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; 1 THE WEEKLY LEDGER, PVBU8HK1) KVKKY FRIDAY BY The Limestone Printing and Publishing Co. $1.50 per Year. R. O. SAMS, - - Editor. FRIDAY. MARCH 2, 18JI4. GRASS FARMS. To one who visits us for the first time from sections North ami West there is an expression of surprise at the absence of the cultivated fjrasses. And no wonder. With them grass is the foundation. “All flesh is grass.” When will our people learn, our farm ers we mean, to diversify their indus tries. Clover, Timothy, Red Top, Orchard. Lucerne, Bermuda, Texas Blue grass and others all grow well with us and flourish. There is not a * farmer, even though he runs but one plow, and has only forty acres and n mule, but could and should have •pme of that forty acres in grass. In ''good, rich, nutritious, fat producing, muscle making grass. Our native meadow grasses answer a purpose, but it is a poor shiftless one, and they should be uprooted, replaced by those that have helped to make pros perous sections of country not so favored as ours. Try it farmers. Commence on a small scale; grad ually increase your acreage in grass or clover. Your stock will improve, you will keep more of them with greater ease than you do thej few. Your lands will begin to be built up, you will commence t> raise your own horses and mules and perhaps have some with which to supply your less fortunate neighbors, With compass and Jacob statT we have tramped over many sections of Spartanburg and Union Counties, and we know' that it will pay, yes pay well to cultivate not only grass for grazing, but for hay as well. We know a farmer in Abbeville County not far from the historic Ninety-Six of the Revolutionary war, who raises as fine clover as can be found on most farms in Kentucky or Virginia. He makes this a profitable industry, sells read ily all he has to spare, and occasion ally puts a fine horse, or mule or cow on the market. (io and do likewise. were our main dependence for the staff of life,” in many cases they are abandoned or about to be. Or, if cul tivated it is with dread and fear of on overflow. These very lands can be reclaimed by being turned into stock and grass farms. And not only so, being set in grass, a large quan tity of sand that now washes down from the hill-sides will be stopped ere it reaches the bed of our water courses. We would rejoice to see this industry»inaugurated in our midst. Once let our people be aroused to the importance, yea ne cessity of making a change and let them engage in a more varied hus bandry. and our waste places will blossom as the rose. Ledger; now it has burst through its thick folds and we do see your smiling face and bow in recognition. That was a fine conception, and a pretty picture it makes. We forgive you the inutiliation of our Weekly for the revelation it enfolds. HAZING ENDS IN DEATH. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS OUR LIME QUARRIES. The Limestone Springs Lime Quar ries were first tested by the elder Dr. Curtis many years before the late war. Finding the limestone to be of great value, he began manufactu ring lime on a very small scale, using what is now known as the “oven” kilns. During a period of sixty years or more these quarries have been owned by various parties who o|K*ra- ted them in a very limited way. In the fall of 1890, this proper!y passed into the hands of its present owners, and in June 1891. the Lime stone Springs Lime Co. was organ ized with J. ih Cleveland as Tresi- dent, T. C. (lower, vice-lTesident, J. A. Carroll, Secretary and Treasurer, and Capt. W, H. Ridhardson. Muna- ger. Since the above organization was effected the company has spent a Urge amount in developing and im proving the property. They are now well equipped for mining and burning lime, having six perpetual kilns, with an annual capacity of over LiO.- 000 barrels or more than 400,000 bushels. These works are now operated by Messrs. Richardson it Co., lesses. from whom we are pleased to learn that the Limestone Springs Lime is being sold in every important market in South Carolina, from the moun tains to th*c sea, and at many points in Georgia and North Carolina. A few shipments have been made as far South us Alabama. An excellent dummy railroad running from the kilns to their commodious ware house conveniently located by the K. A I).. ^ railroad track, makes transportation -qiud; and easy. These w^rk^ may justly he regnfiled*as one of the most important enterprises of our town, disseminating annually more than |80 000 in wages to laborers and others. OUR FREIGHT BUSINESS. This business has increased almost steadily since the R. A 1). railway run its first train through Gaffney. The fact is, 21 years ago this beautiful town was not known. Gaff ney Old Field was the name given to this “muster ground.” Relies of the famous race track still )>cur witness to the annual gatherings of former days. What has wrought this change? Surely railroads have helped wonderfully, and as the R. A I). railroad is the only one that