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. ' The Abbeville Press and Banner.?! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1889. VOLUME XXXIV. NO.!ll.|?|? . _ - - - The First Tangle. ISY ANNA JIUKNHAM. Once in an Eastern palace wide A Utile child sat weaving. So patiently her task she piled. The men and women at her side Flocked ronnd her, almost grieving. "How Js it., little one," tbev said, "Von always work so cheerily ? Yon never seem to break your thread. Or snarl and tangle it, instead Of working smooth and clearly. "Our weaving gets so worn and soiled, Onr silk so frayed and broken, For all we've fretted, wept and toiled. We know the lovely pattern's spoiled Before the King has spoken." The little cirl looked in their eyes. So full of care and trouble; And pity chased the sweet surprise That filled her own. as sometimes llles The rainbow in a bubble. "I only go and tell the King," She said abashed, and meekly. "You know, he said, in everything"? "\vny,so no we: iney crieu, -nc unng Him all our troubles weekly!" She turned her little head aside; A moment let them wrar.gie, "Ah, but." she softly then replied, "I go and get the knot untied At the first little tangle!" O little children?weavers all! Our broidery we Rpangle With many a tear that need not fall, If on our king we would but call At the first little tangle! "Be Ye Goin' to Burn the Bridge Anyway." It is said that out west a train ran against a farmer's calf, and doubled it up so that it wasen't worth much as a calf afterwards. The farmer sued the company, but lost. Coming away from the court-house he said to a deacon of a church, "I'll get even with the railway company." "How so?" "I'll get even, if I have to do them damage. I'll burn the bridge yorder, tonight." TKn /Joortnn miotrofofl 4rv *nr\ of JL UV UVOV/VU I^IUV/UOVIUIVM VV UV VI feet. He mentioned the circumstance to his wife, who, when night came, insisted upon doing something to prevent the crime. "He was only joking ; I'm sure he won't do it," said the deacon. "But we must do what we can to stop it," said she. So they set out, and found the man sprinkling the bridge with coal oil. He drew out a match, but the wind extinguished it. Finding he had no other matches, he spied the deacon approaching. "Let me have a match, deacon." The deacon horrified, refused to become a party to it, and endeavored to dissuade the man. "Come, now, there are lots of matches, and if you don't give me one, I'll get one elsewhere; but I'd rather give you a dollar for a match than delay this business," said the man excitedly. "My dear sir. think " "I'll give you a dollar; come, be quick interrupted the man. ,fBeye goin' to burn the bridge anyway ?" asked the deacon, slowly fumbling in his vest pocket. 'Yes, I am." The wife caught hold of the deacon's coat tails to pull him away. "Now come, wife. It's my duty to look out for an honest penny. I'm the one that's to support" the family. My taxes are pretty heavy, and I must lighten 'em by every buisiness like method and wrenching himself from the grasp of his helpless wife, he handed the match over, repeating the question? "You be a-goin' to burn the bridge away ?" "Yes," said the man. "Well, then I wash my hands of the whole business," suid the deacon, as he backed away. 1 A moment more, and the structure was in flames. Wlio in the sight of God and eternity, is the most responsible for the burning of that bridge? And yet the attitude of thousands of Christians on the liquor question is that of the deacon. That wliich lightens taxes appeals to them with tremendous logic. "The business will be carried on anyway, and we might as well get what* financial benefit there i3 in it." God have mercy on soch sordid co-workers of iniquity. So far from washing their hands of the whole business, in the flippant way they im agme, the day of judgement win reveal the awful fact, their palsied hands won't wash. When Women Should Marry. Probly the best time for the average civilized woman to marry would be any age between 24 and 36. It is not said that no woman should marry earlier or later than either of these "ages; but youth and health and vigor are ordinarily at their highest perfection between those two periods. Very early marriages are seldom desirable for girls and that for many reasons. The brain is immature, the reason is feeble and the character unformed. The considerations which would prompt a girl to marry at 17 would in many cases have very little weight with her at 24 At 17 she is a child, at 24 a woman. Where a girl has intelligent parents the seven years between 17 and 24 are the period when mind and body are most amendable to wise discipline, and best repay the thought and toil devoted to their development. Before 17 few girls have learned to understand what life is, what discipline is, what duty is. They cannot value what.is best, either in father's wisdom or in the mother's tenderness. When married at that childish period they are like young recruits taken fresh from the farm and the work shop, and hurried off to a long campaign without any period of preliminary drill and training, or like a schoolboy removed from scnool to a curacy without being sent to the universitv or to theological hall. Who can help grieving over a child wife, especially i( she have children and a husband who is an inexperienced and possibly exacting boy-man? The ardor of his love soon cools; the visional* bliss