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' jj0^ceg jn looai column 10c. per line . each insertion. TERMS OP3 ^-. TP.TiQ'- 1 , '" 1 ' ' , T ~~ " ?I? Obituaries over ten Knee charged for at One copy one year.. ;%i>. $1.50 regular advertising rates. i : :srs. ? vol. xvii. Lexington, s.-c., Wednesday, November i6, isst. no. 52. ?- ^sgk piniMit ?OF MB I Hi. EEFSTXaT, f -jf (Successor to Philip Epstin, under CoIudcfjk. ^ bia Hotel Block,) ^ \ COLUMBIA. S. C. I have bought a port' ?:; of the stock formerly owned by Philip Epstin at less HALF THE" ORIGINAL COST, * K And since my purchase have largely re,. plenished the stock direct from the . Northern Markets, Sac 0* ? :V* V" V v . '% - ' ' & . -Which have been selected with the greatest care, consisting of Gents', Boys', Youths' and Childrens' Clothing, * Of the latest styles and best manufacture. I am prepared to offer great bargains in choice selections of - GEMS' OVERCOATS, Hats and Gents' Furnishing GOODS, which cannot be rivaled by any house South. The management of the b'isiness will be conducted by Philip Epsiin, who will ever be anxious and ready to serve his Lexington friends and customers. dt O'* ''? ? "" nf lian(i if will ' AS in*; b6U6UU id U?n ai uauu ?v ..... W&.-fm everj^ody to call and examine inv stock before purchasir^ else v. hew?. : L EPSTIN. \ Sept. 7-tf Ljjooty saved [ -is1 ion HIDE! m Sr } This you can do by calling on M. A. Malone, CoJnnibia,S. O., Successor to Malone & Co., more recently Malone & Key. He leads in the following Instruments: 3Pia,n.o." 1 R , J OEG-A1TS, [I . - ** b4 * I Estey. Carpenter, Story^ ;&|*Clark, New J England and others. Has also the charming MUSETTE, which plays 535 tunes and any one can play it. Price only $15. SJ SEWING MACHINES. NEW HOME, DOMESTIC, DAVIS and others. Singer and Wheeler & Wilson Machines, almost at your own price. Keep on hand good supply ot best Sewing Machine Oil. Also Needles and attach^enw'iorlSlsmachTiies. I d*.fy competition and wiirnot-bc undersold on instruments or machines, quality eonaidered. Corespondent solicited. 1 Box No. 172, Colombia, S, C, Office 178 Main street, near Postofficc, M. A. MAL01TE. ... . | TilE DUTY OF PARENTS/ ; DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE AT THE TABERNACLE. no Extremes of Discipline and Leniency?Children as Often Ruined by Indulgence as by Tyranny?The Proper Treatment of the Young. Brooklyn, Nov; 13,?The weekly pubn lication of - Dr.^Talmage's sermons is be- vond parallel. Beside the English speak ^rng~natfons, including Australia and New Zealand, the sermons are regularly translated into the languages of Germany. Franco. Italy, Denmark, Norway, Russia and India. The gentlemen liaving in charge the publication' of these sermons inform us that in this country, every week, 10,000,000 copies of the entire sermon are printed, and about 4,000,000 in oilier lands, making over 17,000.000 per week. A similar arrangement if now being made for the publication of Dr. Talmage's Fridav evening talks. The subject of the sermon to-day was "Parental Blunders," and the text was 1 Samuel iv, 18:."He fell from off theMAM ^ 1 /%! l*Tr < l\/\ cl/l/\ /-?f f l?rt I'Vri j-A ZASctb uat&nuiu uj tut: Oiuu ui tiiv; ^aw:, and Iris neck brake, and be died: for he was an old man, and heavy." Dr. Talmagesaid: Tiiis is the end of. a long story of parental neglect. Judge Eli was a good man, but lie let his two boys, Ilophni and Phinehas, do as they pleased, and through over indulgence they went to ruin. The blind old judge, OS years of age, is seated at the gate waiting for tlio news cf an important battle in whicli his two sons were at the front. An express is coming with tidings from the battle. This blind nonogenarian put3 his hand _behind his. ear and listens and cries: "What meaneth the noise of t|iis tumult?" An excited messenger, all out of breath with the speed, said to him: "Our army is defeated. The sacred chest, called the ark, is captured, and your sons are dead on the field." No wonder the father fainted and expired. The domestic tragedy in which these two sons were the tragedians had finished its fifth and last act. "He fell from, off the scat backward by the side of the gate and his neck brake, and lie died; for he was jui old man and heavy." Eli had inado an awful mistake in regard to his children.' The Bible distinctly says: "His sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not." Oh. the ten thousand mistakes in rearing children, mistakes of parents, mistakes of teachers in day school and Sabbath classes, mistakes which we all make. Will it not be useful to consider them? This country is going to be conquered by a great army, compared with which chat of Baldwin the First, and Xerxes, and Alexander, and Grant, and Lee, all put together, were in numbers insignificant. They will capture all our pulpits, storehouses, factories and halls of legislation, all our shipping, all our wealth and all our honors. They will take possession of ali authority, from the United States presidency down to tho humblest con : everything between the Atlantic^ and Pacific obeaiw. They, are... on the march now, and they halt neither day nor night. They will soon be here, .and all the present active population of this country must surrender and give way. I refer to the great army of chii- j dren. Whether they shall take possession J of everytliing for good or for bad depends upon the style of preparation through which they pass on their way from cradle i to throne. Cicero acknowledges -he kept in his desk a collection of prefaces for J l<ooks, which prefaces he could at any time attach to anything he wanted to I publish for himself or others; and parents and teachers have all prepared the preface of every young lifer under their charge, and not only the pre face, but the appendix, * whether the volume be a poem or a farce. Families, and schools, and legislatures are in our day busily engaged in discussing what is the l>est mode of educating children. Before this question almost every other dwindles into insig- 1 niQcance, while dependent upon its I proper solution is the welfare of govern- J meats and ages eternal. Macaulay tells j of the war winch Frederick the Second i made against Queen Maria Theresa. And one day she appeared before the august diet, wearing mourning for; her father, and held up in her arms bafore them her child, the arcbduke. This so wrought -1 upon the oilicers and deputies of the people that with half drawn swords they broke forth in the war cry, 4'Let us die fur our queen, Maria Theresa!" So, this morning, realizing that the boy of today |. is to be the ruler of the future, the popular sovereign, I hold him before the American people to arouse their enthusiasm in his behalf and to evoke their oath f<?i his defense, his education and his sublime destiny. 