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It St N JEWELRY come and see our n Ol b ai <te DuPRE. j G b ICE! j u o = , y a 4th day of De SI )3, bought out the b . CRYMES in ;; ness of fi IR & CO. \ t( ii : business at the u a here I will be glad 1 !a I a II i Plftasft. iF :err, 1 [. D. Kerr Co. | A KISS FOR A BLOW: itiowl 11 the way to Prevent Quarrel* Anions' Children. When I lived in Boston, r was one of he school committee. I used lo visitj' orne of the public schools in the city ( .lmost every day, atid spend a few ( ninute^ in each school, talking 10 the hildren 011 peace tnd temperance. L'he children understood that when I { ame to the schools, they were at iberty to a-k me my opinions on these objects. They generally had some , luestions to ask. One day I visited one of the infant i chools. There were about fifty chil- r Irin in it, between four and eight j ears of age. "Children," said I, "has any of you v , question to ask to-day ?" t riease to ten us," saiua ntue ooy, ^ what is meant by 'overcoming evil r yith good ?'" ' I am glad," said I, "you have ask- [ d that question ; for I love to talk to a ou about peace, and to show you how \ o settle all difficulties without flghtog." . I L then tried to show them what the c recept meant, and how to apply it nd carry it out. While I tried to o think of something to make it r ilain to the children, the following in- ( ident occurred : A boy about seven years of age, and r lis sister about live years of age, sat s lear me. As I was talking, George p oubled up his tist and struck his ( ister ou her head, as unkind ami cruel rothers often do. 8he was angry in a 1 aoment, and raised her hand at once t r> strike him in return. Tho teneher f aw her, and said, "Stop, Mary; you j ad better kiss you brother." Mary ropped her hand, and looked up at v lie teacher, as if she did not fully un- ^ erstand her. She had never been L lught when at home to return good 0 or evil. She thought that if her rother struck she, ,of course had a [ght to strike in return. She had alrays been taught to act on this cruel laxim. Her teacher looked kindly at er and at George, and said again, K My dear Mary, you had better kiss 8 our brother. See how angry and un- " appy he looks!" Mary looked at ^ er brother. He looked sullen and . retched. Her resentment was soon one, and love for her brother returned >herheart. She threw both her arms e Dout his neck, and kissed him. The p oor boy was wholly unprepared for ^ is blow. He could not endure the enerous affection of his sister. His 11 elinj{S were touched, and he burst h nt crying. His gentle sister took the ., lrner of her apron, and wiped away 1 is tear.*, and sought to comfort him v y saying, with endearing sweetness a, ad generous affection. "Doi't cry. ^ u/vrrvn ? /% ? /f nnf Kn?*f tr?n tviii/tli J KJ U U1U UVH iiUll U1C UlUV/li* at he only wept the more. No won?r. It was enough to ruake any body eep. ~ u But why did George weep? Poor js ttle fellow! Little did be dream lat his sister would give him such a f1 veet return for his blow. Would he ave wept if his sister had struck im as he had struck her? Not he. y kissing him as she did, she made im feel more acutely than if she bad p jateu him black and blue. By strikig him again she would not have Cl lade him feel sorry at all. It was n iat sweet, sisterly kiss?that gentle f< ;tor wiping away his tears with her u jron?that generous and anger-killig affection, that led her to excuse im, and to seek to comfort him by o tying, "'Don't cry, George ; you did 8l DC nuro me mucntnese mings lade him weep. It would make any n )dy weep, to receive such kind and 1' jnerous treatment from one whom b 3 had injured. No man could withand it. A kiss for a blow ! All the school ^ iw at once what was meant by over- d >ming evil with good, and they need- c, I no further instruction on the 6ubct. If Mary had struck her brother 0 i return, there would have beeu a ejht. It was prevented by her kiss, tl When others strike you, or do any e( ling to you which you think an iniry, do as sweet little Mary did. ive a kiss for a blow, and there will y i no trouble. They will take care ei ow they wrong you in any way, when i] ley are once sure that the injuries ley do you will not be returned, hougn George was ihe older and the f< n rwl s?