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1 The Abbeville Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1894. ESTABLISHED 1844 RICHARD GANTT. is now prepared to do all work In his department In tbe besl manner and at reasonable charges. Monthly customers shaving, hair cutting and ^am poolng $1 per month. Raxorfi honed and put in the beRt condition for 25 ceDts each. School Notice. A LL persons holding school claims will J\ have them registered at once, as I want o make oi> my aunual reiiort. K. COWAN, School Commissioner. Oct. 25,1803.11 J J. T. PARKS, * + Fire, Life & Real Estate Agent J ^ Cotlirau'M Bru-lt ofliee, Main Strecl. A # ' fok nam:. 4 Q Settingsof Imlian Oaine Fowls $2.00 A ^ Meltings of S. ('. Brown Leghorn, 150 T a Abbeville, S. c? Fell. 7, T E. F. GILLIAED, /.TAILOR, HAS moved, and occupies the room recently occupied by J. L. Clark, the gunsmith, and Is now prepared to do all kinds ot repairing and cleaning of gentlemen's clothes on short notice. Samples of suits always on hand. Charges reaaoQttble. TEEEA COTTAWELLS PRICES to SUIT the TIMES. IN THE FUTURE I propose to sink the celebrated Terra Cotu Wells at a great reduction tn my former price. So parties deslring an everlasting supply of good sparkling water at a low price would do well to confer with me belore making other arrangements, an I propose to mnke It u> the Interest of all to do ho. WATER OR NO PAY?Is my mot 1 ovnorlfl.iw, OtMniiinil lO. 1 UHVti ill ic-11 jnnoc?|/vv..vv testimonials In six couutles. Address C. M. CALHOUN, Greenwood, S. C. March 22,1S33, tf A Complete and Full STOCK OF THE CELEBRATED Mfitrnnnlitan >iTanil nf MiiBfl Faints OF t JOHN LUCAS & CO. always on band at the City Drug Store. PRICES IN ONE GALLON CANS by thr single can $1.25. A liberal discount to painters uMug large quantities. Oct. 25,18S8. tf eTboggero, GREENWOOD, S. C. TMTANUFACTURER aod dealer in Rougb -i-'A Granite, Monuments. Gravestones, all kind Cemetery Woik. and Builders Work. All orders prompr'y attended to. Feb. Zl, 1JSH. 3bi. ' SCHOOL NOTICE. All persons having business with the School CommlsH'oner will And blm tn his office nil public days and every Saturday In each month nearest the middle of the month, daring the present year for the purpose of registering claims, Ac. E. COWAN, School Oomnalss'mer \bbeviile County. Feb t. 1892. Registration NOTICE. rpHE BOOKS OF REGISTRATION will be 1 opened in my office on Law Range, us the law directs on the First Monday in Each MoDth, until first Monday in July, IS84, when the law requires theiu clowed until after the next general election. This Is lor ihe purpose of regiw. lerlne all persons who have become of age. or entitled to register since last election; to irHDRfer narsons from this to another county: nnd lrom one township-to another,or from one residence to enother. All IhU muKt. be lone before or on the ilrstMonday In July, UN. Lost certificates may be renewed to wltbln 30 days 01 the "lection, find those who ?>ecome of age between 1st July aud the election, may register at any time before election. Those wbo Refused or NfulfHfd to Rcglstei before the Inst election, cannot agister until the law is changed. J. D. CARtflLE, Supervisor of Regis) rut lor for Abbpvlllt County. (.Ore. r?, m'5, tf Every Man A Capitalist. You can become a capitalist at once by laying by a small part of your yearly income and investing it in a Tontine policy of the Equitable Life For $20 you can instantly secure a capital of $1,000 (or for $200 a capital of jio.ooo), thus acquiring an estate which you may leave to your heirs, or retain as a fund for your own support in old age, if your life l>e prolonged. Such a step will prompt you to save, will strengthen youi -credit, will increase your confidence, will preserve you from care and will give you lasting satisfaction. The Plan is Simple. The Security Absolute It is the perfect development of the life policy. To-day i? the right time to get facts anc figures. Address W. J. RODDEY, Manager, For the Carolina*. ROCK HILL, S>. C. J. C. MILLER, Sp ecial Agl Abbeville, S. C. ST"::* . rixxrz: .Military Instruction. i The daily* press is just now teeming I with articles upon the above topic. J The Century, The Arena ami other j magazines of first rank are advocating, as of paramount importance, tlie plai I outlined in the resolutions adopted bj the Grand Army of the Republic it I its twenty-seventh annual encamp j ment. I These resolutions may be summed 1 up as follows : 1. ]{e.solve<l, That the Grand Army j cordially endorse the words of ex-President Harrison, that "(he strength and defense of our institutions, not only iu peace but in war, is to he found i in the young of the land who have received fruu (he lips of patriotic teaeheis ihe story of the sacrifice which our our fathers made to est a 1 >lish our civil institutions, and which their sons have repeated on hundreds of tiattle-tields. The organized army of the United Slates, eveu if we in elude the militia of the States, is of insignificant proportions when put in contrast with tlie