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The Abbeville Press and Banner J | ' . - ^ ? ? 1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1893. ESTABLISHED 1844 ^ _____ _ _ ? Durst WH< Foreign and Dome NEW SPRING GOODS F( xmwvcp sTnnir OF tloti XiUlUXJIIWAi w*vwM v. MIGHTY CHEAP. If you give special attention to 0 PRICES AS LOW AS THE A Hundred Years. We all within our graves shnll sleep A hundred years to come ; No living soul lor us will weep, A hundred yeais to c >me But other men'our land will till. And other men our streets will fill, And other birds will sing as cay, As bright the sunshine as to-day, A hundred years to come. This Day of Thine. Breathe Thy pure breath, watching father, On this married day ofTblne, , 1 -1?_ ?f m|ni,. inia "Bininiuf v,. Be uatlent with Its blur ond blot. Wash It whit* of statu and spot; Reproachful eyes! remetnder not 'I hat 1 have grieved Thee On this day of Thine! ?Elizabeth Stnart Phelps. I For the Boyn aud Girls. "Afterwards." From French Leaflets of Potonle-Pierre. In 1878, when returning from a trip, in the.Norih, I passed through Franck- j fort; insteail of returning directly lo ' Paris, I resolved to see again VVies-i haden, (.oblentz, Bonn, Cologne, J whence I could take an express train ; which would bring me home in. twelve hours. So I directed ray course toward the Tauuus station,' proposing to breaklast at Wiesbadeu. j I devoted my aftemoou to a visit to j 1 be aged Gunther, whom as a beardless young man I had known when I was learning German in the former capital of Nassau. Instead of getting iltto the train atrain,.calling up the remembrauces of fqrmer years when I went swimming in the Rhine, I chose to go on foot to Biebrich. Pernaps the poor old man was dead; no matter; I would learn what had become of him. x ii airtncr the road the reminiscences | <>f ray sixteenth year danced before me like a cloud of phantoms; I recalled the gardener, jolly good mau that lie was, who recieved me with open arms, and I felt myself oppressed, like one whose home was on the banks of the great river, at the thought that the Duchy had lost its Independence, swallowed up by invading Prussia. Having arrived at the park of Biehrich, I asked for the head gardener; a mau of forty years eld appeared aud told me that for a long time father Gunther had lived in Wiesbaden. "He will not last long, poor old man," I was told. "He must have had a constitution of irou to hold out to the present time." I went to the station, and the first train brought me iu a twinkling back to Wiesbaden. I found the aged Gunther buried in a big arm-chair near the open window. He did not recognize me. It was impossible that he should do so, as so many years had passed. I had been informed that he had a soit of monomania which brought him back contiuually to the same though^ leav ing him only just enough lucidity to speak always of tbe same subject. "Oh," said he fvebly when he had heard my name, "how I have suffered, how I have suffered since the time when you came to see me at Biebrich. She was not then born, and she is now gone, poor girl. She was all that I had left, sir," said the old man, grasping my two bauds, bringing his face near my own, and looking with moist eyes directly into mine; well, it was your French bullets that killed her, by their indirect effect, without touching her. "She loved him so much, you see; oh, tell me that all does not end here on the earth; 1 wish? I must find her again, my Malcbeu, my litile darling, my former joy, my everything, everything. "Oh, happily, it will not be long, not long,?" and the poor old man exhausted, breathing heavily, almost I without consciousness, threw back his white and wrinkled head upon tbe pillow placed behind hind him on tbe hapk of the arm-chair. | The woman who look care of him I approached, had him breathe Home Halts, and opening his toothless mouth had him swallow a spoonful of cordial. "I should be very sorry," I said, '"if my visit should do him harm." ' Oh no, sir," answered the woman, "these fainting spells come upon him for any trifle, or rather for no reason; always when he awakens from his torpor, he has such spells." I had scarcely got back to Paris when I learned of the old man's death. He is very happy now, I cannot help thinking. II. Seven years before my visit to the aged Gunther, one winter evening, the grandfather and his grandaughter, I sad and overwhelmed by the news of' the war, were looking silently at the snow which was seen falling outside ntSn/J/vw nonoQ U1 I Lie Y* iuuu ww puuvw>? "How cold it must be," ejaculated the young girl with a sigh. "Oh yes," said the old man, "very, very cold;" and Gunther shivered. "Father you are concealing something from me; is Fritz wounded? Somebody has written so to you, sure, and you