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I The Abbeville Press and Banner. 1 _ . r; ,%j3 .BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1889. VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 7. if Christ's Sympathy. i:v OWEN MKRED1TU. If Jesus came on c'irth again. And walked and talked in field and street. Who would not lay his humble pain Low at those heavenly feet? And leave the loom, and leave the lute, And leave the volume on the shelf, To follow him unquestioning, mute, If 'twere the Lord himself? How many a brow with care o'erworn. How many a heart with grief o'erladen, How m:my a man witli woe forloin. How many a mourning maiden, Would leave the ba til ins earthly prize, Which fails the earthly weak endeavor, To gaze into those holy eyes. And drink content forever! His sheep, along the cool, the shade, By the still watercourse he leads; His lambs upon his br<-ast are laid; His hungry ones he feeds. And I, where'er he went, would go, Nor question where the paths might lead; | Enough to know that here below I walked with God, indeed! If it be thus, O Lord of mine. In absence is thy love forgot? And must I, when I walk, repine. Because I see thee not? If this be thus, if this be thus, Since our poor prayers yet reach thee Lord; Since we are weak, once more to us Reveal the living Word! Oh ! nearer to me, in the dark Of lif-'s low hours, one moment stand; And giy* me keener eyes to mark The moving of thy hand. Poor Miss Cook man. Poor Miss Cookmau was really ver^ much hurt. She had written to Mrs. Marsli asking if it would be agreeable for her to have Miss Cookman spend several weeks with her during the summer, and Mrs. Marsh had indicated positively but firmly that it would not be convenient. Miss Cookmau was a lady somewhat past her prime, whose life had been passed in various services, and who was just now without employment. The old lady for whom she had been a companion was with her relatives, and did not need Miss Cookmau for the summer. Miss Cookmau had a comfortable sum in bank as a resource in old age, but she was constant in adding to it both interest and principal. Mrs. Marsh eked out her husband's slender income hy various industries. One year she took summer boarders, but this proving very hard work, and as she was a frail little woman, the next year she boarded horses in ner capacious stables, hiring a man to care for them. At this she made more money than in taking boarders, and found it easier. The old rambling country house in which she lived was a delightful place, but it had not been planned with reference to convenience in doing house work, and the addition of a permanent guest was a burden too great for her to undertake. Failing in this proposed visitation, Miss Cookmau wrote to Mrs. Parsons, whose hospitality she had often enjoyed, and asked if it would be agreeable for her to spend several weeks with Mrs. Parsons. She could help with the house-work, and not be burdensome. Mrs. Parsons lived in the city in a pleasant but very quiet way. The sofa in the parlor served the transient s guest as a couch at night. Mrs. Parsons eked out her husband's slender income by taking in sewing, and thus provided herself and her family with a great many comforts they could not otherwise have had. Miss Cookman had spent several weeks with her at various times in previous years, and so hospitable and sympathetic na? sue found Mrs. Parsons that she had no idea what a burden she had been, socially and financially. But this proposition of Miss Cookman was received as Mrs. Marsh had received it. It would not be convenient for Mrs. Parsons to receive a guest for several weeks. Poor Miss Cookniau was indeed very much hurt. She had never kept house herself, and she did not know anything about the cost of having a guest iu the family for days together ?cost of which the pecuniary element is one of the least in importance. The parlor during her several week's proEosed stay at Mrs. Parson's would be er chamber; in it company must he received, the girls must practice their music lessons, and all in the presence of a third person, unless this third person should retire. The reunions of the family at the table would lose all their private character, and take on for the time a boarding-house at mosphere. Ami in addition to tiic | extra work and expense made necessary by the enlargement of the entire periphery of family life, there was a constant sense of a door left open on the street, or a section of the side of the house taken out for a time, which was anything but pleasant. For Miss Cookman was accustomed to comment quite freely on the circumstances and peculiarities of families she had been in by way of entertaining those she was visiting, a species of entertainment which Mrs. Parsons did not particularly enjoy. At last Miss Cookman did what she should have done in the lirst place?