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THE DARLINGTON HERALD. “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. II. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1802. NO. 46. The Executive Department of Pro hibition. [From the Broud Axe.] There has heen a wonderful devel opment of Temperance sentiment, or of Temperance convictions, in our State within the past eight years. South Carolina has suddenly emerg ed from the darkness, and from the position of out of the most backward and least progressive of all the States in the matter of Temperance reform, it has at once—almost at a single stride stepped into the very front rank. I will not stop to impure in to the causes of this rapid giowth of temperance reform, more than to suggest that there were two causes conspiring. 1. The maturing of seed long sown in tears and toils and prayers. 2. Theoriginatiou of a distinctively county political movement, and the uprising of what, iu the language of another, may be called the sleeping giant of the woods. Many, many years ago there was earnest temper ance work done in our State by such men as J.Belton O’Niel, Tapper, of Charleston, Culpeper, Witherspoon of Society Hill, and William Lewis of Sumter. Since their day we have had Olver Hewitt, the indefatigable Grand Scribe of the Sons of Temper ance, Cuttino, Dibble, Lucius Cuth- pert,J. G. Williams, and last but not least that true heroine. Mrs. Sallie Chapin, who have earnestly lalored in this department of benevolent work. For a long time there seemed comparatively but little fruit. The time for harvest had not come. There was we know now, a steady growth but it had no way of mani festing itself. The Episcopal denom ination largely dominated politics in this State. They as a denomination were extremely conservative on the liquor question. The long establish ed usage of Society had a more mas terful hold upon them. With the uprising of the sturdy yeomanry—the agricultural class of the country— with whatever of evil it may have been associated—there came into places of influence a class of men, who were not trammeled by prece dents, and the line of temperance fruitage—we find in all the ordina ry course of nature—is also a day of propitious surroundings. The day, 1 say, of temperance fruitage is, if i mistake not, now. It is here. It be- com>-s us upon whom has came these latter days harvest to make suitable provision for- reaping and storing away the precious fruits—social, po litical and spiritual—for 'hese are or ganically connected—seemingly a- part, yet intimately united, which have come to us from the evils of our forefathe'S. In this day the saying has, if I mistake not the prognostica tions, come to pass, “One soweth and another reapeth;” other men labored and ye have entered into their labor. Our department—and a very impor tant one—of th's work of providing a storage for the temperance harvest, will be the framing of a wise, far- reaching, comprehensive law prohi biting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating spirits as a beverage. This is a very important part of our preparation for I arvest, and one which will need intellects at once fertile in legal resources and of sober judgment and common sense. But when this difficult task has been achieved, thoroughly and well, there is still a very difficulty facing us; but one, the responsibilities of which we dare not shirk, our duty to our generation, to posterity forbids it. This belongs to what I will call the executive department of prohibition. To what means must we look for the p oper enforcement of the law, or in o:her words, how shall we wake pro hibition prohibit? Let me make a few suggestions. 1. See that we have the right sort of men in the executive departments of the government. See that we have the right sort of a governor. It is useless to say that the governor will have no influence upon the en forcement of the law. The prohibi tionists were too late in the tield for this campaign, to have any choice iu nominating a governor. Speaking for mvself I will say, I am not satisfied w ith either candidate, but 1 have my private opinion as to which of the two candidates now before the people will be most favorable to the enforce ment of a prohibition law, but I will not speak out, lest 1 be charged with feeding my audience on |>olitical chaff instead of prohibition wheat. This much, however, I will say, we prohibitionists must be w ide awake and see that the Democratic primar ies have an opportunity of loting for a man of decided temperance con viction. 2. See that we have the right sort of judges. Much responsibility for the enforcement of the prohibitory, as of all other laws, rests with the judi ciary. A whiskey soaked judge is not apt *o be very c’ear iu the exposi tion of a law punishing liquor sellers. Lit us remember that it has only been about two, or two and a half years since complaint was made through a countv paper, Watchman and Southron, that a judge at a re cent term of court had been t<io drunk to discharge the duties of nis office. (Question—How much liquor can a judge drink and yet projierly dis charge his duties?) 