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' " " " r c. r - ^ * - > . . ... . .. - . J BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22. 1891. VOLUME XXXV. NO. 1|^| New Quarters.! ie w ml T om Wnm Piwurpfl tn Offpp Pt 1 (Ull nun 1 iupuiuu iu uuui uii RewaMe Prices the Largest M Best Selected Stock of Watches, Clocks, JT JE W 3E 3Ci TEC "Wj Silverware. Snectacles, I """" """ "" * A and Gold Pens, And everything in the JEWELRY Line ] ever offered to the people of Abbevl 'le county. ; Silver and Nickel Watches from 82.50 to $18 ' Gold Watches from $15 to $75. Clocks from SI to $15. t CHAINS. CHARMS. LOCKETS, j SLEEVE BUTTONS. COLLAR BUTTONS | SCARF FINS, STUDS, LACE FINS. BROCHES, EAR RINGS and DROPS, and CHILD'S DRESS BUTTON SETS in GOLD and Rolled Plate at the Lowest Prices. I Gold Rings, [quality guaranteed] ! from 75 cts. to $10 Sterling Silver Thimbles, Spoons and Forks very low. 1 The celebrated Wm. Rogers Knives, Forks, Spoons, d*c. Triple plated on Nickel Silver, j 14 K. Gold Spectaclf s and EyeGlasses from 91.50 to ^8 per pair. Why injure your eyeB by wearing cheap glasses when you can gel Pebbles for $2.30 per nair. > It will be to your advantage fo call on me should you need anything In the jewelry lineRepairing it catly done and all work guaran teed. Office in store of J. C. NICKLES. J. T. Duckett, JEWELER. < Greenwood, S. C. Oct. 15, IMO. { P. A. ALLEN, Prop. J. F. RICK, Snpl ? ALLEN MANUFACTURING CO.' Clinton, S. C. % ?MANUFAOTURERK OF? Doors. Sash, Blinds, Moulding. Brackets, Front Doors, Stair Bails, Newel Posts, , Balusters, Scroll Sawing and Wood Turning, File fryel Lute for Builtes. : Contracts Furnished at Short Notice. Flrwt CImmm Work it Sprrlnlty ami all Work tiunruNtPod. Correspondence solicited and letters of inquiry promptly answered. WRITE BEFORE IK YING EI.SEWTIERF. . Best Work. I.ohmI I'rictH. J. F. MILLER <fe CO. are agents Tor us, and orders given to them will receive prompt aitentlon. March 2, 1S91. 12m. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Abbeville. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. The Greenville Savings Bank, Plaintiff, against Eva S. Maloney and Howard L. Odiorne, Defendants. uiim (invu pnn npr ipp (Complaint not Served.) ttoe Defendants, above named: You ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND required to answer the complaint in this ae tion, which on March Hist. KS!) was tiled in Ahe oIHce of the Clerk of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their office in the city of CJieenville, S. dwithin turohlv /lnvc nftfP fhf* kf?PV'ir'A of, exclusive of the day of such service; ami If yon fall to answer the complaint within the lime aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the reilef d<* anaiid(sJ lu uw. .complaint. 3?ated March :*.(?ih, ISIH. WESTMORKf.ANI> <t HAYNESWORTH l'luintill's Attorneys. THOS. U MOORE, C.C.I'. ] Seal } r?> April 1, 1X11, 61. DOT^T PLANT "Western Corn. Caet tfue Best Home Raised Seed. IsAAiG'A. KELLAU ONE OF THE KEST corn raiser* of AbbevlUe<'ount?' lias produced anjexcellerit variety of seed com, of which the largest crops are always made. He makes the corn crop a specialty, and his seed may be r? lieu upon to gi vi-MiiiMHciimi. lit1 uas u n>ie lot of picked seed corn 011 hand which ho oilers to sell u.1 two dollars a bushf-lu. Apply to I. A. KKM.AB or .1. a. EDWAKDS. April 1, 1891. rn?K TEACIIKRS OF l'UHLIC FREE X Schools of this County whose certificates of qualification huve expired, and those deHiring n higher grade, will meet the Board of Examiners at Abbeville on Friday and .Satur day the ;:4in ana a.>tn oi next April, at ten o'clock n. m. The white teachers will meet on Friday, and the colored on .Saturday. E. COWAN. Ch'm'n Board Ex. March 18, 189!. J. M. STEADMAN. McCormick, South Carolina. Has puke, light hrahma and Barred Plymouth Rock eggs lor sale at .1 iw figure for fanny stork. IMIK MAIN WHEEL IX A WATCH 1 makes 1 revolutions in a day of 21 hours, Dr 1,400 in a year. Next., the centre wheel, 21 revolutions a <lny, or 8,7t>0 in a year. The third wheel 192 in a day, or 5!>,0.'!0 In a year, rtie fourth wlit-el 2,440 In a tiny, or ">11.600 In n y-ear. The lifth, or scape wheel, lU/JGO in a Jay, or 4,728,200 in a year. The "ticks" or beats of the balance wheel ::S8,900 in a day, or L41,S82.00U in a year. The above is mathemeticnlly correct, and should prove to you that a WATCH Is a very Jelicate and complicated machine,andshould it be out of order the watch requires the attention of a First Class Watchmaker The undersigned offers you nil the ndvan ages that skill and experience cau command n the repairing of Watchs, Clocks and Jewelry. EN(xRAVING my style letter or monograme executed at >hort notice. A.11 Work Warranted 12 Months, A first class stock of GOLD. SILVER ami S'ICKKL WATCHED, JEWELRY. .SILVER' IVARE, (SOLD PENS Ac. Rogers and Pro., Wffl "R.ftflWff ! TV iu awv^vaw FORKS, KNIVES AND SPOONS. (ionds guaranteed as represented or mony pfnnded. No charge for engraving goods longhtof me. l'lace of business in F. F. Dunbar Js Co'k ;to:e. E. B. Hennemann, GREENWOOD, S, 0. Jan. 30,1801, u OR. E, L. WILSON, >r,Offlee upstairs over 11. \V. Cannons store Vug. 1!S, J8&). 