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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1893. ESTABLISHED 1844 %
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Little Ouch 'Like Me.
jeens, when he left the sky
And for sinners name t<> die,
In his mercy .'passed not by
Little ones like uie.
Mothers th?n, as mothers ought.
In some places where he tamtht,
Unto him the children brought,
Little ones like me.
Did the Savior say them nay*
>>< ! he kindly bade lliein stay.
Suffered none to turn away
Little ones like me.
HOW T1IE MOXEY CAME.
A California Sketch.
BY BISHOP O. P. FITZGERALD.
It was in the early seventies. I wj
living on Bay S'lvet. North Bead
San Francisco. Not long before, ivhil
driving on the Alameda?that beaut
ful avenue, 9haded by the wide-branci
ing willows planted by the first Jesu
fathers of San -Jose and Santa Clarj
for which good work I hereby giv
them my humble thank9?I had m<
with an accident that nearly ended m
earthly experiences. The loug-liinbei
?rvi>i>.vuar^Wii n-otter. takiusr flight b
the collision of a hind-wheel of ib
buggy with a heavily-loaded lumbe
wagon, plunged forwurd, tearing o
theentaugle<i wheel, and then with
few frautic leaps came a cra-h, and
found myself describing a circle in th
air. When I came down there wa
a blauk in my recollection of event
for I know not how long. When
regained my consciousness, a badl
dislocated bhoulder, and many bruist
and wrenches attested the combine
effects of gravity, propulsion and cor
cussion on my corpus. I was take
to the house of my old friend, P. 1
McCabe, where Drs. Caldwell au
. Thome adjusted the dislocation, an<
mollified my bruises. Blesingson tb
memory of the master and mistre*
of that hospitable home, where tru
hospitality always smiled a welcomt
und from which no needy woman, o
child was ever turned away empt,
iianaea.
Long weeks of paiu followed the a(
cid^nt, The surgeon* of fsau Francisc
even talked of amputation attheshoul
der joint?doubtless a very interestitu
operation, scientifically considered
hut one that 1 felt that 1 would rathe
read of than endure in person. I ot
jected, the doctors desisted, and thi
cketch is penned with that same rigli
arm, with an occasional twinge thu
reminds me of that xide and smash u
twenty years ago.
I was just able to move about th
house, with the arm in a sling, walk
ing softly, and trying to exhibit th
patience I had so often commended t
Ono iluu HX I sfO(W
tautr pnauus. vuv _
looking out of the buy-winnow upoi
the ever-restless, ever-changing .sea
It occured to me that on that very daj
1 had to make a payment at the laui
?.f $180, or serious trouble would result
The mouey was not at hand; I wa
unable to go down into the city to at
tend to that or any other business mat
ior; there was nobody to send ; tlx
hour for the bank to close for the da'
would soon come?what could I do
To.'my inner ear a voice seemed t?
speak : "You profess to believe ii
prayer?so you have been teacbin/
others for many years?why not pray ?'
Heeding the voice still and smallthis
Voice is always* still and smallsank
into a chair, and bowing raj
head upon the window-sill, prayed
A calm, indescribably sweet, eam<
upon me It was the answering touch
/??ri u-i?, if will iinHpratunii
I1USU uniu itn .v .....
Lifting my bead, J looked out, keeji
ing my seat by the window. Acros
the flat between the end of the street
ear liue and my house I observed i
mau and a woman walking slowh
along as if they were conversing 01
some subject of mutual interest
When they reached the foot of the ter
race they turned and began to climl
the steps that led up to our door. Ii
answer to their ring, the servant open
ed to them, and in answer to their in
quiry, told them I was at home, usher
ing them into the room where 1 wa
sitting.
"We are from Humboldt County
.Ko mon iiV xiri'ppinent we hav
Mill! IUV ^Ul?(< J "0--r _
met here in San Francisco to l>e mar
ried, and we want you to perform th
ceremony."
"Yes," said the ludy, who wad
rapid talker, "we are both stranger
in the city, and when we left the Lie!
House awhile ago to tind a miniate
we were at a loss, but your nume miu
denly came into my mind in conue<
with the recollection of some corn
spondence between us when you wer
Superintendent of Public Instructio
and I was a teacher in the pubii
school at Eureka. We agreed that i
we could find you, we would like t
have you marry us?and here we are.
She was very pretty, and smile
very sweetly as she ppoke.
"Do you feel strouu enough to g
through with it?" asked the expeetar
bridegroom.
A glauce at the pretty schoolmarm'
beaming face inspired me with fres
strength and resolution, and I replie
- - - , * T ?u ? Wit
mat 1 tOOll^Ill i r'HIIU gl) lUliiu^u.nn
the ceremony?and I he lookin
triumphant and she radiant at til
close.
When the la->t words were paid d<
daring them to he man and wife t<
gether, In ttie name of the Holy Trit
ity, he thrust his hand into his pock<
and taking out whar seemed to me
whole handful of gold, with som<
thing of a flourish, he hauded it to mi
saying:
' Will that do? If not there's plei
ty more where it came from."
I told him I thought it would do.
In a few moments they left, as haj
py-looking a pair as I ever met.
Retaining my curiosity until the
had descended the first flight of step
I then counted the marriage fe>
There were just ten twenty dollar go]
pieces?making the $180 I needed, au
$20 more for good measure.
