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Y E. B. MUKRA Y & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1881. VOLUME XIX.-NO. 38. IDOMESTIC HAPPINESS. TALMA (IK'S DISCOURSE. iiOOKI.YX, Mardi 23.-After an ab :o of two weeks, having traveled Rm, ot 6,000 n.iles and having visited Hts, Kansas, Nebraska, ..Jis*ouri and Her .State-?, I>r. Talmage returned and Wfcini''I I'-* pulpit, lie preached or Huiestic Happiness," taking his text Hu Ephesiuus v., 33 : "Let everyone |H.;i:iic;;!.ir love his fiwn wife even a.* Sfi-v'i, and the wife seo that shu rever' ?nil thi-1 good advice,said Dr. 'I'aliuage, ?H1 Mun who never married. Ho lived ?ft,, :. itv-eight years of agc in eminent Hhclorhood, Indeed, il was better foi HhI [n romain in single life, because he H> ?.." s!Jch rapid missionary txpcdi BR ilia', no companion could have cn He) ll 0 hardship. Celibacy, in some Wm-, is better. Such persons accom Hi), under f>uch circumstances, that [Heh could not bc accomplished in Tn JSHpr style of lifo. I havo known men Wjb have remained unaiSanced in order Wk they might take care of the ch il - Hhi of a deceased brother ; and what MM become of the world without thc Hlsacrifice and helpfulness of the maid Hiuitts I can not imagine. Among thc ?Rittest queens of heaven will be those H> took care of other people's children, s for thc household which has not lin au easy call au Aunt Mary ! I *g>v? that there arc caricatures aud un ?gtt.n.i things sometimes said, but so far HS my observation goes they ar" quito I?al in disposition to their married sis I. Tho slate of celibacy honored ?in by such persons ns Macaulay and ishington irving in literature and renee Nightingale and Miss Dix iu lauthropy. tut while Paul remained in the single e he kept his eyes open and ho look ill" upon the calm sea of ntnriied life upon the chopped sen of domestic ;urbatiou. Ile comes forth in my ; to say : "Let everyone in purlieu love his own wife even us himself, and wife see that ?he reverence her hus d implying that the wife ought to be iule so that there might bo something ?vc, und the man ought to be liouora so that there might be something lo ?renee. It is a most congratulatory jgbt that tho vast mujorUy of people the married state are well mated, en the news is first announced in the lido world of the betrothal there may urprise and seeming incongruity, but ;he years pass by it is demonstrated 1 the selection was divinely arranged. >re may bu great difference of temper ?nt, great difference of appeurance, lt difference of circumstances. The guille and the phlegmatic temp?ra it? make appropriate union-the ide and tho brunette, the quick und Blow, the French and Ihe German, he machinery of domestic life there to more need for the driving wheel it for thc brakes. That is the best n generally which bas just the opp _ . Thy best argument in bchnlf of Htriiiuc as n divine institution is thc HS that the vast majority of conjugal Hniiau-hips ure the very best things Ht could have happened. Once in a SB''1 there is a resouudiug exception to BH;."iod rule, the attempt being made to flgyiy fire and gunpowder with the HS-Sl 'piont explosion in H THU DIVORCE COUUTH, H i" 'he vast majority of instances thc Hjugal relation is a beautiful illus'ra H> 0i* Wi,at tho Psalmist said when he Blared : "God sottet li the solitary in BSHiliev' Taking it for granted then Ht you are well-mated, I proceed to Ht you some prescriptions for domestic Hftpittcss. gggtid first of ali, I remark a spirit of ?Vpromiso must bs dominant, You it remember that you were 2d or 110 rs forming indep udent habits andt ing your owu w>*y. In the murringo e these habits mu bc brought into >rd, and there may be tome ingenuity esxnry, lie determined to have your i way, and there will be no peuce. the rule be : In all matters of moral tciple your determination shall be i, mid in all unimportant matters, nw. Whatever you may think of word compromise in politics, without promise there is no domestic peace, rest many pcoplo arc willing to com mhe if you will do just as they want to do, but there is no compromise in . The rule ought to be: In all do li? matters, all social mutters, nil esiasticul matters, all political mat , firm adherence to fundamentals, easy ender in non-essentials. Pe mil loo id or too stubborn to give up. Colo nise ! c om promise 1 rtniark again that in order to secure ie?tic happiness there must be a spir* I" consultation. The home ought lo i cabinet where till the affairs of the 'ehohl uno all tho affairs of business e-m?o under comparison, inspection advisal. That is un absurd rule we r abroad in Hie world that men ought cr to take their business home. Ten mn I financial failures would have i avoided if mon had c insulted with r wives. In the first place woman Incapacity to judge of moral charae which man has not. Before you te into your business partnership any '. ycu ought to introduce him to your > and get her judgment *s to his tt<iiy and his integrity. After five ute?' conversation ?ho will tell you ns ?h about him as you will know in 20 "a, and perhaps you may find out loo . A man proposes to come into your ness partnership. You luke brm to r home.' He tarries a little while and ?ne. You say to your wife: "Well, t <h? you think of him?" ?5ho says: don't Uko bin? at ?ll." Yuu say : 1 nn absurd thing to form a prejudice. 