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BY IiUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1889. VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 16. '
Mother's Hyinu.
11Y OKOROE W. T.ACEY.
Through the shadows of the twilight dim
I hear the faint voice ot Mother's hymn,
That Mother's lips, now still ami cold,
Sang 'inhist her cures in days of old.
There was something In it nndeflned
That quieted my troubled mind.
O'er my hardened heart breathed a spirit
bland.
Like the warm south wind o'er a frozen land;
.Binding my heart with a silken cord.
Like the moving words of our loving Lord,
That sheds through the penitent soul abroad,
A'fiense of the perfect love of God.
The hymns of the singers that, fame lias
crowned
Jn the vista of years are lost and drowned,
But mother's hymn, each pause and tone,
With the laps? of years has sweeter grown.
And It seems not out of the past to come,
An echo from the lips now dumb.
But down from the home of the Glorified
It has come ever since tho morn she died.
We know not the music the angels hear
As earth recedes and Heaven draws near.
While passing through Life's shadows dim
Let me hear the sweet voice of Mother's
hymn.
Dorsey and the Mail.
There is now on exhibition at Smith's
jewelry store a magnificent oil-paint
lug, forty by fifty inches, the central
figure being a Scotch collie. The subject
of the picture is known as Dorsey,
* and has the distinctiou of being the
only dog in the world regularly employed
as a letter-carrier. Dorsey has
for more than three years carried the
mail between Calico, San Bernardino
County, and Bismarck, a mining camp
between three and four miles away,
over almost impassable mountains.
Calico is a stage station and has a
postoflice. Without the aid of the
dog, many a miner would have a hard
time getting his mail, as the country is
very rough and steep in places, and
- most of the year the weather is very
warm.
Dorsey belongs to the postmaster at
Calico, and, in his youth, he was not
regarded as anything more than a
common puppy. The picture shows
him to be about average size, with
white color, shaggy coat and bushv
tail. The way the dog became a mailcarrier
was as follows: One day the
postmaster wanted to send word to
his brother at Bismarck, but did not
want to make the trip. It occurred to
him to try the dog. He wrote a letter
and tied it around the dog's neck,
pointed the animal's nose toward Bismarck,
and told him to go. He trotted
off a short distance, and then turned
abont to see what else was wanted.
Some of the small boys showered
stones at him, and he ran on to Bismarck.
Next dav he returned with an
answer tied on his neck, and showed
that he had been well treated. The
experiment was repeated, each time
with success and additional dignity on
the part of the dog.
As soon as it became known that
Dorsey could be depended upon, requests
were constantly made by the
miners to send their mail "by him.
The loads soon increased, and be it came
evident that they could not tie
on all the letters. The miners then
ordered a handsome little mail bag and
fitted it to the dogs shoulders. It
fastened around his chest by one strap,
and around his body, back of his forelegs,
by another. He has never missed
a trip for about three years, or lost
a letter. Now, when the stage comes
in he gets up, stretches himself, walks
to the postoftice, waits to have the
mail strapped on him and starts off as
as soon as he is told all is ready. He
will go a long way around to avoid
meeting a stranger, seeming to realize
the importance of his mission.
As might be expected, Dorsey is a
great favorite with all who know him.
The picture shows the animal with the
mail-bag on his back and his fore-feet
on a rock, as if he had just stopped to
rest on his way up the side of a rugged,
desolate hillside.!
San Jose (Cal.) Times. '
His Best Girl. .
The following anecdote, from the
Detroit Free Press, is about a drummer
who, on arriveing at a hotel,
asked at once for letters, One was
given him by the clerk, which he read
eagerly, then kissed it tenderly. Home
of the men standing near laughed
? aloud, and joked the man about his
"best girl." The man coolly offered to
let them read the epistle:
"I guess not," said the one who had
been loudest in demanding it. "We
like to chafe a little, but I hope we are
gentlemen. The young lady would
hardly care to have, her letter read by
this crowd," and he looked repruouo
fully at his friend.
"But I insist upon it," was the answer.
"There is nothing in it to be
ashamed of except the spelling ; that
. is a little shaky, I'll a dmit, but she
won't care iu the least. Read it, Hardy,
and judge for yourself."
Thus urged, Hardy took up the letter
shamefacedly enough, and read it.
There were only a few words. First
he laughed, then swallowed snspicuously,
and as he finished it threw it
on the table again and rubbed the back
of his hands across hisjeyesasif troubled
with dimness of vision.
"Pshaw !" he said, "if I had a love
letter like that"?and then he was silent.
1
"Fair play!" cried one of the others,
with an uneasy laugh.
"I'll read it to you boys," said their
friend, seeing they made no move to
take it, "and I think you'll agree with
me that it's a model love letter." And
this is what it read:
My owen deer PaPa?I sa mi
PRairs every nite annd Wen I kis
yure Pict-ure I ASK god to bless yoU
gOuOd hi PaPa yure best gurl
DOLLY.
For a moment or two the company
' remained silent, while the little letter
passed from hand to hand and you
would have said that every one had
- hay fever by the snufllng that was
heard.