have told me nothing of it." "My dear daughter, be calm,?" and Gunther approached the child, seeing her already growing pale and tottering. "You auswer me nothing? Oh! my God, is. he then dead?" Then, her grandfather saying nothing, she went on: "ueaa, aeau, an is uv?, ,yuu wunot lie, be is dead, I see. oh God, oh <}od!" Malchen put her head Into her hands, and pressed ber temples. "I am going wild," she exclaimed witb an unearthly cry. Her grandfather took her in his arms, carried ber to the table, and with his handkerchief, upon which lie poured some water, he bathed her forehead and her temples, saying to & UO'S 1 3LESAL.E Are now pre stic DHY GOODS, )R EVERYBODY AND AT PRI KING, SHOES AND DRESS G( want A NICE SPRING SUIT UR GROCERY AND HARDW. LOWEST. Large warehousi Respec I her anxiously: "weep, weep, just T1 weep." Alas! the child kept her eyes dry. Her fixed look seemed to hurl re out lightning flashes of revolt. "Kill- is, . -i. > . a 11 ? Ll 1 _..i. ?J4U J en, Kineu, ' sue nutrny msseu out wuu gj strangling of the throat, "wait, I'm qi coming." ^ And what will become of me?" said w the old man sobbing. 8jThen, Malchen looked at the poor ^ mau, and taking his head and pressing w it against her, "My dear, dear, good js father," she murmered, finally feeling tears of releif droppingjfrom her eyes jn on the good mark's forehead. Malchen was a brave girl, made for deeds of love. Though hopeless, she cr tried to live for her grandfather. ^ Nevertheless, her heart once failed. re Taken with au internal fever, her will yc being dethroned, she escaped from her qU room, ran to the Rhine and was on the point of jumping in, when too arms |j8 seized her and carried her back to her 8|j room. Her grandfather had followed tj( her. Tbeu, after an attack ot nervousuess anil of delirium, during which so she was cared for by the old man, she ui; fell into a languid state which soon ended her life. a f On her death-bed, during the last tjf hours, she often said to Gunther with Qf| a wad smile, but calm now a id resign- m, e<'; "You see, papa, that, that is war! Fritz and I are going first, you will e_. soon come and join us. This is tbejso way it is with viotorius people. King wj William has become emperor; but it takes much blood and many tears to ^ buy a crown. How many widows, cu wives, daughters, how many betrothed lik* myself curse glory. What matters ^ it; I am goiug to quit this earthly hell. eQ It feems to me that in the beyond I b? shall find again my Fritz. You shall see how happy we are when you come fp. by and by." The child had a slight _h shudder. ue "4b! no," said she reassured, "the j Emperor willnqt come there, it is not possible." Oh, ye wise inventors, who perfect f . every day the instruments of destruc- , tion, of what use a ball which will . pierce several bodies at once, because of the force with which it is propelled! .u You see indeed already that with a h single shot three persons can be killed * and that very little metal is needed to transform the happiness of three beings to an irreparable woe. . Confess it, ye who read this, men and women, that equality exists after , all. bince Deople may suffer as much Kl1 from a victory as from a defeat. ? cli Dlshonent Men Value Honesty. th loi A young man came one day with a 8h case of conscience. He was corre- jn sponding clerk in a flourishing house fei of business. His employer had begun cn to direct him to write letters to cus- ub tomers containing statements which tej he knew to be false. He had objected en and they said: to "We are responsible for these state- i0< ments; it is nothing to you whether they are true or false." pr I said to him, "Do they sign the let- ar ters, or ask you to write them in your W( own name?" gb As soon as the question had left my W( my lips I Baw that, if there was a dif- jjt feience, both would be wrong, and I hastened to tell him so. He said, "I have to sign them with my name for Blauk." "I said, "your case is perfectly clear, ed you must decline to do it." all He said, "Then I shall be dismiss- bo ed," and after a pause?*'1 have a wife and family." I I inet him some days after. us "Well, Mr. ," said I, "how are | you getting on now?" He replied, "I am still at my situation, I had au interview with the partners, and I told them 1 would not write letters I knew to be untrue; they fr< v\ ere very angry, and I expected to receive notice, Dut I have not received it yet." Months passed and he remained in his pa situation. After awhile he called on iue, and I saw by his face something had happened1 foi "Well, Mr. ," I said, "have you had your dismissal?" 