'Wt him on st? hhort an acquaintance. "6 known him for years, nud I hnvo cr known any bad against him." "Well," ?he Hay?, "I don t know why I have formed that opinion, hut I tell you to beware. Put none of your financial interests in that man's keeping." Ten or fifteen years pass by. You come home ?onie night and say: "Well, my dear, you are right ; that man swindled me out of my last dollar." It is not because woman is wiser than man. It is because Clod has given her that peculiar iutuition in regard to human character. Now, you have no right to go into an enterprise which involves the homestead or the ed ucation of your children or the fate ol your entire family without home consul tation. Of course all this implies that you did not marry a fool. If al the mar riage altar you committed suicide you had better keep ail your business alliiirs in your own heart and head. Hut let us hope that you have sound common sense presiding in your household. Uow much a wife may help a husband's bud ness affairs was well represented in. the case where the. wife saved from tho allowance of herself and the allowance ol' the family a certain amount of money for a r tiny day. After some time tho husband, coming home, said : "Well, I'm going to suspend payment to-morrow. A few dollars would get me through, but I cau't get the lew dollars, and I'm going to ruin." That eveuing the wife said : "I wish you would hunt up the d?finition, of thc word independence in Webster's Dictionary. Hunt it up for me." ile opened Webster's Dictionary, aud found the word independence, and right oppo site wai a ?100 biil. "Now," she said, "I would like to have you find the word gratitude." Ile turned to the word grat itude, and there was another $100 bill ; , and before the eveuing was past she ask ed him to read a verso of a certain chap- ' ter in the Bible, and there were $500, and before the evening had passed the man had financial relief to tide him over his disasters. You call that dramatic. I call that beautifully Christian. IX ALL EXPENDITURES there ought to be consultation. Do not doio out money to your wife as though Rho were a beggar. Let her know how much you have or how little. Ap peal to her intelligent judgment and she will be content, and your own disposition will not be irritated. As long as you keep a mystery about your business mat ters she will wonder that the allowance is so small. No honorable woman wants to spend more money than can bo aiTorded. Come into consultation with her on this ' matter. Show what are all your neces- ' sary outside expenses; all the money you must have for cigars and dinners at Delmonico'*, and how much it takes for the club-house and the political cam- ! paign, and then have her present all the domestic expenses, and then, after con sultation, do your best. It is a bad sign when a man dare not (ell his business transactions to his wife. There ia some thing wrong. Suppose you that the gi- 1 gantic forgeries which have been enacted 1 in this country would ever have taken place if the wife had been consulted? The wife would have said : "Stop ! let ' us ?ive in one room in thc poorest house on the poorest street of the poorest town ' and have nothing but dry bread rather than that you should make yourself cul pable before God and the law." In the vast majority of cases where lhere has been exposure of great frauds ihe wife has been tho most surprised person in the community. A banker some time ago misused trust funds, and he went from fraud to fraud and from knavery to 1 knavery until it was necessary for him to : leave home before daylight. His wife said: " Where are you going ?" "lam going to New York," said he, "and going ou tho early train." "Why, isu't this sudden?" she asked. "Oh.uo; I expect ed to go," and the'.': lie left the room and Trent lo the loom where his daughters slept, looked ut?on their calm face3 for the last time as ho supposed, and started. And he was brought back by the Con stables of an outraged law, and he is now in Ihe penitentiary. Do you suppose that man, willi a good wife as he had, an honest wife as he had, a Christian wife, as he had, could have got into such an enormity if he had consulted in regard to her wisbea? Consultation is the word -domestic consultation. Again, in order to domestic happiness there must in the conjugal state bo no secrets kept one from the other. What one knows bolh must know. It is a bad sign when one partner in the conjugal relation is afraid to have the letters opened and read by the other partner. Surreptitious correcpoudenee is always dangerous. If a man conies to you and says: "I am gning to tell you a great privacy and don't want you to tell any body, not even your wife," say to him : "Well, now, you had better not tell me, for I shall tell her as soon as I get home." There must be no secrecy of association. You ought not to be unwilling to tell where you have been and willi whom you have been. Sometimes an unwise wife will have a lady confidant whom she makes the depository of privacies which (hey are pledged io keep between them selves. Hcware! Au> thing that implies that husband and wife aro two and not ono implies peril, domestic peril, social peril, mighty peril. In the vast ma jority of cases of domestic infelicity, com ing to exposure in the courts, the trouble began by the accidental opening of a letter which implied correspondence which wa? never suspected. In the con jugal relations secrets kept one from another are nitro glycerine under the hearthstone and tho fuse is lighted. Again, in order to your happiness ; lhere must be a spirit of forbearance. ; In thc weeks, the months, the years that you were planning for each other's con quest, only the more genial side of your nature was observable. But now you ! are ofT guard, and tho faults are all known, the one to the other. You are aware of your imperfections, unless you