/ procured a situation where she was rightfully dependent upon herself and independent of friends really poorer than herself. The Wliite House Kitchen in 1SC2. Both the steward and the cook had remonstrated with "Master Tad" upon bringing into the kitchen of th?j White House, "such squads of poor, dirty, hungry street urchins to be fed and at last Peter saiil that Mrs. Lincoln must be told. Tad tlew into ;i rage, ran up-stairs to see his mother himself, and on finding her out searched the place for his busy father. Meanwhile the small onjecis 01 ins charity waited at the lower door?for Peter had absolutely refused to let them "step inside." The indignant boy spied his father just crossing the yard, with head bowed, eyes to the ground, talking earnestly to'Mr. Seward as they walked to the Department of State together. He -cried out to him at once: "Father! father ! can't I bring those poor, cold, Siungry boys home with me whenever I want to? Isn't it our kitchen?" By this time Tad had his father by -the hand, who stopped short to the frantic appeal. "Can't I give them a good warm dinner to-day, say? They're just as hungry as bears, and two of 'em are the boys of a soluier, too !?and, lather, I'm going to discharge Peter this minute, if he don't get out the meat and chicken and pies and all the things we had left yesterday. Say, mayn't I? Isn't it our kitchen ?" Secretary Seward was shaking with laughter. 2\Ir. Lincoln turned to him with a twinkle : "Seward, advise with me. This case requires diplomacy." Mr. Seward patted Tad on the back and said he must be careful not to run the Government i?i debt, and the President took Tad's little brown bauds in his own bice one, and with a very droll smile bid him to "run along home, and feed the hoys," and added. "Tell Peter that you are really required to obey the Bible by getting in the maimed and the blind, and that he must be a better Christian than he is !" In less than an hour Mr. Seward said they passed through the yard on their way to the Cabinet meeting, and no less than ten small boys were sitting with Tad on the lower steps, cracking nuts and having a "State Dinner." Mr. Lincoln remarked that the "kitchen was ours.1' [M. S., in Wide Awake. <X> Rev. Charles Kingsley's First Sermon. Charles Kingsley was a precocious child, and his poems and sermons date I'l'nm frti-ir venvs nlrl. His delicht was to make a little pulpit in his nursery, from which, after arranging the ehairs for an imaginary congregation, and putting on his pinafore as a surplice, lie would deliver addresses of a rather severe tone of theology. His mother, unknown to him, took them down at the time, and the Bishop of Peterborough, to whom she showed them, thought them so remarkable for such a young child, that he predicted that the boy would grow up to be no common man. This is among the specimens his mother kept. The sermon was made at four years old. "It is not right to fight. Honestly ! has no chance against stealing. Christ has shown us true religion. "We must follow God and not follow the Devil, for if we follow the Devil we shall go into that everlasting tire; and if we follow God we shall go to heaven. "When the tempter came to Christ in the Wilderness, and told him to make the stones into bread, He said: 4Get thee behind me, Satan.' "He has given us a sign and an example how we should overcome the Devil. "It is written in the Bible that Ave should love our neighbor and not covet his house, nor his ass, nor his wife, nor anything that is his. '"if we go to heaven* we shall find them all singing to God in the highest. " * - i--" 1.-11 *>11 AllCl It We go. lO lieu, wc suan uuit 4iu the wicked ones gnashing and wailing their teeth, as God descril>es in the Bible. "Keligion is reading good books, doing good actions, and not telling lies and speaking evil, and not calling their brother fool and raca. And if we rebel against God, He will to a certainty cast us into Hell." [Our readers can get their Bibles and see how far the little preacher was right.] His Letters and Memoirs of His Life. The Homeless Singer. On a cold, dark night, when the wind was blowing hard, Conrad, a worthy citizen of a little town in Germany,'sat playing his flute, while Ursula, his wife, was preparing supper. They heard a sweet voice singing outside. Tears filled the good man's eyes, as he said: "What a fine, sweet voice! What a pity it should be spoiled by bein ennK wontllpr!" "I think it is the voice of a child. Let us open the door and see," said his wife, who had lost a little boy not long before, and whose heart was open to take pity on the little wanderer. Conrad opened the door, and saw a ragged child, who said: "Charity, good sir, for Christ's sake." "Comein, my little one," said he: "you shall rest with me for the night." , The boy said, "Thank God!" and j entered. He was given some supper, and then he told theiu that he was the son of a poor miner, and wanted to be ] a priest. He wandered about and sang, and lived on the money people gave him. His kind friend would not let him talk much, but sent him to bed. When he was asleep, they looked in upon him, and were so pleased with j his pleasant face that they determined to keep him, if he was willing. In the morning they found he was only too glad to remain. They sent him to school, and afterward he entered a monastary. There he found the Bible, which he read, and from which he learned the way of life. He became the great preacher : and reformer, Martin Luther. Little did Conrad and Ursula think of what they were doing when they cared for this "least of these my brethren!" Worms lliat Eat Siecl Kails. 