That is the way the money came.
At the very ttme my name sudden!
occurred to the mind of the pretty ii
tie school-teaeher 1 was bowed i
prayer in the bay window at Nort
Beach. Free agency is never ove
borne, but by the processes of mentor.
by suggestive toucnesauu mhiuuuuuu
if. is moved upon by the Holy Spiri
A true piayer touches God, aud 1
touches everything in the universe.
If there is here a suggestion for son
reader, he will know what it is.
^ Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 1892.
i ?
There is strength deep bedded i
our hearts, of which we reck but lit'
till the shafts of heaven have pierc<
its fragile dwelling. Must not earl
be rent before her gems are found?
Little PriffN.
.Some children will be precocious,
just as others are backward; it cannot
be prevented; but that is no rea- W(
son lor publishing their precocity to
the world at Jarge. We are Dot dis- nt
pleased that there should be a child an
among us taking notes; but it does
m.t please us that he should print them. rej
It is there that we should draw the j?,
line. Let the poor little mortal ink its HO]
fingers as much as it likes ; but do not br
let the priuter be summoned to its aid. cr(
L'.'t it lisp in numbers, if the numbers au
come; but do not publish the numbers
in a bound volume. Afterall, the nur- ra(
sery audiences is by no means to be de- an
spised, arid ought to content the liter- ne
ary aspirant of nine years old. Evi- jja
dently, to judge from the organs of ^,
>q ivnmiinIv oiiiiiinn. the world of wo- ~,i
i, mauklud is inclined to think otherle
wise. Nearly every lady's paper
i- which professes to be written by la- eV(
i- dies lor their own special delectation, an
It hasa pageor a column devoted to baby- tre
i journalists, where, under the heading ti.(
e of "The Children's Page" or ''The ,
?l Children's Salon," these small con- ajj
y tributors record their impressions of fro
1, the world around them, and revel in jea
y print. Most of these contributions an
ie take the form of letters to the editor. frc
ir Muriel writes to inform the world that
ft" she is seven years old, and the baby is faj
a only six months. She loves the baby wr
I very much. She sends her photoe
graph, and hopes that it will be put in
is the paper. Ethel is aged ten, "with wj
;s, darkish hair and blue eyes." A most fuj
I interesting child, we are sure: but j0
v what is she doing in print? Another pv,
s Ethel is only nine, while Tommy id
d more youthful still. Clara and Lilian tjC
j- each contribute a copy of verse9?very ca]
11 nine little verses too, and most credit\
able, wheu the age of the author is q0
d taken into account; but surely they
d should have shared the fate of other
e school room exercises. Tne idea is, of
s course, an old-fashioned one, but we
e still cling to the belief that childish
vanity is more easily excited tnan supr
pressed, and that such vanity is not Th
y good f??r the child. One of these pa- I
pHpers offers what it calls "Literature Ac
!- Prizes" to its young contributors, tbc
o The theme of last week was "How red
I- would you spend a present of five th*
K pounds?" and we were shocked to fii:d gat
I, that a prize was won by a dreadful lit- em
r tie prig who derlared that she would sp<
>. spend it in giving all ttie village cnu- cat
? dren a school-feast. There was some- is <
t thing worse than vanity encouraged siri
t there. Really the fond parents of these noi
p infantile journalists are rather inju- ph
dicious. Everybody rushes into print bui
e nowadays. The man orworaanwhohas wh
.. never published anything is becom- des
e ingrather the exception than the rule; tin
t> but what will the next generation be, get
j when it meets with ho much encour- nol
i agement iu its youth? Or what is ev(
,f liktly to be the fate of the * poor little rail
y woman who begins writing for the pa- the
i pers wlien she is five?in emulation of qui
rtthor fi vf-v^ar.nlHs ?clediOilt-PS a Vol- dfs
s ume of poems to her parents wheu ing
r she is nine, and has written several for
r tragedies aud three-volume novels be- wh
i fore sl)e has arrived at the stage of long ogi
frocks??London Spectator. are
? ?
i grc
( Horses ran to <leath.?Madness or we
, Military men. Gf j
' (American Advocate of Peace.) me
If the tongue of Balaam's ass could
I be given to the German and Austrian J 1
7 horses, we may be sure that they
would >ebuke the madness of men and P0>
? the system which causes the running Ser
. of the poor dumb animals to death to se
) determine how high a rate of speed
- can be reached in delivering military "e
9 dispatches. Horses were made to be t"
" the servants of man aud give many ,ea
i evidences of real pleasure in serving ^
7 him whether in running or drawing or a,n
* ?i
i otuer metnous or service, wueu mey
are taken care of and not pushed be- En
' yond certain limits; they may even be
used till their lives are sacritteed, in 8at
i certain exceptional cases, in the service
- of man. But it is doubtful whether a
i- horse could be found, with even an
' ordinary degree or' "horse sense," _
3 which would not protest with all his n
animal soul against being run to death,
or so nearly to death as to continue in
e a nervous sweat for days afterward, a c
' simply that the "art of killing men, sto
e may be brought to as hiirh a state of
perfection as posiible. This test of
a speed is only the last phase of the
w relentle^sness with which the modern on
k military system of Europe lays every- DPa
r thing under contribution to accomplish
I- its ends. Men women, children, k.n
5- horses, property, morals, health,?all r'^J
are cast mercilessly on ine anar 01 ine
e god of war. The conscience of civil- aDl
n ized countries, which has found so au!
c much to cry out against in the need- a?'
if less cruelties done to animals by
o vivisectiou in the interests of science, ho.
