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I BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY; JANUARY 20. 1892 ESTABLISHED 1844. National Assured Bnilng, Loan anil Consul Association. SAVANNAH, GA. Authorized Capital $25,000,000. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. President, P. W. Meldrim. Vice President, W. R. Thlppen. ISec'y and Manager, C. P. Miller. General Attorney, G. II. Miller. Treasurer, A. R. Fawc^tt. Uirectorof Agencies, V. Breverd. The Acme of all BuiidiDg ana Loan Association::;. Combined with one (if the Largest Life Insurance Compinies in the United States. Plain-Simplicity Itself. Investigate for YourselfTo Investors?Shareholders In Class Bhave liberal wllhdrsiwnl option. Bolil nn sionl; rarrlpn 6 Di3r cent, oasll dl vldond, with participation in profits. Shareholders In Assured classes obtain for their families the full maturity value of their stock in case of death. To Borrowers?Interest at 6 pet per rent. Definite contract for 3, 4,5.6. 7,8,9or 10 years. Fire insurance protection. In Assured cla*s Cancellation of Mortgage In case of Death. Prospectus explaining fully these liberal features mailed free to any address. Endorsed by business men and R. G. Dun & Co., of Savannah, Ga. Wanted?A few good agents. M. M. MATTISON, G. A. . Donalds, S. C. Sept. 23, 1891 The Abbeville Land, Loan and Improvement Company. IN ACCORDANCE with Commission of Secretary of State J. Q. Marshall directed to the undersigned Board of Corporators o the ABBEVILLE LAND, LOAN AND IM PROVEMENT COMPANYNOtice is hereby given that the books of subscription of said company will be open at .. .* T * r.T.PV UMITH Proclripnt on I IIC UUIUO VI U . .WJJMU'. ~ % THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6th Inst., at the Abbeville Nutlonai Bank. J. ALLEN SMITH. W. C. McGOWAN, P. ROSENBERG. AUG. W. SMITH, E. A. TEMPLETON, R. M. HAI?DON, T. P. COTHRAN. Board of Corporators. I Abbeville, S. C., Feb. 5 1891. DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. G. Thomson, OFFICE UP-3TAIRS ON McILWAIN Corner. Abbeville. S. C, March 23, 1891. tf ii ? 3 c^: ??l mP I-T3 S?ll ? L2 si!S g? p III! b2S ? C?3 fill g? swf ^PioS^gg W C/3 Bc-c^S 5^ 0 U M ? I-Sssil ?"= Vile' I SO ao-O d " JL ?11 af ?&>g>w CO ^ h *=%W a 0 ;>"% a 03 M ' OhjW GO L?^ h i ?s@ 12 ' P J S3 & E?; ? &> 0 a O f* M} Lumber and Shingles 1^0 SUPPLY EVERY DEMAND. THEY will be sold low. Enquire of me for prices. S. G. THOMSON. Dec. 9,1891, tf THE Farmers' Bank -OF\ ABBEVILLE, S. C., \ Dors General Banking Business. \ Buys and sells Exchange and makes Collec, Hons. DEPOSITS SOLICITED. ; Paid up Capital So0,760 v Subscribed Capital 75.000 ' Win. H. Parker, J. T. Robertson, \ Pit esi dent. vlce-PRES. \ JulluH H. DuPre, Cashier. March 5, 1890-12m DENTAL PARLORS, DB. T. J. CEYMES, Dentist.:? GRADUATE, PEXN. DENTAL SURGERY, Is permanently located at Greenwood, and oilers his professional services to Greenwood and surrounding country. ?&-\Vork done after the most Improved and Modern methods. *Sr*Oltlce over Bank of Greenwood.""?* June 3, 1891. E. F. GILLIAM), /.TAILOR, OVER THE P03T-OFFICE, IS FREpared to do all work in his line. CUTTING, MAKING. REPAIRING,and CLEANING of GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING, a specialty. SAMPLES of SUITS alwnys on hand. Charges Reasonable. June 16,1891. 12trios. Terra Cotta Wells. rpHE undersigned is not disposed to brag on JL his new mode of water supply, but it is proven beyond ihe shadow of a doubt that his weils are the best and more durable than any other kind. He boasts of not having lost a sinele one in seven years, while twothirds of hiB work is for parlies having lost their dug wells. Address, C. M. CALHOUN, Greenwood, S. C. They are frog proof and superior to one dug, and are bound to supersede all others. Joel S. Bally, Greenwood, S. C. Greenwood Cotton and Oil Mills. Cal. Kinard, Ninety-Six, S. C. Rev. Pressly, Due West, S. C. Jones Miller, I bbeville, S. C. I have sunk nine-tenths ol the wells in my town in seven years. Aug. i - M LAND HO. Valuable town Lo:s and other Real Estate to be sold in the thrl\ ine town of HIM) Investor, Business Man and Homeseeker, here is the opportunity ol a life time FOR YOU. A TV nniTTTT A AT\ I GRIT! liKMKHUUUI^THERE, GREENWOOD^ BY virtue of the power Invested in me as executor of Mrs. L. J. Merriman. deceased, I will on the 20th day of January. 