affords us an outlet, to it we are very largely indebted for our rapid growth; for the development of our varied indus tries. Considering only the amounts received at this office for freights (not p/c-paid) and for tickets sold the business of the company was over f>0% greater for 1893 than for 1888. Notice that there is an interval of live years, and that in 1893 much less grain and much less bacon was shipped from the West than in pre vious years. January 1894 shows a still larger increase. This great trunk line, traversing our riedmont sect ion, affords rapid, easy andjcomparatively safe transit for life; the products of our farms and our quarries, and for introdiicng to us the varied articles that our increasing trade demands. While railroads are necessary ad juncts to prosperity, and to civiliza tion. and while the dcjiendenee is mutual Ik*!ween them and their pa trons, it is well for overy community where the railraod officials are oblig ing and ready to accommodate. We need mention only one Distance and that liecause it is the most re cent. Our town council wished to extend Limestone street over the rail road track near the .depot. This the R. A' I), did when kindly asked by the town authorities. And now our thoroughfare is opened up with out a dollar’s expense to the town. THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW. From the first of Dect nberto the 23d of February we have been look ing for the falling flukes, hut they did not come and we were beginning to feel that winter would he over and earth and trees and houses not be enveloped in their white robes. Not so however. With .Saturday’s dawn the cold wave was upon us. It in creased with the ascending sun, and was still in violent disturbance as the sun went down. The wind veering to the North-east, the indications pointed to a snow storm. It was not long in coming, nor in coming with vim and violence. Saturday night and Sunday and Sunday night, in gusts and blinding sheets, it whirled and bounced and fell on highway and street and housetop, and into gr .’ret ts and through windows and into hallways, almost everywhere was the beautiful snow. But it is not beau tiful now, this bright Tuesday morn ing. Tis said: “Snow is a great puri fier.” That in falling it absorbs the impurities that flout through the air, thus leaving purer atmosphere for healthier lungs and more vigorous bodies. These we all need, we all long for. Hence, we welcome the snow. But is no longer beautiful. The touch of earth has tainted it and it hastes away, STOCK RAISING. Nearly all of the mules and the horses that are in our county are brought here from Tennessee and Kentucky. This should not be. We ought to be able to raise them as cheaply as do they and thus save the two profits that are made before they reach our farms. Besides, they are not as hardy as if raised at our tent door. The Blue Ridge divides the two sections, and Hnimuls carried from one to the other have to lx* ac climated, and in this, loss is of ten sustained. It is never too late tomend our ways. Commence by raising nutritious grasses, and stock will be needed to consume the sur plus. M ulcs are always ready sale, can be raised more cheaply than horses, and brought earlier under the yoke. Many sections of our county arc admirably adapted to raising mules and horses and cattle in large numbers. The beds of our rivers •nd streams and branches by being filled with sand and debris are con stantly rising and each year renders the iamL» adjoining more unreliabi for the raising of hoe crops or t cereals. While years ugo these Is For the Housewife. Do you knon that a warm knife will cut bar soap without crumbling it? That fine copper wire is better any more secure that any cord to hang pictures with? That strong vinegar can be used in place of aream of tartar with good results? That a couple of lump apples placed In the box with cake will keep it moist a long time? That if a thread be pulled out of each side of a lampwick, the latter will nevrer stick in the burner. That plaster of Paris, wet a little at a time in cold water, is the best thing to mend holes in the walls? That manilla paper pasted over the hacks of pictures will exclude dust per fectly? That plaster casts can lie made to look like ivory by soaking in melted wax? That deep old red and cream make a beautiful combination in wall paper? That silver mica on old green is an other elegant combination? That a simple and effectual cough remedy is made of one ounce of gly cerine. one teaspoonful of soda and one cupful of water? That beans will shell and the skins slip off apples very easily if they are first dipped for two or three minutes into boiling water? That roses are best grown in the house in double pots filled between with sand, which is to be kept moist? The hot sun shining on the single pots causes the leaves to fall off. That you can make your own var nish cheaper than you can buy it, by taking of resin, one pound, and boil ed oil, one pound? Melt, add two pounds of turpentine; mix