4 Best Chicken for the Farmer! IT*ROM CROSS PURE WYANDOTTE AND *- Hralima. Esus oil rents setting, rrom jure Bronze Turkey $2.50. Address : P. L. STURKEY. AlcCormick, S. C. Lewis ftdmond Ttie well-known Stallion, can be found at ; mtmm mm m I m m ' wallers staoiei Greenwood, S. C. TERMS, CASH. Five Dollars a Single Visit. Ten Dollars a .Season. Fifteen Dollars Insurance. Money by Insurance Due as 6oon as Marn is ascertained to belli Foal. PEDIGRKE?Lewis Redmond isaDeen Bay, Seven Years old. Fifteen and One-Half Hands High; Sired by Messenger, Grandslre Old Granger, Great - Grandsire Old Marnbrino Chief. Great-Great-Grandsire Mambrlno Paymaster. Dam a very fine Kentucky .Mare, said to be Itamiltonian. For further information address W. J. McGEE, Riley, S. C. April s, isiil. "in DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. G. Thoms-c-s, OFFICE IT-STAIIIS ON .McILWAIN Corner. Abbeville, S. U, March lit, 1.VJ1. tr MACMURPHY & STORY, AHCIUTKCTS, No. 8 Gray's Piazza, AUGUSTA, GA. A UK PUKI'AHKI) TO MAKB PLANS anil A superintend the bulldincof CHUIU'IIKS, COURT HolISKS, SCHOOL JlorsKS, .1AI US, HOTEi.S. TIIKATRKR, STORKS, DWELLINGS. June 4, ls'jo, lJni DOORS, BLINDS, And all Other Building Materials. rpHK CNDKUSIUNi:!) WILL K KKI* 1 from tills date on ti lull supply of Doors, Blinds, Lime, Shingles, Laths, and nil kinds of building m teriul. Call at J. K, Miller's store. B. K. BEACHAM, manager. Fell.'J, 1KI1. 3m RICIIARO (J A NTT, is now prepared to do all work in his department in the br-si manner and at reasonable charges. Monthly customers .shaving, hair cutting and shamfooinKSl per month. Kasors honed and put n the best condition for 25 cents each. Walter L. Miller, Attorney mill Counsellor nt l.uw, A151510VI 1,1,(0, K. C. 1)RACTICES IN BOTH STATE AM) FederaK'onrts. .Special attention given to collections awl to investigating tilleH. Pee. ;}, 18!M). timo, I A Summary INui. Tom Hood, once being asked li make a pun on a man named Winter, promptly responded : ' There comes Mr. Winter, c?ollectorol taxes; J advise you to pay him Whatever lie axes. And I a.ivise you to do it Without any flummery, For though his name's Winter, His proceedings are summary." tiirls Away From Home. The girl who is going away from home quite by herself, and who will have to travel several days and nights on the cars, who will he at a strange hotel by herself, wants a little advice about what to do. Her number may be many, so I prefer to tell her in this little paragraph : In buying her ticket for the trip she also buys a ticket for her sleeper, and the railway official will arrange that if she does not get the entire section the other berth is also occupied by a lady. When she wishes to go to bed, the porter, at her request, will arrange the berth for her, and then out of the small satchel that she has provided she will take the (lark flannel or delaine dressinggown in which she intends to sleep, and go to the toilet-room and put this on. Her clothes are hung by the berth, and while she is advised to remove her dress, skirt, and corsets and her shoes, it will be wiser to retain some of her underwear and stockings, not only because of the draft, but because of the facility of getting into things next morning. (Jet upjearly and go to the toilet-room, but do not monopolize it for hours. When you reach a strange city get into the stage that belongs to the hotel to which you wish to go, get out at the ladies' entrance, go into the reception room and say that you wish some one sent from the office to you. Tell whoever comes exactly what kind of a room you want, and ask the price of it. Give him your name to register, and remember, while you are aloue in a public house, it is not wise to dress in any except, a quiet way. No trouble }ibout ordering your meals should be experienced, as the bill-offare shows exactly what is served and and you can take your choice. As to "tipping," you will certainly give a sniull tip to the porter who straps and locks your trunks for you, and to any bell-boy in the hotel who shows you some special service. If you are only there t'or a few hours it is not necessary for you to tip the waiter, nor the chambermaid, unless she also should