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TRI-WEEELY EDITION. WINNSBORO S.C., SEPTEMBER 16, 1890. ESTABLISHED 1849 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WINSOB,. . a -Ra.ge . PCteewi th BUe 5ffand United staE AesWALm G.W. EAXSDIma kJ -DALZa GmNAL torneys and Counsellors at Law, N. 2Law Range, WINNSBOR0, . . . LO. 'SUND'W. "'' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, N.I Law Range, WINNSBORO, - 3-0. Practices in an United States and Courts Spec attentioa to eorporation Insurane l ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No.1 Law Xage, WINNSBORO, . - - .0. -Practices In the 8. a=d United StaSes Courts. C - SANDXBs ANAAN A CATECANWs ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, WnINNSOBo, s. a. Practices in al the State and United Statee cours. wOfflee upstairs In Rank buiding. . "^"" ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WINNSBORO, S.0. Offce up-stairs ever J. X. Beaty & Bro.'s store. I.E.McDoALD. 0. A. DoUqLAs. Solicitor Sixth Circuit. M DONALD & DOUGLASSt Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Nos. 3 and 4 Law Range, WINNSBORO, - - 3.0. Practlee In all the State and United States Courts. A. . W. D. DOUGAS. Attorneys and Counsellor at Law: No.6 Law Bange, WINNSBORO, - . . 0. Practices ia the State and United Staes iorts. A Meal With the Lapps. 'But a6n6ne Ib 6ameiccusto to it and it served the useful purpose of driving away the winged plague, which had followedus all day. -The menpro ceededto boil some coffeewhich in a few minutes was set before me, together with a wooden bowlful of reindeer's milk. The cofiee was not very palat able, but under the circumstances worse tare would have proved acceptable. The milk I found to be too thick and rich to drink much of. A sugar loaf was producedfrom beneath some cloths in a corner, and a few pieces were chipped off and handed to me. I ac cepted them with my politest smile, accoompanied by a bow, but when I proceeded to sugar to my coffee mn the orthodox style, the action caused much amusement to the juvenile Lapps, who roared withlaughter, and appeared to enjoy the fun immensely Iound that I ought to have eaten the sugar separately, as they did, and they evi dently considered my way of sweeten ing coffee inexpressibly funny. Cakes were then served to each one. These were about the size of a penny bun, but of the consistenc of putty or dough, which they somewhat resemble in appearance. Sour cream was eaten with them. So nasty were- they that a mouthful gave me what Mrs. Brown would call "quite a turn," and I was glad to smuggle the remainder under neath the rug on which I was sitting. I did not like to throw it away, forfear of offending my hosts, but truste to the sharp noses of the dogs to get me out of the difficulty. Davy Crockett's Family. R. P. Crockett, a son of the famous Davy Crockett, now living in Gran bury, Hood County, Tex., in a recent letter to the present keeper of the Alamo in San Antonio, says: "My father, Davy Crockett, was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., 1786. My father was a fraction over six feet tall, and weighed over two hundred pounds in good health and was not fleshy. My father was first justice of the peace, next colonol of a regiment of militia, then a member of the Leg islature of Tennessee and twice was elected to Congress. My brother succeeded him in Congress in 1887 for six years. My youngest sister is living in Gibson County, Tenn. My mother and one sister are buried here in Hood County, Tex. WHAT SAYS THY FRIEND? What says thy friend? lHarsh,-cruel words, - As hempen cords which wound? A tear Such bring. 'Tis clear He's not thy friend. what says thy friend? Soft, honeyed words, As silken cords Which blind? A sneer These hide. Beware! He's less thy friend. What sasthyfriend? Afar and near He is thy friend. 15 Eph. iv. THE Ilalians make a holiday of the 21st of September, the anniversary of the e,..ra of the Italian army Into Rome. Do Birds Think. I Do birds think? Let me tell you of a b little bird I once had. The little bird ti was a female mocking bhd who bad a s nest of young ones about a week old. The baby birds were very unhealthy, inheriting weakness from their father, who had osthma. Early one morning I was awakened by the mother bird standing on my pillow, pouring mto my ear the most mournful notes I ever Y beard. I knew something was wrong, and arose at once The mother flew to E her nest, then looked to see if I was n toilowing, which I was. As soon as I I reached the nest she took ho'd of one V of the baby bird's wings, pinched it t gently with her beak and watched it eagerly, I think, to see If it moved. b Then she took hold of one of the little P feet and pinched it in the same manner, and, finding It did not move, she looked 10 up at me in a pleading way, as if she 0 wanted me to waken them. I reached f my hand out toward the nest. She stood aside and looked on with as much a interest and feeling as any young human Y mother. I examined the lifeless little bodies, and wlen I withdrew my hand