Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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j^CDGET OF HUMOR. ^Kauchter-provokinc stories for lovers of fun. The Modern Marco? Fair to Look Upon?A Itlrilriilou* Question? In WaHhinRton? U|.8 and l)on11 h? Labor* I>ivided?An Easy Kxplolt?Saviiic Labor, Ktc., Etc. At midnight, in his gold boudoir, The broker dreamed, with smiling lip, That Greeks and Turks, in strife afar. Had made wheat take another skip. ?Detroit Free Press. A Kldlculou* Question. Z\Xi3s Flitterley?"Oh, Mr. Soper, didn't I sec you asleep in church?" Mr. Soper?"I really could not say if you did."?Pick-Me-Up. In Washington. Office Seeker?"Have you given up all hope of getting that job?" Ex-Office Seeker (sadly)?"Yes, I've just grasped the situation." Up? and Downi), "Betterdays has come down in the world, hasn't he?" "Decidedly. He's living on the top floor of a tenement."?Puck. Kulr t?? Look I*non. "Miss Highsee is a beautiful singer, isn't she?" "Very. That was all that made her singing endurable."?Washington Times. The Lord Speaki. "Do you think it's true that every man has his price?" asked the heiress. "I'm sure I don't know," he answered thoughtfully, "but if you want a bargain you needn't look any further." ?Chicago Post. Lnboi-H Divided. ^ Parke?"I have a joint account in the bank with my wife now." Lane?"Good! You make an even thing of it, eh?" "Yes. I put the money in and she draws it out."?Detroit Free Press. An Eaxy Exploit. Brown?"I don't see why so much fuss should be made aoout i^ueea victoria reigning sixty years." Jones?"Nor I. We have thousands of statesmen who would guarantee to hold on to a job sixty years, provided they didn't die and were not removed." ?Puck. Golden Bridge Building. "Of course you'll give me one little kiss before I go," he pleaded. She looked at him intently for a minute and sighed. "It's pretty high pay," she replied, "but if you will go early enough I suppose I'll have to call it a bargain."? Chicago Post. Saving Labor. "Our typewriter girl asked the boss if he couldn't lighten her work this hot weather." "What did he say?" "He told her not to hit her typewriter keys so hard and to lick hsr postage stamps only on the corners." . ?Chicago Record. The Returned Student. Upton?"Well, I see your son is home from college. What does he intend to do?" f Manville?"I don't know exactly, k but, judging from the start he has f~- made, I'm inclined to believe that he proposes to put in most of his time explaining how he was turned down when the racing crew was chosen."? Cleveland Leader. )Wliat He Wanted to See. "T-V-- 1 11 JL/lll J'UU 3CC IUC uuuuuiui tucucw submarine boat?" "Yes; but I didn't read it. It doesn't interest ine, jou know." "It certainly indicates extraordinary progress." "Of course; but in the wrong direction. Enough boats go down now. What I want to see is one that is guaranteed to stay up."?Chicago Post. A Caprice of Fortune. "I noticed in th' colyumns of the daily pr-press that Actor Bancroft was knighted by th' gr-r-racious hand of the lady queen. Now, who in Erebus is Bancroft?" "Barnsy, me boy, I dunno. I understood he was retired." "Gods! Listen to that! Retired! Such is our pr-r-rofession. The obsolete and spavined oldlaid-on-the-shelf gets garters, while we active ornamentous of the stage can't even connect with dime suspenders! Truly it is a parlous world.!'?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Gla&8 Blowing by Machinery. flion o x?oor r?oaf anma nf 1W """" " J the best machinists in the country have been working in secret to perfect a machine that will blow glass in a way that would be profitable to fruit jar ^ manufacturers. The machinists have l| been at work in private, and it is now A announced on good authority that the f patent has been so perfectly constructed that the work can be clone with it even better thau with the blowpipe in the hands of a skilful blower, and one machine will do the work of three blowers, each of whom earns from $4 to 36 per day, and the expense of operating it will be less than half. The machine was made perfect some time ago. The company is now building machines for use next season, and the indications are that when the hundreds of blowers return for work September 1 in Muncie they will find many places filled by machines.? Indianapolis Journal. L>efl of Steel. We ride to New York on a steel > road over steel bridges, stay at a steel frame hotel, and take a steel steamship to England, a country whose civilization rests on steel. Our farmers | use steel plows, our merchants steel safes, our manufacturers steel boilers jj and steel water-wheels, our carpenters steel nails, aud our soldiers tiri steel gnns from beiiiud steel shields. Steel jS nails are so cheap that if a carpentcr | drops one it is not worth his while to I pick it up, for ten seconds of his time | is worth more than the nail. They are so cheap that it pays to lose them B| ?Hartford (Conn.) Courant. I>??R Meets the Mnll Train. A big black dog of uncertain breed ; seizes the mailbag when it is thrown off the train at a certain rural town in Georgia and scampers away with it to the postoffic^ It is said he seems to know the time when the train is due, and is always punctually at his post. WORDS OF WISDOM. | Society is the book of worn en? | Jean Jacques Rousseau. ! Behavior is a mirror in which i ! every one displays bis image. ?Goetbe. I Life is not so short but tbere is ! : always time for courtesy.?Emerson, j Man's inhumanity to man makes j countless thousands mourn.?Burns, j Labor rids us of three evils?irk! someness, vice and poverty.?Voltaire. In business three things are necesI sary?knowledge, temper and time. : ?Feltham. Whatever makes men good Chris tians makes them good citizens.? ! Daniel Webster. Labor to keep alive in your heart j [ that little spark of celestial fire called , j conscience.?Washington. One part of knowledge consists in j | being ignorant of such things