of her poetical imagination vanishes like the summer mist; there is nothing left but disappointment and wonder that what promised to be so beautiful and long a day should have clouded over almost before sunrise.?Hospital. Jessie had kept a journal ever since she could write a letter; but she would not let any body see it. One day her mother asked her why she would not let any body see it. She said "I have a secret, mamma." "But you must tell me all your secrets. dear," said her mother. "Mamma," said Jessie very softly, "I have a secret with God. God helping me to be a better girl; and I am writing in my journal what I have done every day tbat will please God." . '\X : / -V .. " Company Manners. BY SENEX SMITH. "I wish that we always had company at our house," said little Jennie Brown to me the other day. "Why?" I asked. "Because mamma is so pleasant and smiling Jien. If I go into the parlor, she says, 'Jennie, my clear, come and speak to Mr?. Smithbut as soon as the visitors are gone, she says: 'Jennie, you lazy girl, what business had you to come in while I was talking with Mrs. Smith? You know that you ought to have been shelling the peas.' And then she shakes me, and keeps scolding at me, and tells father, when he comes home, what a good-fornothing girl I am." I was sorry for Jennie. And I fear that she is not the only little girl that would like to have company, because mamma is so much kinder to her before folks than when they are alone. How cruel it is to lavish our smiles and kind words on mere acquaintances, and treat coldly or unkindly those urlwktvi nra roirrlif ta Iaito QTlH wVlftQP happiness depends so largely upon our treatment of them. An Apostle exhorts his readers to "show piety at home," and he might have aaded politeness. Indeed, truly pious men or women will not have two kinds of manners, but'always be patient and gentle, whether at home or abroad. On this point I have just heard. A GOOD STORY. A young lady to whom John Wils?n was engaged, was visiting at his mother's. John had a bright little sister who became very fond of the visitor. One day when they were alone together, the child said: "Miss Jones, I wish that you would stay at our house always." The prospective bride, with a sweet blush, responded, "Do you like me so well that you would be glad to have me for a sister?" "Yes," said Anna; "but that's not what I was thinking about. When you are not here, John is horrid. He scolds us little ones and bangs us about all the time." Miss Jones was startled. She had thought that John was a particularly amiable young man. She had noticed, with great satisfaction, how kind he was to the younger children when in her presence. Was it possible that this was all put on? She would not for the world marry a man who was really cross and harsh to such a little darling as Anna. She determined to investigate the matter. She managed to be present, but unseen, when John came where the children were at play in the barn. As soon as he was near enough to be heard, he cried out angrily: "You little brats, you have no business here. Get out of the barn this minute. or I'll give you a good trouncing." That was enough for Miss Jones. Such an elder brother would not be likely to make a good husband.. The engagement ring was returned, and the bride-elect went home feeling that she had made a providential escape. John's lesson was a severe one, but he deserved it. I advise all the girls to tind out how their admirers behave at home before they swallow their taffy and say "Yes." A coarse-grained and brutal man may put on fine clothes and fine manners, and thus try to get a wife; but as soon as the honey-moon is over the old nature will assert itself, and woe to the woman who has become his slave for life ! And if that young man, who has been trained by a loving mother in a true home, wants to secure a wife who is amiable as well as beautiful, let him try to find out what kind of a daughter or sister she is. If she is not gentle, kind, and patient in the old home, she will not be in the new. When First Known.?First jury, 970. Pins made, 1450. Needles used, 1545. First cast iron, 1544. Affltrhoo mnHo Surnames used, 1162. First newspaper, 1494. Coal used as fuel, 1834. Lead pencils used, 1596. Window glass used, 614. First gold coin, B. C. 266. Tobacco introduced, 1583. First steam railroad, 1830. First wheel carriage, 1559. First postage stamps, 1840. Kerosene introduced, 1826. First illuminating gas, 1792. Electric light invented, 1874. Iron found in America, 1815. First insurance, marine, 1533. First American express, 1821. Musical notes introduced, 1338. Latin ceased to bespoken, 580. Bible translated into Saxon, 637. Gunpowder used by Chinese, 80. Bible translated into Gothic, 872. Photographs first introduced, 1802, Old Testament finished, B. C. 430Emancipation proclamation, 1863. j Paper made by Chinese, B. C. 220, ! Bible translated into English, 1534. Japanese Politeness.?When, guests arrive, say for dinner, the politeness of paradise is let loose. With, great apparent hesitation they enter,, bowing low with their hands on their knees if they are men, or dropping on their knees and touching their foreheads almost to the ground if they are> ladies. The first Japanese salutation, corresponds exactly to the Norwegian "Tak for sidst"?"Thanks for the pleasure had the last time I met you." mis, nowever, is due memerest Deginning of Japanese greeting. A