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??? ,,. - ? ???mn*m _____ ,?mi "r. tt i gaggggjggs^g mi in " ^ BY IIUGII WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1890 VOLUME XXXIV. NQM9 || " ? - I When My Ship Comes In. lYtetssIngn world's desire Kurti 1111> ir.'in o'er tin* sea, I?--I tin* strike a key-note higher i )f the ship that's come to me ! Long we've peered with aching eyes Kur:i glint of coining sail, Till fond expectation dies. And oursijfht begins to fail. We are gazing far away, Kor i he joys already here: Ships we think are on their way May l>eanchored at the pier! And the good we hope to g:iln Lies within our reach. S'et wo Struin our eyes across the main Kor some joy that ne'er will lie. John W'cnluvrth Sanborn. Feeling After God. Unfold, O Lord, Thy Word to tne, A blind and erring child; Thv wondrou? beauty let me see. And live in Thy pure smilu. The liuht of truth to me reveal, The bliss of heavenly ray: May I its quick'ning power feel In each succeeding tiny. And with Thy Word, O sanctil'v Pne duties of eaeli hour! Ai>d mark each moment as it tiies With truth's eternal power! O may I perish unto sin, And new in Christ arise. To find In virtue's snored kin A hope beyond the kles! And when I reach life's silent coal, When time and eartli shall llee. Mity lloods of Unlit possess my soul, And waft it home to Thee! Arc We in Need of a Navy that Shall I "Sweep the Seas I" ["The following pertinent article J bears 011 a question so urgent, and of j so much practical moment, that we j gladly give it the benefit of our oircu-; latioti. It appears in "The Nation,") .t.? 1.1.. tlm V/,,1.- i lilt." >VtTl\lkV CUil)\Mi Ul iiiv *iv. i. a x/i ,? "Evening Post."?Eds. Statesman.] j In a speech, made a few days ago by \ William E. Gladstone, at the old town : of Chester, not lar from his home ai j Hawarden, surprise and regret were j expressed (hat this Republic?turning' aside from its traditions of the past? should of late have embarked upon the j policy of building up and burdening itself with a great navy, according to! the bad way of the old European nationalities. From one who, when he j was a leader of the party in power in! England, delilierately withdrew from! a war (that of the Transvaal) which j he was convinced had been unjustly: undertaken, this observation upon the] mistaken and dangerous policy?as he i conceives it to be?which we have en-; tered upon, comes with a g?K>d grace,! and may be freely accepted as proffer-! ed in all sincerity and as dictated by a; pure purpose of helpfulness. It is the language of wisdom, large experience,': and common sense, and I feel assured j that our people would do well to heed j its lrienuiy i numauoii*. Only about two years have elapsed, I believe, since a hitrhly respectable delegation enme hither from Great Britain, bearers of a memorial signed by between two and three hundred ! members of Parliament, commending j to our President and Congress and the | ? American people generally the desira-j bility of entering into a definite treaty of arbitration between the two countries. Since then there has more than one international dispute been peaceably adjusted by arbitrators. So that, .since the beginning of me <-cs;tury, as we are told, not U s- l;an ^ii- isi s of disagreement have been i.ini< :;Mv st',tled. With such a reeoid before us, pointing the way to the happy di?p<sition of all international disputes, how is it that we are suddenly aw:;king to the discovery t'?at we arc practically defencele.-s, and that the immediate creation and e<|Uipment of a powerful navy, second to none in the world, is an immediate necessity? Then there is the calling together of the delegates from all the American republics, a widely published purpose of which gathering is to formulate a * - -r ..II lw. plan for tne prevention 01 mi muis uCtweeii the States represented, by entering into an agreement to submit all cases in dispute, not otherwise adjust- ! able, to arbitration. This clause in Secretary lila'iie's address of welcome to the delegates certainly reads well: , "We believe that friendship, crowned with candor and maintained with good faith, will remove from American States the necessity of guarding bonn- I ilary lines between themselves with i fortifications and military force." Now, 1 that has the sound of having been written "candor," and framed "in gocfT faith," and there is not apwire^ any reason why we .should "reSd between the lines." Were there tjft- remotest reason for believing this fo be so, the Spanish-Amcricnn deleJrgates now at the national capital would straightway gather toge:her their impedimcnta, and report at the capitals their respective ii*publics with the V greatest celerity. Obviou-lv. the great clamor for navy preparation wliieh lias arisen at Washington, and is seconded in some other quarters, does not contemplate anything of aggressiveness in connection with our sister republics of this continent. Well, then, what have we done, or what are we about to do, that all this haste for providing ourselves with an irresistible lleet of warships, monitors, dynamite cruisers, torpedo-boats, etc., is deemed to be urgently necessary? We do not propose to quarrel with any of our neighbors aU the way down the wpst Atlantic; nod east Pacific sea boards to the mingling of the waters at the Straits of Magellan?a water way that a few years ago was declared by Chili and the Argentine Confederation to