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. * ' " ' ' ' . , ivtf - ' * * The Abbeville Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1894. ESTABLISHED 1844 School Notice. I WILL BE IN MY OFFICE AT Abbeville | for the transaction of business every saleday and every Saturday except the first Sat- : unlays in each nioutn. W. T. MILLFORI). i May 1, ISM. School CoramlKMloner. DENTAL NOTICE. Dr. S. 6. Thomson, OFFICE UP-STAiKS ON McILWAIN I Corner, Abbeville. S. C. Coal! Coal! Wood! Wood! A, M. HILT& SONS! TJAVE openod a COAL and WOOD YARD | 11 and hT" ready to receive your order* for i WiDter. Cull and get cheapest rates. Terms i ?Caab on delivery. July 27, 1892, tf j A Complete and Full! STOCK OF THK CELEBRATED Metropolitan Brand of Miieil Paints ? op ? JOHN LUCAS & CO. always on hand at the City Drug Store.: PRICES IN ONE GALLON CANS by the I single can $1.25. A liberal discount to painters using large quantities. Oct. 25. 1898, tf LIVERY! LI?1 | A LONG WANT SUPPLIED' We have recently purchased a lot of I Nice Driving Horses, ! and a lot of . Fine Top and Open Buggies, Persons wishing anj thing; Id this line would do well to consult us. CHARGES MODERATE. WALUNGFOBD & RUSSELL. May 9,1894, tf Grows! Groceries! Groceries!! I . I NEW FIRM. LIVINGSTON & PEBRIN,1 DEALERS IN Staple, Green and Fancy Groceries ~VOU will And everything that Is kept In a aIoo* Auiahliehmonl Particular attention given to the Market Department. | Having secured the services of a first class butcher we Intend to make ibis department Unit class In every respect Fresh Meats Always on Hand O I Also, POTATOES, ONIONS, CABBAGE and all Country Produce. HIGHEST MARKET PRICE paid for CATTLE and HOGS. Give us a call at G. H. MOORE'S OLD STAND. NO. 2 OOTHRAN RANGE. Jan. 10,1894,12ra MUTUAL ii inn! WRITE TO OR CALL on the undersigned or to the Dliector of your Township for any information you miiy uet-ire buuui our plan of Insurance. We Insure your property against destruction by flU, WIHDSUEH OR LUSETM, and do so cheaper than any Insurance Company In existence. Remember we are prepared to prove to you that our* Is the safest and cheapest plan of Insurance known. DAVID AIKEN, Agent, | Coronaca, S. C. J. FULLER LYON, Pres. Abbeville, S. C. | BOARD~DIRECTORS. 9. M. Anderson- Ninety-Six Township. J. M. Major Greeowood " y. W. Sullivan Cokesbury " W. B. Acker Donnalds B. M. Cllnkscaies _...Due West " T. L. Haddon Long Cane " J. W. Scott JSmlthville " E. W. Watson -White Hall " Dr. J. D. Neel Indian Hill t:apt. John Lyou C6dar8pring " <!. R. Richie Abbeville ' J. E. Wakefield Diamond Hill J. B. Franks.. Lowndesville * G?orge M. Smith Magnolia " Ma rot) 21, ISM.?12mo. Mrs. Taggart U up-stalre over the Racket SUire. Her beautiful goods are sold at the lowest livlag prloes. Haddon's line of table linen, towels, crash, doyllfefl. napkins, &c., will Interest you. Haddon's special summer sale of bargains should attract those who wish to make a little money go a long ways. Pretty Millinery.?If you waot a nice bat or vonr wife, your sister, or your daughter go , o Mrs. Taggari's for it. DAVIDSON COLLEGE, DAVIDSON, N. C. Fifly-Eigtillj Year Begins Sept. 13,1894. Nine Men in the Faculty, Curriculum in lower classes, Higher class s elective, Three degrees conferred. Classical, Mathematical, Literary, Scientific, Commercial. Terms reasonable. Send Tor catalogue. J. B. S BEARER, President. Jnue 27,1894, tf LATIMER'S SASH, DOOR & BLIND FACTORY Manufacturers of and Dealer* In AImIm kinds of HOI 1 DRESSED LUMBER, 0--I- Tk D1.'nJn OitBii, i/uuiO) uiiuuo, TURNED and L WORK, SHINGLES, Laths, Flooring, Ceiling and Siding. MOULDINGS of all kinds. ESTIMATES furnisht-d and all letters promptly aD Bwered. Get my prices before buying. J. H. LATIMER. Jan 24, 1994, tf iiLnii A WAY %== GOOD BOOKS SEE the offer which C. P. HAMMOND & CO. are making. For every $25 IN CASH ?you trade with us we will give you a? Fine $3.50 Book. We have four styles of books: WEBSTER'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA, MUSEUM OF WONDERS, % BOOK full of POEMS of the standing authors. SCENES AROUND THE WORLD. All the above are fine books. We give you a card and we puuch from it the amount you purchase, aud when the card is punched In full we give you the book. Try us and see. Respectfully. C. P. HAMMOND & CO. May 9,1894, tf RAFTS IN THE Streams! They Must be Re 1 - J. /N I movea at unce \ All land owners in Abbeville County must immediately remove from the Running Streams of Water upon their lands all Trash, Trees, Bafts and Lumber. Any persons neglecting or refusing to comply with this order will be liable upon conviction to a fine of