The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 04, 1887, Image 1
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VOLUME II.
The laid of a .lournoy.
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The llou^hton landau drew up at
the station and Louise alighted with
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her friend, Sybil Travers. The 1 tit tei'young
ladv, elad in a gray Mother
llnbbard, and wearing a pretty
poke bonnet piled 11 i?_r11 with ostrich
feathers, was the very Picture of
elegance. Louise was a little, insignificant
tiling, and she appeared
less attractive than over as she made
her way to the waiting-rooms along- j
side of ther distinguished-looking
friend.
"It is too absurd, Sybil," she said
as they sat together in a remote corner,^
en joying a last confidential
chat before Miss Tracers left for the !
W est. " The idea of your posting j
off to San h'rancisco all alone, simply
because a harmless vouth prom- 1
ises to come this way, and to net is
your escort!"
"It is only three weeks earlier
than I meant to go, anyhow," said
Sybil, stoutly. "Vail know why I
prefer to go alone, Louise. V oil see
I'nclo Jerrv has made up his mind
that propinquity is the only thing
necessary to make Mr, Vatican and
myself fall madly in love with each
other, lie fancies that a trip across
the continent is ospeciclly well cal- I
ciliated to bring about that much desired
result. Put I don't see it
that way. I know very well that I
l II I . M V ' I I '
Miouiu naiu .mi\ \ iiiirau rroili lliOj
outset. I should fool bound to do it
just for contrariety. So, vou see, 1
prefer to ^o homo a few weeks earlior;
and to rn alone; for if I did
wait for Mr. Valleau, as I nolo .lorry
wished me to, and if I failed to fall
in love with him, you know very
well that it would be impossible for
me to explain the phenomenon satisfactory.
As as it is, can smooth matters
oxer easily."
' I low far-sighted you are, Sybil,"
Louise said, laughing. ".Mr. Valleau
will be terribly disappointed
though, I fear. 15ut there's your
train, dear. (lood-by. Write to me
*
as soon as you arrive."
Then follow consulerablo irirlish
demonstration, which provoked a
smile on the lips of a nonchalant
younjr traveler who reclined at his
case hoforo one of the windows of a
]>arlor car, and who had boon watching
Louise and Sybil with interst.
"A very bandsomo ir 1, by .lovo!"
was bis mental connnent as Sybil
took her seat just behind him, and
tin; mirror at the end of the car enabled
him to command a full view of
face. "1 wonder how far she is m>i??r
There was no means of ascertaining
just then, but when tho conductor
came through tho car, and the
young man presented his ticket, to
which was attached a long string of
coupons running all the way from
Now York to San Francisco, he noted
with satisfuctism that Sybil had
one liko it.
"A through passenger," ho observed.
"I wonder who"* she is? Traveling
alone, but evidently a lady.
She must be a California!), but she
.. v..
i* '\jixo (i * 11; ?? l t u i\ t' i ^ nr.
Tho young man's fancy ran riot,
and alt tli3 while Im kept his eyes
fixed on tho mirror in which was
reflected Sybil's lovely face, with its
rich warm coloring and its beautiful
frame of rippling hair. Very ofVten
their eyes mot, as was only natural;
but Sybil had wondeful composure
for so young a girl, and tho
look of serenity she continued to
wear rather chagrined the handsome
stranger, who had entertained a hope
innocent enough in its nature, that
the long rido over the plains might
bo enlivened with piquant flirtations.
op,. II lie Atl innn " l?n uni/1 I
? ? ? ' A % v i a v> i v/, Ht? O(IKI) lU^IUV
fully. "Beautiful, but susceptiblo
of no passion that is not animated by
reason."
Such a conclusion might havo
been rather hasty, but it appears
that this aggressive young man in an
ulster and traveling-cap made some
pretense toward being a reader of;
character.
Meanwhile Sybil, constitutionally j
opposed to "ogling," as all sensible,
womanly girls are, formed a pretty
severe opinion of the stranger who
took such a mean advantage of the
power of reflection. Hut sho seorn'
*ed to change her seat. Her policy
N * i - > was one of completo oblivion, and,
vj-, ,
",3E TIHTCTIE
settling herself comfortably, she soon
fortrot all about tlio Handsome pair of
1 |
brown ovos si> deliberately fixed on
the telltale mirror.
