The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, September 30, 1891, Image 1
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“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
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