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I i ? ? The Press and Banner. : r BY HUGH WILSON. Wednesday, Sept. 20,1893. Different Kind* of E?lu<*>Uioti. The State of South Carolina offers various kinds of education on varying conditions. 1st The Citadel, where all expenses of the | student are paid. 2d. The South Carolina College, where the tuition Ik free to those who are unable to pay 3d. Clemson College, where the boys are , expected to perform manual labor, and the t cost of living Is reduced to the lowest figure. Now, the point which we wish to make Is this: That the State ought to treat all its boys alike. The Citadel boys are given the f best place, and the places are awarded on a wrong basis and upon an unjust principle, namely: To the best educated and best I equipped, whereas the State should help the weaker and not the stronger of her sons. P The only requisite In applying for the tuition In the South Carolina College is inability to pay. In Clemson College all the boys are required to wo?k and to pay alike. Otherwise stated: TheCltldel Is aristocrat ieln Its conduct; (he South Carolina College" makes class distinctions, namely : The boys are divided into pay students and paupers; Clemson is uniform, treating all alike. Practically considered: The expense of maintaining these institutions is largely Increased by being in different parts of the State,and tbelnlquity of giving scholarships, clothing and board to the boy who has given Indisputable evidence that he Is In less need of education than his defeated competitors, Is a system that should be abolished ?it once. If the Citadel were abolished the military drill could be taught at Clemson without ma terially increasing the cost of maintaining the institution. Another matter connected with the Citadel Is the fact, that a boy is only partially educated when he leaves the Institution. He has perhaps made great progress In the study of mathematics and In military science, but be lacks much of having received the good all round education which best prepares a boy for the peaceful pursuits of life. The objeotion to the present doable system of free and pay tuition In the South Carolina colleges must be apparent to all. It encourages class distinction and draws the line between wealth and poverty. But a great objection to the division o( our institutions of learning lies In the fact( that the South Carolina College Is located In i a olty where the temptations to vice and extravagance ara great. In a greater degree is the objection to Charleston as a situation for the Citadel. In the first place, it Is not fie : from epidemics. The water is bad. The political surroundings are such us to encourage aisregaru 01 mw. iu? icm(iiaviuua iu nn are all that could be found anywhere. Id view of the Impoverished condition of this country, and while our people are Buffering from the heavy burden of taxation now pnt upon tbem, it is well for the Govern, or to give this subject proper attention in his message to the approaching session of the General Assembly. By a slight increase of appropriation toClemson, well nigh a hundred thousand dellars would be saved to the tax-payers of this State ; a better aud more uniform system of educuLlou could be had, and the efficiency of our educational Institutions would in no wise be injuriously affected. The pride of tbe State would be better gratified by the establishment of one large Institution than it is a present, even under the enormous outlay of money, in sustaining colleges with different rules whereby the moat unjust discrimination Is practiced between her son?. After the removal of the Citadel and the South Carolina College, the buildings could be utilized for the establishment of cotton factories. The cities would not be hurt. The property would then be subject to taxation, and the factories would give employment to a great number of needy people. There is no earthly need of South Carolina maintaining three separate institutions, and If the buildings of two of them could be utilized as factories they would be a resource of much revenue instead of, as now, a heavy draft on the treasury. f New Profesftor In Eraklue College. Kg1..* We learn from the Associate Reformed Presbyterian that the vacancy in the Faculty of Eraklne College is to be tilled at an early date, and that applicants are requested to send in their names at once. ^ * The Greenville News speaks ol our referents to the contest, for collector of revenue and Whs surprised at our remark that the "antis" preferred McCalla. That paper's surprise was that there were any an lis In Abbeville, basing Its opinions on something; which the Press and Banuer had said some time ago. There are still many autls in this county and In this town, who will never abate their opposition to B. R. Tillman. The fact is, ihe antls here could elect a Governor if there were not so many Tlllmanltes. - New BasinesM Firm. M. T. Coleman advertises his stock of Dew goods in this issue of the Press and Banner. Mr. Coleman desires the trade of the readers of our paper and therefore tells them wlwu he bason band. He is an experienced business mac, having been a salesman in Gieenwood, Atlanta,Tallahassee and at this place. He is posted as to the wants ot the people, and has made his prlccs to suit the times. Abbeville Literary tiub. The Literary Club will meet on Friday night, 22nd Inst., at the house of J. K. lSlaki-. Esq. The essayist for the occasion will be Col. H. T. Ward law. He will riada paper on the Life and Character of Wendell Phillips. - M. T. Coleman advertises his stock of Dew goods Id ibis