as are | not worthy of being known.?Crates, j The fountain of beauty is the heart j and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.? | Bovee. Nature gives us many children and j \ friends, to take them away; but takes j I none away to give tliem us again.? ! Sir W. Temple. | There is no open door to the tem! pie of success. Every one makes his J own door, which closes behind him to I ! all others.?Marden. The diligent fostering of a candid ' habit of mind, even in trifles, is a mat, ter of high moment both to character i and opinion.?Howson. The youth who starts out by being ' afraid to speak what he thinks will 1 j usually end by being afraid to think | ! what he wishes.?Marden. It is with narrow-souied people as i j with narrow-necked bottles?the less j | they have in them the more noise they i j make in pouring it out.?Pope, i If any one speak ill of thee, con- I | sider whether he hath truth on his j I side; and if so, reform thyself, that ; j his censures may not affect thee.? ^ J Epictetus. I When infinite happiness is put in 1 : one scale against infinite misery in i the other; if the worst that comes to I the pious man if he mistakes he the , best that the wicked can attain to if he j be in the right, who can, without mad- j j ness run the venture.?Locke. Legl&lator a Victim of HIb Own Lav. ] This is the story of a man who was j hoist by his own petard. His name j is Ira N. Terrill, and he was the first J victim of the capital punishment law j in Oklahoma, escaping on a technical- | j ity. He is the author of the law, hav- i ing been a member of the lower House 1 of the Territorial Legislature. After much work his labors were re- i j warded and the bill making hanging j the punishment for murder became a ; law. Shortly after the Legislature ad- j journed Terrill and a man named George Ernbree bad a discussion in j the land office in Guthrie over a plot ; of ground. Terrill drew his revolver j j and shot Ernbree dead. Terrill was tried before Judge Dale i ; and was found guilty and sentenced to , i death. His attorneys were clever, J j however, and obtained a new trial for i | him on the plea that the crime was j ! committed on that part of Guthrie ' known as the "Government Acre," be- \ longing to the United States and that ! | therefore the trial should have been before a United States court. At the second trial he was sentenced : to twenty years' imprisonment and i confined in prison. Then his attor- I neys tried to get a third trial on habeas : | corpus proceedings and did so well I that he obtained his freedom. He ! j was at once rearrested by the authori- i ties and retried and sentenced to , I twelve years' imprisonment. Scarcely had he been placed in jail I when lift and a number of cattle thieves I broke out and escaped into the Ozark j j Mountains, where Terrill remained two 1 : years. I About a year ago he made an effort | to visit some relatives in Kansas, when I he was recognized and captured. He ; ! was taken back to the penitentiary I and is there now, awaiting the deI cision of the courts as to which sen; tence he shall fulfil.?New York Jouri nal. Prince Wore a Necklace of Pearls. j The conversation given last night by 1 the East India United Service Club to ' meet the Princess and other IndiaD visitors now in England, proved an es- 1 sentially brilliant function. Crowds | ii J J A- l- i iu. i j 01 weu-uresseu uueu me cutur- j j case and tilled the large entrance hall, ' overshadowed by palms, to witness the i 1 arrival of the Queen's Indian guard, many of the Hyderabad contingent and other finely built native soldiers with j a profusion of orders on their breasts. They were quickly followed by several | of the Princes. Pertab Singh was clad in a red and gold striped habit, | with a light blue and silver turban, on \ which figured a medallion portrait. His tid-de-camp' was in red and gold, i divide ', as a short skirt and long I jacket, with a black and gold turban. . With him was another Indian visitor ! in a long white satin coat cut as they i wear them 'u the East. Another : Prince was arrayed in white satin with i j rows ot pearls about ins necK; a long ; bar of diamonds clasping, not the lobe, j j but the entire ear, and magnificent, I i diamond ornaments glittered on his ! soft silky yellow turban. A grand old i nawab's coat was entirely composed of cloth of gold, and, with his gray i whi ikers curiously tied and large tur; ban, he towered above all the rest. : There were three Parsees in shiny ; black caftans, the elder Sir Jamsetjee I Jejeebhoy.?St. James' Gazette. IVliy n Boy Wan Goocl Fifty Years Ago. Assistant Marshal Wright amused ; himself the other day with watching a i small boy, who thought he was unobserved, try to let the wind out of a bicycle standing in front oi the Western Union office. He unscrewed the cap from the valve and tlien glanced about to see if any one was looking; then he ; squeezed the tire, put his knee on it, and tried vario is means to get the air : out, looking, meanwhile, to see if the owner wa3 comii.g. He finally had to give up. Mr. Wi ight said to ex-Marshal Hendrick: "Talk about bad boys; they wouldn't | have done that fifty years ago." Mr. I Hendrick, evidently a believer in the : boy of to-day, answered: "Oh, no; they didn't have bicycles j fifty years ago."