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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.
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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.
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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.
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