are one of thoso ?elf-conceited people who are quickly observant of faults io others but oblivious to faults in yourself; aud now, having found out all each oth er's imperfections, forbear. If the one be given to too much precision and the other disorderly in habits; if the one be spendthrift and the other over saving ; if the one be loquacious and the other reticent, forbear. Especially if you both have inflammable tempers, do not both get mad at onco. Take turn about. William Cowper put it well when he said : The kindest an t the happiest i>?lr Will timi occas '?ii to forbear; Amt touiethiac every day I hey live To pity ami perhaps lurgW. Again, in order to your happiness, let there be no interfering with cadi other's peculiar religious sentiments. If you arc a Baptist and your wife is a Pedo Baptist do not gc splashing water in each olin r's faces. If you are a Presbyterian and your busbaud is a Methodist, when he shouts Hallelujah, do not get nervous. If you have strong denominational pro clivities, one of you bad better go to one church and thc other had better go to another church, or, surrendering some of your intensity on that subject, as iu IIUNDHBDS OF CASI?, come to some such church as the Brook lyn Tabernacle, where, while we adhere to tho fundamentals of the gospel, wc do not caro a rye straw for the infinitesi mal differences b:;weeu evangelical de nominations-putting one drop of water on the brow, if that is enough baptism and if not, then plunging tho candidate clear out of sight, if that is preferred not caring whether you believe you have heen fore ordained to bo saved or not, if you are only sn ved ; nor whether you believe in tho perseverance of the s&iuts or not, if you will only persevere ; nor whether you prefer prayer by episcopal ? liturgy or ex-extemporaneous supplica tion, if you only pray. Do not let there bo any religious contests across tho breakfast-table or the tea-table. It makes but little difference from what direction you come toward the riven heart of Christ, if you only come up to thc riven heart. Yet I know, in many families, there is a constant picking at opposite religious beliefs and attempt at proselytism. You, the father, fight for ' Kpiscopacy, and you, the mother, fight for Presbyterianism, and your children 1 will compromise the matter and be notb- ! ' ingarians. Again, I counsel you, in order to your t j domestic happiness, that you cultivate each other's religious welfare. This is a profoundly agitating thought to every , fair minded man and woman. You live together on earth ; you want to live to gether forever ; you do not wnqt ten or twenty or fifty years to end your associa tion ; you want to take your companion into the kingdom of God with you. If this subject is irritating in thc household . it is because you do not understand Christian strategem. ? Every Christian companion may take bis or her compan ion into glory. How? Ask God and He will tell you bow. Perhaps by oc occasional religious remark. Perhaps by earnest prayer. Perhaps by a consist- ' cut life. Moro probably by all these j things combined. Paul put it forcefully when be said : "How knowest thou, O ' wife, whether thou shalt save thy hus band? How kuowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" lu this house how many have been remar ried for the skies. It bas become so much the general rule that when in my congregation, as I often do, I find a fam ily in which the wife is a Christian and Lhe husband is not, I just say frankly to him : "Now, you have got to come in. You might just as well try to swim up against Niagara rapids as against the tide of religious influence which iu this church is going to surge you into tbs Kingdom of God. You must come in. You know that your wife is right in this matter of religion." She may be quick of temper, and you may sometimes lose your patience with her, but you know she is better than you ore, and you know when she dies she will go as straight to heaven as a shot to a target. And if to day on the wny home a vehicle should dash down the street, and she should fall lifeless, with no opportunity for last words, you might have a doubt about what would become of you. and a doubt about what would become of the chil dren, but you would have no doubt about ber eternal destiny. Somewhere under the flush of ber cheek or under the pallor of her brow is the Lord's mark. She is your wife, but Bite is God's child, and you aro not jealous of that relationship. You only wish that you yourself were a son of the Lord Almighty. Come and have the matter settled. If I die before you I will not forget in the next world bow you stood together here, but I will expect both of you. You must come. I say it in all Christion love and em phasis, as a brother talks to a brother, you must come. You have been united SJ long you can not a (Ford to have death divorce you. How long it is sitice you began the struggle of life together? You have helped each other on the road, and what you have done for each other God only knows. There have been tedious sickness and anxious watchings, and here and there a grave, short, but very deep, and though the blossoms of the marriage may bo scattered and the lips that pronounced you one may have gone into dust, you have, through all these years, been to each other true as Bteel. Now, to day I am going to remarry yon for heaven. Tin's is the bridal day of your soul's peace. Here is the marriage altar. Kneel sido by side. Take the oith of eternal fidelity. Clasp hands in a covenant never to bo broken. I pro nounce you one on earth and pronounce you one for eternity. What God by His grace hath joined together, let not earth or hell put asunder. Hark ! I bear a bumming iu tho air-an nu them, a wedding march, organs, celestial played upon by fingers seraphic. I do not think I,' ever read anything more beautiful and quaintly pathetic than Cotton Mather's description of the departure of his wife from earth to beav en : "The black day arrives. 