The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, August 31, 1886, Image 2
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ABBEVILLE, S. C.
A Western exchange (ells its readers
bow "to mind their P's," in the followjng
paragraph: "Persons who patronize
papers should pay promptly, for the
pecuniary prospects of the press have a
peculiar power in pushing forward public
prosperity. If the printer is paid
promptly, and his pocketbook kept plethoric
by prompt paying patrons, he puts
his pen to his paper in peace; his para
graphs are more pointed; he paints his
pictures of passing events in more pleasing
colors, and the perusal of his paper
is a pleasure to the people. Paste this
piece of proverbial philosophy in some
place where all persons can perceive it.'"
A great effort has at last been made t?
olve the enigma which for ages has re
mained a mystery to man. It is the grea
Sphinx, of Egypt, which is about to ro
veal ita secrets and why it was erected.
A company of explorers,under the direction
of Maspero, have been excavating
for some time back around the ba?e ol
this colossus. These excavations have
disclosed a temple which is said to be
the oldest in the world. It has no resemblance
to any of the other Egyptian
temples. For a few months the marvelous
Sphinx of Ghizeh will remain, perhaps
for the first time since the days of
Moses, free from the earth in which it
was buried, and we shall perhnp3 dincover
the reason of its existence.
n n/v tit 41%<-? IT?*54 #?/1 4-V* ???
m uviv uiu iu iuu uuauu uiuica luu tjrthree
counties whose agricultural products
amount in value to over $4,000,000.
Of the thirty-three the State of New
York furnishes fourteen, Pennsylvania
seven, Illinois six, California and Massachusetts
two ench and Michigan and Connecticut
one each. Of these rich counties,
Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, leads all the
rest, her agricultural products, according
to tho census of 1880, amounting to
$9,320,202. It is important to know
what is raised in the rich counties. Lancaster
raises vast amounts of tobacco?
twice as much as any other county in the
United States. The county also raises
'fast quantities of corn, oats, wheat, and
about 40,000 cows make enormous quantities
of milk, butter, and cheese.
The Mosquito Reservation ol Nicaragua
takes its name from the Mosquito
Indians, to whom it belongs. It
- stretches for nearly two hundred miles
along the coast of Nicaragua, and ex
tends back to the mountains. It is
watered by numerous majestic rivers, and
its front abounds in fine harbors. The
' ... chief .of^. the Mosquitoes is its hereditary
President, and he governs with the
assistance of a Vice-President, a Chief
Justice, an Attoruey-Gcr.eral and a Council
elected by the people. The indc- (
pendence of the country is guaranteed
by Nicaragua, Great Britain and Austria.
It the ouly country on carfti where there 1
are no ttuoa, 1^9$ taxation iq \
levied on cither real 6i' personal property,
and the only vestige of the burden j
which is escaped nowhere elso is a poll
tax of upon every man who votes as a i
citizen.
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A lady in Xew York city lias spent
twenty years in stringing together eight
i thousand beautiful buttons, and no two
alike. Some of them have been brought
half around the easth to her by sea cap
tains. Seme have come from old wars
^and famous battle fields; some from the
' ^^m)ricnt and some from the Occident;
^^^nome from gold mines and poorhouses,
0^^ from snug country houses and from shipwrecks:
some are just from the button
counter, nnd some aro dignified old buttons
which have survived from a previous
century, and now hold sinecure positions
on Mrs. Harris's button string.
The buttons are almost infinite in kind.
The lady who has collected the 8,000
savs that she never goes out shopping
without seeing buttons 4hat she had
never seen before. A new button stares
at lier from every shop window and
meets her in every bazar. "When she
began to collect them there were peopie
who thought that there were not more
than 9l>9 different kinds of buttous in
the world, and it was on a wager of this
kind that she began her labors.
A permit was taken out In "Wasliington
recently to remodel aud enlarge the
house recently purchased by the Presi
dent on the Woody Lane road. Th<
plans as prepared by the architects pro
vide for the addition to the present
structure of a third story of a very ornamental
and handsome design. The third
story will be in the high pointed rocl
pierced with dormer windows, the eavea
extending over some fourteen feet, thui
forming >.$i'.c roof of the porch in thd
second^ tftory. Thero will be doublo
porches twelve fcot wide extending on
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IIIU oUllLll JUIU WU3b UUll purt UI tuu VIV*I
sides of tho house. Upon the stone walltf
forming the present two stories of tho
house will be built this high, overreaching
roof, with the exterior covered with
shingles paintod red. There will be a
two-story back building erected for a]
kitchen and servants1 quarters, and the'
interior will be remodeled and fitted up
in a style to correspond to the pretty'
mdilern design of a cottage, which the
exterior will then assume.
dr. mmm sermon
MEASURED BY YOUR OWN YARD
STICKS.
fPreiP.hod at Aehevllle, N. CX]
Tint: "With what measure ye mete, it
ebail be measured to you again." Matthew
vii, 2.