well. That any vegetable or fuit that can be canned, may he evaporated equally well and saved for years without dan ger of spoiling? That plain molding covered with sandpaper and gilded, makes pretty picture frames? That cigar Ih>xch of equal size, fitted into a frame and finished with half a silk spool to pull them out by are very handy to hold spices? That yeast that has begun to sour, may he sweetened by adding two tea- spoonfuls of sugar to each cupful? In the morning it will he as good as new. That-wheat middlings make just as good bread as rye flour at double the price? That sheets, pillow-cases, towels, etc., can lie ironed nicely by folding smoothly and putting through the wringer? That a new cotton dress, acciden tally torn, can be mended so that it will not show by starching a piece like it, placing it carefully under the rent and ironing both sides? That cookies, ginger-snaps, etc., bake much better if the tins are turn ed bottom side up? That the letters can be removed from flour sacks by soaking them in butter milk? A Womans Wisdom. A Woman of large experience once said: “Next to the pleasure of spend ing money is the pleasure of saving it. It is really a fascinating problem to see how much each dollar may be made to do.” The men of the family, passing through a severe mental starin, need all the cheer that they can get, and the home atmosphere is either in vigorating or depressing, juntas the women choose to make it. Depression is devitalizing and par alyzes effort, so that on the lowest, selfish grounds alone, if a woman can by her own cheerful courage inspire that of her husband, the clouds will pass the sooner. Many of us have the luxuries that we have considered ne cessities are, after all, hut superflu ities which we cun be very happy without. To have we want is wealth, to be able to do wit bout is power. A new sense of independence of trifles has come to many a victorious atti tude toward circumstances. Economy is practiced by all classes of society, and nobody is ashamed of it. Women with strong social in stincts sigh a little over the far* that almost any entertainment puts too great a strain upon the domestic ex chequer, hut inventive ability to overcome this is fast being developed. Horrible Outcome of an Attempt at Practical Joking. Ithaca, N. Y., Febuary 21.—About thirty freshmen of Cornell University were strangled last night by the sop homores releasing a large quainty of chloritK gas in the diningjhall. where the freshmen banquet was in pro gress. It was with great difficulty that the freshman were resuscitated, and some of them arc very weak from the effects of the gas. The freshmen were in the midst of their first year’s festi vities when the presence of the gas was discovered. In a few minutes they were over powered, some becoming unconscious while others suffered the peculiarand maddening sensations produced by chlorine. Search was made for the sophomo res who were guility of the outrage as soon as possible after it became known, but no trace was found of them. A colored woman employed as cook died last night and Thomas McNeal, of I’ittshury, Pa., one of the students, died this morning, from the effects of the poisoning. Later.—McNeil is not dead. He is very ill but may recover. OUR M. D’s. Few towns can be better sup plied with excellent and skilled phy sicians than is Gaffney. From the veteran, who has been praet icing in our midst for seventeen years or over to the youngest, we honor’thelr skill ucqiured through intelligent devotion to their noble calling. Within the last four years three have been drawn here, attracted by the prosperous outlook and the excellent facilities afforded by her excellent educational instiutions. Leaving lucrative fields of labor they come to our town and find work for hands and hearts. We can certify to their faithfulness and to their devotion. Ills always the stormiest, the coldest, the most in clement night that the Dr. is needed. And sick or well, weak or strong, cold or hot, wet or dry, he must go. The last call Is always the most ur gent. As we have recently seen you taxed to the utmost, we could but pity, yet felt thankful that each visit was to help some drooping spirit^- hrighton the snAlf of life. UN! SEEN. itoele. THAIN GANGS DON’T GO. There’s Money on the Farm. [ Barnwell People, j Home say there is no money in farm ing, others prove that theae is. Among the latter is Mr. I. R. Round- tree, of Dunbarton. After paying his subscription on Monday he told us he did not owe a cent in the world. Besides, he has two crops of cotton and enough homemade provisions to last his family two years. Last win- tea he cured enough bacon to feed thirty people. He keeps all his funn ing lands under fence, and gives his hogs the run of the fields the first of Heptember up to new year. Ho they thrive and cost him hut little. Cotton is u surplus crop with him. Speciman Cases. S. II. Clifford, New Cassell, Wis.’ was troubled with Neuralgia and Khc- umntisin, his Stomach was disorded, his Liver was affected to an alarm ing degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced In flesh and strength Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Hhepard, Harrisburg. 