Rivers and Lakes.
fRiveas are the mortal enemies of
lakes. The river that flows into a
lake brings stones and sand and fine
mud, and, dropping these into theqniet
water, endeavors to fill the earthcup
that holds it. Th& year's tribute
of sediment may have as little apparent
effect as the year's tribute of water
which quietly escapes to atin'sphere
and occau ; but the river is long
of life and steadfast of purpose, and, if
years and centuries prove too short, it
resolutely persists through geologic
ages. The river that flows away from
\ a lake constantly deepens its channel
of escape, and tbus attacks the lake's
rampart at its weakest poiut. If the
rampart is of loose earth, this is rolled
and floated away bit by bit, and the
work goes on merrily; if it is of Arm
rock, this is dissolved, and then the
process is exceedingly slow. But time
is lr?ng, and even by solution the ramIpart
may be cliauneled to its base, and
the whole lake drained away.?lorum.
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Farmer Bell.
Farmer Boll did not believe in menial
or moral suerar plums in his own
family circle. H$ was quite willing to
commend friend or acquaintance, hut
he had a theory that his own family
would he best improved by a Spartan
discipline. The children must learn
to do their duty without praise; and as
for his wife, she had toiled for fifteen
years without having once been told
"that she was a satisfactory housekeeper.
One night the two came home from
a tea party at a neighbor's house, and
Mrs. Bell, with the courage ot the
meek, said:
"Ezra, it seems to me I heard you
praisin' the mottoes the Smith girls
worked.
"Yes, I did," said Mr. Eell. "Real
pretty they were for such nonsense."
"Vnnr own frirls hav? made some
just like 'em. You'd better praisj
them. It'll tickle 'em to death. And
didn't I hear you say that squash pie
for supper was powerful nice?
"Well, Miranda, 'twas a good pie."
"Was it a mite better'n mine, Ezra
?"
"Well, no, I can't say as 'twas."
"When have you ever said one
word to praise a pie or a cake I've set
afore you ?"
"Maybe I ain't praised you much,
Miranda, but then I ain't complained."
"Yes, you have," said Miranda.
"Yes, you have! Sayin' nothin's
complainin' sometimes It's just like
pushin' a heavy load up hill besides
what ye" have agreed to carry, to go
along day after day an' not hear a
worao' praise."
Ezra began to think, although he by
uo means changed his spots entirely,
he did from that time try to act on the
theory that "women folks" are fond of
commendation.?Selected.
Pioneer Justice.
A story that Judge Reilly occasionally
repeats when the subject of Michigan
justice is up for discussion, runs
substantially as follows:
When Gratiot county, Mich., first
began to be disturbed by pioneers, and
after it had its first justice of the peace
a farmer named Davison walked three
miles to secure a warrant for the arrest
of his neighbor named Meacham for
assault and battery. To save the constable
a six mile trip the defendant
walked with the plaintiff. They encountered
his honor just leaving his
house with his gun on his shoulder,
and Davison halted him with:
"Squire, I want a warrant for this
man for striking me."
| "I'm in an awful hurry," said the
squire. "Come to-morrow."
"So'm I in a hurry, and I'm going
to have a raising to-morrow."
"Meacham did you hit him?" asked
i the justice.
I "Yes."
"Davison did you strike first?"
"No.
"Meach m, had you rather work for
Davison three days than go to jail ?"
"I guess so," answered Meacham.
"And will that satisfy you, Davison?"
"Yes."
"Then make tracks for home and
don't bother me another minute! My
son has just come in with the news
that an old bear and three cubs are up
the same beech down at the edge of the
slushing, and I'm going to have some
bear meat if it upsets the supreme
bench of Michigan. Court stands adjourned
at present."
Chicago Tribune.
Gathered Notes.
More pigs and less dogs, more bacon
and less debt.
More depends on management than
on the breed.
Georgia farmers cultivate the Snan
ish peanut extensively as food for hogs.
Milk should be strained directly into
the creaming vessel, immediately after
milking.
Corn meal, cooked into mush, and !
given to cows warm, is said to be a
choice food for butter-making.
It pays to curry and brush the cow,
to \vash the teats and udder before
milking and provide a bed for her.
Wet grass is injurious to young chickens
even in the summer. Do not turn
the hen and the brood out until the
sun is well up.
Farmers who have lands well underdrained
-enjoy advantages this year,
while almost every day brings a soaking
rain.
Some compensation for floods and
hindrances to farm work by continued
rains may be found in the greater crop
of grass.
Hens will become lousy now if not
provided with dust baths and the hen
house kept clean. Lice propagate very
rapidly in warm weather.
Successful dairymen believe that a
cow, to be a success, should earn an
annual sura equal to her entire value.
Watering throughs by the roudside
at convenient distances are highly appreciated
by travelers, and are sure indications
of kind and hosnitable farm
ers.
You may denounce monopolies, combines
and trusts, but nine chances to
one your credit wiUl give you more
trouble in the end t han all of them
together.
Gigglers in Church.
