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LBY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAI1CII 5, 1890. VOLUME XXXIV. NO. 41. 3 THE LQWNDESVII IN NEW KLEOANTI<Y F1TTKU tTP sTOK , stock is butter than ever prepared to Mippl; Pure Drugs ai All leatl'i?ir Patent Medicines, Medical a; Fancy goods. Paints, Oils Varnishi School Bocks cf the kinds-1 Stationery of all kinds. Prescriptions car fid ly foni ponnded at nil intention and ability to supply all demands in ImTw With a LARG-E and " DRUGS, CHEMICALS, PATENT MEDICINES, OILS, WINDOW < prrrTv nnMT GOODS, PEK Tlio demand of this market can bo supplied. Headquarters for tine CKJAK-S and TOtJAC(.'< ed to. Prescriptions carefully compounded ai ; Vou are respectfully invited to call. P. 2B. National Banli t Abbevil Capital, Surplus, J. ALLEN SMITH, President. BENJ. S. It A It.N1 GEO. W. WILLIAMS, Charleston, S. C L. W. WHITE, Abbeville, S. JNO. G. EDWARDS, Abbeville, S. C. J. ALLEN SMITH DOES a General Bankingbusiness, provides Depositors. Is ready at any and all times I as our County affords. ^ For Sals By J. T. Sii \ P. h Tot ^ Ufl XJ.S JL IsjJI Is just openini ! Olieap 3EEoXj Don't fail "to call anc thing in the Notion lin prices. " H. W. LAV! HAVE a Large SCHOOL BOOKS Schools. And SE3 ? ?? ?v -v --v 1%/% T-v />n rvl ^ 4- n xiitjy ut:in uc o ^SrnlirT i i On the 31st Day of March, 1890. PURSUANT TO AN ORDKR MA UK HV ' Chief Justice Simpson, dated February 2i, 1SOO, and now on llie in ray oflice, notice is hereby given that an Extra Term of the Court of Common l'lcas for Abbeville County will be heid at Abl.eviile Court House, South Car-j oli&a, on tlic FIFTH MONDAY, ! the thirty-first. (.'JIM) day of March, |s!ni, for, the trial of Jury rases and eases not requiring Juries. Parties, witnesses and others interested will govern themselves accordingly. TH03. L. MOORE, Clerk of Court, j Feb. 2Z, im _ . _ .... I J j I 111 OF Til K HON, JEFFERSON DAVIS. JiV Mrs. Jefferson Davis. To be Sold by Subscription Only. , fjTHK pros|H*fIn>-iU ?l onilit fc.rr .i .. ' J vtusing will be iciniy iiunieilialely. LAgents Wishing Desirable Territory W on this great wurk will please wklroKs as soon | am possible, the pulilhlicn;. I BELFOPiD COMPANY, 8 IS-25J 18ll? Street, Xi'W Vork. I ft-b. 19, I8QO, II j . mmsKr IE DRUG STORE, KUOOM AND WITH LAKGK AMU'J lOXSii y all customers with ad Chemicals. &c., &c\ Splendid line of Toilet an ss, Putty, Glass, &c. adopted by School Board, and times, ('all and see me and be assured of my the Druvr line. . J. B. FSANZS. ccoud door from corner MniJi and llcllStreet iOG STOKE. well Selected Stock 01 PAINTS, jfLASS, PREPARED IS. BRUSHES, FANCY JTUHES, STATIONERY, &C. >. Orders bv Mail or baml promptly attendill hours. SOPESIESX}. No. S Wall St-, Abbeville, 8. C. : of Abbeville, Llo? CI^b - 875,000 - - - - 0,000 !?:?. !? z L. \V. WHITE, Vice-I'reside IV ELL, Casliicr. jtoirw s J. X. YOUNG, !)ue West, S. C., it. 31, II AO DON, Abbeville, S. C., , W. C. McUOWAN, Abbeville, S. C., , Abbeville, S. C. the greatest security and convenience for its Loinake loans based upon sueb safe collaterals Sent, 11. l.SSS. iyr iiiis, Grceiwmfl, S. C. rmlotnn 11 jJlU UUJLi ^ a large lot of .day Goods. I see them. Every.e at greatly reduced 'SON l CO., Stock of all Kinds o used in the Public 1.L them as Cheap as mywhere. Terra Gotta Wells. rpHK undersigned is not disposed to brag on J. his new mode of wator supply, bnt it. is proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that his wells are the best and more dun.bie than any other kind. lie boasts of not having lost a simrle one In seven years, whi -e twothirds of his work is for parties l aving lost their dug wells. Address, <\ M. C.\l.ilolJN, (.ireenwoii!, S. C. They are frog | ro:-f and sujo] ior t<? one dug, and are bound Jnsupe;sedenil others. JS. liaily, Creeawoid, S. C. Greenwood Co!t>!ii and Oil Mills. Col. Kiliard, Ninety-Six, S. U-v. I'sessly, line \\ est, S. C. Jones Miller,. bbevillf.K. ('. I have sunk nin>-U-!!tiis ot the wells in my own in seven yeais. Augt. 12,1SS!), The Abbeville Land, Loan and Improvement Company, IX AC*"oKiiANCK wish Commission of Sen etary of .State J. Marshall directed to tlii'undersigned I'oard of Corporators of the A11 i?! :\* 11.1.C l,ANH, LOAN AM) 1Ml'\U ?VKM i:\T '< ?M i'A.N YNoiiee is hereby given that the books of subscription of said company will be open at Iheollien of .1. A I.LKX SMITH, President, on Tl Mi l!s I >.\ Y, KEl?KI'A ItV Uth Inst., at the Abbeville National name. .f. AI.IJKN SMITH, W. c. .'.!< (IOWAN, i\ ItosKNHKlto, A I'll. \v. SMITH. K. A. TKMl'LKTON, Is. M, HAI?!