111., had a running sore on his leg of eight years standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bittlcs and seven boxes of Bueklen’s Arnica Halve, and his leg is sound and well. John Speaker, Catawba, 0., had five large Fever sores on his leg, doctors said ho wap infurwhle. One bottle Electric fitter* wild one box Bueklen’s Arnica Halve caul him entirely. Hold by W DulV druggist. Decided Unconstitutional by a Divided Decision of the Suprema Court. Coi.CMlHA, H. (’., Feb. 20.—Chain gang are unconstitutional in this State; so says the Supreme Court in an opinion filled today. The case comes from Charleston where a priso ner was put on the chain gang for thirty days. Appeal was taken on the ground that the punishment was not legal except by a jury of t.velvc and that sentence to work on the chain gang is void in law. The Sup reme Court holds that juries under twelve men are unconstitutional and (hat this additional imposition to ••fine iniprisoment ” exceeds the lim its prescribed by the constitution. .1 ust ie I’opc concurs concerning jury trial and dissents as to the chain gang work, holding that the word “impris onment” should include employment during imprisonment. « • « - GOOD SWAP FOR THE SOUTH. Mississippi Negroes and Illinois Swedes Trade Lands. Rockford, III., Febuary2o.—Quite a company of Rockford’s Swedish pop< ulal ion are planning to go to M ississip pi this spring to grow up with the sunny Sout hhuid. Local parties are at the head of the movement. They have traded their property hereto the negroes in Mississippi for farm land, and will take a number of friends along. They are getting up a boat, and will float down the Mississippi to the Southern State. The negro who have traded or sold their Missis sippi possessions will colonize and come to Rockford. Death of the Richest American Hebrew New York, Feb. 17.—Albert S. Rosenbaum, probably the wealthiest II brew in America, died suddenly at 8:80 o’clock this morning, after a brief illness from asthma, at his home, 41 Ninth street. He was sixty years of age. Mr. Rosenbaum was one of the largest tobacco importers in New York. His wealth is estimated reach !|!3O,ooo,O0o. Seizure of Whiskey. The revenue authorities yesterday swooped down on a number of boxes, barrels, etc., at the freight depot of the Charlotte, Columbia A Augusta road, and took charge of those which contained spirituous whiskeys. The seizure was a large one. Some of the things were addressed to people in the city.—Columbia Register. . —— The Oldest Printer Gone. Baltimore, Feb. 20.—Mr. William T. Stanshury, who was probably the oldest newspaper printer in active ser vice in the United States, and who had been an employe of the Sun for nearly f>7 years, was found dead in bed at his hoarding house. He was 78 years old and had died as he always boasted lie would die—in the harness. HERE AND THERE. It is computed that a European war would dest roy t wenty thousand horses a month, War ministers are looking about all over the world to see where they can get horses enough for their armies. Kngland reckons her horses at two million ; she has none to spare. Russia has twenty-three million, hut will not allow a horse to lie exported. Canada has a million horses, and the United States twelve million. We t rust not one American horse will be sacrificed in any war.—Youths In structor. Foul jealousy nips the bud of many happy lives, poisons many loving hearts, blanches many rosy cheeks, separates many true, devoted friends forever. May his ghastly visage never haunt our habitation, nor his fiery, poisonous darts pierce our hearts. Nothing dies, not even life, which gives up one form only to receive an other. No good action, no good ex ample, no generous endeavor dies; It liv^s forever in our race.—Woman’s Work. What to Read. > If you are down with the blues, read the twenty-seventh Psalm. If there is a chilly sensation about the heart, read the third chapter of Revelations. If you don’t know where to look for the month's rent, read the thirty- seventh Psalm. If you feel lonesome and unprotect ed, read the ninety first. Psalm. If the stovepipe has fallen down, and cook gon<* off in a pet, put up the pipe, wash your hands, and read the third chapter of James. If you find yourself losing confi dence in men, read the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. If people jadt you with hard words, read the fifteenth chapter of John. If you are all out of sorts, read the twelfth chapter of Hebrews.