issue of the Press and Banner. Mr. Coleman desires the trade of the readers of our paper, and therefore tells them what he has on hand. He is an experienced business man having t>een a salesman in Greenwood. Atlanta. Tallahassee and at this place. He Is posted as to the wants of the people and has made his prices to suit the times. The last ice cream festival of the season will be given by the young ladies of Warrentoo Friday night, September 22d. A committee bos been appointed to see that all enjoy themselves and anybody who wishes to meet anybody else will be Introduced by Misses Gussie Wilson and Maggie Brooks, and Messrs. W. B. Wilson and Robl. B. Cheatbam. ? Remember at Haddon's you will And every thing necessary for bridal outfits and evening wear. Remember, at Haddon's you will find all the latest novelties in Dress Figures. Bemember, at Haddon's you will find a line of Black Goods not excelled In this market. Remember, at Haddon's you will find the BBwesi miugs uui in i rimming nraiux. Remember, at Haddon'e you will find all the leading shades in Satins and Velvets. No man's work, is a failure unless he himself is a failure. Charity gives itself rich; stinginess hoards itself poor. A discontented spirit makes the | way of life seem bard and long. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to. No padlock, bolts or bars can secure 'fr? a maiden as well as her own reserve. No honor can be conferred upon the P& memory of a good man by a monument. " V ' You are to be concerned about your duty, not about what people think of V?U. man does more toward making than fate does toward making ffl H ???W???*** Christlnn'N Clock. The bell tolls one? Teach me to say, "Thy will be done." The bell tolls twoHelp me each day Thy will to do. The bell tolls three? I ask in faith To follow Thee. The bell tolls four? I pray for trust Forever more. The hell tolls five? For Christian speech Help me tostrive. The bell tolls sixTeach me my hope On The to fix. The bell tolls seven? O make my life A way to heaven. The bell tolls eight? May I In peace x\nu (inncutc mum. The bell tolls nineLet charity Be ever miue. The bell tolls ten? I pray for love, To God and men. It. tolls elevenLet me each hour Be nearer heaven. Twelve strokes I hear Now perfect love Hast cast out fear. ?Central Methodist. Intercessory Prayer. Of all the means placed byProvidene within our reach whereby we nnv lead souls to Him, there is one raor" blessed than all others?intercessor prayer. How often iu the presence a one deeply loved, but, alas ! estranget from God, the heart of mother or wif has felt a sudden impulee to say at earnest word, propose an act of devo tion, to paint in glowing colors th? blessings of faith and the happines of virtue, and she has stopped, deter red by an irre-ticjtible fear of how tlx iu/?rHw tunv ho rpfnivt-d : and she shv to hersef: 'Tomorrow I shall be braver." Poor mother! poor wife ! go uu< tell to your heavenly Father all yoi would, but dure not say to the loye< one who givesyou so much paiu. Laj that sin-sick soul before the Lord a they long ago laid the paralytic mai who could not, or perhaps would uot be led to Him. Plead for him witl the long-suffering .Saviour as yoi would plead w.th an earthly maste upon whom depended all his futur welfare, and say to him simply "Lord, have patieuce a little long er." Tell God of all your anxiety your discouragement?, the means em ployed for success Ask Him to lead you what to say and how to act. On sentence learned of God in prayer wil do more for the conversion of a sou than all our poor human endeavors That sentence will escape our lips in voluntarily. We may not remembe that we have said if, but it will sin! deep into the heart, making a lastinj impression and silently fulfilling it mission. You are perhaps surprised after many years, to see such poo results. Ah! how little you cai juuge. Do you know what you have pained Tn the first place, time, ofien a physica impossibility to sin, which you ma; attribute to chance, but which was ii reality the work of Providence ; and i it nothing, one sin the less iu the lif of an immortal soul? Then a vagui uneasiness, which will soon allow o no rest, a confidence which may euabl* you to sympathize, more liberty lef you for the exercise of religious acts yoir no longer see the con tern ptuou smile at your acts of devotion. Js al this nothing ? Ah! if while on your knees prayinj for the one you would have reconcile* to God you could but see what is pass ing in his soul?the wrestlings, the re morse he strives vainly to stifle ; if yoi could see the work of the Holy Spiri in the heart, gently but firmly triumph ing over the will, how earnestly, hov inces aritly would you coutinue to pray Only have patience, to wait with per severance, not to grow weary. It ii the want of patience that often makei us exacting toward those we desire t< neip. "More haste, less speed," is an oh sayiug ; the more we are exacting, tin less likely are we to succeed. Men liki to act freely, and to have the credit o their actions. It is because we have not learned t< persevere that the work seems nevjr t< progress. Courage, then ; the grouiu in ay seem too dry for cultivation, bui each prayer will he as a drop of water the marble may be very hard, but eacl prayer is like the hammer's stroke that wears away its roughness.?Fron ' Gold Dust." An liitere?tiii|f Problem, Harper's Young People. There was once a wise king who was very curious. He was possessed of i desire to know everything, and was continually asking questions. Indeed his thirst for knowledge carried hitn st fur that he wanted to know the age ol every person he met. But, being t king, he was exceedingly polite, ant would resort to strategy to gain his ends. One day there came to the court i gray-haired professor, who amused tht king greatly. He told the inouareh * number of things that he never kuew before, and the king was delighted. But finally it come to the point whet the ruler wanted to'know the age of tlx professor, so he thought of a mathe matical problem. "Alxyn!" said the king. "I havt au interesting sum for you ; it is a tria! in mental arithmetic. Think of tlx number of the month of your birth.' Now, the professor was sixty yean old, and had been born two days befon Christmas, so he thought of 12* De cember being the twelfth month. 