be neutral, and upon the chores of which the fortifications of neither nation, nor of any oilier nation, were ever to be erected. And as regards England, France, Germany, arid the other European Powers, % there any resu-on why our reciprocal intentions ami behavior should not be attended with as much "friendship," "candor," anil "good faith" as our intercourse with the States of Mexico and the several republics of South America? At any late, would it not be wise on our part, and reassuring ami helpful to the nationalities on the other side of the Atlantic, burdened as they are with the accumulated charges for past wars, and of a state of preparation for possible impending conflicts almost equal to the cost of war Itself, to worry along about as we have in the past, to deal openly and justly with our neigl bors and acquaintances, whether they be SpanI ish-Anieriean, European, or Mongolian, and so make it apparent that friendship, candor, and good faith are abetter defense than a big standing army, elaborate coast defenses, and ? navy that is warranted to "sweep the seas ?'' Josiah TP. Leeds, In Christian Statesman. V. A Heavy Losn. There was a general stir ami commotion in the Trumbull farm-house, for Uncle James, who had long been absent in t he distant West, was coming to make a visit. It was fitting that the house should be in perfect order, the children in their Sunday attire, and the whole family on their best behavior, when they were about to welcome so important a guest. The cliildr?;n, five in number, who hail been taught to reverence his name from their earliest years, looked upon him at first with feelings of awe; but they soon discovered that their great "Uncle James" was, after all, only a big, kindhearted man, who could be, when he wished, as much a child as any of them. He brought them, too, the most beautiful presents, among them a real live Kentucky pony for Albert, the oldest boy. The animal was a dark, glossy bay, with spirited step, kindly eyes, and llowing mane and tail. "Ueauty," the younger ones wanted to name hirn, but Albert, who had lately y. ?i. . * a 1 4-U^ ueen reauing me mem ak auuuci mc Great, called him Bucephalus, after the steed of that famous conqueror. The pony was at once recognized as a family pet, to be coaxed with soft words and lumps of sugar; to be led carefully about by the bridle; to be harnessed and driven with pride; or to be carcssed and patted and stroked, while he received daily visits in his stall. One day Uncle James remarked to his sister, "Albert is a fine boy. You and his father may well be proud of him; but he has one serious fault? carelessness. It distresses me to pass his room. No matter how neatly you arrange it in the morning, I notice that by night every thing is in disorder. I have heard his father reprove him several times for mislaying things at the barn, but I do not sue that Al bert makes any effort to improve. Something should be done at once to lipln him to overcome this failing." Mr.*. Trumbull listened, and~determined to consider what should be done in the matte.1. A week later Uncle James took his departure, and a few nights afterward there was a sudden alarm of Are. The family was aroused, and ran out to find the barn all on blaze. The neighbors rallied, and worked nobly, but were powerless to fcub'lue the fiamts. "The horses!" cried some oue. "Cive mc an ax. I'll get them out!" Albert, hearing the call, ran to get tho ax from its proper place in the wood-house, trembling all the while as he thought of his beautiful, gentle pony, whose screams even then filled his ears. He reached for the ax, but, alas, he had used it the day before, and, true to his careless habit, had neglected to restore it to its plate. In his alarm he failed to remember where he had put it. and so the ax could not be found. The horses, five in number, perished, the dear Kentucky pony among them: and all for the want of that misplaced ax. Could Albert ever forget that dreadful night and the cries of those poor, terrified animals? It was a dearlybought lesson, but one he always remembered. From that time forward i his favorite motto was : "A place ior everv thing, and every thing in its place." Oil January loth, in the Senate, Mr. Sherman, representing the Committee on Foreign lielations, reported a concurient resolution in favor of a resort to Arbitration for the seltlenient of differences between the United States and other nations which cannot be settled by diplomatic agencies. This resolution was placed on the calendar. This is a revival of an uncompleted measure which unanimously passed the Senate at the former session. According to Frances E. Willard; there are women in Chicago who make twelve shirts for seventy-five cents anil j furnish their own thread; women who, "finish off' a costly cloak for four! cents; children that work twelve! hours a day for a dollar a week. This' throws fresh light on the temptations! i)f great cities. "Alas that gold should be so dear and flesh and blood so cheap." A true story of the perplexity of a graduate of the Boston English High School over a word that he found ocmirvinrr with vexatious fieouencv in the foot-notes of a work thai he read recently: "Do you know," lie asked, "who Ibid, the author, was? I've been reading a book that has lots of extracts from his writings in it, and I can't ttnd his name in any cyclopedia." The young man was told that he was a relative of the distinguished