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The Press and Banner. TweIvo I3n g11 s AB3EVILLK. J*. v.:. j Wednesday, Oct. 16, ? * 03. Lit lighter. i Do we, as a rule, Hcgh enough ? Is there not too much beefsteak and too! little gravy for salutary digestion in the every day consumption of brain j food ? Is there -.pice enough to season the standing dish of drudgery ? There | is a service to a riiaste laugh, and its! relation t<> physical comfort is noteworthy. Our emotions are the plaything of our su; rot:sidings, and the graces we would cultivate can never be! perfected in an atumsi here that is not, cordial. Thenighu.iu'e of disaster is; ever disturbing new endeavors and cherished ventures; and, if it is to be! dispelled, the handiest helper is the' sunshiue of mirth. To one who is in : the maelstrom of cares or who is a gal-: ley-slave in the struggle to exist or on; whose cast of dice is staked the gain or loss by living there is 110 force than can sustain as broad humor. Music has a power to lighten loads, relax bows, but a side-shaker seems to be quite as salutary to the weary ones in tho martot.nlnpp A rlittv travels to ?? the springs of the feelings, but a neat" j ly perpetrated pun makes the man of care take cheer as he toils. The mind that is lost to every appeal save the rerr quisitions of his vocation needs to be switched off, and a handy way to do it is to tickle him. A good story is told of Gov. Tom Bennett, who presided over the destinies of Idaho more than a decade ago. A member of the Legislature, who had been annoyed by his neighbor's hog, introduced a bill compelling the owner of the proscribed animal to keep him within the limits of a pen. The bill passed and w^nt up to Governor Een" nett for his approval. To the surprise of the members, and the chagrin of its sponsor, it was returned with his: veto. When asked for a reason he exclaimed : "I don't believe in the bill i in the first place, and, if I did, I! wouldn't sign a bill that spelled hog; with a big H, and Governor with a lit- j tie g." _ It is refreshing to meet an instaucej of real, practical, genial humanity. A Boston minister had occasion the other j day to visit a very poor family. He | was surprised on tapping at the door to be answered by Dr. Phillips Brooks with a baby in his arms. The fact was that the woman had been very il aud sorely needed fresh air, but had no one with whom to leave her baby. 1 The brilliant Boston preacher found her out, gave her tickets for a train ^ ride and was tenderly tending the tiny baby while she enjoyed it. Dr. 1 Brooks is a very big man, and has no baby of his own. We are glad he could have so good a time. The strongest wood in the United . States, according to Prof. Sargent, is fchat of the nutmeg hickory of the Ar- i kansas region, and the weakest the Tuition Tlin mncf tilocM/t jLiiuiiiu Uii^u. a lav iiiuow vuwwiv is the tamarack, tbe white or shell < back hickory rankiug far below it. The least elastic, and the lowest inj. specific gravity, is the wood of thej Ticus a urea. The wood having the; highest specific gravity, upon which ; the value as fuel in general depends, ( is the bluewood of Texas. i If I pierce the shoot of a plant with i the finest needle, the prick forms a knot which grows with the leaf, be-< ( comes harder and harder, and prevents ( it from obtaining it* perfectly complete ( form. Something^imilar takes place after wounds which touch ike tender i germ of the human soul and injure the!( heart-leaves of its being. Therefore j you must keep holy the being of then child ; protect it from every rough fid i rude impression, from every touch of ; the vulgar. A gesture, a look, a sound j is often sufficient to inflict such nfAnn Thfi rhild i.q more tender! ;?fthan the finest or tenderest plant. It would have been far different with humanity if every individual in it had been protected in that tenderest age as befitted the human soul, which holds within itself the divine spark. The advantage of coming to Christ in youth is like the advantage of re- ] ceiving a thorough education in the; earlier years of life. It adds something to the spiritual equipment of the man, which he can never acquire later in life. There is a certain lack of moral refinement, a coarseness of fibre and texture, about the mfln who has grown up unregenerate, which no spiritual devotion in after life can quite make good. The life pure from infancy, harmoniously developed from the beginning, has a charm, a sweetness, a sort of melodious consistency, that can be acquired in no other way. That this should be so, is in