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1 “IF F01I THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. II. DAItLlNGrTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1891. NO.4 “GEIV'ERAL SHERMAN.” By John €. Ropes, in (he Atlantic Monthly. Probably no general in the Union army has been more honored and ap preciated, at least in the Northern States, than General Sherman. His achievements in the war weie per haps, on the whole, more striking and brilliant than those performed by any other officer, Federal or Con federate. 'Plmy were of a kind cal culated powerfully to excite the immagination, and they were crowned by complete and dazzling success, Then he was a man of most marked and individual traits of character. He was bold in action and in speech. He possessed all the 'peculiarly American characteristics. He was not only enterprising, full of re sources, aggressive, but he was all this in a way distinctively his own: he was the type of the American general in these respects. More than this, he took the public into his confidence to a degree that no other general ever thought of doing. Not that he sought popularity by any unfair methods, but that he could not help stating to the .world his views and conclusions, pro claiming his likes and dislikes, as he went along. And although he was always a very plain-spoken man, and his opinions frequently ran counter to the popular notions, his evident honesty and sincerity took wonder fully with the people. There has been nobody in our time like General Sherman. It may be too soon properly to estimate his military abilities. We are perhaps too near to the war, too familiar with the actors themselves, and with the local and temporary tradition about their doings; we are perhaps too much interested in them to be thoroughly impartial. Yet the contemporary generation posses ses certain manifeit advantages for coming to a correct judgment of the men and affairs of -its day which cannot, in the nature of things, be possessed by the generations that come after. The men of the time cannot easily be grossly deceived or greatly mistaken. They have not gained all their knowledge from books. When they do read about the events through which they have passed, they know something about the writers of books and their quali fications. and something about the events themselves from sources in dependent of the books. Eye-wit ness and direct testimony count, and ought to mint, for a good deal, f-et ns then try to state in a very brief way what we, in this generation, lenow and think of the great soldier ."•o has so recently left us. (Jenu ^ lon,mn was appointed to the Mih>y Academy at West .State of Ohio in in 1840, sixth It was determined to push forward on the line of the Tennessee River as large a force as could be collected. Grant, with the confidence born of his recent victory, established his army at Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, on the western side of the river, having his headquarters at Savannah, some eight miles further down the river,—that is, to the northward,—and on the opposite or eastern bank. Sherman commanded a division in this army. Buell, now under Halleck’s orders, had been directed to march with all his dis posable forces from Nashville to Savannah, thence to be transferred to Pittsburg Lauding, from which point the whole command was to advance soidhwestwardly to Corinth, a town on the great railroad which, running from west to east, connected Memphis with Chattanooga, intersect ing the railroad from Mobile to the Ohio River, and constituted one of the most important avenues of com munication for th« enemy in that region. It was supposed at the time that the Confederate troops had been thoroughly discouraged by their recent heavy losses in men, material, and territory, and that we should have no serious difficulty in attaining objective point, and thus opening the way for further opera tions. Everybody knows what happened: how Albert Sidney Johnston and Beauregard saw their opportunity in the exposed situation of Grant's army; how they rapidly and secretly gathered their forces together; how they were delayed by bad weather and frightful roads, but how, on Sunday morning, the Gth of April, they struck the unsuspecting army of Grant a terrible blow; how stub bornly and bravely Grant and his lieutenants resisted' and held out, fighting to the last, Sherman especi ally distinguishing himself not only for gallantry, but for readiness and skill in making his dispositions; how nevertheless, they were pressed back in disorder; how at the close of the day .the advance guard of Buell’s army arrived just in time to check the last assaults of the exhausted Confederates; and how the battle was renewed the next day, and resulted in a great success for the Union arms. Ito be contixn-:i>. 