The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 11, 1895, Image 1

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be einanb letalb. TRI-WEI3KLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 11 1895. ESTABISHED 1849. giE B0LNt. Out in the clover blowing free As the white clouds roll away, In a mad-cap ripple of ecstasy He's pouring his merry lay. ieath the blue of the peaceful summer skies, Where the bees round the iowers throng, Rbi wake. as o'er the field he flies, Is a bubbling trail of song. obolikum, by fancy led, What a happy Wae to wing W'er the sea o elover billowy red, With nothing to do but sing. THE SEEDS OF SIN. At the time of which I write, I was manager of the old- Varieties Theatre in New Orleans, a theatre long since destroyed by fire. The. season was about to open; and it promised to be an unueually brilliant one; but just at that juncture, an unfortunate occur rence changed the aspect of affairs. The leading man of my company an uncommonly fine company it was. too-was drowned in Lake Pontchart rain, while on a fishing excursion. I was at my wit's end to replace the young man-an actor of splendid abil ity-and was almost ready to despair. luine was flying, and the date upon which the Varieties was expected to open would soon arrive, and something must be done. One morning, while sitting alone in my office, a young man made his ap pearance, and requested an interview. . He was about thirty years of age, and one of the most perfectly handsome men it bad ever been my fortune to meet; added to great personal- beauty, possessed a graceful figure and pleas ing address. His name was Edgar Harding, and he had called to apply for the position ma'e vacant by the death of my leading man. I was favorably impressed. He evinced talent of a high order which I soon proved by an improptu rehearsal. My terms suited him; the result of the interview wiis his engagement. The leading lady of thecompany was Miss Helen Gray-a dark-eyed, sweet voiced girl-a great favorite. I saw that these two in their respective roles were destined to create a sensation, and take the theatre going people by storm. So it proved; the very first night they ecored a grand success. And as the days went by, it became evident that Helen and Edward were destined to become nore than mere professional associates. They seemed to literally :exist for each other. I have never seen two people better suited and I did not disapprove of the probable ending to the pretty love story. Why should they not marry and live happily? I had recently embarked upon the matrimon al sea Myself, and- was ready to declare :. .4&wasthe only - way to be Sappy. In those days divorce suts were iot half so popular as they are now, and the significant question, -Is marriage a. failure?'' had not been publicly dis cussed. So I watched the progress of the affair, chuckling inwardly, as I faiicied I could "hear the sound of ewedding bells." Toward the close of the theatrical season, we had placed upon the boards a new play called "Deserted." It had a pathetic plot; theold, old story of a loving, trustful woman deserted by the wilain whose wife she believed herself to be. The play was full of tragie incidents, and I had hoped great hings ,om it. It was at the last rehearsal that I c ame upon a pretty scene not down in the programme. Edgar Harding was standing at Miss Gray's side in a re tired corner; as T paused for an instant I saw him lean suddenly forward and take her graceful form in his arnms, while he murmured tender love words. Anid then a strange occurrence took place. As I turned swiftly- away, not wishing to intrude upon a real love scene, 1 saw standing just behind the pair-who were so engrossed in each other that they observed nothing-a shadowy female figure. I say shadowy, for it seemed as if a cloud was resting upon the ethereal form, like a misty vail She was a stranger to me; I had never met the lady before. A face of pallid, unearthly beauty, with great sad blue eyes, and a mass of flowing golden hair; she stood gazing upon that tec der scene with a look of wild appeal, intense suffering-anguish beyond expression. g&nd as I drew a lhttle nearer I saw, to my intense horror, that one dainty white hand grasped a small dagger-a sort of stiletto. With a stifled cry I dashed forward. Surely the woman meant foul play, and I must prevent it. 1 reached the spot-, only to come to a halt, rub