author, Anon, who has written some of the most beautiful things in the English language. ?Jioston Transcript. Miss Florence Nightingale, who is living in feeble health in Derbyshire, England, has addressed a most impressive little letter to the 11.embers of a Rand of Hone in Ed in burg. "Don't," vhf says, "think you can do anything worth doing in a lit < !' enthusiasm, but train yourselves carelully to any work you are called on to do ; and think nothing to small to do carefully, or to train carefully for, that is for the good of your fellow-ereaturts. God sends us real and lasting enthusiasm ?that is, the spirit of love and power, and a sound mind to carry us through our training and our discipline." The pine-trees In and around Thomasville, Ga., have been and still are her most powerful magnets. The medical profession are cu record in this country and Europe, as to the healing quailties of soft southern breezes, win.11 lilown throuirli forests of pines; catching an<l bearing on their wings, ns they do, the rich aroma of these pines, they bring back the flush of health to wasted cheeks, and kindle the eye again with hope. As an illustration of the value placed on convenient pine-trees to any health resort, we may mention a fact. It is now conceded that the cutting down of the pine-trees in the vicinity of Aiken, 8. C., which was recently done, was a great mistake. The removal of these pine-trees has lost Aiken many of her visitors, and removed one of her most principal attractions for Northern visitors. The name Wisconsin is said to be derived by a peculiar process of evolution from the French phrase. Ou cat ce <jit'or descend'? the question which sprang to the lips of the Jesuit boatman when he reached the Wisconsin River rapids. This became successively Our-eon-do-san, Ousconsan, Wisconsan and Wisconsin. It sometimes happens that the greatest philosophers in theory are the greatest fools in practice. Jrc's Temper. Joe was a smart boy. Everybody said so. He drove the cows to the pastille and brought them home, led the pigs and mended the holes in the fences, and did many useful things all day long. Besides, he went to school and stood high up in all his classes. But in spite of all this, Joe did not have many friends, and if you lived with him a while you would not wonder that nobudy liked him much. If you asked the boys and girls why they did not like to play with him, they would say, "O, it's no fun to play with Joe, he gets mad too quick!" That was the secret. Poor Joe had a temper, a terrible temper, and it was completely his master. When in a tit of passion, he would say and do cruel things for which he would be very sorry afterward. When his mother talked to him lovingly of the sin of his fault, or when she was obliged to punish him for some very bad outbreak, he tearfully and earnestly wou'd promise to conquer the bad spirit, but just the next time he was crossed in any way, he would give way to It again. So that was why everything feared, and nothing loved him. But one day a terrible thing happened, something that cured Joe forever of his fault of getting angry. .Ino hail a nrettv little sifter, not quite three years old, wbo loved her big brother very much, and tried to follow him everywhere he went. He was very proud of her, and when he was in a good humor, loved to take her with him. But one day he was hunting for eggs in the loftover the big barn, and did not want to be bothered with Daisy, who had found hini up there, to he told her to.stay down on the ground, or go back to the house. But Daisy wanted to hunt eggs, too, so she began to climb up the long steps by herself. "Go back! go back! I say," Joe called out angrily, but Daisy only shook her little curly head, and said : "Me tumin' too, me am," and Joe got worse and worse angry every minute as he kept screaming. "Don't come up here, I tell you! don't! Come another step and I'll nush you down," he cried at last, fairIv choking with anger, and Daisy, " ? 4- as J 1 \ c WHO was aireauy scareu 10 niiu neiseii so far from the ground, caught sight of his threatening face, lost her grasp on the step above her, and fell to the ground. Fell, aud did not move or cry out, but lay quite still in a little white heap at the foot of the steps. Trembling with horror and shame, Joe dashed away his hat full of eggs, and carried the quiet little form to bis mother. '0, mother, I have killed her!" was all the poor boy could say. Daisy was not dead, but it was a long time before she opened her blue eyes again, aud then wheu the doctor examined her, he said her little spine was hurt, and she would never be straight and well again, but would be crippled all her life. Joe would almost have died to see her strong and well again, but they told him it could never be. That was many years ngo when Joe was a little boy, and now ne is a gray haired man, but that lesson was enough for a life-time, aud no one has ever seen him very angry since." He has spent his life in taking care of Dai cy. trying to atone for his part in her maddened life. Daisy, who was too young to re-i member how she came to be crippled, ofien wonders why her dear brother is so patient with her, but Joe does not want her ever to know. Virginia in Christian Observer. o Silent Men, Men great in deeds are often taciturn. Does their taciturnity aiise from the diffidence which fears iest words should exceed deeds, or from a conviction < hat safety is promoted