armies of the other ' great powers of ihe world. Our j strength is not in these; it is in the [great reserve to be found in the in) strutted young of our land, who come | to its defense in time of peril." I 2. That the Grand Army recom I mends an organized effort to impress j upon the various municipal, stale and national authorities "the advisability of the adoption of a system by which I scholars attending the public and private schools, as well as the high schools aud colleges, shall receive instruction in military mutters, and to impress upon the rising generation of the country the tact that, as American citizens, it is their duly to bring to the defense of their country,' in its need, the education which they may have received in this particular in their youthful days." 3 '"Thai'thedepartment commanders give especial attention to this work through a staff'officer, and that the various posts give their earnest co-operation and support in securing necessary legislative, municipal anil schoolhoard action, us well as to obtaiu, where required, national aid by provision of arms, equipments and instructors." This movement, stripped of all the glowing rhetoric of its whereases, means nothing lei-s than that our whole country is to be put under a system ofnomuulsorv military education ; that our schools are to be turned into recruiting halls for the army of the future ; that our boysaie to be taught ideas of patriotism after the old standard of military glory. It means that, ! while the whole world is more and more looking to arbitration xs ihe only rational way of settling d.spules between nations, this nation, which should be by virtue of its very existence, in the forefront of all reforms, is turning its face towards the barbaric past rather than towards the true enlightenment of the future. It is well to face the facts, and briefly stated they are these: For tome reason or other, best known to the astute politician, it seems best that there shall be a reserve military force in this country, which can be drawn upou iudays to come if occasion for war should arise. At first sight this seems feasible, but let us examine more closely. Does not the very existence of such a force make war more probable ? Germany's petty wars throughout the ages would have been vastly lewer bad not (Jermany's huge standing army beeu always at hand, always ready to take part in knocking the imaginary chip ott'from some protruding foreign shoulder. President Harrison, in a letter sent to the Century concerning this plan, argues for it strongly, using for an an alogy the 'ateUivil war: "If all the school boys of the North had, from 1830 on, been instructed in | the schools of the soldier and of the I company, aud in the manual of arms, how much precious time would have i been saved in organizing the Union army in 18(51. We were in a low state 1 as a people in military knowledge and (training when the great Civil War ] broke out; volunteers in plenty, but J few soldiers." The analogy is a most unfortunate one. If there be anything from which we, as a nation, should pray to be de1 livered it is a repetition of anything J like that most unfortunate struggle. | Its blight is still upon our country, iand each year the fact is beoomiug J more apparent that what was ueeded I in those dark days was not more I knowledge of military tactics, but i more of the spirit of mutual love and good-will, which would have made a peaceful arbitration possible. We quote President Harrison's closing words: "Nothing will so much aid to enlarge our State militia and tc give it efficiency and character as the plan proposed. The military taste and training acquired in the school will carry our best young meu into the military organizations und make those or ganizations reliable conservators ol public order, and ready and competent defenders of the national honor.' Got forbid that, the day will ever com< when our "best young men" will crowi , into the army, when that will come tc i be regarded as the ouly "reliable con j servator of public order." There is a nobler training for tin | boys of our land than the drill of drums and muskets. The principles of tru< patriotism are the principles of eterua justice, of universal peace and good ' will. Let the public schools by al l meaus teach statesmanship; but bi no means a narrow partisanship, o even a narrow natiouaiship, if we mai ( coin the word. Our boys and girl : will not love America less by acceptinj | the fact that there are other nation l , upon earth. and that those other na . ; tions have an equal claim upon God' love, and therefore upou human jus tice. We should by this time havi i reached a state of evolution in whicl r I foreign war would be well nigh impof. ' sible, and domestic war absolutely I "unthinkable." j We hope our local unions will di . ; everything in their power to defeat thi . | measure through the department c - peace and arbitration It is high tim ? that we lift up our voice when we ar I threatened with such a wholesale in undatiou of the military spirit aiv military