In the greatest sermon ever preached?a
pormou about fifteen miuutes' long, according
to the ordinary rate of speech?a sermon on
the Mount or Olives, the Preacher, sitting
while He spoke, according to the ancient
mode of oratory, the people were given to
understand that the same yard stick that
they employed upon others wo.ild be employed
upon themselves. Measure others by
a harsh rule, and you will bs measured by a
harsh rule. Measure others by a charitable
rule, and you will be measured by a charitable
rule. Give no mercy to others, and no
mercy will bo given to"you. "With what
measure ye mete, it shall bo measured to you
again."
There is a great deal of unfairness in the
criticism of human conduct. It wa > to smite
that unfairness that Christ uttered the words
of the text, and my sermon will be a re-echo
of the Divine sentiment. In estimating tho
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luiouvuaiiui vi uiiuma no uiubbuiKt) iuw consideration
the pressure of circumstances. It
is never right to do wrong, but there are degrees
of culpability. When men misbehave
or commit somo atrocious wickedness we are
disposed indiscriminately to tumble them-all
over the bank of condeuination. Suffer they
ought and suffer they must; but in difference
of degree.
In the first place, in estimating the misdoing
of others we must take iuto calculation
the hereditary tendency. There is 6uch a
thiug as good blood and there is such a thing
as bad blood. There are families that have
had a moral twist in th?m for a hundred
years back. They have not been careful to
Keep the family rbcord in that regard. There
have been o-capades and maraudings and
scouudrelisms and moral deficits all the way
back, whether you call it kleptomania or I
pyromania or dipsomania, or whether it be
in a milder form and amount to no mania at
all. The strong probability is, that the pres- j
out criminal started life with nerve, m iscle
ar.d bone contaminated. As some start life j
with a natural tendency to nobility and generosity,
and kindness and truthfulness, there I
are others who start life with just the opposite
tendency, and they are born liars, or
born malcontents, or born outlaws, or born
swindlers.
There is in England a school that is called
the Princess Mary SchooL All the children
in that school are the children of convicts.
The school is supported by high patronage.
I had the pleasure of being present at one of
their anniversaries in 1879, presided over by
the Earl of Kintore. By a wise law in England.
after parents have committed a certain
number of crimes and thereby 6hown themselves
incompetent rightly to bring up their
children, the little ones are taken from under
pernicious influences and put in reformatory
schools, where all gracious and kindly influences
shall be brought upon them. Of course
the experiment is young and it has got to be
demonstrated how large a parcenta^e of the
children of convicts may be brought up to
respectability and usefulness. But we all
know that it is more difficult for ch Idren of
bad parentage to do right than for children
of good parentage.
In this country we are taught by the Declaration
of American Independence that all
people are bora equal. There never was a
greater misrepresentation put in ono sentence
than in that senteuco which imnH??s
that we are all born equal. You may as well
say that flowers are bora equal, or tree? are
burn equal, or aaiira'.s are born equal. Why
does one noree cost $103 aud another horse
cost $.rj0,0 )0? "Why does ono slieap cost ?10
and another sheep ?500* Difference in blood.
We ore wise enough to recognize the difference
of blood in hor5es, iu catt'.e, in sheep,
but we aro not wise enough to make allowance
for $hc difference in the human blood.
Now I dmnand. by thj law of etoraal fairness,
that you be more lenient in your criticism
of tnose who were born wrong, in
whose ancestral line there was a hangman's
knot, or who came from a tree tho fruit of
which for centimes has been gnarled and
worm-eaten. Di? Harris, a reformer, gave
some marvelous statistics in his story of
what he called 4'Margaret, tho mother of
criminals." Ninety years ago she lived iu a
village in Upper New* York btate. She was
u'jl oniy poor, out sho was vicious. She was
not well provided for. There were no almshouses
ili?re. The public, however, somewhat
looked after her, but chiefly scoffed at
ind derided her, pushed her further dowu
in her crfmos. That was ninety years ago,
iiiere have been 033 persons in that ancestral
line. 209 of thorn criminals. In oua
branch of that family thero were twonty,
q! the*n have been in
State PiLon, anil marly all of the
Dthers have turned out badly. It is estimated
that that family cost the County and
State $100,0;;0, to say nothing of the propet
ty they destroyed. Are you not willing,
as sensible people, to acknowledge that it is a
fearful disaster tobj born ia such an ancestral
line? D003 it not make a great difference
whether one descanrls from Margaret, j
the mother of criminals, or frcm some |
mother in Israel? Whether you are the son
of Ahab or the sou of Joshua? It is a very
different thine to swim with t.hrt purron'f I
from what it is to swim against the current,
as some of you have no doubt found in your
summer recreation. If a ma 1 find himself
in an ancestral current where
there is good blood flowing smoothly i
from generation to generation it is
not a very prreat credit; to him if '
he turns out good and hon? st and pure and
noble. Ho could hardly help it But sui>- |
Kse be is born in an ancestral line--in a ;
reditarv line?where the influences have I
been bad and there has bean a coming down j
over a moral doslivity, if the man surrender |
to the influences he will go down under
the overmastering gravitation unless some 1
sai>eruatural aid be afforded him. Now, !
such a person deserves not your excoriation, i
but your pity. Do notsit with the lip curled |
in s oin, an l with an assumed air of angelic i
innocen e, looking down upon such moral j
precipitation. You had better Ret down on
your knees and first pray Almighty God for !
their rescue, and next thank the Lord tbrit
you have not been thrown under the wheels
of that Juggernaut.