my eyes in amazement. There was no one there! Dazed and bewildered, I turned awa'y. I said nothing to any body, but decided to keep my own counsel, and be on the alert for mischief, for that it was Intended I felt certain. - One night, not long afterward, I was alone in my office, just before the be gining of the evening performance, when Edgar Harding suddenly ap peared, looking pale and troubled. He sank into a seat and covered his face with his hands, while a long silence, a very awkward silence, fell over the room. He glanced up -at last, and I was startled by the changein his hand some face. It was ghastly white and haggard, and his eyes looked like the eyes of one who is gazing into his own grave. "Burton," he began, addressing me, "you have been a good, kind friend to mVe ever since my engagement here *-u I have something on my ~ve I will make a clean a5t of wball to you!" -tried to smile and make light of the prospective confession. "If it concerns Miss Gray. you both aave my best wishes, Harding," I cried, "and I mean to give you a swell .anoddn I can well afford it, for united efforts have made inade my sue cess this season." , He smiled sadly; it was the very ghost of a smile. "That day widl never come!" he re turned, gravely. "I love her with. all my heart. She (Heaven bless her!) re turns my love, yet I must not, dare not, make her my wife. Burton, I am a haunted man!" "Bah! Nonsense!" I laughed a triflk uneasily. 'W hy, Edgar, what in the name of common sense is the matter with you? Surely all is well since she loves you in return. And, in fact. any body can see that!" His face flushed, and a tender smile stole over his lips. "I can never bind her life to mine," he said, sadly. 'Burton, have you ever read a poem which says: Of once sown seed, wbo knoweth what the crop is?" Well, I have found out that when wt sow the seeds of sin, we reap misery and death. Listen, while I tell you the story of my sin. "Some five years ago I loved-oi thought I loved-a girl in the North. I was a wild sort of a chap in those days, and so-although I supposed you will despise me for it-i deceived her. She believed berself to be my wife, Burton, but I cruelly, basely deceived her. She -had no legal claim, upon me; and at last, weary of the tie, I deserted her. "When she found out the truth, she lost her reason, and in a short time committed suicide, stabbing herself to the heart. Poor Lenore! she is amply revenged. Her spirit has haunted me from that day to this. - I can see her now, standing before me, with her pale, sad face, and great heart-broken blue eyes, and flowing golden hair, in one hand the dagger with which she took her own life. Burton. I tell you truly, it is driving me mad. I would not, dare not, ask that noble girl, Helen Gray, to be my wife and share the haunted life which is my doom." His story ended, he arose abruptly and left me, in blank bewilderment, to think over what I had heard and what I had seen! But I was soon aroused from my rev erie. The curtain was about to arise, and 1 had duties to perform. But first I went around to the wings where I expected to find Miss Gray. She was all ready to go oni; looking like a picture, as she always did. For either on or off the stage, Helen Gray was the.prettiest little creature imagin able, and I loved her as a father loves his favorite child. The curtain went up and the play be gan. In the midst of a very pathetic scene I took up my position in a retired corner -to watch the progress of tno plav ite concealed from view of the ience AI"Tp O her acting was grand. She was the de serted wife--the beautiful betrayed and she was kneeling at the feet of the villain who had broken her heart, her hands- clasped in supplication, as she begged him to have mercy upon her, and take he- back to his heart again. He stood gazing coldly down upor her, his face like a handsome mask, his dusky eyes full of scorn. He was about to tura away from her, to cast her off, and repudiate her forever. He war about to speak, but all at once his eyes fell upon some object at the farther end of the stage, and the words died upon his lips in a hollow groan. I glanced in the direction in which he was staring with wide-open, terror dilated eyes, and my neart gave a mad bound and then stood still. For, stand ing at the opposite wing from where I was conceiled from view. I saw the shadowy form of a woman with pallid face and