'Yes," said the profensor. "Multiply by 2." continued tlx kine:. "Yes." "Add 5." "Yes," answered the professor, doing! so. "Now multiply that by 50." "Yes." "Add your age." "Yes." "rfubstract 3Go." "Yes." "Add 115." Li It 1 w. "And now," said the king, "might I ask what the result is?" Twelve hundred and sixty," repliei thejprofessor, wouderingly. "Thank you," was the kind's res ponse. "So you were born in I)ecem ber, sixty years ago eh ?" "How in the world did you know ?' cried the professor. "Why," retorted the king, "frorr answer?1260 The month of youi I birth was the twelfth, and the last tw( figures give your age." I "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed the professor I "Capital Idea. I'll try it on the nexl 'person I meet. It's such a polite waj of finding out people's ages." If a man can by art make of ashef the curious glass, why cannot an opi' nipoteut God, of dust and ashea, mak* glorified bodies fair as crystal? Wheat and Tares. Good and evil seem strangely mixed in human affairs. Many a man is puzzled as David was when beholding the prosperity of the wicked, and the apparent thwarting of the plaus of good men. The whence and the why of sin and its eonsequeuces passes the knowledge of the seer and the philosophy of the sage. Of one thing we are sure: God in His government of moral beings proposes good, and only good, as the tinal outcome for all His creatures. In the lieldof" human probation, from the first moment until now, from the hand of the infinite good nothing but good seed ?ould have fallen. Whence, then, hath it tares? An enemy hath done it. Given simply the character of God, without knowing anything of His treatment of men we would infer all this. Rut for reasons which He has not explained, probably because we could not rightly comprehend them. He sutlers the wheat and the tares to grow together mil huri'oct Our Siuvtmir oftera one reason for this divine method; He says : "Suffer them to grow together until harvest, lest while ye gather up f the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them!" That is, '"The destruction of probationary sinners would be the destruction of the proba ionary system." One great office of our redeeming and interceding Lord is to prolong the life of a sinner, and give him space for reformation. e God causes the wrath of man to Y praise Him by suffering evil men to e prosper in wickedness, to have more y lhau heart could wish, allowing them f to go on befote the eyes of the good J and work out the fruits of ungodliness e These fruits are always terrible. The i righteous seeing them are confirmed - in righteouaness and made to eschew e evil. But wheat and tares shall not s grow together forever. "In the time - of harvest I will say to the leapers, b Gather ye together first the tares, and ? bind them in bundles to burn them; - but gather the wheat into my barn." 1 God will openly discriminate then bei tweeu the good and the evil. The 1 discrimination shall doubtless at thai f time be no more perfect in His mind s than now. Heid not now deceived by * **- i--^ ??olna T-Tii L'nnivu 4 ttll^y 1U19C OlIWtT \Jk ? uiuu , MMw.f .. , without (jueslioti those that are truly i His. Hut the distinoion shall be openi ly manifested, as it never could l>e in r ihe present order of things. The s questions, "(.'an God he just and admit : evil anions Hi* creatures? Can God - he merciful and punish siif?" will , then be finally and satisfactorily an swered i Let us he true, let u? be patient, let i us have faith in the ultimate triumph 1 of right: and despite the tares that mar I their beauty, let us rejoice in the wliiti. ening harvests, and exultantly shout : - "Hellelujnh, the Lord God omnipotent r reigueth!" i i " ~~ S Tlie Right or C'ouncience. i Zlon's Herald. r , It is right to follow conscience even though conscience be not always right y in its decisions. Conscience may be j ill informed and led astray by its want ' of information or misinformation ; for ^ conscience is nothing more nor les* ~ than the soul usen passing judgment, e on moral actions; and the judgment a must be according to capacity and f intelligence. Man judges by what he e hath, and not by what he iiath not. . He cannot rise above himself, or act . beyond his sphere; he is not endowed with infalihility; there is no pope in j his mental economy to whom appeal may be made for ultimate certainty. ~ Uncertainty belongs to our mortal j condition. We are to follow conscience, not as an infallible guide, but !_ as the best we have in this obscure and j devious way. It will not generally t lead us astray ; and even in case we be wrong, the act will incur no guilt, y Our works may be burned, while we j escape as from the flames. The inten tion may be good while the conduct is 3 wrong ;'and we are judged by the s great Father by our controlling purpose. In persecuting the saints SSaul iutended to serve God, though his acts j were satanic. His was a curious specie men of the pervers'on of moral judge merit, while his geueral intention f remained sound and safe. He itid well to follow conscience until a greater .j than conscience spoke audibly from the heavens, and he showed his genj eral good intention by bkcomiug then L at once obedient to the heavenly vision. 