accordance with all the laws of development. It is simply one instance of the working of natural law in the spiritual world. Samonn Houses. George Turner describes a native Samoan house as a gigantic beehive, thirty-five feet in diameter, a hundred} in circumference, and raised from the! ground by a number of short posts at; intervals of four feet from each other I all around. The spaces between these! posts, which may be called open doors j or windows all round the house, aiej shut in at night by roughly plaited cocoanut leaf blinds. The lloor is raised six or eight inches! with rough stones, then an upper lay- j er of smooth pebbles, then some cocoa-! nut leaf mats, and then a layer of finer; malting. In the c-cutre of the house j there are two, sometimes three, posts,! 20 feet long, sunk three feet into the! ground, and extending to and support-1 iug the ridgepole. These arc the mjiin props of the building. The space between the rafters the na1 I tives fill up with what they cull ribs, the wood of the bread-fruit tree, split | up iiito small pieces, and joined to-j gether so as to fonn a long rod the! thickness of the thumb running from; the ridgepole down to the eaves. All J are kept in their places, an inch and a i half apart, by cross pieces made fast with sinnet, or rope made out of cocoanut fibre. The thatch is laid on with great care and taste ; the long, dry leaves of the sugar-cane are strung on to pieces of reed five feet long; they are made fast to the reed by overlapping the one end of the leaf, and pinning it with one rib of the cocoanut leaflet run through from leaf to leaf horizontally. The reeds thus fringed with the sugar-cane leaves hanging down three or four feet j are laid on, beginning at the eaves and j running up to the ridgepole, each one ] overlapping its fellow an inch or so, I and made fast one by one with sinnet j to the inside rafters. Upwards of a hundred of these reeds j of thatch are required for a single row i f I-wj tn Hiq rulrru ! luiJiuiig liv/iu tiiv. t??vo iv ?, ?# * ivtbv j pole. Another is then made, and .so on! all round the house. Two, three or' four thousand fringed reeds may be re-' quired for u good sized house. The: thatching, if well done, lasts for seven I years. To select the sugar cane leaves and! "sew" the ends on to the reeds is the j work of the women. An active wo-j man can sew fifty reeds in a day, and! three men will put up and fasten to the! roof of the house some five hundred in i a day. The great objection to the thatch is that in gales it stands up like a field of! com, and then the rain pouis into the house. What to Teach Bays. A philosopher has said that true education to boys is to teach "them what they ought to know when they become men." | 1. To be true and to be genuine. No j education is worm auytnmg uiai uoes not include this. A man had better not know how to read?he had better never learn a letter in the alphabet, and be true, genuine in intention and in action?rather than be learned in all sciences and in all languages, to be at the same time false in heart and counterfeit in life. Above all things teach the boys that truth is more than riches, i more than earthly power or possessions. 2. To be pure in thought, language and life?pure in mind and in body. 3. To be unselfish. To care for the feelings and comfort of others. To be polite, to be just, in all dealings with others. To be generous, noble and manly. This will include a genuine reverence for the aged and for things jnrrpil. 4. To be self-seliant and self-helpful even from childhood. To be industri- | ous always atul self-supporting at the earliest proper age. Teach thein that' till houest work is honorable, and that | an idle life of dependence on others is disgraceful. When a boy has learned these four things when he has made these ideas a part of his being?however poor, or however rich, he has learned the most important things he ought to know when he becomes a man. Antidote for Ants.?I tried several methods to prevent ants molesting bees, writes Prof. A. J. Cook, and found the following far the most satisfactory . I By use of a crowbar make a hole in the I middle of the anthill down to the bot- i torn, which is easily found by the more 5pen or less compact earth. Then into this hole putagill of bisulphide of car- j bon and fill and crowd down with earth. ( A.s the liquid is very volatile, and can not pass out of the now compactly filled hole, it quickly evaporates and kills all the ants. If clay be near, al- 1 ways use this to crowd into the hole, as ' it is more impervious than is sand, J though