The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 15, 1889, Image 1
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HILL IVY 10 TACK I /I0? TIUO
CLAM.
Au<l lit 111m Owii AVny Tollw
Th? N?tv A'orlc AVorltl**
How Il?* llroamo Truly
llopontunt.
Probably the American clam is
Icsr fully understood than any other
feature of fnir boasted civilization,
lie is eilPer greatly overestimated
on account of his naturally taciturn
manner and reserve, or else he is regarded
as an intellectual dwarf because
he never tries to shine in society.
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uiams are or two classes ?viz , tiie
little-neck clams and the other
clams.
One of tho peculiarities of the
New York clam is that he has no
vitativenoss, as the phrenologists
call it. xiio pale bluish growth in
the middle of the clam is not vivp
tiveness or love of life, for ho does
not care to live. Neither does he
care whether anybody else lives or
not.
I bought a dozen raw clams of a
globular man in a white apron a
short time ago, having at that time
a very enormous idea about clams in
the abstract or in the shell. Having
been accustomed to the antique
or canned clam which we used to
get by bull team in an incredibilly
short time from Leavenworth and
other ports, where the land-locked or
malleable clam is found, I knew little
of the true Manhattan clam. I
only knew that he cared little for
life, but died easily. I had heard
that the male clam would turn
when trodden upon, but I regarded
him as generally undemonstrative
and in favor of arbitration.
I was misled also by the calm and
unruffled demeanor of tho Eastern
clam, so I ate these twelve pachyderms
hurriedly in order to catch a
car, fearing that my seat in the City
Ilall Park would be taken by some
one else.
In less than half an hourj if I had
read an advertisement in the paper
offering a reward for the return of
thoso clams, I would have hunted
up the owner and said to him: "Sir,
I do not wish to wrong any man.
Here are your clams."
This feeling grew ort me till I
went to a drug store and bought a
v. dose, which I scattered in among
those turbulent elements. It was a
mixture of things which the drug
gist sells during the summer us an
Asiatic cholera mixture and in winter
as a fire-kindler. I could not
^ help asking myself, as I drank it
and afterwards threw in one of those
patent grenades for putting out a
fire, why a man should put an incenV
diary, under his vest to steal away
| his brains. I then went to the Batj
tcry and lay down under a tree.
[ People who saw me tearing up the
I greensward and kicking the bark off
hthe tree for a distance of seven feet
above the ground said that it was
too bad and claimed that no man
j^onght to allow his dog run loose in
J\ugust to get hydrophobia and then
bite innocent people.
People who still think that the
^ pallid and aimless clam does not
. care for intestine strife or turmoil
ought to go and see the way that
tree is Kicked to pieces.
I was telling a friend afterwards
about the lawn festival and clam
i colic recital that I had been giv*
ing, and he said that I made a
/ mistake in eating the clams raw.
} Haw clams at this season of the
year, he said, were liable to be overcome
by the heat, or they might be
-{ * s old and blase when they were caught,
bat if 1 could eat them in the form
4.
or chqwder I would like them, and
they wbuld do me good.
He knew a good place to get clam
chowder and I went with him. It
was a very ricohet place, and I was
/ told that Commodore Vamlerbilt
f eamo there and ate olam ohowdor
only a abort time before his death.
So did I.
Chowder, however, is made by
shooting two-year-old clams out of
i a gtin, Ana then cooking them with
other things nntil they seem to lose
JEjldS their identity. It does not hurt
I jWrpeople who are used to it, but a man
IdB Q-' who has most always liyed on canW'
ned Lima beans ought to harve his
W post-office address and the address cf
fflf ' his favorite undertaker in his pocket
before he gives himself up to the
^ L false jpys of clam chowder.
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After we had eaten . our chowder
we went to call 011 a friend, and 1
heard afterwards that he said I was
a very much overestimated man. I
can see now how he came to form
that opinion. 1 cannot remember
1 ..l.io K.i<
>1 iJ?u M wiiuc nit 1110 ileum, IMII
if I said anything that would do to
writo in an autograph album T must
have done so mechanically.
I then went home, where 1 did
not have to he polite. I have often
I thought that in referring to the joys
i of home, writers and sculptors do
' not bear down hard enough on the
fact that we can he as mean as we
liko around our own hearthstone
and play a kind of Jekyll Hyde business
for years sometimes without
being discovered. In the meantime
our wives are requested to always
meet us with a smile and a pair of
warm slippers, so that we will not
become dissatisfied with our home
and go somewhere else to do our
drinking. 1 presume that as many
as two or three men have been driven
to irretrievable ruin by this
means.