1 mm ? Little Peter. This is the real name of the petrel, a bird that lives ou the s<a. The harder the storm the better he likes it, and the more noise the sea makes the louder he cries. The sailors, who are so jolly, never like to meet a pet* ret they are so dismal in their coal 1 black coats, and seameu think they 1 bring them ill-luck, too. ? You could not guess how the petrel * sleeps. He first makes of himself a r feather ball and sits on the water, just * as your canary does on his perch. 1 AVby doesn't lie sink? because his * feathers are so oily he can't. These birds grow so fat that, to the * poor islanders, in very cold countries, } they a-e invaluab e. After they are ) dead, a wick is drawn through their bodies and set < n fire, aud you can hardly believe how well this queer 1 kind of lamp lights up their simple ' huts. The petrel never goes on shore except to build her nest, which is hidden : snugly away between rock*, or in the ' sand. There she lays her one egg ' and brings up her baby. All day the petrel lives on the water, but she never I forgets at night to feed it. Sometimes they are called "Mother Carey's chicken's." If you ever go across the water, you may see them some day. Let CiotI Control. t "I need oil," said an ancient monk. ' So he planted him an olive sapling. ' Lord," he prayed, "it needs rain that its tender roots may drink and swell. Send gentle showers." And the Lord sent a gentle shower. "Lord." prajed the monk, "my tree needs sun. Send sun, I pray thee." And the sun shoue, gilding the dripping cl< nds. "Now frost, my Lord, to brace its tisl sues," cried the monk. And behold the little tree stood sparkling with I frost, lint at evening it died. Then the m nk sought the cell of a brother - monk and told his strange experience "I, too, have planted a little tree,' he said, "and ste ! it thrives well Hut I entrusted my little tree to its God. He who made it knows better what it 11 needs than a man likj me. I laid no ^condition, I fixed not ways or means. ?i 'Lord, send it what it needs,' I prayed ?'storm or sunshine wind, rain or frost. Thou hast made it and thou t dost know."'?Faithful Witness. There people who will speud a great deal of money for life insurance, who i refuse eternal life given free. j While God may allow his servants ) to have trials he will make a M ay of | escape fop them. faagmm?? Creeping: Up (lie tttnirc. In the softly falling twilight Of a weary, weary day, With a quiet step I entered Where the children were at piny; I whs brooding o'er some trouble Which had me unawares, When a little voice came ringing, "Me 1h ereepln' up the stairs." Step by step she bravely clambered On her little hands and knees, Keeping up a constant chattering Like a magpie in the trees, Till at last she reached the topmost, When o'er all her world's affairs She delighted stood a victor, After creeping up the stairs. Fainting heart! behold an Image Of man's brief and struguling life, Wnose best prizes must be captured With a noble, eanest strl fe. Far above there is the glory Which no sinfulness impairs. With It* rest and Joy forever. Altercreeplng up life's stairs. ?Christian Herald. What a Friend 1 have in Jesus, All my sins and griefs to bear, What a privilege to carry Everything to Ood in prayer. 0 what peace I often foifeit 1 O what needless pain 1 bear ! All because I do not carry Everything to God Id prayer. Have I trials and temptations? Have I trouble anywhere? 1 should never be dlscoraged,? Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can I find a Friend so faithful, Who will all my sorrows share? Jesus knows my every weakkness,? Take It to the Lord in prayer. ?Anonymous. ^ ^ BMI Arp. Bishop Turner lectured here la Sunday night on "Africa." He hi been there and went for a purpose. J is on his mind and in his heart thi his people in the south must soon* or later go back to the land of the fathers, and he went out to see win kind of a land it was. His naraiiv sounds like a Munchausen tale i those who have read Livingston an Stanley. The "dark continent" looming up and is now attracting tt) attention and the wonder of the civ lized world. Bishop Berkley saic "Westward the tide of empire tak< its way," and it did when he wrot hut now it is rolling back to the eas Dr. Henry M. Field, the gifted ed tor of the New York Evangelist, now in northern Africa and the weel ly letters of his travels are full of iute ' est. All that tteautiful region ou tL eoast of the Meiliteianean is filling it with the best class of French, Genua and English civilization. Thehistori laud, where Carthage was^and whet 1 Hannibal and Hamilcar tuarshale their mighty armies, is now the peac< ful, prosperous home of Protestai Christians. After a thousand yeai of sleep, northern Africa has bee awakened by a new birth and in th growing city of Jiorie, that was th ancient Hippo, a magnificent catlx dral is being erected in memory of St Augustine, the last great mau c Africa. Some years ago Dr. Field travele over that country and rode hundred of miles on camels and slept with th Arabs in the drst-rt, but now rides i palace cars to Jerusalem and rests i iiotels along his journey, and a! along the line are towns and village and cultivated farms, and all thj