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r'5 The Abbeville Press and Banner, j BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1894. ESTABLISHED 1844 . | School Notice. I WILL Bli IN MY OFFICE AT Abbeville for the tiHiisjiclion of business every Raleday and every Saturday except the first Satur.layi* In each nioutn. W. T. MILLFORD. May 1,1S5W. School Commissioner. FEESB7TEHIAN COLLEOE OF S. C. CLINTON. LAURENS CO., S. C. HEALTHFUL location, 800 feetabnve sen. Moral Influences. Strictly prohibition town. Pious community. Classical, Scientitle and business coutses. Good preparatory fccnool. Total expenses, 8120 to 8140. Write for catalogue. REV. R. C. MURRAY, PRESIDENT. August 1, 18M4. J. fl. COTHKAN L. W. PERRIN ?T. P. COTHKAN.? COTflRAN, PERRIN & COTHRAN Attorneys at Law. Abbeville, S. C. fimlrop Slate Normal College COLUMBIA, 8. C. OPKN to while girlsover 17 Session begins Septemb r ?6. Graduates secure good positions. Each county gives two scholarships?one worth $ SO a session and one of free tuition. First scholarships now vacant In counties of Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Beaufort, t'liarlesion. Clarendon, Chester, Chesterfield. Florence, Greenville, Georgetown, Hau)pton. Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lwurens, Lexington, -\ewberry, Oconee, Oraugehurg. Pickens, Richland, Sumter, Spartanburg, York, Competitive examination July 17 at Court House of each comity. Address L). B JOHNSON. President, June 13,1894. Columbia, S. C. TERRA COTTA WELLS FBICES to SUIT the TIDIES. IN THE FUTURE I propose to sink the celebrated Terra Cotta wells at a great reduction In luy former price. So parties desiring an everlasting supply of good sparkling wsterata low price would do well to confer with me before makiug other arrangements, as I propose to make it to the Interest or all to do so. WATER OR NO PA Y?Ik my mot to. I have io ten years experieuce stauUinn testimonials Id six counties. Address C. M. CALHOUN, Greenwood, S. C. March 22,1S98, tf Ooall Coal! Wood! Wood! A, M. HILL~& SONS HAVE opened a COAL and WOOD VARD and are ready lo receive your orders 'or Winter. Call and get cheapest rates. Terms - Cash on delivery. J uly 27,1891, tf UfHTTTI iU?i WUUJftl OF LAST RESORT." Those who have fulled to eet cured elsewhere of the WHISKEY. OPIUM, MORPHINE and TOBACCO HABITS and NERVOUS EXHAUSTION are lnvlied to CORRESPOND WITH W Oil INSTITUTE F. 0. DRAWER 27, COLUMBIA, S. C. N. B.?The Keeley treatment Is administered In South Curollun only at Columbia. m S do % ff^J F?. ? v P* S h ? * " <yj t ? ? Hi 5 s ' * CC 5 aa f J? tj H 1i li 1!S I 811 13511" w M ^ a> *" - ? S IV* BM ,rs r.S fg s f si g f W ~ I aMIh O - t p a | ^ I **4 s0" ? -2 5 * * B3 ? ?? <1 ~ 5 3 .2 ?? - > !53 r i4 15 1 p3 h s (2 i MUTUAL WRITE TO OR CALL on the unrierslgnet' or to the Director of your Towushlj. for aoy information you may desire aboui our plan of insurance. We luaune your property against destruc turn by ME, witm^oEV on mm, and do so cheaper than any Insurance Com pttuy In existence. Remember we are prepared to prove to yoi that ours is the safest and cheapest plan o insurance known. DAVID AIKEN, Agent, Coronaca, S. C. J. FULLER LYON, Pres. Abbeville, S. C. B0ARD~D1RECT0RS. 8. M. AnderKon Ninety-Six Township .1. M. Mujor Greenwood " K*. W. Su ill van Cokeebury " W. B. Acker Dounalds " B. M. CiiukscaieB .....Due Weft " T. L. HaddoD Long Cane " J. W. .Srnllhvlile " E. W. Watson While Hall " l>r. J. P. Neel ..Indian flill " Capt. John Lyon Cedar 8prltig " O. K. Klchie Abbeville " J. E. Wakefield Diamond Hill J B. Franks Lowndesvllle " <Jeorge M. Srnilh Magnolia " March 21,1894.?12mo. House and Lot for Sale. I OFFER FOR SALE MY HOUSE and LOT on Most-ley Ferry r<md In the town of Ab- ! I bevllie. Terms easy. Apply to W.S. Coth- I 1 ran, J. Allen Siullh, or to me at Greenville, S. ! C. T. P. COTHRAN. | March 15, 1898, tf | SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, COLI MBIA. S. C. " I CESSION begins Sept. 25th. Nine regular <5 Courses, with Diplomas. Special Courses, with Certificates. Requirements for atlmls' slon niodlttpd. Board J8 a month. Total necessary expenses lor the year (exclusive of i traveling, clothing, and hookt-) from $112 to Sl*>2. Send for Announcement. For lurther Information address the Presl-1 dent. JAMES WOODROW. ! July IS, 18yj. W. L. Douglas ?*2 CUOr IS THE BEST. ^1# OnVL NO SQUEAKING. tAnd other specialties for ; Gentlemen, Ladles, Boys and Hisses are the Best in the World. See descriptive advertisement which appears In this Take no Substitute. | ltiC\ Insist on having W. L< j DOUGLAS' SHOES, ?PPlW(?