1 The existence has just been discovered of a detestable microbe which feeds upon irou with as much gluttony as the phylloxera upon the vine. Sometime ago the greatest consternation existed among the engineers employed on the railway to Hagen by the . accidents occuring always at the same place, proving that some terrible defect must exist either in the material i or the construction of the rails. The German Government directed an inquiry to be made, and a commission of surveillance to be formed for the purpose of maintaining constant watch at the spot where the accidents?one of them attended with loss of life?had occurred. It was not, however, until after six months had elapsed that the surface of the rails appeared to be corroded, as if by acid, to the extent of 100 yards. The rail was taken up and broken, and it was literally hollowed out by a thin gray worm, to which the (]Ualiliication of ''railoverous" was assigned, and by which name it is to be classed in natural history. The worm is said to be two centimeters in length and of the size of the prong of a silver fork in circumference. It is of a light I gray color, and on the head carries two little glands tilled with a corrosive secretion, which is ejected every ten minutes upon the iron. This liquid renders the iron soft and spongy, and of the color of rust, and it is then greedily devoured by the insect. "There is no exaggeration," says the official report of the commission, "in the assertion that this creature, for j its kind, is one of the most voracious kind, for it has devoured thirty-six kilogrammes of rail in a fortnight." L'oloync Ouzel/v. I.ost Her Sight. J Mrs. Oliver C. Bloom of Detroit Mich., lost l>rtth of her eyes in a curious way. While taking up a carpet she endeavored to pry out a tack with a table-knife. Thespringof tbeknifeblade threw the tack up with such force that the point entered Mrs. Bloom's eye-ball and the aqueous humor nin'our. The eye was finally taken out, but it had been allowed to remain in too long and Mrs. Bloom's other oye became affected. That eye also was taken out. s& 'O... .? ?2 \ ' Dilliciill.y or T?*n<-li?iisr Trnlli in China. Tfte Catechism was, I believe, compiled specially for use in China ; but the first question ami answer is an at- i tempt to translate that sublime open- . ing of the Shorter Catechism. Howl I wish that boys and girls in England were made to learn the Shorter Cate- s chism! < "What is the chief end of man?" I "To glorify God, and enjoy Him I forever." ] What do you suppose is the nearest i we can get to that iu Chinese? Why < this: I "What is the use of man on earth?" t "To serve won to iue uuimsi, ami tv er praise His great mercy." This brings me to speak of a great difficulty we have here. In England t one sometimes hears of "the poverty ] of language;" yet in things religious, y the thoughts arid talks of a thousand J years have stored up an immense vo- t cabulary, so that from sueh simple^ i words as "sinner" and "Saviour," to' > such complicated names as "Joanna- c southgottonian," and such ready-made ^ phrases as "final perseverance of the a saints"?all is at your disposal. Think { how much English would have to be t blotted out if every phrase and word l created by the presence of the Church 1 of Christ in England were to be taken t away. Aiid then remember that we in Chi- c na have had to coin new expressions, r and to put new meanings into old ] ones, in order to make the Chinese \ comprehend the Christian religion; that is why the books need so much r explaining. > e "To glorify God, and enjoy Him for- c ever." Why do we get no nearer in translating that than, "to serve God to c the utmost, and ever praise His great c mercy?" t Because the Chinese have no sueh r ideas, and, therefore, have never need- j ed the language to convey such ideas, a If the Chinese had such a high sense I of pleasure to enjoy Him forever, \ + nfniil/1 Ko mtiph (.jisipr for tllOSfi o luui^o n uuiu wv w?,vw - -? c who try to teach thein. i Perhaps you know that in China r three religions live side by side in ^ peace?a sure sign that they are all in r their dotage; but neither Confucian- ] ism, which is practical atheism, nor s Taoism, which is deified men, nor ^ Buddhism, with its mysterious Bud- ? dhas, not one of these could teach the jChinese such an idea as that man was f made to enjoy God and glorify His ? name. To enjoy an idol! To glorify an image of clay ! The very idea is preposterous. Confucianism says, "Do right; that 3-ou may respect yourself and be respected "by others." "Do right; that you may grow famous and rich, and have many sons," says Taoism. "Do right; because there's a hell where you will be punished if you don't," says Buddhism. "Do right; that you may glorify J1 your Maker." This was reserved for i 15 ?x E unrisuauuy 10 suy. The Knowledge of Sin. " He is wise who prays, "Make me to a know my transgression and my sin," and he is blessed in whose experience t< this prayer is answered. A Christian jj may have the assuranee that his sins s are pardoned, but he should not forget ? what he was by nature and what lie r still is in practiee. The knowledge of r our own sinfulness is a better medi- j; cine, but it is essential to our healing. s A knowledge of our sinfulness leads to humility. We are naturally as s "Lucifer, son of the morning." We t are proud of our possessions and our ancestry and our strength and our e beauty; we are in danger of being proud of our spiritual attainments, j Some have been proud of their humil- s ity, when they boasted, "No one can ( Hatter u.s." When a Christian realises ( his condition by nature and the imperfection of his best services, his pride dies. A single sight of himself, us he was and is, in the mirror of the divine word, leads to self-abhorrence. I Every experienced believer knowsl { Mw.f Hmao whoil lie fpf'Is his Ull- ! . l-llub iuvcv w-mvo it worthiness are the times when he J walks "liuuably with his God." A knowledge of our sinfulness leads ? to submission to the divine will, {' Troubles must be necessary for our sanctilication, or