WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27. 1884. Sweet Charity. Of late the charity of good people has been strongly appealed to io be? half of storm sufferers on the coast. The newspapers seem to have discover? ed that there are now persons io needy circumstances in that section which was last August submerged bj the waves of tbe sea. We have taken no part for or against this recent claim upon oar charity. Wheo the misfortune first befell that people, our recollection is, that the people of Abbeville responded. That was right, bat we ar s not so certain of the wisdom of giviag to that people at this late day. It reminds as too much of a ci roam* tance that occurred before the war. A man bad tbe misfortune to Ieee bia house aod its contants by fire, ?od after that be would always appatd to the strangers whom he met. One of tbe beseiged strangers interrogated him as to wheo he hld suffered (hts great loss. It was ascertained to have been about twenty-eight years ago. It bas now been nearly a year since the Bluffton suffer? ers lost their crops. This newspaper doesn't understand charity to be the dividing out of our goods indiscriminately among the on* fort?nate, the thriftless or the lazy people who fail or neglect to work, and then call on ns to divide oar earn? ings. Charity in its first, its best, and its highest incentive exists io the heart and not in the pooket book, lt woo id restrain our tongues from speaking evil of oar neighbor, and it would forbid oar hearts from believing or en? tertaining evil of oar unfortunate peo? ple. While of coarse plain aad posi? tive facts that are susceptible of proof -are to be recorded io the book of re? membrance, yet a large per cent, of the neighborhood scandal or gossip is based on the merest fiction-or at worst, is founded only on the speaker's evil construction of an act which in itself may have been totally innocent. Oar understanding is, if a person, be he rieh or poor, friend or stranger, happen to an accident in oar immediate vicinity, whereby he needs assistance, it is charity to give the needed help whether to call bis friends or a physi? cian, whether to shelter him or to feed him. If his horse throw bim at your gate, charity demands that we contri? bute to bis relief, promptly and quickly. If the horse gets sick and lies down at oar gate, it is oar bounden daty to reader the animal any assistance possible. That is charity. Bat if oar neighbor's horse dies, we are io no wiso called opon to bay bim another horse. That would be to endow with him an estate, which act would encourage shiftlessness. There is no charity io feeding peo? ple who have work to do, but who seek an excuse for not doing it. The poor we have always with us, aod if people are amiod to give as loog as they can fiod somebody poorer tbao they are, they can soon divide out their entire estate. It may be that-there is suffering on the coast We do not doubt it. We presume the same is true io Abbeville coooty. There can always he found suffering, destitution aod hunger. The The situation will never be different. As tbe giving away of the money for which we have labored aod economized io our living to save, is a practical thing, and one to be well considered, it is the duty of our preachers to protect their flocks from unnecessary drafts, and they owe it to the poor to see that they are not encouraged io idleness, and that they are not led to believe that Chris? tian people will support them in the lack of a proper effort to sustain them? selves. If people need money that they are able to work for, it is charity to give them ao opportunity to work. It is positively sinful to support such peo? ple io idleness. People ought to be j taught to be self-reliant.-Abbeville j Press and Banner. A Hero. A few years ago fire broke out in a i charming little Swiss village, says an ! exchange. In a few hours the quaint frame houses were entirely destroyed. The poor peasants ran around wring iog their hands and weeping over their 1 lost homes and the bones of the burned cattle. Oae poor mao was io greater trouble than his neighbors, even. His home aod cows were gone, aod so also was bis soo, a bright boy of six or reveo years. He wept aod refused to hear aoy words of comfort. He speot the night waodering sorrowfully among the ruins, while his acquaintances bad taken refuge io the neighboring villages. Jost as daybreak came, however, he heard a well-known sound, aod look? ing op be saw bis favorite cow leading the herd, aod comiog directly after them was his bright-eyed little boy. "O, my soo! my sou!" he cried, 44are you really alive?" ?.Why, yes, father. Wheo I saw the fire I rao to get oar cows away to the pasture lands." 44You are a hero, my boy !" the fa? ther exclaimed. But the boy said : "0, no ! A hero is one who does some wonderful deed. I led the cows away because they were in danger, and I koew it was the right thing to do." 44Ah !" cried the father, he who does the right thing at the right time is the hero." Length o? a Knot. The velocity of a ship is estimated iu ! knots and tenths of a koot, and the distance OD the log line between two successive knots or marks is obtained by the following proportion : As the number of seconds in an hour is to the number of seconds in the hour glass (usually twenty-eight), so ts the length of a sea mile to the length of a knot. This gives forty-seven feet four inches. Previous to marking the log Hoe it is soaked in water for a few days to get it into the condition it is when in use. About fifteen or twenty fathoms of "stray line1' is marked off by a piece of fish li oe with one, two* or three, etc., knots in it, as may be required. Each division is subdivided into five equal parts, and a small piece of rag or bunt? ing marks the two-tenths division thus formed. The knot or sea mile is 6083 feet, or 1.15 statute mile.-Boston Cultivator. A Year Without a Summer. Under the above heading a correa pondent of the Louisville Courier Journal furnishes some interesting and remarkable facts about the weather in the year 1816. In view Of the unusual seasons of this year, a brief abstract of the weather of that year will be of interest. January was mild. February was not very cold. March was cold and boisterous during the first of the month, but the last of the month was mild. April began warm, but as the month advanced it grew colder and ended iu snow and ice with a temperature like winter. .. May waa more remarkble. Buds and flowers were froten, ice formed an inch chick and coro was killed, and was planted and replanted again until' deemed too late. June was the coldest ever knowo. Frost, ice and snow were common. Almost ? everything green was killed. In some of the Northern States the snow fell to the depth of ten inches, and great floods of water destroyed property from New York to New Orleans. Joly was accom? panied by frost and ice, and nearly all the corn crops were destroyed, lo Aognst ice formed half an inch thick. The greater part of the corn was frozeo and eut down and saved for fodder. Farmers had to supply themselves with seed corn made in 1815 with which to plant in 1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 a bushel. Flour sold at $13 per barrel. The month of September was the mildest of the season. The same conditions of the weather prevailed in Europe as in America. When Baby was sick, we gave ber Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she elong to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria ? m .* mt vi* A VOR EITHER SEX. Tbl* remedy I fi? 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