" will certainly not b? silent there. Or '
d will it? It is not long since we heard wl
a gentleman say that he was converted ?*1
o to peace principles by the sight of picn
tures of horses shot down and left to *
suffer and die on battle-fields?ho'rses, eiS
's that did not know, as men did, into &ei
h what they were going. Will the picd
tures of these German and Austrian "e
h hordes dropping dead as tliey run, or J
g suffering excruciating paiu after the otl
ie race is over, open the eyes of any to arl
the intrinsic cruelties of a system so !|?
2- long held sacred ? We are sorry to
)- have to say that we do not know how .
l- to answer the question. ?11
H to'
a
e- How many of our readers, who are
?, parents, ever sit down and have a on
- _ r\ r\
talk with their sons and daughters
i- about matters of int? rest to them, con .
ceruiug them>elves, their past mistakes,
present opportunities and future
) prospects? How few parents really
know anything about the life purposes es*
y of their children? Tosay nothing of . J
a, the sad neglect of so many to exercise ,D!
t. their influence in forming the charac- co.'
Id ter of their offspring and preparing
id them for the duties and re?ponsibili- t0(
ties of life. These are things that are ncj
as they should not be. Let us change |
ly the order and see if we can't shape la(
t- the future of our boys and tench them ..J
in to shape it for themselves. That say- 1,1
;b ing, "Circumstances make men," is a
r- lie. Any boy or girl can forge a pros- ,ei
y, perou3 way through the mo*t adverse .C1J
s. <-irniimstftnnes. for nothine Is so i)las
t. tic as circumstances, if taken at the "H
*e right time. They are as the potter's ~u
clay. They are the ready servants, lo<
ie not the masters of men.?Oklahoma
Ch. Ad. th
Feeling in religion is a good thing, on
and al. christians should he anxious to m
1 feel right. But as Robert Hall sajs, ?
l "We shall be judged not by what we
?* have felt, bat by what, we have done.''
' Let us not forget that important fact.
Hope. 1
(Rev. I)r. Armitage)
Did it ever occur to you what a v
jrld of thought is wrapped up iu ](
at little word '"hope"? lis very pro- v
inciation makes every bosom bound e
d burn. It is music to the ear of j:
e young, health t<> the sick, and life i
juvenated lo the old. Poetry makes a
pe a formation, grief makes it a u
lace, and desolation makes it the ii
ightedt flower that adorns earthly e
i-ation, while even disappointment v
d delusion whisper daikness out of 8
e sky of to-day into sunshine of to- a
i>rrow. Sobbing sorrow may crush
d cripple the soul, but hope gives it a
w elasticity. Nay, it may be humi* fi
tion.in the dust, but hope will raise y
up again. Hope is mau's birthright, v
lich, after all his blandishments, t
lusions, and mockeries, never mak- b
1 hi n ashamed to hope on, hope d
er. Airy fancies may atlure him, c
d smiline faces beguile him into e
achery, but hope fits eternal around t<
i human head and breust, and hangs a
i rainbow on the blackest cloud in tl
the chaste sparklings of an angel o
ra immortal life. Thunderbolts may s<
p from the fair bow in the clouds. c<
(1 hope may vanish as a fair scorner a
im that bright spot, but the fascinat- jf
; form soon appears elsewhere in h
rer robes than ever, and with a r<
eath of flowers to crown the child p
endless disappointments. Now 8j
len you connect the word "hope" <>i
th "salvation," then what a wonder- tl
word it becomes! At once it comes tl
measure man's most delightful it
iristian attainment. Indeed, so v<
iiraately is it associated with prac- ti
al godliness, that religion itself is a;
led a ''good hope through grace." t
>re than this, our God is called the n<
id of hope, and his finished work is te
owd as "the hope set before us in
i gospel," while those who accept vv
n are said "to rejoice in the hope of tc
; glory of God." Cf
V*
o Millionare m the Popular Idenl. ^
STot only do we not specially decry *
uericau millionares, but we think "
;ir quality of mammoths the most ^
leeming feature in the worship paid r~
;m. Money in those huge aggre:es
has in it euch potentialities, is so v!
Lireiy beyond what any man can *
?nd upon self indulgence, that we ,
) understand that the desire for it S
>fteu another form ol tbe vague de- ^
3 for power which stirs the hearts ^
t only of the ambitious but of the
ilanthropic. It is not the millionare.
t the millionare as tbe popular ideal,
o arouses our apprehentions. Men
ire money in Europe, and some- 8A
? i.u: i. ? A
les, wueu iuey uave Hiiyiuiiig uu ..