3. We must see to it that we have the right sort of a solicitor. A gen tleman who holds a high office in the I. 0. G. T. told me that a man, who is a candidate f >r re-election, was publicly gazed upon in a condi tion of beastly drunkenness in a bar- lature only those who favor the pro- ! strike out in life for himself, which room in Sumter only about three hibition of liquor traffic. The crisis years ago. Do you wonder when I is 14)011 us. It is needful that every tell you that I daily prayed while the man do his duty. Vote for prohibi- election for solicitor was progressing tion end prohibitionists, that God would not suffer such a man to be again indicted 14)011 us. Upon the solicitor—upon his tem- perance convictions—depends very much his efficiency as a prosecuting attorney in cases for the violation of prohibitory laws. 4. Considerable responsibility rests upon our trial justices. It is their duty 10 take cognizance of violation of law with which they may become acquainted. But besides, they have the preliminary hearing iu all cases of criminality, I believe, except such as are first reported to the grand jury. How much a competent, fear less trial justice of strong temperance convictions can do towards ensuring the enforcement of prohibitory law, it is difficult to tel 1 . 5. The iffiee of county commis sioner is a very important one. If there has ever been a county commis sioner in this county who has his salt, I have never known him. There have been instances of viola tion of law in this town too numer ous to mention, violations of the State revenue law by country stores which have been . the _ ' “c talk, and public scandal, but if any of these drunk custodians of the public weal of law and order have ever so much as growled, I have listened in vain to hear them. An efficient, faithful body of county commis sioners thoroughly imbued with tem perance sentiment, can do much, very much towards garnering in the toil-earned fruits of the temperance workers. 6. We must have the right sort of town council. It is in our ♦owns and villages that a large part of the violation of temperance laws takes place. A town council that has the fear of God before their eyes, and the good of humanity in their hearts have a splendid opportunity to serve their day and generation by passing stringent town ordinances and seeing that they are enforced. 7. A vigilance committee composed of fearless, God fearing men will be iudisjiensible in every town for a long time to come. What is every man’s duty is apt to be no man’s. Few men are so impressed with a sense of obligation as a citizen to un dertake the necessary steps for en forcement alone. I^et the better part of the citizens unite quietly and keep ing their own council proceed cau tiously to secure evidence, indict and prosecute. 8. A live I. 0. G. T. lodge in each community is perhaps worth as much as all the rest put together. A really live lodge imbued with the only true inspiration of a lodge; a deathless de sire to seek and to save the lost, to protect home and native land; can do exploits, can arouse and mold public sentiment and create an at mosphere in which the kindred spirits of intemperance and lawlessness will hide their hideous faces. S. M. R. Timmousville, July 5, 1892. Pr«kibitiM Paints. The rum power is doomed in South Carolina. There is a great cry of “Hard Times.” Prohibition will do mon for the relief of hard times than re duce cotton acreage and increased to bacco acreage; more than free silver or any other device of our wise (?) statesmen. So long as the present license system is the jioliey pursued by our government, all plans for the relief of hard limes—no matter how wise—must fall short of accomplish ing the best results for which they are devised. The prescription for the cure of “Hard Times” is: Prohib- tion. Prohibtion is the greatest issue now befoie the voters of this country. It is the greatest moral issue before us, and, as such, should command the attention and active work of every Christian. It is the greatest economical issue, and should there, fore command the attention of every man interested iu the temporal pros perity of his country. In the work now before us in South Carolina, Prohibition is the battle cry! We have no use for the word Tem perance in this connection. For years we have been praying for tem perance, and our preachers have been preaching temperance after the “moral sausion” style. Still the traffic continues and grows. “You can’t toll hogs out of a cornfield. You have to set the dogs on them.” Yon can’t toll the whiskey dealer from his money-making business. You have to set the dogs on. And the only power that can drive the liquor dealer out of his traffic is the ballot. Praying and preaching are all right as fur as they go, and we need more of both, but “votes bite.” In this movement wenaed the pray ers of eveiy Christian in the hind; we need the sermons of every preacher in the State, but the need is that these prayers and sermous shall lie backed by work, and shall crystallize into votes at the proper time. — To the individual voters iu his re lations to the whiskey traffic the question resolves itself into this: Are you going to be a partner in the whiskey business? To this question, your ivfc, for or against prohibitou, will be the answer. If you vote against prohibition, and license of the whiskey traffic continues in South Carolina, you become a partner iu the business to the extent that your vote contributed to tl e result. And to that extent you are responsible to your fellow citizens, and to your God, for the effects of the traffic, be those effects good or ill. You thus be came a partner iu