the Heavenly Father a would not so uniformly employ them s in his dealings with his children, but I they are hard to bear. And so itj comes to pass that it is an easy thing 18 to murmur. But the moment we ja catch k glimpse of our just deserts, we 11 will bear patiently whatever the Lord ? is pleased to send. Has he beaten us 1 with forty stripes? We deserve a a thousand. Has he shut us up in dark- a i less for seven years? We deserve an " imprisonment of seventy and seven 1 years. He can kiss the rod and the j* hand that holds it who remembers the 'j number and aggravations of his trans- _ gressions. a A knowledge of our sinfulnss leads } to watchfulness. When soldiers on j; Dur western frontier see a hostile In- , dian in the distance, they know that others are lurking in tlie neighborhood * and redouble their vigilance. One sin ? disco ced in the life tells of a corrupt ;l heart, and calls for increased watchful- $ ness. If the tempter can succeed in shutting our eyes against "the sinfulness of sin," he can lead us captive at his will. A knowlege of our sinfulness increases our hatred of it, our love for j Jesus who delivered us from its power, u our pity for those who are yet under i its dominion, and our longing for the t better laud into whieh sin never < comes. The sij;ht of sin in ourselves i is not pleasant, but it is profitable to n those who are "rightly exercised l thereby." it is a means of grace: it 1 is a Jacob's ladder by which we may 1 climb to high attainments. And so i we eonrlod'j as we began : He is wise < who prays, "Make me to know my s transgression and my sin," and he is f blessed in whose fxpe'rieuee this pray- t er is answered. f l Hearer*. Father is sick and can not go to *? church. Daughter, who has spent three years at a bonding-school, and c is a communicant and a teacher in the Sunday-school enters. * "Well, Mary, did you have a good . sermon. V" "Yes, splendid. I never heard Dr. < X. preach better." \ "What was the text ?" "O, I don't remember. I never could keep texts in my iuind, you know." ] "What was the subject ? Don't you r remember it, or some of the ideas? 1 "X<> l>?Pa? hut. 1 remember a beau- s tiful figure be had about a bird soar- i ing up into the air. Why, I couldal-| i % 1 i?Llis-4-- i'. .v v . r V-'i lit ' / most see it and hear its song !" "Well, what did he illustrate by the flghf of the bird ?" 'Let me see. It was something ibout faith, or about going to heaven. I can't just.recall now what it was, but the figure was splendid." And the father was satisfied. Why shouldn't he be? That was the kind if listening to sermons that he taught lier by example. If he had heard it ne could not have made a better report unless there had been something n it about politics, or the news of the Jay. We are losing the habit of atcntion and the use of the memory in he house of God. ? ? Muskets lor Uoston Schools. Mr. Garrison writ<? : I should like n o/M mv nrnfpkit. n<rnin?f t.hfi nnnro I' "O -M l iriation of muskets in the public schools, although for dittereut reasons. [ have three boys who are to be influ:nced by the decision. My daughters t will not concern. I notice that vheuever I oppose the military drill >n moral grounds I am invariably met vith the argument of its physical advantages. In vain I plead that my >oys have the gymnasium, foot-ball, )ase-ball, tennis, rowing, swimming, )icycles, et2., until the chief aim of ife seems to center in athletics. Alas! hese are naught without the drill. Nobody manifests anxiety for physical well-being of my girls. They ride )o bicycles and kick no foot-balls. They swing no bats. They are not incited to participate in military drills. They are handicapped with garuents that cramp the body and make xercise weariness. The Committee >n Public Education is too busy iu adling the 'wastefui and ridiculous ex.ess' of musket-drilling to over-exer:ised boys to think of their puny sisers who dwindle by their side. How audi $10,000 might do toward teachng girls the laws of health ! I have mother dilliculty. I want my boys >rought up to love peace and abhor var. I try to inspire them with the pirit of our Savior, who, instead of nciting to violence and shooting hunan beings with muskets, inculcates he higher and more truly courageous uetliod of overcoming evil with good. . illustrate the lesson by His life, and how them how much nobler it was to lie for a principle than it would have icen for him to kill a hundred of his lersecutors. Then I read to them T liAoiitifnl nnom rum iciiuw a uuiutuui 'The Arsenal at Springfield"? "Were half the power thac fills the world with terror Were half the Wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts; The warrior's name would bo a name abhorred; And every nation that .should lift again Its hand against its brother, on Its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain!" You may imagine how quickly the tioral impression I try to give my boys s di.