the c mother hastened to hover over the little b ones, reeming to think if she could s warm them they would awaken, In a few moments she hopped off the nest, 9 looked at her babies, held food close to their mouths and coaxed and called them, but in vain. She flew all around the room,as if in search of some untried d remedy. Several times she perched on my shoulder, and looked so- distressed ' and pitiful I could scarcely keep from crying. I put her in a cage and hung a her in the sunshine to see if she would 1 become quiet. She took a bath, but a still remained nervous and seemed inx- r ions, and by and by grew so restless I had to take her out of the cage and leL ti her go to thenest again. She stood quite a while looking at 9 0 b her dead children. Then she went over all the bodies-pinching them 31 gently and watching them closely to see ii if they moved. When she saw no signs of life she seemed puzzled. *he seemed t at last to make up her mind the little ones were dead. And one by one she lifted them tenderly In her beak and laid them side by side In the middle of t the room. She looked at them lovingly b meut, then flew to her empty nest Donderlgly:into that. Fi. perchedon my .and L ~ ~ ~ Ea aumzn a .g-' love and devotion that little bird taught! P She always fed the little ones before taking a mouthful herself, and some ,imes she would stand coaxing them to ta e one more mouthful, and finding e hey had enough would swallow it her- 0 elf. e How AppearanCes Deceive. A portly citizen left the car between showers, but was hardly on the side- rf walk before he began yelling and beck- t oning at the car. "It's agin orders to stop except at crossings," observed a passenger on the rear platform, as the conductor reached up to the bell-rope. "Yes, sir, but he has probably for- g gotton something." "Well, let him get it when the carI comes down. I have no patience with forgetful men." "I guess P'll stop anyhow." "It's a shame to do it." The car was stopped, and the man i came running and puffing to call out,- - "Left my five dollar silk umbrella t in the car somewhere!"3 '.Yes, and here it is. I was keeping ~ it for yoa!" replied the individual who had opposed a stop. "Thanks. You are an honest man. If there were more men like you this would be a better world to live in. What to Teach Young Wornen. A motiher wra~es to me; "What shall I teach my daughters?"' This one im portant and tremendous fact, my sister1 -that there is no happiness in this world for an idle woman. It may be with hand, it may be with brain,it may be with foot; buG work she must or be wretched forever. The h~ttie girls of our families must be started withi that1 idea. The curse of our American so ciety is that our young women are taught that the first, second, third,1 fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fir-1 tieth, thousandth thing in their life is to get somebody to take care of them. Instead of that,the first lesson should be how, under God, they may take care of themselves. The simple fact is that a majority of them do have to take care of themselv( ,and that,too,after having through the false notions of their par ents, wasted the years in which th'-y ought to have learned how succ ssf liy to maintain themselves. It is inhuman and cruel for any father or mother who pass their daughters into womanhood having given them no facility for earn ing their livelihood. We should teach our daughters that work of any kind, when necessary, is a credit and honor to them. It is a shame for a young woman,belonging to a large family,to be ma~ilcient when the father and mother toil their lives away for her snnnrt. It is a shan e for a daughter be idle while her mother toils at tne 'ashtub. It is as honorable to sweep Duse. make beds or trim hats as it is > twist a watch cham or embroider a ipper. EFFECTIVE ORATORY. [ow a Young Lawyer Defended a Injured Woman and Made a Reputation. Jonathan H. Pugh was a pale faced Dung lawyer. Day after day he sat 'aiting for clients, but none came. The rst term of court appeared and his ame had not appeared on the docket. t that time my father was clerk of le circuit court. One day there came >him a poor, sad woman, who poured ito his ear a pitiful tale ot woe. A rother-in-law had robbed her of all the roperty left her by her dead -husbard, ad oppressed and abused her, and w-s ow seeking to take from her care her uly child, a little girl 3 years old. My ither became deeply interested in the romaL and promised to help her. He t once oent for Pugh. The young la w er came and took charge of her case. The poor woman's brother-in-law as rich, and he employed the best of runsel, and made every preparation in is power to defeat her in court and ibject her to still greater or pression. [e even circulated the most slanderous ries against her, and succeeded in )tally destroying her good reputation. This story kindled the soul of Pugh. nd he went to work with a fierce etermination to unmask the villain. 