>n.N. T. 1'. corn KAN. IJ ?ir?l of ' "orporntors. Al.Iicvilii'.S, C., I'Yli. .*?, I MM. Dr. F. II. Harrison OITT.llS ui.-; i; i:S;-!?!NA!, SKRvi-' to (ho )iiiil:c. over I lie U'lfkti!. Siori', Mclhvj.Sii <."ornor. Jan. ' '*), 'W. NOTICE. '|*II K ,'-'.cl:ool Commissioner ran always In: I lociii) In his at. tin* Couii liou-eon SAI/KI'AV :i nil I lie l.Mh.of every isiontli, excel.: wlii n t!te 1-V.b in'curs on Suiitli-y, In which ea his oilice will In- open on t lie* 1 It Si. l"el>. (i, is*y, tr Get the Best. / i.\ U l.uAlmr KKNTI'CKV MI'I.KS soon \./ l<i arrive, and w ill In; Mild low down l<*r car. I. or <ni :i|i|>rov< >1 j ;??? r. U AI l.lNUi'oUl) A* Iil'riSKl.L. Jan. 1, lt??, if sam } The Music He Liked. "I always thought I was fond of music," said Farmer Greene, "hut since I visited Matilda in Boston, Jv'e had my doubts altout it. 1 had'nt heen there a day before Matilda she says to me,'Now, father, we're going to have a musical, and I do hope you'll enjoy it!' "Of course I shall,' says T. 'You know how fond I am of those famous old Scotch songs you used to sing, and how I'm always ready to jine in when anybody strikes up "Coronation." "Well, this will be the very best music you ever listened to," says Matilda, and my mouth watered to hear it. "The night of the concert you ought to ha' seen the folks pour in, all silks and satins and llowers. Matilda wore, well, I don't rightly know what, but I think'twas silk and lace. Pretty soon we all got quieted down, and then a German, with long hair and a great bushy beard, sat down to the piauo and began to play. My, how hi* did bang theiu keys! There was thunder down in the bass, and tinklin' cymbals up in the treble. "The lady that sat side of me whispered when there was a minute's stop. [ 'Do you distinguish the different motives "My, no! says I. 'I don't see what anybody's motive could he for workin' so hard to make a noise.' "Then she smiled behind her fan, but I don't know what caused it, whether 'twas the music or me. "When the piece stopped, everybody hummed and whispered to each other how lovely 'twas, and a good many told the German how much obliged they were. I did'nt say a word. "Then a tall woman, all fixed up with silks und furbelows, sang a picee that almost made my hair stand on end, it went so high, and had so many many tips and downs in it. She was master smart; anybody could see that, but somehow I didn't fancy that kind of singin'. It made me uneasy. When she was climbin' up to her high notes, I wondered if she'd I everget there; and when she dropped down again, I wanted to say, Now you've got through it safe once: don't try it again ! "Weli, pretty soon Matilda came round to me and whispered, 'Father, how d'you like it?' "I don't care much for it," says.I. 'Its a little too much liko frosted cake when you want plain bread.' . .. i 1 : T ".-Ill1 ImII^IR'H, illlU J 11 il JMIIIUlt? A hoard her saying to one of the performers, 'My father's .1 little old fashioned, you sue, and would you mind ?' "What do you suppose happened I then ? Why, that woman that saug the trills and warbles stood up, and, without any piano playiu' at all, sang 'Ye Bands and Braes'"and John Anderson.' How she knew what T liked T never could tell, but she sang the son^s I've liked ever since I was a small boy, and when she got through the tears were streanin' down my cheeks. "Bless you, my dear ! says I, and J went up to her and shook both her hands. And it seemed to me she liked the songs herself, for when she looked at me I saw that her syes were wet, too. "I had a beautiful time, but I suppose it's no use thin kin' I appreciate real music?2'outh's Companion. A spoiled child is a child spoiled for life. A man may struggle against himself, and train strength of character, I lie may in some degree overcome (many of the difficulties and temptaj tion.s which are the legacy of his i>a| rents and others who have spoiled i him. To spoil really means to flay, to| jstrip; hence to take away naturally |belong to one?to pillage or rob. A spoiled child is therefore a child despoiled or plundered ; a child robbed of his moral possessions and nis rights. IA child thus despoiled cannot in after j years get back what he has lost. The ! loss to childhood cannot be made good (by refunding manhood. Whatever j the superstructure may be, the flaw in the foundation will always be a flaw land a weakne.-s in the building. Ev-j iery day that we go on spoiling a child, | we go on robbing him of God's gifts to jhim. A parent often speaks of aj j child's being "a little spoiled" as ! though that were an evidence of pa1 T>?f !? ?rta,. 