Giggling i9 described in the diction*
ary as the act of "la ughiug with short
catches of breath," -.as "laughing idly,
tittering, grinning." It is silly and
childisn enough anywhere, but in
church it is abomir.able, and yet there
is no place when; giggling is more
common. It is natural in school girls,
but when met with in young women
of nineteen and twenty it is unpardonable.
It is frequently characteristic of
young men with incipient mustaches,
who think they qualify themselves for
manhood by aftecting contempt for
what their elders revere. They giggle.
If they catch the eye of an acquaintance
they giggle; if an old woman
rises too soon for a hymn they giggle
; if a baby cries they giggle ; if the
clergyman cough they giggle ; if the
plate is handed to some one wiho puts
nothing in they giggle; if some one
near them sings out or repeats the responses
loudly they giggle; if the
choir makes a mistake they giggleIn
fact nothing is too insignificant to
arrest their notice and produce a giggle,
not eVen the fact that thej' have
just enough sense to giggle because
they did giggle, and can giggle.
There was an Irishman who said
that he thought the moon infinitely
more valuable than the sun, "because"
said he, "you have the sun in the day,
when you don't want it, wheresis, you
have the moon at night, when you do
want it."
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE
LESSON XI, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL
SERIES, SEPT. 15.
Text of the Lesson, I Sam. xxlv, 4-17?Commit
Verses 11, 13?Golden Text, Rom.
xii, 21?Commentary by tbe Rev. D. M.
Steams.
[Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by permission
of H. S. Hoffman, publisher, Philadelphia]
After David and Jonathan parted that day,
as recorded in the last lesson, David obtained
from the priest some bread and also the sword
of Goliath, and then fled to Achish, king of
Oath, but was also afraid there, and, feigning
himself mad, soon made his escape from
that quarter and came to the cave Adullam.
Here he was joined by his father and mother
and brethren and about four hundred men,
over whom he became captain. He did not,
Vintro-por fnrrv Inn it at Adullam at this time.
but, having made provision for his father and
mother with the king of Moab, ho sallied
forth against the Philistines and defeated
them. His company Increased to six hundred
men, and he had with him Gad, the prophet,
and Abiathar, the priest; they abode in
strongholds in the wilderness, and Saul sought
him every day, but God delivered him not
into his hand.
4. "And the men of David said unto him,
Behold the day, of which the Lord said unto
thee." Saul, who so persistently sought David's
life, is now completely in David's power
and his men seem to suggest that now he slay
him; but as David himself had cried, "Be
merciful unto me, 0 God, be merciful unto
me" (Pa. 11,1 and Title), so he would 6how
mercy even to Saul, and is content to lay no
hand upon him, but simply cut off the
skirt of his robe privily to show him afterwards
that he had him in his power.
5. "David's heart smote him because he
had cut off Saul's skirt." Even for asserting
this slight token of his power, he feels condemned.
.
6. "The Lord forbid that I should do this
thing unto my Master, the Lord's anointed."
Here is anotherflview of the case; Saul was
not acting like the anointed of the Lord
should act, his life did not testify in that direction,
but as td his office he was "the
anointed of the Lord," and therefore responsible
to God to act as such; and if ho failed
it was for the Lord and not for David to deal
with him.
7. "So David stayed his servants tflth these
words; * * Saul rose up out of the cave
and went his way." We may do very much by
kind words and the manifestation of a Christlike
spirit to hinder others from speaking
against or touching in any way the anointed
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8. "David * * cried after Saul, Baying,
'My lord the king,1 * * * and stooped
with his faco to the earth." Notwithstanding
David's fears andofttimes questionable
conduct, here is a truly humble and
forgiving spirit. Whatever were his sins,
his heart was in the main right with God,
and his failures tell us the truth of that which
he himself wrote: "Verily, every man at his
best estate is altogether vanity."
9. "Wherefore hear est thou men's words,
saying, Behold David seeketh thy hurt?"
Saul had turned a deaf ear to the words of
God, and was giving heed to the lying and
deceitful words of men, and was, therefore,
far from the way of peaca The only rest of
soul for man is upon the words and thoughts
of God; but how few, even among Christians,
rest quietly there? The words of this or that
man, what some one has said or reported, is
constantly heeded, and there is, therefore,
such unreet, while all the while the God of
peace is speaking peace and longing to give
peace to all who will hear Him.
10,11. "Some bade me kill thee, but mine
eye spared thee; * * yet thou huntest my
soul to take it" Here David recounts the
incident in the cave, and displays as proof of
the truth of it the part of Saul's robe which
ho had cut off, thus testifying most unmistakably
that there was no evil in his heart
towards SauL Notice how David saya to
Saul that it was the Lord who delivered him
into his power in the cave; when we^begin
to see the Lord and acknowledge His hand in
everything all fears and doubts will soon vanish.
David was now in a better frame of
mind than when he talked with Jonathan of
Saul frilling him; but the circumstances were
different now, and it is so easy to be bright
when the sun shines upon us; there is more
glory to God in being joyful in the dark and
cloudy day.