, worship millionares; but they do ^
i make of them ideals. . . .Not
>n in France are the millionares Jr
ned iuto ideals while in Germany i
sy are loathed; in Italy, where men r;
it business on 200 a year, they are "
regarded; in Austria they are notbbeing
crushed by the reverence P
birth; and in England they are? *
at shall I say? defended, with apol- ()l
es for the defense, as people who PJ
useful in their way. That the ad- ^
ratioft.(w w?aitb?mere wealth? P
iws here in all European countries,
do not deny because all other forms (
responsible power are dyine, and
n long for powerless fettered than ?
s power derived.from a popular vote; '
t we are far, as yet, from what The
tion declares to be the American .
iltion. Let us hope that it exag- ?
ates, though so many symptoms ,
m to coufirm iis words; but if it
then, the republic, which should
?hpftd of all. is rushiner faster than 7.
monarchies along a path which u
ds only to the degradation of. the
e. Better any deity than Belial, if
lan is to advance, even if it be so
lurdanone as is embodied in the ,
glish conception of aristocracy. j
at does, at least, impose some obli- 9'
ions.?The Spectator.
? pi
A LESSON OX NEATNESS. m
w
t or Twenty Girls In a Cooking; tt
t'lnu One Looked Cnrelean. Sti
itepping otie da> into a room where
lass in cooking had assembled, I 01
od for awhile to hear the bright,
mble teacher instruct twenty young w
Is in the mysteries of breadmaking. ^
>he was giving them a little lecture P'
homemade bread, after which the P1
.teriuls were to be divided among cc
;m, and each girl was to mix, ei
ead and set a portion of dough to a
s. as
nu - A. M 4 mm .ml ?. ft]
Lilts IWCUlj ymo iuubcu ?cij urai ?
3pretty, wearingcleau whiteaprons w.
i little white caps. One could im- 8}
ne them a few years later, each preing
in her own well ordered house- "
Id. si
Jut presently I noticed something rt
lich I would not wish to mention ex rt
jt with the hope that it may be a 01
r.t to some thoughtless girls. al
)ne of the number, a pretty girl of ?|
hteen, stood listening with her flu- ei
rs pressed agaiust her chin Pres- e:
tly in an abstracted way she tapped
r parted lips. ' J1
[ glanced around the circle. All the
ler nineteen girls stood with their ei
us hanging easily at their sides or 81
htly crossed and remained in about
j same position, never carrying their
nds to their features, .Hut this one "
1 sometimes played with the butis
of her dress, sometimes lingered sl
r cheek, sometimes put up her baud
see if lier hair was all right and
ce even thoughtfully rubbed her k.
se. S1
When the talk was over the girls all r<
trau to make bread. They had wash- a
their hands before gathering around "
t- table, and it was not supposed nec- "
lary to do so again.
Jfow nineteen of those girls, one felt
itinctively, would be neat about
ok ing. t(
lint the twentieth?I would not be
> fastidious' but I would really rather
teat a slice of her loaf. Years ago,
len I was a girl myself, I heard a
ly say: *
[ never like to see any one liandig
the face." t
After that often I noticed what a difence
it makes. Aud it made a differice
this time. This one girl may
vo l?ppn MM swppt fpmneied mid
capable as any of ilie others, I j
it they looked well bred;
:>ked ill bred. They looked careful |v
id neat; she looked careless and a lit- s
j u 11 neat. jj,
Solomon speaks of "little foxes that ^
oil the vines," and this habit, when *
ie considers the question of good,
anners, is really a " little fox."'
Youth's Companion. 1
The best minister is he who minis-1;
rs most to the poor and oppressed. *p
'he Exerclwe of the Spirltnal Fncnlt
That is a terribly significant confe
ion made by the great scientist Da
rin. As reported by his son in tl
atter's biography of his father, Da
yin tells ns how he was a lover of ii
rature in his early days, delightin
ti Shakespeare and the other poet
Jut after years of scientific activit
ud interest, he found, on taking thei
p again, that he had not only grow
tidinerent to them, but that they wei
ven distasteful to him. He had, as
rare, suffered a sort of atrophy of thi
ide of h s nature,?the emotional in
giuative, we might call it.
The case of Darwin illustrates a lav
principle; to wit, that the spiritui
iculty lives' or dies by exercise <
^aut of it, even as the body. We at
rail aware, as we meet our fellow-mo
als in the world, that the different
etween them with respect to spiritui
evelopitient is enormous; and we ii
line to sav. nerhans. that this diffe
nee is a generic one, due to heredity
3 birth, although fostered by breedin
ad. life-habits. It is likely, tioweve
hat far more than we imagine, the vij
rous state of the higher nature i
mie, the woful lafck of it in other;
omes of cultivation on the one ham
nd of neglect on the other. The mi
>rity. like Darwin, have the matt*
1 their own hands to begin with, ai
jsponsive along the ranges of th
ureand ennobling qualities of th
pirlt. All that falls under the hea
f the religious, moral, spiritual, ii
lem, lies like a fallow field ready fo
ie plow, but demanding the tiller I
is ever to become while to the hai
est. But men are engrossed in prac
cal affairs before they know It, anc
;ain like Darwin (save that their ic
>rests and passions are neither so pur
or so fruitful as his,) they let the pc
intial grain stay forev>r underground
It is as absurd to expect the soul t
ax and thrive on no exercise as it i
> ask the right arm to show a big bi
>ps when always carried in a sling
/e hear a great deal nowadays abou
le proper care of the body ; this ma,
[most be called the age of tbe exalt?
on of physique. At heart this is
holesome reaction from the monkisl
ledievalism which saw merit ii
lourgings of the flesh and a genera
lortification of the corporeal man
r not pushed too far, it simply mean
recognition of the value aud digni',
' the body as the soul's dwelling
ut there is an incidental danger in it
e are apt to forget that the soul need
tuscle too, and cannot get it withou
ue exercise.