?Springfield Republican. K'V r " ^ IJ-J-M.T J..M -L'- LH.IJ.CTT The Country School. If the elementary principles of soil fertility and plant growth are to be taught in our country schools, aoine, jven, of our most successful teachers will, perhaps, need to "post up" on these branches, and we repectfully suggest that they might do well to begin now; the country school is bound to grow bigger, broader and better; it lias the people back of it; they must know more about the common things with which they come in daily contact and the mighty forces of nature with which they have to deal.?The Epitornist. Turning; the Weeds to Good Use. Summer heat, when it comes, starts a numerous and enterprising crop of weeds into active life. These may be easily controlled by frequent use of the iron rake, which stifles them at i-i- r)..i i? oirui. dui ii, iu:uu^u iuuucuuuu, they get the start of the gardener and need to be reduced by the hoe, they should be attacked vigorously at the first chance, and not allowed to perfect and drop their seed into the soil. Pull up and shake the larger ones when not so near as to endanger valuable plants thereby, and hoe up all others, not merely scraping the ground over, but breaking it up and pulverizing it while rooting out the weeds. These may then, while still green and succulent, be raked together and put into the compost heap, where they will be obliged to return to the gardener all that they have purloined from the soil This compost heat may, by a little care, be made quite an important factor in the fertility of the garden. Not only all weeds, but, as crops mature, all the garden refuse not used for mulching other plants,-may be put into it wet thoroughly and covered with a little earth, and thus rotted down and retained for use as so much homemade fertilizer. It should bo established in some out-of-the-way corner; a hole dug a few feet deep to accommodate it will be found convenient, and the contents drenched with the hose from time to time to promote decomposition, after which a few shovelfuls of earth will delay evaporation and help retain the gases. When used the addition of wood ashes and bone dust of course makes it by rq much the richer.?Boston Evening Transcript. Increasing a Wheelbarrow's Capacity. When wheeling corn, fodder, and _j.i i: ? i-j. _a? tr v. ?? UUici ii^ui diuu, a ?uociuuuu>v o pacity is too limited for convenience. The illustration shows a simple attachWHEELB ARROW ATTACHMENT. meut that can be slipped into the barrow on such occasions, to the great increase of its capacity. The side i 1,1 u^ i .1 rru~ pi ecus SLiLMiiu ue uuiuwuuu suxpn. allu attachment may be supported by hooks from the strips to the top of the wheelbarrow's back if preferred.?American Agriculturist. The Campbell Farm Cti lture. We might assume that our readers are familiar with the nature of the "Campbell method" of farm culture, as we have once or twice described it, but we may repeat that it consists, first, in thoroughly pulverizing the upper three or four inches of the soil intended to be cultivated. This is best done with a spader or disk harrow. If the soil is already in perfect condition this operation may be omitted. In this upper stratum, at the end of the summer, is concentrated the most of the available plant food. Secondly, the ground is plowed to a uniform depth of eight inches, by measure and not by guess, the furrow slice to be turned completely bottom up so tnat tne puiverizea surrace son containing the humus may be in a position to form the rootbed for the coming crop. Third, the plow is to l^e immediately followed by a toDl called the sub-surface packer, which thoroughly firms the lower four inches, but leaves the upper stratum in a friable condition suitable for a seedbed. The object of firming the lower four inches is to prevent drying out by a too free - circulation of air, and to increase the inflow of water to rot the vegetable matter in the rootbed. Fourth, the grain is sown in drills, eighteen or twenty inches apart, and the cultivator kept going in it every week until Leaded out. This surface cultivation is only about two inches in depth, and with a proper tool can be done verv rapidlv. Corn and other hoed crops are planted at usual distances and tended to maturity. There is no doubt as to the result of such cultivation wherever the annual rainfall is sufficient to make a crop, and very little rain is required when the water is all saved. That it is saved by this method has not been determined alone by the size of the ; crops, for other reasons might be alleged for this, but more accurately by analyses of the soil to a depth of a foot compared with the analyses of adjoining soil not so cultivated. In the one case there was always found sufficient water to make a crop, and in the other case it was not found. The question to be settled is whether it will pay to raise good crops at the cost of so much labor. As to this the data are not forthcoming, although they doubtless will be supplied in the course of the season. In different climates, with different rainfall, and in different years, there will doubtless be a variation in the nnmber of cultivaI tions possible or profitable, lint it seems evident to us that this method i is certain to open to profitable cultiI vation large areas of arid lands hitherj to considered worthless, and we bej lieve it to be desirable that experi! inents should be at once made in thif State with the view of determining what the results will be here. Then is more or less of summer rain in th< i?a| I)^ ,...i.gcr: them honoi districts where it has thus far been enoui tried, but among the missing links in 1 tie evidence hitherto supplied .is the sejZ0! ninfall by months, on the farms thoDf worked by this method.?San Fran- that I c .sco Chronicle. w,f as wi Splits In Fruit Treed. O^wll If a fruit tree is trained properly whiel from the nursery to the bearing period, of yo' the danger from a splitting of the trunk or a splitting off of some limbs WOud from the trunk would perhaps not be enouj very great; but, as a matter of fact, tempi many trees do thus split, and a knowl- 1 9F edge of the proper treatment of such wounds is therefore important. Some- tion t times the two split portions of a tree of w ars brought together and an iron rod passed through both parts, the ends aons being secured by a bolthead and by a that nut. Such material is not always at daug hand, and costs, moreover, more than is necessary. American Gardening uioof suggests an improvement as follows: "It h If a coil of stout, galvanized iron tfc wire (No. 12,at least,) is kept on hand, flnd?' a split limb can be instantly replaced, worlc and a figure eight placed about it and 14 a 'or3, l\ 1 ment W?