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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. 0., OBTOBBR 8, 1896 3 ~v FEMALE WOMAN. Old Pays His M Double« Broustod" Compliments. Eldrr N>\tlurry t'ndrr the “Rod of ChM- tUrmenl" — The dtwkwardneee «f Womitn with Her Month—<>■• Poor Hoy’* Hard I.wefe. Woninn Is a monstrous curloua thing. Bhe is most In generally always pritty. In my own day ami generation 1 have seen the time when any thing from a check sunbon- net or a bunch of ralieo, to a little piece of red ribljon tied In a bow knot, looked plum beautiful to me. And them that ain’t to say pritty are more than probable to be good and sweet, or a great blessin and comfort to the old folks, or somethin along that line. Hut when a woman does take the bit In her teeth, as it were, and pitch out and try her level blamedest to be mean, she can be the gonebyest most meanest thing that ever breathed the native air and cumbered the soil of this great country. ••Accordlns to tho Serlptaro.** Durin his last visitation amongst us —the night before he left on his return back to the old settlement—Ben Chris Weaver spoke forth and told me a whole long rigamarolo In regard to Elder Newberry and the aeandloua hard times he has l>cen havin at home this past summer. “You remember what the Word says, Hufe—the Lord chnstiseth them lie loveth,” Ben Chris went on. “Well, the more I see of Elder Newberry and his wife the more I think about that Scripture and the great gobs of truth in it. If there ever was a good, honorable- minded man—a meek and lowlj' follow er of the eross anywhere in all the re gions around Panther Creek, I do verily believe that Elder Newberry 1s his name. The rod of chastisement was over tho elder three years ago when he took up a fool notion to git married for the sccont time. It was over him when he made his nrraugemenlatomlxclothrs with the Widder Summers, and the Lord has been Inyin It on thick and fast and furious heneeforwarda ever since. , “Understand, now, Bnfe, It Is none of my infernal business how heavy and frequent the fatherly hand of ehastise- ment is laid on Elder Newberry, or what scamllous hard times the elder has there at home with his home folks. For a common tiling I don’t go around and mix and muddle myself with no sich a messment. Ami I wouldn’t l»e tulkin with you right now touchin the elder's troubles and tribulations only from the fact Mint his old lady she broke out in a public place this last rummer, and for n little more she would have busted up the big protracted meet- in over at Ebenezer church. “The elder, you must recollect. Is one of tho mninest pillars of the church and Stands way up at the head of his class. “1 don’t know—I don’t reckon any body knows for certain—what In the round created world the old lady means, but she has tried her level durndeat to pester his natural life outen the elder. # Rome people say she lows to make the road so hot and dusty till the elder will either give up the fight and die, or pack up n few duds and run away from home and leave everything to her—-which 3*011 know. I’ufe, lie is right tolerable well fixed in regards to this world’s goods. And h.v gracious, fora little while over at Ebenezer that day it did look to me like the cantankerous old female thing was elected. The elder keeled over In a dead faint on the first rattle out of the box, and evcr3*bod3’ thought he was eomin across with his last lorfd of poles. Under the Red. “There ain’t no toliin, llufe, what the cider's wife hud done In the main time before she brought on that scnndlous big rippet and eonfusionment over at Ebenezer. But at an3' rates it would seem like she had took the Job of wearin the elder from his Bible and the church. As for her, site don’t take no stock in the church one war or another, and she don’t even makeout llkeshe lias got any religion. I have seen some men, Bnfe, that could sorter somehow won*3* Along through life without the comforts and blessins of religion. But when I see a woman which, to hear her tell it, she don’t need anything like Mint. I am bannd to think.that Mie devil is stili doin business at the old stand. “Now, it seems ns if the rider, in his gentle, contrite way. had stood up ns best lie could under the heavy chas tisement to the extent that he didn't even rend his Testament only in the dead hours of night or on the slv. But somebody had to draw the Mne somewheres, and when the old I .dj* give it out that Piiindny mornin that the Newberry fnmily didn’t have no busineMs elinsiu around nf!rr the preachers and the protracted ineetlns. the elder he raised Ids bristles anil spoke forth. 