not less than Five Dollars nor more tLan Fifty Dollars. The cutting or felling trees across or Into any Running Stream of WATER is deemed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction the offender is liable to a fine of not less than Five Dollars nor more than TwentyFive Dol lars. The County Commissioners are authorized and requested by law to clean out IbeKtreams where owners refuse to do so, and charge the same to the land, the cost of wblob is a prior lien on the property. R. H. ARMSTRONG, Chairman. W. A, LANIER, J. M, MAJUK, County Commissioners. R. E. COX, Clerk. May 9,18W, H SOFT GINGERBREAD. Six cups of flour, two cups of augur, two cups of milk, two cups of butter, two cups of molasses, four eggs, one tablespoonful of baking powder. Melt the butter and molasses together, mix in the sugar, ginger, mik and eggs in the above order, and stir in the flour, and lastly tbe baking powder. Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in the milk if sour. BUTTERMILK YEAST POWDERS. One quart of fresh buttermilk made up with corn meal to a stiff batter, with a teacupful of yeast. Let it rise; then add enough flour to make it a stiffdough. Put it on dishes or boards to dry in the shade. Rub it up and keep it in a bag. To one quart of flour put one tablespoonful of yeast powder. LEMON CAKE. Two eggs. one cup of sugar, one half cup^f butter, one-half cup of! sweet milk, one and one-half cupj of flour, one teaspoonful baking powder. SUMMER SQUASHKS. These are good only when young, fresh and tender. Wash, and cut into quarters or small pieces. The skin and seeds need not be moved. Cook in boiling salted water twenty minutes, or until tender. Place the squash iu a strainer-cloth, mash it thoroughly and squeeze the cloth, until the squash is dry. Add a little cream or butler, salt and pepper, and heat again before serving. ONIONS. Take rather small onions, peel and boil until thoroughly cooked. Then drain them well. Put some batter into a frying pan and when melted put in the onions and turn constantly until of a dark brown color all over. This will take about 15 minutes. SMOTHERED ONIONS. Peel large or small onions, slice and put into a frying pan. Cover them with boiling water, add salt and cook until all the water is boiled away. Add a little butter, a little pepper, and stir all together until they become a pale brown color. CLEANING POTS AND KETTLES. I bum them in a hot fire until they look a rusty red, when they can be scraped clean and washed and are like new. I always wash my pots and all cooking utensils inside aud out; it is a pleasure to go in the kitchen and see pots, kettles, frying pans, etc , hanging on the wall so shiny and black. I can set a pot on any table and no smut is i left. Don't miss a time, and when you are done washing these take a rag and wipe your stove all over with the grease that adheres to the sides of the i dish pan. If this is done once (I do so i twice) a day, the stove will soon shine i as though it was enambled. I bad a < lady to tell me, after seeing mine, that i she would never again use stove pol- I isb. To shine up your knives take a I soft brick and powder it very fine, I and with an Irish potato you can soon make them look bright. Thek juice of i the potato softens the stain. Keep i knife-cleaning board in the kitchen and use it after each meal. Sucar Cookies.?One cuo butter, 1 two cups sugar, half a cup milk, three J eggs, half a teaspoonful soda dissolved . in the milk. Flavor and add just enough flour to make it stiff enough to roll out thin. An interested observer assures us I that in order to [enjoy the most refreshing sleep one should sleep in the < dark. The sweetest and most undisturbed sleep is always enjoyed in a thoroughly darkened room. Light acta upon the brain, and those who sleep with their blinds up will ttud I thai in the summer time, when so few hours are really dark, their sleep is i restless and disturbed. This is often I placed to the account of heat, but more often than not it is the light which causes wakefulness, when, as a natural consequence, the body becomes < aware of the heat. Night lights I should never become a matter of ne- i cessity. A match and candle by the i bedside should be quite sufficient. The i wish for artificial light through the | night is a depraved taste in the young i and healthy, and should not be encouraged. i Good Manners at Home.?The presence of good manners is nowhere more needed or more effective than in the household, and perhaps no* where more rare. Wherever familiar- 1 ity exists, there is a tendency to 1 loosen the check upon selfish conduct 1 which the presence of