tactics. , All the benefit, physically, which i claimed for the military drill can b better gained through a system of gyn; j nasties, and our nation, in days t \ 'to come, will find its true defenders i ' | men who know how to avert rathe ! than to light a war.?Union Signal. Maxims. < Unreserved Christian faith and real ' consecration are not common, but rare. The few who possess these quai- E ities enjoy each other's society, and are 11 i ill at ease in any other society. As ' ' snrley as these facts are facts, so surely 1 i the best way to recover the lost aposto- v lie church is to let this attraction for r I he spirit of Christ and repulsion for . the spirit of the world have its free 1 course. If it has free course it will 8 form a Christian society, and form it 11 rightly. Of all sad and deplorable work, in- v vitiug sinners to come and be worldlyminded Christains is one ol the most pitiable. They will take our invitations in that way, however hard we try l) to prevent it, if we work on in cheerful fellowship with a worldly-miij/ded crowd. We must put the standard of piety up higher, and make the line p plainer between the spirit of Christ ( and the spirit of the world. One class of professors seek to make n religion a mere lightning-rod to make (j them I'eel safe in god lets business ami ^ wordly pleasure. They want to be J saved ; but beyond bare salvation they ^ wish as little of Christianity as possi- Q ble. This appears to be the largest _ class that can be named. Stolid determination u> uo just as t]our ancestors did, ami think just as p they thought, is imitating the heathen. u Stolidity lends to make reformsimpos- i. sible. Debaters when they do not understand a thing, and don't want to take {| the trouble to understand it, can usual- q ly ridicule it. When they caunnot re- rr sist successful, and will notyield, they are pretty sure to try ridicule. Given an indifferent and not very intelligent crowd, and a wilty, unscrupulous speaker, and there is scarcely a truth in the universe but could be cut up aud [j made food for noisy merriment. _ To credit existing denominations j with all the moral good the world contains, is a shallow conclusion. To value an institution correctly we must j consider not only what it is, and what it does, but what else would occupy t the grouud if it were gone. Do not praise a vine that bears two pounds of j indifferent grapes. Pull it up, and plant one that will bear twenty pounds ^ of good grapes. r( To be qualified to labor in the truth m we must realize the tremendous iner- j tia of error. Expecting to convince a man brought up in error by one clear * statement of truth is like expecting to r start a canal boat or railroad car with j one blow of the fist. The truth is all right, ami the blow of the fist. The j truth is all riirht, and the blow is all ? right; but not enough allowance for ? inertia has been made. Do some tj steady pushing ! Corruption of religion may proceed slowly, through a long course of ages, tj like the slow setting of a great old temple's foundations; but no sunken . temple ever moves back to its proper place again in that quiet fashion. ^ Both the settled foundations aud the p corrupted religiou mu.-t be lifted up <( with a mighty effort, aud a disagreeable tearing up of thiugs. If college professors cared nothing about learning, aud generals cared ^ nothing about tactics, and judges car- ^ ed nothing about statutes, we should think we bad fallen upon a sunken j. age. What then shall we say of an age when eminent religionists boast of ^ caring nothing about doctrines ??and nothing about the prophecies also, k about one-third of the Bible? c Some things are best done individ- f: iimJIv. at one's own motion. The boy who will not wash his face till afl * other boys wash their faces will long ^ remain a dirty boy. If you see your- jj feelf iu a wrong position get out of it. . The plan of reform that we need, and must have, is a plau that can be j taken up and acted upon by one indi- t(J vidual Christian whose heart God has touched. Plans that require unanimi- ' ty, aud plans that require majorities, are not worth much. Man never seems to get unanimous for leaving ofT sin. Nearly every great reform requires great sacrifice and loss somewhere. It is not surprising that people cry out 1] iuminst beariner them : but such cries n are selfish, ancT must be put one side. It is nat true that opposition to bondage must Jesuits in some other form t] of bondage. It often does, but not al- j( ways. It is not true that opposition ft to denominatioualisin must result in a another denomination. It sometimes a does, but not always. There is such 1 a thing as political freedom, and there j . is such a thing as spirtual freedom. a i The world had settled down for cen- c i turies in the belief that attempting to s sustain a republic must inevitably re- q suit iu a Hespotism worse than mou- j| i archy ; yet iu these last dajs America t > proves the falsity of the world's opin- r i ion by sustaining a free republic. We n I are glad that the men