^dffiSSj|^ With name and prlc? stamped oa bottom. Sold by A. W. SMITH. DUE WEST Female College, due west, s. c. This wkll known institution again otters it* services to the peopled Abbeville county. Ttie next collegiate -the thirty-fourth yearwlll begin ou the FIRST DAY OF OCTOBKR, 18--J. Thorough teaching by experledced and progressive teachers. Send lor catalogue. MRS. L. M. BONNER. Principal. H. e. IiONNER, Vlee-Prin< Ipal. July 4,1891, tl DAVIDSON COLLEGE, DAVIDSON, N, C. Fifly-Eigbili Year Begins Sett, 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 for catalogue. J. B. SHEARER, President. June 27,18!M, tf BIGr Clothing Sale! For the nkxt thirty pays, preparatory to taking stock, we will offer all our $15, -i O JJtlO, and $20 LIGHT SUITS AT $12.50. ALSO ALL OUR 18, $20, $22 and $25 Clay Worsteds AT $15.00. This 1r a rare opportunity to buy CLOTHING at a SACRIFICE. Cull at once belore the choicest is gone. P. ROSENBERG & CO.! BIG JOK LOT PANTS JUST RECEIVED A ' $ 1.50. UEfJULAK $? PANTS. July 10,18IM. tr LATIMER'S SASH, DOOR & BLIND FACTORY Manufacturers of and Dealers In ALL KINDS OF : MI il BED 111, Sash, Doors, Blinds, . TURNED and WORK, SHINGLES, Laths, Flooring, Ceiling and Siding. Mouldings of ?u kinds. estimates furnlHtied and hII letters promptly uu swereil. Uet iny prices before buying. J. H. LATIMER. Jan. 24,1594, tf SMOKE (\, For Sale Only by P. B. SPEED. A Complete and Full STOCK OF THE CELEBRATED Metropolitan Branfl of MiieiPaiits OF JOHN LUCAS & CO. HiwayH ou iiuiiu m uiu i City Drug Store. 1)ItlCES IN ONE GALLON CAN8 by tbe single <ain 81.25. A liberal discount to painters using large quantities. Oct. 25, 1S98. tf LIVERY! Limn A LONG WANT SUPPLIED! We have recently purchased a lot of Nice Driving1 Horses, and a lot of \ Fine Top and Open Buggies, Persons wishing au> thing In this line would do well to consult us. f'HAHfiES MODERATE. WALLINGFORD & RUSSELL. May 9,1894, tf Met Store. What Is being sold there and the price for same. 800 best matches for 5c. A good cedar bucket 10c. Gilt edge shoe polish 20c. A big open ana shut fan 5c. Indies guaze vest, a good one 5c. Gents' linen handkerchief'. 5c. Jelly tumblers 45c a dozen White ball thread lo each. Colored ball thread 3 for 5c. A good chewing tobacco 22 l-2c. Great variety of gents cravats at prices unheard of before. Suspenders In great quantities at rock bottom prices. The very best black hose in town for 10c. 15 spools silk floss for 10c. Soap the very best in town for the least money. Other goodsJuBtas cheap. No space here for them. Look at these prices then come and buy. M. T. COLEMAN. July 11,1894. 11BDBSUD1U TO BE GIVEN AWAY AT THE m dm In order to advertise and bring before the public tbe stock of goods at tbe CITY DRUG STORE. IJiACH PURCHASER WILL BE entitled j to choose a present worth nn nn-NTmcn fCKJ ^JhVi X o on each dollar's worth of gooods purchased Id tie Drni Store Department from this day until this notice in withdrawn. PRICES guaranteed to be aB LOW as the LOWEST, and all goods as represented. March 8,1898, tf HADDONS GRAND SUMMER SALE Beginning 1st of June. AS THE SEASON ADVANCES WE ARE dally marking down prices on lots of stud' to close. Our rule Is. never to carry over perishable trooilM if wp mm f-onvert. Lliein lulo monev. A glance through our stock on and alter 1st of June will convince you that a little 11EADY CASH will buy more goods In our line thau ever before. tt'ivo-'iiini in ught silk* JJtll Foil SHIRT WAISTS. BargainsIK 1>HE,SS SILKM* Bargains FOR VhIRtV AISTS. | Bargains 1N WEM BRO11 )K It IKS. BargainsIX PAUASOLSj BargainsIN 8LimslwNew Millinery, Ribbons, Laces, &c., coming in every week, E. ?. HADDON & CO. RcHlK'intiuu. O my Father, thy will be done.?Matthew, XX vl, 42. The man of faitb lives with more satisfaction to himself and with greater benefit to his kind than the man of doubt. We do not refe> to the man whose brain contains a mere muddle of beliefs, who ha9 prejudices and superstitions instead of convictions, but to him who feels sure that there is art eternal right and an eternal wrong, that the right is worthy of his surport at all hazards, and the wrong will bring him to physical and spiritual bankruptcy in the long run. We do not need a long creed, but we do need a few verities as a basis for action. The Thirty-nine Articles may seem very prolix, and the Institutes of Calvin may not commend Ibemselves to our best'judgment, but our rejection | of them does not constitute us heretics in the sight of God, although meu may ecommutncaie u?. If we believe thai the universe is ruled by love as well as power ; that the outcome of virtue i9 happiness and the