/\nl/l of nSlra f Via hnrHor _ ?i | auvi i/uuiu oiunu luc na:uv?, p| pt Mary conquered hin. George's roTig body, bis muscular arm and ard blows, were not a match for the P rong love and sweet kiss of Mary, ri f George had had the body of a giant, 0 : the strength of a million of men in . is arm, Mary's sweet love and kiss, ad those gentle but heart-piercing a orda, "Don't cry, George; you did d othurt me much," would have con- ^ uered them all. What could poor eorge; do? If he had had all the rms and soldiers in the werld to help 1 im in his attack upon Mary, conduct f< ich as hers would have conquered 8( iem all. . Dear children, arm your sullen c >oks, your provoking "uicknames, our clenched fists, and furious blows, f] nd take the sweet love and soft words u f little Mary ; then go foorth to meet our enemies, and you may be sure of L n easy and peaceful victory. "John, you may recite." "I forgot, r, that the page was torn out of my 0 00k, and I could not study the lesson ist night." "Since when is the page lissiug?" "Ever since my sister bad u ; last year." That is a pretty slory, ohn. Let me see your book." If bat teacher could only see what an tfect his cutting words have 011 the oy. "What have I done that be hould doubt my word?" hi asks g imself. Have I ever deceived him ? j am a liar in his eyes, and he dares a show it before the whole class. A a iar? I? and I always thought so j nuch of him." The poor boy's eyes 5 re tilled with tears, his heart swells t nto his throat ; he feels like crying, ?ut boyish pride chills his emotion * nd hides the grief under the ma4 of ' , smile. The teacher does not know ( hat be has lost his hold on the boy? , U?.w. c * rcruujis luieyer. ( 1 m i i Honor, like the shadov, follows i hose that flee from it, but flies from < hem that pursue i Affliction is no evidence of the diirine displeasure against U9. But all iffliction should "yield in us the peacetime fruits of righteousness." ... . . .... " .... What Others Sav. The difference between a ;leman and a counterfeit is that the former presents the gentleman without effort and the latter presents the ifl'ort without the gentleman. This ule will hold good in the higher realm >f religion, as well as in society. ? <9* ?To complain that your good work or your fellow men is not apreciated, s to show that there is an untouched nnt nf QatBdhnnQu in vahi? W. Ill JT * /14 I IIULU1V.1 Paul wrote to the Corinthians : "I vill gladly spend and be spent for you; hough the more abundantly I love 'ou the less I be loved." That senti1nent should animate us all. Itiscerain that the world will never fully ipreciate its noblest benefactors. The vhite hands that brought the best ;ifts to men were nailed to the cruel TOSS. If a meteor could be invented to nark the flow of worldlines9 into the Church it would be an instructive and narvelous invention. The face of uch a meteor would astound many a >astor. "Wherever," says Richard ;ecn, "tnereisan attempt to set off he music in the service, and the atemptis apparent, it is the first step oward carnality." Where is the rlethodist Church in town or city yhich has not taken this first step ? Where is the Methodist Church which las not added other steps to ihis first ne??Nashville Christian Advocate. I t K. Hood, E?q.f in Central Methodist. The lungs are a crematory of human arbage. The exhaled breath is the moke and floating gases from this Valley of Hinnom." For hours in be Conference room this viewless air mded with eliminated human impurLies growing denser with foulness very moment was poured, a rank oison, into the system. The oxygen tiat leeds life ?vas exhausted iu a lew iiuutes. Ten meu would, in three ours, consume the entire supply oi ure air iu the church. Ttie arc ol entiiatiou is unknowu to the averse architect. Only one church iu Linerica has clean air during a service -Dr. Hall's in JSew York. Every fifjeu minutes the air is changed in the udilorium. The vitiated atmospnere i drawn out auda new supply, waruid iu winter to a pleasant temperature, i let in?Richmond. Ch. Ad. Why Crime Increases.?Judge Isaac 'arker, of the United States district ourt for Western Arkansas, lately lade some startling statements, and allowed them with suggtstive comipnto In charging the grand jury at the penjng of his court at Fort Smith, he iid that whereas the ascertained umber of murder* in this couutry in 389 was less than 3,600, aud in 1890 ut 4,304, it was nearly 9,000 in 1891. It is startling to learn that there ^ere twenty-five more supposed niurerers lynched in i889 than were exeuted according to law, and the exces> f lynched over executed murderers 'as sixty-seven in 1890; but assumiug aat only one person was concerned iu ttcii rauruer, naraiy one m twenty 01 tiose guilty of the crime in these two ears flittered the penalty of death, ither at the hands of the law or by