conversation something after the following style ensues "I beg your pardon focr my rudeness on the last occasion." "How can you say such a thing when it was I who failed to show you due courtesy?" "Far from it! I received a lesson in good manners from you." "How can you condescend to come to such a poor house as this?" "How can vou, indeed, be so kind as to receive such an unimportant person as myself under your distinguished roof?" All this punctuated with low bows and the sound of breath sucked, rapidly in between the teeth, expressive of great expressment. Look once again, poor heart, into thine own bosom, and see whether thou findest not some strength sent into thee which thou didst overlook before. This may be, yea, is very ordinary in this case when God answers our prayej not in the letter, or when the thing itself is sent; but it comes in at the back door, while we are expecting it at the fore; and truly thus the friend thou art looking for may be in thine house. It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hida what you really are. .... * % ' f, "t * ' V-. ... ; *-,VV- Try-'"-- ,'t: The American Revolution. BY JOHN HEMMENWAY. Moboeracy was greatly strengthened by deeds done in the time of the Rev olution. The destruction of three cargoes o tea in Boston harbor by men disguisec as American Indians, I blush to say has been and still is, highly approved by thousands of our people who desire to be known as our most virtuous Christain citizens; and many whc have favored and engage in the violence of mobs point in justification oi their principles and conduct with pride to the "patriots of the American Revolution." The Revolution has given us one day in a year on which common sense, temperance, and religion are grossly insulted. How many on that day ol uproarious and vain martial show and Earade and burning of gunpowdei ave lost their limbs and their lives, and many have on that day first begun to be drunkards. It may be truly said that more folly and vice prevail on the fourth day of July in our country than on any otner day in the year. The Philanthropist may well shudder with horror when that day of revelry arrives and sincerely rejoice when it is past. In our consideration of the Ameri can Revolution, we must not lorget that it has greatly increased a military spirit in our country. The military spirit is directly contrary to the Christian spirit. That great and good man, the late Dr. Wayland, President of Brown University, argues very ably in his Elements of Moral Science' that "the cultivation of a military spirit is the cultivation of a great curse to a community." I cannot refrain from giving in this place the sentiments ana feelings, on a military spirit and life, of one of the very best ministers of the gospel of modern times, the Rev. Leigh Richmond, of England, who died in 1872, author of the tracus, "The Dairyman's Daughter" and "Little Jane, the Young Cottagers," which have had a very extensive circulation, and done much more good than all the military books and biographies of warriors that have been written since the advent of Christ. Mr. Richmond at one time saw with much sorrow that his youngest son was pleased with military parade and inclined to a soldier's profession, and he said, "Anything but this, anything but this?the very mention of a military life Alls me with horror. I cannot bear to think of a child of mine engaging in scenes of bloodshed and destruction. No consideration could extort my consent." To his daughter we wrote; "There is a subject which often hangs heavy on my spirits, I mean my poor dear son's inclination for a military life. Hating war as I do from my very heart convinced as I am of the inconsistency of it with real Christianity and looking on the profession of arms as irreconcilable with the crosDel. I should mourn greatly if one of my boys chose so cruel, and generally speaking, so profligate a line of life. I could never consent to it on conscientious grounds, and therefore wish, this bias for the profession of arms to be discouraged. I dislike and oppose it with my whole heart. Now let us remember that if there had been no Revolutionary War we have no reason to believe tnere would now be any military schools nor any navy iD our country, and peace would have prevailed throughout our land, which would now be a paradise of beauty and of love. It may be safely said that the American Revolution was the great blunder and crime of the eighteenth century. And had the leading minds among the American people in 1776 been, as they ought to nave been, of the spirit of William Penn, aud above all. of the spirit of Jesus Christ, founder of the Christian religion, there would have been no war between American and Great J 1 -U 15I'll#III, anu I1UW U1UCU ucuci aiiu more glorious in true glory it would have been for America and mankind, as well as for honor of a people professing to be governed by the principles of Christianity?true Christianity, which never allows of doing evil that good may come, and which is always willing to suffer wrong rather than do wrong. It is truly amazing that any intelligent person claiming to be a follower of Christ, the Prince of Peace?believing in loving enemies and returning good for evil, holding to his "golden rule," "As ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them," should for once seriously presume to justsfy the crimes and cruelties of the war for the independence