1 "No," he said, "I have not," and to smiled. "What then?" [be "A very confidential post in their service, with a higher salary, has fal- re len vacant, and they have put me into it." sh On second thought these unprincinlpfl m#?n had come to the conclusion in that a clerk who would not deceive a re customer would not deceive them, and was too valuable to be lost.?Episco- th pal Recorder. I ?? Kelf-Control. er To exercise self-restraint amid prov- th ocations, and thus acquire the habit of m keeping the door of our lips, should not be counted a hardship. The rich hi fruit resulting from this is an abun- gi dant reward. How such watchful- ar ness increases our ability to resist G habits unfriendly to a perfect charac- te ter, every reflecting person must see at a glance. How it saves us from sudden and grievous complications in our intercourse with others is shown in re- (1' peated instances in our own lives. "O, ?F if I had not uttered that sharp retort, w or given way to that uncharitable ' 1 judgment, how much better it would te have been !" was the honest confession of one who had been thrown of!" his *{< ' *'- 1 * u ...? th guaru ac a critical muiuent. ju we uu ? not always measure this wrong against w onrselves, the loss is no less great. y( There is an undermining of self-respect, an inward disintegration of character, nilently working evil even when our desires are for the good. Better, far better, that we should seem to sutler ?.8 at the time, than to indulge a wrong temper in word or act. ''Better is he that ruleth his own spirit than he (hat taketh a city." tt uo-up AND RE!1] spared to furnish their patro DEESS GOODS, I CES THAT WILL PLEASE )ODS, and respectfully ask DOK'T MISS SEEING OUR ARE DEPARTMENTS-WH 3 for the storage of Cotton, tfu-lly, r he Small ObligalionH of Friendship I wonder if the majority of people >alize the full necessity of meeting obgations to friends. Those of us wh adly break our costly boxes, giving lr all in some supreme moment of loration, may be great sinners when , e meet the small demands of friend- ( lip. Do we comprehend the need of ( le steady purpose to show the one for hom we have a real regard that she not forgotten '? It is a fact that the mere withholdg of expression works often toward ; dicate, sensitive natures a greater , saster than some sudden seemingly uel act unpremeditated would. Per- , ips the greatest danger in neglect is ( lated to those who are far away, be- ( ind the reach of our voice or sight of | ir eyes. A little lapse, if they were close at ( ind, might be explained, and the adow which flitted above the rela- ( )nship dispelled by a look of love; ( it distance bars out these signs, and ( , for the friend who must depend j ton tne letter for communication, , ere needs to be a careful purpose aud jteady loyalty to fulfill the obliga>n8 of correspondence. It happens tea that one of the two friends is rare happily situated and more favorly conditioned with respect to gentil social life than the other. It is metimes the case, too, that the one ith the greater social opportunities ids herself pressed by numerous ities; aud naturally, she seeks exse for little neglects in this fact. Let this one, hovever, try to realize e situation of the one at the other d of the line, who waits and trusts, it who at length, as the w.eeks pass, ids her heart sick through hope deTed. It is not necessary that full eets, with recrossed pages, should sent. A few lines penned frequentmight hold the reassuring message, j >e letter would cost little to the j riter, and would save the aroma of the eudship. I rhe letters we intended to write, t iw many they are! The letters we ? [ght have sent, if we had possessed j e true sense of obligation to a friend- t ip, stand against us upon the record j unfulfilled pledges. . ? But we say, if love is worthy its 8 .me it will trust on always. Yes; it ^ ill. But does there not come a time ( hen the weakening effects of neglect i roe away the barriers which love has lilt against the tide of loss? There mes an hour when self-respect, too, amors for its rights, and insists that e one-sided relationship is essentially 3t. Ah ! the blessed aroma of friendip ! This is what sweetens life, givg to the weary heart new strength, of-1 ring inspiration, helping almost to sate power in service. To some of the friend is lost when this is scatred. Through it soul may meet the aergency of soul, and heart may sing heart safe in the blessed secret of ire. What care, then, should be taken to eserve it I And if signs of regard e of any use?as they must be until i pass into that domain where we all know as we are known?should j neglect to offer them ??Harper's izar. What All Boyn Should Know. Don't be satisfied with your boy's ucation, says School Suplement, or ow him to handle a Latin or Greek ok until you are sure that he can? Write a good legible hand. Spell all the words he knows how to e. Spell and write good English. Write a good social letter. Add a