result of evil is misery; if we see a Providence in the events of life and feel that we can communicate with tliatProvideuce by means of what isuailed prayer; if we have faith in another life where tbe freed soul will have larger opportunities than its environment has permitted here; if we absorb the spirit of brotherly love and helpfulness which was incarnated in the Christ, we need have 110 fears as to our fate in the future. Man's creed is apt to be a long one ; God's creed is very abort. Short as it is, however, you will have no time to spare if you shape your years according to its requirements. Your life, everybody's life, has its pathetic side, and you must have tbe sympathy of God if you are to do good work. There are times when you are appalled by tbe situation in which you find yourself. There is no light anywhere, but darkness every where. A score of friends stand by you and give you what comfort can be contained in words, but they have lives of their own to live, and they cannot help you as you must be helped if you are to recover from the disaster. Human friendshi is preciousbut much more is wanted. Human love mingles its sighs and tears with yours, but still there is an empty place in your heart which neither friendship nor love can All. We have all had that experience, a heaviness which no arm can lighten, a dread which no words can dissipate, a weariness which no one within reach can brighten with hope. Is there no comfort anywhere, no consolation, no unseen influence that will steal into the soul with transfiguring power? The agnostic shakes his head in an emergency like that, and dees not speak, because he has nothing to say. He can furnish you with additional * *? 1 * ?M/\ tKniinphf tl? hloh U09D&ir, UUt WILLI IIU llluuguv VTM?V*? will afford you resignation. "What kind of a world is this," you ask yourself,"in which what onecraves most is beyond one's length ?" Is there no remedy anywhere for your disease of mind? Are you left alone to struggle as you can to find your way out of the grief by the slow process of forgetfulness ? We think not. Else it were a misfortune to be born, and the chief blessing is to get rid of it all in childhood, before you learn that life is nothing better than a tragedy. Your father has fallen asleep, perchance, and when you call him he will not answer. The eyes will never opeu again, the lips are like lips of marble. There is a frightful stillness in the house, broken only by the muffled beating of your own heart and your unrepressed moans. Is that the end ? Has the story been all told ? Is the volume of filial affection closed and clasped with an iron clasp ? Have you said farewell forever, aud has the dear tokun n atulfipn denarture into the region of black nothingness. Then what is life worth? What is the upe of loving if the most sacred ties are snapped when Death taps at the door? He is better off' than you who never loved at all, for he will suffer less, and the lt-ss love we bestow on any one the larger are our chances of happiness. Let us henceforth care fot self alone and pay no heed to others. Or, it may be that a child, the light of your home, your joy and pride, lies in your arras with raging, consuming, relentless fever. Its little eyes look into yours imploringly; its little arms are tightly clasped about your neck. Hopediesout of your heart, and the inevitable, like the si a low of a setting sun, throws its gloom over the sceiie. The babe is slipping away from you, and carrying with it the best part oi your own life, for in all the earth there is nothing so beautiful, so sublime or so impressive as a mother's love. What say you? What has any one to say ? The man of doubt is at your side, a tender hearted man. full of human sympathy, and willing to do what he can to assuage your grief, bui what can he honestly say to give you Inomfort? Has he any balm for your wounds, any solace for your distress ? Then lie were better absent than present. But Christ comes, orsome kiud friend who bears His message, ami tells you of the House not built with hands, of the grave as the bronze gale through which we enter heaven, of a time of meeting beyond this time of parting, of that Being who does what is best even when He causes the tears to How, only Hsking you to wait patiently in faith that some day you will see that He was right. ! What a change comes over you rsoul !l !.??? Kiil.lui, ii utnilu im/ldr! UIMI U UlUglU UttO uIW..CI. ? your tears, a hope under your despair. In reposeful faith you suy, "Thy will be done," and standing at ihe grave of father or of child, you lift your eyes to the blue sky and cry, "For