113* the hlesslns of Mod he would put on his long-tail rent i ml go over to old Elienezer church in spite of hot weather snd high water—If it give the eternal jint-Jnnis to the whole entire female creation. And. by a*in- eious, lie mounted his nng nrd w»nt. Striped with Mssy atrip**. “In ordcrinent to he plum fair and square w itli everyliodv, l!ufr. «*on n’ii*t keep in mind flint the elder wn* all sorts of a fool about the time he took ami married ills sccont wife. Aral durin ora* of his bad ernz3* «jiell4 It would seem like Iw* had bought Mir old lady n fine silk dress nrd n tre- tnendius fnm*3* hot to match with it which they tell me the layout cost Vm a little better than $20. My notion Is that in J>ki3 in the fool so p.-oniisen* with his seeont wife liefore she was even bridle wise, the elder wan hr Ingin flown the rod of chastisement and raisin blue stripes on his own back as It we.re. "Anyhow, when the elder rid off to wards Ebenezer church that Sunday morning the partner of his old age had the devil In her more bigger than a mule. She put right in, she did, and climlsol up Into her Sueilay clothes, and powdered nnd prinqwd herself clean out of sight. Then she mounted a mule nnd lit out for El>- enezrr. But when she got down there on this side of Murder Creek she met up with a crazy nigger woman by Mie name of Long Liza. The old lady got down nnd dismounted nnd mrdc. Long Liza retire with her to the swnnip. And right then* they pulled off and swapped clothes from top to bottom. It was all over within ton or fifteen minutes. Ixmg Liza she wen* switehin on up the road with nil of Miscs \ew- lierry’s silks and sot ins nnd laces and ribbons nnd other tlnery liangln on her lean and lanky frame, whilst the old lady, rigged out In Ixmg Liza’s few* dirty rags, mounted her mule onet more nnd pulled out for Ebenezer. ‘There was a tremendius large crowd out that day. The preacher had took his text nnd was workin up into a w*ravin way, when lo nnd behold Mises Newl>err3* swished in with a great swash. Ever3'body thought- on first flush Mint it w as Long Liza—pore thing —In one of her bad eraz3* spells. But blessgrneiousshewaltzed right through the mninest part of the congregation, switched around to the amen corner nnd backed herself into a seat side by side with Elder Newbern*. About that time the elder nnd everybody saw what was what nnd who was who. In the eon- fusionment which followed the congre gation forgot where it was and all about the sermont, the preacher had to take out nnd quit, nnd as I said liefore the elder he fainted on the spot nnd fell over In It. It then took all the brethren, with two hours of hard work and three buck- est of cold water, to fetch tho elder out of that dead trance. 1u the main time the old Indy she had went out and mounted hernmle nnd rid on back home. And late that evenin when a wagon driv up at the Newberry place with two or three of the brethren, nnd the elder sick unto death as they thought, lo and behold then* she was hiked up out on the front porch ns big as life, settin eross legged with a few of Long Liza’s clothes on, nnd smokin a pipe to bent six bits.” , AKP ON DROUGHTS. Philosopher Takes Time, Too, to Talk About Grandchildren. Awkward with Her Tongnc. But 3*011 talk about woman—she is likewise also sometimes powerful hnnd3* nnd awkward with her mouth. Joe Shaver, after n long lingerin spell of Mie slow fever, took nnd died - mo dny inst week. He was the oldest son of the IVidder Phnver—which she linsonh* got one son left, nnd his name is Billy. Joe was the mninest man on the plaee— tall and strong ami handsome—bright nnd stirrln in business—the prop nnd stn3* nn< l eomfort of his old mother— whilst HHI3* is one of these lit tle cotton- headed, hateliet-faced l>o3*s—18 3*ears old, hut no bigger Mian a minnit. He has got such a pale, puny, pn!