1892, sell at public auction the following real estate, to THIRTY ACRES, more or les?, being and lying within the limits of the town oI Greenwood, said property belns divided into two town lots, with one building. Also a tract of Ninety-Five and one-half Acres, v( in Old Greenwood, the same being divided into 34 lots or narcels aud known as the McKel lar land, bounded by property of Francis Arnold, B. F. Yoe and others. All of tills property bus been divided Into lots suitable for building purposes, plats of which will be exhibited on day of sale, and will be sold without reserve on the day mentioned, on the following terms: One-third cash and tnc remainder within twelve months at S per cent. Interest. A Word to Wise Investors. The town of Greenwood Is In the richest section of the World-Famous Piedmont; slxtyflve miles from Augusta ; eighty miles from Columbia; seventy miles from Spartanburg, and fifty miles from Greenville, It has long been known that in this broad expanse of fertile country between Columbia and Greenville, Spartanburg and Augusta, some important center ol Industry and population was bound to be developed by the progress of the country. Greenwood was the stragetic point, and capital has been busily engaged in developing her resources. Her railroad facilities are unsurpassed iu the State. She has a 8125,000 cotton mill, a 860,000 oil mill, a 850,000 cotton compress, two well equipped Brick Manufactories turning out millions of brick yearly. In her limits is situated the beautiful State Baptist Orphanage. She has a splendid system ol Graded Schools under an efficient corpof teachers, $120,000 Invested in banking institutions, excellent hotel, some of the handsomest and largest business establishments iu the state, she receives more cotton annually than any point between Andersou and Columbia, she has hundreds of handsome residences, and buildings are steadily going up with greater rapidity than lumber can be furnished for them by iwo well equipped lumber mills. Are yon an Investor? Are yon a business man ? Are you a professional man ? Are you a manufacturer? Do you desire to chauge your field of practice? Do you want to make a sound investment? Do you wish more lucrative employment? Above all do you wish I a home? Then come to the Gate City of the Peldmont and cast your lot with her progress and prosperiiy. Listen to hard, cold facts. To obtain ihe promptest return for your investments you must look elsewhere than to the larger cities. Rather seek a new place which by virtue of Its situation and natural advantages cannot fall to grow to large reportlons. Start with snch a town and participate In its trlumps. There Is no place In the whole South that can otfer greater Inducements to every class of Industry than Greenwood. WHY? Because for many years to come the New South will be the Held whereon the mighty commercial forces of the country will engage. Every one Is familiar with the rapid strides made by this section in the last decade, yet, but a step has been taken, only a foundation laid. From henceforth the progress will be greater still. Do you desire to share these benefits and profits? Then invest your money in the most thriving city of your section?G KEEN WOOD. L. W. JORDAN, Executor. Dec. 30, 185)1, 4t. NOTICE. ALL persons to whom JAMth iviwu, now deceased, was Indebted, will please present their accounts to the undersigned, duly proved. Those persons whom he owed can get their money by presenting their claims to me at once. JOHN KING. Dec. 9,1891, tf '? Tie Cotton State Teleppl School DUE WEST, S. C. 1*7 ELL EQUIPPED WITH ALL' MODV? ERN appliances. Rates reasonable, Thorough Instruction guaranteed or money refunded. Cutalogue free on application. Address T. E. POLHILL. Principal, Sept. 16, 1891 Due West. S. C. GRAYDON A GRAYDON, E. S. F. GILES, Abbeville, 8. C. Greenwood, 8. C. GRAYDON & GRAYEON & GILES Tirr Viatta fAfmnH n nnftnafckln fr>?* 1 V? O nrOP WJU uavc 1U1111CU a uaitiiciouip iut vuu pn?v tlce of law In all Its branches, underthe firm name of GRAYDON & GRAYDON & GILES. All business entrusted to any of the firm will receive prompt attention. ELLIS G. GRAYDON, WM. N. GRAYDON, E. S. F. GILES. March 12,1890,tf H. D. Reese, WATCH REPAIRER, A_l>l>eville, S. C., IS ALWAYS ready to serve the public In his line of business, aud solicits a share of the work in his line. He will keep a varied stock of the best nnd cheapest spectacles and eye-glasses, together with silver plated ware andjewelry. Nov. 19 1890. Never out of Stock WE KEEP ALWAYS ON HAND A number of borses and mules for sale. We have now several excellent work animals which we will sell cheap. A. B. Hamlin, Agent. May 19,1891, tf J. 8. COTHRAN. L. W. PERRIN. -T. r. COTHRAN.COTHRAN,PERRIN& COTHRAN Attorneys at Law. Abbeville, S. C. April 029, 1891, tf. Walter L. Miller, Attorney mill Counsellor at ABBEVILLE, S. C. PRACTICES in botli Slate aDd Federal Courts. Special attention given to collections and to investigating titles. Dec. 22, 1891. SCHOOL NOTICE. ALL PERSONS HAVING BUSINESS with the School Commissioner, will find him lu his office, all public days ami every Saturday in each month nearest ihe middle of the month, during the present year for the purpose of registering claims, <sc. E. COWAN, School CommmissioRcr, Abbeville County. Feb. 4,1891 tf. Some Itenson* for Unanswered Prayor. By Mrs. E. L. Johnson. Why, after years of crying and suffering for the deliverance promised iu God's word, does that deliverance tarry? When the God of love is my Father, and I an obedient child, why do! droop and perish for what is under PI is very baud? Does He not love me? Has He forgotten me? Is He ignorant of my needs? There is a time iu the life of every Christian when these questions, though perhaps in a more subtile form, will present themselves for solution. Thf?"liible and the exDerience of life have solutions for these questions. God Himself, in human form, was made perfect through suffering. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and purgeth every son whom He receiveth. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth ; therefore, despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty "For He maketh sore, and bincleth up; He woundeth, and His hands maketh wholethat He may deliver thee from all thy troubles ; from famine, death, war; and that thou mayest live in peace and sin not ; that thy seed maybe blessed and thy lif? full. It is only through privation and suffering, God can teach us some of the lessons most uecessary for our happiness. It is the pressure of the new leaf that pushes off the old one. It is the pressure of affliction that pushes aside useless desires and, driving us to God, makes us live in Him. In Himi is light and life an^l love. That is what we are all crying for, is it not? Often the blessings we daily, hourly ask Him for are within ourown reach, but we do not see them. Like Stanley and his troops in Africa, we famish for food on the banks of a river swarming with fish. Is God to blame for this? I call to mind a woman who prayj ed fifty years for the conversion of her sons, but she was so taken up in doing what she had chosen as duties that she neglected to cultivate those lovely virtues that would have made her children think their mother's religion the sweetest thing in the world, and they would have wished that they could be like her. That mother lived to see both her sons till drunkards' graves, and yet the promise was to her and her children if Bhe had fulfilled her part. If we do not fulfil) our part of every promise given us, need we expect the Lord to be persuaded by our much speaking into doing His part before ours is done ? What we sow we reap, and we must be prepared to wait for our harvest. Our Master suffered and waited for His. As He was, so are we to be. He was not understood or appreciaied, for He was "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." We cunnot expect to be higher than our Lord. Here are three reasons why our prayers are not answered: 1. We ask what is not promised. i 2. We are first to be mude perfect through suffering. 3. We do not fulfill our part of the promise. Will we not do well to make this our own ? "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye need have patience, that, after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise." (Heb. x, 35, 36). JnmcH Rnsneir* KlndncMM to n Houxebold of RobiiiM. I once had a chance to do a kindness to a household of them, wnich they received with very friendly condesention. I had my eye for some time past upon a nest and was puzzled by a constant fluttering of what seemed fullgrown wings in it whenever I drew near. At last Iclimed the tree in spite of the angry protests from the old birds against my intrusion. The mistery had a very simple solutiou. In building the nest, a long peice of packthread had been somewhat,loosely woven in, three of the young had contrived to entangle themselves in it, and bad become full-grown without being able to launch themselves in the air. One was unharmed; another had so tightly twisted the cord about its shank that one foot was curled up and seemed paralized; the third, in his struggles to escape, had sawn through the flesh of the thigh and so much harmed himself that I thought it humane to put an end to its misery. When I took out my knife to cut their hempen bonds, the heads of the family seemed to divine my friendly interest. Suddenly ceasing their cries and threats, they perched quietly within reach of my hand and watched me in my work of manumis9Son. This owing to the fluttering terror of the pnsinors, was an afiair of some delicacy; but ere long I was rewarded by seeing one fly away to a neighboring tree, while the cripple making a parashute of its wings, came lightly to the ground and hopped off' as well as he could with one leg, obsequiously waited upon by his elders. A week later I had tha satisfaction of meeting him in the pine walk in good spirits, and already so fas recovered as to be able to balance himself with the lame foot. At the Point of Death. Jesus Christ has pledged his word to meet you when you come to the point of death. He has said : "I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." When human skill has exhausted its resources, when hone dies out from the eyes of your friends, when love is1 weeping in secret?He will come. And when the death darkness is gathering, and you can see no face and hear no whisper and feel no touch of mortal hand any