tie violence of a mob. Judge Parker gives several reasons )r the shocking state of affairs thus evealed : The indifference and inompetence of courts; the general reyalence of perjury ; the use of corupt means?money, and social and ther influences?to shield criminals ; tie sickly sentimentality that turns an ssassiu into a hero as K?)ou as he is in anger of his life ; and finally, the in ifference of the people at large. This comment is substantially true, 'he remedy must come first at tiie auntain head. The people are the ource of all power. If they so will he evil can be stopped. Socicty must protect itself, but the irst thing for society to do is to reco^lize the danger it is in because it dots lot protect itself. Broad cloth took its name from its in usual width. Great Britain has $500,000,00i) in iur railroads. England's wealth is placed at $50,00000,000. Britain owns half the ocean ships. 4lA.. a .. 1)1 oonu \ UllV<- i iiuiiv m Kivvni Look for u moment hL conversation is we overhear it on the street, the ior9eand steam cars. Here we find >urselves involuntarily deciding who ire those best acquainted with the aws of polite society and good breedng. Setting aside the cause of deafless, we are often annoyed at the perlistency with which people in near jroximity to ourselves endeavor, in jonversation with their friends, to cuiirhten all the others as to their private iffairs, business, poverty or wealth, friends servants, and what not. This s due partly to home education in the matter of conversation, and partly to ihose who have acquired wealth and liad no early education and culture. Benefit your friends, that they may love you still more dearly; benefit your enemies, that they may become vour friends. GRAINS When humility says, "Look at me," it ceases to be humility. The moral character is an essential to a man as a spiritual experience. The need of the hour is not macninery, but men; not doctrines, but deeds. The title prince is from a Latin word signifying leader, and dates from the Roman empire. Do not wait till to-morrow, but begin to-day to discharge every known duty, great and small. Begin the new year in the spirit of hope. Shut out ill will from the heart, and let Hunsbine fill the precincts of the home. Some of us never look towards heaven until God nuts us on our backs so that we can not look any other way. The girdle of truth too tough to beak, is easily cut with the small blade of the Devil'? knife otherwise known as a "white lie." An orthodox creed consorts ill with a bad life; though the two are often seen in one person. A. good habit is the best friend that one can have in moments of moral and spiritual depression. Radicalism h&tes everything that is old ; fogyism hates everything that is new; conservatism looks at the intrinsic qualities of things. The worst species of cow'ardice in public life is displayed by the individual who stubbornly sticks to it when he is wrong. Sincerity is speaking as we think, believing as we pretend, acting as we profess, performing as we promise, and being as we appear to be. If people are iuled by fear they are sure to be untruthful, and if they are not allowed to think and act for them selves, they lose conscience?it dies. The chief secret of comfort lie" in not suffering trifles to vex up, nnd in cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures. "Do you have many conversions here?" asked a traveler of a guide who was showing him around a great cathedral. "Conversions!" said the man. "This is not a We9leyan chapel!" You will do the greatest service to the State if you raise, rot the roof* nf the houses, but the souls of the citizens ; for it i? better that great fouIs should dwell in unall houpes llian that mean souls should lurk in great houses. Take time ; It is no use to fume or fret or do as the angry housekeeper who has got hold of the wroug key aud pushes, shakes and rattles it about the lock until both are broken and the door is still unopened. The Church often errs still In seeking a glory too external. It cannot compete with the world in what is distinctively the world's glory. Even Solomon's temple was far outdone by the golden house of Nero. The motives which 7ead men to begin a religious life are likely to be more or less mixed. If there is however a healthy germ of sincerity among them, it will gradually throw off all alien or unworthy elements. It need scarcely he saidt hat this progessive clarification of character is so far from beinga simply natural process, that it involves and requires the constant agency of the| Holy Spirit. Character