flowing golden hair, and wild blue eyes. She was all in white, and vne haud held a tiny dagger. It was the apparition that I had already beheld. Edgar stared like a statue, his breath coming thick and fast, his eyes dark with horror. He made one unsteady srep in the direc tion of the specter; then faltering, brokenly, the name "Lenore!" he fell heavily upon the stage. I rushed wildly to his side, and lifted the handsome dark head upon my knees. He was dead. He had broken a blood vessel, and death was almost instantaneous. We buried him and the public-.nevei knew his strange story. Miss Gray etill lives--a sad broken-hearted woman who mourns her first love with a grief that even time cannot assuage. Yet, sad though it is, does not poor Edgar Harding's fate seem like retribution? Ah, me! "Of once sown seed, who knoweth what the crop is?" B-ginning of the Slave Trade. Sir John Hawkins was the fly~si English slave trader. He formed a company composed of the leading men of London and fitted out three srall ships, which saled in 1562.. Later, Queen Elizabeth lent Hawkins. "Jesus," a large snip of her own of 700) tons, and took shares in the sec ond African company. She not only equipped the snip, but put 100 sol diers on board to provide for contin gencies. Orn the second voyage Haw kins brought 400 negroes, and had a narrow escape of losing them owing to the lack of water when he was near the equator ; but, as he piously recorded in his log: "The Almighty God would not suffer his elect to per ish, and sent a breeze, which carried them safe to Domlnica." ThIs was the beginning of the slave trade, which lasted for more than two cen turies before it was finally suppressed. She'd Be Dead. "It ain't no wonder that city peo pie don't live long," said old Mrs. .ason. "Law, me, it I had as many neighbors to look after as folks that lives in cities must have, I'd be dead. in lesn ajem. "...nianaolis Jour. TRAMPS OF THE OCEAN. DirtyNomade Looked Upon with Greaf Disfavor by Regular Liners. There is one very peculiar feature ir he maritime life of every country about which very little is generally known and that is the tramp steamship, says the Brooklyn Eagle. Every year num bers of steamers, some large, some small, often ugly and dirty to look at, and commonly called tramps from their I readiness to go anywhere and take a hand in trade that happens at the mo ment to promise a profit, arrive at and leave our shores. These ocean foot pads are generally worn out hulks, dis carded by the companies who own them, and belonging to no reg ular line and identified with no particular class of cargo, and are sent ont as a matter of speculation to pick up what freight they can from port to port, like an old and worthless horse turned out of the regular pasture to find a living by the roadside. They are the guerrillas of the sea. Some of them leave their native countries, gen erally England, Norway, Germany, and Spain, a few months before their an nual tickets of inspection expire, and remain away soipetimes for years with out undergoing a new survey and in spection. On such ships the boilers may be on the point of explosion, the machinery may be in a dangerous con dition, inadequate in power.to propel the ship against great stress of weath er; the steering gear may be warranted to jam at some critical moment; their hulls may be in the last stage of decay, and perhaps their boats are not fit to float when lowered from the davits, yet so long as the vessel holds together and after leaving one port arrivei safe ly at another, no one grumbles except the crew, whose arrangements are oftimes such that they can not leave the vessel if they would, for care is taken to ship, if possible, only married men, and with an offer of allotment notes, leaving half-pay to their fami lies, these seamen must invariably And sureties that they'will not desert the ship during the period agreed upon in the ship's articles. There can be noth ing worse in the way of cheerlessness and discomfort than life abroad such craft, and the hardships and grievances if these seafarers are peculiarly great. The crews are usually of a mixed !haracter, and are made up of Scotch men (generally as engineers), Scand navians, English, Irish, Danes, Nor weglans, Germans, Italians, Lascars, Lnd negroes. Chief engineers receive from $55 to $74 per month; firemen, $19.46; trimmers, $14.59; carpenters, $29.19. The average wages