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The Abbeville Press and Banner. 1 ' " BY HUGH WILSON ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1890. VOLUME XXXV. NO.^ M The Bridle. "Don't go without a bridle bo.vs," was my grandfather's favorite bit of advice. Do you suppose we were all teamsters or horse-jockeys? No such thing. If he heard or.e cursing and' swearing, or given to much vain and foolish talk, "That man has lost his bridle," he would say. Without a bridle the tongue, though a little member, "boasteth great things." It is "an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." Put a bridle on, and it is one of the best servants the body and soul have. "I will keep my mouth with a bridle," said King David. And who can do better than to follow his example. When my grandfather saw a man drinking and carousing, or a boy spending all his money lor cakes and candy, "Poor fellow," he would say, "he's let off his bridle." The appetite needs a reiuing. Let it loose, and it will run you to gluttony, drunkenness, and 'all sorts of disorder. Be sure to keen a bridle on your appetite: do not let "it ^t>e master. Anil don't neglect to have one on your passions. They go mad if they get unmanagable, driving you down a blind and headlong course to ruin. Keep the check-rein tight, don't let it slip; hold it steady. Never go without your bridle. That was the bridle my grandfather I meant,?the bridle of self-government. K Parents try to restrain and check their L children, and you can generally ^ tell by their behavior what children have such wise and faithful parents. But parents cannot do everything. And some children have no parents to care for them. Every boy must have his own bridle, and every giil must have hers. They must learn to check and govern themselves. Self-government is the most dilRcult and most important government in the world. It becomes easier every day, if you practice it with steady and resolute will. It is the foundation of excellence. It is the cutting and pruning which makes the noble and vigorous tree of character. Evangelist. Why not be Content? Most men would be content with what they have did they see some one somewhere else or something different. Their vagrant thoughts wander in forbiddeu fields, and with an. evil covetousness they covet that which they do not poses*, and despise the good gifts which God has given them. If people would seperate themselves from all these surrounding considerations, and cease to co.npare themselves with others ; if they would think of '' the mercies God has shown them, the friends, the home, the blessings he has bestowed ; if they would look into the dim eyes of the sorrowing, and the lunched faces of the poor; into the squalor of wretched homes full of misery caused by vice, intemperance aud siu ,* if they would see how much God had spared them which others endure, and how much he has given of which others are deprived, surely % there would be an end of much of ^ this ungrateful and sinful murmuring and discontent which embitters the lives of some, aud leads others into unhappiness and wrong-doing. "Be content with such things as ye have," is the divine direction, and those who will follow it will find peace aud sweetness in the cjuiet comforts and enjoyments of their appointed lot, which they will never obtain in the restlessness of discontent, in the gratification of forbidden longings and iu rebellion against the appointments of a gracious Providence. T/ie common 'People. Physiology of Evil. Dr. B. W. Richardson declares that the man of science finds two natural causes of evil in mankind?heredity and earlj' environment. The operation of these causes is made conspicuous in a novel investigation carried out by Mr. Dugdale, of New York, who has been able to trace one criminal family back to the time of the settlement of its first members in America. He has found that from this parent atock have sprung 1,200 decendants, and has followed the life record of 709, not one of whom has escaped the contamination of evil or its consequences. His researches have led to the estimate that iu 75 years the treatment of the crimes of this family have cost the State more than a million and a quarter of dollars. Those who are born bad, however, arc not always incura ble. Mr. Isaac Ashe, .President of the Central Criminal Asylum, Dublin, has suggested that inherited tendencies to crime be treated in the young by leachfi ing useful occupations calling into % play the faculties exercised in the " criminal acts. Thus, the child of a clever forger may be educated into an | honest draughtsman ; and the natural inclinations of children of generations of pickpockets may be turned into healthy channels by teaching some handicraft requiring a special capacity of finger, such as watch-making. But to attempt to eradicate a criminal tendency without such utilization of it is futile. Praying for Enkmies.?Perhaiis there is nothing which more thoroughly.tests the genuineness of the professed piety of a person than his willingness or unwillingness to pray for his enemies. There is reason to fear that many a professed Christian, if asked j to pray for one who had sought toj blacken his reputation, or had, by in-1 trigue, taken all the money which he! nosessed, would stoutly refuse to do so. Especially would this likely be the case if the offense had just been com mitted, leaving smarting wounds aud j tironuinir a burning indignation I against the perpetrator of the injury.! il. is true (hat many mere professors of, religion have prayed for their enemies j in a wholesale soft of a way ; and this| is a very easy thing. Jtisno real test' of a person's Christianity, or lack of it. it is one of the easiest things in I in the world to repeat the Lord's pray-; er, which says : "Forgive us our trespass as we forgive those who tres}>ass against us." But it is one of the rnrdest of duties with some to thorougnly practice this petition. One may pray for his enemies, as a whole, with but little otl'ort ; but, let