do some act of kindness for you, such .as brushing your gown, getting the piece of soap that vou have forgotten, or putting a stitch in a ripped frock. Although it is not pleasant to he alone, still T do firmly believe that a well-bred girl, with a clear head and an understanding mind, can go, without any trouble, from California to New York and receive nothing but courteous attention. The don'ts are these: Don't dress loudly. Don't make any acquaintances on tne car or in hotels. Don't sit alone in public parlors. Better by far stay in your own room and read than make yourself an object of comment." Make up your mind to be courteous " "1 kill voL-nri'orl on/1 nil mf*ii ill K.J [IU111C, uut Jtovi t vvtj uuvt ... will be like Chevalier Bayards to you, and all women will give you what you demand?respect.?Ruth A slim ore, in Ladies' Home Journal. lie Wasn't XiMNetl. A citizen who stands pretty well in his own estimation, and, for that matter, in the estimation of the public also, went abroad for a period of years. When he returned to Detroit the first man he met was an old iriend, who was about to pass him with a cool bow. ''What's the matter?" asked the returned traveler. "Ain't you going to speak to a fellow after such an absence?" ' Absence ?" Been out of town ?" "Out of town. Why, 111011 alive, I've been two years iy Europe." "No ? Can't be possible. Why ] never missed you," said his friend. The other turned away in anger and button-holed an old chum, to whom ne saici: "Well, I've got back." "Been over to N' York?" asked (he chum. "Thunder, man ! I've been to the Old World !" exclaimed the disgruntled voyager. "You-don't-say-so ?" was the nmaz(1 retort of the solemn looking chum. The next acquaintance remarked as he stopped a moment: '*1 haven't seen you for a week or two. Had hay fever ?" That broke the combination. The returned traveler got on his dignity and declined to notice any more of hi* townsmen till they sent a brass baud round to serenade him, and he learned that it was a put-up job to take him down a little. It is so hard to perj suade the average mortal that he will not be missed.?Detroit Fret I new. Lifting tiik Hhakt.?Years age there lived near the sea-coast a deal little old lady, whose whole lift* wa: an act of devotion. She was so gentli and full of grace, so slight in figure quick in motion tlmt ii seemed a> though a breath would blow her awav Once on a stormy day we chanced U visit her. The wind howled routii the house, the snow came in grea swirls, ami blotted the familiar feat tires of the landscape out, while afai off upon the waters the angry sky am the sea met in indistinguishable out' | line. "The poor sailors?" said the lit j tie lady; "I never forget litem. Tin last thing I always do before 1 go tc bed at night is to raise my curtain ant j look over the sea, and lift lip my hear [lor the sailors." Simple words, tha I she probably never thought of agaii in connection with httr hearers; bu never has the wind blown as it blows these December nights, when we eai almost hear the rush of the surging waters in the bay, but the gentle ex pressiou comes hack, "1 lift up mj ; heart to the sailors," and to the un spoken prayers we nlently respoiu ' "Amen."?The Christian Register. | It is essential to liealtn that tiieni | of the kitchen should be as pure a: j that of the parlor, because food pro pared in foul air partakes of the foul ness. A good many people think tha there ought to he more .fasting ant praying, hut they want somebody Hsi !l,o?foit. I i Knbliatli Clothes. ' "I can't go to church to-day," ex? claimed Mrs. Howo one Sabbat li morning to her aunt, Mrs. North, who was visiting her. "My bonnet did not come home last night, as the milliner promised, ami I have nothing to wear." "Why not wear your old one, one more Sabbath? I am sure it is not shabby," said her aunt. "My old velvet on this hot Sabbath ! How it would look. I couldn't think of it. Besides, I wouldn't put you to shame by wearing it beside you in your immaculate spring suit. Is'o, I'm sorry, but 1 shall have to let you go today with Mr. Howe and May for escort." "I'm sorry, too. But, really among old neighbors and friends, who will notice, or care if they should notice, that your milliner has disappointed von J "Who, indeed!" exclaimed Jlr. Howe. "The fuss you women make over a bonnet or a gown is incomprehensible and?ridiculous. What matter is it anyway ? Come, get on your bonnet, Helen, and let us go." "Oh, no ! I really can't. Jt is too late to get ready, too." So the party started without her. Left at home, Mrs. Howe had some time for thiuking. She was a Christian woman. She really wanted to go to church. She felt that she needed the