The other passengers werj pretty
well ucipiuinted by the time thev
reached Chioairo, but Sybil, natural
ly reserved, ami becoming more so
through the protective instinct which
prompted her to make few friends
when traveling alone, had not joined
the little coterie which soon es- i
tublishes itself in every westwardbound
train. llor neighbor had
been baflled in severai attempts to
make her acquaintance, but dilliculty
only lired his determination.
4tShe\s something now in the feminine
line, by Jove she is!" he remarked,
w.V.en one of his deepestlaid
schemes had been overthrown by
Sybil's courteous but unupproachaj
bio dignityr
It appears that this handsome |
stranger had been a 'lady's man for!
many, a day.' lie was of a peculiar
temperament. When he made
| up his mind to anything he usually
accomplished it, and in accomplishing
it was quite willing to relinquish
all subordinate interests, lie,
too, held himself aloof from his fellow-passengers,
and so it was that
when they reached t'onneil I Hulls
not a soul was on board the train
I who could have told who the lady '
and gentleman were that traveled!
alone and were so very exclusive.
Any one who has made a trans..
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j "'1' v ",l,; l"?-|
desire to take a turn on terra (irnm
that soizod Sybil's peculiar vis-a vis]
when ho reached Council lllulVs.
j Ho Wits it little, athletic fellow, and
during the hour and a half that the
train halted he made it podostrain
tour into the surrounding country.
Unfortunately, In* prolonged his
I walk beyond a desirable limit, and
! when he reached the station again
! the tniin had ulread\ begun to move
slowly. Many a time he had boarded
the train when it was going much
more rapidly, and, with at moment's
hesitation he ran for the roar platform
of his car, making a spring and
catching at the iron railing.
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As often happens, lie had not cal-1
culated on tho full speed of the I
train. IIo missed the step and fell
backward, striking bis head on the
platform, and only escaping a terri-J
j bio fracture by tho presence of a j
pile of empty mail-bags, which broke |
! his fall.
The train stopped, and the injured
j man was taken aboard. lie was
wholly insensible, and the blood
| gushed freely from the wound in his
head. A skillful surgeon who happened
to be among tho passengers
was summoned at once, and, ha vine*
seen the voun<f man made comforta- ;
ii*i? I
bio in a sleeping-car, he examined
the conusion.
f
"Will some one please help ino
| with these bandages?" tho doctor
! asked- "No, thanks," ho added, as
! a gentleman offered his services.
"A lady, please."
I le glanced around the car and his
1 eyes fell on Sybil's calm face, on the 1
| slim white hand that looked so deft
and agile, and he noted the compo-j
I sun; with winch she; bore herself,
j while the rest of the ladies were
nearly til 1 in semi-hysterical state.
"Will von hold these bandages,
miss?" he asked, kindly. "Do you
understand how to do it?"
"O, yes, said she promptly. "My
father was a doctor. 1 am used to
such work."
The wound was shortly dressed,
but it was a whole day before the
young stranger awoko from the stupor
occasioned by his fall, and then
it was only to pass ihto a state of
delirium.
"Do you know who he is?" the
doctor asked Sybil, who had been
installed by common consent as the
sick man's nurse.
"This droDDed out his oocket." 1
at I >
she replied, handing liiin a busincsscard.
"I think that is his name, as
his ba^a<jo is marked with those initials."
The doctor read: "Robert Vincent
& Co., commission merchants,
New York."
"lie had a narrow escape," ho
observed, handing the card back to
Sybil. "A little more force would
have crushed his skull like a nutshell."
A new interest suddently awakon(
X
: TO TOUE WCED
CONWAY,
o?l for Sybil,
"1 woiulor what Louiso will sav
when alio hours that I havo boon
playinj-f nurso?" sho nondored tlx*
lay following tlio assumption of hor
now duties. "Poor follow! 1 am sorry
for him."
At t'hovonno. hntmilv for tli?> ?o?>Lr
V ' L I "J
mun, dm train was delayed I wo days
by si landslide. During the int<?rvjil
i?f quiet ami rest the doctor succeeded
in breaking bis fever, and
on the fourth (lav iifter the accident
Mr. Vincent opened bis eyes in weak
astonishment as bis returning consciousness
discern in bis faithful :ittendant
the bandsnine youno lady
with whom he laid tried so assiduoslv
to flirt.
lie felt too weak from the shock
and from the loss of blood to asl-c iiny
questions, but Sybil ilisined bis wonder,
and she explained to him the
details of bis accident, with a tpmtlo
irrace as chanuiim as her former reserve
nad been admirable.