1/ a parent, you will remember when you were aroused to these great responsibilities, and. when you found that you liad not done all required after you had admired the tiny hands, and the glossy I hair, atid the bright eyes that lay in the cradle, you suddenly remembered that' that hand wovild yet be raised to bless the world with its benediction, or. to -smite it wiih'a curse. In AriesfepVgreat poem there is a character called Ruggiero, who has a sliield of insufferable splendor, but it is kept veiled save on certain occasions, and when uncovered it startled and overwhelmed its beholder, who before had no suspicion of its brightness. My hopo today is to uncot^r the destiny of your child or student, about which ycu may have no special appreciation, and flash upon you the splendors of its immortal nature. Behold the sliield and the sword of its coming conflict! I propose in this discourse to set forth what I consider to be some of the errors prevalent in the training of children. First: I remark, tliat many err in too gre :t severity or too great leniency of famiiy government. Between parental' tyranny and ruinous laxativeness of disci]'line there is a medium. Sometimes the father errs on one side, and the mother on the other side. Good family government is all important. Anarchy and misrule in the domestic circle is the forerunner of anarchy and misrule in the state. What a repulsive S{>ectacle is a homo without order or discipline, disnlwdipncA and imnudcnce. and anger ami falsehood lifting their horrid front in tho place which should be consecrated to all that Is holy and peaceful and beautiful. In the attempt to avoid all this, and bring the children under proper laws and regulations* parents have sometimes carried themselves with great rigor. John Howard, who was merciful to tire prisons and lazarettos, was merciless in the treatment of his children. John Milton knew everything but how to train " his family. Severe and unreasonable was he in his carriage toward them. He made them read to him in four or five languages, but would not allow them to learn any of them, for ho 6aid that one tongue was enough for a woman. Their raiding was mechanical -drudgery, when, if they liad understood the languages they read, the employment of reading might have l>ccu a luxury. No wonder his cliildren despised him, and stealthily sold his books, and ho])ed for his death. In all ages there has been need of a society for the prevention of cruelty to. children: - ! When Barbara was put to death by her i father because she had countermanded ! his order, and had three windows put in a room instead of two, this cruel parent was a type of man)- who have acted the Nero and the Robespierre in the home circle. The heart sickens at what you sometimes see, even in families that pretend to be Cliristian?perpetual scolding, and hair pulling, and ear boxing, and thumping, and stamping, and fault finding, and teasing, until the children aro vexed beyond bounds and growl in tho sleeve, and pout, and rebel, and vow within themselves that in after days they will retaliate for the cruelties practiced. Many a home has become a3 full of dispute as was the home of John O'Groat, who built his house at the most northerly point in Great Britain. And tradiooro tUof flm lio r\ nirrl^f Trin_ UUll OUJO LUUb liJV AiV'UCV JUtU vi^uv *? JUU dows, and eightv doors, and a table of eight sides, because he had eight children and the only way to kpep them out of bitter quarrel was-to have a -separate appointment for each one of them. That child's nature is too delicate to bo worked upon by sledge hammer, and g?f?ugo, and pile driver. Such fierce lashing, instead of breaking tho high mettle to bit and trace, will make it dash off the more uncontrollable. Many seem to think tliat children are flax.?not fit for use till they have been hetcheled and swingled. Some one talking to a child said: 4'I wonder what makes that tree out there so crooked." The child replied: 'T suppose it was trod upon while it was young." In some families all the discipline is concenetred upoft one child's head. If anything is done wrong, the supposition is that George did it. He broke tho latch. He left open the gate. He hacked the bannisters. He whittled sticks on the carpets. And George sliall be the scapegoat for all domestic misunderstandings aud suspicions. If things get wrong in the culinary department, in comes- th? mother and says, angrily:. " Where is George?" If business matters are < perplexing ' at the store, in. comes the father at night ami says, angrily: ''Where is George?" In many a household there is such a one singled out for suspicion and castigation. All the sweet flowers of his soul blasted under this perpetual northeast storm, he curses the day in which he . was born. r Safer the cliild in an ark of bulrushes on tho Nile, among crocodiles, than in an elegant mansion, amid such domestic gorgons. A mother was passing along the street one day, and came up to her little child, who did not see her approaclu and her child was saying to her playmate: lYou good fo^ nothing little scamp, you come right into the house this minute or I will beat yoii till the skin comes off." The mother broke in, saying: "Why, Lizzie, I am surprised to hear you talk like that to any one!