strength and uplift she got at church 011 Sabbath to carry her through the week. But she had been late in getting her spring suit. The warm days had come before she was ready for them. For two or three weeks it had been somewhat of a cross for her to don the winter garments Wiien SI)G Weill UUl. .ttii naiuic ???o ill its fresh attire, and she liked to be in accord. Her new outfit was uow ready except the bonnet, which had failed to arrive. This Sabbath was warm and sunny. Her winter gear would be out of place, besides being decidedly uncomfortable; and how could she wear the fresh dress and wrap, and crown them with the old velvet bonnet? She said to herself that she could not. And then, too, what would Mrs. Macy and Mrs. True and Mrs. Lewis and all the rest of them think? Oh, she couldn't do it. Nevertheless, her conscience was not quite at ease as she sat alone and thought. A verse which she had read in her morning chapter, "And why take ye thought for raiment?" would thrust itself in as a refrain to all her meditations. She had to admit that she had taken so much thought for her raiment this morning that she was losing all the blessedness of the Sabbath's service. After all, what did it matter to herself or any one else, if she should wear her old clothes another Sabbath? Had she not a soul that could rise above clothes? Suppose Mrs. Maey or Mrs. True did comment upon it, would they be likely to remember the circumstnncc the next day, or even think of it again? If they should think of it again, what then? Who would be hurt? Besides, I what would be the influence on her young daughter, who was already developing more of a taste for pretty clothes than for .some better tilings? Thus she mused until the family returned. At the dinner table the church-goers talked over the service, and Mrs. Howe could only sit and listen. It seemed to have been a wonderfully suggestive and stimulating sermon. "I wish you had been there, mamma, even if you did have to wear your old bonnet," exclaimed May, who seemed to have been particularly impressed. "I wish I bad, dear," replied her mother. "The discomfort of wearing my old bonnet would have been nothing to the discomfort of my meditations at home, to say nothing of the service I lost." That afternoon as the two ladies were sitting in the quiet room, Mrs. Howe said : "I see, aunt Mary, how inconsistent my practice was with my profession this mornintr. I don't think it will happen again." "1 hope not, dear, for May's sake as well as your own. I believe In 'Sunday clothes;' in appearing in the Lord's house neatly and suitably clad ; still, in an emergency, if my garments are only clean and whole and respectable, I should never think of staying at ! home because I hud nothing to wear. J remember once when I was a young girl, Mrs. Brown, a valued friend of ' mother's, who lived live or six miles I in the country, came into town one Saturday with her little daughter to do some shopping, which included, among other things, the getting of spring bonnets. It was in the days of sunbonnets, and as the sun was warm and the ruto long, both mother and daughter wore their gingham pasteboard bonnets. They came to our ' house for dinner; but soon after a ter. rifle storm came up, which made it 1 impossible for them to do their errands 1 or to go home, and they remained ' over night. The next morning inoth1 ersaid tome, '1 don't know what to do. Mrs. Brown gets to church bo seldom that she muxt go to-day, and my old winter bonnet is so shabby that I ? dislike to oiler it to her. However,' r she added after a pause, 'I will do It, * for she must go.' The oiler was made, ' but Mrs. Brown quietly replied, 'I i couldn't think of wearing your bon' net and compelling you to stay at home, so if you will not mind, Kllie 1 and I will wear our sunbonnets ami be " i.i*..l f,.? ilm utni'iii which lin? 1 very lliiliiKiui MM IIIV nvv..... I given us the privilege of going to church to-day.' i' "They wont, iiiolliei* anil (laughter, ' in (lieir clean calico gowns ami sun lion nets, and as 1 glanced now and then into their absorbed laces, and - realized how utterly oblivious they ~> were to their clothes, into what a hi^h I region above clothes they seemed to I have entered, my own girl hi 1 finery ' sank into insignificance, ur.d a hnm1 hie spirit took Ihe place of the vain 1 onewiih which I had donned it. And more, that little incident has had an 1 inlhienci' on my whole life. No mal' u*r what have been the disappoint nionts of milliners and dressmakers, 1 ' have nnver since seen the time when I had 'nothing to wear' to church." I "Mamma," cxelaiinul May, coming into the room, "Mr. 1*311 is is going to continue ins morning's sermon