The other man was ruined by
eating pudding sauce that had elderberry
wine in it. 1 went home because
I was afraid that among strangers,
the way I was feeling, I could
not carry sunshine wherever 1 went
or be the life of the party. So I
went homo where nobody expected
it.
Looking back over that long, dark
afternoon, 1 am proud to say that 1
did not kick any of the children.
No member of my family can ever
truthfully say that I kicked him,
even while under the influence of
clams. I sent for a physician and
requested that he would come as
soon as possible, no! because 1
thought he could save my life, but
because I wanted some one to lean
npon and show my tongue to.
Ho said I had colic. I had more
than half suspected it all the time.
He then made himself unpopular at
our house by saying that he did not
think 1 would die. After that he
wrote a brief editorial in a foreign
tongue and asked me if I had any
one I could send to the drug store
witll it. I said J was atraid not. My
butler had gone down to the glaizer's
to get ono of the family diamonds
reset and the footman was busy putting
a new handle on our crest, but
as soon as I was well enough I would
go myself.
I said this in a tone of biting sarcasm,
for I have no butler and
would't know how I could keep him
busy if I had one. I've never seen
the day yet when 1 couldn't do my
own butlering and still have time for
my other work.
He then said he would send the
prescription himself if I would ' tell
him of some druggist whom I felt
I that I could trust most. I said I felt
that I could trust most any druggist
around here, and I hoped they felt
' the same way towards me.
I took a great deal of medcitie that
night, but continued restless and
clamorous for some time. I suffered
very mueh and said things that were
calculated to discouraged the use of
clams in our midst. I do not say
that the clam, for every one, is absolutely
indigestible, but I do say
that I cannot see why people can eat
uiiuiim, uiiu huh iicsiiure tiDOUt eating
pounded glass Neither do T
understand why any one should buy
clams on the half shell and then
throw away the shell.
Clams grow best in low wet
grounds and do not go out very much.
They live to a great age and their
plumage is not gaudy, even in the
tropics. Many believe the juice of
the clam to be a good disinfectant
for those who imagine they see funny
reptiles and polka-dot insects
floating through the air, but I do
not know whether it is or not.
Some say that a cold clam is a
good thing to put on a boil. I hare
often thought that if I had a large
and restless boil I would like to put
a clam on it and then watch them
from a distance. The methods of
the two are so utterly different that
o combat between a cofd and austere
clatn and a hotheaded, tight-fitting
boil would be very instructive.
Clams do not produce their young
alive, but hatch them from eggs with
which they are wisely provided by
nature. It takes the female elfins a
long time to hatch out her young,
owing to the !qw temperature of her
feet. Jf I had a large flock of female
olams who manifested a desire
to hatoh out somo young olams. I
would fool them while they were
looking the other way and watoh
their surprise when thev came off the
nest with a large brood of oysters.
Bill Nyk.
Th? Lumber I^and lloom.
There is evidently a boom in South
Carolina timber lands. At present
it is in its inoipiency, but it is growing
every day, and the next few years
promise to see the State's vast resources
in lumber ntilized and lands i
never before tread by the foot of man
opened up and developed by North'k
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"Be True to Your
X)NWAY, S. C.
urn pioneers and capitalists.
In her virgin forests alone the
State has a wealth that is almost in- i'
estimable and they are increasing in 1
value every day as ihe more accessi- 1
ble forests of trie North and West'1
disappear before the blade of the '
axmen and the saw of the mill owrer. (
The first thincr about these lands that
strikes the prospective buyers who
have visited them is the remarkably |
low price at which they are held. ,
They are also struck bv the superior ,
. 1
quality and wonderful! variety of tho
timber.
It is said that nearly one-half the j
area of the Stato is rich in hard wood
forests that are as yet undeveloped, J
and that some of them can bo bought
i
as low as 50 cents an acre. The re<
markably low valuation of these lands
is accounted for by the fact that a |
largo part of them are held by the
Stato for taxes and are sold on tax (
titles, white in cases whore they are
still held by individuals the owners
have paid taxes on them so long
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?iiiiwul ^uun1^ roturn m?i wmv |
aro now forced to Bel), them for what I"
i
they can get.