of 177G tried r I once more the institutions which had i failed &o many times previously. s Someday God's chorch will be glad r T that faithful souls tried spiritual fiee- f t dom once more. j I More love to Christ (in the form of o J imitation of Christ) will help us love f 1 our brethren more. And when we a ) love them we|can tolerate them. o God helps our honest effort; we can j hardly expect him to help our lazi- f, s ness, our dilatoriness, our cowardice, j 3 or our wanton unbelief. i J Degrading coarseness does no man ] 1 good, but condescension to the lowly r - Uoes any man good, Therefore do uot. c 1 in resisting improprieties, criticise lack c ? of refinement witn needless severity, c r If people will behave as well in a wor- t shipiugassembly as they do in their \ s own parlors at home, that will usually S suffice. s Having one kind cf worship for cul- v - cured people, and another kind for un- g Sjcultured people, is likelv to result in i- sect division. Our model to work be , e is, "one fold, and one Shepherd. ' J There is a little difficulty in making c -1 refinement and rusticity feel at ease to- | y'lgether; but we must not on that ac- < j count give up our model. A sanctified g o soul is not likely to remain boorish \ s!loug. Make the assembly an , f assembly of those whose who are ( e consecrated to Jesus; and the difficulty e' about degrees of culture will soon set- . - tie itself. , il j Beware of church property. ] j Where carrion is there you will see s crows. And where large monetary in- | e terests are there you will probably see i-: covetous men. Property gives perpet- f <> uity to a dead church, when otherwise n it might disappear and rid the world r of its demoralizing presence. 1 Honest, open, Christian spirit re- . juires that we should understand an ! dea. before we fly in arms against it. Seeing a fellow being do right and lvow his reasons therefor is a power J inioug men. God is not inclined to; euve himself without a witness in j his world. We expect that his spirit j vill press home upon human hearts ai ight example rightly given. No mercy on organized sin ! Waitng for organized iniquity to reform itelf organically never accomplished i nything, aud never will. Things will move toward the right j fhen each individual proceeds at once j t) put himself in a right attitude. |, When Christian minds and hearts re where they should be they cannot I ie kept apart. For Clirislimi Neighbor. finvu tw Tt'uin'iiA vi'i'?TIim (Jrnnrl I )ivions Song of Temperance of South larolina lias almost become a thing of 1 lie past in South Carolina. We have ' ow only a few, possibly not half a ( ozen, subordinate Divisions. Our , lra::<l Scribe, Brother F. S. Dibble, of J rangeburg, who has been quite active , j 1 the order and an efficient G. S. for a umber of years, has been forced by . ircum-tances over which he had no ( [>ntrol to relinquish the work and re- , re from office. Our Grand Worthy ' atriarch, Bro. John Alexander, has rged me to accept this position, at sast until we couia nave a meeuug 01 , je Grand Division. I accepted the osltion, but only on account of my ' >ve for this grand old Temperauce ' rder, now over hulf a century old. ! he work involved is great, and I have nly a little time thut I can devote to especially for the next three lonths. This induces me to usk your id, that the readers of your valuable aper may see this notice and rally to le aid of the Temperance cause by ^organizing old Divisions of theOrer and organizing new Divisions . here there are none now. I know jere are bundredsof men and women . I our State who are in full sympathy j rith our Order and only need leaders ) direct. Have we not one or two ' len or women in each city, town, vilige and neighborhood in our State 'illing to take hold and stir up things? hink of the many grand men that >rmerjy were proud to be "Sons ol 1 emperance." Are their children all 1 ead? Jf not, then take hold and or- ' anize a Division. Some may, some 1 'ill say we are ready, but what shall * do? How shall I start? To all such < say write to me and I will take pleas- < re in telling you what to do. i will ' ither come to you or send some one to < ou atany time you name, and within ' few days you can have a Divisiou of < ae "Sons of Temperance" in active j peration in your community, f\nd then ' :ie souls of our O'Neals, Tuppers, ' Kennedys, Timmons, Townsends, and ' thers now in the better laud will re- ' >ice. Once you get the Divisions s tarted you will find that a grand ? elper, to hold the members in the I )ivision is to get them to join the ' National Temperance Relief Society," * grand body of men and and women, II members of the Sona of Temper- < nee. We have alreydy fifteen hun- 1 red members who go to make up the 1 est insurance organization in the * 'orld ; the cheapest and the easiest to * eep paid up of any insurance com- < any J know of, and all within the < inks of our Order. In this a widow I rith a number of children can easily s eep up an insurauce of from $5u0 to < 3,000, that will provide nicely for her i ttle ones if she should be taken away. * Vrite me is all I ask, and I'll give t ou all information, or if you give me s nly a half hint I'll take it as a hearty f ivitation and come and explain all, < elp you organize a Division. We unt to hold a meeting of the Grand >ivision in July ; we want from fifty ) one hundred Divisions to have del- j gates in attendance. To do this we , lust work. Brothers, sisters, men, wo-!, len, will you respond? Write me. j L. R. Marshall, , Acting Grand Scribe. i Columbia, S. C. i 1?. 