A weekly stipend of spiritual food i
hat many good people give them
Ives, and even that half grudgingly
*-? ^ fKa Gn n/^otr n nnra nanor ah/1 nt.hfl
,11v* hjt uuuumj uv;iro|/M|/vi w?.%.
ke secularities have a tendency to en
oach on this hebdomadal activity
uta daily exercise?some bit of nobl
terature read, some meditation on ni
ire, some uplifting talk with one in
irestedin higher things?will, by jus
> much, make athletic and alive tha
rinciple in man which answers t
ern laws of use, abuse, and disus
Liite as inevitably and speedily as an,
?rt of us whatsoever, physical, men
il or moral. Hence the absurdity c
lacing a death-bed penitence on a pa
ith a life of spiritual .exercise,?th
isumption that the dwarfed starvelln
' o arhii 1 id act raadc fnr a Infh'flP. mnr
isencumbered life as that which ha
?r years been growiug stronger ani
lore symmetrical by the surest of al
ays,?by actual, ever-repeated exei
tation. The choice is before ever,
le, the chance is given with ope
and. Athletics of the soul are as pos
ble a? athletics of the body, and es
cise is the one road to strength i
le one or the other.
Let Everybody Slug.
The charge is not unjustly brough
iat "Methodist* are forgetting how t
ng." The fact is, Methodists in ai
mpting to follow the church fashion
" the day have relegated this essentit
*rt of worship to choirs; sometime
lore hirelings?operatic professional!
t * ? M?i.r
nose penormauues are uctuiug uiuc
lan a mechanical rendition of swee
lunds, with no more of worship i
tern than is in the sounds of theorga
* cornet, and it would be a misnome
i call this proxy singing any part (
orahip It may be entertaining t
le congregation, but it cau hardly fc
leasing to God. Let^all the peop]
raise the Lord in song when the,
>me into His house to worship. W
ljoy hearing a well rendered solo, c
piece by a well trained choir as muc
i any one, but we do not feel that w
e engaging in an net of worshi
hile merely listening. But sol
nging is especially objectionable i
rues of revival. An Exchange lis
le following sensible words on sol
nging at such a time-: "It is an out
ige on all worshipful propriety, in
vival service, for a choir leader, wh
jght to know better, to put up a jza
ad worldly woman, young or old, fu
f 'airs and graoes' to sing a sol
ither thrilling with deep aud devoi
sperieuce, or an invitation for sinner
> come to Christ, which she has nc
erself done, nor has the slightest ir
?niiou to do. (?ood singing is a pow
r for good, but solo-singing unde
jch circumstances should be renderei
ya 'good singer'?'good' in ever
:n*e of the word?or omitted eii
rely.
"We have seen a whole meetin
;op, while everybody listened to a
rtistieally rendered solo, instead c
Hindering on with a rousing hym
nown and sung by all who coul
ng. Yes, we have seen such intens
jvlval meetings thus stopped shoi
nd like grand at tier's clock neve
love on agaiu."?Episcopal Metlic
1st.
<D? ?
Ax Unkxpectki) Request.?A geu
ration since, the Rev. J)r. (!%, was pas
>r of tlie largest Congregation*
tiurch in the city of New York. H
'as especially strong, even to bitter
ess, in his opposition to intern pel
nee, making it-his proud boast the
(juor had never touched his lips. On
vening he was invited out to suppe
) meet a few friends. Just as th
ompany was beginning to arrive, th
idy of the house made the alarmin
iscovery that the principal dish 01
lie supper table was brandy peaches
t was too late to alter it, lioweve
nd her heart sank when the peach*
1 n. ., nArt/il,
uric Wl'VCtl* \J\? v .j iwui\ a }iruui) ati
wallowed it at a mouthful, wash in
t dowu with aspoonful of the brandy
Jo remark followed, so she timidl
sked :
,lJ)r. C., will you take auotht
each ?"
"Well, I think not," ?aid the do<
or ; "but," he added, rellectively, "I'
like another saurerful of the juice,
ou please."
I
ly Restitution.
s- Do you want to buy any pumpb
r- said a young voice at the windov
le It was du exceedingly business
r- voice, and accompanied by su
t- very sober little face that Mrs.
g had to look twice before she coul<
s. lieve it was Ted Nelson's
;y "Why, Teddy, is that yoo? an<
11 those your pumpkins? I though
11 were saving every one of those
re Jaek-o'lantern procession when
it cousin Ralph conies.",
it "Yes'm," answered Ted si
i- "but that was before?before we
the cup-hop, and Ned and me lei
v, about res-ti-tu-tion," bringing
*1 long word out carefully. "8ay,
>r you know all those verses about
-e ing double and making res-ti-tu
r if a man destroys what belonj
;e somebody else, were in the Bibl
il Mrs. Grey admitted her know:
l- of the passages mentioned but
r- could not see what connection
tr hori iirSf h TuHrltt o a o naH rl lor r\f n
J ? uau TT 1CU X VUUJ MO U pUVUVJ VI 2^
g kins.
r, ''They've got a good deal to do
J- it," said Ted ruefully. "We've g
n do it, Ned and me, and we never 1
3, about 'ecu till grandma uhowec
i, Being sorry ain't enough, you'vt
i- to make res-ti-ti-tu-tion."