-like ap- peanne.nt alxmt him till blamed if it don’t make me feel xorry about some thin to look nt him. That night after Joe died a crowd of 3*oung people went over Uiere to hold a settin up in respect to Mu* last mortal remains. The widder she was all liowed do\\;n In the dust nnd ashes of her grief nnd desolation, and cried nnd talked nnd took on powerful. “It Is oncef the mo«t strangest things to me in all creation,” sii3*h she, be tween her sighs nnd sobs and tears “why the good Ixml would rail Joe and take him nwn3* from his pore old moth er—he was so smart nnd stirrin, nnd sleh a comfort to me. “Now,” sn3*M she, “if it had but only been Billy—” which, 3*011 understand Billy was right there in the room— “if it had 011I3' been Bill3*, it. wouldn't of made ro very much difference.” The |>rx»r, troubled old soul was In cohl, dead earnest, and plum honest In what, she said, but she didn’t know how It would sound to the general crowd. I don’t reckon she knows till 3 et. what, made some of tihe 3*011 ng |>eo- ple laugh right then* in the very pn*s- cnce of dentil, whilst Bill}* sneaked off nnd went to Ixsd. On* Poor Ilojr's Lack. That brings to mind the time when Joe Nick Stringer lct.hi.sbig, ugly, nwk- wanl month pull him into a right, bad eon f ue Von men t with Miss Mamin Ixm Pickens. Onest n|>on a time me nnd Joe Nick we went wn3* down there in Mie river country to a break down dance. For a common thing Joe Nick would hang out around the edges till the other lurys had their fun nnd got read3* to go home. But somehow we had managed to get him In the house Mint night—right in there amongst the girls, where they was so thick till 3*011 couldn’t hardly stir cm with a hot poker. And ns the music and the dance went on and every body else was havin such n henvln good time, Joe Nick braced up sufficient to take a hand In the proeeedins. He didn't know nlivinsoul in the house but me and three or four other boys. But when they railed the next sef he pranced right up to Miss Mamie Lon snd ask her if she would dance with him. She felt hack a little, hut then she saw how it was nnd went on the floor with him. Whilst M103* werewnit- In for the music to start and nolmdy else was talkin, Joe Nick spoke up in hi* loud, ni.inlv voice to Miss Mamie Ixm nnd said, says he: “Yon must sense me, miss, for a skin you to dance with me when I didn’t know 3*011 nnd 3*011 didn’t know me. I wouldn't of ask 3*011 if I could of got nnybodv else.” WeM. Id ess gracious. Miss Mamie Txiii she got mad — which nobody couldn't blame her for Mint and wouldn’t dance nnrv single lick with him. Jim* Nick fooled and fumbled around for a few minnltn and Mien went out and rid off towards home, cun- sin hi* luck with every breath. RITFI'R HANDERS. Politic* Get * Word AI*o- Hmge of Itartow At oral Ism on tKn vi**«* r *-'**• #*•*•«♦•#»*» * 44i, *** A Jd ** * •od S*7* Repudiation Make* HI** Tired. Cobc wu.s right. C’obe said we would have rain about the tune the drought brok** up. t'obe i* a man of opinions. I asked him one daj* how his nubor, Mrs. JenkiiMi, was, nnd he said: “She is powerful sick—ahe i.s, shore. If she lives till morning I shall have sonic hojies for her, hut if she don’t I believe she will die.” The long drought has broken at last, and we are all grate ful, even if we ore not happy. Hard time* arc on ns and n hard winter just ahead of us. but old folks can look back and say it Is not as bad ns war. 1 thought Mint, this full moon in con junction with the equinox would bring us rain, but I wasn’t counting on quite so much conjunction in fnmily affairs. The nutuninui! equinox brought n ’ele- grnm from Florida announcing the birth of another grandson, Ralph, Jr., and before I could nnwwer the dispatch here enme the little gir’s over the hill —ull out of breath nod wild with ex citement-—“Mamma has got another lit tle 1)03*, "hoopce! the sweetest little boy. Oh, my, nin’t 3*011 glad, grandma ?” Win* of course we arc glad. When four girls come right straight along in a row it’s time for a bo3*—a 1)03* to grow up and wait on them nnd defend them *ind protect them. Two grandson.'