Mention, was made in The News ^
and Courier yesterday of the salo of
t
twenty thousand acres of land on the
(
Santeo to Messrs Hathbone & Heidler,
I
of Chicago. There are also now
other Northern investors in Charleston,
and the prospects are that more
capitalists will he induced to come j
hero as soon as the resources of tho
State become more widely known.
Tho News and Courier has repeatedly
called attention to tho wonderful
advantages of South Carolina in this ]
respect, and the truth of all that has
been said about them is now boin?r
!
verified, and the more it has realized
the more will tho State lie developed
and improved.
Mr. J. I). Lacy, of fho firm of Robinson
k Lucy, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
is now in Charleston, negotiating
for timber lands. Grand Rapids
is one of the largest furniture
manufacturing centres in the United
States, and is tho domand thero for
Southern lumber and hard woods that
Mr. hacy, whose firm are extensive '
:.. o .1 ?: ?? i - ?
lioitiuis 111 ouuuium limner lands, OXpoets
to l)o kept hero and to locate
with his family in Charleston nextwinter.
On Monday night Mr. Lacy
wont up to Fort Motto to complete
the details of the salo made to
Messrs Rathbone & Beidlor, which
sale was consummated principally
through the efforts of himself and
Capt. J. A. Peterkin, of Fort Motte.
Mr. Lacy has been operating in
Southern timber lands since 1880,
and has been instrumental in bringing
largo amounts of Northern and Western
capital to the South for such investments.
Mr. John Bradley, who is wellknown
in Charleston as superintendent
of the Seaview Railroad, is now
in the city looking out for timber
lands. He is now in negotiation for
several tracts on the Santee River for
parties who have capital to invest.
Speaking on the subject to a Reporter
yesterday, Mr, Bradley said that
the cheapness of the lands in this
vicinity was remarkable. They
wertf destined, in his opinion, to become
a source of wonderful wealth to
this city and State, He thought
that Charleston was verv far from
c
having reached the end of her destU
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nv as Home people believed she y
had.?JVewa and Conner. (
Hukai' for the lNn?i>le.
Pfiir.ADULiMiiA, Pa., August 8.?
Glaus Spreckles, the great sugar
manufacturer whose mammoth rolin* i
ery on the Doleware is now one of i
the landmarks of Philadelphia, has ' <
decided to # duplicate his plant, j i
Spreckles is in Ii]urope with his son (
Adolph. Glaus IJ. Spreckles, who is (
associated with his father in the man- *
agement of the great rofinery, has i
notified the contractor of the con- t
struction of buildings, and George A. ]
Watson, general manager of Sprock- 1
leg, that the capacity of the refinery 1
would be doubled. The work of <
erecting additional buildings, which |
will adjoin those now in course of 1
constructing, and placing in them the >
^ Lt , '
iw?B?*rjr maomnery, will negtn scon. ]
The producing capacity of the works <
when completed will b? about 4,000,000
pounds of augw daily. The pn- \
tira cost pf the plant wi|l \>e between j
4,00f),000 ?nd *5,000,000. i
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word arid Your wor,
THURSDAY,
Wuiuuutiki'i'on t l*o AVI row.
Washington, August.5?The folowing
lotter from Postmaster General
Wanamakerto I)r. Norvin Green,
>rosi<lent of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, was mailo public
;o-day:
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)ki-'k k PostmArtTicit Gknkkai., j[
Wabiunion, I). C., Aug. 2.?Mr.
Norvin Green, Position t NVostorn
Union Telegraph Company, Now
York--Dour sir: Iteforring to your
letters of July lltli, 10th and 27th,
which have hoon given to the public
prooi through channels other than
this departmont, and in which you
protest against aiky new rate for Government
telegrams, and offer various
lrguments to prove that the old rate
jf one cent a word is as low as your
company can accept without loss, 1
Lteg leave to sav:
First. Your unqualified statement
that the privileges and benefits dorived
by your company through Acts
if Congress are purely imaginary,"
ind the companion assertion that
pour company never "took a stone or
i stick of timber or appropriated a
FflfU nf limit linlivlliriin* '? tl.n
,??V V.. wvivyii^ui^ u; mo VJTW V J
srnment" under such Acts aro not
sustained by the facts. It is an miloniablo
fact that * ho telegraph couimny
in accepting the Act of 18(M
uul afterwards the su piemen tary
Acts, considered tlioy wore gaining
special and actual benefits which fully
compensated them for the low
ates intended to bo granted to the
Liovernment, and the representatives
>f the Government likewise supposed
hey were securing some benefits for
he valuable concessions bolng made
o the companies. The telegraph
companies not only accepted the
Acts, expecting substantial benoAts
would ensue, but to the Western Unon
Telegraph Company notably
jreat and conspicuous benefits have
ilrcady accrued.