by silence? Washington's reserve made him stiff, formal and ill at ease in company, but it also prevented his plans from being betrayed to an enemy, and the oountry fropi being deceived by his promises. William the Silent was frugal of w/mvIu Iwrmnvp a r*??erv?? that n.oneealed hi* designs, even from those acting I with him, was necessary to tlie independence of the Netherlands. A writer in Leisure Hours says that j the most dramatic of silent men was! Wallenstein, the antagonist of Gusta-j vus Adolphue, and the commander of the Emperor's armies in the thirty years' war. He insisted that the deepest silence should reign around him. His officers took care that no loud conversation should disturb their general. They knew that a chamberlain had ken hanged for waking him without orders, and that an officer who would wear clanking spurs in the commander's presence had been secretly put to death. In the rooms of his palace the servants glided as if phantoms, and a dozen sentinels moved around his tent charged to secure the silence the general demanded. Chains were stretched across the streets in order to guard him against the disturbance of sounds. Wallenstein's taciturnity, that made him shun speech, and his love of si lence that caused liim to be irritated at tbe slightest noise, were due to his constitutional temperament. He never smiled, he never asked advice from any out?, and be could not endure to be uazed at, even when giving an order. The soldiers, when be crossed the camp, pretended not to see him, knowing that a curious look would bring them punishment. Youth's Companion. Mr. Moody is especially happy in his treatment of infidels and skeptics, Here is an illustration : "A man brought a difficult passage to him with the question, "How do you explain that. Mr. Moody?" 4 4 I ifAii'f ovnlflin if I "Wcli, licnv do you interpret it?" "I don't Interpret it ?" "How do you understand it ? "T don't uuderutaml it." "Well, what do you do with it ?" "I don't do anything with it." "You don't beiieveit, do you?" "Orlai'ly I believe it. There are lots of things I believe that I don't understand. There are a good many tilings in astronomy, a jrood many things about my own system, that I don't understand, yet I believe them. T am glnd there are heights in that book which I haven't been able to climb. I am glad there are depths I havn't been able to fathom. It is the host proof that the Hook came from God," THE RIGHT WAY, Or. the Cauwpol Applied to (lie Inter coumr oT ludi vlritmlN ami Nation*. o BY KEV. JOSEPH A. COLLIER. Duties Relating to Human Intercourse. (Continued.) I. love youk neighbor. We lmve only to cous'der this law ok love, and trace it to its consequences, to see that it tends inevitably to the preservation of harmony among men. They who honestly obey it will be linked together by a bond which even the widest diversities of sentiment, or the most provoking acts of injury cannot sever. Where this love is in the heart, the word of resentment canuot linger upon the tongue, and the purpose of revenge, even if momentarily aroused, cannot ripen into deliberate action. The bitter retort that trembles on the lip gives place to the "soft answer," that "turneth away wrath 11 nrf tlio flfLnhinp eve ai:d menacing as pect are lost in the look of kindness and benevolence. The quarrel is avoided, hearts that were on the eve of sundering are knit yet more closely together, and love achieves the triumph over hatred, and right over wrong. This principle transforms the lion into the lamb, '.he vulture into the dove, the brutal, the degraded, and the unloving into beings all sympathy and tenderness, and all glowing with the noblest instincts of humanity. Where it has been deeply implanted by God's grace?and it is only that it can fully and permanently al'ide?it assimilates man to the angels; nay, to Christ himself, who so loved us as to give himself for us, and to that Spirit whose richest fruits are "love" and "peace," and to God, who 'is love." Many theories have been invented | by men for the world's regeneration. One plan after another, having for its object the perfectton of our nature, has been in turn advanced and abandoned. Upon far higher than human authority, we present as the grand means for the elevation of our race, this law CF j.ovk. It is only in proportion as men are governed by it, that they can arise to their true worth and dignity in the scale of being. For he who is not freed from the thraldom of angry passions. is little else than a slave; while he who is subject to this law of love, which is the law of liberty, has acquired the true self-mastery, aiul has attained, or is attaining the real nobility of man. To him, life is beautiful in its varied opportunities for kindness, and its numberless exercises of delightful affection. Man acquires a new interest in his eyes, and God becomes more than ever the object of happy contemplation ; for he beholds mirrored in his own peaceful soul the loving smile of Jehovah, tne author aud true end of every benevolent emotion. Viewing this law, then, in all its length and breadth, ns requiring love to God and man?to God first, and then through him and for him to man?it is to do more for the advancement of our race than all human means combined. As It becomes more and more prevalent, it will be found to effect, by its gradual workings, a thorough renovation of society. It will conquer pride, selfishness, and passion, uproot