12. "The Lord Judge between me and thee,
and the Lofrd avenge mo of thee; but mine
hand shall not be upon thee." This is beautiful
on David's part; this is surely casting
his burden upon the Lord; it is in accordance
with Rom. xii, 19, "Dearly beloved,
avenge not yourselves, but rather give place
unto wrath;" that is the wrath of God, not
your wrath; let Him manage alL Oh, what
a resting place this is; we have not to fight
our own battles, for it is God who flghteth
for us; we have not todefend our reputation,
but commit all unto Him; we have no revenge
to take, but inasmuch, as whoever
touchethus toucheth the apple of God's eye,
just let Him see to it in His own good time
and way.
IS. "Wickedness proceedeth from the
wicked, but mine hand shall not be upon
thee." If the boys of all our Sunday schools
would act upon this principle, and remembering
that wicked words and deeds proceed
from wicked hearts, avoid all such, refusing
even, when injured by them, to lay a hand
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hearts would be won by such a spirit and
learn of the new and clean heart which alone
can act in such a way.
14 "After whom dost thou pursue! After
a dead dog, after a flea." In chapter xxvi,
20, when he again had Saul in his power and
spared him, he uses similar words, comparing
himself to a flea and'a partridge. David was
as harmless to Saul as a dead dog, for he had
no thought of doing him any injury; but
Saul, tempted by the evil spirit of envy which
had taken possession of him, fancied all manner
of things against David, and his fancies
were helped by the liars and slanderers about
him. How many wretched people live today
who imagine that evil is surely coming to
them from this or that direction, while the
truth is that the imaginary source of evil is
as harmless as a dead dog or a flea.
15, "The Lord be judge, * and see
and plead my cause and deliver me out of
thine hand." "Judge nothing before the
timo, until the Lord come." "We shall all
stand before the judgment seat of Christ."
"Every one of us shall give account of himself
to God." These are some helpful words
of the Holy Spirit upon this matter from the
Now Testament In Ps. bcrii, 12, we read
that "He shall deliver the needy when he
crieth: the poor also and him that hath no
no helperand David proved these things in
his own experience. So may we if we will
but commit wayB and works and thoughts
unto Him, and firmly believe that He is the
living God and careth for us.
Id "Saul said, Is this thy voice, my Bon David)
And Saul lifted np his voice and wept"
There are many such words and tears nowadays,
but they do not amount to anything.
That they did not mean much from Saul at
this time is evident from chap, xxvi, where
we see him as hotly as ever pursuing David j
to tako Lib life.
Wistloin vs. Weapon's of War.
We see that in those communities
where it is usual to carry weapons to
defeud life?as in the Southern States
?there are many more lives lost; that
those persons who never carry deadly
weapons are scarcely ever murdered;
and that the governments that used no
deadly weapons in enforcing their
laws, were as well obeyed as those who
use them, and were more free from
foreign invasion. Under these circumstances
it does not appear very inconsistent
with common sense and common
honesty to tell us pompously that
our plans would be sure to fail. Our
opponents should bring at least one
well attested case of the failure of
peace principles against the many we
can bring of their success, before coming
to so positive a decision against
them.
Although the majority still refuse to
accept peace principles, yet the number
who accept them is constantly increasing,
and includes some of the
wisest and best of mankind. I will
give quotations from some of them,
and put at the head of list one from
our Saviour himself : '"My kingdom
is not of this world; if my kingdom
were of this world then would my servants
fight."
Irenoeus (A. D. [60) says: "Christians
have changed their swords into
instruments of peace, and they know
not how to fight."
Tertullian (A. D. 197) says: "Can
one who professes the peaceable doctrine
of the Gospel be a soldier? Jesus
Christ, by disarming Peter, disarmed
every soldier, afterwards; for
custom can never sanction a wrong
act."
Archbishop Wheatly says : "War
is a great disgrace to civilized men and
Christians."
Lord Brougham says: "I abominate
war as unchristian. I hold it the
greatest of human crimes. I deem it
to include all others?violence, blood,
rapine, fraud, everything which can
deform the character, alter the nation,
and debase the name of man."
Southeysays: "Whence is it that
wars stiil disgrace the self-styled
Christian world ? It is owing to the
doctrine of expediency. If Christians
had boldly looked in the face of
their duty, as developed in the New
TVqtAmenfc. this senseless and infernal
system of wholesale butchery must
long ago have ceased."
Soame Jenyns says: "As contrary
as. cruelty is to mercy, tyranny to
charity, so is war and bloodshed to the
meekness and gentleness of the Christian
religion."
Dr. Arnold says : "Could there by
any possibility have been another war
in the world if we had accepted the
mercies given us ? The Sermon on the
Mount cannot be read by any good
man without the strongest feelings of
shame and humiliation for the contrast
between the picture of Christian
principles there drawn and the reality
he sees around him."
Chalmers says : "The mere existence
of the prophecy, 'theyshalllearn
war no more,' is a sentence of condemnation
on war and stamps a criminality
on its very forehead ; so soon as
Christianity shall gain a full ascendency
in the world, from that moment
war disappears."
Robert Hall says : "War is nothing
less than a temporary repeal of
the principles of virtue. It is a system
out of which almost all the virtues
are excluded and in which nearly
all the vices are included."
