Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. "TIi# Window Artlrt"—Kdjnr'i Lfoon—A HucroMful l*ray«‘r from > Child That Had Faith—tiamr* for Evening*. , The Window ArlUl. IS pastilng •trangr. in y children, dear. You cannot see, you cannot hear. Though you look and listen and look again, The artist that draws on the win dow pane. 'Mm What followed Is told thus: "Then the little fellow t , an* and whispered la my ear, 'Grandpa?' “ ‘What is It. Willie?’ I answered, unconcernedly, although 1 was deeply ’ moved. •‘•Walt,’ said he, ‘till 1 bring your Soldier I glasses.’ " ‘Now,’ said he, ‘do you see anybody In this room ’cept me? 'Cause there la.’ “ ‘Why, yes, Willie; I see myself. Of course there la some ono besides you.’ “’But, grandpa, do you sec God? Look good, now, ’cause 1 made a bar gain with him to make you a Chris tian, like me.’ “ ‘Run down stairs now Willie,’ I said. '■ ‘I can’t, grandpa, ’cause I told God I’d wait and see If he’d have Upon the winter wind he rides. Behind the window curtain hides. And while the hour grows cold and late His fair frost-pictures doth create; Hills that climb to the frozen skies; Magic meadows that dip and rise; Roads that run through the landscape bright Over rivers and out of sight; Noble castles with turrets high, Lords and ladles riding by; Many a wondrous tropic tree; Forests of fern etched airily. On frosty mornings the children run, Outspeeding the weary winter sun. With curls in tangles and 'faces bright, To see what the artist has done In the night. —Mary F. Butts. CE TOPICS. Edgar’s Soldier Lesson. Really It was too bad. Edgar was going out to play soldier. He slipped on the steps and twisted his ankle. "My little lad must go to bed and get well," said Mamma Gates. "Boo hoo^’ howled Eddy. Uncle Caspar looked up from his pa per and smiled. "I don’t want to go to bed. I want to go and be a soldier,” sobbed poor Edgar. "But If your ankle Is not bathed and put to bed you will be very lame to morrow." "I don’t care.” whined Eddy. "I don’t want to go to bed.” "I thought you were playing soldier,” said Uncle Caspar. "Yes, sir.” •'Well, what docs a soldier do?” - Edgar looked Jup puzzled. "Be marches and he drums.” Eddy look ed at his drum and began to cry again. ’Is that all he does?” you. "What could I do but promise the child thr* I would try to see God? And morning, noon and evening I was met with the question, ‘Did you, grand pa?’ " Now, note the following elements of successful prayer: The child had faith; he asked for just what he wanted; he believed in the imminence of God; he expected results; having prayed once, he showed his importunity working for results; his prayer was answered, for his grandfather was converted, and through him, his father. is mai an ne noesr" ; guess rightly, he is rel ’*e tiPMAT bff. >rmr-Maai hint} “Jy. r ' taking hts place. If no ”&ut sometimes.W gets hurt badly. He is shot in battle. Then what does he do? Does he howl and cry?” Now, Uncle Caspar was an old sol dier, whom Eddy admired very much. “No-o-o! I guess not I don’t know,” said the boy. “No. He goes to the hospital. There he Ip as brave as when he drums and marches.” Edgar wiped his eyes and , looked eagerly at his uncle. “Is going to bed and not crying being a good soldier?” he asked. “Yes, my boy. that Is the bravest part of It Now let me be the ambu lance—that’s a wagon, you know—and take you to the hospital.” Uncle Caspar picked up Eddy In his arms and carried him gently to his chamber. "Now, I’m golns to be a good sol dier,” said the boy, with a smile. He did not wince when his uncle felt of the sore ankle and bound it up. “There’s a brave lad. Eddy,” said his uncle. "Now, play it does not hurt, and go to sleep." Half an hour later Edgar was dream ing. He looked like a brave little corporal taking his rest. Uncle Caspar hung up Eddy’s flag and gun where he could see them when he awoke. The drum with the sol dier cap upon It was placed on the bed. Edgar limped down stairs the next day and went Into camp on the sofa. He whined and complained no longer. He had learned a lesson, that a brave man Is patient in suffering. KafT with tlm XVand. Blind Man’s Buff Is so time-honored and popular with young and old, that one would think it impossible to de vise a better game of the kind. The newer game of Buff with the Wand, however, 1e thought by many to be superior in the long-established fav orite. The blinded person, with a stick in his hand, is placed In the middle of the room. The remainder of the party form a ring by joining hands, and tc the music of a merry tune which should be played on the piano, they all dance round him. Occasionally the music should be made to stop sudden ly, when the blind man takes the op portunity of lowering his wand upon one of the circle. The person thus made the victim Is then required to take hold of the stick until his fate is decided. The blind man then makes any absurd noise he likes, either the cry of animals, or street cries, which the captured person must Imitate, try ing as much as possible to disguise his own natural voice. Should the blind man detect who bolds the stick, and iuess rightly, he . Is released from his ns INTEREST TO THE LIQUOR LEADERS. “The ilKery of God”—"Penilcloaa In- tlurn^g of the Baloone”—Even Chicago KciSltit Agalnat Their Criminal Records Fnfainy damasked. The Mystery *f tied. O heman eyec thy fact* may see; No human thought thy form may know; Bi-t ail creation dwells In thee. Aid thy great life