of the United States. i wm Dnag me suDject nume uj my own bosom in all candor as a Chrisian and a patriot. I am now about 70 years old, and lived for about 49 years with one of the best women for wife that God ever gave to man. I am blessed with four excellent Christian children. We were all born and we still live in the United States of America, except the dear wife and mother, who five years ago left her native land, full of peace and love, for the ^yorld of everlasting peace, where "love is the joy forever." Now I may safely say that I have had my full share of all the nappiness and the glory that have come to my country in consequence of the American Revolution, and I deliberately say, standing as I do near the eternal world, that all the happiness I have enjoyed as coming to me through the effect of the Revolution has not equaled the sorrow I have felt for the death of a single man, either American or Britain, that fell on the field of battle or was shot as a deserter from either army ; and do not covet the feelings of any man who will coolly say that the war of the Revolution has paid him for the destruction of one human life. These words of an eminent statesman of the old world have lived deep and bright in my memory forty years: "No political change is worth a single crime, or above all a single human life." Had I room in this article on the justice and consequences of the American Revolution, I might speak at length on the vast sums or money spent in our country for war purposes and as the fruits of war since 1775 in supporting armies, in the building vessels of war, in forts, in destruction of property, in waste of time by soldiere in the vigor of manhood, and in pensions, in all amounting to many thousands of millions of dollars, a sum so vast as to defy a clear comprehension of. Could this all have been spent for the best interests of the people in a perpetual peace, our land would now be an Eden of moral and natural beauty?for be it remembered, as I have siad, that we have no sound reasons tc \ . i ?^?? ? believe that our country would ever have seen the war of 1812 with Great Britain, or the Mexican War or Civil 1 War, if there had been no Revolution ary War. The more I have studied the history f of the American Continent and of I Europe since the middle of the eigh, teenth century, the more I am conI vinced that the American Revolution, ! though approved by the most of the ! wise and good men of the country was > truly a great blunder and a great crime from which our country and Chrisf tendom will not recover* for ages to s come. Before I close I must allude to the fact that our Reyolution has. had a r powerful effect in kindling the fires of , revolution and war in Mexico and r South America. Those parts of Amerf ica copied the example of our country, [ and as they professed "fought gallant ly for liberty," but not being an intel, ligent and virtuous people their liberty i did not prove a real blessing to them; I and what saved our own country from complete moral ruin and a wretched evil government was, not the power gained or kept by the sword, but the religious ana virtuous principles and characters of our people, maintained after the war.?Garland, Maine, December lg, 1883. A Voice from the Sand wich Islands. REV. TITUS COAN. "UK.HU.LiJJ 1 A1AK? AL1L1 ItllCSVJO Take courage, then, beloved brother; take courage, all ye sonn of peace. "Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King." Put on the "Breastplate of Righteousness" and the "Helmet of Salvation;" grasp the "Shield of Faith," and draw the "Sword of the Spirit." These weapons are not carnal, but they are "mighty through God." We preach no war gospel to the Hawaiian 8. No war of nations, of races or of sects, and God has honored the "gospel of peace" and truth. We have enjoyed profound peace in this once savage and blood-soaked land for fifty years. Professed Christian ships ana Christian fighters have often come here to draw our fire, and they have , drawn it to their discomfiture and shame. When they threatened, we prayed. When they drew their flashing sabres/ we unsheathed "the sword of the Spirit." When they "cleared decks for action," removed tempions loaded with infernal missiles, and lighted the Tlutonic match, we opened the batteries of the Law and Gospel upon them, and discharged park after park of heaven's high artillery. Thus, and thus only, have the batteries of our foes been silenced, and the "Prince of Peace," the great "Captain of our salvation," has slain his enemies "with the sword of his mouth." While the vast armies of enlightened and boasting Christian nations are rolling and raging like ocean waves under the lashings and howlings of the tempest, and while they are soaking the earth with human gore, and causing it to tremble under their infernal charges, and toss up its awfnl wails of anguish and terror to the heavens, we are permitted to tut m peace unaer our vines and fig-trees, with "none to make us afraid." If Christian nations will let us alone, or if they will come to us only "in the fulness of the blessings of the gospel of peace," these islands will "learn war no more," and never again will "violence be heard in our land, or wasting or destruction be seen within , our borders." "Peace and good will" constitutes the very essence of the gospel, and when men love and practice the right, there will be true peace. Hitherto, "the nations