Sydney Smith says j "The greatest
curse that can be entailed on mankind
is a state of war. All the atrocious
crimes committed in years of peace,
all that is spent in peace by the secret
corruptions, or by the thoughtless extravagance
of nations, are mere trifles
compared with the gigantic evils which
stalk over this world in a state of war.
God is forgotten in war, every pririci
pie of Christianity is trampiea upon."
Adam Clark says: "War is as contrary
to the spirit of Christianity as
murder. Nothing can justify nations
in shedding each other's blood."
John Wesley says : "Shall Christians
assist the prince of hell, who was
a murderer from the beginning, by
telling the world of the benefit of
war ?"
Theodore Parker says : "War is in
utter violation of Christianity. If
war be right then Christianity is
wrong?false?a lie. But if Christianity
be true?if reason, conscience, religion,
the highest faculties of man
are to be trusted?then war is wrong,
the falsehood, the lie."*
Jacob Abbot says: "In war the
blood, the agency, the thirst, the
groans are as nothing compared to the
raging fires of hatred, anger, revenge,
and furious paasion which nerve every
arm, and boil in every heart, and with
which thousands upon thousands pour
in crowds into tne presence of their
Maker. There are what constitute the
reals horrors of a battle field."
Dr. Guthrie says: "We talk of
wild beasts?we speak of savage animals?but
when does nature, in her
most savage aspects, present any scene
analagous to a field of battle ? A
thing in truth so unnatural is war
that men would stand astonished to
see the brates copy their example and
outrage nature by so monstrous a sin.
A battle field were men, brothers?the
children of a common Father?are
met to destroy each other, is the most
revolting and indeed monstrous spectacle
this earth offers to the eye of
God."
Dr. Midhurst says : "There must
be a strong connection between the
peace society and missionary exertions
because war is the principal antagonist
to the circulation of the gospel."
I will sum up this/ubject Dy a quotation
from A. Barnes, which is as true
as it is forcible:
"There is no one subject on which
men have been more wicked than on
war. There is no one subject on
which they have been and are more
befooled. There is no one thing on
which the sentiments of the world
are more certainly destined to be
changed. There is no one thing on
which so much reputation has been
gained that is that to be reversed."
Sunshine on a Dull Day.?"Let
us make a little sunshine!" said Uncie
Jack.
"Make sunshine!" said Jennie.
"Why, how you do talk!" smiling
through her tears. "You haven't got
a sunshine factory, have you ?"
"Well, I'm going to start one right
off, if you'll be my partner,? replied
Uncle Jack.
"Now let me give you the rules for
making sunshine. First, don't think
of what might have been if the day
had been better. Second, see how
many pleasant things there are left to
enjoy. And, lastly, do all you can to
make other people happy."?&el.
Horrible Memories of alio American
War.
Stanhope Sams, in the Atlanta Journal,
writes: The battle of Chickamauga
was altogether the most
stragic strife of modern time. Wounded
soldiers are said to have been burnt
alive at Chattanooga.
The real history of that fight can not
be told iu the marble sculpture of some
magnificent memorial of victory. It
was written once, and best written,
upon the hearths of thousands who
saw the death struggle, in the shrieks
of wounded men, dying in deserted
heaps between the lines of battle, or
perishing hopelessly and miserably in
the flames kindled by the torch, or by
fiery shot. The dead were not those
alone who had been mortally wound
ed. Want of surgial attention, want of
water, and the flames that swept over
the parched field in an onset which no
soldier could withstand, swelled the
fatal list.
As pictured to me by soldiers who
had fought throughout those two terrible
days, the scenes must have been
horribly pathetic.
"My regiment was in the first
charge of Ector and Wilson's brigade,"
said an old soldier to me. "I
fell in the front line at the farthest
point we pushed to in the assault, and
when the brigade fell back before
Baird's charge, I was left between the
lines. Other wounded soldiers had fallen
close to me, and I could hear their
low moana between the hissing shot.
Bullets hurled above us and raked
the earth abou t us onall sides.
Branches, cut from the trees |by shot
and shell, fell like hailstones. Now
the Federals would charge over us to
be driven back by the Confederates;
but always we lay there in the path of
the bullets, and one by one died slowly.
The second day the flames crack ling,
in the woods took up the role of
destruction, though they did not reach
me before the 'rebel yell' that Sunday
evening told me that we had won. I
was picked up that evening, after lying
woundea two days between the
lines.',
This would seem to be bad enough,
but it was not the worst. The woods
were as dry as powder, and they were
in some way set on fire during the
fight of Sunday. The widow Glenn,s
house, Bosecrans headquarters, was
burned down. All through the woods
that skirted the right side of the Dry
Valley road, there had been terrific
fighting and heavy slaughter. The
dead and wounded cumbered the
ground. Through this corpse laden
grove swept the long line of fire. It
leaped from twig from leaf to leaf, and
from copse to copse. Neither blue nor
grey was spared by this barbarian ,
sDoiler. Nor did the dead only consti
tute this enormous funeral pyre ; ine
wounded soldiers, stricken aown by
shot, writhed and groaned amid the
flames.