Tn Krltftin on/1 in flm TTnl*/^
in every generation, there are tens of thousands
of persons who aro fully developed
criminal* and incarcerated. lwiy, in every
generation. Then, I suppose, there are tans
of thousands of persons not found out in
their criminality. In addition to these there
are tens cf thousand < of person* who, not
positively becoming criminals, nevertheless
have a criminal tendency. Any one of all
those thousands by the grace of God may
becomo Christian, and resist the ancestral influence
and open a new chapter of behavior;
but the vast majority of them will not, and
it becomes all men. professional, unprofessional,
minister* of religion, judges of
courts, philanthropists and Christian workers
to recognize the fact that there are these
Atlantic and Pacific surges of hereditary evil
rolling on through the centuries.
1 say, of course, a man can resist this tendency,
just as in the ancestral line mentioned
in th3 first chapter of Matthew. You see
in the same line in which there was a wicked
Rchob am and a desperate Manasses, there
afterward came a pious Joseph and a glorious
Christ. But, my frionds, you must recognize
the fact that these influences go on from
generation to ganeration. I am glad to
knnar hnwAvar t.hnt. * riuftr whi."h hnq nrn
diu-ed nothing but miasma for a hundred
miles, may, nfter awhile, turn tfee wheels of
factories and help support industrious and
virtuous populations: and th^re are family
lines which were poisoned that are a benediction
now. At the Last Day it will be
found out; that there are men who have gone
clear over into all forms of iniquity and
plunged into utter abandonment, who, before
they yielded to tbs first temptation, resisted
mora evil thin manv a man who has
been mora! and upright all his life. But
supposing now that Ja tUs ace wfcaa there
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'v v.'x-j,:. .. y<{!
ire eo many good people thnt I come down 4
11 to this audience and select the very best |
man in it. I do not mean the man who would
style himself "the best, for probably he is a 1
hypocrite; but I mean the man who before
Orod is really the best. I will take you out 1
from all your Christian surrounding". 1 will
take you back to bovhood. I will put you In j
% <leprave;l home. 1 will put you in a cradle
of iniquity. Who is that bending i
:>ver that cradle? An intoxicated mother. 1
Who is that swearing in the next 1
room! Your father. The neighbors romt
jn to talk, and their jokes are unclean. There 1
Is not in "the house a Bible or amoral troatise,
but only a few scraps of an old pictorial. !
fiLioi u, wuiw you are oui enough to get out 1
of the cradle, and you are struck across 1
the head for naughtiness, but never in any j
Kindly manner reprimanded. A Pier a white '
fou are did enough to go abroad, and |
f ou are seut out with a basket to steal,
f you come home without any spoil, you
are whipped until the blood comes. At '
fifteen years of age, you go out to fight your !
own battles in this world, which seems to :
pare no more for you than the dog that I
has died of a fit uniler the fence. You are 1
kicked and cuffed and buffeted. Some day, I
rallying your courage, you resent some |
wrong. A man says: "Who are youf I know I
who you are. Your father had free lodgings 1
it Sing Sing. Your mother, she was up for ^
drunkenness at the Criminal Court. Get out c
Df my way, you low-lived wretch ?" My
brother, suppose that had been the history of f
7our advent, and the history of your early f
mrroundings, would you have been the *
Christian man you are to-day, seated in this r
Christian assembly. I tell you nay. You '
would have been a vagabond, an outlaw, a '
murdorer on the scaffold atoning for your '
crime. All these considerations ought to J
cQM.se us merciful in our dealings with th.?
wandering and the lost. 5
Again, I have to remark thnt in our esti?
mat.) of the misdoings of people who have 1
fallen from high respectability and useful
iifiss we must take intn consideration the con- 8
junction of circumstances. In nine coses J;
out of ten a man who goes astray does not t
intend any positive wrong. He has trust 5
funds. He risks a part of these funds in in- ?
vestment. He says; ''Now, if I should lose 5
that investment I have of my own property c
five times as much, and if this investment j!
thould go wrong I could easily make it up: I f;
could five times make it np." With that ?
wrong reasoning he goes on and makes the 1
investment, and it does not turn out quite so n
well as he expectad, and he makes auother 1
Investment, and, strange to say, at the same 1
time all his other affairs get entangled, and =
U1 his other resources fail, and his hands are c
tied. Now he wants to extricate himself. He n
goes a little further on in the wrong invest- 5
ment. He take? a plunge further ahead, J
for he wants to save his wife and children, 1
he wants to save his lome, he wants to save n
his membership in the church. He takes one B
more plunge and all is lo3t. Some morning ?
at 10 o'clock the bank door is not opened, and
there is a card on the door signed Dy an ofH- P
cer of the bank, indicating that there is ?
trouble, the name of the defaulter or the de- *
frauder heals the newspaper column, and f.