/ V\ Profe S\%[ V?y fessit . Vs f ' the a ble st fe.kl ft* marb . I ^ il lh DrtU(! II III ? 11 (l W'l*%X ' liest, % the D f ;)] Ing r guest TREATMENT OF TREE SPLITS. an(j , parnl its neighbor, as shown in the illustra- clas9 tion. Severals strands of the wire ' should be used, according to the eithe amount of weight to be supported. A loarle bit of sheetiron, tin or zinc, placed at the sides will keep the bark from be- short ing cut by the wire. Such wire is ex- want ceedingly convenient in mending of thi breaks of many kinds, and may well k be kept always on hand. for vi wilft Feeding, Dressing and Marketing Capons. Into I To have good profitable capons the pojJ? chicks should be hatched in April or bet o May. The summer and fall hatches can be caponized and held for the jj?", March and April market but they will thOU, not be as fine as the early ones which that can be sold bv the holidavs. A point ! aud 1 in favor of caponizing all surplus cock- th?en"j erels is the fact that they are growing | title l into good money during the fall and man early winter months vdiile the hens on ^ the farm are taking a rest from egg 9noU1 production and are giving but little or N<r no return for the fesd they are con- roPe, suming. ^dc Do not expect that a 12 or 15 pound hazai capon from a bird that would have near weighed 6 or 7 pounds in his natural state. About li pounds gain can be pect? expected on every five pounds, or a | think bird that will mature into a fivo pound JaU > rooster will weigh about 6i pounds at j the same age if caponized and a 10 nen pound rooster will reach 12 or 13 j vritlii pounds if caponized. A capon that will weigh only 5 to 7 pounds dressed, are ^ will sell at the holidays for about fif- them teen cents per pound. That is a 7 $5000 pound bird will sell for $1.05 while a capon that will dress 9 pounds will j0 gr sell for eighteen cents and will bring Th< SI. G2, leaving a difference of fifty-seven sin cents in favor of the heavy capon. j^ey There is no danger of getting them enou, too heavy. do nc About three weeks before they are to be sold put fifteen or twenty in a [f ^f yard and roosting house and feed youn, tlJem all the fat forming foods they these will consume. Whole corn, coram eal, bran, middlings, animal meal or meat, shop, a little linseed meal are perhaps the I oug best available feeds for a farmer. Give all the milk they will drink. pensl Keep plenty of fresh water and grit I can by them. See that they do not get to tune, feather pulling. Should this occur increase the meat ration and put a little ]jve j salt into the mixture. him < The spurs of a capon do not become 2/htlr l ard like those of a cock, but remain w? 1 softened and rather loose ou the eousi shank, neither do they grow long, a mi He will sometimes play, but will do ?120C little or no fighting. The comb a:id wattles do not grow any more after they the operation. The head is slim and the e has a pale, lifeless appearance. The growth of feathers is very profuse, njKhi and the tail feathers especially grow hund to remarkable length. When ready to butcher, hang the th*^ capon by the legs by good strong hund cords. Kill by bleeding in the roof of nant the mouth. Be careful to keep all the el9^ blood and dirt off the feathers, most Thi of which are left on and shipped with j ?ins f the bird. Leavo on all long feathers , and p next to head, those on thigh, wings 4 from first joint out, all of the tail and thev those a little way down on the back muot from tail. Dry pick. Wash the manj mouth and feet. Hang in a cool place and be sure the animal heat is all out tonffi before packing. In advance of dress- their ing the capons find out how tbe commission man wants them. Sorno want all the feathers scalded, others picked until off dry. I have given New York style, nsk i Leave head and feet on and do not remove the intestines. , fr;iui Coffee boxes are very suitable for nrw packages. Line them with clean, Onco white paper, then snugly pack, placing the fowls as straight as possible. Nail j f0un< the box securely, mark plainly, giving of ?i ! cross and net weights and to whom j shipped. The flesh of the capon is the j\7iiYr I finest, in the world.?American Agri- stole culturist. 011 man An Klephnnt un<l a Buhy. lyu 1 i At the circus parade in Middleton recently a small child in Broad street jn3nt : got away from its mother and toddled stole 1 out in the street to see Jumbo. Before any one could redize what the c'aild ^ ? was up to it was directly in front of iet. the herd of elephants. Every one ex* leadi - Ai- . i;j.ii 1?i , clten pecteu to see me muo unu umaucu i,u i nv^c( ? deuth, but the leader of the herd care- ?arn) f fully picked the hibe up with its trunk | imitj j and swung her out of all dpngec.? I citen 3 Hartford (Conn.) Courant. [ f' TALMAGES SERMON. )AY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. .ni(|ncnr iMSHertarion on uic .-5in m itnbling?An Insidious Vice Which umbers Its Victims by the Tliounds?May be Saved by Grace of God. ;t: "Woe unto them that sin, as it were a cart rope."