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The Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1892 rs . ? ... Prohibition in Mill lie. The old cry of "prohibition don't prohibit" does not hold good when the whole truth is made known. We commend the letter appended to the careful perusal of those of our readers who may be fearful as to the results of a good law to prohibit the liquor traffic. It is from the pen of General Xeal **? ~ /,f imi,iip?tif?n:ilile I?OW, It gl-llliciuuu ?M.,U -integrity, and who is not only wholly reliable but has the good fortune of being able to speak as an eye witness of long years staudiug, and who bus the real good of the masses of the people at heart. His letter tells a very different tale from the false representations made by the iiquor men as to the wholesome eflects of the Maine Jaw on the State at large, and especially on the rising genera:ion. The veteran champion of the Maine Law addresses the following letter to the editor of the Edinburgh Ercniny TV- . isurjjuiun . "Si uI have just received a clipping from your issue of August 11 last, treat ng on what purports to be the re suits of Prohibition in the State of Maine. It came t ? me by the way of Los Angclos, California, quite on the opposite side of the Ulobu, from the famous old city of E<liuliurgh. Will you pardon me for saying that the statements of the Nation of New York as to affairs in Maine, from which you quote, are as far from the facts as are points on opposite sides of the earth ? I have not the time to follow your article in detail from first to fast, nor is it at all necessary to do so, because the only point is this : > 'Vr-inn n foillll'P "is me iYiamc i?? m uiumv ??. as the friends of (be liquor traftic affirm, or is it a grand success, as its friends declare it to be ? "At the time of the enactment of the law (1851) there were probably no people in this country who consumed more strong drink than those of Maine, iu proportion to their numbers; now, it is safe to say, there are no people in the civilized world who consume so little. "1. We had many distilleries in the State making rum from mola?scs; s.?me of them making whisky from potatoes ; some of them making brandy from apples, which are abundant iu Maine. Seven of these distilleries and two breweries were in this city (Portland). Now there is not a distillery or brewery in the State, nor has there been one for many years. "2. At the same time great quantities of rum came to us from the West India Islands. It came to us by the cargo, many cargoes every year. There was a large and regular trade with these islands ; a great many ships engaged in it, carrying lumber, fish, and hogshead staves out, and bringing back molasses to be made into rum, and many cargoes of rum from Jamaica, Santa Croix, and Cuba. Now there is not even one puncheon of in.n imported, nor has there been one for many years. All this rum, domestic and imported, all this whiskey and apple brandy was for home consumption. * ''The result of all this upon our people was that Maine was the poore-it State in the Uuion, consuming in strong drink almost all the produces of their two great industries?the timber trade and the fisheries. These were upon a very large scale, far more so than in any other of our States, and almost all the returns for them were poured down the throats of our people in the shape of intoxicating liquor. "3. Maine now is one oi the most pro?i>ercu3 slates in the Union, not excepting the new States in the West, which are increasing marvelously in wealth. The whole face of our State has been changed for the better, as the result of the savings of more than 24 million dollars annually, which but for Prohibition would tie speni auu wasted in drink, as in the old time. John Bright said?"If England could put away the drink, it coulil no longer be recognized as the same country." Precisely that has happened to Maine. "Liquors on the sly and in small quantities are yet sold in our cities, not in small towns and villages ; but one million dollars annually will far more than pay for all the liquor smuggled into the State ami sold in violation of law. "The Liquor League in this country have enormous funds with which to subsidize the press, and to employ writers to mislead public opinion as to the actual results of Prohibition. The general press for some reason will admit iuto its columns little or nothing to spread the truth before the people. The liuitor trade in this country is by far larger than any other, and by far more profitable, and it is unscrupulous as to the means it employs to prolong its existence. It has many able, active agents in its employment to defend it from all Temperance agitation. "In more than three-fourths of our territory, with more than three-fourths of our population, the liqnor trallic is practically unknown, and has been so for many years. An entire generation has grown up, these never having seen a rum shop or the effects of one. There was formerly no hamlet so small or obscure that the li<juor traffic did not find it and establish a grogshop there. Every country tavern-and every country grocery was formerly a rum hole ; now uo such thing exists in the stale. In 1884, after an experience of 33 years of the benefits and blessings of Prohibition, our people by a popular vote put it into the Constitution by a majority of 17,07j, the affirmative being three times larger than tlie negative. I This ought to he accepted as conclusive that prohibition is a good thing for the State. ! "Portland, of which you speak is the