prejudice, disarm enmity and resentment, cause kind feelings and generous sympathies to animate every bosom, aud conduct the world to its millenuium of pcacc. Such are to he, under God, the glorious results of a universal obedience to this law. It is for us to do our part towards hastening such a consummation, first, by conforming our own hearts and lives to it, and then by publishing it to others, as well by the power of a beautiful example, as by direct efforts. JSvery reader of this volume may thus become, in however humble a sphere, the means of extending the triumph of the gospel of peace. II. LOVE TO EN KM IKS. We have soon that the law of love applies as well to enemies as friends Were there no special command upon the subject, we might still deduce from thut general duty the particular one of loving our enemies and persecutors. To leave no room for doubt, however, it is urged in many distinct precepts, and occupies a prominent piace i n ujc religion of Jesus. In that epitome of leligious duly, the sermon on the mount, our Lord says, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love tuy neighbor, and hute thine enemy ; but t say unto you, Love your enemies," etc. Matt. 5 : 43, 44. This precept conveys to every candid mind but one signification. Jt can be understood in no other way than as exhort-J ing us to check all feelings of resentment, and to cherish instead of them those of forbearance and good will. It stands opposed to all malice, enmity, and even bitterness of feeling; to an irascible disposition ; to an unloving, unforgiving spirit; is the passionate retort, the hasty word of abuse or blow, the sullen, distant demeanor, and the deliberate persecution. It is equally plain, that to love an enemy is to cherish a hearty affection towards h?m, and to desire and seek his happiness. It is, as far as possible, to regard him with the same feelings, and treat him with the same kindness and consideration that we do our friends; to forgive his injurious conduct, and to aim at, and if possible, eflect a reconciliation with him. He who obeys this precept will fight, not against his adversary, but against his own rebellious heart, and will try ni-nolt ni.f Hif> nfK-.nil<-r hut. those emotions of hatred or aversion with which he is tempted to regard him. He will studiously repress every feeling of anger, will subdue his countenance, his voice, his eye, his gestures, and his whole manner into the expression o' tender regard, and will reso-i lately seal his Jips against every utter | ance save a blessing and a prayer. He; will try to behold in his antagonist a man, a brother, whom Clod bids him love; will charitably overlook his bad! qualities, and seek out ami admire his! good ones, and will strive to discover, behind all his offences, something still deserving of his affection and sympathy. The two precepts which we have now considertd afj'ord the fundamental principle of all others relating to human intercourse. As love is "the fulfilling of the law," so it alone can inspire an acceptable obedience to any of tlie precepts of the gospel, Let this be borne in mind as we uow notice some . . v ,1. 4, - of the required manifestations of that love. Let them be viewed us only the various streams of which love is the fountain, or as the diverging rays of which love is the central sun. By thus regarding them, we shall possess the clue to their meaning, and the secret of their fiUfilment. With this teeneral law clearly before us, the particular precepts of the gospel will develop harmoniously to our view, and we shall be the better fitted to comprehend and practice them. What Constitutes a Gentleman.?We have 110 doubt the following will be relished by those who are in the situation of the "printer" who had such a keen appreciation of a true gentleman. A patron of a certain newspaper once said to the publisher : "Mr. Printer, how is it vou have never called upon mo to pay for your paper?" "Oh," said the man of types, "we never ask a gentleman for money " "Indeed," replied the patron, "how do you manage to get along when they don't pay you?" "Why," said the editor, "after a certain time we conclude he is 110 gentleman and we ask him." "Oh?ah?yes?I see. Here is five ; dollars, make me all right on your | books." The Value ok Positive Opinion. ?It was Sidney Smith (who was a keen observer of human affairs), we believe, who paid that a great deal ofi talent is lost to the world from a want! of courage. A man who has the cour-i age of his convictions, and is not] afraid to^vowthem, is always a useful man so long as he stands inside of: sound morals and of legitimate human ; rights. Indeed, when he gets some-; what outside those lines, he may still! be useful by provoking thought andj discussion that will drive him inside if! he is an honest man, and that will ati any rate prevent others from standing j in a false position. The truth often j suffers from stagnation, and needs to; bestirred up; it suffers less by discussion than from being let alone. Rubbing it makes it brighter, just as it does with gold and silver and precious stones. Positive opinions begat opposition, of course; but the world and the Church need them all the same. Those who are afraid to express them in behalf of truth, can take the awful responsibility of silence: but truth will march forward without them. But where will the,y be when they see it marching on ? New York Evangelist. Nothing shows the true