strangers in- 1 voluntarily produces. Many persons 1 who are kind and courteous iu company are rude and careless with those whom they love best. Emerson says, 1 "Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices," and certainly nothing can more thoroughly secure the harmony and peace of the family circle than the habit of making small sacrifices, one for another. Children thus learn good manners in the best and most natural way, and habits thug acquired will never leave them. 1 * It is not generally known that when a person falls into the water a common felt hat can be used as a life-preserver. By placing the hat upon the water, rim down, with the arm round it presHiug it slightly to the breast, it will bear a man up for hours. If the hair smells sour and feverish, wash it in cool (not too cool) water i with half a spoonful of soda to a quart | of water, dry thoroughly and rub in a little bay rum. Sunstroke is caused by a check of perspiration. I We punish ourselves whenever we hate others. He (indignantly): "I hope I know my own mind !" She (sweetly) : "Yes, you surely ought to know as much as that." It is always best for a man to keep his temper. No one else wants it. Fact* About Marriage. Carroll D. Wiight, superintendent of the census of 1890, reviews in The Forum for June the statistics of sex, marriage and divorce. It will surprise many persons to know that there are more males than females in the total population of this country. The exact figures in 1890 were: 32,007,880 males and 30,564,880 females. Contrary to another popular impression, it appears, too, that married persons form a larger percentage of the , total population of this country than they do of European countries. There , are more married people, too, in our j large cities than in our farming districts, relatively to the whole number , of the inhabitants. Facts of interest to our young people , contemplating matrimony are that . Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Cleveland | are the American cities where most ( raarying is done; presumably, the con- , ditions there are mote favorable to the maintenance of homes than in San Francisco and Boston, which are peopled by fewer married folks and more . single ones than any otner cities in me 1 Union. Ireland and Scotland show the largest number of bachelors and spin- ; sters and the smallest number of hus- ; bands and wives of all countries fur- ' nishing statistics. Who would have thought that to be the case ? ' It will shatter another generally ac- ' cepted opinion to be told by Mr. Wright that the total number of di- J vorced persons in this country is very small?amounting to only about one- j third of 1 per cent, of the total adult * population. Another analysis shows j that there was but one divorced person to every 165 married persons living in the United States in 1890. Mr. Wright's article affords a great variety of other interesting informa- : tion. and, as a study of the conjugal conditions of the republic it is reassuring on many vital points. Marriage is evidently not a failure in America. Trees in England.?The surpassing beauty of English landscape is almost ( wholly due to the care which is given ] to trees, which are so numerous that . the whole land seems embowered. ( House architecture there is decidedly f inferior in beauty to ours. Wood is t grown there in three different ways. ( Heavy timber is mostly grown in j parks or lawns, more rarely in mead- ( owe or hedge rows, and the tress re- ? quirea century or two to attain their j utmostjperfection of size and strength. , Woods that are cut down every f twenty-flve or thirty years are called j coppice, from the old Norman word s coupes, signifying cut. These woods [ are most carefully fenced against | browsing animals and serve to pro- ] tect bares, pheasants and other game. , Every stick and twig finds its use, { and is salable for one purpose or ; another, and such woods form a very j importaut item in the value of an } estate. Thirdly, as stakes, &c., are ? continually wanted on every farm, ( there are always seen along hedge rows, near the buildings, a few old tree stems, about eight feet high, which are called pollards, because they are polled or topped every few years, c ?