three-fourths of the crime committed in the State; a partner in blighting the prospects of thousand of our most promising youths; a partner in transforming the joyous light of hope in the home which symbolizes the light of heaven into the darkness of dispare, filthy symbolized only by the murky gloom of hell; in short a partner in all the misery, corruption and death of which the whiskey traffic is the most potent ally of hell is the fruitful cause. Such a partnership the Devil and Tom Wolker entered into. In the traffic under license, the partners are: the devil, the saloonist and the man who didn’t vote for prohibition. The hard part of it all is the devil and the saloonist get all the profits. How a man can belong to the Church and call himself a Christian while in such a partnership is inex plicable; and for such a partner in the tia'Iic to stand in the ] 11 pit and be called a minister of the (iospelof the Son of God is a parody on religion and a burlesque 141011 the high cull ing of the ministry. In the work for prohibition the ministry occupy an important and rc- sponsiple position. Upon their action the success or failure of the move ment largely depends. On general principles tile preacher does other and more important work than that of be- stiriug himself on questions of a po litical character. This is not became he loses his right to be interested in issues touching the political welfare of his country—for a preai her is none the less a citizen because of his Divine call to a holy work, but because the political issues before the country are usually unimportant in comparison with the work he has to do, and will be looked after by others. In the matter of prohibition, however, that involves not only the temporal pros perity of the country but virtually af fects morality and involves the salva tion of millions of souls, the minis ter’s duty is active work. If he does not lay hold in such a work, who will? If he be timidly behind the fortress—no matter if he is praying— who can we exjiect to go out into the battle? The preacher who fails in his duty here is derelict to his duty to his fellow man, and criminal be fore his God. (Stuff about carrying (lolitics into the pulpit is no better excuse than having “married a wife” or “bought a yoke of oxen.” (Such prudishness will not pass muster be fore Him who demands of every man “Every person must be in favor of the sale of liquor or against it. '■'e fearless discharge of the duty of There is no neutral ground. When i the hour. I see men‘on the fence’in regard to! For the preacher to lay hold of the prohibition question, I sometimes |'his issue will require something whish the fence was sharp enough to more than a cotton string for a back- cut them iu two, that we might have I boue. It maV be that it will mean a our half.” (Fench.) Many have been “on the fence” re lative to this issue in South Carolina, but we are doing away with the old few dollars off of a small silarv, and much persecution iu many ways. Thank God the preachers of the South Carolina Conference have he did and taught school for two years at Craford, Tex. Very soon thereafter, a few days before he was 20, he was married to MissOllie Allen. Within the next few years he perfect ed himself as a doctor of medicine and practiceed in Coryell County atTur- nerville. His strong journalistic inclinations led him to begin the publication of a small monthly paper at this point, which soon grew into a weekly, and he published the Gntes- ville Advance At Gntesville, Tex., until December, 1880. At this thin the paper had attained a very large circulation and was recognized a) the leading temperance and Prohibr tion paper in the State. In August. 1886, he called the first Prohibition Party Convention of Texas, which met Sept. 7 and nominated a Stab ticket which the follow ing Novem her |H)lled 19,000 votes. In December, 1880, Dr. Cranfili moved to Waco. Soon thereafter tin great campaign for Constitution!!' Prohibition began in Texas, and Dr Crantill took a|H>sition at once us tin leading journalist on that side of tin issue, and his paper was regarded iis the principal exponent of tin Amendment in Texas. The Amend ment having failed Dr. Cranfili sob his paper in 1888 and began work as financial secretary of Baylor Uni versity at Waco, in October, 1889 he was elected to the Superintendence of Baptist Mission work in Texas and this placed him at the head am. front of this great denomination ii his native State. Under hisadmiuis tration the mission work of the Stab was doubled, and he has the distinc tion of having been the leader of tin largest State mission work ever dom in the history of the United States In January, 1890, Dr. Cranfili wa.