—The Bible Reader. From Almost Everywhere andAbout Almost Everything. Bill Nye, the humorist, was sud denly taken with heart failure at Niagara Falls last Saturday night a week ago. The snow storm was general. It went as fur south as New Orleans. There was twelve inches reported from Jackson, Miss. The sensational Pollard-Brecken- ridge trial will come up this week at Lexington, Ky. The defence claim to have everything their own way. Peter Conroy, 22 years old and a resident of Waterberry, Conn., is in the vesicular stage of small pox. It is thought that he was infected by a letter from the quarantined section of Winsted. A statement which has been going the rounds of the press to the effect that Senator Zcb Vance of North Car olina was dying has been officially de nied. Senator Vance is in Florida and is quite well. The Virginia House of Delegates has declined to relieve cities from the operation of the local option law as proposed by the Miller hill, by u vote of 71 to 10. This Isa victory for the temperance people. Miss Lottie Gibson, of Triplet, W. Va., last Monday attacked “Pet” Hurrock, a young man who had been paying her court, with a “loaded” stick because lie had slandered her, and nearly heat him to death. His physicians say he will die. The South Park Commissioners, who have charge of rhe World’s Fair buildings, have decided to sell them. Consequently they will advertise for bids within the next thirty days, and then the remnants of the great White City” will go to the highest bidder. Mathew Johnson a West India ne gro, was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison last Monday. He was three times a murderer but hud been sus pected hut once. He was executed for the murder of Emil Kuckelliorn His only friend in his hour of trouble was the Rev. Daniel Welsher. The Hawaii investigation has been completed in the Senate. It is a vol uminous and able document and was prepared by Senator Morgan. The Republican minority did not fully en dorse it however. The result was a compromise in which the President was sustained and Minister Stevens not severely censured. It is reported that the Kiowa and Comanche Indians in the Indian ter ritory have assumed a warlike atti tude and threaten to drive the cattle men and their stock from the reserva tion, because they have received no grass lease payment since last Octo ber. The wire fences are living cut and the cuttle killed by the Indians. Erast us Wiman, of New York, a once many times millionure, and a man who has stood high in the social world, has been arrested for for gery. R. G. Dun, president of the mercantile agency, is the prosecutor and claims he has evidence sufficcnt to convict Wiman. Wiman has writ ten a book which he dedicated to young men, in which he advised them to be “truthful, honest and tom|H>- rate.” Wiman claims to have been a partner of Dun and to have conducted the business. Joseph Keppler, the caricaturist, the editor and part proprietor of the comic journal, Puck, died Monday a week ugo at his home in New York city, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure, resulting from a com plication of spinal and lung trouble. Mr. Keppler was born in Vienna in 1839, and came to this country in 18<>9. He has been connected with the stage both as manager and actor, his specialty being comedy, but made a failure in both capacities. A son and two daughters survive him. A man by the name of Draught! has lieen in the Grady Hospital in Atlanta who was the victim of aphasia. This is a infirmity which attacks the deli cate machinery of the brain. He had lost his memory and could not re member anything of his past what ever. The authorities discovered he had been a resident of Winston, N. ('. and began an investigation which re sulted in establishing the fact that Draughan is a thrice married man, having a wife in Virginia and two in North Carolina. He will probably re gain his senses when confronted in the courts with three wives. A meeting was held in Trafalgar Square, February 18, to demonstrate the popular opposition to the House of Lords. As the weather was bit terly cold, the crowd was not notably large or enthusiastic. The meeting adopted a resolution that in view of its repeated obstruction of legisla tion, the House of lx>rds was mis chievous ami useless and ought to be abolished forthwith. Three members of the House of Commons took part in the meeting. They were Dr. Charles Tanner, anti-Parnelite for the Middle Division of Cork; Dadah hal Nacroji, Liberal for the Central Division of Finsbury, and William Saunders, Radical for the Walworth Division of Newington. — o ♦ ♦ »•— ■ ■ '■■■■— Has no Limit. They talk about a woman’s sphere. As though it had a limit. There’s not a place in earth or heaven, There’s not a task to mankind given, There’s not a blessing or a woe. There’s not a whisper, yes or no, There’s not a life, a death, a birth, That lias a feather’s weigiit of worth. Without a woman in it. —Kate Eield. — • — A Household Treasure. I). W. Fuller, of Canajoharie, X. Y., says that he always keeps Dr. King’s New Discovery in the house and his family has always found the very best results follow its use; that he would not he without it, if procurable. G. A. Dykeman Drugist, Catskill, V, Y., says that Dr. King's New Discovery is undoubtedly the host Cough reme dy that he has used in his family for eight years, and it has never