*' "Oh," said the child, "I was only playing, and he is mv little boy, and I am scolding him, as you did me this morning." Children are apt to be echoes of their parents. Safer in a Bethlehem manger among I cattle and camels with gentle Mary to j watch the little innocent than the most extravagant nursery, over which God's star of peace never stood. The trapper extini guishes the flames on the prairie by fighting fire witji fire, but you cannot, with ; the fire of your own disposition^ put out \ the fire o? a tjkild'a disposition.; Yet we may rush to the 'otfbcf extreme and rule cliildren by too great leniency. The surgeon is hot unkind because, notwithstanding the resistance of his patient, he goes straight on with firm hand and unfaltering heart to take off the gangrene. - Nor is the parent less affectionate and. faithful because, notwithstanding all violent remonstrances on the part of the child, he with the firmest discipline advances to the cutting off of its evil inclinations. The Bible says: "Chasten thv son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying." Childish rage unchecked will, after a while, become a hurricane. Childish petulance will grow.up-into misanthropy. Childish rebellion will develop into the lawlessness of riot and sedition. If you would ruin the child, dance to his every caprice and stuff him with confectionery. Before you are aware of it tlrnt boy of 0 years will go .down the street, a eigar in his mouth and ready on any corner with his comrades to compare pugilistic attainments. The parent who allows the child to grow-up without ever having learned the great duty of obedience and subrnis-sioa has prepared a cup of burning gall ? ? ' * 1 -11? J L Tor Jus own lips ana appamng uesureetibil forhis descendant. Remember Eli and his,two sons, Hophni dnd Phinehas. A second error prevalent in tfie training of children is a laying out of a theory and'following it without arranging it to varieties of disposition. In every family you will find striking differences of temperament. This child is too timid, and that too bokl^ and: this too miserly, and that too wasteful; this too inactive, and that too boisterous. Now, the farmer who should plant corn and wheat and turnips in just the same way, then put them through one hopper and grind them in the same mill, would not be so much of a fool as the parents who should attempt to discipline and educate all their children in the same manner. It needs a 3killful hand to adjust These checks and balances. ' The rigidity of government which is necessary to hold in this impetudhs nzture would utterly crush v that flexile disposition, while the--gentle iieproof that would suffice for the latter would When used on the former, be like attempting to hold a champing Bucephalus with reins of gossamer. God gives us in the disposition of each child a hint as to how we ought to train him, and, as (lod in the mental structure of our children "indicates what mode of training is - the best, lie also indicates in the disposition their future occupation. Do not write down that child as dull because it may not now bo as brilliant as your other children or as those of your neighbor. Some of the mightiest men and women of the centuries had a stupid childhood. . Thomas ?Aqmnas was called at school "the dumb oy,'* but afterward demonstrated his sanctified genius and was called "the angel of the schools" and "the eagle of Brittany," Kindness and patience with a child will conquer almost anything, and they are virtues so Christianlike that they are inspiring to look at. John Wesley's kiss of a child on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias Joyce from a profligate into a flaming evangel. The third error prevalent in the training of children is the one sided development of either the physical, intellectual or moral nature at the expense of the others. Those, for instance, greatly mistake who, while they are faithful in the intellectual and moral culture of children, forget the physical. The bright eyes half quenched by night study, the cramped chest that comes from too much bending over school desks, the weak side resulting from sedentariness of habit, pale cheeks and the gaunt Ixxlies of mul. titudes of children J attest that physical development does" not always go aloDg with intellectual and moral. How do you suppose all those treasures of knowledge the child gets will look in shattered casket? And how much will you give for the wealthiest cargo when it is put into a leaky ship? How can that bright, | sharp blade of a child's attainments be | wielded without any handle? "What are brains worth without shoulders. to carry them? What is a child with magnificent mind but an exhausted body? Better that a young man 01 z ' " m , * I into the world "without knowing A from Z, if he have health of body and energy to push his way through the world, than - at 21 to enter upon active lifo. his head 1 stuffed with Socrates, and Herodotus, ? and Bacon, and La Place, but no physical force to sustain him in the shock of earthly conflicts. From this infinite | blunder of parents how many have come out in life with a genius that could have piled Ossa upon Pelion, and mounted ' upon them to scale the heavens, and have laid down panting with physical exhaustion before a mole hill. They who might have thrilled senates and marslialed' armies and startled the world with tho shock of their scientific batteries, have passed their lives in picking up prescrij>tions for indigestion. They owned all the thunderbolts of Jupiter, but could not get out cf their rocking chaii to use them. George Washington in early life was a poor speller, and spelled hat i h-a-double-t, and a ream of paper ho j spelled "rlieam," but he knew enough I to spell out tho independence of this } country from foreign oppression, Tho | knowledge of the schools is important, j but there are other things quite as im] portant. } Just as great is tho wrong done when i j tho mind is cultivated and tho heart neglectod. The youth of this day are seldom | denied any scholarly attainments. Our ! schools and seminaries are ever growing | i in efficiency, and the students are conj ducted through all the realms of philosj ophy, and art, and language, and matho| matics. Tho most hereditary obtusoness 1 ) gives way before the onslaught of adroit ; instructors. But there is a development j | of infinite imj)ortance which mathematics i! and the dead languages cannot affect. The more mental power the more capacity for evil unless coupled with religious restraint. You discover what terrible '-power for evil unsanctifiod genius posv/scseos when you see Scaliger with his scathing denunciations assaulting the best men of his time, and Blount and Spinoza and Bolingbroke leading their hosts of followers into the ail consuming fires of - skepticism and infidelity. "Whether knowledge is a mighty good or an unmitigated evil depends entirely upon winch course it takes. The river rolling on between round banks makes ell tho valley laugh with golden wheat and rank grass, and catching hold tho* wheel of mill and factory, whirls it with great industries. But, breaking away from restraints and dashing over banks in red wrath, it washes away harvests from their moorings and makes the valleys shrink with the catastrophe. Biro in the furnace heats tho house or drives tho steamer; but, uncontrolled, warehouses go down in awful crash before it, and in a few hours half a city will lie in black ruin, l walls and towers and churches and J monument. You must accompany tho education or tiio intellect witn uie eauca- , tion of the heart, or you are rousing up , within your child an energy which will J; be blasting and terrific. Better a wicked dunce than a wicked philosopher. Tho fourth error often committed in j the training of children is tho suppres- ^ sion of childish sportfulness. The most ^ triumphant death of any child that I ? ever knew was that of Scoville Haynes c McCollum. A few days before tliat, he ( was at my house in Syracuse, and he ran r iifee --a doer-.