have been mad !" and that madness has infected and paralyzed the churches. But the day is breaking. The long, sad, dreary night of selfish ambition, of cruel hate and revenge, is passing slowly away, and the glorious sun of righteousness, so long obscured by the clouds and hustling storms of human passions, is coming forth rrom tne aarjtness 01 ages to "shine more and more unto the perfect day." I do long to see the whole church arise and shine in the light of God. I long to see all her ministers "put on the armor of light," and all her members walking "as children of light." And I long to see all who love peace, give of the silver and cold, which God says "are mine," to help this blessed heaven-born work. When Christians will give onetenth, or one-hundredth, of what they give to support the cruel and diabolical art of war, for the cause of peace, that blessed angel will again come forth from heaven on joyful wings, and proclaim, amidst the acclamations of countless hosts of earth and heaven, that, "peace on earth" is an accomplished fact. God of eternal love, hasten it. I long to see all the children of our Sabbath-schools throughout Christendom instructed in the principles of peace, and thoroughly permeated wi th this radical gospel doctrine. I fear that this kind of teaching is, in many cases, too much neglected, if not, in some schools, ignored; aud, instead, a national vanity, and a false patriotism inculcated. It is a sad and painful sight to wit Af rviontr , UBSS lUW Kiuuj' cutuusiaouj ui uiuujr children in view of the gilded trappings and glittering show of military glory. Did holy or fallen angels first deck and paint a military review? And who are those who attempt to throw glinting light over a battle-field, while they throw a mantle over all that is ghastly and infernal ? O, that art would cease to paint in false colors, and the limner dip his pencil only in the light of heaven. She Awoke too Soon,?"For forty long years have my good old wife and I traveled hand in hand adown life's thorny road," 9aid old Deacon Gush at an apple-paring party the otber evening, ana in all those years not one single harsh, hasty, unkind word has passed our lips when speaking to each other. Isn't that true, mother ?" Mother had quietly fallen asleep on the sofa by Mr. Gush's side, and as he laid his hand caressingly on her shouli der she gave a little snort of defiance and said, sharply: 1 "Get up yourself and build the fire Sam Gusli. I built it last, and I'll see , you in Guinea before I'll build it this > morning, you?oh?oh?I?I?why, i where am I ? I guess I dropped off to , sleep." And I guess you'd better have stayed , asleep, Lizy Gush," hissed Samuel into her ear as the crowd around the sofa 1 made a rush for the door and dark k corners, where giggliug and tittering , could be indulged in freely. If I am faithful to the duties of the ! present, God will provide for the fu> ture. > Six Short Rales. As Brownlow North lay on his death-bed he enjoyed, according to his own confession, "perfect peace." To a by-stander he said : "You are young, in good health* and with the prospect of rising in the army ; I am dying, but if the Bible is true, and I know it is, I would not change places with you for all the world." Mr. North wrote the practical counsels which follow : 1. Never neglect daily private prayer; and when you pray, remember that God is present, and that he hears your prayers.?Heb. xi. 6. 2. Never neglect daily private Bible-reading; and when you read, remember that God is speaking to you, and that you are to speak ana act upon what he says. I believe that all back-slidings begins with the neglect of these two rules.?John v. 39. {!. Never let a day pass without trying to do something for Jesus. Every night reflect on what Jesus has done for you, and then ask yourself, What am I doing for him ??Matt. v. 13?16. 4. If ever you are in doubt as to a thing being right or wrong, go to your room and kneel down and ask God's 1-1- ! *1 n.1 1 W T* uieasmgs uppii it.?v,ui. 111. 11. j.i yvu cannot do this, it is wrong. Rom. xiv. 23. 5. Never take your Chirstianity from Christians, or argue that, - because such people do so and so, therefore you may.?2 Cor. x. 12. You are to ask yourself, How would Christ act in my place ? and strive to follow him.?John x. 27. 6. Never believe what you feel, if it contradicts God's word. Ask yourself, Can what I feel be true, if God's word is true ? and if both cannot be true, believe God, and make your own heart the liar.?Rom. iii. 4; 1 John v. 10,11. Restlessness. I know of nothing in our own day more painfully and surely indicative of the interior wrongness of our life than the inability every-where manifest to rest and be quiet. No life was 6ver healthy and strong in which there was not a central rest, and something to support and feed that reet. But in our day the question, "What shall I do next?" is asK before we have well finished that which went before. And so much of our activity is blind, purposeless. It is merely wasting and consuming time. There is no virtue in it, and no intelligence in it; consequently no profit. Life does not become purfied, or strengthened, or enriched, or made happier thereby. It is simply squandered. Now, all this is not simply wrong; it is foolish. It is not simply harmless activity; it is the activity that comes from internal hollowness of nature. We congratulate ourselves on being the most "alive" people in the world, which means, in Slain English, the most restlessness. !ut mere restlesssness has no inherent virtue or goodness in it. It simply den/>l/ui fVio nnaoMainn r?f vitftlihr. vhiflh vitality may be altogether uneducated and untrained. In every useful life there must be internal rest. There must be something believed in so firmly and so continuously that it holds to itself the mind and the heart. Therefore it is that the apostle says, "Be ye steadfast, unmovable." Keep Still. Keep still. When trouble is brewing, keep still. "When slander is getting on to its legs, keep still. When your feelings are hurt, keep still, till you recover from your excitement at any rate. Things look differently through an unagitated eye. In a commotion ence I wrote a letter, and sent it, and wished I had not. In my later years I had another commotion, and wrote a lbng letter; but life had rubbed a little sense into me, and I kept that letter in my pocket against the day when I could look it over without tears. I was glad I did. Less and less J 1. -4 U T It geemeu necessary to bciju it. jl woo not sure it would do any hurt, but .in my doubtfulness I leaned to reticence, and eventually it was destroyed. Time works wonders. Wait till you can speak calmly, and then you will not need to speak, may be. Silence is the most massive thing conceivable sometimes. It isstrength in its very grandeur. It is like a regiment ordered to stand still in the mad fury of battle. To plunge in were twice aa easy. The person who complacently admits that any favorite sin is his "besetting sin" may be sure that no sin so thoroughly besets him as a certain willingness to be beset by any sin. And yet most persons seem to feel relieved of a certain burden of responsibility when they have catalogued an evil desire, or habit:, in themselves, as their besetting sin. Because they speak of it as their besetting sin, they seem to regard it as a possession necessary to the completeness of their character as a sinner. If the discovery and stigmatizing of one's besetting sin, means a fixed determination to exterminate it, that would be one thing. But if it means, as too often it does, that it is to be accepted and borne with as one of the natural constituents of every human personality; that the possessor of it has labeled it and put it by to keep as a part of his moral cabinet; that every other weakness and fault and sin is to be eradicated while this is to be let alone so as to fulfil the supposed necessity of a sin i J i i-i.: Her uuviu^ a. uesebiiiig niu,?tuai to quite another thing. Let us realize that there is no more virtue in besetting sins than in other sins. Teach the Colts.?Colts can be taught by mind as well as children, and this is the first requisite. A colt that will obey a moderate tone in the stable will obey the same outdoors, but confidence is the one thing needful. A colt should be curried until he is used to the comb and brush. Should be made acquainted with the pitchfork and convinced that a fork is harmless. Should let you poke the handle under or over him, or rub his back with the round side of the tines. If I accidentally prick a colt, I at once tell him I am sorry, and rub the spot with my hand. Ropes, straps and cloths should be laid, dragged and thrown across the colt's back carefully but persistently till he will hardly notice them. Then blankets and robes may be used. If you want to roll a barrel through the stable, don't take the colt out, but go ahead of the barrel, never behind it, and gradually get it near enough for the colt to smell it. If he finds a few oats on the head of the barrel, he will never be so much afraid of a barrel again. Umbrellas and overcoats Bhould be used in the same way, and then when your colt is old enough to hitch up you will have a safe horse. ['Farm, Stock and Home. *>i Wft can do more good by being good than in any other way. Speaking' Oat. (Central Christian Advocate, Nothern Methodist.) Two incidents connected with the Inaugural Centennial continue the subject of conversation and newspaper writing: Bishop Potter's address at St. Paul's and the disgraceful conduct of the closing hours of the Centennial ball. The readers of the secular papers are much better informed in regard U the former than the latter. The Republican press especially has been verj tender ana charitable in regard to th? drunkards and very'courageous in censuring the Bishop.. The political managers for the most part believe in wine drinking, and they do not relish the truth told about themselves by the preachers, and it is much easier for them to snub a preacher than the committee in charge of a public ball. We wish to say that no charge of ill conduct lies against the presidential party, or indeed any one of national reputation, so liar as we have heard. And, on the other hand, we stand with Bishop Potter. His criticism of machine politics and the spoils system was truthful and courageous. When is life is written, probably nothing in it will receive more honorable mention than this speech. It was not aimed at the President, as the partisan press have tried to make it appear in nrrtar tn nhtalrl t.hp nnlitlnftl managers. It is a great and sad defect in oar Presbyterian system that it has no apgointed and so authorized agency for ringing together our unoccupied ministers and vacant churches. We have between four or five hundred of the former, most of them