- ordained us a Baptist preacher by tin First Baptist Church at Waco. It March of the present year he resigned his position iis Superintendent of Missions to take charge with Rev. M V. Smith, D. D., of The Texas Baptist Standard, which is the leading Baptist newspaper in Texas. Tint position he at present fills. Dr. Crantill has held numerous positions of trust besides the ones mentioned. He was for a long tinu chairman of the States Prohibition Committee of Texas, and is at pres cut vice-president of the Baptist Young People's Union of America and is a member from Texas of the National Prohibition Committee. He has achieved more distinction at an aggressive fighter against the liquor traffic than in any one line. As a writer Dr. Crantill is positive, strong and at times caustic. As a speaker he is strong and forceful, and his style is such as to bring conviction to be • hearer. He has done much in shaping the great de- uouination of which he is a memlier, and which numliers now 10 per cent, of the population of his native State. He is held iu high esteem by all political factions in Texas, and is universally regarded as a man of fidelity to his convictions and of un swerving integrity. General Bidwell had always been a man of strong temperance convic tions, and in 1876 he cast his vote for Green Clay Smith, the Prohibi tion candidate for the Presidency. He also voted for R. 11. McDonald for Governor in 1882, and for St. John for President in 1884. In 1880 he was a member of the Anti-Chinese Convention held in Sacramento, and while opposed to the immigration of this people, he distinguished himself by standing uncompromisingly in op position to the Iwycott, and in favor of maintaining the laws and treaties of the United States. In 1888 he was made Chairman of the Prohibi tion State Convention, and was also an elector on the Presidential ticket. His open and prominent alliance with the Prohibition Party was a great surprise to many of his old political friends and associates, who could not appreciate the principle which prompted his action, and many were the predictions that in 1890 he would not be found in the new party They failed of fulfillment, however, for lie was not only present at the convention of that year, but was made temporary chairman, and against his wishes was honored by the nomina tion for Governor. Owing to pre vious business arrangements General Bidwell was unable to give but a single month to the canvass. Dur ing this month he spoke consecutive ly for 2.’> nights, speaking at one jioint in each county visited, to the largest and most enthusiastic meet ings held by any party during the campaign. In this campaign he re ceived the indorsement of the Ameri can Party, but aside from the vote style fence and putting up barbed vertebral development, and are not | received from that so iree, he received wire between prohibition and the an tis. The politician, smart as he is, can’t sit long on such a fence. He afraid to lay hold, if there is one I a vote of nearly 2,000 greater than who is not brave enough for the bat- that received by any Prohibition can- tie, them brother, get out of the min-! didate in the history of the party in will lie obliged to fall on one side or!' s ^ r y* ^ niust have answered his State. So pleased were the Pro- the other. From present indications the pro hibition issue is to lie a live factor in the election of the next legislature, let candidates declare theniseb es on the issue at once. Where a candi- j date is too week-kneed to declare I himself, count him opposed to prohi- ; bit ion, and leave him at home. This I is a matter that affects us all. Every : man who has the temporal prosperi- soniebody else’s call.—S. C. advocate, hi hi tion lets of California with his | campaign that ever since they have Biographical Notices been united and constant in support I of his claims for a position on the [From the Broad Axe.] Of Gen. John Bidwell, nominated for President, and Dr. J. B. Craulill, nominated for Vice President, at the Prohibition Convention held at Cin cinnati, Ohio, June 29th: J. B. Craulill was born in Parker Preside.dial ticket of 1892. Ore incident in General Bidwell’ life, of surpassing interest to Prohi bitioifsts, will illustrate his devotioi t) principle and his determination ff do r'ght without regard to cost. Ili lirst vineyard was of wine grapes, Ir having been persuaded that the use purpose of producing only the best of wines. A short experience only was sufficient to convince him that instead of forming temperance habits in others he was in reality nianufac- iring drunkards. 8o la- immediate- y dug up his grape vines, burned them to ashes, gave his best wines to a San Francisco hospital for medicinal use, made vinegar of the poorest, and went out of the wine making business forever. Who Is Responsible! A LAND-GRABBER'S PLAN. The question now in our minds is, If there is to be a continuance of the vale of liquors that intoxicate in the State of South Carolina, then who is ■esponsible for that sale? If the nen of our land are still to be de bauched and made drunkards; it the lioys are to be snared iu bar rooms—“trap-doors of hell;” it ihej wives, mothers and daughters ol on and are to be slam by heart anguish: f the children are to be raised in homes where comforts give way to •urses, and drunkeness takes the place of happiness, then who is to mswer at the bar of God for this continuance? I answer, every man woman and child that can talk, and plead and pray! The question is to be settled at our State primary elec- don as to whether we will have pro hibition or not. The man who can md does not cast a ballot for prohi bition, or who helps elect a legislator who favors the license of w hiskey selling, is to that extent guilty ol aiding and abetting in this drunkard making. The woman who can and does not iiiHuencc some man to vote for prohibition, is thereby making herself responsible. This is a light in which no one can afford to be either idle or silent. The grandest opportunity we have ever had iu South Carolina to drive this traffic from the State is before us. It is possible—an easy possibility— for us to have prohibition in our fair State by next January if we will do our duty. But we must not shop over our opportunities, we must all do our duty.