mis evening. Won't you go?" r "Yes, dear." ?The Advance. s | "I A (iieeruii wifc makes a happy I home, because ilie emotion is ^ontaI irious. and almost unconsciously the ' household is happy in response, be1 muse every member of the family is e cheerful by the genial indupneoof the ?ife and mother. What are We Here *or? UFA'. A. Oltrsn, PIT. P., A. M. This phrase may be called political slang, but it is' full of suggestive thought. Ttisa question which embarrasses many a life. Every body is, has been, or will be, here?in tbis life. The location is determined. Bui many have found themselves practically useless. Many to-day seem to not know what to do. And many ol' the future will also, doubtless find it difficult to engage their latent energy. We cannot help the past, and we may not be able to take part in the future. The practical fact is, we are here. The practical question is, what for? Here we are in the world of need, full of vital energy. We possess faculties and powers, which, if properly used would transform nature so as to make this life very beneficial. Often, however, our natural faculties and powers remain idle through the whole life-time. Such a life is wasted ?droned away. What is still more sad is the using gilts and powers to destroy happiness and to insult the benign Creator, who has so signally blessed us. Kuch a life is worse than wasted. It ruins soul and body. But how admirable when one wakes to the full consciousness of being a responsible creature, and to the many opportunities for showing forth the Glory of God in human life. Such a consciousness kills prejudice, dethrones selfishness, destroys sloth, and quickeus activity. "Iam hereto do good unto others," says that man. "It is my Father's work, and I must be about it. The needy, distressed, ignorant, dying, have a legitimate claim upon me. I am debtor both to Greek and Hebrew. What I am is the result of past beneficence under the grace of God." All past ages have contributed to the comfort, peace, and intelligence of the present generation. We must be grateful. "We can only pay our gratitude by stamping a good impress upon the present, and moulding the future to be more appreciative and thoughtful than we. In view of this and the still degraded condition of the natural man, and moral wretchedness of millions of my fellow creatures, can I, as a Christian, for a moment question what I am here for ? I am to witness to the truth, to the grace which saves me, and to declare unceasingly that the arms which encompass me would all mankind embrace. I am hero to make the best of life, and to make life better. I am here to obey marching orders, and to go at the angel call to my eternal home, to be forever with the Lord. Dear reader, have yon ever thought what you were here for? Why that nicely wrought body and strong mind of yours was ever made? How glad you are that you are here. But, what for??Brandy wine Star. Wiiv Siik Wkote It.?Some of the most stimulating hymns have been ' songsof the time." The whispered slanders of gossips begot the hymn, "I love to steal awhile away," which has been the consoler of thousands of tired men and women. I'hebe Brown, its author, a wife and mother living in poverty, used to stroll away at dusk to a neighboring grove, where she could meditate aud pray. The village gossips put their own coarse construction upon these evening walks. One of them, a woman whose bouse adjoined the grove, said to her, with a tone and manner more irritating than the words : "Mrs. Brown, why do you come up at evening so near our House, anu men go back without coming in ?" That ovening, Mrs. Brown, grieved in spirit, sat in the kitchen, rocking her babe and weeping. Then she laid | the infant in its cradle, and gave expression to her feelings in nine stanzas of ver.se, which she entitled, "My Apology for my Twilight Rambles, addressed to a Lady." Several years afterward, she prepared >t as a hymn, suppressing four stanzas and altering a few expressions. Wasting our Money. It costs about one hundred thousand dollars each to bury dead congressmen and senators. The past congress paid out over one half million ot the people's money to bury the members and senators who died. Under the constitution they have just as much right to appropriate 111011 ey to bury dead citizens as dead congressmen. But you have never heard those statesmen who are so quick to say the ownersLip of railways by the government and the sub treasury are unconstitutional, say a word about these appropriations for funeral expenses being unconstitutional. These same statesmen could have saved half a million a year to the people in the last twenty years if they had been os quick to yell "paternalism" and ''unconstitutional" in funerals as they are in sub treasury matters.?The Alliance Vindicator. Drank too Much Whiskey. Bernard Mclvee, of i'hiladelpnia, died last week from the effects of too much whiskey. McKee boasted in the hearing of a number of companions, who were drinking in the club room, of the quantity of whiskey he was capable of consuming. One of the party, who | held a goose egg shell in his hand, of t'ered to wager tiiat iUcMee could nol drain it of whiskey three times. The wager was accepted and a quart of liquor procured. After Mckee had fulfilled the terms of the hot he became. h(u pi fieri and was laid on the floor. Next morning when the club house was opened McKee was found dead on llie floor. His knees tvere drawn up close to his chin and his arms were twisted behind bis back as though he liad died in terrible agony. The IviioMan method or' stopping a runaway horse is said to be very effect* ivo, and is not particularly cruel. They place a cord with a runningknot around the horse's neck near the neck-strap. To this slipnoose is attached a pair of reins, winch may be ' thrown over the dashboard ready to be j seized at once. When the horse'starts, the extra reins are taken up, and the cord is tightened around the horse's throat. The most furious horse thus choked stops instantly, and will not kick or rail - - ^ The Illinois House of Kepresenta tivcs passed a liill making it unlawful lo hurt or kill prairie chickens, quail, or pheasants, for a lenn of five years. * How to Remember, j The American Grocer gives the following advice, which, every young man will do well to remember: A successful business man says there were two things which he learned when he was eighteen, which were ever afterwards of great use to him ; namely : "Never to lose anything, and never "to forget anything." An old ,'awyer sent him with an important paper, with certain instructions what to do with it. "But," inquired the young man, "suppose I lose it; what shall I do then ?" "You must not lose it." "1 don't mean to," said the young man, "but suppose I should happen to?" "But I say you must not happen to. I shall make no provision for such an occurrence ; you must not lose it!" This put a new train of thought into the young man's mind, and he found that if he was determined to do a thing, he could do it. He made such a provision against every contingency that he never lost anything. He found this equally true about 101getting. If a certain matter of impor- A tance was to be remembered, he pin- i ned it down on his mind, fastened it there, and made it stay. He used to " say: "When a man tells me that he f forgot to do something, I tell him he might have said: 'I do not care enough about your business to take the trouble to think about it again*' " I once had an intelligent young man ^ in my employment who deemed it sufficient excuse for neglecting any important task to say, "I forgot it." I told him that would not answer. If lie was sumcienuy mieresieu, lie would be carefol to remember. It was* because be did not care tbat he forgot ( it. I drilled bim with this truth. He worked for me three years, and during the last of the three he was utterly changed in this respect. He did not forget a thing. His forgetting, he found, was a lazy, careless habit of the mind, which he cured. The Closed Door. I remember it so well; it was one morning many years ago, when I was a very little child. I had been disobedient at breakfast time, and papa had said to me gravely and sadly, "Carrie you must get off your chair, and go and stand outside tlie door for five minutes." I got down, choked back the sob that rose in my throat, and without venturing to look into papa's face, 1 went outside the door and it was shut against me. ' The moments seemed very long and c eitlmif T rnmomhor tvoll Imwmu tpfirslO dropped down on the mat; I was so grieved and ashamed. The five min- r utes were not nearly over, but the * handle of the door was partly turned, c and Johnnie's curly head peeped out. Both arms were around my neck in 1 a mtnute, and he said, "Carrie, go in, } I'll be naughty instead of you,'] and 1 beforo 1 had time to say a word he had v pushed me in and shut the door. There I stood with my eyes on the ? fioor, and feeling so red and uncom 1 fortable, not knowing whether I 1 might go up to the table, but papa took me by the hand, and led tue to the c table, and kissed me and put me in my chair ; and I knew that I was forgiven just as much as if I had borne all tlie punishment; but oh, how ] ' wished that Johunie might come in. When the five minutes were up he was called in, and then father took us \ both?me. the poor little naughty c child, ana Johnnie