?Isaiah v., 18. ;re aro some iniquities that only nibble i heart. After a lifetime of their work an still stands upright, respected and red. Theso vermin have not strength ?h to gnaw through a man's character, here are other transgressions that lift 3elves up to gigantic proportions and hold of a man and bind him with ?s forever. There are some iniquities lave such great emphasis of evil that 10 commits them may be said to sin th a cart rope. I suppose you know :hey make a great rope. The stuff out tich it is fashioned is nothing but tow 1 you pull apart without any exertion ur fingers. This is spun into threads, >f which you could easily snap, but a many of these threads aro interd?then you have a rope strong ;h to bind an ox or hold a ship in a 331. >eak to you of the sin of gambling. A ope in strength is that sin, and yet I rr? Arn aananlallv f a rlrom trAii nffon ;o the small threads of influence out hich that mighty iniquity is twisted, crime is on the advance, so that it is lot only that fathers and brothers and be interested in such a discussion, but wives and mothers and sisters and hters look out lest their present home icrificed or their intended home be' ad. No man, no woman, can stand from such a subject as this and say, as no practical bearing upon my life," lere may be in a short time in your ry an experience in which you will that the discussion involved three Is?earth, heaven, hell. There are ling establishments by the thousands, sre are about 5500 professional gambOut of all the gambling establishs how many of them do you suppose ss to be honest? Ten?these ten pro ig io De nonesi necauseiney are merely ntechamber to those that are acknowli fraudulent. There are first-class esihments. You step a little way out of Iway, New York. You go up the marairs. You ring the bell. The liveried nt introduces you. The walls are lavr tinted. The mantels are of Vermont le. The pictures are "Jephthah's fhter" and Dore's "Dante" and Virgil's sen Region of Hell," a most approe selection, this last, for ,the plaoe. 3 is the roulette table, the finest, costmost exquisite piece of furniture in 'nited States. There is the banquetoom, where, free of charge to the :s, you may find the plate and viands vines and cigars sumptuous beyond lei. Then you come to the second gambling establishment. To it you ltroduced by a card through some 5r in." Having entered, you must r gamble or fight. Sanded cards, dice id with quicksilver, poor drinks mixed more poor drinks will soon help you t rid of all your money to a tune in meter with staccato passages. You ed to see. You saw. The low villains at place watch you as you come in. not the panther, squat in the grass, r a calf when she sees it? Wrangle not our rights in that place, or your body >e thrown bloody into the street or dead :he river. j go along a little farther and find the y establishment. In that place you n numbers. Betting on two numbers lied a "saddle;" betting on three numts called a "gig;" bettinc on four .>ers is called a "horse," and there are sands of our young men leaping Into "saddle" and mounting that "gig" behind that "horse" riding to peraiThereis always one kind of sign on oor, "Exchange," a most appropriate for the door, for there in that room a exchanges health, peace and heaven iss of health, loss of home, loss of fam)ss of immortal soul. Exchange sure ?h and infinite enough. (V you acknowledge that is a cartof evil, but you want to know what ;he small threads out of which it is !. There is In many a disposition to rd. They feel a delight in walking a precipice because of the sense of ?r Th?r? nr? nuniilfi whn cr> linon frau, not for the largeness of the prosbut for the feeling that they have of :ing, "What would happen If I should oil?" There are persons who have blood filliped and accelerated by ng very near an airhole. There are who find a positive delight in driving d two inches of the edge of a bridge, this disposition to hazard that finds lopment in gaming practices. Here *500. I may stake them. If I stake , I mav lose them, but I may win I. Whichever way it turns I have the ement. Shuffle the cads. Lost! Heart ps. Head dizzy. At it again?just atify this desire for hazard. 3n there are others who uo into this irough sheer desire for gain. It is eslly so with professional gamblers, always keep cool. They never drink gh to unbalance their judgment. They )t see the dice so much as they see the r beyond the dice, and for that they (1 as the spider in the web, looking as id until the fly passes. Thousands of g men in the hope of gain go into practices. They say: "Well, my sal! not enough to allow this luxury. I get enough from my store, office or I ought to have finer apartments, ht to have better wines. I ought to more richly flavored cigars. I ought able to entertain my friends more ex vely. I won't stand this any longer, with one brilliant stroke make a forNow, here goes, principle or no iple, heaven or hell. Who cares?" ien a young man makes up his mind to )eyond his income, satan has bought out and out, and it is only a question tie when the goods are to be delivered. :hing is done. You may plant in the all the batteries of truth and rlghtiess; but man is bound to go on. When in makes $1000 a year and spends I, when a young man makes 61500 and Is $1700, all the harpies of darkness >ut, "Ha! ha! we have him!" And have. How to get the extra $500 or xtra $2000 is the question. He says: e is my friend who started out the r day with but little money, and in one t, so great was his luck, he rolled up reds and thousands of dollars. If he it, why not I? It is such dull work, idding up of long lines of figures in ounting house, this pulling down of-a rati vnrds of croods and selline a rem , this always waiting upon somebody vhen I could put $100 on the ace and up 51000." Is sin works very insidiously. Other tound the drum, and Ilaunt the flag, rather their recruits with wild huzza, his marches its procession of pale vicin dead of night, in silence, and when drop into the grave there is not so i sound as the click of dice. Oh, how r have gone down under it! Look at i men who were once highly pros1. Now their forehead is licked by a ae of flame that will never go out. In souls are plunged the beaks which lover be lifted. Swing open the door of man's heart and you see a coil of adwriggling their indescribable horror you turn away and hide your face and God to help you to forget it. The of this evil is unadvertised. The nunity does not hear of it. Men deled in gambling establishments not fools enough to tell of it. in awhile, however, there is an sure, as when in Boston the police ped upon a gaming establishment ami I in it the representatives of all classes tizens, from the llrst merchants on street to the low Ann street gambler: leu Iiullock, the cashier of the Central ond of Georgia, was found to have 11 .