largest city in the State. Formerly its streets, like those of Edinburgh, were lined with drink shops, with glaring signs, bearing the names of all sorts of liquors and wines. Now, there is nothing to he seen, even in the most '.impure stivers, anvthinir which indi eates the sale of liquor anywhere. It is far within the truth to say that not one hundredth part as much liquor is sold here now as in the old time. On a very small scale liquors are sold here with great caution to escape detection. This is due partly to defects in the law, and partly to unfaithfulness of officials. The suppression of the liquor traffic is a great undertaking; it canot lie accomplished perfectly in a day, a year, or in a generation ; but the progre>s in that direction in Maine is steady, and lias been a great success, assuring the triumph of the enterprise in a future not far away." Tippling Women. It is shocking to Southerner* lo even read of women taking to strong drink (ill (hey become a disgrace to themselves and their families. The very thought is revolting. My mother drunk ! My sister intoxicated ! My wife fcteeped in liquor! Not long since, the papers published minute accounts of certain ladies in high life in New York city, who bad to be taken in cnarge oy uie puu';c ucwiu^ "j their excessive drinking at a fashionable hotel. From an exchange we It-am that the same things have been duplicated in Boston. And these also hail from the higher circles, so called, where the "upper ten" are supposed to run a monopoly on the good things of this life. This exchange saj's : "Boston?that hub of the universe?will need to look after its women better. They are learning to drink almost as freely its men. They are not taking it moderately, but are 'indulging in cock tails anil tociciio^ ami puncnes.- in me city the women are still circumspect ; they don't as a rule like to take liquor at a public table, unless their husband or another man may be with them.' Education, even when carried to the extent in which it is carried by these women, is noefltctive remedy for intemperance." lint this is not all. Drunkenness is becoming a national disgrace among the lower classes of women?the wives, mothers and sisters of the wage " * ? ? T C ~..^K earners 01 me num. n euuu uni^ grow 0:1 us till the average home becomes unsafe because of woman's infidelity, we shall reap the whirlwind. Read the following from the Glasgow Reformer: llA National Shame ? Drunken Women.?This is the title of a big type article in the Dally Telegraph, which is evidently meant to start a correspondence to take the place of 'JO-uli'h Wives.' The contributor says that Mr. Wynne Baxter, the well known Coroner, whos-e experience of the London poor from d;?y today in the East End constitutes him an authority upon the darkest phase of the subject, in the course of conversation, said: 'Generally speaking, the question of drunkenness, directly or intlircctly, eutt-rs into half the inquests which I hold. It is treated as a joke, asa rule, for my juries, coming as they do irom me worm tig cui-aes, uu nm appear to think anything of it. My usual question is, 'Was the deceased the worse of drink?' and the reply (given in an unc< ncerned tone) is, 'Oh, he lias had a drop,' as if it was the proper thing to do. I believe there are numbeis of hard working men who would have good homes if they had good wives; but tlio women are ne\er at home to meet them, or have anything ready for them after their day's work. In many cases we have the fact stated that the husband quietly goes to bed when his wife is still out of doors drinking with her friends. Monday is essentially a day of drinking. Man}* men are totally unaware that their Cumlotr nl/tfhnu /\n Wivvs Ultvc lUCII UUIIMKJ vivbiive Monday morning to tlie pawnshop, pledge them, aud spend the money thus obtained in drink. On the Saturday, when the man gets his wages, the clothes are taken out of pledge, but they are returned to the pawnbroker on the Monday." Of course, we recognize the fact that in our Southland here, as a class, we are in no immediate danger. We only cite the foregoing facts to show to what a low estate even women may fall, if the liquor traflic is allowed to continue its present wholesale system of ruin, aud its desolating, fateful influence is permitted to go unchallenged. Horrible would be the scene in a South Carolina Household n me wne and mother was found drunk, while her children called in vain for a mother's protecting hand. Hut if men can sell whiskey, why not women ! If men can buy whiskey, why not women ! If men drink to excess, why not women ! If men neulect and ruin their homes because of strong drink, why not women ! Why not? ? -4^# Each voter is responsible for the colli Mir- imr r?ill \v<? Ui llilC Ml IXVJ UWI cv..?..h - sorton ourselves from personal responsibility by inaction. Our not doing in j this emergency becomes a ter ible responsibility and a cowardly crime, i both in its'efiect upon ourselves and its terrible results on the community. ?Detnorest's Family Magazine. The Mother who spends two hours everyday trying t<> make her little girl's hair curl and ten minutes on iSunday trying to teach who is the first man will, in the course of a few years, get the little thing's heart so well set in vanity that a better ciop will never have a ghost of a chance. I Dr. Cuvler, sppaking at tlie National Temperance Camp Meeting at Orange Grove, put the ease for abstinence jthuswise: "There is 110 modification of God's Prohibitory law. We need : law in our homes, pulpits, and public plac(s. Divine