1 ■ FACTS IN A NUTSHELL. Point from the 183(1, and graduated in his class. Although, ‘* l ‘ rin o t ^ c Mexican war, he was emp.-'B^ 1 1,1 the expedition to California, lul< ^ therefore missed the opportunities for distinction in the field which the campaigns of Scott and Taylor so liberally afforded, and although he subsequently left the service, his appointment in the regular army as colonel of one of the new regiments of infantry, and also as brigadier- general of volunteers in May, 1861, shows how highly his abilities were rated by his contemporaries and su periors. After the first battle of Bull Run, where he commanded a Brigade, he was sent to Kentucky to serve under General Robert Ander son. The latter’s health, however, soon failing him, Sherman assumed command of the department of the Cumberland. General Sherman’s connection with the Army of the Cumberland did not long continue, for, supersed ed at his own request by General Buell, he was transferred to General Hallock’s department of his Missis sippi. Here began his connection with the troops which were after wards organized into the Army of jV, e Tcnnessc'!. The history of these two fal^ on ' , commands is virtually the history o.' ^ ' Vi,r i >' r ^‘ >•'"«»«• sippi Valley. Gran*; m “ McPherson are the hei' v ' ;3 A clock is to be seen at Brussels which comes as near to being a perpetual-motion machine as,is like ly ever to be invented, for the sun does the winding. The method by which it works is described in the Optician’: A shaft exposed to the solar rays causes an up draft of air, which sets a fan m motion. The fan acts upon a mechanism which raises the weight of the clock until it reaches the top, and then puts a brake on the fan till the weight 1 gone down a little, when the fan is again liberated, and proceeds to act as before. As long as the sun shine* xrfiquently enough, and the machi nery doc* not will keep going. wear out, the clock The September number of the I-o- comotive Engineer's Monthly Journal contains the following: “Officers of many of our most important systems of late have issued very stringent rules with regard to the use of in toxicating liquors. Employes who use intoxicants to excess, even when off duty, must impair their ability to properly discharge their duty, and when on service the company may, with absolute propriety, decline to continue to employ them. The rule against the employes of railroad companies drinking intoxicating liquors at all when on duty .one the justice of which cannot be rea sonably questioned, as there is scarcely another class of men whose brain should be so clear or nerves so steady as the class whose duty makes them accountable for the safe opera tion of a great steam transportation system. All the railroad should be free from the the drinking habit. The railroad employe must have at all times, when on duty, absolute control of his The Pecan Tree and its Possi bilities. ' To the editor of The News and Courier: A good deal of interest is being developed in the growing of the Texas thin-shell pecan, which promises greater results financially than can be obtained by the raising of oranges, walnuts, almonds, prunes or olives. The long fife of the pecan is large ly in its favor, I (ecu use, unlike most orchard productions, one planting will last for generations, bearing even for six hundred years. One secret of its long life is its tap root, which will go down to the depth of thirty feet or more, if re quired, for moisture feeding upon soils unreached by ordinary surface- rooted trees. While many trees are perishing for want of moisture, the pecan is green and thrifty, mak ing delightful shade, which can lie trained into wide-spreading trees if desired. The wild trees commence hearing at six years old, at eight years will begin to pay, and at the age of ten years will yield from 150 to 200 pounds per tree; at fifteen will yield from 10 to , 15 bushels, sometimes more. Cultivation improves them, its earlier hearing, increased size, thinner shells and larger products— a fact not universally known. Un ike most trees planted from the sect!, at least 00 per cent of the pro duct of the pcean will be like the seed planted—possibly 100 per cent. Being of the hickory family the pecan can be grown where the hick ory can, but it is reasonable to sup pose that in the Northern part of the United States nature would pro vide a thicker husk for covering the nut. fhe jieeaii neither transplants, grafts nor buds well, so the only safe way is to plant the root where the tree is to stand. There is no need of giving up the ground wholly to the growth of the pecan, because the ground can