*103,000 for the purpose of carrying ambling practices, as when a young in one of the savings banks of Brooknany years ago was found to have n $40,000 to carry on gaming practices; len a man connected with a Wall street ance company was found to have n *108,000 to carry on his gaming pracBut that is exceptional. nerally the money leaks silently from aerchant's till into the gamester's walI believe that one of the main pipes ng to this sewor of iniquity Is the exlent of business life. Is it not a sigmt fact that the majority of the day iling houses in New \ork are in proxr to Wall street? Men go into the uxlent of stock gambling, and from that plunge into the gambling nouses, as, l men are intoxicated, they go Into a liquor saloon to get more drink. Tho agitation that ia witnessed in the stock market when the chair announced the word "Northwestern," or "Fort Wayne," or "Rock Island," or "New York Central," and the rat, tat, tat, of the auctioneer's hammer, and the excitement of making "corners," and getting up "pools," and "carryingstock," and a"break" from eighty to seventy, and the excitement of rushing around in curbstone brokerage, and the sudden cries of "Buyer three!" Buyer ten!" Take 'em!" "How many?" and the making or losing of $10,000 by one operation, unfits a man to go home, and so he goes up the flight of stairs, amid business offices, to the darkly curtained, woodenshuttered room, gayly furnished inside, and takes his place at the roulette or the faro table. But I cannot tell all the process by which men get into this evil. A man went to New York. He was a Western merchant. He went into a gaming house on Park place. Before morning he had lost all his money save 81. and he moved around about with that dollar in his band, and after awhile, caught still more powerfully under the infernal infatuation, he came up and put down the dollar and cried out until they heard him through the saloon, "une tnousana ranes irom noma, and my last dollar on the gaming table." Many years ago for sermonic purposes and in company with the chief of police of New York I visited one of the most brilliant gambling houses in that city. It was night, and as we came up in front all seemed dark. The blinds were down, the door was guarded, but after a whispering of the officer with the guard at the door we were admitted into the hall," and thence into the parlors, around one table finding eight or ten men in midlife, well dressed?all the work going on in silence, save the noise of the rattling "ohips" on the gaming table in one parlor and the revolving ball of the roulette table in the other parlor. Some of these men, we were told, had served terms in prison, some were shipwrecked bankers and brokers and money dealers, and some were going their first rounds of vice?but all intent upon the table, as large or small fortunes moved up and down before them. Oh, there was something awfully solemn in the silence?the intense gaze, the suppressed emotions of the players. No one looked up. They all had money in the rapids, and I have no doubt some saw, as they sat there, horses and carriages, and houses and lands, and home and family rushing down into the vortex. A man's life would not have been worth a farthing in that pres ?l?,1 diii;o uau no u<;t uouu auwmpauicu ijj tuo police if he had been supposed to be on a Christian errand of observation. Some of these men went by'prlvate key, some went in by careful introduction, some were taken in by the patrons of the establishment. The officer of the law told me, "None gets in here except by police mandate or by some letter of a patron." While we were there a young man came in, pat his money down on the roulette table and lost; put more money down on the roulette table and iost; put more money down on the roulette table and lost; then feeling in his pockets for more money, finding none, in severe silence he turned his back upon the scene and passed out. While we stood there men lost their property and lost their souls. Oh, merciless place! Not once in all the history of that gaming house has there been one word of sympathy uttered for the losers at the game. Sir Horace Walpole said that a man dropped dead in one of the clubhouses of London. His body was carried into the clubhouse, aud the members of the club began immediately to bet as to whether he was dead or alive, and when it was proposed to test the matter by bleeding him, it was only hindered by the suggestion that it would be unfair to some of the players. In these gaming bouses of our cities men iiuve lucir pruyerty wmug awajr nuux buoui, and then they pro out, some of them to drown their grief in strong drink, some to ply the counterfeiter's pen, and so restore their fortunes, some resort to the suicide's revolver, but all going down, and that work proceeds day by day and night by night. "That cart-rope,""says some young man, "has" never been wound around my soul." But have not some threads of that cartrope been twisted? I arraign before God the gift enterprises of our cities, which have a tendency to make this a nation of gamblers. Whatever you get, young man, in such a place as that, without giving a proper equivalent, is a robbery of your own soul and a robbery of the community. Yet how we are appalled to see men who have failed in other enterprises go into gift concerts, where the chief attraction Is not muslo, but the. prizes distributed among the audience, or to sell books where the chief attraction is not the book, but the package that goes with the book. Tobacco dealers advertise that on a certain day they will put money into their papers, so that the purchaser of this tobacco in Cincinnati or New York may unexpectedly come upon a magnificent gratuity. Boys hawking through the cars packages containing nobody knows what, until you open them and find fhey