8.- A little later on, say in April, j I iiose Divisions that waut the July |? leeting with them can notify me. ' We often do with greatest commence i liose things for which we have the]1 ?ast capability. To attribute motives i J lirly to our fellow inen and women, is dmitted to be a difficult task. But to 1 scribe reasons for the actions of chil 1 ren and infants?this is only too hel-j1 om treated with the dignity due to ! vital problem. A little child may j ry and cry on, not for one reason, but, uccessively, fur two, three, or more ' 'he cuuse for the beginning of the cry : f - *. ?M;ivT Mia /loiioa fni* ifa 1 ' i IIUL nerc-nai ii,y iu? iuuov >?. ,vu ...... inuance, though (here he not a mo-:1 nent's interruption. First the child nay have hurt himself, and, before he'! eeovers and is stilled, his mother or |1 lis nurse may have hurt him by a I colding word or an unsyuipathizing ! nautier. He will now cry on, more j; r the heart wound than for the pain n the flesh. In certain nervous organizations the hurts of both kinds ' iave worn themselves out. as motives. ( ,nd the crying becomes merely pliysi-!' ilogical. The paroxysm has outgrown i ts original motive, and shifted it*j1 ;rouud ; the nervous system is dom- j nant. The chihl is simply a crying i1 nachine, without couseious motive. 3ut if the parent recognizes?as pa ents too seldom, do?that the quality | if the demonstration changes, how iften dots the parent consider the ue- i iessity of a change of attitude towarii: he chihl, and of methods in dealing > villi it??S. S. Times. The three smallest horses.?In 184S vhat was thought to be the smallest ipecimen of the tquine race in the mown world was "Queen Mab." a )ampered pet at at the Loudon zoologi:al gardens. Mab was brought to this :ountry when 1~> years old but only ived three months after she reached sew York. One account says that j ihewasonly 1(? inches high, anotherj ;hat she was 2(? inches, boll) measure-1 nents probably correct, taken at dill'er;nt times. A few years ago the Baroness Bur-; Jett-Coutts owned a Shetland pony | >nly 14 inches high and IS inches in; length. But the smallest horse brute in exis-; tence belongs to the shah of Persia ! It is 128-4 inches high and wears gold ; shoes worth $50each. The best remedy for depressed spirits! is a little active work. A Strange Dialogue. Not many weeks ago a minister supposed to be in the midst of a gracious revival was met at a railway station by a friend, who said to him : "Which way?" "Going on a four weeks'trip down South." "Sick?" "Never better." "1 thought your church was in the midst of a revival ?" "All through; took in sixty-five last ; Sunday." ; "What sort are they? Pretty good class to take into the Church ?" " I don't know much about i them; I gave the invitation, they ; rose." "Do the profess to lie converted V" "A good many of them do." "I should think you would have stayed there untiil you got them well into the way of attending the services and doing church work." i ' O, no ; I left that to the church and the Holly Spirit. 1 am tired, and J ; im going off to have a good time. 1 I iarned it holding meetings right along i for four weeks." < This is the substance of a conversa- 1 Lion between a minister of'.Christ's < Oospel and a layman who once was a i spiritually minded man. i He told it merely as an incident. To us it seems as melancholy a tale I is we have heard for many a day. \ Phu mnat nritipnl nfiriod in most in- I 'tances is not that which immediately . precedes the public manifestation of a i lesire to be saved, but that whicb fol- < lows. Had the minister been sick, I ivery spiritually minded person would ; aave wished him Godspeed upon his j x>ur for recuperation; but to turn his i sack upon sixty-five converts because . tie was "tired"' and wanted a "good < ;ime," furnishes Jitila ground to be- < ieve that any one of the sixty-five i leeded a spiritual change more than i ie. I The true shepherd could not desert I lis flock at such a time, and perhaps ;he lamp ofChrist's fold are better ofl" >vheu the "hireling flees." NoiiNew ko to Sloep in Order. i According to the best writers on the } subject, says an exchange, it has been f isceriaiued that, in beginning to sleep ;he senses do not unitedly fall into a, state of slumber, but drop oft' one { itter the other. The fight ceases, in j jonsequence of the protection of the L jyelids, to receive impressions first, || while all the other senses preserve! ;heir sensibility entire. The sense ofL :aste is the next which loses its