in Gnit. Gait is an Important part of physical expression. By his gait a man tells us whether he is fresh or tired, strong or feeble, in good health or in bad. To some extent also gait denotes occupation. The upright and somewhat rigid walk of the soldier differs largely from the rather rolling gait of the sailor; and different from both of these is the slow, jolting gait of the country laborer, which, however, is partly accounted fur b> his cluuisy and heavy boots. Jn the peculiarities of gait, a?aiu, au attentive eye| discovers many moral quauues. "Slow step*, whether long or short, suggest a gentle or reflective state of mind, as the case may be; while on the contrary, quicksteps seem to speak of agitation and energy. Reflection is revealed in frequent pauses, and w alking to and Iro, backward and forward, the direction of the steps wavering and following every changing impulse of the mind, inevitably betrays uncertainly, hesitation and indecision." It might ask too curious a knowledge to*distinguish by their respective gaits the miser, the spendthrift and , the philanthropist; but ibe proud man is almost always known by his step, the vain man to someextenti and the obstinate man not a little. Ntnmmeriiiff, A gentleman who stammered from childhood cured himself by the following method: He went into a room where he could disturb no one and would not be disturbed himself, and read two hours aloud to himself, keeping his teeth together. He was careful to read slowly and distinctly, moving his lips freely, but not his teeth. This he repeated every five or six days for a month, and then at longer intervals until he was cured. When conversing with others he com--"-I ?_ ? ,,v olnwlv and peneu liiujscii iu rprua j distinctly, and resolved that he would not stammer. The first result of the reading was to make the tougue and jaws ache, and the next to loosen the talking apparatus and make speaking less difficult. Perseverance in this course entirely cured the stammer' iug. < It is a curious fact that on immersing oue hand in cold water, a corresi ponding reduction of temperature occurs iu the other. It is better to say, "This one thing : T do," than to say, "These forty > things T dabble in."?Washington / Star. i. - ; L w, a The Cheap Variety Show, There is perhaps 110 greater peril to the moral interests or our cities and towns than this. A glance at the Bill Boards, discloses the utterly demoralizing character of its exhibitions. The performers and the performances are of a low and immoral type. Very little but filth of the filthiest kind finds a place there. Yet it is almost always thronged with eager .and intensely interested patrons. And it is a motly crowd that pours out through its open doors, at the close of every perfomance. Youngmeu and mostly working men, with here and there a hoary headed sinuer, and occasionly a womau of doubtful reputation, make up the crowd. The cheapness of the admission price draws the class that cannot affod to attend the higher priced theatre. And there is not much difference between them after all, in the effects upon the morals of their patrons. But the ppeoial danger of the cheap ohow lies in the fact that it is within the reach of tiie boys and girls. It catches the children who are on the streets, or who are permitted by their carele-s parents to go where ihey please after night-fall. Many a boy who has given a plausible explantion of his first late return home in the evening, has in fact made his first visit to one of these places of demoralization. The dime in his pocket was enough to purchase the ticket. Some boy companion who had been there awakened bis desire, by a graphic discription of the exciting scenes within < and the youthful impulse was all that was needed to carry him into the place ho easy of access. And thus day by day, and night by night, these corrupters of the young are gathering their i prey for ruin. Parents, do you know where your i boy spends his evenings? If not, the chances are very great tnac ne is already an habitue of the Dime Museum, or the "Cheap Varieties." Find out at once, if you would save him from quick and certain ruin. Surely there must be some way to protect the unprotected youth from these emisaries of the Evil One. Don't Try To Cbent a Lnwer. A young lawyor, just starting in his profession, hung out his sign in a Connecticut town where there was only one other lawyer, au aged judge. A close-fisted old fellow, thinking to get legal advice for nothing, called 'Upon the young man, told him he was very glad he had come into the town, as