by firmly pressing with the foot the sand can be made to hold the 1 liquid. Kerosene may be UBed instead I t>f the carbon, but it is far less eflec- 1 tive. So, too of carbolic acid. By means of syrup, so covered by gauze that bees are excluded, the ants can i be trapped in great numbers and de- ; jtroyed. I have often done this, and : by adding Paris green have poisoned . the ante. Household Hints. When recipes call for a cupful it means just hall a pint; this amount i in granulated sugar weighs just half a 1 pound Salt will curdle new milk ; so in pre- f paring custards or porridges the salt should not be added until the dish is 1 prepared. s Red pepper pods or a few pieces of charcoal thrown into the pot in which . onions, cabbages, etc., are being boiled < will prevent the unpleasant odor. Two tablespoonfula of washing soda 1 in a gallon of boiling water makes a good disinfectant for the kitchen sink. : Pour it in at night, while it is still at . boiling heat. Tin nans can be prevented from rust- . ingby heating them and rubbing wellj with iinseed oil and heutiug again..? Wood ashes orwhiting(whieh is better), < mixed with kerosene will brighten|; them. Make a list, in the order in which you j, pack them, of the contents of your woolen chest, and paste it on the out-|< side. Then the articles at the herd of the list will be at the bottom of the , box. : Dusty black cashmere should be spmged with equal parts of alcohol i and ammonia, diluted with a little i warm water. When pressing use a piece of alpaca or undressed cambric i next the warm iron. ] If ironed when damp, and pressed till dry, table linen takes a certain I stiffness which is more permanent and less subject to creases than the stiffness J of starch, which is also injurious to the fabric. Lime and alkali stains may be remov ( de from white goods by simply washing. In the case of colored goods and silks the goods should be moistened and citric acid, much d'luted, applied with the finger. Rertpnflv flip leader of a Conference * v ?" -- ? meeting took the occasion to say that the great stumbling-block in meetings of the same character is prolixity. If1 those who speak would come to the point at once, utter their particular word, and then give way to others, there would be a new interest. He , was no sooner seated than one of the brothers arose and said that if the lead- 1 er of the meeting "had not been so lovy in telling others to be short, there would have remained an opportunity for the others."' By the clock!' the leader had taken twenty-six minutes to give li is very wise advice, and to show his very bad example ! When we are 011 our feet we do not know how rapidly the time passes, iiut; j those who listen always know. ? Many persons are troubled about matters which are of 110 sort of interocf thnni Mini nrp often nernloxed ' when they should be happy. Ot' what! real benefit would it be to us to know T when the worlds around us were crea-j ted, or why sin is suffered to exist "t We see the world and we feel the cf i fects of sin. It is enough for us. Dr. i' Payson said : "The Bible tells us that ]1 an enemy came and sowed tares, j Now, if any man choose to go farther j1 than this, a?d inquire where the ene-i my got the tares, he is welcome to do!1 so; but I choose to leave it where the:' Bible leaves it. I do not wish to be!J wise above what is written." "* * **" i A Brautikul Idea.?That was a i beautiful idea of the wife of an Irish j schoolmaster, who while poor himself) had given gratuitous instruction to poor scholars, but when increased injj worldly wealth began to think that he!j could not give his services for nothing, j i "James, don't say the like o' that," {^ said the gentlohearted wife; "a poort scholar don't come into the house that11 I don't feel as if he brought fresh air L from heaven. T never miss the bit I j give him ; my heart warms to the soft I homely sound of his bare feet on the floor, and the door almost opens itself 1 to let him in." |* i - I \ Poison.?A convenient way to poison > ^ rats and mice is to mix arsenic with' ^ melted tallow and cool it into a cake. s Have the tallow merely melted, not ^ hot, when the arsenic is put in. g Worth Remembering.?Blue oint- v ment and kerosene mixed in equal a proportions and applied to the hed- t 3teads is an unfailing bedbug remedy, c A little tar 011 sheen's noses will t protect them from the fly that lays the c sggs that produces grub iu the head. t 0 Fault finding is a great enemy to . beauty. About the mouth there is certain to come a cluster of lines to tell the world at large of the peevishness. It makes the eyes smaller, because ? they contract at the time, and the lips 1 grow extremely sensitive from contin- c ual biting. 