-an.cL bip. Jiallpo made - tho v a woods echo. You could" n?ar~liitD com- -j ing a block off, so full was he Of romp' j and laughter and whistle. Don't put re- { ligion ou your child as a straight jacket. * ^ Parents after liaving for a good many j year's been joBtlod about in the rough c world often lose'their vivacity, and are j astonished to see how their children can. t act so thoughtlessly of tho earnest world ] all about them. That is a cruel parent ^ whorquenchcs any of the light in a child's r soul. Instead of arresting its sportfulness, r go forth iind help him trundle the hoop, { and fly the kite, and build the snow castle. Those shoulders arc too little to 8 carry a burden, that brow is too young * to bo wrinkled, those feet are too sprightly to go along at a funeral pace. God % bless their-young hearts! Now is the , time for them to be sportful. Let thom ^ romp and sing and laugh, and go with a rush and a hurrah. In this way they gather up a surplus of energy for future ? life. For the child that walks around : with a scowl, dragging his feet as though they were weights and sitting down by f tho hour in* moping and grumbling, I * prophesy a life of utter inanition and dis- J content. Sooner hush the robin3 iii tho , air till they are silent as a bat, and lecture the frisking lambs on the hillside 1 until they walk like old sheep, than put ( exhjlarant childhood in the stocks The fifth error in the training of childhood is the postponement of its moral v culture until too late. Multitudes of j children because of their precocity have been urged into depths of study where they ought not to go, and their intellects ^ have been overburdened and overstrained and battered to pieces against Latin ^ grammars and algebras, and coming forth into practical life they will hardly ^ rise to mediocrity, and there is now a stuffing and cramming system of educa* tion in the schools of our country tliat ia ^ deathful to tho teachers who have to en- j. force it, and destructive to the children ^ - \vho must submit to the process. You a . find- children - at i.and 10 years of age ^ - wiihdcnool IJ^ssOns only Appropriate for z clnldfen of "f{>. If children are kept In Q schob\ and studying from 9 to 3 o'clock, - no home study except music* ought to bo required of them. Six hours of study is enough for any child. The rest or the day ought to ho devoted to recreation i and pure fun. But you cannot begin 6 too'early the moral culture .of a child, or on too complete a scale. You can look j back upon your own lifo and remember j what mighty impressions were mado upon you at 5 or 0 years of ago. Oh, that child does not sit so silent during r your conversation to be uninfluonced by 6 it. You say he docs not understand, A\- N though much of your phraseology is be- c yond his grasp, he is gathering up from your talk influences which will affect his c immortal destiny. From the question ho I asks you long afterward you find ho c understood all about what you were say- s ing. You think the child does not ap- ? predatethat beautiful cloud, but its most delicate lines are reflected into the very f depths of the youthful nature, and a ?: score of years from now you will see the ^ shadow cf that cloud in the tastes and ^ refinements developed. The song with . which you sang that child to sleep will echo through all its life, and ring back ' * _ * 1 T il V l. T lroni cue very arcncs 01 ncaven, * uunic that often the first seven years of ft child's life decides whether it shall bo 6 irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypocrite ? ical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient, I honest and Christian. The present genorations of men will pass off very much I as they are now. Although the Goe- t ]x>1 is offered them, the general rule is c that drunkards die drunkards, thieves f die thieves, libertines dio libertines, L Therefore to the youth we turn. Before they sow wild oats get them to sow j wheat and barley. You fill the bushel j. measure with good corn, and there will j, be no room for husks. Glorious Alfred Cookman was converted at 10 years of t age. At Carlisle, Pa., during the progress of a religious meeting in the Methodist church, whjlp many were kneeling 11 at the foot of the altar, this boy knelt in a a corner of the church all by himself and I1 said: "Precious Saviour, thoj art sav- y ing others, O, wilt thou not sav* me?" 11 t 9 - .. "3 'Vv. A Presbyterian elder knelt beside him and led him into the light. Enthroned Alfred Cookman! Tell me from the skies, were you converted too early? But I cannot hear his answer. It is overpowered by the huzzas of the tens of thousands who wero brought to God through his ministry. Isaac Watts, the great Christian poet, was converted at 0 years of ago. Robert Hall, the great Baptist evangelist^ was converted at 12 years of age. Jonathan Edwards, the greatest of American. logicians, was converted at 7 years of age. Oh for one generation of holy men and women. Shall it bo the next? Fathers and mothers, you under God are to decide whether from your families shall go forth cowards, inebriates, counterfeiters, blasphemers, and whether there shall be those bearing your image and earning your name festering in the low haunt3 of vice, and floundering in dissipation, and making the midnight of their lives horrid with a long Ttowl of ruin, or whether from your family altars shall come the Christians, the reformers, tho teachers, the ministers of Christ, tho comforters of the troubled, the healers of tho sick, the enacters of good laws, the founders of charitable institutions, and a great many who shall in theT^nibler spheres of toil and usefulness serve god and the host Inf/vroafa r\f tlm lmmnn r-wm V4 W1V Jiumuil X uvv You cannot as parents shirk the responsibility. God has charged yon with a