wonderful change is the fruit of Chrii tian civlization. The inscription o the siatueof the good St. Augustiu in the new cathedral explains it all "If I do not perish I owe it all to nv mother." His father was a pagan, bit his mother was a Christian, and he constant prayers and pleadings an teachings made him the wonderfu "?? ttiuf hu u/tiu?I Iip ninsf. wonderful perhaps, who ever Jived, consideriiij lii^ lite work and the result of his labors But for the negro. the Congo regioi seems to be designed by Providence fo a permanent home. It is described b, all the travelers an the most fertile bu sin in the world having 200,000.000 c square miles as fertile as the valley o the Mississippi and the hill countr adjacent abounding in copper, tii and iron mines. General San fori says it is destined to become th grauery of the world and Bisho; Turner declared the climate to be ex actly HUited to his race. Well now it is becoming more am moreaparent that they must and wil go Romewhere. The conflict betweei them and us is irrepressible. It i widening and deepening as the year roll on. There is no rest, noj abidiuj place, no security for the negro in th Uuited States, neitherNorth norSouth It is idle to discuss whose fault it i* The duty of our thinking men, whit and black, Is to Jook the facts straigh in the face aua 'lake some hold an decisive action. There is a race troubl now iu North Carolina that has requii ed the militia to suppress. The nt groes who recently were sent fron Birmingham to the Northwest to tak the places of the strikers were ikj anoweu to suty. rnrni several town in Ohio and Indiana they have beei banished. Even in Atlanta, theco< mopoliiian, conservative city of th South, complaint is made in the newt papers that the negroes raonopoliz the side walks and will not give waj and are growing more and more iu>t lent and agressive. Every day paper publish new outrages aud usual lynch ings that follow them. I have been reading "An Appeal t Pharoah" by Carlyle McKinley and ar more than ever profoundly impresse with its truth, its argument its phios ophy. The author is one of the mo* advanced thinkers of the age and deal with the race problem in such a fait candid and considerate way that unti his name was disclosed it was impo^si ble to surmise where he lived, whethe North or South or in England o America. I am pleased to knout th? he is by birth aud education a Georgi an. By some it was attributed t 1> tr..l i .1 i niuiuu iwmaii ixcjjuri ; uy Olliers, li Senator Morgan, of Alubuiuu, and b; others to Rev. Josiah Strong. It is" book fit to be read and pondered b; every patriot. Mr. McKinley prove every proposition as he goes aloug, an( does it so tenderly and kindly, am modestly that the reader is obliged t< fall in love with him, and if not con vinced, he admits that he canno answer it. The negro must go, go some whe.e, not in a hurry or at the poin of the bayonet, as did the Cheroket-s but he wilj go willingly and gladh when the ways and means are provi ded. It may take ten years or twenty years, but it is no very great mutter bi far as the cost is concerned. During the ten yearn just passed, over 6,U0U,00t of pauper foreigners have been brough here from Europe and it will be nearly as easy to take G,OUt),(JOO of negroei away. Ten millions of dollars a yeai will do it. And thatis but a trifU compared with the peace and prosper ity of the race. Just let the ships bt ready in the ports and the money b? provided to plant the launlies in Airict say SIM per capita, aud they wil llock to the seashoie at every port Ttiey are troubled anil uu are we. \V< useu to think that it was slavery thai kepi immigration away iruin the SoutL but now we know tnat it was not. ll was the nogio and is still the negio It is the liegio that keeps up Ihe alien* tiou belWceu the North anil the South tnat makes a solid South, aud a hostilt North and will perpetuate theentangl ment as long as he it is here. Now, if he was not here, does an; body suppose that he would be allow to come here? Jf they were all i Africa and wished to emigrate woul they be permitted to land at Cast Garden? Of course not. Africacoul not do what China cannot. Races I be happy and prosperous must be hi mogeueous. Of course they will not all go. Tl: old and the decrepit will stay and t cared for. There will be no forcib separation of families. Certainly r more than is now, for they scatter fi and wide in their present conditio! but it is safe to predict that themajorit will go whenever the means are pn vided nnd the government is at tl head of the movement. The larj planters in the black belt will perhaj be the chief objectors, for they no fatten and grow rich off the negro labor, but they will soon have whi labor in their stead and in the end will prove profitable. I sincerelv wish that every thinkin citizen of th* South would get M MeKIn ley's little book-and read it. is by far the best aud most gratefi statement of the race problem that ha yet been written. It is not only ii struutive and entertaining, but rear like an essay of Maccaulay, and tt book will not be laid down until tl persual is finished. General Fitzhug Lee said of it: "It is the best stat ment that I have ever read upon tl great subject it treats with so muc clearness ability. The work displa; not only much historical research, bi great knowledge of the question, ar nt must draw the attention of all thinke is to this great problem." [t The Boston Traveler says: "It it an audacious, iugenious volume at ir will well repay reading and provr.J ir thought," and Henry Stanley sayi it "The'author is a seer of a type ra e nowadays and handles his subje to wisely." d The price of the book is 50 cent is and can tie had, I suppose, at the bot le stores or from the publishers, For i- Howard & Hulbert, New York. I:| I do not know Mr. McKmley n< :*8 have 1 any interest in advertising u e, book, but I sincerely believe that i r. persual will do more to direct publ i- opinion in the right channel than an is thing that has yet been writteu upr c- the race question?the greatest ouestic r- now before the American people, le BILL ARP. P The Dollar of oar Dnddie*. .e The silver dollar, which is again j disturbing element in the financi; j. prosperity of the country, seems liave had a lot of trouble in its da; ^ and generation, and it is now gettii n back at .the United States treasui e with alarming persistency. 