the loving brother c ?and folded us both in his arms, aud s I sobbed it all out?the repentauce, aud love and gratefulness?while we c were held close to that loving heart. fj And now that I look back to that i little scene, it seems a very typical i one. For the years went by and I t Ibuud myself outside another door, r separated from the Father, sin having c come between my soul aud God, till J C saw one who loved me come and take t my place, and I was forgiven for c Christ's suke; and I knew the fullness t and freshness of that forgiveness, for t my Father drew me close to his divine t heart of love, and there with the Lord t Jesus, my sin bearer, I found "joy unspeakable and full of glory,"?Month- e ly Record. s - . ? f f A Home-made Ferneky.? \vre pui a in first a layer, an inch deep, of coarse- c ly pounded charcoal. This was cover- g ed with potsherds,?common red clay j flower pots, broken into bits. Over e this we spread tnree nicnes or leai l mold, brought from tlie woods. On , the top of the mellow earth, we laid mosses, also procued in our forest t rambles. In the velvet pile of this carpet, we stuck abundance of par- t triage vines, a clump of grey-eyed lichen fast to a bit of bark, andjfl dwarf ferns, including maiden hair, 'ami a fine root of pitcher plant. i Scraping aside the pine needles, . where we had found arbutus, we lighted upon a cluster of leaves, spotted i with brown, and jagged as if squirrels L had gnawed them. We uprooted the i plants carefully, and transferred them J t to a corner. Other roots went In,? j wooly-leaved incognitas, with a baby i pine, and a streamer of wild lycopodi- , um. From the garden, we selected a| stocky begonia for the central figure oft the parterre, ribbon grass, English ivy. j and tradeseantia,?a variety with silvery-streaked leaves. Deep in the soil, we buried half a dozen hyacinth a bulbs, with a mass of violet roots, and (' a dozen crocuses.? Exchange. How To Makk Farm Land Pay. jfi ?In (Jreat Britain 151,872 farmers cul-je tivate farms of more than five anil j \ less than twenty acres. Compara-.c tively few of these "holdings," as theL farms are called, are owned by the j E farmer, for in the 409,442 holdings of j a less than fifty acres iu the whole i country, only.>5,740 are owned by the j f occupiers. When we remember that!, these farmers pay a rental of fmmi'j twenty to thirty-five dollars per aerej,, for this land it seems incredible that r they can live and support their fatni-11 lips. It must be remembeied, too, that}r much of this land has been under cul-l t tivation for over one thousand years.'g Much more of it was bog and waste a land four hundred years ago. It is an axiom with the English that the far- L. mer makes ins sou. Tins is tlie se-10 cretofhis ability to live under such L circumstances. The American farmer i j grows poor on many acres because it s might be a maxim with us that the *a farmer wastes his soil.?Western { Stockman and Cultivator, a Not manure but well fertilized earth e should he placed next to the roots of e transplanted (rees. In .. i Two or Three. MARGARET E. 8AS09TER. fliere were only two or three of us Who came to the place ol prayer, ^arae In the teeth of a driving storm, But for that we did not care, lince after our hymns of praise had risen, . 1 And our earnest prayers were said, 'he Master Himself was present there And gave us the living bread. Ve knew His look In our leader's face, Ja 80 rapt, and glad, and free; V'e felt his touch when our heads were bow- jj We heard His "Come to Me!" fobod} saw Him lift the latch, A nrt none nnhnrred t.hA door; Jut "Peace'' was Hts token to every heart, . .'-a Add how could we ask for more ? !ach of us felt the load of Bin From the weary shoulder fall; :acb oi us dropped the load of care, And the grief that was like a pall; * ind over our spirit a blessed calm Swept 1 n from the Jaaper Sea, . - V XaM ind strength was ours for toll and strife In the days that were thence to be. t was only a handful gathered In v-:' '/ To the little place of prayer, ' 'v^Sj >utslde were struggle and pain and sin, M But the Lord Himself was there; le came to redeem the pledge He gave? #1 Wherever His loved ones be, 'o stand Himself in the midst of them, Though tbey count but two or three. ind forth we fared In the bitter rain, rviiu uui neurits IJUU grown ou wttiiu, t seemed like the pelting of summer flowers, And not like the crash of a storm. Twaa a time of the dearest privilege Of the Lord's right hand," we said, lb we thought how Jesus Himself bad oome :-6H To feed us w'.th living bread. The CongregaiionaUaU "'JH Hjpnotiziug Drunkards. L Cure Said to Have Been Thaa Eff?c> M ted on Senator Fair's Son*. A dispatch