may be said to be about as follows:.. First ofacer, $4.80; secod mcert. engineer, $68.1S-second engin-er, $48.66; carpenter, $26.76; steward, $29.20; cooks, $23.11; boatswain, $19.46; donkey men, $20.67; able 'seamen, $17.03; ordinary seamen, $9.73; fire men, $18.25; mess steward, $9.73. On French "tramps" the rates per month are: Captain, $38.60 and 1 per cent. on gross freight; mate, $38.60; second mate, $27.62; boatswain, $21.23; able seam'en, $11.58; chief engineer, $77.20; second engineer, $36.80; third engineer, p28.95; firemen, $15.44; coal trimmers, $11.5S; carpenters, $15.44; stewards 114.48; cooks, $16.41; boy, $5.79. After having been laid up at Liver pool or Glasgow for some time orders will be given to prepare the tramp for sea. Off she will start on a voyage that will be extraordinarily zigzag. Per haps to commence with she goes to Cardiff for a cargo of coal to one of the West Indian islands. Arriving at des tination orders are given to proceed to Rio, where the captain finds a cargo of coffee for Cape Town, from whence he proceeds to Shanghai or Foochoo for s shipment of tea to San Francisco o: New York, if to the latter port, per haps there is another trip to Rio, and thence a journey to Antwerp. Eventu ally the ship gets back home, more or less the worse for her journey round the globe, and then, with a coat of paint and a polish to such metal as she may have, this tramp is made to appear to the landsman's eye a stanch and good ship. Besides being able to carry car goes and freight at much lower rates than the ships of regular companies, the fact of their being able to carry .oD other business gives them a still furthej opportunity to unfairly compete witk established lines. The operating expenses of these ocean tramps are reduced to a very lov level. The coal consumption is small, In many cases not over twenty-five to forty tons a day; the crew is as smaUJ as possible, and the other general ex peses are kept at a minimum. On the sea the tramp steamer is bu Little liked. Blundering along with a bad lookout, perhaps none at all, the tramp is a terror to the owners of small sailing craft--yachts, fishing and coast ing schooners-and, taking no notice of their lights,- often crashes Into them, remorselessly sending some of the oc upants to a watery grave. The offi ers of mail steamers, also, profess great dislike to the tramp, which may be partly assumed and partly real, for they greatly dread a collision with some badly steered, carelessly man aged vessel heavily laden with coal or iron or grain. The question Is, what becomes of all the ocean tramps? Some are sold for coasting and up-river trade on the African coast and other out of the way places; many are broken up for old iron, but the majority of them probably end their career, so far as any record of them is concerned, by being chronicled in the daily papers as mis dg, which means that they have linally uccumbed to some peril of the sea. An Agile and Inquisitive Cow. A red and white cow climbed a long lght of steps and trotted through the~ second story of the Weems Steamboat rQmnan's offics on, Light street Brtl timore, the other "a-y. Vie cow wa one of a drove shipped from Rappaha nock, Va., by A. H. Jones on the stear er isseX. It was driven off the what into the street, and when opposite th road open entrance to the office of th company the cow suddenly turned froi the street and started up the stairwa3 climbing twenty-four steps to the set ond story. At the top of the steps th visitor found herself in a 140-foot hal Open doors were hurriedly shut and th cow struck an easy trot, and, startin from the head of the stairway, ran th whole length of the hall. She poke her head out of a widow, gazed ore the harbor and showed a disposition t climb out on a roof which overhun; the watem Several men approaehe the cow from outside of the windoN and persuaded her to retrace her step along the hall to the head of the stee] stairway. Here four men took hold o the intruder and forced her down th stairs to the street again.