a time,; goodby ; we shall meet again yonder." The sad side of life has a rainbow, and hope makes sorrow easit r to bear., ?N. Y. Herald. i When a man abuses his church for allowing hypocrities to remain in it, he does not mean that he wants them turned out. He has probably declared that he will do nothing so long as they are kept in, and if they are turned out, he will have to go to work to get up another excuse for not working. The Dead Wife. Tbe hour set for the funeral had come. The hearse with its black plumes stood at tbe farm-house door. It seemed a strange and foreign thing among the bright-colored hollyhocks, the commonplace sunshine, the lowing of cows in the barnyard, and tbe chickens that moved about upon the; green lawn before the house. The Jersey wagons of the neighboring farmers filled the road, for the Garretts were much respected. Mrs. Garrett, who had just died, wa* a^ "home body," and saw but little of her neighbors, but her husband had grown rich by great industry and close saving, had pushed his children i\n S it f K a tit Wli III IUC VTUi JVI. John, his ouly son, had been to college, and the girls toa boarding school, and they were so improved that they seemed to belong to quite another class from their mother. They had stood with their father at the coffin, to look for the last time at the woman who lay there. "Your mother was a pretty woman when she was young," the farmer had said. It had startled him to see how thin and withered her face was under the white hair. "Sarah's ouly fifty," he continued. "She hadn't ought to look so old," he said. He had not thought of her looks when she was alive. There was a certain sullen resentment under his grief that she was dead. How was he to do without her ? She was a master hand at cooking, and butter-making, and laundry work, and 9ewing. He had never thought to ask her if she needed ftelp. She had never complained, and to complete her work she had risen at four, and had gone to bed late at night. Things always ran smoothly. She never spoke of being ill. It stunued him when she took this cold, and sank uuder it iu two days. The doctor 9aid that all her strength was gone. "Sarah had the strength of ten women," the hudband said. "Where had it gone?" He was amazed and iudignant. Was tbis the justice of God, to take away a woman so useful in the world ? It was notjust! Her daughters sobbed vehemently. She had always been ho tender ! She did so much for them ! They did not, it is true, feel well acquainted with her since they grew up. But between their music, and their studies, and their young companions, and other social occupations their lives had been filled ! They smoothed the folds of her merino gown, a little ashamed that the neighbors should see that she had no silk dress. She had insisted that each of them should have silk gowns, 1 1 3 L.l 1 ami uuu neipeu iu uianc tucm. Jack, her son, like hif> father, was shocked to see how worn his mother looked. He had talked for a year or two of taking her for a week to New York. She nad never seen a great city. But he always had some engagement. He remembered now that she had made enough in the dairy to keep him in his spending money at college. He wished he had contrived that little holiday for her ! They all felt now how good and unselfish she bad been, and how dear to them. "Why should she be taken from us?" the old man moaned, bitterly. "It is cruel. Why has God done this thing?" And the dead woman lying there, her lips closed forever, could make no auswer, save that which toil had stamped upon tbethin, worn face, that seemed pleading for rest.?Youth's Companion. A Yoook Man's "Wild OntM." Sofaras a young man "sowing his wild oats" is,concerned, writes Ed ward W. Bok in some editorials for young men in the Ladies' Home Journal, it has always seemed a pity to me that the man who framed that sentence didn't die before be constructed it. From the way some people talk, one t J ; ? - 4 t-. ? ?/*? ?* w*n ? ho/1 { n. WOU1U imagine lUHLCYCij man Liuu iu stilled into bim at his birth a certain amount of deviltry which he roust get rid of before he can become a man of honor. Now, what is called "sowing wild oats" is nothing more nor less than self-degradation to any young man. It doesn't make a man one particle more of amau because he pass ed through a siege of riotous living and indiscretion when he was 19or 20 ; it makes him just as much less a man. It dwarfs his views of life far more than it broadens them. And he realizes this afterwards. And he doesn't know one iota more of "life," except a certain phase of it, which, if it has glitter for him in youth, becomes a repellent remembrance to him wbeu he is matured. 