>r "But your grandma didn't
e any pumpkins? And if she did,
e could you have spoiled them?"
e tioned Mrs. Grey in bewildermei
J "No'm; it was dishes," expli
n Teddy, reluctantly at first, and
r apparently determining to tell
If whole story. "It was the sleig
r- hand man who began it. Did yo
! and see bim? Well, maybe 1
I, don't care about such thinasjbut
i- do, and we went. You wouldu't
e believed all the queer things he
>- swallowing knives and cooking eg
I. his hat, aud everything. Of co
o we knew we couldn't do such th
a but it did almost seem as if we n
i- dance over the plates and cups
f. toss them up the way he did.
t thought about it. He was lyini
y the lounge one eveuing and wale
i- Lina set the table for tea.
a " 'You couldn't dance in and
h over the dishes like the profassor
Q and toss up the cups without brea
d 'em,' said Ned.
i. 14' I could if I had 'em on the ?
s I told him.
y " 'Let's see you.' said he.
: "It didn't take long to put son
: 'em down, and I was hopping in
s out among 'em, and tossing cui
t toss back to me, wh??: Lina can:
again.
s ' 'Ted Nelson! said she, and
i- said it so like forty exciamatiou p
' that I slipped and came down <
r on two saucers, and Ned misser
i- cup I'd tossed to him, too; it si
him plump on the nose, and
e smashed on the floor. Of- cours<
howled, and then grandma <
>- in."
it Teddy paused as if the rest o
-t nforv were not easily told. "W(
0 was that evening, after. Ned hat
e nose done up in court plaster, sbe
y us how beiug sorry wasn't enc
- and showed us the verses. The v
'f though, about cups and sauc
i" grandma's kind?is that you can'
e one or two. You have to buy a v
g set." Ted sighed and then retu
? to business. "Want to buy any pi
9 kins?"
? As soon as change could be ri
1 and a great yellow ball deposite
'* Mrs. Grey's table, then the small
y wagon passed on up the street,
a the young vendor's voice was 1
i- shouting:
> "Pampkins! pumpkins!"
n A few days later Ted met nu
friend again, with a brig'it face.
"Yes'm, we sold 'em for enoog
by a Dew set, and au all alone <
cup besides, that has all pretty flc
it and gold on it, and grandma say
o can call it a reminder cop."
[r "Reminder of what?" asked
is Grey with a smile.
il "That one 'dont' beforehand,
'S better than a dozen 'wish-I-had
3, afterwards," answered Ted prom}
>r ? ?
it
n She Didn't Call Tbem Qaarre
11 "Auntie Collins," an old co
woman who lived in a small coi
)f town, was well known to the resi<
? bv reason of her good cooking
|e queer sayings. According to her
le story, she has pecuJiar gifts as a p
y maker.
e "No'm; I never had no great tr<
? bringiu up my fain lily," she said
" visitor who askeil her about her dj
e ters.
P "The gals wus ^ood gals 'uougl
0 I hey got goin into sassiety. 1
D bless ye! ye couldn't live' long
18 'em. They wa'n't satisfied to qi
0 'long of me, but they bed to get
ried an quarrel 'long of their husl
a "Now I never would stan no
0 doin's an I tole' em so.
y "I says, 'Now, gals, you know
11 what my principalities be ; you k
0 jest how well I've tried to fetch
up, you knows jest how peaceal
s allers lived with your pa.'
"An I did," continued auntie,
'* earnestness; "me an him never
r" noquarrelin. No'm; I neverex(
J* it nor encouraged it. When ]
* 'd kinder ferget hisself and to t
y me pert talk I'd jest pick up the
l" or somethiu an give it a throw rig
him. He knew 'twas a 'quivac
S fer him to keep still, and so we i
n had no trouble.
)f "I telled the gals, an I telled
5 they must manage to live peace
u same as their ma did."?ioutu's
? panion.
f
^ Don't Have to be Watched.
The old mail whom a traveh
England overheard singing whi
[. his work of planting potatoes:
"I rams 'em in,
" Now thick, now thin;
e For what care I
If they live or die?"
it would uo doubt have taken
e pains if his employer had been
sr looking on. Such careless wot
e not honest and is expressly forbi
e in the Bible, where we are ta
g that whatever we have been to
11 do by anyoneliaving rightful auth
i. over us we should do, "not with
r, service, as men pleasers," but "hei
?s as to the Lord, and not unto men
d Are you doing faithfully aud lit
ir hr tlto lurvrL' rriimn i?f\M K??
? .jr Wit "W, n. fjlJCIi J1IU u,y j?ll
r. teachers, or employers? If yoi
y Christians, and wish to please
Savior, here Is one way to do it.
;r
c* It is easy to be nierry while the
11 is light, but the true philosopher
" who can make sunshine on a cl
day.
How to be a Pastor.