I nder those grants company has
daimed the right to use, without
:ompensation of any kind as to right
)f way, all the highways of the connry,
on the grounds of their being
lost roads. It has broadened this
daim to the oxtont that the streets of
jities and towns aro also postronds,
uul thereforo open and free to Its oc
jupanoy and use. The Conrts havo
mstainod it in this claim. You arc
nieessarily familiar with the Pensa>olu
oaso, in which the Supreme
Jourt of the United States decided
hat the Western Union Telegraph
Company had rights which oven the
broreign Stato of Florida could not
mnul This under the benefits of
his Act, instead of not occupying a
dot of public land as you assort, you
ire in fact occupying many
housands of miles of postroads, and
ire privileged to occupy all highway!
u the U. S.
You havo thus been enabled to ocmpy
all the highways and use the
treets* in the large cities of Philulelphia
and New York, regardless
>f the views of local authorities and
ilmost regardiess of public opinion,
fiven the elevated railroads of New
fork City havo been claimed as postoads
and the claim sustained. The
State of Now York may regulate the
ise, but it is not able to deprive you
>f these great privileges secured to
olograph companies, and maintain>d
to them alone by the Congreslional
Act of IHOd, beyond this, the
itroots of all other cltlos and towns
>f the United States havo been kept
>pen to your uso.
NOt I'URKI.Y 1MAG1XAKY.
I am snro thnt on reflection you
vill hardly clai^ji that such great ben
>fits are "purely imaginary." In I
)ther respects your company and oth)r
telegraph companies havo gocur5(1
substantial benefits from the Gov*
jrnmopt and from the public under
\cts of Congress, but these I havo
nontioned are enough 1 think to
?train my former reference to the
privileges and benefits given to you
>y the Government, the value of
which in my judgement is beyond
calculation. Conferring such groat
privileges and benefits on you, the
Government, in my belief, expected
ind is entitled to receive not simply
rour exceptionally low rates to oth'
?rs but even a lower spepial rate.
Second. As to yopr quostion of
hp legal power of the postmaster
general to fix a rate for Government
rnessnges, I would only remark that
localities the yield "willA co.npan;
id can produce." The in Halti.nore
.^l ib follows; Up- veloping the
if ai]<) Your (iov
AUGUST lo, 1
such right appears to have been understood
by previous postmaster genj
orals as an official duly, and their ox
ercise or ttie right or performance oF
' the <)uty has been generally and constantly
aocepted and respected by
the telegraph companies. In any
event 1 should say we may agroo
that the Act (if Congress at least imposes
on the postmaster general the
duty to name the rate and maintain
it until by a Court of Inquiry the
rate has boon shown to he unjust.
Third. As to your qualified statement
thaf no corporations have received
a rate equal to the proposed
Government rate of one mill a word.
Your statement that press associations
aro not corporations is hardly
justified by the facts, and is not material
to the question. They may not be
corporations for general business, but
most, if not all of thorn, aro incorporated
under the laws of some State,
and their dealings with the telegraph
company is as corporations not as individuals.
ONK Ml LI. A WOll l>.
You will nol deny, indeed, one of I
vour officials has adim'tfod mo ?!>.?? I
| %x' ,,,v)
| some of the press associations got
j their news reports for a mill a word
| to each newspaper, and in one assoj
oiution the rato is ovon lower than
j taat. I do not criticise the press rato;
it is not too low. It would ho better,
in my judgement, for the public pross
j and the* telegraph companies if it
were*still lower. As to the Associa|
ted Press there is forco in your statement
that it is \vholosale rate, as it
were, for the same dispatch sent over
j the same wire at the same time to
sovoral customers, but it is not true
that, the rate given to some portions
of tho press effectively oontradicts
your statement that for messages
transmitted to a singlo address "tho
Government is our otdy customer on*
joying reduced rates.M
j By this 1 presumo you mean that
the Government has the lowest rate
givon to any single customer, its lowest
rate being one oont a word for
r?
day and throe-fourths of a coot for a
night message. Hut this charge is
made, not only upon the message itself,
but upon the address and signa
turo as well, so that for ten words in
address and signature, the above rate
is, in fact, two cents per word in the
day and one and a half cents per
word at night. Is it not true that
the large papers of New York, Chicago,
and other large cities havo half
a cent rate for their special dispatches
in the day and cne-fourthof a cent
at night, or a rate ono half lower
than the Government has been granted?