sus-jj ;eptibility to impressions, and theni( he sense of smelling. The hearing L b next in order, and last of all come :he sense of touch. Furthermore the senses are thought to sleep with different degrees of profoundness. The sense of touch sleeps the most lightly, md it is the most easily awakened ; ;he uext easiest is the hearing; the aext is the sight; and the taste and smelling awake the last. Another remarkable circumstance leserves notice; certain muscles and aartsof the body begin to sleep be- j ore others. Sleep commences at the' ?xtremitien. beginning: with the feetL rnd legs, and^creeping toward the jentre of nervous action. The necessity for keeping the feet warm and erfectl.v still, as a preliminary of ileep, is well known. From these jxplanaUous it will appear surprisng that with one or more of the senses md perhaps also one or more parts of he body, imperfectly asleep, there ihould be at the same time an imperfect kind of mental action, which proluces the phenomenon of dreaming. CourteNy In the Home. I do not know a half dozen families ( n which the members exercise to- 1 vard each other positive courtesy. 1 s lo not mean that I find most people 1 >oorish or unkind : but this, that while ' here is no lack of negative good maulers in the familj', positive manners 1 ire lacking?such manners as are ' mbitual with visitors. This is plainly 1 i great American fault. It is a fault 1 iot chargeable to the Oriental races, 1 Kir in as great degree to some of the j European nations. The glory of Japiiiese home life is tender respect for 1 pareuts and the utmost regard for the teelings of brothers and sisters. That home life cannot be truly admirable ' ind satisfactory on any other basis 1 needs no argument. I believe we 1 houid insist more on home courtesy. 1 From the earliest years the children j diould be taught to look with abhor- 1 ?nce on harsh words, or a luck of ' ;entle ones in all common intercourse. ( i)f course, I do not argue for the fliinllani of "my dear," and similar cou- 1 I'entioualitns. They mean nothing, \ ind cover considerable. What I look 1 ifter is that beauty of childhood and youth which should be, and can be, niltivated into perfect growth and l>lo?Honiing. We have so little of it! I The tine faces one pees of 10 or 12 are ( Imost all of them bearing marks of s ill-nature and ill-manners, and by 20 >r 23 they are mainly deficient in ivery element of beauty. Why shall , we have so little glorious manhood 1 ind so little glorious womauhood. Is it not because in our homes our ideal | is so cheap and our manners so empty? , T understand well that manners may ; be fraudulent, but they may also carry , the spirit of gentleness, kindness aud love.?Detroit Free Press. j? ? j liimtciintre of flie I'mbrella. An American, after lengthened study of the subject, gives the follow- 1 ing definition of the lauguage of the umbrella: "To place one in a rack at a club indicates that it will soon short- | ly change owners ; if a cotton one be ' substituted for a silk, it means that 'exchange is no robbery,'" "A mau petting all the raindrops from the points of the umbrella, which he holds over a lady, signifies courtship, but when a man keeps the lion's share of the article, giving the lady the raindrops, it denotes marriage. To carry an umbrella under the arm at an angle i implies that the individual following will lose an eye, while to hold it jnst high enough to injure passer's eyes and men's hats signifies ' T am a woman.' Lastly, the loan of an umbiella is synonymous with an act of egregious folly." He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul; but he that heareth reproof gettelh understanding. rjcciric luunv raen. The electric atmosphere of the American business world is all too] apt to make our youm^men impatient, writes Edward VV. Bok in an article on young men in the March Ladies' Home Journal. They want to tiy hefore they can even walk well. Ambition is a splendid thing in any young man. iJut he must not forget that, like lire and water, it makes a good servant but a poor master. Getting along too fast is just as injurious as getting along too slow. A young man between twenty and twenty-five mu^t be patient. I know patience is a difficult thing to cultivate, but it is among the first lessons we must learn in business. A good stock of patience, acquired in early life, will stand a man in good stead in latter years. It is a handy thing to have and draw upon, and makes a splendid safetyvalve. Because a young man, as he iitn.ronches twentv-five. begins to see things more plainly than he did five years before, he mustn't get the idea that he is a busine&s man yet, and entitled to a roan's salary. If business questions, which he didn't understand nve yeurs before, now begin to look slearer to him, it is because he is passing through the transitory state that divides the immature judgment of the young man and the ripening penetration of the roan. He is simply beginning. From then he will grow, and his salary will grow as he grows. But Home wasn't built in a