1 here is no such thing as an investigating period in a man's life. At one period it Is as important to him to be honorable and true to the teachings of his mother as at another. No young man need seek the "'darker side of life." The Lord knows that it forces itself upon our attention soon enough. It does not wait, to be sought A young man need not be afraid thai ?Ml ?~ he will ran 10 see 11. ne win see yicui,} of it, and without any seeking on his part either. And even if he does fail, he is the gainer. There are a great many things which we can accept by inference as existing in this world. It is not a liberal education to see them. Too many young men have a burning itch to see wickedness?not to indulge in it, as they are c{uick to explain, but simply to see it. Jiut thousands of men who have never seen it have uever felt themselves the losers. If anything, they are glad of it. It does not raise a man's ideals 10 come into contact with certain types of manhood or womanhood, which are only removed from the lowest types or tue animal kingdom by virtue of the fact that the Creator chose to have them get thrbugh the world on two legs inHtead of four. The loftiest ideal of womanhood that a young man can form, in his impressionable days will prove" none too high for maturity. To be true to the best that is within a man means, above all, to be an earnest believer in the best quality of womanhood. "Why, Bridget." exclaimed the housewife, "I can write my name in the dust here." "Deed, ina'm," replied Bridget, admiringly. "That's more than 1 can do. There's nothin' loike education, after all, is there ina'm ?" A tier washing out the baby's bottle, let it stand in soda water before usiiitf again. Mir JopHeh Pewie on the Condition of Europe. "There never was a time, probably, when there was so much preparation . for war, made by almost all the Pow- , ers. I am one of those who have advocated from this platform the high type of Christ an morality, as regards \ war. But when we leave Christianity , alone, when we look at merely the moral and the financial aspect of the 1 present state of things, it must strike ( every man as absurd to tftink that ; nations who are communicating daily with each other, by steamer, telegraph and railway, should be spending such ( enormous sums of money, and train- > ing so many men for the mere pur- ( pese of destroying one another. The thing almost seems horribly grotesque, when you look at it, Then we come to the puzzle which Government feels with regard to ways and means. We have a Chancellor of the Excheq- . uer puzzled at this very moment. Some of us, lookiug on, are not ! very much annoyed that Govern- | meut after Government, whether i Liberal or Tory, finds the difficulty in ( raising money for appliances of war ( comes heavier and heavier. If it comes heavy on this country, which is the rich- j est and most able to meet its liabilities, < it comes much harder upon those who | are endeavoring with less funds to in- ( crease their armaments. My hope has always been in the union of the dif- i ferent Churches, and in every section of the Christian Church uniting in \ one common cause ; and L often wish that my friend, Mr. Henry Richard. | was again with us, because be used to ] tell us he was disappointed with the manner in which the Christian Church did not unite in this cause, Now I believe we have sent out something like ten thousand circulars to the different Ministers of religion asking them to deal with the subject in an annual sermon. The kindness of the response is remarkable, and the large number who have responded is one of those good signs of the times in which I think we may all rejoice. i It is well, I think, just to look for a moment at what the armies are, at the present time. On a peace footing, there are 3,747,000 men, ou a war fool- i ing 21,000,000. On a peace footing, in 1869, there were 2,000,000, in 1892, 3,000,000. On a war footing in 1869, 6,900,000, and in 1892, 12,500,000. The I cost in 1869, was ?116,000,000 in 1895, < ?198,000,000. Therefore, in Europe alone, we are spending ?72,000,000 I more than we were^as lately as 1869. I I believe there are comparatinely few ! people who look at this question, as a I question affecting work and wages, al- i though money that is spent on unpro- i ductive industry is simply wasted i T i 1 IL* U? < money. I uave uui iue suguicat uuuui < that going back into the pocket of the taxpayers it would be used in industrial pursuitsf in employing tbe industries of nations, and in preventing that of which every nation is now