1if? j ii*i11tii aiiuriiiiu. jhii in (wivi 11 iv| when tlie consequences show theni'selves in embarrassments, difficulties, I temptations, struggles, regrets, and sorrows, a good parent sees that a bet| ter exhibition of allcction would have I been to study that course which should 1 have spared the child these very eon|sequences. And any parent ought to j look fur enough ahead to spare his child from such mora! robbery. The Dawn of Peace. Jt is a most encouraging fact, " says a contemporary journal, "that between one hundred and two hundred instances of successful arbitration of international difficulties have taken place The proposal for a course of in| ternational arbitration on the part of I the American nations is most hopeful. : When such u measure shall have beI come operative on the Western Hemisphere, its example will be powerfulilyfelton the Eastern. The sancitity | of private property <>n land and sen, j the protection of life and properly granted to non-combalauts, the nicas| lire of humanity toward tlie wounded isoldiers of either contending army, the succe^i of llie lied Cross Society, [which ministers with impartial mercy to the suffering on the one siilu and on | the other, on the field of battle and in : the hospital, the incracsiHg sentiment I of brotherhood which prevails among worklngincn in diilercnt nations, all ? I. .Ll',1 II , (1|' ( 1 It ( f|| ( IKlWrf ill .every friend of humanity, ami arc, we believe, each and all of them, steps toward tlu- universal n-i^ii of peace." i Christian Htf/tawm/i. Nothing mi adds to the Iiensures of ! the mind and incicasts it> powers as it* own thinking fjearu to think for youiself. it is all verv well to hear I and read 111;1 v. i-tlmn of others, bid one! j should not let this take the place of 1 one's own thc11iili!. Many persons arc like eMcrns?they are good to hold the thoughts of others, but when !ho time conies lhat they aiu folced to rely on them.-clv<s, they have no power to do Thy outbid'' supply is cut ofij and the cistern run* dry, Jiut if one, like a river, is constantly fed by one's own springs, then, as the learning <?l others comes to him, it unites with Ins own iwnti iv, and the .stream widens and 1 deepens. Curly I e as a Teacher. A wriierin The Scotchman has unearthed an amusing anecdote of Thomas Carlylc as a country "dominie," for the accuracy of which lie vouches. It was told in 1858 by a Cupar Fife lawyer and provost, who had been one of j Carlyle's pupils at Kirkcaldy, to the' writer and Hugh Miller. The interest ; of this gentleman's reminiscences ofl his old schoolmaster was heightened j | by his utter unconsciousness that his . oid dominie was the Thomas Carlylc who was then beginning to be known ij to fame. The old gentlemen described i1 the older race of Scottish school mas-j' ters as always during school hours j wearing their hats?at least keeping , their heads covered ; and many of the boys, viewing peculiar angle at which the hat stood upon the head, and how near it came to the eye-brows, could! J conjceture if the savage mood were to 1 be that day predominant. "lint my teacher," said the provost, 1 "a strict and gloomy disciplinarian ] with the name of Cnrlyle, never wore ' his hat in school; and, indeed, his ( brow was so overhung with dark ! threatening, and his large glowing 1 eyes constantly shot forth wrath, while his protruding chin was laden with scorn, that no extra expression to 1 alarm was needed from his luni-hat! He did not thrash us either very often or very severely, but we had a fear 1 that, if provoked, he would go great ( lengths in punishment. I have seen ' his mere scowl hush at once the whole ' school. The biggest and boldest spee-j ially dreaded his grins and his mock-; ing* words. How savagciy his teeth were wont to grind out the terms "dunce" or "blockhead !' " Hugh Miller here interposed by ask- ' ing, "Did your teacher ever burst into a strange laugh in school?" "That is a very odd question," repli- ! ed the provost. "Why do you ask? Hut now that \ remember, he had at 1 times a very extraordinary laugh that made us all stare. It had a train of I queer chuckling which exploded in a : un/.nnkcinli nf loud Jltld (lf>cn CTllflaWK ! that shook lii.s whole body, and dis-1 played all his teelh like the keys of a| ])iano. lie then clajiped his hands onj1 the book he held against his knees yet | none of us eyer knew at what lie was); laughing. He had a grim smile in reproving pupils, and a habit of tapping their heads with his knuckles as he 1 told thtni their heads would never be worth the price of hats, or the charge of a barber, though mammas and 1 aunts had that morning combed, kiss- 1 ed, ami blessed them in pious wonder, 1 as if they were teeming with the sublimest inventions and designs !"' The provost saw that Hugh Miller I and some other guests were listening eagerly, and he proceeded : j1 "One morning, a few minutes before]* the school hour, when most of the pu- ' pils luiil arrived, and?as rain was fall-j' ing?they had gone into the school, a!