hundreds of men say: "(jtood for him:"
hundreds of other men say: '-I'm glad he's
found out at last;" hundreds of other man a
say: "Just as I told you;" hundreds of other K
mens*y: "We couldn't possibly have been J1
tempted to do that?no conjunction of circumstan
63 could ever have overthrown me;" "
and there is a superabundance of indigna- a
tiou but no pity. The heavens full of light- f'
ning, but not one drop of dew. If God b
treated us as society treats that man vrv r
would all have been in hell long ago 1 Wnit ii
for the alleviating circumstances. Perhaps n
ho may have been the dupe of others. Ba- a
fore you lot all the hounds out from their a
kennel to inaul and toar that man, lind b
out if ho has not been brought up in a p
commercial establishment whore there was e
n wronj system of ethics taught; si
find out whether that man has not n
an extravagant wife, who is not satisfied s<
with his honest earnings, and in the tempta- h
tion to p'eosO her he has gone into that ruin n
into which enough men have fallen, aud by h
the sama temptation, to tnako a procession of r<
many miles. Perhaps some sudden sickness h
may have touched h s brain, and his judg- g
ment may be unbalnn-ed. He is wrong?he
is awfully wrong,and h > must be condemned, d
but there may be mitigating circumstances. t<
Perhaps under the same temptation you s<
might have fallen. The reason some men do si
not steal $230,000 is because they do not get tl
a chance! Have righteous indignation you li
must about that man's conduct, but n
temper it with mercy. But you siy: "I am a
bo sorry that the innocent should suffer." n
Ye3, I am too?sorry for tho widows and or- h
fhans who lost their all by that defalcation, n
am soi*ry, also, for thy business men, tha I
honest business men, who have had their ?
affairs all crippled by that defalcation. I h
ntn enrmr fnr fhn vnnornhln lmnlr Ppftcirlonf. fn 11
whom the credit of that bAnk was a mntter si
of pride. Yesl I sorry, also, for that man a
WuO brought ad the distress?sorry ttlt; he t
sacrificed body, mind, to.il, repufatioTi, fi
Heaven, and went into the blackness of dark- fi
ness forever. c
You defiantly sav: "I couli not bo tempted d
in that way." Perhaps yo:i may bo tested n
after awhile. God has a vor3 good memory, v
and he sometimes seems to say: "This man i<
feels so strong in his innat .* power and t^ood- I
ness ha shall be tested; hs is so full of bitter tl
inventive against that uafortnn Ue.it shall l>e b
shown now whether he his the power to v
stand." Fifteen years go by. The wheel of r
fortune turns several times, and you are in a
crisis that you never conl 1 have anticipated. li
Now.all the powers of darkness come around, i
and they chuckle, an 1 thov chatter, and thoy e
say: "Aha! hero is the oil fellow who was s
SO proud Ui 111M auu rw HKJ fc
bragged ho couldn't bo overthrown by c
temptation, and was so uproarious in his
demonstrations of indignatiou at the defalcation
fifteen years ago. Let us see. God lets
the man go. Go;l, who had kept that man ,
under His protecting care, lots the man go and
try for himself tli? majesty of his integrity.
God letting the man g >, the powers of darkness
pounce upon him. I soa yon some day
in your office in great o * -itament. Ono of two
things you can do. Be honest, and be pauperized,
and have your childr en brought home
from school, your family dothroned in social
influence. The other thing is, you can st?p a j
little aside from that whi h is ri $ht, you can 1
ouly just go half an inch o.it of the propor path, ,,
; you can only take a little ri-k. and then you have
all your finance* fair and lirjht. You ;
bavo a large property. You can leave a for
I tune for your chddren and e:idow a college ,
and buila a public library in your native i
town. You halt and wait, and halt and wait i
, until your lips get white. You decide to |
! risk it. Only a few strokes of the pen now.
! But oh. how vour hand trembles, how j
, dreadfully it trembles! The die is cast. ,
| By the strangest and most awful j
j conjunction of circumstances any ens .
' could have imagined, you are prostrated
Bankruptcy, commercial annihilation, exEosure,
crime. Good men mourn'and devils
old carnival, and you see your own name at
the hoad of the newspaper column in a whole
congress of exclamation points; and while
you are reading the anathema in the reportorial
and editorial paragraph, it occurs to
you how much this story is like that of the 1
j defalcation fifteen years* ago. and a clap of i
: thunder shakes tho window-sill, saying: "With (
| what m -autre ye mete, it shall be measured ,
to vou a^ain!"
You look in another direction. There it 1
, nothing like an obullibion of temper to put a i <
i man to disadvantage. You, a msn with | <
! calm pulses and a Hue digestion and perfect j
j health, can not understand how anybody j
should be capsized in temper by an inflnitesi!
mal annoyance. You say: "I couldn't b? '
unbalanced in that way." Perhaps you smile j
| at a provocation that makes another man <
I swear. You pride yourself on your imper- i
| turbability. You say with your manner,
| though you have too much good taste to say '
with your words: "I have a great deal mora
. sense than that man has; I have a great deal
| more equipoise of temper than that man has:
I I never could make such ft puerile exhibition
j of myself as that man has made."