'he day for the trial arrived. The eighborhood was thoroughir aroused, id the court room was crowded with >ectatore. The sad and dreamy youn2 6wyer beeame another man-a bold d dauntless knight fighting for out iged womanhood. He arose to speak. 'he silence was painful. With a mai r hand he laid before court and jury ie work of the poor woman's oppres r. The periured witnesse3 withered eeath hi 3 "on. Judge, irors and spectatorso to sten. As he told of the woman's wrongs >ars filled the eyes of all. Then he irned frcr the weeping woman > the author of her sorrows. a terrible language he expressed tne idainy of the man. Suddenly he faced 3e victim of his scorn, and pointing is quivering finger at him exclaimed: You have stolen from this poor. roman all her.property. Not only mot recous than gold-her good name. id now, with savage hands, you try tear from her arms her darling child. the awful hereafter you should not een be allowed the miserable comfort t herding with the common damned, ut in some lower, deeper hell be com elle.l sirgly and alone, to howl out an ernity of woe." As [ugh reached this climax it fell ke a bolt of thunder on the ears of ie guilty man, and he rushed headlong com the court room. Pugh's reputa ton was made. He was flooded with lients and was at once one of the usest la ~vzers in town. A Woodland Bracket. The children brought in from the oods, one day, a. great shell-like fun ois growth, that they had chipped roin the decaying trunk of an old ma le. "See, mammal What a pretty mad-stool shelf!" they cried, thrusting Le new woodland treasure between my yes and work. The shelf was shaped tke a concave, semi-circular fan, with rinkled, curving edge and pearl gray ase, ridged with waving scallops like a pread fan. On its left-hand corner, rowing to the woody spine that had ined we toad-stool to the tree. was a econd shelf,a dainty little round-lipped racket.jutting out just above that cor er of the brown, satin-lined shelf. 'Please hang it In my room, mamma, or a comb case," the little boy plead e, olding the pretty rustic bracket against he wall. Acting on the sugges ion, I cung the shelf by three exact lengths of iicture cord, tying a large knot in the d of each length before stringinig the hef on them through the holes pu~nc ured in the cent'-r edge and at each ar corner of she'' thus huling It Iirmly in place. A semi-circular, fat itte pin cushion I covered with garnet :olored sat~n,with a border frill of lace. Ld glued it on the dainty to let shelf f the bracket,fllling it with a generous upply of pins and needles, and layin2 m the wide concave shelf, that the lit .le fellow proudly hung close to the class in his room, not only bru hi and ombs, but pencils, and chalk, and :himble, and twospools of stout thread, ylack and white, for the stitches that eed early taking, the stitchi that saves iine, in bedding, and in a boy's ward Good Rove. One of the great uses to which hemp is put in this country is the manufac-. ture of rope, for which it is the best md strongest material known. Next b it is the manila fiber. 1 was alking with ltadelyffe Baldwmn of the famous State line of steamers, when he said to me: "It is almost impossible nowadays to get good rope. Pure hemp rope is the best and manila rope is good, but the y have what is known as seize1 grass down in Mexico which furnishes a fiber that looks so near like manila that only an expert can tell the difference. This grass is being mixed with manilla inlarge quantities by rope manufacturers in this country, and it so materially weakens the rope that con sant breakaesresult. IMV. 1R. TALMAGE, Tke D3rooklyn DiVne?9 Sun. day Sernsen. Subject: "ind Words Never Die, Cherished and Blessed." T2: "A soft tongue braket se bone."-Prov. xxv., 15. When Solomon said this he drove a who2e volume into one phrase. You, of course, will not beso sily as to take the words of the text in a literal sense. They simply mean to set forth the fact that there ma tremendous power in a kind word. Al though it may seem to be very insignifcant, its force is indescribable and ilimitable. Pungent and all conquering utterance: "A soft tongue breaketh the bone.". If the weather were not s0) hot and I had time I would show you kindnes as a means of defense; kindness as a means of useful nes; kindness as a means of domestio bar many; kindness as best employed by govern monts for the taming and curing ocrimi mals, and kindness as best -adapted for the settling and adjustig of lnterntmial quar rels; but Ishalt call your attention onyto two of these thoughts. And first I speak to you of kindness'ag a means or defense. Almost every man in the conre of his life is set upon and asanted. Your motives are miintsepreted,, and our religious or poical prinaipals are b barded. What to do under .such ircm stances Is the questiom.. The frt h" of the natural heart says: "Striksa eh-. Give as much as he set. Trip him into the ditci which he dug for your fest. Gih him with as severe a woor4 a that which ho inficted on your soul. Sheb- for shot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." But tlie btter spirit in the man's soul rises up and