mission, and all fhe thrones of heaven are waiting to see whether you wiil do your duty. We must not forget that it is not so much what we teach our children as what we arc in their presence. Wo wish them to bo better than wc are, but the probability is that they will only be reproductions of our own character. Serman literature has much to say of the ' 'specter of Brocken.'' Among those mountains travelers in certain conditions }f the atmosphere sco themselves copied :>n a gigantic scale in the clouds. At first tho travelers do not realize that it is themselves on a larger scale. When they lift a hand Or move the head this monster ;pecter does the same, and with such jnlargement of proportions that tho scene s most exciting, and thousands have gone :o that place just to behold the specter )f Brocken. Tho probability is that some >f our faults which we consider small md insignificant, if we do not put an end o them, will be copied on a larger scale n tho lives of our children, and perhaps lilated and exaggerated into spectral >roportions. You need not go ns far off is the Brocken to see that process. Tho iret thing in importance in the education >f our children is to mako ourselves, by he grace of God, fit examples to be | sopied. Tho day will come when you ! nust confront that child, not in tho ! :hurch pew on a calm Sabbath, but amid lie consternation of the rising dead, and he flying heavens, and a burning world, from your side that son or daughter, xme of your bone, heart of your heart, he father's brow liis brow, the mother's ye his eye, slufll go forth to an eternal lestinv. " What will be vour iov ~ w - - V V I f at last, you hear their feet in j ho sam^ golden highway and hear heir voiced in the sam? rapturous song, [lustrations, while the eternal ages last, ?f what /a faithful parent could, under Jod, accomplish. I was reading of a uother^*io, dying, liad all her children took each. ono of?feJypiil by he hM^JPtfeoskgd them to ineet^ier"1ii leaven^S^Jwith tears and sobs, such as hose only know who have stood by the leathbecTTif a good old mother, they all >romised. Bat there was a young man >f 19, who had\>een very wild and reckess, and bard, .and proud, and when she ook his hand die said: "Now, my boy, ' want ym- to promise mo before i d'io hat you will become a Christian and neet me in heaven." The young man nade no answer, for there was so much or him to give up if he made and kepi uch a promise. But the aged mother jersistetVip saying: "You won't deny me that before I jo, will-yob? This parting must not be orevcr. Tell mo now you will serve Jod and meet me in the land where here, is no parting." Quaking with motion he stood, making up his mind ind lialting and hesitating, but at last lis stubbornness yielded and . ho threw lis arms around his mother's neck and aid: "Yes, mother; I will, I will." Vnd as he finished the last word of his iromise lier. spirit ascended. I thank >od ll^Pyotmg \ man kept his promise. iTes, lie "kept it. May God give all Mothers anil fathers the gladness of their diildrente .Salvation. For all w}io are trying to do their duty, is ptingjdbyi fquote the tremendous pasage: *Triim up a child in theway in vhich he should go, and when he is old 10 wilL not depart from it." If llirough jood discipline and prayer and godly extmple dre- acting upon that cliild, ou halo the right to export him to grow \ ip vir^iotwl And how many tears of oy yoi w31 shed when you see your bild honorable and just and truthful md Christian and successful?a holy man iinid a i'oridof dishonesty, a godly wo naii m a world. ot frivolous pretension. rVhen to die they will gather o bless y<asHhst houja. They "wit! push >ack the $Hite lockS^fe^ your cold forelead ancbgg1} " Wi^Tasgood father He ilways They will fold 'our'iiai^*peacefully and say: "Boar aother!' ?be is gone. Her trouKeh:$re 11 over. fBon't she look beautifutllL . : ' Interesting Paragraphs. A daily illustrated paper is projected n London. An American is ono of the yndicater Switzerland has recently adopted a law dacing the manufacture of wines and iquors m the hands of tho government. At Oxford, Pa., the other day, asparow hopped upon a pilo of clams and was uduenly imprisoned by one of tho bi alve.i.W'l^ch closed its shell together >ver the bitu's foot, * A lady interfered with an impatient Iriver'm ?ynn and started a stubborn, >alky horse attached to a heavily loaded :oal wagon by giving the animal foui ipplo3 Itad then simply saying, "Come ; tlong.'? f Montana territory claims to bo ready 'or statdiood, with plenty of property, Hent^Jf'population. ljt00,000 cattle, [90.000 horses, 2,000,000 sheep, j.and jold ?\d silver at the rato of $20,000,000 Oni the tombstone of Martlia Annie dooii. whoso grave is in Old- Wilner, >a., k this curious epitaph: "Boys, don't hoolbirds around Martha's grave." The ?av?is in a wild wood where game is >len?v A ?.000 foot well is being sunk at San | )iegt>, Cal. It is hoped that a supply of j rati$-;equivalent to 2,000,000 gallons in [ ivory twenty-four hours will bo obtained roin "that and another deep well now eing sunk. Trrfrt* is a cotton plant at Narcoosscc, Ta.| which is over five feet across the ranches and has from 350 to 400 blooms, ludi, and. bolls. It -contains cotton hi 11 its stages, from the swelling bud to ho mature article itself. ALjnerchant of Merrill. Wis., has dopted u novel and successful method of dvertising. Ho took his old white cow, ili^red lier over from head to heels vith advertisements, and set her at large a fill; streets of the town. f- I ' fel life 1 PEOPLE EVERYBODY KNOWS. Personal Items Concerning Men and "Women Whom the World Talks About. The daughter of Ole Bull is preparing for the Harvard annex. Queen Margaret, of Italy, lias had J capable Jewish instructors, can read thn Old Testament in Hebrew with ease and i lias collected'a large Hebrew library, j with the latest works on Jewish literaj turc. Dom Pedro I composed a song entitled j "Hymne de 1 'Independence,'' and it has | just lieen executed for the first time at j Baden Baden, under the direction of his J son, Dom Pedro II, tho present ruler of i Brazil, who is said to bo a talented muI sician. t Mr. Edison lias perfected his phonograph for practical use, and the machine is soon to Ixi put on the market at a retail price of $100. The Edison company claims tliat the machine will reproduce j the voice so clearly and accurately tint j the words cannot bo misunderstood. i ^ -it- n.i.t. .f t j Ijeorge >v. i