excellent and able men, now providentially out of the pastorate?men as able and spiritual as any who are in it, who cannot speak for themselves, and who are saddened and despondent that they are not engaged in their loved and chosen work of the ministry, though of all things they most long to be engaged in ministerial service for the Master. And so we have between twelve and fifteen hundred vacant churches, more or less losing, if not suffering, for want of faithful pastors, while we have no systematic and authorized agency for aiding them to supply themselves with a settled ministry. By the Methodist system every church has its minister and every minister has Ibis church, unless he is disabled by sickness or the infirmities of age, in which case he is placed on the retired or superannuated list, with comfortable provision for support to the end of his days. Ben Fbakkxix's Money.?In 1890 will end the term of hundred years during which the cities of Boston and Philadelphia have each enjoyed the revenue from a bequest of $5,000 made by Benjamin Franklin. The money was to be loaned out to young married artificers and the: the trust has been executed; although the lapse of the century requires a new disposition of the funds. It is significant that while in Boston the $5,000, has grown to nearly $328,000, in Philadelphia the $5,000 has beoome only $70,000, and in both oases the amount is less than Franklin estimated it should be. But as the natural philosophers of Franklin's day generally fell short of the sage in ingenuity,, so too the successive boards of trustees have 1 ? 1 i._ t-i? 1M Deen rar irum eqiuu iu mm iu uubiucsb ability. It is interesting to note, however, tbat the two funds still exist, and tbat part of the Boston reserve goes in the purchase of a public recreation ground to be known as Franklin Park.?The Electric World. Keep an Account.?As the census year began June 1,1889, and will end May 31,1890, in order to show the extent and vast importance of the agricultural interest of our country, every farmer should keep a strict itemized account of every product of the farm for this period, and be prepared to hand in to the canvasser, when he comes around, a correct invoice of the productions of the form, and let him enumerate everything that has been ?nf all tr I nHo oil litro Ittiacu.?WUUS VI OU AiMUOf Hi* UTV stock, poultry, etc. Also keep an account of everything sold daring this census period. It will prove as valuable to the farmer as the census-taker, and, once commenced, will, no doubt, be kept up, and such a record will be found valuable for reference on many accounts. A correct enumeration of all farm products will show the farm interests exceed all others in this country.?Baltimore Sun. Some people are afraid of anything like joy in religion. They have none themselves, and they do not love to see it in others. Their religion is something like the stars, very high and very clear, but very cold. When they see tears of anxiety, or tears of joy, they cry out, "Enthusiasm! Enthusiasm!" "I sat down under his shadow with great delight." Is this enthusiasm ? "May the God of hope fill you with all ioy and peace in believing." If it Be really in sitting under the shadow of Christ, let there be no bounds to our joy. Oh! if God would but open our eyes and give us simple, child-like faith to look to Jesus, to sit under his shadow, then woula songs of joy rise from all our dwellings. Never hurt any one's self-respect. Never trample on any soul, thougn it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life; the voice of God which still whispers to it, "You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be; you are still God's child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet and conquer yet and be a man yet, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you." O why crush that voice in any heart? If you do, the poor creature is lost, and lie where he or she fall?, and never tries to rise again. Two things from Burdette both worth repeating. 1. Goa doesn't ask much of us now. No voice comes from heaven saying, "Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, and offer him." But when you ask some men for $10 for the church, you would think by the horrified countenance that you had asked them to sacrifice the whole family i 2. It's the easiest thing in the world to invent a new religion any fool can do that. It is a thousand times easier to invent a new religion than to live up to the old one. One of the latest inventions is a three cornered steel nail that will drive easily and will not split the wood. The BaHng Passion* Speed is the ruling idea of the age.' Even the traveler in search of health is in a hurry, and insists on combining the excitement of a match against Time with the pursuit of Hygeia. Fifteen miles an hour over the surfaoe of a glorious river winding through the finest scenery in the world, doee not satisfy the man of leisure on ft . summer excursion. He prefers ft straight rush through seas or dost and a storm of dnderti at thrice the pace. He votes the steamboat a "slow ooach," and takes the express train, from which he can distinguish no feature of the vanishing landscape as it A- Al_ _ - - LIM streams to uie row, ouu iua stars that he is darting over tb.e earth's surface at a rate which rendered bean ties undlsttngnfahable. But perhaps, after all, the passion for rapid tmotlon is no stronger now than before steam was pot in harness. The hitman racefas naturally prone to velocity. Nothing in thei story of Jack the Giant-killer delights children m so much as the episode of the sevenleagued boots, ana we remember the flying carpet and aerial-steed of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, when all the "slower" results of enchantment are forgotten. Sixty yean ago a carriage and four was considered /. a spirit-stirring arrangement, and postboys were feed munifloently to keep their cattle on the gallop. The liber- ality of the old woman who offered her bacon to feed the fornaoe of a Mississippi steamboat when its rival was getting ahead was prompted by the same instinct which moved oar ; ^ ancestors to bribe the postillions of ' , their day to ply the whip and spur. 