complaining." Tbe Vice of Lyinj?. It is a curious fact that all persons in theory consider lying as an odious, mean, and pernicious practice, and yet it is the most common of vices. This is because men are so ready to find excuses for deceiving one another, and fail to observe the pernicious effect upon character and reputation of even small departures from truth long continued. Reputations, good or bad, are not made by single acts, but by the general course of conduct. man whose reputation among friends and acquaintances is tbatjof a'truth-teller whose word can be relied upon, gains it by constantly telling the truth; so also a mau whose word is always doubted, unless confirmed, does not ] iret such reputation unless his friends | and acquaintances have learned by ob- < servation that be is constantly lying. | He may not tell any malicious lies, or doany great harmby hisattempts to de- i ceive, except to himself, but long-continued misrepresentations of the truth ( impair his credibility, and develop in him a habit of lying which is fatal to his reputation. He is, moreover, exposed to great temptations to comm-it more grievous faults than those which have been here considered. "He lies like a politician," is a proverbial saying, lor the professional politicians and their hirelings have the reputation of taking advantage of any opportunity to place their adversaries in a false position by misrepresenting misquoting, or garbling their utterances, and sometimes by directly slandering them. A man who is habituated to truth-telling, who has never Indulged in white lies, shrinks instinctively from deceiving others, either ' maliciously or for bis own advantage, in matters of great moment. But he who has practiced a disregard for truth in small matters is ready, when tempted, to lie for his own advantage at any time. Young people cannot too soon learn to have a high regard for truth, and to avoid intentional deception in any form, direct or indirect, active or passive. Their future repu- 1 tations, and much of their pejice of mind and success in life, may depend upon the degree to which they resist the temptation to indulge in this too common vice.?Baltimore Sun. i Very Strnnge. | There are some things that I canuot i understand. One is this, that people j can stand losing a large sum, and cannot stand giving the same large sum. I once asked a man for $25,DUO for a s -...ii 5f ?.?c, ,itfurlv imnos- I uujivgc. jic saiu iv *1 wo uww> v - ? i sible. Two weeks later he, by an ac- < cident, lost $250,000, a round quarter of i a million. When I met him and of- i fered him my sympathy, he said, "Our house is a very strong one, and it will not affect us." I asked auother ' for $00,000, and his wife said it would ! beggar them. He told a friend one 1 year afterwards that he wished he had 1 **i,ven it to me, for, as I talked, he 5 thought of the money it would take if he did do it and that he had put it | elsewhere, and lost it all and more { than an equal sum to get it out; but ( he would not feel it much ! A farmer f is shocked to be talked to about giving $100, but his best horse will die, and nobody sees that it makes- auy differ- I ence. I cannot understand this thing. 1 Will not those people please give us I their testimony whether it makes any difference in the bank whether money is checked out to pay gifts or to pay ' losses??G. P. Hugo. Cheese sandwiches are made of gruled cheese mixed with salt, pepper, , butter, and a little vinegar. Dont' Quarrel wltb God. Without perhaps really intending it, yet it is true that not a few people are actually quarrelling with God. Of course, God does not ever stoop to the plane of quarreling with any one ; yet human beings put themselves in the attitude of quarreling with God. They dispute him. They find fault with him. They talk impudently to him. They saucily dictate to him what he ought to do. Dr. Cuyler tells this auecdote: "An intelligent woman, who had been in sore distress for many weeks, said to her pastor : 'I am done quarrelling with God. I have resolved to submit to him and serve him and to do all the good I can while I live, aud then so to hell as Ifdeserve.' Her pastor smiled and quietly replied : 'You will find it hard work to get to hell in that way.' The honest hearted woman soon found that her willing submission of heart to God, and her patient readiness to obey him and do her duty, was bringing her a calm, abiding peace." This woman found, to her sorrow, that quarrelling with God was very poor business. She lost Krouud every time that she engaged in it. And so "it is with all who try it. Some Christians have foolishly done this thing, and they have always got badly worsted. To get the most out of God is to do the most you can to please him. The more fully you obey him, the more blessing you will receive from him. The more heartily you submit to his ways, the more prosperous and plentiful will be your ways. Oh, don't quarrel with God ! You can't drive him, but you can draw him.?C. H. Whetherbe, in A. R. Presbyterian. Opportunity is bald behind, and must be grasped by the forelock. Life is full of tragic might-have-beens. No regret, no remorse, no self-accusation, no clear recognition that I was a fool, will avail one jot. The time for ploughing is past; you cannot stick nUn?