contain nothing. Christian men with pictures on their wall gotten in a lottery, and the brain of community taxed to a find out some new way nt n>o+tino> thine without navlnc for them. Oh,young men, these are threads that make the cart rope, and when a young man consents to these practices he Is being bound hand and foot by a habit whloh Has Already destroyed "a great multitude that no man can number." * Sometimes these gift enterprises are carried on in the name of charity, and some of you remember at the close of our civil war how many gift enterprises were on foot, the proceeds go to the orphans and widows of the soldiers and sailors. What did the men who had charge of those gift enterprises care for the orphans and widows? Why, tu',"T would have allowed them to freeze to ucdth upon their steps. I have no faith in a charity which for the sake of relieving present suffering opens u gaping jaw that has swallowed down so much of the virtue and good principle of the community. Young man, have nothing to do with these things. They only sharpen your appetite for games of chance. Do one of two things?be honest or die. I have accomplished my object if I put you on the lookout. It is a great deal easier to fall than it is to get up again. The trouble is that when men begin to go astray from the path of duty they are apt to say: "There's no use of my trying to get back. I've sacrificed my respectability, I can't return." And they go on until they are utterly destroyed. I tell you, my friends, that God this moment, by His Holy Spirit, can change your entire nature so that you will be a different man in a minute. Your great want?what is it? More salary? Higher social position? No, no. I will tell you the great want of every man if he has not already obtained it. It is the grace of God. Are there any who have fallen victims to the sin that I have been reprehending? You are in a prison. You rush against the wall of this prison and try to get out and you fail, and you turn arouud and dash against the other wall until there is blood on the grates and blood on your sonl. You will never get out in this way. There is only one way of petting out. There is a key that can unlock that prison house. It is the key of the house of David. It is the key that Christ wears at His eirdle. I! you will allow him to put that key to the lock, the bolt will shoot back, and the door will swing open, and you will be a free man in Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a business this is for you, feeding swine, when your father stands in the front door, straining his eyesight to catch the first glimpse of your return, and the calf is as fat as It will be, and the harps of heaven are all strung, and the feet free. There are converted gamblers in heaven. The light of eternity Hashed upon the green baize of their billiard saloon. In the laver of God's forgiveness they washed off all their sins. They quit trying for earthly stakes. They tried for heaven and won it. There stretches a hand from heaven toward the bead of the worst offender. It is ft hand, uot clinched as if to smite, but outspread as if to drop a benediction. Other seas have a shore and may be fathomed, but the sea of God's loveeternity has no plummet to strike the bottom, and immensity no ironbouud shore to confine it. Its tides are lifted by the heart of infinite compassion. Its waves are the hosannas of the redeemed. The argosies that sail ou it drop anchor at last amid the thundering salvo of eternal victory. But alas for that man who sits down to the final game of life and puts his immortal soul on the ace, while the angels of God keep the tally board, and after kings and queens, and knaves, and spades are "shuffled" and "cut," and the game Is ended, hovering and impending worlds discover that he has lost It, the faro bank of eternal darkness clutching down into its wallet all the blood stained wagers. IN THE QUIET HOUBS. 1 PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST AUTHORS. Door Shut for Our Good?CnrUt Standing at the Door ? Draw Patlencc From Christ - Unappreciated IiIe**iiiK?-Tli? Value In In Chrint-Faith by Watching. God sometimes shuts the door, and shut* us in, That He may speak, perchance through t j grief or pain, And softly, heart to heart, above the din, May tell some precious thought to us again. God sometimes shuts the door, and keeps ua still, That so our feverish haste, our deep unrest, Beneath His gentle touch may quiet, till He whispers what our weary hearts lovft best. God sometimes shuts the door, and though shut in, If 'tis His hand, shall we not wait and see? . 'i If worry lies without, and toil, and sin, God's word may wait within for you and me. ?Interior. Christ Standing: at the Door. To the church at Philadelphia it was prom- ' '-.h isad that the door should be opened ; but het '<i a church at Laodicea, which had deliberately sliut its door on the higher life. It was a church that was neither cold nor hot, a lukewarm, indifferent, spiritless people, and to such a people, wilfully barring out the revelations of God, comes the Christ in . this wonderful flgure, standing at the door like a weary traveler, asking to be let in. Such a picture just reverses the common - m view which one is apt to have of the religious ; life. We commonly think of truth as hiding "/? itself within its closed door, and of our- j selves a9 trying to get in to it. We speak of finding Christ, or proving God, or getting religion, as if all these things were mysteriee ' to be explored, hidden behind doors which ' ' v must be unlocked; as if, in the relation between man and God, man did all the searching, and God was a hidden God. But the fundamental fact of the religious life is this?that the power and lore of God are seeking man ; that before we love * Him. He loves us; that before we know Him, He knows us; that antecedent to our : recognition of Him must be our receptivity of Him. Coleridge said that he believed in ; -; $! the Bible because it found him. It is for , ^ the same reason that man believes in God. God finds hira. It is not the sheep which go looking f jr the shepherd; it is the shep- _;.i herd who finds the sheep, and when they hear his voice they follow nim. This is not contrary to nature. The same principle is to be noticed in regard to all truth. That is what we call a discovery ; it is tho opening of the door of the mind : and one of the moat impressive things about science today is < ;/* *] to consider how many other secrets of the universe are at this moment knocking at our doors and waiting to be let in; and to perceive how senseless and un? receptive we must seem to an omniscient , :<aSg mind, when so much truth, standing near us, is beaten back from our closed minds and wills. It is the. same with religious truth. Here are our lives, shut in, limited, self-absorbed; and here are the messages ; i of God, knocking at our door, and between the two, only one barrier, the barrier of our own wills. Religious education is pimply ('? the opening of the door of the heart. A Christian discipleship is simply that alertness and rec: ptivity which hears the knocking and weloomes the 8pirit which says: "if any man will but open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me."?Prof. F. G. Peabody in "Morn- i ings in the College Chapel. Draw Patience From Christ. I remember onco when I felt the need of ? great stock of patience to meet an emergency that was coming upon me, and thought I would be obliged to pray for a long time in order to lay up enough. I think I expected to have something after the nature of a nanbor.a ftf nntlonflft Hnna nn tind IaHaIaiI J "Patience," Had deposited in my heart. It was one night, and I was preparing myself to pray all night long in order to lay in a good supply, wnen suddenly this verse flashed into my mind: ''Who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness, and sanctiflcation, and redemption." '"Yes," I added with a sudden illumination, "and patience too!" I do not . -~q need to lay up a stock of patience ; all the patience I need is stored up for me in Christ, and I have only to draw my supplies momentarily from Him." I rose from my knees at once, and thanked the Lord beforehand for the unlimited supply of patience that was mine in Christ. And I . need not say that I found grace (in the form o( patience) to help in every time of need. ?Hannah Whitehall Smith. Unappreciated Blessings. ' A poor old widow, living in the Scottish Highlands, was called upon one day by a gentleman who had heard that she was in need. The old lady complained of her condition, and that her son was in Australia, and doing well. ''But does he do nothing to help your' inquired the visitor. ''No, nothing." was the reply. "He writes me regularly once a month, but only sends me a little picture with his letter." The gentleman asked to see one of the pictures that she had received, and found each one of them to be a draft for .?10. That is the condition of many of God's children. He has given us many "exceeding great and precious promises," which we either are ignorant of or fail to appropriate. Many of them seem to be pretty pictures of an ideal peace and rest, but are not appropriate as practical helps in daily life. And not ope of these promises is more neglected than th? i assurance of salvation. An open Biblt places them within reach of all, and wejina'l 1 appropriate tue messing waicusuuua tuuwn edge brings.?D. L. Moody. * The Value In In ChrUt* You remember the scene in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice" when the suitors for Portia's hand choose between the caskets? the golden, the silver, the leaden. The value is not in the casket, it is in the portrait of Portia that lies within, and he who finds the portrait wins the living bride. The value of our Bible is not in its words and p rases?these are the mere caskets; it is in the Christ whose portrait is contained in the whole Book, from the opening scene in the Garden to the closing scene at the Judgment. And he best uses the Bible who knows how to open this casket, to look beneath its words and phrases, to see the Christ whose image is enshrined there, and then to look up and see the living Christ at his side and take him as a Friend and a Bridegroom because he has found this divine image in the Book.?Lyman Abbott,D.D. Faith by Watching God. Fnith W aIwav* nn the lookout. It does not always see, bat it keeps its eyes open. Yet faithis always painted blindfolded. "I don't understand anything about Providence or the Bible," said a young man, recently. "I don't try to understand it; I prefer to walk by simple faitU." But simple faith does not court darkness, nor is it an evidence of great faith when one who has just placed his hand in God's hand closes his eyes. Following God blindfolded is not the courage of faith, hut the recklessness of credulity. A man of faitli linds strength to i go through hard places, not by shutting | his eyes, but by keeping them open; not by remaining ignorant of God's ways, but by watching Him in all His ways ?8. S. Times. Thoro is no greater gift or possession I than to believe God speaks to us. If we i holiorn flint trA hK>*iCA.l?.Ar.a rt in ! Luther. An Kftklmo Student. Among the students in the summer law i school at Ann Arbor,. Mich., is Edward i Marsden, a full-blooded Eskimo, from AJasi ka. He has the typical features and build I of an Eskimo, but Is good-looking. Ha t was early converted to Christianity, and ! was graduated in the Sitka Industrial I School. He served as a steamboat hand | on the North Pacific for tlirt-<! years. He I expects to return to his country and use I his knowledge of law to help improve the I political and economic conditions of his i race. Good Crops In Mexico. tfews from crops all over Mexico indW ?ato a year of great abundance and banker! predict a good business during the cooilof autumn and winter. ' 'f'jU . v