-St. Loui Globe-Democrat. CROWS NOT TO BE TRUSTED A Cunning Bird's Stratagem to Ge Food at a Hunter's Camp. "A crow is the slickest. bird flyinj when it wants to be," said Lige Thom ner as he sat on the edge of a soap bo: at Williams' store at Long Hill Cente: near Bridgeport, Pa., "and to prove it will tell a circumstance-stbat occurre when a party of us were camping a Zsanaan Mountain pond-last fall. "There were an almighty lot of crowi around the hut we occupied, and on, day I brought out my gun and shoL Intl the flock. All escaped mry shot excep one which was lying on the groun< wounded. I went to the place an< picked the wounded bird up, and fount that Its left leg had beenproken by thi shot Taking the crow to the hut I am putated the leg, and taking a hot coa from the fire burned the stump so tlwi It would not bleed. The bird was thei ,#Uowed to go at liberty, but: Instead o: [eaving the vicinity of the camp it hun; around, and the boys.:would feed I with crumbs from the tauble, and it ie came quite tame. It would come limp Ing Into camp just like a veteran afte Wis pension. "At about meal time tie crow, coule be expected at first, but at last .s vis ts became more frequent One of th4 boys hinted that the bird we were feed Ing was not the victim of my gun shot and investigating this theory we foun what a gay deceiver the'crow is. U1 the alley leading to thedlyot where the bird had been In the habi of receivius ts food there hoppe4ene day a fin( black crow. There wai othing abon the bird to show that-twas not th( same-one that had beeu the object oi our bounty-so long.-t-iGyoni-oneev "'I'll bet that ain't our crow,' sait Charley. "'Yes, it is, too,' I says; 'it has onl) one leg.' " You wait and see,' says Charley and away he hurried and returned witI: is gun. Raising it and taking careftui aim he fired, and the bird stretched over on the ground dead. We made ar examination, and sure enough the bird had two legs as good and sound as an-y bird flying. When it had come into oi amp it had hitched the other up undei ts wing so as to deceive us and secure food. It must have watdhed us feeding he wounded bird G2. saw an oppor unity of securing fo'ed by imitating hat one. All crows are so near alike tere Is no identifying one, and the nly way we knew ours was by the onE eg. When such a clever imitator at acked us we were badly fooled. I de ot know what became of the real ounded bird. It never showed up fter the other was killed. I don't know. ut that we had been feeding the bogu:a ird for the real one for weeks befor' we found out our mistake as it was." CORN AND COTTONJ. rwo Staples in Which the Uniitee State. Lead the Wholo Word. Cotton and corn are the two grea. American staples, and the two in which he United States stand easily at the ead not only of all countries, but of ll countries combined. The total cot on supply of the world, figured on the asis of bales of 400 pounds each, is aout 12,000,000 bales, and of this aount the United States p~rodnces aout 9,000,000 bales, or two-thirds of he whole amount The crop here at. aned the highest figures before thq ar in 1860, when it was 4,G00,009 ales of 470 pounds; 1892 was tihe bes! ear for cotton since, the crop bei:~s ,000,000 bales of 470 pouand-s. The corn of the United States ?m .04 is 65.000,000 acres, and lith 11! roduct 1,200,000,000 bushlis, of~ t alue of about $600,000,000. The gieat orn year was 1889, with a crop of 2,100,000,000 bushels; 1891 followed ith 2,000,000,000 bushels. In 1802 nd 1893 the figures were about the ae-1,600,000,000 bushels. Compared1 ith the value of the corn and cotton rop, the other agricultural proditc tions of the United States occupy a ubordinate position, the val te ofth heat crop being $225.000.000i. c(ats 214,000,000, potatoes $91,, r)4har ley $27,000,000, rye $13,000..0m, an;I uckwheat $7,000,000. Two surprises because of the '1!Ter ne in value compared with orPlinary ublic expectations are hay nud to acco. The hay crop of the United States amounted last year to $1~8.0. 00 in value; the tobacco crop. on the ather hand, amounted to only 8:.:0. )00. The last year preceding u1s803) he tobacco crop was 50 per cent. gt-* er, and considerably more than Ihai f it came from two States, Ke:.ay~k d Tennessee. Kentucky s;nds ioa the head of the tobacco St.ate.:. lX enn. ~ylvania is at the head of zlhee ini the ~orth. Connecticut comes nest: .Nev' HOUSEHOLD AFTFAIRS. I MAPPnE ?RESEnVES. I Pare the pineapple, and take out al 2 eyes and discolored. parts. Cut ir 2 slices, cut slices in small pieces, tak 1 ing ont core. Weigh the fruit, ani A put in a pan with half as many poundi 2 of sugar as fruit. Let it stand ovej night. In the morning put it over th( 2 fire and let it boil rapidly for a minut< only, as cooking long discolors it Put it