column of figures rapidly. Make out an ordinary account. Deduct sixteen and one half per cent >m the face of it. Receipt it when paid. Write an ordinary receipt. Write an advertisement for a local per. Write an ordinary promissory note. Reckon the interest or discount on it r days, months or years. Draw an ordinary bank check. Take it to the proper pluce in a bank gei me caen. , Make neat and correct entries in day 1 ok and ledger. Tell the number of yards of carpet i quired for your parlor. Measure the pile of lumber in your ed. , Tell the number of bushels of wheat your largest bin and the value at curnt rates. Tell something about the great auiors and statesmen of the present If he can do all this and more, it is sely he has sufficient education to lable him to make his own way in ie world. If you have more time and oney to spend on him, all well and >od?give him higher English, give m literature, give him mathematics, ve him science, and if he is very, very >xious about it, give him Latin and reek, or whatever the course he innds pursuing in life demands. Aristippus and Aeschines having jarrelled, Aristippus came to his jponent, and said, "Aeschines, shall e be friends?" ''Yes," lie replied, vith all my heart." "Hut remem- , ir," said Aristippus, "that I, being rlpr Minn vnn fin nmkp flip first, mn >n." "Yes," replied Aescbines, "and lerefore I conclude you are the ortbiest man, I begau 'tlie strife and >u began the peace. If you have a heavy load to carry, is because God sees that you ciin irry it, and he honors you by putng it on you. Use sound business methods. Keep le finances straight. erativ< PAIL GEW ns and the public with any i TOTIOflS, CLOTHI THE BUYER. Give us a you to inspect our goods B LINE OF CLOTHING. T! OLESALE AND RETAIL?a Grain, Etc. YOUR PATR How Phillips Brooks Helped a Dinconrageil Soul. By the One Befriended. Allusion has been made in many articles, called forth by tbe death of Bishop Brooks, to his immense correspondence, reached far beyond the circle of his acquaintance, and influencing many who had never seen his face. Nothing can give a clearer expression of tbe conscientiousness which went into all Bishop Brook's work than a persual of some of these letters. To him "man was a greater name than president or king," mid whenever he was writing to a poor mother who had commended her son Lo his care as a shield from the temptations of city life, or whether one of the famous men of the world was to be tiis reader, he always gave his best of thought, feeling, aud expresion. The truth of the above words was >nce brought home to me by a personal jxperience, which I tell, not for its )wn sake, but that others may share n the inspiration which it brought ne. While in college by a friend I ,vas introduced, intellectually and ipiritually, to Phillips Brooks, and rom that time ouwara he has been an lplifting force in my life. When I ead the Yale lectures on preaching for he first time I made up my mind that f I ever lost heart in the work of the ninistry I would reread that book. L'he time came when, in the difficulties and discouragements of a Western parish, I did partly lose heart, and JUtJ DUUUtt)' tJVCIJIUgj ?11 LCI it UttV U1 iiscouragement, when the feeling, ivbich had come to me often, that 1 iad not the spiritual fitness for my ivork came back with new force upon ne, I picked up a volume of Brooka's lermons and reread "The Candle of he Lord." It seemed to be a voice for ne. The lightning from God was ust what I lacked, I felt. How could [ get it? On the impulse of the moment?an mpulse of which I was more tlian half ishamed afterward?I took my pen md wrote a letter to Mr. Brooks, tellng him just the state of my case, and isking him what I could to win what [ wanted. I hardly expected he would tnswer the letter. I was a perfect ilranger to him. I had no reputation hat could have reached him. I was >utside the limitsof his denomination. But in due time the aoswer came, and without woid or comment, for it Is its )wn commentary ; I append it here: "My Dear Brother: If you were aere, I should delight to talk with you ibout what you have written in your etter. If you ever come anywhere aear me, you must give me the chance. It is much to even want the fire of the Minister's life and to know its value. Whatever comes you must never let ;hat desire go ; and you must be sure bat what you desire is no strange or jnnatural thing. It is thte natural ut;erance of the numan heart when it jeucYca in uuu. iuc wuiiuci iat uuv hat other men should have it, but hat you should not. Think so of it, jut tlxat you should not. Think so of t, and there will seem to be almost a jertainty that it must break on you. "Of course, there is only one source 'rom which the enthusiasm of the jospel ministry can come, and that is t deep