auie, lately ui ijuuisiujiu, now of Massachusetts, has developed not ! only into a great novelist,- but is ac! counted one of the lx^t biblical scholars in the e;ist. He has a Bible class in Boston, and it is said receives a very large salary from it annsgfily. He was here tha.other (fey, hut hurried' away to read somewhere. Ho wbars a full dark l>card and a thick mustache that struggles over and joins the mass of whiskers. His complexion is pallid and somewhat sallow. In dress he is not dandified and avoids anything loud. He woro a plain black frock coat, double breasted, and dark trousers. When the late duke of Portland died most of liis property went to his sisteis, one of whom was Lady Ossington. As this lady was a widow she was assisted in the management of her great inTieritancc by her brother-in-law, tlio late A. Denison, and in return for liis services she made him a considerable present in money. This money Mr. Denison invested in a sumptuous watch. A very musical relator of the best workmanship was inclosed in a gold case literally studded with jewels, and each jewel a stone. The watch* chain had a succession of black pearte, and the signet was a scarabceus. The worst of this costly whim was that the owner scarcely dared wear the watch for fear of being robbc-l in the street, and could not leave it at home for fear of a burglary. If ever the habit of cigarette smoking has thoroughly and permanently fastened itself upon any man, that man is Robert Louis Stevenson, tho popular romancer. During a trifle of over one hour of conversation on his brief visit to New York .t _ ?j u i>_* ..J recently, ail average sizeu uuuuiu ui I cigarettes was entirely consumed by the | novelist in rapid succession. Mr. Stevenson lias entirely rained liis health by the practice, and both of his lungs have been impaired beyond medical skill solely by the "constant inhaling of the deadly . smoke. Ho is frankly conscious of the evil effects of the vico that has so securely conquered him, and despito the most earnest efforts of his mother, wife and friends, the practice goes on unabated. With Mr. Stevenson a cigarette is his last pnn.iyminn r>" p i ii :"fT "r-il"ld_tll ' Ilrai sought by him on rising. Physicians-' of ail lands liave warned in vain, fearing; the cuhninating'cffects on a constitution^6 already nearly slin|tered, and on a mind from which has emanated those wonderful romances that liavemado their author so widely popular in .English reading lands. An Egyptian Papyrus. Lepsins, the director of the Egyptian department of the royal museums of Berlin, Germany, a very famous Egyptol<> gist, at his death.Jeft a remarkable papyrus which he tiad obtained from an English lady, Miss Westcar. According to its language it was written about the seventeenth century before Qirist, the period of the delivery of Egypt from the rule of the Avksos (Jews?). It measures nearly two yards in length and i3 about fourteen inches liigb. On ono side it contains nine, on the other three, columns of an average of twenty-six horizontal lines of writing each. Some parts of the writing are entirely obliterated, many so much as to be unreadable. The beginning and the conclusion are gone entirely. Nevertheless, the recitals have been read and sufficiently restored to become intelligible. One of the .tales is that King Snofru was sad of heart, and on the advico of Zezemonch, the priest and reader to the king, had a boat manned by twenty beautiful oarswomen and went on a voyage. One of tho women happened to drop a precious jewel of malachite into the sea, and was so overwhelmed with grief that sho dropped her oar and 'the boat came to a-standstill. *Tfco king was dismayed. But 2ezemonch raised one]?$? of the waters of the lake and clapped it on top of the other half, leaving half of the bottom of the hike dry, descended* and brought up the jewel, and the boat resumed its journey. Another legend of the"papyrus says tho god of tho sun. Re, had. triplets^ by lioddeclet, the wile or tho ' priest Bfcawosei^ who, he decreed, should* dethrone the Egyptian dynasty arid rule in: itr-fctead. '33ufc one of Rededdefc's jnaids wentr^ffo kin^Chufu (Cheops), and tells him what lias happenedagitf^ ? ihl king's ingnU# the country -'; iu a fearful iuundation, destroying every-.' " thing except Die three boys,' wh% aitf : sa\ed.bvlie. So, it;seemVneither the emperor of China^ nor -Hercules, nor" Romulus and Remus, wer-o the first sons of the gods bearing rule on earth.?Chicago News. Electricity Among the Grapevines. A man who lives but a few miles out of Albany protects his grapevines from fruit thieves in a. novel maimer. H19 . supports are of wood, but the cross pieces are ol wire insulated from tlie ground, ana connected with an induction Coi| . capable of delivering a- heavy sparlj. through an/inch of air. The other pole of the coil is connected to xhe ground, Six good sized bichromate of potash cettaL furnish electro motive force for the coil, * Short wires hanging among tho vines are secured to the large wires, and when any 0110 monkeys with the grapevine while ' the battery is connected the neighborhood ' is apt to hear from him. J\ /*orks every time, and no one come3 for a seconddose. - Albany Argus, . - i'SJL Time for Recreation.* What little reputation I have 'as an author -was fairly, won while I was a hard working and successful lawyer. On thd other hand, my literary work n^ver interfered in the least with my law practice. I look upon a well set method of working as the chief secret of success in , any undertaking, provided the native ability to succeed be granted. I believo in the moral influence and vitalizing force of playing. A man,or a woman needs play ?recreation?or* whatever is Clio opposite of work. I have aUvays found time for outdoor sports and have been the gainer from them., in every sense, It is a morbid view of. Ijfe which would show that in order to succeed one must work all the year round, play ia profitable, if held within the bounds pxe-> scribed hy good judgment, I have frequently lost * 'business" in my profession by being absent from nrr /' jT I ! office when a client called, but it has not ' made mo poor or wretched. On the conj trary, I liave gone right 011 getting to| get her a comfortable little fortune, de; apite the clients I have lost, and I am glad j whenever I think about the pleasure I j had at my outdoor recreation while some I some needier or more money loving lawyer was getting a few casts at my expense. To some people