-sipated by the example of the nilitary drill at school. I do not wish o have them taught the use of firernts or the art of fighting. I protest k'ith all the earnestuess of my being, gainst such demoralizing instruction. Especially am I opposed to their enering tlic militia when they are of awful age. To my thinking, such asociations are to be shunned, the social labita inseparable from military commutes, the drinking, the tobacco, the irofanity. I shalHabor to make relUgnant to my boys. It is a wretched chool of moral, and I shall continue o cry out against the preverted public entiment that encourages such an amotion in ingenuous youth. And I told to the conviction that to force taxs from the commuity to fyiy for mus:ets with which to teach the children he trade of war, is an evidence of the tate of barbarism is which this county, which boasts of its civilization and ?e nt nrpsjprif-firnvelinir. /Ill JOl/'UUll.J', 0 w How ItccruitN nre Obtained. The average recruit, enlisted princi?ally in the large cities of our country, ias no permanent residence; he beDiigs, generally, to that idle, roaming, bating population, and after enlisting linds his new sphere not as he expectd. He becomes dissatisfied with his nt, the millitary life is distasteful to lim owing to his idle former career, nd probably depressed in spirits, and hrinking from the prospect of unconenial duty, he deserts and resumes his armer "tramping" career until nearly tarved, when he again enlists under nothcr assumed name. He is furlisbed with another outfit of clothing nd blankets, and being fully equipped n the garb of an American soldier he gain goes forth ready for more "pay lay drunks," and so he goes, on and n, from one regiment to another, and rom one branch of the service to antner. He may in the meantime iring up now and then at the i:Hotel ic Leaveuworth" (Soldiers prison) for year or two for recuperation and retail's to his much worn stomach. He i then furnished with a suit of civiian clothing and presented with five American dollars to procure him translortation to the nearest recruiting fliee, where he again swears allegince to that "flag" for another five ears. This is about the experience of f the average recruit enlisted in our urge cities. ami IIiikIiichn. It is possible to put into one's com11 ?r fl.ni! iroinsf. and into one's doing, i glow of reverence for Clod; and to nake it evident in every transaction hat one is trying to be obedient to the livine will. Men may he strictly lonest?true in speech and all that? ind yet he worldly. How often one lears the remark that business is lusiness. Wry true. Business may >e more than business; it may lie a neans of grace. It may he, and ?imht to he, a school in which the oul grows in gratitude, in patience, in aith, in love, and in all the qualities hrough which a soul conies into itness to fellowship, now and evernore, with the Lord Jesus Christ, t is a ])itiahle sight to see a man hard ml eold in business life, as th rough his were a great section of his existnee in which there is no possibility if cultiv ting religious principle, and laving the grace of (Jod. It is a rereshing sight to see a man living in he world, and doing with his might I'liat his hands tind to do, and yet loing all iu this spirit of loyally to the naster. ? The man who has learned how to mt himself to work and keep at it has cached a condition of mastery that jromises liini success in almost any it nation. He has then a possession ntinitcly better than the gill of geniis. - -V.ii k, Address to President Harrison. The National Christian Convention, recently in session in Washington, through a committee of which President H. H. George, D. D., was chairman, drafted an address and presented it to the newly inaugurated President of the United States. Among other suggestions the following was one : We beg of you, for the love of the Saviour, that you carefully estimate the claim that he has upon this nation, for recognition and obdience. If the Lord Jesus be the son of prophecy upon whose sholders the government must be laid, the everlasting Father and the Prince of Peace : if he be the exalted King unto whom every knee shall bow aud every tongue confess, shall we not, as a nation, bow to his claims, and observe to do his will; There are Christian features of our present civilisation that need governmental guarantee and protection. May we not ask you to lend your personal influence and otlicial position ! in securing their continuance. It cannot be denied that there are potent forces operating for the destruction of what we have of Christian character in this country, and with the manifest intent utterly to divest our government of everything like Christian features. Will you not feel that "you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this," and give us to hope that deliverance will come in ' large measures through you in this high position of influence. Permanent Canse or War. The permanent causes of war are the enormous armaments of Europe and ( the enormous costs of supporting them. The total war budgets of the different j States, great and small, amount yearly to over $700,000,000, not counting the , last special votes for augmentation. At the present rate of increase the total cost of the armies and navies of Europe, together with debts contracted by wars, will at the end of the twentieth century amount to $400,000,000,- j 000. The national debts steadily increase, and the State and city taxes | grow with each year, while the number of active laborers and producers is , constantly withdrawn from peaceful , and profitable paths of industry toaaa , to the available military foree of each ( nation. Hence, the burden will soon , become, if indeed it has uot already become, insupportable. A change must come in one form or another. Last ; week, a leading member of the Ger- J man Parliament boldly declared that , the tremendous taxes, which were ] crushing the people, were the necessa- < ry consequence of militaryism. Ten , milliards of marks had been taken from, the German people, and, with , the greater part of the milliards reciev- ] ed