Nolhino could have been prettier
than Sybil's devotion to the unfortunate
stranovr, and the other piissent>ers
seemed to appreciate it, for
they bold aloof and were content
with 1 K?in?_r merely spectators. She
waited on him with perservrinjj do
votion. it was Sybil's way to ?1?*
that. She road to him, or, when ho i
wished it, talked to him. The pre- j
soneo of an invalid seemed to in-1
fuse a liotno foelino into the. life;
aboard the train, and when the week's
journey was protracted bv various
obstacles to ten days no one com- j
pained
iSefore they reached San I'Yaneisco
Mr. Vincent was "able t<> sit up. It
would take some time h>r tic wound
to heal, but he had recovi r< d pretty
well from the shock. In the opinion 1
of some of the passenger , he was al
ton-ether anxious for immediate convalescence,
which was hardy to be
wondered at; and reallv I think
Sybil felt a twinge <?f regret as she
sat the last evening beside Mr. Vincent's
couch and listened to a party
of eentleinen warblino a Swiss air
n o
out on the front platform. It was
twilight, and the porter had not yet
come in to light the lamps.
"l)on't you thinK, Miss .Sybil,"
Mr. Vincent said in a low voice,
"that some acquaintances ripen very
much faster than others? ! feel as
though I had known you for years,
yet I cannot toll what your last name
is. The doctor calls you just Miss
Sybil."
"I thought you knew," she said,
simply, ignoring his first question,
which had sent a thrill to her heart.
"My name is Travors."
"What?" ho almost shouted.
"Wind dlrl VMI1 en i' ''''
J
"Travors," she repeated, looking
at liitn surprised.
lie sank back on tbe cushion help- !
lessly, and, turning hidfaco toward
her, ho murinurrod: "Kismet!"
" I )o jon know," ho oontiuod, after
a pause which Sybil felt to bo
pregnant with meaning "do you
know wo have boon as badly mixed
up as to our identities as the people
in a play. I had no idea you wore!
Miss Tracers, Vour Undo .lorry "
"Do you know my uncle Jerry?" j
she. eriod in supprise.
"I ought to," he roplied, with an
old smile. "1 am Sybil, do you
over forgive people who practice
little deceits upon you?"
The familar manner of this address
did not offend her, strange to say.
"That depends," she said softb
"W hat would von snv if I ivbph #?
toll you that my nnmo wasn't Vincent
at all?"
Mo had contrived to get hold of
hor hand, and ho felt it flutter slightly
but sho mado no roponso.
do not know what led von to
beliovo that iny nnmo was Vincent.
At first 1 could not correct the impression,
and, when I was able, 1
didn't care to, for I ?was so pleased
with our relation that I feared to do
anything that might jar upon it. It
is all tho worse for mo now, for I
fear this deceit may have prejudiced
you. 1 am your uncle's friend, Sy- '
bil. I am lloyal Valloau."
It, was her turn to start in astonishment.
Sho snatched her hand
away from him, but ho secured it !
again.
"Don't!" ho pleaded in a low tone.
"Forgive ino! You have made mo
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s. THURSDAY, Al
lovo you ami you must not be so
cruel. You will at least forgot
that I have deceived vou at all?"
Sybil oavo no spoken reply, but
her liatul was still clasped in his, and
before the porter lit the lamps she
suffered him to carry it to his lips.
This story was detailed in a letter
to Miss Louise lloiijditon the following
week, with the appended
comments:
"Ami just think of it, Louise! I
have actually en^aoed myself to him
I meant to hate him so, too! Lnelo
Jerry is delighted, of coarse, Kor
myself, I can only say that I am perfectly
happy, and. leave the rest to
your imagination. Wasn't it funny j
though? lie left New York three
n
weeks before he had intended to, because
ho didn't want to be bothered
with look in if after me; and I ran
away from him in the same unceremonious
style. Yet we both <o>t on
the same train after all. It is ouite
like a romance, isn't it dear? lint I
must close, as l!o\ is he?firiii?f me to
j prt n
hurry and finish. I will write you
more aipiin. Your loving friend.
Sy mi.."
One K i ml of I tend tn^.