says: "You ought to reconsider that mat. ter." Youlook upintothe faceof Christ and say: "My Master. how oughtI to aet under these diffcult circumstances?". And Christ instantly answerst "5les them that curso you, and pray for thom which despitefully use you." Then the old nature rises upagain andsays: "You had better not forgive hiss until first you bave chastised him. You will neverget him in so tight a corner again. You will never have such an opportanity of inflicting the right kind of punishment upon him again. First chustiso him and then let him go." "No,"says the better nature; "hush, thou foul heart. Try the soft tongue that breaketh the bone." Have you ever In all your lifeknown acerbity and acrimonious dispute to settle a quarrel? Did they not al ways make matters worse and worso and worse? Many years ago -there was a great quarrel In the Presbyterlan family. Ministers of Christ were thought orthodox in proportion as they had measured lances with other clergymen of tk gppmnation.. The most ut . Re abroad. uinth0meshome with a sthof i idde and wild ducks slung o Were many ministerse ecclesias tical courts o tors of divinity w" rife. Tel te moeitygr esome good mentreso- They be. gan to e;they be gan to t. and lo the and the hand the one Yoithave a di with your You say to him, "I despise you. pies "I can't bear the sight of you. O my to him, "Never eater my house again." He says, "If you come on my door sill rl kick you of." You say t6 him, "ill put yo down." He ses to you, "You are mistaken, PIl put you "vu." And so tha contest rageC and yer after year you act the un-Christian pait. Alter a while the better spirit sezes you, and oneday on go ever to the n -lgbor and say: "Gve me yorhand; we ave fought long eno h Timeis o sortand eternity is so near we cannot afford -any longer to quarrel.I feel you have wronged me very. much, bul let ussettle all now m one great hand shak ing, and be good friendsfor all1the- rest of our lHves." You have risen to ahigher plat fterm than that en which before you stood. You win his admiration, and you get his apology. But if you have not conqueredJ him in that way, at any rate you have won the applause of your. own conscience, the high estimation of good men, and the honor of your Lord, who died .for His arised ene mies. "But," you say, "what are we to do when slanders assault us and there comie acrimoc ions sayings all around about us, and we arn abused and spat upon?" My advice Is: De not go and attempt to chase down the sian dlers. Lies are prolific, and while you are killing one fifty are born. All your demon strations of indignation only exhaust your salf. You might as- well ou some sunma night, when the swarmnsof Insects are coming up from theimeadowseand disturbing you anc disturbing your family, brmg up some .-reai "swamp angel," like that which thun oe. over Charleston, and try to shoot then: down. The game Is too snall for the gun. But what, then, are you to do wits tae abuses that come upon you in life. Yot ore to live themi down. I saw a farmer gC out to getbacka swarmn of boes that had wandered off from the hive. As he moved amid them they buzzed around his had, and buzzed around his hands, and burzz' around his feet. If he had killed one o: them they would have stung him to death But he moved in their midst with perfeel Placidity until he -had captured the swartr of wandering bees. -And so I have seer men moving amid the. annoyances, ani the vexations, and the assaults -of life ir such calm, Christian deliberation that nl thae buzzing around. about their sou amounted to nothing. They -.conquere< them, andabove -all they conquered them selves. "Oh," you say, "that's a very gooi theory to preach on a hot day, but it won' work" It w'ill work. It has worked. belIeve it .is the last Christian grace w win. You lnow there are fruits which wt gather in June, and others in July, an others In August, and others In September, and still ethers in October; and I have t< admit that this grace of Christian for Civoness is about the last fruit of the Chris We bear a grqat deal, about the bittet ton ue, and--the sgrdsiatic tongue, and thb quicz tongue, and the sti~gig tongue,but iv knew very little about "Ie soft-songue thxi breaketh the bone." We read Hudibras, anli Sterna, Dean Swift and other apostles~ os acrimony, but ive little' time to.- sta yng the example of 'i who wasreviled, and ye reviled not again. 