through all doth flow! And yet, oh, strange and wondrous thought! Thou art a God who hearest prayer. And every heart with sorrow fraught To seek thy present aid may dare. And though most weak ouj efforts seem Into one creed these thoughts to bind. And vain the Intellectual dream To see and know the Eternal Mind— thou wl,t turn them not aside, v\ ho cannot solve thy life divine, But would give up all reason's pride To know their hearts approved by thine. And thine unceasing love gave birth To our dear Lord, thy holy Son, Who left a perfect proof on earth That duty, love and truth are one. Bo, though we faint on life’s dark hill. And thought grow weak, and knowledge flee Yet faith shall teach us courage still. And love shall guide us on to thee! fact that, In the opinion of competent men, whose duties call them to the consideration of crime In Cook county, 75 per cent of the criminal offenses committed within the county are trace able directly or Indirectly to the sa loon, and the further fact that the greater portion of the expense for the administration oi justice and the reg ulation and punishment of crime is caused by the evils of drink, are am ple evidence that there should bo im mediate and stringent measures adopt ed for the suppression of this fright ful evil, the influences of open saloons, which In far too many instances are allowed to carry on their nefarious traffic In defiance of police regulations, city ordinances and state laws. Thfe regulation, not to say the obliteration, of the saloons, would cause an enor mous saving In county expense and the lessening of public taxes.” Students and the Temperance Reform. An underlying principle of this gov ernment is the provision made for the proper education of its future citizens. But education Is more than book-learn ing, and in these later days, attention Is paid to physical as well as mental training, so that no college or school Is well equipped for Its work without, in addition to its facilities for mental culture, its gymnasium, its campus, and Its provision for out-door sports. But no matter what the equipment for mental and physical training, If there be no moral training, education falls of Its purpose. It is to the college men and women of the present that we look for the future leaders of the nation. If the college woman lacked morality, or religion, immediately there would be the cry that “Higher education for woman was a failure.” But she does not. Around the young not, he must still his eyes, i better success next time. ^J^Q^nln coReate. gAd in all tfeeir North Dakota, have effectually 1 schools Hi .ft e still lingers the touch of routed all the saloons in their *(IIdrrn?C, keep the bandage on his eyes, and hope fur A Successful Prayer. Sometimes a child can teach us best how to pray. A grandfather tells in the Watchword how his little grandson came Into his bedchamber one morn ing before he had rises, and, supposing that he was asleep, knelt down and prayed as follows: “God, won’t you let grandpa be a Christian, same as me and mamma Is? Grandpa don’t swear and drink whisky like papa does, and mamma prays for papa, and maybe God don’t like papa, ’cause ho drinks whisky. Now, God, 1 •want to know if you will let grandpa •who don’t drink whisky or swear, be a Christian, like me and mamma are. Now, God, I'll just wait and see if mamma knows, for she says you al ways do what you say you’ll do, and if grandpa may be a Christian I’ll just wait till he wakes and see if mamma is right, ’cause alie thinks you can hear everything, and I want to know for sure. She says you are always in the room and everywhere. Now, make grandpa a Christian, so that I’ll know It is true, so that grandpa will let me know as soon as possible, and I’ll thank you very much. Grandpa wears glasses, and maybe he can see you, •caui* mamma says we see by faith, ■.aybe it’s glasses.” How t"» Puzzle Your KricmU. Here is a trick that w ill delight the small boy because by dohig it he can astonish an army of friends. They will not know how in the world It Is done and he will be correspondingly happy. To hang a bottle on an ordi nary match, as shown in the design, tie a string tightly about the neck o! the bottle, lay a match on the cork and holding it, tie the match as shown In the illustration. Then call in your friends and watch their expressions cf astonishment. Whnt One Child Old. Says an exchange: “Some few months ago, after preaching a sermon urging everyone to try to do something for Jesus, a little girl 8 years of age came to me and said: " T think I can do something for Je sus.’ " ‘And what do you think you can do, dear child?’ I asked. “ Tf ; sir,” she replied, ‘you would put some little tracts, on keeping God’s day, in envelopes and address them to people who keep their stores and shops open on the Lord s day I could carry them to them.’ "I adopted the suggestion, and put the addressed envelopes Into the dear little one's hands, and acting as a missionary in the district, she has been instrumental in shutting up fix places of business whicn were tormerly kept open on the Sabbath.” home life, and the hoqse ns^iher of ttye cottage or Institution Is held in a measure responsible for the morality and womanly behavior of the young women. It is not always so with the young men. Going away from home In their teens, boarding in clubs and dormitories, exposed to the tempta tions of the saloon and kindred evils, unchecked by the regaining influence of home life, too often the young man becomes familiar with social drinking and tainted with skepticism. The Christian sentiment of most colleges is clustered about the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., and these organiza tions are doing valiant service and leading in the Student Volunteer move ment for missions. But Is this all that can be done for the moral welfare of the students? We think not. In opening a large workingmen’s hotel in New York city recently thd founder did not mention poor people at all, but said, “There are no poor people In this country, If they bave health and good habits. Their income may be limited for a time, but they have capital. The only poor man in America Is the man who is sick or has bad habits.” And the one bad habit that causes more of sorrow, of poverty, of failure in life than anything else is the use of strong drink. True, a man may take an occa sional glass of wine or champagne and not seem to suffer harm, but science tells us that alcohol taken in even small quantities has the power to cre ate an appetite for more. No man or woman taking a social glass expects to be brought so low that he or shd may get drunk or be a drunkard, but every drunkard began that Way. There Is need then in the college life of today of an organization that will stand for total abstinence among students. "Fernlclons Influence of Saloons.” The grand jury of Cook county. III., which has just closed an exhaustive inquiry, makes a report of its work to Judge Waterman on which H com ments as follows: “We call attention to the growing pernicious influence of saloons. Re peatedly witnesses before us have tes tified to the fact that in saloons,which are the resort of thieves, hold-up men and dissolute women, robberies and burglaries are planned, criminals with well known records issuing from these vile dens to waylay men, women and children. In many cases saloonkeep ers and saloon employes serve as re ceivers of stolen property. In no less than six cases before this jury it was shown that murders were committed, either In saloons or as the result of saloon influence. The police, when striving to detect criminals, at once visit the saloons, proving that these officers are aware of the character of the men who habitually fill (hem. The What Prohibition Hoes for Maine. Here are some facts about prohibi tion In Maine: Before prohibition, there were In Maine seven distilleries and two breweries. Now, not one ol either in the state. Many cargoes ol West India rum were imported every year. Now, not even one puncheon is received. Formerly, rum shops every where; one in every hamlet. Now, in more than three-fourths of the state, having three-fourths of the population, the grogshop is unknown. An entire generation has grown up there, never having seen a saloon or the effects ol one. The quantity of liquor sold is not one-twentieth what it was before prohibition. In Portland the quantity is not one-hundredth part of what it used to be, and the city is twice as large. The people used to spend every twen ty years in strong drink the entire val uation of the state. Now, one million dollars will more than pay for all the liquor smuggled into the state and sold in violation of law. Maine saves an nually more than twenty million dol lars, which but for prohibition would be spent, lost, wasted in drink. Maine is now one of the most prosperous states in the Union. Before, It was the poorest. There was dissipation, un thrift and decay. Now, everywhere is seen thrift, industry, prosperity. In 1884, after an experience of prohibition for thirty-three years, that policy was put In the constitution by 77,045 ma jority. Temperance Notes. The prohibition forces In Ramsey having succeeded in getting twelve convictions with fines aggregating $2,- 160, and terms of imprisonment rang ing from three to six months. A mob of 100 men completely de molished a saloon at Young America, Ind., because of the barbarous treat ment given by the proprietor to .a lad who was sent to bring his father home. Over 200 kegs of beer were destroyed. Good! Grocers who operate bars where in toxicating liquors are sold are to be boycotted by the Catholic total abstin ence societies of Chicago. A resolution calling upon all friends of temperance to refuse to patronize groceries of this kind was passed unanimously by the county board of the federated organiza tions of total abstainers. The Voice gives a symposium of opinions of prominent people on the advisability of sending a son to Yale under existing conditions. Among those who give an emphatic negative and their reasons therefor, are Bishop Mallalieu, ex-Judge Noah Davis, Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. D„ Bishop J. H. Vincent, Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Dr. S. C. Swallow, H. H. Faxon and Joshua Levering. Filial Ascent and Descent. 