more; and when you cannot speak, or look, or lift your hand to make ou this side the veil one sign, or breathe one prayer more?He will come then, and, if ever you are aware, the "point of death" will become to you thegateof life for evermore.?Dr. Raleigh. Ritlks for a long like?A Canadian clergyman, who is hale and hearty at 78 years of age, gives these rules which have governed his life* The use of plain fjod, with plenty of fuit. Personal cleanliness by frequent ablutions from head to foot. Flannel next the skin the year round, graduated according to season. Open airexereise evey day. Ventilation of sleeping room summer and winter. Eight hours' sleep each day. IMlhy SnyitiKN of John Wesley. We have selected from Mr. Wesley's letters and reported conversations the following sayings, only a few of which have to our knowledge been made current. A few that are well known have been introduced because thev snow how he accomplished the work that lie did. Such a selection could be repeated every week for a year without exhausting the supply of laconic utterances; and though it might not be supposed, hundreds of m/\o{ fViofir? Qvnrflcoir\n fhof oror IUC mv/ou I'abliV/Viu wiiifiwcoivu Uiiuv vt v* fell from human lips'are to be found in his writings. Besides this, as a wit he hud raiely an equal, and as a converses'the high testimony of that monarch of philosophical, witty, and humorous talkers, Dr. Johnson, declares him a master, affirming that he could talk well upon any subject. The italics in the following are Wesley's own : One had need to be an angel, not a man, to converse three or four hours at once [on personal religion] to any purpose. To repeat the same word so often Tin public singing,] especially while unother repeats different words, shocks all common sense, brings in dead formality, and has no more of relinion in it than a Lancashire hornpipe. Free thinkers, so called, are seldom close thinkers. All things in divine worship must be done decently and in order. Two must never pray at the same time, nor one interrupt another. Use no tobacco, except perscribed oy a pnysician. it is an uncieamy, an unwholesome self-indulgence. . . a vile custom. Toucli no dram. It is a liquid fire. It is a sure, though slow, poison. It saps the very springs of life. I know the value of learning, and am more in clanger of prizing it too much than too little. Where the work of our Lord is to be carried ou, that is my place for today. 1 do not fight with chimney-sweepers at all. [Referring to foul-mouthed speakers or writers.) From the first hour that I entered the kingdom (Scotland) it was a sacred rule for me never to preach oh any controverted point, at'least not in a. controversial way. Speak as earnestly as you can, but do not scream. Speak with all your heart, but with a moderate voice. J Taking opium is fully as bad as taking drams. It equally hurts the understanding, and is, if possible, more gernicious to health than even rum or randy. None should touch it if they have the lea3t regard for their houIs or bodies. "Brother, when I devoted to God my ease, my time,.my life, did I except my reputation?" No. . Though I am always in haste I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. The soul and the bcjjly make a man; the Spirit aud discipline make a Christian. Let but a pert, self-sufficient animal, that has neither sense nor grace, bawl out something about Christ, or his blood, orjustificatiou by faith, and bis hearers cry out what a fine gospel sermon ! . Surely the Methodists have not so learned Christ! We know no Gospel but i?alvation from sin. I hear what angry men say or wrte, but I do uot often regard it. They are no Methodist that will bear no restrai nt. What may not a man of small natural talents do if he be full of faith and love! There is no encountering a buffoon by serious reasoning and argument. The Methodists do not makeimpulcouurwl ininreu&inna thu rule nf fliltv. www ,,J,f4 ?"V Tbey totally disclaim any other rule of duty than the written word. To be singular, merely for singularity's Bake, is not the part of a Chris- 1 tian. In things that are absolutely indifferent, that are of no consequence at all, humility and courtesy require you to conform the custom of your country. ' i He who goverened the world before , I was bo111 shall take care of it like- ' wsie when I am dead. In blaming the things which God alone can alter we in effect blame Him. '< Of all gossiping religious gossip is the worst; it adds hypocrisy to uncharitableness, and effectually does the work of the devil in the name of the Lord. Loyalty is with me an essential 1 branch of religion, and which I am sorry any Methodist should forget. In religion I am for as few innovations as possible. I love the old wine , best.?New York Christian Advo- J cate. New Year Rules Fok Everybody.?Rev. Charles Simeon, the distinguished preacher of the English y ?1. _t : ? 