lie used by growing peaches, Irish pota toes, tomatoes, beans, peas or straw berries. I’lanfing 35 by 35 for the pecan, peach trees can he planted every 175 feet, giving 30 pecan trees per acre and So peach trees, between which in rows can he grown the smaller products. When the pecan trees come into bearing, the peach rces will have served their time and can he removed. To utilize lands which lie along the streams, and overflow so as to render them of no value for plough ed crops, the pecan can bo planted among the standing trees 35 by 35 feet apart. Persons may plant out 50 to 100 acres in pecans and farm the land until the trees come into hearing, when they will receive a large in come from the pecans—ten times as great as from any farm crop acre for acre. Having no enemies, hardy, thrifty, easily grown, they pay better profits on the investment than anything else known, banking, real estate, bonds or stocks not excepted. At only one cent per pound, the hard shell pecans arc worth twenty-five cents per pound jn the markets, they will earn ten times "as much as cotton will at ten cents per pound. Ten acres in jiecaos will earn more clear profit than five hundred acres will in cotton at ten cents per pound. Fifty acres in pecans will earn more net profit lyh.en ten years old than a bank with a capital of $300,000 earning 10 per cent. At fifteen years will earn more than a bank with $600,000 earning 10 per cent, count ing the pecans at ten cents per The Fastest Mile. The following items will prove of interest: The fastest mile run by a railroad train was made in 501 seconds. The fastest mile made in rowing in a single boat took 5 minutes and 1 second. The fastest mile ever made by a running horse was run in 1 minute 35J seconds. The fastest mile by a man on a tri cycle was made in 2 minutes 363 seconds. The fastest time on snow shoes for a mile is.recorded as 5 minutes seconds. The best time for a mile by a man on a bicycle is recorded as 2 minutes 251 seconds. The fastest mile ever made by a nn swimming was done in 26 min utes and 52 seconds. The fastest mile ever accomplished by a man walking was made in 6 minutes and 23 seconds. In running the fastest mile made by a man was accomplished in 4 minutes 123 seconds.—X. Look out for a Horse Thief. Mr. Marion Doin, who lives on the Barber (old English) place, Black River, had a mule and a set of harness stolen from his stable on Tuesday night, 15th inst. On Wednesday morning he and Mr. Baker, Mr. J. B. McBride, and other neighbors followed the trail to a place near Wells X Roads, where they found the mule hitched in the woods. The negro was away trying to steal a road cart at the time the mule was found. The negro and a confederate who was not recognized •both'made their escape. The thief was from Goldsboro, N. O., but had been working in the neighborhood for a month or longer. He had been compelled to leave the neighbor hood about a week previous on ac count of another theft. It will be well for the people to look out for these rascals, as they will undoubted ly steal horses at any opportunity.— Sumter Watchman & Southern. Old Sayings. .Some may donor thu»e figures, |qjl they can lie abundantly verified, showing that here is an industry which is worth millions to the United States, and can be carried on by any one owning land at little As poor as a church mouse. As thin us a rail, As fat as a porpoise. As rough ns a gale, As brave ns a lion. As spry as a eat. As bright as a sixpence, As weak as a rat. As proud as a peacock, As sly ns a fox, As mail as a Mareli hare, As strong a* an ox, As fair as a lily, As empty as air, As rieli as Crooesns, As cross as a hear. As pure as an angel, As neat as a pin, As smart as a steel trap. As ugly as sin, As deail us a door nail, As white as a sheet, As Mat as a pancake, As red as a beet. As round ns an apple, As black as your hat. As brown as a berry, As blind as a hm, As mean as a miser, As full us a tick, As plump as a partridge. As sharp us a stick. As clean as a penny, As dark ns a pall, As hard as a mill-stone, As bitter as gall, As fine as a fiddle, As clear as a bell, As dry as a herring, As deep as a well. As light as a feat her. As hard as a rock, As sijtf as y As calm as a clock, As green as a gosling. As brisk as a bee,— And now let me stop, Lest you weary of me. THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY. Army of the Tennessee; i^dl, | thought and hand; both must he Rosecrans, and Thomas of the Army ] stc.r\ v > mire ’ *' of the Cumberland. ! good for tlie G'UU'littg j ubhe; it is Ilalleck’s forces opened the cum- : equally good for c!.?'’' u H'» palgn of 1862 with a brilliant stroke.' vocation in many brunches of The capture of Forts Henry ami service