"1 saw where dying men lay in the
track of the fire," said a Confederate
soldier, "but I could do nothing. I
was wedged in the line and on a wild
rush at the enemy. There was only
one way to go?straight ahead. When
I came back, the ground had been
swept by the flames and the wounded
had ceased their g:roafiing."
"On Sunday morning." said the
same soldier, "as our division was being
hurried forward to support the ,
centre, I noticed a little hut in the
woods in which were crowded at least ,
fifty, possibly a hundred 'wounded ,
men. No surgeon was with them. ,
They had no water, no food, no one ,
to offer consolation. They were absolutely
alone?awaiting death. Late that
evening I returned though the same j
wood. The flames had swept away
the hut. I know not how many had
perished, but I'could see charrea flesh
and bones in the ashes."
Poor Lytle was dying in Chatta- j
nooga, mortally wounded in that ,
ghastly fight. But he had friends and (
peace around him, "The path to Sty- }
gian horrors" was lighted for these |
wretches by the flame of their own ,
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funeral pyre.?xzeratu uj j. cuw,.
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Yarlous Thoughts.
BY J. H. J
Tenderness is the ornament of love.
Love without tenderness is unlovely. "
Devotion is not increased by dan- (
cing. . ,
The greatest of sinless calamities is
insanity. . ,
Recreation should be a help to busi- ,
ness, never a business.
No one can bear the cross of Christ }
but the Christian. j
No person of good sense will be
found in a theatre or in a ball room. ?
Walking rapidly on errands of love |
or of mercy is a very good exercise.
The more we combine veneration
with doing good to the needy the bet- "t
ter. .
Devotion makes human beings an- J
gelic, but dancing makes them simple- ?
tons. ,
The alpha and omega of Christian
patriotism is honor to God and good ]
will to men. (
All men would be glad to be "as wise ,
as serpents," but few desire to be ''as
harmless as doves."
Before we approve or condemn any
sentiment or conduct we should carefully
and honestly examine it in the
light of Him who is "the light of the
world."
If we are wise unto love toward God
and toward man we are greatly wise 1
for time and eternity. *
Thfi arrnwa of truth enter the deep- t
est into the memory when they are
well shaped in a poetic form.
Cannot Christians meet Christians
and fight in love ? Yes, if saints and
angels can fight in heaven in love.
Evenrthing about war is disagreeable
ana loathsome to the truly sensible
philanthropic Christian mind.
We can never be in any place in life
truly and reasonably hopeful, unless
we have a "good hope through grace."
Sawing wood is an excellent "gymnastic"
exercise, and very useful as
well as very healthful for a young
man.
No person of good sense will be
pleased with military display and
pomp and noise,even if he believes in
the propriety and necessity of war.
The pious sayings of the weakest
minded and obscurest saint are words
more beautiful and valuable than the
choicest wisdom of the moat learned
worldly philosopher.
What our world needs everywhere is
the Bweet, all conquering power of a
holy and sublime love, free lrom selfishness
and folly, such as lived in the
character and life of Jesus Christ, the
Pritace of Peace.
That poor saint who languishes out a
long life on a bed of sickness and pain,
a beggar or a pauper, may live imI
mensely more to the glory of God than
[the Christian who gives millions of
dollars to benevolent objects, or the
Christian who spends his life in preaching
the Gospel in foreign pagan lands.
Those manual exercises that will do
the most good to our suffering fellow
beings should be sought out and preferred
before all others; they are far
better and more elevating to the philanthropic
mind than any "gymnasium"
that has yet been or ever will be
discovered by the sharpest ingenuity of
men.
The nations of the earth, even the
nations of Christendom, aa nations,
have not yet learned the alphabet of
Christianity, as tuaght by Christ and
His inspired Apostles?what a burning
everlasting shame! They cheerfully
spend untold millions of dollars
for hated war purposes, even in time
of peace, but how little for peace by
arbitration. Let these Christian (?)
nations in Europe and America, all of
them at once, abolish their useless, mischievous,
arid expensive War Departments
and establish Peace Departments.
This they ought to do, even if
f-.hpu worn nofi'nnc nf InflHola Vin?7
much more when they profess'to be
Christian nations.
War Inconsistent with Christianity.
Capt. Howe, late a staff-officer of the
Royal Engineers, thus relates how he
came to resign bis commission and
leave the army.
He was on service in Natal daring
the Zulu war, and had been sharpening
his sword with a file, and was running
his finger along it, admiring its
keen edjje, when the thought flashed
across his mind, "And what is this
for ?" and the answer came as instantaneously,
"To run through a fellowcreature."
"I was so startled at the thought,"
said he, "which for the first t}me came
home to me in this form, that involuntarily
I dropped my sword, and from
that time determined on the first opportunity
to quit the profession."