—iaincaster Enterprise, Elections iu France are alway. neld oil Sunday, in order to suit tin convenience of workingmen am. peasants. HUMOROUS. ty of his State at h urt must feel his County, Tex.. II.'i years ago. His of pure wines would prove eonduciv * obligation to vole for prohibition; father was a country physician and to true t-mperance. Determined ff j every man who realizes the neees ity farmer, and he was raised upon the produce only the best, he planted tin of taking moral principle into his farm and was trained as a farmer 1h>v choicest of vines, secured the most . line of action in things political will i and as a cowboy as well At the costly experts in wine making, and |feel compelled to support for Legis-j age of 17 his father allowed him to [erected buildings suitable for the —“No,” said Mrs. Hicks, “it isn’t bringing up my boys that Ixithers me; it’s taking them down that raises ail the trouble.”—N. Y. Sun. —“You were out again last night,” said the wife reproachfully at break fast. “To be candid with you," he re plied, “I wasn't. I was ‘in’ just four- ten dollars."—Washington Star. —A Forcible Argument—Suitor (per sistently)—“Why do you keep me wait ing so long for an answer? Remember that you are growing older every min ute!"—Heitere Blatter. —“Your office is as hot as an oven,” grumbled the patient “Hot as an oven!" exclaimed the doctor. “Well, it ought to be. It is the place where I make my bread.”—1’harmacutical Era. —His Reward.— ‘ He bought two slxty-dollar suite. Expendve. wa» it not? But a twenty thousaml-dollar girl la what the fellow got. —Clothier and Furnisher. —A Confusion of Terms.—Aunt Jemi ma—“What’s them air stuns in yer win der?" Jeweler—“Quartz.” Aunt Je mima—“Come, naow; yer tryin’ ter fool me. They ain't half a pint on 'em.”— Jeweler's Weekly —A Regular Samson.—Sumway— “Staggers is a very strong man, isn't he?" Snooper—“He is. You know what kind of whisky he drinks?” “Yes.” “Well, I’ve seen him hold his breath.” —Detroit Free Press. —Slimdiet—“How much board did Higgins pay you last night?” Mrs. Slimdiet—“How did you know he paid anything?” Slimdiet—“He kicked at every dish set before him at breakfast.” —Smith, Gray <L Ca's Monthly. —Mrs. Ward—“You aecuse young Hlank of being sentimental, yet I imag ine lie's fully abreast of the times.” Miss Ward—“That he is, mamma. He was talking to me last evening about love in a Bat.”—Kate Field's Washing ton. —Mr. Wickwirth—“Oh, by the way, I noticed you setting the clock ahead again this morning.” Mrs. Wickwirth —“Ye-cs." “Is that for me to come home by to-night or for yourself to get up by in the morning?"—Indianapolis Journal. —Father—“So May referred you to me, eh? Well sir, so you drink?” Suit or—"Kr—sometimes.” father—“This is some time. Come out with me. It's no harm breaking a New Year's pledge to toast your daughter's happiness."— N. Y. Herald. ■ On TopOnce More.—“You niver told me yer husband wor a sailor, Mrs. Don ahue." "Yis; he’s just bln around the worrnhl." “('Usira round to China an’ the opposite side, was he?” “To bo sure." “Worm, but it must be aisy ha feels to get up here on top wanst more.” - - Washington Star. —"Well, sissy, you've got your mo lasses at lust Nice, thick molasses— took a long time to draw it. Where’s the money to pay for it?” "If you please, sir, it was in the jug when I gave it to you. 1 put it there for fear t>f losing it." —One of the most ticautlful of Patti's possessions is her watch, its size is not larger than a tcn-cent piece. It is com pletely studded with diamonds, so that the base is one mass of brilliant, spark ling gems. Experts value it at not loss than 91,(100. It Is a foreign, open-faced, •tent-winding watch. II xw a Shrewd Montanian Obtained HU llroad Arren. One of the most lofty and ambitious grabbers in the state was not long ago' observed to be engaged in a most mys terious business. He was taking worn-, en out into the wilderness, a stage-load or two at a time. They were very reputable women—school teachers, type-writers, married women and their friends. They were taken to a large and pleasantly-situated house, upon the pretext that they were to attend a ball and a dinner, and get a hundred dollars as a present. It all proved true. Excursion party after excursion party went out in this way, and when the ladies returned to the town that had thus, been pillaged of its beauty, they reported that they had fared upon venison and wild-fowl, with the very best of “fixings,” and that at the hall a number of stal wart and dashing cowboys had become their partners, tripping their light fan tastic measures with an enthusiasm which made up for any lack of grace that may have been noticed. The reader may fancy what a lark it was to the women, and how very much enjoy ment the more mischievous wedded ones among them got by pretending that they were maidens, heart whole and free of fancy! Hut while those women were in the thick of tins pleas ure, they each signed a formal claim to a homesteader’s rights in the lands thereabout. And as they “prove up" those claims in the fulness of time, each will get her one hundred dollars. The titles to the land will then be made over to the in genious inventors and backers of the scheme, and the land will be theirs. “Thus,” in the language of a pictur esque son of Montana, “a fellow can get a dukedom if he wants it.” This is an absolutely true account of the conquest of a valley in Montana, and the future historian of our country will find much else that is akin to it, ami that will make an interesting chapter in his records.