fiercest battle of my life. Had the test been tried later on, it might have been too late. I mean to keep the pledge for life." ^ If you walk toward a light, your path jrets brighter all the way; your shadow is behind you. If you walk from the light, it becomes darker; your shadow is before you. Walk to ward the light always.