in jars and seal closely. -Detroil FrZe Press. r GnAPE CATSUP. Squeeze the pulp from five poundi .f grapes; boil this for five minutes oi until the seeds can be strained out, i using a vorcelain potato masher tc i press the pulp through the sieve; add two pounds of sugar, the 3kins, one cup of vinegar, a teaspoonful each of all spice and cinnamon, a saltspoonfu: each of mace and cloves and a half i teaspoonful of salt; add the spices it bags and boil until it thickens. Th housewife who gave me this receipi adds a little cayenne pepper at the last. It is delicious with cold meats. -American Agriculturist. CEESE OMRET. Maria Parloa, in Good Housekeep ing, says: For three or four peopl use two ounces of stale bread, free from crust, two ounces of grated oi finely broken cheese, one gill of boil ing water, one gill of cold milk, on( level teaspoonful of salt, a grain of cayenne, one tablespoonful of buttai and two eggs. Have the bread brokez into small pieces and pour the boiling water over it. When soft, add the salt, pepper and milk and break up fine. Beat the yolks and white of the eggs separately and stir them into the mixture. Add the cheese. Pat the butter into a frying-pan and set ovez a hot fire. When the butter is so hol that it begins to turn brown, pour in the omelet and cook until it begins to get set, drawing the mixtare back a little as you would a plain omelet. Now fold it and let it brown slightly. Turn out on a hot dish and serve im mediately. HOW TO TnEPABE POULTRY. In preparing poultry for cooking here are a few rules to follow: Chick ens, ducks, capons and turkeys should be killed at least twenty-four hours before using. When well picked, singe by removing the stove cover and put ting some paper in. Pass the bird over the flame, taking care not to blacken or burn it. Cut the neck off as near the body as possible. Cut the injjlt -Tour forefinaer loosen the crop and take it out CuFa slff un. der the rump large enough to run the hand into the body. Put the hand in carefully to loosen the contents of the body and stomac.h in every direction so that all may be drawn out in oue mass. Pour warm water through the bird and wipe out with a towel. Cut the gall from the liver, then throw the liver into cold water. Scald and skin the feet; put gizzard, heart, feet, and neck in a pint or .more water, with a little onion. 'Let them stew slowly until reduced one-half. All poultry needs just this treatmnent.-New York Advertiser. HoUSEHOW HI3Ts. To remove paint stains apply tur .pentine at once, if possible. For asthma soak blotting paper in strong saltpeter water; dry, and burn at night. Clear, black coffee diluted with water and containing a little ammonia will clean and restore black clothes. Pour diluted carbolic acid at once upon every part of a poisonous wound; afterward give internal stimulants. If the eyes are weakened by close work, such as painting, embroidery or reading, bathe them frequently in weak alum water. To aleanse cut glass, wash it intepid watos and dry thoroughly. Polish with a brush used for the purpose and prepared chalk. Before beginning to seed raisins .over them with hot water and let them stand fifteen minutes. The seeds can then be removed easily. A poultice made of Indian meal, covered with Young Hyson tea, mois tenedi with hot water and laid on a burn will relieve the pain in five min-. utes. For moist hands ninety grains o1 eau de cologne and fifteen grains of belladona is an excellent lotion, after the use of which dust with powdered alum. One of the best remedies for tooth ache is the common compound tine ture of benzoin. If a few drops are placed on cotton and put in or around the tooth the pain will be almost in stantly stopped. For laundry use kerosene is very ef factual in whitening clothes. A half a teacupful in a boiler of clothes will produce a most satisfactory result. Yet care must be exercised when using this explosive material. Where the hair is thinning the fol lowing is excellent: Mix equal quan tities of olive oil and spirit of rose mary with a few drops of oil of nut meg. Rub into roots at mgh~t. Sim ple rosemary tea is also good. The sooner a man becomes convinced of the things he can't do the quicker he will succeed in life. ILife is too short to waste in critic peep or cynic bark, quarrel or repri mand 'twill soon be dark. (,ood advice is scarce, and those who have the most of it to spaIre are the