This determination was carried out at
the conclusion of the war, and he is
now enrolled as a soldier in a nobler
army, one that seeks to save the. souls
of men, and tbe lar.c that is heard of
him is that he has gone to the Cape as
a missionary, and is preaching to the
miners of Kimberley. This instance
of conviction as to the true character
of war and its inconsistency with any
profession of Christianity is not a solitary
one, for we know from the early
history of the Christian Church that
numbers of young converts to the
Christian religion left the Roman
army, feeling that Christ's precepts
"unbelted the sword of every soldier,"
and made it impossible for them if
they followed Him to lift their hands
against tbeir enemies. But some of
them suffered death rather than serve
in the army, one of whom was young
Maximilian, who in the year 260 A. D.
had his head struck off by order of
Dion, the pro-consul.
When he was brought before Dion
and asked his name; Maximilian,
turning to him, replied, "Why
wouldst thou know my name? I am
r? O nn/1 nor>n/\f fl 79
a vuiiottau ouu uiuuuu u^uu
Maximilian was registered five feet
ten inches high, and Dion bade the officer
mark him. Bat Maximilian refused
to receive it, still asserting that
be was a Christian, upon which Dion
instantly replied, "Bear arms, or thou
3ha?.t die."
To this Maximilian answered, "I
cannot fight if I die. I am not a soldier
of this world but a Jttdier of
God." Dion then said, "Who^has persuaded
thee'to behave thus?" Maximilian
answered, "My own mind, and
He that called me." Dion then spoke
to his father, and bade him persuade
his son. But his father observed that
bis son knew bis own mind, and what
was best for him to do. After this had
passed, Dion addressed Maximilian
again in these words, "Take thy arms
and receive the mark." ."I can receive,"
says Maximilian, "no such
mark. I have already the mark of
Christ." Upon which Dion said, "I
will send thee quickly to thy Christ."
"Thou maVest do so," says Maximilian,
"but the glory will be mine."
Dion says, "Among the life-guards
if our master, the Emperor, there are
Christian soldiers, and they fight."
Maximilian answered. "They Snow
what i9 expedient for tnem, but I am a
Christian, and it is unlawful to do
ivil."
Dion said, "Taki? thy arms. Despise
aot the profession of a soldier lest thou
perish miserably." "But I shall not
perish," says Maximilian, "and if I
should leave the world my soul will
ive with Christ the Lord."
Dion then ordered his name to be 1
stricken from the roll, and delivered <
:he following sentence: "Maximilian, ;
because thou hast with a rebellious |
spirit refused to bear arms, thou att to '
lie by the sword." Maximilian re- 1
plied, "Thanks be to God." <
He was twenty years, three months, i
ind seventeen days old, and when he <
ivas led to the place of execution he <
said with a pleasant countenance to his
ather, "Give the executioner the sol- I
iier's coat thou had gotten for me, and <
vhen I shall receive thee in the com- I
Dany of the blessed martyrs we may
ejoice together with the Lord."
J. L. in British Friend. \
The Work Cure.
BY SENEX SMITH.
"How, then, is a sick man to get '
veil? Medicines don't seem to do me
my good, and you don't seem to think i
ihere is any help for me in the faithjure."
1
"Shall I tell you my theory and 1
jractice ?" 1
"Yes; for you seem to be always
veil and cheerful. You must have i
lad a better constitution than I had." ]
"No. On the contrary, I was a deli;ate
child, and until I learned about (
he new cure, I was sick a great deal. <
[ often have symptoms and premoni- 1
ions of the old maladies now. But 1
ivhen they come like cold shadows i
jreeping over me, I do not go to bed, f
)r begin to take ail sorts of herb teas
md patent nostrums, nor do I kneel
iown and pray to the Lord to make j
ne well. I go out into the open air. j
[ dig or mow or chop until the perspi- t
ration starts from every pore, and tne j
jlood tingles at my fingers' ends. f
While working I pray. I can pray in ]
aith then, for I am doing my best to (
;vork out my own salvation. The f
Lord will hear the prayers that I send ,
jp while wielding the axe. Its strokes (
?ive emphasis to my supplications. \
They are hearty 'amens' tnat enforce (
ihe petitions. Paul says: 'We are la- j
jorers together with God.' God works ^
in us 'both to will and to do.' When
we are too lazy to do anything, it is
evident that the Lord is not working
in us. Exercise is necessary to a J
healthful circulation. When we re- *
fuse to take the exercise, and thus '
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stimulate the flow ofblood, our prayers
for health mean that God Is-earnestly
requested to abrogate the laws of
Jifeinour own case, and work mirk
cles because we refuse to use means. I i
tell you. neighbor, I believe in. the. 4
faith-cure, but the faith that cures
must be of the kind that works:"
' Then, if you were called upon to
prescribe for me, what wonld you tell
me to do ?"
"I would refer you to the divine pie*
scription given in Gen. ill. 19: 'In
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread.? Aud to Paul's commend to
the Thessaloiiians: 'If any man will," .
not work, neither shall, he eat.' These
are statements of a law of our nature.'