My brother, you do not realize that that
man was born witft a keen nervous organization;
that for forty years he has been undei
a depleting process; that sickness and troubk
have been helping undo what was Jefl
of original health fulness; that nruch of hii
time it has been with him like filing saws,
that his serves have come to to merely*
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tangle of disorder"?, and that he is the mo?
pitiable obju?t on earth, wno, though he i
very sick, does not loolc sick, mid nobod;
lympathizes. lA*t me sae. Did you no
?ay that you could not bo tempted t<
iu ebullition of tomporl Since Septombe
you como home from your summer wateriug
place, and you have inside, away back ii
your liver or spleen, what wi? call iu our dai
malaria, but what thsi ol 1 folks called chill
and fever. You take quinine until your oar
fire first buz/iug beehive* and theu roarinj
Niagaras. You take roots ami herbs,you tak
everything. You get well. Hut the next da;
you feel uncomfortablo, and you yawn, au<
you stretch, and you shiver, an 1 vou con
sumo, and vou sufTor. Voxe I moro than vol
an toll, you can not sloop, you ran not cat
you can not bear to see anything that look
uappy, you go out to kick t.ho rat, that i
asleep in the sun. Your children's mirtl
was once music to you; now it is deafening
You say: "Boys, stop that racket!" Yoi
turn back from Juno to March. In the famih
mil in the neighborhood your popul irity i
i.r> per cent. olF. The world says: "What i
;ho matter with that disagreeable man
What a woe-befrotiH countenance! ( tan*
war tho sight of him." You have {jot you;
my at last?got your pny. Yon fc>el just a
;he man felt--t,liat man for who'it you line
10 mercy, and my text comes in with mar
relous appositeness: "With what measure y<
liete, it shall bo measured t" you again."
In tho study of society I linVo come to tliii
inclusion?that the m?4 of tho people wan
o be good, but they do not exactly know
tow to make it out. They make enough gnoc
esolutions to lift them into angelhood. Tin
rast majority of people who fall are the vie
ims of circumstan -os: they are captured bj
imhuKcade. If their temptation shouk
:ome out in a regiment and light them in t
air field they would go out in tho strength
tnd tho triumph of l)avid ngainst (Jonah
3ut they do not see the giants and tiny <1<
lot seo tho regiment. Suppose tetnptat:on
hould come ur> to a mnn and say: "Here if
ileohol: take tnreo tablespoonfulsof it a day,
intil you get dependent upon it; thin aftoi
hat take half a glass three times a day, until
rou get dependent upon that amount: th-?n
:o on increasing the amount until yo i art
aturated from morning until night and from
light until morning." Do you supoose anj
nan would become a drunkard in that way
Db. no! Tempt ition comes and savs- "Take
heso bitters, take this nervine, tako this aic
o digestion, take this night-cap." The vasl
najority of men ami women who are dctroyed
by opium and by rum first takq thorr
s medicines. In making up your dish ol
riticism in regard to- them, take from th?
astor the cruet of sweet oil ami not the cr.iel
if cayenne pepper. Re easy on thorn. D<
'oil know how that physician, that lawyer
hat journalist becamo'the victim of dissipa'
ion? Why, the physician was kept uf
light by night on professional duty. Lift
,nd death hovered in tho balance. His nerv
us system was exhausted. Thare came e
imoof epidemic, and whole families were
irostrated, and his nervous strength wa;one.
He was all worn out in tha service ol
ho public. Now he must brano himself up
Sow he stimulates. Thslifeof thi> mother,
he life of this child, the life of this father,
he life of this whole family must b.? saved,
iid the lives of all these families must be
aved.and he stimulates, and ho does it again
nd again. You may criticise his judgment,
ut remember the pro 'ess. It was nor a selsh
process by which ho went dovrj. It w.ts
magnificent gmerosit/ through which h?
ell. That attorney at the bar for wee!:s has
een standing in a poorly ventilated courtoom,
listening to tho testimony and contestng
in the dry technicalities of tho law, and
iow the time has c >:no for h'm to wind in,
utl ha must plcrul for t!u life o* his client,
n I his nerv mis system is all i;or.e. If
e fail^ in that spcorh l.hen his client
erishes. If he can havo elotiuencc
nough in th it hour his client is save 1. Ha
t * i. ?? ? it ??T
uiuiuiuia;?, iiu iii.ou ivru 1? U|/. ill- rv.i > r* , i
lust keep up.'' Having a lar^o pra?ii:*e you
?o how ho is inthralled. You may criticise
is judgment, but remamber tho pr joesa. Do
ot ba hard. That journalist hi; had oxausting
midnight work. Ho hi? had fca
epurt speeches* and ora'.ions tbi". lceap
im up "till a very late hour. He bos
>no with much exnov.iro worlciag up
mw case of crims in company with a
ete.-tive. Ho sit* down at midnight
3 write out his note; from a memorandum
crawled on a pad under unfavoraMecircumtancos.
His st 'en^th ir, gane. Fidelity to
lie public intelligence. fidelity to his own
velihood, demands that ho keep un. He
v.ist keep up. lie stimulates. Again and
ga n ho does thxt, and be goes down. You
lay criticise his judgment iu tho matter, bul
avo mercy. Remember the process. Dc
ot bo bard.
My friends, this text will come to fulfilllent
in some cases in th's world. Th<
uutsman in Farmstean was shot by some
nkuown person. Twenty years after the
an of the huntsman was in the same forest,
nd he a ccidentally shot a man, and the man
i living said: "God is just I shot roui
ith?r just here tweutv years ago." A bishop
aid to Louis XI. of France: ""Make an iror
age for all those who do rot thin': a? w<
o?an iron cag.-? in which fcho cnptivo cat
either lie down nor stand straight up." II
?as fashioned?tho awful instrument of pun
ihment. After awhile the Bishop oTende!