and ever deeper Christian life )f our own. Live deeper. Let God lo more for you. I}e sure that you lave not begun to reach the limits of vhat He can do. Give Him a larger iberty to help you; and then the hought that any man should i?o unjelped by Him will seem dreadful to fou, and you must speak so that men vill hear. "Of course, you do not expect from tie, no from any man, rules or preicriptions. It is not something for fou 10 cio. n is sometmng wnieu you xjust be which will give you the powsr, or, what is the only truth, will let 3fod's power freely play through you. [ pray that God will help you, and I )eg you to hope and to be full of cheerul courage. May I call myself your lincere frieud? Phillips Brooks." -The Cougregationalist. I'he NeceHNity for n Wholesome Diet. Our people need to substitute a clean wholesome diet for one that is gross ind impure; they eat too much amimal bod, and not enough of the products jf the earth. Our horses fare better thau we do, so far as their eating is concerned : their food is natural, while mrs too often is not. Added to this, ive are quite too fond of condiments, things that tickle the palate, but do not nourish ; and whatever the system jatinot appropriate it must throw out. ind overtax itself in trying to get rid( if them. Another of our sins is that of overeating. This, too, throws extra work upon the depurating organs, including the lungs ; the mucous membranes are litible to sutler, and. consequently, the throat. Many an individual breaks down in the throac and lungs, simply from eating too much, ?more, perhaps, by one-half, than the system requires. I think it is Ahernethy, who is said io imve ? puuein, a mru sumbiingwith the gout, this prescription: "Earn a sixpence a day, "and live on it." Too much to eat and too little to do is the parent of many ills. Nor is it too much to say, that If our people were allowanced hoth in the quanity and quality of the food they eat, many diseases now prevalent wouiu soon disappear.?Demorest's Magazi ne. Habits are .to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood? the courses in which it moves. He is more trul}' a hero who having fallen rcets up again, than he who never f ills. e store rBRAL HV^El and everything they need in 1 IN tf, SJH.U&5, ilAl'i look. We will endeavor to 3 EFORE BUYING ELSEWHE1 HE LARGEST and BEST SEJ nd you will at all times fi ONAGE SOLICITED. J. K. I The Girl with one Talent. Bishop Vincent, in his "Studies in Youug Life," gives the following sketch of a girl deficient in manv things, but with one talent, of which she made use. Let us review her resources. We take an inventory, as merchants say. Self-knowledge: As to arithmetic and algebra?mi a us; geography and history?moderate; orthography, rhetoric, and |elocution?deficient; 110 voice, no music, no conversational power; artistic skill at the minimum; no commercial ability. A girl with a father and mother, witb brothers and sisters and one talent. What Laura's oue talent is we set ourselves to find out. Lauraslep soundly. The pillow was welcome at night, and the parting was hard in the morning. When the first i bell rang she wished she could pull the tongue out of it and hide the brazen disturber of her piece beyond all i power of finding. JSbe thought it would be so delightful to sleep for two < hours more, or one hour, or thirty minutes, or fifteen minutes. But i scarcely had the echo of the bell died i away before Laura had summoned i herself and commanded herself, and in i due time?without too much speed to prevent the well-doing of all that had ; to be done, and without too much i slowness to break the morning order of the household below stairs?she fe- < ported herself for duty, wherever that i morning the line of duty had been i ctftt. She always came in with a | cheerful smile and a hearty salutation, i The girl in the kitchen used to say: < "When Miss Laura comes in a mornin' i I shield my poor eyes from the bright- | ness." It was Bridget's blarney, but < when you know Laura you will excuse < Bridget's extravagance. Usually one or two of tliechildren had to be buttoned 1 *- - J AAMUA/4 /\?? CI VI ri i or iiuoneu, uuiuucu ui wuuivu, uU? , who could do it ao well as Laura, who f greeted a chance of that kiud as she < would a streak of suushine or a whiff of i air frotn fields of new mown hay? f "They love it, and X love it," she i said. . I A greeting, a kiss, a playful sally, a < lively question. were ready for father i and mother. The voice that could not < sing was music itself in home speech, j and if its owner could not talk at < breakfast about Gladstone's policy, or the definition of beauty given by the i last nights lecturer i<\ Osmond Hall, 1 she could ask questions enough to s keep everybody talking, each in the < line of his liking; [and