9 Citizen?Don't you know, Ah Sin, that if you kill that enemy of yours g you will be hanged? Ah Sin (venge- \ ful laundryman)?No, I allee lightee? t I gottee money. I go to loonee 'ay- a um. a Being: Obliging. One (lay when little Arthur was naking mud pies in the front yard, lie jeard some one call him. It was his \unt Jane, who was landing on the 'ropt porch with a letter in her hand. "Jlun across the street and put this letter in the hox, Arthur, please," she aid. "No, I don't want to.*' answered Arthur, who did not 1 i!;< to he dUturb?d. So Aunt Jane went arros*> the street' herself and mailed the letter. Not long after this, Arthur's mother isked him to take a spool of silk to! A . 111 f T...,o ?? !,?. lHUJV UCUit, ?? IIW U.-? "No, I don't want to.''answered Arthur again. His mother said nothing. but when; -he went upstairs herself with the silk she had a little talk with Aunt .T;inel ibout Arthur. An hour later Arthur ran to Aunt, Jane with a broken whip. "Please mend this. Aunt Jane," lie jried. "No, I dou't want to." said Aunt Jane, without looking up from her sewing. Arthur seemed surprised for a moment, then hung his head and turned away. When supper was over. Arthur car ried a book of fairy tale* to his mam ma. "Please read me a story, mamma,1 Lie said. "No, I don't want to," said his mother, who was knitting. Arthur's lip quivered, and his eyes were full of tears as he sat down on a cushion in a corner to look at pictures in the book. But he forgot his troubles when his papa came in. "0 papa!" he said running to him : "please make mo a whistle." '"No, I don't want to," said his papa. This was too much for Arthur, and) he burst into tears. But no one comforted him, aud the nurse came and took him oft' to bed. While she undressed him she told him that no one could love a little boy | who never wanted to do favors, and if lie were not ready to oblige others he must not expect others to oblige him. The next morning Aunt Jane came; :>ut again with a letter. As soon as Arthur saw her he left hi* mud cakes, md ran to her. "Let me put the let tor in the box,] Aunt Jane," he said. Aunt Jane smiled and kissed him asj jhe give him the letter. She saw that Arthur had learned a good lesson, and: Lie never again refused to do a favor. ".Hake it Look Like One." Xed had a watch, a very good one,. .hough a little old-fashioned. There J iva . one thing about it which displcas->il liim : it. was a key-winder, and alii ;he rest ol' the boys carried steni-wiiilers. "Why, Ned," says his father "ev ry jeweller says key-winders arc the! nost reliable and durable. iicsides, here is no such solid ^old in any J iVatch cases in your school." Ned insisted, and his father consent-! ;d for him to take it to the jeweller. | md have a stem-winding attachmentI Kit in. He came back with a doubtful ook on his face. "Father, Mr. Smith says he can't jliange the watch to a stem-winder> jut he cau make it look just like one." "And you told him no?" "I?I?" "Wantyour watch to lie? I want| ny hoy to understand, if he if ever J i'! it.k mother l<"ison tin-, difference! >.-twe'' seeming to he and being.) Ymi Villit him to understand that j h(- wf society is the contempti-j )le people who are always trying toj ippear what they are not."?Guide. j .... Do not laugh at the drunken man j eeling through the streets, however j udicrous the sight may be. He is go-| ng home to some tender heart that! vill throb with intense agony; some loting mother, perhaps, who will grieve over the downfall of her once inless boy ; or it may be a loving wife, vhose heart will almost burst with ;rief as she views the destruction of ler idol; or it may Ik; a loving sister, vho will shed bitter tears over tliej legradation of her brother, shorn of! >ic monliripau nnrl ttoir.rpcnoft TioMior I Irop a tear in silent sympathy with j hose hearts so keenly sensitive andj ender, yet so proudly royal that they j annot accept sympathy tendered! hem either in word, look, or act, al-j hough it might fall upon their wound-; d and crushed hearts as the Summer lew upon the withering plant. 1 At what absurd trifles some women ;et angry. A female book agent, who lad cornered a poor fellow, the other lay, looked daggers when somebody angout, "Man overbored!" ? ? " .. ij? The proportion of genius to thft vul. far is like one to a million; but genius without tyranny, without pretension, hat judges the weak with equity, the uperior with humanity, and equals ivith justice, is like one to tea millions f A Thought. Hack rind fortl) across the woof of years, The shuttle of each life the weaver throM>And here and there .small bils, whence m> one knows, lank wlih the thread the nivsti*- put (em . weaving. Then lose themselves amid the srnil-s and tears Which o'er the web are lights and shadow* Innui n?r TV'Iiat Others Say. The Church Post. Hill 11 more J'uptiKt. Exactly so. He is out with his pastor, is he ? That is a way he has. It is his normal condition to be out with his pastor. We have known of his conflicts with throe or four pastors. He is immensely fond of them at first ?fairly swallowed them whole?hut as soon as a man erodes him, or as soon as he, in liis infinite conceit, fancies that he has been slighted, then he makes terms with the Devil and goes to fighting the preacher. Jt is a sort of glory with him; it makes hint feel very grand and important to have a quarrel with his pastor. He aetuaUy enjoys the notoriety of the thing, and then he has the malignity to push his contest to the bitter end. We loathe ilie spini oi .sucn a mail. ne is tne parent of discord and tlie leader iu destruction. Why does not the little hand com hi lie and -put the monster out ? It oughi to he done. Tlie Dauber Ht the Door. Chicago Christian Advocate. There has been remarkable growth in our own Church of a sentiment in favor of spending a larger proportion of missionary funds at home. He is blind who does not see that the argument in favor of such a policy is cogent and unanswerable. Our cities are in growing danger. The recent election again showed that the foreign wards in New York City almost swayed the vote in the State of New York, and that State's vote almost swerved the decision of the nation. There can be no doubt that the home Churches must do more dutiful labor in behalf of the nation, both for the sake of souls and a pure franchise. After making due allowance for Christian duty, it is just to keep in mind that (hat which we do at home is of the nature of selfinterest, and of the nature, too, of police self-protection. Texas Christian Advocate. An Episcopal minister of Louisiana is the occasion of both amusement and comfort to tin* Cliristinii flhuorvnr The account from Louisiana of the Episcopal minister who used the Presbyterian Church at Alto, and then went home to wrile about the "Presbyterian building" and the Methodist or Baptist "edifice," and the "sectarians'' who worship in them, and who are "ignorantof the Church," will afford amusement to many a reader. Noble men there are in the Episcopal Church, and a good work have they done for the Lord. But when a man at once accepts our hospitalities, and then turns around to unchurch us, we can afford to laugh. There is, however, one happy .side to this. It is, that these assumptions are not a part of the historic inheritance of the Episcopal Church, but only a fungus outgrowth in the last few centuries. It is a well known fact that the founders of fhe Episcopal church did not hold to the so-called "apostolical succession," and that Thos. Cranmer, the chief founder, passed with a single step from layman to Archbishop of Canterbury without passing through the intermediate orders of deacon and elder. The Rocky Mountain Methodist explains the origin of "Christian Science." It is to the hoped it will run its course in this country so rapidly as to die in the beginning. No one can lnive n right appreciation of duty who does not appreciate his own individuality. For himself, and by himself, a man must work his own work. But neither can a man rightly appreciate his individuality and his. own work if He does not recognize his relativity. For others, and with others, a man nuist work the world's work. The past lives in us, the future must live through us-. Truly did Webster say : "Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world." We can ignore neither our ancestors nor our pos* terity without ignoring ourselves. ?S. S. Times. Tenderness of spirit is a distinguish 1IJ^ UUHicUJll'l ISUU Ul iSllcllillJ , auu those persons who have little tender ness of spirit, are little Christians. Husband?A word to the wise is sufficient, my dear. Wife?I know it, darling. That's why I have to be continually and ever" lastingly talking to you. The real horrors of war are playing out to the utmost on the hospital pallet when the theatrical business is all over. "Mention money, and the world is silent." This writer trying not long since to raise money for a good object, he found it out himself; such silence on part of nice gentlemen, nice Christian gentlemen, nice rich Christian gentlemen.?Southern Churchman. The proper place to rest your horse is on an eminence, where one minute will be worth two in a valley. We hceil them not?those fragment!- inieHuo inir With ours siime life that crossed our p;.ili one day, (So many senilis the tangled thntnU- that stray,) t'ntil amazed wo pause, some figure iiarin^ Thrown up in hold relief, and see and know The thread whoso worth we failed lo understand, Rut now whose wondrous beauty servos to show The matchless wisdom of the Master Hand. * ~ lVliat Else ..Could be Expected .' Shanghai, September 2.1.?The Emperor and members of his council are understood to be debating the memorial demanding the expulsion of Americans from China. There is a strong agitation for an increase of restrictions on American merchants and missionaries at treaty ports. What else but retaliation could sensible and sober congressmen have expected when they shut the door of immigration against the Chinese and left open doors to other classes of Europeans, many of whom are tenfold more offensive and dangerous than the Chinese? ? . wmrn oni ' The Interior has recently published a suggestive article on "How .Shall we Keep the Coutidence of our Children?" We commend the following: "There is, it ssems to me, but one sure way to briug our children to confide to , ?ii? tlm Ainfu nf tltair* anii>ihml lift* nt'i/1 uo uiv uiv.10 vi viivii o|;iiibuui iu\<t uuv* that is to show them, by our daily walk and conversation, that we live lives sustained and cheered and helped and comforted by a power higher thaD ourselves; show them, by precept and example, that we desire that they also shall experience the reality of this religion which we profess, go that when ' the responsibilities and trial- of life come to them thej' also may find the guidance and support and help which we have found. Children, who areconvinced of the reality and the sufficiency of the religion professed bv their parents to meet all the emergencies of life, will be the most likely t?> carry to their parents the story of their own spiritual struggles and i?rple.vities, and to give them that mot s.n red confidence of life, the confidence of a soul struggling against temptation and sin for conformity to the likeness1 ??t' Christ." ?<a>. DANGfcR IN NEWLV HOI.SKS. ?There is too great hasie in occupying a house after its completion. Tn many places there is such demand for dwellings and often business apartments, that, as soon as finished, they are occupied. This isespeciallv true of small dwellings. There is more danger in this than is supposed. Then- is no health in dampness ^ind ioouM under any circumstances, and in living apartments, where the tendency is towurrf poor ventilation, the danipn?s.? of newly finished houses contributes largely to ill-health. In the town of Basle, Switzerland, a regulation has been adopted which prevents newly built from being occupied tiiuil four mouths after completion. Under many circumstances, so long a time a-- ab<>ve specified is not uece-sary, but it is* ?fi?>n well to err on the side of safety. The sizeof the house, its location, surroundings, the material used, aid the srji.te of the weather enter into the consideration of the time necessary in whi?-h a building should become sultiviemly drv for occupancy. iScientific A ui' r. Fires, storms, floods, wrecks on mil rouds, disasters at sea, murders, .suicides, elopements, base ball. upstage coaches and railway ir:iin.?: defaults, stealing, acquittals and hangings, duels, prize fights are common and prominent items in Hie d.-dlies. Earthquakes,' volcanoes cloud hurst.are less common but none the le?.- indicative that ihe world is api?-?*ucliiiijr a crisis. Whether that crisis is the end of all things time will tell and that ' .??* when the people "think not." The three weeks meeting at Wa?hington Street (Methodist/ Church closed last Sunday night?and a ^r.icious time it was to many of fb?- vast crowd in attendance. It was the climax of a growing interest from rh? first of twenty one days and nights. The results in conversions are n-yorM at 150 to 175 souls. Brother i,eit<-li and Marshall left the city Momi:iy. Sufferers from the effects of rjuuiiuf. used as a remedy for chills and i.-v.-r, should try Ayer's Ague Cure. Tliif preparation is a powerful tonic, wholly vegetable, and without a particle of of aDy noxious drug. "Varmited ;? sure cure. Manning (S. C.) Academy was burned Sept. 27, at 3 or 4 o'clock in the ?fternoou. Economy wisely directed is not oniy not stingy nor mean, but the thing that makes benevolence and generou,* giving possible.