—Julian Ralph, in liar per's Magazine. BROUGHT HER TO TIME. A Conj-reMnnittn'ii Experience In a •-Dees- trlet" School. There is a congressman in the house at present, a young man who wouldn't for the world have it known, but during his youth he had some queer adventures as a country pedagogue. It was in a decidedly rural district that he met the most startling of all. In his own words: “Jt was a school that had cleaned out the last teacher, and as I was only a young fellow fresh from college, the parents had little hope that I'd hold their unruly offspring in control. “Rut I did. I was full of college muscle, and I licked every one of the big fellows int* subjection and had them in hand. Hut that was not alL There wasone big Portuguese girl whom I couldn’t make behave. Mary Jane was too big to whip, and scolding didn't have any effect whatever. Final ly, in despair, I told her before the school that the next time she misbe haved I should humilitate her before the school, and that she had better look out. I was only waiting for the, next opportunity, and she gave it to me pretty soon. 1 said: “Come to the platform!’ She came. “Sit down there!’ pointing to the large arm chair l. usually occupied. She did, and then, without further words. I sat down in her lap, pushed the chair against the wall, braced my feet against the desk and went on with the class. “The school tittered, but I was too solemn and they sobered down. Mary- Jane began to struggle and object, but I hung on. She was as big as I was, and I did not think she would get the best of me after all until she burst into floods of tears. Now, I hate tears. It made me feel mean, but madder than ever. She cried to lie let go. I told her when she would promise to obey me she could and not lieforc. Well, the war went on for over half an hour. She had hysterics, but I clung to my seat and kept the classes going until, with a last ga.sp, she promised to obey, and I escaped quite as delighted as she. She behaved like a saint after that, but I don’t advocate that style of humiliation for general use.”—N. Y. Recorder. A GOOD HUSBAND. •t.e Sort of a Man Who U Bound to Make HIn W’ife Happy. A most delightful man who is hand some enough to cause many a maiden’s heart to flutter and who is well enough off to be a suitable cause, in mamma's estimation, for the fluttering, was modest enough to affirm that he re mained single owing to the fact that he did not feel capable of making a woman happy. This very statement n-evealed the truth that he Would indeed be the man to make one of the best of hus bands, and in consequence make a very ff a PPy woman of the girl he chose for his wife. 1 It is not the man who is afraid he will not fill in the matrimonial play that Is the one that fails signally in the role. If he ever ventures so far and asks a woman to be his wife she is pretty sure that her life will be pleas- ent so far as her domestic relations are concerned. If his modesty is not as sumed be will never quite recover from the surprise of her accepting him, and he will always regard her love as a possession that is exceedingly precious and must lx- carefully guarded less it slip away from him. No matter how many years they arc married it will al ways lie the same, and the mixlest, un assuming bachelor will prove the de voted, admiring husband to the end. On the other hand, the superb crea ture who considers that he bestows a little slice cf Heaven with the giving of his name is the one that is going to make a girl wretched. He feels as, though perhaps he were too precipitate in his wooing, and shows her by his ac tions, if he does not tell her in so many words, that there were many other girls just dying for him. If money is scarce it will not belie that will suffer. 11 is glorious form must be arrayed in gorgeous apparel, his luncheons necessarily of the finest, and his cigars the best, though perhaps at home his wife, in a garment that may have licen onr of the dresses of her trousseau many years ago, eats warmed- over messes and does her own work. He, in his pride, considers it enough honor for any woman simply to bear his name, anil if it were suggested to him that his wife was miserable tie would not credit such a rediculous statement. ' Girls, do not be deceived by the gay, showy men, who arc essentially selfish, and who could never love anyone as well as their own charming self. Do not let the tine figure, handsome face and dashing air make you snub the. quiet, modest chap who blushes when you speak and appears a trifie stupid Ix-fore the gay witticisms and flow of talk of the more dashing rival. The mixlcst man is the one for the long race and, if your head is level and your heart in the right place, the evanes cent charms of the one will be com pletely swallowed up and lost sight of in the substantial lasting character of the other.—Philadelphia Times. A MOUNTAIN LION. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. I A Turkey Thief. A Connecticut farmer raises a groat number of turkeys on his farm, and at night the fowls fly into a tall tree and' roost. A big owl in some way learned alxmt this roost, and every night visited the tree and helped himself to a fat young turkey, leaving the feathers and legs for the farmer's sorrowful con templation. The .farmer supposed the marauder to be a fox. and set a steel trap under the turkey tree, in the faint hope that the thief would step in it. The next morning he was greatly sur prised to find the owl in the trap and also one hf his best turkeys. For a long time he was puzzled to understand how the birds got into the trap, but his theory is like this: The owl, having pounced on the turkey, had a fierce bat tle with the pugnacious fowl on the unsteady tree bough, and both toppled overboard in their grapple and fell straight into the jaws of the trap, which impartially fastened to both of them. The chances against happening were a hundred to one, hut the owl was un-; lucky that night, and is now paying the ponaly in a cag*; in a drug-store window.—Golden Days. 4 Nothing Small About Him. Perplexed Citizen—I am sorry you haven't the change. I only want fifty eents’ worth of stamps, and this dollar is the only money I've got. Arizona Postmaster--That’s all right- We’ll flip it to see whether you give me the dollar for the stamps or take ’em> for nothing.—Chicago Tribune. A Steady Workman. Housekeeper—I don't believe you. ever did a stroke of work in your life. Tramp—I was six years in one place, mum. “Indeed! How did you happen to leave?” "I was pardoned out, mum."—N. Y. Weekly. —Ex-Congreesmari Gaines, of Vir ginia, possesses a gixise which leaves the fl«x:k and flics for miles with the fast trains on the two roads connecting at Hurkeville. Several times in the past month it has piloted the Norfolk & Western fast freight trains into tin stiition, screaming with every stroke ol the wing, expressive of the wildest joy. The bird is perfectly gentle and sleep! at home in the back yard every night. The Veraf'lmix Tule of a Montana Moun taineer. “I never believed in that old super stition," said the orator of the evening, “alxmt getting so frightened that your hair would stand on end, until I had a practical experience of it: but. gentle men, I tell you it's true, and none of your figurative yarns as some folks in sist upon.” “Tell us about 9t.” said one of the crowd, while they all exchanged sly winks. “Why. yon see it was this way. I was out in Arizona, up on the Mogoilon mountains bunting elk and deer, when one day 1 left camp to get some water from a spring a quarter of a mile away. I didn't carry my rifle along because I wanted both hands to fetch the water, and I wasn't afraid of Injuns ‘cause the Apache were friendlies. Hut just as I went around a bend of rocks so close to the spring, I ’fronted si mountain lion so close that 1 felt liis hot breath on my face." “That was si close call," remarked one of the company. “It was, gentlemen, it was! And I was that scared that my hair, which was long—they wear the hair long out there—rose right up on my bead, and my hilt rose up with it. and tluit there wonderful feat of nature scared the lion as much as it did me. Gentlemen, he turned sind ran like a deer, and my hair settled down again, but 1 was weak as a child whzn 1 got back to camp.” “That mountain lyin,” began one ol the chaps that had been listening, but, as all hands were piped to the bar, be never finished, and so the story goes without contradiction. — Detroit Free I’ress. —There are nine graduates this yeas from the woman’s law class of the uni< versity of the city of New York. —A building costing 119,000 has been purchased in Hartford by a syndicate of gentlemen for the accommodatlop of a state society for education exten sion. —Bishop Brooks says the way to start a church is not to wait until a few leading families call for one, but to start the church first and call in the families afterwards. —Two new buildings are to be erect* ed at the Woman’s coUege' of Balth more, one for a dormitory, the other for the girls’ Latin school,in which two hundred students are now preparing for college. —The pope has definitely refused the . request that he elevate Archbishop Cor rigan, of New York, to the cardinalate. It is thought that this decision is the consequence of the antagonism between the archbishop and Cardinal Gibbons. —Among the students in the Chicago Theological seminary (Congregational) are three Christian Jews, one of whom, Rabbi Freuder, was converted in the Hebrew Christian mission. Chicago, which is conducted by Rev. B. Angel, a graduate of this institution. —Edward Everett Hale, Jr., a gradu ate of Harvard class of 188S, has ac cepted the professorship of English lit erature in the Iowa State university. He was assistant professor in this course at Cornell for two years, and has recently been studying in Europe. —Rev. Dr. Conwell, of Philadelphia, had a law practice yielding a revenue of 820,000 a year before he entered the ministry. So generous is he that he can not receive any gift from church or friends without bestowing it, or feeling tempted to bestow it, on some one else. —The corner-stone of a new building for the Catholic university of America, in Washington, was laid recently, The new building will stand bv tlio side of the Divinity hall. The addresses at the corner-stone laying were made by Cardinal Gibbons and Col. Charles S. Bonaparte. —The “Yale Class-book” shows tlio rapid growth of the college by the size of the senior class, which will graduate with 187 men, surpassing tlie largest pre vious class by 87. Ninety-three of tho class are church members, principally Congregutionalists, Episcopalians and Presbyterians, but almost every sect is represented. Fifty-two propose to study law, 42 go Into busines, 11 study theoliv gy, 10 medicine, and 18 expect to teach. —The official census of the United States gives an estimate of the respec tive wealth of orthodox Jewish and re form Jewish congregations. There are :U<t orthodox organizations with a total of 57,957 members and owning 82,892,- 050 in church property. The reform congregations aggregate 72,892, witli property valued at 80,952,225. The or- thodox congregations are steadily di minishing, while the reverse is true of tho reform portion of the Jewish church. —Chicago Graphic. —From advance summaries from the Congregational Year Hook for 1892 we find that the whole numlier of Congrega tional churches in the country is 4,980, showinga gain of 109. The total member ship is 525,093, a gain of 18,201; the total additions have been 52,074, of which 110,608 were on confession. The Sunday- schools show a membership of 020.000, u gain of 12,341 syoung people's societies number 2,994. with a membership of 145,100; the benevolent contributions were 82,448,875, an increase of 8178,714. The home expenditures were 80.791,087, an increase of 8700,380. TEACHING BABY TO WALK. WATER DRINKING. It rroiuot<‘H t!i<‘ Elimination WitHtOH. of Bodily The human Ixxly is constantly under going tissue change. Water has the power of increasing these tissue changes, which multiply the waste prixlucts, lint at the same time they are renewed by its agencies, giving rise to increased appetite, which in turn provides fresh nutriment. Persons but little accustomed to drink water are liable to have the waste products formed faster than they are removed. Any obstruction to the free work ing of natural laws at once pro duces disease. People ' accustomed to rise in the morning weak and languid I will find the cause in the secretion of wastes, which ninny times may be rem- i edied by drinking a full tumbler of water before retiring. This materially assists in the process during the night and leaves the ti‘ .ties fresh and strong, ready for the active work of the day. Hot water is one of the best remedial agents. A hot batli on going to bed, even in tlic hot nights of summer, is a better reliever of insomnia than many drugs. - llall'M Journal of Health. The lieivaril ol Imliifttry. be Grand Stanned—Why is thecrowd being kept back so forcibly. Kirby Stone So as to give the police a chance to see the procession, 1 fancy. —A Ferocious Husband.—“Yes, m\ dear, whenever we have ‘words’ he be haves like a perfect savage.” “How so?" “He makes for his club.”—Pick Me Up, —A Valuable Dog.—Mr.Black—“That must be a valuable dog.” Mrs. Black— “Why do you think so?” Mr. Black— “Because he is so homely.”—Yankee Blade. Leave the Youngster Alone anil It Wilt Learn Time Knnugli. People sometimes ask: At what ago can we scat a child in a chair; when pirt him on his legs: how old must he be before we can teach him to walk? The answers are easy. He must not be made to sit till he has spontaneously sat up in his bed and lias imen able to hold his seat. This sometimes happens in the sixth or seventh month, some times later. The sitting position is not without danger, even when lie takes it himself; imposed prematurely upon him, it tires the backbone and may in terfere with the growth. So the child should never be taught to stand or walk. That is bis affair, not ours. Place him on a carpet in a healthy room or in the open air and let him play in freedom, roll, try to go ahead on his hands and feet, or go backward, which ho will do more successfully at first; it all gradu ally strengthens and hardens him. Some day he will manage to get upon his kees, another day to go forward upon them and then to raise himself up against the chairs. He thus learns to do all he can, as fast as he can, and no more. But, they say, he will be longer in learning to walk if he is left to go on his knees or bis hands and feet indefi nitely. What difference does it make if, exploring the world in this way, lie becomes acquainted with tilings, learns to estimate distances, strength ens his legs and back; prepares him self in short, to walk better when he gets to walking? The important thing is not whether he walks now or then, but that he learns to guide himself, to help himself, and to have confidence in himself. I hold, without exaggeration, that education of the character is going on at the same time with training loco motion, and that the way one learns to walk is not without moral importance. —Popular Science Monthly. He was On. Tramp (to Salem girl)—Can't you give me a cup of coffee? Salem Girl—No; I have only cups of chtua. I can give you some coffee in a cup, however. Tramp—Thanks, miss. And please be kind enongli to drop a cube of sugar into the receptacle, with a spoonful of bovine juice.—Jury. I Hunker's Injiiillclons Kemnrk. Gazzam—That was a bad slip of the tongue on Hunker's part. , Maddox —Yes; he had just eaten a fbana na. —J udge. —Tolstoi's manuscript is full of iu terlincutions and erasures, and the handwriting is small, fine and hunt to read. The counO-ss transerilx-s it for the printer, and one year, it is said, site made fifteen copies of one of her hus band’s' books. T 1