justice is not asleep. Retribution is a living fact. The law ias well as the gospel is in force for the government of human conduct. The Creator has built up a wall of total abstinence. No healthy living body ever iwiniresaleohol. Intoxicants have a ? ? daugerous jifflitity for tlie brain. No human brain can do its best work under alcoholic stimulus. Nobody in the world is safe who tampers with alcohol. It has wtecked many a minister of the gospel. Some years ago the most eloquent Presbyteria 1 minister in New Jersey reeled from the pulpit into drunkenness, But you say that every one who drinks liquor isn'ta sot. Yes! but every sot drinks. There are two reasons why I havealways been an abstainer: first, I don't dare to abuse myself ; second, I don't dare to tempt my neighbor. ? The Christian at Work says that the National Temperance Society has requested the Slate Department to gath or information concerning tlie alcolioiic liquor traffic in the various countries of the world. The State Department, conscience-stricken no doubt, has agreed to undertake the task. The report will be made for the World's Temperance Congress that will be held at Chicago in 1S93, during the World'sFair. The Society sugges's to the Sta e Department that information be secured on the following points: 1. Statistics as to the quantity and kinds of intoxicating liquors produced. 2. As to the 'governmental methods of dealing with the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. 3. As to intemperance as related to proverty, immorality and crime. 4. As to what_ef forts are being made to discourage the use, manufacture and sale of intoxicants. How to I.ay Up Treasure In Heaven. There are countless ways in which (he humblest people may do great serv.ce, if they but be content to be use ful?hold a candle for some one who is working, fjo and see some one who is neglected, read to some one who is sick gather a flower if you think someone .will like it, copy a few pages for some one who is overworked with correspondence, say "VeV instead of "No," if your help is asked. So the days may be passed in adding one deed of usefulness to another, till a great total is piled up for the day of reckoningsmall ads, unnoticed by men ami forgotten as soon as done, but recorded forever by Him who promised thereward for every cup of water given for His sake. Teachers and preachers sometimes plead that all their work is useful, in the sense of being service rendered lo the cause of Christ's kingdom. But these lahnreis are not more exempt than other men from the obligation to work. When they have complete 1 u fair day's regular toil, they may go on and make themselves useful, as much as the magistrate who tries cases, or the draper who sells cloth all day. The Saviour's principal work on earth next laying down His life in atonement for men. was to train a body of apostks. Vet we have the blessed record rewarding Him that' IIe wentabout doing good," which means that, besides doing the best for Himself in healing or comfoiting distressed persons wherever He found them, He thus set a noble example to professors in theological institutions, and to teacheisand preachers in general. A useful life is a life spent in doing good thing*, not great things.?Indian Witness. "To Often Til!-1r Eye*."' That is what Jesus Christ was always doing. He < o.ild never be at rest in the presence of 1 lie blind , instantaneously He felt the near presence of the blind man. When did He ever leave the blind man in darkuess? A-1 gain and again He said J "According! to your faith be it unto you." He opened the eyes of one that whs born blind, He opened the eyes of the blind beggar who called to him from the waysid\ Jesus ('hirst will not have any blind followers. This reference, of course, is not to the opening of the mental vision. Still, it is in exquisite harmony with the whole purpose and method of the Saviour, He will give light, more light, in Him is no darkness at all, and from us He will drive away every cloud and shadow. "To turn them from darkness to light." When did He ever turn men from uguc (larKnessr x\ever. Whenever He visited a town the inhabitants were startled liy an access of intellectual luster, sometimes they were daz/.led, sometimes distressed? they were always suprised. Tilings appeared so much larger to them after Ife ha<l touched them, old thoughts stood up in new meanings when He breathed them, the law itself became a kind of Gospel when he reprononneed its awful word-s. Enlargement is a characteristic of the incoming o Christ.?Joseph Parker, P. D, Talklni; Mini Uslcniii^. The gift of conversation is born in some people; wllh others it is carefully, perhaps laborously, acquired. In either case it is a great charm, outlasting both beauty and grace. A very charming and notably eloquent woman said once that silence was natural to her, but ....unmniii rnoniM-u llllll ttllVIII'tiU l)V force of will. .Study and read the right sort of things and store your mind well. Then you will have resources to draw upon. Read the papers every day, so you will know something of foreign news Then every time you have a chance, talk. At first you will he unable torememher one of the tine things you have read at the moment when it would come in sn beautifully. Never mind; practice will conquer that kind of awkwardness, and the time will come when your memory will he your, obedient servant and bring the right things to you at the right time.?N. Y. Recorder. The Roman Catholic Church in all important particulars is as far removed j from the spirit of the Gospel as