0 that the Lord by 'i spirit would endow us- all with '"the soft tongue that breaketh the bone." I press now to the other thought that I de Sire to present, and that skindness as means of usfulnss. ~ll communitie 'you find skeptical men. Through early edo cation, or through the maltreatment of pro fessd Christian people, or through pryai curiosity about the future world, ther. are great many people who become skeptical i: religious things. How shall you capturi them for God? Sharp-argment and saea tic retort never won a sen e soul from skap tieism to the Christiau eiin While pow -tefl books on the "Evidences of Crstiar Ity" have their ission in conairming Chi tien people in the faith they have alread: adopted, I have noticed that whe. skeption sooble are broughtinto thekingdom of Chris li i troughi the o'aarm of some genial soul and not by argument at all. Meu are not saved through the had;. thlv sreaved throu the heairt. A storm comr out of its hiding place. It says: "K.) we'll just route up all this sea;" and it mnkt ar.t luster, but It doss not enoessd. Par o h e sroused upperhaps ene-half to oe-fourth of it. After a while th sal.. moon, nlacid and bauntiful, laoksdowr and the oceabens to rise, Itoomas up to high water It embraces the great hadands. Itub= - the beaches of all the continents. Itis e heart throb of one world against the heart throb of another world. And I have to tell you that while all your storms of ridicule and storms of sarcasm may rouse up the passion of an immortal na ture, nothing less than the attractive power of Christian kindness can ever raise the death Iess spirit to happiness and to God. I have more faith in the prayer of a child five y-ars old, in the way of bringing an infidel back to Chirist and to heaven, than I have in all the hiss'ug thunderbolts of ecclesiastical contr versy. You cannot ovarcome man with religious argumentation. If you oome at i skeptical man witu an argument on bhalf of the Cratian religion, you put tha man on his metti'e. E says: "I saa that man hs a car bine. I'll uqe my carbine. nil answer his argument with my argunut." But if you come to that man persuading him that you desire his happiness on earth and his eternal welfare In tho world to oowa, he cannot an swer it. What I have said Is just as true in the re clanation of the openly vicious. Did you ever know a drunkard to be rived throagh the caricature of a drunkard? Your mimecry of the staggering ste, and the thick tongue, and the diagusting hiccough only worse maddens his brain. But if y oome to bin in kindness and sympathy, if yon show him that you apprlate the afu grip of a de. raved tte, if you persuade him of the athat ands who had the grapping hooks of evil inolnation clutched in their soul as firmly as in his hava been delivere1. then a ray of light will flash across his vision, and it will see- as if a supernatnral hand was steadying his staggering gait. Agood many years ago there lay in the streets a man dead drunk, his face exposed to the blistering noonday sun. A Chrstian woman pasei along, looked at him and said, 'Poor feulow." She took her handkerhief and sread it over his face, and passed Wn. The man roused himself up from his debanch and began to look at the hatiar chief and loI on it was the name of a highy respectable Christian woman of the city. He went to her, he thanked her for her kindness, an L that one little deed saved him for this lite. and zved hlm for the life that is to cont. He was afterward Attorney-General of the United States; but higher than all, he became the consecrated ds of Jesus Christ. Kind words are so oheap it Is a wonder we do not use them of lner. There are tens of thousands of people who are dying for the lack of one kind word. There is a business man who has fought against trouble until.he is perfectly exhausted. He has been think ing about fargery, about robbery, about sui cide. Go to that business man. Tell him that better times are coming, and tell him that you yourself were in a tight business pass, and the Lord delivered y:>u. Tell him toputhistrustin God. Tell hie that Jesus Christ stands beside every business man in his perplexities. Tell him of the sweet prom ises of God's comforting grace. That man is dying for the lack of just one kind word. Go to-morrow aud utter that one saving, omnipotent, kind word. Here is a soul that has been swampedin sin. He wants to find the light of the Gospel. He feels like a shipwrecke.1 mariner looking out over the beach, watching for a sail aganst '-ecy. Oh, bear down on him. Tell him ,waits to oe gracious to him, and, th .*- been a great sinner there is. a greaiE N'ur. provide-]. Tell him that though hisi-"i - as scarlet they shall be as snow; thou M"ey are red like crimson they shall be mysel. - That man is dying forever for the ce oe k mword of the There used to -be sang. at a great m.. the p'nos all through the country aso in _ut. * <somebd may have not very In the music. but there was a grand and glorious sentiment: Kind words never die, never die; . Cherished and blessed. Oh, that we might in our families and in our eburches try the force of kindness. You can never drive men, women or children into the kingdom of God.. A March northeaster witl bring out more boneysuckles than fret fulndaB and scolding will bring out Christian jp-ace. -I wish thatin all our religious work we might be saturated with the spirit of kindness. Missing that we miss a geat deal of usefulness. Thiere is no need ofcoming -out before men and thundering to them the law unless at the same time you preach to them the Gospel. Do younot know that this . simple story of a Saviour's kindness lsate re deem ali nostions? TIhe hard heart of this **orld's obduracy