day, and a business man isn't made in a night. A.s experience comes, the judgmeut will become mature, and by the time the young man reaches thirty he will be?in to realize that he didn't know as much at twenty-five as thought he did. A.nd when he is ready to learn from ithers he will begin to grow wise. And when he reaches that state where s willing to concede that he hasn't i "corner" on all the knowledge in ;his world, he will be stepping out of :he chrysalis of youth. Ronnd Nbonlden Cared. A woman physician has recommend to the Boston Herald the followng simple exercise, requiring little :ime and no apparatus, for the cure of -II nnnno nf mil n t\ Ill tTAUCJJL vcij ocvcic vasco ui auuiju shoulders, when brace9 are also somelimes a necessity : "1. Eaise arms before you, shoulier high, extend arms sidewise, throw iead back, straighten head, move irms foward, lower arms; repeat ten :imes. 2. Stand erect, raise arms before fou, rise on tip-toes, then throw arms is far backward as possible, sink again >n heels and drop arms to side ; repeat ;en times. 3. liaise arms with elbow bent, shoulder high, bringing palms togethjr in front of face, then with elbows still bent, swing both arms vigorously backward as far as possible even with :he shoulders, palms looking forward, rhis should be repeated several times, jut as the position is somewhat fatigung, rest or change of exercise may be nade between the movements." Another 3imple movement designed X) bring about a correct positiou of the shoulder-blades consists of holding a lane or wand in both hands, throwing ;he head back and carrying the stick "rom "abovetne neaa oacK ana uown :he hips." As the clothing, if too tight or unyielding about or over the shoulders, nay help to produce round shoulders, joth the under and outside waist should be comfortable and bands over he shoulder of garments made of elas;ic. Sou:* of Learniuc. "We usually think of the cities as jentersof cultivation," said a college professor recently, "but my own observation convinces me that there is uore reading done in the farm-houses ;han there is in the city." VV out a LHtpjJ_y WU1IU luio nuuiu uv . every sin-sick soul would oome to Jesus and truly be "made whole!" Little Worries. We have read of a battle against cannibals gained by the use of tacks. They had taken possession of a whaling vessel, and bound the man who was left in care of it. The crew, on returning, saw the situation, and scattered upon the deck of the veesel the tacks, which penetrated the bare feet of tbe savages, and sent them howling into the sea. They were ready to meet lance and sword, but they could not overcome the tacks on the floor. We brace ourselves up against great calamities. The little tacks of life, scattered along our way, piercing our feet and giving us pain, are hard to bear. A pastor was absorbed in studying the question of socialism, when his wife came in with despair on her face, and she wanted advice about tbe servants. "Oh, my dear," be replied, "I cannot give my time to little matters like domestic service. I am trying to solve the social problem of the universe." "Well," replied the wife, "you solve the problem in the kitchen, and I will promise you to solve the problem of tbe universe in twenty-four hours." Really, it is easier to dispose of those great questions which cover the world than it is to meet and successfully overcome the little worries which present themselves day by day.?Rev. A. C. Dixon. An exchange aptly remarks that when you see a youth who will do any sort of work, no matter how menial it may be, rather than be idle, you can make up your mind that fellow amounts to something. Tbe young man who would starve before he would do anything beneath what he conceives to be his dignity is not made of the right stuff to cut much of a figure in this world. Don't be afraid of any sort of work so long as it is honorable. It is very common for the people who ride a hobby to suppose that the world is persecuting them, when, as a matter of fact, it is simply laughing at t heir folly. aii viii noxicr vijinn. In the bon Jb of death He lay, Who for our offenae waa slain, Bui the Lord Is risen to-day, Christ ban brought us life again; W bereforefore let ua all rejoice, Sieging loud with cheerful voioe, Halleluiah ! Jesus Christ, God's only 8on, Came at last our foe to smite. All our sins away bath done, Done away death's power and right; Only the form of death la left, Of his sting he is bereft; Halleluiah! 