ever,! and within the last thirty years has enacted two of the most baseless of her j superstitions? one of which embodies the most arrogant and semi-blasphe ' mous of her claims?the dogma of the immaculate conception, and the infallibility of th<* pope. Three Utile M'orils anil n Slirnif. (Cougregatioualist) "I)ou't ask me." Mrs. Patterson smiled significantly into her friei d's blue eyes, then she gave her shoulders a little shrug. "Hut if you know anything against *? ? ? - ?.? ?..n ..... nr? iU I rt. DIJXC ^wu UU^Iil LW l\Zll HIV, H1Ul?el." Hannah stood still by the door swinging lier garden hat with an impatient hand. "I shall not say another word," said the little woman in the sewingchair, "O, tell your mother I expect her over to supper to-night. "Airs. Patterson will no to meeting with us." The tall girl by the door, seeing that this was all she was likely to receive in the way of information, went slo.vly on, by the time she had reached home her mind being quite made up. ' I would .not rent the cottage to Mrs. Bryce, father," she said going in by the side door to his small writingroom. "Mrs. Patterson has told you enough to prove her an undesirable tenant, eh?" Mr. Prescott dropped his pen and glanced keenly at his daughter. "I am afraid so," <-lie said, reluctantly, and twirling the string of her absently around her fingers. Suddenly she started, threw the hat on the table and sat down by her father's side. "Father, would it be a very serious thing if this rent were not paid promptly?" her eyes pleading lhat the answer may be *"No." "It would make such a difference in our income that I should not be warranted in assuming a risk," said her father gravely. 'Tine Cottage must help us pay our next year's bills, Hannah." 'Then the letter refusing to reut it to her ought to be sent at once," said his dautlier, with decision. She did not even voice her regret that the gentle widow had come to Maybury, bringing her little daughter Dorothy to win all their hearts, had proved in M>me mysterious way unworthy of trust. She had only been there a day, yet Hannah had begun to love her and to hop? for future irienctsrup. Jt was now all over?the delightful prospect of having tliem for permanent neighbors?arid at once her father and she must be on the lookout for another prospective tenant. Mr. Prescott did not give himself the trouble to inquire into the nature of Mrs. Patterson's verdict. As she had In en at the same boarding school with the applicant for his house and at one time had visited iu her family, she surely ought to know something as Id the reliability of the women That Mrs. Patterson could not know about the little widow's hope of becoming ti resident at Maybury, since, for pi i vale reasons,Mr. Prescott prefered not to let it be generally known that Pine Cot las-e was on the market, he did not stop to cousider. He pushed away his writting and drew up a fresh .sheet of paper, and Hannah went off to her household duties. "T foot " unit! \rr P.ifcterson. on the way to church moetii??j that eveiug "that we can not do enough, Mrs. Prescott, to hold up our pastor's hand in the palish work." Airs. Prescott gave a sigh. She was one of those weak Christians who lament in sackcloth and ashes their inability: meanwhile, the work goes steadily on with a finger's help from them. "I shall throw myself into this new work he is opening up for us in the Mission chapel," coutiuued Mrs. Patteisou, in her most energetic way, "and shall begin to-morrow to canvass a district." "You do so much," said Mrs. Prescott, helplessly. "(), 110," protested Mrs. Patterson, yet immensely gratified ; and she passed into the lecture-room with a serene expression of duty well done and took her seat, settling back to well-earned enjoyment of the service. "The tongue is a little member ; be Iw.l.l .rtvi.it u Hfi> if if i mll??! h ""i" 6'vmv For hearts made tender by communings with the Divine Giver of all grace their pastor's words were full of earnest, solemn inspiration as he opened up the text to them. Hannah, in her seat back of the piano, weary and depressed, bent her head upon her hand to lo-e herself in the words that seemed meant for her. They burned themselves into her soul, attacking, like tonguts of fire, all, idle or' unkind speech that thronged her memory. "Help me, O my Father," she prayed, "so to watch the door of my lips that nothing evil can isoUe from them." i. . I It.*.. ,M " >v uai a ueauiuui caiiuiiuuuu < breathed .Mrs. Patterson, as they came mil, "ho spiritual and Suspiring." At this momenta woman was sitting in her widowhood, her head bint over a letter in her clasped hands and subbing as if her heart would break. '*(iod forgive me ; I thought I could bear anything, but i was so sure of this. O, my Dorothy !" The letter read; ' My Dkak Madam : It will he impossible for me <o rent you the cottage under consideration, and 1 hasten to inform you without delay. Trusting that you will be able to secure a house that will please you, I am Yours respectfully, lloBKliT PliKSCOTT." "Maybury." 'I lie child in the corner stirred fretfully and murmured in her sleep. ri'i .1 l.s ,1 M.a l,,..in/1 I 111' IllUllIlT rUIVVIVU tin lilt aiiuiiui "She would liuve been so happy and strong there," she sobbed. "She was so delighted that we were going, and I could have opened my little school and had a chance of life for us two. But now ? 