isto be broken before that story. There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the mos~t remarkable pictures I ever saw. It is "The Descent of Christ from the Cross. It is one of Rubens's pictures. No man can stand and look at that dEscent from the cross as Rubens pictured it, without having his eyes flooded with tears, if he have any sensi bility at all. It is an overmnastering picture -one that stuns you, and staggers you, and haunts your dreams. One afternoon a man stood in that cathedral looking at Rubenis's "Desoent of Christ from the Cross." He was all absorbed in that scene of a Saviour's suif ferings when the janitor came in and said: "It is time to close up the cathedral for the night. I wish you would depart." The pil grim lookmng at that "Descent of Christ from the Cross," turned around to the janitor and -said: "No, no; not yet. Wait until they get Him down." Oh, it isthe story of. a aiour's suffering Skindness that is to capture the world. When the bones of thait great Behemoth of iniquity which has trampled all nations shall be broken and shatterod, it will be found out that the work was not done by the hammer Fof the iconoclast, or by the sword of the conqueror, or by the torch of persecution, but by the plain, simple, overwhelming force oZ "the soft tongue thati breakoth the bone." And now I ask theblessing of God t comne down upon you In matters of health, in mat Iters of business: that the Lord wil deliver you.fromall your financial pep 'xties; that Ihe will give ;ou a good livelhood, large sal aries, healthlul wages, sufficIent income. I I ryGod that He may give you the oppor tunt of educating your children for i1lns ( oland through the rIch grace of our Lord essChrist of seeing themn prepared for the world that is to comoc. IAbove all, I look for the mercy of God uoon your immortal souls; and lest I stand bofore some who have not yet attended to lihe things of their eternal Interest, in this the closing part of my discouramg I Implore t~ here and now to seek after God and be at peacs with Himh. Oh, re want tobe gathered together at last in the bright and blessed as. semnblage of the skies, our work all done, our sorrows all ended. God bless yen, and your children, and your children's children. And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an iuheritancee among ell them that are sanctified. A PoMPEHnAN Pro.-There is little reason to doubt that the citizens of an cient Pompeii knew what was good. They were fond of roast pig. One- of the first families of Pompeii were about to dine on that succulent dainty when the volcanic storm overwhelmed the Scity. The pig was nearly done, pro. bably, when the shower of red-hot ashies spoiled it. This is all true, for a mass of indurated lava and ashes has been found in a stew-pan whioti was on a cooking-stove in the kitchen of a dis. interred house, and when the lump was topened, a perfect mold of a sucking pig was disclosed. A cas~t was taken of the hollow, and the result was a plaster fnc-simile of the little animal, wtiich was scientifically trussed, and appears ~to be about ready to serve. 't1O NOT try to take off your hat to 8 woman on a rainy day; if she carries an nmbra she will take it off for you. A QUjER LITTL ISLAND. The political relations of England and Germany have recently made the little island of Heligoland not only famous but a place of importance in in sernational polities. Some of the facts about Heligoland, which are found in the "Encyclopadia Britannica," and given in the recent issus of the Chris tian Unic are peculiarly interesting. leligoland lies in the North Sea about thirty-six miles from the mouth of the Elbe. There are in reality two islets, one of the sand and one of rock, lying about a quarter of a mile'apart. ",The Rock Island is nearly trian gular in shape, surrounded on every side by steep clifs, the only beach be ing the sandy spit where the landing place is situated, near the south-east point. On this islet there are some five .hundred houses, divided into a lower town or Unterland, on the spit,. and an upper town or Oberland sit uated on the cliff above, and connected with the lower town by a wooden stair of 190 steps, the only possible mode of commuuication between the two sec tions. The portion of the fiat-topped rock not occupied by the houses, the church with graveyard, the Govern ment residences, and place for a bat tery, comprises a little pasture land, a few cabbage garaens, potato patches, and a powder magazine at the north end of the route. About two hundred sheep tethered to particular spots, feed on the scanty herbage, eked out by potato-peelings and- halms, cabbage blades. or any other vegetable refuse, which is caraied out to them every morning. From one end of the island to the other runs a foot.path, called by the Heligolanders the 'Landwae' or high road, but better known to visitors by the name of 'Kartoffel Allee' (Po tato Walk.) There is alsoa lighthouse; but. though a few guns are placed be hind a rude earthwork, there are no fortifications except