failed to do all that is claimed for it. Why no* try a remedy so long tried and test'd. Trial bottles free at W. B. DuPre’s Drugstore. Regular size '*0 I cents and #100. The Yonng People's Bireao. New York Dear Young Peopde’h Bureau. The literal meaning ef adieu Is, “I commend you to God,” and this I truly did ns my coach rolled away from dear old Gaffney and Its crowd of loving friends who wared farewells and sent me kisses on the parting breeze. I arrived in our venerated and his toric city to enjoy the evening chimes of old St. Michael’s, the ringing, and the singing came flying, sighing, dy ing from sweet Saint Michael’s bells. Just a little time was allowed us to drive around the beautiful battery that not only Charlestonians crowd and crown with glory, but all tour ists claim for song and praise. Old ocean there greets you with its fleet of sails, its monarch steamers and battalion of light canoes oared by their merry heorted fishermen, all making sweet musie with their splashing, dashing tuneful hands.* Fort Sumter with its marvelous story of battles for right rtands like n grim sentinel in the shining sea. Sulli van's Island the precious gem of the city. Fort Moultrie frowning on the quiet waters and telling of brave Jas- |M*r and the noble names that honored once our proud South Carolina, and alasi the grave of Osceola that speak of wounded pride and gross decep tion. and dishonor to our nation’s flag, all overlook the sea, whose sparkling, heaving bosom ever swells. The Iroquois, a floating palace gave warning that she was ready to leave her moorings, and we were called from poetry and romance to the realization of “life on the ocean wave, a home on the rolling deep.” We sat on deck enjoying the ozone and waiting the gradual disappear anec of the city, and when all land vanished we were on the trackless, boundless ocean. The stars shown with unwonted brilliancy: the was resplendent in her soft, light, and with song and laughter we passed the wee until the smooth waters no longer smooth and rolling hither and thither moon silver ni'Try hours alas! were the waves com|telle< us to seek our inineature rooina The two succeeding days we clung to our cosey little prison only begging some kind hand to consign us to Neptune’s fond embrace. O, who can describe the terrors of mal du mer, thou treacherous and fickle sea Whew is the Eseulapius so skilled to invent n panacea for this scourge of the lovers of travel. The third day we actually crawled out o our narrow “hunks” and by earnest advice of our kind captain and lean ing hard on his strong arm we sought the deck. The fresh sea breeze am coaxing of appetite soon brought the roses to our cheeks and returning admiration for the mighty deep with its treasures and myriads of living things. Schools of porpoise flounder ing and sending high the sparkling waves. Sharks with open mouths ready to saw a large victim in two, or gulp down a small, dainty meal. Mother Carey’s chickens and tiny little sea birds following the vessel to Ih- fed by kind sailor's hand, the distant sail, like a white speck on the horizon, and as a rich treat the salute of some passing steamer was the only diversions of our pleasant voyage. • The eailors light and happy hearted with weather-lieaten faces and well tarred hands gave us no little en joyment. Like sqirrels they climbed the rigging and top most masts and when at the acme of hope their sweet songs eame to us as from an seolian harp. One little ballad was particu larly touching, it was, ‘*G<h1 of the sailor keep watch over Tom,” and with soft refrain. “There is a sweet little cherub that keeps watch for poor Tom.” “Brave child of danger, nursling of the storm; with hearts ns hounding and us free as the foaming waves, the sailor toils for other's gain, but for himself he has no home. God grunt that he makes the port, When life is o’er. Where storms are hushed, and bil lows break no more.” The weather was lovely and the sea so calm that the children played with marbles on the quiet dock. It is not always so, sometimes “the stormy wind lifts up the waves, they mount up to the heaven, they go down to the depths, the soul is melted be cause of trouble, the p<H)r sailor reels to and fro like a drunken man, and is at his'wits end. Then he cries unto the Lord and hebringeth him out of his distresses.” More Anon. A Burning Question. On a cold winjerevening I made my first call on a rich merchant in New Yord. As I left his door, and the piercing gale swept in, I said: “What an awful night for the poor!” He went back, and bringing to me a roll of bank hills said : ‘ * Flense do me a favor. Hand t hose bills to the poorest people that you know.” After a few dayk I wrote to him the the grateful thanks of the poor whom his bounty had relieved, qd^^plded : “How is it that m dnd to his fellow creatures has al ways been so unkind to his Saviour as to refuse him his heart?” That sentence touched him to the core. He sent for me to come and alk with him, and speedily gave him self to Christ. He has been a most useful Christian ever since. But he told me I was the first person who lad talked to him almut his soul in nearly twenty years. One hour of )astorul work did more for that man than the pulpit efforts of a lifetime. Air has been reduced to a liquid, and shipped, packed in frozen car- ionic acid. In this state a flask of air was sent from London to Cam- jridge. and arrived safely.