,ouis XI., and for fourteen years he was it
bat same cage, and could neither lie dowr
ior stand up. It is a poor rule that will nol
fork l>oth ways. "With what measure y<
nete, it shall ho measured to you again."
"Oh, my friends, let us be resolved tose^lc
asj and pray more! That which in the Bibl<
s usee? as the symbol of all gracious influ
mces is the dove, not the porcupine. Wo ma]
o unskillfully manage the life-boat that w<
hall run down those whom we want to res
ue. Tho first preparation for Christian use
ulness is warm-hearted common sense, prac
ical sympathy for those whom we want U
avo. What headway will we make in thi
fudgment if in this world we have been har<
m those who have gone astray' What head
ray will you and I make in the last Grea
rodgment, when we must havomercy or per
ah? The Bible says; "They shall havejudg
neut without mercy that showeth no mercy.
l 800 tna serines 01 neavou looiting up inu
he face of such a man, saying: 4'What
Toil plead for mercy, you, who iu all you
ifo naver hiul uny mercy on your fellows
Don t you remembor how hard you w^re ii
four opinions of those who were astray f Don'
foil remember when you ought to have giv.-:
i helping han.l y.?j employed a hard beel
Mercy! You must misspeak yoursel
ivheu yo.i plead for mercy hert
Mercy for others but no mer^y for yon
Look," savs the scribes of heaven, "look a
;hat ins:'iintion over the Throne of Ju lg
nent, the Throne of God's Judgment.Se
it ooming out letter by letter, word by word
sentenceoy sohtence, until your startled vis
ion reads it and your remorseful spirit ap
Sropriates it: "With what measure ye met*
; shall be measured to you again. Deparl
ye cursed 1"
t ?
Bird-Killing Sparrows.
So much has bec:n snld of late for anc
igaii 8t fhe English sparrow that the fol
owing note may not be uninteresting
is evidence: t^uitc recently upon tin
apitol grounds (Washington) I ob
served a sparrow in U13 act of slowl;
d'-ling a brown humming bird. AVhei
liscovered, it had seized the struggling
victim in its t::lons, and was picking i
? -t~ ~i?. *1.- 1,A WI,Ann?.
Vigorously IIUUUI vuv I1U IU. ?? Iitubic
disturbed it caught the reck of its flat
tering prey in its bill, and after Hying
few feet alighted, and renewed its blood;
work. At lirst I supposed the victim t'
be a sphinx moth, but, although ever
attempt to release the captive was futile
the identity of tho humming bird wa
unmistakable. Soon tho first sparrow
was joined by another, and then th
Rcene of murdor was carried into a cops
beyond the reach of my observation.
To those who attribute the destructio
of American birds entirely to tho d<
mond for wings for ladies' hats, as we
as to those who deny thr quarrelsom
habits of the sparrow, this piece of ii
formation may be of value.?Scimc*.
t HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
8
^ Good Coffee Easy to Make,
a Miss Corson, in a lecture, says:
r is one of the simplest thiols in :
world to make neup of good coffee, ii
* this can easily be accomplished by tip i
s a little common sense. If you put l> I
g ing water 011 coffee, and do not let it Iko
Z you have all the good qualities pieserved
9 One reason dyspeptics cannot drink (o ,
fee is because it is boiled. The style ?<: '<
. coffee is just a matter of fancy. I have j
i I made as good codec ic an old tomato ran J
I as I-have ever supped from the finest i
8 French coffee urn. We should take les- ,
? sons in this mutter from the Turks and j
. Arabians, who grind their coffee to a line j
l J powder. When the coffee is ground as I
7 tine as possible, put it in a little bag of
* unbleached muslin, which should b"j tied i
I tightly enough to prevent the escape of !
(; the grounds. If you use a cupful of un- ;
r ground coffee you can make a (piart of i
a very strong, black coffee. In making
* cottec many people sacrifice flavor for
~ strength, bitterness t omes from boiling.
When boiling water is placed on the bug
of ground coffee it should stand at least
t three minutes before serving. RcmeinT
b?r, the longer it stands the stronger it
3 becomes."
r llecipcs and Hints.
[ A delicate llakois mnde by this recips. j
One cuplul of sugar mixed with two J
! tablcspoonfuls of butter; add one cupful
> of flour with one tcaspoonful of baking
\ powder, half a cupful of corn starch,
half a cupful of milk and the whites of
three eg<rs, flavoring with vanilla. Bako
I in a good oven.
[ Pretty receptaclcs for growing plants
j for the sick room are baskets with a
> place for a small flower-pot at each of the
? four-rounded corners, thus leavinrr annpn
[ for n pot in the centre. A strip of white J
cloth with pinked edges and embroidered
with a delicate vine design in floss silk
forms a drapery which is attached to the
rim of the basket, the stitches being hidden
by a quilling of ribbon.