the inaccessible cliffs of the island, and no garrison of any kind unless a few coast-guardsmen be considered as such. The greatest length of the island which slopes some what from west to east, is five thousand eight hundred and eighty feet, and the greatest breadth eighteen hundred and forty-five feet, its circumference thirteen thousand five hundred feet, its average height one hundred and mnety-eight feet, and the highest point two hundred and fifteen feet. TLe Dune or Sand Island is little more than a sand-bank covered with scanty herbage, and imperfectly bound together by bent-grass, and carices. It is only about two hundred feet above the sea at its hightest point, but the drifting sands and the constant inroads of the sea make the height rather varia ble. The sea-bathing establihment is situated here; but, 'with the exception of the restaurant keepers and waiters, and the attendants wio drag the bath -coaches into the sea, there are no 4-'-Uts. A shelving beach of white "Mbj -V~ts excellent facilities for 5 w1ic e - strict the hours of bathing, an ing all regulated by law. Approached from the sea, the Rock Island, with its red-tiled houses, perched in a little cluster on the red cliff-Am Falm,' s it is called-looks very picturesque, and even the narrow brick-paved or sandy lanes of the town are not defici ent in a certain degree of quaintness. There are-with the exception of .a wheel-barrow or a perambulator-no wheeled carriages in the Island, and no horses or other beasts of burden. Even the two cows kept in the Unterland lor the use of invalid visitors, and whose milk is sold at the apotheecary's shop, are removed at the end of the bathing season to Cuxhaven, the Island. not supplying foiod for both man and beast. Mud is unknown on the streets, the rain only serving to wash their sloping surfaces clean as the scoured /'oors of the housewives' kitchens. Most of the houses are built-tue lower half 'at least-of brick, but some are of wood. There are a theater, a 'conversation house,' and a number of hotels and res taurants, though during the season nearly every house is more or less 1.1 out to 'baadegaster'-visitors for sea bathing forming the great source of the islanders' prosperity. In both the lower and the upper town there are numbers of shops; but the artioles for sale seem to be chiefly intend ed for the snmmetr 'bathing gueste, the natives getting most of then supplies from Hamburg or Bremen. The dwellings of the fisher-folks aire reasonably, clean and the interiors-*beal evidence of the sea-faring character -o: the population. Some of the. housel have Ittle gardens with flowers, cacuin. bers, etc., in front of thera; andidr places protected by the sea breezei there are a few fruit trees. At the foo of 'the stair' are one or two lime trees sheltered by the contiguous houses they are looked upon by the Heligo landers as objects of nationail ride During the summer, from two thous ax to three thousand visit the Island fo: sea-bathing. Most of these are fra~n Hamburg, English or othe:: 'guests being rare. There are no English resi dents, the officials, the governor ex cepted, being either natives orGerraans Of these officials a correspondento the New York "Tr bune" gjer- :i amusing account in a recent letter. "There is a good deal of governmen here, too. There is a Colonial G6s ernor and the before-mentioned Secre tary, and two Councilors, who meet i solemn state in the old Danish Govern or's House. There is a T1reasurer, t~k and a Pooh-Bali. The latter is a w rant officer of the British Navy. HEi also Commander-in-Chief of the lae and sea forces of the colony, Chief ic Police, Chief of Justice, Attorney-G& eral, Chief Constable, County Co Judge, Governor of the Gaol, Turnk Sheriff, Justice of the Peace andEe4 tioner; and if there are any other htgl odd jobs to be done outside of th4u officers, he does them. It shouldk added that the total land and e forces of the colony .consist of f'v coastguard men. There are some hoda itzers on a sand hill somewhere, whic form the armament of the island. ijr with all his multitude of offices, Lie~r tenant Pooh-Bah often eads time hati heavy on his hands. About once 'i three months there is a pretty civil sa: to betried. That isall A few yea1 ago, for the only time in half a centur the was a riminal e. A man w* arrested for stealing a dozen pew-. spoons. This event created tegnen. ons excitement, and was talked, of for years. The criminal was convicted and was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in prison dress for, I think, two weeks. The dress..consisted of a fne new suit of- clothes; much better than he had ever worn in his life. They had to be procured from the tailor's especially for him, by the way, since there never before had - been Xsed such a thing. The labor consisted in shovelling sand at the pier for eight hours a day. As for the imprisonment it meant tit the convict had 'to slepp every night in the guest cauberof the Governor's house, There was no other lock-up. And he -took his meals at the table d'hote of the very inn from which he had stolen th The h story of He nigdiotwith standing its qsaintness, ness, and limited size, is interesting. "Here Hertha; had her great.,.Temple, and hite-ir came from the main-land the Angles to worship at her shrine. Here lived King Radbod, a pagan, and oil this isle St. Willebrod, 1,200 years ago, first preached Chrisbanity and:.