;ins?" Determiue to become a pastor, cos
what it may. If you are shy am
like bashful, conquer your diffidence; a mai
ch a has no business to be a shepherd if h<
Urey is afraid of the sheep. If you an
i be- naturally reserved and reticent, un
lock your lips. Go and talk with youi
i are people about anything or everything
t you until you get in touch with them. Ii
for a is not best that a minister should talk
y?ur conclusively about things spiritual,
Talk to them about their businees,
?wly, and show your interest in what thej
had are doing.
irned Watch your chances to put in a time
the Jv and loving word for your Master
; did You are Christ's man on Christ's bus!
pay- ness. If you can only gain your poinl
-tion, by going ofien to the bouse, then gc
ja to often. One soul wins others. Yoi
can reach the parents sometimes bj
ledge reaching the son or daughter,
she Personal conversations with indi
they vidual souls will train you*to be a
umP* closer, more suggestive, and practical
preacher. They will make you col
Wltl1 loquial and simple and direct in the
Ot tO milnlt HulP nf oil tho nrooohino la
knew fired into the air. You will gather
I hs. most precious material for your ser5
g?t mons by going about among your people
and finding out what tltey are dohave
jngt what they are thiuking, what
"ow they are suffering, and what they
ques- need.
Devote a portion of every day to
ained pastoral service. To visit a large conthen
gregation consumes a vast amount oi
the time ; but can you spend it more pro;ht-of
fitably elsewhere? Be on the] lookout
uS? for sermon hints whereeveryou go;
adies one hour with a live man may teach
boys yOU more than two hours with a dead
have book.?Dr. T. L. Cuyler.
did?
;gs in
urse, Scylla and Cbarybdfs.
Scylla and Charybdis were two monsters
dwellingion opposite sides of the
* , present Strait of Messina, which sepJsecl
arates Scicily from Italy. Scylla was
K on a terrible creature who lived in a cave
!l"DK on the Italian side. She bad six
hnoHo oonh fhroo rnira nf tofith
I out which she tore in pieces her vic",(J?
Urns. -Even now there is a cave and
iking town called Scylla right at th&extreme
, poiDtot thfe "toe of the boot."
loor, Chary bdis was near the other bank
in Scicily. She was the daughter of
Neptune and Goea. Dwelling under
ie a large rock, sbe three times a day
and drank down the waters of the sea, and
f'9 j three times threw them up again, thus
ie in forming a whirlpool, which is to this
. day off the Sicilian coast.?[New York
1.8^e World.
oiuts
crash
truck A Wl"e fik,,Hsh,ie8"'
then A mother does spend herself too
* he freely for her children when she gives
^noe up her own rights to them, effaces herself
so that they do not recognize hex
f the superior claims, makes it difficult for
ill them to "honor" her, as the Fifth
I hi8 Commandment demands that they
told shall do, writes Elizabeth Robinson
nigh, Scovil in her helpful department iu
rorst,' the September Ladies Home Journal.
er8_' It is a wise selfishness that makes
t get the mother insist upon keeping her
rhole proper place in the-family as the crown
irned and center of home, tenderly loving
ump_ her children, serving them in all legitimate
ways, but seeing that they take
aade their fair share of the burdens of life,
d 0q instead of weekly bearing them herred
pe^#
aud
leard Dnll Eyed Scientist*.
Mrs. Hayman?Who are those gen,
tlemen running into our barn to get
out of th' rain ?
'h to Daughter?They are a party of scien!>hina
tisis wl,? are staying at the hotel.
>wers They've been out on some expedition
g we or other.
Mrs. Hayman*-I don't see where
j^rg their eyes was last night. Anyone
might a known from th'new moon it
?ig was going to rain. It was tipped up
> so it coldn't hold water if it tried.
?tiy.' '
Mr. Andrew Lang relates this divertingntory
: "In the days of my childlored
h??d a fr'end y own wa8 informmtrv
e(* by a favorite house-maid that she
rfpnts w'flhed to give warning, as she was
nn#1 going to get married."
, "indeed," said the iaay, "aua wnai
1M?. is your future husband ?"
"Please'm he's an asker?*'
ouble "A what?"
ouuie M
"I don't understand. Whet does he
lugn' do?"
till "Well, 'm he?he goes about the
lh"' streets and if he sees any one coming
jth' along that looks kind, he?well, he
larrel JUMt 8toP8 'em aD(* 08,18 'em t?glvehim
a triflle, and he makes quite a comfortable
iiving iu that way !"
Qn/>h "Do y?u mean a beggar?"
"Well, 'm, some people do call it
, -aui. that. We call it aaker."?New York
nows EveninS 1>08tyou
bio I
Glvtnr Photographs.
with] American girls have so much freeh^d
dom in social matters that they some;used
times overstep the bounds of real deliPeter
cacy through simple thoughtlessness,
jiven We refer to the practice of giving one's
iiiujjj pnoto^rapii lnuiscriuiiuaieiv ujyuuug
lit at men who are merely acquaintances,
atiou We always feel a twinge of pain on
lever entering the room of a college youth
and finding about his mirror, or ar'em
ranged on the dressing table, a dozen
able, pr more ''counterfeit presentments"
Com- of refined girldish face9. It indicates
that although these girls may come
from cultivated homes, there is an
absence of fine perception of the fitness
in things. To scatter one's photographs
as if they were so mauy visitle
at |ng cartiS) i9 not a nfce thing to do.