And how few persons who can devote
bill an hour or Imlf ?n hour
day to reading and study, take due
thought .-is to Itow thov ea1i inako j
tin' most of their little leisure. They
Paul in a desultory way whatever!
comes to hand, and think that if
they had more time for books they j
would soon become much bi tter informed.
But the half hour a day, if
used in the wisest manner, would
make a vast difference in one's mental
growth as the years glide by.
An incident occurs to me thai well
illustrates this. A pretty maiden
fern, eniwinc in a llower-pot, was |
given to a younc *rirl, hopelessly ill
with spinal disease. It proved a
thing of beaut \ and of inexhaustible
interest, as the delicate, graceful
fronds came up, one by one, and
slowly uncurled. There was a little
pot beside the fern and under spreading
fronds, in which grew an aloe.
1 t . i . .
By-and-by the sick girl noticed in the
little pot some tiny ferns, scarce an
inch high, quite unlike the maidenhair.
W hence came they? I ler interest
was aroused. She was no botouist,
but she wanted to learn something
about ferns. She could use
her eyes for reading but live inin
uIoh at a timo, and not morn than
twico a day. A hook on ferns cnmo
to her, and another. Friends, knowinjr
lie interest in ferns, hrou?rht them
n n
to her fresh and green from the
wood, or sent her pressed specimens
of rare varieties gathroed in distant
landa. Sometimes a visitor would
read to her from one of her precious
hooks, hut only for four or live minutes.
"I cannot remember more at
a time," she would say, "and you
have read enough for me to think
ahout for a long time." It is now
some years since the maiden-hair
fern was given to her, and she has
become nil authority as to tlio species
and culture) of ferns, and is an enthusiast
in regard to thorn. It is
true that she has become educated
in one direction only, and is not particularly
well-informed in other respects.
Hut is it not a great gain
that she should tallc about her ferns
and their wonderful method of reproduction,
awakening her listeners' interost
and teaching them many things
worth remembering, rather than to
dwell chiefly on her pains and privations?
It is many yearssinco she
was able to step out of doors, but
when you are with her you do not
think of her as an invalid, so interested
and interesting is she.
The growth of eryptogamous plants
would not be a matter of absorbing
interest to all persons, but the habit
of reading thoughtfully and carefully
what wo read, and of rotainino it in !
. ' o
memory, is a great factor of mental j
growth. /ioston
t'levelniid's Southern Tour.
Washington, .July 24.-?Tho dotails
of the I 'resident's trip to Atlanta
have been arranged. Tho special ,
train will leave this city on Sunday
nifjht, October Id, and will reach Atn
' 7 t #
lanta on Monday night. The I'rosi-:
111 11 ( will Vltll'llll TIIOHIIIIV 'mi
noffday in Atlanta.
I in will bo escorted through \ irginia
hy Govornore 1.00 and his staff, J
through North Carolina by Governor!
Sqales and his staff, and through
South Carolina by Govornor Kiehard- ;
son and his staff, ail of whom will
iro with him to Atlanta. At the
n
Georgia lino he will bo mot by i
Governor Gordon and staff. At Aj
lan'.v ho will bo met by theGov.OMfora !
and United States Senators pt various j
Southern States. It i3 or poctod that
hf? will spond Tuesday looking at the j
Exposition, and on Wednesday will |
hold a publio reception and make a
short address.
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(iUSI I, 1887.
>1 an'-. Development.
Mow diverse the influences of heredity
must he run perhaps he learned
from consideration of the vastness
of the number of the channels
through which they have reached the
man who lives to-day. The different
classes of people in existence produce
from two and one half to three and
t It roe- fourths generations per century.
Assuming tliat there have been three
generations to each 100 years and
that there had been no intermarrying
of blood relations, a person would
have had two parents, four grand- I
parents and eight great-grandpa
rents, fourteen in all, in the lirst Id*'
years. In the Two centuries the |
number of ancestors would have been
I'.Mi; in the live there would have
been (15, Id I and in the ten centuries
there would have lived !2,1 OS,(iSd,(i 111
human beings whose diverse traits of
hod\ and character, whose impulsss,
fee linos ami thoughts have minoled
n n n
to produce the man of to-day.
\ et these fenerations d<> not oven
n
extend back to the boeinnin?r ?>f the
('hristhui era, ami before tluit lie (tentury
on century before the dawn of
written history is reached. And still
beyond that stretch dimly genera
te>ns innumerable along the path
which led up from the ago of the
brutes from whom man is descended.