1 l.rt uiurcii^uuce siuu uiut uiu iuuic nu tried, the more lie leli the importance of adhering to the following rules : To hear as little as possible what is , to the prejudice of others. To believe nothing of the kind till I j am absolutely forced to it. Not to drink in the spirit of one who circulates an ill report. Always to moderate, as far as I can the unkindnces, which is unkindness towards others. Always to believe, that if the other J side were heard, a very different account would be given of the matter. Many a good thing is condemned because it is given a wrong name. To call a chilli's going in quick succession from one thing to another "fickleness," does not necessarly prove the child or childhood fickle. The bee in its rapid flight from flower to flower cannot he called fickle, because it has one purpose in view,?the search for honey. But to the casual observer the quick (light and the short rest seem hut a sportive and fickle life. So the difference is with children, and with men and womeu, whether or not there is a purpose in view that regulates their seemiugly tickle actions. Some who appear outwardly most constant und busy are nalty the most tickle, and some who appear most fickle, are most consistent and constant in purpose. The Arbitration Chimp. tune :?'iAuld Lang Syne." Come. brother, reach ire forth thy hand, Anil take my hand In thine. One bond hath made our hearts akin, And shall our lives entwine. This bond creates in fellow-men Not strife nor enmity, But high and low, and rich nnd poor, One grand fraternity, ciiobcs. Then while we work ami while we oat, And while we seofc repose, Our hope, our streuelh, our life shall bo The Arbitration cause. The "milk and honey" of the land Is labor's own reward. And naturu offers gilt's to men Who Nature's laws regard. Her voice proclaims?in everything Essential, Unity ; In doubtinz things, full Liberty. In all .things, Charity. ConHcqnenceN. "If I could only live that year over again, how differently I would conduct myself." So said an almost broken-spirited mother as she was discussing with a friend the best way of governing and training her daughter Alice. This daughter was "a hard case"?self-willed, selfish, unmanagable at times, unloving, yet remarkable beauty, of some very winning ways. "It was this way," the mother went on. "My husband was hardly started in his profession, our income was very narrow, my boy was still a mere baby, and the prospect of additonal care and expense was unendurable. I was at war with my surroundings, with myself, witht3od. I dared not literally break the sixth commandment, but in ray heart I broke it every day. Alice is the incarnation of my state of mind at that time. And the worst thing about it is that when she is in one of her unhappy moods she induces the same condition in me, and 1 am so occupied with controlling myself that I ani in no case to do the best thing by her. I keep saying to myself: 'If you had only submitted cheerfnlly to the will ofGod, every thing would have been different. Alice might have been a lovely child, 'and as much a comfort to you a* she is now a trial. Now you must submit to these consequences of your own folly, and turn tiiem. if possible, into the nutrimeut of virtue.' ''Then I am so sorry for Alice, and study over the problem contiuually how to turn the baleful influences that went into her make-up into means of growth in her of goodness and usefulness. I cultivate the best traits in her character, and never stir up the evil nif T p.an heln it. She has im rnenseenergy, and I keep her occupied with what she likep to do, and make her like to do for rewards t) follow what she otherwise might be averse to doing. Since she experinced religion in our revival last winter she is quite manageable, but at times she has hard battles with herself and with every thing and every body that come in her way. "If I could live ihat yearover again! I wish every young mother could have the benefit of my experience, and I am sure she would take pains to cultivate such a spirit and such traits of character and disposition as she would wish to live with herself during life, and see reproduced in her children." ? m 0 m Endorsing.?The system of endorsing is all wrong, and should be utterly abolished. It has been the finan Ciai ruin <H mure men Iiiuw, jniuapj, all other causes. Bookkeeping, a journal devoted to raerehanls, clerks and business men, advises our young men especially to study the matter carefully in all its bearings, then adopt some settled policy t"> govern theirconduct, so as to be ready to answer the man who asks the them to sign his note. What responsibility does one assume when he endorses a note? Simply this: He is held for the payment of the amount in full, principal and interest, if the maker of the note, through misfortune, mismanagement, or rascality, fails to pay it, Notice, the endorser assumes all this responsibility, with no voice in the management of the business and no share In the profits of the transaction, if