—Wonder ful. When Lot’s wife asked more ques tions than her salary called for, she finally got a salty reply that brought her to a standstill. — ^ * • - — Sunday Reading and Conscience. In a Boston Itharding house roomed sixteen clerks, honest and well dis posed, and belonging to good families. All of them were of the age when the boy, just merging into manhood, gen erally makes decisions us to his con duct that result in final good or evil. Three of the young men, who occu pied one of the rooms together, were recent acquaintances, and their first .Sunday morning in the house brought a trial of moral courage which is in teresting to relate. The hours between breakfast and church time must be whiled away somehow, and two of the room-mates busied themselves with iniscelaneous reading. The third felt a desire to take out his Bible and read it, us he had been taught to do at home. Fearing ridi cule, he hesitated a good whip*, but conscience presently impelled him to go to his trunk and lift the lid. Cowardice suggest'd that it would look sanctimonious” to be seen reading the Bible. He shut the lid down and walked away. After nearly half an hour of strug gle, conscience triumphed again. He rose and went totheArunk a second time. His hand was on the Bible. Again his courage failed him. As he was turning away one of his compan ions called out: “What’s the matter, Ike? You’re as uneasy as a wenther-eoek. Ike laughed and told the truth like a man. To his surprise both the others confessed that they had the same struggle and defeat. Each thought that he ought to read his Bible, hut was afraid to be soon by the rest. The next minute all three had their Bibles in their hands, and read them together during the next half hour. They agreed todo this every Sunday. The ice was broken. The next Sabbath morning, while they sat quietly reading, two of the clerks from another room eame in. “Hullo!” they exclaimed. “What is this, a conventicle?” The three Bible readers frankly told of their agreement. The visitors confessed that only cowardice hail kept them, too, from the same duty. They prom ised to Iwgin at om-c, and they did so. The example spread till each of the sixteen clerks in the house spent his Sunday mornings reading the Bible. Every one of the youths is to-day n useful man. We cannot , of course, say that the men* reading of t he Bible on those Sabbath mornings made these men what they are. We can say. however that the principles of the Bible must have influenced their lives for good, and the associations which, with such a habit, they would naturally seek must necessarily have been honorable and elevating, and have tended to their success in life. One of them, who afterward became a minister related the faets we have given. One Imy’s courage to do right may determine not only his own fu ture well being, but. that of many oth ers besides. An Object Lesson. The young people of a certain church in the West had a chance, not long since, to give an object lesson, and did it well. One of their number, who had lieen long absent from home, soon after her return made an enter tainment for,her friends. Delightful music was to be expected, and some other enjoyments of a special charac ter. The invitations were sent out for Friday evening. To the lady’s disappointment, one and another and another of those whom she specially wanted, politely declined the invita- tation. They were sorry not to Ik* with her; under other circumstances nothing would give them greater plea sure; hut for that evening they had a previous engagement. On being pressed as to what it was, they ex plained that it was the evening for the regular young people’s prayer meeting. Their friend was so .aston ished at this r»r'*' took some trouble tot the young ladies haij another’s intentions invitation, and found! acted without knov others meant to do. ..- M she must have dec' . “ * at ir. pr<^ al they 9 of any 1 grcentati ban UV ’the vs the minds of som« meeting w'as an ill the engagement ft to he lightly brok< ^•eR^, r\ty r ) tO»‘ 1 P e He Would be A minister of a York church, who wi home foi| few days, wl bye to his family. When he came to B the little fellow in his “Well, young man, I war a good lioy, and be sure care of mamma.” Bobby promised, andth' parted, leaving him with a and full appreciation of his weighty responsibility. \V came, and he was called to prayers the young guardian' himself as follows: “0 Lord, please protect pa pi brtoher Dick, and sister Alice, an' aunt Mary, and all the little Jon boys, and Bobby. But you needn trouble about mamma, for I’m goin, Jook about her myself. AV otv °\ oU^ n L ana