from San Francisco to .yjjjg he New York World says. Senator ^ 'as. Fair, the father of Mrs. Berman 'M Vlprirhn and n#>rhans the rinhpst, m?n >n the Pacific coast, has two sods, jjfi fames, Jr. and Charles, who have *3 >een to put It mildly, very wild toys. - ^ ^81 When James ir., came out two aonths ago from the German Hoepitr , * < il, where he had been seriously ill on . . ^ iccount of excessive drinkiug, some riends talked to him of Dr. Brown, v-s! he hypnotist, who was said to have '? jerformed wonders with an opiumaker, and after a great deal of pereua- ? ion ne waa induced to pay the hypnoist a visit. Brown knew his man, and he exeriised his will power upon the palate of he heir apparent to millions. He vas Kepi uuuer noypuouc luuutuw or several hours, and when be was irought back to a conscious state he >? vas told by the leader to go and drink 10 more. . * The admonition was unnecessary. J ile could not drink, He made a vigorms effort but failed. The liquor acted >n him as an emetic. That was six weeks ago and he has \.*| lot tasted a drop since. Before this 3|] le had to be put to bed Ave nights out" . & if seven. Young Fair then took his younger >rother Charles to Brown and he, too, van put under the spell. In tola ease % t also worked like a charm and he dereloped an inteuse dislike for liquor. M le told the World representative that o sick of liquor i9- he that the ng doors of a saloon fairly nauseate ?3 lim. There is no happier mau on the "J.1 ioast than Senator Pair. The Nations Drink Bill. kmerieann Spend #700,000,000 a Year for Intoxicating Liquor*. Prof. Francis G. Peabody, of Har- ' >? rard, in a lecture on the temperance juestion before the Lowell Institute,.. 3^ >f Boston, the other day, said in subitance < There are two aspects of the liquor ;v3 juestion, the economic and th? moral. ,y Lhere are at present iu the liquor trafic throughout the country some 200,KK) persons?163,000 in the retail and he rest wholesale. These figures repesent only the dealers. The number - >f persons employed is upward of L- < >00,000. The worst of these horrible ' igures is that they mean the withIrawal of just so many persons from he right kind of employments. In -J heir present occupations they con- ';.v nouie iKiie or noiuing lome coua- 7 ry. As to the amount of liquor consumid in 1886, $337,000,000 was spent for pi rits, $304,000,000 beer, $16,000,000 > or imported wines, and $34,000,000 or domestic wines?a frightful total of ibout $700,000,000. This is one twelfth f the amount spent for food, clothing * md necessaries of life. In the same year there was recelvd as wages $947,000,000, and the liquor ill consumed two thirds of it. ^ ^gain, it costs $350,000,000 for church's, and the drink bill would buy all - ne cnurcnes in six monins. _ Behind all this is the great impor- si ance of the moral aspect. That drink a injurious to the person 999 cases out f 1,000 goes without proof. The y* luestion is.* How can it be stopped? legislation fails of its aims. The soluion of the problem, though stimSF ft", perhaps is in each individual recgnizing that he himself is an impor- V>j ant factor in his community as an exmple, and adopting for himself the > eaching: "If meat make ray brothr to offend, I will eat no meat, lest I ( iiake my brother to offend."?New fork Commercial Advertiser. IliMory Depicted en Fan*. In this country a fan oan scarcely lave any more serious definition than n elegant adjunct to the toilet of a laly. But in Japan even the commonst variety may possess a deep political ignificance, and even in the present lay, according to a London paper, uns have occasionally to be suppressd for much the same reason that a vesieni newspaper nas ueen connsated?for being a vehicle invented to o\v ill-feeling and contempt for statesLieu or officials by means of cartoons .nil epigrams. On examining an ordinary bamboo an it must not be supposed that it is a nere creation of the artist's fancy, ['hose queer little men and women, to ur eyes the fac-similes of each other, epresent to the Jap well known uisorical or romantic characters. Those mpossible looking landscapes on the everse side all denict localities around he capital, famous shrine9 and pil;rim goala, at once recognizable by qy traveler in the country. A collector of Japanese fans of anient date finds himself in possession 1 a complete history of the times, for iefore the newspaper wa9 established n tue lauu, me ian to a large extent applied its place. There i9 no doubt, s an instance of this, that much of he ill-feeling displayed in Japan gainst foreigners some thivty-six ears ago was due to the extensive cirulation of fans bearing outrageous aricatures of Western life aud man