80111 e faots concerning it are of immedia interest and will bear summing u Here is the^cbronological history of tl 'tf silver dollar. Authorized to be coined Actof Api ri 2,1729; weight, 416 grains; fine ties ~ 892 4 e Weight changed, Act of January 1 ? 1836, to 413J grains. n Fineness changed, Act of Januai II 18. 18?7 to 900. ? Coinage dii-continued, Act of Fel s ruary 12, 1873. ' Total amount coined to Febuary 1 ? 1837, $8,031,238. ? Coinage reauthorized, Act Februai . 28, 1873. v Amount co ned from August 1, 187 \ to December 13, 1887, $283,295,3-57, (il r eluding $1,837 recolued ) Totaj amount coined to Decembt j 31,1889, $357,969,239. I The first silver dollar was put in ci ' culation in 1794. ? "It was a crude design," say9a hi q torinn. "Ou the obverse' or face o;rtl r coin was imprinted the bead of v young lady facing to the right: H< * hair was flowing tosuch an extent thi r she looked as as if taken in a gtUe < J wind." In 1696 Congress stepped in to tl ^ aid of the typical damsel and tied h< j hair up with a bit of ribbon. The fifteen stars were after this r duced to the original thirteen in rec< " nition of t!ie number ofStates. In 1836 the design was again chnnj ] ed, and the silver dollar bore the fu , figure of a neatly dressed womau i 1 a flowing garment. The designer fo got, however, to put in the thirtee jj stars and the coin was soon called it Any person now in possession of on ? of those dollars has a valuable sou veni Thejiew design had the lady sui * rounded bythestars. It wan an in ' provemeut on its predecessor but til f air of the female figure was defli , and stifF. The dollar of 1888 was the first arti tic piece of silver coined by the Uni ed States mint. On April 22, 1864, the first dollc having the legend, "In God we trust, t was coined. ^ In 1873 the era of the trade dollar < 900 fineness began. That troublesom dollar ran its erratic course in just fiv III 1878 the liberty dollar made il appearance. Miss Anna W. William: , a"teacher in the Girls Noinial sclio< ' Philadelphia sat for her portrait, h? ? profile being theu considered the moi 3 perfect obtainable. Her classic featun still decorate the silver dollar?De rait Free Press. n ? - ? j To be Avoided. " i- A teacher in one of our Easter it schools has prepared a list of "word s and phrases to be avoided," and it I , mo good that it deserves a wide circulu >1 tion : Had rather, for would rathei [- Had better, for Would betler; Posted r for informed ; Depot, for Station ; Tr r to go ; Cunning, for smart; Above, f<i t Foregoing; Like I do, for as I do i- Feel badly, for Fee; bad ; Feel good, fo o feel well; Expect, for Suspect; Nice 0 or real nice, used indiscriminately y Funny, for Odd or unusual; seldom o a ever, for seldom or never; More thai y you think for, instead of Mor a than you think ; Nicely, in auewer t 1 a question as to health ; Just as soon J for just as lief; Guess, for Think ; Fix ) for arrange or prepare ; Real good, fo - Ileally good ; Try an experiment, fo t Make an ex|>eriment; It storms, for I - rains or it blows ; Not as I know, fo t Not that I know; Every man o woman should do their duty ; A part; for A person ; Healthy, for whole some.?Harper's Young People. Farm mid Garden Note*. Drying the roots is killing th plant. There will be another short crop o pigs this year. ; It is said that the texture of Aus iruuiuil WUUI 13 Ullil Iglllg. ' Variety of food gives the best ret-ult * witli all kinds of stock. I The prize-taker is as good as an; . onion tor geueral field culture." I Hedge for disappointments and tin unexpected, and then you ^ill b( . better prepared for them if thej come. i If you are a gentleman you wil } never find it necessary to say so. a. Xfonnrliold Hint*. Coffee?to Make with Hot Water.? V~ Instead of pouring cold water upon the coffee, boiliug must l?e used, takn ing care the froth doe* not run over, Id which is to be prevented by pouring the water on the coffee by degrees. t0 To Pickle Tomatoes.?Throw them into cold vinegar as you gather them. When you have enough, take them ie out, tie some spices in a bag, and )e scald them in good vinegar. Pour the |e vinegar hot over the tomatoes. 