1 had never Beeil BO black a dav in all the time . of my pilgrimage. The d .-siro of my eyes is this day to be taken from me at a I stroke. Her death is li.?gering and painful. All the afternoon of this day ?.he is in tho pang* of death and sensible to the last minute or two before her final i expiration. I can not remember the dis course that passed between us, only men DEVOUT sort, was full of satisfaction about her going I to a state of blessedness with tho Lord Jesus Christ. As far as my distress would permit, I studied to confirm ber satisfaction and consolation. When 1 saw to what a point of resignation 1 was called of the Lord, I resolved, with His help, to glorify Him. So, two hours be fore abe expired, I knelt by her bedside and look into my hands that dear hand, the dearest in tho world, and solemnly and sincerely gnvo her up to tho Lord. I gently put ber out ot' my bands and laid away ber hand, resolved that I would not touch it again. She afterward told mo that she signed and sealed my act of . resignation, aud though before that she had called for me continually, nfter that she never asked for me any more. She conversed much until near 2 in tbs after noon. Tho last sensible word she spoke waa to ber weeping father: Heaven, : beaven! will mnke amends for all.'" Now let us bo faithful in this relation 1 of which I have been ?peaking. Do you want to know what tho Lord thinks of 1 it ? Head the G2d chapter of Isaiah \ where he says : "As the bridegroom re- 1 joicetb over thc bride, so shall thy Cod ' rejoice over theo." There is n wedding ' coming which will eclipse all the prince ly and imperial wedding? tho world ever ' Baw. lt was a great day when Napoleon took Josephine. It was a great day 1 whon Henry VIII, led Anno Boleyn ' over tho cloth of gold on the 3treet, cloth 1 of gold reaching up to the palace. It ' was a great day when the King of Spain 1 took Mercedes, but it will be a greater r day when the Lord shall take his bride, * tho church, to himself. A long time f ago they were a Hi an ced, but she bas been 1 down in the wilderness. He has written * her again and again and the day of mar- 1 riago is fixed. Sho bas scut word to * him. He bas sent word to her. But, 1 ah, was there cvere such a difference in ' sstate? The King on the one side, the 1 bride of the wilderness, poor and perse- * cuted, ou the other. Tho wealth of the 3 universe on one side, the obscurity of c thc ages on the other. Thc pomp of s heavon on one side, the poverty of earth ' au the other. But he will endow her ' with bis wealth and raise ber lo sit with ' him on a throne forever. r Come, thou bridal morn of the ages ! ' Come and tbero shall be the rumbling 1 of great wheels, great chariot wheels, * JO?VU tho oky, and ibero sbaii be riders ahead and mounted cavalry behind, the e conquerors of heaven on white horses. s Clear tho way ! A thousand trumpets r blare. "Behold the bridegroom cometh, ? go ye out to meet him." Then tho 1 charioteers shull rein in their bounding ' steeds of fire and-lhe King shall dismount from the chariot and ho shall take by the 2 hand the bride of thc wilderness, all thc 1 crowded galleries of the universe Ibo 1 spectators, liing all the wedding bells ' of beaven. The King lifts the bride into 1 tho chariot aud cries: "Drive on! * Drive up !" and thc clouds shall spread ' their cloth of gold for tho procession and 1 the twain shall go through the gates 1 triumphant, up the streets and then step 1 into tho palace at thc banquet where ' 10,000 potentates and principalities and 1 dominations, cherubic and arcbangclic ' with 10,000 gleaming and uplifted chal?- - ces shall celebrate ihe day wbeu the 1 King of heaven and earth brings home ' his bride from the wilderness. Make baste, my beloved. Be thou like to a 1 roe or a young hart upon the mountains ' of spices. \ The Law In a Horse Trade. 1 _ i The Pennsylvania Courts have decided ' that whiie you muen't lie about it direct- 1 ly and openly, it is perfectly lawful to ' keep your mouth shut during a horao trade, and while you must not warrant ' an animal aa perfectly sound in limb and ' condition, without fault, spot, mar or 1 blemish, when you know that be bas a glass eye, goat neck, mango, saddle gall', ! roach back, ring bono, quarter crack, ' spavin, flat foot, wind galls, scratches, 1 capped hock, stiiT joint, blind staggers, ' oxfoot, rattail and hollow back, yet you are not compelled to call attention to i these minor defects in the splendid Ken tucky bred animal you ar? trying to trade the stranger for a spring wagon, set of harness, two-year old colt and $85 cash. This is a wise and humane law, and lets the deacon out of a great many tight places, where otherwise trade would be paralyzed, the arteries of commerce choked and stagnated by the unwiso hand of oppressive laws, and panic, mis trust and depression would settle down upon a hopeless world in thc rayions gloom of mistrust and suspicion.-Hawk eye. - "Just my luck," moaned a Philadel phia man. "Here I've been paying heavy premiums on a life insurance pol- , icy for twenty years and I'm not dead yet." - "You just take a bottle of my med icine," said a quack doctor to a consump tive, "and you'll never cough again." : "Ia lt as fatal as that ?" gasped tho con- ' BU rapt ive. - "Is this your dog, John?" "No; he belongs to Squire Smith. And 'tween j tue and you he's a deal smarter than bis owner." "Yes ; there are dogs of that sort. I have had several myself." BETSY HAMILTON'S LEITER. CA air INO OIT. Atlanta Qmstiti'ti m. LAZY FA HM, ISSI.