* donkey, which had broken loose from I its tether on a grassy sj>oL near, and 5 was entering the play-ground. IJiilj llnnd mid I was so far on our way, and i I>iiI, who was a stout ami frolicsome I lad, tlio ringleader in many ."ports and | trick?, rushed to mount the animal, | and began to guide and force it into | J the school. With desperate spurring, H the donkey was induced to carry its ' rider over the threshold; and what aj! reception both of them got from the j ] juvenile crowd ! Bags of books was at:' once fastened to the tail and around |! the neck of the ass ; and so busy were 11 Bill and a half dozen companions in 1 urging the brute to a canter round the I school, and to ascend the short stair of,1 the master,s desk, that they did not!1 know how time was speeding, and before they could remove the stranger Mr. Carlylc appeared. I "We expected a tremendous explo-. sion of wrath ; but he burst into a roar j of laughter; such a roar, however, as, | instead of tempting us to join in it, 1 produced a sudden and complete hush ; 1 and that roar was renewed again and 1 again when the as<, withdrawing its| fore feet from the first step of the desk. t.irnin<r round, took a naee or two! slowJy towards the master us if to salute liim. 'That,1 exclaimed Carlyle 'is the wisest and best scholar in Kirk- 1 caldy has yet sent me; he is fit to be your muster.' He tapped the donkey's|! head as he was wont to do ours, and said: 'There's something here, far1 more than in the skulls of any of his|| brethren before me, though these skulls are patted in fond admiration by papas and mammas, and though that far grander headpiece meets with mer- I oilesB blows.' He then gave some hard taps on liill Hood's head, and would not allow him to dismount, but, for a ! penalty, ordered him to ride up and down the school for an hour, whilst those boys who had been mcst active in helping Bill to go through the farce had to march in pairs before and be liiiwl *lin ilSS. He ! ! did not require the other scholars to at-'1 tend to their several school lessons, but j silently permitted them to stand as: spectators of the grotesque procession.!1 Then he himself, seated within his' pulpit-like desk, surveyed Bill and hisj company with a strange mixture of mirth, scorn and fury. I have not for! some years thought of this scene,"j continued the provost, "but it has now'1 come hack to me freshly, and 1 re-j member that my old master had aj very strange laugh. I don't know what has become of him, nor indeed'1 have 1 heard of him since I left Kirk-j cakly School." There is nothing more painfully indicative of the interior wrongness of j our life than the inability everywhere manifest to rest ami be quiet. ISo lifer was ever healthy and strong in which 1 there was not a central re.-t, and seme-1 tiling to support and feed that rest.!' lint ill our day the question, "What 1 shall I do next?" is asked before we ' have well finished thai which went be-j< fore; and so much of our activity is; blind and purposeless. Jt is merely ; wasting ami consuming time. There is no virtue in it, and no intelligence i' in it: consequently no profit. Ijifej1 .l/> iK,i lim.nid i.iii-i lii'il or x! ri'iiirl hell-[' ed or enriched or madu happier there-!1 by. It is simply squandered. Well uoiigrniulate our poo >le on being the ' tlu* must "alive" people in (lie world, ' I wliit-li means, in plain Knviish, tin;! mibl n [i t*. J>11 l meie rcfcllo-snivs ' |j:> no inherent virtue or goodness in'1 il. It simply denotes tlu- po.s.-ct,sioii of j I vitality, wiiirli vitality may lie u 11 <>-{1 gether um dneaied and un!r.iim-d. li j: every useful 1 ife there must by internal I rest ; there must lie something believed j in so (irmly and eontinuousiy that it < In Ids to itself the miiul and the heart. I, li Some men work hauler io avoi:l pay-)' i n ?r an h??i ' -1 debt I bail they would j1 l ave to work lo earn the money t>> pav It with. * * 'I South America. What is the size of South America ? It is 4,550 miles long, 3,^00 miles wide, ami lias tin area of about 6,500,000 square miles. What are the political divisions? One empire, Brazil; nine republics, Argentina, Chili, Columbia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela; three colonial districts, British, French, Dutch, Guiana. When was South America discovered by Europeans? Columbus, in 1-108, -ailed along the northern coast; Cabrul, in 1500, discovered the Amazon, and Pinzon, in 1508, entered the La Plata itiver. Who were the first European settlers? The Portuguese, near the mouth of the Amazon, about the yeag 1515. Who were then the natives? Indian races, ditiering widely from each other, those in Peru being higdly civilzed. What became of the Peruvian Empire? It was overthrown by the Spaniards in le.