10 Open Tarts.?Line your dishes with 4r thin light paste, till in with preserved "1 fruits or jam, and lay strips of paste -y across in square* or diamonds. A n" short time will bake them. ie re Goosebury Jam.?to every pound of 3* gooseberries add a pound of sugar; w bruise the gooseberries in a mortar, >H and boil them well. When cold put tp the jam in pots. The best thing to clean bright tin with Is oil and rottensione. rnis re'S moves all kinds of stain. They should r* be polished off with clean soft wa?h leather. ill ,8 Pudding-cloths only require to be [j. well washed outin the water in which ]g the pudding has been boiied, and afterie ward ringed in clean hot water, and ie hung up to dry. b Clams Roasted.?Lay them on a e* gridiron or hot coal till tbe shells '* open?then take them out' and pre!l1 serve tfye liquor to serve with them. jt Suet and lard keep better lu tin l(j than in earthen vessels; suet may be r8 kept for a year, if chopped, packed in tin, and covered with treacle. To restore frost bitten vegetables, lay ,(1 them in cold water an hour before ie boiling, and put a piece of saltpetre in 3: the saucepan when set on Are. re ct Cocoa is the foundation of chocolate, it may be pounded, and and either 8| boiled as milk, or boiling water may be poured upon it. It is very digestid, ble, aud of a fattening nature. Rusk.?1 cup of butter, 1 of sugar, 1 "!r pound of Hour, 1 pint of milk, 3 eggs, 18 1 cup of yeast, bake in quick oven. MM ? o.r.na V.Q If o IC Dpuilge VQfVC. i'lTO cggo * nun u y. pound of sujjar, and a quarter of a ,i, pound of dour. ,n A weak solution of alum water will set the colors iu printed goods of every description. Cold water ciacks hot iron. iu* fallibly. Home and Fnrm. When we go along the country high,g way, and tee the wide cracks in ihe y empty barns, we waul to stop and tell e the owner that those cracks are leak te boles in his farm management, p Through the>e places the farmer's protits slip away, because the thief?cold ?finds here its entrance. While his j] cattle shiver, some fodder must pay e the cost, or less flesh and milk are the ' results. Now, before another winter, g stop the leaks. The common housefly, although apy parently au uu mitigated nuisauce, is of more use to humanity thau 1s genJm erally known. Iu. the larval state they consume large quautities of decaying vegetable matter, also decaying animal matter, and but for the work '3' they accomplish, poisonous matters would so predominate iu the air as to breed pestilence. The liouselly is litu' erally the scavenger of the air and should not be altogether discour!r aged. r. Dissolve alum iu hot water, making a very stroug solution; apply to furniH. ture or crevices in the wall with a paintbrush. This is a sure distructiou a 10 iTl noxious vermin, and invaluable ?r because so ea.>ily obtaiued; is perfectly safe to une, and leaves no trace behind. - " iiitwil IkWtt (iQ klUITU 1 / vH (Tiii I I YY liCIl ^UU DUi-JA-Vt Hiwiuo UMf V in the borders of the carpets, wet the ,e edges of the carpet with a strong so ;r lution. Whenever it reached them it is certain death. e* Vaseline is growing in favor as an >' emolient for shoes. Tike a pair of shoes especially the shoes worn by S" ladies, and wiien they become hard 11 aud rusty apply a coating of vaseline, 11 rubbiutf well wilh a cloth, and the r" leather will at once become soft aud n pliable, aud almost impervious to ' water. ie r. Many women scrupulously avoid the r- use of soap on their faces, supposing it to be especially harmful. This is a e mistake; a tine toilet soap like Pear's )t soap should be used once aday tt least, then the face should be rinsed in tepid H- soft water, this process cleansing the t- skin thoroughly. A tine flannel wash cloth is said to be the best. Chicken Fingers.?Cut thin slices from the breast of a cold roast chicken; cut eacti slice iu.narrow strips; dip iu )f Mayonnaise sauce; arrange four strips e on each t-lice of buttered bread; cover e with top slices and cut in four narrow strips lengthwise; fold eacn snce id ,H wax paper; pile ou a uapkin and *; serve. >! ?r Olive Sandwiches.?Stone a dozen 4t olives; chop them tine; a*Id an ounce of s butter aud a little cayeuue; mix and t- spread ou slices of buttered bread: trim neatly and arrange on a dish, aud garnish with lemon. A little flour of sulphur spriukled n over a barrel of rain wuter will keep Is insects from depositing (heir eggs in Is the water. l* Never scrub oilcloth, but was.j it " with a soft rag. Use neither hot nor '? very cold, but lukewarm water, and y no soap. j Powdered charcoul is the best cleanr ser ami purifier of glass bottles in which milk or food has been carried. . ; It is said that horseradish leaves r laid over pickles will keep them from i molding. 0 n Honey eaten on wheat bread is very beneficial to health, aud also very ' pleasant to the taste. r To clean enamelled wear used finely r powdered pumice stone. t To remove grease spots from the r range, rub with a soft rag and a little r pa ratline. y Clean sinks with boiling water and strong soda. The Function of the Home.?It is well for us to be lemindtd of first priuc ciples. Wearesoapt to forget them The Christian Union reminds us of r one: "A first fu.ictiou of the home is to furnish a reservior ot rest auai strength lo the husband and father. | The man's shoulder belongs under, the burden; and if the woman, emua lating his achievements, takesso much ! : of life's burden upon herself that her! wearied husband, son, brother, comes, P; Louie, not to be rested, soothed, aud I cheered by her presence, but to take! e! on a new burden in his sympathy with j1 the overwrought and wearied wife and ' 1 mother, it is certain that she has lost i 1 sight of her mo?t Sacred service in her j ambition to render one of inferior I utility. Too often, alas! she cannot 1' prefer even this excuse for her nerve; less and jaded condition." J (ZIod's Herald.) How much dej ends on the way things are put! Nearly every opinion njay be stated offensively or otherwise, according us certain terms and tones are u.