4* It Is good to have good parents. A child ought to count it a blessing when he can look up with honor and rever ence to his father and mother. It is sad to have bad parents. A child is tc be pitied when he, must be ashamed of his father and his mother. But good parents cannot save us, and bad pa rents cannot destroy us. Each one ol us must give account of himself tc God. Old Thomas Fuller calls atten tion t« four remarkable changes In fom succeedihg generations in the genea- logy of the Son of David: "1. Roboam begat Abia; that Is, a bad father begat a bad son. 2. Abia begat Asa; that is a bad father a good son. 3. Asa be gat Josaphat; tKat Is, « good father a good sou. 4. Josaphat begat Jor- am; that is a good father a bad son.” Fuller adds quaintly, "I see, Lord, from hence, that my father’s piety can not be entailed; that is bad news foi me. But I see also that actual im piety is not always hereditary; that is good news for my son.” Both warn ing and hope are In this truth. Poiic's Ring. The seal worn by the pope and used by him on official documents to which his signature is attached, has on it the engravings of a fish with the cipher ol the wearer. Since the thirteenth cen tury every pope nas worn a ring ol this character, and it is shattered with a hammer when the wearer dies, tc prevent Us use on a forged document SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The ants of South America have been knoxvn to construct a tunnel three miles in length. At sea level an object 100 feet high is visible a little over 13 miles. If 500 feet high,, it is visible nearly 30 miles. The planet, Neptune, takes 60,000 of our days to journey around the sun. In ether words, its year equals 165 of our ^rears. To assist in circulating pure air in a shop or factory the pulleys are cast with fan blades inside in places of the straight spokes. A recently patented folding um brella has the tip aud handle fitted with screw sockets, so they eau be removed for packing the umbrella in a trunk. If you wish to remove the stains of nitrate of silver, moisten the stain with a wet rag, aud then rub it gently with a rag moistened with a solution of one drachm each of mercuric chlo ride and ammonium chloride in one ounce of water. Statisticians claim tlyit the earth will not support more than about 5,994,000,060 people. The present pop ulation is estimated at 1,467,000,000 the increase being 8 per cent, each de cade. At that rate the utmost limit will be reached in the year 2072. Dr. Fraser of London and others have shown that the bite of snakes contains a vaccine against their venom, and XT. Phisalix of Paris has recently made experiments ^vhich prove the virtue of the bile to belong to choles- terine and other biliary salts. When cholesterine is injected into guinea pigs the venom loses its power over them. Chief Haddock of the bureau of building inspection, in Philadelphia, recommends that the height of build ings in that city be limited by law,and that none, even on the widest street, have a greater height than 150 feet. Otherwise, he says, the city’s narrow streets may become gloomy canyons, unsanitary, with the light of day vir tually shut out HORSEFLESH AS FOOD. Efforts It ping Made in France to Utilize Wornout Horse* Unable to Work. Iii Europe prejudice against horse flesh as food diminishes year by year, and in France aud other continental countries great attention is given to the fattening of wornout horses for the market. European societies for .the pieveirtuuj.of cruelty to animal** are intt n sting themselves in the sub ject and are offering inducements to farmers to utilize their spare horsea for food. The substance is said to bo as nonrishiug and palatable as beef, and in some respects authorities of the cuisine give it the preference. Every year there is more or less of a panic in iregard to the short supply of beef, and in the countries which have become accustomed to its use horseflesh comes in as a substitute. In France the price of beef is from 25 to 40 cents a pound, while horse meat may be had from five to eight cents. The pot-au- feu, disused in thousands of French homes ou account of the high price of beef, has, through the cheapness of the latter meat, assumed its former importance in the domestic economy of that people. In this era of mechan ical propulsion an increasing number of horses are thrown out of business, and their utilization as food, if it can not be said to open a new career to them, brings their existing one to a useful close. According to current statistics it will not be many years before the world’s supply of beef will fall short of its requirements, and if relief is not found in utilizing the horse as a substitute it is difficult to conjecture where it is to be looked for, short of a general adoption of the practice of vegetarianism, ,which has always been the diet of the subject and never, so far, the ruling or pro gressive races.—New York Tribune. Paragraphs Got Mixed. It was an Irish newspaper, accord ing to Macmillan’s Magazine, that once published this highly defamatory paragraph: “Dr.F.has been appointed resident medical officer to the Mater Misericordia hospital. Orders have been issued by the cemetery committee for the immediate exteusion of Glas- neviu cemetery. The w orks are being executed with the utmost dispatch.” It is perhaps unnecessary to explain that two paragraphs about quite differ ent matters had got “mixed.” Binging on the March. All the military authorities of Europe are uow paying great attention to singing on the march. The French army has of late permitted its soldiers to sing while marching. A little book of soldiers’ marching songs was pub lished in London, with General Wolse- ley’s words printed big on the cover to the effect that men march better and arrive fresher when they sing than when they don’t. Curiously enough, most of these songs are Ameri- can, words aud all. , ■. _ It is estimated that over eighty tons of diamonds have been unearthed in I the South African fields during the ; last eighteen years. These represent * ' total value of $280,000,000.