it proves profitable; but with a certainty of loss if, for any of the reason stated, the principal fails to pay the note. A minister's little danghter, who bad been to church for the first time and heard her father preach, was i]uestioned by him on reaching home as to how she liked his sermon. There whs an embarrassed silence ; then tbe little maid, tired out with the long strain of "being good," and yet anxious not to offend, made answer, with a long-drawn breath of patient resignation. "You preached awful long, papa; but I beared it." He was a candidate, and a limb of the law. Whilst canuassing he was fruited to the following?Mr* Candi rlafe knocking at the door where tlie wife appears)?Is your husbnnd in? Wife?No sir; but I know what you want. My husband is sure to vote for you, because you got him off' for stealing that gun. "No, no; alleged stealing of the gun." "Alleged be b ithered! "We've got the gun in the house now." Sinking Children .Mind. A mother should be careful to make only reasnonable demands upon her ehiid's obedience, but when once made, to enforce them implicity. Oueshould bo very careful never to enter into a contest over a point that cannot be enforced. A child may be made to do certain thing?, but no power on earth can force him to do others, or to say words that he has made up his mind not to say. The prudent mother will pn force her authority and teach obedi ence oil ground that she is sure of being able to hold. Points that she knows she cannot carry she will avoid until tiie habit of obeidenceis formed, and then there will be 110 discussion.?The Ladie's Home Journal. I am really at the point of finding that this world would be worth living ill without any lot of one's own. Is it not possible for me to enjoy the scenery of the earth without saying to mvsel I have a cabbage gardeD in it? Theophra8tus Such. In the hippopotamus the eyes, ears and nostrils set exactly 011 the plane. This enables the animal to sink*its body entirely below the surface of the water and yet be able to perceive the j approach of foes by hearing, sight and scent. Mrs, Brown?"My babv is the pret-J tiost in town." Mrs lilack?"Why] what a coincidence! So is mine!" The Blfc Man and hid Mother. We were at a railroad junction one night, waiting a few hours for a train in the waiting room, trying to talk a brown-eyed boy to sleep. Presently a freight train arirved, and a beautiful little old woman came In, escorted by a German and they talked in German, he giving her, evidently, a lot of infomation about the route she'was going, and telling her about her tickets and baggage check, and oocasionlly patting her on the arm. At first our tinned States baby, who did not understand German, was tickled to hear them talk, and he "snickerd" at the peculiar Pound of the language that was being spoken. The big man put his hand on the old lady's cheek aud, said something encouraging, anu a tear came to her eye, and she looked as happy as a queen? The brown eyes of of the boy opened pretty big, and his face sobered down from his laugh, and he said: "Papa, it is the mother." We knew it was, but how should a 4-year-old sleepy baby tnat couldn't understand German tell that the lady was her mother? We asked him how he knew, and he said: "Oh, the big man was so kind to her." The big man bustled out; we gave the little old mother the rocking chair, and presently the man came in with a baggage-man, and to him be spoke English. "This is my mother; she is going to Iowa, and I have to go back on the next train, but I want you to attend to her baggage and see her on the rifcht car, the rear car, with a good seat near the centre, and ceil the conductor that she is my mother. And here is a dollar for you, and I'll do as much for your mother sometime." The baggage-man grasped the dollar with one hand, grasped the big man'shand with the other, and looked at the little German mother with an expression that showed that he had a mother too; we almost knew that the lady would be tvell treated. Then we put the sleeping mindreader on a bench, and went 6uton the platform and got acquainted with the German. And he talked of horse trading, buyiog, and selling, and everything that showed he was a live man, ready for any speculation, from buying a yearling colt to a crop of hops or barley, and that his-life was a very busy one: and At rimes dinsaoointments and rough roads; but with all this hurry and excitement he was kind to his mother, and we loved him Just a little; and when, after a few minutes' talk about business, he said: You must excuse me, I must go to the depot and see if my mother wants anything," we felt like grasping his fat red hand and kissing it. Good Advlee to John and Jane. "Now, John," said a mother to a son, "listen to me, for 1 am older than you, or I could not have been your mother. Never marry a young woman, Johu, before you have contrived to 'peep in at the house where she lives, at least four or five times