An appetizing way of using remnants
of cold beef is to mince the beef very line
and put a thick laj'er of it over macaroni
or spaghetti that has been boiled for
twenty minutes in salted water. Over
the layer of beef pour canned or fresh
stewed tomatoes that have been stewed '
with a bit of onion, a little parsley and
some butter, then eovcr with bread or !
cracker crumbs, over which bits of butter
are dropped, and biike in a quick oven 1
until a nice brown.
This pudding is simple and delicate:
Fetone quart of milk on the stove, and
when it is very hot add three tablespoonfuls
of corn starch, mixe I smooth with a
little milk and the yolks of four eggs,
adding a little sugar. Stir until thick
and then pour it into a baking dish.
When cold, pour over it a frosting made
of the whites of the four eggs, allowing
a tablcspoonful of sugar to each egg.
Flavor with lemon juice and set it in the
oven until it is a delicate brown. j
A cake which maybe \>aked in l.syors i
as we 1 as in a loaf is made by this recipe:
B<a: two cups of sugar and half a cup of .
b itter to a light cream; add the yolks of ?
three eggs well beaten and one cup of
milk. Stir in by degrees three cups of
sifted flour, to which two heaping teaspo
nfuls of baking powder have been
added; then add the whiles of the eggs,
which has been beaten into a stiff froth,
and flavor to taste. Bake in three
' layer" cake tins or in a long pan.
This fric.'isec of chicken with peas is
well approved: Choo?e a dry-picked
young fowl; cut it into joints, strip off
the skin, rinse in warm water, dip in
cold water, drain r.nd dredge with flour.
Put the pieces in a warm sauccpan and
cover with hot water. Add a bit of
lemon peel, salt and pepper, and a sprig
of parsley; sir. mer two hours and remove
the chicken. Beat up the yolk of '
one egg with a gill of cream, add the
warm Bauce and whip thoiioughly. Place
the chicken on a dish, pour the sauce
over it, put a bolder of hot peas, fresh
or canned, around it and serve.
A correspondent says that blac k crepo
may bo renovated by this simpic process:
Brush the crepe thoroughly, so that no
' particle of dust is left in it; sprinkle it
j with alcohol and roll it in newspaper,
laying the edge of the crepe even with
I that of the paper, in order that the
' paper shall be between each roll of crepe.
' Let it remain rolled until quite dry. The
3 same correspondent uses the handles of
. brooms for rolling ribbons. She has the
- wood sawed iuto the required lengths,
* sandpapers them and rolls tho ribbon
g upon them. In this way ribbon not in
] constant use has not folds or creus69.
looks better and lasts longer than when
J folded.
Try this Swiss roll: Two eggs and
their weight respectively in butter, sugar
0 and flour. Cream the butter and sugar;
;J ndd one egg and half the flour and beat
* well; then ndd the second egg and tho
^ remainder of the flour. Cover a dripping
t pan with buttered paper, spread tho
u mixture thickly on it. and bake in a tnod'
enite oven until firm. Sprinkle a dish
' wi;h powderjd sugar and turn tha roll
|* upon it. Spread some jam or preserve
1 evenly over the surface and roll the rake
up quickly: sprinkle it with powdered
8 sugar and serve cold. For this sort of
!' cake and for small cake9 nud cookies a
1 sheet of iron is very useful. It should
,, be made nearly the sizo of the oven and
L have the hhort ends rolled over stout
wire or else turnrd down so that it may
be easily remo ed from the oven.?Sew
York Commercial.
1 ?
A Monster Lobster.
? Searching along tho Winthrop shore q
B few days ago for whatever was t*> b<
found contraband in the lobster trade,
7 Deputy Fish Commissioner P. R. Shat
1 tuck camo upon what might be termed t
? bkUnner in the possession of Belehc/
t Brothers, who had just brought in from
r their t> aps something wonderful in crus
taccnn life. It provod to be an examph
* of the size a lobster can attain if left un
7 molested a long time. Unlike the avero
age large lobster, it was symmetrical, sc
y much so as to causo remark in that ro
'? gard. It weighed 11| pounds; lengti
* over all, 29 J inches; length of large claw
' 11 inches; small claw, 10| inches. Th?
e question of the age of this sample o?
o what lobsters might attain is an inter
eating one. Commissioner Shattuck
& who is making the lobster a study, sug
-- gests that he may bo twenty-five yean
K old,?Boston Transcript.
io
i* The young man full of promise fre
ouentiv turns out bad pay.?IHcayune.
Taming Two Humming-Birds.
A young lady, an invalid, residing at
Baa Kafael, one of the health-resorts of
California, illustrated St. .lames's assertion
that every kind of birds lias been
tamed, by tai.iing two free, wild humning-birds.
Her doctor ordered her to recline
jnily, during the suminer.on lugsspread
)u the garden lawn. While t iking his
igrceable prescription one day, she no:'tced
that two humming-birds were in>;
ect'ng her from a sale distance.
Their wise little heads, turned to ono
side, showed their curiosity, and she,
-.aKing auvam-age o: it, planned for a
nore intiinxtc acquaintance. She
plucked a fuchsia,attached it to a branch
jverher l.e::d. and filled it with >.;weet?ned
water. In a few minutes the two
'ittie birds thrust their slender billsSow
n into tlie flower, and took long
draughts.