^s than thirty-five years after the discovery of the country. To what European countries did South America belong for nearly three i 4-* n ? - 1 1* i 1 LiuiKirea yearsx opuiu una -rwiiuyni. Ho\v were the people^overned? By riccroysand governors sent from Euro]*;. What is the only portion of South \ meriea now under European control ? Quiana. When did the other South American Slates become independent? Parly in :hc present century. To whom does Guiana belong? To the British, Dutch, and French. What is the population of South America? About thirty-live millions. JIow are the people of bouth Ameri3a divided? Into whites, Indians, Negroes, and mixed races. Who are the whites? Chiefly Spaniards and Portugese. What are the Indians? Some are balf-civilized and many are savages. What is the condition of the Negroes? The most of them are in Brazil, and have lately been liberated from slavery. What is the religion of the people? There are some heathen, but nearly all the people are Roman Catholics. What is the religious state of the Roman Catholics? They are chiefly idolaters, worshipping the Virgin Mary, saints, relies, and images and pictures. What is being done by Protestants for South America? The leading shurchcs of the United States and Great Britain have sent missionaries Lo the people. What progress has been made by Protestants in youth America? Some progress has been made in Argentina, Ura/.il, and Chili, but the opposition of ^he Roman Catholic priests in other countries has greatly interfered with ?f the missionaries. "South America lias long been dominated politically ind spiritually by the Roman Catholic priesthood, and it is not strange that it diould be a hurd field to cultivate." Gospel la All Laiuh. ? ? - * vG* * Couldn't Stand If. An infidel young lawyer, going west lo settle for life, made it his boast that be ' would locate in some place where there were no churches, no Sundayschools, or Bibles." So he found a place of this sort. Before the year was nut, he wrote for a preacher to comc mil hrini? nlentv of Bibles,.to begin preaching, and start Sunday-schools, for lie paid : "T am convinced that a neighborhood without Bibles, Sundayschools and preaching is too much like hell for any living man to stay in." The invisible and silent influences of churches to suppress disturbing immoralities are not appreciated, until one goes to those places where there ara none. The moon, high up in the heavens, exerts a silent influence on the sea?lifting the tides to roll out and refresh the low lands. So the silent influence of Bibles, churches and Sunday-schools lifts men to a higher plain of moral living. Christianity gives value to material things. A tract of land located in a region of churches, where the people are civil, kind and peaceable, is worth twice as much as one located among still houses and open grog shops where bad men live. Business men nowowning property on the outskirts of a city, nnu mai u pays iiimuuiuuy iu build a church there. Because they know a church will convert the people ?reform the neighborhood?build up ^ood society?andjhen men will buy lots to build upon. "Godliness is profitable unto all things." Who would settle bis family among wild Indians, though the climate be ever so healthy though the land be ever so rich anil the scenery ever so beautiful. Men advertise a piece of land for sale, and to induce others to buy, call attention to the fact that said property is located in [i region where good neighbors live? where churches and schools are convenient, Yes, Christianity enhances the worth of material things. * ? A False F.alh no Protection. A false faith i* no protection. The man who built his bouse upon the sand believed that he was safe ; but his faith was of no service when the Hoods came, and the winds beat upon his dwelling. The foolish virgins thought that they were sufficiently! prepared fur the coming of the bride? ? ?! /& mid flicir Li I (U 111 j Ullt UllTJ ? v??. j?w., false ciinllilciice did not admit tlicm when the door was shut. That engineer who supposed lhat he knew the meaning of the signals, as lie neared Chicago recently, did not save his train from wreck, nor his passengers from horrible deaths, because he trustad in a wrong interpretation of their import. Hod will honor genuine faith, even though it he no greater than a jjrain of mustard-seed, but he cannot respond to any faith which puts a symbol in hi# place. If the woman with an issue of blood hud not believed in something more than the hem :>f his garment, the Saviour would ntvjr have granted healing in answer to [lie appeal of her touch, if she had a purely false faith, she would have i-eeii left to learn thai there was novir1 ' * ? ? 