??? Don't
get it into your head that you
are not appreciated, or that you are not
loved as you deserve. It may be true,
it may be true, but the most hurtful
tiling you can do is to brood over this
more fact. Throw all such thoughts away
there from you, engage in some useful, help k
is ful work, and force yourself to be
dden brave, bright and merry to everybody
LUght around you, Then in time you will
Id" to cease to expect people to give you
ority the affection that is not in them tc
i eye give.
irtily ?
I)
>nest- Little self-denials, little honesties,
ents NM'6 passing words of sympathy,
1 are nameless acts of kindness
your little silent victories over favoriK
3 temptations?these are the threads o;
gold which, when woven together
gleam so brightly in the pattern oi
heart aPProves?" Farrar
is he One of the hardest times to love ai:
uuuj enemy is wubu ue aetjiiicj uc piuapci
ing like a green bay tree.
Keep all dead or faulty limbs out of
t the fruit trees.
? A stable can be made close and yet
I have good, pure air if good ventilaI
tion is provided.
To attempt any improvement by
r using degenerate sires is.usually found
? to be short-sighted folly.
t If unpalatabe food is to be eaten, it
must be at the opening rather than at
' the ^closing of the feeding period.
r Corn should be"considered the food
for the end of life^rather than the be
ginning. *
There is no humanity in feeding
l iced slop to pigs and there is certainly
^ little or no profit,
r In feeding'grnwing pigs, if you can
succeed in getting the bone an muscle
vou can soon lav on the fat.
' Remember that fall pigs wintered
1 over and kept until the next fall to be
fattened are rarely profitable animals.
The winter is the farmer's beet sear
son for beadwork, although brains
shouid be used every month in the
year.
For tbe best pork we must have the '
healthiest system, hence tbe plan of
feeding that is most productive of good
, health makes the best pork. ' Ou
many farms, a work can be done
duriug the winter in hauling oat
straw, fodder, and brush and filling
op gnllie8 that may have washed out.
More grains and less labor is what
is needed to make tbe farm pay, and
during the winter is the best season
to plan and prepare for this. '
The daily use of fruit helra materially
to make tbe people independent j
of the doctor, but the cheapest' and
best fruit is that grown on the farm.
In nearly all cases, the largest 'profit
is realized from feeding stock from the
best breeding blood that can be secured.
During the winter is one of the
best times to organize and carry a
farmers' club, and much practical
benefit will result.
There is one advantage in the raising
of good horses and that is they are
one product that you can put your own
prices upon.
There is no advantage in making
the manure heap a nursery for weeds,
or to increase the quanity at the ex- pense
of quality. *
Good stock well cared for is the basis
of successful farming as In this way
all of tho Drodliftta or the farm n*n ho
marketed to a better advantage.
One of the things that make the
former independent is his ability to
' supply himself not only with many of
the necessaries, bat some of the luxuries.
No farm no matter how rich, will
grow crops long, without a liberal
supply of manure, and this can only
be bad in sufficient quantities by
saving it from every source. .
Tbe saving of feed by a good stable
is not only because it takes less of it,
bat also because it can be fed with less
waste in feeding.
It is not the best management that
requires that the bogs should be fed
before daylight in the morning, or on
steep hillsides where plowing or cultivating
can be done to an advantage.
The horse has a good hearing and
therefore is readily reached by soft
words which please him much better
than loud ones. Soft words don't scare
er excite him, to say nothing of
> the fact that no horse with brains likes
to be talked to as if he were a prize;
fighter.
He who would lose faith in God, and
in His willingness to answer prayer,
because of the adversities to which he
is subjected, has not learned the alpha'
bet of faith.
Most people call fretting a minor
i fault?a foible and not a vice. But
tbere is no vioe except it be drunken?
ness, which can so utterly destroy
the peace and happiness of a home.
"I can no more dare fret," says Wesley,
"than I dare curse and swear."
?"Mamma," said Charlie, "I must
be a gooa ooy now grauama nas gone
1 to heaven, I should hate awfully to
make her feel ashamed .before all the
angel^J'
Is t. *re any one there you wopld
hate to Babe ashamed? Perhaps our
friends .n heaven do not know what
we do, but no one can say with certainty.
They may be sorry every
time we do wrong, and pleased when
we do right, and then, however that
may be, we know surely that Jesus^
is.
We can not conceive that a wise
Creator should make man in his-own
image and endow him with the highest
faculties, without ordaining him
tor endless existence,?Schaff.
Put on specks colored with envy,
hatred, malice and kindred evils, and
nobody looks right.
The warfare is hot; we need God's
armor alwaysi
The power that robs industry of
what it has won is a thief.
Some peonle give much thought to
the poor. Tnat is as far as they get.
Every dishonest person is suspicious
of all others.
to recognize me gooa is 10 enocurage
its development.
Every cross, fretful word one speaks
leaves .bitter dirt in the guu from
which it is fired.
Less?haste to correct, husband or
Wife, will prolong your happiness and
| add to your mental comfort.
Nobleness of character is nothing
else but steady love of good and steady
scorn of evil.
, The devil never gets very far from
, J the man who is trying to lead a reli?
gious life without giving.
fj
The Lord never depends much on
f the church member who can, but will
not pay his honest debts.
i1 The devil is not much alarmed about
the preaching tn any church where he
can run the music.