him think of a single enemy who has just maligned him, and then nee if he feels like heartily praying for him, and doing so voluntarily. This is a fine test, l>ut if he be a real Christian he will pray with a forgiving spirit for even his worst enemies. C. H. Wetherbk. If you want things to go right, live right yourself. What Others Say. S. S. Times. Nothing is final but the complete truth. It often, iudeed, seems desirable to withhold from our friends aud from the world the whole or a part of some truth in our possession. An author may desire, for various reasons, to veil his personality under the iruise of a pseudonym. A parent may refrain from telling his child all that might be told in answer to that child's qnestion. A translator or expositor of the Bible may decide to use a reading or a rendering familiar to the public ear, as being sufficiently expressive of the sense of the original, in preference to a better attested reading, or a more accurate rendition of the text. No exception can be taken to the exercise of one's clear discretionary rights in such matters us these. But it is well to remember that while such comprises between partial and perfect truth may be expedient, they can be final.?Sooner or later the literary world will discover the identity concealed under the pseudonym (if it is worth discovering utnin. and then the author will have two names to be known by, instead of one. Sooner or later the child will discover for himself the suppressed half-truth, and then his belief in the parent's truthfulness will depend upon tiis ability to draw a distinction between concealment and perversion. Bolder exegetes and more exact translators will erelong make the more critcal version familiar to the public ear, and the conservative translator will have to revise his work accordingly. Compromise between truth and error is always wrong. Compromise between truth and ignorance may he right, but it will always be temporary* .'I. It. Presbylcriun, What a rebuke to those Christians in this country who occupy high official position (arid there are many such) was the remark of a prominent Japane>e who lately visited this country. He said he thought America had less religion than any other country ; that he bad traveled over it and seen its wonders; that he had met with the most delightful society ; that he had been entertained by prominent and uisunguisneu omciais. uui,- ?uu ur, "not one of these has asked me to visit ii church. You seem to think your religion is not worth exhibiting." Perhaps these officials were like Dr. R. J. Breckinridge, who, when asked to give his religious experience, said that he "had no religion worth speaking of." We may, without uncharitabJeness, say that the religion of the present administration is a good deal like that of Dr. Breckenridge. St. Louis AdvocCe. Solomon says "a soft answer turneth away wrath." That such is the fact may be realized by all who sincerely try it; and, by the way, what good is there in rash language-harsh words, or ill-natured language in tones of any character? Whom do they conciliate ? Whom do they any way advantage ? On the coutrary, are not the speaker and hearer injured by such words ? Soft, gentle language has al ways a tendency to lead to softened feeiing, and surely threre are enough unavoidable sorrows attending the life of each and every one when we all do what we cau to live peaceably! and treat each other gently and kindly, without our trying to impede each other's way and add to each other's griefs and woes. Beginning tiik Ministry.?A good suggestion is found it) I lie Bibliothcca Sacra : "Happy is the pastor whom Providence permits to begin the arduous work of his calling in some country parish wl ere he can . command the situation rather than have the situation command him, and where in comparative quiet he may go over again, amid the practical affairs of life, the great themes of the gospel which he is to preach." This finds a happy illustration on a circuit in the Mutlwwlitt f <linif.lt Vft flftnl.t tliuro ure many in our church who would have made far more able as well as useful ministers had their first work as ministers been on circuits. Ht. Louis Advocate. Preaching should be expository, explaining the Scriptures ar J encouraging men to be good. Not much use to spend time in telling men how bad they are; tell them how to become good, and what great advantage there is in being good. You cannot scold a man out of his sins, nor scold the sins out of the man ; and there is often much gained by tenderness and gentleness. Try it. Too Much Organization.?The Ntw York Examiner, Baptist, says of the many organizations in the church "Such auxiliaries have an unpleasant resemblance to that South American parasite described by I)r. Holmes which, after clasping a tree with a slender, succulent network, thickens, hardens, and stretches out in every direction, until it ends by uprooting the trunk that was originally its support aud subsistence. The Advocate at Nashville says : "Ambition for office or for honor is, in a preacher, nothing short of sin." Once upon a time while Hon. Zebulen B. Vance was making a political canvass of North Carolina, he spoke in a country village, where a young mau attempted to reply to him. At the conclusion of a wild and furious flow of backwood eloquence, the young mau sat down, thoroughly convinced in his own conceited mind that he had crushed his opponent. Vance stepped out upon the rostrum, opened aud closed his mouth rapidly, without uttering any sound, and at the same time making gracetui gestures with bis arms and hands. After a couple of minutes he sat down, remarking as he did so that he had replied to all of the young man's points, and if he had any more to say he would be glad to near from him. Our readers can upply this locally to their own satisfaction.?'Durham Globe, - ? A substitute for whisky as a remedy for rattlesnake bites has been discovered. A man in Clinton County, Mo., bitten on the leg by a rattler while in the woods two miles from