- x 1? * eacn iu iuru, l-u ?uppiy buum muc, i withes, stakes, kindling wood, &c. 1 The topping is done neatly, so as to t Allow the next crop of pollings fair i Issue, aud to leave no dry snags to in- i terfere with the next cutting. No ' fence is required for these pollard r jhoota, as they are wholly above the r reach of cattle. ? How Janle Settled it.?"Here comes f mamma," said Janie. "O mamma! i must I save some of my candy for t Grace!" c ?'I think a good little sister would." t "But Graciedidn't give me any of i her'syesterday." \ "Didn't she? How did you like t that ?" r "I didn't likeit at all. Audi want I to make ber not like it, too, because 1 y think she was real mean." t "Dear, dear I And is mamma to c> bave two mean little girls, then ?" Janie looked at her mother, aud was quiet a minute. Then she ran and threw his arms around her neck, and said: "No, no, mamma dear! You v nhall not have any mean little girls at v all! I guess Gracic forgot; and I'll | go and give her some of my candy (j now, so she won't ever forget again !" j Her mother smiled. "I think that t is the way to make her remember," v she said. "Aud 1 am so glad I am to t have two kind little girls." v Not No Criuy alter All. (1 The wit of lunatics may seem an an- 1 omaly, but the subject would admit of ^ a full article. Our asylums are often the scene of genuine humor. The uneasy brain seems as apt as the brain in sleep to strike out very funny relutions. , An inmate of a private asylum, see- J1 ing a man pass with a gun, a dog, and ; ' a couple of snipe, sang out: "How much oid that dog cost, sir?" "Fifteen dollars." i.c "Aud the gun ?" "Twenty." T "Ami the hunting suit, with the ? boots?" J; "Fifty." ' 'And how much might the two anipes be worth ?" "Ten cents." "Well, then, you hurry home and <1 leave them, and come here and swap * places with me. I never did so craz>- ' a thing in my life." t e a Six Things a Boy Ought to Know.? t That a quiet voice, courtesy and kind c acts are as essential to the part in the a world of a gentleman as a gentle- c woman. a That roughness, blusteriug and \ even fool hard in ess are not manliness. The most firm atid courageous men have usually i?een the most gentle. That muscular strength is not I health. ^ That a brain crammed only with facts is not necessarily a wise one. 1 That the labor impossible to a boy F of 14 will be easy to the man of t '20. t The best oapi'al for a boy is not v money, but love of work, simple g tastes, and a heart loyal to his friends and his Qod. The hypocrite never tries to behave , himself unless he thinks he is being t watched. (Unity. Faithfulness in little things and the best you can right where you are is the quickest way t') promotion. He who serves God in everything serves man noblest and best. If your surroundings are hateful the best way to change them or to get out j of them is to cease noticing the evil j there. Stop talking about the evil and j take the mind right away from it by j thinking about God. Seeking the Good in your environ-, ments until you find the divine pre*-! ence there, is the quickest and surest) way to freedom. Running away from I a condilion or a person is but tenaporaml inf D11 f niinnnAmirt/* # V* r\ null ( n I J ICI1CI. UUl U VCIVjUIUJXJ^ (.Lie evil 1U 1 it just where you are is the everlasting conquest. True, he "who fights and runs away, will live to fight another day." But he who resists not evil but stays right with it until it is nothing to him will never need to fight anymore. He has found the key to eternal Peace. (Central Methodist.) During the past eight years, as shown by official figures, the Congress of the United Btates has appropriated to I'atholic schools the sum of $2,366,416. In the earne period all the Protestant jchools combined received but $1,401,535. Nearly all the Protestant (Jhurches have declined further appropriations, including the Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and ind Episcopal, preferring to do their iwn work without help from the Gov?rnment. Now the Roman Catholics zo before Congress and demand about ^400,000 lor the next year, and the American Protective Association [A. P. A.] demands of Congress that this ippropriation for sectarian purposes is contrary to the Constitution and shall; oot be made. In this demand they ire right; and unless Congreas heeds their appeal, they will make it hot at the polls for those who turn the funds )f the Government over to the Cath)liC8, as a means of securing their /otes. It is a mistake to expect rest in heav;n without holy living on earth. Heaven is the natural outcome and growth of piety ; if to expect pines and mks to hear oranges and lilies, and wrpents to out-sing the lark, is irraional, to expect rest in heaven with)ut assiduously cultivating the religous life upon earth is a monstrous ablurdity. To encourage one's self in an ?ntire neglect of religion by recalling ;he incident of the thief who had lever heard of Christ, and was brought rum ui jbuu tu uic, 19 iu uiisuuueiaitiiju he plat) of