-It i-t Friday night und tho children have brought company home from school ; a candy pulling is on hand, in which "Aunt Meely" is chief cook. Tho largo bra*s kettle is on ibo kitchen stove steaming with the boil ing syrup ; and with cager impatience und a show of helping lu make tho candy tho children are standing around in the old darkey's way. "Efl biles dose yer lassos," said Aunt Mooly, poking tho lire, ' look lack I orler hah a sheer or de candy." "Of cours? A uni Mooly," said Kvu. "Von chil'en is too thick in hore - I can't hardly turn mun*-don't you know 'watch put never biles?1 lVso yer lasses set hore and sot herc, and cook and cook and conk but dey not gwine turn to no cundy while you 1 .oksut 'em." "Why not, A utlt Meely ?" "Liston! pear lack I hoar old Miss call you chillon-dar ! don't you hoar dat?" and thc credulous tittle ones believing shu had really called, also that the molasses wouldn't candy while they looked at it, scampered out ol Auut Meely's way, aud into grandma's room to hear her read about CAMPING OUT. Dear (''?fin . Yap told nm lo ax you ivhat Confederick money was gwiue a*. He's got a live ho's heen a savin' ever ?LUSG Ihe S'render ; lie kep a bearin* it was a gwine lo be good agin, and lie's laved and saved it tel it's putty nigh nore into a frazzle. I 'lowed I'd set that iown 'fore it siipt my mine ; but I flung m a piece cf light'ood and taken my pen in hand mainly to tell you about thc :imo we'uns all went to Talladegy longer Pap when he went to sell his bag of cot mn. We'uns had all been thar 'c*pt Maw-and she never had saw town. Aunt Haly, she laken Flurridy Ten iysy when she was a little thing, longer 1er once a long time ugo, but when she etched her home she 'loweri cf tho Lord vuuld jes forgive her she'd never take mother young'n that fur away from its iiammy agin long ns she lived, for she retted and cried, and she hail her to tote, md Bhe pestered and tormeuted her life >ut'n berso abo forgotten her bale of spun ruck and her bottlo of snuff tho main liing she went atter, and old Miss J reen's cottou cards. Pap ho had been i layin' ofl' nil tho year to let UH ali go vheu the crap was gethered. It was like novin' of tho house to git Mnw off. Sho 'ust said she'd go, then sho jis declar'd he didn't sec no how 'pon the yeth she :nuld leave when "old Hunty," aud "old jpeck," and "old Domineck" was nil ixin' to hatch, and "old Frizzle" had icon a whippiu' "old Top Knot" oIT'n ier nest and she knowed in reason nil ligs was ruint -and she was afeerd she'd ose more'n Hhe'd make by gwine. If it Vusu'l that she wanted to sell her things lerself .-ho wouldn't budge nniry step, >ut she knowed they could cheat pap's ?yo balls out'n him und he mought git o tight he'd lose some of 'cm. She had limed to git her honey comb counterpin vove out agin Saddy on account of put in' in that ar pieco of blue jceus for bud ly'd breeches-ho was spang out nt the enees a needin' of 'em-bul if she stayed Lt borne tel everything was ready for her o go, she'd never git ofl', so she included o go. She hud a bar'i of good strong ye Bad*soap two year old, she made it in be light of tbc moon in March-they ny that's the best time to make it-it hickens then and don't all bile away ; ind sho had a pillar slip of dried apples ipples in one eend and peaches in t'other villi a siring tied in the middle, and a itlle poke-of the sweetest dried pars ever went down your tbote, and a bucket ol ?oney, and a pound of the whitest butter rou ever seed, and a big gourd of sign ind a passel of chickens to Bell-yes ant] .bree yards of gray jeens, for a "Mr What-you-may-call-bim's" breeches, ] lisremember his name, ho sent her won .0 weave it for bim for ho druther hav< it as store bought. The Simpsons uni Roberson* tuck ther cotton to town th? tame day, and old Miss Strong got wine jf it that Maw was a gwino and notbin would do her but she must go ton, s< Lhere was a whole drove of us in the road Cousin Prisilla Princetta Pretty Pinl Tetch-onc-not, that's Uncle Jacksoi Corbin's oldest gal by his second wife bad come to our house to stay a whilo s the went too, and Caledony was along s wo had a power of fun. I know in reosoi you think Cousin Pink has got nam enough to kill her but sho goes by th name of Pink for short-and some call ber "Sis." One of our steers took thc holler bor and we was afeared wo couldn't git of but Pap bitched old Lnu-i-zy, his ridit nag, longer old Dall, his off steer, and w met a 'oman and a man in a buggy and over beam her say : "A steer and a borsi it matches about liko a boot on one fo< and a shoe on t'other." Maw she ri most all tho way, Pap he walked up a the bills. I aud Iky Robernn?. walkr together right smart of the way. TI roads is monstcrous rocky and hilly t you git to Porter's gap and strike tl Chandler':! Springs road. Pap 'lowed we'd whip up we mought git to Kiddle mills by night, and if wo womeu foll waa a mind to we mought stay all nigl longer Miss Riddle, as be was plum wt acquainted with Miss Riddles, but o Miss Strong Mowed she had henrn si war, "quality," and iur as she was coi B&rned she'd feel more at home in tl waggiflf But laws we broke down, lea ways Miss Strong's waggio broke dov and it tuck the men folks EO long to I and tie it up with bickry withs, tbat 1 was benighted long 'fore we got thi Wc was dost to a