from France, had been spent npon ( defences and fortifications; yet the dis- | tresses of the people had been con tin- i ually aggravated. "To-day," he said, , "Germany is no stronger for having , spent these colossal sums; and if an- ( other policy is not adopted, a social ( revolution will take place at no distant period." A noble disposition eager self-im- ( provement will accustom itself to ; court censure as frankly as most people ! court commendation. It will not ! merely receive with grace, and accept, but it will use censure. Whether the strictures be from the soul of enemy or friend; whether prompted by love, sympathy, pity, jealousy, or malace; whether they bear the impress of a refined or a vulgar spirit; whether just to the point or entirely untimely; whether chiefly true or "chiefly false; ; whether conveyed in general terms or ' specifically,?makes little difference. I They are an eye-glance from outside 1 into the self, too valuable to be con- ' temptuously discarded. Possibly they [ noint a deen lesson for us. If the ; blame does not Lit the mark in this instance, we may vividly recall instances ' in our past when we were standing just where it would have pierced us, had it come at that time, and we are j able to impress on our soul a warning lesson for the future. And even il 5 the censure is so undeserved that it 1 fails to remind us of anything errone- 1 ous in what we have been, and fails to ! open up to us any weakness in what j we are, it nevertheless still serves the 1 important purpose of revealing to us what some one ontside of us thinks we j are. Let us strive in every case of ] censure so to restrain our peisonal feel- ? ings as to be able, without regard to j the motives in the critic that prompted 1 its utterance, to reap for our improve- : tuent the full benefit of that insight ! which the censure may open up to us. 1 _ ?<g>* . A Mo (heir's Cares. A woman gifted at running "grabbag" socials callcd on a mother, saying: "We have many useless articles that must be disposed of somehow. 1 We've concluded lo place them all on s one table under the charge of our most s fascinating young ladies. Gentlemen I will chat with them, then can not go < away without buying something; and s the ladies can put their own prices on < the articles. We really want your i daughter, she has such winning ways, j Seeing indignation gathering in this ( noble mother's face, and knowing how i carefully she had guarded her children i from social contamination, she added : i "Of course, she will have to play the i agreeable to a good many you might i not approve; still she need not recog- > nize them afterward." "What!" ex- i claimed the mother, "allow my daugh- I (er to become a decoy to lure money j out of meii's pockets iu return for < shams and false smiles? Never! I i hold my childs' moral nature too sa- i cred for that." ( ( Willi so simple an article as a red cabbage, a very old but pretty little ' * 1.. lv?< elicmieai experiment ma.y nu mauc n.> the young people, with the result of y amusing anil astonishing those around c them. The eflects may lie strikingly . shown in this manner: Cut three I leaves of the cabbage into small pieces, ] and, after placing them in a basin, ' pour a pint of boiling water over them, ] letting them stand an hour; then pour i oil' the liquid into a decanter. It will i he of line blue color. Then take four 1 wine glasses?into one put six drops of ' strong vinegar; into another six drops I of solution of soda; into a third, the < sumo quantity of a strong solution of I alum ; and let the fourth glass remain 1 empty. Fill up the glasses from the ' decaliter, and the liquid poured into J s the glass containing the acid will i quickly change to a beautiful red; that I poured with the soda will be a fine < green, and that poured into the empty ( glass will remain unchanged. .She was a thoughtful Preacher's J wife who said, ."It takes pretty j??>or, j preaching to spoil the gospel." |i /W - ,J-. ' ; 'J A Tax on the Thrift of a Town. It is essential to any community that there should be at least one good school, but whatever may be said in praise of our graded schools, there is a wonderful lack of interest which must be apparent to every one, and which embarrasses those who are trying to build up good schools in our town. Yet wc are paying a large tax for the purpose of giving a good common school education to the boys and girls of our district.? Water 'ec Messenger. If the teacher fails to inspire the patrons with an interest in the school, may the fact not lie in that other fact that the people are paying big tax money, whether the teacher does his duty or not? Is it more "essential" to have a good school than a good church? If not, why not levy a tax to support the cnurcn v isn't it "essential" to nave a good newspaper in every town ? If so, then why not levy a tax to pay the expense of publishing it ? Is it not "essential" to the prosperity of every town that big stocks of goods be kept ? If so, why not levy a tax? Is it not "essential" to have a good doctor and a good dentist in every town. If so, levy a big tax. Is it not "essential" to have prosperous farmers, artizans, and lawyers? If so, levy a tax. It is so much more easy to levy a tax than to adopt practical, successful business methods. By levying a tax, the indolent may not be required to work.? P)'C88 and Banner. St. Paul, June 14.?A dispatch from Mora Linn says: The treacherous Chippewa Indians are on the warpath again, and there are grave fears of a