W hat wonder that man is a bundle
<>| in -(insistencies; that he, staggering
under this load of instincts j
inherited from ancestors w h o
were only yesterday savage robbers
ami cutthroats, is forever struirolinoupward
toward a himh ideal, onl^
often to slip and lose miitrli of the
progress lie lias made.
( )f (lie multilndes of facts which
iniedit have thrown strontr Ii?rl ' on
the laws that jroveru the develop- 1
niont of man, onlv a very fow have
l?een intelligent 1 \ observed and recorded,
even bv the nations that consider
themselves the most hiedily i
civili/.ed. It is more than possible
that ancient people may have noted
such facts and derived from them
rules for hastening the improvement.
of their kind, or at least for maiutaininjr
the supremaey of the initiated
over the masses.
The incestuous marriages of the j
rulinjr classes of the oldest known
civilizations seem to have been ill!
obedience to well defined knowledge
of the fact that by such means the
instinct ;t1111 power ol tlio ruling
would lie intensified and perpetuated,
lie fore tlio time of I'lolemy I the
Egyptians were divided into castes,
the members of which married within
their own classes. It seems to Ijo
I certain that the wedding of brothers
to sisters was by no means so uneominoii
as to excite comment, for hint's j
[and nobles customarily married their
full sisters, nieces and cousins, that
the veins of their descendants might
not be delilod by ignoble blood. < )f j
thirteen I'tolumios seven married
their sisters, two wedded their nice-j
es, two married full cousins and one
his nioec-in-law.
The custom of marrying near kin I
was by no means confined to ICgvpt.
The founders of the tribes of Israel
[ obeved the laws of high brooding,1
" I
i even incestuously. The patriarch
Abraham took his half sister Sarah to
wife; Nalior wedded his niece Miljeah;
the case of Lot and his daughters
needs only a reference; Jacob
mated with his first cousins, Leah and
Kachael; Lsau married his first cous!
in, Mahalath, because his parents inI
sisted so strongly on his strengthenI
* # # r i
ing the blood of the family, and to
I this day the descendants of those
i worthies are exceedinglyoxolusivo in ,
regard to marriage connections. The
result is that the Hebrews are a people
in whom peculiar characteristics
have become so intensified and
j strengthened that the\ are an almost j
constant and irresistible factor in hu- |
man affairs, "Wherever the Jewish I
raco has hitherto heen studiod,"' says
M. Bondin, "it lias shown itself governed
hy statistical laws as to births,
deaths, ano the proportion of sho sexes,
entirely different froi*. those which
govern the surrounding eoinmiu ti
08."
But the lesson of hereditary influences
were studied bv nations that
were old before the Hebrews be.iran {
to have a history, and those lessons'
wore taught in widely separated parts
of the pdobe. In india caste regulations
have done much more than for- ;
bid marriage between members of!
different castes. In China the most J
careful attention is paid to hereditary
influences, (Jaltoii says: "There the
system of examination is notoriously j
strict and far reaching, and boys of
promise are sure to be passed on
fl'iil 11 sUi'ii tfi ttnii until tin... I......
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reached tlio highest lovol of which
they aro capable." It is said that in
China parents and oven the
grandparents of the offender against
thodaws are punished jointly with
dfio c riminal for his wrongdoing. So
convinced are tho Afghans of the high
value of puro blood that thoy show
marked contempt for a man who
cannot trace his pedigree clearly for
at least seven generations, and in
this their neighbors of Helooohistan
resomhlo tho Afghans. Tno Win- j
grelese of the Black sea, the gypsies I
of Kgypt, and tho nobles and - royal j
%
rsTmHrEV*
families of Polynesia follow tho fashion
inbreeding, as did tho ancient
( crmuns, I )anes, Icelanders and Persians.
lioforo the reis/n of tho lirst <>f tho
Incas tho Peruvians, who, in many
particulars if not in all peculiarities,
customs and arts, very closely resembled
tho I'loyptians, marrred their
own mothers, sisters, and even
danooters. (iarcillaso do la \ oj*a
says that tho Peruvians taught that
the sun married the moon, his sister,
and that from this union tho incas
descended. Therefore tin* sister of ,
each inca was ever afterward chosen
for his chief wife, and her son was
successor to tho throne. The avow- I
ed purpose was to always keep pure
the blood oF the Peruvian royal lino.