home, a few days ago, wiped the blood off with a leaf, and, taking a big cud of tobacco from bis mouth, bound it on the ; wound with a piece of bark. After reaching home lie bathed his leg with ammonia, and has suffered no ill effect. other than a alight swelling of the ^ bitten spot. Something to Avoid. A little personal pique, a bit of wounded vanity, a sudden flame of anger, often undoes the most substantial and faithful work, and nullifies the most intelligent and wise action. It is one of the painful things in experience that effort is often defeated by these small, purely personal, and often momentary feelings, which are generally unintelligent and unwise. Life would be freed from some its most painful features if men always acted to each other on a basis of real justice and intelligence, and left their small personal feelings and prejudices out of sight. A mau's work ought to bejudged by itself alone, and the strength of a man's position ought to rest solely upon wlmt he is able to do. And yet most of us are constantly neutralizing the best work of others because it is not done in our way, and are constantly failing to do justice to others because of some small prejudice against them. The really strong, clearsigh'ed man is the mnu who is able to put himself out of the question, and to judge others by what they really are and do, not by their relations to him. Jn this working world there is neither time nor strengin 10 ne always couunug our small vanities and still smaller prejudices. The world does not stand in order that we may be pleased. It stands as a place for the doing of honest work in the best way, and if that work can he betler done in some other way than the one we prefer, our business is let it be done and rejoice in it. If you wish to see things clearly, and to be just with your fellow-men, keep clcar of the fuuies of vanity and the thick atmosphere of mere personal feeling. Make it a pule to see what a man is and does, and to value him by these things. A person may be ver^ distasteful to us and yet be eminently useful ?nd successful in the world. Christian Union. Things CIood to Kei?1\?Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Keep thee far from a false matter. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life. Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. Little children, kpep yourselves from idols. My son, keep thy father's commandments. My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion. Remember the Sablmth day, to keep it holy. Keep yourselves in the love of God. Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.?Exchange. When Isaac Hopper, a member of the Society of Friends, met a boy with a dirty face or hands, he would stop him and inquire if he ever studied chemistry. The boy, with a wondering stare, would answer 'No.' "Well, then, I will teach thee how to perform a curious chemical experiment. Go home, take a piece of soap, put it in water, and rub it briskly on thy hands and face. Thou hast no idea what a beautiful froth it will make, and liow much whiter thy skiu will be. That's a chemical experiment; I advise thee to try it." Exposing Tree Roots to Air.? Few persons realize how great damage results to trees from even short exposures of their roots to air. It is this which makes even the roost careful transplanting such a check to growth. When the trees are taken up and carried on wagons, with roots sticking out into the pir several hours, the finer feeding roots are so withered that even moist earth will not revive them. The tree must wait until new roots can be put forth, which is best promoted by trimming back the points of the roots just before setting them in the ground. The swelling of the buds will make a demand for new supplies of sap from below. Some of the best protected of the old roots will revive and hasten to furnish miosture to the tree. Others with cleau cuts will callous over and form roots from the callous. Boston Cultivator. Cleanliness in Milking.?This is indispensable to success in dairying ol' any kind, pertinently says Dr. 11. Reynolds. If milking is done in a slovenly manner, without carefully brushing off all the loose tilth from the cow and holding the yail in such a position as to avoid the tine dirt that may fall oft'during the milking, the milk will be likely to taste of barn filth, which will render it unfit for cheese-making, liuttcr and cheese made from sucli filthy milk has a strong taste of barn filth. The man who cauuot take the necessary pains to milk in a cleaDly manner should not make the attempt. Meals Spoiled.?An easy way to spoil the evening meal is for each member to tell the sad tale of all that has gone wrong during the day, to mention the disapointments and vexa lions, to tell of the slights that were endured, and the oflenses that were given ; and to lament over the results of this infelicitous combination of affairs, is enough to counteract the refreshing eflect of all the good things with which the most generous and skillful housewife can load the table. Belter put this complaining oft' until] some other time. What is the best time for it it is hard to say. Perhaps an indefinite postponement would be a happy thing for all concerned. Half the things that we groan over to-night will right themselves before to-morrow night if we let them alone. Anonymous, i Seven Good Resolutions.?1. I will pray in secret once a day at least, and will read a portion of God's Word daily. 2. Family prayer shall be kept up regularly in my home. iJ. Unless providentially hindered, I will not l>e ansein irom cuureu uu Sabbath morning ami night. 4. If possible, I will attend every prayer-meeting and social meeting of my church. o. I will abstain from everything God's Word forbids, and will cheerfully do all my church asks of me. G. I will set a good example to those around me ; will not be satijfied without the assurance of sins forgiven, and will be the best Christian possible. 