salvation. A repentant linner will be forgiven and renewed ; )ut to turn this fact as reason for negecting religion is to make it a help in *efusing to repent. A dying sinner nay repent, but one who has lived in i sinful way a long time, encouragng himself therein by the idea that le can reach heaven by a final effort, s very unlikely to try to repent at such i time,\or to succeed in the effort if he Iops. Herald and Presbyter. How strange are some people's ideas >f morality. They have respect for ,he divine prohibitions, but, apparenty, very little for the divine injuncions. They take up the Ten Comnandments and read: "Thou shalt lot steal," "Thou shalt not kill," 'Thou shalt not bear false witness." fhey say : "Well, I am not a thief, a nurderer or a perjurer, and therefore I j im a moral and upright man." But hey don't observe that in the very leart of the Decalogue there are two jositiye commands : "Remember the Sabbath," and "Honor thy father and hy mother." They forget also that >ur Saviour, while on earth, condensed he Ten Commandments given on llount Sinai into two, both beginning vitki "Thou shalt." True morality is lot negative. It does not consist in lot doing wrong, but in doing right, t is only by cultivating pureaud holy 1 iffections that we can resist the temp- i at inn to anger, malice, fraud and uniharitableness. (Herald and I'resbyter.) Let the man who comforts himself villi the thought that he is negatively 'irtuous because he does no special larm in the world, read our Saviour's lescription of the final judgment in tfatt. xxv : 31-46. Let him ponder he words in verse 45: "Inasmuch as 'e did it not." Those men on the left land were not accused of what the vorld calls crime, or of any injury to heir fellowmen. They were conlt?!iined because they were not pos-I tively and actively benevolent ; con- i lemned not for anything that they i 1 lid, but for what tbey failed to do. J1 x l! v ? ilKiuia out!./ , J Let the people resolutely set their i I ares againstall military organizations ; | ct them refuse to send their children b o military schools. The associations of 11 .military life are corrupting and de-j Moralizing, and no good can ever come j o a nation which submits its youth to ' ( uch pernicious training. Brute force | ( las no place in an aee of reason, and j j Militarism as an institution should b !| rowued down. I i ' < If asked what is the remedy for the i leepest sorrows of the human heart? vhat a mau should chiefly look to in lis progress though life as the power , hat is to sustain him under trials, and j' nable him manfully to confront his ftiictions, I must point him to some-i hing which, in a wellknown hymn, is j j sailed, "The old, old story," told of in j ill old, old Book, and taught with an j ild, old teaching, which is the greatest ind best gift ever given to mankind.? . V. E. Gladstone. "Every man acoording to his ability. | * Cot every man according to his mood j >nd fancy, but every man aocording to |. lis ability. Not every man aocordingj J o other people's giving, or other peo-1 f lie's ability, but every man according j ( o his ability. How well cared for |, he poor brethren would be, if this j ( vere the recognized standard of|, [iviug in the Church to-day !?H. C.! ] Trumbull. A sense of perfect peace with God is . he grandest thing in all the world to ravel through life with. \ Collected ThooKhtn. BY JOHN HEM MEN WAY. Do not that you dare not pray for a blessing upon. John Flavel. A Christian is the highest name of man. Edward Young. "Blessed are the Peacemakers, for for they shall be called the Children of God,"?higher praise or a higher title no one can receive. Jonathan Dymond. Shall Christians assist the prince of hell, who was a murderer from the beginning, by telling the world the benefit of war ? John Wesley. Spend your time in nothing which i you cannot review with e quiet con- j science on your dying bed. , Richard Baxter. Xnt nn nravprlena hed lav thvself at 1 night to rest. Margaret Mercer. , Did the daily practice of family de- j votion distress any person in his conscience? the omission of it has troubled many a man. William Nevins. j No man ever repented of serving God and doing good. John Tilloteon : In no way do we imitate God more I than in showing mercy. Albert Barnes. A well tempered soul is to be pre- 1 fered before any sort of human learn- i ing. John Locke. A true Christian will have the sweetest intercourse with God in private. Jotham Sewall. < Nothing shows the disposition of 1 the mind as the knowledge] and enjoyments it is most fond of. I John Mason. i In attempting to do good, or prevent evil, we must take care that our methods are right. I Thomas Scott. j A man of integrity goes with right, ' - * tit !