Is it not true also that this patronage
from the enterprising press
is tho moat profitable that you have,
and It would, in fact, givo you still
more profit if made still lower. Reduced
rates bring inoreased business
and enlarged profit. Your own testimony
before committees of Congress
at various times has boon steadily to
the effect that every time your company
reduoed prices it 1ms gained an
increased income. This accords with
my view that a constantly decreasing
rate, where there aro large numbers
of customers, will better servo
the pub'io and better profit any business,
I believe that tho now rate proposed
for the Government business
would nut materially alter tho
amount of cash received by you,
while tho Government would bo enabled
to greatly quicken and vitalise
the transaction of its business in all
departments It is quite true, as you
say, that tho Government is able to
pay proper rates, and 1 may add that,
ho far us I know, i* willing to pay
just rates, and that it is the farthestfrom
my thought that "the people"
should suffer by reason of the losses
you claim that you are now making
And would still further make on Government
business.
LOW Hit TUB liATKS ALL AltOlTNI)!
I fur satisfied the people could
and should havo much 'lower rates
than now exist, and that neither the
people nor the Government should]
suffer because the specially low rates
are given to favored customers, Whilp
claiming that the C|o.yernrnent has received
the lowest single address rate,
you not only admit a lower rate to
the press,'byt also plainly say that
pertain railroads or transportation
companies are given "half commer-j
rial rates." When it is considered
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y Is now be?riR 1U"??W?
for the purpose of doinvention
and placing FRU
parket. The ftrat place
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.889.
that in (Joverntnent messages all
words are counted, the address and
signature as well as the rnossago, and
in all other telegrams the message
only is counted, is it not true that
tll!? lllllf l-olii to A
I ...... min IU nnvil VWIIIpit 11ICH in 'II
' least as low as the Government rate,
and in some instances lower? For instance,
a Govoriiinent message from
! Washington to New York, containing
twenty words in tho message,
and ton words in the address and
; signturo, would he charged at 30 cents
which is nearly 50 per cent more than
the transportation companies would I
pay fcr tho same message.
1 am not speaking now of, and 1
do not wish to have confused with
this part of tho discussion, the free
service you g.ve to railroads for certain
service to you. Those pay|
moots 1 understand to ho for rights
| of way, etc. More than that I am
informed your company in many
cases actually pays largo sums of
money to railraods for rights of way,
and it does not seem unreasonable to
suppose that it would not he out of
place for telegraph companies to he
expected to make compensation of
soino kind to the Government for its
much larger concessions, which, in
effect, have secured to you, particularly
in citties and|to\vns,Jmuch more
valuable rights of way.
Til H (JUKSTIOX OF COST.
Fourth. As to your statement that
no messago can he carried and delivered
hv a telegraph company for
loss than twenty cents without tho
service being done at loss.
The cost of telegraph service ap
pears 10 no a very <11llicu11 tiling to
ascertain definitely. Porhaps establishing
a proper ruto for tlio Governmont
to pay, this subject limy best bo
'referred to a commission to ascertain
the facts.
In one of your lottors you put the
average cost of a message to the
company in receiving, carrying and
delivering at twenty- three and twotenths
cents. In this cost do you
not include large sums paid for rentals
of leased linos, some of which are
not now in nso, but only valuable to
you in removing competitive rights of
way on railroads and on other iic
counts, which nro obviously chargeable
to capital account and not to
operating expenses.
Is it not true that in a few years
and for several years in succession
largo volumes of business have been
handled by your company and other
companiosata minimun rate IOconts
a message, and did not this rate continue
till tho Western Union absorbed
the competing lines?A table of statistics
given in your memorial to the
Senate committee in 1888 shows that
during a period of ton years your
company did not lose money but
made largo profits. If this wero
possible then, and ospocially as
your business has grown very
largely in volumn since, it would
seem that it might be practicable
now.