7. I will pray for a revival of religion and the salvation of souls. Hunger aud thirst are life, satiety and abundance death, J THE RIGHT WAY, Or the Gospel Applied to Intercourse Between Individuals and Nalons. BY KKV. JOSEPH A. COLLI I"Ft. (Continued.) MOTIVES TO THK RIGHT WAY. While there are no objections which cau reasonably be urged against the right luay of conducting intercourse, there are many strong motives to its practice. I. One of the least of these is, that personal policy demands it. This, of itself, were an unworthy motive to the discharge of auy duty; yet it is perhaps proper to notice it in connection with others which we shall present. All must have observed, in the ordidary dealings of men, the power that resides in a bland, courteous demeanor. Whatever be the object to be gained, whether friends, pleasures, honors, or riches, those are the most successful who are uniformly polite, and considerate of others' happiness. A smile, or a kiiu1 word. will often accomplish more in a person's favor than the most masterly stroke of cunning. Jn bus! ness transactions, me rami wuu controls bis passions lias by far the advantage of him who does not. A resentful disposition excites distrust, wherever it is known. Prudent men avoid those who exhibit ir, and in all their dealings give the preference to those of mild temper, and accustomed to selfcommand, Alexander the Great, amid all his bloody conquests, recognized the importance of a kind treats meat of both friends aud enemies, as the best means of furthering his ambitious schemes. Being asked how lie had been able at so early an age and in so short a period to conquer such vast regions, and establish so great a name, he replied, *'1 used my enemies so well that I compelled them to become my friends, and I treated my friends with such constant regard that they became unalterably attached to me." Were there no other and loftier aim in life iban success, every consideration of sound policy would demaud the cultivation of a 'kind, forbearing, and forgiving disposition. We may add to Mlia Jho mnfiv-p of TOersOHCtl Hctfcti/. The conduct required of us, so far from exposing to yet greater injury, is our best safeguard against it. .Resistance to wrong generally provokes to its repetition. The irritable and impetuous are of all men the most liable to be trespassed against; while they who return good for evil convert their enemies into friends, and make them minister to their happiness. So far, then, as regards the accomplishment of the most selfish ends, such as our own aggrandizement, and personal security, the right way is "the host policy." II. We urge as another motive, our oivn liability to offend, a-id our frequeut need offo rr/ iven ess from others. Who "is there that is not sometimes off his guard, and liable to be surprised into an offence against a fellowman? What tongue is so bridled as not, at times, unjnstly to assail and injure others? They who make the highest attainments in the religious Ufa nnn fnrraii tn ontifess nf their rela tions both to God and man, "Jn many things we offend all." This undeniable fact should have great weight with us in our dealings with mankind. He who allows it its proper influence, will, upon every occasion of injury from another, reflect that he may yet need the kind forbearance of that very individual. He will reason witli himself thus: "What am /, that I should resent an offence, or without forgiveness from u brother? When I have done hating, it will be time enougli to refuse to love ; when I have done sinning, time enough to resist evil; and when T need not the kind deeds and prayers of others, time enough to withhold them from any. Until then, I will be consistent with myself, and forgive, as I would be forgiven either of God or man." Such is a reasonable view of the subject, and such are the thoughts and resolutions which best become us. The resentful man. while of all others the most like ly to give offence, is the very last who ought to do so. For he cannot reasonably exact a treatment which he refuses to render; and he has no right to complain if all his injurious words aud actions are promptly retaliated. On the other hand, he who, conscience of his frailty, cherishes a spirit of meekness and Jong-suffering, may with greater reason hope to be met with the same spirit. Our own interests therefore, no less than a manly consistency of conduct, demand that we extend to those injuring us that forgiveness which we ourselves may require. Christ became the Son of Man in order that we might become the sons of God. No man Is more severely punished than he who is subject to the whip of his own remorse. Sin is to be overcome, not so much by maintaining a direct opposition to it, as by cultivating opposition principles. It isu't wise to say always all that you think, but it is wise always to think carefully over everything you say. Life being very short anil the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of this in reading valueless books. Humor usually tends toward good nature, and everything that tends toward good nature tends toward good grace. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. If you do not hear reason, she will, rap your knuckles. Noble examples stir us up to noble actions, and the very history of large and public souls inspires a man with generous thoughts. It is not the "flesh," nor the "eye," nor the "life" which are forbidden, but it is the lust of flesh and the eyes and the pride of life. Not to give thanks that we are better off than others, but to make some others better oft' than others?that is the impulse of a grateful soul. Numberless indeed are the mercies of the Lord, and us numberless the ways through which they are extended to mankind ; but nil ure graciously designed to bring us nearer to himself. They who speak or write virtuously and piously should be extremely careful to live virtuously and piously, or they will be like the ancient (Jreek and Itoinan philosophers who did not practice the virtues they taught. Bread. "I travel a great deal, and I sit at a great many tables, public