exposes them to the danger of Dondsou by the troops under Grant serious or fatal injury. It is worthy and the fleet under Foote in Fehru-'of notice that I he Brotherhood of Ft will not, perhaps, be rcmcmlter- pd, says Ifw; i’ajvf Maker (London), that in the great exhibition of loot u specimen of iron paper was exhibi ted. Immediately a lively competi tion ensued among ironmasters as to (he thinness to v Inch cold iron could iroumakcr rolled ■•kitess of which was tiic eighteenth hundreth part of an inch. In other words, 1,800 sheets of this iron, piled one upon Alt artesian well near not only s P outs Mh oil rtml inch in thickness. portatipn (.put, risk care or trouble. If doubt- the thinness to v Inch e ad men | (.j, write to ibe "'ho l* vollw1 ' 0uu , i ro " effects of [ will give further information if j sfiens MV wanted. JlKllltKIfT I‘(1ST. Fort Worth, Texas. Albert Lea, 1 t | R . 0 t] u . r) would only measure one The woimcrf::) more W liori ary caused tin immediate fall of laieoinotive Nashville and tin- evacuation by the sobriety of Kngiiuer- made it- memljers (he en, my of the greater part of the;corner stone of its principles, ptaU# vt ISMtavkj wtl Itauwww.' «bvt>v4 its wwilvw by #o doing/’ the very and water, often change- ihu pvt.g:;!!iinie, 0 f (],i 8 work nmv he and sends out a stream of small min- mu(llv when it is tv- nows, which lire wholly unhke any nM . n)t ^ ml t| )ltt l,2(M» sheets of the known spei‘: , ‘* > fidl tVM'ta in that t|,| m icst tissue paper measures a vicinity. • fractivll over an inch. These won- Ati exchange sav- there are people dcrfttl iron .duels tno perfectly who will never enjoy heaven unless smooth and easy lo writ" upon, not- they secure a seat which commands withstanding (he I'.e t that they a .lew of the tormented " o'.hu plttcv. ones in the were jhh'oiis when held up in a strong •igUt. Dr Palmer on the Immoral In- stitition. The following extracts from the speech of Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, de livered at a public meeting of the Anti-Lottery League of Louisiana, held in the Grand Opera House, in New Orleans, Hill lie read with in terest. *l)r. Palmer’s birthplace is Walterboro. * * * * “I lay the indictment against the Lottery Company of Louisiana that it is essentially an immoral institu tion, whose business and avowed aim is to propagate gambling throughout the country. This being not simply a nuisance, but even a crime, no 1-iegislature, as the creature of the people, nor even the people them selves in convention assembled, have the power to legitimate it, either by Legislative enactment upon the one hand or by fundamental charter upon the other. In other words, i lay the indictment against the Lou isiana Lottery Company that its con tinued existence is incompatible, not only w ith the safety, but with the lie- ing of the State.” “Indeed, sir, if the worst should come to the worst in this present campaign, I for one could wish that all the technicalities being swept away, there might he some method by which the question could be carried up to the Supreme Court of the United States, whether it is compe tent to any State in the Union to commit suicide. And if that venera ble Court should return an answer, which I think they would not for a moment consider as jiossible I would then, for my part, make the appeal to (he virtue and common sense of the masses of our people, that the very instinct of self-preservation may stamp out of existence an institution w hich is fatal to the liberties and to the life of the commonwealth. ' “Suppose there should be an or ganization effected in this city for Thuggery—and, by the way, we have had some little experience of that of lute; when all th« machinery of human justice proving inadequate hi defend the safety and life of the commonwealth, extra legal measures were necessitated, under the instinct of self-preservation, to stamp out the existence of the Mafia in our midst. Now, Sir, I put the Lottery upon the same moral plane.” * I>et me illustrate this so that it shall lie understood by all present to night. That Company isues, if you please, a thousand ticket# of $500 a piece, creating thus within its vaults a fund of $500,000. It has first got to ttike $250,000 of that and deposit it safely in its own locker as its por tion of the plunder. It then takes the other half, the $250,000, and divides it into twenty-five shares of $10,000 each and put# those into the wheel, and the 500 men may take their chances as to which of $10,000 each and puts those into the wheel, and the 500 men may take their chances qs to which of them shall get these twenty-five prizes. * * Now, Sir, let the Lottery sxist five and twenty years. If only twenty- five men out of the five hundred suc ceed in gaining what the Lottery promises, how long will it take to transfer the entire wealth of the State of Louisiana into the hands of one out of twenty of its citizens! 