without know- t ing how wise and strong she was, t Laura One-talent used her love ana < common sense and tact in keeping peace at the table, repressing uncomfortable topics, drawing out people according to their bent and ability, and too ''stupid" to say much herself, * she was sagacious enough to play the i general with the wit and wisdom of 2 all the rest. And if they?the "all the t rest" of the household?had a good I time, Laura was bappy, When break- < fast and prayers were over, if there 1 were not problems in algebra to be < solved, or selections from Liszt or Bach ' to be practised, or an essay for a Shake- ' spearean club to be written (and she ] was always excused from such service), 1 there was sometmng 10 ao wuu mom- ? er or for mother, with Bridget or in i Bridget's stead; something lor father I or the boys; something for the little i girls; something in*bedroom, kitchen. 1 parlor, or cellar; sweeping, dusting, i bed-making, cooking, stitching, watch- } ing, errand-going, calling?always ' something that nt-eded to be done tor i the good order and good feeling of the i household; and Laura, who could not do great things to make the world 1 wonder, did her share, and was glad to < do more than ber share, of little thing?, 1 which in the doing and in the spirit ot j the doing made "society girls" wonder i at Laura's goodness and patience, and I all which made other mothers envious i of Laura's mother, and which more- 1 over, pleased the King on the throne j in the central chamber of Laura's ; heart. f ?. .. ( A True Incident. i A carload of young people were en route to a Christiau Endeavor convention. The possible monotony of a six hours' ride was broken when soon after starting, some one began singing : ' "Alas and did my Savior bleed 1 And did my sovereign die." j It was but a moment before the car I walls resounded with the sweet strains I of the melodious hymn, nearly every I occupant joining. Then, "Blessed, 1 Assurance,'' "Wonderful Words of < Life," "I'm the Child of a 3?ing," and < many other soul stirring hymns were I wafted through the open windows and J carried on the autumn breeze, as the i train sped along. ' Tk?1 onriiaQf T'/Minor J > remaps noue ui mo jw-.,.,;,,Christians on that train kuew that in |' the car with them was one with whom ; s the Hpirit was wrestling ; but when a '' certain young man returned iiome and j < approached the paslor of one of, 1 the churches, and told him that'< he had accepted Jesus, and was 1 ready to identify himself with the j < people of God, and that his stony ' heart had been melted by the Gospel 11 in song during six hours' journey, itI.' brought many to realize more than; I 1.rwr\?iral. ?f rrnunul hvmns i I ever ueiuic me pun v.. 6v?r... ..j . What a sermon on the converting < power of sacred song! Would that it might teach us to sing the sacred words < tia though they were prayers, to sing ( them with our whole heart.?(jiolden Rule. j There is great medical virtue in ] onions, eaten raw at very beginning of ( cold or malaria. They have a decided , tendency to check it and act advanta- j geously in kidney and stomach troub- i les. Attainments in knowledge are of no value until they are transmuted into i | character. >, u-reei 3RCHANE the way of !, gents ptonis: make it both pleasant and profii EtE. We believe in CLOSE LECTED we have EVER OFI nd us with a LARGE and c >URST, M Dressing According to the Weather. Sunday, Jan. 8, was a cool day. The mercury stood below the freezing point " an uay luug. ouow lay uu me grouuu jj and sleigh bells jingled merily. As a we came home from church on the o hard-packed snow on the sidewalk, b some young ladies, nicely dressed, a walked along and disclosed a well-shap- t ed foot clad in black cotton hose and * Newport ties! At first we thought tl perhaps she couldn't afford walking u boots, but a glance at the fine furs b about her necK gave the negative to fa that idea. Then we thought: What tl a magnificent circulation she must g have! 8ome people always have cold " feet and cold bands all winter, while a others never suffer in that way. But v we never knew a member of what we are accustomed to speak of as the si stronger sex go to church or business p in winter time with low shoes on. Did h you ? Then we thought of a lady de- tl scribed in the Christian Union recent- v ly, who ascended the stairs to the el- si avated road, aud, dressed in elegant d winter costume as to furs, dress, and g cloak, with a border of fur about the tl skirt of her dress* wore silk stockings, s< through which the pink skin could be ti seen, and slippers ! a Talk about the weaker sex ! What t< man could endure such exposure as tl that! d There are fine ladies who dress ac- h cording to the weather, who wear ei thick-soled, heavy morocco shoes or felt