7 i IUU 111 tilt' 11C* 111 <>i IIIS ?ill Mll'in. JI was been;iso she believed licit Christ had in hi in so much healing power iliiit even his garment must he impivgualcd with sullieicnt for her needs, [lint .she obtained the hies-injv that she ^oiijdit.? /'i/i/rim Teacher. m ? We cannot improve ourselves, we sannot assist others, we cannot do our Jtity in the world, except by exertion, except by unpopularity, except wi'.li are and rlillieully. We must each of us hear mir cioss with llim. When we hear it, each day makes it easier to [tear. j i/ . ' lousiness Morality. "Sound ethics, but not business," we heard remarked by a man of trade, when the impropriety of some course of procedure was forced upon his attention. Evidently it was his opinion that an antagonism exists between the two?that a strict observance of the moral law, to say nothing of the golden rule, is incompatible with sound business principles. Though he might shrink from putting it in just so many words, he was of the belief that the world of trade and finance was not one in which the law as delivered by Mose* is expected to bear rule. Vv'e fear that this notion obtains very largely among the men who think it the great end of their lives to add thousands to thousands until they alnill hupnnio inillirma 'I'hpsp DTP (lis found that though the fortuues are enlarged the soul is dwarfed. The millionaire who has become so by methods which he cannot defend and hardly pares to examine, is really the lower type of man because of his success. Sunny South. i Progress of Arbitration. Vague notices have reached this country of the treaty negotiated between several South American Pouters, to establish an international law of procedure in civil cases. This treaty was signed at Montevideo January lltli, audits text has now been published. The countries taking part in I the conference for the discussion and (settling of its terms were Paraguay, I Uruguay, the Argentine Republic, ! Chili, Brazil, Bolivia, uud Peru. The j great aim was to secure uniformity of law touching the innumerable and vexing cases of commercial litigation arising between citizens of different countries. Whiie it has not been possible to secure this entirely, yet much ! litis been gained by tbe final agreement ! in which the delegates from all the ' Powers united. The contracting States ! bind themselves to recognize the legal (processes of each other, and to recog| nize and enforce, each within its own ! limits, decisions made in the courts of ! any of the others affecting its own citizens. The establishment of boards of Iarbitration, in certain cases, is also pro! vided for, and their decisions, when arj rived at nnder conditions named, are ; to be held as binding by all the Stat9S. | All this marks a great advance in the ' simplification of the business relations iof the merchants of these various countiies. It indicates, also, decided ! progress in the appreciation and adoption of civilized methods of settling international controversies ou the part I of governments which we have been 'toomuch accustomed to regard as bari barous.?Nation. .<3r. jr. Clievreul, the celebrated French' : chemist, recently died at the age of: ' 103. He worked in .his laboratory, i land read papers containing the resultsj i of his scientific research in the Acade-. 1 my of science, until he was over 100. j j At that age it was said of him that! | "although he wears spectacles, he can 'see without them; he is not deaf, he j talks with great ease and distinctness I he walks rapidly and surely." On his! j hundredth birthday he was asked how 1... .w.rt/vnnlo,-) f/??. fivh-o/mlilliirv ftp- ! nt' ati;?niiHcii iv/i vAbiuvAv....v.v tiviiy of body and mind. He said: "I do not try to account for it. A few i years ago, in a preface to one of my books, I lhanked my father and moth1 er for the physical and moral force that J they transmitted tome. They were I both over ninety when they died. I | have never touched a drop of wine, but have always drunk water. I do nol smoke nor do I eat fish. I take a light breakfast