general uprising. The present trouble is the outgrowth of the encroachment by whites upon Millelacs reservation. .Recently a contract was awarded by settlers of Folly Brothers of St. Paul to dig a ditch for. irrigation purposes from Millelacs Lake to a point on Smoke River, near this place. When the Indians learned that the ditch was to be dug they came to the conclusion that the intention was to drain the latter, and deprive them of their fishing privileges. Notice was served by the Indians upon [he contractors, warning them if tney lid not leave the Territory at once they would he put to death. The contractors gave no heed to the warning, but came here and engaged 300 laborers, who began work yesterday morning at Millelacs. About noon yesterday they were attacked by a parly of 400 Chippewas, led by White Snake and Great Bear. The Indians were in full war paint and armed with Winchester rifles and tomahawks. As joon as they saw the reds coming, the laborers dropped their shovels and fled toward this place. They were pursued rirV>A O on/1 ItiIIaH J J LUC Dc4 VU^CO| YTUU OliW uuva seven men. Several others were wounded, but not seriously. The Indians scalped two men and mutilated the bodies of two others in a fiendish manner. Ex-Senator H. M. Rice of St. Paul, Bishop Warty of Dakota and Dr. Whiting of Wisconsin, the commissioners appointed by President Harriion to treat with the Chippewa Indians, are in this city, ana were to liave started out next week to negotiite with the tribes at Millelacs. i It is said that the Chicago relief committee that went to Johnstown with $27,000 for the sufferers, have re- ; turned to Chicago without leaving the money with the authorities of the stricken city. Upon their arrival at , Johnstown they found that a portion jf the contributions from other cities bad been devoted to the purpose of jleaning up a State highway, instead ;>f relieving the poor and homeless sufferers. It is certainly an unwarrantable proceeding, and a particularly ietestable one in a case of this kind, to divert the money contributed to relieve human suffering to some other , purpose than that for which the donators intended it. But it seems to be j x test that very few can successfully , jndergo, to handle large amounts of J money under such circumstances, and ipply it with strict regard to the conlitions of the gift and without devo- , :ing some portion of it to carrying out i personal hobbies, aside from the matter n hand. We had an illustration of this in our own earthquake, when Mnnnnn<-,f tho fund pnnfrihnted bv a pi UUjUUU Vi VUV A u>lv? v generous world to rebuild the homes of the individual poor of the city was set iside for a public purpose, while the necessities of many of those to whom ( it justly belonged went partially or , wholly unrelieved.?Charleaton Daily Sun. Uses of Turpentine. After a housekeeper fully realizes the , kvorth of turpentine in a household, j jhe is never willing to be without a < tupply of it. It gives quick relief to | aurns, it is an excellent application for | ?orns, it is good for rheumatism and ? sore throats, and it is the quickest rem- \ nly for convulsious or fits. Then it is > i sure preventive against moths; by , ust dropping a trifle in the bottom of , Irawers, cliests and cupboards, it will ] ender the garments secure from inju- , y during the summer. It will keep , ints and bugs from closets and store j ooms by putting a few drops in the j jorners and upon the shelves; it is ] aire destruction to bed-bngs, and will | fl'ectually drive them away from their , launts if thoroughly applied to the < oints of the bedstead in the spring leaning time and injures neither furjiture nor clothing. A spoonful of it , ulded to a pail of warm water is ex- J >el!ent for cleaning paint. A little in , lie suds on washing days lightens , aundrv labor. Cheap Academic Titles. < Just in time to forestall, or at least to ; *lw,k '"1" nf mil* ' kVUl U, LUC UWill UC3 W1 uuuvvv.' v? jolleges, comes an article in the June Forum on "Cheap Academic Titles," ! >y Leonard Woolsey Bacon, himself a , D. (Yale.) He spares neither Har- 1 i-ard, which made Andrew Jackson an LL. D., nor Yale, which has made many men D. D.'s because they had I Mends in the corporation; but he joints out the astounding utility of an LL. D., which will fit equally well a ' tobacco-made millionaire, a governor, 1 >r a scholar; and the degradation of he I). D., because the clergy of all t nen are forbidden to accept such "j 'semilunar fardels." After indicating , several methods of redeeming academic titles, Mr. Bacon concludes that, af- J :er all, perhaps they are not worth re- ; ieeming, but should be laughed out of \ jxistence in a democratic country. j Sure it is that a secret, unobserved i religion is not the religion of the Lord 1 fesus Christ. Whatever religion can f in concealed is not Christianity.?John s Wesley. t v- - . . r. Teak Wood. So indestructible by wear or decay la the African teak wood that vessels built of it have lasted fully one hundred years, to be then broken up only on account of their antique mould or defeotive sailing qualities. This wood is one of the most remarkable employed in the human in- 1 dustries, for its great weight, hardness, and durability, its weight varying from 42 to 52 pounds per cubic foot. It works easily, but from the large ^ quantity of silex contained, the tools for working require to be hard, and even then are subject to severe wear. It also contains an oil which prevents the iron spikes and nails driven into