I understand that signal service
reports make up a very large proportion
of the entire amount of Government
telepragh business, Your schedule
shows that for eleven years the
Government has been paying out
throe cents a word for each circuit
over which Government messages
are transmitted. No reduction what
over 1ms been made in that rato since
1877, but within that timo you have
reduced tho public ruto from sixtytwo
and a half cents to thirty cents
per message, moro than f>0 per cent
reduction, and the cost of handling
telegrams has boen reduced during
the same period from forty-throe and
four-tonths cents to twenty-three and
two-tenths cents per inessago, or over
40 percent reduction. AVitliin the
past five years tho public rate has
fallen 18 per oont, und the cost of
transmission about 8 per cent, but in
that time there has been no reduction
whatever in Government rates.
UNTCLKSAM JMPOSKI) ON.
rp.L!
i nKing an inose facts into account, J
I believe that the Government has
been paving for its telegraph service
more than avy other customer, giving
a like or approximate amount of
business, and that within the period
first named there has not been so
great a reduction in Government
rates as to tho general public and the
press.
i Waiving entirely the question of
' benefits occurring to telegragh com''
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NO; 5.
panics under the Act of 1800, the
Government ou^ht to he put upon a?
favorable a basis as t*> telegraph rates
as your most favorod customers.
Inasmuch as this discussion has
taken a wider ran^o than I anticipated,
and it may bo proper to add, rer.??
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??> lunur, uiut j'ou are
right iti saying thut the acceptance
by the telegraph companies of the
Act of 1800, "rendered it to all intents
and purposes a compact between
the Government and the telegraph
companies." Hut 1 do not
agree with all of your next succeeding
statement. For instance, the
printed copy of your memorial presented
to the Senate postotlice coniinitoe
last year misquotes the Act of
1800, which should read, "provided,
however, that the I'nited States may
at any time purchase all telograph
lines, property andefFcetsof anyorall
companies acting under the provisions
of the Act of July 24, 1800."
MINI) YOl'US n'SANI) tj's.
The words "any" and "or" are
omitted in your memorial. This
omission was, of course, an error, but
as your correspondence expresses the
same meaning I mention the matter
merely to romark that your views on
that particular aro not adopted by this
department. The Act of 1800 was,
as you say, a compromise moasure,
in which the I 'uited States for time
being waived its inherent rights to
the porforinanco of telegraph service
in conjunction with the postrtice. The
first telegraph line in this country
was built with Government aid, and
thn/ the Government did not continue
to exercise its undoubted prerogatives
by extending ami operating
the telegraph as a more speedy means
of communication than the past, was,
as known, purely an accident.
I have given full and respectful
consideration to your protest, weighed
arguments and investigated the
subject for myself through such
channels as are onen to ine. ilesininrr
_f - 1 r-i
only to protect the interests of the
Government,
In conclusion I beg to remind you
that in my letter of July 13, in answer
to yours protesting against tho 0
reduction, I consented to your re*
ijuest for a conference on tho subject
before any otlicial order to tho
departments fixing rates should bo
issued, and I am vet quito willing to
entertain uny resonablo proposition
based upon known facts.
I have tho honor to romain veryrespctfully
yours,
John Wanamakek,
Postmaster General.
>riHt n u en.
It is not disgraceful to make a
mistake. Those who never make
mistakes never do anything worth
mentioning. The attitude of men
with reference to their mistakes is
sometimes disgraceful. One who
cannot see his own errors even when
they are pointed out will not make
improvement. Until we discover and
deplore our defects, we will not take
pains to remedy them. Frankness in
confessing faults is a great grace.
When one becomes so perfect in his
own estimation that he has no occasion
to confess his faults to his neighbors,
he is well nigh beyond the
reach of hope. A Christian who believed
that his holiness had reached
the point of faultlessness once gave
way to a violent fit of temper, and
when forced to apologize told his
story well enough until he came to
the conclusion, and then spoiled it
by saying, "I cannot tell what
made me use such language; I think
it must havo been inspired; 1 am sure
I was nat angry.M "Who can understand
his errors?"
A <Jot>?l Nnine.
I What is moro valuable in any pursuit
than a good name? ft is often
the key-noto of success in your calling.
It is worth ten times its cost
to its possessor during life; and after
death, what more precious legacy can
be left for children? Besides, the
value of a good name does not accrue
to yourself and children alone. The
whole community is benefitted thereby.
Your noble traits of character
. remain as a stimulus to others, encouraging
them to efforts of self im
provement. J.s|To
a young man, ambitions of a
position of honor and profit in the
business world, a good name is of the *2
first importance. Without this, n?
one is wanted in any position of ' v ^
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