* brought 1)3* the Kimc equinoctial gaie. Just think of it and ponder. And the old cow has found n heifer calf, beside*—a lit tle f»wn-*3*ed Jerse3*. What's in tho wind? And so this little chap over the hill answered the Florida telegram and rtild: “William Aubrey, *Jr., sends greetings to Ralph Smith, Jr., and sa\*s hollo' how do 3*ou like It? YourlLMi* cousin.” And so It goes, mu’tiplving and replenishing according to Scrip ture. Two more for parents to love and cherish nnd work for and prn3* for nnd hope for. Two more to fight the Iviitle of life and have «omc school lx-3* fights, too, I reckon. Two more to have Joy and sorrow mixed, mud to bring g’ief or gladness to their parents. Well, it’s n hard time to have an increase in the family, for nowadays even an infant is right smart expense, but C->bc says “everything i.s adopted nnd th* re n<*ver was a 'possum born into the world but what there was n ’oimnion tree e use b3*.” Ro let them come. “Hang out 3*our banners on the outer wall, for the on* is ‘still they come!’” We are getting old, m3' wife nnd I, but we can welcome a few more grnnd- chMdren. I would like to live on a few years for their sake nnd chide them when the3* do wrong and praise them when Mie3* ( 1° right. Sometimes 1113* chiding hurts their mother’s feelings, but 1 don’t care. Mothers spoil the boys and fathers the girls, and so it takes a hard old man like me to express my sentiments regardless of feeling. Line iijion line, precept upon precept, here a little, there n little. Some Mine ago I threatened to spank n little grand child to make her behove, and she looked astonished and indignant ns she replied: “Mnninin say me too ’itMe to ’pan.k.” And «ho was, lint the threat did her good. When school days come it takes a power of watching to keep the children straight.. Tlie3* not only leave their lesson*, but soon <«tel on to all Mie slang nnd bad words and devilment that other children know. In fact a fond mother who has the worst Ihvvk in town told me her grea'itit trial was the nsson'ntion that her children had with the bad children in Mie public school. Boor woman- mistaken moth er. It would 1m* dangerous to hint to her that her Iniys wen* the talk of the town. I rcmemlier that about JO 3*1 nrs ago an exacting fraction teacher thumped one of our 1>03*Son the head with a book anil (Tilled men numbskull. I didn’t, burl him muuh, but it hurt his mother, nnd dio hasn’t got ov» r it yet. I don’t know what made her the maddest, the “numbskull” or tin* lick. That is one good tiling nl>out the pub lic school s3*stem—the teacher is not afraid of the parents, nnd it is one bad thing, for if he '* n partial teacher or a fractious man he ought to be afraid. A few more weeks of polities, and then we will have peace, nt. least for a season. How many lies have been told no man knoweth. but tliev are all re corded, nnd St. Beter keeps the books. 1 rend tin* New York Journal nnd Mm* Constitution every day, and when I get through I know that Bryan will lie elected. Then I mid- unwillingly— the World, and my faith weakens nnd my pro|*i are knocked from under un til t.he next day. And so it goes. I elect Bryan ■ind Sewnll every morning nnd nneleet them after dinner, and It’s hurting 1113* digestion. But I’m mad with them* gold debaters who keep preaching honest money nnd talking nlxnit repudiation. Dogon ’em, con found ’em! They have depreciated my little property 50 per cent, already. I IxMTowcd $500 4»n a town lot three years ago when it was worth $1,000 easy, and now I can’t get half that sum for It. It hns shrunk from nn acre to half an acre. It won’t jmy my debt, nnd I can’t hardly get t he money to pay the senii-annunl interest. Tliat’a a fact. Everything is shrunk but debt* nnd grandchildren. Now, Just put mo Imek where 1 was |>our it imek in the jug, nnd stop nil tills talk nlMiut. repudiation and honest mnmw. Do the money lender)! want the earth? Th'a strife Is between the l*orrowers and the lenders — the. |M)or nnd the rich—and all we ask is a restoration of the currency—an equalization of values. Repudiation, In deed! Money represents values, nnd the debtor class will gladly surren der ns much property as the debt call* for. if the ,-ioperty is valued at what it was when the debt was made. After the war notes (bat. were given during the war were sealed according to the law iwiscd by Mu* legislature. They were reduced to n specie basis. A $500 note could 1* paid w'tJi $100 or wltJl $50 or with $10, according to Its date. That was right, and It was got repadia- Mon, either. And now If a man or set of men conspire to take nwny from m« one-half the value of my propert}*, let him senlr his debt to meet It. I/et them place me where they found me. That’s Justice, it makes me tireu 10 m-r i*ir*e bankers and money lenders swell up nnd talk about repudiation. It’s all a one-sided business. “Yon take the buzzard nnd I’ll taJce the turkey, or I’ll take the turkey and 3*011 take the buz zard.” They say turkey to me once. But nil’s well that ends well.