lady more than her letters. As regards the writ-! I ins itself, it should be as good as possi-1 ble. To write badly is discourteous, because it looks as If you thought any scrawl were good enough for your friend, no matter what trouble mav be required to read it. Never write ''Ex* cuse haste and a bad pen." No one should write to a friend in indecent haste, and pens are cheap to buy. Use strong grammatical English, few abbreviations, and make your meaning as clear as daylight. Five Talents of Woman. Afraid of an Idea.?A little boy, a neighbor of mine, went lately to (school for the first time, and on his return admitted that he had enjoyed himself, but declared vehemently that he should not go again. He seemed full of real terror, and it finally came out that the teacher had told him that he was going to "put an idea iuto his head," the next morning. The word "idea" was one he had never heard, and he probably fancied it to be some new and formidable kind of edge tool. T. JK. Iligyinson, What ark you Doijo.?Did you ever tell wlmt the Lord has done for your soul ? How does the world know you are a Christian ? Did you ever make a personal appeal to an unconverted soul? Do your religious engagements take precedence over all others? Have you tried to induce any one to attend your church meetings? Have you welcomed any strauger in church ? Do you visit the poor, the sick, the strangers? Have you sought to know your new members ? Is secret prayer your daily habit? Doyou observe daily worship? It is impossible for a Christian to lose sight of the fact that prohibition is a great moral question. Those who deal in liquor, the manafaoturers, and saloon-keepers, have nothing to do with the nioral aspeots of the traffic. They are liberal enough to admit that "the abuse of alcohol" is an evil ; but the morality of the traffic itself they ignore, and look only at the commercial value of the business. It is profit ble?the.v have invested millions of dollars in distilleries, breweries, and wine-vats, and can seonothiug except the money returns. The effect of the business on the lives, happiness, and final destiny of men gives them no concern. Do you ask what will educate your son? Your example will educate him ; your conversation with your friends; the business he sees you transact; the liking and disliking he sees you express?these will educate him. * The society you live in will educate him ; above all, your rank, your situation in life, your home, your table will educate him. It is not in your power to withdaw from him the continued influence of these things, except you were to withdraw yourself Irom them also. Education goes on at every instant 01 ume ; yu iuu neither stop it nor turn its course. What these have a tenceney to make your child will be. A ?>derson Idfelliffen cer. That many men enlist through pique, and soon tire of the routine of garrison life, may be admitted ; yet | this fact can hardly account for the desertion of one-fourth of the recruits, anil one eight of the rank and tile of the army every year. The truth seems to be that the lii>" ollicers themselves [are largely responsible for this condition of aHairs. Their'istless and enervating life leads tliem to lose interest in their commands, and their au| thority is assumed by non-commissioned men who abuse it by acts of petty tyranny. Some radical remedy is ; needed to cure an evil that is fast bringing discredit upon the whole army. Philadelphia Record. The radeal Christian remedy is? Disband ! V -" '- - i . What Others Saj. Cor. St. Louis A dvnc'Ue. In Da no Kit.?Are our people to become more worldly, ana is the vast 1 wealth which is flowing into our land 1 to be an unmitigated curse to the peo- 1 pie? There is only one escape?more' self denial and deeper and more thor- ' ough consecration of wealth to God and His Church. Oh, when will peo-;' pie of wealth see that God's kingdom M is real and that His worship and ser- j< vice is business! Will the day everjj come when men of wealth wiil say, I' "Children, the fortune we have mustj' be spent for the betterment of man. j) Go, and as you teach, preach, live f\i"i your Lord. Heaven is a reality, heiX* is a reality, spiritual things are eternal,) temporal, seen things are transitory, j1 shadowy." Worldliness is the worst!1 form of sin in Christian and civilized;' countries. Let the men whom the Sou 11 if God basset free, preach, write andjj continue to cry and spare not. What! if in the great day of judgment it j1 should be found that the ministry I1 have been indirectly leaders in this!5 way of error?Balaam ites! We are ' a 1 in danger. We may pray daily I and read the Bible, go to church, I E reach, sing, shout, and this plausible, 1 idden, deep-hearted evil unconscious- ' ly corrupt ani ruin the soul. Dr. P. S. Ilcnten, in liaptUt Teacher. j Sei.f-Respkct.?That was a very ! fine answer said to have been made by 1 the venerable Dr. J. B. Jeter to an in- I quirer who asked him whether, when I he was in Rome, he had called upon his holiness the Pope. "No, I did 1 not." "Well, why not, Dr. Jeter?" ' "Because," replied the magnificent | Baptist bishop, "the Pope never called ; upon me." He believed that a Baptist preacher was just as good as a < Catholic Pope, and as Jeter was a i stranger in Rome, and Vhe Pope was at I home there, it seemed to him that the < latter should take the lead in the dis- ] play of courtesy. A lesson here for those un-American Americans