it may sound like romance when I say that for nine years past I have spent on an average three months of each year in outdoor recreation, at the same time successfully practicing law and pursuing literary work with sufficient returns to make a very comfortable bank account. Meanlime I have been cheerful, in good health and at all times glad to be alive. What is the secret? Steady habits, promptness in meeting even* obligation in law or literature, and a conscientious reliance upon Ihe value of painstaking labor.?Maurice Thompson. Abolish ths Hangman's Noose. I think the day is not far distant when the hangman's noose will l>e done away with. There are so many things attendant on a hanging that are not humane. The horrors of the human mind when contemplating such a death have been portrayed in "The Execution," in the "Ingoldsby Legends,'' better, perhaps, dian Victor Hugo's interprctafMMflM leither of them could describe. )f oil men's failings?moral fear. "R AO*oty11AC<2 rvf cfnlul ftwfnviic xvKnn :hc death warrant is being read, there is io indication of the awful mental drama ?oing on in the brain. It must of nature ie the agony of agonies. The neck :winges and the llesh feels the noose long lefore it is adjusted. Tlie knot that is ;o knock into instantaneous insensibility die scaffold's victim batters away at the far until every muscle of the neck is it retched to the tension of steel springs; ;he veins, like whipcords, arc dilated with rushing blood that fires the brain with the lividness of 100 hells; while itanding on the trap a man must die a .iozen deaths before the life spark expires when the hemp is stretched. I say iliat this death is not humane. As I view it, electricity should be used and dio criminal slux ked to death. This is not only instantaneous, but it could bo vdministered at an unguarded moment -o tlie felon. He should never know when he was to die, and therefore he wotpjd not be living in that horrid contemplation of a set day. I think the time s not far distant when this method of execution will be adopted.?Governor , Johnson in Globe-Democrat. llad Swallowed His Teeth. A short time since a man was taken to )ne of the hospitals sulfering intense pain. He informed the doctors that his lome was down in the country, and that i he should die he wished to be sent there. The physicians asked him what 10 supposed caused the pain. "Why, I wallowed my plate and four false teeth while asleep the other night," was the answer. Tlie patient was put upon iquid food and all the examinations nade by the medicos failed to locate the wallowed article. The man's sufferings were lessened considerably and as a test t was decided to give him a little piece >f beefsteak. This was done and tlio poor patient was writhing in againyia.., iCU uf)i IfcSnii rr ^"*'^7 >1 XlJOUUlflfl. "Oil, my God!" lie exclaimed. "this is dlling me! I know I shall die!" and numerous other such speeches. The physicians and nurses could hardly keep him in bed, he suffered so mucli. igaiii he ' broke forth m exefeunations. This time he said: "Oh, how I suffer! I can feel the teeth tearing mv stomach apart! Oh?V. he did not finish until a iuree opened a telegram from his wife, [t read: "Found teeth under bed." The suffering man,:,who had swallowed those teeth, got dp and dressed, paid lusbill md left the hospital without a word. This is only an illustration of what imagination will do.? Buffalo Express. ^ Winter Resort# of Europe. The great winter resorts of Europe for those in search of mild weather are to be found in the south of France and Italy, Including Sicily. The principal. places where good hotels, coay villas and the comforts of life are to be found are Biarritz and Pau (the first on the seacoast, the second in the Pyrenees),- Hyeres, Cannes, Nice and Mentonex iff France, 2nd San Reimo, in Italy, all on the Mediterranean between Marseilles and Genoa. At these places good comfortable quarters, good society, good shops and able physicians may be found, with mauy more diversions and pleasures than can he had at the winter resortsin our own country. For perrons in health, and for those in delicate health without any settled ?lung or throat trouble, for such as desire or require an open air life in a mild winter climate, they all offer attractions and comforts greater as a whole than ariy I ' * have ever found elsewhere; but, like all climatic resorts, they have their objectionable features when presented ^f^the abode of consumptives, wlHch^^oala neither be unknown nor Ij&fe iam Smith Brown in Harness Maggie. The Gentry: of Formosa. . The resurvey of .Formosa discloses t&o ; fact that njuch of the land"- is h$Jd in seigniories or manors/ . The easy Ctindr .* petty squatters had no title.; f<A- thoyland appeg^o^cd Trom ajgd./as , tidbn^^it'was ,cultlyatetTi*5?pbj ^^ grants, which fhus pieced thetni|^B^PI tion to treat the cultivators as tc&ht?rs&$* will.?Chicago News. Chain of Prairie Dog Towns. There is a chain of prairie dog towns .2 [ along the Texas and Pacific road, begin- -ning west of Abilene and extending' nearly to Big Springs. Tho little fellows always climb upon their hills and squat dn their hind-feet tp watch the train go by. Hunters tbll me it is almost impossible to kill one of the dogs and get his body, so quickly does he dive into; his hole at the explosion of a gun.. Frequently, if fatally hit. the little burrbwer falls dead into hi* earth domicOr^Jfcri " have tried. to make them opine out of , their burrows by pouring great quantities of water in at the mouth of the hole, but they will not emerge even at that treatment. Some of the villages cover live acres of ground, and I think their territory extends for 100 miles along my run in Texas.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Modest Cheek. 