shoes in winter time; who put on waiters over their shoes in winter time to keep their ankles dry and warm, and fc who are careful to put on rubbers when p necessary; who wear flannels thick or g Lhin as the mercury rise9 and falls; in ai short, women who are sensible, rea- n jonable creatures. ft But says some bright, pretty girl: w "I can't Bear to fuss over myself. I'm T used to slippers, to low-neoK ana snort v, ileeves (or no sleeves;) when I get Did it will be time enough to bundle s< jp; and these great heavy clumping it jhoep I can't endure." Poor thing, tl she dosen't realize bow soon she may be an invalid for life, in direct conse- a juence of breaking the laws of life fc ind health, and how much quicker r< ild age comes to those who are prod- ti igal of their powers than to those who 8 jarefully husband and preserve them. s( Taking proper care of one's self is n i matter of training, education, intel- tl jgence, and conscience. It isn't "fus- fc liness," as ignorant women are in- ei jliued to call it but simple obedience to tl :he laws written in our complex na- ri ure by the band of the great Father oi )f us all. tl 6( Baby-Minded. p Dr. Cuyler says to young men : fe 'Don't ask to be everlastingly amused ; F t is the sign of a baby-mind when a ol poung man cares for nothing but fun ei ind frolic." If this be so, there must a ae a laree number of "baby-minds" in oi >ur churches. Why else "this .asking el )y young and old people in the church ;o be "everlastingly amused?" 'Where were you last Sabbath?" 'Oh, our sermons are so uninteresting [ went elsewhere." "Where were you 5] ast prayer meeting night?" "Oh, w >ur meetings are so dull that I went inhere there was more life." What is pi his but a demand for spiritual amusement? The preacher, the official w Brethren, and other members must get ? jp something to keep you amused or jr pou will soon absent yourself. Your 'baby mind" can not content itself in ^ its own church unless it is "everlastngly amused." Why don't you provide some religious amusement for your pastor, your w >fficial brethren, and the other mem- 4 aers? Start a psalm, tell your exper- a] ience, lead in prayer, do all you can to g Hake things lively and happy and at- ^ tractive in your own church, and then jj aeither you nor anybody else will feel ^ like absenting himself; perhaps if you fr provide a little religious amusement yourself, you will not need to depend to much on others for it. Let each a contribute his part toward happiness ^ in the church. f( is Keck less Frank iicn*. ^ es There is a class of people who pride ri themselves on their honesty and frank- V uess because, as tbey tell us, they "say just what they think," throwing out [heir opinions right and left, just as [hey happen to feel, no matter where :bey may strike or whom they may \ wound. This boasted frankness, how- a jver, is not honesty, but is rather mis- ft jrable impertinence and reckless cruel- tl ty. "We have no right to say what we think unless we think kindly and lov- n ingly, no right to unload our jealous- [< les, envies, bad humors, and miserable b spites upon the hearts of our neighbors. If we must be bad-tempered,we u should at least keep our ugliness locked o jp in our own breasts, and not let it ci iut to wound the feelings and mar the a iiappiness of others. If we must speak rt out our dislikes and prejudices and ii wretcneu ieenngs, lei us go 11110 our at >wn room lock the door and close the d windows, so that uo ear but ours shall [< tiear the hateful words. If auy man c< jeemeth to be religious, or even moral- g ly decent, and bridleth not his f >ugue, ti ;hat man's religion is vain and his $: jharacter is base.?Christiau Herald. )ne of them broght back as a trophy ft ;he bonnet of his Amaxon. to give as a tl present to his bride. He had met her tl n a hand to hand encounter. She k would not surrender, and he had run n her trough with his bayonet. To * ? irowd of listeners^he held up the bon- v net on his hand and coolly explalnea II 'i ^ a- m i i* [ 11 iti some spots uu it wwc uruius auu u blood" of the negro woman he had ii killed. And this bonnet defiled with tj the brains and blood put there by/his n own murderous hand was to decorate J the brow of his betrothed! / \'o / / L. . lwooa USE. ENS GOODS, &e. table for you.. We have an PROFITS and will ee&you 0 ERED THE TRADE. We omplete assortment, and at anager. Scared 'Em Up. A voyager across the Atlantic writes : 1 We were very much annoyed the firat >art of the voyage, by the drinking nd carousing of a parcel of young men n board the ship; but, last night a low came on and things looked quite larming, for awhile. In the midst of be storm I observed those young men, rho, when the weather was calm and he sea smooth, were wholly given to ngodliness and wicked