last ns on part with it. TRUMPET CALLC. Lam's Horn Sounds a warltag Wot to the Unredeezned. CH RISTIAN with a long face ought t6 pray a good deal before he starts for church. Every coward - . -1 s somebody's hero. Jesus C hr isat was poor, but he / never begged. Remember that the top side of a doud Is always brIght. A lazy man loses heart every time h. tooks at the clock. Love is the only thing that more than pays for all it gets. The best advertisement for a revival a the revival itself. Controversy in religious matters pays Iao spiritual dividends. God never says "Come up higher" to I tny except the faithful. The sin that shines the bcightest is the one most apt to kill Unless we find God to-day somebody Ase may lose him to-morrow. If we know how to aim, the bigger die giant the better the mark. - The man who looks through cobwebs will see spiders everywhere. If the Lord could trust us with mone) ire would all have more of it. The man gains nothing who loses his tharacter and saves his money. Rebellion against God turns its back on heaven, and makes its own hell. The man God helps is the man who is doing what he can to help hfmself. The devil may feel proud of his worb when he looks at a drunkard's home. It is always the self-righteous man who wants to know where Cain got his wife. Some shepherds seem to forget that sheep never stand on their hind legs to eat. For every fault we see in others wt nave two of our own which we over took. .. The conviction of sinners is sure to ae deep when the church is hearing God speak. The Journey to the cross is short when we are willing to go to it with bleed Ing feet. The devil can behave himself as well As an angel when he has to do it to gain his point. One reason why Christ ate with pub 8cans anf-sinners was iat they made him welcome. The blind would never find out that they were blind, if somebody with eyes didn't tell them so. The religion that is only seen on Sun lay, is not the kind that Is going to bring the world to Christ- t When man finds God in peace it is pecause he sougl4 him as a sinner wher t he had no peace. 6 The man who gives as God tells him T co, will do himself more good than the mne who receives his gifts.r When the devil walks abroad as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may de' your, he never shows his teeth. - God doesn't tell the unconverted man that he is asinner, but turns on the Uight and shows him that he is one. Give some people the power to move mountains, and how quick they would spoil the country for everybody else. Moses saw the burning bush as hb was passing by, but he didn't hear God speak until he turned-and went to it. i A revival is as much the result of ibedience to certain laws and condi. tions, as the production of an electrie light. The church would have greater vie. tories if there were no men in her ministry except those whom God has sent.r The sermon that does not have some o thing in it that God has said, will not provoke any opposition from the king k 'Ythe pit. It is no doubt easier for God to stoy i the sun than it is to turn a man around who has always been in the habit of 3 having his own way. ri The preacher's spiritual life is morb s Apt to widen and deepen when he is be- 9 ing persecuted for righteousness' sake, than when his salary has been doubled. I 1 The Bible declares that people ofj Aealth and culture are not made out of any better clay than common folks, but bushels of sermons are written which studiously avoid pressing home thisJ truth..s SWorking Jones for It. "Smith is a good-natured man." 'Why do you say so?"' "Jones is telling him all the cute e' things his baby says and Smith is t laughing heartily and seems interesto ' "Smith wanted to borrow $3 from me si just now and I couldn't let him hav-e p it."