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L'SY IIUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY,, 8, 1890. VOLUME XXXEV. NO. 33.'^ W Little lirowu Hands. They <lrl vo home the cows from the pasture, r l'p through tin* loins shady I line, Wheie tlio<|iiail wliistks loud in the whCfltI IM.Is All yellow Willi ripening grain. f They find, in tlin thick, waving grasses, Whore lho scarlet-lipped strawberry grows., I Tlmy gather I ho earliest snowdrops,' ' And I ho lirsi crimson buds of the rose. They toss the iiay in tltc meadow, i They eather the elder blooms white, k They iind where the dusUy tern pes purple r Jn tlie sott-tinteil October light. I They know where the apples hang ripest, I And arc sweeter than ftaly's wines; They know whore the fruit is the thickest On the long, thorny blackberry vines. They gather the delicate sea-weeds, And build tiny castles of sand; They pick up the beautiful sca-she:!s? Fairy barks that have drifted to land. They wave from the tall, rocking tree-lops, Wheie the oriole's ieimiiwk-ncst swings, And at night-lime are folded ill slumber By a song that a fond mother sings. Those who toil bravely arc strongest; The humble and poor become great; And from those brown-handed children Shall grow mighty rulers of State. The pen of the author and statesman, The uoblc unit wiv of our land; The sword and chisel and palette Shall be lield in tlie little hrown hand. xVctr Haven .Xcir.s. How Children arc Spoiled. BY MUS. MAKY (,'. CLTI.KK. We speak of anything as spoiled ; when it is ruined for the purpose for j which it was intended. A garment ; is spoiled when it is rendered unfit for i ^ wear, tltough its material may be put I to further use. ' Food is spoiled when , it is no longer suitable to eat; ^ though, in the economy of nature, it may still serve some inferior pur- i pose. ? A child is made for the kingdom of . heaven ; and he is spoiled by whatev- < er unfits him for that kingdom, ; though his life may run on for scores i of years, and, according to the world's low standard, be accounted prosper- , otts. j i It may be well, then, to think of j j some of the ways in which children . become unfiled for the kingdom ofL heaven, which is to be made up of such ! | ' as unspoiled children are. I First, by not being taught about ; that kingdom. J leaven lies about ' them in their infancy. i "Not in entire forget fulness, I But trailing clouds ol ulory do we come From (i?xl, who is our home." But soon the shades of earth's pris j oil-House close upon me ciniu ; ne sees \ "the vision splendid" die away, "and .' fade into the li^lit of common day." 11 The child who can read, and is not taught how to use his J'ihle, is being'' spoiled. The Jiihle is not merely aj| text book to lie studied in Sunday-jl school or read according to some pre-11 scribed method at home. Jt is a guide r] book to show the way through life: ' and children should not only be taught I * such truths as they need now while 1 Ihey are young, but they should be learning how to make practical use of v the Bible when, as I hey grow older, V they will have to scok out for them- 1 selves the paths in which they should walk. Another way of spoiling children is n ^ by awakening in them the spirit ofili V doubt. It is the nature of'unspoiled ! v ^ childhood to be trustful, litit this ' t spirit of trustfulness, so necessary toic those who would enter the kingdom < of heaven, begins sometimes to hejc lost at a very early age. because of pet- | ty deceptions practiced i;p??:i Silicones li at home. And !hen, as?.:>< n :t child j i goes out into the world, h< * IS !l. iiiOSt J ( sure to find the spirit of doubt prr-Uj vading the very atmosphere hele breathe*. When iKireiits are not them Id selves of a skeptical mind, they sonic-! i times allow their children to rend or in hear that which foste s a habit of ('oalit. j?i But, saddest of all, the influences! |] which leail children todotidt the real- 1 ity of the kingdom of heaven is the U influence which comes from the incon- v sistent lives of Christians. How can 1 one teach children to seek first the j? kingdom of (Joii,wlien they can plain-: I ly see that it is the last thing that (i many Christian people seek? How n can we make them bilieve that it is'j for their highest interest to live accord-1 ing to the (iolden lluie, when they see people all about them who seem t<>: delight chiefly in driving hard bar- A Ol* llllU' fait VIC ln.'ldl llll'lll till* I1 S"1"" ~ -?- - |sin of selfishness, when nil tlit* people 11 they know seem to be wholly inllu-;'1 enced hy present selfiuterest? ' j "Do you licar the children weeding ami ili.iproving. | fi O my brothers! what yc preach ? ! ;i For God's possible is luugiit hy his world's lovinir, i1 And the children doubt of esieh." s Some ehildren have been spoiled by V not being recognized as Christians; when they were already within tin1 kingdom of heaven. '1 hey have been t taken, as it were, from the veiy arms '' of Jesus, and set down in the eo!d 1 world, and told to slay then. until liny,;1 were able to give an ace.iuiit < !'1 iicin- a selves. They have been male !