The next day she filled a fresh fuchsia
with honey. The actions of the birds
jliowid that they pre'cried it to sweetem
d w.iter. In a few days the birds became
so tame and t-o impatient, that they
scarcely wnited for her to leave the lowers
befote thrusting their bills iu the
honey.
One day, while she held the flower she
was l-lling with drops from a spoon, the
birds caught the drops as they fell, and
then, becoming impatient, darted their
threadlike tongues into tho contents of
the sp .on. The two birds were both
m iles, i>nd therefore fought for posession
o:- the lioncy-filled l!owe:\ Hut they ^
uaited to keep other humming-birda
away; and when a wasp or a bu-e came
near, it was chased away.
When the beginning of the rainy season
drove the young invalid into the
house, she tried to coax them to the parlor
window. At first, they acted as if
they thought there was some mistake.
They would hum about the window,
where she stood with the flower and the
spoonful of honey, or watch her from a
licit-boring branch, but not a sip would
they take. But at last, one bird, responding
to her call, hovered above her
f^ind, and took from it repeatedly dropi
of honey. ? YuiitWa Companion.
The Goat.
The common, or domestic goat was
uriginallv a native of the highlands of
A;sia. Naturalists generally regard it as
having descended from an animal found
in the Caucasus Mountains and the liilL
r?Aiinf rw / if Unroin *?* * ^ ^ *****
UWUUVJ j VI A v> ioiu, V auuu 111 liiu I UiaiUU
language, the paseng. Its legs are longer
than those of the common goat, and it?
horns arc very much larger. It is not
always easy to distinguish between the
species and varieties of goats. The com
mon goat has existed as a domestic aninial
in Oriental countries from the very
earliest times. From there it spread all
over the world, manifesting a remarkable
ndaptability to climate and circumstances.
In this diversity of surroundings,
a great diversity of breeds has appeared,
such as the Angora goat, the
Syrian goat, the Cashmere goat, the
Guinea goat of Africa, and many others.
No quadruped, except the dog, has
jhown.such susceptibility of variation.
These differences show most markedly
in the quality and quantity of the hair,i
xml in the relative abundance of the
:wo coats, the'long. silky outer covering,
md the softer woolly hair beneath it.!
a oats arc found wild in mountainous
:ountries only; they are very sure-footed1
jn narrow ledges cr rocl*s, and show
trreat strength and ability in leaping,
rhey also prefer as food the leaves and
branches of shrubs and the herbs found
an mountains to the . herbage of the
riehest lowland pastures. Among the
Greeks and Romans the goat was sacpifipod
tn RnnMina Vniomioo nf ifa fnn_
dency to injure grapevines bv eating its
young tendrils and leave*. The goat is
not found wild in extreme Northern,
countries, but when under domestication,
thrives us well within a shed in the
Northern districts of Scandinavia as iu
the hottest parts of Asia j;nd Africa.
All the species of the goat are natives of
the Old World. The Kocky Mountain
at, so-called, of North America, really
belongs to the antelope samily.?InterOcean.
An I"nwelcome Ornament.
Nature oc: asionally indulges in curious
freaks upon tin* human body, and in
freaks which sometimes are a sad drawback
to the personal appearance. What,
f ir instance, can well be more distressing
than for a comely matron of middle aga
to discover that horns similar to a ram's
horns are growing upon her head, and to
hn nhlirrerl to allow them to crow until
3 - - t u
they reach a size which prevents her hiding
tin; deformity with uuy cap, hat or
bonnet? The lady thus atBicted is a
! rcnehwoman. nnd h-.:r curious case has
been reported to the Academy of .Medicine.
?he had reached her fortieth year
when the lir.it horn made it< unwelcome
appearance on her forehead. It was
shortlj' followed by a second, which,
however, fell oil of itself after attaining
the length of twenty-four centimetres;
but the lirst remained, to the great inconvenience
of the poor woman, who was
by it. prevented from re.-ting her head
comfortibly on a pillow. I ltimatcly a
surgical operation wa< undergone, and
the objectionable ornament was removed.
The j atient recovered her health and
p:;ace of mind, but not for long. Six
moirhs after the operation another horn
began to grow prec isely on the same spot,
tin; latest news given the Academy of
Mcdiclnc concerning it being tnai "i nan
reached the length of live centimetres,
and bid fair to grow rapidly. The phenomenon,
it seems, is a rare one. bat
cases of the kind arc not unheard of.?
London St an (bird.
A Brief Sermon on An?cr.
A brother got furiously mad with us
some time ago. He stormod like a volcano
and his wrath was at white heat,
lie fell upon us and told with rigorous
indignation how bad he thought we were..
We enjoyed it. We always respect an
honostly mad man. His wrath is a token
of hia sincerity. There was something;
bo charming in hia realness and candon
that we almost forgot that we were th?
target at which his blowa were directed*]
When he finished we simply explained!
to him how it all happened. The stormolsiurl
hY-nlcfi and tho t^eniftl sunlicrht wm
ou his brow again. If we must get an-*
gry let as do it hotly and courageously^
let us blaze like a furnace and go for the
ob>ct of our anger at once. In this way
we may 6nish up the business in a single
day and the setting sun will not see tas
wrath-cloud on our brow.?Baltimore .
Baptist, -v m*