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. SMOKELESS POWDER. PULL FOR THE SHORE. Se.m Jonon Bponks of Life’s Ideals and Struggles. Vis* Kl*n**nU That Enter Into th* Bfnk- * SnrrMafni rhnrneter-Hop*, Fnlth, Knargr, i’nairng* •*' Bndnrnne* Nnmoa. t-arg* Order* Plnred for It by th* Nnry Deport n**nt. Smokeless powder promises to revo lutionize naval warfare. After several 3*<*nrs' experimenting, the authorities of the war nnd nnv}* departments elnini to have found a formula which, thr3* de clare, will give this government the strongest nnd l>cst powder known to the mili'ar3* powers of the world. With n smokeless powder, fleet com manders will be enabled to maneuver In sight of one another, execute danger ous tactical movements nnd lie kept at nil times under perfect control by the admiral commanding, through the sys tem of flag signals. The entire fleet drill book will probably l>e overhauled nnd allowance made for the ease with which signals can be used in battle. In a few weeks the navy will pur chase upward of l.OOu.OOO pounds of the new powder for the vessels In service, nnd this will lx* followed inter by still larger orders until there is a good stock on hand for all«mergeneies. At present the factory nt Newport cannot furnish the powder ns fast ns the ships require it, eo that it will become necessor3* for the department to send Its formula to some private powder mannfncton* in order to facilitate deliveries and in crease the supply. The last war shows that during some of the great fleet evolutions in the south ships frequently ran afoul of one an other through their inability to navi gate properly when obscured in smoke, nnd that mm3* a mistake was made because the signals could not be seen from the flagship. There were In stances, also, when one vessel fired on a ship of her own squadron, believing her to be a ship of the enemy. With the new powder 20 vessels might engage with nn equal number, but every ship would l»e able to read the order* of the admiral nceurnteh*. The nam« number of vessels In an engagement where the present black, slow-burning powder was used would develop a smoke cloud which, in five minutes after the notion began,would practically shut out of sight each vessel from the other. The confusion on board when the men are note able to see those at the next gun is said also to have led to mistake* resulting in some Instance* in the loss of t he vessel. The adoption of the new powder by the army will necessitate alterations in the tactics applying to operations in the field of battle. The infantryman who fires with this powder nt once ob tains the advantage of having a clear Held of fire. But, on the other hand, he Is unpro vided with cover, either natural or artificial, there will be no protecting cloud of smoke, to concenl him, and should the enemy have found cover, he, on his side, is more vulnerable than when the smoke, showed his ponltion. The supposition that troops can lie ex posed to fire without knowing whence it comes is more or less fanciful, in the opinion of Gen. Miles nnd the best mili tary tacticians In Washington. It is admitted that with the suppres sion of smoke the advance against a position will no doubt he somewhat more difficult than formerl}*, but the danger will not be greater until within 500 or COO yards of the enemy. Beyond this point,when distaneesenn be judged with less difficulty, when the errors of aiming are small, and where the trajectory of the bullets of the new arm3* gun will be altogether dangerous. It will make little difference, the ex pert* say, whether smokeless or non- smokeless powder I* used.