in bed between seven and eight, and my next meal, dinner occurs at six or seven in the evening. I have never been attacked with a fever for wealth. I care nothing for riches. Perhaps l might say, with your Agassiz, who used to live just across the street there, and whom I knew, that I have no time to make money. I adore science, and I enjoy work. Perhaps some or all of these circumstances?and especially the pure life and character of my parents?will account for my longevity and for my good health on the threshold of my ! cen t u ry,'.Exchange. In one of Mrs. Carlyle's lately pub- i dished letters, written eight years before her death, is the following reminiIseence : "I remember, as if it were yesterday, tnivel'ng all night in a postchai-e \vitii my mother and an old East ' Lothian fanner, who was going to nice!, my lather at Craigenputtoch, ' and advise about drains. My mother 1 and 1 were to be dropped at my grandfat he -'s. I was mad with joy to go on I iny first journey, but (> so sit*U in a 1 close carriage always! One minute 1 wascha!taring like a magpie, the next vomiting out of the window. 111 (lie ' course of the night I lay down at the ' bottom <>r the chaise, my head on my ' mother's knees, and whimpered and < j moaned. The old farmer got tired of 1 [me?naturally?and said, with a certain sharpness, words that cut into my small heart with a sudden, mysterious horror, 'Little girl, don't you know there is no pleasure to be had in this world without pain?' No; I didn't know it, but it was dreadful to hear, for, somehow, T thought he who was old must bo speaking truth, and T believed him, although shrinking from him as a sort of cruel ogre! That wa<? my initiation into tho dark side of life." posed to resent as intrusive and impertinent any hint that this worldly wisdom is not the best wisdom. They respect the preacher of morality in a certain supercilious way ?s very honest and as teaching doctrine-" to which the humble and slightly enterpiising ma\ well give heed. But they do not rcigitrd such lessous as at all applicable to I themselves. They hold it as altogether : appropriate lor the Sunday-school teacher to urge it upon his class to j think something of the well-being ol i others while struggling for their own ; but in business matter# they prefer the maxim, "(jet what you can and what you get, hold," to all the teachings of I [lie CUVlOr, J. 11 l I1C*I I" HC11UIUK *?i I1UUUciering tliey allow 110 place for the gentle amenities which can make Jife agreeable. It is hardly needful to say that they who eliminate morals from business, ] act in opposition to all the teachings of j Bible truth. The principles which it seeks to inculcate are really sound j business maxims. We do not mean to say that they who pursue selfish I schemes in selfish ways are not often j successful in the carrying out of their ; designs. But it is not a success which can be the aim of a generous ambition. ! When it. hns been attained, it will be How Heaven is Rcached. Answer.?The poem was written by J. G. ' JM Holland. It reads tbos: Heaven Is not reached by a single bound: But we build the ladder by, which we ris?. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to Its summit, round by -ISa round. I count these things to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step toward God; Lifting the soul from the common sod To a purer air and a broader view. . We rise by th" things that are under our feet, ' By what we have mastered in greed and gain, By the prido deposed nnd the passion slain, . And the vanquished 111 we hourly meet. We hope, we resolve, we aspire, we trust, When the morning calls to life and light: But our hearts erow weary, and ere the night 'rjjS Our 11 vc8 are trailing In the sordid dus'. Wings for the angels, but feK for the men: We must borrow the w|nz? to find the way; We may hope and resolve, and aspire and But our feet must rise, or we fall again. Only In dreams Is the ladder thrown From the weary earth to the sapphire wall; But the dreams depart, and the visions fall, And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stoue. What we ought not to do, we should not ever think of doing. Few persons live to-day, but are pre- '4 paring to do so to-morrow. 'Tis a mercy to have that taken from us which takes us from God. How much better is the love that is & ready to die than the zeal that is ready to kill. The more thou frequentest thy cloe- ig et, the more thou wilt like it; the less ,y?ss thou comest tliereuuto, the more thou wilt loathe it. Will nations never devise a more ra- % tional umpire of differences than force? ?