and private, and I find that good bread is the exception and not the rule." So paid one of our traveling agents the other day, and he continued : "Is it so difficult a matter to make good bread ?" "J think it is," replied an old housekeeper of over thirty years' experience in bread-making. "I! is like photography, "interposed a younger housekeeper. "Ju photography there are twelve or fourteen distinct processes necessary for the production of a picture, and each of these processes must be conducted perfectly or the picture will not be a succors. After it is all done but pasting, you can daub It and spoil it, as I have myself proven." "I've often thought," resumed the house-keeper, "of a remark Harriet Beeeher Stowe made in an article in The Atlantic years ago, that no matter how many batches of bread the housemother has made, she never fails to rejoice with a new and fresh and nnmingled satisfaction wheu she takes from the oven sweet, light, fragrant, golden-brown loaves of bread, while tliat hraail locta cl>u IrnrkWC flip 1MI1PS of hunger will be appeased with wholesome food." When one makes cake she has only to give Her mind to it during the making and baking, but from the time she sets her sponge for bread till hours after when it comes from the oven she must keep it on her mind. The sponge must not rise too long or the Dread will be tasteless, perhaps sour. The dough must not be mixed too hard or too soft, and its consistency depends upon the flour, and is, therefore a matter of judgment and experiment, and if the oven is notjust right the bread will be spoiled in the baking. Then the materials must be just right. Stale, sour yeast will not make the best quality of bread. Poorfloiir will not make good bread. It may be fixed up with various additions and cheat the palate, but the organs of nutrition will discover the cheat and resent it. Recipes for bread-making are on most every bag of flour sold ; they can be found by the dozen in every cookbook, and in columns devoted to culi nary matters ; there is no Jacu or gooa receipes, but there is plentiful need of more skill in following them; there is need of a noble aspiration on the part of hundreds of housekeepers to make every day and all the time bread of perfect quality and ideal excellence. He Could not be Hid. -He could not be hid, for all the time virtue was going out from him all the time he was speaking the word of power and life ; all the time he was healing the sick, cleansing the leper, raising the dead; all the time bis life glowed with an unearthly purity and splendor. No wonder that he could not be hid ! Nor can he any more be hid now when he dwells in his people. II Christ be really within the soul of a believer, it is impossible but that he will make himself manifest. Christ in the soul can no more be hid than can a radiant electric burner shining at mid-night. National Baptist. In China, where everything is contrary to Western ideas, poverty has [a greater practical power than in any country in the world. The Chinese Times, of Tien Tsin, says that everything may be forgiven in China to a poor official. Poverty is considered a test of probity, an inlluence which owes much of "its strength to the attachment of the people to every man who conies unspotted through the severe temptation of Chinese official life. Hush! papa is reading the paper. Do not disturb him, for the daily paper is a "great cducator of the people." He has finished his murmurs, outrages, and minor horrors, and is now iu the midst of some juicy details ol the latest scandals. Be silent, or you may interrupt, his education.?Life. The man who first described a child as a live interrogation-point paid to childhood one of the greatest compliments that it could receive. The spirit of inquiry is really the thermometer of intellectual life. Only the dead are sure to ask no questions. A child is the most alive of human beings. To ohitt nft' tho innnlrintr snirit is. so far. to deaden him.1 To take iron rust out of white goods pour a. teacupful of boiling water, stretch the goods tightly across the top of it; then pour on a little of the solulton of oxilic acid dissolved in water and rub it with the edge of a teaspoon or anything. If it does not come out at once, dip it down into the hot water and rub it again. "There is no substitute for personal pi?ty. It is the true iuflueuce against which sin cannot stand. Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples. This is Christ's recognition of his people." Religion does not consist In bodily conformity or plainness of apparel, but is in and from the heart, as, on the other hand, pride is in the heart, and not in the outward clothing; yet true religion leads to simplicity in all outward things. "The Church in the world," says a nrrifor "is like a shin on the 1 CVyUII W ?? * I VV? , ? r ocean. The ship is safe enough in the ocean, so long as the ocean is not in the ship, The Church is safe enough in the world, so long as the world is not in the Church." The selfish desire for prominence and place leads to the most foolish and .yet the most bitter disputes and quarrels. No controversies are so hot and long-continued as religious ones. Men often say it is a principle at stake, when really it is a place. 'A little bit of Patience Oflen makes the sunshine come, And u little bit of Love Makes ft very happy home; A Utile bit of Hope Makes a rainy day look gay; And a little bit of Charity Makes glad a weary way." Over the triple doorway of an Italian cathedral there are three inscriptions .spanning the splendid arches. Over one is carved a beautiful wreath ol roses, and underneath is the legend, "All that pleases is but for a moment.'1 Over the other is a sculptured qross, and there are the words, "All that troubles is but for a moment." JJut underneath the main arch is the inscription, "That only is importanl which is eternal." THE AMERICAN STUDENT. * HIS SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES; OVER ALL OTHER STUDENTS. ^ A?l?lro*H by John II. Miller, Et>q., of NelniH, Alii., at the Commencement in the Greenwood Female College, June 18. 