1 What will lie the condition of things when one-twentieth of the popula tion own everything upon the soil, and lot me ask, sir, how long is any community going to stand that sort of a thing? When the count! y h ! l* been led straight up to the verge of the precipice; do you suppose that, like a herd of buffaloes, all the peo ple of this State are going to leap that precipice into the ladling and hissing (ifiplhs be|<!H* Nmi W*, (hey must ami they will recoil, and if thi* Lottery cannot l»e destroyed by forms of law, it must unquestionable, be destroyed by actual revolution. For some time an interesting cor- resmmdence has been going on in the' Umdon ‘filims on tlie qu#st|un uf the utility of hanging ns a deterrent of murder. The letter that has nt- tructed most attention is from a <v>iitttrv doctor, who was for ninny years physician at a jail where noted criminals acre cuuflimd, The f.ofl; elusion of this writer is that a flog- ifinir is the best deterrent of crime knpwn. He says that an old offender agreed with him and said while talking of it: “You ought, to (log just as a it jtl| is leaving prison, if he would show his friends his raw hack it would he to all t bcnnon.” Sleeping with (he Head to the North. The superstitious belief that human beings should sleep with their heads toward the North is now believed to he based ui>on scientific principles. The French Academy of sciesice has made experiments upon the liody of a guillotined man, which go to prove that each human hotly is in itself an electric battery, one electrode being represented by the head and tlie other by the feet. The body of the subject ujxm which were made was taken after death and placed free to nmve in any direction. The head portion turned to the. North, the pivot-board then remaining sta tionary. A professor turned it half way round, but it soon took its former position, and the same result was obtained till all organic movement ceased. A Breathing Exercise. exjicrinieiils immediately upon ti pilot What W’e Gain From Friendships. that sacred enclosure, saying, “Be- . T hold, I stand at the door and knock;” A true friendship is the most re- . uu j M()f mi jj| is For the expansion of the lungs: Go into the open air, stand erect, throw back the head and shoulders, and draw in the air through the nostrils as much as possible. After having thus filled the lungs through the nostrils, raise your arms, and, while they are extended, suck in the air. When yon have thns forced the arms backward with the chest open, change the process by. which you drew in your breath till the lungs are emptied. Go through this pro cess several times a day and it will enlarge the chest, give the lungs la-1 ter play, and serve very much to ward off consumption. The Lyndon, Kan., Journal isn’t worrying itself over the calamity howlers this year. It addresses the farmer as follows: “When, in the history of your country since you made money, could you buy as much with a day’s or a month’s work as now? When could you buy so much with a 200-pound hog? When so much with a $65 plug or a $100 fine horse? When in your recollection did you get as much for butter and eggs as for the last year, and when could you buy so much sugar, coffee, spices, syrup and groceries generally with the products of such sale? When in your recollection could you get as much for all kind of farm products as for the year last past? Please drop in and tell us when it was in the twenty-five years last past you could have made more money than in th* ptist two years had your usual crop.” An exchange says: ■‘There isn’t a crop that can be mentioned that isn’t prolific this year. Even the crank crop is over-abundant.” The Georgia Legislature has passed a law disqualifying physicians addicted to drink from the practice of their profession. or of ' to A simple cemet for broken china or earthenware is made of powdered quicklime, sifted through a coarse muslin bag over the white of an egg. CHOICE SELECTIONS. Prayer Its awn Answer. [A trannlatlon. In “Exotics," l»v James Freeman Clarke, from Jelal-el-I)ecn.] “Allah, Allah!" cried the sick man, rack ed with pain the long night through: Till with prayer his heart was tender, till his lips like hone}- But at morning came the Tempter) said “Call louder, e|d(d of pujji! Sec it AlUh'ever hear, dr answer ‘Here am 1' again." bike a stall, the cruel cavil through his lirain and pulses went; To Ids heart an icy coldness, to his hrain a darkness, sent. Then hefore him stands Ellas; says, "My child', why thus dlsinaved? Dost repent 'thy' former fervor? Is thy soul of prayer afraid?" “Ah!" he cried, ‘Tve called so often; never heard the ‘Here am I.’ And I thought, God will not pity, will not turn on me his eve," Thou {fit; luayu flws answered, “God safd, 'Uise, Elias,' #o,— Speak to him, the sorely tempted; lift him (rout his gulf of WO, “ -Tell him that his very longing is itself an answering cry; That his prayer, “Come, gracious Allah,” is my answer, “Here am I." ’ “Every Inmost aspiration Is God’s angel undeflleilj And Id fivfty .U my Fattier! 1 slumbers deep a 'Hero, my child! 1 " I hear men speak continually of going to a “better world,” rather than of its coming to them; but in that prayer whjch tjtey jfayfi atyatgkt fruin' tfie lips of the Light of the World, there Is not anything alsmt going to another world; only of another government coming into this, w hich w ill constitute it a world in deed; new heavens and a npgr “Thy kingdom coptc; thy will by done, on earth as jt is j“ Heaven!”— tidlkUb Yet no one gain jn these munerative investment that it jiossible for any jicrson to make, in the realm of time and sense. The income from it is constant ami end less, and ever increasing. If the practical gains of friendship were recognized, every Is sly would want them; yet, as a matter of fact, they are not well know as they ought lo be, and many a person who might secure them at their fullest, makes no right effort for their obtaining. Great gain often conies through having a friend; yet the greatest gain of friendshiji is always in being a friend, rather than in having one; and no one can realize the best gains from another’s friendship for him, until he is himself a friend to that friend or to some one else. Friend ship is loving rather than being loved; and only he whose heart is ojiened and enlarged through loving, is capable of receiving the benefits of being loved. Love grows and gains by outlay, and the largest income of love is from the growth and gain of love through loving. So, again, the ajiprcliension of love received cun come only through the experience of giving love; for love is an unknown element to one who has not learned to love. The mere receiving of love is in itself no gain to any jx-rson. Love received passively neither changes the character nor promotes the per sonal welfare of the loved one, even though it may result in incidental advantage and benefit to him on whom it is bestowed. But the giving of love is in itself a sure gain to the No person can give out love without growing more loving and more lovable; and w hether his love is reciprocated or appreciated, or is w holly ignored, by the one to whom it gix-s out unfailingly, he who loves loviu;. Hence it is that the greatest gain of friendshiji is ever in lieing a friend, and that he who loves as a friend has an unceasing income from the love which he gives out unceasingly. It costs something to he a true friend; hut it is worth all that it costs, and a great deal more. In or der to be a true friend, one must he continually forgetting himself, denying himself, in his jmrjxjse doing or enduring for the one whom lie is a friend. This effort in- y° u had j volves struggle, and in such strug- Igling there is a surjiassing gain of diseipline to the juTsiuiql character of him who struggles lovingly. If, indeed, the struggle must he made without any helj) or recognition from the one in whose behalf it is made, the gain is in no degree smaller to hint who makes it, And so it comes to j>ass that he who lias always been a friend, without having his friend ship recijirocatetl or appreciated, has larger gains in improved character and ennobled manhood than would otherwise have been jxxssihlo to him. Not merely in struggle against selfishness in order to prove a true friend, hut in observing and in be ing stimulated by the best character istics of the one to whom he is a friend, does a man have substantial gain through being unfailing in friendship. He who is a friend is surr to see fine qualities tiqd high purposes find |ufty ideals in the one to whom he is a friend, and the recogirtion of these attainments or aspirations is inspiring to him who notes them in the object of his un selfish affection, Nq map o«n lie a trqe frlpmt (u another without desir ing to be a better man than at pres ent, or without uprcaching toward the best standard held Ix-fore him by the one whom he loves; and to he under the sway ta <“» influence like (Ijiq t# a gain of gains to any man. There are gains, priceless gains, to be secured through having a friend. To bo loved by a friend, to lie watched lovingly by a friend, to have the sympathy, the counsel, the companionahip, the prayers, (he over- ready defense t\gt(ins| others, and the help in a thousand and one ways that only