<> ii-cli'' that they must pass through jsoiho j t- l! euliar experience before ilie;, ean i.e f-r Christians; and so they wait and wail ' for something which never comes, uu- v til the enemy has had time to build ><> many barriers between their souls; and the kingdom of heaven that they 1 ij never, so far as we can see, find their (1 way hack again. We may hope tli:ii |, some power unsoen L?y liuiuan eye will j, lift them over the bar. iets; for Jesus naid. "It is not the will of your Father ( which is in heaven, that one of these! * little one.sshouIt! perish hut he a.'so'u fluid, "Whososhall cause one of these | little out s which helieve on me toj stumble, it were better for hini that a j jnillstone were handed ahout his neck ' and that he weredrowiied in the depth <| of the sea." The Holy Spirit can re-j new the hearts of little children, even j from birth, either in response to the; prayers of believing pannts, in ac-j cordance with his own sovereign will; s for the wind bloweth where it listeth, { Mid we hear the sound thereof, but I cannot tell whence it comes or width-1 er it goes; "so is every one that is born of the Holy Sirit's work is to be found s< in its results, and not by prying into v the mctlioil ol us operation. A child may he spoiled l?y failing t?> a teach him lo follow the Lord's will, i'1 Children shouid he learning how to J a discern the Lord's will in his provi-,'1 dential dealings as well as in the writ-!(l ten Word and the promptings of the <' Holy Spirit; and, at the same tinie.it their own wills should he educated in-, to conformity with the divine will. Another way of spoiling a child is hy (l allowing the latent sellishncss of his s heart to develop. This is such a com? ^ mon result of his heart to develop.-j ^ This is such a common result of the | thoughtless trainidg of ehildien, that) it is quite commonly spokon of as I he way hy which children, are spoiled, i "While needless denials of a child.-; > wishes are wrong because of their::i - discourage effect, thoughtless and in- j i 0 I [ Wll IIM ? ! !! ? ! : discriminate indulgence ot a child's whims is a y**t greater wrong. because! it fosters the growth of that selfish-j ness which is the greatest obstacle of \ every soul in its dibi t at right living.: Selfishness is the: most deadly thing that grows in the human heart. It undermines every* good impulse; it] 1 wall's the character, ami makes one's j life a sad failure. Self-saci'iliec is the j law of <?od that runs through the*j natural ami spiritual wo; Id; audi only as a child is taught how to conform himself to this law, can he know the true blessednessof Jiving. O Oiio Way of Djing (Jood. There are a great many ways of doing good. One may give money to promote benevolent enterprises; one may give time and Ial?or to helping along work among the needy; one may give organizing talent, stimulating words, valuable suggestions. Many who cannot help m any 01 these ways may do good l?y simply having a cheerful, willing, happy spirit in them. With this spkit all who sec lliem or hoar them speak or come within six feet of them are infected. Our poet Holmes "says every lovely woman has an atmosphere a'>out hei -ix feet in diameter of grace, mercy, ind peace. Mere contiguity to such t woman is a hlc-sing. In her atmos[)here the sum shines, the llower.s hloom liiid send forth fragrance, and noxious things hide themselves. The inosquitoof gossip, the serpent of slander, the ^houf of detraction, shun her presence. She dues good >imply by being. We have jars of j>ot-]iourri in oui rooms to make them delightful l<> the .d factory sense. Kvcry ingredient in .^ach jar lends itself to the eflect proJuced. We add one sweetOdor and mother and another to heighten the richness and delicacy of the fragrance. Each individual is a jar of jiof-j/onr i. Every faculty, capacity, quality, in lim lends itself to the total cHcct he roduces upon his fellows. Ilis good jmilitks manifest themselves to the spiritual olfactories; the evil ones ikewise. How we rejoice when we : jerceive a good man, pure and true, a tracious woman, sincere and genuine. i\'e may never know (heir names or uL-t.I.i<f nt.xrp.n.li 1 ion selves on our minds ami hearts, ind we think better of ourselves and < nore kindly of our fellow-men for laving .seen and felt tlieir influence. 1'liey have done us good simply by lie- i llg. i "1 love to visit Mrs. (J.," said a lady I lie oilier day; "slie lives in a little. 1 wo-roomed llu(, she economizes elose- i y, for she has to, hut she is so cheer- i ill, so contented, so happy, I hat F conic i .way feeling thankful for every tlii 1117. do think she can trump up more 1 ilessings (o the sijtiare inch than any 1 >erson I know." A gentle, cheerful, kindly spirit in 1 whomsoever found is a benefaction to 1 verv one who comes in con tad with t. ? ? 1 Kstki-:m.?In domestic rule esteem is 1 nore potent than indulgence or even ' urbearance. When boys or girls go 1 wrong, a very frequent cause is that j liev are not esteemed at home, or fan- ' y they are not. This esteem inusl l?c , ;enuine; it cannot he pretended or ounterfcitcd. Hence in .a governing ' icrson there are.lcw qualities so valua- ' ile sis readiness to appreciate merits, or 1 nyenuity in discovering the'r, cspe- ' ialiy t tie latter. In every large family f ir small circle of friends there is genially some very diilienli person to uu- 1 Icrstund. This person is of! en exceed- ( ngly tronhle.*ome, a; d Jo use a com- ' non expression, '-veiy ti\ing." His ' if licr merits, for lie or she is sure to ! lave some, have not been found out. ' 'iinl them out and appreciate them ; a ' treat deal of the trouble of dealing 1 nth that person will be removed. ] 'lie value of imagination in domestic 1 overnnieiit is very great. I!' we eould lave statistics on thcsubjcct we should 1 ind, I think, (h:it the children of uni- i iajiuative people are particularly ' ijone to go wrong. -Arthur ]!> tj)s. 1 M * '* U ...... .... \\*.. I . ".\ t_ o.M imm; i .\ m,r, o??ii r 1*r >? w i Said a homely, bent 'ittlc man * atiietieally, when speaking of tin- \ n.llitT of his uiti'ilrcii, who had done or life-work: "It comforts me to i now that Sally would alius lie down very afternoon an' shepabit. Some ; >lks tho't 'twas a dretlul lazy habit, ;i tid 'twas no wonder we didn't, jjjet ieh faster, liut she suited nie je?i as | he was. Sally was a comfortable sort ( f a woman to have ar.*ni:<l, never | rettin' at a feller or fuullm' him when | hinjrs didn't fi'o rij^ht. When feelin' t roiihhd she'd often say, 'J'alher, I | elieve I'll lie down lor a lew minutes,' >. iieit baek she'd come spry and ehippei sa canary bird. Sally didn't drive i nd scold, "but she wa.-n't la/.y, au' she ( ifou^ht up the youn<;sliTs (<> do their j art. I don't see thai drivin' women | els on one note better than she did. t docs comfort me to know that Sally ; i-ould take Iter rest.''?.S- U < .'/(/. \ I ihs Vkkv Own.-Little Tommy 1 - i 11. 'im.*.. ( n?r a \ vi > |h;h iii\h luitn. i uu 11 ?< !* day liis I" m-it* John brought lim, as a birthday pnsent, a "word : Mine," which Tommy had never play- ' <1, and which did m>t seem to be par- \ ictilarly attra?*.ivc to him. Nevcrihch'-s, Tommy lh:inkc<i his I Iiiclc; ami l#y ami I?y. cd:r5ii;f arouml lis chair, lie a-kiMl : ; "Sav, iinclc John ?M "Well?" 1 "This iramc truly bcloims to nic now, * loii'l it "Why, of cour.-c." i "To do just what I want towith it?" "(Vrtainlv." 1 "Thou I'll l?'ll you what I'll do- I Jl i ell it to you for It'll criils!" ' Youth's (nuijtfiniiri. | Oncol' the highest compliments pas- , fd upon an cniiiicnt servant of (Soil ( rho had gone to his reward, was that , he was never known to he other than | Christian yentlenian.'' Jle was no | i-lation of tJio nn'ii wlio rise angrily ml unmercifully denounce a Urol her ( era use 11i~ name appears in ??|>j??wiI ion i> soiiii1 pel scheme. A child of (ioil | an't atlhrd to 1 e anything hut "a Chris-!; ian gentleman." The si rained eflort t<> do (no much is in* cause of the large amount of slip- ! hod, inellieient work that all dephuv i nd yet accept. No one ran give of j lis l?est until lie has learned what t?? 1 uv aside as well as what to do. What is education?" asks a writer. ( iVell, it is somelliing a college graduite thinks he has until lie heroines a lewspaner man.?Ale. , tg?am ! i i?u miKMTOium k iv ir t i.hotmhi A Little Temper. r.v covsix ritt'R. "lie's the very I??-st 1 i<?y in (lie world ; his <?n!y fault is his temper." This was the text from which Mrs. K??yes h::il preached since the time when Willis was old enoiiL'h lo make his demand* in broken, eooing words, and heat his head upon the floor with loud screams if these demands were not complied with. Sisters, cousins and aunts had echoed the chorus, until, as Willis grew to manhood, h?> began to l<>ok upon his uncomfortable disposition as an enviable distinction, and was (juite free in his contemptuous illusions to the boys "who hadn't a bit of spunk!" In his own home, the brief restraint he had experienced from his fathereaded with tlie latter's death when the boy was five years of a^e. Neither mother nor sister dared venture to oppose his wishes, lest opposition should bring on one of his attacks ; and friends became cautious and reserved in his presence, since the people who weie attracted by his bright, handsome face, his generous open ways, were disenchanted when they came in contact with the stubborn self-will and selfishness which lay concealed under that prepossessing exterior. Yet it seemed hard and unkind to call Willis selfish. Jle never shirked his duties; he was fair and generous with his playmates, ready to hesjr his part in school or playground. He had risked his UK1 more than once lor his fellows on the skating pond or in rescuing the inexperienced from the deep waters in summer. He would watch with a sick schoolmate njglit after nighl, (ending him as kindly and carei*uil.v as a woman ; and he had a natural aversion to what was low and base, which made him a sort of mentor among the younuer boys. Counting over lo himself his numerous virtues, us was often his custom, he could never understand why it was that the hoys feared him rather than loved him, and shut him so completely out of their eonInlcncis. "You know 1 was ;i littie out of temper," seemed to him in ample apology for any deed committed during these frequent outbursts. Time went on, and Willis graduated from the law school which had suereeded the academy. His family was now in straightened circumstances; lor not only had the expenses of his L?ducation been heavy, but they had met with reverses which swept away n large part of their income. That Willis should at once become self-supporting seemed an absolute necessity; and bis joy was unbounded when lie received from an old friend of his father -a famous lnwver in another nart of tilo Stale?a proposal to enter his office. "I make you this ofier," wrote Judge C'aton, "not only because < f my old friendship for your lather, bill beeause 1- have heard frohl your inslruetors <ueh favorable reports of your talents, norals and business luibiis. Without hose recommendations, 1 should nol liave fell justified in taking you into my ofliee, however strong my wish to lelp the son of an old friend might ie." If was a letter which stimulated Willis' self-conceit to the utmost. As ie boarded (he train which wa* to take lim to his destination, his only feeling ivas. not that so groat good fortune hail tefallen him, but that lie .so well deserved it. The depot at the junction where hey stopped for dinner was close and jrowded. The meal proved unsalisfac ory; his ulster had been blackened by i carol css porter; lie had an unpleasiiit altercation with (lie ticket agent >ver the change, and rusher! out on he platform to see as he supposed, his alise. which he had left tor a moment, ani-hiiig up tlx* steps of the rear car n the grasp of an elderly woman. WillLs'^inger was at its height. He 'tislied through the crowd of hurrying >:issetigers, elbowing his way to left 11id right, to tiie alarm and dismay of he belated host, pushing an oiliejous nakeman to one side, swung himself o the platform, and, crowding down lie aisle, brought the offender to a land still, as he roughly snatched the alise from her grasp. "This is my proverty, madam !" he M*gan in thunder tones; "and I would id vise you in the future to be careful is l<> whose belongings you appropriUe." 'he roused, indignant look in the atly's eyes, as she turned toward him ?iiIv added to his wrath. Unheeding ier attempt at explanation, he poured \>rt 11 a torrent of rage and vituperaion, until the conductor's hand upon lis coal collar brought him to his lenses. "This car is for ladies and gentleneii," said that ollicial, with a (piiet nipha>is on the last word. "Madam, f this valise is your property, will you vimlly demonstrate it by opening it"."' As she took a key from her purse tlHl lilii'U II i?? till' n?n\, v> uii>, i?(|mviy recovering Iiis senses, saw how reined ami IK-autifu 1 was tlie face tun d toward him, how elegant the: linisli if the ilark, plain traveling suit. The lock yielded beneath her lingers, iml the satchel opened, icvealing a nass (?f lucked and rullled muslin, ,vhieh brought the color in a sudden lood to her accuser's cheeks. '"Is the young man satisfied?" she t.-ked with (juiet irony. And, followed by the jeering laugher of his fellow passenger.", Willis, overed with shame and confusion, tank into his seat to brood over his dis otn lit lire. lie had not yet recovered his spirits a*hen he presented himself the next uoriiiug at his eni; loyer's ollice, nor i\as he reassured by the look ol sur rise and disappointment Judge (,'aton cstowed upon him. "And you aie Willis Keyes," lie *aid, slowly, piercing him through and hroiigh with Ills sharp glance. "Kor i'our father'ssaUe, 1 will pay your fare lioiue: but J regret to say that 1 can not lake von into my olliee.'' ' Hill, sir, 1 ih) not understand," fillU'l't *>1 Willis. "I,el me explain. I was on Ui?* train yvsteiday at Newmarket, and witness d tlie disgraceful scene in which you ttTiT ti 10 principal actor. Nothing wonI< 1 induce mo to take into business v\"i111 myself a young man so utterly lacking in deference to age ami womanhood, so oblivious of the common proprieties iff life, and so completely ilestitute of self-control. (Jo hack to your home, young sir, and remember ihat no man need expeet to conquer I he wor'd till he has first, learned to I'oiupier himself." It \v:i< a I>iIioi* lesson ; hut Willis in his humiliation did not deny his need, uf its leaching. Then and there he I Civilly OurMPtvcq Out. (Soclhc says, "Tlio world adopts I every person'for what ho gives himself J out to he." At (irst Hash we are inclined to challenge this statement. Jiut the fact is wo "give ourselves out" in a great many ways we neither intend nor suspect. One's carriage, movements, expression of face, attitudes, voice, the choice and (it of our clothes and our habitation, our friends and companions?all are hut a network of "looped and windowed raggedness" through which he that runs may get a glimpse nf our real character and know more in certain ways ahout us than we know ahout ourselves. A dog always knows when you arc afraid of him. You march past him with an air of hravmlo. What slink ol nr mi toward wrinklinir ol registered a vow that his enemy should In; slruggh*d with and overcome. There were many hallles to he fought, many temptations to meet, but in tlie end he conquered : and now, in his own beautiful home, surrounded hy the wealth ami beauty he has acquired through .years of faithful and persistent (oil. t lie one fault which is never condoned in his children, which is constantly held up before them in all its enormity, is "a little temper." Illustrated Chrixtiroi IIV/!7//. ?: War u Great Sabbath Breaker. War, as is well known by all intelligent persons, disregards the Sabbath. That great and good man, William Ladd, "of whom the world was not worthy," says : "Christians should labor and pray for the abolition of war because it violates the .Sabbath more than anything else. I believe more battles have been fought on the Sabbath by Christians, sj called, than on any other day. J never heard of but one General in modern times who refused to give battle on the Sabbath because he should break the laws of God, and lie was a Roman Catholic. That war totally disregards the Sabbath is too notorious to require proof." Many of the greatest battles of the present century?whijh Christians boast of as the century of great moral progress?were fought on the Sabbath. Nelson's groat battle of Trafalgar, the greatest and most destructive