1890. The position of the American Student In the sphere of intellecual workers in nniqtie, Interesting and Important. Ills totally distinct from that of the European, In politics, In religion. In literature and in art. From ! his political eminence he overlooks a cenlurj j of vieerous national life; a century flllec | with the crowning triumphs ofdefended 'luerties and of Inviolate laws. Beneath these political institutions Is that mora), conservative basis laid by those purltan pioneers who first saw the sunlight from our mountain tops as they shouldered their glistening blades to march Into the rich depths of unexplored forests. No tale from the Arabian Nluhts can out-maich in bewitchlDg splendor the abiding results or American energies for the past three centuries. They seem moore dream-like than real. Some rateful enchantress seems to have held undisputed dominion over tne destinies of our: national existence. This whole continent resting firmly between Its great mountainous arms of the East and the West, seems bnt the destined center of the most gigantic activities In all human annals. Our goverment is tlrm, our nationality Is healthy and our literature Is enviable. | Educational institutions with fabulous endowments are springing to their fget. It Is | but a truism lor me to say that every Amerl- j i can child should be fitted by his parents with I suitable Intellectual training that he may be qualified for Ihe proper perfortnar.ee of the great duties Imposed by American citizenship. Lord Bucon says, "Custom Is most perfect when it beginneth in young years." This we call education, which is in effect, but an early custom. The lioly grandeur of virtuous customs Is only surpassed in power by the grinding tyranny of evil ones The heavy frame-work of habit, fastened upon us by our i early Iralninc, is worn the rest of our days, j Hercules can't remove it. Parental indiffer-i ence to the momentous, mental necessities of, the young is not only criminal infidelity to, the present, but its restricting influence will I be felt to the remotest generations of men, j Where there Is life, there is strife, and thellaw I prevails from the brute creation upward,! that "The weaker eoes to the wall. I To be an intellectual wairlor you must have Intellectual armor. "Histories make men wise: poets witty: mathematics subtile: nuturnl philosophy deep: moral: philosophy grave: logic and rhetoric able to1 contend." Living as we do under the refining influences of a great civilization we venture nothing at all when we say that every younz man who desires an education can get it. He can took either to bis parents or to his friends, Hnu 11 wiese sucporis are gone, luen Buppori. yourself, and get it any how. YouDg man, would you live for posterity? Then In the 1 language of a great modern writer. "Determine to live wisely and truly for your own! age, whereby If the native force he In you, you may likewise live for posterity." The spirit of growth Is the .true spirit of all true life, i It runs through all poetry and through all ! prose. "I hold It. truth with him who sings To one clear harp In divers tones, That men may rise on stepping stones, Of their dcaa selves to higher things." I We proceed upon this anxlom, that Intelll! gence Is the common condltllon ot all those j whodeterminately desire to have It, I think i I can safely say that the first two questions i j that face every Intelligent young man as lie j looks out upon life are, what am I ? and what am I to do? Until we know ourselves, | we can never know what we can do. The . very moment that we master ourselves that ,! moment we arc ready to begin to remove harjrlersand to accomplish possibilities. The : measurements of a possible life*work Include I not only tlio strong agencies which our bod i ics and our minds furnish us, but also all those Immeasurable conditions of growth ; which result from all the advancement of the i past. Every American youth is rich, rich in that which he Inherits, and richer still In that which lie may acqure. Our national character receives its Impress not from our natural, physical environments, but also from the welded worth of the Roman, the Briton, the Saxon and the Norman. Each one of these great people Is a distinguished ' branch of the noble Caucasian race, a race . that bears the stamp of supremacy on Us na] ture. IjHCII uiic in UlCOU miui 'JIUIUIIO uao ivimu < Indelible Image of Itself lonil posterity In the I monumental strength of the present British empire. It Is from this fourfold source that j the well-balanced Englishman draws his cool j courage, his tameless spirit, his wise counsel and his chivalrous conduct: qualities that make men, men who rule In thought and [action; Men who can meet the most crucial i emergencies of life, from those emergencies which require the steeled natnreof the mailed warrior to those which demand the profound attainments of the strongest Intellects. To lliese qualities England owes all that generations of poets, orators and statesmen have made her. They have made the name of "England" a name to charm with. They sanctity the historic dust held by the costly CHsketsof Westminster Abbey. Those properties of head and heart which gives to English history its fadeless luster have been transplanted without loss of ' strength to our own soil. This presence Is attested by every field and forensic struggle In American annals from the cradle days of the Republic to this her time of giant manhood. But he is poor indeed who trusts alone to that which ancestry gives. That man hardly deserves the space that he fills on the 1 globe whoslmply sets the names of his dead ancestors to music aDd sings himself into ex-1 istence of blissful indolence. He is not a hero who will wear withered chaplets. "We have Abraham to our father" is a vain and futile pica wheu it is the only pica that can he made. If those energies which spring from the ccntcr of the soul, and