who i abuse their manhood by seeking an : audience with the Sovereign Pontiff, I even though the cost of it be their 1 kneeling thrice before him and kiss- i ing the golden cross upon his em- < broidered slipper. Would that more of the Lord's embassadors had the i self-respect and conscious dignity of J. B. Jeter! New York Christian A dvocate. The sensitive natures of some per : sons eau3e untold trouble not only to themselves but to all with whom they are associated. Two elderly ladies are said to have left a Sunday-school recently because the class to which they belonged was moved twelve feet from the place it had formely occupied. It j is well for Christian people to havej opinions of their own, and to be ready j to express them on all proper occa-j sions; but those who make so much of trifles are wanting both in grace and sense. How can one "endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" if he cannot endure a little disappointment concerning the place the organ shall occupy iu the church, or the color of the carpet, or the person who shall lead the singing, or the location i of a Sunday-school class? Iheodore Parker. I Let the world have peace for fivei hundred years, the aristocracy of blood! will have gone. The aristocracy of j gold has come and gone, that of tal-; ent will also have come anu gone, aim the aristocracy of goodness, which is the democracy of man, the government of all, for all, by all, will be thei power thnt is. Then, what may wej not look for? Hitherto our hero has,' been of force, his symbol the sword or j the sceptre of command. It will not always be po. We are now developing! the hand, and shall one day the head, j and then the heart. The average church tactics is that of j retreat. An episoopal church in Newj York has abandoned a down town ed-; ifioe. A contemporary asks: Because the hordes of Satan abound, and even pitch their tents under the very eaves of the sanctuary, is a given church justified in moving up town ? Shall it be an aoeepted policy of the church j of the Lord Jesus Christ to retreat! from the lower sections of the city and follow the march of wealth, intelligence and refinement up Fifth Ave-' nue and out on the Back Bay? /ion's Herald. I ( fP?-- a 1 in w>1i?rlmi*l 1 lie IIRH IlCUC^OI ij ill n.v. life of our time is "to do justice."! "Showing mercy" ia generally easier than doing justice. A fair day's wage . for a fair day's work, simple as the de- , mand seems, carries in it that to which ( all humane minds consent as the primary requirement in justice. It is , true that man does not live by bread , only, but. he can not live without bread. The "word that cometh out of the mouth of Glod" includes the feeding < the hungry and clothing the naked. Neto York Christian Advocate I The Roman Catholics complain i against the custom of reading the Biblein the public schools on the gtound i that it is a sectariau book, and the Su- i preme Court of the State of Wiscon- < sin has sustained them in this; that is i to say, the Iloman Catholics them- ; selves being judges, the Bible does not teach their religion, but does contain j the doctrines held by Protestants. It is hard to tell which is the easiest j ?to go forward at a revival or backward when the revival is over. Teacher?In the sentence "The poor I misguided wretch was taken to pris- < on," what part of speech is 'poor ?' Johnny?"Poor" is an unnecessary j word. mum. There ain't any misguid- J ed wretches ever taken to prison. i He was a New Yorker, and on arriv- j ing here?being unaccustomed to the , comparatively fresh air?it made him ( faint. Every other effort proving un-|; availing, they held him over a sewer. | j He revived almost immediately and murmured: "Ah, thank heaven ! This! smells like home.11?Exchange. Let your rest be perfect in iU season, |' like the rest of waters that are still. If you will liave a model for your living, take neither the stars, for they fly j < without ceasing; nor the ocean, that , ebbs and flows; nor the river, that j cannot stay ; but rather let your life beL like that of the summer air, which has1, timws of noble energy and timps of j perfect peace. It tills the sails of the!, ships upon the sea, and the miller thanks it upon the breezy uplands; itr works generally for the health and ] wealth of all men, yet it claims its ] hours of rest. V* " -r . ' Final A(ljoum|uieiit of the Internatioo 2 al Conference. Washington, April 19.?At noon lo-day the Pau-Americau Conference 'jj ndjourned sine die. After the transaction of some routine business and the ^ idoption of resolutions offered by Deljgate Varas of Chili, pledging the sympathetic association of the mem- % bers of the conference with the auadrocentennial celebration of the discovery )f America, and of Delegate Bolet Peraza expressing their gratitude for the hospitality of the United States, a motion to adjourn sine die was made and put to a vote. At 11:50 a. m. Mr. Blaine, rising to xnnounce the result, said : "Gentlemen : I withhold, for a moment, the word of final adjournment of the International American Confer- * ' ?nce, in order that I may express to you the profound satisfaction with A which twe government of the United > States regards the work that has been lccompiuhed by the International Conference. The importance of the :/* subjects wtiicii have claimed your at- gg Mention, the comprehensive iutellijence and watchful patriotism which you have brought to their discussion, must challenge the confidence and se~ -J 3ure the admiration of the governments and peoples whom you reprelent; while that larger patriotism '' which constitutes the fraternity of nations has received from you an impulse 3uch as the world has not before seen. The extent and value of all that has ;.'W been worthily achieved by your conference cannot be measured to-day. - >s We stand too near it. Time will define and heighten the estimate of your . 