—Military Gazette. Germ** Kale la Alaae*. The Elsnsser Journal relates an al most Incredible story of the Bmsslan “Burenukratismus” with which the German officials rule the province* re gained by the wer of 1870-1. A school master of Rchittighelm In Alsace was seized with cramp while bathing and would have been drowned had not one of his colleagues sprung into the water nnd nt the risk of his own life saved the life of his comrade. In nlmoet any other part of Europe the brave reaener would hare been rewarded with a medal. In Alsace he was rewarded by a prosecution for bathing at a prohibit ed spot, condemned to pay a fine ami two marks fifty pfennigs costs. This goes far to confirm the saying of a French critic: "The Germans would rule Alsace nnd Lorraine better If they had a little lr«s strength nnd a little more wit."—Westminster Gazette. Twta* Nettled Their DlSersaeM. Mr. nnd Mrs. Milkegan, of La Grange, Ind., were, hopelessly divided on the question of polities. Mr. Milkegan Is a republican and his wife Is a democrat. There is no telling what might- have happened had It not been for the ap pearance on the scene of an accommo dating pair of twins. It was decided to name one of the little chap* William McKinley nnd the other William Jen nings Bryan nnd this proved s happy so lution of the dlfflenlty. How many thousands of married couples have been kept together by children! Gold la Cast Ashes. Tlfe ashes of coal from the mines of the Transvaal coni trust nnd other com panies in South Africa have been an alyzed recentlj*. nnd found to contain nine pennyweights of gold to the ton. —No woman smiles as sweetly oa her husband as she smiles on her lover. Every life that i.s not. aimless and ambiMonlem has its ideals and its strug gles. Little l>03*s nnd little girls have their idenlsnnd their struggle*. Young manhood nnd 3*011 ng womanhood feed ti|M>n their ideals, and are developed by their struggles. Middle age finds us still with ideals unreaehed and strug gle* unabated. Old age finds us far from the goal, mid struggles still perpetu ated. A man without, ideals nnd aims is either nn idiot or a vagrant. 1 lied'ieve tramps look forward to something. Footsore, dust-covered, hungry* and weary, they are struggling toward something nnd somewhere. What a strange medley humanity la! How all are struggling day by day! Some with lighter burdens than others, some mov ing quietly along, some going at the gait that, kills. St. Haul said he had learned In whatsoever state he was therewith to be content. But this is not the ng** of contentment. I scarcely know a contented man in the world to day. Ambition in the political, finan- eial, commercial. Industrial or social world,claims the aim nnd energy of every man who is worthy to live. The little hoy has an ambition to be a man. The little girl waits and strug gles as she climbs towards long dresses, long hair nnd womanhood The young man hna hia ambition to niarr3* the girl of his love. The 3*oung lady sits dis contentedly and impatiently, nnd waits for the man of her choice. Wlien the two are united and become one. Mien Mie struggle lx*gin« in a little cottage home, with nn ideal reaching towards a mansion. From poverty to comforts, from comforts to luxury, from lux ury to prodigality, we see them climb. Ro with the litit.le merchant with but a lapfiil of goods. His ideal is to lie like the merchant prince, A. T. Stewart— to excel nil his competitors. He works and watches nnd waits, struggling to wards his ideal. The little lawyer whose practice scarce 13* earns him meat and bread looks forward to the day when a Choate or nn Erskine or a Mar shall will he overshadowed b}* his pro fessional career. The little cLeuit rider preaching to the country people who gather to hear him looks forward to the day when he will outstrip a Barker, or • Spurgeon, or a Bhillijw Brooks in j>nl- plt power. The little farmer, with his 40 acre** nnd little stiff-eared mule, looks forward to the day when the brood acres of a fert ile farm shnil yield him ample revenue. The brakeman on every railroad, perchance, looks for ward to the day when he will he presi dent of the road. It. is these ambitions nnd hope that underlies them that tide humanly •long In Its struggles. Really no man Is fit to be a brakeman on a roll- rood whose ambition is less that that which looks forward to the presidency of the rood. No ninn is fit for a mer chant whose ambition does not reach upward to the limit. No man is fit