before breakfast. You should know how late she lies in the bed in the morning. You should take notice whether her complexion is in the morning as it is the evening, or whether the morniug wash and the towel have robbed her of her evening bloom. You should take care to surErise her, so that you may see her in er morning dress, and observe how her hair looks wnen sne is not expeuir iug you. If possible, you should be where you can hear the morning conversation between her and her mother. If she is ill-natured or snappish to her mother, so she will-be to you, depend on it. But if you find her up, and dressed neatly, in the morning, with the same countenance, the same smiles, the same neatly corned hair, the same ready and pleasant answer to her mother, which characterize her appearance and deportment in the evening, and particularly i? she, is lending a hand to get the breakfast ready, she is a prize, John, and the sooner you secure her to yourself the better." This is very good advice to John; and as for Jane, if she is wise, she will be quite as careful to find out where the young man spends his evenings, what company he keeps, how late ne stays out nights, and how he looks and acts in the morning; how lie speaks of his father and to his mother, how he treats his sisters and other men's sisters, and then if all is satisfactory she will not regret that she looked before aho IpahpH.?Selected. "Is it Yoorn." William, Earl of Cowper, who held the highest offices under William Iff. and George I., had for his crest the curious motto: Tuum est? ("is it yours?") So just was he, and eo generous, you might well think that he lived up to his motto, and we would fain recommend it to all our readers. If each one of you would write over all you possessions of time, mouey, influence, "Tuum est," and then honestly auswer the motto's; questioning finger, what a difference would it make in your lives! All your time, if you are God's children! is His, to oe spent in his service not in going to church or teaching Sunday-school, or in reading the Bible all the time, but in some way pleasing to Him. All your money you hold only as His steward. Some of it He menus you to use for food and clothes, for books and pictures, and the like, but how much? All the influence that yo . have, all that you ought to have, is meant to serve Him and your fellow men. Are you cherishing it for that high purpose? Try yourselves now in all directions by Earl William's motto to see whether ye be living houesty in God's sight. ?Selected. Chapped Hancis.?One fourth ounce of spirits camphor, one-fourth ounce glycerine, one-half ounce of bay-rum, and three ounces witch hazel. Apply immediately ajter each washiug and rlrtMitnr the linnds and do not wiDe " ? 1 the hands after applying the lotion, as it is readily absorbed. After riding in the wind, apply the lhtiou to the face and it will relieve the dissagreeable smarting of the lips and cheeks. [Except the exercise, the best remedy is the quinine, preceeding it by a hot foot bath, and following the bath by a glass of hot lemonade. He sure to take from the udder every drop,of milk that the cow gives. Nature responds to demand. If you do not demand all the milk she will shriuk the mess accordingly. She will not work for nothing. Call on her for every drop and she will keep lip the flow. She is generous to our needs when manifested, but quick to take advantage of our neglect. Milk clean. BT IIISLES HUNT JACKSON Mother, I Me von with your nnrsery light, Leading your babies, all In white. To their sweet reel; Christ, the good Shepherd, carries mine to-night, 4 And that is best. 7i..p I cannot help tears, when, I see them twine ' .. ' Tbelr^ flnsers in yours, and their bright ctirla ? On your worrr breast; . 3 But the Saviour's Is purer than yours or mine? fiy He can In ve best I Yon tretpble each honr because your arms Are weak; you r heart is wrung with alarms, / > o|a And soro opprest; ' My darlings are safe, out or reach of barms, .".Sa And that Is best. Yon know, over yonra may bang even no* Pain and disease, whose fulfilling slow * Naurht can arrest: Mlne*ln God's gardens rnn to and fro, / ; ' '-Zfm And that Is best. Yon know that, of yours, your fe^bJeat one . jjijjjB And dearest may live long yearsMoitu, . V"3sf| Unloved, unblest; . ..j Mine are cherished of saints around God's throne . vtgjffl And that is best. You must dread for yours the crime that sears, Dark guilt unwashed by repentant tears, And unconfest; ',mB Mine entered spotless on eternal rears, 0, how mnch the best! But grief Is selfish ; I cannot see Always why I should so stricken be More thaii the rest; , CotH But I know that, as well as fur them, for ine ,' < , God did the best. The First Match. A few days ago a geutleman, who is now something over sixty years of age, j said to me: "I well remember the time when I first saw a,match. I was then a boy, and aud was working in the . ^ barn with ray father, when a young :' man, the son of a neighbor, came in -ji with a box in his hand and said he ' v.vjgjj would now light a fire without bor- J rowing coals or striking a spark on flint. Opening the box he took out * 4 one of the matches, which was three or four inches long and had a yellow looking substance on one end. This' end he dipped into a small bottle ,'-rWm which came in the box with the /f; matches and contained sulphuric acid. . ,;M When the match was put into the acid it instantly burst into a blaze. Al- j though young Grant had paid fourteen shillings ($1.76) for his box, which ^t|? hul- fifttrjnatnhp? Ha wm nnitA ' 'T^a re&dy to use up one or more of the "*! costly fire-makers id showing father ^ how the wonderful invention worked. But father, having a Wholesome fear of fire, and looked with some suspicion on any new departure from established ways, begged Grant, if he would fool J with that stuff, to go outside, for he : didn't want his barn burned down, adding, that'It may be fun to see that \ go off, but it aint going to do any body 1 aoy good to have fire made as easy as that!'' The old gentleman was mistaken. His son has Jived to see the ? time when fire can be made much more easily, and ic does people good by S saving time and temper, while the :% number of fires from the use of matches is comparitavely few. Five hundred "parlor" matches can be bought jg for five cents; between forty and fifty , million matches are made every day in . the United States, and still the country is not yet destroyed by fire in-spite of M the ease in which we can make fire. ' A Practical Joke. Most squirrels keep two or more -qij stores of food. Wood, the British naturalist, tells of a friend who found one of these reserve stores which a squir rel naa proviaea ror an exigency, auu ..?? the frieud in a moment of thoughtless- -OaB ness, determined to play a trick on the '^1 squirrel. He accordingly replaced the nuts by small round stones, and care- ' fully concealed all evidences of his vis- , r i'|8 it One cold day in winter, he pass- J| ed the spot, and found that the squirrel had called there a short time previously. This he&n?w by the fact that v' ten inches of snow had been scratch- . w ^ ed from top of the hove, out-side of which the stones had been cast by the V.FggH dissapointed animal. This struck the joker with remorse. He said: "I nev- a er felt the folly of practical joking so much in my life. Fancy the poor lit- v S tie fellow, nipred with cold and scanty food, but forseetag a long wintpr, resol- .|, ved to economize his little hoard as long as possible. Fancy him at last. ''A determined to break this?perhaps his last?magazine and cheerily brushing ? away the snow, fully confidant that a good meal awaited him a3 the reward of his cold job, and after all, finding ' ^ nothing but stones. I never felt more % mean and ashamed in my life, and Ija really would have given a guinea to . >*? have known that injured squirrel's ad- ' dress. He should have had as fine a^ lot of nuts as would have put him beyond the reach of poverty had he liv- ^ pH t/? he us old as Methuselah."?Globe Democrat. A Cool Cloth Withont lee. One of the most useful!hints for sick room attendance Is very seldom known -wM outside of a hospital ward, and not even there in many cases; the hint is how . to obtain a cold cloth without the use vl of ice. Every one knows that in fevers; or weakness, a cold cloth on the forehead or face, or base of brain, is one of >| the most comforting things in the world. In the tropical hospitals, and where ice is scarce, all that id necessary is to wet a linen cloth, wave it to and >" fro, just before applying it; these clothes have a more grateful and lasting -I coldness than those made so by the burning cold produced by ice. Halied Almonds.?Snell and blauch one donud of almouds?tha? is, drop into a vessel of boiling water to loosen the skin, when in a few minutes the almond can be pushed out white and pure from the brown skin; dry thoroughly in a towel; put into a large pan ,|j apeice of butter the size of a small chestnut, and when melted, turn the almonds into it, stirring rapidly until every nut is shining wtth butter, then sprinkle over them a large cooking spoonful of salt, mixing so that every nut shall be coated with salt, then put the pan in the bottom of the oven, and ret It remain there [shaking and stirring every lew minutes] until the almondsare a light yellowfish-brown, -Js wheu they will be very crisp and delicious?Ladies' Home Journal. Ringworms washed two or three times a day in a strong solution of borax and water and dusted over with the powder will soon disappear. Household Hints.?Before cutting very rich cake dip the knife in hot water and you will have no crumbs. T'-"" "f nhlnrWo nf lima fl. jutruvj v/t vuivimv w* ? round the house during a humid spell. It will keep the air dry and pure. All's well that ends well, of course. The trouble is that so many things end the other way.