-Ll tirili: Dnnn 5 IJOI Willi UllglJU uiiuaiu ictiu* The requiting evil with good tends ( just as strongly to the cessation of all ( injury in nations as in individuals. j Francis Wayland. ' We should cultivate those virtues in which we are most wanting with peculiar care. i Moses Hemmenway. ' To the true Christian the ways of re- * ligion are the ways of pleasantness as well as peace. s William Wilberforce. We know of but one anthem composed and sung by angels, and that f most harmoniously combines the glory t of God in the highest with peace on 1 earth and good will to men. Haunah Moore. A writer in the Arena for June says that recent post-mortem examination of the bodies of the blind reveal the fact that in the nerves at the ends of the fingers, well defined cells of gray matter had formed identical in substance and in cell formation with the gray matter of the brain. What does this show? he asks. ' If brain and nerves are practically identical, is it not plain that, instead of being confined to the cavity of the skull, there is not any part of the surface of the body that can be touched by a pin's point without pricking the brain ? It proves that a man can think not alone in bis head but all over his body, and especially in the great nerve centres like the solar plexus, and the nerve ends, on tne paims or me nanus auu uie soles of the feet." b Do not backbite. We ought to speak ^ good of everybody in their absence, or f( not speak at all. Nothing is gained to a ourselves by speaking evil of any one, u but we sink ourselves. We can not j, 9ink others by back-biting; no, no, hut we are injured if we do it. Forthe sake of our own souls, do it not therefore. We ought to speak lovingly of an enemy even, and especially of a a friend. We ought to show by a pure i* conversation at all times and of all k persons that our hearts are pure. c ... u T Children, can you realize that a f, littleover 350 yeais ago punctuation y marks were unknown. Write a few a jentences without commas or colons, a ind see what a senseless lot of letters n they look. To be exact in our dates, c punctuation was first adopted in the c year 1520. How they managed before a Dhat time I cannot imagine. n ?. ? 0 It is only over the outward man ti that death has any dominion, any d ilaim, and it is only for a season. He tl is like an enemy that captures a fort, b but knows that mighty forces ap- ? proach for its rescue ; death holds us f< in a short captivity, and, anticipating b A-!" J ~???% in Pi jerutui ueuveinuur, wc auuui, iu ing: "Thanks be uuto God." tl M J m e A remarkable remedy for diptberia ] is reported in one of tbe French medi- tj 2al journals. It consists in swabbing ^ the throat with common petroleum, u ipplications being made every hour or ^ two hours according to the thickness ai >f the membranes, which become di- 0 luted under tbe action of the petroleum. The chief care to be exercised ^ s to prevent any drops falling into the j, respiratory channels. Of forty malig- jj riant cases treated in this way all were I successful. Yeast.?Boil one dozen good sized | C] potatoes; mash them. Take three;Q] iablespoonfuls flour, three of sugar . uid a handful of salt. Mix and scald ^ ;horoughly with one pint of boiling] #ater. Pour in cold water until cool-Li ?d, or enough to make one gallou ofj feast, then add two yeast cakes and j t( et stand over night. j t] '*** I ^ Any honest thing we can do can ^ je done for God. | n It is well to hope for success, but Q t Is much hetter to deserve it. ^ 4*The Stnr of Bethlebem." As shadows cast by cloud and sun Flit o'er the summer grass, Lo, In thy sight, Almighty One Karth's generations pass. And while the years an endless host, Come pressing swiftly on, Xne brightest names that earth can boast lust glisten then are gone. Yet both the Stars of Bethlehem shed 4. luuire pure and sweet, And still It leads, as once it led To the Messiah's feet. O Father, may that holy star Grow every year more bright, And send its glorious beams afar To fill the world with light." ' William Collen Bryant." ? Nettie's .VlfiUke. "That child must really be vaccinated this week or she cannot go to school," mamma said ; and Nettie, on the veranda outside of the open window, listened eagerly. "Yes, I will call and tell the doctor to come up at once," answered papa, as he went out. "Vaccinated! That's something nwful, for Nellie White told me her arm almost ached itself off; And 'that child' means me. Well, what if I'm not at home when the doctor comes?" mused Nettie, guiltiJy. She watched