0 Ciod, help me, fori Know not where to turn." ' Hannah," said Mrs. Patterson oue morning, a month or so after, as the two were busy over the intricacies of a new knitting stitch, "what has chaligged you so lately ? Confess, what have 1 done?" "Mabel," the girl dropped the skien of wool she was winding and impulsively seized the strip of fancy work hanging from her friend's lingers, "I ' ' " ? "? ?.! nmiiuir /\f* \T i?a t;il 11 HUl I III LIIJ .1CU Wt iU I J/, j vw. I am haunted by her constantly." "Mis. Uryce?' cried Mabel, with a laugh. "Silly child, you are loo impressible ; the idea of taking such a violent fancy to a woman you have met but once." "I is not a mere fancy," cried Hannah earnestly. "Hit gentle face keens appearing to me; and always reproachfully. Mabel, why isn't shea trustworthy person ? She ought to be with suuli a face." ".She is trustworthy enough," said Mrs. 1'a'terson, carelessly. "JJon'task me anything more, Hannah. You arc nositivelv disagreeable now." 'Is she trustworthy?"begun Hunnuli, springing to Iter feet, lier blue eyes Hashing. ''Why did you insinuate to llie contrary. then, when I asked you about her?" "I didn't say anything," cried Mrs. Patterson, in an injured way. "Do stop, Hannah, you put nie out. One, two, three, four"? "And you can goon counting those miserable stilelies," cried Hannah, a - . - i _ - . ?i? awmnwra.????? I storm of romorse making huvoc with i her naturally sweel temper, "just as if | a woman needed our help as we need ! hers had not been turned away. You don't know what you have done, Mabel, by that shrug.'' Mrs. Patterson dropped her work, ' I'm sure I didn't say anything," she repeated, frightened at tbe storm she had raised. "Say!" repeaiea naunuu m awm, i I "if you <>nly hud put your dislike into | words, it would have beeu weak beside ; the doubt you raised in ine." And then she related the result of liar question. Mrs. Patterson sank back in her chair aud covered her face with her hands. Like a Hash it was revealed to her that in no more cruel way could a woman work ill to her neignbor than by the insiuuatingly gentle manner and significant shrug that refuses to put into words aught to that neighbor's hurt. "I only thought that you were taking an immense lancy to Lucy Bryce," she confessed, ''and 1 love yon so 1 suppose it hint me, Hannah. I don't like her pinching ways and her queer ideas about training Dorothy, but I never thought of anything like this. What have I done, O Hannah ? And I call myself aChiistian," she moaned. 44VVe will repair this evil," said Hannah, quickly, aid bending to drop a kiss 011 her friend,9 bowed head, 44for father hasn't rented the cottage-aud it will teach us both a lesson," But It was too late to give a helping hand to the widow and her child. The letter dispatched in the next mail from Maybury wus, after long delays, answered from a Western city. "My Dorothy is in the green fields that the Father has prepared for his little ones." wrote the crushed mother She longed for the sweet air and a life with the birds and llowers and he has given it to her. She aied one week ago here, where I came to be with relatives, as I could find no other* place. Uod has my treasure, and will comfort me in his own time." Ouly three little words and a shrug, ' but they made two Christian women jealously watchful for all future time lest any wrong impression should be i given by them that they would not be willing'to express in words. And tliey became ho habitually carttui or ! the reputations of others that the Maybury church to which they belonged, following their Christ-like examp'e, ' worked together in the most effectivei their pastor's hands in the parish work. Discipline for Bnby. , When did I begin to discipline Ba; by? Just aa soon as her will and mine ; conflicted. With her it was very [ early. Some parents have told me not . until the child was two years old. ; I am of the opinion, though, that if i you let it go that long you might as well abdicate,' for by that time the baby will probably be master and you I slave. I There is nothing more beautiful to I see than a properly brought up child, that shows deference and respect to it* parents. r There will be many timeaall through life when your children and you will I differ in opoinion, but there need be no time when there must be war and i strife continually over every request. . And yet this is ilie rule. I have heard young mothers say, , "'Oh, he is so cute when lie opposes me." That may be. but what looks cute in a baby ceases to be so in an older child, and the child will never be i able to recognize the dividing line, and "as ye sow, so shall ye reap" is truer in your children than in the seeds i you put in the ground. I overheard two little girls arguing this way : "Go ask your mama to let you go with mo." "But she said I couldn't." "Oh, well, lease her till she does." "Well, I guess you don't know my I mamma. She ne'yer says yes after she has or.ce said no to me." Which, think you was the he happier child'? To have your children feel that what you say is best, makes it easier for you . and them too. If it is a question of doubt, take a little time to reflect, and decide on the i* * 1 A . ? 1 . -J IS.... 1..4. Itu sale siue. Alter ueuiuiuy, n-i iuui i?e final. The}' often seem pos?es-ed of a perseverance and pertinacity worthy a better object, ai'd the greatest firmness must be used, and tbey will always respect you more if you insist upon obedience than if you ullow them i an uncontrolled will. It seems inborn that we should want to defy and disobey law, and it is astonishing how soon it crops out iu the infant mind. Just as soon as a child can understand why and wherefore, just so soon can you give it a reason ; until then it must obey without, because you sav so. It is necessary to use the rod with small children, but it never ought to be necessary witli a child after the little one can understand you. The rod should be kept as a last re soit and used effectually, so that it need not be of frequent repetition. I ?