tne old judge was getting superanuated, and then contrived in a sort of neighborly.talk to get some legal questions answered. Then thanking the youngman, he put on his hat and waft about to leave, wheu the youDg man asked him if he should charge the advice, for which the fee was five dol- 1 lars. .1 . ? rinlanf < I ne oiu iciiuw wcm. iuw ?. passion, and swore he would never pay. The young lawyer told him he would sue him if he didn't. So the old fellow went down to see the judge, found him hoeiug in his ! garden, and said. "That yonng scamp that's just come j into town ! I dropped in to make a neighborly call on him, and he 1 charges me five dollars for legal ad- 1 vice." Served you right," said the judge; "you had no business to have gone to him." "But have I got to pay it, jydge." "Of course you have." "Well, then," said the man, "I suppose I must," and started off. "Hold on said the judge aren't you going to pay me?" Pay you ? What for?" "For legal advice." What do you charge ?" "Ten dollars." The result was that the old fellow [had to pay five dollars to theyouDg lawyer and ten dollars to the old one. A Dok Story with n Current Moral. | A large aud small dog happened to start from opposite sides of a stream at the same lime to cross it oyer a narrow board which spanned it. They I met in the middle. They both came j to a stop, for they could not pass each other on the narrow board. The little dog sat down on the board, held up his head and began to whine. The big dog stood a moment appearently cogitating what to do, when suddenly a thought struck him. He spread his forelegs apart to the outer-edges of the board, also his hind legs, and then looked at the little dog as much as to siiv; "Now is your time!" Where upon, the little fellow shot through between the big dog's leg and safely reached the other side, wagging his tail with delight and approval of so clever a trick, while the big fellow walked philosophically over to his side, no doubt well satisfied with himself, as he certainly had a good right to be. Nbort Lewtonji on Beading:. If young people only knew the value of their youth! A half-hour each day steadily giveu to the vanquishing of some real books on history science, literature, is three hours a week, is more than twelve hours a month, is more than twelve solid days, of twenty-four houis each, a year. What cannot the busiest mau accomplish by such seizure of the fragments of his time? Ob, if the young people L-nuiv the culture possible for 'J ? them by such simple means ! Aud forever more it is the man who knows who gets to be the man who does, an,d to whom the chance for doing comes. Merely frittering newspapers and novel reading, u youthhood devoted only to that, bow pitably sad ! No ship drifts into harbor. No young person drifts into an achieving manhood or womanhood. A Christian receutly remarked : "I will not say much of my love to God but I would speak of my love to humanity." The love of humauity producing words aud deeds of kindness is Christlike aud proceeds from love to Uod. Good may come out of evil, and the keen edge of misfortuue be blunted by the kind sympathy of generous hearts. f Agate Windows. . Be comforted, be comforted. Ye tempest-towed and worn, Who wait amid the shadows ' For hope's celestial morn; The valley hath Its harden, , ' -wj Its vision, and Its sonjr, And strains of lav irn waiter) From heaven's Immortal throng. ' " There Is a placo of sapphires Within th? school of Christ, ' ^awj And faith hath her foundations i rJi In sheen of amethyst. Time's border-land Is Jewnled ' A With many a radiant gun, And love divine most fiubton . y, And touch and chasten them. i > He mak?s my windows agates, That I mny dimly see The glories that await me. The Joys prepared for me. 0, were the fell effulgence T<> break upon nj sight. My spirit were too eager To take Its upward flight. A Hopeful Sign. ; Christian Statesman. The Governor of Florida seems to be in earnest in his purpose to prevent the Corbett-Mitchell slugging match within the teritorv under his jarisdio* , tion. And in this determination be Vt, has the fullest approval of all right* minded people. It is difficult to con- " ^ ceiveof a more ;brutal,*fcrepulsive and degraded "sport," than that of. the im prizefight. It is in many respects ^ worse, both in character and influence ,r M than the Spanish ''bull fight," which even Spanish civlizatlon will no longer tolerate. It has not a single redeem- '% ing quality. It is purely and simply coarse aud vulgar brutality. It ' requires the elimination of every man- v ^ ly impulse. It is a relic of barbarism " unworthy of toleration in a Christian community. The actors in it, and tbeabbettora and patrons of it, bavecertainly become dead to every noble in siinct or numanuy. Tneysre Kinared to the lowest orders of brutes. jagg And surely the secular press is deserv- ''* ?! ing of the severest condemnation for v??? i?s altitudte toward the wicked and def;raded "sport." It gives it widest pubicity. It devotes whole columns, day after day, to the most laudatory no- - M tices of the chief "brutes." It sends : 'jn its correspondaots with the brutal Xy crowd when a "mill is in prospect. 