-New York Press. si Begun 300 Years Ago. In sixteen months the great drainage d eanal of the City of Mexico will be ti opened. The canal is over thirty miles fi long, and the tunnel through the moun- i tain six miles. The total cost will have been $20,000,000, and they have been C fooling with the thing off and on for ft BOO years. i There is no cheerfulness In the work' that equals that of an amnate~nr in reV jIt never becomes entirely dark to p News in Brief -The deepest ocean is the gacfic. -The Japanese are fond of t thing. -Electrical cranes are multiplying. . The Black Sea has a depth of 00 fathoms. -The cost of the Mexican war War $6000,000. -Berlin is said t3 be the healthiest city in the world. -The velocity of light may be taler %t about 186,300 miles a second. "-_A new telegraph invention will eonvey 2000 words a minute over the fires. -The skin is rough because by that means it is better adapted to receive sensations. -The wren often makes a dozen nests, leaving all but one unfnishd and unused. -Germany reports 289 instances of suicide amiong school children durn h6 last six years. -Many pairs of sandals have been recovered at Pompeii. The soles are 6 stened with nails. -Dr. Joule's studies in mechanical equivalents of heat brought forth the compound engine. -There are said to have been five micides in five years in Divimty HalL aambridge, England. -Brooklyn (N. Y.) elevated and sur ace roads carried nearly 200,000,00( assengers the past year. -When the Japanese wish to send rapes to distant friends -they -pack Jherm in boxes of arrowroot. -Mrs. Mozette, of Jackson County, ichigan, an inmate of the cointv ilmshouse, is 106years old. -In nearly all arid land regionsf irtesian wells can be obtained. at r lepth of from 303 to 600 feet. -It is proposed to build 'an electrie ailroad fifteen niles from lortland. Efe., along the Elizabeth shom. -Substances liable. to explosion are, bs it were, says Professor C. A. Mitch 1l", in a state of unstable equilbriui -The smallest church iu the worlda 't St Lawrence, Isle of Wight. -A :ongregation of forty would crowd it. -Half a teaspoonful of sugar scat ored over a dying fire is better that cerosene and has no element of dan ler. -The French claim that ' ras invented by Lebon in 1802, who nade gas by the dry distillation .o' vood. -The ground has only beenlightly :overed with- snow at Mobile, Ala., ive times durinethe last seventyfivr reai . A monument of Dr. Charoot, the treat hypnotist, is iow an assured fac or rar. The money for it har 3een raised. - Chicago clergymen have formed a aub to instruet .prospective mission lies ia foreign languages by means of ie phonograph. -There are forty five survivors .of he war of 1812 on the roll of the pen ion cffice, of whom fifteen are 100 Or nore years old. -Drawings executed in London were ecently successfully transmitted by elegraph to Paris by means. of the ?ray telautograph.. -Motormen in JBaltimore are arrs ed if they do not stop their cars be are psing the engine house of the ity fie department. -Experte have made exausie eat., and have found it took no more over to haul the double truck ea' han the smngle truck car. -Australian ranchme2 make use of ie telephone to warn each other of toxin signals, "and in Montana' they re beginning to follow suit. -An error of athousandth patof a coond im au astronomical clulation rould mean an error of 200,000000,006 iile, m the distance of a smr. In building nest. birds invariably void the use of bright colored mate ials, which would add to the chancer ? the enemy in iocating them. -In China, which has long been nown s "the land of opposites," the jals of clocks are made to turn round, while the bands standstill. -Edgar F. Whitman of Nantucket, lass., who is building a steam car lage for his personal use, think that team carriages will ultimately sap' :ant horse carriage. -.In the sugar corn the conversionot igar into starch is arrested at a par cular point in the growth; the grain - oes no filI out, and is consequently arivezled. .-Bees readily distinguish color, blu.. eing their favorite; and ants are sensi ye to the ultra violet rays of the aeotrum, which are invisible to Iau tan beings. .-ev. C. M. Jones, of Oneonta, N. .owns one of the first horseshoes rer 2~made by machinery. It weigha g'o and a half pounds and was made STroy in J85~8. -No receptacle has ever been made, rong enough to resist the bursting ower of freezing water; 20-pound iells have been rent asunder ar iough made of pottery. --The new glass wall linings intro neced in Berlin are not brittle, but iey suggest irreseistibly the necessity >r residents of vitreous dwellings no? >precipitate projectiles. --Miss Ellen Tickle, of Heno, Butler ounty Ohio, is said tobe the smallest ill-developed woman now living She thirty one years old, and weighr at twenty eight pounds. -Careful measurements of cloud clocities at the Blue EillObservatory, Eass.. show that at the height of five 7 liles the movemnment is three times ister in summer than at the earth's mife and six times niwintor.