No female of that line was over permitted
towed a vassal. Is further
evidence were reuuired to prove that
in these and other affairs tho ancient
Peruvians acted in accordance with
laws derived from lone continued observation
and careful study of hereditary
influence, that evidence may be
found in the fact that in Peru at that
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hereditary; no one could leave his
homo for another, ami members of
each community were required to
marry within that community; consequently
the greater part of the martiao-es
were between near kin. The
result showed the wisdom of those
who had studied the influences of |
continued hreediuir in one line for j
the development of peculiar faculties,
and demonstrates the soundness of
the laws they enacted; for the ancient
l'cru\ians attained a skill in the
arts and knowledge of philosophy
and mortality probably equal to that
of any civilization then in existence.
( llt't 'tll/O '/ 7///OS'.
Indolence anil Industry.
('hauls of smoke belched from a
era\el-heap on I'd ft h avenue, opposite
I )olmonico s. A furious lire was
It Ml I 111 LZ *1 f'ruiMi i 11 I It III
n *> I
under llie heap, uliicli it was hunting
to a proper degree of calorie to lie of
use to llie st ret si paving men.
Around tint edowinir mound oathr>
r> n
eretl as squalid and miserable a group
as ever camped by tint roadside over
in Jersey* Swaddled in rags and
shuddering in the cold wind they
cracked their cold knuckles over the
hot pile, and two or three gnawed
fragments of food like hungry |
wolves.
W ith the smoke billowing up in i
whirlintf clouds of dun ami black
commingled, the piles of liolgian j
blocks, tht! smoking pitch boilers, the
carts and wagons of the contractors,
and the bare park dripping in the
November drizzle, the picture was
one that no artist could have passed
bv unnoticed. Ilut. it is not the
tramps alone who find comfort in the
contractors' fires. When the workmen
knock olT for dinner they gatli
cr about them in picturesque groups.
I f you want to note, the contrast between
absoluto and hopeless uselessness
and patient industry you can do
it witn a glance at the contrasted
groups of the men who work and earn
their bread and those who do not.
The laborers view their squi ,;d
neighbors with small favor. The
sioht of these hulkine* idlers with
O # #
their hands in their pockets, looking
sullenly at belter men earniiiLf their
i
honest living is not calculated to
make the better men good-tempered.
As one of thorn put it: "God knows,
sir, it's no crime to he out of work in
this town, lint to he willing to he
out of work, like those vagabonds, is
enough to make any decent man
tired. That bio fellow there was of.ferod
a job to handle dirt this morning.
\\ hat do you think he told the I
boss? That he was not a ditch-diif-i
ger. Hut for three days he has hung
about here and has not been tool
proud to pick up the scraps wo throw
away.'' L'of. A e/' )'ov/c AYcvc
"Tlicrc'sNo Place Idkc llomo*'*
A young man who wont to the
West filled with enthusiasm and desire
to grow up with the country ,surprised
his fronds by returning home!
after an absence of but three weeks. I
lie said that while he was out landhunting
in what ho thought was the!
garden-spot of America he came
across a boarded-up shanty. ()n the
boards nailed across the door he
found this inscription, which explained
his departure for the Hast:
fore mlies from a naybor
Sixteen miles from a postofis
Twenty-five miles from a raleroad
A hundred and atey from timber
2f>() feet from water
There's no place liko homo, j
We've gono to spend the winter
with my wife's folks.
In advance of tin' sickly season rentier!
yourself impregnable; a malarial atoms
phere or sudden change of temperature is
fraught with danger; use Dr. .1. II. Mc
I .can's Strengthening Cordial. $1.00 per
bottle.
Tom Ochiltree has moved to Now
York, and will run for congress in
one of the city districts next year.
Tom will determine which party ho
will run with as soon as ho picks tint
his district.
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M .MIUCH
About tin- Now I'rostolior.
t4llow do von like Brother.Jonos?'\
This was what Solomon Smith
uskod mo, I having accepted his invitation
to if(? and hoar tho now
preacher in Smithvillo. 1 replied
? I
that I liked hint very much, for ho
preacfied an earnest (iespol sermon.
"lint did you see how awkward ho
was? Why, ho knocked tho hymnbook
off tho |>it 1 pit with one of his
clumsy postures. And thon lie used
any amount of had grammar. You
did not like that, did you?"