7% work; experience will confirm our present faith ; the final results will be your vindication and your triumph. -M "If in this closing nour, the conference had but one deed to celebrate, we should dare call the world's attention to the deliberate, confident, solemn iedication of two great continents to ^ peace, and to the prosperity which has ? peace for its foundation. We hold up . this new magna cbarta, which abol- % ishes war aud substitutes arbitration ' ^ between the American republics, as the ~ 0$ (4 ? ?? J ^ V> r\ T *> f AHnnf { am_ IU&L itiiu ^lcut 11 uu ui iuu lukciuauvual American Conference. That noblest >3 af Americans, the aged poet and philanthropist, Whittier, is the first to send his salutation and his benedictiou, declaring: 'If in the spirit of 38 peace the American Conference agrees upon a lule of arbitration which shall make war in this hemisphere well nigh impossible, its session will prove one of Z] the most important events in the history of the world.' "I am instructed by the President to ^ express the wish that before the mem- . bers of the conference shall leave for their distant homej they will accept ^ the hospitality of the United States in a visit to the Southern section of the C Union, similar to the one they have already made to the Eastern and West- . - ^ em sections. The President trusts that the tour will not only be a pleas- ?5 ant incident of your farewell to the :v< country, but that you will tind advantage in a visit to so interesting and important a part of our republic. "May 1 express to you, gentlemen, my deep appreciation of the honor you did me in calling me to preside over vmr deliberations? Your kindness 3 has been unceasing, and for your for- ; mal words of approval I offer you my i&J sincere gratitude. "Invoking the blessing of Almighty God upon the patriotic and fraternal -jg work which has been here b?gun for the good of mankind, I now declare the American International Conference .3 adjourned without day." The delivery of the address waseharacterized by Mr. Blaine's customary deliberate emphasis and akgo by evl- '? deuces of deep feeliug on his part. Towards the close his voice trenobled with emotion ; aud when he took his seat the council chamber rang with hearty and long-continued applause. The members of the conference then \ took carriages to the Executive Mansion to pay their parting respects to the President. The delegates were received by the President in the East room shortly after noou, each of them being introduced to.him personally by Mr. Blaine. The President then spoke aa follows : "I ttnd in this parting call of the delegates of the conference of American States both pain and pleasure. I participate in the regret whioh the delegates from the United State9 feel who are to part with those from the other countries. I take pleasure in . ry.f fllft fui?t fliut UAIir 1(1* IIIU iVUllWlCU^C wl l/IIV ihvv vum? jv%.* ? bors have been brought to a happy conclusion. The differences of opiniou have been happily reconciled. I remark witli pleasure the proposition which will be productive of peace among the American States represented in the conference. It will be without excuse if one of them shall lift a hostile hand against the other. We ^ave you, the other day, a review of a una 11 detachment of the American army, not to show you that we have an army, but that we have none; that our securities are lodged with our people, and that they are safe. We rejoice lhatyou have found in the organization of our country something which commends itself to your own. We shall be glad to receive new lessons in return. In conclusion, I find mueh to approve in the friendly purposes of the conference towards this government, 411(1 J Will UlU eacii auu every uue ui you a heartfelt good-bye." The remarks of the President were greeted with applause. There are some spirits which must qjo through a discipline analogous to that sustained by Elijah. The storm struggle must precede the still, small voice. There are minds which must be convulsed with doubt before they ean repose in faith. There are hearts which must be broken with disappointment before they can rise Into lioi>e. Blessed is the man who, when the tempest has spent its fury, reooguizes his Father's voice in its undertoue, and bares his head and bows his knee as Elijah did. To such spirits it seems as if God had said: "In tho still sunshine and ordinary ways of r X i. i:i?^ TrvK inc.you cumuli meei intr, uui, imo uvu, in the desola ion of the tempest you shall see My form, and hear My voice, uui know that your Redeemer livetli.' General Sir C'har!e9 Warren, when Governor of Natal, said : "For tiie preservation of peace between the ?olouists and natives one missionary is worth more than a whole battalion of soldiers." A sen**e of the infinite distance be- . tween God and man, in wisdom, powsr, and holmes?, should, in our approaches to Him in meditations and prayer, bear with deep and solemn weight upon the mind. '.M r*i