-> unrltl f'l'PSt 1 fl I IUMlillU?5 uuruiuiu v vui aaT v*vm.?v ? princ'ple in the child that is lifelong. Although much has been said of the sternness of early fathers and mothers, yet many of us can testify that the result of it made good strong men and women. It prepared them for many a strife in this life that they would not ; have been able to iret through without. If the first child has been well governed, it sets tbeexamaple to the rest. I heard an older sister say, ''Nellie never hud half the whippings and scoldings I got." "Because," said her ' mother, "your obedience and deference to us was such a good example to Nellie that she was unconsciously compelled to he belter in every way. You ought to be very thankful, my dear, | for your strong, silent influence over her." The daughter whose comfort has been consulted before her mother, the son who never sacrificed an hour of play to help his mother, will develop a dullness of sympathy, an unreadiness to think of the comforts of oth-j !??<-> u>iiii.ii ij hurtful to their own i moral growth as well as heart-break*! j inland incomprehensible to tlie woman | , who has uselessly laid down her life : for them. I Let mother*, then, be particularly careful about (his part of their children's education. Louise Long ('bristle. Watch your tongue lost it talk more'; :of your neighbor's business than your! I own; watch it lest it may wag before you have a chance to think twice.! : Just remember that you have but one' tongue, while you have two eyes and , ;two !ears. This wise arrangement signifies an intention on the part of na-j ture to have us see twice, and to hear twice before we venture to speak once, i Little thinkers are apt to be great i talkers. " i1 I I j If we wish to {est the merit of an ;< action of a line of conduct, we must 1 ever ask ourselves, To what end? itZfitptn.** *r-?* " -* **Erskiue College, . ERSKINE COLLEGE, Intemllni; Fact* In Reference to (he T Xcw Building;?Roll of the Faculty. ErskIne College opened today. We missed n the familiar round of (lie old bell, which for It flffy years, one-half of a century, hatf an- cl nounced the opening of another school year, ou ??./> mulln I hp nwHkpnlntf of the morulnK. O' Bui still we know It hasopened, for we see our streets thronged with student faces, some w strange and others familiar. There is asad- nr liens In an openlDg of the college, as weir as h in the closing, for so many faces are absent which we have been accustomed to see. - oi This year marks an epoch In the history of R Ersklue college. They will get In their elegant and commodious new building during Q this session. For a short while the McGee e: building will continue to be utilized as the college. h Perhaps some of the readers of the Phess " and Banner would like to 6ee the new tl building as it will look when it is completed. For the benefit of those who may not be able F to be present to tee It, we will endeavor lo T give them some idea of how It will look. We present a cut of the building. This gives you d some idea of the outside, but really, little conception of the size of the bnllulng. Mr. A \ Jan. F. Denson, of Washington, D. C., was It employed as architect. The new building Is Joined to the old one, the extension being to- O wards the West. The Are of the 22nd of January so damaged the walls of the old college, v that only a small portion of them could be ? us?d. The bulldlug faces Norlheast and (Southwest. It fronts 100 feet and extends y back 70 feet, lormlug a perfect rectangle. The n main entrance Is through three large double <? doors. These admit you into a vestibule 30 x 20. Here you see two doors. The one in front lakes you upon the stage of the commence- f ment hall. This stage Is 25x70, auj will be >' used as the chapel. It Is separated from the " auditorium bv a rolling pnrtltiou. Rolling it w tip, we see before us a vast ball, 70x100, which P Is capable of easily seHtiug 1400 people. The 61 hall has an Inclined floor, and the top of the ? ?ta>:e is Just on a level with the buck of the " hall. This will allow every one an opportu- ' ulty to see what Is going on. ' Let us go back now, and lake the right ft hnnd door. It conducts us into the private M offlceof the President, thence into a recllalion room. Passing through this we come In- 1 to a hallway, which flnds lis exit through the ? door of the old college. Justacross this hull is another nice large recitation room. Following this hall we come to another running at right angle to it. Crossing this we enter iho Y. M. C. A. hull, which is 00x30. This constitutes the (list floor. Si Going to the second floor,we find Just above D the vestibule a reading room. Just, back of f| this lies the library. There Is also a iabratory 11 on this floor. The rest Is all taken up with o recitation rooms. There will be thirteen j, recitation rooms in all. 1 There is a basement all under the com- * mencement hall. This will be divided Into tl rooms. One of which will be for the Janitor, one for the gymnasium, one for wood, coal, etc., and one for the boiler room, should they u desire to place a heating plant. II The lower on the left Is for the telescope; n the one on the right for the town clock (when f they get one). 11 The following is the faculty of the college r for this year : n W. M. Grler. D. D., President, and Wylle J. Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. r' 11.?v. J. M. Todd, A.M. D. D., Professor Latin t< end French. >. fl I'. L. Grler, A. M., Professor Mathematics i and Astronomy. Sl J. I. Cain, Ph.D., Professor of EnglUh and 11 temporarily, of Advanced German. J E. B Kennedy, A. B., Professor oI Greek ^ ana Ciieiufiuarj ueiiumi. J. D. McNeill. A.. B., Professor of Physical ? Science. C J. L. Pressly, A. B., Principalol Preparatory t Department. ^ m mm j, Ninety SI* and Hor Gomlp. p Ninety Six, S. C. Oct 2i. 1892. Ci Well, Mr. Editor, alter our sojourn of 4 or 5 t< days In your beautltul city, I have arrived at home, and must here tliank you for many courtcsles shown me while In Abbeville. Tue weather still con times good and the farmers are happy ; Ihey ought to be. If possessing and controlling everything Is a re- . qulsite to'obtain that goal. While lingering about your temple of Justice I wms Impressed r with an Idea ihat I cau't get rid of; it Is this: a That everybody und everything Is trying to coniorm to the wishes and desiics of the dear " farmers, no sLone is left unturned, no obstacle \\ left unreinovcd to attain this result, even Hip preachers are Invited to "come down and out" , it they happen to enierUiln ideas or views S not entirely in conformity with the Ideas and (J views of their congregations, but we guess "as ,r long as it is right, ft is alliight." ? Col. .^am WallinEford lias returned to South w Carolina and will remain here during the ft winter. His headquarters are at (ireenwoou. Col. (J. McMlller attended Synod last week us representative from the Ninety Six 6! church. An Edgefield farmer of great experience if says "you never get too old to learn.'r While 11 passing a line Cimbrldge farm a few days W UK", he noticed n hand plowing In outs with n no backhand. The traces were ruu ihrough s. the stirrups of a 13 dollar saddle. This Is a , good way to save a backhand, but a good way b to ruin a 1*> dollar saddle. y I'rol. Duncello's show last Friday night was ti a success. The attendance was large. j;1 While In Abbeville last week we were treat- 'C cd handsomely by our old Ninety Six friend", o Mr. J. D. Watson has moved to the Ualphln ?i s'ore on Cambridge street, formerly occupied 1 bj- J. C. Weir. '< ?' Mrs. Orchard of Atlanta Is vLlting her is daughter, Mrs. T. C. Lipscomb. Miss Llllle Calhonn has gone on a visit t" j h> r friend Miss Mamie Mayward of MeCor* 1 mlck. ai Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Richardson of Oreenville ,>) were down last week visiting friends and rel- fi a lives. 11 John Cole an enterprising young farmer ol 41 the Ml. Lebanon section, has made .S bales m of long staple cotton and about 290 bushels o: iw corn with one horse this year. Mr. William X. Muudy tells us that ho Is OJ likely to get a pension tor service In the In \\ dian Wars. W e hope he will gel It. He Is . gelt in* old. and needs It. The ordinance ol baptism was administered l< to I wo applicants at Siloam yesterday. Th? u< old church seems to be tatting on new life tin der the ministration of ihc Rev. H. F. Corley. I Mr. W. L. Fouclte rejoices over the birth oi 11 his first grand uti|ai. s, Ijulle a large number of horses, cattle, shtep, and hogs will be sent from Ninety Six 1 to the State Fair. u< Mist? Mary itlake. one of our most neeom .4 pllshed and sueeessfu I public school teachers . has taken charge ol Cow Grove Academy. " Dr. Sunders has had the water from one oi his famous sulphur springs analyzed by tin chemist at Cleinson. T|ie result was astonishing, everybody thought It a fine water, l.ui the analysis makes it one ot the finest min eral waters In the United States. The mid- i.. lc? I qualities are simply wonderful. AlaJ. J. A. Stuart has sold a larue eoop ol IP Wyandotteehiekens to Mr. iliram I.aMsun ot ( ] Abbeville. They are certainly a lot of tn-auties. Mrs. Stuart Is quite successful with * poultry and raises some of the fimst In the to Stale. The ltev. K. J. Forester ol" Greenwood : preached one of his usually tine sermons in the J Baptist church last night. The Ninety six lit people are always delighted to hear Mr. ForL'S,er - w Capl. K. K. Murieii <ii)ii win*, uiu ^ u short while ai Mr. J. A. Moore's, the father W of Mrs. Murrell. They have u beautiful baby \VI urn] Grand I'a Moore Is quite proud of l(. Professors Siniili ami Anderson assisted by 7 I'rof. Ducello thinks of ?ivin^ one of their I I grand entertainments in Columbia during the State Fair. 1 I While at Abbeville last week we had the 1 pleasure of lueetiiii: Miss Hell Miiler, one ol <'( iiur Ninety six young ladies, w ho is clerking |'a in the popular house of K. M. HuiUlon A Co. U'e are ^';i?l to slate thai Miss Hell's em-1 el ployat's place a high estimate on her services. Fast Knd. | Heath & Co. have quite a repulttlion for sell-J gn ing good eoll'ee. They have ju>t received ten 1 tmgsol that eclebra'ed brand "Mara," which |l,L is unexcelled In quality and flavor. j \V( ('. P. Hammond <1- Co. are now ready for tlie ivinter 111 shoes. Hlg stock and big induce- : ill! neiits. A big lot of goon itruiii cradles now ready ir yon at .Smith A Son-. ! \vi , - ^rJ - 7' ~ \ ?v * '''' ' '"' ' '* ^ x '*' ' K'^ Due West, S. C. Due West. Due West, S. C-, Oct. 31. 