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.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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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* '
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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
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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.
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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
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stiver. u. u. jumw.
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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.
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