battle ever known on the ocean, was on the tSalibath. . fi he great battle between Bonaparte and Wellington, at NVateiloo, was on the holy Sabbath day. The battle of New Orleans, iu January, I SI"), which cost the life of the British commander. Ciencial Packenhani, and made Andrew Jackson President of the United States eight years, was fought on the Sabbath. That battle would not have been fought if there had been telegraph wires across the ocean, as now, as a treaty of peace had been made between England and the United States about two weeks before the battle; so that battle did nothhty to bring peace between the two wicked nations. The first great battle of the great American civil war (Hull Hun) was fought on the Sabbath day. And how many other battle* were fought during that war on that day, I do not now recollect. My fellow-Christian men, is it not hi?h time for you all to arise and say: "No more battles 011 the Sabbath day! No more batths in Europe or America on mil/ day. ./. ][. in. Mcaxrvycr fit 1'c.rio.c. Mother's Day. She was a woman 01 anoui sixty, I lie wife of a Pennsylvania farmer. There was not a picturesque or uniisiial point about her; she was tall, Jean, ami round-shouldered. Indeed, as she walked wilh long, loping strides from the kitchen totheeellar, the eow-yaid or the wood shed, she hore an absurd likeness to the gaunt hound that fol-lowed her. J lor day was not eventfhl. She rose at four in the morning, and made up the llres in the stoves. Her hushand and sons were asleep. "Men," she said, "hated house work." She did not call the girls until breakfast was nearly ready, because "young things needed sleep." She milked live cows before the sun was fairly up. The farmer, his live children ami two-farm hands sat down to breakfast, and she poured out the codec and bi^;ed the cakes which they ate. After they had finished she ate her own breakfast, if she cared for any. Then came washing or iruiing or .scrubbing or baking u.itil it was time for the : lwavy noon meal which she cooked. Her daughters used sometimes to help a little, but in an idling half-hearieU way. Sometimes she would drive ( them out with a <jucer pathetic smile. 1 "Voung folks like pleasure. They ought to have their fun!" she would say. There was the morning work to tin- | isli after the dinner was over. It was 1 a large I'a.m, and the men were hearty eaters. She "laid down" great quantities of meats and canned and dried vegetables. < After supper was over, everybody found some recreation but mother. The fanner smoked, the young folks visited the neighbors or gathered at * ' tliwl Olio ?-1 > I O! I Mi; |IUIl'll lIlilUUlllQ <1.1.. laughing. Mother was inside ;it work, sowing or willi her great basket of .stockings. She would look out at them smiling. "They like llieir fun," she would say. siie looked at I hem again sonie'.imcs as if, old as she .vas, she would like some lun loo, hut she never joined llu 111. They were with the friends whom they hud made at college and school. Mother hud heeu very little at school when she wus young, lies ides, she hud no time for idlimr. Sometin us when she was making shirts for the boys; she worked until midnight. One evening her youngest girl read her a story, which she thought would suit her mother's intellect. It touched and phased her greatly. She spoke of it for a year afterward. One of her days wa^ like all the others, except the Sunday, when she had lime to go to church. She was very ha, py there, Itllt especially when they I sang any hymn which she had known as a girl; she would join, scarcely , . move her breath, for she knew her voice was cracked. When strange is remarked that she , was growing thin, her children replied that it was no wonder. Mother's energy would wear the llcsh from any woman's hody. Her ;ij?]>t-titv* tailed, the very smi'll of (lie salt meat and cabbage which she cooked nauseated Iter. She used lo listen eagerly when I hey I:,Iked of the fruits which ennld he bought in the city. IJiit' nohody noticed it. ".Mother'' had always been the motive power, which had kept the' whole machinery in motion. It neverj occurred to anybody that the ] owerj could he exhausted. One day, however, when they eame| down to hreakla^t, the tahle was not spread, and the tires were not lighted. For the tiivt time in her life, when she was needed, mother lay in her lied still and <|tiiet. She would never work for them more. After they had huried her they knew how much they had loved her. Their! grief was sincere and deep. They never wearied in talking of her unfailing gentleness, her tender patience, her perfect unselfishness. None of them seemed to think, however, (lint by any etlbrl of theirs they could have kept her with them still, loving, patient and unsollish. your clothes, or unconscious quickening of your motion, gave out to the dog th it your heart was being dissolved within you? There was something that told it; and the dog knew it. A horse knows instantly when the hand of a master holds the reins ; and little children know whom to irust and whom to s.ispect, whom to obey ami whom to defy. You enter a street car and the man opposite who gives you a casual glance (settles very definitely some things you never suspected in yourself. There is a tine line of superciliousness in your force, especially when the car goes past a law quarter, there is a slight toss of your head when you gather back youi skirts from the washerwoman with the dirty baby; there was hardly a hair breadth of motion, but it told direction as plainly as if it had been two miles. You pose before yourself and your world as a benevolent person. You assist at the Cash-girl's Fair and the Children's Fresh Air Fund and dress Christmas dolls, and you love your neighbors as yourself in many ways which you could mention, but you "give vourself out to be" something * ? ........ f i.? quite Ullieri'lll irwiu j-viu iuvui avn wj | u turn of the lip or :i tone ot the voice ?a word spoken or a word omitted. You have heai'd people use French I phrases to convey the idea that they were conversant with that language; hut instead they gave out very definitely that they knew nothing whatever about it. Some slight difference of sound?very slight, hut absolutely impossible to one who understood himself?betrays alike the ignorance and pretence of the would-be Frenchman. Have you never seen young Hirls sign themselves in autograph honks, "ro/rc funic1' or "voire ami?" Well, they simply '-'give themselves out." 1 rave you never seen a lady keep the conversation in her hands and at her own level ? From herself as the centre, she reels oil' platitudes, or hurls javelins of remai ks among her guests, who gasp monosyllabic replies. This lady prides herself upon being an entertainer, a conversationalist, the queen of the occasion : but in irutli she "give herself out" as a fearful bore ?a person to l>e run from a thousand miles. ' It might have been worse," said an i old Englishman when his wife died; i "it might have been me." He thought he was justifying the ways of i God to man"?but he was only "giv- i ing himself out" as a selfish man as he i was, for everybody else was of opinion that it had better have been him that < I i l'i I. ( 'I keep my keyhole stuffed with pa- ( per,'' said a discreet duenna in a whis- j per; and this "gav'e out" that she her- ] self was in the habit of keyholes. A lady makes herself a slave to an!, elegant, wardrobe?and she looks like j what she subjects herself to ; she eon- , veys some definite impression of the supremacy of clothes and the subordinacy of herself. She can never have I he subtile air of distinction which i :i woman has who docs not think ofi i [ lotlies, who can look right without spending great and constant thought upon her garments. ,So in a thousand ways the impress- * ?ion we really make is exactly opposite to the impression we designed to | make. Probably the great German was not far from tiie truth when lie said, "The world accepts every person for what lie > [fives himself out to be." > 7Vide siwake. ; I i A Harm moss Tam:.?".Remember ? lionora," Sciitl Mrs. l'crkins to the new t nurse girl, "that 1 do not allow the t chiidren to hear stories that might j frighten them when they go to bed. a Von may tell them al?ont birds and j harmless little fairy stories, but noth- ., ing about bears or lions." , "Vim, mem, replied Honora; and u this was the harmless little story she told that night: ? "Wanst there wuz a gr-r-r-eat big" " motisthcr of an animal wid horns uii' 1 a tail of hot lire au' teeth a yard long, 1 that whit around in the dead of the 1 noight alio up little byes un, girruls ' that hoddered their nurse askin' her to; > tret up an, give them wather in the ( noight, an tellin' how she lift the baby , ^ Ibrawurrud wid the peiiaecmine in!' the prrnk, and little thingsloike thatt. j' An' this ter-r-ible big moiisther could h i;o roight through solid walls, moind j1 yeex, an' he'd ate yeez up' fore yeez ' uould sera me out. Now cuddle up an' H'o to slape lioke good byes an' gurruls or he'll be afther yeez iiv yeez say a wuituiI. Moind that. Slhopyer shiv-;( erin' now, J>irdie; an' phwat do yeex ' mane by ehatterin' yer ieeth loike * that, Willie? To slape wid yeez or 1 yeoz'll be ate up the niinit I takes the A light out." J Tin-: lintns in tiih Pji:.?You all \ know the old "Sing a Song of Six-!' pence," Have you ever read what it t meant ? The four and twenty black birds! < - < i......... ; represent iwt'iuy-iinn IUUU3. intu?ij loin of ilie pie is the world, the topi crust is tin- sky (hilt overarches it.' The opening of the pie is day dawn, ' when the birds begin losing, and sure-j. ly such a sight is "a dainty dish to set i. before the king." j The king, wlio is represented as sit-,, ting in his parlor counting his money, J. is the sun; while the gold pieces that slip through his lingers are golden sunsninc. The (Jueen, who sits in thej dark kitchen, is the moon, and the s honey with winch she regales herself v is the moonlight. . il The industrious maid, who is in the:l. garden at work before the king?the, j sun?has risen, the day-dawn and the'' clothes she hangs out are the clouds, * while the bird which so tragically ends 1 the song by "nipping oil'her nose" is the hour of sunset So we liaye the whole driy?in a pie. 11 if York World. 