to preach who docs not look forward to the da3* when hr, will lie a preacher in deed. No man Is fit to lie licriv-cd to practice law If he aims to lie less than • Choate or a Marshall. No farmer is fit to plow If he hns not before him the ideal which would make tne biggest nnd best farmer in his state. As the. old adage goes, a man never hits higher than be aims. We don’t fall upward, and he wh« succumb* to gravity must hit the grit. God made it so, and God made us ns we are In this respect. Tho little hoy whose ambition iw to lie a man, and when manhood is reached bis ideal Is higher than angels go—that la, tho man on whom wings do grow, and he will fly instead of walking. In pulling from the landing, It is hope that secs the star, or in other words. It is hope that sees the pillar of cloud by da}* and the pillar of fire by night, which guides the most unerring ly toward.the goal. But for this ele ment, or whatever we may define hope to he, men would go down under their first failure and sink to rise no more. But it 4s true that: The wretch condemned with life to part Still, still on hope relies. And every pang that rends the heart Bids expectation rise. Energy is the motive power playing upon the machinery like steam against th© piston heads which propel the driv ing wheels of a locomotive. Energy Is like electricity. We cannot measure its power or locate its origin. Energy will make a feeble body strong. It develops the muscles; It fosters endurance; If. defies obstacle©. The relentless old At lantic ooean, with its ebbs ami flows, its wa* i and whirlpools, is but a pic ture of struggling humanity with hope and energy on deck. Another element which nerves hu man character and defies opposition is faith—faith that turns possibilities in to realities, that converts failures Into successes. Faith laughs nt impossihil- ties and cries: It shall be done! Faith In the sunshine and in the showers that they will come is the Inspiration of the farmer boy. Fatih in the truth he preaches makes the preacher omnipo tent. Faith in your cause and in your own ability to do the work furnishes the genius that makes the task easy. Truly It Is written, he who dallies Is a dastard and he who doubts Is damned. If a man doesn't believe he can do it he had better turn to one side nnd give the rlghtof way to the man who does believe he can do it. If a man believes there Is power in steam, in the possibility of his belief ten thousand locomotives appear before him pulling their freighted loads a mile a minute. If a man believes In God and truth nnd right, God and truth and right to him are more than ten thousand engines pulling their freight ed tons. Twice armed la he whose ca' la just. rournge Is another element that help* us make the landing. “Cowards die many times before their death, lint the valiant never taste of dentil but once,” said Shakespeare. “Death shall over- takethe cowardly-hearted," said Homer. “The spirit of a man sustaineth his In firmity,'’ said Solomon. Courage in a man Is what mettle is in a blade. « man to cut his way through wood and stone nnu uui;r._: \ If you would be brave you roust l>e right, “for the wicked flee when no man pursurth, hut the righteous are. as bold ns a lion.” To dread nnd fear is to court defeat. Endurance is another element that helps us to pull for the landing. To en dure hardness ns good soldiers of the eross Is Bible counsel given to men. Energy is a hammer to strike. Fortin tude eonvertso man into an anvil and he takes the lick that un3* hammer can give. He who suffers unmurmuringly initheroienll3* the ills of life and does not i grow sour nnd morose is made of the 1 stuff that fights well nnd conquers sure ly* All of these elements entered into the men more or less who have succeeded in the post, and they* furnish the stuff that I will succeed in this world and succeed in all worlds. He who lacks these ele ments will be forced to board with his father-in-law or seek refuge in the home of his widowed mother. He must play the tramp or the dude, vagabond or vagrant. But these elements corre- lated in a man’s life have made W’ebsters and Cla3*s nnd Grants and Lees nnd Lin colns and Clevelands. The}* have made the men who have made the history of | this eountr}*; ami largel}* those who are the saints