9 In the negotiations made some years j ago by the English government forahun ! of $80,000,000 the successful contractors were the Messrs. Rothsqjiild, In "paying the first deposit toward this amount to the government the. check they drew was for the sum of $6,ouu.uw. ims was probably tlie largest check ever drawn,by a private banking house.?De? troifc l;Vee Press, To Writ? a Play. When Dumas, the younger, once asked his father how to write a play, the elder answered: "It is very simple;, the iirst act clear, the last act short ami interest ; everywhere." Princess Beatrice i3 said to be writing j some clever verse. Two of her little | gems have recently found their way int< ' jrcoik-ctiou of English poems. :* ... ~ ' V ^ , \ \ - | METHODS OF REFORM SCHOOLS. Tlie Means of Amendment-*-What Statistics Indicate?Conversation. In the United States are about seventy institutions designed for tlw reformation of young offenders. Their inmates number more than 9,000 boys and girls. Tin causes of commitment embrace nearly every offense, from petty larceny to manslaughter. The means of amendment employed include not only the removal of the offender from the opportunity of indulging his criminal tastes, but also tho teaching of some trade, instruction in the elementary branches of knowledge, and endeavor to form an^ upright character. Concerning the success of tho reform school in the reformation of those intrusted to it, there is room for two contrary opinions. In an examination of the convicts of the prisons of New York, which was ordered by the Prison association of tho state in 1875, it was found that of tho inmates of the Sing Sing penitentiary, 22.31 per cent, had been "refuge" boys. As the usual number of jfcbe inmates of the reformatories of New York ?xceeds 3,000, it is * plain that the large pro{>ort!on of them do not become inuates of prisons within th&state. As to tlu? reforms tiocohinlislrod. esti j mates vary from GO per cent, to 75. But"4" B^M|^orpaft^:e8 are included many without being vicious, but exposed and homeless, are received into houses of refuge. The proportion, therelore. of those who Inyo served in reform schools who are afterward convicted of. . crimes is small, not exceeding 30 or 40 per cent. Yet statistics indicate that the influence of these schools in impressing evil habits upon a certain class of their boys is exceedingly strong." Of the 22.31 per cent, of the Sing Sing convicts examined who had been in these schools, 98 per cont.?lifty-one out of fifty-two? were habitual criminals. Some light is ^ thrown upon the methods by which the reform school helps to fix the habit of . criminality by the following conversation between a convict at Sing Sing and an examiner: "Please, sir, may I ask you a question?" asks the convict. ? "Certainly," is the examiner's reply. 4'Why do they send boys to the house :>f refuge?" "I suppose it is to teach them to be betx?r boys." ''That's a great mistake, for tliey get worse." ' "IIow should that be?" "I wouldn't be here only I was sent to ;ho refuge." 4'What did you iearn there that should aave caused you to be sent here?" 4'I didn't know how to pick pockets cefore I went, and I didn't know no 'enccs; that's where you sell what you (teal, you know." 4 4 What else did you learn in the way )f thieving?" "I learned how to put up a job in jurglary." Another inmate?who at the age of 7 itole fruit, and was sent to a reform ' ._ 1 1 s 11 + a! La. a cnooi at iiiuany ior nine momns; at o, was found guilty of petit larceny, and ent to the house of refuge; at 12, was committed to a juvenile asylum, and escaped three times in four days; and three >ther times before reaching his majority was sentenced to reformatories, and who y rf ni ~ ~-~committed to pri3c?i ntr iess than ton dmes?remarkedtathe examiner: v "I never learned a thing in my life jn prison to benefit-me outside. The house )f refuge is the worst place a boy could be sent to." \ "Why so?" "Boys are worse than men; I believe boys know more mischief than men. In :he house of refuge I learned to sneak;hief, shoplift, pick pockets and open a wock." '?;<> ; "How did you get an opportunity to !eai*n all this?" "There's plenty of chance^ They learn 'fc from each other when at play."?Rev. Charles F. Th wing in Harper's Magazine. . - < Information for Coin Collectors. For IJie information of numismatists, jollectors of coins, coin dealers, etc.. Director of the United States Mint Kimball has prepared a circular giving definitions >f technical terms used in mint regulations, and other useful explanations of joinage matters. A coin is said to be "proof" when it is specially struck, hand press, instead of steam press, from i polished plancbet, and a "proof set" is i complete set of proofs of current coins. A. "pattern piece" is an early specimen of proof from a newly adopted ' die or dies. An impression in soft-iofifatf to test an experimental die ia ca "trial piece." ^ . ;*f- .r , dies on experimental metal,or al^Yor from experimental diea-.with jexpglfimectal legends, devices or depignsjjjS^ de- . nominated an "experimeataf^||pg^ Trial and experimental piefees, stm^ior? % mint purposes only, will not be iasped*, * ; circulated or sold. Pieces; popularly r- * kSOT-n ? restrites, fete mebl, pece, . aad metallic rephcas, or cities, are .prohibited by the revised statutes. Proofs, and pattern-pieces are sold by the super2 . J intendent of the mint. The superintend- .. J enf yrift furnish without charge a pat- . to anyin?>rpor^ . f */Ji totr folks have dropped Browsing aiujShelley and the like, and have taken Russian literature. "You gre expectaH .to' know," she says, "an about Tolstoi. | Gogol, Stepniak, and other political and Literary scholars. Your table must bo strewn wiih photographic views of every place of note in Moscow, Pt? "?etcr8burg. My friend is sick trying to <eep abreast' with all this. She hasn'tsuu:.ch mind, and I'm afraid she'll lose vhe little die has,"?New York Sun. The Poachers' Trick. The Denbighshire police went but to waylay a. gang of notorious poachers, - / but were surprised to see them" return empty handed. Shortly afterwards three "Welsh damsels followed * with a suspicions displaj* of bustle, which, on investigation, turned out to be duo to the presence of twenty-seven rabbits and two long lengths of rabbit netting.?Chicago Herald. Swindlers of China. The native merchants of China are said to be inveterate swindlers. A foreign denier at Tientsin recently contracted for 1,500 bales of camel's wool, guaranteed \ free from dirt and sand. ..When the vret r-? installment had passed through tlie clean- j ^ ing machine 35 per cent, of its groar \ weight was found to be sand and gravel. { and besides that the wool had been wel > ^ to make the dirt slick in and also to mak* it lieavier.?Foreign Letter. ? -3 f The continuous decrease of crime in TTnrrl*1 r> r? to vnri? w\?v?w1r/\VIa ? Uiiguiuu u ?w; icuiiUUUlC. OU nMJUUJ as 1869 the prisons contained no lees than . 11,000 convicts. In July last there were \JA only 7,441. What is also very interesting i!:e education act marked the turning point in the history of crime. Sinco lhar ! K?s3age of that act tlie decrease of cru*fe has been steady.