which, in their strenuous reaching and thirsty a>plra-| I Hons, terrify competition and assume the i nature of destiny. If these energies are want- j Ing. a youthful lire may possess tne enchuntlng colors of the rainbow, but it will be without the royal promise of that divine symbol. Of all tlie ten thousand truth-freighted maxims that float in the air, no one of them is more richly laden than that one which tells you to build your own fortunes. Some one asked Napoleon about his father, and that greatest captain of modern times replied: "lam the Rudolf of iiapshurg of my own name." The life of the brilliant Corsican may not be the best type or manhood, yet there are elements of his colossal character worthy the imitation of every youth. His lire may be very much like that or the young pearl diver, of whom Nathaniel Hawthorne speaks, who becoming entangled in the sea-weeds perlshI ed in the very presence of the prizes he so I vainly sought, yet I tell you the pulse of all Europe beats faster .from the fact of Napoleon's lite. But whatever your country gives you in the way of ancestry it amounts to littie unless you avail yourself of other advantages whioh sl>e extends, To-day your country stands before you with both bands, full I of gifts. In addition to this rich, untainted I auco6tral heritage she offers to you her | proud history. I It is valuable to us not only because it is history, but because it is our history. It is not the record of kingly tyranny. Repeat the roll of our residents and point to a single tyrant's name. Some of their names we scarcely feel like writing except it j be with a sunbeam. The purest stone ever cut from an Italian quarry would tarnish some of their names. ure have raised monuments to some them) j which almost bathe tlielr massive foreheads i in the soft light where their spirits dwell. ! How wisely was it said that mouumonts mark and make the history of a people. But ' all the peuollllngs and chlselllngs of genius ; cannot perpetuate virtue. Virtue Is self-perpetuating, it will write the epitaph of time, J but these pencilling* and eurvlngs can express [ a nation's gratitude. History is tiie material i out of which are wrought stepping-stones tor; the present. It has Its ominous warnings as well as its cheering incentives. American history is not complete. Webave our heroes, t civil, military, ana literary, but may they not be only propnetlc pictures of those that arc j to come? American Intellects will continue to grow and expand under the fostering conditions of salubrious climate, territorial wealth, venerable institutions ot learning,: I and under the quickening Impulses of the I industrial and commercial forces. Here in; America all young men start even. Here every man can win a splendid prize who Is endowed with energy and common ability. I None of those unhappy influences which in | the old world stifle bope and paralyze ambi. tion meet you in your race-course. There are no fixed laws by which nonora arc conferred, ' save by the immutable laws of Justice and; f merit. The spirit of our institutions is kcen\ ly appreciative of the throbbins: ambition of I the humblest boy before me. The very genius of our laws guarantees to him an honest ! recognition of every honest effort that he makes. That Is why so mauy of our rulers come from thatched cottages. History is a . safe though not an infallible guide. The best . of the past !s its lessons. Hois very unwise ' who quits the present to live in the past. 11 Is just like preferring mildewed foofl to tbat which Is fresh. Every nation that has hune r'M the picture of its history on the walls of time has left us an embodiment of Its ideal manhood. Liken man, a nation should never rise above Its Ideal. Always approaching It, it should never be reached. When Roman pride nnd Grecian conceit led them to believe that there waslnothlng In life above tbem, " 7330 i heir power wasted nnd their glory declined. Their Ideal was wanting In the spiritual element. Those broken maible forms which still stand In their mouldy temples and which lie scattered through their grimy cities are slgnlflcent and mournful monuments of the carnal nature of their Ideal manhood. The magical strength of an Ideal consists In Its '"I power to emauclpate ur from the threatening evils of a degraded destiny and instill Into us ' the kindling, the inspiring and the deathless 7 energy ol immortals. Day by day under the .3 enthralling witchery of lis spell, must we ? climb higher until we lift ourselves up into the coveted regions of our golden dreams. 1 v JsHg If we would grow we must compare ourselves with that and those above us, and not with ,7^ that and those below us. Your country supKlies you with every condition of high man- ''&$% ood possible forJH to sappply, yet there are some elements that mast be in the roan. Henry Ward Beecher in his glowing and Impartial eulogy on Gen. Grant, defines good citizenship to consist of three elements: 1st, Timt which nncestry gives. 2nd, That which opportunity gives. 3rd. That which will develops. Some men are the weak minlonH of circumstances, while others monld circumstances as the skilful sculptor moulds his clay. Will-power Is an element of manhood, and without It men are no more than the weathercocks nailed to the tops of their barn*. Willforce should rest on honest convictions ; honest convictions on careful analysis. Men of strong wills are men of strong purposes and -<S where life Is controlled by the Iron role of some grand purpose results flow from It with a pre-ordained regularity. There Is a deter* mined purpose in those lightning words or ,-JgB Luther, "If there were as many devils in *8 Worms as there are roof tiles. 1 would on." There in enough of energised determination under that one sentence to create and confirm the greatest religious reformation of all I never think of those I Ight-houses of granite and metallic frame-work which our efficient ' -Jia signal service has erected along the dangerous points of our coasts without being re- ' ? miuded of how beautifully they represent a ,.".5Sg life with a Arm purpose. Through ages of darkness these storm-proof structures have Ss stood In the Bba triumphantly mocking the unstable waters that sometimes play and > ;?a sometimes war around their base. But all that your country gives you is not back ot .'Si you. It would be hard for me to exaggerate the pressing possibilities of the present and the Inviting possibilities of the future. The - Litm human eoul can hardly bear the inspiration 'v~gj poured Into it from a study of millions of human lives historically bound together. On v.dflB t he eve of one of his great battles the army of j Napoleon stood under the shadows of the great Egyptain pyramids, and looking op to 73?g their proud heights the fearless Frenchman exclaimed: "Soldiers, from yonder pile, thirty centuries look down upon you." Twice thirty centuries look down upon Amerlean youths from the towering pyramids of , the past, a pyramid whose stones are gathered from every age and clime, and which reaches from the present back to that time when the kingdoms of darkness yielded to that conquering command 'Met there be ?-Sga light." But there Is no more grandly, | wealthy moment In man's life than the pres- * ent moment. The entire nnst. la hnetr of ft. >'c6 the past with Its sunshine and Its shadows, .''5 its peace and its war, Its barbarity and Its civilization, its harmonies and its discords, ; Its backward and its forward strides, its oppressions and its alleviations, ail, all these ?re before you as guiding finger-boards of your lutnre careers. Compress these inspire- ..'ioffl Hons aud agencies Into the one awful now of your lives that they may develop a useful i greatness in your futures. The tremendoo* |and dreadful import of that word now, should thunder In the years ot our race, num- ::^gt hers of whom are living in the past and a no . 3E less number living in the future. The legend .^3 of Rip Van Winkle is no idle myth. Thousands of our race are sleeping and dreaming ^*38 their life away. Let us know that the pres- ; ent is no neutral ground. It is the pivotal period of our being. It is the great battleground of all the living. Here and now, dnrlog these lives we are living we must win for- * S3 ever, or we must forever lose. Allow me In 3 closing to urge upon you the power of pure motives. ,>>. -'VSHH Don't live too near the earth. Breathe the atmosphere ot the upper skies. "A thousand brilliant men have risen and passed away, ^,1 attracting wide attention while they lived, but warming and fructifying no mind by their .Via light, and expiring at last like a burnt out star leaving no trace in the sky. So near |S the earth were tbey that their light faded at once when the fountain failed, while ^ I many a leaser siar, oy Durning nearer neaven lias been able to send down Its rays for cenj turies after its flres were extinguished." ^But I cannot close without giving you whatever I benefit there may be in two verses I saw a few | days ago. They were entitled, "The son's in- * quiry and the mother's replyand I fancied | as I read the lines that I was looking Into the I radiant face of some noble boy as he inqulrI lngly asked of his sainted mother "What shall I bring thee, mother mine, What shall I bring to thee? Shall I bring thee jewels that burn and * '4ra shine From the depths of the shadowy sea? Shall I bring thee the crown that the bero wears By tlio wondering world entwined, ' v; Whose leaves can cover a thousands cares And shine o'er a troubled mind ? What are Jewels, my boy, to me ? Thou art the gem I prize, And the dearest spot on that shadowy sea Will be where thy vessel flies. Bring me that Innocent brow, my boy, Bring me that shadowless eye, Bring me the tone of tender Joy ? That speaks in thy last good-bye," The Russian Government is building o rnilrnnrl or>rnac Sihnria tn the Pnnififi Ocean. There will be 4,000 miles of '-'i track and 2,500 miles of river transportation. Speaker Reed, or "Czar Reed," as he is called by oue side of the House, has ordered the bar of the House restaurant to be closed. Those of the members who desire alcoholic refreshments must now go to the Senate end of the building. It is not generally known that our , famous Smithsonian Institute at Washington owes its existence to an Englishman, James Smithson, who half a century ago, bequeathed half a million dollars to our Government for its establishment. Mrs. Canfield, the white woman who hoped for the time when she would see uiacK neeis on wuue nt'UKH, nus reunzed her ambition sooner than she expeoted. She has just been defeated for school director in Kansas by a colored woman. A beautiful and touching address has been sent by the Christian Churches of Canton to the Christian Churches of England, beseeching them to devise some means to remove the opium curse. We cull from it the followiug paragraph: "It is said by some that Chinese are fond of opium, and the calamities they suffer are of their :wn making, and the English have nothing to do with it. The New Testament says : 'Have no fellowship with evil.' Now, when your Government plauts and sells opium to minister to tbe evil propensities of the Chinese, you are partakers with them, and what can you say In excuse thereof?" In England, and on many parts of the continent, thev have been for a loug time using theYates horseshoe, one made by compressing common cownide. it is composoa or inree thicknesses of the cow-skin pressed into a steel mold, and then subjected to a chemical preparation. It is claimed for it that it is much lighter, that it lasts longer, and that split hoofs are never known in horses using it. It is is perfeotly smooth on the bottom, no calks being required, the shoe adhering lirmly on the most polished surface. Its elasticity prevents many sprains, the horses'steps being lighter and surer. Straw, treated with chemicals unknown, has been used for horseshoes for centuries in Japan. Perhaps some American genius will give us a paper horseshoe?wha kuowu?? $/, Louts (Republican* HH