1K92. The Synod party returned on Tuesday, hey hHd r most delightful trip to Tennewee. [Irs Maggie Todd did not return with the nrtj, but stopped over In Nashville to visit er friend Miss Mary Sullivan, who Is attendlg the Peabody Normal Institute of that ?y. Rev. W. VV. McMorrl* of Newberry, stopped . ier on his way from Synod. Mrs. Bojce ha? been visiting her daughter ho has charge of the house-keeping depart* tent of the Female College. She returned to er home In'Sardls. N. C., on Monday. Mr. Joseph Reid of Newberry, stopped over n his way from Synod to see his brother, ?v. D. W. Reld. The slaters are at work on the root of the ew college, ana win soou nave me ruoi covred. We have had several white frosts, which ave ripened tbe golden yams and perelmiods, making glad the heart of darkey aad ie o'possum. Mr. J. A. Thompson of Virginia arrived rlday afternoon. He expects to enter the beologi'al Seminary. Mrs MrCluntr of Virginia Is visiting her auuhter, Mrs. J. M. Todd. Mr. 8. E. Galloway, Mrs Jane Wilson, Miss .lice Lindsay, all of Tennessee have been vising the family of Rev. Dr. W. L. Pressly. Rev. J. S. Moffat t of Chester occupied Rev. . Y. Bonner's pnlplt on Sabbat b. Rev. and Mrs. J. 8. Moffatt, who have been siting relatives In town, returned to tbeir ome In Chester Monday. ' Mr. J. M. Sltton, who for a long nnmber of ears was a resident of this place, but who ow lives in Atlantti, Ga., is on a visit to hla Id home. Ills friends are glad to see hlsgenil fare again. A very painful accident happened to Willie ressly, ou Saturday. He with some ol his ounger brothers was out hunting, and he ad the muzzle of the gun resting on his foot, hen it tired accidentally, the entire load Basing through bis foot. One of bis brothrs started to town for the doctor, and anther to some young men, who we>e limiting car them. Fortunately they were not far * om town, ami Dr. Wldeman soon arrived i his buggy, and took blm home. It was >und on examluaton that tbe Becnnd. toe 'ould have lo be amputated. Dr. Wideman nil Dr. Edwards perrotmei ine operation, he wound while very painful is not dungerus. It. ^ Do We not Sleep too Little. There is more danger from too little teep I han too much for the American pople, ^writes a physician. Bleep is tie great nerve tonic and pieservative f our systems which nature gives freef. One i that is blessed with good leeping powers should never abuse , liem by taking less sleep than the sys ;m demands. A very few may be natrally lazy, and undue sleep may lake them stupid and; but the vast majority of working people require rora eight to (en hour' sltep. Early _ ising is a relic of past ages, and its leasure* are only enjoyed when early etiring is also practiced. If one goes :> bed witli the birds he can rise re eslied with the cocks, but plenty of leep is esseniial to good health no latter what time of night we retire. Excessive fatigue can only be relieved y plenty of rest and sleep, and oue /ho does receive these is more susepiible to fevers and other disease*, f one spends nu*t of the night in ishlouable dissipation she needs sleep i Ihe daytime, ft is the only way to reserve.the freshness and beauty of ompiexion which nature has given ) her. ?^ Etiquette of the Table. Tlie daintiest way to eat an orange i from a fork; that Is, the skin and its oarse white lining are pared off with sharp fruit knife, the orange is stuck n a fork and is eaten exactly as one ould an apple, writes KuthAshmore 1 her "Sjide Talks With Girls" in the eptember Ladies' Home Journal, iheesemay be taken belween the liners, or it may be put on a bit of bread ith a knife, and eaten on that, but u >rk is not used witii it. Artichokes re, of course, eateu with the tiu^ere, ich leaf being dipped in the dressing. All pastry is eateu from a fork, and i^au insult to thn cook to touch it ithakuife. lu fact, your knife has o use except for cutting, or buttering jmethiug,"and when it is resting it e laid sideways on your plate. Every egetable am bo eateu with a fork, le uses of a spoon being limited to a sw desserts and for your coffe or teajp, and there its place is to repose in le saucer. Bouillon is drank from the jps in which it was served; wlieu it jellied it is eaten with a dessert joon. Nothing excuses the chasing f a small particle qJ something to eat round your plate to i>olishit up. The Id idea tnai one must eat everything iat is given to one no longer exists, id the result is that children are not lade gluttons. In drinking, remetn:r to hold your goblet or wine glass y the stem, ami not by the bowl, /bile watermelon .is eaten with a nk, cantt-loupe has served with it a 'hscrf sivmn. As it is customary. mvadays, to have the salt served ill ien salt cellar.", it may be mentioned int in heloing one's self the salt lould be put near the outer edge of ie's plate. In leaving tbe table it is >t necewsay to fold your napkin; ineadjustas you rise lay it on the hie. Killing on Hie Platform'. The best illustration that T ever ;ard, showing the disadvantage of ring as a Christian outside of the [lurch, was given me by a young conit whom I had recently received inthe church. 1 expressed my pleasure and gratcatiou in the step he had taken, > replied : I n.ii iii iiI.i mi rriv* milirl to ioill lien I come to meeting to-night, but hileyou were talking I thought it ;is just like buying a ticket to C'hicai, ami then riding on the platform, bought I might as well go inside." The young brother unwittingly in s illustration gave an unanswerable, rtainly a most sensible argument in vor of Cliurch membership.?Mesuger. The more that women are enlight* ed, s-o much the more shall we men On the cultivation of the mind of men very largely depends the whm of men. It is by women that ture writes upon the hearts of men, tV principle that is wrong is just as ong in politics as it is in religion.