11 Mankind's Mistakes. J It is a mistake lo labor when you .are not in a lit condition to <io so. To think that the more a person eats "the healthier he will become. To no to bed at midnight and rise at daybreak and imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To imagine that if a little work or exercise is good, violent or prolonged exercise is better, To conclude that tli^mallest room in the house is large enohgh to sleep in. To eat as if you only had a lujnute to finish a meal in, or to cat without an appetite, or continue after it has been satisfied merely to satisfy the taste. To believe that children can do as much work us grown people, and that the more hours they study the more they learn. To imagine that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better (as alcoholic stimulants) is good for the system, without regard to the after effects. To take oft'proper clothing out of season, simply because you have become lieated. To sleep exposed to a direct draught in any season. To ihink that any nostrum or patent medicine is a specific for all the diseases liesh is heir to.?Exchange. Table ok Measures.?The following is a table, by which persons not having scales and weights at hand, mov? rmulilv mp.'isin'p the nrticle want cd to form any recipe, without weighing. Make some allowance for any extraordinary dryness or moisture of the til tide weighed or measured : Wheat flour: one quart is one pound. Indian meal: one quart is one pound two oz. Hut.er, when toft: one quart is onfc pound. Loaf sugar, broken : one quart is one pound. White sugar, powdered: one quart is one pound two oz. Iiest brown sugar : oue quart id one pound two oz. Ten eggs are one pound. A common tumbler holds half a pint. A teacup is one gill. A large wine gla^s is one gill. Forty drops are equal to one teaspoonful. Wash You it Hands.?Cases of infection that could be accounted for in no other way have been explained by the fingers as a vehicle. In handling money, especially of paper, door-knobs, banisters, car-straps, and a hundred tilings that every one must frequently touch, there are chances innumerable of pickingupgerms of typhoid, scarlatina, dip'hiheria, smallpox, etc. Ye! some persons actually put such things in their mouths, if not too large! Hefore eating, or touching that which is to be eaten, the hands should be immc diately scrupulously washed. We hear much about general cleanliness as "next to godliness." It may be added that here in particular, it is also ahead uf health and safety. The Jews made no mistake in that "except they washed they ate not.'-' It is a sanitary ordinance as well as an ordinance of de?ency. Learn to be a man of your word. One of the most disheartening of all things is to be associated in an undertaking with a person whose promise is not to be depended upon?and there ire plenty of them in this wide world, people whose promise is as slender a < :ie as a spider's web. Let your given void be a hempen cord, a chain of .vrouglic steel, that will bear the heavi;st sort of weight. It will go far to naking a man out of you. And a real nan is the noblest work of God?not a i unip of moist putty, moulded and ( shaped by (he last influence met with hat was calculated to make an impres(ion ; but a man, a forceful, energized, lelf-reliant, and reliable character, a )ositive quanity that can be calculated ipor. - Standard. There are impossibilities in this vorhl even lo ti man of determined vill; ns, also, there are possibilities to 1 t muii who does not expect to carry hi* ! >oint. 15ut, as a rule, the man who I ays, iu advance, of any difficult task, I 'It can't be done," fails in the effort i 0 do that thing, even when he tries to lo it; while, on (he other hand, the nan who says of the seemingly imposible, "It shall be dotie," is likely to j nake bis word good. A purpose of i ichievcment is iii itself an achieve- ; nent, and an expectation of failure is ] 1 failure from the start. | ? l Good Looks.?There are faces that ' night be beautiful were they not emp- I y, telling of a starved soul so plainly 1 hat he who runs may read. There are >ther faces that might be beautiful t vere they not written all over with i liscoutent and selfishness. An artist t vho had secured an unwilling China- j nan to sit as a model said to him, 1 l -1- -i t t 'John, it you don e iook mtasauici .. i. vont pay you." "'No use," said John ; \ 'when Chinaman feelee ugly, he|t ookue ugly." j J There are within the range of every nie's life processes of Jife which must j je solitary?passages of duty which i hrow one absolutely upon his individ- ] lal moral forces, and admit of no aid | vliatever from another. Alone we l nust stand sometimes; and if our bet- 1 er nature is not to shrink into weak- | less, we must take with us the thought' ( vhich was the strength of Christ ! i 'Vet I am not alone, because the Fa : her is with me." '( Emotion is the bud, not the flower ;jl mil never is it of value until it ex- ti ?ands into a flower. JO very religious i entiment, every act of devotion,! | vhieh does not produce a correspond i ng elevation in life, is worse than use-11 ess; it is absolutely pernicious, be- t ause it ministers to self-deception and U ends to lower the tone of personal I 1,. uuiais. A small boy in one of our public! g chools was reading, and came to the j vord "napkin," and hesitated. "Why!, In you stop there, Johnny?" said thai? eaelier; "you know what a napkin is, |( lon't you ?" "Oil, yes," said Johnny, lis face brightening up ; "that's some-11 hing we use when we have com pa- j iy."?JIauffor [Maine) Commercial. | ! i Bill Nye says "the peculiar charac- {} eristic of classical music is that it is i eally so much better than it sounds." jl I Climb to Host. V"U must r climb. If I would rest, Tae ?.irj soars upward to his nest; on the tree-top high, Cradles ltsei* within the sky. The ktrenmf'ai111 to hasten down, Iteturn In cloud." the ?. *i|c (*i*qwii The plant nrlscs from h<H8 ?rown To rock aloft her flower and I ennnot In the valley stnj , The great horizons stretch uwuy; The very cliffs that wail me round x Arc ladders unto higher ground. To work, to rest?for each a time; I toll, but I must also climb. What soul was ever quite at ease, Shut in by earthly boundaries? 