'a. It publishes under, great display headlines, the daily habits of the sluggers, 'f'm catching up and heralding over- the ..J land their silly boasts, as if they' were ' ^ the oracles of some great mind, recounting with manifest approval and delight the crimnal methods by which the "managers" evade or override the ^ law, depict in the most graphic oolors. tbe sickening details or l&e "ugnt," ;.i in which two so-called men smash and batter, aud braise one another, '-.i until one or the other falls bleedlpg wji to the ground, and keep it up through round after round, until one or tne other is rendered so limp and helpless ja that he is unable to rise, and then the ech tbe praises of the "Wold's cham- ^ pion," as of some mighty victory for :>3ai God and humanity. For much of this whole disgraceful business tbe seo- ' ^ ular press is responsible. If it would refuse to give it publicity, the prize ^ fight would soon be a thing or the > past. In 'striking contrast with the attitude of the press toward this brutal "sport," is that of the civil authorities of the different states. For the past few years they have set- themselves openly and determinedly against.. It. They have refused to permit a -y.J$ "meeting" within their bounds. The two or three states in the author!titles nave heretofore winked at the viola- > tion of tbe law in the matter, have now also refused to harbor the sluggers within their domain. It is to be hoped that they will adhere to their publicly expressed purpose. No place within the boundaries of Christian civlization should be open to the brutal "prize fight." W. J. Robinson. j A Desirable Gift. What the world needs among other things is more of those people who possess the invaluable charm of a happy disposition. Who does not enjoy coming in coutaotwith such persons? They carry a radiance of soul with them that seems to affect the very at- ^ mospbere. Tbeir tastes, habits, views, and opinions may differ from our own in every way, and yet we are unavoid, ably drawn toward them and faclnated by tbem. Tbey posess such pleasantness of disposition, such sweetness of temper, such gentleness of spirit that they become endeared to you while you may differ with them. Some .are at great advantage in the very out start by havin a natural gift this sweetness of soul. And surely fhio ia a mn*t desirable jrift. a great gift to any man no matter"what may be the sphere in which he moves. All apreciate the presence of a sunny temper, a happy spirit and a frank, candid manner. Fearless preaching.?Anthony Com stock was asked by some one i n the audience in one of the Congresses, if he did not think that ministers had better give their attention to preaching the gospel, and not to persecutons of manufactures and venders of vile literature. *. 1.1? ii,? Comstock repjiea Dy absmg iuc ttoutlemen, if he found a friend thrusting his child against a buzz saw whether be would stand off and quote Scripture at him. To satisfy all parties the preacher must not disturb the eqalamity of the vilest miscreant alive. But preaching ' v tb^ gospel has for its objective the expulsion of sin from the world. The msuister who preaches the mostgos* pel is the one who strikes the most sin and strikes them hardest. We would not give a cent for a preacher who would not make us wince. He does not cut because he likes to, but because be has to.?The Interior. v M * T 1111 ' '^ I" little V?AnaoHao jljilllc hcli'uclliais) iibviu uvuoovivd| little passing worde of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, littie silent victories over favorite temptations?these are the threads of gold which when woven together, gleam so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves. ?The Indiana courts have a curious problem, relates the Washington Sta r A man who was fined fjr profanitypapealed on the ground that he was on his own nremlses when be SDoke, and had a right to use any kind of language that he pleased. 1! 'i sJSit ... ..Ji