branch and so we 1 camped right thar whar tho waggin broil Buddy he token out the critters. Ile g old ball his feed off lo his self, and' f old Lou-i-zy in the bind cend of t waggin. Pap he kindled a big log het fire and ?ot (bo kittie on to bile- to make ! tho codee, and Maw she taken out thc skillet to bake the bread and fry the meat, ? She fetched along porno wheal dough m ado nit in a bucket. Pap he taken s piece of it and twisted it nround his rain rod run! heit it'fore tho firo to ccok. Mowed he cooked it that away many ? time in the army. We roasted some sweet taters io the ashes, and baked ac ash-cake on a big lint rock, and briled some streak of lean and streak of fat on ibo coals. We fetched along a jug ol buttermilk and tuck it time about willi the tin cup, ami pap he drunk out'n the gourd. A rabbit ruu across the road and maw she lowed it was terrible bau luck. Ves, bad luck to the rabbit," says buddy, and sicked old Scrooge, and they both tore after it ami ketched it, and pap ho skint it and gin old Scrouge tho head. Maw she salted it and laved it in tho frost all night and fried it for breakfast longei ingons. We gals and boys lind a powoi of fun that night around the fire ; we sol up lato langhin' and talkin' and tel 1 in riddles. I believe Caledony knows more riddles than any body ever I seed. Par and old mau Simpson and Squire Rober son kneeled thor cheers agin tho trees and Hiiidked ther pipes mid talked uboul tho lust pcttlin' of tho country when indians was ali through th'-io hills. Old man Simpson lowed that deestrick al! through thar wRS named alter Uillabet the Indian chief. Caledony lowed RIK thought they named it "Hillaby" on ac count of ita being so hilly. I know in reason you'd liko to know bow we'uns all slep lliatnigt. Themen folks ta I; cn their axes and cut down som? littlo pine poles and slanted 'em agit little black jag trees, and spread kivei ?cds over 'cm and made ther pallets 01 tho ground underneath, and wo womer folks all slep in tho wuggins. Wo fetch ed a plenty of kiver ; and ever fellcr'i dog step under his own waggin. Th? screech owls and whip poor wils hollerec must nil night, and critters stomped anc the d gs growled at ever noise, but wi slep sound iu spite of it all. We ri; next mornin'-hut I'll tell you that iiex time. BETSY HAMILTON. lu the meantime the old darkey bac dipped quietly to tho door and was li?t suing with much interest. Suddenly Lhe children remembered their cami; and cried out all at once : "Is our cami; Jone, Aunt Meely ?" "Yes, its done ind I done grease do plates and empty i ?u 'cm and lef my sheer in do kittie.' Then grandma drew her little chair doa jp to thc dying embers, and sat a lon tvhile thinking of the many, many night lhe had camped out ycnrs'ngn in inoviii] from Virginia lo Alabama. Next weok, "Trip to Talledega." Bishop Kcaue ou Teaiperaucc. Tho congregation at high mass a h Cathedral yesterday morning was sn un jsuajly largo uno. Bishop John J K'-.ne, of Richmond, Va., ono of th osl eloquent Catholic prelates in th United Slates, preached n tempcrnnc sermon. Ho said that Kev. Thomas ? Leo, rector of tho Cathedral, rcqucste him lo touch tho temperance queBtioi which at present, though tho burnin, 9110 in Americau society, is nevertlielei n highly objectionable ono to mau; Any reference to tempor?neo is liable t incur tho prejudices of somo who hav their minds poisoned against the cati* because of tho many foolish and extrem things done and said by thc advocates i local option. It is only natural, hov over, that where so many are discussin the name subject, where ?o many ai seeking lhe samo purpose by differct means, thoro should bo lack of judgmei displayed by Borne and want of discret io by others. Still tho foolishness of tl champions of temperance is no argumei against temperance any more than tb sinfulness of .Christians is against tl existence of God or tho advantnge i His religion. Bishop Keane referred the teachings of the Catholic Church c the subject. In that venerable Cathcdr two plenary councils have been held, which were present the asaombled wi dom of the Catholic Church in this cou try. In eaeh were issued addresses the Catholics of the United States, sho< ing the evil effects of intemperance ai the duty of priest and peoplo on th point. The addresses were similar, inr much as they mentioned that "sinco t most shocking scandals come from e ccssivi! drink, wo implore every Catii lie, for the love of tho Lord Jesus Chri to use every means to extirpate the viet It is very true, as some say, that we ha no direct reference from God Himself drunkenness, because He uever came contact with a drunken man. At t marriage at Cana Ho peformed tho mil clo of changing water into wine, but t wine did not servo as the occasion of i to the people who drank it. It was or as the Apostles proceeded into Northe and Western countries that the terril effects of intemperance became know In my own travels through the Hi Land I never saw a drunken man. some countries of Eu ropo that I visit I saw tho peoplo enjoying theuiselv sipping coff DO or wine, but I did not t them having what we tem "a gt time." Wine was not the occasion ein to them. It would be a silly rx who would preach temperance to the because there would be no uced for These people did not commit sin by th use of wine. Sin, not the drink, is l underlying peril. To day the great destructive agency is drink. lt is ct puted that the standing army of drui ards in the United States numbers 5( OOO persons. The forces increase yeai Whence do the recruits come 7 Fr among those who never drank heft Any one acquainted with