Physiologis ts tell us that digestion depends
upon exercise, it is nob food :
that nourishes our bodies, but food digested
and asiiimilated.'. If we eat .
more than we can digest, the excess
becomes a burden land a clog. Kfctl&g
without working is one or thenioet
Droliflc causes of disease. The svstetti
is weakened by that which should^
used to build It up. w
The Extinction op leistrbe.? -tj
"Millions for. enterprise; for thought .
not a penny." should be inscribed oyer
the doors of our state-houses and'our
national Capitol . The enticing of men
and women into -ways of expanding
their energy or the fruits thereof, i? become
a fine art. Seclusion is departedfrom
the world. The emtieanfee- of
traffic invade our homes, beset us Upon
the road, and lie in wait for us at out
places of resort . Though we See to
the desert they are there, tior is Tefage
from them to be found op the tops o!
mountains orln the islands df the sea.
Whoever would! keep even with the ^
world by limiting his wants is regarded
as a shirker o r his duty.,
The sum of modern ethics 1b contained
in the ward do. Dotbat which
is good if you ca n, but rest assured you
shall be pardoned for doing evil more
readily than for doing nothing. 'Jf
Even when applied to the main
chance, If men did but know it, leisure
is often the best of .investments.
Nothing1 can be more useftil to a man
than the determination nob to M hor**
ried. The popular idea thft a man's
prosperity or his usefulness depends
upon the amount of his business; Is
not a correct one. Here, as everywhere
else, quality counts for more
than quantity. The most sucoessful
man is not he who is always doing.
Ask an old merchant how to succeed
and he will tell you: "Do not fcry^to ' ^
do tot> much."
We make merchandise of ourselves
in order to satisfy our constantly expanding
volume of want?the-meas^
ure, as we are told, of civilization.
The more wants we are rouble to refuse.
the more civilized webecome.
If this be civilization, let lis get back
to barbarism at once. We .-are a richer
and a busier people, but we are- p6ttth< ,
Caliy, industrially, and socially ? less
independent people than' were Americans
of two generations ago. Leisureis
necessary to democracy. With no-,
leisure there can be intelligence, and
without intelligence democracy cannot
exist.
i Tick Cholr Bent on Bathing;?
The editors continue to poke fan at the
performances of the modern quartette
choir. This piece, which hat been
floating around among oar exchanges
for some time, is a sample: "Off start- ';V p
ed the nimble soprano with the very
laudable though startling announcemen
:, 'I will wash.' Straightway the
alto, not to be outdone, declared (die
would wash. And the tenor* finding^
it to be the thing, warbled forth be ? v .
would wash. Then the deep-chested
basso, as though calling up all bis fortitude
for the plunge, bellowed fbfth
the stern resolve that ne would waui.
Next, a short interlude on the organ,
strongly suggestive of escaping steam
or splash or waves, after which thechoir
individually and collectively a?*?H
serted the firm, unshaken resolve that
they would wash. * At last they solved .
the problem, stating that they proposed
to 'wash their hands in innocency^' \'A
so will the altar of the !Lord be com- . '
parsed.' "
?#i ' 'a
Household Service.?Ib it not
possible to re-establish the home partly
on its old basis, partly on the new ? s
By simpler living, simpler dressing, a
more equal division of the interests
without with the. interests within, a
more sensible training of the girls, ay,' <
and the boys, too, in requiring the duly
pe rformance of certain light household
duties. This, while it lightens
the lfihors of the often severely-taxed
one or two servants, makes the later
young man or woman practically Independent
of the insolent presumption of
the kitchen goddess when aware of the
helpless ignorance of a timid mistress,.
:>r of ttienon-interferenoe of an easy
master to whom the resources of cIud
ar hotel are readily accessible when the
iomeatic machinery moves unsteadily. . _
How many men and women pledged
;o love and cherish each other have
drifted apart through lack of just such
training.?The Home Maker.
A Boy's Foresight.?A little boy %.
wanted his mother to make him some
nightshirts, "just like papa's," and
put a pocket in them, too. The good -. A
mother made him one, and he went to
ted in great glee.
In the morning, when the mother'
took the robe off, she fonnd in one ;
pocket a couple of seed-cookies, three matches,
a tooth-pick, a small silverwatch,
several pieces of cough-candy, .
md the boy's pocfcet-nana&ercnier i
When the little fellow was asked '
ibout this varied assortment, he implied
: 4 Vj
"Well, I thought I might be hnn-:
jry in the night-time, and If I ate the
cookies I'd want the tooth-pick after-.
tvard; if I wanted to see what time ft
was by my watch, I must have a
natch; and I was afraid of coughing, >
jo I put my candy there."
War, in any shape, from any motive,
md carried on in any mode, Is utterly
ndefensible, on Christian principles,
ind utterly irreconcilable wuhaChrls;ian
spirit. ,When will the disciples,
tnd, above all, the ministera of the*
Prince of Peace, acknowledge, in
iheory and oractice, this i great and
tolemn truth ' There was a time
ffhen the distinguishing mark of'
Christians was that they would not
>ear arms. But for more than fifteen
?n turies Peace has been the lost Pleiad
n the constellation of Christian
virtues. ; .
The youdgmen who are on the lookrat
for a "soft place," through dislike
or honest, hard work, can find it unler
their hats.
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