|3 War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong. Some one has somewhere said, "A -r|| man seldom or uever regrets that step :.~J which he has taken, after first praying > well over the question, and then acting ::'m according to the best of his judgment.'' '-ryg| The sun meets not the springing Vjag bud that stretches toward him with . half that certainty as God, the source of all good, communicates Himself to the soul that longs to partake of Him. The consciousness of being loved jfi 3oftens the keenest pang, even at the :i3i moment of parting; vea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half its ;:$Jj bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh. Sympathy is one of the great secrets - % of our lives. It can overcome evil quicker thun the harshest treatment. ?? It strengthens good, bringing forth ; ;J more help to bear the hardest trials % that come to us all from lime to time. The revival is not an episode in which the church turn9 for a week .Ha from its worldly methods and worldly life to have a little pastime with God; The revival is the outflow of the vital .tM union of the church iu its daily life with Christ. Will there have to be some great and " i terrible discovery of the uselessness of military defences before Christian na- - ? tious can believe that love is stronger than hate ; that it is safer to trust in God and goodness than in violence and force? ' After listening to thousands of pray- ' ers for pardon, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as iny fellow-msn has done, if 1 Had been subjected to me same demoralizing influences and pressed by * A the same temptations. The natural propensities of the heart call for constant watchfulness. Satan 3 takes advantage of Iran's weaknessarouses his temper and provokes to 4 bad words. These In turn lead us to sinful deeds, or provoke some one else to wrath and vengeance. David said: "I will take heed to my ways that I . : sin not with my tongue; I will keep"' . .4 my mouth with a bridle while the f wicked is before me." Let us serve God in the sunshine while He makes the sunshine. We shall then serve Him all tho better in the dark when He sends the darkness. The darkness is sure to come. Only let our light be God's light, and our darkness God's darkness, and we shall be safe at home when the great nightfall comes. Therefore, come what may, hold fast ' ? ; to love. Though men should rend your heart, let them not embitter or harden it. We win by tenderness; we conquer by forgiveness. Oh, strive to ~"1 enter into something of that large, ce1 nrKi/tli 10 1W?Hilr An/llir. . icsuai Uiaill/J nuiiyU *o i?vvn| vuuw* ing, unretaiiating, and which even the overbearing world cannot withstand forever. v- -V i In speaking of that peaoe which passeth understanding, we allude not to those illuminations and raptures, which, if God has In some instances bestowed them, He has nowhere pledged Himself to bestow; but of that rational yet elevated hope which flows from an assured persuasion of the pa-< ternal love of our heavenly Father; of that "secret love of the Lord," which He Himself has assured us "is with them that fear Him:" of that life and power of religion which are the privilege of those "who abide under the shadow of the Almightyof those who "know in whom they have believed ;" of those who "walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit;" of those "who endure, as seeing Him who is invisible." Wit vc T<! r rtmTFVfE.?The drv hu? nior of Abraham Lincoln was never surpassed. Dr. Bellows, President of the Sanitary Commission, went to Washington to get Mr. Lincoln to mtikea certain appointment. He pre-euted the case to the President, who listened intently, but said nothing. After twenty minutes of eloquence Mr. Lincoln replied : "I made that appointment several clays ago." " Why didn't you tell me, Mr. Lincoln, and save yourself the trouble of hearing all this?" "U, Bellows, I do like to hear you talk," said Honest Old Abe, with a twinkle. The worst man I ever knew had no vice. lie attended church and broke 110 commandment and indulged ill no excesses. Yet he nagged his wife and children to the grave, and destroyed every llowerof pleasure which sprang lip by his hearthstone, and mined the tender young lives about him with the unceasing tempers of a household tyrant and petty demon. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. In life some men are born nt the bottom of the ladder to work their way up. Others are bom at the top to work their way down. The man on the way 11'; experiences Ids greatest danger when he reaches the middle and meets the other on the way down. _