'Twas a wondrous war I trow, LI fe and death together fought. But llle bath triumphed o'er hla foe, Death Is mocked, and set at nought; Yea, ,tls as the Scripture aalth, Christ through death hath conquered death, Halleluiah ! Now our Paschal Lamb la he, , And by him alone we live, Who to death upon the tree For our sake himself did give. Kalth bis blood atrlkeaon our door. Death dares never barm us more, Hallelullali. On this day, most blest or days, Let us keep blgb festival. For oar Goa bath showed nla grace, And his sun bath risen on all, And our hearts rejoice to see Sin and Dlght before him flee. Halleluiah ! To the Supoer of the Lord Gladly will we come to-day ; The word of peace Is now restored, The old leaven la put away; Christ will be our food alone, Faith no life but bis will own, Halleluiah! A Wonderful Cnre. Bhe found Him on the street with a crowd around Him, everyone asking for help. They were all talking as fast, as they could, telling one another what great cures He baa made, until the woman thought: "If I can but touch His clothes. It will be enough to heal me.'' So she pressed close to Him a^d put her trembling fingers on the hem of Him garment. Bight away she felt a thrill through all her body, and she knew that she was well! The good Physician turned to see who touched Him, the woman was afraid and hid away in the crowd. "Who touched My garmets?" He asked. "Master," said some one near, "do you not see how all the people press around us, and do you ask, 'Who touched Me?"' "Yes," He replied; "some one has tniinlioH Mo iii <1 a-av t.h? nthprs RjtVft not." Aud looking out among the noisy crowd He caught the eye of the poor woman. Then she saw she need not be afraid of One whose face was so fuJl of tenderness and love. She came close to Him, and told Him all the truth about herself. ThlnkJ how she must have felt when she heard Him say in a gentle voice: "Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague." Do you not suppose that that woman loved the One who healed her, and afterward was always ready to do anything she could for Him? We know who the good Physician was. There never was another like Him. Yes; we know His name is Jesus, and we are glad that He is living still, and 1b just as as ready to help and heal sin-sick souls 09 He was to cure that poor woman. We are indeed very ill. we ao noc know bow ill we are. Tbe truth is we are going to die if we do not find the Greut Physician. We may try all the ways we can tbink of, as that woman did ; but, like ner, we will never grow better, but worse and worse every year we live, unless we come near enough to Jesus to touch Him and hear Him say, "Thy faith bath saved thee." He does not want us to join the crowd and talk about Him, aud yet never come near enough to Him to be cured of sin. There were a .great many people in that multitude around Jesus who were never any better for being there. No doubt they talked loud enough, asked the Lord for a great deal, but they never were in such heart-earnest as was the woman who wanted truly to be cured of her sickness. Jesus wants us to be whole; pure in heart, speaking truth with our lips, loving what is good, hating all that is evil. He wants us to mind what He says, and try always to please Him. "*?- -* - 1.1 *1,1= ho if Undoubtedly this gentleman was right. Reading habits are the exception, rather than the rule, among the majority of people in the cities. These [jeople are "too busy to read," but not :oo busy to go to theaters, or base-ball matches, or promeuade the streets. The life of the city is unfavorable to reading habits. The people on the farm are very busy, too, and generally regret that so little time is left them for the improvement of their minds. Nevertheless, few farm-bouses are unprovided with periodicals of various sorts. Many farmers' families possess excellent aooks of their own, with sets of encyclopedias in which they are accustomed "to look up" subjects. The state of things on the farm, especially in the winter, encourages evening reading instead of discouraging it. Jt is a change from the farm work?a delightful peep into a new world. The farmer who wishes his boys and ;irl to acquire habits of reading can | cultivate in them these habits nowhere; jo well as in his own sitting-room. Mauy Episcopal bishops are in the habit of describing themselves "by Divine permission bishop of their dijcese, in official documents. A certain bishop not long ago had occasion to jend such a document to a most devout, but not highly educated, laymen. I Thereupon't became the duty of the layman to draw up and sign an official document relating to some church business, and noticing the phrase referred to in the bishop's paper, he thought it was incumbent upon him, also to recognize the Divine guidance. So, in gntire good faith, he described himself us "John Smith, by Divine permission, grocer and dealer in all kinds of tlour and feed." The paner never got into the archives of thecbnrch, however. ?Dr. Pealody, of Harvard, who has just entered the ranks of the octogenarians is a little absent minded at times. One summer day, having come into iiostou from Cambridge, and having alighted from the car at Bowdoin square, he turned a sharp corner and( collided with an elderly gentleman; who was standing with bis hat oft',! wiping the perspiration from his forehead, but who held his hat in such a way as to give the appearance of begging. Dr. Peabody, seeing the hat, dropped a quarter into it with bis customary kind remark. Dr. Oliver Wendel Holmes, who was holding the hat, put the money in his pocket, ? solemnly thanked his old friend, the giver, and passed on.