the chemist physiology and social working of the of alcoholic liquors koowa that he * drinka stands un an inclined pia Like Ibo boy with tho sled, who, ns ho proceeds down tho icy hill, gains speed faster and faster, the tippler has the habit of taking a drink grow on bim, until at last ho is tumbled down thc hill of success and respectability. It is look ed upon as friendly to ask others to drink, to help them go down the hill. This is putting tho occasion of sin close to men who under the iniluonco of liquor may commit sins they would shrink from when sober. It becomes tho duty of every one to avoid the occasion of sin and keep it from others. The only way lo keep from drinking tho fourth, sixlh or tenth glass is not to drink the first. Never run the risk of offering drink to anyone. Clod bless the physicians for all the good they do for mankind, but many of them have to answer for the way they prescribo whisky for persons. These prescriptions do a great amount of barjo. Ile careful to whom you give them. Somo persons need total abstinence ; others do not. It is a question between man and his God. Ile honest to yourselves. You know whether the usc of liquor is the occasion of sin. If it is, stop it, ami for thc sake of Jesus Christ hc?p put down this evil that is sapping tho lifo of scciety and religion.-liattimor* ?un. Wearing Mourning? Wo had an article on this subjo.'t sev era1, months ago, and thu following sen sible remarks from tho New Orleann Times Democrat, on thc same liuc of ar gument as that advanced by us, may do some good : There is one old and long established custom that women ought to possess moral courage enough to tako into their own hands and scttlo for themselves ona simple and permanent barda. It is the custom of wearing mourning for depar ted friends. The putting un and taking off of black within a stated timo ia in itself, in stead of a compliment, an in sult to the dead. One docs not put on and put oft' ono's sorrow in this wny ; there is thc ref re no reality to tho fash ion of symbolizing it. A loss by death is irremediable ; the grief of it may be hidden away, but it lasts forever. It is true that the desire when ono lins lost a near and dear friend is for silence and darkness, for neutral tinta and for the presenco and association with only that which harmonizes with our own sense of lusa aud bereavement. Hut we cannot often indulge in this selfish absorption, nod exclusion-and it is doubtless good for us that we cannot. Our lives go out; our duties remain. They must be per formed. We put our griefs away. Wo donni intrude them upon others. Wo look them up ami keep them as a Hort of luxury for quiet hours, when indulgence will not interfero with our obligations to tho living, with active participation iii tho duties of the hour. There is no reason, of course, why women should do violence to uaturul feelings aod wear high colors and gay ornaments at a time when their henrls are saddened by heavy loss. Let them lay aaido what they no longer tako pleasure in, and wear their simplest, plainest, darkest dresses; but why lay aside what is perfectly suitable und oven in harmony with their owu feelings and incur much unnecessary trouble and expenso in order merely to put on garments a little deeper, u little darker, a little sadder and which oblige an entire change in the hubita of life, the avoidance of much that would be healthful and salutary rather than .harm ful, the adaptation of social conditions to the circumstances and accidents of an individual, and the actual creation of a code of ethics, the observance of which depend.) on tho presence or depth of a crapo band. The most ardent supporters of outward and visible signs of woe are those wbo are least sensitivo to grief, but wno like the novelty of an entire chango of wardrobe and tho pleasant excitement of finding out exactly what ought end what ought not, to be done under such circumstances. As there is no authorized eode tho rules extracted from self consti tuted authorities aro often moro amusing than practical or reliable. To many limited but well intentioned women the imagined necessity for "doing as other people do" in this regard is a source of extreme embarrassment and perplexity. Perhaps they cannot afford the outlay ; porhaps they have only recently, by dint of much contrivance, replenished their wardrobes ; perhaps it was not a near relative; perhaps tho relative lived at a distance. All tbe facia are agitated pro aud con to make a case against assuming this new burden ; and tho only argument on thc other side, tho strongest feeling, is this, that if they do not conform to ?ommou custom they will bo tho -.subject of common and impious remark. This is naturally much stronger in small neighborhoods and communitieu. It is therefore the duty of any woman of position and influence in such commu nities to set an example iu thc right di rection, and afford the moral support of this influence to her poorer neighbors. In cities women out of a certain exclu sive circlo are fast emancipating them solves from their traditions. Just What Ile Wanted, "Say, mister, ain't you tho orator man what made a speech to us yisterday ?" asked a greenhorn of a Newman politi cian a few days ago. "I have that honor," was tho reply. "D'ye remember what yo said?" "Well, no-yes, I remember the sub stance of my remarks. But why do you ask ?" "Why, you said that you made the welkin ring, and I've tried all over town to get one big enough fur Mariar'a finger, and thora ain't any big enough, andi thought as how I would come to yer shop and git ye to make her one of them thar welkin