-ed or not. An Oriental monarch asked two Interpreters the meaning of his dream. One said, "You will lose all your children .and relations and then die yourself." The monarch ordered this prophet of evil to be beheaded. The other said, "Your Majesty will survive all your family." This one was loaded with favor, though he had really said the same things as the first. Two preachers went through a countryside delivering their Gospel message. One cried, "If wnn Hnn'r raruiit vmi orill ho Hfivn. Jvu J"- " "" ? ued and all the people were mad. The other proclaimed in winning words, "If you forsake your sins, you be saved," and they nocked around him. Some people go through life. jamming their sharp elbows iuto everybody's sides, hitting everybody's sores, ami treading on everybody's, corns; then they wonder why they are ?ounpopular, aud talk about being martyrs to the truth. Two soldiers lay under their blank eta looking up at the stars. Bays Jack : "What made you go into the army, Tom?" "Well," replied Tom "I had no wife, and I loved war, Jack , sol went. What made you go?'; "Well"' returned Jack, "I had a wife' ai.d I loved peace, Tom ; so I went.' Something must be wrong when two parts of a man's life fail to agree. < An error has got in somewhere. Profession and practice ought neve/ to appear as though, they ought to belong to two persons instead of one. Suffering becomes beautiful when any one bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind. God's Care For Worrylnc. From beginning to end a Christain life lu a life of faith. The word "trust" is the keyword of Old Testament theology, and the word "believe" is the keyword in the .New. They both mean the same thing. Jesus Christ never agrees to bear the sinuer's sins until the sinner is penitent, and has willingly accepted him as his substitute and burden-bearer. When our heavenly Father says to us, "Give Me your load; trust Me; what you cannot do I will do Tor you He expects us to take Him at His word. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we intrust them to Him. Worry is blind : but God sees iuto the luture, and often sees the coming relief just ahead. Worry impatient; DUt the patient God bids us wait and see. Worry corap ains of the weight of the loads; but God's offer is to lighten them Ly putting Himself, as it were, into our fcouls and under the loads. He then become* our strength?a strength equal to the day. This is a supernatural work. This -is what is meant by, "My grace is sufficient for j'oti." This is the resultof having Jesus Christ dwelling in oUr souls as a light to cheer and a power to sustain. "Follow Me" implies that Christ leads us at every step, aud he never means to lead us over a precipice or leave us in the lurch. Such actual and con>tant trust is the only real autldote to worry. The more entirely and simply and implicit| ly we trust, the quieter we become. i\s me uaoy uropa over upou uiuiuer's bosom into sweet repose, so God giveth His beloved sleep ? not sleep from work, but sleep from worry. I have always found tiiat legitimate work is strengthening to body, brain,and heart; but worry frets and fevers us. It chafes our spirit and kills ourdevotions. Nearly the whole magnificent thirty-seventh Psalm is aimed against the sin of fretting. Paul, the giaut worker who laid the foundations of Christ's kingdom from Jerusalem toRome, and who had the oversight "of all the churches," never seems to have chafed himself with a moment's worry. He warned sinners "with tears," but they were t-uch tender tears as Jetu* had *hed over a guilty city. "Be anxious for nothing, brethren," was his calm counsel to his comrades, for he knew whom be believed* It is the weak and wicked worry over tho future that,mitfl vour sinew*. Re member that God never promises any* thing more than grace sufficient for the hour aud strength equal 10 the day. God's love will outlast all your tomorrows ; roll your anxieties oyer on tnat Jove; it will cure all your worrying.?Dr. Cuyler, in "The Evangelist." What a Friend Is. This is the prize definition : "The first person that come* in when the whole world goes out." The followingare some of the definitions submitted: A bank of credit on which we c-n draw supplies of confidence, counsel, sympathy, help, and love. One who considers my need before my belongings. The triple alliance of the three great powers?love, sympathy, aud help. Oue who understands our silence. A jewel whose lusler the strongaeids of proverty aud misfortune can nut dim. Oue who emiles on our faults, sympathizes with our sorrows, weeps at our berave>iients. and is a safe fortress in all times of trouble. One who, gaining the top of the ladder, will not forget you if you remaiu at the bottom. uue wno iu prosperity uoei nut many you, in adversity as-ists you, iu sickness nurses vou, and after death marries your widow and takes care of your children. The holly of life, whose qualities are overshadowed iu the summer of prosperity, l?ut blossoms forth iu the winter of adversity. He who does not adhere to the saying that number one should come first. A watch which boats true at all time and never ruus down. All assurance against misanthropy. An earthly minister of heavenly happiness. , A friend is like ivy?the greater the ruin, the closer lie clings. Obituary Notices.?The Northwest ern Christian Advocatehas this to say "The Euglish Methodist Church na |>ers change sixty ceuts for" death no tices of thirty words, and have no otner omcuimy department. ah American Methodist papers priut memoirs free, and yet many complain because editors are obliged to 'boil dowu'obituaries. They do not know how highly they are favored." A Meeting-House Members.?There are too many of them. The Chirstian Witness gives this: "When a worldling taunted a Christian with the &