a true and unselfish friend can give to another, is a gain of gains to any jierson. can fully know the direction;! (fiat comes to him from having a friend, until he is himself a friend. In order to realize the value of any jmssession, we must know w hat is its cost; and he who would know the cost of loving must that cost by, loving. The hit hum bart is so formed Hud innermost' depths can be ojH-ncd only from within. The best the heart’s door is ojH-n from within can that love find admission there. Nor can the heart’s door lx- ojh'ii from within to receive love, except as it ojtens for the out going of love. Friendship’s best gifts are, therefore, kejit outside the heart until the heart’s door swings outward al the jiressure from within of friendship that must find its way beyond the heart. Then, and not till then, the heart secures the full ram ot being loved, while having >' i -o I ho greater gain of loving. it it said that, when Mrs. Brown ing, on one occasion, asked brave and good Charles Kingsley what was the secret of his life of power, he thought fora moment, and then answered reverently, “I had ti friend.” If Charles Kingsley had not already Ix-ett a friend, unselfishly and loyally, he could never thus have recognized his indebtedness to friendshiji, or have received its fullest gain. But because he was a friend, he knew what friendshiji meant, and into his own great heart there were poured the best gifts of friendship brought to him by a friend, as that heart was pouring out its best gifts—and making them all th# more its own by their giving—in being a friend. All of us owe more to personal friendships than we yet realize: hut so long as we look for the true gains of friendship in w hat friends are to its, we an- ,-mv <0 fail of reeeiving those ait'-. ; e,! : t the si'll.e time wv are missing (lie greater gain that ionics through the tiuceieiiig outlay of friendshiji on our jiart. If we would know the best that friemlshiji can secure to us, we must seek that knowledge through being true and unselfish friends lo others. Thus, and thus only, can we have Hie fullest gain of both giving and re ceiving friendship. What a Woman (an do. So great is the inllttence of a sweet minded woman on those arofind her that it is almost boundless. It is to her that friends come in seasons of sorrow and sickness for helji and comfort. One soothing touch of her kindly hands works wonders in the feverish child; a few words let fall from her lijis in the ear of a sorrow stricken sister do much to raise the load ol grief that is bow ing its victim down to the dust in anguish. The husband comes home worn out w ith t he jiressure of business and feeling irritable with the world in general, but when he enters the cozy sitting room and sees the blaze of fire and meets his wife’s smilling fact? he succumbs in a moment to the sooth ing influences, which act as the balm of Gilead to his wounded sjiirits that are wearied with the stern realities of life. The rough schoolboy flies into a rage from the taunts of his compan ions to find solace in his mother’s smile; the little one, full of grief with her large trouble, finds a haven of rest on its mother’s breast; and one might go on with instance after instance of the influence that a sweet minded woman has in the soigal life with which she is connected. Beauty is an insignificant jxiwer when com- jiarcd with hers.—Churchman. Death and Rcsiirrcrtioii. A workman of Faraday, the cele brated chemist, one day by accident knocked a beautiful silver cup into a jar of strong acid. In a little while it disappeared, being dissolved in the acid as sugar is in water, and so seemed utterly lost, and the question came up, could it ever be found again? One said it could, hut another replied that lieing dissolved and held in resolution by the acid, there was no jxissibility of recovering it. But the great chemist, standing by, jmt some chemical mixture into the jar, and in a little while every jiarticle of silver was precipitated to the bottom, and ho took it out, now a shajK'less mass, and sent it to the silversmith, and the cup was restored to the same size and shape as before. ' If Faraday could so easily precijiitate that silver and restore its scattered and invisible jiarticlcs into the cup, how easily con God restore our shap ing and scattered dust and change our decayed bodies into the likeness of the glorious body of Christ!— J. M. Anspach. Bishoji' Foster, of I hW Methodist church, declares, ueeVu-ilTfig- to the Cincinnati. Enquirer, tFiJA’ifaveliiig evangelists and revlvalisf| p ai''e a curse to the church, lie c\cj^.goes so far Igvo, humuQ or divine, waits outside as to call them vumput«i#-i THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM.