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Two or Three. There were only two or three of us, Who came to the place of prayer. Came In the teeth of it driving storm, Hut for that we t.'id not care. Since after our hymns of praise lmd risen, And our earnest prayers were said. The Master llimsclf w:ia present there, I And gave us the living bread. We knew his look in our leader's face, So rapt, and glad, and free; We felt his touch when our heads were bowed, We heard his "Come to -Me!" Nobody saw him lilt the latch. And none unbarred the door: Hut "Peace" was his token to every heart, And how ton Id we ask for me? Kach ol us felt the lond of sin From the weary should fall; Kach of us dropped the loud of care, And the grief that was like a pall; And over our spirits a blessed calm Sv apt in from the Jasper sea. And strength was ours for toil and strife lu the days that were thence to be. It was only a handful gathered ill To the little place of prayer, < tiitsiiin were struggle and pain and sin, Hut the Lord Himself was there; He came to redeem the pledge he gave? Wherever his loved ones he, To stand himself in the midst of them, Though they count but two or three. And forth we fared in the bitter rain, And our hearts had grown so warm. It seemed like the pelting of summer flowers, And not like the crash of a storm. " 'l'was a lime of the dearest privilege Of the Lord's right hand," we said. As we thought how Jesus Himself had come To feed us with living bread. Congregnlionalisl. Johnny's Goat Team. ?Y JOHN HOWARD JKWKTT. This story is true: A boy I once knew Was taught to be kind in a dream. It happened this way. His father oue day Hought Johnny a Billy-goat team. Bass ball and croquet, All the games boys piny, His bicycle, tennis, and boat, Were left in disdain. For he had to train A living, long-suffering goat. To fully equip The team, a new whip Was added?I never knew why? Kor Billy was kind. He knew how to mind, ' And always was willing to try. When properly used, Not whipped nor abused, And loaded with not more than one, Off Billy would trot. Though the sun was hot, As if lie too shared in the fun. I am sorry to say, One hot summer day? Forgetting me goiuen run.-? Ou r Joli n n y a I lowed In the cart to crowd His playinateB just out of school. The goat tugged his best; Johnny whipped, and the rest . All laughed aud set up a shout. * He dragged them a mile, But after a while l'oor Hilly was all tired out. He lay down to dio!? 'Twas useless to try To struggle with odds so unfair. The boys in dismay Then all ran away, And Johnny was left in despair. In vaiu were his cries, Ttie goat could not rise, So Johnny sat down there to keep A watch on his teamNow here comes a dream? For Johnny was soon fast asleep. The place ou the maps Where they were, perhaps, Wus (joatvillc, or some omcr vine. Where gouts were us free, As goals ought to be, To wander o'er meadow and hill. These goats gathered 'round Their mate on the ground. And soon the whole story found out. p^. They said: " 'Tis a shame, Ana uo one can blame If we turn this lesson about." I They unhitched the goat, And with Johnny's coat .Made Hilly a soft, easy bed; Then fast to the cart, AH ready to start, They hitched little Johnny instead. The goats jumped In And made a i;reat din. And siiid It was jolly <^ood fun To see a boy pull A whole wagon full Of goats, in a broiling hot sun. They jerked on the bit And cruelly hit Poor Johnny a blow on the ears. Thouiih frantic with i>ain. He dared not co.nplain As silently fell the hot tears. He panted and pufl'ed. Was scolded and cuffed, I'ntil HKt-eiueU better to Uiu Than suffer such pain;? 'IJie terrible strain At last woke htm up with a cry. He opened his eyes In a glad surprise To find himself safe with his team, And Billy's kind lace There beaming. In place Of the cruel wild goats of his dream. And after that day, I am happy to say, Our .Johnny the belter plan tried; For great and small Dumb creatures and all, The golden rule was liis guide. A Psychological Mystery. * * * * ? 5? X" I. ? A irienn or mine m x\ew ium im? ii pet cockatoo, which amuses the family greatly with its odd caprices. It is a beautiful bird, snow-white with the palest sulphur-colored crest. It has its eage in one corner of its mistress'.room, near a window, and its pereh stands here also. It hates to ne shu' up in the cage, and will cry and scream and make the most doleful noises when it is not allowed freedom. This rarely happens now, however, although until a few months ago, Polly had to be shut up when the family were out of the room, for she was very naughty, and would tear things to pieces with her sharp bill, as though she was doing something funny. The moment she would hear a footstep she would jump on to her pereh, look so innocent, and when the door opened she would call out, "Polly's here," a though she had been there all the time. No matter how much she was scolded, she would repeat the performance the next time she was left, so she had to be shut up. But quite by accident her mistress found out how she could keep Polly in her own corner, and now she is never kIiuI up. It happened this way : Last Christinas Polly's master, just for fun, bought his wife a big Japanese doll. It was as large as a real baby, and had the wisest, funniest look on its Japanese face that ever you saw. Instantly Polly saw it she was perfectly awestruck. What she thought it was no liody could ten, out sue wouiu sic anci watch it as if fascinated, but she never could be induced to go near it. If it was brought to her she would give the queerest little cry, and crouch down behind her cage, her crest standing upright on her head. She never eaii be induced to pass it even to go to her mistress. And so now when Polly is left alone, Mrs. Jap is K*t upon Mrs. ("lark's work table, and that is drawn u little way from the corner. Polly never attempts to go by ; but she wanders from cage to perch, looks out of lhe window at passers-by, but never goes near the doll. Once and a while Ml .. Ilw, Iw.i. n.trra ?,?1 MIC \> III Ml uu (lie iwj/ vn u?;i auu scream defiance at it, but she always keeps :it a respectful distance, aiul bus one eye on t lie cage door so that she may retreat in case her guard makes a demonstration. She is a subdued Polly, and although no doubt she raves inwardly, she is obliged to forego her Eropenshy for tearing things to pieces, ut everybody who sees the funny sight wishes it were possible to know wTiat Polly really thinks of the doll, and what the strange influence is that this inanimate object exercises over the mischievous bird. Mil lie Joy While, in March Wide Awake. ' KSu-'aarwi-. - . - S3&* ' At'acks on the Enemy. This is not a fashion paper, and yet! nearly every woman who reads these columns is more or less interested iu the fashions. At this present writing a most determined assault is being made from various points on that enemy of woman, the corset. From the artistic view-point, from the esthetic, from the hygienic, from the educational, hot shot is being poured into the canip of the corset, and the assailants are determined that this foe to American women shall surrender. A lady physician recently gave a lecture to young ladies on hygienic dress. It was illustrated by a wire-form shaped like a woman, and containing inside representations of the various internal organs. The glands?the liver, spleen, and others?were made of red cambric and stutt'ed with bran, as they are incompressible. The lungs, bowels, and some other organs were stu lied with cotton, :is they are compressible. After pointing out the various organs in their proper position and shape, the lecturer proceeded to put a corset on the form and lace it up. As the laces were drawn lighter and tighter the audience could see just the e fleet produced by ihe compression. The lieart and lungs were driven into a smaller space, the bowels were crowded down, the stomach and duodenum were constricted, and an unjust weight was forced upon the delicate organs which rest upon the perineum, producing retroversion, flexure, and other woes here unnamed. Then with the corset laced loosely the lecturer showed how iuiutious is the still'steel worn iii front of the corset. She quoted Dr. (,'uyler, of Brooklyn, and Dr. John Hall, of New York, as saving that it was useless to talk of the higher education of women until their dress was reformed, since under the pressure of the corset and the weight of dress carried about the hips and the pressure of studies woo.en break down. Not only docs the corset interfere with the breathing and brin * on derangements of the pelvic organs, but the greatest injury it inllicts, according to some authorities, is its interference " * ? ^ rri*^ with tue nutiuive iuucuuu. i m.sure of the corset is greatest just above the duodenum, where the most important process of nutrition is carried on, and stricture at this point is most Harmful. Better the little feet of Chinese women than the American wasp-waist. Better the enlarged lip of th*? African in the wilds of the Dark Continent than the constricted chest and the compressed abdomen. "Hut, what is the use of talking about it ?" said the young lady who reported this lecture to the writer; "as long as men admire tapering and slender waists, women will wear tightlylaced corsets." Should "Mother" be Spelled With a Capital I We have received a dainty little note written in the small, somewhat cramped hand of a nine-year-old little womnn iviwi writes us to know if a capi-| tal should not lie used when writing ihe word "mother." The dear Jittle girl unconsciously expresses preference anil her reverent love by writing the word "mother" with acapitai in her own letter. The little philosopher tells us of her interview with her teacher and several others on this subject, but fails to see why |"the dear, darling, precious mamma should not be spelled with a capital as well as the mayor or the governor." We answer?yes, a hundred times ye.-!, if that strengthens it. Your mother is more sacred to you than all the conventional rules of composition ; more precious than any rule of rhetor.? .t? ?j, ic; more omigaiory iimu mi ? <* *.mars. By all means spell mother's name with a capital. As she in now, may she ever be, higher than a mayor, mure dignified than a governor, more commanding than a general, more honorable than a Senator, more exalted thau a President, a king, an emperor, or any potentate. Spell mother with a capital, for the use of capitals is to bring out more prominently, to show reverence, respect or honor, and a -mother should receive all these. Let your heart dictate, as it has, the use of capitals when writing names: and what applies to mother is equally applicable to father, for though his love may not be so expressive, it is jusl as deep. "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long iu the land which the Lord thy C?od givcth thee;'' l..?wi ono imv that our sweet little cor respondent can honor father ami mother is by writing their names with capitals. There is no love like mother's Jove? none so quick to forgive and forget, none so patient with weakness and folly, none so ready with the eloak of charity. Write mother with a capital "M." Friends may de?ert you ; relatives may pass you by unnoticed ; the world may look with scorn upon you, but mother never. Her love is unchangeable unless it is intensilied by your exclusion. Never let an opportunity pass to show your reverence, love, honor and obedience to your parents. I You ask if you should spell mother - ItT,. I>ntm <rier.il Vdll vvitn a capiuu. ?> v l'?ur answer, and as vou reflect the love I of a loving mother, in the days to come when you have grown up and taken your place in the exalted ranks of motherhood, may you have as atlect ion ate a daughter as your mother has. A tncrican Citizen. Picnic.?Almost any boy or girl can tell you what a picnic is like, hut J wonder how many know why it is so , sailed, or that the custom Is said to date only from 1802, not a hundred years ajjo. , Then, as now, when such an entertainment was being arranged for, it was customary that those who intended to be present should supply the eatables and drinkables. Originally the , plan was to draw up a list of what was necessary, which is an excellent one to follow, for often, when there has been 110 nrevious agreement, it is discover-1 ed, when too lute, that there is too' much of one kiml of food and not enough of another. The list was passed round, and each person piekcd out the articles of food or drink he or she was willing to furnish, and the name of the article was then nicked oil' the list. So it was from these two words, pickcdand nick- , ed, that this form of out-of-door enlerinirimeiit first became known as a "pick-and-niek," and then as a picnic, the old-fashioned name for the basket parties of to-day. Harper's Young People. Printed matter is measured hy "ems," the letter "m" being the unit. The following compilation is by Professor A. 1'. I.yon : The Bible contains 3,500,(100 "ems Webster's Dictionary, 20,000,000 : Johnson's Cyclopedia, 5'?,000,000; Chambers' Encyclopedia, 5S,000,000 ; Appleton's Cyclopedia, 00,01)0,000 ; and Encyclopedia Uritanica, 140,000,000. ... m r i in?M?i-j>&.^innMinoilTiuin>g??c<am -*a Selections from ihs Christian NeigMor Rightly to Teach. There seems a mad rush now-a-days to make education ami religion attractive to the young. The children are expected to study because it is made so pleasant, it ceases to be anything more than a very pleasurable excitement. The lir-t aim, the one essential characteristic of every method must be that it is short and easy in order to commend it to favor, and as to religious exercises in church one is very wearied with the constant, the unvarying demand that they too shall be pleasing, attractive, "short and easy," to tlm v/iniicr Wi> must "tlniw" [..U.OV ,..v J..,,.,,,. our young people, we must allure, charm, entice them with all the devices we can master. You are a stupid old fogy, says a sprightly reader, not up to modern methods at nil. You want to have everything unpleasant and solemn. Permit me to finish, then judge, please. Let study l?e made attractive, it ought to be its own attraction, its own reward. Ah ! that word ought. It is suggestive. How largely does it enter into the moral training, the educational incentives of the present day? Study because you ought to study, my child, not always because it is simply a pleasant thing to do. That is when the hard places come, that which seems uninteresting go on; to your uu ruin.J if line no nttnietionS. then go ahead still because 3*011 ought. It is this ought which helps when the first pleasures fail to appear. The matter is further illustrated in non-attendance upon church services. How many mothers say in the presence of their young children, I never take them to church because there is nothing to interest them; how can I expect them to keep quiet when they cannot understand what is said, and when there is nothing to attract them? These children, four, six, eight years of age, are allowed to remain at home bccause there is nothing to attract (we had almost said amuse) them at church. When does that mother expect them to form the hubit.pi going [to church? Ten years later she will he shedding tears over her ungodly household, which ungodliness is the reeult of her own failure in duty. Should not children be made to go to church because they ought? It may not always be just the thing they want to do, hut it furnishes an occasion for educating them in the duties coming from a knowledge of what they ought to do. Make everything easy and pleasant for children and young people that it is possible to make easy and pleasant, but do not fear to have them do some things simply and solely because they ought to do them. After a while they will grow to see the pleasure and beauty of giving what they ought, was is owed. fA short appendix next week.] Eight passengers and two trainmen were killed and twenty-one injured by an accident, August 19, to a train on the Old Colony railroad, near (Juincy Massachusetts. A light snow fell at Denver, Col., August IS night. 1)011 !ll?. Mrs. IS. F. Orillln died in Columbia, August J2. I'rof. Adolphus Kocppcr, an instructor ol music. Columbia, died August lit, 1S!KJ, aged - ) Mls< Mary A. Baughman, Columbia, died August 17,1S!K). George Nettles, colored, Abbeville County, lost ills lifi', August l(i, l>,v going into an old well in which was deadly gas. I'n-xx ami Jianner. The Mousing Dkkss.?'The ideal morning dress for women who do their own work is of calico, not so dark as to be gloomy in its suggestions, nor so light as to show every spot that may happeu to soil it. It is simply but tastefully made, so that laundering it will not be diflicult or tedious, and so tliat it will not be too nice to wear ev ery day. "When any body knocks at our door,''said a wealthy fanner, "all the women folks run and hide; they don't want to be seen with their old clothes on." They were sensible women, <00, to run and hide. No one who saw them neatly attired in their afternoon dresses could have believed that such "nice" women had been around the house all the morning in old, worn, dirty, spotted, highly-trimmed cashmeres and merinos, with unkempt hair, with no collars about their necks, and looking like any thing else than ladies, as they prided themselves on being. - - ? The rare ceremony of divorcing a woman from her dead husband, according to the requirements of the old Mosaic law, took place recently in the I5'i\ai jacoo synagogue, Jjomsviue, Ky. The woman's husband was killed by tramps last summer. She had no children, and the old law of the orthodox Jew is that in such a case the dead man's eldest brother i? to marry i the widow and raise up children in the 1 name of the deceased. The woman, s however, did not desire to marry her 1 husband's brother, nor he, her. Accordingly, she had to be divorced from 1 her dead mate. The ceremony can on- 1 ly be performed bv two orthodox Jewish rabbis acting in conjunction. As these could not be found in Louisville, i they were imported lrom Chicago bathe occasion. An admission fee of -o cents was eharfrod, and i|iiite a mini- 1 tier of persons witnessed the remarkable ceremony. <?> What a difference it makes to a lawyer from which side he looks at a ease ! , In a trial before the eonrt one lawyer olll-rs to prove that the contestant was :i drunken brute, who beat and other- , wise abused bis sister to such an extent that she finally married to be relea.-cd from him. On the other side the lawwill nrovo that. this sunu- man was so loveiy and self-sucrilicing tliut he forbade himself the joys of matrimony and lived a poor, lone bachelor for his beloved sister's sake. Buffalo Commercial. Have you read Longfellow's 'Resignation?' " asked one department clerk of another. "No," was the reply; "I i did not know he had resigned." Some Thoughts For Parents An English visitor lo America lnis expressed herself as painfully impressed with the disrespectful attitude of American girls and boj-s (the more especially the former) towards their parents, and an American writer communis upon tiie unpleasant facts to the eflect that she would like to shake several girls of whose conduct she gives an instance. It seems to us that the proper tiling would be to ahakc the parents. The trouble does not arise with the children themselvs, he they boys or girls. If the children arc taught to be respectful, and the parents display such characteristics as command respect, there will be no trouble about a respectful generation of children. To wait upon a child from birth to adult age, is no way to engender respect?it is merely a way to engender selfishness, and foolish and unreasonable, indeed, is the parent who expects at adult age, respect and consideration from a child who has been taught from birt h to consider only self. We arc a generation, of thinkers, niiil. with the aire, our children are thinkers also. jTbehooves us, as parents, therefore, to so carry oursc.ves that our children may think the very befet of us, and learn from that best of all teachers?experience?that we are worthy of that respcct which we would have from them. Writers, and, in fact, people in general, are wont to deplore the decadence of that ceremonious respect evinced by the last generation, but they should at tlie same take into consideration as well, the dillerence there is in the manner of the adult of today as compared to that of the past generation. Let them look tl,,. 0,1,1 mntliPN nf those ells U1C JUllltlO Ullll - - days which they so regret, and say candidly whether the decadence lies wholly among the children of to-day. J There is yet another view of the matter. In many an American household, in most, we may say, such households (it is lair to infer as nothing is said ahout them), as neither our English visitor nor her American commentator, seem to have fouud?thereexists a tic of friendship, true friendship, which far exceeds any tie of ceremonious respect as granted in the past century, in keeping parents and children in their proper attitude toward each other. We will not insult 3-011 by repeating the time-worn (one might almost say shop-worn) French anecdote in relation to "good mothers," but it is as true now, as it was when it happened. The disrespect of the prcs ent day i.s a repetition of tlie old parable of the "mote and the beam". Let parents who complain of disrespect in their own children, iirst be sure that the children are to blame, and let them he sure, too, when they depreciate the fact that to them, as parents, is not accorded that respect which they were wont to accord, that they themselves arc as wot thy of that lespect as were their ancestors, and that they are taking the very best means of impressing this fact upon the irreverent youth of whom they complain. It is ivtliing to the youth of the education of to-day, what was considered proper in your time?the only thing to be con"''I"wwl tlwi (n/itc t\f flip / ;isi/i 5111(] do MUL'ltU iO UlV JUVici w? ?.? v> v?... } facts go to prove thai you are worthy of the respect you desire to have, or are you merely endeavoriug to enforce it on general principles, without living up to your own obligations in the matter ?. In this practical, keen-sighted age, there is nothing so convincing as facts. A leading paper in an Eastern city published, at a Jute date, an article on the tariff and adulterations, which contained some interesting informa lion. The high price of imported wool, for instance, has induced the manufacturers of so-called woolen goods to resort to the use of various substitutes for the genuine article, and jj'so effectual have these devices for adulterating wools become that masons have been driven to wool as a substitute for cows' hair used to help make mortar tenacious, the market having h<??n twmit cIpjiii hv the 'woolen' man ufacturers. If t lie wool growers should come to the woolen mills and see the piles not merely of rags but of cows' hair, goats' hair, dogs' hair, and even some sorts of baric libre, that are manipulated into the appearance of wool and used in making so-called 'woolens,' tlie3' would l??se whatever faith they may have in the professions of protected manufacturers of a desire to promote the farmers' interests."?#S7. Louis Christian Advocalc. ??.<*> + "The national reform party" has insued an address to bring together all reformers of our country into one convention. This is a very broad party and it takes in Prohibitionists, Knights of Labor, Farmers' Alliance, Union Labor, industrial Unions, amiall sorts of organizations that have any grievances against the govern'Plit. uililro..w of flu. Mimmillpp von tain these words : "The convention will he held in St. Louis oil Wednesday, the .'5d of .Sopto in Iter, IS! in. Every one in every section of the Union, in sympathy with the movement is cordially invited to attend this convention. Fellow-citizens, come together and "pool your issues" for the common good. The hands of the oppressors are upon us. Will you stand idly hy and see your liberties, one hy one, wrested from you ? Remember it was Romans who destroyed Home. For the address in full write to W. W. Jones, Secretary, 15)2 Madison street, Chicago, 111. Railroad fare ted need to one-third from St. Louis home. Take your home ticket agent's receipt for vour fare." UiciiTKors J LixiM ? Among flic snocial dualities of eharitv is this. that it ''tliinketh 110 evil." The truthful poison is slow to accuse another of untruthfulness, outwardly, or in his own heart. The honest purson is also slow to accuse his neighbor of dishonesty, and so all through our lives we unconsciously judge others by i ourselves. If we arc true, upright, un-l selfish, it is easier than not to believe! that our neighbors may he so also. If J we are scheming, plotting, deceitful, selfish, of like character will those we meet seem to us likely to be. .So when we hear, as we sometimes ilo, accusations bandied about against j those we <slceiii or trust, it is always) well to consider the source whence those accusations come, and t<> make; large allowances lor oiuniuiiy on ijk* j part of the accuser. It may he safely ussunied that Hie word of liim or her; who easily accuses another of false-j hood is not to he trusted. It is a very! iiwful thing to teil a lie, and to fasten mint) Mlinliii'l' mi i 111 iilltut i<m <kl" mi truthfulness is a serious matter, hut to, the habitual tritler with truth it docs| not seem so. To tlit* pure all things are pure. To; the impure all things are impure. The vulture has a nose for carrion, and for nothing else apparently. There are human vultures who seem ahle to smell nothing hut earnon. To thoughtful persons in middle and mature life these observations are of course alphabetical, hut to voung people they may be of much service. Infnnt Colic. My baby bus colic, sit least that is what they tell me it is. Sometimes 1 am inclined to think it is temper. What shall I do for him? Pie is eight months old. JS'nv Orleans, La. It is always a dangerous method to prescribe any specific remedies without seeing the patient and if the usual peppermints and cainips have been given, there is nothing much for nie to say just in that line, but I have some suggestions to oiler in other directions? not in relation to the cure of the disease, but its prevention. J am much of a Chinese in that, respect. You know they pay their physician as long as he keeps them wc/l, but the moment they art? sick the salary censes until health is again restored. First, then, if you are nursing your baby, are you yourself in good condition ? Second, if you are feeding him on the bottle, are you giving him a good kind of food, are you careful with the bottles to keep them entirely cleansed, and are you sure that the food itself is in good condition? I know one baby who nearly died of catarrh of the stomach from being fed on prepared food that was made one morning and stood in a tin receptacle till the next night, until it was all gone. A baby's food should only be prepared in such quantities that it can be given entirely fresh each time. Third, is the child of a constipated habit ? If so, watch him carefully and overcome it by simple remedies, a little molasses and milk administered at the same hour each day?a suppository of Castile soap used at a regular hour each morning? or, as some claim as being effective, a wet compress across the small of the back, to remain from twenty minutes to a half hour each day. The bowels are very much subject to habit, and we can very often break up a constipated habit by producing a regular one. Fourth, are you careful to warm your baby's feet when he has one of these attack*? You will probably find them quite cold. If you immerse them in water, as warm as he will stand, for ten or fifteen minutes, you will probably find him greatly relieved. Mothers do not realize how often children are restless and uncomfortable because their feet are cold. Oftentimes when a baby seems uneasy, if the mother will take off'the little socks and hold the cold feet in her hands a few moments, she will be surprised at the quieting effect and she can see the satisfaction creep over the baby's face as the agreeable warmth takes hold of the little fe<jt. and creeps up the little legs. If you are sure that all is right in [ the pointe above mentioned, you would better consult a trusted physician. An Amusing Episode. The Rev. Dr. F. W. C.onsalns, of Chicago, tells of an amtisigg episode ol jus nrst pastorale, wmcn was m a town on Long Inland : "I was full of enthusiasm in those days," he says, ''and cainc nearer to believing myself a great pivachei than I evet liave since. This Long Island town was considered very ungodly ; but with the optimism of youth I believed that my eloquence would soon reduce it to a state of inocuous virtue. Well, the day for my maiden sermon came around, and the church was well tilled. I was never more eloquent than I was that day, and before I got half through my sermon I felt quite confident of converting the whole town in short order. Just then I saw a tardy brother enter the church and weave uncertainly up the middle aisle, ft required no second glance to see that, full as the church was that morning, he was still fuller. I was in hopes that he would quietly drop into one of the seats near | the door, but my hopes were in vain. ! By walking up both .-ides of the aisle I he gradually got to the very front ! pews, right under the pulpit. It then occureu u) nw iinn i [Muvciu au unpleasant scene by addressing a soothing and pleasant remark to my bacchanalian brother. !<o I said ih j sympathetic tones : T percieve that the brother is sick. Perhaps if he j were to allow the sexton to accompany him to the door he would speedily recover in the open air.' 1 lelt like congratulating myself on my diplomacy, but the 'sick' brother seemed to misundeistand my good intention. Bracing himself uncertainly against a pew, and gazing at me with a look of pained and indignant surprise, he remarked in thick but audible tones. 'It's a wonder to me that thish (hie) bad preacliin' doesent make (hie) inake'em sill sick.' This unholv renartee made everybody laugh, and when I left thej pulpit! had given up all thoughts of converting the town by my eloquent preaching." Ill Manners in Preaching. An evangelist of national celebrity was preaching to an out-door audience of assembled thousands. His theme was the degrading ell'ect of sin, to which he was bearing testimony from his own experience before conversion. While speaking of his former dissipation, an old man, sitting directly in front of the speaker, interrupted him with, "2sow, 1 want to ask you, didn't you feel in those very acts that you were debasing yourself?" This uncalled-for question was a grievous annoyance, of course?almost as much so to the audience as to the preacher. ]>ui there were two ways of treating it: one was patiently to parry it, and {lain a victory ; the other was indignantly to snub the ollender, and sutler defeat. Unfortunately the evangelist chose the latter. It was not strange that he was irritated ; but his looks and tones indicated that he was exasperated as he answered roughly: "Well, ain't that just what I'm saying?" Then, alter a moment's pause: "I'm doing this preaching?at least I think I am!" The rebuke, and the manner of making it, went like a chill over the vast audience. Only the speaker's great talent, and the curiosity to hear him, retained the respectful attention of the multitude. No manifest good was accomplished hy that sermon. How different would have been I he eli'ect, if, choking down any uprising impatience, "the servant of the Lord, gentle unto all men, apt to leach, patient," had replied: "I see from this unexpected question that 1 have not made myself undetslood. IVrhaps the fault is my own. Let me make it plain if 1 ' can." That meekness would have won all in sympathy toward himself, 'iiid would hiivt1 eniiscri a fcelimr of dis approval inward tlio interrupter. As! it was, the old man never relumed,j nil (I lie carried with liim (lie sympathies of many for the unfeeling rebuff to his unwise intrusion. HV.sVon Advocafc. Of the !L' teachers in the public schools of J)ubu<jue. Iowa, SI of them were themselves educated in tho>e schools ; and of these it J teachers, S[ are I'niversalists, 1J are J'reshyteri-J ans, 7are Metho<lists, l! are Baptists, are members of the Christian (.'luirch,! S are Episcopalians, 1U are Congregn-j tionalists, several arc Lutherans, and: .'Jo are Catholics.? '2'fie .lrtytutcc. A Warlike Peace Man. Emperor William, of (Jermany, with ; that emphatic conception of himseli j which has thus Jar characterized ltisj already extraordinary ici^n, s:iid ill! Llisspiech to tin: Reichstag thai"! Mid my exalted allies'' are determined to >iHiain the legal oider of tilings. riKMVupon he asked lor an increase of lii.s armed force, especially of the tield artillery. In order to preserve peace this mailed ruler crams his Kntpirc full of armed men. In order that the working men of CJermany may enjoy all the blessings of modern civilization; may participate in the onward movement of the wage-earners; may become happier, freer, and more prosperous, he begs to load them with a few more taxes for the support of his soldiery. How long the (lcrmau \\*o;!;ing men and peasantry will stand this uichatie ?? I^ i ivi n.vci l?1o f/\ tisiv Hilt I t#> X 441 11J *?? Id iHHfvn..iv of this we may bo sure, the present Emperor, with Ids fantastic notions of what the crown signifies, and his belief in the supremacy of the armed force in the Slate, is hastening forward the day when the slow Teuton will assert his well grounded principles of constitutional government and personal liberty. Taxation, poverty, military despotism, individual abnegation and a muzzled press are what Germany endures to-day in order to glorify a War Lord and terrify all Europe. . The corner-stone of the University of the Methodist Episcopal church was laid with imposing ceremonies at Salt Lake August 12. The Rev. Sam. Small, of Atlanta, has been chosen president of this new institution, which is exnected to do a great work iii break!ng'down the power of JNIormondom. The fir.-t legal execution with electricity as the agent of death took place in the Auburn Prison, New York, on the morning of the fifth Opinion, even among the experts, is divided ?.s to the success of the terrible experiment, and the newspapers generally pronounce it a failure. A Postmaster in a far Western State has been relieved from the duties of his office because he charged five cents each for two-cents stamps, alleging that "freights are so high the government can't sell them for less and make any money."?Ex Great Britain will in 1S90 pay annually for army and navy pensions, $160,001),000; France, $182,000,000; Germany, 5114,000,000; Russia, $123,000,1)00. The United States will pay $210,000,000 at least; perhaps more. The official list of the drowned in the Johnstown disaster has at last been given to the world. The number! of tin se whose names are known amounts to 2,142. Leaving out of consideration the missing and the unidentified, the list of known victims entitles this disaster to be considered one of the greatest of modern times. The police of St. Petersburg has sent notice to all the saloon keepers in the neighborhood of factories that they wili be heavily lined if they continue selling spirituous drinks to laborers on trust, or beguile them in any other way. ... tno T)a.. 1UI'H.uo.m;, \ a.| jui.v -o.? i uc no. Dr. Tlicodorick Pryor, I). D., father of Gen. Roger A. Pryor, died nt his home in Xottaway County last night, aged SO years. He was the oldest member of the East Hanover Presbytery, and probably the oldest Presbyterian minister in Virginia. In the future, in all Government documents and official publications in j Canada, such words as ilavor, labor, i honor, etc., must be spelt with the; ' u," according to the English usa?e,! as favour, labour, honour, and not as hitherto after the American style. A citizen of Edinburgh has made a donation of almost ninety thousand; ['pounds to wage'warfare against prop-i ierty, and against the use of opium and intoxicating liquor and tobacco. The I money, conveyed to five trustees, "is for advancing the cause of total abstinence at home and abroad ; and for arousing the people of Scotland, Eng-j land ami Ireland, or of the whole! United Kingdom, or of other lauds, to | a sense of the dangerous, pernicious; and evil influences and operations uf the Church of Home." The wealth of the United iState3 is unofficially estimated at $71,500,000, an increase in ten years of 42 ner cent. England's wealth was placed at $50,000,000,000 in 1S85, hut divided among | a ainaller population than that of the United States; while the value of France's property is put at $3G,000,000,000. Taxes in England average S-0 per capita, and in the United States ?12.50. St. Louis Advocate . Rev. C. F.J Iteid, of China, has returned, broken down in health, but hopes to be well ( in a few mouths. Ife is to beat his' home in Florence, lioone county, Ky.. J*>oniewnai mure inuu ci^in ago flie groat l-'rench engineer, l)e Lesseps, whose suceess'fii 1 construction I of the Suez Canal had given him a1 just and world-wide lame, undertook i to accomplish a similar work on the isthmus of Panama, and thus to bring' the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to! gel her. lie estimated that it would! take 1 L'OpOiH),()()() of dollars to finish the task, and that it would also require five years of time. Two years ago the j work w:issuspended for lack of funds.' More than Tou.noujono of dollars had al-j ready been put into the enterprise; ' and yet it was scarcely half finished.!, The collapse was due to many causes. A number of the ablest servants of the Construction Company early sickened and died. Their places were taken too I ofttn by dishonest speculators whose sole object was plunder. A system of j disgraceful thievery prevailed in every |< direction. After reading all the dc-,! fails, one is not surprised that thejj money gave out before the end wasj i?vAii in Kiylif. Mr. Joseph I Jell was an admirable' sketeher, fertile in surest ion, and < (juick at takimc hints ami notes, but i j somehow he always managed to iiti-J tate.Stanley by what may be called; his excessive verbosity, and the mis-; I chievous (i? 1 i?r111 lie always look in ! endeavoring to land Stanley on t!u< , horns of some dilemma. For example i he i;ot him to desc ribe the method of J netting a donkey across a deep river. ; Stanley explained to him how the . j>orter led the donkey into the stream, holding the bridle and keeping the j donkey's head (which was alone visi-j' ble) out of the water, with one hand, '7 .111.1 wit-i,i 1111 iinr vim I'iiinIv wilt* {lit other hand. "Yes," said jicil : "did j tlio porter carry a ritlw?" ''Of course," : said Stanley. "Vos," said Hell ; "and in which hand did hi'carry the rille, ], seeing that one hand is already en- / gaped in guiding and he)pinir the di.ti-! key, and (lie oilier in swimming lor , dear life?" This was a sort of fun t whieh Stanley did not appreciate.? From "IIow Stanley Wrote His liook," ;; by Kdward Marstoii, in August ScfM-.1 vcr. The grace of God is a gift which he is always ready to bestow, but God" " docs not give us any gift for stilish ones. Tlirowgli the influence of several Hcna'ois and Uoini-h lobyists, at Washington, SvJuO.OOO was appropriated to liontish Iuilian Schools, against $204,(100 for all other denominations. Where are we drifting^ The Japanese word for farewell means "IT it must be so;" and the Chinese say "Go away slowly." It is estimated that the population of North Carolina will reach 1,800,000. This will give her two additional Representatives in Congress. The admission of W'yom.ng as a State is a notable event, because it brings into the Union for the first time a commonwealth where womeu exercise the sud'niire upon the same terms with men. Wyoming was the first Territory to try this experiment, uiiu never nas shown any ui?|juoiuuii to retrace the step. The udmissioil of a woman suffrage State is a decided victory for the cause, which has rnt of late been making much progress in tlie older commonwealths.?Nation. As to IIicntkd Fakms.?Somebody tells a deal of truth in these six sentences : Never rent a farm when you can own one. The man who rents a farm must necessarily add much to the premises from which he cannot derive any benefit. If he attempts to crop a rented farm without doing justice lo the land, ho will suffer a loss as well as the owner. The re are many improve luuiua wi uiu r.wii iiwiii u iiimi iiiv u? uer receives the benefit, in the coarse of time, at the expense of the renter. All farms should be rented by mutual ^ agreement, and all conditions plainly stipulated. Ventilation in Churches.? Many a good sermon has fallen dead on the congregation because of the dead air, in the church. IIow it tries a preacher to preach in a small church crowded with people, cob-webs hanging in corners, dirt on the floor, small windows, low ceiling, the air thick and sleep producing, crying children, yelping dogs, and neighing horses? who could preach under such circumstances? "Our preacher seemed to get in the brush to-day," says a stewart as he goes home. Of course lie did. Your "own carelessness in not making things so a man could preach, piled the brush on him from beginning to end. A pastor in Boston said : I "Brethren, I really believe that if I vr<ii'o nr/pu'liimr In o Vmrrul von would put the bung in." Some men build cJiurches with little bung hole windows and then stop them up. The devil, in more sense than one, is the "prince of the power of the air." In ? much breathed air he can kill sermons as easy as shooting tame ducks. Ventilate, ventilate your churches. The Abbeville Bakery. Till*: Abbeville l'.akery Is now making fine BllKADs of i very kind. Cakes baked to order. Together with our Bakery we have a Fruit and Candy store, where ail goods iu ttint line are ke pt,, including Uigurs and Tobacco. . U \V. SIGN & CO. Ja?.29,ls90. If WM. II. PARKER \V. C. McGOWAN* PAEKER & McGOWAN ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, ABBEVILLE, C. H., S. C. XX7 ILL practice also in the Circuit Courtso T V the United States for South Carolina Barber Shop. RICHARD GANTT. is now prepared to do all work in his department in the best A mnnner nnd at reasonable charges. Monthly W customers shaving, hair cutting and shampooing SI per month. Rasors honed and put in the best condition for i!5 cents each. 18, E, L. WILSDNT C^uOffice up stairs over H. W. Cannons store Aug. 2S, WJ. DR E, B"E PTING, GREENWOOD, S. V. OFFERS his services 1o the public for the practice of MEDICINE and SURGERY. Special attention to diseases of children. Nicht and country calls promptly answered. OtHce at his new residence corner Railroad and Homestead Avenues. Otlice hours from 8 to 10 a. ni. 3 to 4 p. m. May 28. IS'JO, tf NEVER CHOKES or \BnjpBREAKS THE ROLL ^S^THECELEBRATED COTTOM^IM BLOOM^HlN Has All LATEST IMPROVEMENTS Including Balance Wheel on llruah which Insures even speed. This feature is peculiar to this make of Gin and is uaod on no other. Are FI LLY (?I'.IKA>TFiEI) and Are Delivered FREE OF FREIGHT ot any R. R. Station or the landing of any Regular Steamboat Lice la the South. If we have no Agent near you, address the General Southern Agent, H.W.HUBBARD VaS' _ 3 TonWft"jjr IOSCOOD ^ S35. U. S. STANDARD TRIAkaJSsHl^sgaSC A LES _jjjiM^rathty.M,fau7 " 1 "* Other iim Eroportiuoaiclf luw, Engla**, Bnllcrt mil K?(l (irladlaf Milk. I.W.lIUBBAKD.Gsnl.Souih'u A Atlanta, 0'?.orDallu,T?? MACMURPHY & STORY, auchitkcts, No. 8 Gray's Piazza, AUGUSTA, GA. i UK PIJKI'AUKl) TO MAKE PLANS and J\ superintend the building of 'HUHCdlX COURT HOUSES, vClIOOl. HOUSES, JAILS. IIOTEI.S. THEATRES. 5TOK ES, 1) W ELLIXUS. Juno 4, ISSN), lL'til The Short Line to Charleston & Floridn. .'OUT KOYAL ANIi Xi KSTKIIN CAROLINA. KAILWAY CO. r>OMMKNi'IXO >PNI>AY. MA1K H 2. ]?9l), J'nsIJ M-iiucr tl'.iisis wlil 11:n a.-> follows I>y Tftlh Mcrlilan tfuic t fiuin? ?un!ii l>aily. Li-avo An.Vrsini *> ?' a in +:{ 10 ji in .caw Starr > " "> a mi 3 :53 p m ,(aw I.ounilt *villt- s -A * hi 4 OS |i m ;.?tve Ml. ('auiicl 'J !'? a m 4 4U j> m Virivi* McC'irntiek In ' ) < in 5 30 |> in Vrrive A nautili 12 '!" |> ill *10 05 p m Virivt-riiiirl?*t<m T ?s>? |? tu \t l iv?- Savannah < 4l> p tu C ofl a lit UriveJack.-niivHIi; Titiitm l!i 00 in (Juiiij: Ni?rth. Daily. .eave.Jacksonville *1 10 pin > 00 p in ?eave Savannah S 10 p ill C 40 a n? *iave CliarK'Httiii _ ti 15 am aw An^ii>ta s 25 a in 3 45 p m krrive Met'miniek 1" -10 n m 5 45 p in Irrive Ml.CariiH-l I! -S?? u in ft! 35 put Irrive l.nw u?l"-avillu 12 14 pin 7 IS p nt irrive l-tarr 12 4'Apm 7 51 pin Drive Ainli iM'ii 1 lo i> lu S 15 pin * Daily, t Daily except S?nda\s. -y. Sln>rii">t and quickest roiito in I lurleMon. reaches l.ere three hours ahe- d any other line. Cnnucciui.s made at Augusta for Atlanta and all points west. on Sail* at I*. It. A \V. C. Itv depots to all ,<s:ai3 at I'lu'ap rates ami bau'ilatfe checked t<> destinaioii. Fur any other information apply "r write. W. .1. CltAIG, O. r. A. It. W. III.nt, T. P. A., Augusta, (im. J