in light owe their crowns in a better world to forces like these. The bo}* nnd the girl, the man and the, woman pulling for the landing must have hope nnd faith nnd energ}* and courage nnd endurance. St. Haul had ^ HI. Martin Luther had man}* of them. ; Spurgeon nnd Whitfield and Mood}* had | them. The good and Mie great must embod}* these elements before the}* arc either good or great In character. De termine what j'our purposes nnd aims in I life are and determine that those pur poses and aims are high; then bend j'our energ}* and make the landing in good shape. It will 1m* said to 3*011 here after: Well done, thou good nnd faith ful servant; 3*011 shall wear the crown with honor that 3*011 have won so worth- Hy* SAM P. JONES. SOUDAN CAMP LIFE. Tli* Plaga* of laaect* and Heavy Dost Storms, Our camp here is not a ver}* picasant place just now, writes nn English officer hi Egypt to the London News. Despite every effort of the authorities, it i.s m*c- cssnril}* becoming rather foul, and wo suffer not a little from the veritable plagtie-of flies that make our days un comfortable from the first glimpse of dawn until dark, when they leave the field to swarms of ephemeridi, sand flies and midges. It is natural enough that this should be, for near 13* every da}* more dervishes nnd their horses or camels an* discovered D ing unburied among the rocks in unsuspected places, rt no great distance from us. The heavy duststorms that cause us |M*rhnps more discomfort Minn an}* other circa instance of the campaign blow to ns across the rocks strewn with these pitiful relics, and litemll}- reek of the loathsomeness with which the dust is jiermented. As mn}* well 1m* imagined, we are all look ing forw ard engerl}* to tho rapid ruse of Mie river, nnd the time—still some wa}* distant, for M*o rise i.s late this }*cnr— when the rolling red flood, with a cur rent of from six to (in man}* places) ten miles nn hour, Hhall sweep many Im purities before it, and cleanse Mie air on either bank. However, the health of the white men is mnivelouslv good. This is no doubt, in some considerable ireosure due to the fact that nearly all the Englishmen 'here are officers, ami, therefore, have, even during this period of stagnation, henv}* and responsible work to go through. Work on Mu* railwn}* formation in proceeding merril}* and making excel lent progress. HiMierto it was consid ered that the black soldiers were not good nt fatigue work, or nt 0113* rate were greatly the inferiors of the Egyp tians, whose ph}*slqiie is Infinitely more powerful. But Maj. I<ewis, from whose brigade the Soudanese battalions for railway work here were drawn, put his men on their mettle b}* telling them it was said of them that the}* could not work so well as the Egyptians, and that he had refused to believe the cnhimm*. This enjoler}* had such good effect that the Soudanese accomplished wonders, making one tiny a mile of embankment in three hours. It is good to watch the black bat talions at their work on the formation level. As nt nil other times. Mu*}* dis- pla}* the utmost chcerfullnccs and good humor. The}* wear very little clothing, but Mie most varied and extravagant headgear. A rim of mat basket, worn round the head, whose wool I v crown re mains ex|H)Mrd to the sun, is rather fashionable among them, and one big nude Dlnkn I have noticed who hail managed to fasten somehow to his wool a great bunch of cock’s feathers. This fellow, who was evidently a great swell, was also ver}* musical. All the while, he plied his task he snug a song whose re frain of “Alai, alo, Alai, nlo," was taken np with great vigor b}* all the workers in the neighborhood. But, indeed, they all sing while the}* w ork, in hands, I sup pose. of fellow tribesmen; they pass their full baskets of earth from hand to hand to one chorus, empt}* them to an other, and hurl them back to the dig gers to lie refilled w ith a Fort of shrill chuckle that haunts the tympanum for days. No one of their weird chants is unmusical, but. Mie combination of the. varied tribal songs of 000 to 700 Sou danese makes so bewildering ami ear- splitting a cneaphonle medley ax must be heard tola? realized. In the sixteenth year of Charles II., 1683, debts of more than £ 100, con tracted In gaming, were not collectible by law.