rings. Sh o's c. stunner, and it'll take lota of welkin to make one big enough fur her." Behavior In Church. "In these Inlks to my people," snidjtho minister to himself, '"Let me begin with some things that aro not of the highest importance, and which yet have an influ ence for good or evil. "There," he coutiuucd musingly, "is the matter of behavior in church. If I should speak to the people on this subject with the plainness with which they some times take mo in bund, they would, I fear, bo not a little offended. Applying a crit ical glass even of low magnifying power, there are, however, many defects to be seen. Here aro soino of the things I would say, provided it were expedient for ino to speak my mind. "I should say firat of all : My dear sisters, do not usc the house nf God as the place for the display of dress or adornment. Now please understand mo. I know that some of you nre in moderato circumstances. You huvo nothing better than that which you must wear tochurch. Your gown, your wrap is the only ono tuntable to wear in public. I am riot sprsicing to you, unless, ns I suspect is at times the case, you have put more than you could really nflbrd into these gar ments to make u brave show, and have cramped your benevolence accordingly. Hut thi? is a matter for you to settle with your Maker, not with me. "Hut there- arc ajme of you in easy circumstances. You dress elaborately, richly. Hut in the discharge of your Hocial duties you have opportunity for all the display of dress that you need. I am putting tho mntter, you see, on tho low est level. God's house ?H no place for such display. "I beg you wear thither your plainest garb, and dispense with ul] costly adorn ments. I can assure you that the atmos phere of richness which your elaborate attire creates repels some, at least, from the church. They think-perhnps wrongly, perhaps richly-that their presence in tbeir enforced plainness of drem is not desired. "I am not arguing here the question of social equality. I simply bear my testi mony to what I know, namely that the over-costly dressing of some Christian women keeps their less favored sisters from the house of God. lt ought not to do so; but it does ! "It is not, however, to the ladies alouo thut I speak. Hy no means. Mr. B-, if I should visit you in your house, would you, if my visit happened to be a little protracted, yawn in my face, or Gdget about as if you were extremely uncom fortable, or draw out your watch every few minutes to give mc a hint that time is passing? You know you would not. Whatever you might say of me when I was gone, you would hold your own reputation for politeness in too much regard to indulge in such conduct. Yet you do all these ungracious things in church, and Beem to have uo sense of shame ia regard lu them. And they are not a few that do likewise. Do you know how it helps the preacher to see even ono puir of eyes fixed attentively upon him? Ou the other hand, do you know bow it throws, as it were, a wet blanket over him when you fidget and yawn and Buap your watch case in his ear? Ah, Bro. H-, you have more than once come near throwing me from the track of my discourse. You havo taken the enthusiasm und glow all out of me. You did not mean to do anything unbecoming a gentleman, much less a Christian. But you did. You allowed younelf to forget those common courte sies which one gentleman owes*to anoth er, because you happened to be in tho church instead of in your parlor or mine. Zs this right, Bro. B-? "Then, I am tempted to wonder," said the minister to himself, half sarcastical ly, half sorrowfully, "why time is reck oned to be so brief that there must he an almost frenzied struggle into overcoats and wraps while the last hymn is being sung or the last prayer being offered, or. even the solemn words of the benedie- . lion descending. Il can not take more than one minute by the most elastic com putation, to put on the most refractory outer gnrment. And another minute for overshoes, if necessary. Can you net allon) these two minutes at the utmost, after tho service, rather than to steal them from the sacred time of hymn or benediction ? There ought to be a rever ent pause for an appreciable time after the service concludes before the bum of departure begins." "And theo," and the minister spoke to himself with much feeling, "beware of those momeuls of departure from the church and of the homeward walk. 'Then cometh tho devil, and taketh away tho word out of their hearts, lent they . should believe and be saved.' Yes, you may utter the friendly salutation, may extend the cordial greeting and welcome, you may make the kind inquiry. But you should do itali in subordination to the spirit of the hour; you should do it so thnt s tula may be won, not repelled from the (ruth. That walk down the aisle, on the homeward path-how often along it have solemn impressions bren distipatel? Thi re is no need of raactl motiiou6ncfs. There is no call for sour faced gravity. But lhere should be, cer tainly on the path of all Christian peo ple, a spirit of cheerful solemnity that regards the sanctities of the day and tho place, and that is careful not to dispel heavenly influences' by a.budden inrush of a worldly atmosphere." The minister, at the very thought, fell apon bis knees, and earnestly asked from the Qod of the sanctuary that the people committed to his care might be kept from all harmful influences when assem bled in the Lord's house.-lUuttraied Chrittian tVeeihj. -A day after the recent fire io Lanosa- , ter a cat was taken from tho debris' of ' the fire unhurt. It was concealed under a large pile of corn.