'M It is useless to reason against the general desire to push ahead. It is hu- . man nature. All the resources of art and science are laid under contribution to aooompliah this grand object, and the most wonderful of all modern : . t wonders is the progress of progression. A voyage across the Atlantic was a six - Jj or eight weeks' affair within the reool- '<%. lection of some of us; but now, steamers occasionally slip over in from six to eight dayB! And speed is the word on the Boad > of Life as on the pnblio highways. From the universal anxiety of the aotive classes to make the most ofevvy' ,J'0 moment, one might suppose that the clock of Time was pretty near its final / m tick, and that mankind, aware of the fact, were afraid of being canght at the great tine die adjournment of human affairs with some "unfinished business" on their hands.?N. T. Ledger. * 1 m' Christian England?Twenty-Fire Thoi sand Dollars Jtftaj Hoar lor war Purposes. The Herald of Peaoc, published in London Bays: We thank God we are not as other *&ygg nations, and yet we are spending for war purposes alone ?6.681 every hoar of every day and night throughout the year! Since the beginning of the present century more than four-flfthsof i our entire expenditure has gone for butchering otberpeople, or for prepar* > ^ ations to do that ghastly work whenever we should be called upon. We pride ourselves upon our philanthropy and our missions; but it u surely time to take some shame to ourselves as ; well, that without the slightest protest, or the slightest thought, we allow more money to be spent in a year for the destruction of property and lift, than we have spent In philanthropy and missions for a century. 1 Yankton, Dak., July 21.?The little village of St. Helena, on the Nebraska ' side of the Missouri, ten miles below Yankton, is in a state of excitement /Kuwrnaro mutfl thflM VfW M guwvy VMVW t I I , . 'VFT yesterday. Men who were prospecting ft in the chalk cliffe for material far manufacturers of oement came upon a . \) small opening in the Mtosourl River face of the rook. It was found to baa large apartment carved by nature in the soft, chalky substanoe; but the startling feature was the dtocovenr within this cave of eight human skeletonB. They were lying about tha floor in such disorder as to discredit , -?? the theory that the cave might be an ancient burial plaoe. The age of the bones cannot be determined, but they have undoubtedly been there a long time. The belief prevails that theee are the skeletons of early settlers, who sought the shelter of the cave when attacked by Indians years ago, and ^ that they were either killed in a body v or starved to death. , ^ $ The prayer meeting contains within itself the possibilities of the Church. No congregation can go spiritually bo* yond the faith, zeal ana attendance represented therein. "The work of my church," said a faithful pastor, "to done in the prayer meeting." Full houses, plainly-dressed people and decent behavior on Sabbath are well enough, but our victories lie in the prayer and class meeting. Try it. The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study and every pursuit to the quality of attention. My own lnven- { Uon, or imagination, such as it to, I can most truthfully assure you, would never have served me as it has dqc ror the habit of commonplace, hamble, patient, dally, toiling, drudging atten- M, Son. Herein is found one of the chief reasons for pressing our work of Church Extension vigorously. The Ohurch of God ought to keep abreast these wave* of Western migration. The Church ought to appear before the saloon. 8uch cannot be the case without soma such instrumentality as the Charoh Extension Board. Men who hava turned their backs on churches, and have gone to churchless regions for gold, cannot be depended on to build churches. JBZc. If your preacher is a studious man, it is probable that he needs a book which he has not the money to buy. T* Id o1on nrnhfthl# fhftt, vnil nRVft mnn? ey enough to buy him the book ha needs. Buy it and send it to him anonymously, and then see if you don't have some new, fresh, inspiring j thoughts from his pulpit that will do your soul good. A good book is the best gift to a thoughtful preacher. It beats overcoats and silk hats all to pieces. You may preach the law of God, and remain on tne level of paganism. The Greek philosophers and poets did that. You may preach the universal tfatberhood of God, and remain on a level of Judaism. Moses and David and Isaiah did that. John and Paul did more. Fear rules paganism. Hope smiles in the Old Testament. Assurance is the ringing key-note of the gospel.