the road to the village, und soon saw a buggy coming. It was the doctor's she was sure, and soon, the veranda was empty, and a hurried child was running across the fields toward the woods which skirted the pond. What a hunt there was for Nellie when the buggy stopped before the gate ! But she was not to be found. It was more than two hours before she appeared, and, as soon as she waa within doors, another buggy stopped before the house. "The doctor! I'm very glad, for I was afraid he wouldn't come, and you i cannot go to school until you are vaccinated," said mamma. Nellie was silent. She did not speak until the doctor bad gone. Then she said slowly, with a, deep flush upon her face: "I thought the doctor was here a long while ago, mamma." "Oh, no ! Uncle Will came for you . to ride out with him, but we could not find you," answered mamma, and there was a roguish gleam in her eyes. Did }he know? "Oh-h-h !" cried the dismayed Net;ie; "Uncle Will's rides are just speniid. Ob, mamma! I ran away and ;ot lost in the woods, and almost fell oto the pond. . I missed that nice time, when vaccinating don't hurt a bit. 3h, dear me!" "Remember it, deary," said mamna, significantly. "Never run away Yom a duty, no matter how bard it teems, for it sometimes brings an un>xpected reward." "I guess you are right, mamma," imiled Nettie, with tears in her eyes. -Our Little Ones. Advice to Girls.?A woman docor, says the Washington Star, said he otber day : "Oh, these girls ! rhey are always coming to me pitemsly camplaining that their skin has io color, and that it is not even clear vhite, but pastry and gray. I have ;iven them advice and advice, but it ieems to do no good. They will not ollow directions. I will tell you what ^ Ars. ?v\ ft *?Kn xr Ait no n Sm. ,LlX5y UU^ LI t IAJ UU J LU CkJKJXj JUU Vt*u A USjress it on their minds. Now, see bat sallow-faced girl eating candy!, ier face will be pastry just as long is she thinks sweets are better than oast beef, cake more delicious than >otatoes and preserves to be given he preference to healthy soup. She ipsets her stomach, and then wonders bat her face, which is the thermomeer of her stomach should change as t does. To get a clear skin she must at properly, exercise well and keep ier temper in good order. A clear vhite skin may be perfectly healthy, >ut a pastry one is not. There is not a it of sense in recomending a wash o clear the skin, for the trouble lies >elow. Visit your doctor and follow lis instructions to the letter, for he :nows your weak points. Live pro>erly, take plenty of exercise, sleep in , cool, well-aired room and dress comortably. My word for it, you will be , diffeient being inside of a month, inless your ancestors are to blame for oherited evils." ?? Moulding; a Brother's Character. Let sisters not begrudge the time nd care bestowed on a brother. It i hard to believe that any boy you now so well as you do your brother an ever turu out anything very seful. Well, he may not be a Moses, 'here is only one of that kind needed >r six thousand years. But I tell ou what your brother will be?either blessing or a curse to society, and canidate for happiness or wretchedess. He will, like Moses, have the hoice between rubies and living oals, and your influence will have auch to do with his decision. He lay not, like Moses, be the deliverer f a nation, but he may, after your itherand mother are gone, be the eliverer of a household. What housands of homes to-day are piloted y brothers! There are properties ow well invested and yielding income )r the support of sisters and younger rothers, because the older brother use to the leadership from the day ae father laid down to die. Whatver you do for your brother will come ack to you again. If you set him an 1-natured, censorious, unaccommodaing example, it will recoil upon you om his own irritated aud despoiled ature. If you, by patience with all is infirmities aud by nobility of charcter, dwell with him in the few years f your companionship, you will have our own counsels reflected back upon ou some day by nis spienuor 01 neavior iu some crisis where he would ave failed, but for you. The Deacon's Doubt.?Someone ime past Deacon Podberry's the Lher night about ten o'clock and was jrprised to find that good roan careilly examining his wood-pile. "What are you looking for?" asked je passer-by." "Just examining this load of wood > see if it was all right," answered ae good man. "I bought it from Irother Brown yesterday, and toight in prayer-meeting he called himilf so mauy kinds of a miserable sii>er that I thought mavbe it was the uality of this load or wood which 'as weighting on his mind."