-r its ownership, before and aftet that date, many sea rovers have4ought." -ID TAE. An energetic and skillful business man will keep his eye open 1esti ed tape get entangled in the afairso -h counting-room or office. How easily such wasteful entanglements may do. velop is shown by-three anecdotes which "Chatter" quotes from a Pans "1pAt.L which;. since 1871, has been marching' four times a day-or rather every evening-from the Mont Valerian fort to the Suresnes railway station, now only goes once. The change has been made recently. The story of this patrol is a curious-one. In 1871 a concil - of war was sitting at Mount-Valerien. On their way from the Suresnei station to the citadel-a distance of about half-a-mile--a few officers were insulted and. roughly treated. This was in the evening. An order was immediately issued that every day after nightfall four men- and cor poral, armed with lanterns, should meet every train coming from Pari%, to render assistance to officers in case of need and to enforcee the respect due to their epaulets. So;' forthelast seventeen years the corporal andhis men; -lantern in hand, have walked to and from the station every night, winter and sum mer alike, whether moonlight or pitch dark....It is the'legend of the sentry over again, -who had been posted by the side of a newly painted seat in a public arden,. to warn the public ~against sitting on it, and who was kiept there for twenty years. - "The Russian army has a similar tra dition, more poetic but less known. An officer of the gard had fallen. in love with Oatherine.of Russiawithout daing to tell her the fact. One day is'the Empress passedhim in the courtyard .of the palace, he turned way. Nieysa to examine a Jittltsower which wa ofthTcoh E flower. Seventy-five ' sentinel was there still. -The Emperou ~ 7~ Nicholas iad him removed.. ScholastioHitit. Clearness of thought anaxpresior are always atf a prennum.' Don't forget to use the newspaper a: an occasional reading exercis. It is much easier to disoiplige .rheni you are directly in front of th'e class. A child's questions are the best indi. cation of his tendency to thinkror not to think for himselL Hnave the cuae t be indepden* confient you are right. The high school should establish the habits and traianinthe methodsafollowed in the highe~t inquiries after scientinec truth.L The principles of thinkring *hteh are to common life what axioms are to ma thematics, should be .well taught land . thoroughly. appreciated. In the news of-the day; the newsof the week and the school reading of sthe nhewsaerditingush hrly between Respect for the wisdom of thelages is an important charseteristi. of teseher or pupil; but disrespect for-thed'best wisdom of the day is not ceditable. Thefirat work in every lennanshold . b to'start-the class in some' genuine thinking, E~very word, look- and' act shuld-be .focused-for thought abtivity on the part of the class.-. It is not oftdn thpt good results are obtained from" keeping pupils 'atter school. 'T.here are taers who can make it serviceable for discipline and inspiration, butthey are rare. Strawberry_-Lear--BfIgttIn It is known that thiis disease usually causes the greatest'injury by'attiecking the new growth which appears-directly after the new fruit:-is hrested. -A this period the old leaves- contain in. numerable spores and: it Is these that infect the young levs.-oprevent, this the practice of brigoe h pr'ants just after 'thesfruit is gathered fhas been' followed -with' success, the young plants'.usbally- st'arting, -up-and growing 4thrifty after-i th breatment. ;The complete..destruction ofatihe ;,old leaves is'usually effected tf'isrt.3now ig the plints; allowink' te:Miage to dry a dsy sor: two and thenliburnig. Last year an experiment-was made-by Colonelfeoarson, with.a view to deter mine the'.efect of spraying the foliage with a st'roig sol'utionof sulphuric acid. teveralrws of strawberry plants, badly infested4id*lijeaf-blight, were sprayed -ith a solutio~n nmade by ming one piaxt of'Aulplhuric aci'a with six *alions of- water, the apphecation -being miade EoD after the fruit was -harvested. As a reult of this sraying the old loaves .. m I were -as effecua.y destroyed as if thiey had been burnt with fire, and two weeks later:tbe plauta had .sated- up -frash and green. On-the 16th of September the difference between the treated and - untreated pont was quite striking. - *lhesrae rows were fresh and green, - - .while adoining unsprayed plants left S'for control were badly blighted. Where ~one has a suitable spraying pump it. ~would doubtless be economy to a- opt this method of destroying the old - planltS rather than the plan of moving>; and burning with fire.