it ' j from rusting. The East Indian teak wood is some- /'* what lighter and easier worked, and also from its silicious qualities a per- u feet germicide to marine life, so destructive to other wood. It requires from v, sixty to eighty years for growth suffi- h cieut for shipbuilding purposes. It is largely in use in English shipbailding. ...... Five Hundred Sheets to the Ream* . ^ To the Editor op the Gazette: I note in February number is an arti- ,h cle signed "Stationer," asking that ' > paper makers take action on the matter of putting ruled goods, etc., In ; v reams of five hundred sheets, or twenty quires of twenty-five sheets each. This is a move in the right direction. ,. I think, and one which should be favorably considered by every manu- ? facturer. I will venture to say that there is not a single stationer or printer in the country who would object to it, and, as suggested by your correspondent, the-type bodies at great ex- -> pense to themselves, why can not the paper manufacturers make the change v ' tor the convenience of their traae, when it can be done without any ad- # ditionai expense to them ? Now, the stationers would like to hear from our ?, brethren of the paper trade on the subject and trust that they will agree to 'J adopt the suggestion. |j A German Patriot Speaks. . One of the most hopeful and significant of recent events, was the proposition a introduced in the German Parliment by H err Liebknecht that Alsace-Lorraine be created an independent and neutral province. The German socialist used strong language and r stated that he held warjto be a crime. and believed that those who oommitea . this crime ought to be punished. He ;'|jl further declared that by advocating this opiniou he considered himself to V, be a better patriot thad those who opposed him. Of course he represents a , , ' very email minority; yet it makes the beginning of a higher and better era in international polities when even ,5 one man dares utter such sentiments ? before the assembled deputies of a :A great empire. . One of the difficult problems that v'f beset the young Christian is the breaking off from certain old habits which i he now recognizes as unworthy of a servant of Christ, but which, because they are habits, still have a power Atror Viim T$ Vio oimtklir Aoafo fhom aside, he is fretted wftli the "aching void" which they leave. The only 3afe way for him, is to push out the v7 old habit with a new one. There must be on vacancy. The new and higher activity must supplant the old and lower one. Two things, two influences, two motives, two interests, y $ cannot occupy the same place at the same time. He who has Christ's work % to attend to, will have no time fof the * >' Devil's work. Where Chrlft is, "the world, the flesh, and the devil" cannot be. , 8. 8. Times. Not what a preacher says to his hearers, but what his hearers say to themselves, is of value in influencing those hearers' lives. The mere utterance of truth in the ears of a listener is of itself powless, either for good or evil. "What shall it profit a man," says the preacher impressively, "if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Ninety-nine of his hearers nod appreciatively, and listen . to hear something else equally good. The hundredth hearer stops in his :Y listening, repeats over to himself, "What shall it profit?what shall if profit me?" and receives an impress upon his life as the result of his selfpreached sermon. He is not yet a master-workman in l?ie craft of soulwinners, who has not learned the art . Nj of makiDg his heareni preach tothem -? O a TimflD stiver. u. u. jumw. * Scholarship is of first importance in its own sphere. There oould neither have been a Revised Text nor a Revis- q ' 2d Version without scholarship. But in the interpretation and exposition of Scripture, scholarship does not hold the first place. Scholarship belongs to the soul, the mind, the intellect; something deeper is needed for the Interpretation of the Word of God. This is spiritual, and only the spiritual nan can discern the things of the <pirit. When Robert Hall wanted light upon some passage which he did not understand, he used to go to a poor man, not a scholar, but whom he knew to be taught of God. False and faulty views of doctrine have generally come not from illiterate Christians, but from scholars who exercised their >wn minds not under the guidance of Clod's Spirit. Not long ago there lived in the valley of Glenfruin, about three miles fioni Helensburgh, an old lady who was celebrated for having a famous breed of turkeys. On one occasion she sold one of these to a gentleman jailed Brown. When cooked and served up at the table it was found to l>e so tough as to be quite uneatable, Meeting the old woman a short tim6 ifterward, Mr. Brown said to her: "What did ye mean, Jane, by selling yon turkey to me ?" "What was wrang wi't ?" "Jt wasn't good at all," repliod the gentleman. "Noguid?" quoth Jane. "It was jound to be guiu, it won the first prize ror eleven years at "Helensburgh Cat;le Show." For Gapes in Chicks.?New Jer sey poultry expert and authority, Mr. P. H. Jacobs, prescribes these remedies "or gapes : Give a drop of spirits tur>entine on a bread crumb. A pinch >f Persian insect powder down the ,hroat has also been tried with success, [f the number of chicks is large, subect them to the fumes of carbolic acid n a close box, pouring the acid on a lot brick, and releasing the chicks beon) they are suflbcated. Try the ineet powder first. Blow it far down he throat. ? , v Q.:t