/\ I r>f/\ /vfAlin/1 TIT V*on TTAi 1 tlic ouaic IUIU IUC UUUU TT liVU TUU should be wielding the sickle. "Too late" is the saddest of human words' And, as the stages of our lives roll on, unless each is filled, as it passes, with the discharge of the duties and appropriation of the benefits which it brings, iben, to all eternity that moment will never return, and the sluggard may beg in harvest that he may have the chance to plough once more, and have one. The student who has spent the term in indolenc, perhaps dissipation, has no time to get up his subjeot when be is in the examination room, with the paper before him. And life and uature and Gdd's law are stern taskmasters, and demand that the duty shall be done in its season or left uu? tlone forever.?Alexander Maclaren, D. D. ^ m mm Homemade Cough Candy.?An excellent cough candy is made of slippery elm, flaxseed, and sugar. Soak & gill of whole flaxeed in half a pint 3f boiling water. In another dish put i cup of broken bits of slippery elm, md cover tbis also with boiling water. Let these stand for two hours. Then strain them both through a muslin sloth into a saucepan containing a pound and a half of granulated sugar. Extract all the liquor you can, stir the sugar until it is melted, and then boil it until it turns to candy. Pour it out it once when it reaches this point on to jreased papers. This is the old-fashioned rule. The candy is more palatable if the juice of two lemons is idded to it after it has cooked for ten minutes. The solubility of manure is the motf. important point connected with it. It can never become soluble until it bas decomposed, and when a large mass of coarse, bulky material is spread on the land the farmer will have to wait until it becomes fit for plant food before his crops derive any L-.--.fl4 C a?iaU P/\*v\manniol fftf UCI1C1II 11UUX SUV/LI V^VUJUl^iviM* *v? tilizers are sold as much upon their guarantee of solubility as upon the plant food contained. A correspondent of Gleanings in Bee Culture does not believe that robbing bees permanently retain this bad habit. The saying "once a robber always a robber" has no truth in it If boney flowers become plentiful the robber bees will go to work again. But it must be added that when robbers once get the notion of attacking a weak hive it had better be destroyed, as it is nearly impossible to keep them from it thereafter. No one kind of food is perfect. Even when horses have an abundance of timothy hay they will al90 accept straw and cornstalks as a change of diet, as well as keep in better condition from being a allowed a greater variety. Very Nice Pancakes.?The cold oat meal left from breakfast mixed with an equal measurement of flour ?that is, one cup of flour to one of cooked oatmeal?with one beaten eggliallacupof milk, and a spoonful of baking powder, will uake very nice pancakes. Do not wet the nanus or leais m milking. Milk dry. It is neater and sleaner, and, in cold weather, much better for the cow. It is important that the milkman milk fast without ?ny interruption till the close. There is no reason why every farmer should not keep bees. Honey costs nothing, aud is a valuable product, lonsidering the price it usually brings, n comparison with the small expense ncurred in its production. During the very warm days the :eams should be used early in the noruing, so as to allow at least two iiours for rest at noon. More work ivill be secured by so doing than by shortening the noon rest. lu cake making always cream me gutter and sugar together, always sift ;he flour, always the soda iu molasses )r water, and beat the eggs nice and stiff. A strawberry grower says that the first plant that forms upon a strawaerry runner is the best, aud should je selected for transplanting. Spraying adds greatly to the health sf the grape vines and consequently to the size aud beauty of the fruit. If you wish to keep gruels or milk in the sick room, put in a piuh of soda to keep them sweet.