revelry, had ecome as serious as a funeral, and booking themselves to a corner In one of he cabins, were singing, with seeming reat earnestness, such hymns as Jesus, lover of my soul,"?"Rock of ges cleft for me,"-"O, for a closer /alk with God," Ac. That's about the way of the average Inner. So long as be Is well and prosperous, and death keeps out of view, e can drink, play cards, dance, visit beaters, and do any other things, i.:.i< ii./v l i i l *4 /mvu tut? uevii ui u, wiu&eu uezui, may ggest; but bo soon as the skies grow ark, and the winds of -adversity bein to bowl about him, and danger areatens he suddenly comes to his^ - . mses, and begins to pray. Somemes he prays the earnest prayer, and change of life is tbe result. But, in >o many cases, his prayers are worse ian mockery; for no sooner is the anger past than be returns again to Is old ways with a heart more hardaed than ever. The Stranger at Church.?The blowing problem is of sufficient imortance to demand, a special para- . raph. Jf we are away from home moug strangers, &t the close of an ear* 'cS est, faithful sermon, would any of us iel it an intrusion to be spoken to, elcomed; and invited to come again ? he act would be deemed acceptable hristiau kindness by all; and yet we ^nd back, afraid that another would ) regard it. Other people are strik-. V igiy like us, and touched by tbe same lougbtfulness. A snort while ago, a young lady of - tore than ordinary culture and ability >und berself on the Sabbath out of ;ach of any church of her denominaon save a poor little German one. he went there an entire stranger, jmewhat depressed by her solitariess. She was met by an old lady at le door, who cordially welcomed her, :-'i irgetting in genuiue Christian courtjy that her own dress was poor while lat of the stranger was of rich mateal. At the close of the service many there spoke to her, assuring her of ieir pleasure at seeing her. She left le little church with her heart warm- fx 1 and refreshed, and expressed her urpose to return there again when she >lt the need of Christian sympathy, or speedy and large returns for outlay r time and effort, a welcome to Strang* rs in church offers a capital investlent. There are but few risks?not ae in a thousand. Try it, and test the Bcacy of the Golden Rule. *??? Forty Days for a Widow. Most of the States have a discreditale statute which provides that a idow may stay "in the house of her Bceaaed husband .forty days without aying rent." The Massachusetts Leglature bad a bill before it this week hich re-affirms this old barbarism. low it will look in the light of com)g y?ars! The young wife comes to her new ome. Henceforth she bears its buren of care and responsibility. She is le homaker, the nouse-motber, and, / 1 a majority of cases, she is the house- / orker. She bears and rears the cbiiren. Her days and nights for years / re devoted to their care and comfort. ' he is the unfailing friend and coun- / ?llor of their youth, and the right and of her husband. She may have / ad much kindness and generosity om him, since most men are better lan the laws; but the law fof\pll iese years gives her only mainteMMR nd when her husband dies it gnk er forty days to stay in the howffijiy ire she begins to pay rent, i its own comment. Women wHl y this that over and above their int?r3t in the public welfare thqy need we ght of suffrage for self-protoetkMK? woman's Column. Crime-Inciting: SbowlWlifc Following is the text of the statute J. V. Leeds of Philadelphia, our associte editor, presented to toe Legislature )ur years ago, with tbe exception that ie words underscored Are now added : An Act to prevent and punish the jaking and posting of brutalizing and crime-inciting'} circulars, hand ills aud show bills. Be it enacted that any person or perils who shall print, utter, publish or therwise prepare, or shall put up, or luse to be put op in any public place, ny circular, hand bill or show bill, presentiuK ajpereon in act of assaultig another in a threatening, brutal or ivage manner, with a pistol, knife, irk, daggefy Mother deadly weapon, or representing a person in the act of ommitttom tuicide,} shall be deemed uilty of lnisdemeanor, and on convicou thertof shall be fined not less thau 25, or Dot more than $300. A' - ( ? Now is the syllable ever ticking om the the clock of time. Now is tie Watchword of the wise. Now is on tie banner of the prudent. Let us etep this little word always in our iiiud; and whenever anything preents itself to us in the shape of work, whether mental or physical, let us do t with all our might, remembering bat now is the only time for us. It indeed, a sorry way to get through he world by putting ofl'a duty till toaorrow, saying, Then will I do it. 9o! this will never answer. Now is urs; then may never be.?Selected.