1 am not glad till I have known ,y .Life that can lift me from my own. A lorticr level must be won, A mightier strength to lean upon. And heaven draws near as I ascend; The breeze Invites, the stars befriend, All things are beckoning to the best; I climb to Thee, my God, for rtfst, Lucy Tsar com. If others say how good you are, asK yourself if it be true. Prayer places us, with all our surroundings, iu the light of the eternal. The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the fair weather of the heart. Human innocence is not to know evil; Christian saintliness is to know evil and good, and prefer good. The scriptures teach us the_J>est way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of^tfjK^ ing. . The man who does a generous act and >' lets the world into the secret shows the world a peach after rubbing the bloom from it. >? Treat all men and women considerately aud you will be surprised at the dividends that will come to you daily and yearly. Kindness is the music of good-will to men, and on the harp the smallest ringers may play Heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. Cultivate a cheerful frame of mind and the mind will mold the face and the tongue and the voice into something irresistible. Keep doing,always doing. Wishing, , dreaming, intending, mourning, talk ing, singing and pining are idle aud profitless employments. % Good nature and good manners may be classed under "whatsoever things are lovely" in entire satisfaction?both essential and ornamental. Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness ; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. When you move toward God in your j desire, He moves toward you; touch * Him with faith, he touches you with instant salvation. This is His gospel. We need at the very outstart to get the spirit of the gospel. Untold harm has come from knowing only the letter, and especially the letter in detached places. A true perception of the gospel is the entire forgetfulness of self, utter absence of any pretension, and the Complete and entire refusal to accept the world's praise of judgment. When a man once gets in the habit """' "ini' merit liu mnrf'.vrdnma he ui iiicanuuiig iuv*IV vj v ? discriminates less closely, and the beat abused man, for whatever cause, seems uearest to sainthood. Enjoy the blessings of this day, if '. ^ God sends them, and the evils of Jt^v -i bear patiently and sweetly, for thisdayB only is ours; we are dead to yesterday,^ and we are not yet born to to-morrow. ; Temporary professors are like hedgehogs which have two holes?one to the north and another to the south. When the south wind fans, then they opeu to the north ; and when the north winds ehill them, they turn to the south. There is many a Christian who feels -jg his spirit revolting from them. To get up eyery morning with a firm resolve tortnd pleasure in their duties, and to do them well, and finish the work which God has given us to do, that is to drink Ch l ist's cup. Be alone with God, that your soul may be free to speak to him and to hear him; but be alone in your inmost hearts, shutting out busy, anxiqus thoughts, that they throng not in with i the prayers, and cloud not the sight y Mid thought of God. Practice in * whatever thou prayest for, and GWu w ill give it thee more abundantly. If trouble comes, be cord, and treat it peacefully. If joj* comes, treat it peacefully, without excitement. JA . ive rou&l lly from evil, let us do itvalm- . !y, without agitation, or we wray stumjle aud fall in our hisfar.' Let us do jood deliberately, or our hurry will ead us into endless faults. Even rejentauce is a work that should be earned on coolly and quietly. Believers have their summer and heir winter seasons; and both are necwsary, and, though not equally pleasmc, are perhaps equally profitable. \t one time they are taught what tue Lord can do for them, in them, or by hem. At another, he is pleased to withdraw in a measure, anu leave hem to themselves, that they may earn how litUe they can do without lim. The custom of using bells to suninou people to church is said to have jeen begun by Paufinus, Bishop of STola, a city of southern Italy, about he year oi' our Lord 4o<). In Britain jells were applied to church purposes lefore the end of the seventh century >y the monks of Northumbria; in Jaledonia as early as the sixth centu y Sleep. ?Every man must sleep ac:ordiug to his temperament; but eight jours is the average. If one requires i little more or a little less, he will find j. ~\\7linntvot* Ktf wnrlr I UUl 1U1 UlLLiaCli* !T UVWTWI KJJ ir v. mm.) dcasure, or any other cause, diuiinslies his sleep destroys his life. A nau may hold out for a time, but naure keeps strict accounts, and no man an set her at defiance. A friend says: "I wonder if it is generally known what a wonderfully ioothing effect rubbing or stroking the ioIc of the foot has in that terrible ner,*oii3 uneasiness that many invalids ,uHer from ? It will oftentimes prove if great relief in severe nervous lieadiches. Only try it, and you will find lie relief wonderful." m ? Careful diet will do much toward relioving the greasy apj>earance from four skin. In addition put a little boax in the water used for bathing your are.