"()f course not. Hut in spite of
these little infelicities of manner and
style, he is a grand proaehor, and I
will toll you why. First of all, lie
doesn't preach himself, llo seems to
forgot all ahout himself, llo talks
and acts like an ambassador who has
been sent on a mission, not who
claims attention in his own name,
nor by reason of any skill that ho has
in presenting his message, but on account
of the message itself, and the
dignity and claims of the sender,
There is nothing so trying to me a
self-consciousness in the pulpit. I Jet
tor any awkwardness than that. In
111?i second place, i iikc Mr. Jones 1> cause
lie believos in (rod. You ea i
see that ospeoially in his prayers, lie
talks with (iod just as Abraham did
when he stood before him pleading
for Sodom, lie evidently realizes
that the church is (iod . house, and
that God Himself is there in special
manner, to welcome Hi . people, and
to hoar what they have to say to
llini. Such prayers make me feel
that I am at Ijethol, standing I?y
Jacob as he wresths with the aimel
O
of the 1 .ord. It is a jrreat tiling, I
tell vnu for a preacher to havo uidi
faith in God's pres'-mo as Mr. Jones
has, to ho ahlo to stand before a con
tfre^ation so absented in communion
with (iod that he foroets all oh" in
the fervor of his devotion.
' I like Mr. Jones fn the ttiird
place, because he believes that all
men are sinners, and he is not afraid
to toll them so. How plain and emphatic,
and how tender and loving,
was his statement that 'the whole
head is sick, and the whole heart
f:?? ?*!1 I tell you, Solomon, unless ;i
preacher is thoroughly orthodox on
depravit V, ho wouldn't do much good.
You must mftko men realize that they
am sick, beforo they will apply to a
physician. You must convince them
of their sin before you can got them
to welcome a Saviour.
"My fourth reason for liking Mr.
Jones is that he. believes in the Bible,
lie is constantly appealing to the law
ami the testimony. Ilis sermon is
bristled with quotations. They wore
not from the theologians, or from the
poets, but from the Word of Boil.
When ho found a 'Thus saith the
Lord' for anything, ho was satislied,
and insisted that his hearers ought to
be. I am sick of this modern rationalistic
style of preaching. Wo don't
want in the pulpit messages from
men, mil messages iroin L?od. i tike
to hoar a preacher who speaks with
authority, because ho sneaks tho
words of his Mustor and initio. How
absurd for tho most learned man to
try to prove that which (iod has proclaimed
true in His lloly Hook!
"My fifth reason for liking Mr.
Jones as a Gospel preacher is that ho
evidently believes in the assurance of
faith, lie thinks that, if people are
converted, they ought to know it,
and be liappy in the knowledge. He
has no patience with the moping,
sighing sort of ('hristiaus who hope
that thoy have a hope. I lo evidently
knows in whom he has believed, and
is persuaded that (iod is able to keep
him, and lie thinks that all ought to
have the same knowledge and persuasion.
"I have many more reasons for
liking liiin Mr. Jones, but I will give
n 7 n
you only one of them now. He is as
indignant as I'aul was with tho (.'liristiaus
who continue in sin that grace
may abound. He behoves in our
showing our faith by our works, lie
believes that if wo love a holy God,
we will want to bo like Him. He believes
that we ought to be pressing
towards the mark for the prize of our
high calling; that we ought to work
out our salvation with four ami trembling,
to perfect holiness in tho fear
of Crod. I tell yeu, Solomon, wo
have too many philosophical preachers,
too many poetic preachers, too
many pictorial preachers; what wo
nootl in this ago of abounding world*
liness is plain, earnest, pungent (iospel
preaching. Ami when I hear a
man in the pulpit who speaks as if
(iod had sent him to try to save a
perishing world, I don't criticise his
grammar, or his gestures 1 honor
him as an ambassador of my Lord."
The burning of Patterson Iron
Works is attributed to tho Knglish
sparrow Tho sparrows have been
carrying straw and other inllammahlo
stuff and building their nests
ti.? ? >
hiiuiij^ mo k.iuit?, mill u is inJUOVOd
that tho snarks lodging in thoso
nosts caused tho lire.
Far I>ettor than the harsh treatment of
medicines which horribly gripo the patient
and destroy the coating of tho stomach
Dr. J. II. .NrCLtans (.'hill and Fever cure,
Hold at BO cents a Inittle,
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